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Speaker 1: A bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.

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Speaker 3: Han'sday.

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Speaker 4: Hester and Hester got it five out of five.

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Speaker 1: Your luck's in to Off the Bench.

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Speaker 4: Where it's back to troll for the inso.

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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising King Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and

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Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 5: Welcome in a Thursday edition of Off the Bench.

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Speaker 6: How we doing out there?

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Speaker 5: Taylor Sharp here with the affiliate end for Jacob Hester

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and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 6: We got today, we got tomorrow. We are here with

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you all week long.

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Speaker 5: Jake and Matt will be back on Monday at Landra Villa.

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Reale and Cassie Spizzelli This morning, she decided to wake

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up early for us one day and hang out with

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us year guys.

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Speaker 6: How we do? How we do in this morning?

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Speaker 7: Oh good, Cassie.

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Speaker 8: It always makes me laugh when we're both doing Hunt

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show because he's like, that's a lot of vowels back there.

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Speaker 7: It is, he says it every time.

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Speaker 6: That is a lot of owls.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I have a five letter last name, so

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everything's a lot of owls for me.

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Speaker 6: But uh, Cassie, how we.

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Speaker 2: Doing I'm all right. I'm struggling with the yawns here.

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It's a little early.

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Speaker 5: I saw you walking down the hallway and I'm like, Cassie,

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we got to wake this thing up.

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Speaker 2: I've already on at least five times before the start

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of the show. It's it's rough, but we're hanging in here.

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I'm good, I'll be fine.

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Speaker 7: He'll be low energy back here. The eyes are feeling

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real heavy too.

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Speaker 6: You were at the box yesterday.

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Speaker 7: I did go to the bar.

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Speaker 6: How did that?

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Speaker 9: Goya?

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Speaker 6: It was good?

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Speaker 7: I mean it was fun.

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Speaker 6: Okay, big crop. You got a Landra got her.

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Speaker 8: Run rules for Oh my gosh, I did how about that?

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Speaker 6: I was watching the game be very specific, I know,

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and then in the.

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Speaker 5: Eighth inning, John Pearson hits it and I'm like, there's

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the run rule.

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Speaker 6: Two years in the making. We got the.

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Speaker 5: We got the L shoe run rule over Nichols. We'll

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talk about that in a little bit.

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Speaker 7: I'm just gonna start speaking things into existence.

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Speaker 5: And now, you know you have to be specific. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: To say I need L s U Baseball to run

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rule Nichols instead of the other way where I said,

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I think I just said, like.

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Speaker 7: So then Nichols run ruled this last season.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, not LS.

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Speaker 6: She's fine as well.

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Speaker 5: You know what, though, I think y LSU had a

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pretty decent ending to their season last year.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they cared too much about that.

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Speaker 7: LSU baseball will go back to back this season. Okay,

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I like that, I'm doing it.

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Speaker 5: I like that you specified team. You specified this season.

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If anything screws up, it's not on you.

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Speaker 7: So no, it's not. I was very specific.

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Speaker 5: That you're you're good on that as I'm a little

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fired up this morning. Luke Combs is opening a brand

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new bar. Let's go so that one's already opened. Uh,

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we visited that one back in November. This one's coming

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to Orlando at the City Walk, right outside of Universal Studios.

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And for those who don't know, my family likes to

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frequent Universal. Yeah, now that's probably going to change in

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the near future. We'll probably have to wait a few

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years before we go back. But uh yeah, yeah isn't.

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Speaker 2: He also coming out with a new album.

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Speaker 5: No So a single came out last Friday. Yeah, it's

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called be by You. Everybody go listen, dude, it's great.

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Speaker 6: God. I should be Luke Comb's pr guy, you know,

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I mean, I really should.

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Speaker 5: I should get some sort of like give me some

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sort of royalties from this. Uh No, And then is

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the whole album comes out like the middle of March.

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But so he's opening the category ten. First off, if

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you're going too Nashville, go to Category ten.

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Speaker 6: It's it's the best one.

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Speaker 5: Like I I had loved Jason Alden's bar for a

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number of years.

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Speaker 6: I thought that was the best one. I visited the

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new Gorth Brooks bar, I visited the new Eric Church bar,

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I visited Lucombes. This Category ten by far the best one.

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Speaker 7: Maybe you're just a barfly.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to Nashville this summer and I want

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to go to all the bars.

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Speaker 5: So it sucked for Victoria because I was like, I

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love Luke Coms, I love air Church.

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Speaker 6: Like, oh no, we got to go to the bars.

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But luckily, like they said, launched.

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Speaker 5: During the day, so we wound up just eating at

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one of them. Yeah, but I had to go into

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all of them. And this was two weeks after Victoria

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found out she was pregnant.

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Speaker 6: So I mean it not a whole lot she could do.

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Speaker 5: She kind of just tagged along and cheered me one,

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so probably not the best experience for her. But yeah,

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so this thing is gonna be thirty three thousand square feet,

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not a small boy. It's gonna be right there in

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City Walk. I think the one in Nashville is actually

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bigger than that. I could be wrong, but uh yeah,

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I'm excited about that. My sister might even be a

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bigger Lukecumbs fan than me, which is hard to do.

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Which like, me and my sister don't agree on anything

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music wise, except we are both big Luke Cums fans.

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that's where I'm at, But uh now I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 6: He actually has three locations.

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Speaker 5: He guys went in Vegas too, But I'll you can

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bet in twenty twenty seven when this thing opens up,

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the Sharp family will be up in that thing. You

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guys are gonna like this. Victoria has this this little

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app that like tracks how many weeks a long she

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is and everything like that. It's a mango as of yesterday, guys,

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a mango.

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Speaker 6: Nineteen.

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Speaker 5: Well, it gives you a bunch of different categories, so

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like it's got like this one's fruit category, your baby's

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as big as a mango.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and then with snack category.

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Speaker 5: Your baby is as big as a cheese stick, which

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seems significantly smaller to a mango to me. And like

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last week it was so it's half a half a pound.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe is the weight six inches long? Half

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a pound? But so what cheese stick is six inches long?

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Speaker 7: Huge? The ones that they used to have at walk ons.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a log.

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Speaker 5: Yes, what's the chilies when they have they're like the rectangles,

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Speaker 6: Two.

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Speaker 5: It's as big as a cornhole bag, So we love that. Yeah,

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we got the Olympics going on, We got a lot

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of sports going on. Cornhole bag. How about this one?

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It's as big as share cell phone used on Clueless, Cassie.

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Speaker 6: Clueless was a movie.

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Speaker 7: That came out Clueless.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So I was picking on you a little bit

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the other day, Yeah, asking Braxton if he had seen

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Billy Madison because like his last names in the movie,

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and I said, okay, I told him, like, thank you

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for seeing Billy Madison, because Cassie has seen.

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Speaker 2: No movie I was even born yet you were like.

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Speaker 6: Seven years old.

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Speaker 7: I don't think any of us were.

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Speaker 5: I would and I was a year away. I was

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born in ninety six. But I mean, I've seen a

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lot of random movies. But the giant cell phone that

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she used in the nineteen ninety three movie Clueless, Yeah,

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it's as big as it's as big as the cell phone.

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Speaker 6: So that that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Found out Victoria can actually hear or feel when the

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baby hiccups. That's cool, it's cool, but that's also kind

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of terrifying. Why it's just weird to me, Like something

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growing inside of you still is just a foreign concept

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to me. Yeah, Victoria's like, yeah, the baby's growing like

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eyelashes and fingernails. I'm like, that's inside of you. Yeah,

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I think about that's just I don't Apparently they were.

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They were picking on me on the way back to

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the Senior Bowl, saying I'm in for a rude awakening.

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But uh, I mean yeah, Like she gives me updates

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so she finds out how far along she is every Wednesday,

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and this was the latest update. And last week they

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said the baby was the size of a pickle. Again,

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mingo doesn't seem bigger than a pickle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like a pickle is bigger than like

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. It may have to do with weight.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I guess the pickle doesn't weigh that much

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like a mingo's probably bigger.

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Speaker 2: I like aile weighs more than a cheese stick.

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Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. Like a cornhole bag, how much

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does a cornhole bag? Way?

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Speaker 5: I don't know, but you're telling me a mango and

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a cornhole bag way the same. I don't see it,

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but yeah, that's where we're at. Where the size of

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SHARE's cell phone with the size of a cornhole bag,

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a cheese stick, not the giant walk on cheese sticks,

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the small cheese sticks, and a mango. So we are

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rolling right along nineteen weeks as of yesterday. We got

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a lot to cover here on today's show. I mean,

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we had a baseball game yesterday. Lundra spoke it into existence.

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The right team got the run rule Lsu versus Nichols.

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It was the one o'clock game yesterday in alec box.

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We will break that down. We got Bill Bender of

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the Sporting News coming on. Bill put out his entire

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your sixty eighteen bracket for March Madness.

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Speaker 6: March Madness is just around the corner, so we'll shake

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it up a little bit.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk to Bill about that spoiler alier, guys, Lsu

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not in that round of sixty eight number we just missed,

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just missed it. I mean one more sec win that

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probably would have done it. But we'll talk to Bill

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about all of that. We will do our big dealer,

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no big deal at nine am.

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Speaker 6: We'll bring that back for a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Munchie's chef Michael Johnson, he's coming on and Matt Flynn

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will be so proud of me. We might even do

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a little little Olympic update for you guys. Kind of

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excited about that. And Paul Fine bomb of all people

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giving Lane Kiff and his flowers yesterday, which if Paul

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Fine bombs doing that, I assume anything as possible. So

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we'll discuss that a little bit as well. Again, a

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ton to get to or the Saints in the market

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for a running back. We're breaking it all down, so

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we'll cut a little bit early here because we got

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a lot of baseball to get to. We'll actually break

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down Lsu versus Nichols next here on off the bench,

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off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Go to Valley's Vendor's Casino and hotel, the brand new

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star of downtown Baton Rouge. It is brand new and

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sure like the outside of the building somewhat might be

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the same. That's the only thing that is the same.

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When you walk in, you'll be blown away. They have

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got Vegas style gaming all over the place right when

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you walk in. On the casino floor, they've got new

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slot machines. They have got a brand new drafting sportsbook

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with an incredible bar that butts up to this biggest

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TV I think you've ever seen in your life. They've

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got a brand new hotel. Every room got an upgrade.

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Everything got an upgrade.

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Speaker 9: Go check it out.

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Speaker 4: Valley's of a Bantereries casino in hotel.

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Speaker 9: That's right, it is Friday. It is the weekend.

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Speaker 10: If you're looking for something to do, if you're in

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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in Thursday edition of OTB. Taylor

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Matt Flann Here in the Raisin Canes Studio. You'r LSU

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Tigers to call on the Nickels State Colonels yesterday at

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alex Baik Stadium. We're about to break it all down.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get glowing courtesy of go Flow ivy Spa,

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Speaker 5: Now for starters, all right, the Tigers take down the

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Colonel's twelve to one yesterday afternoon at Alec Box Stadium.

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The scoring went like this. Nichols actually comes out swinging.

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They get a solo home run in the first inning,

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and things looked a little bit dicey for the Tigers.

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Speaker 6: However, LSU was able to get out of it.

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Speaker 5: With limited damage one nothing deficit going into the bottom

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of the first inning, and LSU played it a five

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spot in that bottom of the first inning home run

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by Trent Carraway a grand slam in that first inning

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to really bust the doors wide open there for the Tigers,

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and things kind of remain steady at that six to

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nothing Mark LSU scores one in the bottom of the second,

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doesn't score again till the sixth inning. They add two more,

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making it eight to eight to one, and then a

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one run in the seventh inning, and then a three

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run spot in the eighth which the game early it

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was it was John Pearson.

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Speaker 6: The game ended in the bottom of the eighth. He

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unloaded a three run home run.

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Speaker 5: It gave the Tigers an eleven run advantage in the

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eighth inning, and that's all she wrote. The Tigers victorious

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twelve to one inside Alec Box Stadium. A lot of

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things to like in this game. Jake Brown, He's now

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batting five hundred on the season. He went two for

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five yesterday. He had a double, two RBIs scored a run.

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Jake Brown continues to just see the ball so well,

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he's tearing the cover off of it. Steven Milom. He

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bounced back after an up and down opening weekend.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 5: He was one for three, but he scored two runs.

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Trink Carraway I mentioned him a Grand Slam. He had

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four RBI on that game, one for three. Tanner Reeves

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hit at the plate. He's Tanta Reeves is hitting four

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hundred on the season. Honestly, he just doesn't look comfortable

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out there in left field. I know he's out there

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due to the injury right now to Chris Stanfield, but

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Jay clearly wants his bat in the lineup because there's options.

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Speaker 6: We talked about it. Yesterday.

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Speaker 5: You had a chance to see Daniel Harden coming up

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from community college. He had a great year last year

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at the JUCO level.

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Speaker 6: He was coming up.

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Speaker 5: We didn't see a ton of him, and we saw

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him a little bit. But I mean, Mason Brawn's another guy.

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He DHD yesterday. We didn't see him in the outfield,

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we didn't see him in the infield. Clearly, Jay wants

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Tanner Reeves his bat in the lineup. He put him

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out there at left field, and you know he misplayed

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a ball in the second inning. No run scored off

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of it, but he just he just doesn't look comfortable

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out there in left field. We'll see, we'll see if

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something changes, you know, before Stanfield gets out. Hopefully Stanfield

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not out for a tremendous amount of time. But yeah,

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Tana Reeves just doesn't look comfortable out there at left field.

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I think he's much more of an infielder. But he's

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seeing the ball well. Again, he's hitting. Was he four

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hundred on the season right now, So I understand wanting

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that bat in the lineup right now. In non conference play,

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the bullpen was excellent in this game. Dax's Day, Dax, Dothy,

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Zion Theopolis, Santiago Garcia, Reagan Ricken. They combined for most

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of this game and did not give up a hit. Now,

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they combined for five walks. You gotta clean that up

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a little bit, but it resulted in no runs, and guys,

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theres a hole this bullpen. Seven k's no runs between

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the four relievers. Again, gotta clean up the walks a

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little bit, but you gotta be really happy with what

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you saw from the bullpen. I just laid out what

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we saw in the batting lineup. I really liked what

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I saw from a Santiago Garcia. I thought that was

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a good bounce back spot. I mean, Garcia goes in there,

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he throws an inn and now he walks two batters,

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but he gets two strikeouts. It does not give up

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a single hit. Able to get out of that inning.

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Reagan Ricken goes to the final three in this game,

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and this was his first outing as a Tiger. He's

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a guy we highlighted yesterday him and theopolis of You'll

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probably see these guys because you didn't see him in

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the opening weekend. Reagan Ricken three innings, two strikeouts, no walks,

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no hits. That's about as good as you're gonna get.

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I mean, I thought he was nails at the back

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end of that bullpen. That's something you can build off of. Again,

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I mentioned Santiago Garcia. He had the two walks, but

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he had a big time bouncing back performance. Dax Dothy,

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he comes in in a spotty situation. He goes an

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inning in a third phase, four batters, struck out two

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of them, did not give up a hit. Zion theophilis

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an inning and a third phase, four batters, got a strikeout,

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did walk three guys. He had a little bit of

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control issues, but again he was able to get out

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of it without a hit and without giving up any runs.

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Speaker 6: There was a ton to like in this ballgame.

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Speaker 5: A confusing part to me was you didn't see Connor Binge,

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which you'll see Connor Binge at some point.

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Speaker 6: You saw him last year. I think he had sixteen

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outings a year ago.

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Speaker 5: Jay Johnson kind of knows what he's got and Connor

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Binge still know Danny lock and Meyer.

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Speaker 6: Did not see Danny lock and Meyer at all.

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Speaker 5: And I actually thought there was a chance that Cooper

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Williams could have started this game. He threw two innings

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over the weekend. And you know, whether it's Cason Evans,

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whether it's a William Schmidt, you don't know if that

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weekend rotation is set in stone, and a lot of

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times Jay does like to put that left handed arm

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in that weekend rotation. Cooper Williams probably the best candidate

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as far as lefties to become a starter on the weekend.

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Speaker 6: Thought we might see him, you know, maybe two.

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Speaker 5: Innings kind of the opener if you will not even

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necessarily a starter that's going to go four to five innings,

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because you'll probably still use him on the weekend.

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Speaker 6: But we did not see Cooper Williams there.

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Speaker 5: That tells me, as of right now, they're kind of

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comfortable with where they are in that weekend rotation, at

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least for the time being. I would not expect any

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changes over the weekend, and we're still going to see

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Cooper Williams probably early this weekend, probably tomorrow if I

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had to guess.

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Speaker 6: But really good outing by the bullpen. The not so good.

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Speaker 5: Zach Cowen with another another rough outing an inning and

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a third, gave up three hits, gave up a run

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which was just a bomb of a home run early

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in that first inning. He only walked one batter, but

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again an inning and a third, two strikeouts, face nine batters,

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gave up three hits, gave up a run, had thirty

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four pitches in an inning and a third. I don't

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know what you do with Zach Cowen now, because me

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Anda Landra talked about a little bit yesterday, we were

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cool with seeing Cowen for an inning or in Santiago

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Garcia to kind of get their confidence back, because really,

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out of all the relief pitchers you saw over the weekend,

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it was Cowen and Garcia that did not perform up

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to their standard. Which Garcia was a big time transfer

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from Oregon. We knew it's zat Cowen did a year ago.

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You weren't super concerned with him, but you would have

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liked to have seen him get back in the right direction.

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I thought, Santiago Garcia did that again. Two walks in

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an inning. You gotta clean that up a little bit,

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but struck out two, didn't give up a hit, no

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runs across the plate. You're happy with that for the

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most part. I would call that a bounce back performance

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for the most part. Zach Cowen, though, he gets the

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start in this game, which came as a little bit

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of a surprise to me. But he goes an inning

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in a third and I mean, yeah, he gave up

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Speaker 6: I understand that. But he just never looked comfortable out there.

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Speaker 5: And yes, there was a slight fielding error on trend

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Carraway's part to kind of extend that first inning a

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little bit. However, Caroway would make up for it in

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the bottom of the first inning with that grand slam shot.

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But elandra I'll throw this one to you. Is it

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is it time to be concerned with Zach Cowen.

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Speaker 8: Yes, only because you kind of saw it toward the

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end of last season, right, like he did really well

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versus Arkansas. But before that, I think it was like

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during the SEC Championship versus or maybe even during the

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Texas A and M series, like it just started to

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kind of like lose a little bit.

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Speaker 7: Of the control and maybe be a little concerned about it.

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But I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I guess just try to get him some

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reps out there. I mean, we know he has it, right,

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Maybe the am I going to come out the pen?

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Am I going to start? Am I going to close?

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Thing might have been a bit of a like a

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mental thing for him because I know it's different for pictures,

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like if they know they're going to start, if they

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know they're going to come out the pen, it's different

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for them. So maybe it was a little bit of

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that and kind of still is that, like you still

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don't really know where he's gonna be, but maybe just

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a little bit of concern for Zach Cowen.

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Speaker 7: But we know he has it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that it was it was

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kind of like I guess it was like halfway through

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the season, was it Oklahoma was it A and m was.

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Speaker 5: It was one of those and where you know, he

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kind of got touched up a little bit. He almost

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wasn't the same after that. Like you mentioned, he was

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great against Arkansas, which you needed that, but SEC tournament

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and then even when you got to Omaha, like Cason,

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Evans was the one that emerged. I mean that was

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that was his coming out party. It was it was

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Evans the freshman that you went to over Zach Cowen.

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And yeah, you could say it's two outings, it's non conference,

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I get it, but it's everything she just laid out.

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It's not two out it's the back half of last

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season or the back part of last season, less than

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half the season, but translating into this season, that's not good.

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You You would have liked the veteran like Zach Cowen

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to put that behind him, and I think he can.

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Speaker 6: He's a good pitcher.

472
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Speaker 5: We saw him last year and he was nails as

473
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your closer for the first half of last year. I

474
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mean he was one of the most dominant guys in

475
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the SEC. So you know the potentials there and like

476
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she just said, get him out there, continue to get

477
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him reps. This is the non conference, you should have

478
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,880
an advantage over everybody you play, and guess what, your

479
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,000
team's gonna score a lot of runs if these first

480
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five games or any indication. So there's a chance to

481
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go out there, let him work through things, hopefully it

482
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doesn't hurt you too much, and get him going in

483
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the right direction before SEC play starts.

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Speaker 6: I like Zach cow and you know it's there. You've

485
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seen it.

486
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Speaker 5: Like, we're not even basing anything off of potential. He's done,

487
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,000
been out there and actually done it again. He gets

488
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to start yesterday, he doesn't even make it out of

489
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,759
the second inning, and it's not what you wanted to

490
00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:36,720
see as far as they bounce back performance. However, the

491
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rest of the team really solid. Davey Theopolis, Garcia Ricken.

492
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The four relief pitchers combined for seven strikeouts, no hits, obviously,

493
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,839
no runs given up. So really solid job there from

494
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,039
the Tigers bullpen. All right, we're going to take a

495
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quick time out when we get back. CBS Sports put

496
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out teams they believe could have the most explosive offense

497
00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,160
next year in college football. I'll lets you obviously makes

498
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the list. They're a little bit lower than you might think. However,

499
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there's one reason for it, and I think it makes

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a lot of sense. So we'll break all that down

501
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next here on off the bench.

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Speaker 3: All right, So you heard Flynn the other day. I

503
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mean he loves do Sequis. You know that we hear

504
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on the OTV team love do Sequis. It is the

505
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perfect beer for any occasion. Lake beer, beach beer, shower beer,

506
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bath beer, you name it, beer like ballpark beer.

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Speaker 4: It is the go to, and we've said it, We're

508
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going to continue to say it.

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Speaker 3: Whether you're tailgating outside of Tiger Stadium, watching the Saints

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on a Sunday, or just kicking back with your crew.

511
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Dose Sekis brings that bowl flavor and smooth finish that

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turns ordinary into legendary.

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Speaker 4: It's not just beer.

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Speaker 3: It is the beer of champions, or at least the

515
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beer of guys who feel like champions. But you will

516
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feel like a champion when you you enjoy an ice

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cold do Sekis. So you don't have to be a champion,

518
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because Dosekis will make you a champion. So the next

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time you're watching the game, gravit do Sekis and remember

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stay thirsty.

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Speaker 4: My friends.

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Speaker 3: Responsibly, of course, do Seki's official beer of Unforgettable sports Moments.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the Core.

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This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt

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and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.

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say Louisiana, they're in more than just Louisiana. Across the

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couple of weeks ago when we were down there for

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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 5: In Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here

551
00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:52,279
with you, Londra Villaril, Cassie Sizzelli as well inside the

552
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Raising Kines Studio. CBS Sports yesterday put out their prediction

553
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of the top ten offenses going into the twenty twenties

554
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,279
six football season. Run down him a little bit. They

555
00:27:06,319 --> 00:27:10,000
have the Texas long Horns at number one. No surprise there,

556
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I mean you have Arch Manning coming back.

557
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Speaker 6: I get it.

558
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Speaker 5: There was a lot of hype around Arch and I

559
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was one of the ones pushing back saying, hey, he's

560
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probably gonna struggle a little bit in year one, and

561
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he did. But the back half of last year Arch

562
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was really good. People like the pile on him and say, oh,

563
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you know, he's overrated because he's a Manning. People are

564
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gonna have to accept the fact that Arch Maning is

565
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actually a pretty good quarterback, Believe it or not. It's

566
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hard to play quarterback, and he was a first year

567
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starter in the SEC. Shocker that he struggled through the

568
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first half of the year, but he was good down

569
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the stretch for the long Horns. They had Cam Coleman

570
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,680
number one ride receiver in the portal. You had Hollywood

571
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Smothers and Rayleigh Brown into that backfield, which is good.

572
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,599
I mean, you lose Wisner, you lose CJ. Baxter, like

573
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they were a big part of your running game. You

574
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had some others and ray League Brown. That's huge. Texas

575
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is going to have a good offensive line again. That

576
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one makes a lot of sense to me. There's a

577
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lot of proven there's very little unknown on the Texas offense.

578
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Now they ring Miami number two. I'm not sure about that.

579
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I mean, Darien Mensa's coming in. How good is Darien

580
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Mensa going to be? I mean, was he was good

581
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at Duke. Let's not make the mistake about it. But

582
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we'll see Miami. There's a lot to like, like Malachai

583
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Tony's coming back, you have Shannon Dawson back as the

584
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offensive coordinator. I get all that, but they lose a

585
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little bit as well. I mean, now Mark Fletcher does

586
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come back, which is which is huge for the Hurricanes.

587
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Indiana number three. We broke it down a little bit yesterday,

588
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Josh Hoover stepping in at the quarterback role for Kurt Signetti.

589
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I think the Hoosiers are going to continue to roll

590
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next year. Then your usual suspects, right, Ohio State, Oregon,

591
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Notre Dame, which makes no sense to me.

592
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Speaker 6: But it's Notre Dame.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna be over hyped every year like this is

594
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a team that's losing Jeremiah Love and Jadarian Price.

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Speaker 6: However, CJ.

596
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Speaker 5: Carr does come back ten consecutive wins to finish out

597
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the regular season, so there is a little bit the

598
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build off there. Coming in at number seven. It's your

599
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,480
LSU Tigers, a little ride up on them. They say,

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when you assemble the nation's top rank transfer portal class

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and commit every available resource to making year one under

602
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:18,880
lang kid In a success, the expectation is immediate production. Obviously,

603
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they mentioned Sam Levitt coming in at quarterback, the quarterbacks

604
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behind him. They said, the unit that we're most concerned

605
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about right now is the offensive line. We actually projected

606
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as a strength, but there is some unknown that is

607
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totally understandable. Think about how bad this offensive line was

608
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a year ago. You couldn't do anything to run the football.

609
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On my argument's always last year was not the outlier.

610
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I don't think you've been able to run the balls

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since Brian Kelly was the head coach. Here, take out

612
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Jaden Daniels. I'm not looking for Jaden Daniels to drop back,

613
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see nothing and just be better and more athletic than

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everybody else and take off running.

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Speaker 6: That is a traditional running game. That is not a

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designed run play.

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Speaker 5: Jayden Daniels was just an alien and he was better

618
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than everybody else. You take Jayden and Daniels out of

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there and you look at the traditional running plays. They

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really hadn't been able to do that for four years.

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That's why Brian That's a big reason why Brian Kelly's gone.

622
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That's why Brad Davis has gone, because he's offensive linemen

623
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never developed in the running game, never got any better.

624
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So sure, it is a huge area of concern coming

625
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into the year, but I do like hell they said

626
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it projects as a position of strength for us because

627
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Elishu did a really good job in the transfer portal.

628
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Just look at some of the transfers Jakwan Sprinkle Jacobe Jones.

629
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Those are two of the lesser talked about guys, just

630
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because Sprinkle comes from NC Central. Jacoby Jones's Kapia Lincoln

631
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,039
Junior College, so they step up a level. But you

632
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,400
got Darren Stray from Kentucky, William Satterwhite center from Tennessee,

633
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Devin Harper, who a lot of people believe is going

634
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to be a starter on this team. I actually have

635
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,960
some questions about Harper, only because I think there's gonna

636
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be a lot of competition for him at gart Sure,

637
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he comes over from Ole Miss, He's played under Lane Kiff,

638
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and he's familiar with the Charlie Weiss offense. He does

639
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have an advantage as far as the learning curve goes.

640
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But there are some guys you've added that they have

641
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some serious playing time experience, like Shawn Tompkins. When you

642
00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:22,119
look at what Sean Tompkins has done in college, there's

643
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,599
a lot to like from him. Now he's going to

644
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,000
be more of a tackle, but he's sixty five, he's

645
00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:31,599
three hundred pounds. Played at Baylor for three seasons. He

646
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:33,559
was just a three star but when he got there,

647
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But in twenty twenty five, he appeared in ten games,

648
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started the last five of them, and most of them

649
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,720
were were at left tackle. Now, he did play fourteen

650
00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:46,480
snaps of right tackle in the year, but Shawn Tompkins

651
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,599
sitting there potential left tackle candidate. When you look at

652
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the PFF, they graded him fifty point one on offense,

653
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forty eight in run blocking.

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Speaker 6: Not great. That is going to have to get better.

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A fifty six percent in pass protection.

656
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Speaker 5: And however, six of his ten pass protection grades on

657
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the year were over seventy one. So he had a

658
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couple pretty poor games. But he flashed a little bit

659
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as well. So he's a guy that if you coach

660
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him up a little bit under coach Eric Wolford, he's

661
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a guy that can come in and start for you.

662
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I mean he started double digit games in the Power

663
00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:25,720
for He's a guy I like a lot. You add

664
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Jamar Jones, you added Lubah Jordan ced and Adrian Lamb,

665
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and then you look at your returners.

666
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Speaker 6: You don't return a ton.

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Speaker 5: Just about all of them outside of Salomon Thomas, have

668
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some sort of experience, though, Weston Davis and Braylan More back.

669
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Braylan Moore's I imagine is still going to be your

670
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starting center. I mean William Sader, why he does come in,

671
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he'll probably try to battle for that job. But about

672
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Braila Moore went fully healthy, actually did an okay job

673
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a year ago. And then Weston Davis, I get it,

674
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he was probably the weak link on your O line

675
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a year ago. But he's another year into this program

676
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and I I always say losing a coach like Brad Davis,

677
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to me, is a net positive for this offensive line.

678
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There is no way the Weston Davis or any of

679
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these other linemen can be as poor under Eric Wolford

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as they were under Brad Davis, because to me, it's

681
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almost impossible to be that way. I thought Brad Davis

682
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was in over his head. It just it never looked

683
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like it was working. And again, he was here for

684
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four years under Brian Kelly. He was here under Argeron

685
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,319
a lot of people forget he was the interim coach

686
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,839
in the Texas Bowl when Joan drey Kirklan had to

687
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play quarterback against Kansas State, and before Kelly actually got here,

688
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it was kind of a carbon copy of what you

689
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saw this past Texas Bowl.

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Speaker 6: That was Brad Davis.

691
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Speaker 5: He had been here five years Warsron's last season all

692
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the way through Kelly and I mean the offensive line

693
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,440
never saw really a significant improvement. I think Eric Wolford

694
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is going to be an improvement at that spot. You

695
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,319
bring back bow border line never been a traditional starter

696
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,759
for you, but he's played a lot of football.

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Speaker 6: He's been in there.

698
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Speaker 5: That the tight end spot that yak as Jacob Pester

699
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,599
wants to call it. I mean, you get Solomon Thomas,

700
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who a lot of people forget about. It's kind of

701
00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:08,320
like what we talked about with Devin sheer and and

702
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,239
Gavin Gidrey coming into the baseball season. These are two

703
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,599
guys that are as talented as anybody on the roster.

704
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They're just kind of out of sight, out of mind

705
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right now because they hadn't played any year. Remember, Solomon

706
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,880
Thomas was a big signing day flip for Brian Kelly

707
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,280
last year. He was a five stars committed to Florida State.

708
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,920
They flipped him on signing Day and there was a

709
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,400
lot of hype around him. He got hurt right before

710
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,480
fall camp started. He missed the entire season. Solomon Thomas

711
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:38,840
is a talented guy. His second year in a college program.

712
00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:43,559
He's going to compete for playing time. I like what

713
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:47,440
you did with the freshman bryceon Martinez Ryan Murratt, who

714
00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:50,559
was committed to Lane under old Miss Lane, was able

715
00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:53,559
to bring him to Baton Rouge. So he's a guy

716
00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:56,679
that's been on Keivin's radar for quite some time. Possibly

717
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,440
Lamar Brown. I know he's on the defensive line. I

718
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:01,679
prefer Lamar Brown on the offensive side of the ball.

719
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,320
I'm gonna keep banging that drum because I think you

720
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,760
need more help there, and I actually think Lamar Brown's

721
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,679
probably better on the offensive line.

722
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 6: We'll see what they do with him. As far as

723
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,679
like immediate impact guys.

724
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 5: Though, Jordan Seedon is going to start for this team,

725
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,079
is that left tackle, is at right tackle? It's going

726
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:23,119
to be somewhere. He's too talented of a guy not

727
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,559
to not. I do think people will push him. I mean,

728
00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:29,519
whether it's Weston Davis, whether it's Sean Tompkins. I mean,

729
00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:32,719
I think Ja Kwan Sprinkle could push for that. I mean,

730
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,840
there's gonna be guys pushing him for that spot. I

731
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,280
think Jordan Seeden does win out. I mean, he was

732
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:43,440
an All Big twelve player a year ago. They did

733
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,480
everything they could to get him into the Purple and Gold,

734
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,360
and it ultimately worked out for him. Jordan Seeden's going

735
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,719
to start on this football team in some capacity, at

736
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,840
least to begin the year. I truly believe that I'd

737
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,199
be really surprised if opening game of the year pull

738
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,599
up the little graphic with the starting five offensive lineman,

739
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,960
you don't see Jordan Seedens in one of those spots.

740
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 6: I just mentioned.

741
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,639
Speaker 5: Sean Tompkins, kind of an under the radar guy, but

742
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,880
played a lot of football for Baylor. He hit some

743
00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:10,360
ups and downs, but he flashed a little bit. He's

744
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,440
a guy that'll come in and play tackle for you.

745
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,960
Aliu Bah probably my favorite signing of the entire transfer

746
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:22,239
portal because as far as experience, as far as production,

747
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,079
boss the guy. I mean, he's sixty six, three hundred

748
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:29,519
and twenty pounds. He could play either guard spot, but

749
00:36:29,679 --> 00:36:33,039
over his two seasons with Maryland, he started twenty four

750
00:36:33,159 --> 00:36:37,440
consecutive games at guard for the terms. He also did

751
00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:40,039
not allow a sack of the entire twenty twenty four season,

752
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:47,079
only allowed his quarterback to be hit twice over a

753
00:36:47,159 --> 00:36:50,280
seventy two pass grade. Like anything you want as far

754
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,400
as a plug and play offensive lineman. Aliu bo is

755
00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:55,599
that and I think he's going to win one of

756
00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:58,119
those guard spots. So I mean, I think you'll have

757
00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:01,280
Braylin Moore in the middle BA at either one of

758
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,559
those guard positions and Seaton. That leaves two spots up

759
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:07,000
for grabs. It's that other guard spot on the other

760
00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:11,559
side of a BA and the other tackle spot. Weston

761
00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:14,519
Davis probably has an inside track. But again, Sean Tompkins

762
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:16,840
could do it. Could one of these younger guys do it.

763
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,480
But I think three of your five spots, you kind

764
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:24,039
of have an idea of who you believe is going

765
00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:29,320
to fill those spots. Keep an eye on Bryston Martinez

766
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,280
though I understand he's a freshman, but he has six six,

767
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,719
three hundred pounds and he looks ready to play right away.

768
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,920
Remember the highlight tape that came out of one of

769
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,840
the games that East dissension Bryston Martinez. First off, he

770
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,800
played tight end for this team most of the year

771
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,760
for the Spartans last year. That's how athletic he was.

772
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,199
But he can play tackle. He can play tight end.

773
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,000
He lined up a wide receiver and was running dig routes.

774
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,159
He threw a pass at quarterback, a long pass for

775
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,960
a touchdown. He lined up in the wildcat, took some

776
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:01,760
snaps and ran the ball. Like Bryceston Martinez is an

777
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,000
athletic freak, and he could come in and potentially push

778
00:38:05,079 --> 00:38:06,039
for a starting spot.

779
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:08,079
Speaker 6: That's kind of your dark horse to watch.

780
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 5: I understand everybody wants to look at the transfer portal

781
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,320
and say, oh, you brought in all this talent, all

782
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,599
this experience. I get all that, but a young guy

783
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,039
like Bryston Martinez sliding in there, I wouldn't be totally

784
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:22,079
surprised if that happened. And if this offensive line comes together,

785
00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:24,599
like we're talking about, LSU is going to be higher

786
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:28,159
on this list of explosive offenses the number seven because

787
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:31,360
you have everything else. I mean, yesterday we talked about

788
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:36,320
the pass catchers, right like Jace Brown, Winston Watkins, Trey Wilson.

789
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,679
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, look

790
00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:40,679
at all the guys you brought in. I thought you

791
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,920
did well in the high school ranks with Jabari Mack Braden, Allen,

792
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:47,159
Corey Barber. Corey Barber I think has some serious talent.

793
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,159
You have Trey des Greenback, you have Harlan Barry and

794
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,599
Kaden Durham, and you have your quarterback figured out everything

795
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,119
you need to be successful on offenses. There your only

796
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,000
question mark is the offensive line, and that's a big

797
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:04,679
question mark. But I think this coaching staff did about

798
00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:06,960
as good a job as anybody could have done as

799
00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:11,559
putting this thing together, bringing in into a combination of

800
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:15,119
veteran experience, guys that maybe don't have the experience you

801
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,719
need but have a lot of upside like a Devin Harper,

802
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,000
familiarity with Lane Kiffen, and then you bring in a

803
00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:23,599
big offensive tackle like Bryceton Martinez in the high school

804
00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:25,920
rank who I believe this s guy's the limit for him.

805
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,039
Like that might be my favorite signing in LSU signing class.

806
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:30,280
As far as high school players go.

807
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 6: Keep an eye on them. It'll be fun to watch

808
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,440
as we go into spring. We'll get more updates as

809
00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:38,320
we get closer.

810
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 5: But if this offensive line can come together, I think

811
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,760
the sky's the limit for this offense under Lane Kiffen

812
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:47,760
and Charlie Weis Junior. All right, we'll take a quick

813
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,960
time out when we get back. Closing out hour number one.

814
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 6: Next, we got two more hours left with you you're

815
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,199
on off the bench after bench.

816
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of diving in to dive into a Russell pool,

817
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,079
because when you see what they can do for you,

818
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,559
you'll be blown away. I mean, they're gonna make the

819
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,840
pool of your dreams. In fact, that's their tagline because

820
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,320
they know it is factual. Let's build your dream pool.

821
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And what better time to get that process started than

822
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:25,480
right now because you are going to enjoy it year long. Look,

823
00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:29,280
this is Louisiana. It is always pull season here in Louisiana.

824
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,119
But this is truly a one stop shop. We're talking

825
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:34,559
about construction, maintenance, retail, all of that you handle with

826
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,719
one company. That company is Russell Pool Company, and you

827
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,320
can trust them. We trust them. Everybody they build pools

828
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,159
for trust them. Lshue, the Tigers trust them as well.

829
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, let them build your dream pool.

830
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 10: They can do everything from design to landscape, architect to

831
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:51,960
finance and options.

832
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Speaker 6: They can do it all.

833
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Speaker 9: When you think of quality pools, you think of Russell Pools.

834
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Russell Pools dot com.

835
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Speaker 7: So Santamento Romantic not discussing it.

836
00:41:19,559 --> 00:41:26,159
Speaker 1: Bow down blocked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven.

837
00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:28,199
You're listening to off the Bench.

838
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Speaker 8: March Madness is heading to Vegas, and Louisiana Sports dot

839
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840
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841
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843
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844
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845
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846
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848
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849
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850
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 5: Welcome back in final segment Hour number one here on

851
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,639
a Thursday edition of Off the Bench.

852
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go back to Las Vegas.

853
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,559
Speaker 5: The problem is, though, it's gonna have to be with

854
00:42:12,679 --> 00:42:14,679
something like that, Like it's gonna have to be a

855
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,920
March Madnis tournament, a sporting event or a concert, because guys,

856
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,360
I think I missed my Vegas window. Like we went

857
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,679
to Vegas. I took my senior trip after graduating in

858
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,599
high school to Vegas. I was eighteen years old. Couldn't

859
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,480
I mean you could go, you could walk into the casino.

860
00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:33,639
You couldn't really do anything while you were in the casino.

861
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,320
I mean a lot of the bars out there you

862
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,480
were twenty one and up, and like, I'm not I'm

863
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:39,320
not a huge drinker.

864
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 6: Anyways.

865
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we've talked about that a few times.

866
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,920
But you know, I went, like my whole family went.

867
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:46,840
First off, guys, we drove to Las Vegas, which I

868
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,519
do not recommend. It was a twenty six hour drive

869
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:51,360
or something like that, twenty six twenty four.

870
00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 4: It was.

871
00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:57,119
Speaker 5: I don't know why we chose to do. My part said,

872
00:42:57,119 --> 00:42:59,800
we want to see the country as we drive across it. Well,

873
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,119
I can I tell you from West Texas pretty much

874
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,840
till you get to like Albuquerque, New Mexico, there's nothing.

875
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:08,760
Speaker 6: It's like, just just skip it. If you could just

876
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:09,239
get like.

877
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 5: Halfway through Texas jumped straight to Las Vegas, that's the

878
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:16,519
best way to do it.

879
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:19,599
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean we were there. My whole family

880
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:20,440
went senior trip.

881
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 5: Again. I'm not even twenty one yet. And then I

882
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,679
always told myself I'm going to go back to Vegas.

883
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,119
But I mean I'm about to be thirty years old.

884
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,800
I have a child on the way. I kind of

885
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,039
missed my recreational Las Vegas when again, I would go

886
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:40,159
for a sporting event or you know, a concert or

887
00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:40,440
something like.

888
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:41,599
Speaker 6: I would love to go to the Sphere.

889
00:43:41,679 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 5: I just don't want to donate a kidney in order

890
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,800
to buy concert tickets to go to the Sphere. But yeah,

891
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,360
it's kind of a bummer. I kind of I think

892
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,639
I kind of missed my uh my Las Vegas window. Now,

893
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:56,119
the thing about Vegas everyone that has told me there's

894
00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:58,280
been multiple times, Like again, I went once back in

895
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,239
it was like June of two fourteen. I think we

896
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,880
stayed there three or four days. That's about all you're

897
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,360
gonna do in Lose Vegas. Like, that's not a like

898
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,519
Elandra said she's going to New York. That that's like

899
00:44:11,639 --> 00:44:15,239
I think my sister she goes to New York kind

900
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,599
of like you Landra, like she goes every year. But

901
00:44:18,519 --> 00:44:21,119
like that that's a place I could continue to go. Unfortunately,

902
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:24,239
I missed my Las Vegas window. However, that March madness thing,

903
00:44:24,559 --> 00:44:26,360
I'd be all over that. I'd I would love to

904
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,960
go see a sporting event there or the the uh

905
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:31,639
where the Raiders play. I can't even think of the

906
00:44:31,679 --> 00:44:34,159
stadium name, but where they play, like where LSU usc

907
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:35,400
like I would have loved to have went to that,

908
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,079
but hated the flight home because the game was absolutely

909
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:41,679
atrocious and unless she choked that one way, but that's

910
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:42,480
beside the point.

911
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,559
Speaker 6: Upsetting. Kind of missed my Vegas window.

912
00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 5: All right, because we got two more hours to go

913
00:44:47,639 --> 00:44:51,519
here on off the bench, we governed a lot. I

914
00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:54,480
mean we we kind of broke down LSU versus Nichols.

915
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,360
Milandra two years in the making, finally got her h

916
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,559
run rule victory for the correct team. We figured out,

917
00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:02,360
you just got to be a little bit more specific.

918
00:45:02,559 --> 00:45:05,519
LSU does run rule Nichols twelve to one in an

919
00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:08,559
eight inning yesterday at the box, we took.

920
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,679
Speaker 6: The little LSU football.

921
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 5: CBS Sports put out their most explosive offenses coming up

922
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,519
in twenty twenty six. I think LSU is a little

923
00:45:14,559 --> 00:45:17,719
too low on that list. They come in at number seven. However,

924
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,320
with all the offensive line concerns, I'm okay with it.

925
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,480
I just think LSU is going to exceed expectations in

926
00:45:24,559 --> 00:45:27,920
that area, mainly due to the coaching change, but also

927
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,800
I think you brought in a lot of talented guys

928
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,079
coming up in the next hour. There has been so

929
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,800
much talk about the Saints going after Jeremiah Love, and

930
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:39,480
I'm kind of warming up to the ID.

931
00:45:39,559 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 6: I think you still have a lot bigger needs.

932
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,039
Speaker 5: But Jeremiah Love is a really good player, So if

933
00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:46,480
you grabbed him at eight overall, like I'm not like

934
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:48,559
Matt Flann, I'd be okay with it.

935
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 6: I think it's one of those things where I think

936
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:51,559
the Saints are sitting in.

937
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 5: A really good spot because they have the eighth overall

938
00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:56,960
pick and it looks like you have your young quarterback

939
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,320
of the future, so you're in a pretty good spot.

940
00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:02,000
But what if they don't get Jeremiah Love. What are

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some other options to add to that running game. There's

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a couple big name free agents, at least for the

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time being, they have not been franchise tagged. Might happen

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with one of them, but as of now that has

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not happened. We'll look at how each of them fit

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in the Saints offense. LSU record number of season tickets

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sold for football, No surprise there, we're talking about that.

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And then Bill Bender of The Sporting News will jump

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on with us to discuss March madness. That Field of

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sixty eight coming up here pretty soon. We'll break it

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all down with Bill Benders to stay tuned. We got

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two more hours left with you. On a Thursday edition

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of Off the Bench

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Speaker 1: Off the Bench