Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Monday February twenty fourth.
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Hour number one of Off the Bench live from the
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President Trump, Michaelandra cannot be more excited than to be
back in the big city. What's up there, Jake? How's
your weekend?
Speaker 4: Brouh. You know, it could have been better. It could
have been We got rained rained out on Sunday yesterday
for baseball after having a good Saturday. There was also
a local spot here in man Rouge that I got
to put on blast a little bit later on whoa.
I want to make sure that enough people are listening. Yeah,
just some people just don't know how to.
Speaker 3: We'll get Is this all little league related?
Speaker 4: No? Oh a little league related? No? No, I mean, like,
I mean, like you sports? Is this out of you?
Speaker 3: Sports?
Speaker 5: Is that where the stems out of No? Okay, okay,
what a tease. I'm intrigued now.
Speaker 4: And you know it takes a lot for me to
get Yeah, yeah, I wonder. I mean, I wonder what happened.
Speaker 5: I was pretty insulated all weekend shout out to als
should I guess she just shouted her out Friday. But
yesterday was her seventh birthdays. We had quite the the
birthday weekend, a lot of fun, just doing you know.
Speaker 3: Birthday stuff.
Speaker 5: I saw dog Man yesterday, but that doesn't really matter.
Like the movie was whatever I've heard. Actually, everybody else
in my family seemed to really like it. But I
did something I've never done before.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I've fallen asleep in movies plenty, right because I'm just
getting older, and that just happens and you lean back
in those comfee coffee chairs. But I was I was
tired from anytime we have friends coming down, like we
had Saturday, I sleep on the couch right so my
wife's friends can sleep with her in the bed, and
so it always just like freaking sleepy as hell the
next day. So we're here at dog Man about fifteen
minutes and it's uh, by the guy that.
Speaker 3: Did Captain Underpants.
Speaker 5: Okay, Trala La which I used to love Captain Underpants
growing up, but uh, Dave Pilkey being good. So what
I'm saying exactly right, So they made dog I guess anything,
Dave Touches just turned the gold.
Speaker 4: But about fifteen minutes in, I've decided.
Speaker 5: You know what, I don't really care about this movie
right now, and my god, this is comfortable, and so
I purposely, not accidentally, purposefully laid back, lean my hat
down over my eyes, got super super comfy, and just
had a great nap, Just a great in theater nap,
one that I wanted, not one that I was upset
about because I missed the movie, but one that I
actively leaned into in mind, what a what a feeling.
And I'll be damned divine and feel like my dad.
Do you remember seeing your dad do that growing up?
And you're all like, why did you sleep in durn
dog Man? But like, I get it now, Okay, it's
taking me thirty years now that I'm on the other side,
I get it.
Speaker 3: Felt so good. Back with up Man. How are we
feeling today?
Speaker 4: I'm feeling fine.
Speaker 5: Okay, great answer, Yeah, Taylor, what's going on with with you?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: Busy weekend? I'm excited actually for this week. This is
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have some big news coming later as well,
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm very excited. Disney's right on the corner
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So I'm a bit of a mixed bag of a
weekend with LSU Baseball at the box and I'll say
this now, you got to remember and shout out to
Hunt Palmer, who on Louisiana Sports dot net has been
doing a great series after every weekend series called around
the Horn, And I mean, shoot, I remember for SLCU
baseball stuff I ever started to read was hunted by
you bingals insider back in the day with old Panamski.
But I guess the point of this is if you
want hunts riding on baseball, lose just ports and that
has it's great. But as he points out in kind
of his opening Stanza there, LSU has not gone undefeated
in the preseason since nineteen ninety seven, pre conference season,
I should say, so, I know that something like what
happened in game one of the doubleheader on Saturday can
become frustrating.
Speaker 3: Or you can say, oh, what's wrong with.
Speaker 4: This team or two lane tipped them on?
Speaker 3: This is that, and we can get into that.
Speaker 4: But from where I sit.
Speaker 5: On the whole still, I think a lot more good
than bad over the weekend.
Speaker 3: And yes, you lost, but it is baseball. It is baseball,
as I.
Speaker 5: Said, and having not gone undefeated in pre conference places
nineteen ninety seven, so there's nothing to freak out about here.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: If there was one glaring issue on the weekend, Jake,
it was a ten inning stretch where for whatever reason
LSU just could not swing the bat and they jumped
out to a four to nothing lead there on Friday
looking good. But from the sixth inning Friday until the
ninth inning when they made a nice little rally there
to try to win Game one Saturday, you're talking about
ten innings.
Speaker 3: Or you're held to just zero runs and.
Speaker 5: Two hits, a ton of pop ups, just a pretty
miserable stretch of play. And then they bounced back in
Game three and rerectify that quickly. But really, like everything,
like the starting pitching was great, bullpen was really good
for the most part. There's some individual play offensively to
talk about, but it is just the team going silent
for that ten inning stretch that is the glaring black
mark of the weekend.
Speaker 4: You didn't have a ton of strikeouts and so like
to your point, you only had six, So it's not
like you were going up there and just struggling. You
just you couldn't put anything in a gap. You couldn't
really put anything in play that was going to get
your rally started until the ninth and so I'm not
going to fully panic on that. Like if you'd have
gone there, you struck out thirteen times. I'm like, oh man,
how do you strike out thirteen times against Omaha? You
just you had some bad luck. Yeah, you had some
balls that didn't go your way. The starting pitching was
still great even in that game. So yeah, I'm not
going to panic over LSU losing one game, a game
in which you even did make the comeback. Like you said,
you fall just short five to four, and then you
bounce back and you beat them twelve to one, right,
so you know how to bounce back as well. So yeah,
you want to sweep and you're playing Omaha and Tulane
swept them, and that's going to be a narrative. But
I am totally fine with how LSU Baseball responded to
losing the game five to four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and to be fair, Jay Johnson, you mentioned the
response after losing Game one. Jay said, if he were
to take although you know, he's frustrated the loss and whatnot,
but then if you were to take a bright spot
from a kind of Macro team standpoint, that.
Speaker 3: Is that it's all about the response.
Speaker 5: He specifically even cited a story from Dylan Cruz where
Cruise was talking out the championship team that they were
on and maybe its greatest trait was its ability to
lock back in after a loss, saying a team like
that team was always up like two nothing in the
first inning after they'd suffer a step back, and so yeah,
so you come back, go twelve to one. The next
tam you hoping them earlier, the bats come back. You're live,
riding the momentum created by the ninth inning, and I
think you're fine there. You mentioned the starting pitching being great.
Kate Anderson, Anthony Andsen, and Chase Shoores dominate once again.
Speaker 3: They combined to give up just.
Speaker 5: Two earned runs in sixteen and a third now with
irons in there, or was it I would say this,
the starters were all really really solid. Anderson maybe on
Friday losing a little bit of steam there at the end,
but I mean again, I think he's been excellent thus far. Really,
I mean it's it's not just as starter, as though
the bullpen was fantastic as well. You had you gave
up you only okay, through twenty seven inches, we can
you only gave it runs in three innings, young Zeros,
and eight innings of all three games. Right, So yes,
from from a pitching standpoint, you really had like one
really bad moment, but nothing that you would consider consistent struggles.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so either. And so that's like
what we're talking about, Like you can kind of look
at it and see you can pick the spots because
there was no like totality of oh man, this this
full game or that full game. And so the starting
pitching was something that was certainly going to probably be
the highlight for everyone. And like even like you mentioned
the bullpen, like to have somebody that can come in
and give you, you know, two innings and strike out
three or whatever the situation might be. I mean still,
like we go back, we kind of look at how'd
you feel last year in like the first six games
compared to how do you feel this year? Yeah, I
still think you feel a lot better about how it
looks this year. Now. One of the things that here
pretty soon you'll have to figure out is when you
open up the box scores and when you're watching the game,
there is a ton of people playing in these games.
Yes that probably within this week, knowing that you've got
better competition coming up this weekend, like you'll start to
see that change. And that's what I'm interested in is like,
when that does change, what does that look like? Who
who is going Look, there's gonna be some people left
lonely on the dance floor, some good players.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean like look at look at you know,
you saw Braswell and Tanner Reeves splitting time this weekend.
A third Braswell kind of off to a bit of
a rough start offensively, whereas Reeves has been really really solid,
so that that could be something. You saw Stanfield splitting
time as well. Uh yeah, I mean again, that's that's
what this portion of the season is really about. Out
wins and losses, Yes, you have to have those, but
like LSU's going to win these games or the majority
of them. This is really about what Jake's talking about,
figuring out what do we have, how do we min
max it and what are the best well, what's our
best who are our best guys? As we go into
the hardest conference in the entire country. I We'll say
this though, Jake even within that this team will probably
have a bit more variability than teams of the past,
Like you're still going to arrive at your best answers.
But I think Jay Johnson, who is obsessive, if he
wants to get very matchup dependent in terms like righty, lefty,
whatever the case may be. You have enough talent here
where he can So that's what it paid attention to.
I mean, look, one of the battles going on is
at catcher, and really that's one of the individuals that
needs to be highlighted.
Speaker 3: This week.
Speaker 5: Luis Hernandez was awesome four for eight offensively, three doubles,
caught runners in both Friday and Saturday. He only has
one pass ball in the season. How about the defense
as a whole really struggled last year year, no errors
through two weeks now, so again I find it too hard. Well, really,
it's just a back to back walks into the three
run home run. That's like the only truly uh excuse
me hit hitting the two batters excuse me? Uh that
that that that seventh inning is the only real black
spot of the weekend. Otherwise, you were really good offensively, defensively,
and yeah, top top to bottom pitching. Really so again,
the I guess the cold freeze of the bats and
the one bet inning uh from the pandem. Besides that
solid week in Furloshy baseball five games this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Furlashy baseball. Yeah, starting maybe tonight. I mean you
ever going to stop raining? Yeah, it does look great
driving in or if you're in your car right now,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. But they are
scheduled to play tonight at six pm over at the
Box against Nichols. If they don't play that one, which
again kind of crazy to think that they could, we'll
see if the rain does stop, then you go Dallas
Baptist there because you're going to be in Frisco, Texas
this weekend. So as we mentioned, you go Dallas Baptist,
you go Kansas State, you go to Nebraska, who started
this season as a ranked baseball team, and then you
finish up with Sam Houston. So competition is going to
go up. You're going to have a ton of games
this week to maybe figure out exactly what we're talking about.
Who's going to be who you can count on maybe
the most. And T's right, like they'll switch some things
here and there, righty lefty matchups, but you're playing like
fifteen sixteen people yep, right now, that's not going to happen.
So this weekend, I think you'll get a better idea
of what it's going to look like as you continue
to move forward, and you still got some time before
conference play obviously the middle of March, but with the
competition going up, I would assume you'll see, you know
who they think right now is the best of the best.
Speaker 5: Nookie says, the lack of power somebody to keep an
eye on. Yeah, I mean that is what would I say?
That's a negative for the weekend. No home runs over
the weekend, even though Jay Johnson did seem to be
attributing on a lot of that to the weather. Not
exactly the most friendly of home run conditions in the
box this week. I think he cited one was it
maybe curial, I can't remember exactly who was, but he
cited one that somebody hit a home run last week,
hit the exact same ball, hit it seventeen miles an
hour faster this weekend, and it doesn't go out. Yeah,
so it was, you know, it was. It was a
weird it was. I mean, it was a dreary weekend, guys,
to be honest, like, you know, it was pretty just
bluff feeling weatherwise all week and long. So Mark Lakes's
range should be over by ten. I think we're good tonight, Taylor,
Where are you?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Why is Mark doing your job for you? Why don't
you have his weather updates?
Speaker 4: Yeah? On on whether or not Nichols is going to
happen to night.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just give the current typically and rain today.
Here's the thing, guys. Look if you're getting your your
weather primarily from OTB.
Speaker 3: Like that's that's an issue. Yeah, it's true. I mean,
what are you looking from? Like a Microsoft Windows widget?
Speaker 1: So here's what I do, and it gives me either sun,
cloud or rain throughout the week. Perfect, today's clouds with rain.
Speaker 4: Damn it.
Speaker 5: Any thoughts on baseball any of you back there before
we move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the home run you're talking about that was hit
last weekend, it was not this weekend.
Speaker 3: Was Derek curie l He hit that one. It was
barely over the fence.
Speaker 1: That's because the wind was blowing incredibly out last week.
This team is going to be fine, Like you mentioned,
I mean, there's there's kind of like a ten to
thirteen inning stretch into Game one into Game two that
that you didn't score any runs. That's going to happen
in baseball? How do you respond? You respond with a
twelve to one domination in game three. This team's going
to be fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Teams lose non conference texting and lost to cal Poly
over the weekend, who got swept by UCLA, so maybe
it's gonna happen. And also LSU just lost their power
hitter packst and Clean who that's five runs right now.
Speaker 3: Is five home runs and he has fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I think he had five his entire time
at l s U. The only part of that plenty
of chances. The only part that makes me sad about that.
Speaker 5: Is that that's five missed opportunities for Lynn Rollins to
break down the Cling Kong, which is one of I mean,
one of Lynn's mini gyms that he's constantly poenis stuff
I should have shout out Lim too after Overny weekend
that first game having himn't been on the call just
felt Oh, it was like slipping into a a nice, warm,
warm blanket. Hunting great on the call this weekend as well,
by the by the snippets that I caught some great
job to a guy Hunt Palmer. All right, Uh, when
we get back here on OTB, this Saints hire a
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Speaker 4: Off the bench. What's going on, y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back here. I know TV.
Speaker 4: Howe.
Speaker 3: Everybody had a great weekend this weekend again.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, we talk about the baseball five games
coming up this week, getting into some good competition. You
can feel it slowly but surely heating up. Still way
more good than bad in mind opinion. All right, let's
get into then, Jake Brandon Staley officially hired as Saints
defensive coordinator. And it's a weird thing because we've talked
about it for a while now in terms of kind
of knowing that it was going to be him, it
was going to be Nussmeyer. But I guess Jake really
for the stalely evaluation and maybe what he could bring
to the New Orleans I think we have to lean
on you because I don't know that anybody watched Brandon
Staley closer in this market than did you as the
head coach of your Bush League Bolts for for all
those years. And I know that by the end from
a head coach perspective, it looked like it was gonna
be good there for a minute. Yeah, But by the
head coach perspective. I know you were done with him,
but what do you think about maybe some of the
value that he still brings as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Well, they've got to make some changes on some of
the personnel if he's going to be true to who
he is. They don't have the personnel right now to
run what he wants to get done, So that will
be interesting. It's got to see who they bring in
and maybe just maybe somebody that hasn't worked out well,
can not thrive, but you know, be a role and
be somebody that can give you value. I'm thinking about
maybe like an Isaiah Foski. He's given you nothing, yeah,
absolutely nothing, and with maybe this change, can he give
you something. So that's going to be something to see
where he goes personnel wise. He's been a three to
four guy there four to three? Is he going to
change his philosophy? Are the Saints going to have to
add some players to because it's not like it used
to be where you had to have a three hundred
and seventy pounds zero knows. You don't see that anymore.
Even in a three to four you still kind of
you want more athletic people on the field, and so
it's not the wholesale changes that it used to be,
but some things will have to change as far as
the personnel and as a head coach, it ain't in
it just as not the playoff collapse that they had
against Jacksonville, not being able to bounce back anytime things
got tough. They just would stay on the ground and
never fall back to be bad.
Speaker 5: And it's kind of crazy because they went nine and
eight to ten and seven, But then you have the
twenty eight point collapse which Zen rolls into the five
and nine and it seems like everything just fell apart.
Speaker 4: And remember during those stretcher remember he was fair.
Speaker 5: You know, he makes some questionable decisions maybe in terms
of the area fourth down decisions that ended up losing
more games.
Speaker 3: Than they won.
Speaker 5: But really I think that maybe the most surprise part was,
and he was with the Rams in twenty twenty, he
had the NFL's best defense. Now, again, you got Aaron
Donald that's gonna do a lot for you in that regard.
Speaker 3: But it seems like in.
Speaker 5: During his time with the Chargers, the defense was maybe
not as dominant as you would have hoped from having
a decordinator as head coach. I mean twenty seven points
a game year one, twenty two, six, year two, twenty three, four,
year three. Those are good numbers, but they're not They're
not maybe the numbers you expect when you hire the
DC with the best defense the league to be your
head coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in twenty twenty, the year team, I was talking
about total defense first, scoring defense first, passing defense, first,
rushing defense, third, sacks second, third, down conversion rate second.
So they were not just first. I mean they were dominant.
And yeah, I mean, look, they had Aaron Donald, they
had Jalen Ramsey, they had a lot of really good players.
But still that that is total dominance. And it's not
like they didn't have talent for the Chargers. Now, health
probably played a factor into it for the Old Bolts
both certainly, gosh, how do you get one of them deals?
How do you get one of those? And then Derwin
got hurt, uh you know some of that time as well.
I think he's a good defensive.
Speaker 5: Coordinator, good, he's nice and prepped for the New Orleans
Saints and that is very very true.
Speaker 4: But as a head coach, if he was the Saints
head coach, I would be ranting and there would be
no raving there. It would there would be none of that.
But as a defensive coordinator, I do think he can
give you a lot. We have small sample size, very
small sample size in what he's I mean as a
true defensive coordinator.
Speaker 5: Is that that is only stop as a true defensive
coordinator before he got rocketed a head coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean because he got trying to think what
the time period was and I used to know this,
but I mean he went from small small college coach, yeah,
to like here, I got it right now. So he
goes like he goes, you know, through all the grad
assistant stuff. He was the defensive coordinator at John Carroll
in twenty thirteen, then he goes to James Madison. Then
he goes back to John Carroll in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
all right, as a decordinator. Then he goes to UT
Chattanooga in seventeen. Then he's the Bears linebackers coach for
a couple of years, the Broncos linebacker coach for a year,
and then it's Rams defensive coordinator tea and then the
next year, this man's a head coach for the Chargers.
So he was at John Carroll University in twenty sixteen
and the head coach of the Chargers in twenty twenty one.
Am I making this up? Is John Carroll?
Speaker 5: One of the tiny schools that like a lot of
the football miners go.
Speaker 4: To were is Bill Pollian. It's Pollion.
Speaker 5: The I don't know, you know, there's always like a
couple of those smaller like D two schools where it
feels like all the like, where you'll have an undue
amount of coaches come out.
Speaker 3: Of there and be like, oh my god, that's the
real politic.
Speaker 4: They cut their teeth. I think he's ad, oh.
Speaker 5: That's where Okay, Well look so I guess.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting obviously.
Speaker 5: So another piece, I'm Brandon Staley working with Vic Fangio
and multiple stops. Vic very hot right now, obviously Kellen
very comfortable with Vic. Again, the the key difference between
thinking about something like the Eagles defense though, and the
Saint Stephens lies in personnel, and as Jake alluded to
off the rip, that is the toughest part about trying
to really not just trying to judge Staley, trying to
judge more nuts like the entire new staff. How do
we do we grade them on a curve? Right, Like,
do we look at the Saint roster, see what it is,
understand that they're they're basically playing with a deck stacked
against them, and then do you give them bonus points?
Does they does a D become a C, C become
a B or Uh? Is that too generous? This is
the NFL. You have to win, too generous. It's the NFL,
you gotta win.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: But it that just that part is what it is.
We saw the Now I know what the rebuttal is
going to be, but we just saw the Commanders go
from having the second pick to playing in the NFC
Championship game. Yeah, now they got Jayden Daniels changed a
lot of math. But they went from picking second, not
because they trade it up, because they earned the second
pick and they went to the NFC Championship game. That's
just the way the NFL is. And if the Saints
don't have, you know, playoff aspirations at the end of
the season this year, that's going to be very disappointing.
Like they've got to be a team that's in the
fight with a chance to make the postseason. Now, like
that's whatever that is whatever that record is, that's what
they have to get to, is you is it ten wins?
Is it eleven wins? I don't know, but they have
to try to make the postseason. Just what it is
like you can't you're in a bad division or you know,
one that's certainly not as tough as others. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and there's nobody press comps just like, I don't know,
I think we could compete with the South y'all y'all
are pretty bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't I mean, you know, I mean
Saints fans as well as I do it, they're not
gonna be happy going out there and winning seven games
and going seven and ten and be like, oh, that's
pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but like I know, it's challenging.
Speaker 5: Seven and ten with maybe like let's say you actually
have a rookie do well and you're like excited about
the draft, Like I don't know, I don't know. I
feel like, though, you're right, it's the NFL, is they
is they? No?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 5: No, no, kurve, this is this is the big league.
You just gotta you just got to put up good numbers.
So we'll see, man, I I you know, I like
the staff overall. Sure, but it but that is the
biggest hang up for me is the front office has
done them no favors. When you look at the cap,
you look at the quarterback situation, you look at the
roster as a whole, the age of the roster, all
of that and so a lot for Kellen Moore in
company to overcome. We'll see what they can do, all
right when we get back here on off the bench? Uh,
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Speaker 3: Or is it more off the bench? Come to do it?
Speaker 2: Off the bench? Back to sports talk? Maybe off the bench?
Speaker 3: Welcome back off the bench, little sleepy raining Monday morning
for you on the face, what are we listening to here?
Speaker 6: Beck, Miles Davis, Yeah, of course, he in your pants
is cool?
Speaker 4: Consider me, Miles Pas I just urinated.
Speaker 3: And it was not that dark thirty seconds ago. That's
a nice field there, Taylor. What's the most two twenty
five reps you ever? Did?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever.
Speaker 4: Tried Come on, come on, come on. Every player has
got no weight room, ever tried to.
Speaker 3: I have not maxed out since beginning to see that.
Speaker 5: That's not a max not technically a max out. No,
you know, because you're not doing as much weight as
you can. It's more airdrops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just thirty, right.
Speaker 3: This makes me want to smoke a cigarette and solve crimes.
Speaker 4: It does make you want a soft crime. I'll let
you smoke the cigarette. I'll solve the crimes.
Speaker 3: Well, no, if we're listening to this, you gotta smoke
a cigarette too. Sorry, yeah, I mean it comes with
the territory. Maybe like a trench coat.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, back, I guess back then, like nobody
give me a.
Speaker 3: Good lucky strike, you know, field some indigestion. Ha me
a Joe.
Speaker 4: Jacob back, what's the most times you've done two twenty five?
Speaker 6: Jake's long, Jake Jacob, it's not beenling, No, I think,
I mean I maybe did my five.
Speaker 4: Probably I was not very strong for your arms.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say five, Jeered, I was good.
Speaker 1: To tell you what, I'm going to the gym today.
I'll do it and let y'all know I've literally never
done it.
Speaker 4: You've never done a single two twenty five up like
every like meathead football player being high school high school,
remember that true, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: When you go to those camps it is one eighty
five like Nike Spark tests and all that after.
Speaker 1: After senior year, like for us, it was like if
you crossed the two hundred threshold, you were like that
was like a big thing.
Speaker 3: So like my senior year, like two hundred pounds like
the bitch. Yeah when you when you different.
Speaker 4: High school.
Speaker 5: Like hey, no, yeah, I mean I will never get
in high school when I really started getting to working
out the first time you threw up three fifteen, talk
about a good feeling.
Speaker 3: Both three plates, let's.
Speaker 4: Go, Yeah, three plates? Put three? He put three on there.
Thousand pound club for us, that's what it was.
Speaker 3: If you can make thousand pounds club, that was like total.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the three Olympics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, I think I got it in high school
by the end, but it was it was a rough
go to get there.
Speaker 1: We have we had something I don't I don't. I
don't know what the pen was called, Like we called
it so we were the wildcats. We got it like
steel cats and like you had to reach your power
clean bench and squad. Hell yeah, you had to reach
you Like I don't remember what the weight was uh.
Speaker 4: Throw when you're back out trying to get one more rep.
Speaker 5: The craziest thing is, and I love thinking about this
because now I can't even like hold playing for up
my shoulder feeling like it's gonna rip out of its socket.
But like, uh, I mean when we were at our strongest,
that LSU weight room is such a warped reality because
I used to warm up with three fifteen. You used
to rep four oh five, like three to five like
it was nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it was just normal.
Speaker 5: Because drakeon Nevis is over there doing like four to
twenty yeah, and so it's like, oh, well if he's
just I mean, that's easy.
Speaker 3: I got I gotta be able to do this. It's
just crazy.
Speaker 4: Ah, the endorphins that would you know come out of
that room, and just like the competitive nature also that
would come out of that room. Dude, and who was
in your workout group? You're like, oh, he got how
much today? Yeah, I'm sure look shout out to my
guys Vic and Dilman. I'm sure they would lie like, hey,
Stelty got four twenty five this morning? What put it
on there?
Speaker 5: Just pure meat head testosterone, competitive caveman desire just lifting
this heavy iron all around there, and they knew, like.
Speaker 3: Now all they want to do is dance on tik talk.
Speaker 4: It's right, And they would know which players, like to say,
did like what weight and what you know, whichever lift
you were doing too, have bro I mean they got
here for you, like hey, Blackwell's in here this morning.
Speaker 3: They know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: What at six hundred?
Speaker 5: Nah Will was always complaining about the weight room. Always
always like a big fake until you make it, you know.
I never you know, never want to do it. But
I would try to just like force false false optimism
uh into into my head.
Speaker 4: But uh no, I mean they know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: It's even down to like the psychological effect of like
O line and D line racks are right across from
each other, and the young guy racks are like a
little bit further down in the back right you kind
of work your way up and and you know, when
you get on that prime kind of starter rack and
then there's the D line, you can see what each
other's lifted. Yeah, it's like they know what they're doing.
We're a military operation over there, at least back in.
Speaker 3: Our day before tik talk. Double Amaside.
Speaker 5: Definitely tailor. He's the killer. Look at it, how man,
it's look at that creepy bastard.
Speaker 4: Like dragnet, you know, just Joe Friday's the.
Speaker 5: Lego man face, just sneak into any room. Nobody thinks
he's out of place. It's a perfect crime. The most
unassuming character in the room with.
Speaker 1: It once I once I commit the crime, describe me average.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, You're a chamelion. It would
just be white sneak and you sneak out. You're like,
I don't you know this?
Speaker 1: This white guy who's about average height, weight, hair?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how is?
Speaker 4: You could be twenty four, you could be thirty four.
Speaker 5: So my eyes are going bad in shadow, there's anywhere.
Speaker 4: You could say.
Speaker 1: You could say anywhere from early twenties to early now.
Speaker 3: My eyes are going bad. But you know your eyes
are very blue right now?
Speaker 4: Are they blue?
Speaker 3: So they have a little bit of blue and they're
mostly green.
Speaker 5: Okay, but you do have light eyes, so that is
one that is your one extinct because if you have
brown eyes, you have brown eyes. No man, he'd be
like human camera. Basically, I've been perfectly in with everybody.
Everybody around golly, that feels so good. I'm gonna lie Beck.
He killed it with this one. By Oh look at
my guy. Roy can't thousand and seventy two total pounds
at fifty six years old, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 3: Roy, that's beast.
Speaker 5: Smelling brow that's goals, proach, go give it up for
Roy in the chat kept his weight at one fifty
at fifty six years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's impressive. Part like sixth grade. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't even stand on scales because how I judge
is like do I feel good?
Speaker 3: Do I feel like I look good?
Speaker 5: Because every time I step on the scale, I'm still
just way heavy than I think.
Speaker 3: I think I'm like two seventy right now.
Speaker 4: I just I know for certain I was one eighty
five and eighth grade, Like that stands out in my mind,
like eighth that's.
Speaker 5: Funny because I was like one eighty five and ninth grade,
So I grew.
Speaker 4: I grew like a little bit later. Your boy hit
two fifty three at one point?
Speaker 3: Is life in high school? Man?
Speaker 4: As I was, I don't have to get d Yeah,
yeah that's.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Well, sorry about that. I don't know what
this second was.
Speaker 5: It's just I mean, the play a little jets mixed
and we're just gonna freestyle a little bit, you know, little.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: I do want to solve a crime, though, I do.
Speaker 3: I really want to solve some crimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is there like a website we can go to
during the show maybe just solve this crime?
Speaker 3: All this crime? Yeah, it's just cold cases open to
the public of cops.
Speaker 4: Can we just come up, like, you know, like an
online game. I'm sure it already exists, but if it doesn't,
like and you get clues and you sit around with
your friends and you got to solve it, now.
Speaker 5: That would be interesting. One of the most successful detective
video games. I mean, I don't know, Like Elle Noir
would definitely hit those vibes.
Speaker 3: You'll ever play le Noir back then?
Speaker 5: Yeah, facial technology which I feel like nobody really built
on they because they put everything they had in there
you to interrogate people see if they're lying.
Speaker 3: That that definitely hit those vibes.
Speaker 4: But we'll see. Daniel said, this is why I didn't
get drafted.
Speaker 3: Damn. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh, this is that's why I
did get drafted.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I just found a website as a crime
scene simulation that you can go to. Oh, what's the
name of it. It's I don't know that this is
a weird Yeah, it has a weird name. The website
is weird, but it said it shows you a picture
of like a crime scene. It says you're an investigator
responding to the scene of a shooting in a hotel room.
Speaker 5: Okay, dude, all right, let's take it out of the
commercial break. When we get back. Uh, I do want
to talk a little bit in ail stuff. Also, shout
out Coach Moulki. A lot to get to today. Key
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Speaker 5: You're an investigator responding to the scene of a shooting
in a hotel room, where you observe the following. A
male apparently African American, is sitting on a sofa and
appears to be the victim of.
Speaker 3: A shooting crimes.
Speaker 5: The investigators photograph the scene and is awaiting your instructions
regarding the.
Speaker 3: Collection of evidence.
Speaker 5: There is a firearm in his right hand, no sign
of his struggle. There are a great many objects in
the room. Does this appear to be suicide, accidental shooting, murder,
suspicious death, too early to make a determination.
Speaker 3: Oh man, this is this is tough.
Speaker 4: This is this is Joe Friday, Like, this is it's
got to be too early, right, I think it's too early.
I mean you have to go off of me again.
Speaker 3: No sign of his struggle fire him in the right hand,
does he tell you? Does he? Wait? He had a
fire on his hand.
Speaker 6: Look, go to the Google dockets on there and there's
a picture of a man seated on the couch, just
a bunch of kind of craps drown across the hotel. Yeah,
there's like a wine bottle on the ground.
Speaker 3: It's like the blood from the shot is above his
head behind him. Yeah, yeah, that suicide, dude.
Speaker 4: Well potentially yes, And that's why I'm lady.
Speaker 5: But Taylor, Uh, what are you trying to lead us
towards here? You just just want to close this case?
Speaker 3: Yeah, move on to the next one.
Speaker 4: Did y'all did y'all watch Dragonet? Like, am on, y'all
know what I'm talking about. That's too that's too like
Joe Friday, like he would come he had this monotone right,
and he would voice over kind of the situation, and.
Speaker 3: I know, like the pop culture wise, like yeah, well
you're talking.
Speaker 4: Then they had the movie with dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks,
but it was a series and he come on, this
is the city, Los Angeles, California, a place of sun
sand and cry, Yeah, my name is Friday, I'm a cop.
It was Tuesday, three forty five pm when we got
the call. So is Dragon?
Speaker 5: Is Dragon the the the original of that style.
Speaker 3: Of my blogging?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think so okay, because yeah, that's like that's like
you know, that is built into all those hard boiled Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, hell, you ever had Watchmen?
Speaker 5: That's basically how Rorschach opens up uh in Watchmen?
Speaker 4: He did he'd always into it like we didn't know
what we'd find, but we knew one thing. The facts
were the facts.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah, I don't do this website the show. No,
I did.
Speaker 6: My mine worked and I clicked suicide. It's not it's incorrect,
so it's not a serious.
Speaker 3: It's too early, make it Germany guys.
Speaker 6: That's I picked that one and says correct, Come on,
that's such.
Speaker 3: The like that's always too early, be quiet, never, it's
not always too early. Sometimes I'm already, I'm on to you.
Speaker 4: Taylor Evo says it was Mario Hey, shout out.
Speaker 3: To coach Kim Mulkey.
Speaker 5: How about it to over the weekend the LSU women
massive ring game against Kentucky, get down sixteen in the
first half, end up winning the game sixty five to
fifty eight. How about this third quarter they outscored Uh,
they outscored Kentucky twenty four to six in the third.
I mean, you want to talk about completely hitting the
brakes and flipping the momentum of the game. Uh, but
I was I was texted with the coach this morning
because it was coach.
Speaker 4: Mulkey's seven hundred and fiftieth win.
Speaker 5: Incredible, right, incredible, And so after the win and what
a way, right as scratch be come for high ranked win.
But after the wind she gets water dumped on her.
She had no idea was sending fifty. She thought they
were just dumping water on her for beating Kentucky. And
she was like, guys, this is a bit excessive, isn't it.
Play I mean, just like what and then no, she
like saw somebody's shirt, one of the girl's shirts that's
fifty's like, oh okay, cool. So that's how locked in
coach Molky is. She ain't out here chasing records anything
like that. Had no idea what was on the line,
but the team did and they came through for and
now LSU guarantees a double buy in the SEC Tournament.
Speaker 4: It's a big win. They were down big, yeah, they
do against a good Kentucky team on the road. This
is a Kentucky team that has been consistent all season long,
and so they kind of returned the favor that Texas
gave to them when el she was up big on
Texas and Texas comes storming back, but the difference was
Texas was at home.
Speaker 3: LS.
Speaker 4: She was on the road for this one. So this
is a great win. This is something you can certainly
use movie forward and ls's one of the teams. And
there's eight teams probably in college basketball this year that
have a chance to win a national championship in women's basketball.
That's a big number because it's been two or maybe
three at most over the last couple of years. So
to have this many teams that have championship qualities, it
is going to be a fun run. How one in
the books here on OTP cold up next out t
a little bit of Elijah Haven.
Speaker 3: He's back in the news. We got to get to
this new well. I don't know how to tease it in.
I Elsa's off the bench.