Speaker 1: All start to Yoda Presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Hansday, Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 1: Your luck's in to off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Well control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo, welcome in Friday morning.
Speaker 5: That was no interview larger there.
Speaker 4: I think I was actually that kind of faded.
Speaker 6: I actually thought I thought all four of us.
Speaker 4: I kind of heard what you heard.
Speaker 5: I got a bitter bigger expectations.
Speaker 4: But I get it. I guess I get it. I
get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: We need some nos, I thought, I matched energy. Can
we door Nash a twelve.
Speaker 4: Pack of nos? I gotta rimble here, But sometimes cock of.
Speaker 6: Nose would fuel up a tanker trunk. If that somethings
Taylor or Oh, welcome man, it is Friday. Well, look,
we'll get the weekend vibe going.
Speaker 2: It's only seven o two by the time we get
out of here at ten, it's going to have weekend
vibes all over it.
Speaker 4: Jake Flynn, A Landre and all here with you. How
we doing.
Speaker 7: How we living crew, We're doing good. Excited for the weekend.
I feel like it's been a good week. Now you
got a work trip. I do have a work trip.
I was really saying that for y'all. I'm excited for
y'all's weekend. I got a little work trip tomorrow. So usually,
you know, figuring out this real quick on the first
month of the job, you know, this new gig and
figuring out you got to get catch up on your
sleep on the weekend. Not this weekend for you, boy,
this weekend work trip. But this was the trip. I
know y'all made fun of me before in May, before
we started the show. How starting a new job taking
two weeks off the first month, move some stuff around.
I was supposed to be out about three days this week.
You were, no, sir, committed, committed to the game.
Speaker 8: So you're not going to take time off then?
Speaker 9: No, No, I'm supposed to be right now. Damn, that's
what's up, Fox, Fox all. We moved it due sacrifice
and that's sleep. This weekend going to be in and out.
Speaker 2: So Monday, Monday, this really is a wolf pack, that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Monday's gonna be a toughie. We'll get through
it together.
Speaker 7: And I got one of those situations where taking a
flight Sunday night, coming back, so I'll keep you updated. Nope,
I'm in Orlando too, So it's like it's not one
of those places you can just like only flights canceled.
Speaker 5: Man, let me just get a car and drive back.
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people drive to Orlando, but they're
trying to go to like the Disney right, You're trying
to get back to work, not as not as maybe
motivated as you know when the the mouse is.
Speaker 7: The this situation, there was this one time our rookie
year and in GB two thousand and eight, we're flying
up there and and all this all those rookies we're
going we're going to training camp. But it was either
mini camp or training camp. We were flying. We were
out of town, flying back to So they booked your
flights for like the day before you're supposed to report,
and there's probably like twelve of us. And back in
the day you had to go there was no direct
flight from an Atlanta to Green Bay, so you had
to go like.
Speaker 2: Back, confirm has someone who flew into Green Bay? Appleton
this last spring. Not a lot of options.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not there's way more now than there used
to be.
Speaker 7: When I first couple of years there, it was I
had to go baton Rouge to Atlanta, Atlanta to Detroit,
Detroit to Green Bay.
Speaker 5: So at that.
Speaker 7: Point we get there and it's like nine Our flight
from Atlanta to Detroit was delayed.
Speaker 4: So we get there. We land in Detroit and it's
like twelve minutes.
Speaker 7: To take off or whatever. So we're all running, hauling ass.
We get there. They had just closed it. They had
just closed the door to the plane. They're like, sorry, yeah,
next flights tomorrow. We're like, well, what, nobody here has
a guaranteed spot on this roster so.
Speaker 4: Well as a seventh round pick. Yeah, selected a quarterback
in the second round. You're probably like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we uh.
Speaker 7: We had to end up renting a couple of cars
and driving driving from Detroit to Green Bay.
Speaker 4: How long is that?
Speaker 5: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Longer than you want it to be, Okay, longer than
that flight was. Yeah, that's very fair. You made it, though, we.
Speaker 5: Made it and.
Speaker 4: Made the team. Not all of them did, oh wow,
not all of them in that car.
Speaker 7: Dad's yeah, alright, yeah, that's that will not be me
Sunday just a little sidebar.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and you'll you'll drive, you'll take an airboat
here in the Gulf of America if you have, If.
Speaker 6: You'll, I'm sorry, if you'll open YouTube up this morning.
I know everybody's user names are completely different. Ours to
hold on week you figure out what the hell I'm at.
Taylor Sharp sixty ten is mine? Like I don't know,
Alandras is different, Like I'm trying to figure out what's going.
Speaker 4: On on, Like freight train thirteen. That'd be cool. That
was my that was my aim name. I'm very confused.
Speaker 2: I have not opened it up yet. I'm about to
do it right now. I'm kind of excited. It's like
a little spin of the wheel. See what your name is?
Speaker 4: Oh you can. Everybody's name's the same.
Speaker 6: It's just an at sign and then random numbers behind it.
Speaker 2: Anyways, you need to pull up Alandra, how are we
doing doing well?
Speaker 4: Where you go this weekend?
Speaker 10: A weekend where I'm not doing anything. Finally, that was
just kind of bad timing, I guess, but.
Speaker 8: So do y'all.
Speaker 10: Remember when t Bob was last year and he was
packing all his stuff up. Yeah, and he took my
head yes, and he took my headphones with him.
Speaker 8: And this entire time I was blaming myself. I just
thought of this this morning. I was blaming myself.
Speaker 10: Right, because yeah, yeah, I was like, that's on me.
Speaker 8: I put him on his desk.
Speaker 10: He probably thought they were his and like threw him
in the box, right, And then I just remember.
Speaker 8: That we talked about it this weekend.
Speaker 10: I was like, dude, I just saw Caitlin like last
week or whatever, and he was like, yeah, the headphones.
Speaker 8: I'm really glad you got them back.
Speaker 10: And I was like, yeah, that was totally on me,
Like I left them on the desk while you were packing.
He was like, actually, I saw an extra pair of
headphones and I just put him in there. I'm not
actually on you.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 10: I was like, okay, so you let me think this
this entire time until just now.
Speaker 8: This whole time I was blaming myself.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: He took him on purpose, just a little gift for
time served. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I know, feeling good at anyways because I
left them again on that same when I was talking
to y'all yesterday, and so it made me think of that.
When I was to grab them this morning, I was like,
man freaking t bop.
Speaker 2: I felt real professional. Yesterday we got a lot of
stuff done. We sat at a desk, had a conference call,
talked about the future, did a commercial talking about.
Speaker 6: I still got to email that commercial things for the
reminder whoa.
Speaker 8: Yesterday?
Speaker 4: Didn't they That was the other one yesterday?
Speaker 5: I emailed that one.
Speaker 4: Wow, look at us. You can never say we're.
Speaker 7: Not radio pros. I mean, you kidding me? A month
on the job, we're doing?
Speaker 4: I mean, how we doing? Besides being a little tired, Boy,
are we good? You're good?
Speaker 5: Just found the energy.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, okay, I think we started
talking about NOAs and your ears pert a.
Speaker 6: Little bit, actually breaking a little sweat now.
Speaker 2: A little excited a lot and bothered, ready to go
fair enough.
Speaker 4: It's at fire intro to this show. It kind of
just like juices me up.
Speaker 2: I love that do like the announcer whenever you complete
the past to bird was.
Speaker 4: Like boom, I like that good one.
Speaker 5: It's a good drop.
Speaker 8: I gotta be honest.
Speaker 10: I kind of like it better than the sabotage one.
Speaker 4: I know, I can't get it a sabotage.
Speaker 8: I know, I'm not. I don't want to get rid
of it. I love it, but I.
Speaker 2: Kind of like it, Like, wait, is it just the
music that's.
Speaker 8: Different and the and the like words that she's seen?
But I think the highlights are the same.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, I got you.
Speaker 2: Big voice lady, A big voice lady from I don't know,
acting like number seven.
Speaker 4: In the country.
Speaker 8: Did I not send y'all the right? Did I not?
Did not send y'all her Instagram?
Speaker 5: Local?
Speaker 8: No, she's like in l a yeah, something like that.
Speaker 10: I thought I say y'all her Instagram because she's like
her I G is very interesting.
Speaker 4: And she goes by Ice naturally, who doesn't.
Speaker 8: And she was on what's the game show?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 8: What's his name?
Speaker 4: Oh, you're doing great?
Speaker 5: You're doing great exactly? What's his name?
Speaker 8: Brady? Yes, So she was on that show too. She
called No, she was like a participant on it.
Speaker 10: But she she does do like a bunch of she's
a DJ also, so and she goes by Ice.
Speaker 7: Like. My thoughts are this, we couldn't find someone in Louisiana. Actually,
I felt like we should have auditions like fairness.
Speaker 6: I don't think the voice. Guy was from here either, Yeah,
just like so we.
Speaker 2: Should have auditions like Elana, you noticed way better than
anybody else. So Matt wants everybody's voice to be consistent,
Like you want it?
Speaker 4: Okay, I got it.
Speaker 2: I got a friend can add that I really think
would crush it. Shane West, You'll know hi when you
see him.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 8: You don't like him, you know my my wheels were.
Speaker 2: Turned into But he's got agreeable. He's done hype videos
for l s U in the foot let's go. So
I'm like, if we can get him to do our
show and we stand alone, but we might get shut
down because they want the same big voice on every show.
Speaker 8: Sure, I mean it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 4: To ask Louisiana channel. We should probably have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's the angle that way he's from
He's from Louisiana right here.
Speaker 8: We want to be local.
Speaker 2: And then I got to say, if Matt pushes back,
we can you hate Louisiana.
Speaker 4: That's weird. Uh huh, wow, I like this.
Speaker 8: He's also on vacation, so we could just change it.
Speaker 10: All well, and what is it asked for?
Speaker 8: Forgiven? Not permission?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 5: All right, we get it. Matt. You saw the LA
you thought it meant Louisiana, but it doesn't.
Speaker 4: Could mean lower Alabama.
Speaker 5: It's a left coaster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really liking this.
Speaker 2: Moscone is a left coaster who hates Louisiana, who doesn't
want us to be unique.
Speaker 6: By the way, Wow, I appreciated it. You sound a
country as hell saying left coaster that way.
Speaker 5: You gotta put a little plank to it when you.
Speaker 4: Left coast man.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take our first break of the show.
We'll get this thing started when we come back. It
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn Penie.
Speaker 10: I come then, prove you'll got the right to please
meet everybody knows.
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Speaker 2: All right, uh for today to get this thing started,
We're actually gonna go back about six years, okay, because look,
we want some juice, We want some Lituisiana grit into
this show. So, uh, this is an audition for my guy. Now,
he has not agreed to do this. I don't know
what it would cost, but I'm gonna go ahead and
put him on the spot. Here's who we're trying to become,
the new big voice guy of OTB. Here is the
voice of Shane West.
Speaker 4: It's a second when you wake up sometime between the
moment drives so open your realizing it's here.
Speaker 11: Say night.
Speaker 3: It's like feel.
Speaker 6: It's Christmas morning and the first day of summer.
Speaker 8: And it's just a fancy.
Speaker 3: Fall greens.
Speaker 4: It's being a kid again.
Speaker 3: It's packing up the ice chest and firing up the grill.
Speaker 4: It's spirit and sunshine and victory.
Speaker 3: Here it's stopping by Mike's cage just to say.
Speaker 10: It's full of the million remotes and see what chances
For me, it's screaming the tigers all night and clinging
with a sore throat.
Speaker 5: It's the boor the gol gold.
Speaker 1: Victory for l s.
Speaker 4: Stop man.
Speaker 2: Sax text starting.
Speaker 4: A wedding, but steading isn't starting to shake.
Speaker 5: But tigers take the sea, all right?
Speaker 4: What do we think?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: I think the video is amazing. Wow, the voice really good.
I don't know if it was booming enough though, what
do you want?
Speaker 4: Screaming a little?
Speaker 7: The audio the music overshadowed the voice there, Yesta, we
gotta we gotta do like.
Speaker 4: I know when we so when we were doing those
in twenty nineteen, it was fun.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: We get like a big group.
Speaker 2: I was on Tuesdays and we'd all meet over there
on the Ponderosa and we start talking about videos that
maybe it was Mondays. We talked videos and like voices
and like who's gonna narrate this video? And in that
process like it was okay, the music rell out up
in here you got to turn this one down, volume
up a little bit.
Speaker 4: So it was a working.
Speaker 2: That was actually the first one of the long line
of twenty nineteen hype videos.
Speaker 4: That was actually the first one out of the gates.
Was that one? Well that was the season Start the season,
twenty ninety week one.
Speaker 5: Good dude.
Speaker 4: The music on that one was fire.
Speaker 6: I'm in only because like now I'm ready for football season?
Yeah out halfway through, like I'm I'm ready to get
I got kind of I got some chill bumps there
listening to the music we were talking about. You been
talking about finding the juice on a Friday, finaldays?
Speaker 5: Should we just like come back and just play a
hype video from every yeah.
Speaker 4: Music?
Speaker 5: It's a hype video I'm not doing did you do?
Speaker 4: Have you you've done a hype video?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 2: I did Flora twenty seventeen, maybe something like that, Like
it's been a while you've done one.
Speaker 7: I want to say I did one in twenty nineteen.
I did one, and talk about like kind of being
awkward doing those things because you just have to record
it in your phone, like in your closet of your house. Really, Yeah,
that's all I could have come up here and done it.
I should have, but I you know, obviously I didn't.
But I was talking. I was talking to them. They're like,
all right, they I would send them the record and
they're like, all right, do like and inflect this part
a little bit different. Yeah, I'll just send the closet
at my house. Talking to my phone, my kids are like, Dad, son.
Speaker 8: Like the background, like the background of the video.
Speaker 4: You just hear Dad scratch it at the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need to let t TV do one this year, dude,
I'll do the Florida game that's early this year too.
Speaker 8: I don't know they kill you girl ever done one?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he did it. I know Kaylie Hartong's done one.
She did one in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 8: I know that for I feel like that would be
so cool.
Speaker 4: So so tm O TV do it. We'll direct each
other like, hey, that suck. You need to do that again? Yeah?
Should we write it? We should write it ourselves. I
don't know that they want you writing. There'd be too much,
too many curse words. If it was Florida week. I
don't think they care about that.
Speaker 5: I mean a little bit. I don't know.
Speaker 4: If I've heard one with it. It does it matter.
Speaker 2: Probably not like one of the cuss words we can
say here, if we can say it here on Oh
Yeah Radio in a hype video, I'm not saying.
Speaker 4: We're out there, you know, don't celebrate it.
Speaker 5: It's uh, it's Florida week.
Speaker 6: Though some worried about one of you pulling the h
left g yeah, saying when I was a captain who.
Speaker 4: Jayden's last year when we beat Alabama.
Speaker 7: So I was a I was a guest captain and
at that time, like the guest captains at the p
MAC beforehand at the l Club and like the big
where the band goes and plays at the PC before
the game, like all the test captains had to speak
like microphone, like give a hype video. And it was me,
I can't remember who, it was, me Whitworth and somebody else.
We were the captains and like it's Alabama. The juices
are flowing, jay It's everything's going crazy. So I get
there and so it's we're there and a lot of tailgating, Yeah,
a lot of feeling good, a lot of juices flowing
from you know, spirits to intensity. And your boy gets
the mic and I'm definitely cursed, definitely, and the p
MAC with all the children and the p MAC.
Speaker 5: No f bombs or anything, but I was fired up.
I think I got the juices flowing.
Speaker 11: Though.
Speaker 2: Did you say something that would have gotten you kicked
out of a College World Series game?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, okay, no, it was all good. It
was all it was pleasant.
Speaker 5: It's just intense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's what everybody everyone was thinking. I don't know,
I don't. I think I've been to captain once.
Speaker 5: It was me.
Speaker 4: I think it was me, Dick Dixon and Benny Logan.
I think it was twenty I think twenty seven team Florida,
maybe something twenty eighteen. I don't know. He goes Florida.
Speaker 2: So they had the all the eighteens kind of came back.
I was been twenty eighteen because it was like an
a that was the year eighteen.
Speaker 7: Since Yeah, yep, that would make sense. Like what was
that every home game the eighteens were coming back?
Speaker 2: No, but there was one game that we all came
back trying I'm at it remembering which game it was,
but we all came back and then me, Vinnie Logan,
and Dig Dixon were the captains.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fun. I've been. Let's say, didn't you wear
a Gator hater shirt. I wear a Gator hater shirt.
So on the field to the fifty yards line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been I've been guest captain three times now
and proud to say three and oh three and O's captain.
Some say, you know, I could have a pretty big
hand in that. Let's see, it was two thousand seventeen Auburn, right,
we were, we were both guest captains there because that
was our tenure reunion. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, right, there
was a I might may have been four times in
because there was a Florida game, but the Alabama game
and it was a twenty two I.
Speaker 2: Know for sure that overtime game because I have a
picture of you in the locker room and the Gator
hater shirt on with a beverage in your hand.
Speaker 7: Yeah okay, so then I'm then it's been four times
then so four and oh so let's see, was was
it twenty two Alabama overtime?
Speaker 4: That twenty three?
Speaker 5: It was twenty two, so yeah it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go, Kelly, twenty three we went to Alabama. Yeah, okay,
so twenty two my fault, my fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I was guess captain at twenty two, and
then I was this past year against All Miss.
Speaker 4: Oh you were this against All Miss Yeah, done every
time underdogs, Baby, we're gonna need you. How mean home games?
Speaker 5: We got.
Speaker 4: Seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say seven times you go out there.
It's gonna be a little repetitive, but we're gonna need you,
gonna need you go out Well.
Speaker 7: I think they've they all always try to have like
some sort of theme usually to it. So usually try
to bring back old quarterbacks. Right, they've tried to get
all the national championship quarterbacks together for one like to
be captains at once.
Speaker 4: It's kind of hard, Warren rab you, Mack Brow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's kind of hard to work around burrow schedule
a little bit. You know, he's kind of doing stuff
on the weekends some days. But we've got let's see.
It was so as me and Warren rabbed his past year. Yeah,
mock couldn't come, but a mock could come to do it.
Speaker 4: Cleaning teeth, cleaning teeth, Matt flossing people. What are you
doing here? He's a team Dennis for the Broncos, if
you don't know, doing okay for himself.
Speaker 7: When we come back, someone said in the chat wise
Matt's head just floating in the studio.
Speaker 5: I got a cameo shirt on. You get it.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I want to give you like
a schedule of kind of what's going on right now.
And cause we're look, we're talking football, playing a football
highlight tape. I want to talk about a schedule like
of what it is right now for these players, kind
of what they're going through, what their day to day is,
is they get ready to take on Clemson. It's going
to be a little bit different in college football than
it is in the NFL. In the NFL, it's certainly,
you know, kind of relaxed right now. You don't have
a whole lot going on. Sometimes people aren't even there
training yet with the team. It's not the case in college.
So we'll kind of give you a behind the scenes
look of what they're going through right now. We'll do
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, getting O TV one four fives
fan baton room right now is a key part of
any team trying to get ready to go make a run.
It is the summertime. It is summer workouts. It is when,
in my belief, the team comes together or they do not.
It is all ball all the time. You're taking like
unless you're flitting drop out of it. You're taking like
a summer class. It was a winter session that was
just a little stray.
Speaker 4: I apologize, opped out of plenty of summer school classes.
Speaker 2: If you're taking summer session. Look, you got a little
bit of school going on right now. Some guys aren't
even taking it. I mean it's not something that's in
absolutes or anything, but most guys are taking like one
little you know, summer session class.
Speaker 4: But it's all about football.
Speaker 2: And it is about how can we get better individually
and also as a team. And it was really it's
the only time that it's pro like because you're at
the facility all the time, Like you're not be bopping
around going back and forth, going to school, going to class,
going to different things. Like you are integrated in the
football operations building, and you get a chance and certainly
like for Flynn being quarterback, like he gets like the
ultimate chance to kind of bring everybody together.
Speaker 4: It was always my favorite time. Now was it easy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Was it fun? Not really?
Speaker 2: But you knew what you were doing and you knew
what you wanted to try to get accomplished. And so
like that's what's going on right now. And I told
y'all the other day, they're not shying away from it
being clemson opening game of the season, knowing they've gone
over their last five Like there's messages of going one
and oh all over the place where I don't remember
seeing that in years past, and so they're attacking it
a little bit differently. Uh, you know, if you are
a late riser, you're running at four o'clock in the afternoon,
I don't even know if that's.
Speaker 7: We would have not struggled anymore, but in this day
and age, we would have struggled a little bit because
they're practice practiced in the morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah we were, you know, we were.
Speaker 7: We were afternoon worker outers, buddy, and but we never
had practice in the morning. I love their schedule now
they as an adult, like is amazing because they get
it done in the morning.
Speaker 4: They get the rest of the day they don't have to.
Speaker 7: Like you remember, especially during training camp, it's you get
there and you know what's coming, like the whole time
of your meetings, So like you're trying to study and
you're going to the film, you're looking over you know
what you're installing that day in practice, But in the
back of your mind, you get this little little devil
on your shoulders saying, yeah, you're about to get crushed.
You're about like it's gonna be hot, it's gonna be miserable. Yeah,
like they at least just get that out of the way.
Speaker 4: We're about to see the devil.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, they get that out of the way now.
Speaker 7: But also the temperatures are a lot better, they can
probably get a lot more accomplished constructive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like this time of the year is is certainly.
Speaker 7: Where the good teams kind of gel and you get
that you have your it's time away from the coaches,
so the leadership really shines right now, Like you can
go back to you know, we always are going to
fall back to when we were there because that's our experience,
that's what we know. Like the really good teams had
really good summer workouts seven on seven schedules, and then
I think after that when the leadership, you know, a
couple of years after that and whatever, maybe it's not
as strong here and there, but it's it's all about
your leaders and that's when that's when you really gel
like cause the strength coaches are there to make you
physically strong, but they're to make you spiritually and mentally strong, yes,
and so like you either you either come together stronger
or you break a little bit.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the time that we all got in
trouble because we scrimmaged Southern and seven on seven And
it's like completely against the rules at the time, You're
no way supposed to do that.
Speaker 4: And I think it was JaMarcus that put it together.
Speaker 2: But it was fun for us because we're like, oh
my god, we got another opponent, like we get to
see different faces. And we did it on the practice
fields if I if I can remember right, But we
scrimmaged Southern in seven on seven. It was like a
player led driven kind of meet up thing and oh
my god, did we get in trouble.
Speaker 7: I think Michael Clayton was like helping put that together
too at one point, and that's can I tell you that.
Speaker 4: Sucker got competitive? All right?
Speaker 7: We talked in arguments, we talk fights. He of course,
of course that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we gotta. We got our attitude after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, it was not not that Jimbo was
out there watching because he wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker 7: So there's this in the indoor is it still there?
They had this little catwalk so at the end of
the coaches hall, so the coaches, the coaches floor, all
their coaches officers are on the second floor. Locker room,
weight room, everything else is on the bottom. So like
all the administrative stuff happens up on the second floor.
There's a long there used to be a long hallway
that went by all the coaches and at the end
of it was a door and that door you walked
out and probably, uh, I don't know, a ten by
five foot little balcony that they can maybe ten by
it was smaller, just a little little catwalk with little
fence on it or hand rail, and they could see
the entire indoor facility. Well, in the summer, you're not
allowed to coach. Your coaches can't be on the field
with players for you know, two months or eight seven
weeks something like that. Uh, well, we have seven on
seven's and Jimbo wanted to make sure we always happened
to do it in the indoor, you know, every now
and then we would uh can we be running and
then we wouldn't even know he's there?
Speaker 5: Sometimes yeah, and he'd be.
Speaker 3: Like, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: The best is like he hated that we had to
move it from the stadium when we built the new
building because in the stadium there were so many places.
Speaker 4: For him to hide, so many that he could hide
and you wouldn't know that he was.
Speaker 5: He was there.
Speaker 2: I remember being a freshman and we're going out there,
and you know, JaMarcus is kind of leading in him
and Imran and you because like the quarterbacks had to
kind of do it. But I'll never forget like JaMarcus
throws a pass to Buster Davis and uh, Corey Webster
sits on it all day, steps in front of it,
picks it off, goes the other way, and I hear
God blank JaMarcus from like the top of Tiger Stadium,
I mean clearsday night and say blank put another word
in there. But I was like, wait a minute, I
thought they weren't supposed to to be able to come
out here and watch it.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget Jay ruscoes j Rescs. They're everywhere, said,
they're everywhere, They're always listen.
Speaker 2: Oh so hopefully they're not trying to scrimmage other teams
in seven on seven. But I will say one of
the things that I think is beneficial for this group
as they get ready for the season, and I'll just
talk offensively because we I know who's coming back. I
kind of know the process of when you have a
returning quarterback. The good thing is, like last year they
probably it was you know, the install is going to
be different this year.
Speaker 4: You've got veterans on your offense.
Speaker 2: Now you've got a new offensive line, but they've been here,
like and even the guys you brought in are veteran players.
So I don't think you have to go all the
way back to hey, here's day one install, and you
don't have to spend a lot of time on that
kind of stuff because you've got quarterback, running back, receivers,
you got veterans tight ends, you got even the offensive
linemen who are new to playing, they've been here. Before
they've gone through the fire in that Bowl game scenario
where they got fifteen practices, and so I always hated
having to go back. And when we say day one
install every year, this happens. This happens at the next
level too. You got rookies coming in and think about it, like,
you know this offense inside now, you've been doing it
for four years.
Speaker 4: It's like a part of who you are.
Speaker 2: And then you got new people that come in and
it's like, all right, we're gonna start all the way
back at the top, like on the most base surface
level that you can imagine.
Speaker 4: It sucks.
Speaker 2: You're sitting there as a veteran player like my guy,
I already know how to code this offense, and we're
going all the way back to how to set up
the keyboard, like what's going on here?
Speaker 4: I hated it.
Speaker 2: I felt like it was four or five wasted days
of what I was trying to get done. They don't
have to do that offensively for elsh, they'll do some,
they'll go back, but it's like this is like we're
hitting the ground running.
Speaker 4: Nussmeyer knows this, y'all know this. Let's go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they.
Speaker 7: I agree with what you're saying. But on the other hand,
I think it's always important to kind of go back
on the foundational things that your offense is built upon,
because everything that you do comes comes off of those
first three.
Speaker 4: So you enjoyed the the how to huddle meetings that
Jimbo had every year. How to huddle that's a little extreme,
all right, So.
Speaker 2: That's gonna see it right here. The it's gonna see
it right here, all the X of the Y. Everybody's
gonna go right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about the how to huddle, yeah in
a little while.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, Okay, So I don't like that, but this
is what I do, like, I like, and maybe not
from a running game standpoint, I get it that base
you know, two back zone power whatever, Like I understand
from a running backs and a fullbacks perspective like that
is a little bit annoying. But from a passing game perspective,
if you can do the basic things really well, that
is that is a huge weapon for you during the
entirety of the season because it's something you can always
fall back on, especially in like no huddle two minute situations.
Some of the best games that I ever saw played
by Hall of fame quarterbacks have been when something doesn't
always go right with the game plane because like you
always try to game plan against a against the defense
every single week, you put in different plays, blah blah blah.
It's when those things break down and don't work and
you have to fall back on day one and two
install offense. And then it's like, all right, we know
this like the back of our hand, so we can
run this. We can beat any any defense with it.
So I love the basics of passing game.
Speaker 4: And then not a running game.
Speaker 7: The run game ever, rund feel like a little forty
four extra never run Wow, what's the what's the will
feral basketball movie Traffic thunder Yep where they run the
puke play. Yeah, it's like we're gonna run this super basic,
but at the end of the day, when you're tired,
you can run the puke play. And that's what day
one and two install is for me. In the passing game,
it's especially like in two minutes you get into two
minute situations. I mean there's only a handful, maybe two
handfuls of plays that you can call a run and
they're all, you know, slant flat, double slants, smash her
route all go, all go hints, there's there's only a
couple of drive plays whatever it is. There's only so
many plays you can get to. But you know what,
there's only so many defenses they can get to as well. Right,
and most of those plays on day one and two
and sols have winners or have concepts for each play.
Speaker 4: But or you can just be like Jimbo, run ninety
two ninety three win in all this situation.
Speaker 5: Let's just do it three four times in a row.
It worked time every time?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: So Jimbo, And I'll see if I can actually have
the playbook. I'll see if I can flip through it
for our listeners. Yeah, you see, if I can maybe
like just take a picture of it and Taylor can
put it behind us.
Speaker 4: Oh, you certainly had that two thousand and five playbooks.
I know, I just I don't.
Speaker 2: I brought it up for one day to show t
Bob and we went through it. So in any situation
whereas like game on the line, gotta have it. Jimbo
had this route combination that he called win w I
n to go win the game, and it like for me,
I think we ran it three times times.
Speaker 4: I know for sure. We rent it in two thousand
and six at Tennessee.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a three by one like triple three
receivers breaking ends at different depths and stuff, And I.
Speaker 2: Think JaMarcus was trying to throw it to somebody else.
But I forget what your receiver called it. It was
early early, do you say I called it two thousand
and six at Tennessee. That was if we had a
gotta habit situation. That's what Jimbo's throwing.
Speaker 4: We got it.
Speaker 5: We'll go get down when when volunteer hamstick a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 7: But going back to kind of the pen indy, going
back to the schedule and everything like this is that time.
But they will probably get you know, at least a
week or so off right before training camp.
Speaker 4: It's like recharge those batteries.
Speaker 7: Like just go get your mind off at for a second,
like physically, and there's not that much you can do
to your like in a week physically. Mentally you can
make a huge difference because it's a grind, man, once
you start, once you come back, once you come back,
it's over.
Speaker 5: It's a mental grind.
Speaker 4: So they want at every level, even at even at
the NFL, like the NFL, you get like a month
off from many camps to training camp.
Speaker 5: You're out of town.
Speaker 7: Man, you don't stay there. You're out of town. That's when,
like you know, that's when guys take their trips. It's
been with their family and just mentally get ready for
the push. Mentally get ready for the grind. Hey's in
the barn. That's from like an off season standpoint. Of course,
you're expected to continue to work out and being shape
and ready to go. But yeah, I always enjoyed that moment,
like the calm before the storm, after the summer workouts
were done, where it's just like and go take a
breath for a second. Yeah, you got that little like
again the devil in the back of you're on your
shoulder saying you know you're about to You're about to
go through it here in a couple of days. But
get ready, clear the head, come back, get ready to kick.
Speaker 5: Some Clemson ass.
Speaker 2: Remember being gone, like we had like flints talking about
make seven days, you're done with some of the workouts,
go home, hit clear, come back, And I was with
my family at Mister Gaddy's Pizza in Shreefport, And remember
during that seven day period, Moffatt would check in on
every player. He calls me, My phone's on the table.
I'm trying to get some pizza at the buffet. My
mom answers, It's like, hey, coach, what are you doing. Oh,
We're at mister Gaddy's pizza. And I was like, no, strength, coach,
We're at mister Gaddy's buffet pizza after all this work
that we put in. I was like, and I get
on the phone and myfs like, ah, I got you,
didn't I and just like ripping me being you know
you're never.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's like, I got you. He did caught
me red handed.
Speaker 7: When the guys that were didn't have enough body fat
at the video of training camp.
Speaker 4: If you've ice cream fat, they just give.
Speaker 5: You a pint of ice cream every night.
Speaker 4: Blue Belt ice cream. Yeah. I was on that regimen
when I first got here because I was like two
o seven.
Speaker 5: Be like, hey, what kind of ice cream?
Speaker 4: You're like, hey, fellas, what kind of blue bell ice
cream do you like? We got cookies and gream, we
got vanilla.
Speaker 7: I got ice cream one training camp. For a little
while after that, body fat never got real fat ass.
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Speaker 5: This I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Our two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
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Speaker 4: Hllright, welcome back here in no hour number two.
Speaker 2: Oh t be one O four five ESPN Beton Rouge
and we go now to my boy, Christopher Paul Doring.
Speaker 4: You know him, you love him, SEC.
Speaker 2: Network, Florida Gator legend, and he's the only person I
would ever say those words about c D.
Speaker 4: What's up, brother?
Speaker 5: How we doing?
Speaker 11: Good morning man, Good to be back with you, first
time with Flynn. Man.
Speaker 12: Looking forward to uh to getting to know you a
little bit better.
Speaker 11: MATTYS.
Speaker 5: I've fired up.
Speaker 7: I've heard so many stories, I've seen I've seen the
different costumes and stuff.
Speaker 4: So I was like, man, that's a guy that I
think I could have a beer with.
Speaker 12: For sure, we definitely do that. Hopefully you'll be in
uh meety days in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Here, well, we will be there.
Speaker 11: Good looking forward to.
Speaker 4: Trying to get his mind right right now. For it's
that I'm trying to get his mind right for it
right now.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, we've kind of calmed it down a
little bit in the last few years. The early start
time has has hurt me. But we are on eastern times,
so I don't have quite the early call time as
we've had in recent years being there in Nashville and
Birmingham back of the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is fair, That is fair. Uh are we
doing today? Are we already slinging mortgages today?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 12: You know what, I took the day off radio today,
so it didn't you know, kind of easing into my
day a little bit. About to go hit the gym
here in a minute, and uh, and then we'll get
after some mortgages. I think I'm gonna be able to
ride over to the beach tomorrow too.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 12: It's been really hot here as it is been for
everybody else. So might do a little beach time this weekend.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 2: Do do you ever wonder, like Flynn and I were
talking about this last week, do you ever kind of
wonder how in the world did we do what we
did in college in this weather?
Speaker 11: Yes? I think that's an old guy thing.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 12: I think like when you're young, you don't know any better,
and then as you get older and you get out
of doing it, it's hard to get back into it.
Speaker 11: It's like getting in shape.
Speaker 12: It's easy while you're it's easier while you're staying in shape,
but harder when you've gotten out of shape. So I yeah, man,
the humidity here. But let's be honest, though, these kids
ain't doing what we were doing, so you know they'll
they'll never have any sort of idea of what it
was like doing two days back in July and August
in the heat that we got here in the Southeast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is very fair because I even appreciate the
fact that I got a couple. If Lynn got it,
you certainly most of your career got like old school
two A days. At the next level, it's like, man,
you young cats, like y'all have no idea, like this
is a grind, and you remember, I'm sure you went
through this like when you would scrimmage another team, Like
when you're practice with another team in the NFL, it
was like you had four game days in a row
and it was like true to a days you would
go against that team like eight times in a four
day period.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the intensity level was ratcheted up next level. And
what do you think by like practice three year into
like the full fledged fights that take away, you know,
so that that set up for failure inevitably, especially as
deep as in the.
Speaker 11: Campus we used to be before we get a chance
to do some of that.
Speaker 12: But yeah, man, I don't miss I don't miss the
grind of being out there, but I do miss the
training camp thing. I was literally just talking about that
on on radio the other day. Man, as much as
it sucks, it's one of those things that, like, you know,
you hate it at the time. I do miss being
there with the guys and going through that and experiencing
kind of the bonding that takes place during during camp
every year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Chris, your vibes are really uh.
Speaker 7: Meshing well with Jake and I show it because like
we give off so many like back in my day vibes,
they don't go through what we did blah blah blah.
We you know, we probably spend half of the show
just telling those stories. And we were just talking about
the kind of the break the roll of uh summer
workouts for all these guys of coming together doing the
seven or sevens, the players only time on the field,
and how important that is in your opinion, Like what
can these kids get done in the summertime without coaches
on the field, just themselves leading up? I mean each
team is a little bit different. I always kind of
leaned on the leadership, but like, what what do you
what do you look for from a team? And you
can you can put this on your experience on the
summer of the week's leading up the training camp, because
training camp is an ass kicker, but yeah, just mentally physically,
what are they doing to prepare?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's interesting and because you know, I think teams
are built during your your off season conditioning. You know,
it's built with what you're doing in the gym, It's
built with those six fifteen runs. It's where leadership emerges.
It's where you know, bonding takes place. But actually, I mean,
these guys are having a lot more time nowadays than
what we used to with with coaches. And you know,
we got so much hypocrisy in college football. You know
we talk about in IL, which is actually just pay
for play and recruiting, inducements and everything else. We just
don't call it the right things. Well, these guys, these
guys have OTAs now in college where you're out there
with the coaches, you just can't have a ball.
Speaker 11: So what do they do.
Speaker 12: They roll up a towel and tie it up and
stimulate it being a ball. Like, I don't even know
why we do some of these stupid things that we do,
but it does feel like coaches have an opportunity to
get to know their teams maybe a little better in
the offseason because of the time together. And let's be honest,
like that only makes sense, like why were we not
allowed to be with our coaches? And now as big
a business as it is, it truly is, you know,
much more like the NFL, So you should have the
opportunity to get coached during the offseason more, you know.
Speaker 2: One of the things we were talking about for LSU
is the fact that they don't necessarily have to go
all the way back CD to like day one install
once they get to training camp, because they got a
veteran team, they got a quarterback coming back, and I
think that is helpful, like you can kind of just
look at it and then move along pretty fast there.
But I think that's going to be the case in
the SEC with so many returning quarterbacks. And one of
the things that's going to be intriguing to me once
we do get to Atlanta is you look at Florida,
you look at LSU, South Carolina, Vandy, they know exactly
who they are at quarterback.
Speaker 4: But the traditional powers over the last.
Speaker 2: Couple of years, your Georgia, You're Alabama, Tennessee who made
the College Football Playoff last year, Ole Miss is won
a lot of games.
Speaker 4: Like those teams don't know who in the hell they
are at quarterback.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 4: They think they've got some guys that can fill in.
Speaker 2: But the league this year, some of the teams that
are trying to take that next step, the ones I
laid out there, they know exactly who their guy is.
But the teams that have been there, the UGA's like
they're going.
Speaker 4: To have a lot to figure out.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Uga, Alabama, even even Texas. I mean, we know
who the guy is going to be, but we don't
necessarily know what he's going to be. We think we
got a good idea of what he can evolve into.
Speaker 4: But the head ball coach had something to say about that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I feel the same way, Like why
are we ready to just crown somebody as being the
best in the league or the number one draft pick
in a couple of years just because of the last name. Now,
there's a lot of good things that I love his leadership,
but I love you know, he's a guy that hangs
with his boys.
Speaker 11: Which I love at the quarterback position.
Speaker 12: But you know, I do think it's an interesting dynamic
because you know, this has every year we go to
to media days, you're you're you're looking at at the
returning quarterbacks and projecting what teams can be based upon
the experience at that most crucial position. We had Matt
Moscona on Your Boy the other day and I was
talking about how good I thought the quarterback play was
going to be this year. He kind of took a
little bit of an exception to that. And to your point,
I think there's about half the league that feels really
good about returning quarterbacks, and then you know another half
who's trying to figure it out or has a guy
that hadn't necessarily played.
Speaker 11: For that school and that offense before. So I really
like that.
Speaker 12: I do feel like it's going to be an offensive
inclined league this year with a lot of really good quarterbacks.
But I also look at all the different pieces around
the quarterback now that come in and how quickly they're
able to acclimate. I know that you guys there and
Baton Rouge are dealing with a bunch of new receivers
or a lot of talent, but how much have those
guys been able to bond so far in the offseason
and get the rhythm down that you need between the
quarterback and wide receivers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the great teams, it usually comes down championship team.
It usually comes down to head coaching, quarterback. I mean
it's ultimate sport, of course, but I mean if you
don't have at least one, preferably two of those things,
a really good head coach and a really good quarterback,
you're you're you're behind the eight ball a little bit.
And I want to go back to arch Manning a
little bit. I mean, if there's one guy that is
would be made to handle the media and the pressure,
it would be a Manning because they've been around it
their entire life, right, But I want to know that
this day and age, with the access to social media,
access to everything, you're gonna with unless you are actively
trying to not see it. You're going to be exposed
to everything, the good, the bad, the ugly. What is
if you're coaching a guy like Arch, what are you
telling him as far as the cell phone, the looking
at the press clipons, looking at all that stuff, Because
it can be a dang if you don't have the
right mental makeup, it can be a dangerous thing. But like,
what would you say to a guy like that?
Speaker 12: Yeah, honestly, I I feel like Arch is the exception
to the rule, really, you know, And and let's credit
Start Starts done a great job of man managing the
quarterback room, managing Arch manning and his expectation. But I
also think a lot of that came from the family
influence as well, having multiple uncles that have dealt with
and a grandfather that's dealt with it a different era there.
But he is the guy that comes from great pedigree,
not only athletically but mentally. And there's not a whole
lot of guys that were as highly recruited as him
that would have been as patient and waiting for his
turn or understood, you know how they.
Speaker 11: Were going to use him as they dip his toe
into the pool.
Speaker 12: So I really liked the maturity that he has shown,
and you know, he has some fun on social media.
You see him on commercials. He's doing a little bit
of it, but I don't get the sense that it's
getting to him the way that it does some other guys.
And let's be honest, the money thing is something that
can affect you. He comes from a family that has
a pretty good amount of money, so it's not like
a shock to the system where you know, a guy
hadn't had anything all of a sudden, he's got a
bunch and he's going crazy with this. So I just
I think all these things line up to me to
feel really good about what his career is going to
be in Austin. Let's not forget I think Stark is
the best. I think he's the best play designer, best
play caller in college.
Speaker 11: Football right now.
Speaker 12: And so it helps that he gets an opportunity to
learn from him and that he's surrounded with the type
of weapons that he has on that team where they're
going to run the football. He didn't have to win
games himself because of the ability to run with that
group of running backs and behind a really talented offensive line.
Speaker 4: Cause you know, we're the boy.
Speaker 2: Chris Doring here on OTB CD went on, take a
look at the SEC, and I know we talk about
the same things pretty often of Hey, this team needs
to take another step, this team has to make it
to a college football playoff, this team needs to win
one more game, whatever it might be.
Speaker 4: There's a team that's not really in that.
Speaker 2: Conversation, that has really been struggling, and their fan base
expects way more.
Speaker 4: And I'm surprised it's not a little bit louder.
Speaker 12: Are we talking about the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 4: The Auburn's looking at us.
Speaker 2: We know each other, so, I mean two and six
in the SEC last year, five and seven overall, and CDI,
I just I don't even feel like we are talking
about Hugh Freeze and him needing to get it together. Really,
the noise isn't as loud as I thought it would be.
Speaker 12: It's funny because I think you got two different approaches,
polar opposites. The way you talk about your team, you know,
Brian Brian Kelly has really kind of magnified what the
expectation of the fan base is in terms of what
they expect from this year's team. Meanwhile, Hugh Freeze is
talking about we just we need to make a bowl game.
Get the hell out of here. To make a bowl
game like that ain't enough, And particularly because of the
expectation coming in and what they've done on the recruiting
trails the last couple of years, I do think this
is a team that's poised to make a big jump
this year. They played a lot of games where they
lost in single digit ball games last year, So I think,
as Lynn said, I mean, it's so much as about
the quarterback, and I believe that Jackson Arro getting a
fresh start in a different offense, surrounded by a lot
of really good players. I mean, this is a receiver
corps that I think could be one of the best
in the league this year. They went out and got
the Speecher from Georgia Tech to kind of compliment with
what Cam Coleman brings to you. So I actually am
kind of buying, cautiously buying that Auburn could be a
little bit of a dark horse team this year in
the SEC.
Speaker 5: So I want to hear.
Speaker 7: I want to hear Chris Dorians kind of just your
power rankings, preseason power rankings going into the season, when
you look at everything from what people did in the
offseason to what they're returning to everything going into it.
Speaker 5: Walking into Game one.
Speaker 7: Of the twenty twenty five season, give me your top
three or four power rankings in the SEC and then
also tell us why LSU is number one.
Speaker 11: I am.
Speaker 12: I'm high on LSU.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 12: I'm a little biased too. I mean, you know, I
was talking about this yesterday on our show, just how
many LSU folks I'm surrounded by. I was doing the
show with Caroline Finton, who is another LSU grad, and
I think back to that magical twenty nineteen season, the
way that I was kind of welcomed into the fan
base by so many of the great Tiger fans. I
really have enjoyed watching Jay Johnson's run the last couple
of years. He was fantastic with us yesterday on our show,
and I guess I'm maybe finally gonna get my autographed
LSU jersey from him, the one that I had to
Yeah we.
Speaker 2: Gotay off the bet with Yeah Yeah during as a
baseball jersey. We're trying to get Jay Johnson to sign it.
I'm gonna personally make sure that happens. Don't lean on
g to get it done.
Speaker 12: I'll get it he did. I mentioned that at the
end of the interview yesterday and Coach Johnson said that
he was going to get with the equipment guy as
soon as the interview was over to make sure I
had that purple and gold jersey up in my office.
So I'm admitting to that. And when I say up
in the office, has I mean leaned up against the
cabinet as I know that makes you a little upset,
but I yeah, I mean I'm high on LSU. I'm
interested in what you guys think about. Like I made
this assertment that I think this is maybe the most
important opener that I can remember for any team in
a long time, given the lack of success that the
program has had in general the last five years and
openers and particularly with Brian Kelly the last couple of years.
But at the end of the end of the day,
I mean the way that the playoffs is set up
now you can lose one or two games and still
get in and it isn't at a conference game. You know,
it's crazy. You guys would agree with me, like seeing
that Florida LSU game in September as the as the
conference opener like it. That is a that may be
a more important game. But I do feel like there's
a lot of angst about what this opener will look.
Speaker 11: Like and Death Valley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Florida LSU
being that early. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 2: That's an October game every day, all day, and for
it to be right there, and you're right like those
teams and they've got some tough opponents before they even
get to each other. It might be a must win situation,
like your first time out of the gate in conference.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it is, you know, jumping right into the fire. Now,
you guys, remember last year, Florida had a brutal schedule
to open the month of September. I had to play Miami,
got physically embarrassed in that one, and then two games
later had to play Texas A and m and got
manhandled on the line of scrimage there as well. I
do like the schedule for Florida this year. They get
to eat into a little bit more Long Island in
the opener, and then South Florida we two. But I
don't know if there's a more brutal stretch of four
games success in succession than what Florida plays. They got
to go to Miami to play the Hurricanes or excreat me,
they got to play they play you guys in Baton Rouge,
then Miami and then have to play Texas at home,
and then Texas A and M and college station. Like
that's going to be a defining run for Florida. But
I do think remember the old days has we did
on there, We talk about all right, where's the three
game stretch that matters the most.
Speaker 11: For teams and what they can or can't be.
Speaker 12: I think now with Texas and Oklahoma in the league
and a little bit more difficult scheduling out of conference,
we're seeing these these stretches where you know, four games
in a row are are are brutal. So it's it's uh,
it's kind of a sign of the times. But as
fans man, I would much rather get a chance to
see my team playing ball games like this than playing
FCS opponents.
Speaker 4: I couldn't agree, but we talked about that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, day it's like, do whatever you have to do
with the playoff rules and how you're going to get in,
do whatever you have to do to make sure that
these games stay here yea, and they don't go back
to scheduling and other stuff.
Speaker 5: So I mean that kind of leads me to a
good question.
Speaker 12: Let me let me ask you a question, play real quick. Like,
as players, we wanted to play the best competition, man,
we wanted to get a chance to test ourselves. Don't
you love the idea of mandating the Power four teams
all having a game against the other Power three conferences
and being able to see how you match up against
the ACC, the Big twelve, and the Big Ten, Like,
it feels like that should be something that we could
at least mandate to really get a better temperature of
which conferences are the best and the team is out
of conference.
Speaker 11: That are the best.
Speaker 7: I love any idea that puts the best against the best,
no matter what part of the country, and we know
no matter what the patch or the conference is on
your jersey doesn't matter. I mean every year we used
to get so excited for all the bowl games because
you saw the interconference matchups, Like we should be having
that throughout the year. And that's that's why, you know,
you get into these conversations about the.
Speaker 5: Committee and all this.
Speaker 7: I just I just prayed that it never gets to
the point where we have to go back to just strictly,
you know, you have to be undefeated one loss to
be able to be in the conversation and getting in so.
Speaker 12: Mean and while does think about like, literally, Ohio State
didn't win the Big Ten, didn't even play for the
Big Ten championship, and lost their final game of the
season when we were playing. You lose the final game
of the season, that's pretty much.
Speaker 11: A death wish.
Speaker 12: So like I do think that Ohio State, once they
got past that Michigan game, was playing the best of
any team in the country. So I think now college
football is like, hey, let's survive. Let's give our to
ourselves a chance to be in position at the end
of the year. And you know, if we can find
a way to start clicking on all cylinders, you can
get hot in the postseason like a lot of the
other sports do in terms of determining champions So it
is a bit of a survival, particularly in the grind
that that the SEC is now. But honestly believe, with
what happened last year in the postseason, we're gonna get
at least one or two nine win teams in this
year something that we talked about last last year a
lot when Ole Miss, South Carolina and Bama got snubbed
at nine and three. But I do think that we'll
see at least one, if not multiple, nine win teams
from the league getting in this year.
Speaker 2: All right, there is our boy, Chris Doring, SEC Network,
Florida Gator legend, somebody that we're gonna have a chance
to hang out with in two weeks.
Speaker 4: Sir, can't can't wait, looking forward to it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, man, right around the corner boys, I look forward
to catch up with the.
Speaker 2: Atlanta All right, there he is Chris Doring, always good
enough to join us with his time. And look, if
you're a Florida Gator and you can be a friend
of mine, you've done something right now, especialist. You have
figured out the Rubik's cube. You have turned in a
lot of different ways and finally solved it. All right,
we will take a break. I do want to recap
some of what CD was talking about there, kind of
look at what the SEC looks like and kind of
some of the different tiers. Some of those teams like
in Auburn that nobody's talking about. Do we give them
any opportunity. We'll start that process when we come back here.
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