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Speaker 1: Let's all start to it. You to present off the bench.

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This is what we have been waiting for. Off the bench.

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Speaker 2: I got to come off the fitch.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester, yod.

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Speaker 2: And welcome in to OTB one O four five ESPN,

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Baton Rouge ninety four to seven ESPN and Alexandria and

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eleven thirty am the Tiger up into three to one,

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Great Jacob Hester.

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Speaker 3: That felt weird, Jay Kester.

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Speaker 2: Alandra Taty all here with you here on this Monday morning,

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a Landra new oping that you.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't make this one, nor did I hear

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it until like fifteen minutes before the show started.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, I don't love it making abrupt.

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That's just for like this little.

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Speaker 1: Bit right now. Two week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got something.

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Speaker 2: Else coming, twilight Zone kind of situation. I think we've

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got going on where I'll be here for a week

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and then I'll be in spring meetings and Tatay is

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going to be taken over before we get our new

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co host, Matt f in In here on June the second.

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But that was not the work of Alandra.

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Speaker 3: No. I promise you that it's going to be clear.

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Speaker 2: I did too. I want to make that clear right

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off the top. Here we'll have something, you know, more

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extensive for you. That felt a little blunt.

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Speaker 6: I didn't like it.

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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't great. It wasn't great. It's okay, it's okay.

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Speaker 3: Drum type situation.

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Speaker 2: It gets us on the show, and we've got a

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ton to get you. And look, we got a ton

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of guests, as you know when I am solo dolo,

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that's what it's going to be. We got Ross Jackson,

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Bill Bender, Roddy Jones, Devin Snow, Eric Sorenson. I mean,

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we have got a ton of great guests lined up

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for you. Let's go around, get a little vibe check

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of the room. Alandra Tate, how was the week in Alandra?

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I saw you with a sword and a champagne bottle. Explain.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so my dream came to you and I savored

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a champagne. I actually saw tea Bob yesterday we had

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brunch and oh fancy, Yeah, it was a little brunch.

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But Rivers has like a savoring sword for this specific

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kind of thing. Why wouldn't you have like on a

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shelf displayed. It's not in a glass case, but it

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is like on a like I don't.

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Speaker 3: Know, wait, it's like displayed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's displayed like on a shelf.

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Speaker 6: And she's open and she's like a logic could get

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my dagger.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So she was like, I'm gonna teach you how to

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do it. So then I did it and it was

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super fun. Okay, yeah, so now I.

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Speaker 2: Feel like that's still drink the alcohol.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we still drink champagne.

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Speaker 3: That was a fancy way to open.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just a cool.

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Speaker 2: Way to do it, all right, How.

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Speaker 5: Was he was good? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: All the kids were there, so I was like, thank

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y'all so much for the birth control.

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Speaker 5: Like those literally.

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Speaker 3: Did not I did not think that's what you're about

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Speaker 2: Like you said thank you, and you know we've been

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so you know, celebrating Tea Bob as we should. I

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did not think that was about to happen.

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: There's five children and they kept like and they were

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my house alone, I know. Yeah, and they're so cute

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and I love them, but they kept like doing plays

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you're like, the first three were cute,

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you got you. It's fine, it's fine, love them though. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Taita what'd you do this weekend?

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Speaker 2: How was it? Well?

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Speaker 6: Made? T bop proud? Guys had steak feet this last night?

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get away from the chicken.

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Speaker 6: Too many margaritas though, guys.

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Speaker 4: Really yeah, I'm never in my life thought Tata to

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Speaker 6: Any sort of So we're at the Mexican restaurant right

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like you're yours.

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Speaker 7: It's like, oh, nine ninety nine for a small, like

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fourteen ninety nine for a medium, and a large is

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like twenty three dollars. And I was like, I'm getting

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a large. Victoria's like all right, well, ill get a medium.

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twenty seven. Like what hell, that's like twelve dollars cheaper,

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Speaker 6: So we got the picture and it held like six

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or seven margaritas. We finished it. And when I mean

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me and Victoria finished it, we finished I finished it.

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Speaker 2: I do not mean to lp you because I can't

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have some country words as well, like they'll slip certainly

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here for the next couple of days. But when you

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said picture, I thought you meant a picture, but you

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were just saying a picture. Yeah, yeah, there's a picture,

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but not an actual picture of Mark.

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Speaker 6: A picture of.

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Speaker 2: That's what got it. Okay, I got it now.

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Speaker 6: Watermelon Margarita's good.

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Speaker 2: Watermelon.

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Speaker 7: I do love a water I wanted strawberry. But see,

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y'all know I like them frozen. Victoria doesn't. Yeah, but

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she goes if we get them frozen, we gotta go watermelon.

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I was like, all right, that's a fair that's a

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fair compromise. But I mean in the picture, frozen works better.

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Speaker 6: Anyways.

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Speaker 2: Can you be from LP and get a frozen watermelon margarita?

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Speaker 7: I mean it's some Mexican restaurant they now they do

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have like a h they have a Corona rita and

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a dos a rita. They literally just don't do the

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corona you get and it's great. I've just had it

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like ten times, like I.

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Speaker 6: Never have margarita. So fair enough, good, it's a good time.

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Speaker 2: I have some people inside the chat, and look, I

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am going to try to be in the chat as

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much as I can over the next week, even though

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we'll be up here solo. So if we don't get

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to your questions, we do apologize, but one of the

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first things that I did see was no hoodie and

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asked about the AC. Well, that's the only reason I'm

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over on this side. Now. If you're like an og

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and you watched Hanging with Hester, like way back five

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years ago, this is the side that I sat on.

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And I can already tell the difference of the AC

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when you sit over there, and I know it's like

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right there across the table. Trust me when I say

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that is the frozen tundra of guaranteed media. And if

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you've ever sat on that side, you know exactly what

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I'm talking about. So yeah, maybe, just maybe I won't

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have to wear a hoodie every single day, because when

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you wear a hoodie into the studio here in June, July,

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and August, as I do and I go out, it's

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instant backsweat as soon as I walk out of here.

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not being here, is that I can steal his seat

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and sit over here on this side. All right, as

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we get into it, you probably guess that all of

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the first couple of segments here will be about LSU baseball.

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Speaker 3: They win two of three from South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: We all know because we reacted to it somewhat as

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much as we were going to. On Friday, they drop

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that game, but they get Game two and game three.

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On game two they win eight to one, Game three,

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seven to three, and sure we could go back. We

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can kind of break those games down. Kate Anderson was

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Kate Anderson, Anthony Jins and not as sharp as he

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has been, but still really good. I think he spoiled

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us because it was like, wait a minute, he gave

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up an early run, Like what's going on here? That's

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how dominant your first two starters have been. But they

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do exactly what we think they had to do as

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far as LSU winning at least two of three there

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in Columbia South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: So we'll go around the have they done enough?

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Speaker 2: Has LSU baseball done enough to be a national top

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a ceed Delandro?

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Speaker 4: I think they have, And I think we talked about

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it last week going into the weekend, like if they

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win two of three at South Carolina, then they're basically

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a lock, and I think they still are.

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Speaker 5: They did that they win two or.

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Speaker 7: Three, so hey, Tay yeah, I think they could go

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I think they could go one and done in the

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tournament and still be in.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. And I don't think they need to win another game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so the SEC and it's like this, I guess

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in other conferences, but certainly in the SEC baseball tournament,

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it's a little bit like the basketball tournament sometimes where

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you want to win. I mean, you're out there, but

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you're cautious in that approach.

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Speaker 7: If you already have a spot locked up, it's kind

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of pointless. Yes, And that's it's one of those where

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it's like, if you need to win the tournament to

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get in, win it, but if not, now.

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Speaker 2: We'll throw that on the flip side. And it's the

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thing that I really love most about Jay Johnson. He's

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gonna go for victory. Like midweek game, he throws Paul

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in a regional against Tulane when a lot of people

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thought he'd throws somebody off and Paul would go later

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on in the regional. So when he typically does something,

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it is to go win a baseball game. Now, you've

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got to be smart in this approach as well. But

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it does feel like they have a top eight seed

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locked up and d one baseball dot com. They released

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their field up sixty four and they did this. I

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think it was late last night. So this as up

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to date as you're going to get. And here are

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your top eight national seeds again according to D one

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baseball dot Com. You've got Texas at one, Arkansas two,

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Auburn at six, LSU at number seven, and Oregon at

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number eight. So LSU again according to D one Baseball,

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still a top eight national seed, but they are right

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there on the fringe, right they're at number seven.

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Speaker 3: It has them, which this would be a great storyline.

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Speaker 2: It has LSU Arizona obviously, where Jay Johnson came from

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Miami and then Miami of Ohio, so to Miamis and

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Arizona right now projected to be in the Baton Rouge Regional.

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But Tatay, you said you were watching something with Kendall

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Rogers last night that said that's where he thinks the

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committee will place them, but maybe LSU gets even higher.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 7: It was a clip of like a live stream that

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he had done over the weekend. You know, it was

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only about a thirty second clib but yeah, essentially, Kendall said,

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I think this is what the committee's going to do.

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He's like, however, I could easily see them getting into

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the top four. He goes, we just placed them here

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now based on what I've heard. He's like, but they

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could easily be higher. So I mean, yeah, you're basicallying, oh,

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they're on the fringe, but maybe.

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Speaker 2: Not so the teams that you know they projected being

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here as well, Like, we don't know what that's going

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to look like. You don't know if Miami, who seems

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like a pretty tough three seed, but there's gonna be

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tough three seeds across the country because there's some teams

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Speaker 3: Like this is just across the country all right.

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Speaker 2: In the Austin Regional USC Southern cal is expected to

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maybe be a three seed. In Atlanta, it's Arizona State.

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the list. In LA for the UCLA Regional, it's UVA Virginia.

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five baseball team all season long. You go to Tallahassee,

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Mississippi State right now projected to be a three seed.

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That's a team that's as hot as anybody right now

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in the SEC. So if you're Florida State, it's kind

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of like LSU Softball, which we'll get to, it's like, thanks,

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we appreciate the teams you put in our regional in

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Baton Rouge, just Miami in Conway, South Carolina for Coastal Carolina,

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the Kentucky Wildcats in Corvallis, Oklahoma State in Eugene, Notre Dame.

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So this field is going to be incredibly strong, and

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not just because they're named brands, but because they've made runs.

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they were thought to be on the outside looking in,

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but they made the run and now, like would either

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one if y'all want to play Mississippi State at this

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point as a three. Then you got West Virginia, who

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won the Big Big twelve regular season as a two.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of tough regionals, like you just mentioned

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the LSU softball regional. I mean, you had four conference

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champions in one regional. I mean that's you. You don't

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hear of that. And like LSU was the top sixteen seed,

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you think they'd get a little bit favorable matchup in

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the regional. No, I mean you talk about the one

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projected for LSU, LSU, Arizona, Miami, I mean forget.

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Speaker 6: About Miami, Ohio, who's had a good season.

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Speaker 7: But like just those three teams names alone, Like that's

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not a tough that's that's a tough regional.

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Speaker 6: There's no cakewalking. You're projected to be a national seed.

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Speaker 2: And typically LSU would get just like they didn't softball,

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they would get whichever Louisiana school made it.

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Speaker 3: But right now, like you don't see that.

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Speaker 2: Houston Christian went and had a little bit of an

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upset in the Southland Conference tournament, so they won that

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and so they're in the Austin Regional right now. So

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typically you'd have the Southeastern, the ull who's certainly on

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down year, Northwestern State whoever kind of came out of

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the Southland. But that's why you see Mayam Ohio, who

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can hit bombs. I mean that is what they do

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really really well. So that is what the latest projection

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is again, LSU does what we all think they had

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to do, win two of three in Columbia, South Carolina,

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and throughout the show we'll break that down, and throughout

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the week we'll continue to break it down. But it

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does look like LSU has done enough to be able

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to host a regional and then if they move on

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a super regional here in Baton Rouge, which we all

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certainly would look forward to. All right, we will step

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away for the first time and when we come back,

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we're going to have a laundra a breakdown the SEC

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Baseball tournament and really just the SEC standings where everyone

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sits what have they done over the last couple of weeks.

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Because you have some teams that are thriving right now.

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You have some teams that I know I did, and

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for dead.

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Speaker 3: I thought they were done.

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Speaker 2: They have done enough to not only get into the postseason,

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but maybe get a two seed into the postseason, not

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like last team in kind of scenarios. So we'll break

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it all down when we come back. It is OTV

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here on one, O four five, ESPN.

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see what they have done and you will see a

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lot of different projects. You can go to the website

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how it was working with Tommy and the team, because

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they can do for you. Again, that is go Tommy's

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the Bench. How do you.

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Speaker 2: Explain they ever following in a little bit of a

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guy like me in the first place, turn around saying

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that we back in OTV what.

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Speaker 4: Way, So I totally forgot that they did that to

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that rejoined But last time they did that, I asked

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them to take it off. So I don't know why

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it yeah, but it's right, okay in mind.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, we'll get there by June the second, whenever Matthew

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Clayton Flynn joins us, we'll have all that worked out

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out it gosh, by the way, by the way, like

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before we get to the baseball segment, like thank everyone

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so much for like being fired up for the new

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show the kind words that we got. Because replacing T

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Bob is it's impossible t Bob and you've heard it

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throughout the last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: He truly is one of one.

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Speaker 2: That's just I've never met anybody like T Bob because

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I've never met Jack Black, which I assume that's about

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as closest we possibly could get. But T Bob has

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been that way since I've known him. I've known T

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Bob now for almost twenty years, and that's how T

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Bob's been. So when we were looking for someone to

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replace him, like again, I said it on whatever day

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that was Friday Thursday. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of different people.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of different names, Like a lot of

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people threw a lot of different names out there, and

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thank god Alandra threw Matt out there, which we just

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had no clue that that would work out. And Matt

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was kind of looking for something like this, and because

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like replacing T Bob was going to be very, very difficult,

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and we didn't want the show to change drastically, like

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did not want no disrespect, did not want a writer

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in here, like a sports writer who only wanted to

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talk sports and wanted to stay on schedule. It's not

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what this is. It's not what this is like. This

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is a morning drive show. We want you to have fun,

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we want you to laugh, we want you to get

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some sports news without question, and it's probably going to

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be more sports than it was, but it is certainly

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going to be sports ish. That is Flynn's vibe, that

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is our vibe. We're gonna have a lot of fun.

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We want you to not be angry that you have

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to go to school or go to work. Try to

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give you some last try to let you have some fun.

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So I'm excited about it. We are very excited that

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you're excited about it. Walking around town, walking around the

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ballpark this weekend, nothing but man, we're fired up for

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Flynn to start. We're gonna miss t Bob like crazy,

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but that's the only person that could replace him that

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makes any sense. And like we agree. Thank god Elandra

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said his name out there. There's some concern about a

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shot in the dark.

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Speaker 3: It was that's what you got to do. There was

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some concern.

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Speaker 2: A lot of dads this weekend out at the ballpark

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were like, hey, over under three days a week, that

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Flynn's going to be there on time or be there.

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I said, look, we're expecting three and a half and

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if we get four, that is land yap. I think

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that's fair.

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Speaker 5: I think that is also three and a half.

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Speaker 4: And I was going to message in the chat the

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other day and be like, Okay, Flynn, I need you

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to know that people are already doubting you. So you

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need to like get your get your life together, and

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just know that people already don't believe in you.

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Speaker 6: Traffic in the city goes.

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Speaker 2: That's what you have to do too. With those quarterbacks,

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they they have a different mindset. Now, some take it

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way overboard, like Russell Wilson, Like they take it way

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way way overboard, right, Like we're not what do you mean, Yeah, well,

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if you ever met it, we're not. Like Matt's not that.

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But like you got to challenge the quarter Hey, people

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said you suck.

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Speaker 5: I really said you're not going to be So you

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think I should say that.

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Speaker 2: In the he knows it, he's got to voice it. Okay, Yeah,

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you gotta challenge those guys to play quarterback at the

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level that Matt did, which ten years in the NFL

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College National champ the whole deal. You got to have

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some ego, Like we're not going to stroke his ego,

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that's not the way, but we're going to try to

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damage it a.

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Speaker 5: Little bit, just kind of like manipulate him.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, which he can be. He was my roommate was

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very very easy, very easily. Can you manipulate Matt Flynn?

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Speaker 7: Flynn seems like the type that's like, guys, I'm not

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doing it in no way, And in like two minutes.

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Speaker 6: He's like, yeah, I mean can do that.

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Speaker 2: As you saw by the last couple of texts, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: That is how he is and that I've gotten so far.

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I'm like, this is so Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 6: We were throwing out show name ideas you said something.

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Speaker 7: He's like, actually, Jake, like I'm actually good with like

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these three things, or like we could just keep off

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the bench good.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, can you make a decision?

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Speaker 2: I know that that was so that was probably the

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hardest decision, was like the show name, Like we do

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we change it? Because you know it was it was

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Jordan and T Bob and then when Jordi left, it

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was me and T Bob for five years, and you know,

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the connective tissue was T Bob because he was here.

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It's like, do we change that? But we threw a

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bunch of names at that, which I think would have worked,

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but it would have been like, you know, a growing process.

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But I'm like, you know what, like I've been on

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OTV for five years, Laundre and Tate, you'll have been

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here for a long time now, and so we decided

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to keep it. That's what it's going to be. And

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so very very excited for June the second, also excited

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for the SEC Baseball tournament. Let me give you kind

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of some final stats, the rundown of how everyone finished

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conference play, and then I'm going to turn it over

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to a laundre it again, to go through the SEC

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Baseball tournament where everyone's seeded, what the matchups are going

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to be. Texas ends up winning the regular season twenty

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two and eight. In conference play, it's Arkansas and second

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at twenty and ten. You had two teams at nineteen

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and eleven, including LSU and Vanderbilt, the Georgia Bulldogs eighteen

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and twelve, the Auburn Tigers seventeen and thirteen. The Old

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miss Rebels kind of quietly had a winning record in

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SEC play sixteen and fourteen, same record for the Tennessee

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Balls and the Alabama Crimson tied at fifteen and fifteen,

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the Florida Gators and Mississippi State Bulldogs. And then you

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get into your losing records. You got Oklahoma fourteen and sixteen,

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Kentucky thirteen and seventeen, lost their last three, really struggling

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down the stretch. You've got Texas A and M eleven

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and nineteen. Yeah, I mean eleven and nineteen. You were

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a number one team in the country, South Carolina at

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six and twenty four, Missouri at three and twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Alandra what does the SEC baseball tournament look like as

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far as seeds and matchups and all that.

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Speaker 4: So Tigers earned the three seed. They had a tiebreaker

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with Vanderbilt, but they end up winning it. So Vanderbilt

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obviously the four seed. But they won't play until the

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quarterfinals on Friday, and they're gonna win, or they'll play

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whoever wins Game eight, and that's Auburn versus whoever is

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the winner of Mississippi State versus Texas A and M.

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So Mississippi State has been hot the past couple weeks

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after firing Chris la Monas. They won their last three series.

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So there could be like an Auburn rematch where if

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you remember, during the regular season, we unfortunately got swept

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by Auburn, so I look.

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Speaker 5: Out for that.

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Speaker 4: But on Tuesday, it all gets started tomorrow at okay,

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ten thirty Eastern time, nine thirty, nine thirty Central time,

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So nine thirty here, Okay, hang on, number nine. Alabama's

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gonna face number sixteen Missouri. So I think we could

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oh single elimination this year. I remember it's all sixteen

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teams now, which.

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Speaker 2: Me too, like let's go yeah and let's do drag

474
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this thing out.

475
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of people that kind of don't like it,

476
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,680
Like I think Jay still wanted double elimination, But I

477
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like this, and I like having all sixteen teams there

478
00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:15,200
just because it's more baseball. But nine Alabama's gonna face

479
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,559
sixteen Missouri, so I think you could basically count Missouri out. Yeah,

480
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,039
Oklahoma's gonna face Kentucky at twelve thirty, and then Florida

481
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is the ten seed facing the fifteen seed South Carolina

482
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at four thirty, and then Mississippi State, like I mentioned,

483
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versus Texas A and M at eight pm. And that's

484
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the one that you're gonna want to watch because that's

485
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who's gonna play Auburn on Wednesday, and whoever wins that

486
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game again is going to play the Tigers. But that's

487
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your kind of your first look at tomorrow and the

488
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SEC Tournament.

489
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Speaker 5: But I can go through the rest of it if

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you want.

491
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Speaker 4: Why not, Okay, Wednesday, Game five, number eight, Tennessee versus

492
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the winner of Bama versus Missouri, so probably gonna be

493
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facing Bama. Georgia is going to play whoever wins Oklahoma

494
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versus Kentucky, and then Ole miss will play whoever wins

495
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over Florida in South Carolina and then again Auburn. We

496
00:23:06,079 --> 00:23:09,880
already went through that Thursday, Texas, which okay, I saw

497
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this thing, Jim Schlasnagel said on Twitter, and he said

498
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that it's harder to win the SEC championship or a

499
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SEC title during the regular season than winning a national championship.

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And I can kind of respect getting out in front

501
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of not winning the Natty before it happens, like, let

502
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me just get this out the way, just in case,

503
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so people are already gonna start saying stuff.

504
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Speaker 5: But Texas will face the.

505
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Speaker 4: Winner of game five, so the winner of Tennessee versus

506
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whoever wins game one, and then Vandy versus the winner

507
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of Game six, and then Arkansas versus Game seven on Friday,

508
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and then on Saturday, that's when the semifinals are, so

509
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hopefully LSU is going to be playing on Saturday at

510
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four pm. Approximately four pm is a tournament, so things

511
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can change, and then obviously the championship game on Sunday.

512
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Speaker 2: The weather in Hoover, Alabama, always terrible, always off, just terrible.

513
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Speaker 3: Love Hoover, loved the venue.

514
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Speaker 2: Actually played high school football game uh against in the

515
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stadium against against Siver. We did not Hoover's tradition. Are

516
00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:19,400
down here, We're down here. We lost in the state finals.

517
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That year was definitely a down year. We played like

518
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burn South Carolina. We played Daylya, South California, that team

519
00:24:25,559 --> 00:24:28,400
that they made the movie about. We played Hoover, we

520
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,119
played Long View. I think maybe you're Louvekett. I don't know.

521
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,519
One of those East Texas teams, Chad Jackson was their receiver.

522
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Called a questionable touchdown in the corner of the end zone.

523
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Speaker 3: Looked like he was out. Didn't matter though. We got

524
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the ball back.

525
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Speaker 2: We're driving, We're down by six, We're on the one

526
00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:49,160
yard line already. I had I think like one hundred

527
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and eighty yards rushing in the game on the one

528
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yard line and our offensive coordinator calls a pass. Oh now,

529
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an interception.

530
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Speaker 7: I was about say, I was gonna, I was gonna

531
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thirty little shade. I'm like, Jake, you score on the one.

532
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Speaker 2: But you know how mad I was. I'm still I

533
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,880
think that was two thousand and three. I'm still mad

534
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,640
about that yard line.

535
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Speaker 6: Pulled a Pete Carroll.

536
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Speaker 2: What are we doing? Yeah?

537
00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:12,319
Speaker 3: Before that?

538
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're the original Actually evangel versus Hoover throwing

539
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not even like a fade like you. They're like one

540
00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:20,759
of those comebacks where you go into the end zone,

541
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you come back to the front pilon.

542
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Speaker 6: Okay, so you want to hit it at the front court?

543
00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 2: I intercepted it stepped out of bounds. Game over. That's

544
00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:27,359
hor bomb.

545
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 3: Why would you call the exactly.

546
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,039
Speaker 6: I'm back at All the corner has to do is

547
00:25:31,079 --> 00:25:32,799
nothing I know. Just stand there.

548
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,599
Speaker 2: What are we doing? Smartest guy in the room. All right,

549
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,480
LSU is gonna play on Friday, Game twelve of the

550
00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:41,279
SEC Baseball Tournament. What a good feeling it is this

551
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,440
year not having to go to Hoover needing to win

552
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,799
at least one game, probably multiple games like it was

553
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,279
a year ago. And look, you want to win, but

554
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,559
it does feel like you are solidified right now as

555
00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:57,119
a national seed. You're going to be a national seed.

556
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We're gonna be a top eight national seed. But one victory,

557
00:25:59,839 --> 00:26:03,440
they will certainly do everything to lock that up. All right,

558
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we will step away, and when we come back, let's

559
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catch up with our guy Ross Jackson to talk a

560
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little New Orleans Saints as it looks like they are

561
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not interested in bringing in a veteran quarterback, and we'll

562
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do that when we jump back here on OTB.

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Speaker 1: This is off the bench, all right.

585
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in OTB one four or five, ESPN, baton

586
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rouge always our pleasure to catch up with our next guest.

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It is our guy, Ross Jackson, host of Lockdown Saints.

588
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You know he's doing big things over at Louisiana sports

589
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dot Net as well.

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Speaker 3: Ross. What's going on, man? How you doing?

591
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Speaker 8: Hey, Boddy doing great?

592
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:51,799
Speaker 2: Man?

593
00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:53,079
Speaker 8: Thanks so much for having me on Good morning to

594
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see you.

595
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,759
Speaker 2: Did I hear Landra ask you how you were doing

596
00:27:56,799 --> 00:27:59,119
in a time zone that's not the Central time zone.

597
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And I feel really bad for calling you this early.

598
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 8: Oh dude, No, no worries at all. I'm always up

599
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,599
this early the same thing. Hey, I'm over in I'm

600
00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:08,599
over in Salt Lake at the moment, last day, at

601
00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:12,119
my trip, getting away for a little bit. So six

602
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,519
thirty am this morning like this, think nothing.

603
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we call you at six point thirty

604
00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:19,519
when you're trying to get away from sports.

605
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 8: Ross, you could just tell me, oh no, no, no, not

606
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,920
away from it's away from.

607
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Speaker 3: Heat, okay that part.

608
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 2: Look, I was outside at a baseball tournament this weekend.

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Speaker 3: I can fully get behind that.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, Ross, we always do appreciate the time, and

611
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I want to have you on because it looks like

612
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,759
the Saints will not be adding a veteran quarterback and

613
00:28:38,839 --> 00:28:41,079
I think that is very newsworthy. I mean, certainly, if

614
00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,519
it's not Aaron Rodgers, you're trying to think what veteran

615
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,519
would it be, because now, like we know, you've got

616
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:49,839
a very very young quarterback room. But it sounds like

617
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,599
the Saints are going to roll with that young quarterback room.

618
00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, sounds like it. This has been sort of building

619
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,039
to this point here for you know, since pretty much

620
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the retirement of car and even even before that, when

621
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many of us were pretty certain that he was not

622
00:29:04,319 --> 00:29:06,079
going to be a part of the twenty twenty five

623
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:09,359
plays at least in some way or another. And look,

624
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,200
you've got young guys in that room right now. Your

625
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,039
eldest is a third year quarterback, and Jay Hanner, You've

626
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,240
got a second year guy, and Spencer Ratler, and you've

627
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,319
got a pair of rookies, you know, one drafted and

628
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,319
Tyler Schuck one undrafted and Hunter Deckers. And it seems

629
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,079
like that's the position group that they want to roll with,

630
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,039
at least going into training camp. We'll see how things change,

631
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because obviously, you know, look, you have a young room.

632
00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,359
You have a winless room on top of that, which

633
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,759
isn't shocking when you have a young room and you

634
00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:41,359
have your thirty six year old head coach that you

635
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,319
know has one with guys like yes, Jalen Hurts, Dak

636
00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,880
Prescott and Justin Herbert, but he's also one with guys

637
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,920
like Tanner McKee, can you Pickett and Cooper Rush right,

638
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:55,119
And so the Saints feel really confident in what it

639
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,599
is that Kellen Moore, you know, should could be able

640
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,519
to do with this young group. I'll throw you know,

641
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,240
Doug Nasmeyer, the offensive coordator in there, who's been at

642
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,640
each of those other previous three stops with Kellen Moore

643
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,319
as well. You add in Scott Tolzen, the quarterback coach,

644
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:11,680
who's before all three of those guys former NFL quarterbacks.

645
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So maybe they feel they're the veterans in the room

646
00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:17,119
until proven otherwise. And so we'll see, but I think

647
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that's the definitely the direction they want to go right now.

648
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Speaker 3: Oh man, you just made me feel really old. Ross.

649
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Speaker 2: Not only did I turn forty a couple of days ago,

650
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but Scott Tolzen was like a young quarterback that came

651
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,279
to us and see how ago and now he's like this,

652
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,240
you know, very well respected quarterback coach.

653
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Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, well remember he's still a young quarterback. Don't

654
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,839
make yourself feel too bad. Yeah, this will be the

655
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first time that's by you know, I'm separated by one

656
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,119
year to a head coach that I'm covering, you know

657
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,240
what I mean, Like it's it's it's kind of a

658
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,599
wild situation that like you have that sort of influx

659
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,640
of young coaching talent, but then you also have sort

660
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of this kind of variety of coaches in different places

661
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,920
is in their careers too, Like it's a really uniquely

662
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,799
built coaching stuff and raws.

663
00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:06,759
Speaker 2: I mean when you look at Tyler Shuck as well,

664
00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:09,200
like he is like is a rookie. Like I don't

665
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,799
care how old you are, You're a rookie. There's things

666
00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:12,960
you're going to go through. But also like with him

667
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,559
turning twenty six, when the season starts, like the NFL

668
00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:18,680
no longer has it where it's like, okay, look we're

669
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,319
gonna draft this quarterback. We're going to ease him into

670
00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:24,039
the situation. We're gonna have this veteran quarterback kind of

671
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:26,079
start the first six games and then this guy's going

672
00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:28,559
that's no longer the NFL either, Like we saw in

673
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,240
last year's draft class, like those guys outside of Michael

674
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:33,880
Pennix who ended up being the starter, like they were

675
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the guy from day one. Even JJ McCarthy when he

676
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,119
goes down with injury, he was still going to be

677
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the guy. Sam Darnell was going to be the backup.

678
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And so that's really that's what it is now in

679
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,039
the NFL. And so when you've got this young coach

680
00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:48,759
be it head coach and the quarterback coach and then

681
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,759
very experienced off as the coordinator, like I would assume

682
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:54,319
like Tyler Shuck is going to be the front runner

683
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,440
certainly in this job. Like do you have it any

684
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,920
different right now? Like do you see Spencer Ratler maybe

685
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being even with Tyler Shuck.

686
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Speaker 8: I think that he certainly can be. I think that

687
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the seven games of experience that he has, the six

688
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,119
games of starting experience that he has definitely means something

689
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and I think that he deserves a shot. But look,

690
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,319
I think this is Tyler Shuck's job to lose. I mean,

691
00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:18,279
he was the handpicked guy by the head coach in

692
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,880
Kellen Moore, And I think that that means a lot

693
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,799
more than maybe people might expect it to mean or

694
00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:25,599
whatever that might be. Like, I don't know that I

695
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:27,799
would necessarily call this a fair fight, you know what

696
00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:31,079
I mean? And you're right, like, you know, the idea

697
00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:32,799
of him being a rookie and needing to sit and

698
00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:36,359
have time, that's just not how the NFL works anymore.

699
00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:41,160
There's no discernible difference in you know, success or lack

700
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,519
of success between the quarterbacks that start right away and

701
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:48,279
the quarterbacks that sit behind right away. I mean, it's

702
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:50,599
easy to point to guys like Patrick Mahomes and say, well,

703
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,960
he sat down for a while before he you know,

704
00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:56,240
jumped into a jumped into his starting role. But then

705
00:32:56,319 --> 00:32:58,599
you know, you can always pull out Jaydon Daniels and say, look,

706
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,480
this is the guy that started right away to Castevee

707
00:33:00,519 --> 00:33:03,240
to the NFL championship in his first year, you know, yeah,

708
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And so there's not really a discernible difference, Like there

709
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:09,359
are examples of success and lack of success in both

710
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,039
approaches waiting to start a quarterback or starting a quarterback

711
00:33:12,119 --> 00:33:15,559
right away, and there's not enough of one or the

712
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,880
other that has found any success or that haven't found success.

713
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,920
So I think that the best thing that the things

714
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,039
can do here is a of course, pick the best option, right,

715
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:26,880
so who looks best during training camp, who looks best

716
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,839
during the portion of the preseason, until it takes you

717
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,400
to get to the point where you make your decision

718
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,559
and to let Kellen Moore choose his guy and you

719
00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:39,279
know whoever it is that he decides to be that

720
00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:40,960
week one starter. And I think as long as those

721
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,759
two things happen and you check both of those boxes,

722
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:47,599
I think that that's what will determine whether or you're

723
00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:48,559
going to find success in that.

724
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: Quarterback or not catching up with our guy Ross Jackson

725
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:55,079
here on ot B. One of the other things that

726
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:57,440
came up over the weekend to step away from the

727
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,799
quarterback position. There was some rumors like these are social

728
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:02,960
media rumors, but there were some rumors maybe like the

729
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,119
Steelers and Chris Olave and maybe a potential trade there,

730
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,880
which I just would not be in favor of because

731
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,400
you need weapons if you're the New Orleans Saints. Does

732
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,239
that rumor have any legs?

733
00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 8: It has legs in one portion of the conversation, which

734
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,000
is that the from my understanding and the people that

735
00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:22,760
I've spoken to that that have knowledge of the situation,

736
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:28,559
the Steelers reached out to New Orleans to see, you know, hey,

737
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:30,920
is Chris Olave available? And I think that tells you

738
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,519
a couple of things. I think it tells you one

739
00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:36,760
that obviously Chris Olive has value across the NFL. I

740
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,079
know he's dealing He's dealt with the concussions last year,

741
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,159
and he dealt with concussions through his career and everything.

742
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,480
And people will often make the comment that, oh, he's

743
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,039
won concussion away from retirement. We don't know that. No

744
00:34:47,079 --> 00:34:49,719
one knows that, like that's that's that man's decision and

745
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,960
his decision only. And so I'm not going to lot

746
00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:55,320
lobby any type of accusations like that against Chris Olave.

747
00:34:55,519 --> 00:34:57,239
But I think that it does show you that there's

748
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:01,159
value in this player around the NFL. I think that's one.

749
00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:03,119
I think number two, it gives you a little bit

750
00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:05,719
of the idea of the perception of the New Orleans

751
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,119
Saints around the league. Right, Hey, let's check and see

752
00:35:08,119 --> 00:35:10,480
if they're rebuilding. Right, they lost their car, they don't

753
00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:12,079
have the starting quarterbacks as they thought they were going

754
00:35:12,159 --> 00:35:14,199
to have. They have a winless quarterback room, a very

755
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,000
young quarterback room. You know, they have a first time

756
00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:20,599
head coach. Maybe they're willing to move off from some

757
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:23,079
of their young foundational pieces. And the third thing that

758
00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:25,559
tells you is that they're not right. The things aren't

759
00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:28,519
ready to do that because they're not interested in trading

760
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,440
Crystal Abe. And so what you're going to hear a

761
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,000
lot of is that the Steelers reached out, the Saints

762
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:36,440
wanted a high price, and therefore the Saints were, you know,

763
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,039
at least willing to deal. But really, if you have

764
00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:41,800
a player that you're not willing to move, you never

765
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,719
walk into a negotiation and say this isn't happening. You

766
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,639
just set a really high price for that player, and

767
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:48,360
if that team is willing to beat that high price,

768
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,639
then you have the opportunity to say, now I was

769
00:35:50,679 --> 00:35:53,159
just playing, or yes, we'll take that deal, you know

770
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,440
what I mean. But that's not how a negotiation works.

771
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,800
You don't walk into a negotiations.

772
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:57,039
Speaker 3: They go.

773
00:35:57,599 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 8: And so it has legs from the standpoint of the

774
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,440
Steelers were reaching out and that the Steelers were interesting,

775
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,440
but the Thints weren't actively shopping Chris Olave. This was

776
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,039
a reach out by the Steelers and the things effectively

777
00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:11,880
saying like, we value this player very highly and we're

778
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,000
not willing to move off of him for you know,

779
00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:16,480
pennies or anything like that, showing that they're not into

780
00:36:16,519 --> 00:36:19,440
the idea of that whole you know, well rebuild, that's

781
00:36:19,519 --> 00:36:21,840
the you know, chip off some foundational pieces, pick up

782
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,440
draft capital. They're not in that mode.

783
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: Yet.

784
00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 3: Another position that certainly is going to be intriguing.

785
00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 2: Do your out, you know, training camp and even now,

786
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,840
I mean certainly how it plays out throughout training camp.

787
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,199
Speaker 3: And I want to ask you this.

788
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so not today, but if we were September the

789
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,119
first left to right on your offensive line, what do

790
00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:41,719
you think that's going to look like? Because I mean,

791
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,840
you look, you've got so many pieces and draft capital

792
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,800
into this offensive line with first round pick, second round picks.

793
00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 3: But what do you think it's going to look like?

794
00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:51,119
Left or right?

795
00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been I've kind of gone back and forth

796
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,840
on this, if I'm honest with you, Jake. So for me,

797
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,559
I'll start with the tackles. Kelvin Banks junior me plugs

798
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:03,840
in at his natural position left tackle, kalas Plong moves

799
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,880
back to his natural position right tackle. That's an easier

800
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,400
shift for you than teaching Calvin bankst and you're a

801
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,599
new position. You could just put these guys back in

802
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:13,920
their natural positions, which I think is the benefit of

803
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,320
talasc FLA. So that's why I see the tackles shaping up.

804
00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:19,760
The two other guys that are absolutely sure Eric McCoy

805
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,960
at dinner, and then right guard is going to be

806
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,360
Caesar Reis. I'm jumping around. I'm not going left to right.

807
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,840
I'm building the suspense. I'm sorry at left guard though.

808
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,559
That's from my big question market. Two weeks ago, I

809
00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:33,239
would have told you Dylan Raiden's But the more that

810
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,880
I have gone into digging into Kevin Moore's offensive scheme

811
00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:39,559
and the run schemes that are working in the NFL

812
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,159
right now. You look at Philadelphia, you look at you

813
00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:46,239
look at Baltimore. Big guards are a big part of

814
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,840
that success, and typically converted guards that were tackles that

815
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,000
moved inside. These guys are being asked to pull, They're

816
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,440
being asked to run those stutters, those weak side counters,

817
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,360
get up ahead of the rusher. All those those things

818
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:02,960
starting now to lean a little bit more towards Trevor

819
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,800
Pinning at left guard, which is something I've pushed back

820
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,440
about a lot, because I think if you have a

821
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,519
guy at tackle and then you move them inside, sometimes

822
00:38:11,519 --> 00:38:13,679
it works, sometimes it doesn't work. There's no guarantet that's

823
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:16,079
going to help Tever Pinning. I think it's worth a shot.

824
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,119
I think it's worth a shot with Trevor Pinning because

825
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:19,800
you'd probably like to keep one of your first round

826
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,639
pick investments on your starting offensive line, and that might

827
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:24,519
be the best way. That might be the best way

828
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,840
to do it. And so three hundred and twenty five pounds,

829
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,199
good mover, a great run blocker, aggressive player. That's actually

830
00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:32,079
a pretty nice set of qualities to have as a

831
00:38:32,079 --> 00:38:34,159
pulling guard. Like you probably like that guy in front

832
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:36,039
of you right, like that would be a guy you

833
00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:38,400
would you wouldn't mind running behind. And so I'm kind

834
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,000
of leaning now towards the idea of the converted tackle

835
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:45,000
to guard. Much like Makai Beckon in Philadelphia last year.

836
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,320
Baltimore has a similar player last year, and these guys

837
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,280
were three fifty, you know, enormous players. Trevor Pinning is

838
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,480
not that guy, but at three twenty five. He's one

839
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,360
of the biggest offensive linemen they have, right and so

840
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,079
if they can do that get him pulling and get

841
00:38:59,159 --> 00:39:01,360
him active in that run game that way, I think

842
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,639
that that might be something that helps him with his

843
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,039
career and maybe explains a little bit about why the

844
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:08,079
Things weren't willing to pick up his fifty year options

845
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,599
at a tackle because now if they can get him

846
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:13,519
converted to a guard, that contract becomes a guard contract

847
00:39:13,519 --> 00:39:14,639
instead of a tackle contract.

848
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, then that is going to be a completely different contract. Obviously,

849
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,559
tackle is going to make more than guards. I know

850
00:39:20,599 --> 00:39:23,199
this because fullbacks make less than running backs.

851
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,639
Speaker 8: Yes, Unfortunately, I to ask Kellen. I haven't asked Kellen

852
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,039
yet what the role of fullback is in his in

853
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:31,960
his offense. But you know, when we get back out

854
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,159
there for I have that written down as one of

855
00:39:34,199 --> 00:39:36,079
my questions because I really really want to know, because

856
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:38,199
Adam Princess is still on that roster, yeah, and so

857
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,079
I'm really curious to see what he what he feels is,

858
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,079
you know, the use of that position.

859
00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:45,119
Speaker 2: Just hold it down for us, Ross, That's all we

860
00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:47,239
can ask. Just ask the question and at least somebody's

861
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,960
talking about fullbacks. Ross, Hey, you're the man. I know

862
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,519
you're out there. You're in U in the mountains, woke

863
00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:56,239
up a little bit earlier, already up and doing work there.

864
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,679
Speaker 3: So we appreciate your time as.

865
00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 8: Always, sir, Always a pleasure man. Think switch for having

866
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:01,679
me on you. Take care of say safe and I'll

867
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:02,320
talk to you soon.

868
00:40:02,559 --> 00:40:06,119
Speaker 2: All right again, the great Ross Jackson locked on Saints

869
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:09,960
also does big things for us here Louisianasports dot Net.

870
00:40:10,039 --> 00:40:12,800
Check out the website. He's always always got a new

871
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,119
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872
00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:19,440
stay with young quarterback room, which is certainly something I

873
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,679
want to continue to talk about. We'll take our final

874
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,559
break of our number one and we'll come right back

875
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the bench.

894
00:41:27,159 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: Shut five guys in time, win ahead and win alive.

895
00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:36,000
Don't mess up this great song with that glass breaking

896
00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:36,960
or whatever that was.

897
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's spoon cold open.

898
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,159
Speaker 2: Whoa Now if we added like to the song.

899
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,159
Speaker 4: Cold like wait, that's not a bad idea.

900
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: No, that theme music's great. Yeah, yeah, ready to raise

901
00:41:49,519 --> 00:41:53,000
some hell that for an hour open? No, I don't

902
00:41:53,039 --> 00:41:56,119
hate it's like more than just the glass sound.

903
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, so're keeping sabotage for sure.

904
00:41:59,199 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

905
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 4: Can't get away, But I don't hate. I don't hate

906
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,960
me neither. We need one more of those.

907
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,519
Speaker 2: To something. When you hear the glass that's your ass

908
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:13,320
or something something like that was stone cold. I don't

909
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,039
figure that. I like that too. Look at you, Tay

910
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:23,320
well done all right. Twice you've had least two yeah,

911
00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:29,079
at least Saints quarterback situation. Tyler Shuck as we know, rookie,

912
00:42:29,159 --> 00:42:33,079
second round pick, Spencer Rattler, second year, Jake Hayn, third year,

913
00:42:33,559 --> 00:42:36,239
Hunter Deckers, undrafted free agent, rookie had to try out,

914
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,280
made the team. Cool story. He's on the roster, so

915
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,519
we're gonna mention him, don't know, you know obviously where

916
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:44,039
that ends up. So you've got a couple of different

917
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:47,079
strategies that you can have. You can go ahead and say, hey,

918
00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:49,440
you know, not right now technically, but you can down

919
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,880
the road. Hey, Tyler Shuck's our guy. We selected him

920
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,599
fortieth overall. That's why we did that. He's our guy

921
00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:57,880
moving forward. You can have the open competition. Hey, we

922
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,119
got three guys. They've all had starts in the nf

923
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,239
It is going to be a competition. We'll name a

924
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,840
starter the second week of training camp, which is not

925
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:08,320
typically how it works in the NFL. That's more of

926
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,800
a college vibe. But you have three young guys that

927
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,400
are fighting for at the same job. You also can

928
00:43:13,679 --> 00:43:17,920
still consider a veteran option, you know, and Aaron Rodgers

929
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,719
is still out there. It doesn't even have to be

930
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,639
like an Aaron Rodgers. It can just be somebody that's

931
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:25,840
a fifth six year pro. They've got ten starts under

932
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,280
their belt just in case it hits the fan. So

933
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,480
I want to go around the room. You tell me

934
00:43:31,639 --> 00:43:35,039
what you think the best case scenario is for the

935
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:37,239
New Orleans Saints. Elandra will give you first crack.

936
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 4: I think the quarterback room that you have right now,

937
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:44,960
your best case scenario to me is probably Tyler Schuck

938
00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:48,760
just because of and I get that Spencer Rattler and

939
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,000
Jay Caner have already been in the league for a

940
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:54,880
couple of years now, but his experience feels a little

941
00:43:55,199 --> 00:43:57,840
more because he's twenty six years.

942
00:43:57,599 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 5: Old, and like, I don't know how old Spence Ratler.

943
00:44:00,599 --> 00:44:02,039
Speaker 6: Is, twenty eight six.

944
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Speaker 2: Not toenty six.

945
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Speaker 5: I'm giving too long of an answer. Tyler Shuck.

946
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Speaker 7: That's good, No, you're good, he tek Yeah, I mean

947
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it's it's gonna be Shuck. I think that, Yeah, there's

948
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gonna be an open competition, but I think Shuck's gonna

949
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have to lose that competition. Like, I think, if you

950
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know him and Rattler Neck and Neck, Kellen's gonna go

951
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with his guy. Everyone says, well, the Saints still haven't

952
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drafted a quarterback in the first round. Chuck's still the

953
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highest since Archie Manning at forty overall. I mean, they

954
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invested a lot of draft capital in him. I think

955
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it's going to be him. If I'm Jay Cayner, I

956
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am looking over my shoulder at Hunter Deckers. He's a

957
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talented player. He's six two, He's two hundred and thirty pounds.

958
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,000
Hayter's a little undersized. I mean, if they're keeping three qbs,

959
00:44:41,519 --> 00:44:43,639
I think there's a chance Hayter doesn't make this roster.

960
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But I definitely think it's gonna be shocked, followed by

961
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:46,800
Spencer Ratler.

962
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you're going to select Tyler Shuck

963
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at forty, you're not gonna bring in a veteran quarterback.

964
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 3: You would have already done that.

965
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 2: Because like this is a great time for that quarterback

966
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:01,039
to get the locker room. You I've had some OTA's

967
00:45:01,079 --> 00:45:03,159
different things already, So if you haven't done it, I

968
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:06,000
don't think you're going to Tyler Shuck's different than the

969
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:09,760
other quarterbacks on this roster as well, Spencer Ratler, Jay Hayner.

970
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,679
Not big guys, not tall guys, you know, small frames.

971
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:16,760
Tyler Shuck is every bit of six'. Five he's the

972
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difference maker at the quarterback. POSITION i truly think it

973
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is going to be his. Team we'll probably not hear

974
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it in the, media but it is going to be the.

975
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Case SO i agree, There Tyler shuck looks like he

976
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will be The saints quarterback all. Right Bill bender kick

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