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Speaker 2: Yo, welcome in OTV here on this Tuesday morning. Yo, Jake, Matt,
Alandra and Kaya all here with you. How are we
doing this fine Tuesday morning. Let's check around the room.
Speaker 3: I'm doing amazing.
Speaker 2: I bet you are. You got a little pre vacation
glow to you, sir.
Speaker 3: I know you do kind of get that little pre
vacate feel. Yeah, you're kind of like, you know, kind
of halfway here, halfway there.
Speaker 2: Halfway You're you're typically halfway here. So what are you now?
A quarter quarter? I'm a quarterback? There you go. Hey,
it looks makes sense, makes sense, But yeah, you kind
of gotta start thinking about all the all the little
things you gotta get done. There's no no no children
on your trip though, because this is your fortieth birthday trip, right, Yeah,
no children. Oh that's that makes packing and getting the
logistics of everything much much easier.
Speaker 3: Sure, but if you procrastinate like I do, oh kind
of got kind of got everything to do, got a
lot of errands to run.
Speaker 2: Has anything that's done? Do you have like your passport
real idea like whatever you've got to have there all that.
Speaker 3: Actually, for whatever reason, I was prepped for the real
Idea thing.
Speaker 2: Well, you need to pat it fly for business a lot.
I So I have still not done it yet because
my busy season is like fall all the way until
like March, and then I just don't go anywhere typically
for the summer. But I do need to get that
for sec media.
Speaker 3: Has I was actually I was actually flying traveling the
first day that the Real Idea was implemented May seven,
Like they were yeah, they were requiring people to have it. Hey,
you know they talked a big game leading up to it,
but they had a lot of flexibility that day. I
had it, but they were stopping, like every third person
was getting stopped and they just had to like move
over and get a little pat down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have like your nose up in the
air a little bit because you had it? I can
see you doing that.
Speaker 3: It's just uncultured swine.
Speaker 2: If they only knew the lack of preparation that you
typically had. I got a real idea, I got a passport.
We are ready to roll. That's sure. You just went
to France. Yeah, yeah, so you got everything ready. Yep,
we got you here. For the next three hours France
was with the children, with the family. You said the
way you said that, we had a great time, not
a fun flight.
Speaker 3: We had a great time. They actually did pretty good.
They did better than I thought they were gonna do.
I was a little bit dreadnant leading up to it,
not a little bit, I was. Yeah, but they crushed it.
That's what four straight movies will do to you.
Speaker 1: H A.
Speaker 2: Landra Tate. How we feel and how we doing?
Speaker 4: Feeling good? Yeah, I don't really have.
Speaker 2: Anything going on.
Speaker 4: No, I don't have anything really to look forward to.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Laundrys came in and fired. Actually was a
big Racers fan.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was talking about I forgot that their
mascot was the Racers.
Speaker 3: I just learned that yesterday.
Speaker 6: I learned the other day because they're in Kentucky and
they did it after the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 3: I just thought it was a cool mascot.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know they were really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4: From trying to figure out where the stand, I thought.
Speaker 2: My wife looking like, where's Murray at? Where's that state?
Is it not New Jersey? Oh, that's not even a state,
because he once did say that he thought New Jersey.
Speaker 4: Was just he did not know New Jersey was.
Speaker 6: No, we're a lot more awake than we were yesterday morning,
so we're we're good to go. Also, why is it
always called like why is it turks and Caicos?
Speaker 3: Always hear everybody say that, that's a great question. Who is?
But why is it?
Speaker 6: What I'm saying, like, why is it two things? Is
it two separate places? Or is it literally called turk?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna be honest with you. Hearing question, I've
got a little bit of Ta Bob feeling right now.
I have no idea where it's at.
Speaker 3: It's one of those islands, one of those islands here
in South America, somewhere it's.
Speaker 5: Above the Dominican it's between it's like to the east
of the Dominican and Cuba, like right between the twos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it makes me think of Turkey. I'm
sure they don't have any turkeys there. Probably not. I
don't know what cares the country that's Turkey.
Speaker 4: Their capital is cock Burke.
Speaker 3: A fair point too, there's a country named Turkey.
Speaker 2: What activities are we doing for the big fortieth birthday?
Speaker 3: Probably activities? I don't know. What do you do on
the beach? Many? Many?
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do? I've never been there. Oh,
everybody worldwide, worldwide basically pitbull.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what, Like, what do you do
with a place like that?
Speaker 2: You just don't know?
Speaker 3: Maybe take a little boat ride, you have some beach drinks.
Speaker 2: I've got five children. When's the last time you think
I went to a beach and didn't have to? I
don't know.
Speaker 3: I got three children. Two more prevents you from like
taking a trip with your wife, but they're not going.
Where are you where you can go with a trip?
You can go on a trip without your children? These
kids staying with I don't know, are you talking about minor?
You like the the theoretical? Your children? Either one you
find someone.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're doing anything Wednesday through Sunday next week? At
these three kids situations, I'm gonna need you all to
come help out.
Speaker 3: I mean, you kind of have a good babysitter, got
to gotta have. You know, it takes a village, Jake,
I know, takes a village.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've heard. I don't know. I don't
have a village, but I've heard you should do it.
Speaker 3: You should take on a trip, and it takes a
village without children. All right, Hey, I mean next year,
because I need a year to get my feet under
me here on this radio.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, you know, if I
go on vacation, that means you're up here now. I
don't know, I think to get started, like, well, we're
gonna get the show started, but to get that conversation started,
I do think that like Tata cond sit up here
with you and you y'all could go back and forth
and we get a feeling for Tata. It's like the
first time that I miss Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. If anybody wants me to just
go ahead and solo hosts this thing.
Speaker 2: I'd actually love to see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to see a train wreck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be absolutely train right now. You know
I kind of described you know, this, this show, this
version of the show like a beautiful disaster. Yeah, but
that would just be a disaster me doing it solo.
Speaker 2: Do you I think, yeah, great to watch. You'd be
get like, okay, so you'd get to everybody that I
know that doesn't typically host and and they don't do solo,
and they've for some reason gotta do solo. Be it
because somebody called in sick the day of or somebody
got in an accident, or like for our serious ExM
Like sometimes stuff happens because I'm in Baton Rouge, my
producers want one is the DC ones in l A
and then my coast is in Miami. So things happen
right typically about six to eight minutes of you know,
good content, full boar, and it's like, oh, we've got
two hours and fifty two minutes late. No.
Speaker 3: I mean it better like if like if it ever
was going to happen. First of all, I would be
in cold sweats for sure. Uh second, oh my god.
Speaker 2: The full minute, Oh boy, oh man.
Speaker 3: We're going script for sure if that's the case, thousand script.
But it better be like in the middle of football season,
and it better be like on a Monday, like where
I can at least talk about all games, every game.
But then but then, I mean you got that takes
care of two segments.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean you can get an hour football season, Yeah,
for sure, you go SEC only get an hour.
Speaker 3: Especially when we get that, but that that game film.
Speaker 2: I think I'm about to have to break the news
to you that we're not really allowed to take off
deer in football season. It's kind of like really really
really really frowned upon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll figure that out. I know somebody who
did it last year. Yeah that you know? Yeah, word
did he did the Disney Halloween thing? Oh my god,
We'll figure it out, guys. A week before Alabama, Ta
Bum was like, actually you know what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Hey look this is seven days in a row for me.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna be your marrow?
Speaker 3: I might have earned a day off.
Speaker 2: Like in your mind. I think you're like, I've earned this.
Speaker 4: Week and a half to me.
Speaker 3: All right, respect guys, Yeah, respect. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I wanted you to get to double ditches before you missed,
but we didn't get there.
Speaker 3: It's okay, o Andre, And you're right though, it would
be a train wreck if I solo hosted, but one day.
We're gonna get We're going to improve every single week.
Speaker 2: Let's do this. Let's do this next year. On June
the tenth, I'm going to be out and you're gonna
sellow host gives you a year, gives you a whole year.
Speaker 3: Let's shoot for twenty twenty seven. Twenty twenty seven, you
and Katie book that trip.
Speaker 2: No vacation, God bless all right, let's go ahead and
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Speaker 2: All right, so we are going to get to lsu A, Arkansas.
But we did have one more spot available last night
super Regional play on the way to Omaha, and man,
what a game it was. Murray State holds on ab
Duke five to four. And there's a lot of different
moments in that game that got to the five to
four score line, right, So I'm not being disrespectful to
those moments. A lot of solo home runs in this game,
but it was the ending that had all the drama,
right because it felt like, oh, man, Duke's gonna come back.
Like they're going to come back Murray State. I mean,
their closer's been out there since Moby Dick was a minno.
I mean he's thrown so many pitches. He pitched the
day before as well. They're gonna hit a home run.
They're going to walk this thing off. And credit to
Murray State, I mean, they battled. They just honed in
on what they had to do, whatever it had to be,
you know, be that's what they got done. And credit
to them for thinking they got a walk off double
play because the runner was called out at first because
of the slide. In the second, they dog pile a
dog pile celebrating, They're like, we won, We're a four seed,
the fourth only to go to the College World Series,
only to be told, hey, pitcher at the bottom of
the pile, my guy, you got to get up actually,
and you got to go get another out. Like think
about that mindset of celebrating, and every celebration is going
to be different, Like if that was Lashue, we saw
that and they ran out of the dugout and they're like,
all right, they didn't dog pile, right, because Lshue is
so twenty a time to go to Omaha. This is
Murray State's first time and only the fourth, fourth seed,
like we said, so they used all their energy in
like that small celebration, only to be told, hey, guys,
we're going to each other come back on the field.
And to go from that to getting the out that
was big time because I just knew Duke was going
to walk it off some way somehow, and then poor
Fellas the second celebration, it was a half assed dog
file that was awkward as hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get go ahead and you get on the
ground on top of it was they were like the
first one hurt first, first, first, a little bit, yeah
uh yeah. So I was watching the game and some
I'm sitting there, it's the bottom of the ninth and
I'm like, all right, Duke's at home. That the bigger school.
We got these racers, and like winning this game. There's
no way they're going to win it. Like the scene
was set for this walk off. I felt like the
first guy got hit by pitch, first guy gets on base,
and I'm like, well, yep, this guy's gonna hit a
danger yeah, And and then it happens where they have
they called the they call the double play out, the interference,
the Renner interference. They dog pile, and like what if
four two had just like seen it was like when
they had to unpile everybody, how many times do you
see that? It's like, well, at that point, I'm like,
I'm ninety nine percent sure Duke's winning this game because
of the whole dog ball situation, because it's just like
a mental just it messes to your mind so much.
It's kind of like a football win. We always had
to say, like if the defense drops an interception, the
offense usually scores. It's just like you think you have something, yeah,
and then it's taken away from you or it slips
to your fingers, slips to your hands. But uh yeah,
credit to them. I think the closer they said through
like fifty two pitches or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he had some juice too. He's still he
was like, he's not a guy that was like hitting
you know up ninety six, ninety seven ever, but he
lives around ninety ninety one and he was throwing ninety
two still, like in the ninth inning closing out Duke,
like he whatever his peak was, like, he stayed at it.
So credit to him.
Speaker 3: Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, it is, And
credit to.
Speaker 2: Him for staying locked in after the first dog pile.
Can you imagine if Duke would have won that game
in your Murray state and you thought you were going
to Omaha, you do the whole dog pile situation first
time in school history. Next bitch tank, that would have
been tough, tough.
Speaker 3: It's been fun to watch that having a dog in
the fight. I was watching it with like the whole
families in the living room and we're watching it and
after that happened, because we like who we cheering for? Dad,
And I'm like, well, i'd kind of like see a
big bomb right here myself. But you know, because I
kind of wanted to. I wanted that little bit of drama.
Speaker 2: You're cheering against the little guy.
Speaker 3: I thought it would be fun to like for them
to lose after the dog cloth.
Speaker 4: Their head baseball coach cuts their own grass.
Speaker 2: On the fields, A dream of mine.
Speaker 3: Like, if I'm the head baseball coach, I'm cutting the
grass myself. I can't tell if you're serious, but he.
Speaker 6: Like push, Oh yeah, I'm the type of guy that's
like after I cut the grass, I'm like, Victoria, come
look at the grass.
Speaker 2: Okah, you're like steel is She like, I've seen your
grass cutting skills. We get it. Your air monarchs are
are really nice when you wear them out there. We
get it.
Speaker 3: What makes what? What do you love about it? Satisfying?
You'll have the smell of the fresh cut grass outside,
like the way it looks. Just like the way it looks.
I just I if I got like like today, the
rain better hold all for me, because uh, you need
to cut you cutting that grass to get your ass
out there in the rain, cut that grass.
Speaker 2: You pushing this thing or are you riding a push
moon the whole deal. Oh yeah, Okay, So I don't
know the monarchs out there. I don't know what happened recently.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because I'm like a dad
or whatever, but I get these like Instagram videos pushed
to my timeline of these guys like cutting their front
yard in their backyard to make it look like a
golf course, golf course, and like they have like the
golf course like cutting equipment and they prime it and
it's like their front yard is lined, you know how
you can get it like one that's like shiny and
then the other it's like striped almost. And I said,
I watch every single video locked in. I don't even
like cutting grass. I can only imagine what's your timeline
looks like.
Speaker 4: You got a lot of that. It's probably because you
keep watching it.
Speaker 3: So but like I don't do it, Like I'm never
never going to do that, Like that's never gonna be me.
I'm never gonna like, but you're not gonna like if
you wouldn't be locked into a video A video, yes,
video of mowing.
Speaker 2: No, you know what I like when there's like an
overgrown yard. Yeah, I'm gonna watch the.
Speaker 3: Guy is his names like Waiting or something.
Speaker 2: He's like, you don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: You know, He's like, oh, I'll cut your grass for free.
He's like, can I just put on my YouTube channel?
Speaker 2: Incredibly satisfied it is.
Speaker 3: Usually there's like there's definitely a walkway under there, somewhere
under the grass.
Speaker 2: Can't see it, didn't know that was there.
Speaker 3: That is good anyway.
Speaker 2: So Murray State shout out. They get the victory and
now A and the bottom portion of the bracket there
in Omaha it will be Murray State and UCLA, l
s U and Arkansas. In the top portion it is
Arizona Coastal Carolina, Louisville and Oregon State. So for LSU,
if they win, they will play the winner of u C,
l A and Murray State. And they did get that
primetime slot, so it is going to be Game one
Saturday primetime. No surprise there, no surprise at LSU in
Arkansas would be the primetime game because when you look
and you know, no teams that made it last year
made it this year, which is incredible, But there was
a lot of teams of Murray State, Louisville, even UCLA, Arizona,
some would say Coastal, although I think Coastal was always
going to be there. It's just a really good baseball team.
And so you look around the matchups, you got a
three versus a six national seed. No other game is
going to feature that. I mean, so Arizona Coastal, Coastal
the only one that was a national seed, Oregon State, Louisville,
Oregon State a national seed, u CELA, Murray State, u
SELA the national seed, so LSU Arkansas because of course,
of course, why not that is the matchup between two
national seeds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the hardest one.
Speaker 2: I think they got the hardest one too, you know,
same situation, there's a smarter Yeah, okay, that's fair, but
but if you win. I do like the matchup of
whoever wins against Murray State and UCLA because you look
at some of the other teams in the top portion
of the bracket. I think there's three teams immediately, Arizona,
Coastal and Oregon State that are better than both those teams. Yeah,
so you do have the hardest matchup in game number
one if you're Arkansas or LSU. But I think you
get a favorable matchup in round number two. Yeah, if
you will, that is true. So all right, we will
step away for the first time. We do have a
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us in about thirty five minutes from now, play ten
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Speaker 1: I don't need to be anything another dental prison guards son,
I don't need to be anything. The den pressive sign
from players to legends. Hester and Flynn breakdown l s
U football like only champions can what I wear.
Speaker 2: I'm going legend starty where I'm coming from.
Speaker 3: I don't want me anything.
Speaker 7: Man what man.
Speaker 3: Fanger? Definitely phone banger.
Speaker 2: Shout out to c W, shout out w B, shout
out One Tree Hill, shout out Gavin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can we hear you hit that note one more time?
Speaker 3: Which one? Who?
Speaker 2: Me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What note I hit?
Speaker 4: I don't know you were seeing? That sounded great?
Speaker 2: That wasn't it better.
Speaker 5: Thereat because nobody was putting you on the side?
Speaker 4: Get it my bad?
Speaker 5: That was on me.
Speaker 4: I put you on the spot.
Speaker 3: I'm not a duet kind of guy, you know, instrumental
Gavin bringing you down.
Speaker 2: You're an idiot.
Speaker 3: I like to be so low.
Speaker 2: Oh oh do you okay? Noted? Noted? Uh you put
some l s U football news in the document. Obviously
big blow for l s U recruiting.
Speaker 6: It sounds like, yeah, so Jordan Arsamm, who was one
of the directors of recruiting, is leaving. He's joining a
uh professional sports agency, Athletes First Firm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Athletes First is where he's going.
Speaker 6: Jordan was big, like behind the scenes, helping the athletes
to get like they're in il deals and stuff like that,
Like for a number of years now. He has been
here since twenty twenty two, so the past three years,
and LSU was cleaned up in the transfer portal a
large part because of that. He was also the director
of player development. Like, I get it, he's not an
on field coach, but this is this is actually a
pretty significant loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jordan's done a great job and had many many
conversations with him over on the Ponderosa about you know,
roster management and making sure everything is in place. Now,
wonder with the new settlement if that changes some things
because you do technically like you had this salary cap situation.
It's like, hey, each athletic department can spend twenty and
a half million dollars. We know football is gonna get
this amount. Now that amount might change by a million here,
a millionaire plush tata depending on where you go to school,
like Kentucky might give a little bit more to men's basketball,
Mississippi State might give a little bit more to baseball.
Like there might be some of that, but for the
most part, it's going to be pretty similar as far
as how much you spend in football. So I wonder,
like having that fixed number, like is this a role
that you try to go and hire a big gun.
Does this role change because of the changes with the
settlement and everything.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to use the term easier, but
I think like with this, well there's some some rules. Yeah,
there's rules finally, so it becomes a lot clearer on
how to operate. How so, I think leading up to
this point, and I'm surprised, like more of this didn't
happen across the country of like uh agencies, you know,
plucking good talent around the country because you've had to,
You've had to like bulk up Yeah, the people that
you were your staff basically because there's there has been
no rules and so you kind of got to the
rules have been made up as you go. So but
now that there is an actual the what you do
is so much clear like it's been. It's been clear
as mud leading up to this point. Like try to
get one person to explain how the world of NIL
and REV Share and all the all the elements work, Like,
give me a clear picture, put it on paper, give
me an outline of how this works. And every team's
gonna be different, every state's gonna be different, coast to coast.
It's but now we got rules. Yeah, well, thank god, Yeah, yeah,
we've got something. We have something that can you imagine
be to coach in the last couple of years operating
because you don't know who's gonna be on your team,
You don't know how to where to find the money.
Who defined the money? What money do I find? What's
in the gray area, what's in the shadows?
Speaker 2: Like I was talking about this with BK down in Destin.
It's like, imagine because we have two portal windows, imagine
paying a player January, February, March, and April so that
players on your tab, and then he goes into the
portal and second window and you're like, man, I just
paid four months for you to hang out, right, I
got just paid for your school, lodging everything, and gave
you money like you know, pay pay for you to
be here. And then all of a sudden, like you go,
you know, you go somewhere else. And that that's what
they were having to deal with, right, And they're trying
to get a clear picture of that as well, trying
to get one portal window because and look, I'm always
gonna fight for the players, and so I'm not hating
on the players. But like you can kind of hold
these teams hostage because like we just saw I Maliava
go from Tennessee to u c. L A. Well, he
thought he was going to hold Tennessee hostage. Josh Heifel's like, no,
we're good man, We're actually we're going to go get
the quarterback that you're going to replace, and he's gonna
come replace you, and we're gonna you know, we're gonna
set a standard here at Tennessee. And so it's not
always going to work out.
Speaker 3: But I think we saw both both sides take advantage
of the the lack of rules players, and we saw schools.
Certainly we sell schools like say, yeah, you're gonna get
a million dollars to come here, and they player doesn't
see a sin, right, Uh. Players should not be able
to get paid and then just leave without some sort
of like all you know, and you said it, we
are always going to be player first because we were players,
and but there's got to be Hopefully this is a
step in the right direction because we don't need to
get like into a bigger like theoretical discussion about like
you know, amateur versus pro and cbas and stuff like that.
But in the NFL, we can just compare it to that.
If you do something and then you do something to
breach a contract, you have to pay back that money.
That money goes back to you. Yeah, they have a
contracts a little bit different, like if I if you're
if you're under contract with the New Orleans Saints and
oh whoop, see Daisy's went downhill skiing, snapped my leg.
You got to pay money back, Like, you don't just
get a free pass and say.
Speaker 2: Literally says no skiing, no extreme sports, and everybody's contract
people do it, but it says it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some people get it right now there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like the top three percent of play that had.
Speaker 3: That kind of that's why your boy at the ripe
age of thirty five went skiing for the first time
and tumbled down the mountain. I've never been skinned.
Speaker 2: I've never been because of it. I was like, you
ain't cutting me because of the skiing. I'm not gonna
do it is not going to even So I probably
told this on there. I don't know who cares. I'll
tell it again.
Speaker 3: Listening.
Speaker 2: So going into my fifth year, I think it was
fifth year whatever, and I was just you know, football
just not happy with it.
Speaker 3: I had been.
Speaker 2: I was a Pro Bowl alternate the year before had
I felt like my best year.
Speaker 3: You came to Seattle too.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true, huh that year, I see, Yeah, So
I go it and I was a free agent and
I went to Seattle. The only reason I didn't sign
with Seattle is because they weren't going to guarantee anything.
Even if I got hurt. They're like, like, hey, you've
had surgeries. We're just not gonna guarantee anything. Like we'd
love to have you. And it would have been fun. Man.
I was enjoyed that, but I played it safe and
I went back to San Diego and I signed. Like
my signing bonus was. It was not a whole lot.
Speaker 3: I don't even.
Speaker 2: Remember, but like towards the beginning, like right before camp started,
I'm like, man, like what am I missing here? Like
I was really good last year. I had my best year,
like as a team captain, went out there for the
coin toss every week, and then like all of a sudden,
like I saw my role like changed, like they were
going away from fullback and I could kind of feel it.
And Norv was always a two back guy and I
could just feel because he had pressure to go win,
and so he was kind of going away from us,
like a lot of Norv was still there. He was
still there, but it was man, it was eleven personnel,
and I could tell, like, the fullback's not even really
gonna be used here. I could just tell. Like I
went from playing twenty twenty five plays a game, it
was like three. I'm like, oh boy, like they might
not even carry a fullback. And I remember thinking like
do I love this enough to like sit here and
play three plays the game. I was just you know,
just frustrated with the whole situation. So I remember like
I was like, I'm gonna retire. I'm done, I'm done,
I'm mad, I'm pissed off. I called Norv and he
didn't answer to retire, like I literally called him to
and then he didn't answer, and then like having conversations
with different people. But I remember my agent's like, hey, Nike,
when did you call him during the season, after the season,
this is like right for a training camp right before
so before your fifth year? Yes, before fifth year. Yeah,
before I went to Denver, And I remember my agent
being like, hey, that's fine, Like I get it. You're frustrated,
you're mad the roles change. I get that, But if
you do that, you got to give back that entire
signing bonus you signed. And I'm like, good point, fair point, airpoint,
it's really good. So I mean it wasn't the only
only thing. Like I end up having a conversation with
norv and you know, he changed my mind, even though
exactly my fears of them going here from the fullback
happened and they didn't keep before back.
Speaker 3: Right, So you got did you get released at the
end of training camp.
Speaker 2: Or I got released? Yeah, into training camp. Then that's
when I signed with Denver that.
Speaker 3: Like the following week.
Speaker 2: Ah no, a little bit later, Okay, yeah, but so
the whole story was I was gonna have to pay
that back.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: An agent. One agent's conversation can change a whole whole lot, because, Yeah,
as athletes, you tend to think like with your heart. Yeah,
and you never like you sign a contract. It's like
most contracts, you sign it and you never look at
it again. So yeah, they can talk some sensitive who
is the running back that y'all kept that year? So
I would have thought, because like how we utilized John
kun and Green Bay like really good with past protections,
protections really well, really good getting out third down.
Speaker 2: Bay they had Ryan Matthews was RB one first round pick.
Laura McClean, is that from Alabama Baltimore. So he was
kind of the guy you're talking about, Like he was
more of a running back that played a little bit
of full back and he had like a thousand yard
year in Baltimore and so like he was, they brought
him in in the off season again to kind of
change change the roles. We lost Tolbert to free agency
to the Panthers. I'm trying to think there was another
running back and I'm just, oh, John Battle, I think
was the guy's name. He played for the Chiefs. Great guy,
maybe the stiffest human being I've ever seen on a
football field. And I'm like, what what are we doing now?
He was a giant at running back. He was like
six two forty like that kind of so they kind
of they completely changed the model of what we did
right and I felt it. I knew it was happy
and weren't happy about it. Should have signed with Seattle.
Speaker 3: Now you shouldn't have, because that's true. They decided to
play somebody else. And I was just a miserable, miserable.
Speaker 2: We could have been miserable together.
Speaker 3: I was a grumpy, grumpy little soldier. All right.
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Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mail bag. Do y'all think they should recede
when teams make it to Omaha, Arkansas and LSU in
the first game is dumb? Yeah? Yeah, I do for sure. Uh,
it makes it makes sense.
Speaker 4: I don't have like a strong opinion.
Speaker 2: There is always upsets. Yeah, and it's like, hey, wait
a minute, Uh, we're a scene wet l s U.
If I'm Arkansas. So I wouldn't hate it.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't I wouldn't hate it, but I don't have
like a opinion.
Speaker 3: On it's I think looking at the scoreboard, like in
the in the corner during these games, it's just sloppy.
When it's like all these un you look at it,
nobody's got a seed. Like in the region of the Supers,
it's like a it's like a eleven versus and nothing,
and you're like, it's just sloppy looking. Give me something,
give me something like like my kids. My kids want
to cheer, they want to like they want to pick
me too.
Speaker 2: Like you would be on a crash course for L
s U Arkansas in the final if you reseed it,
and that'd be kind of let's just do that. Yeah,
So hashtag O t B mail bag. Does L s
U actually break the jell O shot record.
Speaker 4: If Gordon goes back out there, And depends on how long.
Speaker 3: They're there, That's what it's always that. It always depends
like if you're if you're two and done. Yeah, I'm
gonna say it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough to.
It's always tough to.
Speaker 2: It's kind of play the maximum amount of games last time.
Speaker 3: Because you came out of the loser, it's tough to
recreate like one season magic. Yeah, I'm gonna say no,
but you never know. It's gonna get legs. But which
is good tease for us, because y'all know I've been
working on that spreadsheet. We're gonna break down the actual
total economics of the jealous shot situation. I know it's
teasy yesterday, but there was just too much information. I
wanted to get it right. Yeah, we're gonna talk about
that later. What full rain Man Absolutely love the spreadsheets.
Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mail bag was miss Davis really a ten? No?
Speaker 3: She was an inten.
Speaker 2: Billy Bob said it best.
Speaker 3: Billy Bob, I agree there.
Speaker 2: Hashtag O to B mail bag Which current or former
ot B host our producer would most likely wear it?
To pay? Easy? Mario? Easy?
Speaker 3: Wow, he took you less than point two five seconds.
I saw, I saw the question. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know if Danny lost his hair, I don't know, Daniel,
where is the he like I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, was a lot of hats.
Speaker 2: Uh, probably I guess, Mario, I mean just by the
I guess. Yeah, I'm trying to think, Ah Musso Musso
used to be the producer when I first started? Yeah, yeah,
I wrong. I mean, look, he's just trying to ball,
you know about like that great is only a game
so far?
Speaker 3: But what was you? Who's your first video producer?
Speaker 2: Tony talking about on Hang with Hester? Yeah, Tony Lightfoot.
Speaker 3: Throwback?
Speaker 2: Who's the video producer? I guess it would have been
Moose and Danny when I first started O TV?
Speaker 3: Was it? I didn't know if it was a Nathan
or not?
Speaker 2: No? And then it went to Mario and Danny and
then Mario and Tat, then Launder and Tato. So Tony Lightfoot,
what a name?
Speaker 3: Good for you to come up with?
Speaker 2: The last shout out from Carson says Hester and Flynn
loved that we get to listen to Elish legends every weekday.
Morning life is good. Shout out Carson, shout out, although
you're not gonna be listening to Flynn tomorrow because he's
Christian baling on us.
Speaker 3: What a great actor. A lot of range.
Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mail bag. Can we get a weekly segment
of stray topics from Flynn? A lah meth Gators That
wasn't a segment. Nook, that was a show.
Speaker 3: That was a whole show.
Speaker 2: We did a full two hour show on meth gators.
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all don't understand like we just we would pick
just one topic and hammer it for eight segments.
Speaker 2: I really was to do a full show of nothing
but Chuck Norris jokes committing. I mean it was it
was a playoff Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: But I mean that was un Radio in the morning's
one thing. But like when you're doing it at night,
when you know nobody's listening, it's a whole.
Speaker 2: Or you know, the rules are completely different. Yeah, there's
it's like n I l up to this point, no
rules hashtag OTB mail bag. Does a Launder love Dr
Pepper more than Mario loves Burgers?
Speaker 4: I don't know how much more, but I loved I
do love some Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my kids loved Doctor Pepper more than they love me.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes I have at least one to day.
Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mailbag. What was trendon holiday? Like any crazy
trending stories? It was awesome, great teammate. I don't think
any off the field crazy. I don't have anything either,
Like he was always like he was he was good, like,
showed up, did what he's supposed to do, worked hard.
You know, you get tired of meetings sometimes.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I've never seen anyone be
able to go from uh stopped to at full speed
within like two steps.
Speaker 2: That guy could go quick. He was actually my class,
but he gray shirted, so it was a little bit.
He was behind me a year. But my favorite trendon
holiday story is when we were in Denver together, we
played against the Ravens in the he returned a kick
and a punt for a That is right, if he
caught it, there was a chance he was going.
Speaker 3: You say that, but he didn't have pad hint like
if they punted it to him, Oh yeah, they wouldn't
punt it to No.
Speaker 2: Heck no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, came off like you're saying he couldn't catch a punt.
Oh no, you know what I mean, though I knew
what you meant.
Speaker 2: On the kickoff return, I was like the upback and
I just remember whoever it was for Baltimore, Like you know,
the kamikaze guy, the L five. He just put his
helmet like right in my belly, not like my shoulder,
not in my chest like right my belly and took
himself out of the place. I was like cool, but
I was like you know that, you try to catch
your breath and we're in the altitude as well, and
it was negative seven in Denver. I never felt worse.
Oh my god, it was like dry heaving, Like.
Speaker 3: Could that just goes to show you, like the NFL
is such a hard place to make it for a
long time. You got to be special, special, but you
also have to have a lot of luck. Like Trendon
returned to punt in a kickoff. I think that's not
look like the first time it had ever been done
in the playoffs against the Ravens in the playoffs, the
NFL playoffs. Yeah right, and he still like didn't have
a long illustorious like like it just shows it like
you have to be you got to have luck all
with the skill and the talent.
Speaker 2: Certainly outside of the quarterback position, Like you have to
have luck right situation right coach, that coach loves you,
and those two situations where you normally would have gotten cut,
that coach saves you and you're able to have it.
Speaker 3: Even like even I go back to early du set,
we played him in two thousand and It was at
the two thousand and nine playoffs and we had beat
the Cardinals the last game of the season by like
forty points, even so much that I got in the game, right, Yeah,
all right. We played him the next week in the
first round of the playoffs and they early so that
I think caught three touchdowns in the game. Yeah, and
they beat us three touchdowns and then like his career
kind of stalled, stalled out. But it's like in the playoffs,
three touchdown receptions. All right, we'll step away. I do
want to get to maybe two more of these when
we come back, if we have time.
Speaker 2: O TV off the bench, All Star, All Star, All Star.
Speaker 3: I hadn't messed that up all week.
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Speaker 1: Tiger's turn Talkers. This is off the bench stuff. So
Tuck sits.
Speaker 2: It's just Chuck smiles plainly exactly.
Speaker 3: So what do we call this genre?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, staring out the window, staring out the backseat window,
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that won't talk to you.
Speaker 2: You remember the scene when Dawson's on He's on the
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and he's making the ugly cry face. Yeah, I hate
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