Speaker 1: Let's all start to you to presents. Off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off still bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob aber.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bench now.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob a bear.
Speaker 2: Yo. What's happening, guys, what's going on? Welcome in to
a brand new episode of O TV. It is Friday.
I hope everybody's having a wonderful week. Things getting back
to normal a little bit here as the roads are
open once again. And I hope that you're stay safe.
I mean, I guess to be fair, I did see
a flipped over truck right at the did y'all see
that at the exit today? At the government exit? I'll
one Tim, No, you didn't, is it? Huh? Oh? Interesting? Whatever?
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The point is, stay safe out there is still some
ice left. Just be careful wherever you're going. And let's
have ourselves a morning. We do have Jake back this morning.
He'll be join us remotely after his hellish escape from
Atlanta finally arrived back at the capital city yesterday. I'm
gonna ask for a little bit of grace today, guys.
If if it sounds a little bad At times. I
feel awful. I have been dodging sicknesses in my house
like I was a eleven degree black belt ninja right,
Like literally every one of my family members has been sick,
and I've still been kissing all of him, cuddling all
of him, not giving a damn. And I think it
finally got up to me, you know, So if I
said a lot out of it today, please forgive me.
I feel god awful. But but but that's why I
own insecurity. Just want me to preface the show with that.
But I'm still very excited for today's show. I've got
a lot of thoughts. You people are gonna hear him.
Got a lot of random thoughts as well. Did y'all
know this is crazy? Have you seen the Billy Corgan
Bill Burr story?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know if that's like, is it
a bit or it's a bit? I don't think it's real.
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, it would be like a great
comedian to play it like Burr's playing it, so I
could see it going. I don't know. I don't know.
We'll get there later though, but we got a lot
to get to today. A Landra, what's up? What's going on?
How you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. I was telling Taylor, doesn't even feel
like Friday because we just had two days off, so
it's just a little weird. I feel like we're back
in like the holidays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like we just never stopped of like.
Speaker 4: What day is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean look, it's it's cool though. I mean,
look if it's you know, shout out to all the
kids out there. Man, no school for the entire week.
What a great feeling. Seriously, Uh, just straight chilling doing whatever,
playing video games. My daughters are playing Roadblocks lately.
Speaker 4: Oh the kids love Roblock love.
Speaker 2: My sister would.
Speaker 4: She was younger, she was super into Roadblocks and so like,
I used to play it with her and it's actually
kind of fun.
Speaker 2: The problem is I signed on her account and she
was just being inundated with messages from Taylor.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know want that.
Speaker 2: I know. I have on the parental controls and shut
down all messaging. Yeah. They actually finally did something about
the prontal controls. Apparently got to like call them to
give your idea.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 2: This is pretty pretty advance. But yeah, So so that's
been an interesting development. No, No, I just I don't
know I feel uh you know, I.
Speaker 4: Just I know what you mean. It's a little fluy,
like you know, like good body, a little yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, when your skin hurts, even when like a
T shirt rubs on, very sensitive, can barely swallow. It
took two ton all PM at six o'clock last night,
and I think I woke up about eighty times during that.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the PM would really do anything for.
Speaker 2: I mean, but in terms of getting you drowsy, In
terms of that's all I was looking forward to get asleep.
It's definitely not dressing any of the I don't know.
I got even get a shot or something before the
Senior Bowl on Sundays. I cannot be entering a day
in which I'm gonna do war against my immune system
by networking late into the night. I cannot afford to
not be feeling. Super Bowl Come. We're gonna get it.
We're gonna get it. I don't want to wallow and
self pity too much. Taylor, what's up, man? How you feeling?
Speaker 5: I'm feeling all right.
Speaker 6: We got din of thieves too tonight. Me and Victoria
are going to see that, so give.
Speaker 2: Me what's the story on din of Thieves? This appears
to be a pretty beloved movie that I don't know
anything about.
Speaker 6: So Victoria actually watched it for the first time last night.
So generic not dirty cop, but Gerard Butler's a cop
that kind of bends the rules a little bit, and
he's after like a den of thieves, ice cube, sons
and at and they were, you know, bank robbers in
the first one. And the first one was really good,
so we're gonna see the second one tonight.
Speaker 4: It is pretty good.
Speaker 2: I gotta give credit to Gerard Butler here because.
Speaker 4: Great action film.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, right, like obviously three hundred
was panned by critics at the time, but it was
beloved by audiences. But after that, you know, he does
a couple of rom coms they don't really hit the mark,
and then he seems to be getting in increasingly bad
action films. Only at some point those bad action films
became so bad that they became good. Was it like
Olympus Has Fallen? Or White House? Is it white House Down?
Speaker 5: Tit on Olympus?
Speaker 2: Either way, those are movies that are not supposed to
be good, and yet Gerard Butler seems to be turning
out action hits that people love.
Speaker 6: You know it still Victoria last night, I was like,
I don't like Gerard Butler. I was like, I feel
like I don't see him in enough stuff. And I
was like, you know what, though, maybe that's why I
like him, because like he's not churning out all of
these left and right, Like he's not.
Speaker 5: Like overs saturated. Was like, maybe maybe that's why we
like Gerroid Butler.
Speaker 6: Cause like every now and then, like he'll be you know,
he'll put out a a great movie, but then you.
Speaker 5: Want to hear about him for like four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is is p s. I love you thegel that's
the truth, the ugly truth. Yeah, that movie sucked. I
remember is funny. I remember seeing in theaters and just
thought it was awful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hillary smink.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's speaking of I haven't seen her in
a while. Well, good on Gerard Butler. Enjoyed Din of
Thieves too. That sounds like a fantastic way to spend
a Friday night. Nookie says, jar Butler greater than Jason
Stateth than.
Speaker 6: I love two of them, both of my some of
my favorite actors.
Speaker 5: I like Jason state them better.
Speaker 2: I don't have enough of a dog in the fight.
Speaker 4: Honestly, that's what I was gonna say. I know y'all
love Jason Stathum, but I probably lean more toward Gerard
Butler than I do Jason Stathum.
Speaker 6: Gerard Butler's probably will be the better actor. I just
enjoyed Jason Stathum's movies.
Speaker 2: Fondsays Can't Wait Till tof talked about his daughter runs
of a five hundred dollars Roblox built. Well, she actually
can't buy anything thanks to the parental control. So but yeah,
that would definitely be in play if that was not
the case. Dub is right, super underrated Gerar Butler movie
The Phantom of the Opera with Amy Rosson I had
so I had TiVo in high school, and so you
end up watching the movies that you had recorded on
TVO approximately eight thousand times because this was pre streaming. Yeah, so,
like I probably watched Harry Potter, Goblet Fire one hundred times,
not really, you know, like twenty times, Cheaper by the dozen,
two randomly a ton and Phantom of the Opera, which
Jar Butler was fantastic. All right, Well, coming up on
today's show. We're actually going to open today's show with
women's basketball, as it is, by far, are the biggest
thing going on in town right now. Coach Moulkey's squad
trying to climb the one hill they have yet to
do in her time at LSU, and that is beating
down Staley South Carolina game Cocks. In fact, read Darcy
from The Advocate has a really, really good preview piece
in today's paper that you all show all to check
out that really lays out through the numbers just how
lopsided this rivalry has become as of late. And so
that's where we're gonna start today's show. And then, look,
we have plenty of NFL talk, You had Saints coaching search,
you got the conference championships coming up this weekend. I
want to not spend long on it, but I think
I have a very definitive answer as to whether or
not the twelve team playoff is a bust. And I
have much more numbers than I had yesterday when we
came to that subject a bit late. And then maybe
if we want later we get in like top ten
quarters got a little LSU baseball's preseason scrimmages are going
down this weekend as well, so it's gonna be a
fun show. If you want to hang out YouTube dot
com one O four five ESPN. Uh oh, I remember
seeing Law Abiding Citizen back in the day. I haven't
thought about the movie in a long time. Yeah, yeah,
that was a really good movie. But uh yeah, if
you want to hang out with this, YouTube dot com
slash one O four five ESPN, let's talk l s
U South Carolina coming up this afternoon, ESPN one next
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Speaker 1: Chet down ninety Welcome back to the best morning sports
show around sorta. It's off the Bench with Hester and.
Speaker 2: T Bob shout out Billy Corgan. So I can't tell
if it's a bit or not, but Bill Burr and
Billy Corgan went on Howie Mandel's podcast, which is which
is deeply fun to begin with because it's all three
very bald white guys, like like the baldest of white guys. Uh.
But the what they are saying is kind of insane.
As on a previous episode, I guess Corgan was on.
He told the story about his stepmother telling him that
his dad had multiple families, who's a traveling musician, and
that he believed she believed that Bill Burr was his
half brother through his dad. And then Howie Mandel is
Bill Burr on the podcast, and out of nowhere he
drops Billy Corgan in there, and Burr seems pretty miffed
about the entire thing. We'll play some clips later, but
there's your random internet headline of the morning. Uh, Bill
Burr and Billy bil Burr Billy Corgan maybe half brothers
through a traveling musician father who had multiple families.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's so easy to find that out nowadays.
Let's get him on Maury for.
Speaker 2: What it's Well, I think he's dead, but somebody did say,
here is no the dad. Oh no, I think somebody
did say dig him up and put him on Mario.
To your point, what Taylor's like trying like maybe we
got Jacob.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see if it works.
Speaker 2: Jake, Jake, Wakey, exit Baky with sub dude, No, we'll
get a miss.
Speaker 4: He's all right.
Speaker 2: So let's talk then about the LSU women's basketball team.
As like I said, Read Darcy, That's where I'm getting
all this information from. So I do not want to
stolen valor here. I'm citing my sources. But the numbers
that Read wrote about this morning are fantastic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And when you think about coach Molkey's resume in her career,
and you think about coach Molki's time here in and
Rouge for her career, there's quite literally nothing that she
has not been able to do. For her time here
at LSU. There is exactly one thing that she has
not been able to do, and that is beat South Carolina.
In fat guys, you want to hear some shocking numbers.
LSU has not beaten South Carolina women's basketball since two
thy and twelve. That is a dozen years and sixteen
games in a row that you lost, sixteen games, which
look for much of that time maybe LSU wasn't at
their peak, but still, these are two competitive programs and
you figure sometime you would have stumbled into a win
in those ensuing sixteen matchups. For what it's worth, Coach
Molki yourself is two and five all time against Don
Staley teams and hasn't beaten a Don Staley coach team
since two thousand and nineteen. And that twenty nineteen day
is a very interesting one to high because for many
South Carolina fans, that twenty nineteen game, it was in
the sweet sixteen Baylor verus South Carolina. It kind of
represents a line of demarcation. That year. South Carolina's still climbing.
They were, they were pretty good, they were getting better,
but Baylor beats him in the Sweet sixteen. That's a
year in which South Carolina lost ten games. Since that year,
so they lost ten games in nineteen. Since that year,
they've only lost ten games in five years. If you
make that four years, they've only lost four games in
the past four years. Hell, they lost to UCLA this
year and it was their second regular season loss over
the last four years. So Ever, since Baylor and Coachmulgi
won that Sweet sixteen, South Carolina has been on a
tear and in the ensuing a half decade, they've made
follow our final fours. They've won two championships, including an
undefeated one. And what's fascinating about this rivalry is you
truly do have almost a pupil becoming the master sort
of situation, the rise of the new generation, because if
you look at don Sele's time at South Carolina, it
took her four years to make the tournament. She gets
a job in O eight, she doesn't make the tournament
until twenty twelve. That same year, coach Molchy was forty
to zero at Baylor winning the national championship, and so
coach was already on top, and she's remained on top
of Don Sally slowly, so slowly creeped up and then
in the past five years accelerated past now. Of course,
as I said LSU coach Molky, she's done everything here
at LSU that you would want to accomplish, including the
peak winning the national championship. But the year in which
they won, South Carolina was eliminated by Iowa. She has
still not beaten the game Cocks in the Tiger uniform.
And the game's gonna be at four pm this afternoon.
It's gonna be on ESPN one. It is going to
be an absolute dogfight as this very talented LSU team
looks to head in two South Carolina and hand the
game Cocks their second loss of this season. It's gonna
be tough. Else She's played some close games, is he,
which may help them South Carolina is not. In fact,
I think South Carolina has had one game to out
about single digits. They have six double digit ranked twins
on the year. It is going to be an absolute battle.
Can coach accomplish the one thing she has not yet
in the purple and goal? Uh, Jake, are we no? No? Okay, no,
we're still working on to check it out this this afternoon,
four pm. Guys, how are you feeling about?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you all working the game this afternoon? I am not.
Speaker 4: No, neither of us are.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can't wait to watch man, I can't
wait to watch what coach. What coach has beat it
built here is nothing short of incredible. It's our favorite
time to talk to her every single week and again.
This is the proverbial monkey on the back here. So
here's to hoping that that coach Molky and the squad
can find a way to hand another loss to Don
Staley and gain swimming. I mean, if you don't look,
you'll still probably face him in the SEC tournament, Like
you'll still have more chances. But sixteen games in a
row over a dozen years, like eventually something's got to give.
Speaker 5: You gotta think.
Speaker 6: This is their best shot too, right, I mean LSU's hot.
They're undefeated South Carolina already two losses is like one loss,
I think, right, yeah, so they're still you know, South Carolina,
they're just not that dominant, you know, thirty and oh
team that were used to see in that's just still.
Speaker 2: I mean they only lost to UCLA's ring number one,
and like I said, they only had one game decided
by single digits. Now I feel you in that they're
a bit more fallible because they have a loss. Yes,
but it's gonna what's a spread on this?
Speaker 5: Actually South Carolina is the favorite?
Speaker 2: Yeah, by how much? Though, I'm wondering. I mean, they're
at home. Of course they should be the favorite. They've
they've won sixteen and as I said, they've already have
six double digit ranked wins on the year. So it's
a bit interesting. Whereas coach Molki likes to handle the
out of conference portion with you know, not necessarily playing
the best teams, and she kind of figures out what
she has. Uh, South Carolina already been through some pretty
rigorous competition thus far.
Speaker 6: Well in like to your point, yes, if they don't
win this game, not that big of a deal. You're
still gonna get into the tournament. You can still see
them in the SEC tournament. You got to get this
off your back there. I mean, think about it two
years ago when LSU won the National Championship. It was
the final four, right, you beat Virginia Tech. You were
waiting on the other team and then you see I
will pull the upset and everything switched. I mean you
were like, hey, LSU actually has a shot. Like there
were a lot of people that year that did not
believe LSU can beat South Carolina because you've had such
a hard time with them. You've got to prove you
can actually beat this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, six and a half is the spread pretty big
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search a bit, as there's been a little bit of
an NFL soap opera taking place as of late yesterday.
We talked about Liam Cohen removing his name from the
Jacksonville Jaguars search and how interesting that was right given
that man, We thought that was a pretty good job
for Cohen, like that represents, you know, the opportunity he's
worked for his entire life. I mean, this is a
guy who is with McVeigh. Then he goes to Kentucky.
Then he's back to the NFL. Now he's a baker
and like, I mean NFL hel John Jackson, like, oh,
surely he'll take that. Well he doesn't. He tells the
Bucks he's signing a long term extension. H And then
what do the Jags do? They fire Trent Balky the
GM and then all of a sudden, Liam Cohen secretly
fly back to Jacksonville and is now re engaged and
talks with the Jaguars. Would you have to imagine means
he's going to be the head coach. They're just hammering
out the details. I think there's a couple interesting things
to note here if this move doesn't teed come to pass. First,
good gets Liam Cohen out the NFC South love that
that offensive the Bucks is very good this season. Second,
it kind of clears the way for the Saints to
hire whoever they want. I mean, the word on the
street right now is that the Raiders are talking like
Pete Carroll, Robert sala Vance, Joseph kind of more experienced options.
Brian Schottenheimer randomly feels like the favorite in Dallas until
all of a sudden, like you don't have any competition
for Brady or if you want to go kell them Moore,
if you want to go Mike McCarthy, like the Saint
Tuner situation where they may kind of end up having
their their choice of who they want, which is pretty fascinating.
Give it how this is all shook out. I would
also say this one interesting note. Remember the Aaron Glenn
rumor that we talked about from t J. Jones basically
saying that, look, Aaron Glenn wanted to know if the
franchise would be willing to move on from Mickey Loomis,
and a lot of people clown clown that report saying, oh,
I mean Loomis is the one conducting the interview, like
this is crazy. He's not gonna ask Loomis himself to
fire himself. But I would say here that what just
happened to Trent balk shows you that this does actually
go on. Trent Balke was the one interviewing Liam Cohen
along with the owner and everybody else, and it's obvious
that Cohen made it obvious through back channels that no,
he would want a new GM, that he would get
to be a part of choosing, and honestly, you know,
It's very important when when you look at the Chicago
Bears or that clip that went viral earlier this year
where they're laying out now, the Bears have never really
had a GM head coaching, quarterback. They were all brought
together at the same time, right, they were all one
piece of that triumvirate was always inherited from a previous regime. Well,
Liam cohen ba is saying, yeah, look, you want me
to come. I'm happy in Tampa. You want me to come,
you gotta get rid of Balky, bring somebody else in,
and then we'll start this thing completely anew So, all
I'm saying is maybe that report about Aaron Glenn intimating
some of the same stuff, getting some of those same
whispers surrounding mcglomes, maybe that is true. And then the
Saint's clearly showing well no, unlike the Jaguars, they were
not willing to do so. But yeah, I guess the
biggest takeaway is again the Saints have an open path
to Joe Brady, Kellen Moore, Mike McCarthy. I mean, is
there anybody is there anybody else left competing for these
competing for these guys?
Speaker 6: Kellen Moore is are the only one right now that's
been linked to other jobs. I mean, right now, it
seems like in Dallas, if it's not Brian Schottenheimer, it'll
be Kellen Moore. I mean, those are those are kind
of the two guys that are the favorite. Jerry obviously
said he wanted to hire somebody that's familiar with them.
He's familiar with both those guys. But McCarthy and Joe
Brady heard nothing. I mean, the only one we had
heard was yesterday that the Jaguars were after Brady. But
obviously they're hired Cohen and they're out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So I mean, good, good, good for the
good for the Saint thing, and continue to be patient,
continue to do their due diligence, and end up choosing
you they choose to. How are we feeling about the
Brian Schohnheimer rumors.
Speaker 6: I don't feel great about it. Look, he was the
offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy and he did not call plays,
so you know, and I actually looked up his resume yesterday.
He's been a coordinator in a lot of different places.
Speaker 2: He was actually a coordinator in UH Saint Louis when
I was there.
Speaker 5: He was a coordinator in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: He was one of the men who called me into
his office to cut me. And I mean that would
love like that. Normally, you know, you can just get
cut by nobody but him. Jeff Fisher, the a line
coach all you know, took their turn at the knife.
Good coach though. I really enjoyed him.
Speaker 6: No, and you know his his coaching is quite extensive.
Like so okay, he was the Jets offensive coordinator under
Eric man Janie Now with Pennington and six and o seven.
His offenses were terrible. They ranked eighteenth and twenty fifth.
You give him a good quarterback ninth ranked offense in
the NFL in two thousand and eight. Again, same thing
under Rex Ryan. He was okay with Mark Sanchez. I
mean they had a lot of success together. He's been
everywhere Saint Louis again though, like his quarterbacks were Sam Bradford,
Kellen Clemens, and Austin Davis.
Speaker 5: So I mean he hasn't had a ton of work,
but he.
Speaker 6: Was, Uh, he was George's quarter offensive coordinator when Grayson
Lambert was there.
Speaker 5: I mean, the guy's been all over.
Speaker 6: But my issue is you're carrying a fifty one year
old offensive coordinator that's never been a head coach anywhere,
that hasn't even called plays in like four years.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's old. It is the ultimate sign
of Jerry Jones beating to his own drum. I didn't
I don't expect this at all. You would think Dallas
would want to do something splashy uh No, not the case.
Speaker 4: See what Jake thinks about it.
Speaker 2: Jake, what's up?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 3: I can't see y'all.
Speaker 4: No, I can't hear you because if you were to
see us, then we would also be like on the stream,
so it would be weird. So you just can't.
Speaker 3: But it's y'all for like like a second. Now it
looks like I'm talking to myself, which is kind of weird,
but y'all, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's up Jake? Well here, look, we're we are already
at seven point thirty. So let's go ahead and go
to break and when we get back, we will recap
Jake's planes, trains, and automobiles nightmare as he desperately tried
to fight his way back to the capital city. More
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 2: What happening y'all? Welcome back to OTB well right along
here on this Friday, and we finally got a guy.
Jake Hester back he uh, he left for the National
Championship and it was hell getting home. Interested we talked
about playing chains and automobiles, trying to make it back
for that Houston. Uh, for that for the Houston playoff game.
Little did he know when nightmares awaited his future. Uh, Jake,
give us the rundown of how you finally made it
back to the capital city.
Speaker 3: Yes, so on Monday, we're doing the pregame show on
the field, which was really cool. We had stand up
mikes and kind of wireless and we were just grabbing people. So,
you know, everything was great, vibe was great. And then
I get the you know, the text, your flight's gonna
be canceled, which wasn't that shocking because I knew the
weather in ben Rouge was going to be crazy. And
I'm like, okay, well, let me try to during the breaks,
let me plan on maybe what I can do, how
can I attack this? And so my initial thought, because
I couldn't get anywhere really close, I could get close ish.
And so after the game on Monday, I, you know,
I booked a flight to Jackson, Mississippi, and so I
got to the airport and that flight was at like
nine thirty or something. So I got to the airport
at I think six. I'm like, okay, you know, I'll
be fine. Six I got three and a half hours
because I would probably be a little bit crazy because
of the National Championship Game whatever. So after standing in
line for like four and a half hours on I
guess Tuesday morning, I missed that initial flight, but it
was fine because everybody was missing their flights, and so
I got on the next flight and I'm like, okay,
Lisha'll get home because I was gonna drive from Jackson, Mississippi,
and I rented a car, and that was gonna be
how I got back to Baton Rouge. I was gonna
find a way, just get me close. Well, I get
there and they have no rental cars. You can reserve one,
says you have one, but you get to Jackson, Mississippi,
no rental cars. Okay, I don't know anybody in Mississippi.
I don't know anybody close to Jackson, Mississippi. So I
was like, okay, well I'll try to get to Shreveport.
So I'm going to book a flight from Atlanta to Shreveport.
So I got to fly back to Atlanta, but it's okay,
I'll get to Shreveport tonight. I'll figure out a way
to get to Baton Rouge. And so as I'm in
the air from it, you know, Jackson to Atlanta, the
Shreveport leg of the flight, it gets canceled and so
I'm like, okay, well, I guess I'm probably going to
stay the night in Atlanta. And there was no hotel
rooms and so I'm like, okay, well, I paid three
hundred dollars t for this, like you know whatever hotel
by the airport that was all that was left. I'm like,
I gotta do it. I mean, you know, I gotta
get some sleep. And so I get to the room.
That's a hotel. So I get to the I get
to this hotel tea and they're like, nah, man, we
don't have you. I'm like it's right here, Hotel Tonight,
right here, and they're like, yeah, Hotel Tonight's really bad
about that. They do it all the time. So three
hundred dollars, no room. I called Hotel Tonight and they're like, yeah,
we'll give you a credit on the on the app there.
So I'm like crap. Well, I was trying to stay
close to the airport, and I didn't have to go.
Speaker 2: To give me my money back? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Credit? Did? I? I went off these people credit? So
I'm like, okay, well sounds like a scam. Yeah, it
is terrible. It is terrible. But there was like one
room and the hard Rock Hotel across from the Mercedes
Benz Stadium, so I actually did I had to use
that credit to get that room. So I got the room,
got down there. It was like, you know, midnight or something,
and so I booked a flight to Shreefport. It was
going to leave at nine to twenty am. I'm like,
all right, I'm getting to the airport at five am,
four hours and twenty minutes. I'm going to get there.
It's not gonna be as crazy Notre Dame Ohio State fans,
most of them got home. So I get there at
five am and I got through security I think at
like ten forty or something after getting in at five am.
And so I missed my initial Shreefpoort flight. And again
everybody's there's no pre check.
Speaker 2: Is going on, just lines.
Speaker 3: There was three TSA agents out of twenty TSA you know,
agent stands because t they said, oh, because of the weather,
and it was you know, light snow in Atlanta. They
can't get to work. And I said, sir, how in
the hell do you think that all of us got here?
It was on the open highways that y'all have, and
our ubers drove on them.
Speaker 2: I mean, where is Taron Egerton when you need him?
This is his shot. He finally gets to work the machine,
and he's nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I could think of during that
like whole time.
Speaker 7: Well, actually there's a qualification and you get bumped up
because the movie told me that everybody can't read the
screen and so like that was that nightmare, I mean,
and I felt so bad Tea there was Oh man,
I even hate telling this story.
Speaker 3: The sweet lady Gail that I met in front of me,
Her mom was passing away in Albany, New York, and
she was trying to get there. You know, they were
trying to like just keep her alive until she could
get there, and she just kept getting delayed. And she
was older. She was standing for five hours. I mean,
it was. It was a mess. And so all right, well,
not gonna get on that. One got on a flight
for one fifty for shree report.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It kept getting delayed and delayed and delayed, and then
so finally, like on the last flight out we got there,
got another Shreveport super late. I guess it would have
been a hell. I don't even know what day it is.
It's Friday, So Wednesday night, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wednesday night. I think you finally made your way to Shreveport.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay. So then I got up and my mom.
I was like, hey, there's there's no rental cars anywhere
because I don't know, God's punishing me for something. I
don't know what it is. So luckily my mom's like, hey,
i'd love to come see the kids. I'll ride down
with you. So we got in her car. We didn't
hit any bad spots like til Opelousis, Like everything was
pretty much cleaned up until Opelousas. Uh, still some ice
for sure there, but we got past that. It took us,
you know what is Streatport usually for like a three
forty five drive. It was a little over probably five
hours to drive with you know, kind of the conditions.
And we came to back way. The Huey P. Long Bridge,
thank god, was open yesterday, so got back into Baton
Rouge yesterday afternoon, and that was it was quite the circus.
The game was great. Everything leading into that was great.
But I hate the city of Atlanta so much now
that I might choose a different major baseball team.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it even broke your Braves fandom.
Speaker 3: I mean, t Bob saw the Cubs. If I saw
the Atlanta Braids logo like one more time because I
had such like long delays in the airport, I'm like,
you know, man, I'm like, I'm not gonna just sit here,
so I would, you know, walk the entire airport at
least try to get some steps in or something. So
like seeing the Brave's logo over and over against made
me more mad. I'm like, I've loved you all since
like nineteen ninety one. Don't take this from me, Atlanta.
Speaker 2: This is just god awful, Jake. I'm sorry, man. And
what did the family do in the snowstorm and snowpocalypse
while you were gone?
Speaker 3: Oh dude, I kept get that was the worst part.
I kept getting videos and everybody's loving it and they're
like having snowball fights and Harlow's going out there like
throwing up snow and I'm sitting here and I'm in
a dusty motel trying to convince them that this three
hundred dollars up charts as he charged me, just let
me sleep.
Speaker 2: And we know what a family too. I feel it
was heartbroken for you. I was talking to the neighbors
because then my neighbor, actually, that's like, damn it. I know,
he's like such a family man. That's just it's awful, man,
It's awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But it's not like we're leaving on Sunday for
another week. Jeez.
Speaker 2: I know. Now we're going to mobiles Sunday to Thursday,
super Bowl the week after that. Literally no rest for
the weary. I mean, that's the craziest part about that
for those that don't know. Because Jake also hosts Off
Campus on two sec and mayby four every afternoon he
covers he's been covering this very drawn out playoff, twelve
team playoff, and he's been gone every weekend. So this
was the supposed to be the final trip, I guess,
before senior whatnot, and then all this happened. God, bro,
I mean, I think this is one of those things
that eventually you'll look back on with maybe a bit
of rose code lenses, because I don't know if you
can go through anything more insane travel wise, like this
is like this one of the dumbest experiences that you
could ever have. But yeah, I'm sorry, man. Uh, let's
chowse some love for a fullback one. That's that's that's awful.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, te we are so spoiled as players.
You know, like when when we played, it's just you
pull up to the plane on a bus and you
get out and you do TSA right there and you
get on the plane or whatever, and it's you know,
you get you get humbled sometimes like hey, yeah, I
know you've done that for like most of your life.
That's not an option anymore. Here, big fella, you're gonna
You're gonna go through hell. But you know what, I
wasn't alone either, Gosh, my guy, Dusty de Vorchek was
kind of stuck. Mike Gollie Junior was stuck.
Speaker 2: Ben Pelt was stuck, right. Yeah, I've seen those making
the rounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've seen. I saw a ton of our
colleagues out and about in the Atlanta airport. So I
at least wasn't alone and I could share my frustration
with them as well.
Speaker 2: Brian Burdes says, that's the best show that Jake is on.
I love listening to off Campus. Brian. How much was
take that, dude? How much was taking? Brian? You're my boy?
Why do you take shots like this? Okay, guess what?
I hate the Air Force? How about that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you for your service?
Speaker 5: Okay, wait, I thought you were grinding with air Force.
I thought that was your dynasts.
Speaker 2: I am, I am right, I am no, no, no, I
got fired after your fired.
Speaker 3: But hey, he's bringing the Falcons back to the promise.
Speaker 2: We were ranked. But I ended up I ended up
getting beat by Charlotte last week. I'm I'm a year
behind recruiting. Everybody else's teams are like five eighty points better.
So I'm that annoying player where I'm playing like straight
run the ball and I let the play clock run
down almost every single time shortened games, play great defense.
We just gritting out wins bit by bit. But yeah,
come on, man, with the new rankings about to come out,
you dropped out. I mean you can get the hell
out of here all right. When we get back, let's
go ahead and uh close out. I don't remember one.
Speaker 1: Of o TV off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Rooge back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 2: I begrudgingly appreciate Brian's double down, triple down, cut, dribble
down as he continues to say I can't lie and
the words of Jack Nicholson and a few good men.
Sorry you guys can't handle the truth man. Again, I
begrudgingly appreciate it. All right, So we've been doing this
series from Hunt Palmer's work on Louisiana sports. On that again, guys.
Also that's my main resource, uh for for the Saints
coaching church as well. Ross Hunt. The entire team's doing
a really good job there. But today to Marcus Cooley
is our Hunt Palmer player portal profile of the day.
And Cooley is very exciting because he is a transfer
and you know, we go through the portal players here, right,
but he is a transfer that represents a known quantity
at a position of need. He played nickel for the
Wolfpack last he was a retired freshman, so he's got
a lot of eligibility left he's only a three star
coming out of high school. But that's why I love
the transfer portal because you get, you know, you can
see how guys actually doing college right. And some guys
are going to flourish that were underrated and high school,
and some guys will founder that were overrated coming to
high school. So Tomarcus Cooley, you know, h is a
damn good player. He had three picks for US, a
couple of fumbles, their nine tackles. Maybe the most impressive
thing that Cooley had to be his PFF grade, And
this has been a common theme throughout the portal. Player
profiles has been PFF grades that would have exceeded what
LSU had last year, and Cooley is no difference. And
overall seventy nine to six on the year. That means
that only Braydon Swinton and Zia Alexander would have graded
higher on last year's defense. His rush defense in eighty
one to three. You gotta love some good perimeter Tackling's
tackling grade of seventy five to four and his coverage
grade an eighty. So those are some, as Hunt says,
rock solid numbers that display some of the versatility. So
maybe he'll be safety obviously that position of need. Maybe
he'll be corner. But he is a key part of
the dB overhaul, which may be the most exciting part
of next year's LSU team, right with Jakeem Jackson coming
over from Florida, Mansor Delane from Virginia Tech, and then
the high school guys DJ Pickett and a nanny as
well as the young guys that you already had that
are now in the boat. Jake, what do you view
as Tamarcus Cooley's role on this LSU team? Yeah, so
you have to.
Speaker 3: Kind of look at some other players and maybe where
you're going to place Cooley, because I think we all
agree that Harry Perkins probably going to be the first
guy to get the opportunity at the star position. Then
you've had keys play really well at the star position too,
but I think, you know, he probably slides back inside,
so I don't think it will be there. I think
t they want somebody that's a little bit bigger. I
think they actually enjoyed having kind of a linebacker play
that position, so I think HARRL. Perkins probably gets first
crack at that. So I mean, you're still gonna play
a Nickel in different packages, and also you need safety help.
I feel like you've got some young corners too that
are going to compete. You brought some in, is still
probably the biggest concern, I would think on the entire
football team. And so when you have somebody that is
a little versatile, he's over two hundred pounds, to me,
that just makes sense from day one. I think you
could slot him in either free or strong safety and
probably be your starter moving forward. So I don't think
it's Nickel lot, I don't think it's Star. I think
it's truly one of the safety positions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would I would think so as well.
I guess the bottom line is this is I mean,
when was the last time that LSU would have had
a defensive back group this exciting? I guess it actually
would have been year one under Kelly and which you
brought in Jerrepernard Converse and Makai Gardner and Greg Brooks,
and really the results were pretty damn good. The difference
is all those guys basically only had one year left,
so you were looking at a bunch of short term rentals,
whereas you look at a guy like Cooley, red shirt sophomore,
so multiple years left, should he want it? You're bringing
in a couple of great young corners. I think mansor
delayne I have a couple of years left as well,
So you could be talking about guys that'll be here
for not just this season, but next season as well,
meaning they get extended time under Corey Raymond and company.
And it should be uh, it should be much better
as we continue to heal from the damage that Matt
House did. Which, yeah, by the way, Jake, how about
Brian Thomas, Malik Neighbors, and Jane Daniels all being finalists
for NFL Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: Yuh me gosh. If Matt House ever came back to
Baton Rouge, I don't know that he would make it
out like just like people are so angry, and I
get it. You got three like generational rookies and you
didn't make the playoff, you didn't make a conference championship game.
You won some games, but my goodness, you should have
probably won it all with those three.
Speaker 2: All right, our one of the books, our two of
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