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Speaker 3: I'm having y'all hour number three of Oh TB roll
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Speaker 2: One of four FOPN.
Speaker 3: And every single Tuesday at nine am, we talked to
our guy Nick Underhill from New Orleans Dot Football, an
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Nick's incredible and proud describer, have been for many, many years.
And well, Nick, yesterday we were treated to maybe one
of the most gas lighty press conferences I've ever witnessed
in my entire life. I mean, Taylor broke it down earlier,
but I don't know if it's a reading the room thing. Look,
I understand that everything that Mickey Loomis said yesterday he believes,
But my god, that press conference gave me a rectile dysfunction.
Speaker 2: Nick, I I don't know. I you you have a
more measured approach to these things.
Speaker 3: Generally. I thought that was a god awful train wreck
of a press conference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that that's I've never heard of a
press conference causing a rectyle is fun. So I mean
that's crazy, that's amazing, Like that's all right. I just
gotta I gotta get out on the other side of that,
because that was like the wildest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: I know, imagine that that's how bad it was.
Speaker 4: Dear gosh. I mean, look, it's it's like if you're
if you were upset going into it, like you became
more upset, no doubt about it, Like there's there was
no you know, I think it in like the forty
first minute or whatever, like there was kind of like
a yeah, like of course, we know, like things are
wrong and we got to be better and we got
to look at everything. Yeah, I think it's that was
said in the first minute, and that was like maybe
the first thing I was said coming out, like, you know,
I think it takes on a different tone, but yeah,
I mean it was a lot of you know, it's
all good here and we're going to figure it out.
And I think a lot of people are worried about
how they're going to figure it out, and there really
wasn't conciliatory tone or whatever, and I think, you know,
I think that's probably what people wanted to hear, you know,
my feeling it was probably just a little like this
was exactly what I expected to keep. This is how
every one of these have been forever, So it wasn't
like surprising to me, you know, I do know, like,
you know, behind this seems like there is a different
process taking place, Like I think there's more heads at
the table, more minds at the table. You kind of
hear how things are working behind the scenes, So it's like,
you know whatever over here to me, ultimately, like they
just have to hire the right coach, make all the
right roster moves, and make all the right draft picks.
And I don't get a damn like really what Mickey's
saying like now, because if they get all that right,
like it's fine later on, and if it's not good,
then you probably don't hear Mickey in another one of
these press conferences again like this is kind of the
last stand here, I think, and they have to get
it right, and if they don't get it right, he
gets tired, Like that's just kind of why you don't
get to do this. You don't get to do this
the third time, you know, so ultimately that's what mightus be. Yeah,
I don't think that press conference was good. I don't
think I want anybody over and you know, I think
some of the tone of it was probably wrong, Like
people just want to feel like, hey, like we know
this sucks, and we know, like your life is better
when the Saints are good and when they aren't good.
You know, that's on us. And we're taking this extremely
seriously because you invest your time, your money. So much
of the economy here is built around it. You know,
no one, no one knows that more than me. Like,
you know, I think I think all that like matters,
and you know, it's not set up there, and I
think that misses people off and it's just kind of
you know, you kind of want to hear something a
little bit different, and that was that was not a
win yesterday for the organization.
Speaker 3: Well, I think where it becomes frustrating, Nick is maybe
they are doing the right things behind the scenes, but
as a fan, you want to be able to trust that,
but you can't when seemingly the person can't admit there's
a problem. And there were there were a couple of
quotes that were exceedingly ludicrous to me, one of which
the one where he's basically like, oh, I know the
results aren't good, but it doesn't mean we're not doing
things the right way.
Speaker 2: But I understand how you can talk your way out
of that. Probably the craziest is the answer about draft.
Speaker 3: Picks, oh yeah, where he's like, yeah, everybody he would
love more drift, I would love more draft picks. Like no, no, no,
that's a lie that that is a flat out lie
that you're throwing out there, like you're on the side
of everybody else that agrees that more draft picks are better,
when in your entire tenure, nobody's traded up more, nobody's
drafted less, nobody's given up as many draft picks.
Speaker 2: So it's it is.
Speaker 3: It is the biggest disconnect between what he's trying to
throw out there verbally and what he's actually done in
his tenure.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought you were going to think a different
quote about the draft picks. The one that that kind
of drove me the most nuts is was the like, no,
we're good at drafting. Oh yeah, you haven't been good
at drafting, And what is it going on? Seven, seven,
eight years now, you haven't had a good drafting cheaps
on seventeen, Like I know seventeen like that, that was
a great, amazing draft, But there is one player left
from that draft pass and you haven't added pro bowler
since then. The one you have added Eric McCoy's miss
teen games over the last four years and great player,
but like you need you need more guys like that.
That that one, that one kind of really threw me off.
And and yeah, I mean, look, I don't know if
what they're doing behind the scenes works, Like I just
know a couple of things have changed a little bit,
you know, like that they they got Dave Ziegler in
there and Randy Mueller and you know, Michael Pett, like
all all these guys are I think, much much more
involved in this coach search than they were in the
last one. And even to the point where it's like
you hear that some people like some one candidate and
other people don't, and it's like, well, we don't know
who's going to be, you know, the people we like
here until we get them at the table. Because this
guy's never met him and that guy's never met him.
And you know, I think if it was like a
single headed process, like Mike McCarthy would probably be the
head coach right now. And I don't know that it's
gonna play out like that, you know, just because I
think that that there is a listening to everybody at
the table, which which is good, but like the better
thing here would have been, like our drafts have not
been good enough. So like we're gonna change some things
in our process here and you know, we're gonna look
at like all these measurements that we were looking at
before and see how we revalue them and try to
do you know, we've been working on a six month
study to understand like why the guys we draft are
so injury prone or like things like that. Like that's
just kind of what you want to hear. And there's
none of that. There's no we won five games and
for the New Orleans Saints that is that is not
worth it. And you know, we know that that we
need to get a better return on our investment on
everything we're doing. Like just anything like that like that,
just come out and say that, even if you don't,
even if you don't, even if you're sitting in your
office and you say like yeah, it was the injuries,
and we know we build a good team and everybody
else is wrong and we're gonna wait it out and
we're going to prove everybody wrong. When you go to
that podium after the season, just say something that just
to to like have the have have the awareness system,
say hey, like let's let's just have the messaging here
to calm everybody down, and we'll do what we got
to do behind that messaging. But we're just gonna say
what we got to say. At least have to get
intelligent to do that, and like that that that's the
thing that's I find a little bit frustrating is that.
But look that that's just how how.
Speaker 2: I don't care the fans feel about it.
Speaker 4: I think they do care, like yeah it is and
like this is just how how you know, I think
everyone's gone forever and when they were a good team
and you know, we would sit in a little you know,
the media room after and be like, man, like I
don't understand, like you know why, but like nobody else
was noticing because things were good and nobody was looking
like so it's not like it can't work, but yeah,
in these times, like it's just kind of have a
little bit of a socker's touch, like, Hey, look like,
we know you spent all this money on piece and pickets,
and it's not okay that you only got to watch,
you know, a couple of wins at home, and it's
not okay that we haven't been a good home team
for the last five years. You know, we understand that
you're spending your money to come here. You know, it's
got to be better. Like that's that's it, Like just
say that.
Speaker 2: Nick, what's your faith right now?
Speaker 5: Like, after knowing and hearing and kind of laying out
the candidates, what's you're you know, you're feeling right now?
What kind of faith do you have that the Saints
are going to make the right move?
Speaker 2: At head coach?
Speaker 4: I up like in a in a in a you know,
just like idling and neutral, like it could go either way.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I understand how the last process let
them there, and I understand that it was a disaster,
and you know, I would hope that there's been some
lessons learned about like why that didn't work, even even
beyond the process of like maybe not identifying the shortcomings
of of you know, Dennis Allen, I like I would
hope that there's been some some you know looking at
that and I and I think there has to be like, Okay,
you hired a head coach who wasn't a great leader,
and you can do that. You can hire a coach
that that's you know, and the strength is x's and
o's and maybe maybe isn't the great you know, center
of culture and accountability, police and and all that stuff.
But like, if you're going to hire that type of person,
which would be probably like a you know, like they
aren't gonna they're gonna interview Ben Johnson, But if you're
hiring a Ben Johnson, like I think you have to
know that, all right, we need to put Dan Campbell
type next to him to kind of handle all this
other stuff. And I think that was the downfall with
da is that they didn't maybe identify his shortcomings. That
I thought that was exemplified no greater than at the
end of last season when when Mickey had to go
down and be the person to give him a speech
on you know, getting the culture back and all that. Like,
if somebody else is having to do that for the
head coach, that means you have a hole on your staff.
And that that should have been filled for three years,
and like it it wasn't. So I think I think
going you know, I think if they do an honest
out of those failures like that, there should be some
lessons learned from that to where, Okay, this this is
what we have to do going forward. I would hope
that that that's that's kind of how it plays out.
But yeah, I think I think I'm sitting in neutral
right now, Like I can see it going going either way.
It feels like there should be a decent candidate here,
you know, if it's there's there's it's like if ag
falls through, you know, I think that's probably the thing
is is so much more beyond just the coach though,
Like I don't know that I have a lot of
faith in the coach surviving three years right now. That's
kind of the thing, like even if you get the
right higher, like, is it possible to build it back
in that amount of time? And I guess, like where
I get a little bit worried, is it feels like
it's just gonna be a lot of hanging on And
I think you can probably hang on and be competitive
for another year, but then where are you at the
year after that or the year after that, and you know,
are you gonna draft better? Are you gonna you know,
do all the things you got to do to be successful,
Like I think it's just stills so much beyond the coach,
Like they have to nail the coach pick obviously, but
like there's so much that I think you got to
do to build this team back, and I don't. I
don't know, Like again, like I think you can probably
be trying to be competitive next year, but then in
twenty six, like you know, where where's cam where's the Mario?
Where's Pier? And where is Alvin? You know, where's you know,
are you still paying Derek Carr? Then I would hope not.
Like there's just so much that they got to figure out,
and I you know the totality of it, Like I
think it can all get figured out, But does it
get figured out within the window and within the past,
Like I don't know, Like to me, like if I
was running it, like I would probably want to do
like the two year teardown and kind of start rebuilding
a backup, And I don't go, you know, all the
way to the studs, Like I don't believe in that
but like I would probably I shore out the quarterback,
you know, take that hit, be a terrible team next year,
and then try to regroup from there. And you know,
I think Derek Carr is probably a better quarterback than
sam Donold. But like what's the difference, you know what
I mean? Like, I'm not aiming to win ten games
of losing the first round of the playoffs. Like it's
it's great when you're the Saints to look at the
Bucks and be like, Damn, I wish I was a Bucks.
But if you are the Bucks and you're looking at
the Steelers, you're like, yeah, damn, I wish I was
the Steelers. But if you're the Steelers, you're saying, damn,
Chase some time wins. And not being able to win
a playoff game for six years in a row is
a pretty shitty Excuse me, it's a pretty terrible, uh,
you know, place to exist. Yeah, so you know, it's
a nobile goal when you aren't there, but that once
you achieve it, is it really a noble goal. And
you know, I think the knowledge there is it feels
a little a little hollow, Like so, I I don't
I don't know how you get to the other side
of that. But I don't know if like just trying
to hang on and become the Bucks and hoping that
that turns you into the Steelers is the is the
way to be, Like, because if you're the Steelers, what's
your way of getting there? Like you're taking a shot
at Kenny Pickett and it's not going to work, like
ninety nine point nine percent of the time, it is
not going to get you there. And I don't know
what the answer is. Honestly, it's tough, Like it's it's
a tough place. It's a tough place to be if
that's your if that's your goals to win pen and
make the playoffs and hope something happens every year because
at some point, the quarterback matters. And you know, Sam Darnold,
who's not going to win you a playoff game, and
you know Derek Carr probably isn't either if you don't
have like this amazing structure on him. And I don't
know how you can amazing structure around the quarterback and
cross you know, fifty million, like if you need to
elevate your quarterback to that level, like it's got to
be someone on a on a rookie deal like because
they need three wide receivers, they need elite offensive linemen,
they need an elite run game to hide them from it.
You know, even look at Jordan Love, like you know
you have to go out get Josh Jacobs to try
to hide him. But then you get into the playoffs
that Josh Jacobs has taken away and now Jordan Love,
who's played fifty five million dollars a year and probably
doesn't have a fifty five million dollar arm, gets exposed
and you can't win a game, like you have to
have the right quarterback if this is the way you're
gonna go, And and I don't know how you get
it if you're aiming to be a Timelin team picking
in the twenties every year.
Speaker 3: Nick Gunderhill, New Orleans Up Football is the website, beautifully
said Nick. Very who knows what the future for the
New Orleans Saints, but we are at a crossroads ass
crossroads right now, and I'm gonna be fascinating to see
the direction they end up choosing.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Nick, Yeah, I have a good one.
Speaker 3: Guys appreciate Nick Gunhill New Orleans Dot Football site. Nick
underscore Underhill on Twitter go obviously give them a fall subside.
I mean you're probably fall obviously. Mitchell Knap says, Jordan
Love is another Fellas stealing money. It's weird if only
Toyota than could go on year round, Jordan. I mean,
it's it's it's the classic. The quarterback leverage is just
such an odd thing because there's so much desperate It's
it's weird because.
Speaker 2: Like, how do I want to say this? A team can.
Speaker 3: Have a lot of leverage over a quarterback for the
vast majority of the guys because they're not that good.
But once you cross the threshold into oh, you might
actually be a legitimate starting franchise quarterback. I said, might
not a guarantee, but if you show an inkling of it,
then all of a sudden, all the power dynamics completely
flip and then they have to pay you for the
fear of letting you walk and go be successful. So
you end up with Trevor Lawrence, you'ing up with Jordan Love,
you up with all these other contracts with these young
guys that sometimes don't end up panning out.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna see.
Speaker 5: If, yeah, if you if you're a young quarterback and
You can have one good year, but it.
Speaker 2: Has to be actually, it needs to be your right.
Speaker 3: You can struggle at first, but then you gotta have
one good year right for your contracts up. Yeah, it's
all we need. And then your money. I mean Jordan
Love had eight good games. Yeah, and it made him
the highest paid player in NFL history.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. All right, when we get back, what do
we got?
Speaker 3: Oh baseball time, Alandra, let's Gone's gonna try to protect
her starting lineup chatting at cookie. Riley had a great
piece in The Advocate this morning projecting his starting lineup.
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench, lead us back. It's a fight.
Speaker 6: Almost stream into that home.
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 5: Wonder what happens, Like you know, you're of someone that's
close to my age, t Bob's age, whatever, and it's
just like every ten months or so, Goo Goo Dolls
is coming out with a banger, you know what I mean,
like every about ten months and then you know, all
of a sudden, it gets to a point.
Speaker 2: Where it's like, man, whatever what happened to the Googo dolls?
Like what do they do on a daily basis? I
think the I think the creative muse is a hell
of a thing.
Speaker 3: And when you're in it and you're feeling it, it's almost.
Speaker 2: Like the art pours out of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you can't find it, it can be
next to impossible to create it. And it's what drives
people insane with like writer's block.
Speaker 2: And the other thing about art, Jake is.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we all have this idea that
you will get increasingly good at something the more you
do it, which is true. I mean I get that,
I get that for sure, right, Like, Okay, the longer
you do something, you just get better a bit better.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: But and it's not just unique to art, but it's
the context I think of it is. But like you're
gonna make your best thing, you know, Yeah, and you're
gonna make stuff after your best thing that's not gonna
be your best thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A director directs his magnum opus and he's like twenty
eight years old. It spends a ret Like look at
Ridley Scott. He made Gladiator, right, and he's made tons of.
Speaker 2: Good stuff afterwards.
Speaker 3: Ye had a ton of missus right, but he'll probably
never reach Gladiator again.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 3: They had it, Yeah, they had it. They had a
hell of a run with the Muse.
Speaker 5: But you know what I'm saying, like you you drop
this banger and you had iris and you got all
still a song, you're still writing, but the pop culture changes,
people change, you change.
Speaker 2: Whatever process you have there.
Speaker 3: Maybe you do everything the same, yeah, and it just
doesn't just doesn't work.
Speaker 5: And like so now I'm wondering, like do they just
sit back and do they collect money off those songs
and those album cells and they're doing fine?
Speaker 2: That's also yes, So.
Speaker 3: That's also the thing, like, right, I guess you've become
successful enough if you remove the financial motivation, then yeah,
that would I imagine take away a lot of what
drove you there in the first place.
Speaker 5: And you don't like see them when you're driving to
the beach in Biloxi. They're not at that point, no,
you know what I mean. Like there's some bands that
they're at that point who knows.
Speaker 3: Maybe they like some of them just retired ranches and they.
Speaker 2: It's like cool in the game is going to be
in Biloxi. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: They're great, but it's like Google dolls don't get to
that point. But you don't hear him touring anymore either.
Speaker 3: It's like Marv from Home alone lives in a farm
in sculpts. He does, I mean, you know he does.
Daniel Sterring, I don't know, no idea. I feel pretty
good about that. Actually, I think so too. It sounds correct,
definitely sounds correct.
Speaker 5: If it's not, it it's close. I know time's changed, Dane.
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a lot of you what do you wanta do you
want to start the lineup?
Speaker 2: You want to start who's gonna be at which position?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean you can kind of do both at
the same time. Okay, So if you are going and
blind here or yeah, I didn't look at tookies. I
wrote it down in the last segment.
Speaker 7: I was just looking at the roster and I am
basing this off of last year and the reports coming
out of fall Ball, but also Baseball America ranks l
SSU number two D one Baseball ranks them number three.
So Tiger's coming in hot for the season, very very
very excited month away opening day on Valentine's Day. What
a better way to spend your Valentine's Day than at
Alix Box Stadium.
Speaker 2: Do you guys look what I'm just saying.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, somebody wants to take Landra Oh no, I
just want a little Valentine's.
Speaker 2: A bets of Rett baseball season opener. How about it?
I just your resumes in to my email address.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you'd pick the right person thetting process.
You and Jake. Yeah, Chris, I think you and Jake
both need to team up on this.
Speaker 5: If this is going to be before he got kicked
off the batch, yeah, like Jesse Palmer, but didn't he
get kind of get like welcome, Like.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I have no idea forever not
a bachelor, I used to be. Not anymore watcher. I've
never been.
Speaker 7: So if I was guessing if I could get into
Jay Johnson's head and kind of guess a.
Speaker 6: Little bit, which nobody can that man is I love him?
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's the goat, one of the goats. If I
had to guess.
Speaker 7: Leading off would be Michael Braswell and he'd probably moved
over to third base. Tommy White is gone, Stephen Mylam
at number two will move to shortstop.
Speaker 2: Okay, two two, you and Kokie and agreeance here.
Speaker 6: I would go three.
Speaker 7: Jared Jones first base, Yep, Pearson left field at number four.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break spot on you are I mean
so far you and not that I think Cokey is right,
you're wrong, But I do think it's interesting to have
two people that love baseball arrive at these conclusions independently
of one another.
Speaker 2: Shows you there's something there. But look at that top
four to that's beautiful, that's pretty exciting.
Speaker 6: And they're all they're all returners.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The success that Braswell had last year, being able to
build off of that, the monster freshman year for the
monster baton second, Bear Jones, Think about Bear Jones from
two years ago to last year and now he's coming
back this year bat and third, and then Pearson, who's
just maybe the most clutch seeming hitter that you have.
I mean, it's senior, sophomore, junior, senior. That's the good
stuff right there, Okay, who do you think do.
Speaker 7: You talk about the clutch gene though, there's at least
two people in that starting four that like Braswell and Pearson.
Speaker 2: Remember think think about the twice yeah, the SEC tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in the tournament giving him twice at the
end with the improbable home runs.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yes, we we love that top four right there.
Speaker 7: So then I would put Ashton Larson at five. He's
probably gonna dh so.
Speaker 2: And then Kokie has him had six DHK and.
Speaker 6: Then well, okay, so did he have Daniel Dickinson?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniel Dickinson fifth.
Speaker 6: Okay, I put him at six second.
Speaker 2: D do you even know this?
Speaker 6: He is new, he just came.
Speaker 2: He's a transfer.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: So also he was ranked something I don't know what,
but he's ranked something the top one hundred processes. Luis
Hernandez coming in also transfer. He's a utility player, but
I think he's probably gonna be our catcher yep at seven,
Daniel Courriel at eight, center field, and then Jake Brown
right field at nine.
Speaker 3: Okay, So again all the positions exactly the same from
you and Kochie so strong strong there. The only difference
is he had Dickson and Larson flipped and he had
Jake Brown batting eighth in curio batting ninth. But either way,
I think that's very impressive. You'all ended up with the
same nine and nearly the exact same spot. Of course,
Johnson has said that he thinks up the fifteen positional
players could end up seeing time this year, for whatever
that's worth.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, one hundred. They have depth in this roster.
And then if I had to guess the pictures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do we got it for a weekend rotation?
Speaker 7: Friday night guy obviously has to be Chase. It has
to be Yeah, So I would guess Chase Shores, which
I'm so excited about the return of Chase Shorts.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, dude.
Speaker 3: I mean last time we saw him, he was just
he was Tennessee, right, it was that incredible closing out
the Tennessee game. Yeah, right, when he was he was
really coming into his own And now we finally get
to watch him play again.
Speaker 7: Hell yeah, Kate Anderson, if I had to guess would
be your Saturday night starter, we put him in a
couple of Sunday nights. Yeah, if I remember correctly last season.
So if you're rejected it's a Saturday Kokie does well,
I'm just going off of like Jay trust him, he's like, uh,
the other ones are newer and Kate Anderson has I
don't I don't want to say he's like proven himself
yet but definitely deserves a shot. And then I would
put Irons in Anthony ianson Sunday your Sunday starter, So he.
Speaker 3: Has Signington is the first option after he's kind of
ware starting Sunday, and really much about Connor.
Speaker 6: Ware too much about where either Junior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is interesting to see two lefties potentially in
the weak of rotation with Anderson and where if he
ends up being that guy, who do you think the
potential closer is? I mean, oh he is, sorry, Kochi
is ionson as the main setup guy. Okay, but Johnson
did say that LS plans on having eight pictures that
he likes in a multi inning setting. Yeah, so a
bunch of options potentially with which to work in terms
of the penn and set up guy.
Speaker 8: Gavin Gidry, Yeah, Ga, I really.
Speaker 2: Hope that Gavin Gidrey ends up being that guy.
Speaker 6: Dude, he probably will be, just because like he's done
it well, he was such.
Speaker 3: A legendary Louisiana, right, and he's had the big moments,
just a bit of a consistency that tells him back.
But you know, he has the attitude and the stuff
to be just a balls hard closer. I don't know what,
I don't know what. You know what I mean though, right,
like a guy that like choose nails and like intimidates,
intimidates the the the component.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has the ability to do that.
Speaker 7: Well that's what you need, that psycho and you to
be a closer. Yes, yeah, yes, and he was really
good at it, so I don't see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So in terms of the middle relief options, though, they've
got a ton of names, right is William Schmid, Case
and Evans at Cohen Cooper, Williams, J. K Newt, Jacob Myers,
d J Primo, Connor, ben Chandler, Dorsey, Dalton Beck, Maverick,
Rizzy Jake Brown, Kate Woods, grand font No, Connor Simon,
Dylan Thompson. So we'll see. But Landra, I gotta give
you a ton of credit, uh you and Kochie, I
mean this is a person who covers this team for alimit.
I mean, y'all were simpatico. The entire weight here. I
would have had no idea very impressive, very impressive.
Speaker 6: Love me some l s U baseball.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: And I also love this time of year because this
is like when you start to get to know the
new team. It's like former new relationship. And we're gonna
fall in love with this year, like I didn't know
how I was gonna feel about Steven Milem the way
that I felt by year's end, oh last year, And
so I can't wait to see who's that going to
be this year. Balls Ball's hard closes. It's that old saying,
we just need somebody with hard balls. Yeah, uh, Chat
wants you to start using more.
Speaker 2: Fade in, fade out.
Speaker 8: I literally fade every single time the camera changes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not as good as me though. He's he's defended.
Speaker 3: He's upset because his favorite coach, Mike McCarthy is no
longer in Dallas face.
Speaker 2: He knows about that. To stop being a Cowboys saying,
because coach Prime is getting the job, that's true, you
get he's getting the job. Yeah, you think I'm kidding.
I think you think I'm no, I think you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: If you do it is what I think. I don't
think you're kidding. I think you're so committed to it
that you're not kidding, which I think is insane.
Speaker 6: But yeah, to each a Landros Bunting ever a good idea?
Ask Kentucky.
Speaker 7: They literally get into the postseason and win their games
playing small ball.
Speaker 2: They do. So there you go, guys, have you got idea?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Maybe that's if you.
Speaker 6: Got small balls? It's not soliciting me to the radio.
Speaker 2: I guess that's not good.
Speaker 6: I can't be.
Speaker 3: It's an HR violation selling my coworkers on air general public.
I don't know Matt Sells Musso.
Speaker 6: Right, he didn't. He agreed to it. Okay, I'm not
agreeing to.
Speaker 2: This, Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 8: It was like a half agree and saff you're doing
this fair?
Speaker 2: All right? Let me get back more.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, Off the Bench, Welcome back to the
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Speaker 3: This is interesting, easy E says, So you guys want
to know what one of the worst parts of being
a teacher is not being able to go to the
rest when needed. I got forty minutes to my class,
left and I have to go to play the Navy Seals.
I guess what's interesting about that is, I mean, do
you ask yourself to go to the bathroom?
Speaker 2: How does that work?
Speaker 3: Can you tell the just yeah? Can you tell the
kids to just relax for a minute? Or is that
inviting chaos? How old are the kids? I guess that
matters as well.
Speaker 2: It's inviting chaos.
Speaker 3: I thought Easy died, bad joke. Take a break, turn
off his mic, take a break. No, stop it, stop it,
stop it. You completely arrested the momentum of whatever conversation
we were trying to have about teachers using the bathroom,
and and you killed a teacher.
Speaker 2: I hope you're happy. Congratulations Taylor. Damn it?
Speaker 8: Uh you think I came up with his screen name?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Joke?
Speaker 2: Eighth grade is.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can leave eighth graders. I
mean that could go that could go really crazy, really fast.
Eighth grade may be the worst age to leave.
Speaker 2: Alvio says, why was he listening to radio wall teaching?
Because shut up?
Speaker 3: Okay, too many questions over? Okay, don't worry, Easy, we
got your back, Hey, eighth grads, actually do this easy,
We'll hop on a team's call and let me teach
the class while you go to the bathroom. I got you, okay,
trust me. Kids going and learn today? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, they're gonna come back and you're gonna know
more than I mean that. You're you're gonna be shocked
at how changed they are. Uh see, look he said,
kids are taking the test to have it. I'm mute,
I'm greating papers. You're the man, he's don't explain yourself
to these Yeah, these cretans. You're the one out here
serving society, take care of everybody's kids, teaching them, raising
to be productive members of society. Well, we'll sit here
and just make stupid ryeballd juvenile sex.
Speaker 2: Jokes, okay or maybe.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You get it though, you get it, Okay. What do
you do, Taylor?
Speaker 3: Just serve TikTok all day. You don't teach eighth graders.
Get the hell out of here. What do you do
with Landra listen to country music all day and playing
music you don't? You don't teach eighth graders, Get the
hell out of here?
Speaker 6: What do you do?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Right, I told you what I do. I own it.
I make juvenile sex jokes. Okay, and that's my lane,
and that that's that's what it is. That's what I
get paid.
Speaker 3: I walk from Mike to Mike trying to be funny
in the most crass, low brow way possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just try to thank you.
Speaker 3: Easy. Put me on the board now, yeah, put me
on the board. Hey, eighth graders, listen up here, guys.
Chances are you got a lot of hormones floating through
your body right now. Okay, Cindy, you're looking at Steve. Steve,
you're looking at Cindy. You're running around all these changes
that are going on your body.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Papa Tea Bob's.
Speaker 3: Here to tell you just chill out. Okay, you got
plenty of time for all this madness. Sure you want
to experiment with them making out, maybe a little kissing
here or there, that's fine, but don't go crazy. Okay,
let's just pump the brakes. This doesn't have to be
like before marriage. Like we're not gonna we're not gonna,
we don't gonna.
Speaker 2: Go too extreme with any of this day. But just like,
just chill, just have to fuck be a kid. You
got a little bit longer to be a kid.
Speaker 3: Okay, then high school hits and you're just you're just
walking headlong into the grave day by day.
Speaker 2: Just enjoy this moment for a little time. And I know,
junior high is tough. Okay.
Speaker 3: If you're out there and you're listening and you feel
insecure and you feel bad right now, it gets better.
Junior high is the most insecure time in your life,
sometimes only exceed about high school. But once you get
around college, it's gonna start to get better. You're gonna
find your people, You're gonna find your way.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So don't let whatever feelings are keeping you down to
feel overwhelming at this moment. Don't give them that power
over you. I know it's impossible to appreciate this. As
they say, youth is wasted on the young. But you're
gonna be okay, don't let it. Don't let it drive
you into the pit of despair.
Speaker 2: You got this.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be great, all right, kids, Easy back from bathroom? Okay, perfect?
Speaker 7: See, guys, I hope there are some eighth graders genuinely
out there listening to a couple of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, like, I just have to wait for it
to get back.
Speaker 2: Oh there, Yeah, for real, I do.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I mean I believe that. I do believe that.
Speaker 3: I think that junior high is a time when insecurity
is really starting to kick in, and that's the worst.
That is the absolute worst, and you can feel so
less than and so bad about yourself.
Speaker 2: And extends in high school. I done, maybe even extended
to college.
Speaker 3: But I do find for the most part, everybody starts
to kind of find their people find their way in
college a bit so.
Speaker 2: I mean, I am a card carrying member of a
meathead nation.
Speaker 5: The thing that I was most concerned about in eighth
grade was I was fortunate enough to play varsity football,
and how could I get on all those special teams?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a couple of other things you were concerned about,
But I agree, it's it's it's not the correct answer.
I'm saying that.
Speaker 5: Just that, man, that was my sole focus, Like, how
can I get on that field for this team as
an eighth grader?
Speaker 2: Yeah, on varsity? It is crazy. We won the Natty
that year Likestay today national championship. Ah, that is crazy
being an eighth grader on a national championship. I mean
I wasn't playing defense or offense. It's just a war Daddy, what.
Speaker 3: Are you giggling about via al nookies comment. Yeah, that's
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next week? Anybody sides, anybody s any voice memos?
Speaker 6: And yet I've gotten a voice memo.
Speaker 2: Okay, we need more. How do we do it again?
Speaker 6: Four or five?
Speaker 7: Espn app there's a little mic at the bottom. Ask
me for advice, yes, ask me anything, or ask her.
Speaker 2: To the Valentine's a game. If you had to play
in one more season, how long would it take you
to get back into plays eight a whole season?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Four months? I need four?
Speaker 8: Do y'all have to play like y'all's positions?
Speaker 2: I can play mine in four months. I don't know.
Speaker 8: If you become like a long snapper, I.
Speaker 3: Don't no.
Speaker 2: I could have asked the bench.
Speaker 3: Of the OTB crew. Who would be the new head
coach of the Saints? Jay Yeah obviously, asked bench, would
you go back to eighth grade if you could?
Speaker 2: And no, you cannot take your current knowledge.
Speaker 8: Yeah I liked eighth grade.
Speaker 3: Uh no, eighth grade, asked the bench. Most embarrassing moment
for middle school.
Speaker 5: I kind of had an laundry moment one time in
sixth grade when it was just Halloween. Oh yeah, and
I went like all for Halloween and like I showed
up and like nobody else put any effort into it.
And it was like at school, like dressed up for
Halloween because they had like a Halloween dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very minimal effort from everybody else. I'm like, oh tight,
Literally I got my face paint is a zombie here? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I was Jason. Yeah, happened to be in college.
Speaker 3: College school, you know, asked the bench, as I'm going
to give his matrix sweater back to Nea. No, I
love That's what I've had that for years and years
as a bench. How long until you run the Disney Marathon?
Speaker 2: Never I do. I would run a half. I'm thinking
about running a half.
Speaker 8: Where's it? What's the path to be?
Speaker 2: Got awful. But what in k I kind of do,
that's what?
Speaker 8: What's like the path?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. There's also in a
part Yeah, yeah, partially. There's also all.
Speaker 8: Kind of land around there, so you can go around
Epcot three times. That's enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I think it like ends InCom
Maybe I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Ask the bench what team in the playoffs has the
best uniform still in the playoffs?
Speaker 8: Oh, I really like the Commander's colors.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. I really like the Commander's colors.
I can get behind the lions or the Commander's work
like winning at all? Well, which uniform I know? I'm
saying Like because of that reason, That's what I'm saying.
Have you already cake yet? But I won't one.
Speaker 6: I've had a Rouse's one cream cheese.
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Speaker 8: You tomorrow off the bench.