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All right, I think we opened this hour talking a
little march madness. As the final four is set, it's
all one seed, so the first time since eight, second
time since seventy nine. As we said, if you look
at the thirty years of data in which Ken Palm
rankings have been kept, this is four of the ten
most efficient teams that they have ever lized.
Speaker 2: Uh. And it's it's no surprise here.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much all the teams that everybody was choosing
to win nastional championship. So before we look at what
happens next, what were all's biggest takeaways in how these
final four teams got here?
Speaker 3: Houston's defense is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's they helped.
Speaker 3: Fifteen points in the first half. And then you know
you're led by a fifth year senior in LJ. Sryer
at point guard. It's they're they're going to be a
tough out. I think the most talented team top to bottom.
Probably not, but I mean they they play hard. Kelvin
Sampson's a great coach, like that team's gonna be a
tough out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh, you want to talk about three and
D Houston easily with the most efficient offense in the
entire country, also leading the country making nearly forty percent
of their three It's like, you're not like that combination
is going to push you very far. I don't care
if you have the most NBA talent or not. Like,
if those two things are true about your team.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're gonna find your way to the final four.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, my cousin Emmanuel Sharp, if you keep
shooting like he is like him paired with L. J.
Cryer on the perimeter, That's that's a good duo right there.
Speaker 1: Jake, as our resident in house March Madness experts here,
how did your pick send up over the weekend? What
did you think about the journeys that led these teams here?
Speaker 4: So like, as far as like betting picks, I think
I was two for two or you know, two and
two the last couple of days. I tried to go
SEC with Tennessee because the SEC had burned me trying
to go the other way. But spot on with the
Auburn game, had Auburn covering and it going under. I
thought Tennessee would score more points against Houston. Houston's got
the number one defense in the country, so they showed that,
and Tennessee had been scoring a lot of points. I
thought it would continue it certainly, fifteen did not fifteen
I mean only fifteen in total in the game. I
mean that is well under their average of seventy four
per game in the regular season. So both days, I
think I was two and two. So whatever didn't lose money,
didn't win money. I we'll see if we can get
back on track here coming up in the Final four.
But as far as like overall thoughts of what we saw,
Taylor said at Houston's defense, certainly a story the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 5: They're a little bit of the too gritty to be
pretty team.
Speaker 4: It's not always going to look the part, but they
get it done every single time. And we'll see if
Broom's in, you know, he's injured and certainly was gingerly
coming back into that game at the very end against
Michigan State. I think Florida has been battle tested, which
I think is going to really help them out. They
did it against Yukon. They came out, they blew Maryland out.
Then look they were down. I mean it looked like
they were going to lose that game against Texas Tech.
I almost like just like turned it off and forgot
about it, and I turned it back on. I'm like,
what the hell happened here? And they got to lead,
didn't they? They almost covered the game.
Speaker 2: I want to say. They ended the game on what
like an eighteen to four run.
Speaker 4: They were down double digits, and then, like I said,
I turned it on. I'm like, oh my god, almost
won that game. Almost covered that though. Those kind of
games tea in this situation, Those are the kind of
things that can put you over the top right in
that final momentum swing that you need.
Speaker 5: And I want a Florida Duke National championship game.
Speaker 4: I think those are the two best teams in the country.
That would be a fantastic basketball game. You've got two
of the better players in the country in that contest,
and so I think that would be the best matchup.
And look, we're you know, we're both offensive guys. I
want to see offense. I appreciate what Houston does. I
love the fact that they can buy in it is three. Indeed,
that is who they are, that's who they're going to be.
But I want to see a wide open national championship game.
I'd love to see Florida and Duke in the contest.
And I mean Duke housed. They have housed some really
good teams. I mean Arizona was a seven point game
that that game never was in doubt. Yeah, for the
Duke Blue Devils. They house Baylor, they did it to
Alabama as well. Duke's playing as good as anybody in
the country right now, even over the Florida Gators. I
think this is Duke's tournament to lose. But I want
to Duke in the championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And look if defense, you know an old cliche that's
got to be put to the test, defense wins championship, Well,
what happens when Houston defense goes up against the most
efficient offense in the entire country and Duke. That will
be very interesting to see. Do you agree with this?
I was reading from some I was reading from at
least one expert this morning. I can remember somebody at
the Athletic I should have logged his name, but basically
saying that, look, all four of these teams are obviously incredible,
but saying that Duke is a cut above given their NBA.
Speaker 2: Talent because Cooper Flaggs played the best player.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, they have the most NBA players on this
team compared to their peers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're comparing so Auburn and Florida, they've got
players that could be considered National Players of the year.
Houston's got you know one that just not in that conversation,
but he's a top five player in the country. But
in the NBA they're probably just guys. Yeah, no disrespect
to their game. They're gonna play professional basketball. Duke's got
the dude, and they've got multiple dudes that are going
to be long time starting NBA caliber players.
Speaker 5: So I would agree with that assessment.
Speaker 4: It doesn't always win national championships, certainly, like we have
seen very talented teams not do that. But also the
mentality of Cooper flag like to play in the first
round game against Mount Saint Mary's when a lot of
people were saying, why are you playing this game?
Speaker 5: He's playing the.
Speaker 4: Game because there was uniforms, there was officials, there was fans,
there was teammates, there was a coach on the sideline,
and there was a tip time.
Speaker 5: That's why I played the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am so sick of Like, why would you
do that? What about your future? Your future is now.
You signed with Duke Basketball to play for Duke, and
when you're healthy enough to play and there's a game,
you go and play it. I say the same thing
about like tanking in the NBA. No, you're a professional?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 4: The Pelicans dispelled? They're supposed to miss that shot at
the end, are you? No, you're a professional. You have
a job to do. It's to bust your ass for
the full game, to try to go win the game.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: You can argue is it smart?
Speaker 2: What do you want him to do? Lay down?
Speaker 4: Like, no, the roster, the roster is not great, but
those players are going to play hard. Same thing that
that's what sets Duke apart is the fact that they're
NBA guys only care right now about what's best for
Duke Basketball and not their professional career in a couple
of months.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a very interesting Pat beav video that made the
rounds on the Duke's coach Shire So Good last week
about how basically Shire was a killer back in his
playing days, Like people come all over sea and play
he go one v one with anybody.
Speaker 2: But when did he end up getting poked in the eye?
Was of the G League?
Speaker 3: No, it's what the heat in practice say.
Speaker 5: It was like summer league, a summer league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he ended up getting poked in the eye, going
legally blind and so it took away a playing career.
Speaker 2: Otherwise you'd probably all know a lot more about him.
Speaker 4: Well, the cool part about that, I agree, I'll.
Speaker 3: Find it out. The coolest part was, like, I mean,
we know how good like basketball in Chicago is just
because there's so many players, and he was talking about
like he's like John Shire was the most popular basketball
player in Chicago and he wasn't even from Chicago. He
goes people in Chicago would get on a bus and
hour away to watch John Shire over the talent that
was in their backyard. I mean it was. It was
really cool.
Speaker 2: So, oh, man, Taylor, I thought I had a question.
Speaker 1: I was gonna see you up for it and blanking
on final four set though, going to be a great one.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to this finish.
Speaker 1: I mean, here we are at the end of the year,
and all the best teams, right, the ones that have
experts of all peg is the best are the ones
who remained standing. So while you did not get Cinderella,
you will have a a champion that has gone through
a tougher path and and a more well deserving champion
than just about any other year when you're talking about
when this thing filters to who is eventually left standing?
Speaker 2: Oh? How?
Speaker 5: I you know what?
Speaker 6: To me?
Speaker 1: I haven't allowed myself to go to because I don't
want to get my hopes too much up. Uh, Like
what are the Pelicans hope of getting the first overall pick?
Like what's the numbers right now?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Should we be excited or to sag for flag?
Speaker 8: I mean it's they got a shot pop for Coop,
is what we're saying in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Okay again, I feel like y'all are doing a little
bit of stolen valor here and like you already have
wimby you you're gonna be, You're You're just.
Speaker 2: You're just fine and you're not even that bad. What's
your record compared to the Pelicans right now?
Speaker 8: I don't know what it is actually, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Taylor, look like how closer? How close to that?
Speaker 1: How? What?
Speaker 2: What's the right now? I got it in front of me? Yeah, utah,
right now?
Speaker 4: Fourteen percent chance, Washington fourteen percent chance, Hornets fourteen percent chance.
It's the Pelicans twelve point five percent chance. Uh, the
seventy six ers ten and a half, Brooklyn nine, and
then San Antonio's eighth actually was six.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, get out twelve percent, Ladra, enjoy your enjoy
your six percent.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: That's because they don't know, obviously how the season's going
to finish out. That's why you have so many teams
with the same number. So twelve and a half percent chance.
Speaker 1: Well don't they don't they don't. Isn't it like a
grouping of the bottom teams. I'll get that equal percentage
because they try to dispercentivise takes or Yeah. Only all
it means is that you have more teams all trying
to get into that grouping.
Speaker 4: Just do it with the I mean, do it like
every other sport, whatever your record is, that's what it is.
That way, you don't have, like you said, t six
teams trying to tank at the very end.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then if you just do it flatly where the
worst team gets it. I mean in a sport like
the NBA, where you can get it, I mean you
and nobody's you would see anyways, literally hire trained assassins
to shoot their best players knee caps out from under them.
Speaker 2: Uh so team number four, we knee Cooper flagged.
Speaker 4: Just like we needed Chris Paul and Antis and Zion Williamson.
Speaker 1: This one's different. Okay, this one's gonna be different.
Speaker 4: I guess you want to be obviously in the top three.
That's the fourteen percent that we talked about, So it
does drop to twelve point five percent and just keeps
going down obviously from there.
Speaker 2: So I'll take twelve point five. You know, good do
a lot worse, a lot worse for anybody to think
a game.
Speaker 3: What were your odds when you got Zion?
Speaker 2: Not not the best?
Speaker 1: You were definitely not in that four I want to
say you might have been in that like six percent,
gir like you were you. I I want to say
the Zion pick was real, real lucky, which.
Speaker 4: I mean Utah is going to have Utah and the
Wizards are going to have worst records than you.
Speaker 5: Yes, Utah sixteen and fifty nine.
Speaker 4: Washington is sixteen and fifty eight right now, Charlotte is
eighteen and fifty six.
Speaker 5: You're twenty one and fifty four. So oh twenty one wins.
Speaker 4: Say no, come on, see, I don't know, I don't
know that you can get into that fourteen percent.
Speaker 2: The no, no, no, twelve percent is fine. That's that's
that's gonna be. That's gonna be where you where where
I think you you would hope to end up it.
I'll say this at a time when.
Speaker 1: The Pelicans are raising ticket prices and telling some people
they can't renew their season tickets.
Speaker 2: Yo, ass is better hope you get that first overall pick.
Speaker 1: Because that will be the golden Savior ass ticket because otherwise, uh,
there's just no justification for what you're doing.
Speaker 4: I still can't believe that that's the move, that they're
just thinking it's gonna be a good idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, have Saints two raising ticket prices. All right.
Speaker 1: When we get back, though, let's go ahead and talk
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I've been there. Uh, welcome back to o TV. I
want to talk a little LSU spring football here, and
Hunt Palmer has a good ride up on Louisiana Sports
dot Net talking about three names that have stood out
through two weeks with a couple of weeks remaining here.
And I do want to get into the names because
they're interesting, but one of the names brings up a
larger conversation than I also want to have here.
Speaker 2: Okay, and Hunt.
Speaker 1: Writes about Chris Hilton, Jack Pieburn and Deshaun Spears Spears interest.
We just talked about him on Friday, so this is
furthering that conversation. Of course, Jack Pieber and we talked
about as well. Thus far complete psychochromagnum looking jawline like.
Speaker 4: Baker did confirm he's up for meathead of the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without you know, we've seen the miked up videos.
Of course.
Speaker 1: Then the first name off the list for Hunt is
Chris Hilton. And this is exciting for a couple of reasons.
We all know we just you know, we we've talked
about Chris Hilton a ton of this show. It's a
guy who I believe you're probably a win better last
year if you have Chris Hilton, maybe even two wins
better like that. That's how then the margins were on
last year's team. If you have Chris Hilton, I think
you probably played in the SEC championship because you were
very close.
Speaker 2: Remember you beat Florida and.
Speaker 1: You're in and you're and you're you're and you're in
that game. So of course Chris Hilton's doing well. Uh
look at how he finished the season and he was
dominating camp last year and everything. So it's great to
hear on Hilton. But here's my bigger question. Do y'all
believe that Chris Hilton will be wide receiver one because
Nick Anderson is the other name in here as another
guy that's a huge body that two years ago at
a red cherd freshman Oklahoma had ten touchdowns, looked like
he was on path to be one of the most
complete cuts receivers in the entire country before he ends
up getting hurt last season. And when you think of Hilton,
we do tend to pigeonhole him as more of a
speedster and a deep threat. But like, is he ready
to evolve his game to do a little bit of
everything and claim that coveted LSU football wide Receiver one title.
Speaker 4: So here's the exciting thing, I think, because you have
so many players in that position room that have already
shown at the collegiate level that they can dominate games.
Whoever is receiver one is going to have earned receiver one.
It's not gonna be given to him. Like you talk
about Nick Anderson did at Oklahoma, Barrion Brown, what he
did at Kentucky, what Aaron Anderson did hear a year ago,
how many big moments he had, Chris Hilton, certainly at
the end of the season what he did. I mean
is Avion Thomas is somebody that you're certainly going to
use within the offense as well. So there's so many
different weapons. Now, the best part about all these receivers
team is they're all different for the most part, right
at different body sizes, different skill sets, and so you
do have a lot of speed, but you have it
in different ways. You got some quickness with Aaron Anderson
as well, and we saw him finish you know, some
of those in the end zone, like against Texas A
and M and so whoever it is is going to
have to go out there and take it. You're not
going to have to just like give to somebody just because.
But right now, you look at Chris Hilton, he has
every opportunity to be that guy.
Speaker 5: I do think he.
Speaker 4: Is more than just a straight line, you know, run
a go route and go get the football. I think
he can give you more than that. He's got to
show he can be consistently healthy.
Speaker 5: That's going to be a.
Speaker 4: Big part because I know that a lot of people
want to pigeonhole a guy like Aaron Anderson.
Speaker 5: Oh he's just a slot guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, that does not mean anything to me, right some
of the best receivers in the NFL, where do they
do most of their.
Speaker 2: Work out of the slot? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, so the game has kind of changed there. I
love the mentality of Aaron Anderson as well, So I look,
don't let his size don't allow him playing in the
slot to trick you he absolutely can turn into your
go to number one receiver within this offense.
Speaker 5: Like I truly believe that. I think he can run
every single route.
Speaker 4: I think that you can give him the ball now
at the line of scrimmage and he can make guys
miss turn into that returner.
Speaker 5: So it's up for grabs.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's anybody ahead of anybody right now,
but in a good way, because I think they're all
showing you that they can give this offense something and
something a little bit different than the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can argue.
Speaker 1: That Anderson at this point would have the most rapport
and trust with nuss Meyer over the other receivers as
he started. Saw a little bit with Hilton last season, certainly,
but we haven't seen him with Nick Anders and we
haven't seen with Barry and Brown and Zavian. Thomas is
almost less of a receiver and more of just a
let's rab him help out in a lot of different ways,
right Like they'll line him up in the backfield, they'll
hand him the ball and rightfully so, he's a guy
who you want to get a few valuable touches a game,
and that's kind of had.
Speaker 5: This conversation with different people around time.
Speaker 4: We're talking about the LSU offense and I kind of
bring up Aaron Anderson kind of like I just did,
and they kind of you could tell, like take a
step back, like Aaron Anderson.
Speaker 5: I don't think.
Speaker 2: People realize he was your leading receiver a year ago.
Speaker 4: Like I'm not sure people realized he led the team
at eight hundred and eighty four yards. He had more
than Klaren Lacey, he had more than Mason Taylor, he
had more than CJ.
Speaker 5: Daniels. He was your leading receiver. He had five touchdowns
on the year.
Speaker 4: So don't I just was Aaron Anderson like in this
category of Oh he's a nice slot receiver, we can
use him in you know, these two situations. He almost
had a thousand yards a year ago. He can be
a thousand yard receiver in the SEC. He's got that
kind of talent.
Speaker 2: Taylorgan, you chump me to the bit to hop in here?
Who are you? Where do you fall on this wide
receiver one conversation.
Speaker 3: So it's so funny, and I know a lot of
people say, well, you have to have a wide receiver
one maybe on this team. I kind of disagreed just
because so many of these guys can do everything. Like
if you ask me who's gonna have the most catches
coming into the year, I'd probably say Aaron Anderson. There's
a chance Hilton has more yards because he's a deep
threat guy. There's a chance in Nick Anderson has the
most touchdowns because he's a red zone mismatch. Like, I
think all of these guys are gonna be used in
different ways. Treda throws a ranch in there, just because
he's been playing more out wide in spring, which I'm
not surprised about. They really like Bower sharp like as
that traditional tight ends, Like I don't think it really matters.
And like we talk about, Okay, well Hilton has speed,
can he become that every down receiver, you know, like
across the middle. He's gonna have the opportunity because last
year he was kind of your only deep threat. You
got a lot more guys. You got Barry and Brown
coming in Jelannie Watkins, who will get to in weekend winners.
He just ran a ten point one in one hundred
meter at LSU track meet over the weekend. That's a
guy he was undersized last year, so he didn't play
a Ton, But like that's a guy who's probably the
fastest guy on the team right now, maybe even more
so than Baryon Brown's. Like Hilton's certainly going to have
the opportunity to do it. But I don't know that
it matters, Like I don't know if it matters if
you have a wide receiver one no smart likes to
spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: Anyways, If this offensive line is good, this will be
a top five offense in the entire country. And I
mean when I say good, I mean good, I mean great.
But if they are good, if they can be a
from a pass blocking perspective, if they can be like
seventy five percent of what they were last season, and
you know, admittedly you'd want them to be a bit
better in the run game, and really you want the
run game to improve overall from a design and calling standpoint,
just just top to bottom. But if this offensive line
can be good, nus returning with these weapons again, you
should be a top five offense in the entire country.
Speaker 5: One of the good things.
Speaker 4: And I know there's a lot of people that what
Taylor just said, you don't really have a true number one,
and they kind of use that as as a negative.
I do think that you can spread the football out
and it can be somebody different in different situations.
Speaker 2: And as we look at last year, Aaron Anderson eight.
Speaker 4: Eighty four, Kyraen Lacy had eight sixty six, Mason Taylor
had five forty six, the j Daniels had four eighty.
Speaker 2: So that's what you did.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a year ago and you had a
very efficient offense.
Speaker 4: Here's what you have to pair with what we just said,
the ability to run the football when you want to, Like,
that's the thing that you have to have.
Speaker 5: It ain't a receiver one.
Speaker 4: You can have four guys that go out there and
have over five hundred yards receiving. You just have to
be able to turn around, hand the ball off and
be positive.
Speaker 5: In the run game way more than you were a
year ago.
Speaker 2: That's true. That that is that is the main.
Speaker 1: What's the word I'm looking for, what's like a weather vane, whatever,
that's that's Yes, that'll be the main factor that decides
the ultimate potential of the offense.
Speaker 2: All right, there's a good cut for the YouTube video Taylor.
Speaker 1: But if we want to talk about the other guys
that Hunt engines R Minch go Seldon, he mentioned Jack Piburn. Yeah, look,
obviously Pieburn already last year sixty tackles right so known
as a true run edge defender and now trying to
prove that he can be more than that and being
a part of Kevin People's that going to the school
of edge of Kevin Peeoples, who we've already seen what
he's been able to do into in terms of.
Speaker 2: Taking guys and growing them. Piburn becomes very exciting for
for that potential. Yeah, also it appears to be a
he appears to be a great locker room guy as well.
Speaker 1: Would you think it's probably maybe a bit rare when
you talk about guys you are going to get out
of the portal, not because guys transferred character or anything whatever.
It's just hard to come into a new place kind
of establish yourself as a leader and as likable. But
it seems like Piburn has done that a short amount
of time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you've heard me talk about t Bob
I was, you know, a veteran in the NFL. I
go the Broncos locker room after being a charge Jamia
entire crownds like, oh I'm a rookie again. And I
was five years in. Because that's how it feels like
you got new faces. You're trying to learn something new.
They've all been there. You feel like you're behind, but
you're exactly right. Like I went over to Pro day
and who was he with? He was with the Weeks
brothers and.
Speaker 5: They're all walking around, you know, chatting it up.
Speaker 2: Walks by.
Speaker 4: BK gives him a little fist bump, I mean a
little bit right sea ball hit ball. But he look,
he came to LSU from Florida because he wants to
show that he can get after the quarterback. You mentioned
the sixty tackles last year. He was third on Florida's team, right,
I mean you had a safety and a linebacker ahead
of him, not oftentimes as an edge.
Speaker 5: No get sixty tackles in a season.
Speaker 2: So that is high Moor.
Speaker 5: We know he can do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: He wants to improve on only having a saki year ago.
That was his thing in the portal. He wanted to
be in on third downs and show that he can
have the ability to get after the quarterback, and so
he uses LSU.
Speaker 5: We'll see if he does actually get that chance. And
they kind of had this last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Savian Jones is somebody that like he was kind
of your edge run defender and Swinton with somebody that
he got out to the quarterback. But Pieburn wants to
show that he can be the guy. So you know
who lines up, you know on the other side of him,
certainly something to pay attention to. But he came here
and it feels like for the right reasons to bet
on himself and prove that he can be somebody that
he has not had the ability to show. So is
it Patrick Payton on the other side, is it Gabriellaford?
Is it Butler coming over from the transfer portal?
Speaker 2: We'll have to see that.
Speaker 5: But you know what you have with him as far
as an edgesetter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And to his credit, you know you already feel
like he's a starter, Like like you're saying starter and
every down player, which is if you get a starter
at every down player out of the portal, that is
a thumbs up. It's like NFL freights. You get a
player who's better at that position you were before. That's
kind of the baseline way to monitor or judge whether
or not you're making effective moves. So I would say
the Pieburn hype continuing to build, and then a guy
that we talked about the other day into Shawn Spears,
who credit to him. Blake Baker said, look, nobody's been
onto Shawn spears ass more than me.
Speaker 2: I know he can do.
Speaker 1: And so last year I was all over him constantly
twenty four to seven. And yes, well the last time
we shot us on Spears last year, it left a
bit to be desired to see a young player.
Speaker 2: He's had great side.
Speaker 1: Six three, two oh five. He's really big if you
can make it work, and all reports are that he's
starting to flash some of that consistent playmaking potential there.
Speaker 4: Jake, you need him to step up as much as
probably anybody I don't want to maybe say on the team,
but certainly on the defense. Yeah, because as you take
a look around and you see where everybody else is.
We just talked about the defensive line. You get a
couple of transfers in that are both seniors, They have
been through the fire at Florida at Florida State. You
pair that with a Gabriellaford who played a ton as
a freshman, you feel better about the defense front. You
got Don McKinley you got a mod bro. You got
Jacob and Guillery coming back, so you've got a lot
of experience there. We love the linebacker room, absolutely love
where it's at right now. You don't like your corners,
You feel pretty good about your corners. You got Cooley
coming over to play nickel. It is all about the safety, yeah,
strong and free. Can Jordan Gilbert now that he is
fully healthy he had a shoulder of the entire season,
can he be the guy that you brought him in
here to be.
Speaker 2: Can Deshaun Spears take over the strong safety role? He
has to see.
Speaker 4: There's just if we're being honest, there's just not a
lot behind there right I mean, it is a very
very thin position. Group of experienced guys, and Spears doesn't
have a ton of experience. You're betting on potential.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Jordan Gilbert does have experience. Let's see what he does.
Fully healthy, he struggled at times last year. I don't
think that's hard for us to say. So Deshaun Spears
taking over that safety position and playing at a high
level is probably the most important thing on your team.
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hester and tea Bob.
Speaker 1: Eric Dacquinn says, I should have come out of the
burn the saltball game, Tava.
Speaker 2: I wanted to, but again, uh.
Speaker 1: Flew and strep throat ripping through the family right now.
And real maturity is realizing that although you have cabin
fever and you're going insane because your wife wore two
weddings over the weekend and it's just been you and
sick kids locked in the house for forty eight hours straight,
real maturity is not.
Speaker 2: Bringing them to infect other kids. So I mean, you're welcome.
Speaker 4: T Bob's been in the trenches fighting the good. It's
been going on for about a week now.
Speaker 1: Just a crazy week and of just coughing then like
coughing to the point where you throw up, No like
stomach bugs, just.
Speaker 2: Throwing up from the coughing.
Speaker 1: A lot of fevers, still a lot of like them
laying around and asking me for stuff. Wife's been out
of weddings, thankfully she's avoided the sickness kind of. I
don't know how we'll see she maybe cooked, who knows,
but uh, I know I missed everybody at the Burm.
I would have loved to been at the Berm. Probably
would have won if I was there, you know, So.
Speaker 2: I apologized, just apologized to Beth.
Speaker 1: I'll apologize to Beth on Thursday. Uh my wife did
though before before my middle one, or no for my
oldest one, i'd really gotten six Saturday morning, Uh, took
them to go see They went and saw the new
snow White movie, which, grant, I don't think there were
a ton of people.
Speaker 8: There, So whatever, what does she think or does she
have like a thought on it? Did she say?
Speaker 1: And also she is blissfully ignorant. All of the surrounding
noise knew nothing about it going in, none of the
drama know anything. And she was like, look, it's pretty good,
like you know, it's she's She's like, I mean it's
a and it's it's one of the live action Disney movies,
so it can only be so good.
Speaker 2: But basically saying that.
Speaker 1: Rachel's egler was, you know, good, good snow White songs,
pretty good story interesting, they they they kind of fleshed
out the story of snow White a bit, but yeah,
that it was just it was fine, maybe not as
good as like the new Little Mermaid was because the
new music wasn't as good as a New Little Mermaid.
Speaker 2: But uh, but yeah, so not that.
Speaker 5: You loved the New Little Mermaid, didn't you.
Speaker 2: I never I've never actually seen it.
Speaker 4: I thought the new two new songs I've heard you
talk about songs are actually banged.
Speaker 2: It's wild Uncharted Waters is a banger. Will I will
sing that full out?
Speaker 8: But music favorite song from a Disney movie ever?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh man, Oh, that's I don't know song. A soundtrack
for me would be Tarzan.
Speaker 1: Uh you little folk columns boy, huh, everybody should be
that's a good track. I would say for me it
is Once Upon a Dream from Sleeping Beauty is probably
my favorite one.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go Frozen was meantimes. You've talked about enjoying that.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of great Uh, there's a lot of
great picture, I guess, but I guess like like favorite
and like best that's that could be different.
Speaker 5: My favorite is remember Me from Coco.
Speaker 1: It's a great song. Yeah, it's a great song. I mean,
I can go the distance in Hercules is an absolute banger.
Hercules has some of the highest highs but also some
pretty forgettable lows.
Speaker 5: Uh, he's a tramp from Lady in the Tramp.
Speaker 2: I mean we could He's love it. I don't remember.
I don't remember lad forever though.
Speaker 5: It's one of my favorite, maybe my favorite.
Speaker 1: I really liked it growing up. I've found watched it recently.
I did show my kids Goonies for the first time.
Speaker 8: This weekend, And did you tell one of them like, hey,
that's you?
Speaker 2: They were, they were.
Speaker 1: Kind of scared the entire time, but well no, but
I'm like, I mean, when did we become so soft? Like?
It really reminded me that the eighties were a better
time about expecting kids to rise up to the level
of the movie as opposed to condescending to them with
all just like rounded padded edges and whatnot. Right, Like,
there's steaks here, there's had bodies, there's gunshots, there's there's
the s h I T word quite a bit, actually,
and I loved it. And they emerged on the other
side and they really liked it too. But yeah, you know,
it's a little dark, and it's a little scary, it's
a little for Telly's are a little crazy.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 1: I've seen that movie hundreds of times, probably actually movie
I've seen more than any in my entire life. So
I was very excited, too, very excited show that and
then and they and they thoroughly enjoyed it, thoroughly enjoyed it,
even though I've still never seen the octopus seen.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 8: Yeah, because I thought I had seen it, but then
I was like, no, I think I like gas lit
myself into thinking I saw it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 8: QUI because wasn't it like they had I haven't seen
the Greenies in forever, But isn't there a scene where,
like the pirate ship.
Speaker 1: Yes, the very end, Dad Data is talking to a
reporter and starts talking about this octopus they ran into,
which doesn't happen in the cut of the movie.
Speaker 2: And it's like, huh, that's it's you know, chunks normally
the liar.
Speaker 1: But no, Apparently the original cut had this octopus scene
when they come out the slide right before they get
to the pirate chip, and they cut it. I don't
know why, but I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's weird that they cut the scene, but they
left the line in at the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And it's one of those things where
it's like it doesn't you know, it's like it doesn't
really matter, it doesn't really matter, but it has become
a piece of Goony's.
Speaker 2: Lord that I've thought about way more than I should.
Speaker 4: BuzzFeed actually did the top seventy Disney songs. If anybody
want to guess what number one was, let it go
in Frozen.
Speaker 7: It's your guess, Bob, I am going to go once
upon a No, no, no, wait, no no, what's the
what's the snow white one?
Speaker 2: Or not snow white? What's the Cinderella song? So that one? Yeah?
Maybe so?
Speaker 8: Okay, Mulan, I'll make a man out of you?
Speaker 1: Or what is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: Number according to BuzzFeed, top seventy Disney song is Circle of.
Speaker 5: Life from the Lion King.
Speaker 2: Okay, makes me strong, Give me the top five real quick.
I'll make a man out of you.
Speaker 4: Number two Molan shout out to a laundre, be our guest,
Beauty and the Beast, Colors of the Wind Pocahontas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got no problem with it and part of
your world. Number five Little Mermaid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I mean, I I really think,
I think. I think reflection from move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's number six.
Speaker 1: Are we putting that on there? Even though it's a
pick star? That's what because there's a picture, I know. Yeah,
just making sure I understand the parameters of the list. Yeah,
I think Reflections better than I'll Make a Man out
of You. Everything else there I'm fine with. Yeah, Reflection
is actually a song that will make me cry no
matter what's going on.
Speaker 2: If I hear it, it's it's insane.
Speaker 5: Trying to see. I don't even see where is.
Speaker 3: Let it go on there. I just guess that because
the movie is so popular.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's no.
Speaker 2: Guys. Again, I'll Make a Man out of You is good,
But for me, Reflections The better song.
Speaker 5: For me, remember me? Is seventeen from Coco. Almost there
from The Princess and the Frog.
Speaker 2: Where's Once Upon a Dream? What's that from Ah You Walk?
Speaker 8: What about Bare Necessities?
Speaker 3: I love that song that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw that earlier.
Speaker 2: The Gleaming Lot of Mary Poppins on this list.
Speaker 8: Okay, you need it like I know it's Disney, but
come on.
Speaker 9: Super califragilistic, expialidocious. Even though the sound of it is
something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough, you'll
always sound precocious, super califragilistical.
Speaker 8: I don't got him started.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lie I love I love Van Dyke accent
of that movie. Oh boy, alight, what's that? I'm a
Jimney sweet. It's kind of.
Speaker 5: Likedke's still with us, right, tell you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think like the paparazzi is still out there getting
fix of him.
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Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: What's happening y'all? Welcome back go TV Hour two wrapping
up here. Still got a lot to get to real
quick onto Elose. She recruiting Elise who named the finalists
for twenty twenty six quarterback Bo Bentley. Hell of a
quarterback name again, uncommitted guy from Texas. Elis who's getting
the final official visit in June, and the other finalists
are Oklahoma and Georgia, so be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 2: Is he related to Jake Bentley?
Speaker 5: I don't know if he is or not.
Speaker 2: You were asking the wrong person.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but remember Jake in South Carolina, Utah.
He was like all the raide, but like he could
never ever stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Am I seen once upon a dream anywhere on this list?
Number sixty? Okay, BuzzFeed.
Speaker 8: The reason why I was about to say, they have
like notoriously bad lists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is funny because that's there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, who used to?
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the the other part of this list, though,
is there are just so many bangers, crazy crazy, crazy
crazy still some odd inclusions, but yeah, shut up, I
guess shut out Disney.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 5: Where's the Bruno song on that list that you sang
for a year.
Speaker 2: We don't talk about Bruno.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's got it on there.
Speaker 2: That was very Yeah it comes in at number thirty. Yeah,
we don't talk about Bruno was definitely.
Speaker 5: So just confirms my belief that Coco is the better movie.
Speaker 2: Drink Coco and Ganda. Maybe. So, I just hate Mexicans,
so you know, unfortunately, that's uh how he talks to me.
Why do you think Danny big old Mexican racist? So
that's I don't like Coco as much. I apologize guys
that I can't be racist.
Speaker 1: I watch Instagram videos Mexican wives cooking for their husbands
every day.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's true.
Speaker 1: That does that does give you the past, Thank you,
very he gives you the past. But he does do that,
thank you. I think you'll be having no Jake. I'm
pretty sure there's a big Coco movie going on some
some of the theme. I'm not entirely they're gonna have
a second one.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, so that would make sense. Uh, that would
make a love sense.
Speaker 1: All right, Hour three coming up, guys, we got weekend
winners to kick it off. Get your winners in the
chat and we'll get to them next here on.
Speaker 2: Off the bench, Off the bench,