Speaker 1: We'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Let's go, Let's go from a championship
backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday. Hester and Hester got it? Ba ba la bah.
Speaker 1: You're locked in to off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Weil.
Speaker 2: There's bribe control for the.
Speaker 1: As live from downtown Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo, and welcome in to OTV here Hall on one
oh four five. Jake and Flynn on location today, Alandra,
and I'm going to assume Jordan. I'm just going to
assume Jordan's back there. Don't know because we're not in
studio and Tata is forever on vacation, but we are
here at Pro Dreams. It is on thirty nine thirty
Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We've been telling you about
it over the last couple of weeks and today is
the day we are finally here. We are surrounded by
incredible sports memorabilia and it is game week, home week
finally for the LSU Tigers, finally.
Speaker 3: And you know what when we uh, when we go
on location do or remote, we kind of do it
in style here like we got the plush leather couches.
We are sitting in this amazing retail shop right here
at Pro Dreams and surrounded by let's see, we're surrounded
by LSU memorabilia, Saints memorabilia.
Speaker 2: We u, I see Bertman, Jerseys.
Speaker 3: Breeze, jerseys Borough Jerseys, I see all of it. So, yeah,
we want to thank Pro Dreams for having us out today,
brand new shop here, incredible and uh happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We probably look good with this background, huh.
Speaker 4: I think so in these counts might be pretty comfy. Yeah,
maybe a situation where we lay down here in a
little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was we got here that Yeah. I
got kicked out of my bed at about.
Speaker 3: Four am this morning my three children, So I've been
up a little bit. So these couches looking pretty comfy.
You didn't mention like I was right over your left
shoulder there. I didn't hear you mentioned my name. Do
they know that you wrote on the wall, they asked me, Yeah,
I's see again the uh the it was a little
while ago. We talked about the TV copy being a
little blurry. Yeah, even the photos a little blurry.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Again, I don't really think you need to mention that.
Speaker 2: I like that part could have been left unsaid. It's
all good whatever.
Speaker 3: But no, we uh yeah, we're fired up to be
here here at Pro Dreams, right in the Shadows of
Death Valley, right across the street, Valley Box, right next
to the original walk Ons. What a great location, What
a great cool, cool spot this is he hadn't been
come check them out?
Speaker 2: Just walk around. I mean, you don't even have to
buy anything.
Speaker 4: It's just we'd like you to buy something. Trey's here,
like we we'd like for you too buy something. Yeah,
of course, but you can just come check out.
Speaker 2: How cool it is.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely so we're here, We're gonna talk sports.
Speaker 2: Surrounded by sports. I love it.
Speaker 4: I am very excited that it is game week, game
day here in Baton Rouge, and you know, let's let's
you know, kind of throw the jokes out there, because
I know it's going to sound like a joke. But
how good does it feel to come back home and
have a win under your belt to start a season
like That's another portion that we don't talk about, like
in the losing streak, is you've had to kind of
come back and think about some of the like opportunities
that you've had, Like you haven't played like an opponent
that you know, if you go out there and you're victorious,
anybody's gonna.
Speaker 2: Really care about.
Speaker 4: It's been like a no win situation for LSU the
last five football seasons, and so like now you get
the opportunity and the fans still showed up. Don't get
me wrong, it's Tiger Stadium. But now now you get
the opera tunity. There's an in state school, so they're
gonna bring some fans. They're gonna you know, there's gonna
be some excitement around that, even though you're you know,
thirty something point favorite, but just the excitement in tailgates
to be able to sit before a game knowing your
team won a game, and also like you can watch
like whoever else is playing, Like if if Oklahoma and
Michigan are playing in Michigan sucking it up a little bit,
you can Hi couldn't be us.
Speaker 2: Yeah for the first time in a very long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're sitting in you know, you jump up
six spots on all the polls. So like everybody's feeling good.
Everybody around the country has the same kind of confidence
level because you know, preseason, it's like your fan base.
Maybe you sprinkle in some fan bases around the country
that are that are high on your team. But there's
always there's been so much anticipation leading up to.
Speaker 2: That first game. Yeah, always, right.
Speaker 3: So we've been so like disappointed for five years in
a row. It is great to be sitting on our
high horse right now now looking down on some other people.
And just like you said, the build up to the
first tailgate of the season, it doesn't matter really who
you play I know where. You know, we talked yesterday
and we kind of talked about, you know how it's
disappointing to come back and play like you you got
this emotional high. You got to hold the emotional low.
You can't ride a roller coaster all season long. You
have to find that stability. But from a fans standpoint,
let's get after it a little bit. Let's uh, we
got the first tailgate, and you get to go into
that first tailgate. You get to get a crack open
those cold pops, make that jumbali, I make whatever whatever
you're going to do out there your tailgate. You get
to do it knowing that you want to know, knowing
that you can turn on that TV and judge all
the other teams that are playing. Because you're number three
some some polls, number two, You're feeling good, you played good,
and yeah, it's just a good feeling, good feeling to
go out there on a tailgate as a winner.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I actually think that having Florida week three, I
think that helps the situation as far as not you know,
getting so high where you feel like, oh, well we're
just going to coast here for a little bit, you
know what I mean. Like that's I think that's a
good portion of your schedule. It's Florida being super early,
way earlier than it normally is.
Speaker 2: But it's like, okay, well we got this in state school.
And I don't know how how you felt.
Speaker 4: I mean, being from Texas, don't even say it, but
being from Louisiana, Like when we played against what do
you think, Oh, yeah, you're from East Texas too, because
I hadn't heard that before. Well, like when you play
against all those teams like it that, like it means
a little something more to you, you know, so cause
like you like I don't want to go out there,
like if I'm from Louisiana, that got played in my
district or I got played in my high school. Like
I don't want to want to lose a play to
that fella, right, So like even that intensity goes up
and then like, oh, yeah, you have what you and
I consider like your rival and the Florida Gators coming
to town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is this is that type of
week that you have to manufacture your energy. This is
the type of week where coaches speak is at a premium.
Speaker 2: The coaches have to and I say manufacture energy. You
have to. You always get excited to go play.
Speaker 3: You only get guaranteed twelve opportunities every year to put
on a jersey, put on the helmet, going there and
play in front of fans. And you worked three hundred
and sixty five days a year. You work all off season.
So you know, we talk about it. Yesterday we were
talking a lot about how it's kind of like a
downer to play these types of games and it's hard
to get up for them, like there's an emotional like
subconsciously you just it's impossible to have the same intensity.
Now we're comparing that to playing an open game at
Clemson at night, Like, so the comparison is not there,
so it's not even close to it to compare it.
Speaker 2: But it's still a game. It's still a football game.
Speaker 3: Just like you said, you're playing somebody that's within the
state lines of Louisiana. There's gonna be plenty of juice
and all they gotta do is go out there and execute.
But this is definitely one of these games where they
coaches like, doesn't matter what the logo is on the
side of the helmet, We're gonna go out there. We
got to execute executions at a premium.
Speaker 2: No mental layers.
Speaker 3: But that's the big thing, that's the big takeaway, is
any mental layers last week, missed calls, missed assignments, even
things that fans would have ever noticed, even things that
don't show up on film as a mistake, there's going
to be. It's a first game of the season. There
was mistakes last week. Clean those things up. That's what
you want to do. The first practice or the first
walk through. What does every team do after a game.
They go through mistakes. They walked through everything that that
we did wrong, whether it was a call, whether it
was a missed assignment, whatever that is, whatever that mistake is,
they go through it and talk through it in a
walk through or a practice situation, just so you can
clean that up. And as a coach, you never want
to have to say the same things twice. You never
have to want to coach the same thing twice, and
you want to see that improvement from weekend, from one
week to the next, and it doesn't matter who the
opponent is.
Speaker 4: One of these things like that you have to kind
of worry about too, is trying to get somebody involved,
maybe a little too much in a game like this,
Like we got to get this guy going, Like we
thought this guy was gonna be, you know, really good
week one. Maybe he didn't really show up, maybe we
didn't get him the football. And I was always like,
a you gotta be a little careful, be careful, like
making known maybe to your quarterback and to your you know,
offensive coordinator, whoever position coach, like, yeah, we got to
really get this guy going, Like just allow it to
go out there and let the quarterback read it, call
your plays, let it kind of play out like it's
supposed to. Because I always felt like when somebody was
forced to make a hey, hey, hey number seven's got
to get involved, or hey, number three or whoever it
might be, and they got to get involved this way
their hands, you know, and then that's when you kind
of get out of your game plan and get out
of your you know, your reads and what you're supposed
to be doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't, like, you can't try to manufacture things
like the only time you can unless you get.
Speaker 2: Into the eight team. We get it.
Speaker 3: Oh good the Lord, we're having a good day. Good morning.
We're here at Pro Dreams, just chilling it, just back
from another power. Look behind there at that there's a
jose Conseko jersey. That's a that's amazing. How mad is
What do you think of when you think of Koseko?
Soft pitch, slop pitch, softball or ball hitting the top
of his head?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately it's ball hitting the top of his head. But
I do, I do think of him because of you
as a Texas Ranger. And it's probably I hadn't even looked.
It's probably Oakland.
Speaker 2: It is. Yeah, you wish it was Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3: He is sandwiched between the Jade and Daniels autograph jersey
from the Commanders and a Skip Bertman autograph jersey.
Speaker 2: Good number two.
Speaker 4: Guess what number he was fifteen best fifteen, not even
close in LSU history.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would have worn such short
shorts today if I know I was on this couch.
People body shaming me in the chat. They said one
of my ankles is like two a t Bob's hands
just Lee's left.
Speaker 2: Uh, so that's got that going for me.
Speaker 4: They also said that this helmet's got a lot of grit,
the one in front of me.
Speaker 2: The only thing I can think of is the bullhorn.
The bull When.
Speaker 5: You've got a bullhorn, you know you're you're tough, Like
if you got a bullhorn, Well, it's a couple of things,
like you're either trying to be tough or people just
know you're tough. Like bull bullharn immediately means birlhorn protect
from I don't know, running through people's chest.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is it just lookment nasty? Has anybody ever worn a
bullhorn without a neck roll.
Speaker 2: Or ultim like elbow?
Speaker 4: Pat darren Sprolls used to wear the bullhorn when he
was at k State. Really, yes, what does it protect from?
I don't understand it. I don't know. But when you
see one, what do you you think like a little grit.
Guy's got a little grit either he's it's fake grit
or it's real grit.
Speaker 3: But do you think grit bring it back? Did it
ever leave when you were in middle school? When you
played like my first like official organized tackle football was
in seventh grade. Now I played like like pee wee,
but like from the school standpoint seventh grade, and every
seventh grader had like the just the two bar that
went across.
Speaker 2: We called it the T bone and it had the
middle bar. Oh Jesus, all of us, all of us, baby.
Speaker 3: Except for the one guy that hit puberty a little
too early, and he was like scored every touchdown.
Speaker 2: He had like the.
Speaker 3: Real one with like the side like on the side
of the eye vertical bars bars.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he had the face mask. Is that one guy?
Speaker 3: He had the little little little peach fuzz mustache in
seventh grade, a little bit big, everybody deeper, a little
deeper voice. It was called on bars yep, right, Yeah,
I don't know what you say it. Yeah, I don't remember,
you know, all the minute details from seventh grade, but
I remember that face mask, in the t bone face mask.
Speaker 2: I think he says a lot about your athletic ability
that you had to wear that ever in your career.
I was the backup quarterback. I lost. I lost the battle. Well, buddy,
we don't have to bring up the honorable mentioned list again.
You know I was in a battle.
Speaker 4: There was never a year, but was there ever a
year where you just went out there and we're like, hey,
Matt's our guy.
Speaker 2: Senior year of high school. So it started right back.
Speaker 3: So me and my one of my best friends growing up.
He beat me out, and we were like we were
every team together. We played again like we were. We
were good athletes together. So he was a quarterback seventh grade.
I beat him out of eighth grade. Ninth grade of
high school, I was the JV quarterback. He was the
fresh and quarterback. And then we battled for varsity my
sophomore year and he beat me out my sophomore year.
Then I hit I think I hit like a six
inch growth spurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I bet I beat him out junior year. Yeah,
and then the rest was kind of history. But he
ended up playing for the Cubs, got us got a
World Series as they're hitting coach.
Speaker 2: He was good out.
Speaker 3: They played at Oklahoma State Baseball, so it wasn't like
just some guy, all right, so they got a preface.
Speaker 2: He go to Tyler Junior College.
Speaker 3: I mean he was probably like, for real, all district
in baseball, not honorable mentions maybe first.
Speaker 2: Maybe first or second. I don't know first or second.
I hear that is very tough andable. Some people say
it's harder to get that than first team.
Speaker 4: In a fourteen district. I'll say I agree. I'll say
I agree with what you just said.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: All right, again, we are here at Pro Dreams. It
is thirty nine thirty Burbank Drive. Pro dash Dreams dot
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come check out the store. It is awesome. It is incredible.
It's got stuff everywhere as you can see behind us.
It's got a little bit of everything too. Certainly it's
got you covered when it comes to LSU and Saints.
But then, like you know where your former Tiger favorites went,
like Joe Burrow Jersey, he mentioned you got the Jayden Daniels.
But look, there's Pete Rose, there's Michael Jordan. There is
a little bit of everything here. Pro dash Dreams dot
Com is the website again. Going to be open on
game day. Great place to come hang out, walk around.
I mean, like it's just Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just cool to come here, look at the jerseys,
the helmets, the pictures, and we'll kind of like, you know,
hopefully if you're checking us out, following us on YouTube,
we'll pull some of these pictures show you some of
the cool stuff they got here. But yeah, Pro Dreams
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and actually donate a little bit of the proceeds back
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So that is their main function. But then they at
this beautiful retail store here that is just like a
tip of the cap of the coolest sports memorabilia. Tip
of the cap to LSU Louisiana sports and every type
of sports so really cool. Come check them out, come
see them walk through. Come see how to us. We'll
be here on every Thursday, every single home game.
Speaker 4: And if you come this Saturday, Flynn won't be worrying
an the shorts.
Speaker 2: That's a positive too. I can't guarantee that usually here
at a desk a lot of thigh. It's a lot
of thigh.
Speaker 3: I think these are seven inch in seems.
Speaker 4: Oh it's okay. Hey, look t Bo's in style. T
Bob threw that white thigh out there a lot. Okay,
So it's not the first time OTV listeners have seen
a white star.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: It is more than okay, all right, we are fired
up to be here. It is Thursday of game week.
LSU is want to zero. Let's go. We'll talk about
the games across the country coming up this week.
Speaker 2: Is it the week one slate? No, it's not.
Speaker 4: But there's still some games certainly that are going to
play out. There's some SEC teams that got some big
games and teams on LSU schedule, so we'll talk about those.
Speaker 2: High School football is.
Speaker 4: Starting up, so we gotta cover it that a little
bit as well. Of course, NFL starts tonight. Tata his
team isn't playing because he gave up on the Cowboys.
But it is the Eagles and Cowboys. We'll break it
all down when we come back. It is OTV here
on one O four five ESPN.
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Speaker 1: They from players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown l
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in It is oh TB and
we are here on location at Pro Dreams in Baton Rouge.
Come come say hello, come say what's up to us?
This place is certainly going to be popping on the weekend.
Gonna be a great place to stop by on game day.
Also great place to stop by on game day, actually
before game day maybe a little bit, maybe today tomorrow
Rowses Tomorrow for sure we'll browses because.
Speaker 2: Uh see, you stepped all over me there the cool kids.
I'm just trying to add to it, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 4: The cool kids is gonna be at Rous's tomorrow morning
seven to ten.
Speaker 2: Come eat breakfast with us.
Speaker 4: But you can also while you're there, I pick up
your tailgating stuff for the weekend.
Speaker 2: And also while you're there, you can pick up your
mind high.
Speaker 3: For the week You can you're do sechsier Min High
whatever you need, you know, we it's a it's first hillgate.
Speaker 2: You don't want to like run short.
Speaker 4: Of your chips for the kids, kind of don't screw
juice boxes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't screw it up. Yeah, So it's better to
over prepare. We feel like, if you're gonna do that,
you might as well do it at Rouse's Market. You
might as well not go to those national those big
old national that who knows where the headquarters is maybe
maybe overseas, who knows?
Speaker 2: How about Rouses?
Speaker 3: The local folks, the people that care about our community,
care about our state, go check them out Rowse's Market.
Speaker 4: All right, So the slate this week doesn't look like
the slate last week.
Speaker 2: Last week's slate was incredible. They really teased this a
little bit, didn't they.
Speaker 4: They did, But like all those games lived up to
it too, Like the three top ten games lived up
to it. Florida State Alabama certainly kind of lived up
to anything that we thought that game could.
Speaker 2: Because we probably didn't even think it's going to be
a whole lot. But yeah, Week one was incredible. It
was to get that keeps on giving.
Speaker 4: But the week two slate doesn't have as much juice,
but it does have some. Right, we can squeeze just
a little bit out there. You have a rivalry game
between Iowa and Iowa State. Iowa State certainly has looked
every bit of a top fifteen team here early in
the season.
Speaker 2: That one's going to be in Ames.
Speaker 4: You've got Baylor in SMU, which would have been probably.
Speaker 2: The game of the week if Baylor would have beaten Auburn.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately for Flynn and as Bears, they did not get
that done.
Speaker 2: They did not sick.
Speaker 4: That game is on the CW network, so you might
if you tune in, you might can see a replay
of Dawson's Creek. Yep, watch the game and then get
one tree Hill afterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, stay for a little small smallville if you
fe more girls, probably somewhere in the mississ w Yeah,
they playing tackle football. Yeah. Baylor and SMU are on
the c W. Yes. Wow, wonder what that contract looks like.
I don't know, as long as they come in with
Paula cole as Worth the lead in.
Speaker 3: Song where tens of hundreds of dollars that contract for sure.
Speaker 4: So that one's on the c dub I mean Oklahoma
State in Oregon. But Oregon's a thirty point favorite.
Speaker 2: So yeah, oh my goodness, you.
Speaker 4: Do have some Okay, So you got a conference game
between Old Miss and Kentucky. It's only that game is
Old Miss minus nine and a half. I'll say that again.
Old Miss minus nine and a half against Kentucky. Now,
the lost to Kentucky last year, but Kentucky struggled against
Toledo and they never really pulled away. That was one
of our pondtoon parlay hits. You got Arizona State, Mississippi State.
I don't I don't you know that one's going to
be in Starkville. So great opportunity for Mississippi State. And
so we'll get to the Oklahoma Michigan game. But does
this one do anything for you? South Florida coming off
their big win where they house Boise State, they go
to Gainesville, Florida to take on the Florida Gators. Florida
right now minus seventeen and a half point favorites. So
South Florida a lot of athletes, They've done really well
in the transfer portal. They beat a team that made
the College Football Playoff a year ago.
Speaker 2: No Ashing gent but still, I mean that was that
was a whooping. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They shut the door locked and threw away the key
and beat up.
Speaker 2: On Boise State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's I mean people thought highly enough for
the state to put them in a lot of people.
Most people had them in their top twenty five. I
mean we I think we had them at twenty five.
I mean they're on the cusp, right, so they're at
least respectable enough as a Boise State to be, you know,
highly thought of. Now we did say pretty big disadvantage
and people might laugh at it, but it is a
real human thing.
Speaker 2: We're all human beings.
Speaker 3: Like you practice and do training camp in the mountains
with no humidity. You come down to a South Florida
and play. It's a it's different. You step off that
plane and if you are not used to it, used
to humidity, you get hit in the face with it.
I've told the story of you know, I grew up
in East Texas and I went to school and played
here in Baton Rouge and every single day working out
in the morning, practice in the morning, working out in
the afternoons.
Speaker 2: What it like.
Speaker 3: I was a heat guy, right, I was born and
raised in it to who I was. I go to
Green Bay for one year. I come back the first
summer after I've been gone from LSU, and I'm just like,
all right, I'm gonna goun run one tens as my training.
I didn't make it. Yeah, one year. Yeah, and I didn't.
And I had the situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all all.
Speaker 3: The callous of the heat that was all gone after
one year. So can you imagine never being in it?
Boys say you get off, you stop, you, you step
off the plane and get hit with that South Florida heat?
Speaker 2: My god, what is this? Like? What? Why can I
taste the air? It's so thick?
Speaker 3: Like I can you Guys used to complain in Green
Bay about going to play the Dolphins in like October, yeah,
or November. Oh my god, it's eighty eight playing down there.
Can you imagine on you know, September one or October
or August thirty?
Speaker 2: First plan and it's it makes.
Speaker 4: A big I would say one of the hottest NFL
games that I ever played in was a December game
in Tampa.
Speaker 2: It was so fun is that I was like, why
is it this?
Speaker 4: It's probably because I was coming from can Diego, why
it was probably it was probably eighty four degrees.
Speaker 2: It was so hot, ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, so we'll see how good South
Florida really is. I think they had that big advantage
from the heat and the humidity standpoint, playing playing against
its team, and.
Speaker 2: It looked like it look like they were warmed down immediately.
But like, who is Florida going to be this year?
Speaker 3: Very highly thought of DJ Lagway, everybody rightfully so very
high on him. I think he's a great player. Can
he stay healthy? Can he stay at one hundred percent
for an entire season? It remains to be seen, But
if he does, there's a lot of potential with this
Florida team. But Florida is going to go as DJ
Lagway goes, So we will see kind of who they are.
We know nothing about them yet.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 3: Last year, I mean Billy Napier on the cusp of
being fired last year, people calling for his head, put
his head on a spike, Let's get somebody else in there.
They got no shot. Then all of a sudden they
go on to run, right, I mean, this miraculous run.
They pulled it out of their rear.
Speaker 2: Ends.
Speaker 3: Where did it come from? How did how could a
team that looks so bad go on a run like this, Well,
a lot of it had to do with DJ Lagway,
So who's he going to be this year? I love
the matchup because at least LSU will have.
Speaker 2: Some good film on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is going to get nothing out of the film
from from week one when they're when they're looking at Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Long Island is not going to be anything that
you watch now.
Speaker 3: They're not, So it's gonna be good. They're gonna get
some good film out of There's something to teach on.
And I want to also looking at the schedule for
this weekend, and I know we got to go to
break here, but I do want to mention that I
want to take my hat off, a tip of the
cap and a nod to some a gritty program out there.
The East Texas A and M Lions. Week one they
schedule le semu guess what they got this week? Florida State?
All right, so let's go they're any no cli wait
hold the now, stop.
Speaker 2: Probably not if there probably not in East Texas.
Speaker 4: You come on this show talking about East Texas all
the time, right, I even get accused from being from
East Texas, which I'm not and you can't tell me
where East Texas.
Speaker 2: Is, Like the school, no clue. Can you know you're
from East Texas? No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're playing at Florida State. But you know
it's just a gretty scheduling. They're getting paid. Good for them.
Get out there. The Lions. Yeah, the Lions apparently.
Speaker 4: Well there you go. I'm sure somebody in the chat,
like immediately you can tell us where that's at. Where
it is. I'm just saying, like you are, mister East Texas.
I had never heard of East Texas A and m
you ever changed names? Was it texting and Commerce before?
Speaker 3: There's a high school named Texas and e Commerce? We
played them, Oh it is Commerce Texas.
Speaker 2: Good for them before before the comment in the chat,
I feel pretty smart here. Can I tell you where
Commerce Texas is? Couldn't? I think it's by college station.
That's not East Texas.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't consider it East Texas to me,
it's Tyler Longview, Marshall Lufkin, that's the Texas to me.
Speaker 3: All right, well, I agree with you, but some people
even claim, like Houston's East Texas because it's on the
eastern DGE.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with that. At all.
Speaker 4: East Texas is just right there what I talked about.
So all right, we still have a couple of games
to get to. Certainly I want to talk about the
Michigan and Oklahoma game.
Speaker 2: How about Arizona State Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: Arizona State's on the road, only a six and a
half point favorite number twelve team in the country. That
one is intriguing as well, as you mentioned little high
school football getting started, so we can mention some of
the games coming up here throughout the state. And then
of course NFL starts tonight as well. All that coming
your way. When we jump back here on OTB.
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Speaker 4: And do not think that when I heard it and
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 4: You might actually be six three and not six to
two and a quarter soon? What about six ten three quarters?
I'd let you know, you'd let us know about the fact.
Speaker 3: I think if it's three quarters, I think you round
up to the whole inch. Just it's one quarter six
You just say one quarter?
Speaker 2: Got you are? You are? You are? You? Just say
six to two like a normal Never round down. Worked hard,
worked hard for the site I've got. You know, I'm
five ten and something something, but no, I'm five to ten.
It is what it is. That's what the Good Lord
gave me, it's what I'm going to go with. Well,
I win, you're five ten and something. It's just that's
called short no, because most people would round up to
five eleven. But why because low man wins.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows that, Uh, Michigan and Oklahoma play each other. Uh,
Oklahoma has not had their trip to Philly to play
Temple yet.
Speaker 2: We're all waiting for that one.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: They actually host the Michigan Wolverines. It's the only rinked
on rink matchup that we have in college football this weekend.
Number fifteen Michigan, number eighteen Oklahoma Oklahomama a five and
a half point favorite get out of town in this contest,
even though Michigan is the higher ranked team. It is
John Mattier versus Bryce Underwood. It is a very highly
anticipated matchup. I think that Oklahoma, you know, has to
win all these games that they're favored in because as
we know their schedule and what it looks like down
the road. So this is a big one for both
teams obviously, but for Oklahoma just knowing what they have
behind this game, they've got to go be victorious because
you know, Michigan, they've got other games on their schedule,
but nothing, in my opinion, what Oklahoma has. So for Oklahoma,
you're a five and a half point favorite, You're in
Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: You got to go find a way to win.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to watch John Mattier against the Michigan defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. And uh yeah, Okay.
So they played Illinois State the week one, Illinois State.
They win that game thirty five to three. John Matier
has three hundred nine nearly four hundred yards passing three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He did throw a pick, but.
Speaker 3: Like from what he did last year to who we
think he is, and a lot of the hype of
this is this is one of those games. You got
number fifteen versus number eighteen, Number eighteen, five and a
half point favorite. They're in Norman, Oklahoma, and yeah, the
home team, and as SEC fans, we are every time
the SEC is lining up against the big ten, I'm
cheering for it right because I want LSU to be
playing the highest ranked person they can, just for strength
to schedule, just for recruiting purpose, just for everything. You
just want those bigger matchups towards the end of the year.
But yeah, John Mattier. He all lies on him right now.
And you know, neither one of these teams Michigan plays
in New Mexico first week of season, so we don't really
know who either of these teams are. Of Course, the
off the bench preseason top twenty five, Michigan was nowhere.
Sniffing couldn't find him with a certain fine you couldn't
find him on that top twenty five. So based on
that fact alone, yeah, Oklahoma's winning that this game for sure,
That's going to be my pick.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Really really intrigued with Matier at quarterback this year. I
think he's he has the potential to kind of tear,
to go on a tear. He's got that skill set,
he's got that wow factor. He's just got that playmaking
ability with his feet, with his legs, and look, I
mean goes out does everything he needs to Week one.
From a year ago being towards the bottom of the SEC, Oklahoma,
a blue blood program having offensive woes, comes out and
throws from the nearly four hundred yards in the first week.
So we're gonna see, We're gonna see him get some
better competition this week, of course, but just really intrigued
about how he can translate. Can he do what he
did at Washington State and bring that kind of attitude,
that kind of success, that playmaking ability to the SEC
where he's got to play much better opponents weekend week out.
We'll really kind of get a test and a measure
on him.
Speaker 4: Their fans are very excited. Two hundred and six the
eight dollars the cheapest ticket right now to get two.
Speaker 2: Feet into the Memorial State.
Speaker 4: They're not thirsty for a good team, are they, Yeah,
right after playing who'd you say, Illinois State?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Illinois State, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they see Michigan share of Michigan fans, they look
they want to go see Norman Oklahoma, Oklahoma City area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's dude.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma is one of those historic, you know, one hundred
year college football programs that you know, Michigan is one
of those as well, and so you know they want
to be able to say that they went to Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's kind of like
on a Clemson We'll.
Speaker 4: Find out, like we'll find out about like l s
U fans, they got a trip to Oklahoma this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see if they want to go see it. I've
I've been to one game there. It was.
Speaker 4: It was my visit there, and uh my god, they
beat the breaks off Texas Tech, Texas Tech beating he
was Q when they're when you were there, Oh gosh,
two thousand Jason White for Oklahoma, Okay, So yeah, it
was a long time.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I thought you I'm a man, I'm forty.
You know, I didn't catch everything, so I thought you
were like covering the game. Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
That was my visit, a visit visit, Okay, So I
know I went. I went on a visit to Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Ye the week before they beat Texas and Chris Simms
right in Lubbock place went crazy. And then the next
week they go to Norman and I had a visit
for Oklahoma in that stadium when Texas Tech was coming
to town, and every like a lot of us were like,
are they gonna do this two weeks in a row.
Speaker 2: Yes. When I say, Oklahoma beat.
Speaker 4: The breaks off of them, Like they couldn't complete a pass,
they couldn't run past the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: It was a clinic. I think that was the year
Jason White won the Heisman. I remember, was it that
that would have been three?
Speaker 4: I mean that that would have made sense, right, I
mean that visits you weren't committed fully committed an LS Tigers.
Speaker 2: I didn't commit to l U Shoe until late December. Okay,
well then then you definitely would have been Yeah.
Speaker 3: So my my my story, my memory of Oklahoma football
was in Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas, cheering on
the Baylor Bears. I can't remember if it was ninety
eight or ninety nine, like, but two offensive games stick
out in my mind as a child because I was
It was kind of in the timeframe where I was
wanting to play quarterback, wanting to wanting to start play
because I was like a baseball player, like just like everything,
you played a lot of baseball. Basketball didn't really back
in the day, at least didn't really start real football
till seventh grade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I started.
Speaker 3: Playing quarterback and you know, we would we would throw
it like three or four times a game. So two
games in my life stuck out to me.
Speaker 2: One was Brock Berlin this report, evangel whatever, y'all.
Speaker 3: Aress Eagles come over to Tyler, Texas and beat the
brakes off of John Tyler.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just it was like a mind blowing experience for me.
I would have been I think I was eighth grade, yeah,
because I was in the seventh grade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I was eighth grade.
Speaker 4: I was dominating all the kids from Tyler, Texas in
a side football game. Oh right there, Yeah cool, I
remember the story bro probably you.
Speaker 2: Come at me?
Speaker 3: Oh and so yeah, so that was wild because like
again I threw the ball like three.
Speaker 2: Or four times a game an evangel the three or
four times in three or four.
Speaker 3: You know, ten yard like you know, ten yard shotgun snap,
thirteen step drop back, and you know he had to
get it, throw the ball these twenty yards in the
air to get a Pestlina scrimmage.
Speaker 2: Type thirty eight yard ten yard come back exactly right.
Speaker 3: So that was mind blowing to me and like life
changing for me. But then also watching Josh Heipel and
the Oklahoma Sooners come down to wait Go Texas and
he was on a tear, but like to see it
in person, this guy, this lefty coming out there and
I was in eighth grade, and I think I could
probably throw it farther and harder than him at that point,
like he had this rag arm right but just absolutely
destroying my Baylor Bears. I'm sitting there trying to get
as many sickens as I can. Yeah, but I can't
because like every time you kick off, you do you
do the AA sicken thing. No, we didn't kick off much.
They did. They kicked off a lot that game because
he was just I don't know how many through for
nine hundred yards whatever, who knows. But those two games
right there was like mind blowing to me because I
was like, how this is a different sport than I
play at my middle school, Like this can't be the
same tackle football that I play whatever, So those are it?
Speaker 2: So Oklahoma? There you go, that's my memory.
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aren't you know, those aren't what we pull from. You
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about those. So no more stories, Flynn.
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Speaker 2: We did find the stat line for a hypel that day.
You were you were right.
Speaker 4: He did actually throw for a lot of yards and
a lot of touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He also threw two interceptions. You left that out there,
but he did. Turns out Baylor didn't really a whole
lot with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people know him as mister coach
Josh Heipel over there at the Tennessee Volunteers, but I
know him as this rag arm little lefty from the
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about this thirty seven of fifty four for four hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 2: Yards that day.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good against my fight in Baylor Bears, which
is the score wasn't real close. Fifty four pass attempts
in a game we probably got pulled in the third quarter.
Speaker 2: A lot of passes, yeah, and Baylor was real bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't great apparently the two picks, but then
Baylor turned it over on the very next play after
each of those picks.
Speaker 2: So that was that was kind of summed up the
nineties for me my childhood. Yep. So there you go,
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Speaker 4: And uh, you know, coming up we'll talk about cal
Poly versus Utah, Bethune, Cookman versus Miami. How could we
forget the hits South Carolina State versus South Carolina. It's
a rivalry game situation there. What about East Tennessee State
taking on at Tennessee, Austin.
Speaker 2: P and Georgia.
Speaker 4: What about the Grambling Tigers three one eight three one
great going up to Columbus to take on the buck Eyes.
Also that one coming up coming your way. And when
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