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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 3: It is O TV here live from Rous' is on
Burbank and Lee, and we're gonna be joined now by
our teammate, former number eighteen, mister Richard Dick Dixon here
on the show.
Speaker 2: What's up, Dick?
Speaker 5: How are we doing doing? Good? Guy on three?
Speaker 3: Yep, let's try that again. How's it going?
Speaker 5: Awesome? Hey, there we go.
Speaker 3: Look at me.
Speaker 5: I pushed the right button. You have ever done live
radio before? Yeah, come back? Got it?
Speaker 3: This is uh, this is a little throwback. We'll go
back to nighttime radio here, bolls.
Speaker 6: Nighttime probably the most fun on Fridays.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we did show. It was it a be
our social yeah, red stick Yeah long doubt about that. Yeah.
It was a two hour show. Yeah, and then we
would want.
Speaker 2: Three maybe twelve years, I don't know something.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. We just drink a bunch of beers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and our families come say us and they run
and play and true can we.
Speaker 2: Do that again. Maybe I don't know. The morning time
the same vibe.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, not at all goes down as well. Not
to mention it was twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Was it that year?
Speaker 5: It was that year.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of years.
Speaker 5: Everything was fun Fridays. Fridays were a vibe. Yeah, that's true.
In twenty nineteen, that's true. Oh, the good old days.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 3: And like it was the only time that I guess
we because we're doing night radio. It's like, oh, they're
letting out this version of this show during the pay
Oh good, look.
Speaker 6: The best part about that night shows and me and
Matt would probably get together about five. You'll have a
marguerite or something, talk about it a little bit, then
show fresh.
Speaker 7: You had to get ready, Yeah, we was ready to go.
He had to loosen the lips a little bit.
Speaker 3: You might need to do secis or two after what's
going on here at LSU. Uh, And like, I know
you're gonna be with Hanny a little bit later on,
and you know, I'm sure Handy a lifelong LSU fans
certainly got some thoughts. But you heard a little bit
of the press conference. You know what's going on as well.
And we've talked about it. It's you know, the stability
right now doesn't look great, But what are your feelings?
Speaker 6: Man? I just always have the feeling that, you know,
we might mess up, there might be an era of issues.
Speaker 5: But we always bounce back. Right.
Speaker 6: There's so much talent here, there's so much people that
love the sport, love LSU, want it to be great
that I think it shows that when they're willing to
pay fifty four me and after four years to get
rid of the guy and bring in whoever we need
to do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're kind of in a situation where, I mean,
this is LSU And they started out that press conference
saying like LSU Athletics is not broken.
Speaker 5: We're in a little bit of troubled waters, right.
Speaker 7: It's a little bit of turmoil, uncertainty, change always brings in.
Speaker 5: It's really a little bit of Yeah, it's just football.
Speaker 3: I mean men's basketball obviously has to play better. But
the situation that you had that one you can kind
of understand because of we all thought that you were
going to get some sanctions.
Speaker 2: So like, it's just football.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Football is the main one to your point, But it's
like the athletic program isn't broken.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what I don't want to say. In LSU athletics,
I'm like, look, it's football. We won a national championship
baseball last year. Basketball's one one recently, baseball's one two. Uh,
gymnastics one one. I mean LSU athletics is great. Yeah,
it's just we're in a three and a half year yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh football.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and football is obviously the main thing because that's
the sport that mostly get So if football is unhealthy,
everything else.
Speaker 5: It's the revenue generator.
Speaker 7: And when it comes down to it at state school,
like it's all about money, right, and it doesn't matter
like you, like we were talking about women's basketball. It's awesome.
It's been so great, Kim Molky company. It has been
amazing for that sport. But even the year they won
the national starts almost yeah, lost almost ten million dollars
in revenue, just because you know, I got salaries, you
got a bunch of coaches, you got all this and that.
So like, if football is unhealthy, that overshadows every good
that you can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if football is healthy, it hides a
lot of things.
Speaker 2: How many programs could we go to?
Speaker 3: They were like man, their athletic department as a whole sucks,
but their football is great. Right, Yeah, it's like everything else, baseball, softball,
basketball is all horrible.
Speaker 6: But it also seems when football is great, other teams
do really well.
Speaker 5: Right I know.
Speaker 7: And it's crazy to think though, like in an athletic
department that is as amazing as LSU is. Like you
look at you had the documentaries about the nil you had.
You get a national championship in baseball with the guy
that Scott Woodward hired, You get it four months ago,
and then all of a sudden How crazy football is?
You lose three games against really good teams and then
all of a sudden, all hell breaks.
Speaker 6: I was talking to Hanny about this. I mean my
freshman year, we started the season three and two and everything.
I don't remember anybody panicking, nobody was freaking out. It
was just, you know, we lost the close game at
Auburn and then I think we lost to Florida. But
we were three and two, and everybody, Okay, we still
go to the Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 3: We ended that season. If there was a playoff, we
didn't won the national championship. Yeah, nobody wanted.
Speaker 6: To play killed Notre Dame in these dueves when Marge
or whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't say times of Akoski though, because he was
a Golden Glove.
Speaker 5: Boxer, I wouldn't have messed with him.
Speaker 2: For gotches some margins on that team.
Speaker 6: I just remember meeting them on Bourbon Street and then
like trying to Big League and I was like, we're
going to kill you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that exact moment as well. Uh yeah,
you're you're right about that. Like that, it's funny, like
there wasn't a panic because you know, it is the
way we lost the games too, though, and it's it's
the way we lost games like they were hard fought
games and Florida won the National championship that year, and uh,
really that.
Speaker 6: Was just a bad game. I mean, I think JaMarcus
had three or four picks in the game. We fumbled
the kickoff on the water to get me out the half.
Speaker 5: I mean, there were so many things.
Speaker 3: That JaMarcus fumbled on the one yard line on first
down after we were in a fullback belly.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I thought I got in, I didn't score.
I thought.
Speaker 3: I still think I did go back and pull up
the tape. Two thousand and six, but we were like,
it's fine, we're first and goal from the one and
we got a giant quarterback.
Speaker 2: We'll just sneak it.
Speaker 3: It's fine, And they fumbled and then Firstie Harvard I
think went the other way for a touchdown or something
like that.
Speaker 5: So everything was stacked.
Speaker 3: To the whole point of that though, it's like what
happened Saturday in Tiger Stadium, Like I.
Speaker 2: Know, for me, we lost two games.
Speaker 3: I believe in Tiger Stadium my entire four years. Tennessee
overtime on a Monday night near in Katrina and then
triple overtime versus Arkansas.
Speaker 5: So both overtime losses.
Speaker 3: It was it's not only that you were losing games,
it was the way you were losing Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: You got big boyd. You got bullied by.
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt, right, and you go back and you look at
the old Miss game like that game had so many
things in it that you just didn't do right, and
that are coaching points.
Speaker 2: And then you got ran over and you had no
answers for Texas A and M.
Speaker 3: For the second you got around sixty six to thirteen
the last outside of the last drive, you had fourteen
yards of offense like that. That's that's why, like that
was to a point of no return.
Speaker 7: Harlan Barry averages seven yards of carry in the first
seven gets one carry in the second half. Yeah, those
are egregious things. Those are egregious things. Those are fireble
offenses got fired.
Speaker 6: LSU hasn't looked tough in years, Like the last couple
of years, they haven't looked tough. You know, I go
back to and this is coaching and scheme and everything,
but what last year's on the line had four guys drafted. Yeah,
I don't think we ran the ball good at all
last year year before, I mean the whole Brian Aery
Brian Kelly era. We were not tough upfront. I mean
we had good guys, which.
Speaker 5: Was the thing that was most surprising.
Speaker 6: But if you go back, the only time we were
good was when Jayden Daniels was scrambling. Yeah for sure,
where the entire run game in the Brian Kelly air
was Outside of that, we don't have a running back
that went over a thousand.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, let's be honest. He came from Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is obviously not tough.
Speaker 2: They stink, But you always like, I mean I say it.
Speaker 3: Jokingly, but they've had offensive linemen and tight ends and
still do that he coached there that are still playing
at a high level, and so like you just assumed
that was going to be the thing that from the
get go, like if anything is short up, it's going
to be that, and it just never was.
Speaker 6: Well, we excused a lot of things too because his
name Brian Kelly and that he was a wining his coach.
I mean, I've heard for four years that the dude
was not around in the evenings, Like he walked off
the practice field, went home. He left it up to
his coach to do everything, and we're like, oh, maybe
that's the way he did it. I mean, he's a
winning his active coach. I think there's a lot of
things we excused and just kind of made excuses for.
I'm like, Okay, well that's the way he does it.
But when it's all over, I'm like, thank god, because
I wanted to freaking scream every time.
Speaker 3: So I you know, those aren't there's people here at
the station that they want to know that information, like
those are things like you didn't really I did never
seek that information to those things but now, like you're saying,
like you're starting to hear that, But I can tell
you from experience. Matt and I went to practice this
training camp and when they called it up, we were like,
what are they doing? It's like, no, practice over. We're like, wait,
what it's like a mid practice. We thought it was
like a mid practice, like hey we got to turn
the intensity up, Hey we got to finish strong.
Speaker 2: And they're like, no, no, no, it's over. We're like,
the practice is over.
Speaker 3: During training camp, I felt like we were out there
for what an hour and fifteen.
Speaker 7: Minute maybe, and it's like individual periods and it was.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was wild, and there were some old heads out
there that we were like, hey, this this is over,
and they're like.
Speaker 6: You're not dragging bodies into the shower to cool them
down right now?
Speaker 5: It was and of course you're always gonna have this.
Speaker 6: You don't have twenty five people hook to an IV
right now, what's going on.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have those poolback days of course, like rest
and recovery days. But we were asking around like this is
this like normal? And then they'd roll their eyes and
be like, yeah, pretty all.
Speaker 5: I know the game's changed on those sports.
Speaker 7: Change's right, Like, that's why we don't say that's that's
what I just assumed. It's not like alarming to us
at the time, went like we're like, okay, well the
game's changed. It looks more like an NFL practice.
Speaker 5: I get that.
Speaker 7: That's fineless to see what the product is in the film.
Maybe maybe maybe it's exactly what they need.
Speaker 6: I mean, I go back to our toughest years. I
mean it's probably before seven. Do you remember when it
was six when Pliny and Jimbo got mad at each
other and we're running that scrimmage and then we were
like one hundred and eight placed scrimmage. Then we line
up and run freaking twenty something forties because they're getting
mad at each other, calling out different people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that that was the tough news, so
mad they had to apologize to men.
Speaker 6: They're like, hey, guys, that's sorry, though, you know, without ourselves.
Speaker 3: We're so damn greedy. Before you know any better, it
was front before you got here. This is back my
freshman year. Matt will remember this. I mean, we had
a practice. We were like in period eight and it
was training camp old school two days and we had
a break, and during the breaks we had like these
tents that had water and gatorade and fruit and whatever,
and Coach Saban was like, you'll need to hurry up
with the fruit. Hurry up with the fruit. Gard taking
too long, Like, y'all need to go ahead and get
out of here. We're ready to practice again. And everybody's
peeling their oranges and doing different things. He's like, all right,
blow the whistle, start it over, and we're like, oh,
start period eight over. He goes, no, no, no, the
whole fing thing and we had to go.
Speaker 5: Back to the entrance, to the entrance of the of.
Speaker 3: The field, run back on, start warm up again, dynamic
warm up, stretching, and we started the whole practice over
at period.
Speaker 2: Eight training campus.
Speaker 5: We never took our time with the fruit after that
went through it ques.
Speaker 3: That was that was pre my high, when it was
a little bit harder to get hydrated.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of plumbs out there. That's when
cramping was just a part of life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, do you have any apples I can
just bite into and don't have to peel?
Speaker 5: Give you some salt pills and pickle juice?
Speaker 7: Oh lord, So what do you think, Bud, what do
you think about the coaching search? Like who's kind of
got who's apple of your eye?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 6: Man, this is such a confusing one for me. It's
not my money, and I'm thinking about money, you know,
that's weird part.
Speaker 5: I'm like, we're gonna do this'n fect me? But I
mean the governess said it would. Yeah, well okay.
Speaker 6: I just don't understand, Like, Okay, you can go get
big names, but what is a big name when it
costs that's one hundred and thirty in my opinion, like
one hundred and thirty million. I mean, you're not getting
another guy for one hundred million ten year or whatever.
Those guys are gonna want thirteen for ten and so
do you go down that route? I just don't see.
It's a special person. There's not a lot of Nick
Sabans out there that you can come to work and
get up.
Speaker 5: My alarm goes off the five.
Speaker 6: I might hit snooze if the worst thing's gonna happen
to me, I get fifty four million dollars, Like, I
don't know how you motivate yourself. Great point, and I
just don't know, Like there's certain people that can do it,
and you can go vet that and determine that you
can give them the money and their work ath it
doesn't change J Johnson like a Jay Johnson. But I
just don't know how you go give somebody these guaranteed
contracts and they're gonna get up and bust their ass
every day to.
Speaker 7: Be the best they can be guaranteed contracts for somebody
who's never step foot on this campus other than like
playing against LSU, probably are coaching against them. So they
take for Texas A and M for example, like Mike Elka,
I think he if they continue on their path, he
will deserve to get a contract extension there because he's
done it. They know the man he like, they understand
the work they've put in the work and they and
then probably you would trust them to vet it, like
we believe that if we give this to him, he's
not going to change.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 7: But for a man that's never stepped foot on a
campus wearing the LSU logo anywhere on their body, like,
it's hard to give somebody that kind of guarantee to
make him earn it and then extend them like there
has to be in like there's like a players I mean,
I mean, it's just like a player. It's just like
anything in life, like you want to you want to
strive for. There's a goal you have in mind to
be successful. And if you just get that goal on
the front end, like okay, work for it, prove yourself,
and then we'll sign you to that goal. Of course,
compensate him. You got to compensate blah blah blah. But
like a guaranteed one hundred million dollars for somebody that's
never put on those three letters, yeah, is a hard
one for people to swallow.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 6: And for me, like I know we're gonna get into
the whole money and everything, but this whole era of football.
You give ahigh schoolkid a million dollars, does he understand
what it takes to get there? Like when I was
in high school, I remember coming up to the campus
two weeks early to work out with the team, just
because I wanted to know what it's going to be.
Like Like I was running every night and just you know,
not sleeping. I was nervous as kind of grind the
whole time. And now you got kids that are getting
a million dollars out of high school. How many five
star guys I signed with or played with that never
touched the field. Oh yeah, those are the guys get
a million dollars stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so more than didn't.
Speaker 6: Felt like when I think about that, I'm like, Okay,
this five star guy, things haven't changed in recruiting because
he's five stars, he's getting a million dollars and that
guy I never touched the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's as the times that we're in and man.
Speaker 2: You see it.
Speaker 3: You see it across the country, and you see it
across you know, every gosh.
Speaker 2: Every conference, every major team.
Speaker 3: It feels like and we talk about it from players,
but that's right.
Speaker 2: That's a great point about coaches.
Speaker 3: Like if you know you got fifty four million dollars,
hit snooze or you might go home a little bit
early unless And that's why you got to find the guy.
It's why you gotta find your Brent Key who I
said this, and you would love him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is like your kind of guy.
Speaker 3: The guy always looks like he's ready to fight, Like
even in a good situation, he looks like he's looking
around like looking to fight somebody. That that's a guy
that doesn't look us. I want to be with exactly.
He didn't know what a snooze button is.
Speaker 6: Like, okay, so and this is a little bit crazier,
but did you hear about any fights in Campushire? Like no, No,
we gotta fight every day, the offensive line, defensive line.
Speaker 7: We loved each other off the field. Everybody's hugs. Yeah,
I threw punches every day. I mean, you wanna hear
something funny. They had the the young guys go little
Tiger Bowl. Frank's first practice they had. They brought the
young guys go back her. There's a little bit of
a fight than you.
Speaker 3: Let's go because there was a little bit of a scrum.
Speaker 5: You gotta have that.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's a little bit of bad boy you
have to be to be a guy that I want
in the trenches with me. Most of the guys that
play with me, i've seen them fight. But that's the
character that they had. And we were not gonna let
anybody beat us up the amount of time less and
us might get destroyed. And everybody's like, oh, it's okay, buddy,
we're just gonna pick.
Speaker 3: Like to me, if somebody hit I would have shoved somebody.
Somebody hitting us like they're hitting him right now, like
we're fighting every time. I sadn't that guy doing that
little dance for Texas A and M I'm getting fifteen yards?
Speaker 5: We said in pregame, I forget which game.
Speaker 3: If he'd hit this big dope that like that, like
I'm fighting.
Speaker 6: I told us what I told Charlie. I said, look,
I would have gone down. We need a couple of
personal files, like I don't see the edginess of these
guys like allowing office around.
Speaker 3: Yes, like you see a monster Delaine out there talking
his talk and then walking the walk too, like we
need we need that from more people.
Speaker 6: And that's probably the most frustrating thing to mean about
this culture. The guys who are playing like dogs and
the guys that remind me of LSU Tigers were not
here last year.
Speaker 3: What did I when I we talked to the team yesterday,
what did I? Who do I call out? Aj Hawsey,
Marcus Cooley.
Speaker 5: And Monster de Lane?
Speaker 2: I said, how long y'all been here?
Speaker 5: Three months? I was like a couple of months?
Speaker 2: They said, come.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, well y'all are the dogs. Y'all fight
your ass off every single play. And I said it
as a statement to You don't have to be from Louisiana.
You don't have to be here four years. They've been
here four months, and they got the right dog in them.
Speaker 6: There's a mentality. And I just think that you know,
wherever they came from, wherever they were, they were still
playing with that edge, practicing with that edge, preparing with
that edge, and they brought it here with guys that you.
Speaker 7: Got to be put in position to kick somebody's ass too,
Like when the offensive lineman when they're not asked to
traditionally run block, like what what foot do you have.
Speaker 5: To stand on? To talk trash?
Speaker 7: And then have that alpha mentality when they have to
zone block in a pass set, like what are you
going to do? You're hand fighting people the whole time,
you're belly bumping people, So you like get rid of that.
Speaker 5: Like we we.
Speaker 7: Did some really good things in the run game against
ad M in the first half, really good things. We
kick some ass in that thing, okay, And so they
have to get back to that to give those.
Speaker 5: Guys some confidence.
Speaker 7: Man, I see an offense right now playing with no
confidence because the play call has been awful, the game
plan has been awful. Well, we're past that now. Okay,
we got rid of that. Okay, so fix it. Do
what you did successfully in the first half of the
A and M game, nusmier play with confidence, call some
normal pass play, call some normal condumnut I got. I
got one hundred high schools out here in Louisiana right
now that are running pass plays that attack the middle
of the field and stretch.
Speaker 5: Zones out in the middle of the field. Do that.
Speaker 7: Let your offense gain some confidence and then you can
try Maybe they got that way, maybe they got that
dogg inning, they just haven't been able to let it out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean get to different levels of the field.
I mean, for me, what do y'all break down the film?
I watched the film on Sundays and it is so frustrated.
Usually about every Saturday night, I'm very mad, and then
like I haven't felt good to win this year, Like.
Speaker 7: That's why we say that all the time. It's been
no fun to watch that you.
Speaker 6: Don't feel good to win. And I have to call
Max because I got about an hour before I get
on that, and I complain, we just all off before
I get on air and drop a few f bombs
or something. So I got to get it out of
my system.
Speaker 5: But it did. You know.
Speaker 6: I try to tell people all the time, this doesn't
leave you. I haven't played fellow seasons two thousand and nine,
and I get just as mad, just as frustrated. I
care just as much as did when I was playing.
Speaker 3: No doubt, no question about it. And that's what it
should be. And that's what the person that is here
needs to have, even if they didn't play here, coach here,
work here, you know, grew up like I don't care.
Just have that, just have that right. I had it
for the Chargers when I got there. Matt had it
for the Packers. You had it for the Lions, because
that's who we are, that's what we're going to be.
That was our team, that was our teammates, and that's
what the goal was was to be there and to
be the best we could and be the best teammate
and work our ass off every single day.
Speaker 2: And that's everybody.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking to the players, talking to the coaches,
support staff, everybody in that building.
Speaker 5: We saw that yesterday.
Speaker 2: Would love to see you as a little too early
for you there, bud.
Speaker 6: Well, No, Alex was going up. I had to take
the kids to school. I was supposed to be there, but.
Speaker 7: I think we're gonna do it every I think the
Franklins to do it every Thursday, Thursday. I think the
afternoons though afternoons, okay, yeah, because back.
Speaker 2: After practice, well it was bye week.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's by.
Speaker 2: Week, their afternoon practice.
Speaker 5: I just did a lot of complaining. Y'all sound real
spoiled right now.
Speaker 2: Don't don't do not get me started on the spoils.
Speaker 5: They're so spoiled.
Speaker 6: The first Like when y'all first started doing morning show,
how often was Matt late because he said he couldn't
get out of bed.
Speaker 2: And that was never late.
Speaker 5: No, oh, coming man, Oh the old man. He's a
grown up. But like the don't a lot. I remember
us sitting there one.
Speaker 2: Day he came on at eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I remember sitting here.
Speaker 6: He's like, my New Year's resolution is to have my
feet off the bed by seven thirty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it was before seven feet on the floor.
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checking account Campus Federal dot org. All right, we got
Dick Dixon for one more segment, So handy if he's late.
Two raffinos, that's on us. That's our bad right here.
Hand up my map, go ahead and raise a hand there.
That's on Richard.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 5: I'll take it. Hey.
Speaker 7: Someone called the store a second ago. Come called the
store to ask about my high. They called it mile high.
When they call it that, I like, that's a good name.
It's actually really good.
Speaker 5: Terrible Yeah, yeah, they say, can you take it every day? Absolutely?
It's a food. It is a food.
Speaker 7: It's not like it's not a supplementation. It's not like
a vitamin situation. It's all about mineral It's all about electrolytes. Yeah,
so hydrate hydride every day. We should drink it all
day at your house. Absolutely. My kids drink three, four, five, six,
seven of them.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a regiment we see on for game
day for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we go we go.
Speaker 3: Zero sugar during the day, then we go sugar before
the game.
Speaker 5: That's right? Is that right?
Speaker 2: Is that we're doing that right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Drink my high dot com.
Speaker 2: Come pick it up at Rouses as well.
Speaker 5: To Hey, thanks for this card. Check this out. That's
so sweet. Jake gave me this card today.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: So I was looking at the shot and it's so crazy.
Just that, right, the guy that you know, I fell
in love with football watching with.
Speaker 2: Troygman, and then he grew up in Dallas, That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then so now I'm like, I think about quarterback
stats and what I think is good.
Speaker 5: I go back and watch our games.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Matt was seventeen for twenty two or one
hundred and seventy yards, two touchdowns, healthy game. Yeah, And
I'm like, oh, you didn't even throw for three hundred
fifty passing.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's gout had a damn near one to one
touchdown interception ratio. Yeah, it's sixty one percent completion rating.
Speaker 2: But sixty one back there was probably actually pretty high.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now, career one sixty five touchdowns, one forty one interceptions,
and he was the greatest quarterback.
Speaker 5: Of all time.
Speaker 7: Right anyways, career seventy seventy eight concussions.
Speaker 5: Anyway, thanks for this. I deal.
Speaker 7: I love my nineties Cowboys and my nineties Rangers.
Speaker 6: Hours that cards are coming back because I was a
childhood deal. Like I had binders, yeah right, and I
used to have like labeled by you know, teams and
sports and everything. And now my son's like, deck, can
you give me some baseball cards. I'm like, let's go
get five of the money. Also, me and me and
me and Matt might dabble.
Speaker 5: We dabble, we dabble a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, you're also trying to turn the profit on the
sports cards.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2: I haven't doing good, been good.
Speaker 5: That's not gambling, it's investing. Investing.
Speaker 2: That's sure. You actually do get something back, You do.
Speaker 5: Get something where you don't don't lose it all you're gambling.
Speaker 6: Well, my son doesn't because they're all thrown underneath his ball.
Speaker 5: That's true. Oh lord, he likes the baseball.
Speaker 6: He likes the baseball. He likes anything, like he likes
the Lions, like I love. I'm in texting Calvin and
I'm like my son's team. We played flag with the
Lions and he loves being involved with that. So when
I show him somebody on TV that you know that
I'm talking to, Yeah.
Speaker 7: For sure, that's what I like. We my son pulled
like Aaron Rodgers card I took it.
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, take a picture of it. I
said it to him and air sits back or a
response or something. That's it. He's like, what.
Speaker 7: Wait, you didn't get my good side all right?
Speaker 2: Before we let you go, we got to.
Speaker 3: Get like your list of of who you want to see.
It doesn't have to be in the job, just getting
I know, give me like three names that if you said, okay,
these three guys, I want them in front of that
committee that we just heard that is, you know, whether
five members five member committee that they have, and I
want these three names to be at least, you know,
having a conversation with them and then they can choose
the best one.
Speaker 6: So if you're gonna go pull out the check book
and do all the things that we talked about, they're
not going to do. It's a Lane type deal. I mean,
I like Lane, I like his personality, like the way
he runs the offense. I don't think that's very likely.
It could be. I know that he's a big name
out there. I can't give you three it's Kelvin after that.
I mean, I know he's young, only been coaching five years,
but I know that he's a football genius. Like I've
been in the film room with him, like I've watched
him on the field. I've watch him command of defense.
I used to have to argue with him and fight
him at practice because we couldn't run plays in practice
because he would tell the whole defense what we're about
to do. Yeah, he was that type of player that
he's calling of. Hey, they're running to the right, they're
doing this, it's going to be a stretch. Like he
just knows football. And I think in this day and age,
young youthful guys who understand the game, understand the tradition,
have the passion for it, or not as far away
from these you know, these football gods that we've looked
at over you know, over the lives.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you see it. You've seen it at
at all levels. The young coach Sean McVay. But I
was thirty years old when he took the job with
the Rams. I mean you've seen it, you see it all.
How old is dying him?
Speaker 5: They can't be.
Speaker 2: Kenny's thirty four to thirty five, I believe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Arizona State coach is thirty five. And the
other name people throw out is you know Joe Brady,
which you know, I like what Joe did in twenty nineteen,
but people forget he parlayed that into a job Carolina
Panthers and got fired. Like when he's been great, he
had Joe Burrow and Josh Allen.
Speaker 7: If you're reaching up to NFL coordinator, Kelvin's the answer.
Speaker 2: Certainly because Joe Brady's not been a head coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, I.
Speaker 6: Think Kelvin has done more with less in the NFL,
whereas you know Joe Brady has. You know, he's charge
of an offense with once in a lifetime quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I gat walked in or Elses this morning at six
thirty five, six forty, and I wasn't one hundred percent
sure about is Kelvin us. I had answered, I'm gonna
leave here a little bit more confident that Kelvin could
be a guy that needs to be strongly considered. And
I don't know if he's the right answer or not,
but he certainly needs that. You had to have a
conversation with him. I mean, I don't know who the
right answer. I'm just let me make that perfectly clear.
The lame thing doesn't like excite me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like when you're talking about going and getting
somebody that's you know, the only one, and like I'm
not in that book. I've known Kelvin since I was
seventeen years old. I know the type of duty is.
I know how he works, and to me, it's all
about you know, come here with wherever. You know the expectations,
you know the passion, you know that you know. I
could see Kelvin not leaving that room, not leaving that
building until he gets things right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you. I mean, he's
certainly a name that I would have a conversation with.
I love Kelvin, and uh, that's you need, like whatever
whatever that coach is, that's what you need. You need
a guy that's gonna lock himself in the building until
it's right, and then when it's right, he doesn't change
his ways. He just continues to work at brin Key.
Like you got Georgia Tech. All we talked about I got.
I got a best friend that's on that staff.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: He called me the end of the night, like at
eight thirty to get an update on what's going He's like,
what's going on down there?
Speaker 2: You know, one of those deals.
Speaker 3: And it was eight thirty at night, and I'm like,
I'm you know, watching football, watching my son.
Speaker 5: What's up.
Speaker 3: He goes, Oh, we just took a break, so we
mean to He's like, yeah, we just took a break
from third downs.
Speaker 2: We're going to red zone here in a little bit.
There's eight thirty at night.
Speaker 5: There's nothing. Well, let me think about it. You know.
Speaker 6: You know, I remember coming home, you know, we all
used to live over there down right side, and we
go to a bar, go to walk ons and not
super late, but like go have beers and headed home
at eleven o'clock and you had to drive past the
stadium and you saw all the coaches there, Yeah, which
you garnered respect for that. Like we're out here, like
we put into work in the day, rest of our butts.
We went to go have a few beers and I
remember it, you know, Pauline Miles Henson, all the coaches
were still there at eleven o'clock at night. So when
I got up in the morning, I didn't feel bad
that I'm tired and had to get up like these
This guy's been freaking refushing butt till goodnight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: We gotta let Dig Dixon go. He's got to get
all the way to Rafinos to get the show.
Speaker 7: Do you have a do you have a line pick?
You want to be part of the Ponting parlay this weekend?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to pick on her schedule. How about
you do this?
Speaker 3: How about you look at it while you're parked not
driving wink Win and you give us a pick and
you just text it to us. You can wait, but
all right, we'll have as a guest figure. All right,
we appreciate it. We will step away more OTB when
we come back here live from Rouses on burbankon.
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Speaker 4: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, oh hey, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Look at us?
Speaker 3: Look at us?
Speaker 7: Tick Dixon for stopping back. Yeah, that was fun, my
little blast from the past, old hanging with yesterday's.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: Enjoyed that man.
Speaker 3: And as you know, dig Dixon is going to be
as real as they come up. And you could tell
he had a passion for Kelvin being you know, I mean,
I would be given an opportunity, I.
Speaker 5: Would be very in favor of that.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying that he's the perfect and the right
or my first or whatever. I don't have a first,
I don't have a second, third, I don't have a last.
But I'm willing to hear arguments and I'm willing to
hear the passion for whoever it is. I can tell
you what I don't want. You can put it. You
can put your finger on it when you see it.
It's hard to explain, but you can.
Speaker 5: You can, you can. You can decide what you don't want.
That Kelvin would check a lot, a lot, a lot
a lot of boxes.
Speaker 3: And that that's my whole point in trying to nominate myself.
Speaker 5: Are you.
Speaker 2: I don't care which one of us.
Speaker 5: You should be.
Speaker 7: You should definitely, because you do talk like you have
a relationship with all the coaches around the country because
of your show, because of your platform, because you get
to talk with them and you get to see them
in casual environment. Yeah, like a lot of a lot
of shows. It's just like, you know, here's your question
to your answer, and these are going to get your
stock answers, but you get to see them in a
much more casual environment.
Speaker 5: So you get to see a different side of these coaches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see them at the hotel bar.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I just think you need a football current football
mind in there because of what Matt just said. I
always say in five minutes, I can tell you it
might be two minutes and two minutes I can read
through the BS. Right, how much of this is like authentic?
Authenticity should be like one A or one B on
what you're looking for in this next coaching.
Speaker 5: Hire both one A and B, Yeah, and two?
Speaker 3: And how authentic are you about this job? About what
it takes to be successful here? Are you going to
do what it takes to be successful here? And when
you speak, can I believe you? Can I trust you?
Or are you just giving me big words? How many
people do you know that are in this profession that
just give you big and just patch you on the head.
Speaker 2: Right, that's never gonna be this show, I can.
Speaker 5: Tell you that.
Speaker 2: But that's what it's like.
Speaker 3: Oh, they give you big words, they pat you on
the head and like make you feel like you're lesser
than because of it, right, And some of that is
what the feel was at least I think for a
lot of people.
Speaker 5: And they don't want that.
Speaker 2: Again, they don't want that.
Speaker 3: They want somebody that they know from the moment that
they speak, that's our guy, that's our coach, and he's
doing even if it's not successful, he's doing literally everything
this man can possibly do to be successful because it's
his thing, it's what he cares about most. And then
you can tell that within two minutes if somebody's saying
that they do all that, you can tell if it's
authentic or not.
Speaker 7: Yep, And you can and if you can't tell, and
it sounds good, there's your answer, there's your answer. We
just I think that we just went through that right Yep. Again,
everything sounded great, everything on the words was there. There's
us a disconnect And I said it yesterday. The opinion
of Brian Kelly throughout his tenure when you ask people, hey,
what do you think of Brian Kelly? When people ask
me what do you think of Brian Kelly, it is
I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think good. I think good. We will see.
Speaker 7: That was the majority of the answer that was ever
uttered when somebody was asked, what do you think of
Brian Kelly? I think a lot of buying, a lot
of want to, a lot of yep. The credentials there,
got a great resume.
Speaker 5: I just don't know. I got to see it. Yeah,
I just never saw it.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 3: I never just never had like an extended conversation. It
was always very matter of fact, like professional conversation, move on,
you know, like even when with you know, you go
over there.
Speaker 2: Blake Baker, it's like Blake's gonna wap you up and
talk ball.
Speaker 5: You talk about life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's a genuine conversation. There's a lot
of people in that building that are like that.
Speaker 5: Yep, a lot.
Speaker 7: Not to say that Brian Kelly didn't want to win
and b six asful. I'm sure he wanted to, but
there was a disconnect. But guess what, guess don't need to.
Speaker 5: Waste of breath on it anymore.
Speaker 7: We got verge on the Casey if you a just reminder,
if y'all want to see the whole press conference announcing
Verge as the interim athletic director for LSU, we played
it here on the show at the beginning of hour two.
It was a super long segment, obviously because we wanted
everybody to see.
Speaker 5: So you can go back and check that out.
Speaker 7: I was our number two for about twenty twenty five
minute press conference. Ish took a lot of good questions,
kind of state of the Union, of where we're at,
where we're going, and a lot of questions still remain,
a lot of uncertainties, and certainly change does bring that.
But I can tell you, Jake can tell you from
being over there at the facility yesterday, that Football Ops
building hasn't been closer than it is right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in a while, I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't tell you because we didn't have the access,
weren't there quite as much. But like what we saw
you from yesterday is a group of men women, they're
all pointed in the same direction and all ready to roll.
So I don't know if the result's going to be
on the field, but I got a feel and it's
going to be a lot more fun watching it all right.
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Pontoon Parlay. We didn't have time for what's the ticket today,
but I'll tell you this. The lowest ticket in the
top twenty five Louisville at Virginia Tech seventeen six dollars
six dollars. Louisville at Virginia Tech six bucks get you
into the game.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: The highest ticket in the top twenty five this weekend
Oklahoma at Tennessee two hundred and fifty nine dollars. Okay,
that's a big stadium for two hundred and fifty nine dollars. Yeah,
so that's six figures right over one hundred thousand kneeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of
doll hairs there.
Speaker 7: Boll Yeah, that's Oklahoma going there to get one of
the most expensive. Most of the games at home have
been one of the cheapest for Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 2: Wild, it is true. That's a good point.
Speaker 3: So yeah, highest ticket Oklahoma at Tennessee two hundred and
fifty nine dollars.
Speaker 5: Six dollars. So that's that's like a third of a beer.
Speaker 2: Six bucks.
Speaker 3: And Louis was like good in Virginia Tech Stadium, Atmosphere
in Lane Stadium. It was rocking last week and they won. So,
I don't know, six bucks, six bucks gets you into
that game. Louis will certainly a team to pay attention to.
Speaker 5: Jeff Braum. Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll see, all right, we'll take a break, our last
break of the show. We'll wrap it up with a
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB here live from rouses
On Burbank and Lee. I'm gonna throw it right back
to Studio A Landra and Tata with their pontoon parlay
picks for this week.
Speaker 8: All right. So, but I know that I was on
a heater at first, but after we acknowledged the heater,
my last what like two or three picks haven't done
too well. So I feel like I just need a
little base hit here. Just put the ball in play.
And Vanderbilt has never failed me anytime that I have
bet on them. The line has moved from two and
a half what it was yesterday to three and a half.
So again, Texas, I don't know why they're the favorite,
I guess because they're at home, but they've got a
lot of people injured, Arch may not play, So I'm
gonna go Vanderbilt to cover minus three and a half
versus or plus three and a half versus Texas.
Speaker 9: All right, you told is a really good team. Rice
Echles is such a hard place to play. But they
got Cincinnati coming in seven and one. Brendan Soresby looking
like one of the best quarterbacks in the country. Utah
very well could win this game. However, the Utes are
a ten and a half point favorite. Give me Cincinnati
plus ten and a half on the road against Utah.
Speaker 2: All right, I like both of those picks.
Speaker 7: You'd be looking like one of the best quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Like that, Alander.
Speaker 7: Great pick, by the way, I mean, yeah, that's a
very pick.
Speaker 5: Does I just don't I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: Definitely. I hustling that one myself. Great job, great picks.
I like both those picks. All right, Matthew, I'm going
to head up to Knoxville. Knoxville, I'm gonna go to
the big SEC game of the week. We got Tennessee
hosting the Oklahoma Centers. I'm taking Tennessee minus two and
a half. I think at home that crowd, I think
it's going to be an electric situation. Oklahoma, I think
you've been fools gold for a little bit. You gotta
really good defense, all right, you got a good defense,
I get it. I just think they've been a little
bit of fools gold this season.
Speaker 2: Would you would you get that at what number?
Speaker 5: Tennessee minus two and a half.
Speaker 3: Tennessee minus shoes versus this soon? Okay, two hundred and
fifty nine dollars to get into that game. By the way,
just a reminder, HI is ticket in the top twenty
five this weekend?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to go to a Pac.
Speaker 3: Twelve game, come on, and so that means it's only
one set of teams that could be going against each
other because there's two teams, so classic matchup. I am
going to go Washington State Wazoo minus three against Oregon
State in the first of two matchups. Remember they play
each other twice, double round robin because they're the only
two teams in the Pac twelve. So they'll play this
week on the road, then they'll play the final game
of the year at Wazoo.
Speaker 2: Which is just so funny to me.
Speaker 3: College football so they're at home. They're on the road
this one. They're on the road this one. But Oregon
State is bad, bad. Oregon State has not won a
game in a long time. I think they have maybe
one win on the year, and was Zoo's actually been
playing pretty well, like Wazoo took Ole Miss to the wire,
they took Virginia to the wire. Those are two top
fifteen teams. They're four and four on the season, and
Oregon State's just a complete dumpster fire. I'm trying to look, No,
they don't have a power or no, they don't have
an FBS win. They have an FCS win against Lafayette,
not ull don't Lafayette.
Speaker 2: Of the FCS. But that's that's it.
Speaker 5: So they were zero for their first seven, but they
have scored.
Speaker 7: At least twenty four points against the FS opponent.
Speaker 2: Right that they did that, they did they did it again.
Speaker 5: They're still looking to do that.
Speaker 2: We got twenty five last week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, take that back, that's late.
Speaker 3: Correct that late touchdown that they had that was definitely meaningful.
Speaker 2: All right, give us a rundown to the Pontoon parlay.
Speaker 7: All right, we got Vandy plus three and a half
at Texas wildline there absolutely wild line Sincy plus ten
and a half at Utah, Tennessee minus two and a
half at home versus this Oklahoma Sooners Washington State traveling
to Oregon State minus three and a half. Wa was
Washington State minus three and a half.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 7: Ain't no guests, that's what it's going to be, all right,
there's no party bars today.
Speaker 3: Look, let's fi let's put it together in text? Yes, quick,
all right, we could do quick, go ahead and go
ahead like you if you got it.
Speaker 2: We got a minute, okay.
Speaker 8: I was talking to Taylor about this earlier Saints to
cover versus the Rams. The lines pretty big.
Speaker 3: It's fourteen and a half.
Speaker 5: Taylor.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna take uh the forty nine Ers to
cover the two and a half. They're two and a
half point road favorite over the Giants, but they're getting
healthier and healthier. McCaffrey looks good. I'll take the forty
nine Ers covered two and a half. It's covered two.
Speaker 5: And a half.
Speaker 7: Matthew, all right, I'll take the Bears plus two and
a half versus Engles.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Colts minus three and a half against
the Steelers.
Speaker 7: There we going now boom. I don't remember what we said,
but we'll.
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