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Speaker 1: Man a Wednesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharper

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with the filling in for Jacob Pester and t Bob Abear. Look,

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there's a lot to cover the LSU baseball team and

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men's basketball team. We're both in action last night. Both

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left a lot to be desired. We will certainly get

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into that in our next segment. We got a Landra

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Villa real on audio. We got Casias Bazali on the

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video board. And look, as we do every day, let's

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go around the room and get a little vibe. Check

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how we doing this morning at Laundra.

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Speaker 2: Baseball game and did a little too late for my liking. Yeah,

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and I'm feeling I'm feeling the residual effects of.

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Speaker 1: It that happened with twenty runs. You know that that

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tends to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also, uh, three and three hour and forty

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five minute game, ish, I would say, Yeah, And then

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the pre or the postgame didn't enduntill like eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: So you didn't, you didn't. You gotta let Doug and

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Buzzy know, like, guys, wrap this thing up. I tell you,

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what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: So they they actually all did a pretty good job

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of like trying to get out of there. Like Doug

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and Buzzy degreat, Bill and Jay. They didn't go too

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long on the interviews, so it was just a late one.

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Speaker 1: Cassie, how are we feeling? Are we in a better

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mood today than Monday morning?

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Speaker 2: I'm in a better mood, but like, I'm still tired.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not like I'm in a better mood, just

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not a good one. No, I'm in a better mood.

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I'm just tired. It's like it's not a bad mood.

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I'm just not a morning person. Hopefully we can we

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can have a little fun today. Something I want to

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do at eight thirty. So look, I'll just go ahead

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and lay out the entire show in just a second.

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I want to hit on the the position breakdown that

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I've done every day leading up the spring practice, which

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does we get on Saturday? I want to hit the

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wide receiver room. There's a lot to be excited about there. Obviously,

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we'll recap Lasue baseball isuy basketball. I want to look

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at the NFL combine winners and losers. There's a lot

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of discussion on guys that maybe the Saints are even

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targeting where they could fall in this now and then

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in hour number two, I want to do a would

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you rather Wednesday on eight thirty. So this is something

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we used to do a long time ago on OTB.

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We kind of got away from it for whatever reason.

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But I want to have a little fun, kind of

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get away from the sports a little bit at eight thirty,

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and then at nine o'clock we're gonna talk more Saints.

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T Higgins was franchise tagged by the Bengals. I'm gonna

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tell you why they should not sign him to a

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long term deal, and then of course we'll close things

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out with ask the bench. All right, right now, though,

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I do want to get into a little bit of

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LSU football. But before we do that, let's get the

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show started. Like we do every single day.

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Speaker 3: It's time to get to work courtesy of Tiger Labor

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and Staffing where they can help take care of screening, training,

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pay roll and more. Now for starters.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So, like I mentioned every single day here, you know,

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through the rest of the week, I want to do

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one position breakdown going into spring practice. Today, I want

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to hit the wide receiver room because guys, I think

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there is a lot to be excited about if you're

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looking at just deepest position groups on the field because

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you have a lot of returners there as well. This

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time last year, wide receiver was a big question mark.

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You had Kyin Lazy coming back, but he was kind

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of that wide receiver three behind my league neighbors and

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Brian Thomas Junior. You didn't have a guy where you

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were like, hey, can we go out there and count

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on this guy each and every Saturday. You have some

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of those guys this year. Obviously. The first name I'm

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going to mention is Aaron Anderson. He's your leading receiver

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returning in terms of yards, like he had eight hundred

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and eighty four yards five touchdowns a year ago. Xavian Thomas,

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he caught some nice balls. You actually used him in

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the backfield a lot in the running game as well,

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and we know what he can do in special teams. Obviously,

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Chris Hilton's back. That's a big one. Late in the season.

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We were waiting all year long for Chris Hilton to

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get healthy. He did that, and he did it in

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a big way. If you remember, in that Oklahoma game,

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Garrett Nelsmeyer came back from that injury. He hit not one,

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but two deep touchdown passes to Chris Hilton Junior. That

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was the main problem with the offense a year ago, right,

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you didn't have that bona fide deep threat. Kyle Parker,

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who is also coming back, kind of became that guy

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a little bit. I mean remember the first long pass

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for a touchdown that Nel Smyer hit last year was

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against UCLA. It was down the right sideline that was

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to Kyle Parker. But after that game, he goes down

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with an injury. He does not return for the remainder

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of the season, So you're really like, Okay, Kyle Parker

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just got injured. We're waiting for Chris Hilton Jr. To

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come back from an injury. So you didn't really have

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a deep threat in this offense. I think that's entirely

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different this year because again Chris Hilton is back. He

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has the ability to take the top off of defense,

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as he had another touchdown against Baylor. He was excellent

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in that game as well. So Hilton's going to be

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your guy. He's going to be the first crack and

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being that deep threat receiver. I think Aaron Anderson lives

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in the slot lot like he did a year ago,

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so kind of the four guys in terms of experience

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do you have back from last year's team. Aaron Anderson

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and Xavion Thomas, Chris Hiltner an obvious three, and then

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Kyle Parker showed a little bit of promise early in

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the year before he got hurt. If he can fully recover,

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that's another guy that can give you some production. As

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far as the transfers go, this is where I get excited.

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You have Nick Anderson coming in from the University of Oklahoma. Look,

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ye have Bower Sharp his teammate coming in as well.

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Aaron Anderson. I mean Nick Anderson didn't play I mean

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he didn't have a single catch. Last year. He played

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in one game, didn't have a catch, was injured, had

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to sit out the entire season. But going back to

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twenty twenty three, that's basically the only year he has

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played at Oklahoma because as a freshman in twenty twenty two,

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he played in three games. He didn't have a single catch.

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He carried the ball twice. That was his stat line

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for his freshman year. In twenty twenty three, with Dylan

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Gabriel as his quarterback. A guy that can stand back

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there that's known as a gunslinger, a lot like a

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Garrett Nosemeyer. Nick Anderson showed out in a big way.

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He had thirty eight catches, seven hundred and ninety eight

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yards and ten touchdowns for reference, that's twenty one yards

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per reception. He's a guy that can beat you deep.

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He's a guy that can catch the ball across the middle.

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Because Nick Anderson is sixty five two and twenty pounds,

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you don't have anybody else in your receiver room like

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a Nick Anderson. That is a guy that I am

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keeping an eye on. Look, whether it's spring practice, whether

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it's summer workouts, whether it's fall practice. And Nick Anderson

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is a guy to keep an eye on. I think

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he could potentially have a big year. We talk about

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treydeds Green all the time being such a matchup problem

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on the outside because he's six foot seven, because he's

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two hundred and forty pounds. Look, you have a guy

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in Nick Anderson that had twenty one yards per catch

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in twenty twenty three, double digit touchdowns in an explosive

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Oklahoma offense. And you bring that guy in who's six

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foot five, he's physical, he's fast, he can catch the ball.

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I love everything about Nick Anderson. I think he is

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waiting to be a breakout player on this offense. You

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also brought in Barry and Brown from the University of Kentucky.

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I mentioned that you didn't really have a deep thread

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last year until Chris Hilden got healthy. You certainly got

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him this year because not only is Chris Hilden back

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and appears to be fully healthy, you have one of

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the fastest guys in the SEC joining your wide receiver room.

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Barran Brown has played three years of college football, so

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he's entering his last year of eligibility as a freshman

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at Kentucky. Fifty catches six hundred and twenty eight yards,

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four touchdowns, basically the same thing in twenty twenty three

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five hundred and thirty nine yards, forty three catches four

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touchdowns last year three sixty one three touchdowns, So you

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get it. He's kind of that wide receiver too, that

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wide receiver three mole at Kentucky. However, he was catching

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passes from Devin Leary in Brock Vandergriff. He was not

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catching passes from a Garrett no Smeyer. This offense is

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going to be a lot better in the passing game

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than any offense he played in Kentucky. Look, I'll give

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Mark Stoops credit for one thing. Mark Stoops always has

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a solid running game. He always has a physical defense.

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His passing games have struggled. That has been his achilles

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heel at Kentucky, which is why he's lifted Kentucky. He's

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never gotten them over that hump though. That programs kind

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of remained stagnant a lot of the reason because he's

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never found that passing game. A guy like Barrion Brown

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coming in with a quarterback that you know can make

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all the throws, he has the arm to do it.

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In Garrett Nosemeyer, he can make a huge impact in

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this offense. I just talked about Nick Anderson twenty one

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yards per catch. We saw what Chris Hilten can do.

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which and some a lot of people don't talk about

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like the connection they had late in the year. It

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made it look like Nuss and Hilton had played an

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entire season together, but they really didn't. I mean, you

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go look total number of snaps, it's probably four or

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five games total. In terms of in game live reps

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and what they have done together on the field, that's

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only going to improve. And then you stick in to

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Barry and Brown. Barryon Brown set the record for return

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touchdowns in the SEC. He's going to be one of

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your returners. We talk about about a month or so ago.

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riches at the returning game because for a while now,

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like you haven't found anybody that can be a returner.

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somebody that could just go up there, fair catch the

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ball and not drop it. I mean that's what you had,

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whether it was Greg Clayton back there, or a Jack

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Besh back there or Javin Nicholas. I mean, these were

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guys that weren't exactly burners, weren't exactly going to return

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the long ones, but you just hope that they would

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be sure handed. You have Zavian Thomas, Jelannie Watkins has

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potential to do it. He read shirted last year. We'll

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get into him in a minute. And now you bring

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in Barryon Brown. Aaron Ama Anderson had a return touchdown

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as well against Oklahoma. Like all of a sudden, you

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go from having no returners to three or four guys

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who you feel pretty confident, and there's going to be

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guys battling for that position. That tells you a lot

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about the talent in this receiver room because most of

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those guys are receivers. Okay, so I mentioned the top returners.

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I mentioned the top transfers. Oh also Destin Hill coming

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in as a transfer as well. He's a Louisiana guy.

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He was at Florida State. Hasn't played a ton because

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he has been injured basically his entire career at Florida State. However,

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this was a guy who was a four star recruit

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coming out of high school. He's a guy that everybody wanted.

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He's six foot two. He's a guy that got a

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little bit of height on him as well. How much

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can he do, How healthy is he? We'll see, but

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we'll see if he can add something. That's another body who, well,

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he hasn't played a ton, He's still been in the

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college game for a number of years. The newcomers, I'm

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also very excited about. You have Philip Wright, you have

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tran for I love Toron Francis. He was one of

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my I remember when we were sitting here on National

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Signing Day. T Bob asked me, Hey, pick a guy

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that not a lot of people are talking about that

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you think would be a breakout player. My answer was

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to Ron Francis, this guy is over six feet tall,

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he's already two hundred pounds. He had an incredible senior season.

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I mean had double digit touchdowns, he had over a

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thousand yards. He's the reason he rose so much in

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recruiting like he did was because of that senior year.

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LSU early, and then there was a lot of talk

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of hey, can LSU actually hold on to this guy

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much attention nationally from other programs, may look elswhere he

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ultimately decided to stay. I think he has potential to

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be a really, really good football player. So you have

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to Ron Francis, you have Philip Price. Both of them

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have a chance to be good. Look, don't forget about

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Jolannie Watkins. He's a little bit on the smaller side,

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which is part of the reason why he read shirted

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this year. I mean, there's rumors that he might be

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the fastest guy on the entire team, and that's saying

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a lot when you have Thomas and Caden Durham on

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that same team. Also, Kylon Billiott's a guy that Red

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shirded a year ago. Lsuvans were excited about him when

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he signed. Can he break out? Can he give you

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some quality depth? You have an embarrassment of riches here

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at the wide receiver position. This is a big reason

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why in all the preseason Heisman discussions, Garrett Nosmeyer is

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sitting right there in the top three because you saw

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what he did his first year as a starting quarterback

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and how much more comfortable he got down the stretch.

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his first year starting in the SEC, and he had

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a lot of unproven weapons. This year, when you look

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at Garrett Nosemeyer, he has the same offensive coordinator, he

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has an entire year starting under his belt, and he's

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probably got better weapons this year than he had a

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year ago, even with the loss of Mason Taylor. It's

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all going to depend on the offensive line. If Brad

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Davis could get that unit right, Garrett Nosmeyer could have

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a really big season. In large part dude, all the

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talent that you have in this wide receiver room. All right, Look,

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we're going to take a quick time out when we

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get back LSU base of all, uh struggled a lot

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more than a lot of people felt they would. And

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then the basketball team just an atrocious performance on the hardwood.

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on off the bench.

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t bove Abear crap I went early. I never like

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to cut off the beat. I went early. That's on me, guys.

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It's it's the rough start to the morning. Apparently that

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that one's on me. Okay, look, teas are going in

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the break there a little bit. LSU baseball and basketball

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were in action last night. We'll get to baseball first

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because unfortunately, it was a lot more interesting of a game,

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so we talked about it a little bit in the

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opening segment. LSU wins that game eleven to nine in

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a game that they were basically trailing for about eighty

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to eighty five percent of that game. If you missed it,

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we'll give you a little bit of a recap. So,

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like he has most of the midweek games, Connor Waer

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gets the start, and it's about as bad of a

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start as you could have In the first inning. It

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looks like it's going to be pretty clean, right you

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have that out, he gets a strikeout. Cater Embiati drops

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the third strike. He throws it the first it's a

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throwing error. Not only does that guy get on base,

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he gets all the way to third on that one

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throwing error. You wind up giving up three runs in

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the first inning. The errors are going to become an

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issue later in the game. What did we see? We

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saw Steven Mila make a great play at second. He

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tries to throw the relay the first he won, hoped

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that he got by Jared Jones. That guy advanced to base.

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Chris Stanfield, probably the fastest guy on the team, he

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underran a ball. It went over his head in deep centerfield.

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That allowed runners to go Jake Brown and right field

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kind of slowed up. Like I guess Jake Brown thought

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that the ball was deeper than it actually was because

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he tried to like speed up at the last minute

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grab it. That was another era. I mean, it was

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blunder after blunder for this LSU team. They wound up

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being down seven to one after like the first three

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innings of this game. I mean, it looked like it

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looked like North Dakota State was going to absolutely run

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away with this game. But a few things happened. One,

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they pulled Kate Aaronbdi who was behind the dish, and

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they put in Louis her Nandez in the fifth inning.

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I think Kate are Embidi is a talented player. He

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actually hit a home run to get LSU back in

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this game. He kind of sparked them offensively. I think

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he's a good hitter at times. I think he has power.

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I think he has a chance to be a talented

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player right now at this point in his LSU career.

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He's not a very good catcher. Defensively, we saw a

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number of pass balls and even the ones that were

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borderline wild pitches. At this level of ball, you have

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to make those stops. Multiple runs were scored last night

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because of Kate aar Embiedie not stopping if you want

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to call it a wild pitch, pass balls, whatever you

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want to call it, Kate aar Ebidi did a poor

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job of that last night. When you put in Louis

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her Nandez, it was a lot cleaner. I think that

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Louis R. Nandez is going to wind up being the

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every day weekend catcher, which is weird because I came

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in here Monday and was like, Hey, I'm okay with

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two catchers. If you want to play Cad Aaronbidie on Saturday,

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I'm okay with I'm still fine with it as long

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as he doesn't have a performance like he did last night.

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When you look at Louis Hernandez, it makes sense, right.

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He's an older guy, He's been in college for a

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number of years. He's a lot more polished behind the plate.

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Sure arbid, he had the home run, but he struggled mightily.

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So in the fifth inning they put in Louis Hernandez.

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Also they put in Chandler Dorsey. So the first time

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we saw him this season, he threw two scoreless innings

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and his LSU debut, Zach Cohen comes in. He took over.

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He fired two and two thirds innings. He had shut

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out ball, just one hit. That's when LSU kind of

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started to settle down a little bit. Now a couple

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more runs would be plated from North Dakota State, but

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LSU stepped up and it was the usual suspects, right.

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Stephen Milam came up for the second time in that

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game and delivered in a big spot. This was two

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innings after he had that double that found the center

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field grass to tie the game. In the sixth Mileam

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comes up, he hits that ball down the right field

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line for a bases loaded to run double that gave

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LSU the final margin of eleven to nine. So look,

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as far as standouts go, because we were just talking

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about all of the number of blunders in this game

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from veteran guys, a guy just mentioned it, Garrah Jones,

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Stephen Mylom, Chris Stanfield, Jake Brown, like, these are guys

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that you don't think are going to make these errors

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in a midweek game where they just not focused. I

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don't know. Here's the good news. They win a game

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in a game that they probably should not have won

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because they didn't play well enough to win, and they

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get to immediately flush it because they play the exact

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same team tonight in the box. Once again, if you

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have a good performance, you can completely flush this one.

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And also, connter Ware had a really bad start, yes,

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no question about it, but Connorwaar has been good in

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the midweek. This is kind of a one off at

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this point. These were more mental mistakes by Yellow and

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just going out there and being like, hey, maybe this

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team's not all We had them up to beat, they

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had an off night and they were still able to

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beat this team, which is good because this team was

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one and nine coming into last night. I get it.

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Midweek games, you don't take a lot of stock in them.

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You gotta beat North Dakota State teams. You have to

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beat teams that are that are this bat because what

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are we talking about, Like North Dakota State's pitching staff

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coming into the game last night had over an eleven

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era as a team. It wasn't like you were up

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there striking out and they were. It was the defensive errors.

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It was the pitching. It was not stopping the pass balls.

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They didn't really have to do anything. You hit a

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number of batters, you walked a number of batters. That's

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becoming a troubling trend. We saw it a little bit

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in the weekend. If you convix the errors and all

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the mistakes that you made, you're fine. You're still I believe,

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one of the most talented teams in the country as

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far as the standouts. Steven Milam I mentioned him. He

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came up with a number of big RBIs. He goes

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two for four, three RBIs and he gotta walk. Daniel

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Dickenson is becoming the hitter that we expected him to

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be when he transferred it. Daniel Dickinson goes three for four,

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he had a home run, he scored three runs, He

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had two RBIs. One of those hits was a drag

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bunt single, so he shows his versatility at the plate.

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Jared Jones he goes one for two. Derek Curiel at

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the top of the lineup. He only goes one for three,

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but he got walked twice and he scored two runs.

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Lsu pitching only allowed six hits and only two win

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for extra bases. Again, it was the free passes that

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hurt you so much. Look at Chandler Dorsey. I mentioned

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he came in the fifth inning and kind of calm

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things now. Two innings, no hits, no runs, one walk,

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one kit, thirty six pitches, twenty two of them were strikes.

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Loved what I saw from Chandler Dorsey. Very similar situation

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with Zach Cohen. Also, I said it a little bit

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on Monday I'm gonna say it again, you had found

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the closer on this team. Look and Gavin Gidrey gets

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healthy when we finally start seeing him, Gavin Gidrey is

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going to have a role on this team. I want

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Caseen Evans with the ball in his hand laid in

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close games. We have seen it five or six times

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already this year, when it's a one run or a

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two run game in the last few innings, time and

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time again. Jay Johnson has went to case and Evans

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a young freshman, and what has case and Evans done.

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He has delivered time and time again. This is his

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third save already on the year and where eleven games at.

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I think that Cason Evans is only going to get better.

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You have found a staple in the back end of

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your bullpen early in the season. Before I move on

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to basketball, Alandra, what was your overall takeaways from last

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night's game? I know you had to do the game

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and okay, for those who don't know, before she gets

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into it, our girl a Landra was going through it

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last night. So in the studio at LSU, they are

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two separate rooms, but it's just glass separating and I

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look over and Lundra's standing up at times, and then

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she comes into like the studio, just walks through the

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door on my side and goes, you know, like, I

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think they got to take Kaye Aaron beat out. He

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has too many pass balls. This was before the home run.

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She's like, oh yeah, turns around. Then he lets another passball.

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She looks over at me. I don't care that he

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hit the home run. You gotta get it, guys. The

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I wish I would have had it on video. The

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range of emotions that I witnessed last night was equal

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parts hilarious and I felled for our girl fills in

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this game.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I didn't know that you had,

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like noticed that I was going through it yesterday. I

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noticed that first inning was like, that's what it's like

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watching a game with me. By the way, it's not

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like I'm not calm, that's what it's like.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: I know that, you know, there's all those errors in

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the first four innings, and it wasn't like the cleanest

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game that we had. But there are a lot of

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positives that come out of this because, like we've said

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this so many times before, good teams find a way

474
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to win and that's exactly what Elisu did last night.

475
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I mean, like I said this on Twitter last night,

476
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but I love seeing your three hole guy lay down

477
00:22:58,559 --> 00:23:01,200
a bunch a perfect bunt that where you move the

478
00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:03,839
runner and you're safe at the same time, like you're

479
00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:05,680
doing exactly what the three hole is supposed to do.

480
00:23:05,799 --> 00:23:08,640
Maybe you're not like knocking it out the park, but

481
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you did exactly what you were supposed to do in

482
00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:13,359
that moment. And Jay Johnson talks a lot about like

483
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,039
their thing this year is big Team, little me and

484
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,640
he this team is like really embodying that they're not

485
00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:23,920
doing it for themselves. And I feel like last year

486
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,200
we talked a lot about how like everybody's going out

487
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,880
there to swing it and grilla ball is great, it's

488
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,519
so much fun, but you gotta find a way to

489
00:23:33,559 --> 00:23:36,680
win these games when you're down seven. I think was

490
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,440
like the biggest uh yeah after like big right, like

491
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,240
you got the life knocked out of you early in

492
00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:45,640
the game, Like immediately chip away little by little as

493
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,400
much as you can. It doesn't have to be a

494
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,359
grand The two run bomb by Kate Aaron Betie's great,

495
00:23:50,839 --> 00:23:53,799
but it doesn't have to be that every single time.

496
00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:56,960
I Yeah, so I think that there's a lot of

497
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,759
positives that came out of this insane game. Not the

498
00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:03,039
best game from Connor ware, but like you said earlier,

499
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he's been okay in the midweek. And then you have

500
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,559
Chandler Dorsey, who we haven't seen the entire season, and

501
00:24:10,279 --> 00:24:12,079
like Jay was asked about it, he was like, well,

502
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,720
we just have a really good offense. And he was

503
00:24:13,759 --> 00:24:16,759
getting touched up in the fall and in like the

504
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preseason scrimmages, and they asked him like, what do you

505
00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:21,880
think worked for Dorsey and he was like, he wasn't

506
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,400
facing tigers. So Chandler Dorsey is a big plus. And

507
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:31,960
like you said, Cason Evans just continues to impress your close. Yeah,

508
00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:35,240
he's a freshman, so zero e r A by the

509
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way through However, many games that he's pitched.

510
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: A kid played in six something like that.

511
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,559
Speaker 2: Wait, I had it yesterday. I think it might have

512
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been eight, eight innings pitch. So yeah, but it just caseon.

513
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:54,480
Evans continues to impress, and then Zach Cowen also Jay

514
00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:56,759
says that if every single game they put him in,

515
00:24:56,799 --> 00:24:58,960
they win, and if the game's on the line, that's

516
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,240
a really good middle relief Remember we were talking about

517
00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:03,880
like beginning of the season that was like a big

518
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,599
question that he's a great middle relief and he has

519
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,519
been every single time you put him out there. So

520
00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:13,160
crazy game, not exactly how we thought it was gonna go.

521
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But like I said, there are a lot of positives

522
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:16,319
that come out of it.

523
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and okay, and the.

524
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Speaker 2: SEC just had an insane night of baseball last night.

525
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,240
Like everybody was getting upset, including the Aggies.

526
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Speaker 1: Well, like you, well, I'm not even gonna call it

527
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,200
an upset at this point. To your point, though, we

528
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,119
talk about it all the time, and I talk about

529
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,880
it in football. Look, I keep going back to the

530
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,359
college football playoff when you say, hey, good teams find

531
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,359
different ways to win games even when you may not

532
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,640
have your best stuff. And that's what LSU did. I

533
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,160
don't really care about the opponent. I get it, North

534
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,119
Dakota State's not good. These were mental errors. But what

535
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,200
do you do when the games on the line? Can

536
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,759
you do it when the pressure's on? As far as

537
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:58,039
two outs go, LSU last night six two out RBIs,

538
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,920
North Dakota State won. I mean again, your back is

539
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,839
against the wall. But when it came time to step up.

540
00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:07,640
You did. And if you would have told me, hey,

541
00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:10,000
Chandler Dorsey came into this game and really settled things

542
00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:11,160
down for you, I'd have been like, oh, yeah, I

543
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,680
forgot he was on the team. That's awesome. You got

544
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,359
a perfect mix of young guys that you think you

545
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,119
can now count on and the guys you know you

546
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,839
can count on stepping up when needed. I know Jay

547
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,799
Johnson loves the tinker with the lineup. I'm leaving one

548
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,160
through three in that lineup the same all year long,

549
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,799
because look, Daniel Dickinson, the power he's showing behind Jared

550
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,440
Jones not only protects him. When you look at the

551
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,559
box score, though, you're gonna say, well, your leadoff man

552
00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:38,440
went one for three. Yeah, but he got walked twice

553
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,000
and he scored two runs. He's finding different ways to

554
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,960
get on base. Cury all at the top. I love,

555
00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:46,000
I love Curiyel Jones, Dickinson one through three. I'm not

556
00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:48,599
touching that he can mix and match the rest of

557
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,640
the order all he wants. All right, Look, we actually

558
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,319
went a little long there, so we're gonna take a break.

559
00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:55,240
When I come back, I'm gonna do a quick recap

560
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,680
of LSU basketball and I do mean quick because there's

561
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not a ton to discuss there. And then we're going

562
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,839
to get into combined winners over the weekend, the winners

563
00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:05,759
and the losers, and uh, which one of them may

564
00:27:05,759 --> 00:27:07,400
be able to fall to the Saints. That's coming up.

565
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You're on, off the bench.

566
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:09,839
Speaker 3: Off the bench.

567
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Speaker 1: For those wondering when Jake said don't like the energy

568
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,240
coming out of some people, I'm pretty sure that was

569
00:27:16,319 --> 00:27:18,279
right after the NFL story I brought up with Ian

570
00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:21,200
Rappaport and Jordan Schultz went Rappaport back down, okay.

571
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,039
Speaker 2: And it was major soft energy from Ian Rappaport.

572
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,079
Speaker 1: Also, thank you for this week pulling the jacob Hester

573
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,480
Goodwood live read and not Ta by bea Bear. I

574
00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:32,640
just don't feel like sitting here catching strays when he's

575
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,640
gone and being like, are you wep like Tyler Woven

576
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,759
get good will I t bub I'm just sitting here man,

577
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,119
any like these live reads?

578
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: Are you just never yelways out of context and it

579
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,160
just is what it is.

580
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 3: All right?

581
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Getting too off the bench Wednesday edition, Taylor

582
00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:52,599
Trepy with you sitting in poor jacob Hester and Ta

583
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,400
Boy b a Bear? Okay, we were very LSU heavy

584
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,119
in the first and second segments. Broke done a little

585
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,599
spring football and recapped LSU's on you. Usually, thrilling victory

586
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,680
is what we'll call it over the North Dakota State

587
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,240
Bison right now, though, want to look at the NFL Combine.

588
00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:09,359
There were a lot of winners and losers over the weekend,

589
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,359
and some of them are tied to the New Orleans Saints.

590
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:17,200
I'm gonna kind of give you my three winners and

591
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,039
how high I think their draft stock may have went,

592
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,079
and then I'll give you one loser who I think

593
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,440
his stock is going to plummet unfortunately, because I do

594
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,839
think he is a very good player. My first winner

595
00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:32,480
is Texas wide receiver. No, not Isaiah Bond who said

596
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:34,160
he was going to break the combine record and didn't

597
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,640
come close. I'm going with Matthew Golden. Look, he had

598
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,720
the fastest forty yard dash time among any wide receiver

599
00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:43,599
at the NFL Combine with a four to eight. Also, guys,

600
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,359
this guy's college numbers speak for himself. So when when

601
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,640
Matthew Golden burst onto the scene. So he was a

602
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,440
Houston transfer. He played two years of football at Houston

603
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,400
and he was okay. I mean, he had about nine

604
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,279
hundred and fifty yards and thirteen touchdowns in two years

605
00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:01,720
at Houston. Not bad. He came to Texas last year,

606
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:07,079
everyone myself included, thought, Okay, Isaiah Bond's going to be

607
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,039
the number one. Everybody else is going to fill in

608
00:29:09,119 --> 00:29:12,200
like that, and you know, beginning of the year, that's

609
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,319
kind of what it looked like. Yeah, Matthew Golden was

610
00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:17,319
catching these long balls, but everyone kind of said the

611
00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:20,599
same thing. Okay, Matthew Golden's going to be your deep threat.

612
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,640
Nothing more than that. No, he's one of the best

613
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,640
route runners in this draft. He became a complete wide

614
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,839
receiver for Texas. If Matthew Golden was six foot two,

615
00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:33,000
I believe he'd be the first wide receiver taken in

616
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,880
this class. It's not his fault that he's only five

617
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,279
foot eleven. Look, here's what he did last year in

618
00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:41,240
sixteen games, fifty eight receptions, nine hundred and eighty seven

619
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:46,119
yards and nine touchdowns. That's seventeen yards per catch. Again,

620
00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:48,759
I mentioned the deep ball, but it's what he does

621
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:51,000
across the middle. He came up with some big time

622
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:54,559
clutch catches in big time situations for Texas when they

623
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:58,079
made that college football playoff run. I am very impressed.

624
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,839
I continue to just come away more and more impressed

625
00:30:01,039 --> 00:30:05,119
with Matthew Golden. You've seen the draft boards, you've seen

626
00:30:05,119 --> 00:30:08,279
the mock drafts. All the insiders say that TETROA. McMillan

627
00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:09,839
out of Arizona State is going to be the first

628
00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:13,119
wide receiver take. I'm good with that. Tedrowe McMillan is

629
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,000
sixty four, two hundred and fifteen pounds, he's got good speed,

630
00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:18,480
and he was super productive in college. I am good

631
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,640
with that. But who will be the next receiver taken

632
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,119
a lot of people believe Let Luther Burden. Some people

633
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:28,799
believe in say Matthew Golden. Now look Luther Burden. To

634
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,480
his credit, he had a good combine as well. He

635
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,119
didn't have quite the numbers his final year. But two

636
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,599
years ago, you remember he was an All American at Missouri.

637
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,519
That was when they had pretty cook Yeah, I mean

638
00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:43,000
that was that was the entire when they went they

639
00:30:43,039 --> 00:30:45,319
got ten wins under Eli Drinkwitz for the first time.

640
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,359
He took a little bit of a step back this year.

641
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,480
But something about Matthew Golden, he is such a smooth athlete.

642
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:53,839
I actually think Matthew Golden should be the second wide

643
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,119
receiver taken. I think he has played his way into

644
00:30:56,119 --> 00:31:00,200
a first round pick based on his performance at Texas,

645
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,759
he made him big moments and his excellent performance at

646
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,039
the NFL Combine. My next winner is going to be

647
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,720
Baschule Touton, the running back for Virginia Tech. If you

648
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,039
don't know that name, that's fine. If you remember coming

649
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:14,720
into the season, Virginia Tech had a lot of hype

650
00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:17,279
around a lot of people said, Hey, could this be

651
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:20,200
the year that Virginia Tech challenges for the ACZ Championship.

652
00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:21,799
I know I was on that train. I know Jake

653
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:23,680
was kind of on that train as well. It didn't

654
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,119
work out. For whatever reason. Kyrien Drones was not quite

655
00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:29,519
as efficient as everyone hoped he would be taking that

656
00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:33,000
jump as a year one starter to year two. But

657
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,680
Baschule tutten, I mean he led all running backs in

658
00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:38,559
the forty yard dash a four point three to two.

659
00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:42,519
He was first among running backs and vertical jump with

660
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,599
forty and a half inches. He was tied for second

661
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,359
in broad jump. He ran a four to four to

662
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,920
one in the twenty yard shuttle. You get it. He

663
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,680
was basically first or second across the board and everything

664
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:55,160
at the combine. I'm one of those people that's not

665
00:31:56,519 --> 00:32:00,680
super worried about what your combine performances unless it's really bad.

666
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,440
I just don't think a combine is going to make

667
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:05,039
or break you. However, if you go look at what

668
00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:07,640
he did in Virginia Tech this year, when again I

669
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,839
mentioned Kyrien Jones was not as dominant as you thought

670
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:14,119
he was going to be. But Shoal Tutten was their

671
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,920
offense pretty much by himself at times. Because in twenty

672
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,640
twenty three, that was his junior year, he had eight

673
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:26,160
hundred and sixty three yards rushing, five yards per carry,

674
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,200
ten touchdowns, not bad, solid numbers. He blew that out

675
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,039
of the water this year, almost twelve hundred yards, six

676
00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:37,119
point three yards per carry, and fifteen touchdowns behind a

677
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,559
Virginia Tech offensive line that wasn't necessarily bad, but it

678
00:32:40,599 --> 00:32:42,640
wasn't anything to write home about. I mean, Braylan Moore,

679
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,599
who is going to shoot up for the Tigers of

680
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,200
this fall. He was a really good player. But outside

681
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,119
of that, I mean, they didn't have any standout guys.

682
00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:53,000
He could also catch the ball three hundred and twenty

683
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,920
career receiving yards for receiving touchdowns. He's got the size

684
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,960
as well. He's over two hundred and ten pounds, he

685
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,839
stands about six feet. Everything you want in a running

686
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,160
back is this guy. Now, I'm not saying draft Tutton

687
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:08,480
in round one, you know, take a leap, But when

688
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:11,640
you look at the kind of second group of running backs,

689
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,400
because that first group's always going to be the same,

690
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,880
It's going to be Ashton Genty. Amarion Hampton looks like

691
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,319
he may sneak into the first round. But outside of

692
00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:22,119
those two guys, who's going to be that next guy up?

693
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,519
Ali Gordon continues to fall down boards.

694
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: R J.

695
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:27,759
Speaker 1: Harvey's had an excellent combine. He was super productive. He's

696
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:31,359
a little on the light side. Who's RB three in

697
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,240
this class? Can it be? But Schuel Tutten, I don't

698
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:36,680
see why not. I think he was one of the

699
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,559
big winners this weekend at the NFL Combine. My last

700
00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:43,480
winner is a guy that people here in Baton Rouge

701
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,400
are very familiar with. It's Landon Jackson out of the

702
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,160
University of Arkansas. If you remember, Landon Jackson was here

703
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,839
for two years, struggled with injuries, couldn't really get on

704
00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:52,880
the field, was pretty raw. When he came out of

705
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,039
high school, he went back to his home state school

706
00:33:57,319 --> 00:33:59,559
in Arkansas, and he really shined. And this is a

707
00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:01,960
guy that has always had the size. He's six foot six,

708
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,720
two hundred and sixty four pounds. He ran a four

709
00:34:04,759 --> 00:34:07,039
to six' eight and had a forty and a half

710
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:10,239
inch vertical. Jump at six foot, six two hundred and

711
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,119
sixty four, pounds let me tell you just how rare that.

712
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,559
Is jackson is one of just four players since two

713
00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:18,880
thousand and three to weigh more than two hundred and

714
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,880
sixty pounds jump higher than forty inches in the. Vertical

715
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,239
the other three Players Mario williams who was the number

716
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,679
one pick in two thousand and, Six Miles garrett who

717
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,119
was the number one pick in twenty, seventeen And Shamar

718
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,119
stewart At TEXAS a AND m this, year who's a

719
00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:35,840
projected first round. Pick that's the company that Landon jackson's

720
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,559
In and when you go look at what he did in,

721
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:42,199
college his numbers back it. Up you're, saying, okay sixty,

722
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,280
six two hundred and sixty five pound guy ran a

723
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,920
mid four to. Six what's he going to do off

724
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,960
the edge a. Lot his career in college speaks for.

725
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,519
Itself his first year At arkansas three, sacks four tackles

726
00:34:56,519 --> 00:34:59,559
for a, loss but he got even better his next

727
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:02,079
year twenty twenty, three fourteen tackles for a lost six

728
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:04,679
and a half. Sacks pretty much same thing this, year

729
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,440
ten tackles for a lost six and a half. Sacks

730
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,400
he had sixteen sacks in three years At. Arkansas that

731
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:13,480
is super productive when you have a guy like that

732
00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:15,599
at that size able to come off the. EDGE i

733
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:17,079
if he puts on a little bit of, weight can

734
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:21,840
maybe slide inside depending on your scheme and that Athleticism

735
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,320
Landon jackson's going to continue to rise up draft. Boards

736
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,320
is he going to be a first round?

737
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:26,559
Speaker 3: Pick?

738
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,119
Speaker 1: No can he be a round three maybe even a

739
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:33,199
round two? Pick? Sure if he continues to trend upwards

740
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:37,320
like he Hit, now my weekend loser is going to

741
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,679
Be oregon Quarterback Dylan. Gabriel AND i hate this BECAUSE

742
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,960
i Think Dylan gabriel is a very talented. Player here's the.

743
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:49,199
Problem Dylan gabriel is five to, eleven two hundred. Pounds

744
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,559
that's obviously undersized FOR nfl, Standards but he struggled at

745
00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:56,800
the combine in the throwing portion with ball. Players, man

746
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,199
he didn't have. Consistency his accuracy was kind of all

747
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,480
over the. Place that, Happens but if you're coming in

748
00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:06,360
at five, eleven you gotta have you gotta be almost

749
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,880
perfect in the passing, drills and he, wasn't and unfortunately for,

750
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,199
HIM i think that's going to cost him draft. Position

751
00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,159
SO i think, two maybe three quarterbacks are going to

752
00:36:15,199 --> 00:36:16,920
go in the first, round depending on what happens With Jackson.

753
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,920
Dart so your top three is going to be Cam

754
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,679
ward should Or Sanders Jackson. Dart that's pretty much consensus

755
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,760
across the. Board where Did Dylan gabriel. Fall he's a

756
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,599
lot Like, tutten who helped his stock in that second

757
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,840
tier of running. Backs gabriel's kind of dropped because could

758
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,480
it Be Quinn? Ewers is it going to Be Will?

759
00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:37,920
Howard who's going to be in that second? Group Dylan

760
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,599
gabriel was right there in that, group but, unfortunately because

761
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:42,400
of a really bad, COMBINE i think he's going to.

762
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,320
DROP i think you're going to see other guys that

763
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,519
were maybe a little bit lower on draft. Board it's

764
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:49,559
like A Max. BROSMER i think he could get drafted

765
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:52,719
Before Dylan. Gabriel Max brosmer's six foot, three six foot.

766
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,440
Four he had a good showing at THE Nfl. Combine

767
00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:58,679
so as productive As Dylan gabriel has been at three different.

768
00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:01,679
Stops he was great at Uc he was in The

769
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,639
Heisman trophy conversation At, oklahoma they moved on from, him

770
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:07,079
and he was A heisman finalist and played for the

771
00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:08,679
number one team in the country for the majority of

772
00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:10,920
the year At. Oregon so he's been productive in three

773
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,559
different offenses at three different. Places, unfortunately he's undersized and

774
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:17,280
he had a bad. Combine you can do one of those,

775
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,880
things doing both is really. HARD i think his draft

776
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,199
stock is going to, struggle which is unfortunate BECAUSE i

777
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,880
Think Dylan gabriel is actually pretty talented. Player all, Right,

778
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,400
look we're going to take a quick time out when

779
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,760
we get back a guys that keeps getting worse for

780
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,719
The Dallas. Mavericks got a little bit of an. Update

781
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,599
maybe we'll get into some mellowshie basketball as. Well that's

782
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:35,880
coming up on the other side here on off the, Bench.

783
00:37:36,639 --> 00:37:44,039
Speaker 3: Off the, bench back to sports. Talk maybe off the, bench.

784
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: All, right welcome. Back in final segment our number One

785
00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:50,400
wednesday edition Of off The, Bench Taylor sharp here with

786
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,119
you a little bit of a shorter segment. Here, LOOK

787
00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:56,800
i want to recap real. QUICK lsu basketball don't want

788
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,119
to spend a ton of time on it because, guys

789
00:37:58,119 --> 00:38:00,679
they lost by thirty one points last night to The Kentucky.

790
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,440
Wildcats some idiots set up here yesterday and, said, man you,

791
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,519
Know kentucky's lost three of their last five. Games they

792
00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:09,440
haven't really looked. Good LSU's not gonna. Win can they

793
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,679
make it a game or. Whatever idiot said that couldn't

794
00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:14,320
have been more. Wrong they got absolutely blown. Out it

795
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,920
was a twenty seven point lead For kentucky at, halftime and,

796
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:20,639
honestly when you look at the box, score it's actually

797
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,159
worse than the box score tells, you if you can believe.

798
00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:28,079
That so they finish with shooting twenty seven percent from.

799
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:30,840
Three they were zero for eight at halftime at three.

800
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,159
Pointers Cam carter actually came out in the second. Half

801
00:38:33,199 --> 00:38:35,360
it went four for six from behind the. Arc he

802
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,599
was actually really good in the second. Half it was too,

803
00:38:37,639 --> 00:38:38,079
little too.

804
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 3: Late.

805
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: There you saw a good bit From Robert miller that

806
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,559
might be the only positive TAKEAWAY i can have because

807
00:38:43,599 --> 00:38:46,119
look as good As Cam carter, is it doesn't really

808
00:38:46,119 --> 00:38:48,000
matter if he plays good or bad at this, point because,

809
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,840
one you're so bad around him that his performance really doesn't. Matter,

810
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,440
secondly he's gone after this. Year at this point the,

811
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,440
season you're looking ahead to the future because there are

812
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,800
no postseason aspirations for you. WHATSOEVER i, mean that ship

813
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,280
has sailed a long time. Ago Robert miller is a

814
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,639
six to ten. Freshman he shot seven of, Eleven he

815
00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:07,360
had fifteen, points and he poured in eight rebounds as.

816
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,719
Well he's a guy that hasn't been in the starting

817
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,360
line up a. Ton he did get the start last

818
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,360
night and he played the majority of the. Game that

819
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,519
might be the only POSITIVE i can take away from this.

820
00:39:15,559 --> 00:39:21,199
GAME i, Mean Damian collins is usually a somewhat consistent.

821
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,679
Scorer he had two points last. Night you only had

822
00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:26,079
three guys in double. Figures you Had Robert miller with,

823
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:29,519
Fifteen Kim carter with, Fourteen Jordan seers who only played nineteen.

824
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:31,559
MINUTES i still really can't figure out why they're doing.

825
00:39:31,559 --> 00:39:34,639
That he had thirteen points off the. Bench that's it,

826
00:39:35,119 --> 00:39:37,519
now for what it's, Worth Corey chess Than Victoria's miller

827
00:39:37,559 --> 00:39:39,480
did not play in this. Game chess actually didn't play

828
00:39:39,519 --> 00:39:42,320
On saturday as, well But Victorias miller And Corey chesz

829
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,400
missed this game due to. Injuries matt McMahon said that

830
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,440
he expects him back On. SATURDAY i don't know how

831
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,400
much it, matters but as far as the young guys,

832
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,599
Go Robert miller by far the biggest bright. Spot Curtis,

833
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:58,239
gibbings he struggled. Again he went over five from the,

834
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,400
floor over three from behind the, arch with two points

835
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,440
outside Of Robert. Miller, again there's not a ton of

836
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,639
positives you can take away from a game like, this because,

837
00:40:07,679 --> 00:40:10,480
again Wal kentucky is twenty and, ten they're nine and

838
00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:12,960
eight in, conference they're number nineteen in the. Country they

839
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,679
came into this game. STRUGGLING i mentioned that every game

840
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,760
for of the last five, games they're two and three

841
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,920
in the last five. Games but for out of last

842
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,400
five games they've allowed eighty points or more. Ls you

843
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,760
put up sixty. Four they had twenty three points at.

844
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,360
Halftime just an abysmal shooting performance from what is frankly

845
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,920
not a very good basketball. Team, okay before we get

846
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,960
out of here for hour number. One want to mention

847
00:40:35,039 --> 00:40:39,559
a quick story coming out of The dallas. Area you,

848
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:41,440
KNOW i just hate to pour on to The Dallas,

849
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,559
mavericks but Uh Nico harrison is proving just how bad

850
00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:47,599
of a deal That Luka doncic trade. Was, look we

851
00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:50,159
talked about An Anthony davis twenty six points in the

852
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:52,559
first half of the first game he's. Played, yeah he's

853
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:55,599
been out ever. Since Derek lively has been on the.

854
00:40:55,599 --> 00:40:58,119
Bench they might shut Down Daniel gafford for the rest

855
00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:00,679
of the. Season he's won one of the best young

856
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,800
centers in THE. Nba jordan talked about it a little bit, yesterday, saying,

857
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,000
Hey kyrie's hurt right, now we don't know the extent

858
00:41:08,039 --> 00:41:10,639
of the. Injury well we do. Now yesterday afternoon it

859
00:41:10,639 --> 00:41:13,280
was announced That Kyrie irvan has torn his Acl he

860
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,239
is out for the remainder of the. Season this is

861
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,679
one of those trades that people knew was going to

862
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,880
be bad as soon as it was. MADE i think

863
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,079
we may have all underestimated just how bad it. Is

864
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:29,519
No Anthony, davis No Daniel, gafford No Kyrie, irvin No Dereck,

865
00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,719
lively No Luka. Doncicche here's what you have on your

866
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,119
team right. Now you have an Aging Klay thompson who's

867
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:36,840
in and out of the. Lineup you got A. Pj

868
00:41:37,039 --> 00:41:38,800
washington who's in and out of the lineup you hadn't

869
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,159
played in a. While you Got Max, christie who's actually

870
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:43,280
been pretty, good who you got in That lakers. Trade

871
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,679
and that's about. It that's about all you got if

872
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,159
you're The Dallas. MAVERICKS i saw a funny thing last

873
00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:52,639
night on. TikTok he was a guy waking up from

874
00:41:52,679 --> 00:41:54,079
a coma and he was A mavericks. Fan he's, like,

875
00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:55,960
hey tell me The mavericks were doing, good and guy, goes,

876
00:41:56,079 --> 00:41:58,440
Well Derek lively And Daniel gafford are both. Out Kyrie

877
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,119
irvin just tore HIS. Acl we Traded Uka doncics For Anthony,

878
00:42:01,159 --> 00:42:03,199
davis And Anthony davis has only played one game and

879
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,880
he might be done for the year as. Well the guy, goes,

880
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,679
CAN i CAN i just go back and do a coma?

881
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,599
LOOK i like to make fun of fan. Bases you

882
00:42:09,639 --> 00:42:11,440
got to feel for those, guys, Alright like coming up

883
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,599
in our number, two we're gonna do a little bit

884
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:17,599
Of New Orleans saints. Talk, ALSO Lsia football's projected win

885
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,079
total came out last week and actually went down after

886
00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:21,800
the transfer. Portal we'll talk about that as. Well that's

887
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,400
all coming up here On off The, Bench

888
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 3: Off The, bench