Speaker 1: Santa's Little Helpers, Jacob Hester and are taking over off
the Bench, presented by All Star Toyota. Tune in for
some naughty and nice sports talk this Christmas season live
from Roville Paul Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and from.
Speaker 2: Christmas You.
Speaker 3: No TV here on this Friday morning weekend. Vibes all
over the place. The yo's hit a little different with
the instinct Christmas music. I'm trying to like find the
spot to jump in there.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's still That was the first time I think
I've heard the very beginning of the intro the new
Christmas intro, and I didn't know.
Speaker 5: It said Sanna's Little Helpers.
Speaker 6: The other one I think says a cozy chat about
sports or something.
Speaker 5: Like little chat. Yeah, a little crop dust.
Speaker 7: But y'all are sent his Little Helpers.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, we're here, ye Jake Flynn a Launder Tae
feels like a normal situation, getting back after te gets
back from vacation.
Speaker 8: We had an intro in like a week either me
or Cassi.
Speaker 7: Don't do him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like that's something that only Taylor. I
feel like a weather man when I'm doing it, and
I don't want Jordan. Jordan doesn't, but he does them
in Taylor's like he does his white Boy boy.
Speaker 9: Jordan's impersonates me, and look, I'm all good with impersonations.
Speaker 10: It's awful.
Speaker 7: It's not Taylor, but it is white Boy right. Yeah,
it's more like skater.
Speaker 4: Broy For the ones that will do it, is it
like a line in the sand, like I'm not doing it?
Speaker 5: Or does Taylor just do it voluntarily?
Speaker 7: He's Taylor like voluntarily does okay? But you get ready?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well because like the show, you get Sports Center
at the top of the hour, but they don't do
it till like two o'clock, you know, not like it.
Speaker 7: I missed it and I forgot it yesterday.
Speaker 8: I missed it. Uh well was here yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: But sometimes he does.
Speaker 10: There's a chance I forgot to.
Speaker 4: Sometimes he does previews some topics and some segments that
were like what that's.
Speaker 8: What we're talking about, but we don't cover him. I
do want to see Cassie. I have to do it
one time. We got for her.
Speaker 3: Next she comes in, we'll make it act like hey,
like it's part of the contract, Like we kind of have.
Speaker 8: To do it. Needed. Yeah, just we'll be if she does,
will totally be lying, but you'll still.
Speaker 10: We'll just force her to do the show.
Speaker 9: Like I don't know what I'm gonna be out next,
but like if she's all before me, I'll do audio Cassie.
Speaker 10: Cassie's here, we'll force her to do the show.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 8: You're gonna You're not supposed to tell you.
Speaker 3: I don't have a Branson scheduled March trip yet.
Speaker 6: No, No, I'm gonna be out the week of Christmas.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll be here Monday, but I'll Tuesday go back home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll telllor Is there.
Speaker 4: There's got to be some sort of like yard work conference,
like a yearly thing, like a national yard working conference
where like all of the lawnmower companies.
Speaker 9: That's normally like all the weight eater companies late April
early May, you know, because like.
Speaker 5: Summer Vegas, like a big deal con No, it's not
a vague.
Speaker 9: Actually right, and Walker, I don't know where a lawnmower
convention would be, screams the moynes Iowa.
Speaker 10: The moynes Iowa somewhere in there.
Speaker 3: Like that's that's a good point. He'll be there, Oh,
he'll be there. You're out that week to which week Christmas?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Christmas.
Speaker 9: I mean technically technically is only working two days that week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think he's out the two days. I
think the launder is out the two days as well.
Speaker 5: One mm hmm, excuse me?
Speaker 8: Have the year out both?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Were you for sure? I'm going going to do Christmas
things where here?
Speaker 4: Maybe you're going to be in town listening town by myself.
Speaker 8: We're going to going out of town.
Speaker 3: Going out of town. Sudden't count to go shopping.
Speaker 10: Conference.
Speaker 7: There's a long care expo.
Speaker 10: Where is it in Tampa?
Speaker 5: Tampa? There's a conference for everything?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I love that. Temple of makes sense.
Speaker 9: Like a lot of people retire, like the houses and
stuff down there, they're not cutting their grass.
Speaker 10: That kind of makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look at this zero turn?
Speaker 8: Is that what the the Bad Boys Mower Bowl is
that in Tampa?
Speaker 3: Might feel like it after hearing this news, you know,
has to be so like alla Bad Boys Mower Bowl something.
Speaker 4: So at the lawn Care National Conference, like of course
there'll be mowers.
Speaker 8: Okay, then it makes it.
Speaker 5: H Let's see, you'd have like weed and feed.
Speaker 4: You would have probably like some spray turf type people,
maybe some French drain companies there. You know me, I
know we're getting soon. I told you where we got
this project happened at the house. Well, I'm carving out
the French drain part for me.
Speaker 3: Whime you've actually done something towards the French drains.
Speaker 4: I've never done a French drain, not even close. So
it's one of these things situations where I'm gonna teach myself.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 4: So I've watched some videos already, but like when it
d when the time comes, I'll be I'll be locked
in to a lot of videos, uh, and I'll be
working hand in hand with whoever is going to be
working with some landscaping, just to make sure I'm on.
Speaker 8: The right right path. At least. You know, water didn't
drain uphill, so I got to remember that.
Speaker 6: No, that does a thing called gravity that prevents that
from happening.
Speaker 8: The song and the whole deal.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, So Bad Boy Mower's sponsors of the Pinstripe Bowl.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: They used to sponsor the Gasparilla Bowl, which is in Tampa,
which was in Tampa, so they switched.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, give it why don't you just
go ahead and give a shout out to your favorite
brand of mower.
Speaker 7: We can get you a deal.
Speaker 10: I have a Troy Built, so I guess I'll go
Troy Built.
Speaker 5: Okay. Do you like sharpen your own blades?
Speaker 9: They say you're supecially sharp with your blades. I've never
done that one time by life.
Speaker 7: That's why doesn't look good.
Speaker 10: Okay, that's crossing the line I think you're getting.
Speaker 4: I think we're giving Taylor a little bit too much
credit for being the lawn guy.
Speaker 5: He didn't even sharpen his own blades.
Speaker 10: But we need to.
Speaker 8: Some part of me like.
Speaker 3: It's kind of gritty, and he's like, the way I
cut it, the blades really don't matter.
Speaker 4: It sounds like he cares enough to talk about it,
but he doesn't care enough about it to maintain his twools.
Speaker 7: M it's got to maintain the tools.
Speaker 10: It's grass. I just don't like the blade has to
be that.
Speaker 4: It's an athlete, not work it out sculpting the guns.
Speaker 7: It's true.
Speaker 5: I don't know what.
Speaker 7: I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 10: To be honest, guys, I didn't think we're gonna start
the show this way.
Speaker 3: Well, you never quite know how it's gonna start. You know,
the opening segment is a blank space. It's a blank
space for a reason. You gotta let it happen organically,
certainly on a Friday.
Speaker 7: We're all about the vibes today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna be spending my Friday night down to Laplace, Louisiana. Okay,
you high Saint Charles Catholic. Let's go supposed to be.
Speaker 8: A rainy game.
Speaker 5: Oh, football weather.
Speaker 8: See.
Speaker 3: I kind of like that football weather more than like
you like the freezing cold snow.
Speaker 5: Oh I hate rain. Rain is not football weather.
Speaker 3: See, but for me it is because that means I'm
about to tote this thing. So the quarterback can't getting
a lot of a lot of passes up.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess whatever to teach his own. Rain games stink?
Speaker 8: You like them? Oh?
Speaker 4: No, I hate them by man, because I can't spend
that thing. I wasn't the best web all throer, our
drive authorer or what drive a cool?
Speaker 8: Uh? So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Weather's not gonna be great, but I'm looking forward to
a great high school game.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: These two teams played each other. I think it was
a Taylor two years ago. Yeah, Sat Charles Catholic won
the game down there in Laplace. I've heard that it's
tough to play down there. Haven't seen a game.
Speaker 10: There, So they're they're a juggernaut this year too.
Speaker 3: So we we did scrimmage him earlier in the year
and that went well for you High. So we'll see
if the if the scrimmage is going to be the
same as the actual game.
Speaker 4: Yep, but let me ask you this is there like
for the uhiad game, you think there's gonna be like
any players for you High, like might have just made
a life changing decision, one that has sign his favorite Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll be watching him. Okay, yeah, he's
like yeah, he's doing.
Speaker 7: Throw him up l and see what he does.
Speaker 8: Like backwards or frontwards? Please just do it backwards.
Speaker 9: You are backwards ill when your normal hands available.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I know, look, I know that it's
on me. It is it's on me to get to
the finish line here. Oh question for y'all, it's on
you to give the fish line for sure. Yeah yeah, yeah,
So I.
Speaker 4: Heard one of the recruit I think it was the
was it the defensive linement from Edna Carr. The other day,
he kind of like gave a talk. He had the
microphone at his at his high schoo announcement, which I
thought he did a really nice job with Some of
those things can be kind of cringey sometimes around the country.
Speaker 5: That was not. I thought he did a nice job.
Speaker 4: But I'm pretty sure at the end of it he said,
go ahead and put me in the box talking about
the toy box.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 10: Upset though. I think they switched not.
Speaker 5: The toy box.
Speaker 4: Well, it's like the screenshot, which is so much better
than the toy like.
Speaker 7: Calling or whatever. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, And I was
like I heard of it.
Speaker 4: So he was like doing such a great job, and
he said, well, go and put me in the box.
Speaker 5: I was like, no, you ruined it.
Speaker 8: You really hate that toy box.
Speaker 7: It's objectively it's.
Speaker 3: Actually though it is like an actual box, not a photo.
That's what Actually you told me that because I was
making fun of it. I was like, why would they
spend the effort to do all this stuff, actually toy
box that they built and it we should say we
like because they're not using it anymore.
Speaker 8: Maybe throwing a little donation from O TV, like we
get it in our office.
Speaker 7: Okay, I approve that'd be kind of way.
Speaker 8: I think it is.
Speaker 10: And it's not just an old tanning bed, No way.
Speaker 5: An old tanning bed just vertical? Are their vertical tanning?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm just lay down right, yeah, like
the ones I've seen.
Speaker 5: Does anybody do that anymore?
Speaker 7: People all the time with this information they have about
final destination? Yeah? I think yeah, I just do a
little self.
Speaker 8: Chat. Do people still actually lay down in a tanning bed.
Speaker 4: With the lights because I know you can go, you
can go get like the spray tan but like, do
they have them hot lights on you?
Speaker 7: I think they still have them see them.
Speaker 3: With the with the goggles, mad I get your thoughts
on this. Blake says, I'm in a Notre Dame Pioneers
when tonight we play Brayden Allen in the Dome next
week break down from.
Speaker 8: L c A.
Speaker 3: Right, correct, So he's basically saying l c A is
already beaten die.
Speaker 5: Well, they got quite a team to go through tonight, Pal.
Speaker 8: Thanks you.
Speaker 5: They actually they do that.
Speaker 10: It's really good?
Speaker 5: Is really good?
Speaker 3: Well, he's counting the real plays, counting on being on
the bell already, you like to have a rebuttal.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming they're playing a night and they didn't play
last night. Did I miss it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: No, by place all high school like playoff games that
I think they're moved on a Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know they're good. So what Dunham's coming
to town, making the trip to Lafayette.
Speaker 8: They're gonna beat the brakes off them. School prediction.
Speaker 4: Fifty five nothing, fifty five nothing. No, we're gonna go.
It's gonna be a Tai one. It's gonna be Thailand.
Forty four, forty two, forty four, forty two. Okay, done
so defense optional, yep, okay, yeah, defense optional. That's pretty
much how those games. Just go ahead. And I'd be
raining too, so forty two forty.
Speaker 9: Take four points.
Speaker 3: Let us know in the chat I did this last
week on off campus.
Speaker 8: It was so much fun.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, fortunate enough to be a
national radio show, so I'm like, hey, where are you
watching your high school playoff game tonight?
Speaker 8: And it was so cool.
Speaker 3: We got so many different states and different cities, and
it was funny because.
Speaker 8: One person they were in Iowa and they were like.
Speaker 3: We're at wherever, and our head coach is former NFL
tight end Scott Chandler. And we started to read that
and I was like, wait a minute, Scott Chandler was
my teammate in San Diego and he's just like he
was my teammate in Buffalo. So it's kind of cool.
Somebody's like giving a shout out to their head coach.
Was they were listening and they had no idea that
that was actually one of our former teammates. And so
we got Idaho, we had Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio. Big in
the Midwest is all off campus. Most of users are
in Big Ten country. But it was really it was
really cool, just like the stadium, the matchup, how many
times they've played this team, and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: So I'd love to have some of that today.
Speaker 3: I know it's not going to be as big because
here in Louisiana we're in the semi finals, but let
us know, will you'll be watching some high school football tonight.
Speaker 8: Love to get some shout outs across the state.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, And good luck to all the high
school coaches, teams players out there. I mean, this is uh,
you know, when I was in high school. The furthest
I ever made it was a semi finals. So and
that when I look back on my football career, uh,
that is the one that sometimes keeps me up at night.
Speaker 8: So if the center wouldn't have snapped it over your head.
Speaker 5: Wasn't over that, I wouldn't. I wouldn't behind the center
when he snapped. Oh, even worse. It's all on us.
It's all. It's all. It's a team effort.
Speaker 8: Something you said off the air.
Speaker 3: No, you said your center is somebody that you've forsaken
for life because of it. Nope, nope, good hurt, great guy,
Sill and Tyler. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, oh yeah doctor actually,
oh wow, okay medical doctor mm hmm, like a never mind,
all right, we'll take a break when we come back.
A lot to get to, a lot of speculation, rumors.
Maybe this coach is going to go there, maybe this
coach is going to go here. And some coaches are
not going to be returning to LSU. So we've got
a lot to get to. We'll start that process when
we come back here.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: As a music dies.
Speaker 8: Something rise calls to mind the silver screen.
Speaker 1: Guilty.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB all right, today's bump
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Speaker 5: You can go as specific as you want. You can
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Speaker 8: Oh wow o the day.
Speaker 4: I already pulled up the number one song from the
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Speaker 3: Not a big deal, you'll see that, okay, all right,
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Speaker 8: In a landra you.
Speaker 3: Got some choices, heya, ninety six you're gonna have that's
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Speaker 10: It's actually the sid love Celeene Dion in ninety six.
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Speaker 3: The coaching portion of this before we get to the
recruiting portion. It isn't officially official yet, but it sounds
like Tulane did not listen to us on Blake Baker.
Speaker 8: What doesn't sound like they listen to us?
Speaker 3: Uh, there's a lot of reports that he has finalizing
a deal. It could be set by this weekend. So
you look like you're probably gonna lose Blake Baker, according
to whom report YEA sources. Well, i'll have to it's
not official. I'll get sad when it's official. Why didn't
you think they listened to us?
Speaker 8: I know they should have.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think we made a great case for
why they shouldn't hire him.
Speaker 8: Ye.
Speaker 4: Well, I think if it does, If it does happen
and Blake Baker does take the job, I think every
Tiger fan can understand why.
Speaker 5: Certainly, this is like one of those situations where it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got it, we want you to be here,
we want you to stay here, be our defensive coordator forever.
But this is this is probably that one spot where
it's like, man, yeah, you kind of got to take it.
And I think we would say that for any really
good head coaching job that any of our assistants like
they they've earned it, they deserve it.
Speaker 5: I just Man, it's just going to leave you with
that feeling of what.
Speaker 4: Could have been with him being here, What could have
been if you would have had a good offense with you.
So yeah, I mean, of course last year the offense
was much better than this year, but he just didn't
have all the pieces together to fully implement what he
wanted to do. This year was more indicative of what
his system, what he wanted to do, what he's capable
of doing as a coach.
Speaker 5: It's just like, man, what a big what if if?
Speaker 8: Like about just one year with Lane it had been
good man, and and.
Speaker 3: You know, we talked about it because it was Hey,
Lane wants to retain Blake, and we're like so fired up,
and I'm like, this is awesome.
Speaker 8: It's going to be his defense.
Speaker 3: Lane's offense with Charlie Weis junior doesn't sound like we're
going to get that. But we will be rooting for
Tulane here heavy on this show. We will be massive
fans because Blake's Lane helmet.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think we had one of those we'll take the
Saints one of get that what out of here? Get
that one out here? So if that does happen, obviously
we were trolling our guy Blake, which he actually thought
was funny. And it's gonna be a big loss, but
completely understand why. And you know, you got to turn
your attention to who you're going to move on to
who you're going to try to bring in as your
defensive coordinator. So certainly, whenever that becomes official, we'll kind
of go down the list of who would be available
and who we'd like to see take that roll over.
Not the only coaching news though, tata I saw you
just put this inside the document here making a push
shout out to a Lander for putting it in there.
Elijah Robinson for D line coach and that's on louisianasports
dot Net as well. Didn't go great for him this
year as a defensive coordinator at Syracuse. In fact, Fran
Brown in the middle of the season took those play
calling duties away from him. But as far as a
D line coach, he does have a really good track record.
He was with Texas A and M when Jimbo Fisher
was the head coach. He was actually the interim head
coach when Jimbo got fired, So he's very well respected
as a D line coach and.
Speaker 8: Apparently LSU is pursuing him. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know what this would mean for Kyle Williams,
obviously being a defensive tackle coach, and I don't look,
I don't know where Kyle is, like where he wants
to be, hadn't really had those conversations with him miss
his first year in college football, so I don't know.
I don't know, you know what the roles would be
for everyone, But it does sound like they want Robinson
on the staff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be curious when all the dust settles to
kind of figure out like the stories of how all
this went down, because we talked about Kyle Williams here.
Speaker 8: Certainly, when I saw the news, I was disappointed.
Speaker 4: In reading this news that there was another defensive line
coach that was in the mix and potentially going to
be hired. So yeah, I was disappointed because I know
Kyle personally, so there's a little bit of a bias here,
of course, But I also know how great of a
coach he is, how great of a communicator he is,
how greater of a leader he is. So I feel
like if this is the case, then it I feel
like it was probably Kyle's choice. I don't know if
anybody like kind of knew, you know, Kyle came because
he wanted to, not because.
Speaker 8: Like he had to, and just a you know.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of you know, personal like reasons and
the life being from here and all that. So like,
so he is a great coach, and I don't know,
like he's got opportunities he'll have any opportunity wants in
in the world, uh to go coach, and if he
wants to go coach in the NFL or in college
or whatever. It just kind of yeah, it's one of
these things where he didn't need to do anything, he
just wanted to.
Speaker 8: So yeah, if that's the case, I.
Speaker 4: Think that whoever you bring in is going to be
a little bit of a downgrade from Kyle Williams. But
that's not to say they're not going to be a
great coach. But from a defensive line standpoint, I don't
think there could be a better coach on and off
the field than Kyle Williams for actual defight from technique
and how to play the game and just flat out experience.
So but I'm sure this guy is going to be
a great coach, but just uh, yeah, I still think
it would be a downgrade from Kyle. Yeah, but maybe
it's Kyle's got bigger, bigger pictures. Maybe it's gonna be
a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen the chat that Kyle wasn't didn't want
to do the grind again, that that's not that part of.
Speaker 8: It couldn't be more false.
Speaker 3: And I actually think waiting first got here's like, wait,
we're going home?
Speaker 8: We're not? Yeah, like working longer.
Speaker 3: I've had those conversations with him, the short practices that
were in place, where like wait a minute, why leaving?
So it's actually kind of the complete opposite.
Speaker 4: How about I talked to him like early on, I was, hey, man, like,
how is it like the new schedule and everything. I'm
sure you'll work a lot of our words blah blah
Blah's like yeah, it's like, you know, the hours aren't
much different than at rusting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like what the high school team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I don't it wouldn't be that.
Speaker 3: And maybe he didn't like the direction of college football
and maybe he goes to a different level, but the
grind portion of it, and in fact, he was wondering
why it wasn't more uh from the staff that was
here before that's just being honest. So, like you said, though,
the dust is going to have to settle. Austin Thomas,
I don't think we talked about it yesterday, but he
is out as general manager. He was a senior associate
AD as well. I know they kind of give, you know,
tag those titles along with a lot of other position jobs,
a lot of titles being passed out, but general manager
was his main focus there. He's been here multiple times,
multiple stints. He's had a stint Woodlane Kiffing at Old Mess.
But he kind of felt like as soon as Lane
Kiffin was the higher that all Thomas and Tatay. I
think it was you that was talking about it during
the break, like you kind of felt like, all right,
as soon as that move is made, Austin Thomas probably
not coming back.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean you would. You would talked about it
a little bit. You know, you told us that you
knew Austin a little bit, you knew Lane a little bit.
You didn't know how they'd worked together, and they had
previously worked together multiple stops actually, like Tennessee, USC and
briefly at Old Miss, so like they were familiar with
each other. Lane Braughn and his own guy at Old Miss.
It kind of makes sense that if you didn't want
to retain him at Old Miss, why would he retain
him here at LSU's.
Speaker 4: You got to see the writing on the wall, right
and God did a pretty good job at All Miss.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Tatay, You've also got some recruiting update, Tier. What
is the latest with the guys at LSU's waiting on?
Speaker 9: So the three big ones that they're waiting on. Duche
Gerald's number one. He was always expected to sign on Friday.
Like a lot of people look at early signing day
and they say, oh, if your guy doesn't sign on Wednesday,
something's wrong. No, you got a three day period. He
was always scheduled to sign today.
Speaker 10: He still is.
Speaker 9: There are some people out there that believe, you know,
could he flip because obviously he's a big player. A
lot of big time programs are still after him. Barring
something unforeseen, he probably still signs with LSU, but there's
there's always a chance that he doesn't. Trenton Henderson is
set to sign today as well. A little bit more
unknown on him. His recruitment's just been a little bit
more quiet. Obviously, a five star as well, but he
has been projected by one to three as of like
yesterday evening to Inkweed the Tigers. So we'll see if
that holds. And then I mean the big, big unknown
as Lamar Brown, because he could sign today. Lamar Brown
could push it all the way back to February. We
were talking about that in the first segment. What's he
going to do? Is Jake gonna have to throw him
up in l this Saturday or has he already signed?
I mean, that's a guy to look at. And the
word was he always wanted a little bit more clarity
on the coaching staff. Kind of have less clarity now
than you had two days ago with Baker's uncertainty possibly
bringing in a new D line coach, bringing in a
new GM, so things with him are a little bit
more murky, But those are kind of the three big
ones you're waiting on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an interesting point because like if I was,
and we don't know the conversations had between Lamar Brown
and anybody, we don't know, they're getting a lot more
information I'm sure about the coaches outgoing and incoming than
we are.
Speaker 5: Like it was like Jake, if it was your child, and.
Speaker 4: There was uncertainty, had a position, and there was a
chance to sign again in like another two months, right,
I feel like I would just be like, let's just
hold hold on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's not an early enrollee. Yeah, he's going to
be somebody that comes in the summertime. Anyways.
Speaker 3: So if I didn't know, and if I wanted more
clarity on the situation, I was still strong leaning for that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I'd want to know, Okay, well, who's going to be
coaching me? What's uh, you know, what's the plan for
me now? Because I know what I had in you know,
Baker Defense with Kyle Williams coaching me. But now if
you bring in somebody new, I don't think they would
do this. But let's say you bring in a coordinator
who runs a three three five, that's going to be
completely different than what.
Speaker 8: You just had.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, if you have time and if
you don't have assurances and maybe look, maybe the staff
is telling him, hey, here's who it's going to be, right,
because those things are you know, obviously farther down the
road in the building than they are publicly as far
as you know what Blake's gonna do if Blake is
taking the job and if he's not whatever, So like
those conversations already being had, I'm sure he's been told, hey,
here's who we're looking at. So, yeah, if you have
the opportunity, if you're not an early enrollee, would it
make every LSU fan nervous because every other school will
still have two more months to try to get him
to commit to their school side with their school.
Speaker 4: Yes, we might get a few more free free uh
dinners out.
Speaker 5: Of it, yes, uh huh.
Speaker 4: Let's see mister big and the chat say, get Elijah
Robinson and I guarantee Lamar Brown will sign Eliza as
an upgrade as a D line coach. We'll just going
to respectfully disagree with an upgrade.
Speaker 3: But if you do get him in place, right, so
you put him in place with stability, And I'm sure
Lamar does have a relationship with him, considering A and
M was second in his recruiting. Lamar Brown's not somebody
that's been recruited for six months. He's been recruited ever
since he was a sophomore freshman.
Speaker 8: In high school.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure that relationship is in place. So that
point of it probably does help out the situation. Yeah,
I mean, obviously we're gonna be big fans of Kyle
like Kyle like NFL teams have called Kyle ever since
he retired to try to get him to be the
D line coach. There be a consultant come teach all
these things. So look again, I think they're both great coaches.
And if that is the relationship that is going to
help sign Lamar Brown makes all the sense in the
world as well. Do you have some bad news because
I know you don't follow it like this Landon Duckworth,
who we talked about and even the South Carolina website
said they thought he would flip the La shoe. The
quarterback does stick with South Carolina.
Speaker 5: That's so much fun.
Speaker 8: We had a lot, we had a lot ready to go.
Speaker 4: We had a lot ready to go, and he decommitted
twice from South Carolina, but read the third times a
charm he did it.
Speaker 9: Credit to Beamer for keeping him though, I mean there
were it wasn't you sell a shoe? Like every big
time program was after him and he's not a South
Carolina kid. Land of duckwords from Alabama, So I mean,
shout out to Beember and staff for keeping him in.
Speaker 3: I had Beemer on Wednesday opening segment of the show
and he's like, yeah, we signed a great class, expected
good a good quarterback, even if hester's trying to come
up here and take him away and trying to come
up what I like the nicknames. Yeah, but I wouldn't
know where to drive Bud. Nope, all right, we'll take
a break more OTB when we come back here live
from the Raising King Studio.
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Speaker 3: Uh So during the break, I was taking a look
at some analytics from Ole Missus offense within the SEC
over the last three years, because like we've got a
pretty good idea. LSU's played Old miss every single year.
But I do think there is a big misconception. And
we've talked about this for years, not just since Lane
Kiffin takes over the LSU job. This is an offense
that's going to have some true balance to it. A
lot of people think because you want to go fast,
they you just throw the football all the time and
you don't run. It couldn't be farther from the truth.
What do we talk about yesterday? The diversity and the
run game. Everything's up inside zone, outside zone, counter power,
you name it, it's up, and they'll do it out
of eleven personnel.
Speaker 8: They'll do it at a twelve personnel.
Speaker 3: They'll be multiple in their formations while I was taking
a look at it. And in twenty twenty five, Old
Miss was first in yards per game in the SEC.
They were first in passing yards per game. They were
fifth in rushing yards per game. Pretty balanced. In twenty
twenty four, they were first in yards per game, they
were first in passing yards per game, and they were
fifth in rushing yards pera same exact balance consistency. Twenty
twenty three, they were third in yards per game, they
were third in passing yards per game, they were you
guessed it, fifth in rushing yards per game. I love
seeing that because you could go back to last year
and you could look at LSU what they did through
the air.
Speaker 8: It was great.
Speaker 3: They were dead last and rushing. This year, LSU dead
last and rushing. You have to have some balance. You
have to be able to run the football. You can't
just forget about it. And when I see an offense
that's a balance like this, that is really exciting because
it gives you the opportunity to beat teams in multiple ways.
If one thing's not there, it's not the only thing
that you do. But go back to like the second
half against Texas A and M not this year, but
go back two years in college station. Right when they
decided they were going to take away the pass, you.
Speaker 8: Couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3: This Old miss offense under Charlie Weist you and your
Lane Kiffin has shown you that they can beat you
in multiple ways. We've seen it and we've preached it
for a long time again, even when they were in Oxford.
Speaker 8: It is a very balanced offense.
Speaker 3: It is one that keeps you guessing, and it's one
that can do it through the air or on the ground.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, just look at look at Ole Miss this year,
what they've done this year and the most successful season
in the history of old myths. I believe freshman right,
Kiwan Lacey, he's a freshman right seconds from Missouri. He's
got two hundred and fifty eight carries running backs.
Speaker 8: They have Missouri by the way, right to.
Speaker 4: Right, two hundred and fifty eight carries for twelve hundred
and seventy nine yards so far. Five he's averaging five
yards of carry. So I think that's probably a misconception
that like Lane has because he does have all these explosive.
Speaker 8: Passing games, and it's in his history and in.
Speaker 3: The tempo for whatever reason, kind of tricks people's mind
and thinking that it's somewhat attached to passing the ball
when it's really just getting as many plays.
Speaker 4: As you can, right, And you saw the struggles how
how we struggled this year against Old Miss because of
that tempo. Like going into that game, I felt really good.
At the time of the year, we didn't really realize
the kind of the flaws that LSU's team had for
this year. But when that game, I felt pretty confident
because Trinidad Chamblis was a new starter at that time,
and I didn't think his tape was very good, and
I knew kind of the diversity and the things that
we could do to create havoc on our defensive side
of the ball.
Speaker 5: But we talked about it that week.
Speaker 4: I said, the thing that stops a lot of that
creativity on people's defense is tempo tempo. Tempo tempo, whether
it's you're actually hurrying up to the line of scrimmage
and snapping the ball and running a play quickly, or
just hurrying up to the line of scrimmage like a
hurry up and wait situation. You hurry up to the
line of scrimmage, sometimes you snap it quickly, then sometimes
you don't snap it, and then you get to play
from the sideline. You change, you make adjustments, but usually
that still doesn't allow the defense. Even if you do
a hurry up and wait where you rush to the
line of scrimmage and then pretend like you're going to
snap the ball and then look to the sideline. We've
all seen that play out all over college football. The
whole everybody looks at the sideline gets a play that
still doesn't give the defense time to really create something creative.
On defense, they still have to pretty much run based concept.
So that is the philosophy. Hurry up and then also
hurry up and wait, get the defense into vanilla type
type looks. There's only so many things you can call.
Defenses love on a third down, a third and medium,
third and long where offense gets on a huddle because
they can create. Okay, now we're gonna do all our
walk around stuff. We're gonna get Harold Perkins and we're
gonna walk them around. We're gonna put them at safety,
We're gona put them at defensive tack. We're gonna do
all these crazy things. They're not gonna know what to do.
We're gonna make it confusing. But when you hurry up
to the line of scrimmage, whether you snap it or not,
you have to line The defense has to get lined
up and set. You don't have time to talk to
everybody in the huddle and get get creative with too
much stuff. Now, there's some things you can do, but
it minimizes the amount of defenses and the looks and
the pressure looks and the simulated pressures that you can present.
Speaker 3: I'd love to continue to break down this offense throughout
the show, maybe even if we can pull up some
of the tape there, because again the misconception of the offense.
Speaker 8: I do want to show it play out on film.
Speaker 3: I love the speed too, love the speed in which
and you're right, Matt that they change the tempos as well.
You can tell there is a hurry up. There is
a hurry up to wage just to try to figure
out the defense. The defense can do all the things
that they want to do because they are dictating the pace.
They're not allowing the defense to dictate the pace of
the game. All Right, we will step away more OTV
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Speaker 1: From the Locker Room to the Airwaves, Gets off the
Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: I wished it nineteen ninety eight. It's like the Dragonfly
kind of hurts. I remember listening to this one live
in the moment.
Speaker 5: I was like thinking about being old.
Speaker 4: I was watching we were watching Christmas Vacation last night. Yeah,
and you know how he's in the attic and he
seems like the old film rules.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the movie is made in eighty nine, okay, and
it was video from nineteen fifty five, right, and it's
like me, you think about fifty five. I was like, man,
that was just after like the War Man. That's like,
that's so long ago. Well that is. I think it's
when that movie came out. It was closer to nineteen
fifty five than it is to today. Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8: Cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, cool, three kids asking like about that
what he was playing it on?
Speaker 4: No, No, they didn't ask that's a that's a good question. Yeah,
I would have I would have understood if they asked that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were watching we were watching something and
they were using like the movie and they were using
an overhead projector, and then it was like.
Speaker 5: That, what is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, christ like, well, that's what we used to use
in the classroom.
Speaker 8: Like if the teacher were lasting something. Yeah, yeah, yeah
the projector? Was that called? Was that a projector? The
overhead projector? Right right? Yes?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean until junior high probably.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what's that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: But think about that, we didn't have.
Speaker 3: An interactive whiteboard from Gulf Coast Office Products son.
Speaker 4: So if I'm doing my math correctly, eighty nine to
two thousand and five is what thirty six years, and
eighty nine reversed in ninety fifty five would be thirty
four years.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I don't know why you would do that though.
Why would you bring that up?
Speaker 5: Because we're old, I guess uh.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that movie, big shout out to my amazing wife, who,
like forever I've wanted like like a Christmas village, yeah
in the house, and we've just never had one. She
didn't grow up with one, and so, like, you know,
one of the things, so I've like, you know, been
talking to her about a long time. Wow, last night, Billy,
she gave me a couple of things. The start of
our Christmas village, and the start of it was the
Christmas vacation House.
Speaker 8: Oh I've got that too, yeah, dude, Yeah. All the
lights on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the lights I got. I got Chevy plugging
it in. I got cousin Eddie's r V.
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we'll be back out.
Speaker 10: Number two, O TV off the bench.