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Speaker 2: Welcome in Hour number two, Wednesday edition of Off the Bench.
Taylor sharpiter with you filling in for Jacob Hester and
T Bob Abear. They are out all week long and guys,
we are rolling right along here on this hump day.
Give you a little recap of Hour number one. We
opened up talking LSU spring football. They will be back
on the practice field on Saturday. LSU had a surprisingly
interesting baseball game against North Dakota State. We broke that
down as well. Fortunately, we did have to talk a
little LSU basketball and I gave you the combine winners
and losers of this past weekend NFL combine. Right now, though,
I want to kind of shift back towards LSU football
a little bit, as last week lshu's projected win total
came out by multiple odds makers and I have an
issue with this. So if you remember right after National
Signing Day, they do you know the way too early,
top twenty five, the projected win totals, the Heisman favorites,
they do it all and LSU's win total was nine
and a half. Since then, LSU was signed the number
seven recruiting class in the country, so at top ten class.
They cleaned up nicely in the transfer portal. Added sixteen
transfer portal additions who were all going to play and
play significant time on this football team. That gave them
the number one transfer portal class in the entire country.
LSU's projected win total has actually dropped to eight and
a half. Why would the wind total go down after
the portal That's my biggest question. Look, they had the
top transfer portal class. They got better at a lot
of positions of need. I opened the show today talking
about the wide receiver position, how much deeper it is
from a year ago. Not only do you return production
in Aaron Anderson, Chris Soilden Junior's XAVI on Thomas, you
added Nick Anderson, a six to five wide receiver from
Oklahoma that everybody wanted. You added Barry and Brown, one
of the fastest players in the SEC. You're also going
to move trade as Green around. He lost Mason Taylor.
He was so reliable at tight end. What do you do?
You go get not one but two transfer portal tight
ends in Bower Sharp and Donovan Green. Bower Sharp is
going to be kind of your do it all tight end.
Donovan Green blocking specialists. We know how talented and athletic
trade as Green is. You're good there. Sure you lost
a lot on the offensive line, there's no question about
you lose Gared Dellinger, Miles Fraser, Will Campbell, Emery Jones.
That's awful. The only guy back you had was DJ Chester,
who struggled at times at center. However, don't forget you
brought in Braylan Moore from Virginia Tech. I believe Breylin
Moore is going to slide into center. That's going to
allow DJ Chester to take one of those guard spots.
You have carrieus Kerrn coming in, you have five stars
Solomon Thomas coming in but freshman. I get it, But
those are really talented players. You ain't got Josh Thompson
from Northwestern. He was one of the highest ranked offensive
linemen in the transfer portal. He's a guy that can
play guard or tackle. So while you don't have a
ton of returning production. You still have a lot of
talent in that room. And that's not to mention about
Bordelan who's been here for a number of years who's
waiting to break through. And the other freshman that you
signed in that class. What about your dB route That
was a huge question mark for you. All you did
was sign the number one corner in high school football
and Dj Pigott, Wo's an early enroll lade who's going
to make an immediate impact in all likelihood. You ain't
got Jakeem Jackson, who was a multi year starter in
the SEC. You win got Mansor Delane, he was all
acc it's safety. You went and got to Marcus Cooley.
He had a really nice career at NZ State. Now,
I think that might be your weakest position, But if
Deshaun's can take that next step, if jav and Toviano
can find a home at safety, you might be okay
there as well. You're moving Harold Perkins out the Star.
Everyone's been begging you to do that for two years.
Now you're finally doing that, and then you look at
the defensive line. I get it. You lost Bo Davis.
That is a huge blow. However, this came out before
Bo Davis even took a job. You get Jacobe and
Gillery back. It was showing promise before that early season injury.
Shoan Washington's back. I mean, all of these guys are
back a mod Bros. Another year in he was a
first year defensive tackle. Dominic McKinley six six, three hundred
and fifteen pounds. That's not including the guys you signed
in the transfer coming out of high school, Brandon Brown,
Zion Williams, Walter Mathis. I mean, these are big time
defensive line recruits. You win got side dere Mitchell, the
six four, three hundred and fifty pounds defensive tackle from Texas.
These are guys that are going to make an impact. Again,
you have a lot of young, unproven talent, but a
lot like the offensive line, you might be a lot
deeper in terms of talent. Garrett Nussmeyer, let's not forget
about him. We talk about him being in the Heisman
conversation going into twenty twenty five, he said his second
year as a starter. We talked about the jump that
Joe Burrow made year one to year two, the Jayden
Daniels made to year one to year two, not to
say that Garrett Knowlsmyer will or will not do that,
but he certainly has the talent to do so, because
we saw it in flashes last year. LSU returns both coordinators,
So Joe Sloan and Garrett Neilsemyer are only going to
get even more familiar with each other. Sure, the offensive
lines are concerned, but outside of that, you may have
gotten better at every single position. You return your quarterback,
your deeper at receiver. Talent wise, you lose Josh Williams
a running back, but you signed Harlan Berry and JT. Lindsay,
two of the best running backs in high school football.
We'll see what Caleb Jackson does. Cayden Durham's going to
be your bell call in all likelihood. And then again,
you look at the defense. Corey Raymonds back, you shored
up the dB group. He brought in a lot of
talent from the transfer portal. And then when Blake Baker
was at Missouri, he took an awful defense and made
them respectable his first year, very similar to what he
did at LSU this past year. In Blake Baker's second
year at Missouri, he turned them into a top thirty defense. Overall,
why can't he do that here at LSU. The additions
on defense should get people excited. I just talked about
d line secondary. Even the linebacker spot you got wit
Weeks West Weeks should be fully healthy. You signed a
couple really talented guys at linebacker. Devon Keys showed a
whole heck of a lot at the end of the year.
He was awesome in that Baylor game. And then again,
the more you shore up that group, the more Harold
Perkins can just stay at Star full time, which I
think he's going to have a big impact there as well.
There are certainly weaknesses on this team, but you can't
tell me that before signing class and transfer portal till now.
They've actually gotten works. And the weirdest thing about it
if you go look at the teams that are actually
ahead of them in the SEC in terms of projected
win total. Texas nine and a half, that's fine. Look,
they're going to have a good defense once again, Archie
Manning's wing to take over at quarterback. You should be
able to slide right in there. They still don't have
a returning starter at quarterback Tennessee at nine and a half,
I don't Garrett knows Meyer was better than Nico Yama
Liiava this year. I think he certainly has more weapons
around him. LSU did better in high school recruiting. They
did a lot better in the transfer portal class. Tennessee
might have a little bit more of a proven offensive line,
but LSU is still talented at that spot. If a
couple guys can emerge there, you'll be fine on defense.
They lose James Pearce, He's likely going to be a
first round pick. How are they going to replace that gap.
I'm not saying Tennessee is not a talented team, but
are you telling me that Tennessee is going to actually
be better than LSU this year? I don't see it.
I didn't see it last year when everybody said that.
We heard it going into last year. LSU's the most
overrated team in the SEC. To to see is the
most underrated team in the SEC. They were so comparable
a year ago. I didn't see how any of those
can be true. They finished about the exact same way.
I see that again. But all things equal, returning production wise,
LSU did a heck of a lot better in recruiting
and than the transfer portal I don't see how you
can have Tennessee over them Alabama at eight and a half. Look,
Alabama is who they is. I get it, they've won
a lot of titles. I understand that Nick Savan's not
there anymore. But who's Alabama's quarterback? It's either going to
be Ty Simpson, who's had three years to win the
job and hasn't done it yet, or true freshman Keeland Russell. Also,
Ryan Williams a great player, without a doubt, the best
wide receiver in the SEC. Great who's going to be
next to it? He end at the running back position.
He lose justice hands. He wasn't a great piece, but
he was solid. He was a serviceable player. He went
in there, he got some tough yardage for you. He
played a lot of the Josh william role, which I
just talked about yesterday. So again, I'm not sitting here
saying the Lashue is going to be some juggernaut program.
But you're going to tell me that. With both coordinators returning,
with Garrett nel Smier back at quarterback for a second year,
you get in more weapons on the outside. Your biggest
loss on offense the offensive line and Mason Taylor you
do about as good of a job as you possibly
can to replace the guys you lost. You get two
really good players out of the transfer, Pudal on the
offensive line and Braylin Moore and Josh Thompson do a
good job in high school recruiting two five stars with
Carrius Cerns and Solomon Thomas Bower, Sharp, Donovan Green, Tradees Green,
they should be able to be more than okay at
tight end. And then on the defensive side of things,
you're deeper at d line than you were a year ago. Look,
that's the biggest loss is bo Davis, because he had
that defensive line group playing a lot better than they
actually were a year ago. Even with that, even with
the loss of Jacoby and Gillery, you basically had g Opaiez.
You had freshman a mod Bro he'd really never played
defensive tackle up until that point. You'd freshman Dominic McKinley,
who was super raw. Searan Washington got in there a
little bit. I mean, you you had to piece together
that day. You have a lot of talent. You have
Brandon Brown coming in. I mentioned Walter Mathis, I mentioned
Zion Williams. Zion Williams is sixty four to three hundred
and thirty pounds Jacobe and Gillory was the only guy
you had last year with any experience who looked like that.
Now you have Dominic McKinley on top of that, he's
a year in the program. Side dear Mitchell's coming in
from Texas. Again, I'm not saying the LSU is going
to be some juggernaut, that they should be a top
five team preseason, because I think there are a lot
of question marks on this team. But if you're going
to tell me that not only did they drop and
win total after the transfer portal, but the Tennessee is
above them, that Alabama is above them, and we know
that for certain, I can't get behind that. Look at
the guys in portal. I mentioned sixteen editions Bower, Sharp,
Barrion Brown, Michael van Buren. Hopefully Michael van Buren won't
have to play, but you've got a really good quarterback
out of the portal, Pestin Hill, Nick Anderson, Braylan Moore,
Josh Thompson, Donovan Green. That's just only offense. On defense,
jakeem Jackson Man Sword de Lane talked about the edge
position losing Brayden Swinson and saveon Jones. You had a
Jamari Butler, Jack Pieburn, Patrick Payton, and you signed Damian Shankle,
and you still have Gabriel Reliford back who showed a
lot of flashes a year ago. Again, I'm not saying
that this team is going to be top five preseason,
but you can't tell me that their wind total should
have dropped after the transfer portal. I don't agree with
that at all. All right, look, we're going to take
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Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Wednesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharper with you, filling in for Jacob Hester and t
Bob Abear. They're out all week long. They will be
back on Monday. I haven't had any troll text from
T Bob this morning, A little upset about it. Heard
from our guy a little bit yesterday. Quiet morning for
our guy, Tea Bay bab Bear. I bet he had
a late night out there in Disney party and a
little too hard with Mickey. Okay, I mentioned it before
we went to break there that the Saints are being
linked now in the first round to a player that
initially I did not want them to draft, but now
I am all in on this. So yesterday we had
Nick Underhill one and he mentioned that he believes right
now the Saints are kind of leaning one of two ways.
It's either Ashton Genty or Tyler Warren. Well, the Sporting
News they put out their mock draft yesterday, they also
have the New Orleans Saints selecting Penn State tight end
Tyler Warren at number nine. There's a lot of smoke
around this right now. He's about as complete of a
tight end as it gets. This makes a ton of
sense because of your current tight end situation. Initially I
was like, no, you gotta go d line, maybe a
receiver on the outside. I am perfectly fine with going
Tyler Warren. As a matter of fact, I'd be thrilled
with it. Look at your tight end room from a
year ago. Juwan Johnson is set to become a free agent.
Do you really want to re sign him? I don't
know how. I mean, if the price is right, but
you're in cap hill, you can't really pay anybody all
that much. Foster Moro is entering the final year of
his deal. And look, both of these guys, they've been
good players. They haven't been great. I mean, they've been
you know, solid NFL tight ends. But how much are
you willing to spend or overspend to keep either of
those guys? I love Falseter Moro, He's an LSU guy,
but I mean, look, he's not a top tier NFL
tight end, and that's perfectly fine, but you have the
ability to get one in the upcoming NFL draft. Look
if you look at each of them's numbers what they
did this past season. Juan Johnson fifty catches, five hundred
and forty eight yards, three touchdowns, good season. Foster Morrow
similar thirty two catches, four hundred and thirteen yards, five touchdowns,
another solid season. Together, they make a really solid tight end. However,
you got to get under the cap number somehow. If
you let Juwan Johnson walk, even if you let Foster
Morrow play out the final year of his deal, which
I'm not sure you do, he could become a cap
casualty because you've got to get under that number. Let's
say you do cut Foster Morrow. So let's say you
don't re sign Jawan Johnson and you release Foster Morrow
to get under the cap. All you're left with now
is Taysom Hill, who is really not a pure tight end.
I mean, Taysom Hill can make things happen for you
really regardless of where he's out on the football field,
but he's not that pure traditional tight end really in
any sense of the work. Enter Tyler Warren. Tyler Warren
is six foot six, two hundred and fifty pounds, and
the resume speaks for itself. This past season, he played
in sixteen games. He caught one hundred and four passes
for twelve hundred and thirty three yards and eight touchdowns
eleven and a half yards perception. He also ran the
ball two hundred and eighteen yards four touchdowns. Not done,
he completed three of six passes for thirty five yards
in a touchdown. He can do a little bit of everything.
That makes a lot of sense because Taysom Hill's getting older,
he's coming off of an injury, he's about to be
thirty five. We know the large cap that he has,
and we've talked about it. You probably can't trade Taysom
Hill because I don't really know how good his trade
value would be at this point. Not only can Tyler
Warren slide in there and potentially be your starting tight
end for the next decade. In the immediate future, he
can take over that Taysom Hill role. Now, is he
going to be Taysom Hill? Probably not. He's not as
fast as tastem. He's not quite as versatile as Taysum,
but he's done a lot of those things in college.
We saw him at Penn State lineup in the quarterback position,
take the direct snap quarterback sneak it. I mentioned he
completed three passes this year. You had twenty six carries
at Penn State this past season, and that doesn't even
scratch the service on what he can do as a
tight end as far as a receiver and a block.
I think he's a complete player. But also this is
a very deep tight end class. I believe Mason Taylor
could be there in the third round. Gunner Helm could
be there in the third round a little bit later
on if you want to grab a tight end late.
I get that he played a Bowling green, but Harold
Fannin could be there, not necessarily a starter year one.
That's if you keep a guy like Foster Morritt. So
there's a lot of options. But if you want a
guy who is plugging play day one, we want him
to be our every down starting tight end. Tyler warns
that guy, and I wouldn't hate it. I think Mason
Taylor can do it. I think Gunner Helm can do it.
And you can say, okay, well that may be the
best option because you could wait for rounds two and three. Yeah,
but you can't promise that they're going to be there.
Somebody could always reach and fall in love with these
guys and grab them before anybody projects them to go
off the board. Then you're just sitting there with no
titand in nine overall, if Tyler Warren is there, I'm
not saying it's the Saint's big ast need, but it
would be really, really hard to pass off when a
player of his caliber. Let's say you didn't grab Tyler Warren, though,
Let's say you went Tenero McMillan, or you went somewhere
on the defensive line and that drusher. Could you trade
for a tight end. There's free names out there, but
again they have to be cheap options because you still
have to get under that cap number. I looked at
a few teams that have not won but two starting
caliber tight ends. The first one I will look at
as the green Bay Packers with Luke Musgrave. LUKEA. Mausgrave
was a second round pick coming out of Oregon State.
He is six foot six, he is two hundred and
fifty five pounds. He has the body to be in
every down tight end. He's only twenty four years old. Now,
if you remember two years ago when he was drafted,
Green Bay also took Tucker Kraft in the same class.
They took two tight ends in the same draft, one
round apart. Musgrave went in the second, Craft went in
the third. Now, in twenty twenty three, I mean, Luke
Musgrave looked like he could be in every down tight end.
Thirty four receptions, three hundred and fifty four yards, he
had a touchdown, and him and Tucker Craft kind of
shared time. But Tucker Craft exploded this year. I mean,
he was one of the best tight ends in the NFL.
So what happened twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four
I mentioned in twenty twenty three thirty four catches three
hundred and fifty two yards. Last year he was in
and out of the lineup because of injury, but he
also got passed up because of Tucker Craft. Luke Musgrave
only played in seven games, started three of them, seven catches,
forty five yards, two touchdowns. That's a guy that is talented.
You've seen him be able to give you some production
at the tight end position as a rookie. He's also
won a second round rookie contract, which he does one thing.
It makes him affordable, a productive player in a good
offense's splitting time. Who wants to be a full time
tight end. You need a every down tight end. And
he's affordable, and he's gonna make what million and a
half two million dollars next year, and he's got two
years left on his rookie deal, so you can get
him for two years at that price at about a
million and a half two million. The other guy I
want to look at his Michael Mayer for the Raiders.
You guys remember Michael Mayer. I mean he was the
last Brian Kelly tight end at Notre Damet sixty four
two hundred and sixty five pounds. I mean, there was
rumors that he was going to be the first tight
end off the board in twenty twenty three. Now he wasn't.
He fell with the second round. Dalton Kincaid was drafted
by the Buffalo Bills in round one. He falls to
round two. He was an early round two pick as
a rookie, pretty solid numbers twenty seven catches, three hundred
and forty yards, two touchdowns. But then a man in
named by the name of Brock Bowers shows up in
twenty twenty four, one of the best tight end prospects,
if not the best tight end prospect we have ever seen.
Luke Musgrave falls out of favor a little bit. He
only played in eight games, or he played in eleven games.
He had eight starts, twenty one catches, one hundred and
fifty six yards. Very similar to Luke Musgrave. A talented
player who is a high draft pick, who had a
lot of hypeout around him coming out of college, who
just kind of fell out of favor for whatever reason.
To the other tight end, Tucker Kraft passed him up,
and Brock Bowers is Brock Bowers. He's a unicorn. I mean,
He literally had the best rookie tight end season we
have ever seen. He set the record for rookie tight
ends for receptions in a season. Brock Bowers is incredible.
Rock Bowers is the type of tight end that every
NFL team wants. That doesn't make Michael Mayory any less
of a player. And again, a lot like Luke Musgrave,
he's a second round pick, is in the second year
of a four year rookie deal. You'll pay him about
a million and a half two million dollars a year.
Both of those guys solid options. They're big enough to
be a blocking tight end, They've shown the ability to
catch the ball, they're both twenty four to twenty five
years old, and they're both really cheap. So again, I
am all for drafting a guy like a Tyler Warren
at nine overall, because I think he's that talent. If
you don't, though, you have some options, if you're gonna
have to trade for one, because you're gonna pay Foster
Moral a little bit more than maybe he's worth at
this point, and it's not a very good free agent
market in terms of tight ends, you're gonna have to
trade for somebody. But I mean, what can you get
for Luke MOUs Grave Michael mayerifth round pick. I do that.
I do that all day long. I think either one
of those guys would be really solid options for the
Saints if they do not draft Tyler Warren, which at
this point I am fully endorsing. Another mock draft came out.
This one was from zero Line at NFL Network. Kevin Zerline.
He has these Saints taking Chamar Stewart in round one.
Chamar Stewart is a good player, but I just don't
think you can do that in round one. Look, Shamar
Stewart is a two hundred and ninety one pound defensive lineman,
so he has versatility to play inside and outside. If
you go to that three four, that could help you
because that end's gonna crash down a little bit, so
scheme wise, he could be a fit. I just think
nine overall is a bit of a reach for this guy.
I think there's a lot of good pass rushers similar
to the tight end class I just mentioned, there's some
tight ends in rounds two and three that could really
make an impact for you. I think it's the same
way with defensive line. I think that you can you
can get a guy with maybe a little bit better
numbers who might be there a little bit later. Look
Shamar Stewart, big strong run stuffer. Walter Nolan could be
there in round two. Walter Nolan had sixty two tackles,
twenty six tackles for a loss, and eleven and a
half sacks at Old Miss. Reference to Texas A and
M Shamar Stewart sixty five tackles, twelve tackles for a loss,
just four and a half sacks. So Walter Nolan, same conference,
basically the same position, better numbers, and you can maybe
get him in the second round. I'm about Dion Walker.
He's a guy from Kentucky who has actually been mocked
to the Saints in numerous times. In the second round,
now he's a guy that is going to play defensive tackle.
He didn't really have quite the versatility of a Shamar
Stewart or Walter Nolan, who can maybe kick outside if
you need to. Dion Walker is a large human being,
sixty seven, two hundred and forty pounds, hit ten sacks
in three years at Kentucky in the perimeter or in
the interior of the defensive line. Talk about Brian Percy
we've seen flashes. Want to see a little bit more consistency.
But you need somebody next to o Brian Perci. How
about a big, giant space filler at six seven, two
hundred and forty pounds who was actually really productive at
rushing the passer from the interior. Again, ten sacks three
years at Kentucky. I don't mind Shamar Stewart so much
as a prospect. I just think at nine overall you
can't take him. There might be better options later. I think,
look again, defensive tackle, defensive end, whatever you're looking for,
there's better options. I mentioned most of those guys who
are primarily interior guys. We can play on the edge
as well. If you're looking for an edge guy, Jack
Sawyer from Ohio State, he could be there around two.
When we talk about Brayden Swinton all the time, is
maybe a round three pick. There's options out there. You
don't need to necessarily reach for a guy at nine
overall like Shamar Stewart. Shamar Stewart solid player. I think
he has a lot of potential. I just don't know
if you can draft him in nine overall. But again
going back to Tyler Warren, the more and more I
hear about him being mocked to the New Orleans Saints
at nine overall, the more I fall in love with
I think that is an excellent pick. I think at
this point I would actually prefer him over Ashton Genty
because you have a bigger need at tight end than
maybe you do it running back. And the Saints did
release Jamal Williams yesterday. What can you get from Kendre Miller?
But look, you just extended Alvin Kamara, and I get it.
Kamara's not quite the player that he was. But how
good is your offensive line going to be to support
a player like Ashton Genty. Anyways, Ginty made up for
a lot at Boise State. I mean, his offensive line
wasn't great there, but and the Saints don't exactly have
the most stout offensive line as good as sak Uan
Barkley was this past year. There's two thousand yards. A
lot of that's on the guys up front. Because Philadelphia
Eagles have the best offensive line in the NFL. James Cook,
he had a breakout year. Yeah, Buffalo Bills top five
offensive line in the NFL. I love Ashton Genty. I
think he's a heck of a player. I don't know
how much impact he's going to make a year one
with this offensive line, Tyler Warren could go in day
one be your everyday starter at tight end, which is
a big need for this team. All right, Look, we're
going to take a quick time out when we come back. Look,
get your questions in the YouTube chat. I want to
play a little would you Rather Wednesday? It's something we
used to do on OTB for a number of years.
For whatever reason, we got away from it. When to
get away from sports for a little bit, have a
little bit of fun. That's would you Rather Wednesday? It's
coming up on the other side here on Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome back in wednesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharp sitting in those chair for Jacob Hester and t Bob. Abear. Look,
we've been sports heavy today because a lot happened last
night and a lot is coming up right now. They
want to kind of get away from that a little bit.
This is a segment that we used to do on
ATV back when I first started, and I loved it.
It was just like it was. It was a lighter
hearted segment. We got the audience involved, and it got
us away from sports for a little bit. During the
early morning hours, it's time for would you rather Wednesday?
We don't have a drop for this or anything like that.
Maybe we'll just play a little music under it or something,
but uh, look we're gonna go after it. And look
there these are for me, Cassie Alandro, all three of us,
whoever the first question, would you rather get rid of?
Derek Carr or Mickey Loomis. I'm gonna let the two
of you. I'm gonna let the two of you go first,
because I actually I have a lot of thoughts on
this question.
Speaker 4: Mickey Loomis because he is the reason why we have
Derek Carr in the first place. I don't know what
possessed you to hire a coach that the Raiders did
not want and then grab the quarterback that got that
same coach fired and then kept him for a couple
of years. You keep the same quarterback.
Speaker 2: I would say I would rather.
Speaker 4: Get rid of Mickey Loomis and his gum smacking ass.
Speaker 2: Cassie, you're tied into the New Orleans audience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I can't really argue with that. That was
a great take.
Speaker 2: I would get rid of Mickey Limis. The answer is
Mickey Loomis. For all the reasons she just mentioned. You
get rid of Mickey Lumas, you likely get rid of
Derek Carr. Anyways, I've noticed something from kind of outside
looking in. Look, guys, is Derek Carr a great quarterback?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Is he ever going to take you to the playoffs.
Even if he does, you're not gonna win anything of
any significance with him. Saints fans haven't irrational hate for
Derek Carr. Derek irrational, Elandra. Derek Carr is an average
NFL quarterback. That's what he is. And if you look,
if he's one of those guys that I get why
fans are frustrated. He's not bad enough for you to
have a top three overall pick, and he's not gonna
take you on a playoff run. I understand that. Look,
part of it is he's the guy that followed the guy, right,
you never want to be the guy to follow the
guy he followed Drew Brees. He's not even a fraction
of the quarterback Drew Brees' is. I get it. But
like you got people advocating for Jameis Winston Justin Fields.
Come on, guys, like, I get it, Derek Carr is
not great, but like, there are a lot worse options.
But the answer is very very clearly.
Speaker 4: But this is why, though, Derek, I mean, Mickey Lump,
this is why though, Because it's not irrational. He is
an average quarterback. You are an average quarterback, so you
can't act the way that you act. He gives like
major d bag energy. And I guess if he was
good enough and not average, maybe I could excuse it.
But like, I just he just seems like an annoying person.
He refuses to be like a team player in my opinion,
So I just I don't think it's an irrational hate.
Speaker 2: I get it. He does give off that vibe. I
guess what, I'm just looking at his actions. I'm like,
he hasn't really done anything good or bad, like he's
just kind of there. And again, yeah, look, I get it.
It's he's not great. You're in perpetual nowhere land where
you're not bad enough to have the top three pick,
you're not good enough to make the playoffs. And he
followed Drew Brees, I get it. This ain't. You're just
in a bad spot and you throw the blame on everybody.
I think Derek Cars the answered quarterback, absolutely not, but
Saints fansact like this, dude's the worst quarterback in the league,
and look he gets paid. His is the eighteenth quarterback
in the NFL. That's about where he is. You're you're
kind of getting did you ever pay for him at
the beginning? Maybe, but with the quarterback contracts restruction, kind
of getting what you're paying for. So not a whole
lot you can complain about there. Would you rather the
Pelicans or an NHL team play in the Smoothie King Center?
Speaker 4: The NHL seems to be in a better trajectory than
the NBA and the Pelicans, so I would say an
NHL team.
Speaker 5: Cassie, I know nothing about hockey, but I also don't
watch basketball, so I kind of indifferent.
Speaker 2: I will say that if you've never been to a
hockey game, the in person viewing experience between the difference
between watching on TV and watching in person, hockey has
the biggest difference between watching it on TV and watching
in person. Hockey games are electric, they're fun, the crowd's
getting involved, everybody's cheering when a fight breaks out. I
think an NHL team would be great in New Orleans
for two years, and then I think everybody would lose injuries.
I don't think they would support that franchise. People don't
even really support the Pelicans now when they're bad. Look
when the Saints are bad, people still go to the games.
They rage. Watch what happens when the Pelicans are bad.
People shut down. It's very similar to LSU basketball. When
football and baseball are bad, people are still going to
tune in. When basketball is bad, people continuously tune out.
It's the case with LSU men's basketball. It's the case
with the New Orleans Pelicans. I think it would be
the same way with an NHL team in New Orleans.
If they're good, out the gate, people support them. The
minute they're bad, that supports are going out the window.
I don't think New Orleans can support an NHL hockey team. Okay,
would you rather be stuck on a deserted island Jesus
or live with a Cowboys fan forever? Probably should have
read down for guys, it's live with the Cowboys fan forever.
I'm not that bad. I'm not one of those irrational
people that's like, this is our year. It's never our year.
We're awful. Every team in the NFC has made the
NFC Championship more recently than the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, they're
not a good franchise. So many people are like Taylor,
you're a front runner. Guys. If I was a front
runner or a bandwagon fan, don't you think I'd choose
a better team? No, it's it's not that. Would you
rather I lived with a cowboy?
Speaker 4: Well? I lived with Cowboys fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my brother too, so.
Speaker 4: I could probably deal with the Cowboys fan I did forever.
And uh, I don't know if I could make it
on a deserted island by myself.
Speaker 2: Would you rather be better at cooking or cleaning?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: I don't how cleaning because I'm good at cooking.
Speaker 4: La, I mean, I don't know how you're bad at
This was.
Speaker 2: Gonna say, how are you good or bad at cleaning?
You either clean all the spots or you don't. The
answer is cooking, guys, I'm awful at cooking. I'll tell
you a little bit of a story that if t
Bob was here, he would no doubt make fun of
me for it. I have broken my parents microwave cooking
Easy Mac before I'm getting break, I'm getting there. Well,
the food caught fire and the no no, it was
in the little easy Mac cup. You'd be surprised what
an extra zero does when you accidentally type it in
on a on a microwave. Incredible. So the Easy Mac
it was always three minutes and thirty seconds. I was
in about seventh grade and I thought I hit that.
Apparently I hit like thirty three minutes. I'm sitting there
watching TV. It's been like ten minutes and I'm like, bro,
I'm like, okay, that's just dope. I'lly a time. I'm
watching TV and I look down. I'm like a feeling.
I put that in a log. It's gotta be done
by now. Yeah, it ring did like the microwave go
off and I you didn't hear it. I stand up.
I go into the kitchen. My parents living kitchen is
filled with smoke. It broke the microwave. We had to
take the easy mag and dump it out because it's
just this black pile of mush. It was awful. I
can't cook any zero awareness. Yeah, well, I mean like
that is like zero. I'm I just get done with
football practice. I'm eleven years old, Like I am just
tunnel vision at whatever I'm doing at eleven years old,
And it was just it was a bad side mom
and Dad's not very happy with me. Uh during that event,
if you could imagine, Okay, would you rather but would
I rather what that one's inappropriate? Okay? Would you rather
Marty grawl? Like go to New Orleans for Marty Grawl?
Or do like T Bob and go to Disney and
Universe Universal? Yeah? Can I just pick Universal and leave
Disney out? Like at this point, like I get it
Jake T Bob when they do family vacations, like they
have multiple children. I'm twenty eight years old. I don't
have kids yet, Like there's nothing really for me to
do in Disney World. Universal is a different story. It's
a lot more result awesome. She's a Disney adult.
Speaker 5: I am a well I grew so I grew up.
My aunt was Cinderella in Disney's Like I.
Speaker 2: Grew That's actually really cool, Like I grew.
Speaker 5: Up going to Disney so much to see her. So
like I just I still love Disney and I still
have that inner kid in me. And I've never been
to Universal, so I don't have anything to compare it to.
Speaker 2: But Disney all the way, would you for me? For me,
it's it's easily Universal. I mean we talked Monday about
you know, Laundra's a disdain for Marty Girl parades. Laandra
doesn't even like cinnamon, so I imagine she doesn't eat
a ton of King cakes. So yeah, for me, it
is easily Universal Studios. Okay, would you rather be the
lead singer of a band or a professional athlete?
Speaker 4: Lead singer of a band? I feel like I would
be a great performer, Okay, I really do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd agree. I'd want to be a singer. I
like to sing, I'm just not good at it.
Speaker 2: Same every kid my age grew up to be. I
wanted to grow up and be a professional athlete. I mean,
I believe I grew up in the Golden Age of quarterbacks.
It was Tom Brady, it was Peyton Manning, and it
was Eli Manning. It was all these great players. Everyone
wanted to grow up and be a professional athlete. But
the rush I think you would feel walking out on
a stage in front of thousands of people that are
singing every word do these songs you wrote and it's
the time you know where the singer stops and the
audience just fills in flawlessly and they know every word
to your song. There is no way that there is
a better feeling in the world than that. So as like,
if you would have asked me this five years ago
to been like, oh the answers professional athlete, dull, Like no,
the rush and just the honor of being a lead
singer and having everybody watching you knowing the words to
all of your songs. They paid money specifically to come
see you. Yeah, that seems like one of the coolest
things in the world. I would absolutely love that. Plus
going on tour it's probably tiring, but like if you're young,
you know, no, you don't have any kids, like city
to city partying every night, free food like that. That
actually sounds like not a bad life. All right, let's
get one more in here before we go to break.
Would you rather Okay, I got one for you guys.
Would you rather give up doctor Pepper for Lynt or
Chick fil A for Lynt?
Speaker 4: Obviously doctor Pepper, because that's what I did. Yeah, I
had my last one yesterday and I've been on the
like like I do Doctor Pepper zero and I had
a regular Dr Pepper yesterday because I was like, okay,
that's gonna be my last one. So I had a
regular Doctor Pepper as my goodbye. I don't drink doctor Pepper.
I did decide to give up Chick fil A. You
are okay, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I really the only thing and I'm like kind of
addicted to.
Speaker 2: We're gonna're gonna test this theory. You just wait, you
just wait next week. Don't tell me. Next week. I'll
be going to lunch. I'm gonna send Cassie at text.
You want anything from Chick fil It's gonna go to
the Devil and Taylor's the devil desk right next to
each other. I'm gonna smell You're gonna smell it and
see it when I get back. So, Taylor, you're so
we're gonna we're gonna test. I mean, you gotta test
the theory to see if you're truly truly dead.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be able to resist.
Speaker 2: That's horrible. All right, Look that was that. That was
a fun little nonsports segment. We're actually gonna have another
one when we get back.
Speaker 1: Guys, welcome back to the best morning sports show around.
It's Off the Bed with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. In final segment, hour number two on a
Wednesday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here with you, guys.
I gotta tell you all something. I know that I
told you that last year's Love is Blind season really disappointed.
We're back in a big way. Guys. We're back in Victoria.
We watched a few episodes last night. It's actually my idea,
and boy do we have some droma so Elandra, I
still don't know why you don't watch this show, because you,
of all people, would absolutely love this show. The premise
of it is so stupid that it's comedic. So basically, like, okay,
if we were all single, like I would be in
the guys pods, you would be in the girls pots,
and we would talk to each other and have dates
through the walls without ever actually seeing each other. And
then you have to propose before you ever meet this
person face to face, and then you have to plan
your life and do all that after the proposal already happens,
and the goal of the show, which you get married
at the end. Spoiler alert one out of every like
seven couples actually even goes through with it. Shocker. It's
not a good idea. Guys. We got a juicy one.
This guy named Joey, Okay, nice guy, probably nicest guy
on the whole show. He proposed with this girl named Monica.
So now they got to go to each other's families.
Monica's sister is frigging salty, so Joey great guy.
Speaker 4: The family lives is this friends like Monica and Joey and.
Speaker 2: No, Monica and Joey are engaged. Okay, they go to
Monica's family's house.
Speaker 4: Monica was engaged to Chandler and they got married.
Speaker 2: Victoria has made that joke about ten times.
Speaker 4: I tell you, I don't know why you're keeping me
in Victorian off friends for this reason.
Speaker 2: What do you mean why only two people ganging up?
It's just it's very obvious. The whole family loves Joey, right,
He's great, he's he's funny. They do like this whole
dance thing in the living room. Her sister takes her outside.
I gotta be honest, I just don't know about Joey, Like,
what do you mean Joey's great? She goes he just
seems like one of those guys that's like too nice
and like maybe he's just really good at acting. And
I'm like, yo, Sarah, maybe he's just a really nice guy.
And then here was where it happened. She goes, well,
you know, me being the older sister, I just I
always thought that I was the one that was going
to get married first, but like, here you are. I Oh,
here we go. She's you're worried about Monica stealing your
thunder like that's a whole move, Like what are we doing?
So she's trying to like ruin the entire engagement. Monica
and Joey are super happy, and then like it ends
the episode and Monica's sitting out there staring into space.
She's like, I wonder if there really are red flags
about Joey. I'm like, dude, your sister's being a salty hoe. Okay,
don't worry about it. Joey's great. You're great. You're the
only couple on this show that I think has any
sort of chance to last. Yeah, and sister Sarah over
there walking in getting in the way of everything. Guys,
I'm gonna give you a ton of updates on this.
When t Bob gets back because he likes to make
fun of me, and this is a shameless love of mine.
This show is hilarious. I watch it for the comedic aspect. Obviously.
There's another couple, Daniel and Taylor, which happened the name
Taylor's in Red Flag to begin with. She's so full
of herself. So after they got engaged. They're all from
the Minneapolis area, she goes, I feel like you've known
me and follow me on Instagram and you're only dating
me because of my looks. I'm like, all right, girl, Like,
let's calm down. Let's be a little less proud of ourselves.
For once, she made him check his phone in front
of everybody. Yeah, guess what what in following her own
Instagram I I have left her right then and there,
but they're together A right look coming up here an
hour number three, the Saints have added to their offensive staff.
We'll break that down Hunter McCann at WBRZ. He's gonna
hop on whether we're gonna talk to LSU baseball as
well as some LSU football and T Higgins franchise, tug
By the Bingles. That's all coming up after bench