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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's
Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Yo.
Speaker 5: Welcome man oh TB here on this Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday Morning,
Jay Flynn, Alandra Tate all back with you again in studio.
It has been since Moby Dick was a minno, since
we've all been here together.
Speaker 4: It feels good to be back together. No more shows
on the road.
Speaker 5: Taylor can actually do his job, doesn't have to pick
up our slack.
Speaker 4: But it feels good to be back here.
Speaker 6: But thank you for picking yes very much, So thank
you for very much appreciated. Yeah, SEC Media Days was
a grind, so it was good to get a little
R and R right afterwards.
Speaker 2: But Taylor, thank you very much. Excellent job. We're back.
Speaker 6: It's Tuesday. Does it feel like more of like a Monday?
But or does it feel like a Thursday?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 4: Actually feels like more of a Thursday.
Speaker 6: I do too, So I got some good energy, rested up,
ready to roll, ready to talk some sports, a lot
of stuff in the news.
Speaker 4: Well you're still watching that, by god, cycling contest over there.
Speaker 2: The bicycle contest. That's right.
Speaker 6: I walked in Jacob's like, oh my god, it's still going.
I mean, yeah, there's six more stages.
Speaker 5: It was well before we left for Media Days. We
went to Media Days. We're back from Media Days after
missing it day and you're still watching it.
Speaker 6: Well, I told you when it started it was twenty
one days plus some rest days, so that's over three weeks, buddy.
Media Days was only more days. Felt like it felt
felt ten felt like a Tour de France.
Speaker 4: It did. We were climbing up hill ourselves.
Speaker 2: We were climbing up hill. I mean, you way more
than me. God, good Lord. Did I some coach speak?
It did?
Speaker 4: It was so funny. Matt had his little notebook and
he'd go in there in the main room and he'd
be taking little little.
Speaker 2: Notes, jotting some things down. Yeah I wouldn't. I was
just drawing pictures.
Speaker 4: Did you get anything worthwhile while drawing said notes?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 6: Really like a lot of the stuff I was doing
in those meetings. I was listening because I enjoyed listening
to like the coaches give their state of address and
listening to reporters give questions. I enjoyed like laughing at
the bad questions and then saying, oh, good questions are
the good questions?
Speaker 2: Yeah, our guy Marler got a good question. But I
was also like during it, I was also had my.
Speaker 6: Little Lindy's magazine out, and I was also doing chat JPT,
jotting down notes of like the teams that were coming
the next day. So I was prepping, getting ready, learning
like the quarterback and head coaches names.
Speaker 4: Did you ever raise your hand?
Speaker 6: I did not raise my hand. I just didn't think
the room was ready for for me to like drop
that heat on him.
Speaker 2: Fair enough?
Speaker 4: Anybody impress you? Yeah, Shane, Okay, love Shane. It does
feel like Shane Beemer is perfect to be the South
Carolina head coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like there's there's coaches that that match up with
whatever program they're at, and he feels like he is
the best guy to be that coach for that school.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The way he talks, kind of the attitude he brings
very well Paul, but like also comes off as very
relatable and kind of like I'd have a beer with you.
But he's also like polishing the same and the same
breath like cosmetically just fits. I don't even know how
to put my finger on that one. He just like
looks the part to me. Yeah, I don't know, But
I came away impressed with that. I just I came
away from him. He did his job when he was talking,
because I was like, I don't know, South Carolina can
win this thing, right, They're gonna make a run to
do they gonna make the final four here?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: That was that was one of my takeaways from it.
I was like, he did his job because like, even
I'm believing the hype right now, I got it.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 4: That's what media days, that's really It's one of the
main things that it's for is to create a hype train.
Speaker 5: And it happens every single year. It doesn't matter where
media Day is, it doesn't matter the situation. There's gonna
be teams that you didn't really feel great about going
into media Day and you leave feeling fantastic about or
at least like you get you feel better about them,
and I would say different tiers, but there's a lot
of people high on L s U, a ton of
people high on to like win it. And then I
would say the two Darling teams were Oklahoma and Florida.
Every room that I went in, no matter the schedule,
because they're both brutal, people are talking about those two
teams and Jeometerier and DJ Lagway and what they could do.
I mean, there were some people like I think Doring
has them going like Oklahoma ten and two. I'm like,
I think they're they're pretty good. I think Jeometeriers and two.
Speaker 4: Ten and two. I was like, I think it's going
to translate.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot about Dora in this trip. It
was my first time meeting them.
Speaker 4: So everything is advertised everything.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not like things aren't even advertised. They
are there. So he is what you see one.
Speaker 6: Or yeah exactly, but yeah, you're right, Like every time
I was hearing because that that was like a big question.
Every show is asking every time a camera who's your
sleeper this year? And I was like, well, they asked me,
and I was like I don't know, Like what are
you what are you talking about? I think I panicked
one time it said Auburn for some reason. I think
I have no idea, but that was a big thing.
And then I kept hearing Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, and I
that's kind of who I wanted to, like say as well.
Speaker 2: After like just diving into.
Speaker 6: More because I do like myteria and I am really
excited to do a quarterback breakdown of him later on
in the season because I really want to dive into
his film.
Speaker 5: He's I told you, he's like a mix of you
and Baker Mayfield. That's the best way I can describe,
like the way he carries himself, kind of his size
and demeanor.
Speaker 4: He's got something to it.
Speaker 2: You work out you one hundred and fifty push ups
to day hash to hash to.
Speaker 6: I think the lead impressive person I heard speak well,
hold on, let me let me back up, Let me
back up.
Speaker 2: Jeff Levy, real person.
Speaker 6: Realfirmed, confirmed impressive person, big dude, and really enjoyed our
conversation with I know I didn't have the balls to
ask him, like to like touch his leg, like make
sure he was real.
Speaker 2: Didn't have the balls.
Speaker 5: He's actually I think he's the only head coach we had. Yeah,
because the morning show, it's not it's not a juice
fest up there. Energy, not a lot of energy.
Speaker 4: He just kind of roaming around.
Speaker 6: It's just there's like one show on when we get there,
Like there's the Atlanta Sports Show that was like right
next to us.
Speaker 2: So literally in this whole College Football Hall of Fame,
it makes like a square.
Speaker 6: It makes like a square around like the main stage,
like below us, there's one people talk, one group talking,
and that was them, yeah, and then it was us.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So not a lot of juice, not a lot of
people walking around up there. But yeah, we got you know,
we started out the show with the quarterback, So I
guess my new sleeper now that we're talking about it, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: State, watch out.
Speaker 5: You did have to talk nice about Shreveport evangel too,
sort of did I talk nice?
Speaker 4: I think you did? I think he did.
Speaker 5: Uh So, I'm sure Tatay did a great job going
over this yesterday. But to win the SEC Championship, the
SEC preseason media poll, it goes like this, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, LSU,
South Carolina, Oklahoma, Vandy, Florida, Tennessee, Ole, miss and Auburn
now Tennessee Ole miss Auburn only receiving one vote, Vanderbilt
in Florida, two, Oklahoma three, South Carolina five.
Speaker 4: But there is a clear top tier in the media's mine.
Speaker 5: In the SEC, it is Texas, Georgia, Alabama and LSU
ninety six, forty four, twenty nine and twenty first place votes.
When you go from LSU to South Carolina, it goes
from twenty all the way down to five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you kind of brought it up too, they're
LSU was the bell of the ball atc media everywhere
you every person, you don't know how I feel about that.
I don't know how I feel. But then I see
these votes. It's from the same people that were talking
about them all week. Like I thought everybody was saying,
I got LSU beating Texas or LSU beating Georgia, or like,
if anything, somebody beating LSU. Yeah, And so I saw
this too, and I was like, that didn't like, that
didn't jive with the things I was here in the
entire time.
Speaker 5: Oh as far as LSU being all the way down
at four, yeah, yeah, you're right, because everybody we talked
to it was LSU, at least in the SEC championship game.
It felt like, for sure, you feel like many people
had them out. They do come in fourth here, and
they're fourth in the overall predicted order of finish as well.
Speaker 4: I've got Texas and LSU. That's what I put on
my ballot, Texas and LSU in the SEC championship game.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't fell out about God, it's in your email.
You didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't check your email when they.
Speaker 2: Said, like, I got a lot of emails.
Speaker 5: You're a media member. Now you can fill out this ballot.
You can go first team, second team quarterback.
Speaker 6: I did, but I got real sensitive spam checkers on
my email. I gotta block out the noise.
Speaker 4: So when you heard it, like you heard us talking
about it, you're just like, ah, that's not me, that
sending me one.
Speaker 2: Plenty of people are gonna vote.
Speaker 6: I tell you what, LS, you would have had twenty
one total votes, well still would have been in fourth,
so it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 2: My vote didn't matter.
Speaker 4: Loser mentality there. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 5: First team quarterback was not great ness Meyer and I
think I saw every show talk about this yesterday, but
it was Leonora Sellers South Carolin LSU actually doesn't have
anyone on the first team offense.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Gary Nessmeyer was the second team quarterback, Cayden Durham was
the second team running back. Aaron Anderson was a second
team receiver, so they were well represented on the second team,
but no player on the first team, including Gary Nessmeyer.
Any surprise that Leonora Sellers gets the top spot.
Speaker 6: I guess when you look at it from like just
geographically of all the folks that were there, No, it's
not any surprise because I do think Lenoris is has
the potential like be a guy like like a like
a big time bolster himself up to a first round
pick after this season, and just look really damn impressive.
Speaker 4: It looks like an edge rusher when he walks in.
Speaker 2: The like the eyeball test check and check right.
Speaker 6: So I can get kind of like that since like
you're voting two days after you just saw him physically
and like he impressed you as just like a statue,
like as just a human being.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was I don't make sure I missed anybody,
but three guys that come to mind. He was one.
Speaker 5: DJ Lagway was another, and Taylor Green from Arkansas was
another like of the quarterbacks, and I'm like, I was
not familiar with your game, yep, and that. Like DJ
Lagway walked into the room, They're like, how tall are you?
Speaker 2: He's like six three.
Speaker 5: I was like, my guy, you passed six three up
six years ago, like because Dusty the war check it
was with us. He's six three and Dusty was looking
up to him. DJ Lagway was a large human.
Speaker 6: I believe, I believe I'm gonna get this band correct.
But in the words of ninety eight degrees, God must
have spent you.
Speaker 4: Got it wrong.
Speaker 5: I okay, a couple of things here. Respect though I
respect you pulling out ninety eight degrees. I think that's
deep cut.
Speaker 4: It's not in sync. It's not the bactory boy.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Nila.
Speaker 4: No, that is in sync.
Speaker 2: It was ah God, I'm so disappointed in myself. That's insane,
all right. I appreciate all the time.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the effort cut off on my first team defense.
Speaker 5: Lsu Witweeks was on the first team, the second team,
Harrold Perkins, and then no player on the third team.
You did have a couple of specialists, Barrian Brown, return specialists,
Xavian Thomas was all purpose on the second team. Return
specialist Thomas on the third team as well, so he
actually got second and third team in different positions.
Speaker 4: So LSU well represented. But I think the main thing
was going to be Garrett Smeier not being QB one
on the first team.
Speaker 6: But like, obviously we would have had a first team, right,
we think he's going to be the best. But I
get the vote on the timing of when it happened.
There's a lot of hype. Shame did a great job.
Like I said, even I was on the like the
hype train of South Carolina, so I think everybody probably
felt the same way that I did.
Speaker 2: And then you just see him physics. So like I
get the vote going the way it did when it did.
Speaker 6: Now, if we were to vote like a week ago,
two weeks ago, maybe it's a little bit different. Maybe
a little closer to the season you start analyzing just
the football play and everything like that, maybe those bols
would change.
Speaker 2: But I get it.
Speaker 5: Arch Manning was the third team quarterback in case you uh,
in case you missed that as well.
Speaker 4: Arc who Arc Manning? How do you spell that? A
ar ch arc position? Running back?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sol, can you ask that anymore. Is that okay? Is
that okay? Arch was fine, Like he came in with
us and as serious, and he was fine. He was good.
He was you could tell he'd been coached up.
Speaker 2: He was polished.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't go to say anything crazy. He said, uh,
Archie his grandfather obviously was like, yeah, keep it short
and sweet and be respectful. And that was like his advice.
And he did that. That's exactly what he did. But
he didn't do He didn't do the entire car wash.
Speaker 5: He didn't do Marty and McGee, which everybody, I think
everybody outside of Arch did quarterback wise, he's the only
one that didn't.
Speaker 2: So he didn't do Flynn.
Speaker 4: He did not do Hester and Flynn. Although there in
the afternoon.
Speaker 6: These people just need to know, like if you just
want like a good fun combo for a little bit,
a little breakaway from getting shelled by random dumb questions,
come see us.
Speaker 5: I will say this, I truly believe, and I had
commissioners saying you twice. I think we had his favorite
interview of the week.
Speaker 6: There's no doubt he was a part of that. I man,
I feel that man has got to take Oh my
god question, He's.
Speaker 4: Like, so I can put it on autopilot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We were like, absolutely, you can't do like I don't
know what favorite food.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: We asked that man how he picks out his clothes
every day, and he was loving talking.
Speaker 6: About Look to me, that was one of the probably
the best questions of anybody in SEC media day, Like
thank everybody would resonate with that question, like how do
you pick out your clothes? You got every color represented
here at SEC. You're gonna piss somebody off. Yep, what's
the thought process? A great question?
Speaker 2: Green always go green, he said. I think you said
yellow a lot.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 5: He said, blue and yellow. That's our colors. That's our
conference color. So you can't really get in trouble when
you wear those colors. We said, you know, green's always
He had green on that day, Blue and green. It's
like he's always safe. Blue and green, he said. And
no matter what somebody will say, he's being biased towards
a certain team, even if the color doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: What did he say?
Speaker 6: He had He had a tie on one time that
was like so neutral, there's like a little spectac of
red or.
Speaker 5: Something like orange. Spec your Auburn tie today. Huh, get
out of here, fly ey here. All right, so we
do have a ton to kind of catch up on.
We got to get vibe checks from around the room.
Not it's not feeling great over there, but we're gonna
have We're gonna make it feel better. We're gonna perk
up a little bit. Uh, we gotta use We've got
some great guests. We've got a lot coming your way.
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back again, o GB one four five
ESPN baton rouge. Let's go across the glass here, gotta
get a vibe check. We'll check in with our crew.
We missed our crew dearly. That's one of the things
that being on the road you certainly miss the most.
You don't have the foxhole in studio vibes, and so
it's good to be back, Alandra. I know, uh got
a headache situation, but we missed you. It's all good
and we certainly we're living through you. Covering UFC three
one eight it was awesome.
Speaker 4: That's incredible.
Speaker 8: Just to clarify, though Flynn only missed me, he didn't
miss Taylor.
Speaker 2: True, thank you pretty much. Taylor hadn't been thinking about
that all week, but yeah, I know I did.
Speaker 8: I was telling you all this morning. Yeah it was.
It was just like a.
Speaker 3: Was.
Speaker 2: It was definitely aim for sure.
Speaker 8: He didn't even realize he said it.
Speaker 3: He was like when I say, yeah, I had a
little migra, I'm telling you it's starting to go away
a little bit, but I'm good. Uh. UFC three eighteen
was awesome. It was definitely one of my favorite things
that I've ever done, like in my life. Like it
was like omaha, and then UFC three eighteen are like
top two for sure, and it's like one A, one
B and uh. Yeah it was awesome and to be
there for like Dustin's last fight and it was a
good fight win. It wasn't the result we wanted, but
it was awesome. It was a good really good We
were talking about this yesterday. Is a really good way
for him to go out, and even though he did
lose his last two fights, they were really good ones
against good opponents that really like solidified how much of
a legend in the sport he is, So it was awesome.
Speaker 8: I did not expect.
Speaker 3: I didn't know where I was going to be sitting,
you asked me, yeah, and I was like, I don't know.
I think probably in the press box. And then I
get there and they're like you're this way on the
floor and I was like, there's no way. And then
I get there and my name's like on the table,
and I was like, this is crazy, Like it was
insane tickets. So I got Yeah, I took a shot
in the dark, and I got myself. I didn't even
like I didn't And then I let Matt know.
Speaker 8: I was like, hey, I just.
Speaker 3: Applied for one, just a heads up in case you
get an email or whatever, but uh yeah, I just
I kind of just did it, not expecting to even
get approved for it. But I'm glad I did because
it was awesome, and uh yeah, I want to go
to like more UFC stuff.
Speaker 4: You have the bug now? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: I was telling Matt yesterday that, like, I was so close,
the shots sounded so brutal, like with the leg kicks
or whatever, like they sounded so brutal. And then I
could see every time they got hit their sweat like
flying off of them.
Speaker 8: It was awesome, Like it was seriously.
Speaker 2: Did you go for the like there?
Speaker 8: I got there like six, So what was the most
uh So.
Speaker 6: I've never been to the like a like a big times.
I wouldn't say, like seat George. And it's my takeaways
always like it's more way more violent in person, because
like you said, you hear that, you hear the body shots,
you hear people like hit the four. Yeah, they get
knocked out, whatever it is. And what was the most
like violent bloody thing that you saw in a fight?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 3: So like Max was pretty beat up, like he had
some Yeah, Max was, he looked So we were also
talking about this yesterday, Like Max won every round except
for maybe round two of that fight, Like round two
was probably Dustin's best round, but like Max looked worse
face wise than Dustin did. But there was a one
knockout in the prelims that I saw that I was like, oh,
that was kind of brutal, like and because I love
when they go for the finish like they're hurt, and
like they could tell they're hurt, so they go for
the finish and they just start like nailing them with
punches and they have to like call it off or whatever.
But there was one I don't remember who it was,
but there was one in the prelims that was a
knockout that was pretty brutal. And then I think there
was a tap too. So like all the finishes were
in the prelims. Uh, the main card was all decisions.
Speaker 4: Good have tried to finish him instead of jumped the gilly?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so, but like he lives and dies
by it.
Speaker 4: So and he submitted like before, like but like Max
had no guard. He heard it, he heard him, hands
were both on the ground. He could have he could have.
Speaker 3: Went for the finish, And so they asked him that
after the fight. They were like, do you regret jumping
the gilly instead of just finishing him when he was hurt?
And he was like no, I thought that was gonna
be the one. And I was like, dude, you play
too much. I was like, you could have.
Speaker 4: Knows like he was trying to get like that's the
way he wanted everything to finish, and I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when that was happening, I started you can't record,
like if you're in the media or whatever in the
like little media area, you can't record the fight while
it's actually happening, right, You can between rounds, but you
can't record like the actual fighting are very Yeah, So
whenever Dustin had him hurt, I started recording the crowd
because I was like, oh, if he gets him, the
crowd is going to pop like crazy. So like I
got a kind of cool video of that, but like
he ended up not but yeah, other than that, like
it was, it was amazing, even though he did lose.
And uh when he put the gloves down and they
were playing Frank Sinatra's My Way, Yeah, and they were
also showing like before the fight video montages up there, and.
Speaker 8: I just like had the chills the entire time.
Speaker 4: I bet that was awesome.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: You got the bug.
Speaker 5: Now there's gonna be like a UFC and San Jose
and they're like somebody from Baton Rougees trying to get
a credential here, right, and I'm gonna do it, like
I mean yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: Actually, I bet I bet if you put Louisiana sports
dot Net like with it having just like the Louisiana name,
like covering the entire state.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, so Matt was like, if they don't want
the one O four five one. You can put dot
net on there, but I got it with one four
five ESPN. But yeah, it was it was great.
Speaker 2: We are the fighters now that you will you would
travel to go see now that you got I.
Speaker 3: Would go see Ilio Taporia for sure his next fight,
especially if it's with Patty because I love both of them,
Like both of them are my fades.
Speaker 2: Some kind of some cringey trash talk last time and.
Speaker 8: The Yeah, I was like, cool, I do love that.
Speaker 3: Joe's like Joe Rogan was like, oh, I know who
you're talking about. I called him into the ring, but
at all I wish he was there on Saturday. But
Daniel Cormier was on the yes and yeah, yeah, for sure,
i'd go see Ay. I did meet this guy from Paris.
He was like with a sports organization over there, and
well this is I was telling Taylor to like everybody
that I met in the media was super cool, like
the they were awesome.
Speaker 8: Uh and I don't feel like that's always the experience
that I have.
Speaker 3: Last week, yeah, right, but I met that guy from
from Paris and he was like, oh, you should go
to the one in September coming up.
Speaker 8: The USC event in Paris in September, and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, that sounds like out way out my budget, So
I won't be there, but I hope you have a
good time. But he was saying he goes to all
the pay per views. Oh wow, I'm like, that's a
lot of international travel. Yeah, coming over literally like once
a month. Yeah, crazy for you.
Speaker 2: What's your expense report?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Signing off on that, How's Friday? How Monday go? Sitting
here hosting for us? I feel like you probably had
enough content to be able to Wed Man.
Speaker 7: That's stuff we didn't even get to. I mean we
we we let it rip. Friday was fun, Yesterday a
little bit more sports heavy. Friday was a little bit
more lighthearted. But we had a great time. You know,
it's weird.
Speaker 2: I woke up this morning.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh man, I don't have to hope
be a little bit boring today. Uh uh, Well I
didn't get to that yesterday. Critical after the show, We'll
we'll get to today.
Speaker 2: Jerry.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wish Jerry Jones would get out you know what twitching,
what's happening.
Speaker 4: Out of my life?
Speaker 9: Just get out of my life, Just get out of
your life. What are you talking about the best player
in your franchise? Unprompted by the way, they didn't ask him, Hey,
what do you think about Michael Parsons injury concerns? He's like, well,
you know, even if we sign him, are we really
gonna have him? I mean, the guy missed six games
last year? Jerry Like, why are you dumping on your franchise?
Speaker 5: Guy who you're in the middle of contract, always champions
the Cowboys?
Speaker 2: Oh guess what price?
Speaker 4: Everything he's ever on, He's like, Cowboys, Cowboys, Calvin.
Speaker 6: We're talking about the Cowboys and Batan Urselis and I
guess what they're doing in Seattle right now talking about
the Cowboys. Guess they're doing in New York City talking
about the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is a brilliant person. I
heard an analogy of him recently and I loved it.
He's like, he's the modern day P. T. Barnum, That
son of a gun. Now we can sell a circus,
Am I right? And he probably his goal. Here's the
modern day P. T. Barnum And what he's doing is
unbelievable because everybody saw and every it's every single year.
It doesn't matter how bad they are, how good they are?
They do something that everybody thinks is dumb or everything.
Everyone thinks it's cringey or like bad business, but it's
all amazing.
Speaker 2: Jerry.
Speaker 7: Jerry will say something, know what it's going to get
traction and in my opinion, just stall processes. Hey, we're
talking about in the media all the time and we
continue to turn a profit. Did my job like you
did your job as owner? Haven't done your job as
g which is the major problem we are.
Speaker 2: In Jerry's world.
Speaker 4: Did you ever like, did you ever talk with the Cowboys?
Come close to signing with the Cowboys?
Speaker 6: Yeah, in twenty fifteen, I went down there. So that
was what we needed you that year too, So that
that was the year that I was with Patriots forward
the Flate gate.
Speaker 2: And then I was with the Jets when they screwed me. Yeah,
yeah sweet mustard Jets.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then a couple of weeks ago yeah food man
chew the four because I always like grew up some
sort of facial hair out for the fourth pre season game,
so I had mancher.
Speaker 2: I had these.
Speaker 6: Beautiful curly lots sticking out the back of my It
looked like, uh, our guy in the towarter France, our
American and the fan Quinn.
Speaker 2: I dropped some dimes and then I got cut the
next day.
Speaker 6: And then I went and worked out for the Cowboys
because I can't remember who the quarterback was.
Speaker 2: Well, we were four and twelve that year. Yeah, and
Romo got hurt. Romo got hurt, I believe.
Speaker 7: I think it may have been Kyle Orton for a
few games, and then it was it was like three
guys was kind of the man and then I'll know,
but this was this was the tale that he got hurt.
Speaker 6: And then there was about three We were thirty first
in the league, and it was me, Christian Ponder, Josh Johnson,
and something like the THEA something but they had two
last names.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we all four last name. Guy got it.
Speaker 6: So we worked out and then we were like I
was spending it good. They send everybody home. They keep
me there talking about agent. I'm in the locker, I'm
having like lunch with the team and and they're like
little cafeteria and I'm just like, all right, they're just
going to put the numbers together, put the contract together,
blah blah blah. I was like, all right, I'm gonna
be starting for the Cowboys next week, right, and like
all right, cool.
Speaker 2: I was sitting in the locker.
Speaker 6: Room and like talking to Jason Whitten in the locker
because I'd seen him like down at like I kind
of knew him a little, seeing him at the beach.
And then an hour turns into two hours, two hours
turns into three hours, and I'm like like, what's happening?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like four hours later, me just sitting there, my
agent calls me. It's like, hey, sending you back to
the airport. They're signing Maccastle. Ah Orton was the year
before it was Mac. It was they signed him, and
I was like, bring his ass down here. I would
have outthrown him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You threw a five touchdown seven picks that year.
Speaker 2: Some bang up job there. So yeah, I was that
close away to playing for my childhood and yeah, didn't
get it. But I signed with the Saints like yeah
a weekly.
Speaker 4: Yeah it works out until.
Speaker 2: Started for the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, we gotta take a because we gotta take
our break. But I remember when my first time was
a free agent and they're not supposed to do this,
but agents do. They've been talking to teams because I
was coming up and my agent's like, hey, I got
a team.
Speaker 2: That really likes you.
Speaker 4: Gonna be a lot closer to your hometown.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, cool Saints Cowboys, right, And I started
looking at houses New Orleans and Dallas.
Speaker 4: It was Tampa.
Speaker 5: I'm like, t Bob when it comes to geography, like Tampa,
it's not close down there somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like Dallas, New Orleans, US goes Houston, maybe Houston,
Mike yet, maybe Houston. Yeah, but I don't know why
it's like Dallas and New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Well, yes, campus like obvious reasons, wasn't that much farther
to San Diego. So that's as close as they got
to Dallas. Because I thought maybe he was talking about Dallas.
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Speaker 4: All right, so just to get started, it's kind of
like the guests that we have coming up today. We're
gonna have Will Clapp, Saints offensive lineman, of course, former
LSU offensive lineman join us in about thirty minutes from now.
Then we're gonna have Blake.
Speaker 5: Baker, lshu's defensive coordinator join us at eight thirty. And
of course it's Tuesday, so Nick Underhill new once stop football.
But just to get it started, it's here.
Speaker 4: It is football season. It is training camp. It is
the suck of getting ready for a season, and that's.
Speaker 2: What time it is.
Speaker 4: And we have made it here.
Speaker 5: We've had media days, we've had talking season, but now
having players getting ready for camp. Having coaches, you know,
vacation is over. Our guests today are gonna tell us
about camp and kind of that last little millisecond of
a break before you get started, before it is over,
before you shut the door, lock the door, and throw away.
Speaker 2: The yeah, the uh.
Speaker 6: It's the calm before the storm. Certainly for players, it's
certainly a big calm before a big old storm. I mean,
as a former player, me and Hesse are like man
like the Saints they're reporting tomorrow. I'm sure most NFL
teams are reporting the next couple of days. I think
colleges are in like another week or so. I don't
miss that feeling. No before training camp, which was a
like remember what like as a kid you get nervous
for games, like and you got butterflies in your seming.
I never really got those like terribly when I was
like later in college and the NFL mean you get
eat up nerves, but like before training camp, it was
like little literal nerves like going into because it's like
I know what it's about to happen. Yeah, and me
like less than anybody else being a quarterback, because like
just the physical grind when they're hitting that.
Speaker 4: That part wasn't I didn't like that. I actually didn't
mind that at all.
Speaker 5: Like the physical nature of training camp, even when we
got into the league and it was old school two days,
I didn't care about that. I just hated to be
in there all damn day and staying in some random
either dorm room or a hotel, some ramata in and
you wake up at six, you're at the facility for
six thirty, and you don't get back to your room
until like ten, ten thirty. Yep, Like that's what I hated, like,
especially like later in your career when you you know
every like you know the playbook, you know the ins
and outs, you know what it takes to get ready
for the season, and it's like this is stupid.
Speaker 6: I hate yeah, just staying like in an uncomfortable place
and turning camp schedules like meant to make you uncomfortable
all the time.
Speaker 2: And then it's just your body's just not right.
Speaker 6: Like after the first day, you're sore, something's hurting, You're
you're grinding all day in meetings, workouts, practices, walk throughs,
and then oh yeah, like you're also sore as hell.
So any free time you have you're in the training
room either getting like active hands on treatment or in
the tubs or doing something.
Speaker 2: So it's like there's never a down moment in training camp.
Speaker 6: Like maybe you get twenty minutes to like we would
play like backgame or something in the locker room, like
or a card game or something. You'd stay up a
little bit later than you should because that's the only
free time you had to like talk about something else
or like a game or just like.
Speaker 5: Oh, we say you stay down there at snack, and
you know that's that's really like those snack moments, at
least for us and the teams I played for, Like
that was the team bonding.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly in San Diego.
Speaker 5: Like we would sit around a table and we'd all
be you know, one last little snack and usually the
special teams coaches down there stirring the pot and we'd have,
you know, guys from all over the country and like, hey,
how do you say this word where you're from?
Speaker 4: Well, why do you say it like that? That's stupid?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're down. My high school team is better
than your high school tea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, blah blah.
Speaker 6: But there's always that one or two coaches that love
hearing themselves talk and we love telling stories about themselves,
so like that always made for some good like either some.
Speaker 2: Some coaches told great stories and you just listened to.
Speaker 4: Was a great storytelling.
Speaker 5: He would tell John Gruden stories every day because he
was with him when they were winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yep. But it was like a snack and crushed some
lucky charms at night.
Speaker 6: But yeah, we would play games afterwards too, so we'd
always like get big games like cribbage just like I
don't know. It was mostly in Green Bay, so we
played like weird card games.
Speaker 4: And like, hey, look I just went to Green Bay.
Speaker 2: I get it. I learned how to play a lot
of games up there.
Speaker 6: But right now, from this side of the table looking in, it's, yeah,
we're kind of excited because we're so close to having
like actual tangible things to talk about and break down
and say this is good, this is bad. But it's
gonna be a little while, even after training can start.
It's like you're gonna see these little snippets of oh,
Jary No, Smyter look good today, what do you mean,
Like Brout's on air look good?
Speaker 2: Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: That's that's cool and everything and I know that, like Saints,
practice is going to be open and so we will
have things to break down them. But really until those
games started, preseason games, it's like we're so close to
having that. Yeah, like I said, the tangible things to
actually sit here break down next as and no'se but
so fired up, Like I'm just football season is.
Speaker 2: Just like on the brink.
Speaker 5: We're so some teams are already in camp. Some teams
in the NFL. I know the Chargers, they have the
Hall of Fame game. They're already in camp.
Speaker 6: Yeah, played that, No, I didn't mean they played in
it like I think the year or two after I
had left Green Bay because Brett Farr was going getting
inducted it.
Speaker 4: Then, right, this is for Antonio Gates, so they know.
Speaker 6: And for those of y'all who don't know the two
teams that play, I'm pretty sure every time or usually
they have it.
Speaker 4: This time, this time it's just one. They're playing allions.
But yeah, typically it's.
Speaker 6: Typically both teams have somebody being inducted. That's why they're
invited to play in that game and to celebrate, you know,
one of those one or two of those people that
are getting inducted. But that is a game that was
nobody wanted to do because preseason games suck unless you're
a guy that isn't supposed to make the team and
you're trying to make the team.
Speaker 2: They're not fun. I get the purpose of them. I
get the reason. But four was a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now, then when we were playing, you throw another one
on there that made it five, like five games. People
are putting their livelihoods and contracts on the line for
what you get, like three four hundred bucks a week.
They're in training game.
Speaker 2: For eighty four and eighty bucks a week. That's fine.
It's like a scholarship check.
Speaker 4: Better for you than me.
Speaker 2: It's just like a scholarship.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a last break of hour number
one again.
Speaker 5: We've got Will Clapp joining us in about twenty five
minutes from now. Blake Baker right after that, stay locked
in here to otb off the bench.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: It is always a great time.
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven champs for boll and Gold to
the core. This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn,
Baton Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 2: It's all right looking back.
Speaker 5: Here and OTV in hour number two, I do want
to play a video my former quarterback PR seventeen officially retiring.
Over the last couple of years, he's had teams kind
of reach out and you know, maybe in the eleventh
hour he joined them.
Speaker 4: But he is coaching high school football.
Speaker 5: His son is one of the top recruits in the country,
and he decided to officially retire.
Speaker 4: And I want to play some of that. But did
you know, Matthew, the moment that you're like, all right,
this is I'm done, this is I'm ready.
Speaker 2: No, for sure, I did too.
Speaker 5: Like I was actually with the Saints about to go
to the Greenbrier, and just like in Harlem Nights when
he's like, yeah, I'm not coming home anymore, I was like,
I'm not going to the Greenbrier anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm done. You can't.
Speaker 5: You can't half step into an NFL season, And I
knew that. I didn't want to be disrespectful to the Saints,
so I was like.
Speaker 6: I'm done. I was done my last year or two.
I was done a couple of times. Well, like there
was this one time I was really done, and I
do it. And I think I've told the story on
air before, but I can't tell it in fifteen seconds,
so I'll tell it later. That's called a radio team.
Oh yeah, I sees you for a few segments because
we got some guests lined up.
Speaker 5: Well, not at eight o'clock. You can tell us when
we come back and look at that. We'll play the video.
It's a whole retirement segment coming up. More OTB hour
number two when we come back. One of four five
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