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Speaker 3: All right, Welcome into the final hour of a Monday
edition Off Off the Bench. It has been a fun
show so far. We got Matthew Musso in the audio chair,
Cassie on video, and guys for AFR. Musso is gonna
be sitting in the big boy chair. I'm gonna be
on the audio board, and Cassie once again on video.
So it is a long day for all three of us,
but silver lining at least for me. I'm the only
one of the three not working tomorrow on New Year's Eve,
so I guess uh, I'm the big winner there.
Speaker 4: I've also been up since three am.
Speaker 3: Musso has been up since three am. We're not entirely sure.
Speaker 4: Why have you been up since three I woke up
and couldn't go back to sleep.
Speaker 3: You're just so excited to get here yours. I can't.
I can't take it. I gotta go now.
Speaker 4: That wasn't it?
Speaker 2: I just you know, I overthink things a lot, so
you so you do have a lot of a lot
going on today.
Speaker 3: Like not only like okay, like we're all doing you know,
multiple shows. We've all three of us have been doing
it the past week and a half. You have a
lot of tedious things that are to do behind the scenes. No,
like you have to so like Kid's been out, You've
been handling the uspon log. I've been handling the talk
log like I gotta make the video logs. But you
got to put together the entire pregame all though pretty
much all the interviews and all that.
Speaker 2: We added a we added an hour on the front,
so had to redo a run because a new rundown.
We're not doing post game right, No, there's no postgame,
so so it's a four hour pre game. That's actually
a good thing to talk about. There is no post game.
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Speaker 3: Do you think Matt did that intentionally to give you
more work?
Speaker 4: No? I did not.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's why I did it. It just
it just ended up happening that way.
Speaker 4: But you know we'll make it through.
Speaker 3: Well, winner for me for not having to be here tomorrow,
a loser to Musso and Cassie. And speaking of, let's
get this hour started as we do every Monday with
some weekend winners.
Speaker 5: That's how win it has done. That's right.
Speaker 2: We can't have anyone freak out out there.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer.
Speaker 3: Got too far.
Speaker 4: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.
Speaker 7: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 4: Wow? Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing
left to do.
Speaker 3: What's that.
Speaker 5: Win the whole thing?
Speaker 3: All right, weekend winners, I'll get us started. So I
sent the show dot Olta, Musso and Cassie and I
was like, hey, do you guys have any idea why
my first weekend winner is going to be Joe Biden
and Shane Gillis. Obviously most of you probably do not
know why Joe Biden and Shane Gillis would be paired
together as weekend winners. Well, everyone knows Antonio Brown. You
either hate to love him or love to hate him,
depending on your opinion of him. Antonio Brown gave out
his own award show. He did this on Saturday. He
gave out the CT of the Year Award, which our
current president Joe Biden proudly took home that Antonio Brown
gave out. And then Shane Gillis Funniest Cracker of the Year,
So Shane Gillis makes people laugh, and then Joe Biden
gets the CT of the Year award. They're a handful
of other guys that want awards, but I wanted to
highlight those two gentlemen for these prestigious honors.
Speaker 4: There go ab Man. You know, we all kind of
looked at Antonio Brown.
Speaker 2: It's like, this guy's crazy, he needs help, and in
reality he's kind of.
Speaker 4: Just living his best life. It kind of feels like
at this point, well, okay, so and we didn't it.
Speaker 3: He is still insane, he still needs help, but he's
making the most of it, right Like he he's a
guy that, like my opinion has kind of teetered back
and forth on like, do I like him doing? I
was a huge Antonio Brown fan. Then the whole Raiders
thing happened, the Patriots all that. Then you know nobody
wanted him. Tom Brady sign gets him signed to the Bucks,
lets him live in his house, and what does he do.
He makes fun of Tom Brady when him and his
wife get divorced. I'm like, dude, the guy took you
in when nobody else wanted you, like you could be
a little bit of grateful. So then I was kind
of like, eh, but guys, Antonio Brown on Twitter, I
read something the other debt. I don't know how true
this is because, as most of you know and pick
on before, I am not on Twitter, but I read
the other debt. Antonio Brown is reportedly blocked on Twitter
by Tom Brady, Joe Biden, and Caitlin Clark. That is
a hell of a trio to be blocked by. And
that's kind of how you know you've made it in life.
So I guess Weekend Winner. Also, Antonio Brown, moose what
you got?
Speaker 4: I mean, he's really good at Twitter, you know what.
Speaker 2: You kind of touched on one that I was gonna
bring up earlier in the show. Clyde Edwards, Z layer Man.
It's a great story. He's been through an awful lot
on the field. Definitely all the feel with the mental
health struggles and the PTSD that he's talked very very
openly about stemming from the incident here. You know, back
when he was at LSU before the Fiesta Bowl to
see him hadn't played all year with the Chiefs. They
took their time, did everything right with him, but ultimately,
you know, needed the roster spot and for him to
land in New Orleans, back home and be able to
make the debut that he had yesterday where he played
really well. I know the Saints didn't get to win,
and I mean he wasn't player of the game or anything,
but just ran him to be back out there on
the field after being so open about his struggles and whatnot.
LSU Baton Rouge Louisiana. Guy fired up to see that
for Clyde Man, and I hope it leads to even
bigger and better things for I mean, guys already won
two Super Bowls, but I mean just that was an awesome,
awesome thing to see yesterday.
Speaker 3: So I guess that's like my next question because you know,
I was talking about earlier when we were kind of
recapping the game. How much run do you give him
against the Bucks? I mean, your season's basically over. The
Bucks have a ton to play for if he goes
in there and has a solid game. Moose, do you
bring him back mixture?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: He's a cheap veteran option in front.
Speaker 8: Of the year.
Speaker 4: You definitely look into it for sure.
Speaker 2: They got some things to go through in that running
back room though, and you have Kendre Miller just signed
Alvin Kamaras for an extension.
Speaker 4: Jamal Williams, I believe is a no. He's got a
year left on his deal too. He's a free agent
for Nature, so you have to figure that out.
Speaker 2: But I either way, I hope it leads to something
for Clyde Cassie.
Speaker 3: Give us a weekend winter Okay.
Speaker 9: So mine's kind of both a winner and a loser.
So you know Hots River Center and they do like
ice skating and stuff.
Speaker 3: Ice skating on the river falls every time.
Speaker 8: Well, I haven't been ice skating.
Speaker 3: Stuff's like you got to hold onto the side rail news.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's free way. I've been begging my boyfriend.
Speaker 9: I was like, you have to go ice skating and
he's like, no, I don't want to go, Come on,
we have to go. So we finally bought the ticket.
He's like, let's go inside. Was like, okay, cool, show
out to the River Center. Try to scan our tickets. No,
Pep bought tickets for Sunday, so we didn't end up
going on Saturday, so that was a little loser.
Speaker 8: But we ended up going on Sunday and it was
it was all good.
Speaker 3: Did we do? How did the the Jesse and Adam
duo handle the ice gating?
Speaker 8: I did pretty well. H Adam did not do well.
Speaker 3: How many falls? How many falls we got?
Speaker 9: I think he only fell like three times, but his
last fall is a pretty big one, went like a
full split.
Speaker 8: It was not good.
Speaker 3: How Adam calling calling, calling Adam out on the radio.
You'll love it. My next weekend winter is going to
be the pop Tard Bowl. Yes, the marketing for the
pop tar Ball is phenomenal because, look, let's be honest,
it's a meaningless bowl game. Nobody really cares. But what
do you do when you're a meaningless bowl game? You
make people care in any way you can. I watched
the Pop Tard Bowl. I was thoroughly entertained. It was
more entertaining than any of the first round college football
playoff games. The detail in the pop tart ball so
normally obviously on the football field you got the thick
white lines on the sidelines. How about multi colored sprinkles
for pop tarts all around the sidelines in the hatta
bounds line on the entire field. At the beginning of
the game, they did like a tribute for the strawberry
pop tart that was eaten last year. They pulled up
the screen, they did a tribute to him that his
corpse was in the upper deck watching it. Well, so
that's the thing apples over his corpse walkout. He's like
half eaten. He's got the jelliot. It's ex And then
the halftime show, all the pop tarts are in their rappers,
so you don't know which pop tart is which, And
at the start of the music they each ripped it
off and you got like hot fudge Sunday over here,
a wild berry over here, frosty cherry. It was phenomenal.
The wild berry pop tart was messing with the raft
who was in the end zone. One of them ran
out there to watch the coin toss with the players.
I mean the Pop Tart Ball. If you were not
in the College Football Playoff, the Pop Tart Ball has
now become the go to bowl game. So shout out
to them for the incredible marketing.
Speaker 2: I tweeted at the very beginning in that game, I said,
if you are not sitting down right now to watch
the Pop Tarts Bowl, we cannot be friends. And at
the at the end of the game last year, I
said it, and I'll say again here. Every bowl game
should be the Pop Tarts Bowl. It's just it's incredible theater.
Speaker 4: Well, and the game was good too.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, right, like okay, because it's like, if
you're not in the college Football Playoff, your fans don't
really care about the bowl game, but the Pop Tart
Bowl does so much. The trophy, the trophy is an
actual working pop tart sideline reporter does. It'll cook your
pop tart in about ninety seconds. I mean, every single
detail of the Pop Tart Bowl is top notch. That
marketing team they're going to get a heck of a
raise so next week and want to reach out.
Speaker 2: Shout out to cole Kublic two for dressing up in
the pop tart suit. Having having Cublic, Tom Hart and
Jordan Rodgers on the call was next level as well.
Speaker 4: They're made for that LSU wide receiver.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 2: They had a hell of a weekend once again in
the NFL. I mean you now neighbors went over a
thousand yards yesterday. You now have for four former ls
wide receivers over one thousand yards in the NFL. I
mean it's wide receiver. You Why would you go anywhere else?
At this point, the publicity, the positive, you know, spin
that LSU continues to get to the next level in
wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Huge. But it's a credit to those players.
Speaker 2: It's a credit to the development at LSGU with Quartes,
Hankton and all those guys. Huge day on a you know,
hel world stage again for LSU in the NFL yesterday
with receivers.
Speaker 3: You know, it's so funny. I'll get a lot of
hate for those because so many LSU answer are so
passionate about it. I never cared about the DBU moniker.
I mean LSU, Florida, Ohio, State, Texas. They all had
their own claim to DBU for one reason or another.
I always thought it was wide receiver. You I mean,
I know LSU like they take the DBU things seriously,
and obviously you should. But I mean, if you look
at schools as far as elite programs in the NFL,
there ain't a school that can touch LSU right now.
And that's just the four main names. I mean, Terrace
Marshall had a thirty yard catch. Look at the tight ends.
Foster Moro had a thirty yard catch yesterday. I mean,
there are guys all over the place making play after
play that were pass catchers here at LSU. I agree,
I think that is where one of the most underrated
areas for rel issues or as wide receiver. You Moniker, Cassie,
you got another weekend winner or loser.
Speaker 8: I don't have any other stories.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I have a weekend loser, and I know
everybody wants me to go with the Colorado Buffaloes. That's
an easy one for me. I'm not gonna go Colorado
because whatever that bowl game could win either way. I mean,
b why you blew the doors off of them? But whatever,
my weekend loser is going to be Shad or Sanders. However,
and not for anything he did on the field. So
the day before the game, Shaudor Sanders was in the
locker room talking about these are my cleats. This is
previewing my future. We already know who we're going to
get drafted, and he had New York Giants color scheme
cleats because at that point in time, New York Giants
looked like they were going to have the number one
pick in the NFL draft. Well, should Or Sanders goes
out there, has a stinker, throws her a hair over
two hundred yards. He had two touchdown, sure, but he
had two critical interceptions. So not only did he not
play like the number one pick. The New York Giants
won yesterday, and they going into yesterday had a sixty
one percent chance to be in the number one pick.
It is plummeted all the way to a two percent
chance to be the number one pick. Don't count your
chickens before they hatch their shoe door. Does not look
like you will be a New York Giant unless you
fall in the draft, which would be a bad thing
for you. Anyways, moves, did you see the cleats.
Speaker 4: I did see the cleats, and I kind of thought
the same thing you did. When the Giants won. I
was like, oh, well, not about that.
Speaker 3: You can't can't do it, man.
Speaker 2: But and again, the Patriots right now say the number
one pick, they don't need a quarterback, So it's true
you can trade for it.
Speaker 4: He could, you know, they could still get back up there.
Speaker 3: I just don't know, man, I don't know. All these
teams keep winning like everybody's own. It's going to be
the It's going to be the Raiders. And then the
report came out that like that's where Dion wanted his
kid to go was the Raiders. They've won two in
a row. They're at like number five or six right now.
The Giants won yesterday. Right now, if the season ended,
it would be the Patriots, followed by the Titans. I
imagine the Titans are going to take a quarterback at two,
and good thing for them. If the Patriots stay where
they are, they're going to have the pick of the
litter in terms of which quarterback they want. So Tennessee
Titan is sitting pretty right now, not record wise, but
draft position wise for sure. All right, that's going to
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in to Off the Bench. Taylor Sharps sitting
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Speaker 5: On, man, Taylor brother, how you doing?
Speaker 3: I am doing a heck of a lot better than
New Orleans Saints fans.
Speaker 6: Dev?
Speaker 3: What the heck is that yesterday?
Speaker 5: Oh? Man? That's that's just going through the motions, man,
Just one more game. That's that's where Saints fans at. Man,
it's not gonna look any better. It's gonna keep looking worse.
So we just got to get through it and then
we get you know what the good news is, uh,
the just the best thing for Saints fans. It's probably
the best thing since the first two weeks. The Atlanta
Falcons now need to cheer for the Saints to win
next week and to make the playoffs. That's the best
news I got for you.
Speaker 3: Well. Also, like, not only do Falcons fans have to
cheer for the Saints, the Saints have a chance to
end the Falcon season. So like the Saints are gonna
win win situation. They can either they can either win
and have Falcons forced to year for him, or they
can end the Falcon season with a Bucks victory. Dev
As far as Saints Raiders go, anything positive you can
take away from a game like.
Speaker 5: This, man, that's that's kind of tough, I guess. I
mean if you look at like who you want to
keep next year, some of these players that you know
that you didn't know if you want to keep monat
or you know, because you can have to make a
lot of moves, right, I think Foster More is a
great keep, you know what I'm saying. This guy obviously
case even when we lose a million games, I think
Brian Breze is somebody that's kind of stood out amongst
you know, all this tragedy this year, Brian Breze has
been good. But no, no, not a lot of takeaways, man.
I mean, I guess the takeaway is we thought we
were bad. Didn't you find out what level of bad
you are when you lose to the Raiders?
Speaker 3: Dev I I personally thought that it ended uh Monday
in that in that thirty four to nothing loss, But
especially after losing to the Raiders, I think Darren Rizzy's
chances of becoming the permanent head coach I have kind
of dwindled down to next to nothing. What are your
thoughts on that? And who do you want the Saints
to target?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think anybody's gonna be, you know, knocking
the door down to hire Rizzy as a head coach.
I just don't, you know. I just gotta be honest.
It was fun those first couple of weeks, but now
we were back to ground level. I don't know, man.
I even said last year, man, I would have loved
like a Kingsbury type, even though he didn't have that
much success in Arizona. It's still a guy who's young.
You know, the people that the players will believe in him.
He's got a creative offense. I'm not completely sold on
koog Yea, even though we haven't had the right roster.
We had nobody playing, you know what I'm saying, to
really see, but I don't know. I'd like a creative guy. Man.
You can't miss on the next head coach of this thing.
It's like the most important thing, uh, that they're gonna
have to do is get it right on the head coach.
Speaker 3: Well as far as it goes right, Like, yeah, you're
obviously bringing in a head coach, but you're going to
have Derek car under contract. You you think next year
he's going to be on this team. But what have
you seen from Spencer Rauder that year? Because there's been
some good and bad. But like, obviously he has nobody
around him, so it's really kind of hard to judge him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he looks better than the last fifth
round pick we tried what we had to play, which
was Ian Book. I mean, look, this guy is throwing
the uber drops. You know what I'm saying, It's not
nothing is perfect around him. He's playing in straight poverty,
so it's hard for anythink to really stand out on
this on this roster, it really is. So I don't know,
I don't feel like he's the future, but I definitely
don't feel like we need to release him once the
season's over. You know, I think that he's deserved another
opportunity at least next year, and even if it's not
in the start. I mean, he's definitely good enough to
be in the league. He's just going with he can
with such a poverty.
Speaker 3: Team dev moving from one New Orleans team that's terrible
to the other. The Pelicans absolutely stink there five and
twenty seven. Is it time to just tear it down
and rebuild the entire thing?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? More so with that it's crazy to say this,
but more so with the Pelicans. I mean, you got
to tear down the sinks, but you really you got
to get rid of all these dudes on the Pelicans.
And I think it comes down also to the front office.
I think we have a very soft cloud over the Pelicans.
You know, this is a result of giving contracts to
people because they were good people, or because you like them,
or you know what I'm saying, And we got to
get out of that. That's that's not what we need.
To do and it's gotten us nowhere. And that's why
Deppels are what twenty one games under five hundred is
just absolutely unacceptable. Desigon thing has way past. It's just
run its course. And then some of these other guys
that they've given a bunch of money, they can't stay
on the court. And when they are on the court,
we're not winning. So yeah, it's that the time. And
I think from the tops of the bottom.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Zion, let's stick there real quick. Look when
you look at the Saints throughout their history, the Pelicans,
like there have been some draft misses. Obviously, Zion's great
when he's on the court. When he's on the court, like,
where do you rank Zion in terms of like biggest
disappointment in New Orleans sports?
Speaker 5: Look, dude, when he's on the court, he's awesome. Yeah,
and that's why everybody's so pissed off, because when he's
on the court, he's definitely that generational talent. But man,
now it's recent points why he's been off the court
for so long. It's I was like, he's used to it,
you know, it's comfortable. It's easy to say to be like,
all right, yeah, I'm just gonna go sit out again.
You know it's it's it's bad, man. I can't think
of another. I mean, think about Zion Williamson was the
most touted dude to come out the draft.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean dude really since he was in high school, right,
I mean, people knew about him because of his highlight
dunks and then it was the Koshewsky where he signed Camraddish,
RJ Barrett, Zion and they're like, oh they signed one,
two and three in the country. I mean, it seemed
like from the time he was sixteen he was destined
to be this guy, and he's just not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not. And remember we were able to say,
hey he's young, Hey he's young. Hey he's young. How
old is Zion now?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean what he's got to be twenty six?
Speaker 5: I mean like you know what I'm saying, like how much?
How much longer can we we wait on this man?
It's definitely holding this back. Every time I see a
Pelican's recap, they're like, oh, well, this person went for
thirty five. Trey Murphy went for thirty five, but the
pel still wind up losing. Well, you ain't got to
call up inspect the gadget to figure out why they
missed in that generational talent. It's that simple.
Speaker 3: So he's I just looked it up. He's actually uh,
he's actually twenty four or not twenty six. But still,
I mean to your point, he's been in the league
five or six years now, like it's it's time to
grow up a little bit, Zion. Look as far as
the Pelicans go the rest of their roster, did y'all
think Murray's been out there a little bit? I mean,
what have you seen from him since he returned from injury.
Speaker 5: I mean I think because he's look, I think that
that's the guy obviously that you would keep. And you've
seen him play in Atlanta. And it's not like Atlanta
was as bad as the Power. I mean, they make
the playoffs. I'm not saying that they like a top contender,
but they were making the playoffs when they had Dejohntay Murray.
So I don't know, Man, you gotta get you got
to get rid of this, Like you said, man, five
to six years. I mean, we're going on four years
away from a decade that we've had tie on and
it's just not working out. Bro. So, dude, major changes, man,
major changes with the Pals and the Saints. It's definitely time. Uh,
especially the Pals. Man, Like, they're gonna wind up getting
to the points where I don't know how they're gonna
have enough money to keep the team there.
Speaker 4: How much of this.
Speaker 3: Do you put on Gail though? You know, I mean
Gail Benson. She you know a lot of people have
certain opinions of it, but I mean it seems like,
you know, David Griffin takes a lot of the blame,
limits takes a lot of blame. How much do you
just put put on Gail Bentson?
Speaker 5: Money can buy the right people. So she's got the money,
she could buy the right people. They decide to stick
with the same people. It's the same people, man, It's
the same people, man, David Griffin, Nikki Loomis, you know
these guys are not succeeding right now. And how long
do you want to watch dudes not succeed? I mean,
this is this is two teams, that's all we got.
Damn here, somebody's got to make.
Speaker 3: A move, man, dev Speaking of people making moves, did
you see Antonio Brown's first annual award show this weekend? Man,
what do you what are you making of that? This
is a guy that's like even more relevant now than
than when he played. You know, and everybody had a
certain opinion of him, like either either hated to love
the guy or you love to hated the guy. What
have you made of this Antonio Brown for surgeons? I
mean he is just in the spotlight all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he just made that move. I mean we
got it. I know, we say Antonio Brown's got CTE
blah blah blah blah blah. Man still made a smart move.
You know, with the transition with the with the Twitter,
he knew exactly what markt he was gonna tap into.
I mean, who has high engaged with then Antonio. I
mean he's got to be up there with one of
the most engaged accounts on Twitter. Now, I will say this,
I watched the Awards and you could just tell what
he's talking. Bro, It's not you know, he's not all
the way.
Speaker 3: That Oh well no, no, I definitely not. But like
look to his credit there, like he was well prepared.
He had Shane Gillis on video call when he gave
him like funniest Cracker of the Year or whatever it was.
I mean like he was, he was ready to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Joe Rogan, Uh, the award that Joe Rogan got.
He commented on Anthony Joe Brown's uh post and said,
this is the only award that I care about that
I've ever.
Speaker 6: Got in my life.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's what Yellous said. He goes, you
know this is this is better than any award I've
ever been snubbed for, Like the the the Antonio Brown
Award Show. I mean, he's killing it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I saw something the other day, like I don't know
how accurate it is, but there was a there's a
stat that came out. He said, like Antonio Brown is
blocked on Twitter by Tom Brady, Joe Biden, and Caitlyn Clark.
If you got those three noticing you, like, you know,
you've made it.
Speaker 5: It's the same with the Tom Brady Do you let
him in his house? I know, I know we're When
you look back on it, man, the lay that av
left the league, it was so ab, you know, it
just couldn't have went any other way. It was so
Antonio Brown, you know, him just leaving mid game, like
it's just you can't make it up.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: But no, I think I think he's one of the
funniest dudes on Twitter. Straight up, Before I.
Speaker 3: Get you out of here, let's shift to sports that
are actually going to be entertainment. So obviously away from
uh New Orleans real quick. We got college football playoff
games coming up tomorrow and on New Year's as well.
What are those games you've been excited for?
Speaker 5: Uh all of them? To be honest with you, I
think that you're gonna finally see that upset man did
Texas Arizona State game for whatever reason, even though you
would think Texas is gonna smash As and something is
just every time I stayed that game, I'm like, dude,
could something happen here? You know what I'm saying. Also
the Notre Dame Georgia game. You know we always say
Notre Dame some fraud, has Notre Dame some fraud? But man,
could something happen here? You know? I think Oregon's gonna
beat Ohio State, Uh, Penn State Boise. You know, Penn
State don't have an excellent offense, but that defense is
really good and they score on defense, so we'll see.
But I mean the two games I'm looking at is
that Notre Dame Georgia game and then that Texas Arizona
State game. I think something something they go down that.
Speaker 3: You know, you make a good point there, because like
that's like the biggest line right now of all four games.
But when you look at it, like Arizona State, now,
if they were picked to finish dead last in the
Big Twelve, didn't matter. Kenny Dillingham, youngest coach in the
Power for Like you got Cam Scattaby, you got Sam Levitt, Like,
I agree with you. There's just something about this team
or it just seems like there's no quid in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I love I love the coach, dude, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, And and look they have
they haven't played anybody obviously like Texas, but man, bro,
like they have been rolling, you know what I'm saying,
Like they really have. They got a couple losses that
would suspect, and you know it is what it is.
All these teams kind of usually lose at least one
game that's kind of suspect, but man, they'd be b yu.
You know you saw you saw by you did the Colorado.
These Mormons, bro, Like, I don't know where they find
these dudes, Bro, but they fast strong. H It's crazy, Bro.
I'd love to see a documentary on Mormons who are
trying to play football. It's it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we had wanted Taysom Hill in New Orleans.
You know he's not he's not a bad player as well.
Dev rbn R day today. Man, where are you going?
Are you taking off for the holiday?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah right, I wish that sounds great now. I
don't know where I'm going yet, but this will be
two hundred and forty two Mondays in a row. So
it's just it's this. Uh, it happened so quick. Every
single week, you know, it's like, oh, it's Monday again.
So here we are. We'll see, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: All right, Dev, thanks for hopping on with us today.
Speaker 5: Man, all right, my brother, take a happy New Year. Everybody.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year, Dev, you have a good one. That
was Devin snow Right. They're talking all things New Orleans. Uh,
from the very bleak that is the Saints and the
Pelicans to the exciting that is Antonio Brown in the
college football playoff. All right, Look, we're gonna take a
quick time out when we get back we're gonna shift
away from sports real quick, and we'll still talk a
little bit of sports, but me and Cassie moves, so
we're gonna chop it up. H Look, New Year's is
coming up, obviously tomorrow, New Year's Eve. We got plans,
we got resolutions or New Year's Day food, overrated or underrated,
we'll talk about it all coming up. You're on off
the bench, off.
Speaker 1: The bench, back to sports talk. Maybe off the bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in to Off the Bench. Just
two more segments love for a Monday edition of OTB
before we are off for two days. So, you know, tomorrow,
with LSU play in the Bowl game at two thirty,
we're gonna do a four hour pregame. So we're not
gonna have any local shows tomorrow because it's going to
basically start at eight thirty in the morning all the
way till about you know, five thirty that night. So
it's it's there's really no point in doing any of
the live shows. So we are off for New Year's
Eve and New Year's Day, and guys, speaking of New
Year's everybody, we we we've talked about it with Christmas. Sorry,
Christmas plans, what you got for Christmas and all that.
With the New Years, it seems like everybody has one
thing that they do every single year. So I want
to get Muso and Cassie because I'm sure their New
Year's plans are a lot more interesting than me. Especially
Muso and Muso. What do you do every New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4: Drink just at home?
Speaker 3: Party? Like what?
Speaker 4: I go out?
Speaker 2: But uh, I mean that's yeah, I mine aren't that
from a lot of other people's would imagine that's why
you're a party. So one night a year where everybody
goes out. I have a buddy, his dad calls it
amateur hour because it's just it's the people who never
go out. They go out and they just get in
trouble and do stupid things. I don't do that. Uh,
I keep it within reason, obviously, but yeah, man, I
mean it'll be good. Tomorrow' would be another long day.
It's gonna be a long one.
Speaker 3: Well, so you, you, of all people, deserve to go
all out this year on New Year's even night because
you're going to be here, what six thirty seven o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: I get to Rauses probably about six thirty maybe maybe
a little after that, Uh, and then I'll watch the game.
Speaker 4: Then family we're going out to dinner.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: That's something we kind of started last year. I guess
we're gonna do that every year now. Uh.
Speaker 2: But we go out to dinner and then I'll go
meet up with the friends and We'll just go out
and have a have a night.
Speaker 4: It's spend. It's been with a lot of my favorite people.
Speaker 3: So that's good because credit credit to you. Like you know,
I thought I was tired because, like all of us
here had been pulling doubles for the number of people
that are out. I've only had to host two shows.
You had to do four because you did Matt three
days last week and you got it this week. I
only had to do Hunt Thursday this today. So you,
I mean, you've basically doubled what I've had to do
in terms of like on air prep, but all the
behind the scenes stuff as well. Cassie, any tequila shots
being consumed for New Year's Eve without.
Speaker 8: Me, No, I don't think I'll do any tequila shots.
Speaker 3: Okay, So for a little little backstort behind that. So
we had our guarantee Christmas party shoot thursdays ago. Tea
Bob a bear, being the responsible adult that he is,
asked all of us to do a shot with you. No, no, okay, Well,
Tea bus is the one that came and got me,
so okay that Musa Musso being the responsible when he
is there. There's look, guys, when it comes to the party,
and there's not a huge difference between t Bob and
Muso except Tea BOP's more likely to do like something illegal.
Muso is gonna keep it a little more low key.
But they both like the party. So Muso goes and
gets us and we're all doing a tequila shot. Cassie
does her very first tequila shot and hates it, tells
me it's one of the worst things she's done. But
lo and behold you and a couple others. Musso was
there as well. Y'all go to Laberge after the Christmas
party and you did yet another tequila shodcast.
Speaker 9: Why well, easy, easy story. So it's like you got
to hear the story, but you have to take the shot.
Speaker 8: So I took the shot and heard the story.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So Muso Conyu into I did Condyu into
doing it because I was like I saw the video
and I asked you the next day. I'm like you said,
the first one was absolutely awful, but Muso somehow convinced
you to do another one. I get it. I definitely
get it. So for for us for New Year's Eve,
so me and Victoria, we will be married two years
in March, but we have been together since twenty fourteen
quite a while. Every year we go to her family
friend's house now. They live in pine Grove, Louisiana. If
you don't know where pine Grove is, it's Cornfield, Cornfield,
cow Pasture one Highway. That's pretty much the entire city
of pine Grove. You've seen it. We have not done
that in two years. We're not doing it again. This
year had a New Year's Even wedding two years ago.
Last year. I don't know why we didn't go This year.
Victoria's mother is going to be in Texas. That's where
her sister lives. So guys, good news for me. I
like going out there, but believe it or not, I
don't like driving forty minutes in the middle of nowhere,
or driving forty minutes back at three in the morning.
It's just not something I enjoy. I got a low
key New Year's Eve, I might not even leave the
house till tomorrow afternoon, Like there's a there's a chance
that that happened.
Speaker 2: So I did that last year, and there was a
reason LSU played a Bowl game at eleven am, which
is stupid, and it made our pregame show go on
air at seven am. So it's like, you know what
I'm going to be responsible for once. I'm not going
to go out and just get incredibly gamed because for.
Speaker 4: The I mean the.
Speaker 2: Festival I did, and I had to be here to
run the board on that show that was also an
eleven am kickoff. That was that was a problem livable
day of work. I was like, I'm going to be
responsible and I just went to dinner with family and
then I went home. Problem was, whenever I went to sleep,
there were fireworks popping all around me. So I still
didn't get to sleep so after midnight anyway, so I'm like,
I really should have just gone out.
Speaker 3: So you're not no good with.
Speaker 2: The Loki New Year's well, so like we have a
low key New Year's.
Speaker 3: Having a dog on New Year's even though kind of
throws a wrench the man.
Speaker 4: They get real scared.
Speaker 3: With all the fireworks. But my dog has actually been okay,
I mean last year was his first New Year's Eve.
He's not even two years old yet, so last year,
what's his what's his first New Years Oh, you can say, oh, moose,
he's sixty five pounds. Okay, Hell, he's fully grown. His
dog sounds like he has the uh big dog. Guy,
he has the mindset of a child, does not realize
how big he actually is. But uh no, he's done
pretty good. Victoria is excellent at training this dog. I mean,
the dog is just incredibly smart, way smarter than you
or I or Cassi or anybody else in here. She's
taught him, like anytime she hears a noise, she'll just
say firework and like let him just like really casually.
So now he's kind of good with fireworks because he
just knows, oh, well, it's just a firework, no big deal.
So we're we're good there. As far as New Year's Day,
me and my family we typically go we have like
a family lunch really at about like one p thirty
two o'clock in the afternoon. Don't know where yet, though.
We pick a new spot every single year that that's
kind of the fun thing about it. Like as much
as I love tradition, I also love the fact that,
like we have a tradition, but it's it's not the
same old, same old every single year. There there's some
wrinkles thrown in there as well. But I wanted to
ask you guys this, So your typical New Year's food,
what you have like some sort of roast, like whether
it's a pork roast, beef something like that's like some
sort of roast for your meat. You have black eyed peas,
and you have cabbage. That's your typical New Year's Eve,
Like what you're supposed to eat quote unquote, Yeah on
New Year's is New Year's food overrated or underrated?
Speaker 4: So we don't really do a ham? I love ham.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we either do a ham or like a pork
roa something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely hate black eyed peas, always have disgusting
the food or the band, Uh the food.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say the band, but out's myths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't absolutely hate them. They're not my favorite.
I don't actually hate them. I actually hate the food.
Black eyed peas, cabbage. There's like really only one cabbage
that I will eat, and it's the cabbage of my
brother in law makes, and before that I didn't even
eat cabbage. It's really good, So I two out of
the three. I mean, I'm really indifferent on it. Man,
I don't have to have it every year like some
people do.
Speaker 4: I can. I can take it or leave it.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if you're at I like two out
of the three things, Cassie overrated or underrated.
Speaker 9: I mean, I kind of agree with Musso we don't
really do like any traditional food. It's kind of like
different every year. The only thing my dad will do
the same every year is he'll do oysters like he
used to like always like troubled oysters.
Speaker 4: So that's really good.
Speaker 8: I don't like.
Speaker 9: I don't like black eyed peas either, so I don't know.
I think it depends because we never do the same
thing every year.
Speaker 3: So I'm very much like my family's the traditional black
eyed peas, cabbage, you know, poor cam something like that.
I gotta tell you, guys, Newsy food is one under overrated.
Not that I don't like it, but you have to,
but like, what is it? It's like one of them's
for health, one of them's for wealth or something like that.
Like yeah, either peas or wealth, cabbage is health or
something like it might be flip flopped. I'm not exactly sure,
but last year my mother did cabbage rolls, which you know,
baked them. It's almost like an egg roll, yeah, shape wise,
but wrapping in cabbage you do like a ground meat
with like a dirty rice inside, with a little bit
of meat, a little bit of rice. That is phenomenal.
But honestly, like, I don't know, we do the traditional
New Year's every year, and I'm just I'm not that
big of a fan of it. The food's fine. It's
not that I don't like it, it's just there's a
lot better stuff out there, like I much more look
forward to, like the lunch we go do every year,
it's some different restaurant and bad roots. Instead of coming
home and having the cabbage and black eyed peas dinner
like we do that, we do a little bit dirty rice.
We'll do corn bread. Cornbread's a big one for us
on New Year's as well.
Speaker 2: But it's fine now dirty rice and corn bread. I
love both of those things.
Speaker 3: I do too, But like is that ever gonna be
at like the top of my oh, hell, I gotta
have like dirty rice and corn bread right now, No,
at least not for me, like I love them. They're
both good side like I feel like New Year's is
nothing but like side dishes, like blackout pieces aside, cabbages aside,
corn bread's aside, like all that. Like there's just there's
not a big main food for me that I have
to have every year on New Year's. So for that reason,
I gotta say they're overrated.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree, like I said, aroun't seek it out.
I don't have to have it every year. All right, Look,
we're gonna take a quick time out. When we get back,
we're gonna close out this show with Ask the Bench.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back into the final segment of a
Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp here with you,
filling in for Jacob Ester and Tea Ba Baby Bear.
They will both be back on Thursday. Right now, let's
get into a little ask of the bench. Ask the
bench the first one up there. This one will be
for Musso and Cassie. First, ask the bench, what is
your new Year's resolution? If you have one, I don't
have one.
Speaker 8: I haven't thought that for yet.
Speaker 3: Well, aren't we just the boring trio? Because I don't
have one either, Guys. I never set a New Year's resolution.
And here's why. I'm one of those people who's like hardcore.
If I go to a new Year's resolution, I'm like, oh,
I'm gonna make this happen. Three weeks in, something comes up,
I forget about it. I get scatterbrainda don't do it.
So I'm always like, if you have a resolution, you
might not get to that resolution. Therefore, just don't make one.
I'm already a pretty responsible person for my age. Like
I don't. I don't really, I don't really do anything crazy.
Then I'm like, hey, like you have to stop that.
Like somebody in the YouTube chat said, Taylor's New Year's
resolution is gonna be a quit drinking Noss energy drinks. Guy,
if you think that I'm gonna stop drinking energy drinks,
I got one right here. I'm probably gonna have a
second one. Like, yes, I know they are bad for you,
but you know what, they make me feel good. It's
my guilty pleasure. Everybody has a guilty pleasure. I'm not
stopping like there there is no reason for me to
stop drinking energy drinks, like nothing, nothing that I could
think of. So I'm I'm I'm exactly with you, guys.
I don't have a new US resolution either, Okay, ask
the bench. Well, Cincinnati have a miracle weekend and things
work out to make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd love to see that, but I mean
the odds are no. Yeah, they're a little behind the
on the Jets. For goods, they have to rely on
the Jets.
Speaker 3: The Broncos either have to tie or lose, and the
Bengals have to win. Like there's two or three teams
that are ahead of them in terms of like in
the Hunt teams, a lot has to happen. I'm gonna say, no,
it would be great to see them in there because
I think that's a team that nobody would want to
play the way that Joe Burrows playing this year. But
I think they just got they got too much working Again,
some ask the bench, did you guys consider opting out
mid show? So I would have loved to have opted
out mid show. But again, this exact same trio is
going to be doing AFAR from three to six, And honestly, guys,
like when I tell you, nobody's here, nobody's here, Like
if one of us three opted out of the show,
there would not have been a show, Like, nobody else
is here to take our place. So it's like, even
if we wanted to opt out, we really couldn't opt
out like that. That's just kind of how the day's
going looka.
Speaker 4: Please don't opt out of the afternoon please.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I am, I am here for long. I
gotta do the Matt McMahon show till eight o'clock tonight.
I don't know why I'm followed him for that, or
why they're having won one day before the New Year's holiday,
but they are. Ask the bench, if you had to
train someone to fill in on the board that had
zero experience, how many days were it would it take
to train them so like to work the board by themselves.
So Audio, I'm gonna say two extensive days of training,
maybe three? Would you agree with that? Like if it's
like you came in here for hours at.
Speaker 8: A time, two days, well.
Speaker 3: You did for me. Yeah, you know I'm right, because
again through it filling in for me, she filling in
for me could mean I'm here or Muso's here, Like
for example, I don't know what the hell I'm doing
half the time on AFR Audio, but whenever I'm filling in,
it's because Muso's here. So like you kind of have
somebody to help, you say, you don't have to be
like an expert at it, you just have to be
proficient enough to last. So I think two days audio
board maybe four of a.
Speaker 2: Video they did it with that. I think you had
only sat with me. You never touched the board. You'd
only sat with me for like.
Speaker 9: I think I think I shadowed at you for maybe
like a week, and then you just gave me like
a quick, like hour runthrough with like very descriptive cheat sheet,
and we made it.
Speaker 4: We made it.
Speaker 8: It was very stressful.
Speaker 4: You didn't really text me or call me throughout the
show either.
Speaker 8: No, I think I might have just text you once
just to double check something.
Speaker 5: But I don't like me.
Speaker 8: I don't like making mistakes. It was so stressful.
Speaker 4: I don't know anybody who does. Cassie.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, when you get into this business and
you you've already noticed it a little bit, but you
just kind of got to say yes to things and
then learn as you go. Like half the time, I'm like,
like Matt's like, hey, can you do that? I have
no idea how to do it, And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I can do that, no problem. All right, Look, that's
going to do it for Ask the Bench, And that's
going to do it for today's edition of Off the
Bench again. Jacobser T bowb a Bear Well Ta Bob
for sure. I don't know about Jake. They will be
back on Thursday. We'll recap our new year. We'll recap
the Texas Bowl and Round two of the College Football Playoff.
That and a whole lot more coming up. I'm super excited.
I hope all of you have a good new year.
Go Tigers. We'll see if the Saints get any better.
Probably not, But we'll be back on Thursday for Off
the Bench.
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