Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: Welcome back again, Oh TB one O four five, ESPN,
Beton Rouge, Jake Flynn, Elandra and Tata.
Speaker 4: Oh here with you? What are you doing over there, Maddie.
Speaker 2: Our two be a I'm scanning a card over here,
a sports card football card. Got a fresh shipment in
the mail yesterday. I brought him over for Jake to see.
I knew he'd be really excited about this one. Oh
it's my Cousin's your cousin, Devin? Check this out, Devin Hester,
greatest kick returner time. Checking this out? Look at that
half of it him with the Bears, half of it Falcons.
Speaker 4: Greatest kick returner of all time. I don't know he's
in the.
Speaker 3: Three that I would probably argue, all right, prime time,
I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he did it enough.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll give me the three DeShawn Jackson. Okay,
Devin Hester and Dante Hall play for the Chiefs. Surprisingly,
I didn't know that you did.
Speaker 2: Hey, what so I believe Hester leads the Uh he
leads one of the most touchdowns. I'd have to look
it up on I can't remember his part returner kick return?
Speaker 3: Did I did I catch him from behind? When we
played the Bears.
Speaker 4: One time I did?
Speaker 2: Was he hurt?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: You don't know that.
Speaker 3: He's in the open field and this Hester one just
saying got him?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you talk that ish? We were getting our butts kicks?
Speaker 2: So probably so?
Speaker 3: No. Uh, and Deshaun Jackson made me fall like I
got shot from the top.
Speaker 4: Of the stadium straight on my face.
Speaker 2: Speaking.
Speaker 4: Joshua Cribbs was a dog.
Speaker 2: He was really good.
Speaker 6: The only player in the Browns that could score.
Speaker 2: And he was a returned Yeah. He was wild because
he was not like an electric athlete. He just looked
his movements didn't seem like they were really fast. He
was kind of stiff, ran up high because he was
a taller guy, so he didn't look like he was
moving that fast.
Speaker 6: What's his name before they moved him to running back
like Corderio Patterson was actually a really good return early.
Speaker 2: In his career. I mean he's what six four two thirty? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he had some moments, didn't he?
Speaker 3: RISCy Harvin? Was he eat as well? Seahawks Vikings. I
got him more with the Vikings than I did the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if our sports knowledge like goes back
enough to like talk about some of the old heads
that were returners. So if you got.
Speaker 3: Sayers was like a really good billy white shoes. Oh,
Brian Mitchell, how do y'all remember him? Played for the Redskins,
for the Les He's He's got the most return yards
in NFL history.
Speaker 2: I would just go, I just go to Prime Time
because I grew up watching the Cowboys. So it's like
I remember, if they never punted it to him, he
would always get back there. They would just put it
out of bounds, putting out a bounce, punt it out
of bounds, and then when they did it was like,
hold your breath, look.
Speaker 4: At you, hunt, Eric mtcalf, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Let's go former charger. So speaking of like.
Speaker 4: Darren Sprolls, he's pretty good back there.
Speaker 2: Super fast people that are electric when they get the
ball in their hands, and he has done some returning
and been pretty good at it. Tyreek Hill's pretty fast
and kind of in the news right now because this
this offseason, he's been doing a lot of different track meets.
Like he's kind of made it public that he wants
to try to compete in the twenty twenty eight Olympics
that run one hundred meter dash. So he's been going
to these different track meets running one hundred meter dashes.
He's like publicly called out probably like a little bit
jokingly called out the gold medalists for it, like no
Alliles who ran what he ran like a ninety seven
to two or something like that, which is like, which
is smoking car? So I believe this past weekend he
ran in a track meet in Texas. Tyreek Hill, professional
football player wide receiver, ran a ten to ten one
hundred meter, which is his personal best. His previous personal
best was a ten to one five earlier in the spring.
So he got a little bit better int and he
actually ten.
Speaker 4: One, sorry like if you hear that more commonly.
Speaker 2: So he did beat Noah Lyle's brother. And then so
he's coming. I don't know to what end he's trying
to do this. I know He's made a lot of
very uh out there statements about what he's second profession
could have been at one point and what he wants
to do. But yeah, I don't know if he's serious
or not. But good lord, a professional wide receiver that
doesn't run track full time. It's just really fasten one,
get out of here.
Speaker 3: That's that's what we call picking him up and putting
him down pretty fast. Another track guy inside the chad
gets a little mentioned here. Tim Dwight ran track for
Iowa and then was a legit returner for the Falcons
and Chargers.
Speaker 4: I mean, I told you all my story.
Speaker 3: The hardest guy for me to tackle was Julian Edelman
in the return game.
Speaker 4: Just wouldn't I go down. It's like, hey, guy, chill out,
just get taxed down.
Speaker 2: Doing so little and competitive.
Speaker 4: Stop being tryhard white guy and just down all right.
Jeez and Pete.
Speaker 2: People felt like when they tackled you, like man, these
a little boat leg. These they kind of go backwards.
Speaker 4: They just never stopped.
Speaker 2: They just won't touch the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wes Walker didn't return in the NFL. In college,
he had the record for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in Texas touchdown in NCAA history.
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here looking at Cordero Patterson's numbers because we
were talking about him as a returner.
Speaker 2: This is kick return only.
Speaker 6: He's been in the league twelve years and has eighty
two hundred return yards and nine touchdowns.
Speaker 2: That's wilde nine touchdownsick returns he has.
Speaker 6: He's only returned to one punt in his NFL career, Like,
this is all kick.
Speaker 4: Return He's got the most punt returns.
Speaker 2: I think it's Devin Hester. We're looking up now, we're
angry at angry tapping. We were like airport attendant typing
right now. Yeah, uh patter, So it's not great for
your boy here.
Speaker 6: Patterson has had one thousand kick return yards three times
even close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Devin Hester fourteen?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Metcalf has ten, Brian Mitchell has nine.
Speaker 2: Brian Mitchell is the most yards at he couldn't get
one more? Four thy n ninety nine yards one more.
Come out of retirement right now? You know who shut
down Devin Hester.
Speaker 3: I'll let it guess you know, well, yeah, the LSU
Tigers playing him in the Peach Bowl two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and five. Ever heard of it?
Speaker 4: The only time you didn't suck kidding. There's a there's
a time or two after.
Speaker 2: You. Pretty good guy right here.
Speaker 4: Do you remember who the quarterback was in that game
going against you?
Speaker 2: Sure do? All right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Who was the number one quarterback?
Speaker 2: Number one quarterback in my uh yeah, my signing class.
Speaker 3: Remember they moved Devin Hester to running back that game,
and they kept trying to like get him on a
toss sweep and like get him to the edge, and
like Laron and all these guys are like sitting there
like waiting on him, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep doing that, keep doing that. I don't I
don't remember anything about that game that I wasn't a
part of because I was so focused, locked in. Getn't
yelled at probably a boy Jimbo on the sideline on
the phone.
Speaker 4: Now now, now, Flint, tell me why? Why tell me
why you do that? Why did you ever tell Jimbo why? Yeah?
He always asked.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he ever let you really tell
him why. You'd start a sentence, then he would finish
it for you. That was the worst feeling. You come
off the sideline after a bad play or like a
three and out or whatever. You sit down on the
sideline with you know, whether it's James Coley or uh
Tracy or whoever it was, and you'd hear that was
a telephone on the sideline ringing, and you knew based
on like even the rings sounded angry. You knew picking
it up COLEI or whoever it was was like for you, like,
oh man, you just getting here full exactly.
Speaker 3: In that game, Melvin Oliver five tackles, Fellowshoe, Ollie high
Smith five tackles, Pretty Ronnie Prude had four tackles, la
Ron Landry had four, Claude Roten had four.
Speaker 4: I bout some of these names.
Speaker 3: Glenn Dorsey had three, Derry Beck with Dougie had two, uh,
Chefish Jackson, Kyle Williams, Cameron Vaughan.
Speaker 2: How about a defensive line with Melvin Oliver, Claude Road
and Kyle Williams on it. It's pretty good and Dorsey
it was rotating, decent rotation. And who's alos other end
was it? Kirsten probably?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Curston played for like he played six years in college
before was to play six years.
Speaker 2: Well, so he was my uh my signing class at
three shout out, number one signing class in the country.
No big deal. Probably not at all because of me. Uh.
Chris of Pittman though, was a true freshman who played
a lot of people that you don't think of. Played
a lot in the three as a true freshman that
that defense, and then he was here after us. He
had some injuries, he had some injuries, but he was
one of the guys that did He got two he
got two rings.
Speaker 4: You did as well.
Speaker 2: Let's see. Uh, the's Sean Jordan Xenon, CHRISA. Pittman, Will Arnold,
who else? Who else is Zinger?
Speaker 6: Wayne Boo bo did not?
Speaker 2: He went on seven.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I just met your three signing class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, that three signing class. We have some
studs Ali, Bruce Sard, Craig Davis, Dwayne bo.
Speaker 4: Who rangy guy in the three signing.
Speaker 2: Class f jam Mark might have been JaMarcus. This doesn't
have stars next to the Jesse Daniels.
Speaker 4: That's a stack class.
Speaker 2: It's a stack class.
Speaker 4: At least you didn't bring your class down like I did.
Speaker 2: Patty Fisher Scholarship punter. I remember seeing the highlight films
of him like kicking, because we had this, we had
this highlight film that they played at the the What
was the big the bash. They played that every year
like our highlight film. They gave it to all the
all the recruits that signed, and it was like such
a cool highlight film. But Patty Fisher was there punting
it and there's like nobody at Maryland football high school
football games, and there's nobody in the stands. There's just
trees all around him, and he's punting from like his
own twenty yard line and just punts it out of
the stadium into the trees like it looks like justin Vincent,
what's the highest in this class? He was technically a
year ahead, but a gray shirt. I think he counted
towards it, but I don't think he counted towards our
class during the actual signing day when they like graded.
Speaker 6: But Craig Davis then Craig Davis was he was in
a high four store.
Speaker 4: Most impressive highlight tape still to this day. Sean Jordan.
Speaker 3: Sean Jordan running over these little old passo defenders that
were trying to tackle him.
Speaker 4: At arms, No chance.
Speaker 2: He's about four times everybody's size on the field.
Speaker 4: Faster, bigger, drunk.
Speaker 3: I don't know that we could find a way to
pull that up and it'd probably be too grainy to
even figure out who is.
Speaker 2: And just remember about Sean Jordan state champion wrestler in Texas.
He also defeated the Oklahoma state champion in wrestling in
high school. Wanted to wrestle in college as well as
play football, and uh, you know this day and age
or that day and age, there wasn't a lot of
access to the old Internet machine.
Speaker 4: Certainly enough for Sean.
Speaker 3: Like Sean grew up like literally like nl pass so
worried about out like football and family and like wasn't
online searching things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think his when he committed, he was
the sign between US and Nebraska, right.
Speaker 4: Because Oklahoma State were one of those one of those
that was.
Speaker 2: Like a really top wrestling program play football. And then
what did Derek Dooley tell him.
Speaker 3: Derrek Dooley, the running back coach at the time, told
Sean that LSU had a wrestling team and that he
could do both. He could wrestle and he could play
football at LSU. What Derek Dooley forgot to add to
the wrestling team was it was a club wrestling team
that you could do for fun and not for actual competition.
And again Sean didn't know any better, and you know,
it wasn't it wasn't something you could easily find. And
so Sean committed to LSU based off that information, and
he didn't find out there wasn't a wrestling team until
he got to campus. And you might be like, well,
he didn't talk to the coach. I never talked to
Jimbo or Derrek Dooley in my recruiting. I only talk
to Kirk Dahl and coach Saban.
Speaker 4: That was it. It was a different time back then.
Speaker 2: I guess technically not a lie from Douley, a little
bit of an embellishment as a club wrestling, but certainly
you'd think there might be a follow up question to
Duley on it, and maybe I take a visit see
the wrestling tights or anything like what color of the tights?
Speaker 4: You know though? You know Sean, Oh yeah, oh yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll do it, all right, we'll catch up with
Connor O'Gara Saturday down south when we come back here
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Speaker 4: Well, you didn't.
Speaker 1: Walk locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven.
You're listening to off the benchy.
Speaker 4: Feeling right, but Donald there read get over me. Well
you can say that you need all right? Hopefully catching
up with Connor o Garas Saturday down south here.
Speaker 3: In a couple of minutes. What did your Your cards
can tell you?
Speaker 4: Are we doing well? Are we doing bad?
Speaker 3: Let's see if you want to by the way at
off the break La, if you want to check out
cards on Instagram or Twitter.
Speaker 4: A lot of stuff out there, A.
Speaker 2: Lot of stuff. Man.
Speaker 3: We are a lot of an LSU players, a lot
of Saints.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't know a couple of weeks ago there
this sports card world would take us where we are now.
Speaker 4: But we're in it here we are. Do we get Connor?
Or is he uh no?
Speaker 5: But I'm texting him right now?
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Starts getting close to media days. Gotta start feeling themselves
a little bit, start feeling themselves. Must have got like
a little new outfit for media days, you know, Taylor,
them all got him a little button up, some khakis,
some new shoes, maybe got a haircut.
Speaker 2: The pleats, how many pleats?
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 2: Do people still wear the pants with? Like? What are
the the cuffs at the bottom? Is that what it
was when they were kind of rolled up. But that's
how you did it. I bet Harball does I remember
putting those on?
Speaker 4: How did he not have like a signature Khaki?
Speaker 2: I'm sure he did.
Speaker 4: I don't remember seeing that.
Speaker 2: How many startup Khaki companies tried to get him in
as a on the ground floor ground floor investors? Possibly you? Oh,
I remember going to Sunday School at Green Acres Baptist
Church with those khakis from Dillard's bottom of it rolled
up a little bit Doc Martin's.
Speaker 4: Was it the place to be?
Speaker 2: Can fine? You know.
Speaker 4: In your Dry county?
Speaker 2: In my dry county? That's right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: So, like I said, hopefully we can catch up with Connor.
We were trying to get you ready, kind of get
your mind right for SEC media days as well, Like
we're trying to prepare you because this is your first
time and on the first day is the l s
U Day.
Speaker 2: So I really I'm more of a crammer, though I
like to cram last minute.
Speaker 4: I don't love that. Are you gonna be on the
plane kind of like my, uh, what You're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be on the plane and you're gonna be stealing
my notes, cheating off my paper?
Speaker 2: Looking at all myself. No, I'm not even then. Uh,
it'll be at the hotel night before and then like
we'll be hanging out having a good time, a couple
of pops, and all of a sudden you'd be like,
wait where Flincoln Irish goodbyes all day?
Speaker 4: Oh that's you. I oh okay.
Speaker 2: Not in the middle of something fun, but like it's
starting to wind down a little bit.
Speaker 4: You don't want anybody else because of you.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't want to be like, well, there's a
lot of people you don't want to say, Like if
you start one goodbye, then you got to say goodbye
to like twenty other people. It's just like I'm doing
everybody a favor. I'm out. I mean, we'll see you later.
Hit me up, say in touch.
Speaker 4: I'll think anybody stay in touch. Oh yeah, dude, you're
all there together.
Speaker 2: Make sure make sure.
Speaker 4: Have Connor Connor. I got Connor?
Speaker 5: All right, awesome Saturday, Okay, y'all be quiet.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he's over here, brodap and people saying
we'll catch up soon.
Speaker 4: Uh, Connor, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 7: I'm doing well? Apologies. You know, sometimes even when you
what is it like nine apparently not great, so apologies.
Speaker 4: I'm for that all good, Connor.
Speaker 3: I was trying to explain to Flynn this is his
first SEC media day, so he's going in, you know,
kind of blind a little bit for the first time.
He's never been either, like he's never seen the crazy circus.
Would you have any advice for Matt Flynn as he
gets ready to head to his first media days.
Speaker 7: Any sort of expectation you have about SEC and the
numbers that.
Speaker 4: We're losing. Connor is Hey, let's just see if we
can call Connor back a man.
Speaker 2: I don't on the edge of I want some advice.
Speaker 4: No, I was ready Gordy forget to pay the phone bill?
Come on, what happened here? Is that an internet issue?
Is that a phone issue? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think we got it was we got next to
it is a landline?
Speaker 4: Like can you like unplug it?
Speaker 3: And like you know, like al video games used to
blow in the video game, like do you do that
like with the old phone and then put it back
into the wall.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because that worked on video games. No matter what.
Speaker 2: Up to the ceiling fan that was that was spinning
so fast it was shaken.
Speaker 4: I never what so I did never pulled that move. Oh, yeah,
that's not something I ever did.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes it was you had to cool it down too,
so you couldn't just blow in it to get the
dust out. Yeah, he had a cool it down. All right.
Speaker 4: We'll see if Connor blew into his cell phone and
has it working. Now, Connor, can you hear it?
Speaker 7: I can hear you the whole time for for the rest. Look,
I'm just gonna that's that's what I do.
Speaker 4: All right, it's a little bit choppy.
Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see if we kind of can we
get your answer on Flynn and his expectation for media
day Again, Connor, we're losing you again.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's all right. It's all right. Well
tell Connor, I'll just you know, we'll take the blame.
Just hit our chests.
Speaker 3: That's on us, even though it might be him, it
might be the cell phone.
Speaker 4: I don't really know.
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe that's what he's sabotaged in the phone lines
because he doesn't want to give any good information here
and he wants to save it for the podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, we know how to adapt. We know how tojust
we're flexible over here, we could change direction like that.
Speaker 4: I really did want to hear like kind of what
his advice to you.
Speaker 2: Is going to be. So I'm little disappointed you're doing
your show from twelve to four.
Speaker 4: Why did you not know that? Do you think I
was just gonna be off?
Speaker 2: Well, what what do you usually do?
Speaker 3: Two to five Central? So it'd be three to six
because we're going to be in the Eastern time zone.
I want to go ahead and get out in front
of that as well, Bud.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited, which is good.
Speaker 3: Like if you're in the Eastern time zone, you're not
going to oversleep because like.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like no.
Speaker 2: So the show should keep me out too late?
Speaker 4: So you know the show. The show is going to
start at eight.
Speaker 2: You did that one hour math pretty good right there?
So the wheels were you in then harder than they
should have been.
Speaker 3: I was thinking of like specific mountain Eastern times.
Speaker 5: He said he can do zoom, So do we want.
Speaker 4: To like break try to get him on you and
then do we want to do this?
Speaker 3: Let's do this, let's break on time, not early, but
actually on time.
Speaker 4: We'll send Connor the zoom link.
Speaker 3: We'll have him on video, and I hope the informations
go because I'm really wanting to hear it. And if
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Speaker 1: I'm rock Flowers to door, last NU from the locker
room to the airwaves. Gets off the bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: You say, will all right? Welcome back? Yeah?
Speaker 3: OTV one on four or five ESPN Beton rouge. Connor
just wanted to see us. It wasn't anything going on
with the phone. He just wanted to hang out. He
wanted to see us. Connor, what's going on, sir?
Speaker 4: How you doing? How you living?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well? Can you can you guys hear me?
Speaker 4: See good?
Speaker 3: We got you now. I'm gonna blame it on us.
I think our boss forgot to pay the phone bill
or something. I'm not gonna say it was you. You're
always prepared. I'm just gonna hit our chest. Like I said,
it's on us. We'll take the blame.
Speaker 5: Look all that matters is that work here now? Apologies?
Speaker 8: If it was on my end, Uh, we try and
work through. That's that's the gritty mindset.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, too gritty to be pretty all right.
We got to hear this information though, because you started
at like two different times, we were like left on
a cliffhanger there, Matt Flann first time media day. LSU's
right out of the gates too, as you know, they
are the first team there, so he doesn't have time
to ease into this any advice.
Speaker 5: Head on a swivel.
Speaker 8: The amount of media that covers this thing is unbelievable.
I mean it really is, like it is truely been
to other media days and did to. I used to
go to Big ten media days every single year. But
the amount of SEC media that is at this thing
that will care about Talking season this.
Speaker 5: Much will still be really hard to process. So at
least it was for me the very first.
Speaker 8: Time, and just knows will be flying. I mean, the
amount of things that you will hear over the course
of the week. I'm sure you know a friend of
the program, Roman Harper is gonna tell us why like
South Carolina is going undefeated this year or.
Speaker 5: Something like that.
Speaker 8: You know, these are these are the types of things
that are unfold during talking season in the SEC. Uh,
nobody does it quite like the conference where it does
just mean more.
Speaker 2: So Connor is this so I'm getting warnings from everybody
a heads up, like, you, man, you're gonna be there
all day. You're gonna get pulled in a lot of
different directions, ask asked. Everybody's gonna ask you to be
on their show. But that's just kind of how it goes.
But is this kind of like a like a red
light green light frat sorority party, where like I got
like a necklace or something, hit the green if I'm available,
flip into red if like don't talk to me right,
like do not disturb button.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something like that would be really good.
Speaker 8: I've actually never done something quite like that, But that's
that's actually a really good idea because the amount of
times that I've had to like go in my phone
and be like, hey, what do I have at ten
thirty on this day?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I got to figure this out that that's actually really smart.
Then you send that message to the rest of the world,
just just letting them know, maybe hat forward or backwards.
I know, hester you're a big hat guy at media days.
You know, depending on which way you have it, I'm
not sure if you want to go to the side
full fresh prince of bel air, but whatever needs to
be done to let people know that you're available, you're
not available, because you're exactly right, you will be pulled
in every single direction at all times. You kind of
just show up at what seven thirty whatever it is
that you guys got to be there to be able
to get your show going, and then by the time
you sign off at like I don't know, five, six
o'clock whatever it is, you're like, wait.
Speaker 5: What did I do today?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been talking for the last nine hours NonStop
on different stations. It's just kind of the name of
the game, four day grind, and we embrace all of it.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. I do like having the fact
that I can be like, oh.
Speaker 3: I would do the interview, I gotta go do the
other show that, which is true.
Speaker 4: Which is true.
Speaker 3: I got four hours of another show, so I'm doing
seven every single day. But I kind of avoid the
car wash because I got to get to the other show.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's a good excuse to have.
Speaker 5: It really is. And look, if you're antisocial, this is
not the event for you. It's just not.
Speaker 8: There is a certain standard that you're just gonna be talking,
and you'll be talking with other people that are very
very close to you that will you'll probably hear something
that's like three or four feet away from you at
another table, and you'll be like, wait a minute, that's
just totally threw me off to hear this person say
that Billy Napier is gonna get fired in week four
and then you kind of have to just regroup and
just and just keep it rolling.
Speaker 5: But this is the hand that we play.
Speaker 8: The good news is that it means college football is
almost here, and that's forward to above all else. That
SEC Media Day is being able to see everybody you
know that college football is you know, five six weeks away,
depending on when we wrap this thing up.
Speaker 2: Oh man, this, uh this sounds like a squirrel seer's
like worst nightmare right here. People talking close, distracting, So
I'm like an infamous diagnosed squirrel seer over here. So
uh yeah, it'll be entertaining us. It'll be must see
TV for sure. If they just have like a camera
following me the whole time, I'm sure it'd be like
a roller coaster of emotions happening. But let's dive into
the SEC talk about Let's just get a broad stroke
overview of leading into the season, kind of what your
thoughts are on the top teams and how if we're
no predict predictions or anything, but just the beginning of
the season with the top teams.
Speaker 8: Well, my my prediction for the past month has been
LSU National championship. So I realize where I'm saying this
and we're on the record, we get it on the
record early, just by the time that's And that's the
other thing is I like going into SECBD days knowing
how I feel about specific teams so that I'm not
just you know, gassing everybody up and saying that everybody's
gonna win at least nine ten games, because lord knows
that can't happen. But I do think that there will
be a sense of urgency for the SEC contenders because
no matter who you are, you can spin.
Speaker 5: It as we're right there.
Speaker 8: And I wonder how that's going to impact a team
like Georgia, which you know, coming off of consecutive years
in which it missed the College Football Playoffs semi finals
after being the preseason number one. How much is that
reflected with the offseason that they've had, with the portal
urgency that they've had. What about a team like Texas
that is the only team in college football the consecutive
semi finals heading into this year, how much is that
sense of urgency there, even though everybody's going to be
talking about the start of the Arch Manning era. And
then a team like Alabama that everybody is pointing and
laughing at. Everybody's calling their shot, whether they're Thomas Castellanos
or Diego Pavia.
Speaker 4: You don't have to be.
Speaker 5: Five foot ten to call out Alabama apparently anymore. And
I could say that because.
Speaker 8: I'm five eight, But there are just a lot of
people that are saying, hey, now is the time for
Kailen de bor to show that he is capable of
being the Nick Saban successor in Tuscaloosa. So I do
think that sense of urgency is going to be really
interesting to see from all these programs that, look, you
don't have to spin it in some weird way, you
were on the outside looking in of a national championship
and in the SEC that's more than enough to be able.
Speaker 5: To kind of get the fire started in the offseason.
Speaker 3: Connor, who takes the biggest step back from where they
were a year ago, and who takes the biggest step forward.
Speaker 8: You know, there's part of me that wants to say
ole Miss takes the biggest step back, But I think
that's a little bit unfair because I'm an Austin Simmons believer.
I do think that if you put he into a
tongue Ba Lowa in the same room together, you wouldn't
be able, even though there is a little bit of
a height difference, but both lefties and I swear they
have to be related in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 5: And the fact that this is a guy that is.
Speaker 8: Nineteen years old who has already graduated college is just
an absurd thing. And I do think that defense is
going to regress this year. So, oh, this is kind
of the obvious candidate. But South Carolina might be a
little bit more obvious, even though they have the thing
that they have lacked in so many years, which is
the returning stud quarterback. And you've got a guy on
the defensive side of the ball and Dylan Stewart that
might be one of the ten best defensive players coming
back in college football this year.
Speaker 5: But go ask twenty twenty two Alabama.
Speaker 8: What it's like when you have that stud edge rusher
and that unbelievable quarterback. You can have those two things
working in your favor and have all this it's really
difficult if you don't have that complete team. And as
we know twenty twenty two, Alabama did not make it
back to the College Football Playoff that year with Bryce
Young and Will Anderson. So I think that South Carolina
is the team that is probably most likely to regress,
just because I think they played at such an absurd
out of body level during the latter half of last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they got a got a really great guy
under center as well, So I kind of want to
switch over to the quarterbacks because I'm always going to
lean heavy on the quarterback. We all know you can
have a great team in the world, but if you
don't have a guy under center calling the plays, directing
the offense, then your odds of winning championships at least
go down significantly. So we got a lot of top
guys in the SEC that are in the short list
for the preseason Heisman ranking. So a lot of returners,
but we always know that there is somebody that doesn't
get the preseason high. Maybe a newcomer in the quarterback
rooms at some school that busts out and has a
bust out year. Is there anybody like that that you
see in the SEC that's coming here.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of buzzbout Ty Simpson.
Speaker 8: Now maybe Ty Simpson is too obvious, but somebody that
hasn't started at the college level, that was a former
five star recruit who's now entering year four at Alabama,
who's stuck with that coaching staff. Maybe he's the guy
that kind of emerges that he's not going to be
in these way too early top five quarterbacks. I'm fascinated
by Marcel Reed too at Texas A and m a
guy that is kind of in that maybe second or
even third tier depending on what you look at. And
in Collin Klein offense, I'm really bullish they returned that
entire offensive line. This is a ground game that if
they can get Leveon Moss back coming off the torn
acl that he suffered at South Carolina last year, this
could be one of the best ten ground games in.
Speaker 5: All of college football.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of hype for Ruben Owens, who was
hurt last year and then return late in the season.
Speaker 5: Marcel Reid is a guy that you should not sleep on.
Speaker 8: Especially if Casey concepts you own steps in from NC
State and is that go to receiver that he looked
like he was as a true freshman a couple.
Speaker 5: Of years ago.
Speaker 8: A and M is a team that look nobody's gonna
sit here in Pennsyland A and M to get to
an SEC championship. That's a program that has not played
in a conference championship game in the twenty first century,
not just since they've joined the SEC. But I think
Marcel Reid is so so intriguing because the pieces around
him are really, really favorable and he's kind of being
slept on as that guy that, oh you know what,
he's not necessarily in that top tier, but he showed
a lot of in that first year. I guess if
we can even call it that as a starter. In
College Station.
Speaker 3: Connor, we were talking earlier about Missoo, and it feels
like we're not having a Missoo conversation.
Speaker 4: Nobody is good, bad, or indifferently.
Speaker 3: Nobody's talking about Missouri And if you look over the
last four years, they've been one of the most consistent
programs in the SEC.
Speaker 4: You know, I love my guy.
Speaker 3: Drink, but like the Golden Age, of Missouri football. Luther
Burden and Brady Cook and Theowese and Cody Schrader, all
those guys are now gone.
Speaker 4: That's that's just the offensive guys.
Speaker 3: Not even talking about the first round picks they've had
on defense.
Speaker 4: Why are we not talking about Missouri?
Speaker 8: Well, I mentioned this too, I think was last week.
Their schedule is a joke. Their schedule for an SEC schedule.
Speaker 4: Guys, look at this.
Speaker 8: You don't see a single team on that schedule that
won ten games last year. They don't game until Week eight.
How in this year of college football, is that even
possible that they don't have a road game until week
eighty yet like they have one game a non bordering state.
Speaker 5: Their schedule is just weird.
Speaker 4: It's just really weird.
Speaker 8: And look, people gave Indiana a lot of craft last year.
As an Indiana grad, I had it to kind of
take it on the chin. For that schedule, Indiana was
playing the two teams that played in the previous national championship.
You look at Miszoo's schedule and if Missoo is all
of a sudden in contention in November, we're going to
have these conversations and Greig sayk he's gonna be going,
wait a minute, I did all this campaigning about how
difficult SEC schedules are, and you look up at Missoo's
and you're kind of like, wait a.
Speaker 5: Minute, that ad.
Speaker 8: Is as manageable as it gets for an SEC slate,
and you're seeing that divide because there are a lot
of teams in the SEC that obviously don't have that benefit.
A team like Arkansas has one of the most college
football Florida as well, I've put in that category, but Miszoo,
we could be talking about him a lot more if
they're able to navigate what is a really, really favorable
start to their schedule. Obviously, Bo Prabuela has got to
be that dude coming over from Penn State. And if
Amad Hardy looks every bit as good as he was
last year when he was a thirteen hundred yard rusher
at Louisian, I'm in row, we'll be having those conversations
about this Missoo team not having any sort of big
time regression.
Speaker 2: Connor, I can't tell you how much I'm rooting against
Missouri because the guy across the table from me cannot
stop talking about them. It's all he talks about outside
of LSU. So I'm going to ask you, like a
question that's gonna makes.
Speaker 4: I fall in love with one team like that.
Speaker 8: Every it's usually Kentucky can't be that team right now,
Like Kentucky can still further notice they're they're on the
back burner. You can't fall in love with kind of
the off season vibes that we've seen.
Speaker 2: Like, so, I'm gonna piss my partner off over here
because I'm asking about another school outside of LSU besides Missouri.
Let's let's take a look at Oklahoma last year two
seven in the conference, Like at the bottom of the list,
at towards the botto of the list in the SEC.
What is now there? Now they're coming in the twenty
twenty five and one of the top hardest schedules in
the SEC. What kind of emphasis do they have? What
kind of pressure do they have to perform and perform
early for a fan base that expects to at least
be in contention for a conference championship.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's a really difficult team to evaluate because
part of me that says, man, if it hits right
this year, Oklahoma is a playoff team, and I was
saying that last year.
Speaker 5: But there's also this this.
Speaker 8: Lingering doubt when it comes to Brent Veennables evaluating an
offense and the decisions that he's made, most notably normaled
over Dylan Gabriel, who was not exactly holding Oklahoma with
what he was asking for before he ultimately hit the
portal and went to Oregon and became a Heisman finalist.
There's a sense that if Brent Ventables gets the offense
wrong again, it's curtains and that a program like Oklahoma,
which does not have to pay head coach buyouts, has
not had to be willing to pay you know, thirty five,
thirty seven million dollars, I can't remember what the exact
number is for Brent Fennibles and to move on now.
There is an expectation that John Mattier can be that
dude though, And you know, I had his coach, Jake Dicker,
who was his coach at Washington State. I had him
on my show a couple of weeks ago, and he's like,
I think he's the best player in college football, which
is a wild thing to hear a guy say, considering
the way that it kind of played out with both
of those guys leaving Washington State. But Ja Mattier is
sort of this ultimate wild card in the SEC, and
if the pieces around him, with an improved offensive line,
with dian Burg's coming back, a receiver that I'm really
high on, should do really good things out of the
slot there. If their offense is son You're like, wait
a minute, you're gonna pair that with the Brent Fennables defense.
That team, that team can handle itself in the SEC,
and that team can win nine games. But it's all
gonna come down to how they manage that offense. They
gotta stay healthier than they were last year when just
a rash of injuries hit them before the calendar even
turned October. But Oklahoma is one of these teams, man
that I think we kind of have to throw out
the twenty tens of expectations for them. As proud as
they are and understand this is a new world that
they're dealing with and coming off the year that they had.
Speaker 5: Last year, they have a huge, huge hurdle to overcome
this year.
Speaker 4: Are there?
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couldn't get him on the phone. He didn't give up
too gritty to be pretty jumped on the zoom. We
can appreciate that, Connor, looking forward to seeing you in
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Speaker 4: Of weeks, brother, John M. I appreciate it. I don't
know why you need to call me out about Misseri.
I can't. I can't like Eli Drinkwitz and the Missouri Tigers.
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Speaker 4: And I know that's scary.
Speaker 3: I know it's a little frightening, but I also kind
of like it. There's a great unknown out there and
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Speaker 2: Especially with a you don't know any coach and a
new young coach you don't know any better. Yeah, we
tend to forget because we look at, you know, the
the injuries they had last year and how bad it
kind of was, how ugly it looked last year. You
tend to forget that going to the off season. You
want to say, man, it's not going to be good.
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it's high school, college, NFL, no matter what, there's always
somebody something that surprises you. So the question has to
be asked, why not the Saints.
Speaker 3: I'm intrigued with all the new intrigued with the quarterback
competition obviously, But you said it like, you have a
young head coach, you have a innovative, young head coach.
You have somebody that has been in multiple places, kind
of found himself in multiple offenses, and what can he
take from each offense that he's been a part of.
He's had different quarterbacks like Dak Prescott's never going to
be confused for Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4: Justin Herbis is never going to be confused for Jalen Hurst.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurst is never going to be confused for whoever
wins the Saints job. And I think that's a positive
for Kelli more than the fact that he's been successful
with three different types of quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: And it's pretty positive. Like all the things that we're
hearing from the reports, whether it's from Nick or reporters
or you know, Scott the quarterbacks coach, like everything seems
really positive. And what I like about it is you
do have this young coaching staff, but they like they
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maneuver this offense around the talent. They're not going to
move the talent around their offense, right, They're going to
build it around the talent, which is really cool. And
that's what you see with these young coaches and these
guys that know no ball have been around, like you said,
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of different types of quarterback. So that could be really exciting.
We could be better than people are giving us credit for.
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A lot of questions there, but you have an x
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Speaker 3: I mean he was successful early on as a head coach,
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