Speaker 1: All start to you to presents. Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and T.
Speaker 2: Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob aber
the bench. Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 4: What's adding y'all?
Speaker 5: Welcome in to our number three of O TV, our
first day live here Mobile Alabama at the Reese's Senior Bowl.
The entire football world descends about Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget.
Speaker 5: Uh it's I can't wait to see what funny little
things you see we'll see this year. Last year, I
think it was jogging around the city. It's one of
my favorite things to do, you know, kind of get
a feel the city. And i'mjogging to like the park
right by a hotel, and there was Brian Daball and
Dennis Allen just sitting together like chilling it apart talking.
Speaker 4: It's very odd.
Speaker 5: Here where you see these people you normally see on television,
very private, very close off, and they're in this random
city in Alabama just hanging and able to be kind
of normal. Also, the Marty grav Prep is here right
around the corner, so it's a good time to be here.
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Speaker 6: So last year, I think you did Lab McConkie ramped,
Like I think the player profile that you had of Lab.
Speaker 4: McConkie, you gotta come up with some more of this.
Speaker 6: I think you really did a nice job of identifying
talent and letting everybody know how well he.
Speaker 4: Was doing last year at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 6: I feel like in you know, this is obviously your deal,
but just trying to spit boll some ideas you should have,
like the Lab McConkie Player of the week, like it
should be a thing every single year now, just another
tiny white guy yeah okay, yeah yeah, or just like
somebody maybe overachieving, yeah yeah, or somebody that had it
nobody believed it and then he showed it here in
Mobile because I felt like your breakdown was very authentic.
Speaker 5: Maybe scataboy will be whatever happened to Andre Sweat. You're
one in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Did he do anything this year? I mean starter? Okay, yeah,
I played Okay.
Speaker 5: Also Da and Brian dabol too, bombs Well, one of
those bums is now employed as Dennis are both employee.
Yeah yeah, I know, but you're right, but employed once
again as I don't think we mentioned it, but Dennis
Allen hired as the Bears defensive coordinator are going to
be a part of that. Ben Johnson staff, Klint Kubiak
hired by the Seahawks to be their OC. And the
Saints sit coachless still right now? M m hey, let's
go ahead and landre tailor get your MIC's ready as well,
and Rivers if we bring up South carolinathing again, maybe
hopping the mic if you want, but let's go ahead
and do a little weekend win Earth.
Speaker 4: That's how win it has done.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 8: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 7: Okay, he's got a k buck apologer got too far.
Speaker 4: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there. Now,
what are you doing what it takes to win a championship? Wow? Winning? Well,
then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
What's that win the whole thing? Uh?
Speaker 5: Jake, I'm gonna start with Jalen Hurts. You know, here's
a cat who all he ever does, here's a gut done.
Here's a guy who everybody thought was maybe a bit
over it. You know, he gets the money and then
but seriously, like all he's ever done is have a
ton of success, but kind of continue to be doubted
by many despite the success. And then he comes back
with more success. Remember he makes you Super Bowl a
couple of year years ago, he gets the giant contract.
Then all of a sudden it's going like, ah, well,
you know, maybe he's not the guy that collapsed last year.
But a year later he's back in And did you
see the fit pregame?
Speaker 4: I did. Yeah, Oh my god, good luck. The incredible
old school dad energy.
Speaker 5: He's got the black kind of it's almost like a
mock to it's not quite a mock toner, but black.
Long sleep with the khaki suit, the old Jordan kangle
on backwards, a little bit of light chain work, here.
He looked fantastic looking man, ready to take care of business.
Speaker 4: He did. Have you also, have you all.
Speaker 5: Noticed the the jail Hurts chain memes making the rounds.
So if you look back at the press conference where
he sits down and he says, that's what you all
wanted to see. His chain is the most ridiculously icy, shiny.
It looks like it is LED's built in. It's insane.
And so now there's been a ton of tweets and
everything where you know, rappers are trying to show their
chain off and they're like, everything looks like it's from
wish dot com after Jalen Chain. So, Jalen Hurts right
now going through a bit of a renaissance and he's
going back to another super Bowl as he will try
to stop the Kansas City Chiefs from being the first
ever three peat winner in the Super Bowl era.
Speaker 4: I like that one. He deserves a lot of credit.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of people that had a lot to
say about Jalen Hurts as an NFL quarterback, and I think,
you know, going to his second Super Bowl, he has
proven a lot of people wrong and he can get
it done a lot of different ways.
Speaker 4: He can do it through the air. He can certainly
do it on the ground.
Speaker 6: But you know, whatever it has to be, it ends
up being that way more times than not, so I'm
right there with you.
Speaker 4: We can winner. David Moyes.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 6: You probably don't know who that is. It's Everton's manager.
He was their manager for a very very long time
then he went away. He is now back as their manager.
In the last two games. I hope Gordy Rush is listening.
On January the nineteenth, they beat Tottenham three to two.
They he beat Brighton on Saturday, so two results too, dubs.
Now Everton is clear of the relegation zone by seven points.
Your Wolf's team right now would be relegated, t Bob,
sorry about that. But as an Evertonian, to get David
Moyes back as the manager there it feels like great
old times and you know it's paying off as well
actually winning.
Speaker 4: Matches, cracking. Good job David. He's Scottish too. Let me
let let me that's Irish.
Speaker 5: Let me try to find uh like a Colin Farrell
Banshees of inter Sharon, Yeah.
Speaker 4: David buys, Nope, Nope, nope, I don't got it. It's
all right, lodger, who wants to go?
Speaker 9: I was gonna say, James McAvoy, you can try to
find James McAvoy.
Speaker 4: Right, You're right, try to find James McAvoy.
Speaker 5: I'm not uh no, I'll come back with the Scottish
acton what do you all go with the weekend winners.
Speaker 9: I was gonna do weekend loser, weekend loser America because
we've got to watch the Chiefs in another Super Bowl
and I am just so over the Chiefs and their
reign over the NFL.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I mean it's very boring, and it's heergate.
Seven AFC championships in a row. Guys, They've been the
final four seven straight years.
Speaker 4: That is. It's absurd. It's absurd.
Speaker 5: It's maybe the greatest dynasty of all time. If I mean,
if they win this game objectively, they they will be
uh tay tay, what about you?
Speaker 3: But okay, well, first off weekend loser to me?
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 10: I rage quit last night. I I text my friends.
I canceled the Super Bowl party that I had planned.
We were driving home from my parents' house. I told
Victoria turn off the radio because every song is making
me mad.
Speaker 3: So did not take that.
Speaker 10: Bills lost very well, but uh, weekend winner is going
to be Penn State. Look, obviously they lose Tom Allen
to Clemson.
Speaker 3: What do they do.
Speaker 10: They hired Jim Knowles away from Ohio State, paying him
three point one million per year, making him the high
paid defensive coordinator in all of college football.
Speaker 3: So Penn State spending some money.
Speaker 5: That's I mean, I know Knowles is a great coordinator.
He's done a really good job reworking that defense. But
like I mean, I know in Penn State's got dogs too,
so love guys to play with.
Speaker 4: But like you know, it's not bad.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the uh it's you talking about
being touched by Kansas City. It's not bad when in
the Austine they're like, hey, we're gonna just add Caleb
Downs because we can. I'll see a Penn State can
do the same for Nolesy there my next weekend when
at a Lodger, actually found this on your Twitter.
Speaker 4: So big surprise here.
Speaker 5: You had a chance to support women and you chose
to take the hater route. So I will once again
be the voice of an ally for this show. But
shout out to Kim Caldwell, Tennessee. I found this on
your Twitter's Winner, but you started with the loser because
shout out to Kim Caldwell. She had her son last
Monday and is planning on I'm coaching against South Carolina today.
Speaker 4: Absolute dog.
Speaker 5: Kim Callball, not a week removed from having her son,
is going to bring her volunteers to go toe to
toe with Staley and company. That's crazy Week in Winter.
The toughness of women. It's something that I just, you know,
can't really fathom and I just really appreciate, even if
the women on this show do not.
Speaker 9: Unfortunately, I literally called her a dog. But I literally
called her a dog.
Speaker 5: But okay, hey, look, Melandri, you left the door open.
I took the opportunity. Now, I'm very clearly virtue signaling.
Let everybody know that I am an ally okay, and
I'm a trusted source. And in no way am I
going to try to abuse this ally ship for creepy
pictures later.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: That's never anything that any guy's ever done. And I
will not be the first. Okay, somebody else want to
go now you're up?
Speaker 4: Oh? Thanks Week in Winter. Vanderbilt basketball. They have had a.
Speaker 6: Nice run here in the early season, even though they
are going to get fined half a million dollars they
stormed the court after beating Kentucky because remember earlier this
year a million, half a million dollars, because this is
the second time that they've stormed the court. So it
also is well also it goes no I know, sorry,
So here's what it is. So the first violation in
one hundred thousand dollars fine, came when fans stormed the
field after beating Alabama and football. The second that was
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It came a week
ago when they rushed the court after beating number six Tennessee.
Speaker 4: And now they're up to half a million dollars.
Speaker 6: Because they stormed the court after beating Kentucky. So it's
not worth it in basketball, I would agree with you there,
although they would pay. Let's see, they're up to eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. They probably would say, you
know what, beating Alabama and football eight fifty is worth it.
Speaker 4: Oh there's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't know, dude.
Speaker 5: A milli per storman's getting a little out of pocket,
literally out of pocket.
Speaker 4: We don't need a tie Basketball of football stormings. By
the way, all right, Taylor Launders, who's up next to you?
I got anything out there?
Speaker 9: No, I don't have any more.
Speaker 3: One bore so one more so.
Speaker 10: Never thought I would give a weekend winner to the
losing team, but I'm going to because Jayden Daniels made
history yesterday afternoon. His thirty six yard touchdown pass to
Terry McLaurin gave him the most touchdown passes in the
playoffs by a rookie in NFL history, five of them
this playoffs.
Speaker 3: So weekend winner Jadon Daniels.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, just add it to the ever growing
list of accolades. My next week in winner shout out
to the Senior Bowl. As now, this is tinged with
a bit of a tragedy, but the Senior Bowl will
be honoring Tiger Besch. Of course, Jack Besh is going
to be here at the Senior Bowl. We're hoping to
catch up with Jack later this week. But every single
player this week and mobile will be wearing a helmet
sticker with the Tiger stripe and the number seven.
Speaker 4: Also, Jack, who wore eighteen.
Speaker 5: At TCU, will wear seven for this week. So shout
out to Jim Naggy and the Senior Bowl for honoring
an American hero. As we all know the full story
now that Tiger literally pushed a woman out of the
way to save her life during that awful New Year's
Day tragedy. So we can winter and continued thoughts, prayers
and all these support to the Best Family.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you there, Tea. I mean, great
gesture by the Senior Bowl. And you know, Jim Naggy
one of the best out there, and so it's no surprise,
but still glad they're doing that for the Best Family.
We've talked about it so many times, just like you know,
a Louisiana family through and through and you've had multiple
play for LSU. Just a great family, great football family.
If you know one best, you know them all. And
it's just a great gesture by the Senior Bowl to
you know, highlight you know the hero that Tiger was.
Speaker 4: Certainly that night down in New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Weekend loser, I was gonna hand one to I still
am to South Carolina DJ Endgame DJ DJ t O
as after the game, she chooses to play a song
by Camouflage, Flage's late father who passed.
Speaker 4: When she was younger. She's talking about extensively.
Speaker 5: The past Flae and then and then and then and
really Okay, So there seems to be some debate about
the South Carolina play this every game.
Speaker 4: I don't think they played every game.
Speaker 5: The DJ did say that she has used it in
other games in her apology. Now I could use air
quotes in the apology because she kind of tried to
present it as an accident. But after the game, she
got on Instagram highlighted it with saying playing camouflage, well,
let's let's I want I want to say exactly. She
said playing camouflage at the end of the game was
crazy with a crying oji and then like the chef's
kiss hand or like the perfect the perfect kiss hands,
and then said my bad with like a hand over
the face emoji and another crying emoji. So any apologies
about it being unintentional, I would say ring pretty hollow.
I think it's a pretty scummy move to to kind
of highlighting throw in the face someone's dead father after
a big game like that. Gonna be very interesting though,
to see kind of the added motivation next time on
the court for Flage as in all likelihood these two
teams will be squaring up once again.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 9: My take on that, though, is like, sure, play it
at games. If you say that, that's what you regularly do.
But then to get on social media and brag about it,
that's where you kind of incriminated yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Had she not done that, it probably could have gone
you know, it could have been swept under the rug.
You could argue this happens all the you know, like
you said, we played this all the time. But alas
she was clearly celebrated. It's okay, though, ladies, look, seventeen times.
Nobody gets to say eighteen times in row. That's what
I've always said. Okay, so lucky number eighteen coming up
from the Tigers later in this uh, later in this year.
Speaker 4: Hey, did it help with the echo.
Speaker 5: When I was turning down our mics and y'all were
talking just now?
Speaker 9: Maybe I don't know. I just turn your mic off
whenever I start talking.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, signed it out? Okay, okay, perfect, whatever?
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Speaker 10: Well, guys, Yesterday, in the Eagles Commander's game, something that
has never happened in NFL history almost did. And I'm
gonna be completely honest, I.
Speaker 3: Had no idea this was a rule.
Speaker 10: So it was second and goal for the Eagles at
about the one yard line. They were lining up for
their tush push and a Commander's linebacker, Frankie Luvu, jumped
over the line, got called for an off sides and
moved the ball.
Speaker 3: About an inch.
Speaker 10: Then he does it again. They can't really move the
ball anymore. They line up for second and goal a
third time, Jonathan Allen jumps off sides. Then the head
official came up and said it's encroachment on the defense.
Washington has been advised that at some point, I mean,
the referee can award a score if this type of
behavior happens again. For now, it is just a replay
of second down. The rule he was referring to is
called the palpably Unfair Acts. It is essentially rules meant
to punish actions that are blatantly not fair and it
gives officials discretion to decide what could happen, including giving
eighteen points. Obviously, this has never happened. I don't know
why in the world this is a rule, because if
you watch those plays, Jalen Hurts is doing a hard count.
He's trying to get the defense to jump off sides.
They are jumping off sides, and the refs can potentially
award the Eagles points on that play. I don't understand
this at all, stand this at all.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, look, I guess to play Devil's advocate here.
It's because you're not Actually they're not legitimately jumping off sides.
I mean, I guess they're trying to trying to time
it up because it might be your only hope of stopping.
That is the kind of Troy Polamalu esque timing. But
I just loved the almost admonishing nature from uh from
the head referee, sounding like a child, like like a
parent who was disciplining his children for not listening.
Speaker 4: Uh. Look, if you keep this up, we could award
a touchdown. I would have you know, I would.
Speaker 5: Have gone full breakfast club if if I was a
commander's and I have just kept doing it.
Speaker 4: I'll do it again. You another one you wanna, Yeah,
I'll do it. Just keep it going to you make it?
Speaker 6: What do you want me to do? What do you
want me to do? In the toush push? We all
know what you're going to get done. I'm trying to
stop it. Right for a long time that play was illegal.
It's almost impossible to stop. And I'm trying to time
it up so I find my advantage because the offense
has an advantage. I'm not trying to do this. I'm
not trying to jump. I'm trying to time it up, Okay,
because it's an unstoppable play. It is, So that's why
I'm jumping off sides.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 6: I don't think I have an advantage by doing it. Hell,
you could call somebody off sides on offense and defense
every time they do that play, every time they do
that play, no matter what team, but certainly Philadelphia. You
could call all sides on both sides. And so look,
it was like, Philly, just run the damn ball in.
What are you doing? Stop playing games? You're going to score? Wait,
so you don't like the tush push.
Speaker 4: No, just like if you're going to do it? Just
run it? What are you doing on these inch line?
Is this spoken give the fullback of the fullback dives
getting in the end zone?
Speaker 5: That's what I'm trying to parse. Is this spoken from
a personal.
Speaker 6: Have Saquon Barkley you're do you hand the ball off
to him? Do you feel as if your your touchdowns
are being vultured here? Yeah, I'm supposed to be the
vulture night you quarterback if the tush push exists in
the manner that it does. Now, are we all celebrating
Matt Flynn for five fourth down conversions like.
Speaker 4: Mat could have those first downs?
Speaker 6: Let's be honest with ourselves and our listeners as well.
Speaker 4: But come on, if you're going to run it, just
run it. What do you You're moving the ball up
an inch? See I'll disagree, I'll say, I mean push
way you have.
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts, who's a little That's fine, it's within the rules.
Speaker 4: Do it, but just run it. Jalen Hurts, I'm trying
to get him a jump off sides. What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Well, that's because the timing thing, right, It's like you said,
that's the timing thing.
Speaker 4: It makes it unstoppable. Although Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 5: Then he squat like seven hundred pounds in high school
or something freak like you were talking about a literal
power lifter who, by the way, for being hobbled, he
moved pretty well.
Speaker 4: Yesterday.
Speaker 6: I think him and Saquon two what do they both
have three rushing touchdowns? Now Hurts only had like, you know,
nineteen twenty yards rushing, but he had three touchdowns because of.
Speaker 4: It, because of the touch push baby, yeah, look sure whatever.
Speaker 6: Now I do think they're going to revisit that at
some point because for a long time you couldn't do it,
but just snapped the ball.
Speaker 4: What are we doing? You know?
Speaker 5: It's one of the funny parts about this Super Bowl
is in terms of bodies, you could not be talking
about more different quarterback bodies. I mean, you have the
ultimate dad bod and Patrick Mahomes who had times looks
like he literally has a gut and now he's obviously
look he's all right, so he's incredible whatever.
Speaker 4: But then Jalen Hurts is just a walking ball of muscle.
Speaker 5: Like I actually love watching him play quarterback because he
looks like a tank, like he he almost looks like
a fullback that can throw the ball, and I got
Old Patty on the other side just walking off the
field like.
Speaker 4: Doing this thing.
Speaker 5: How It was kind of funny in the NFC Championship
on that last fourth down they put the flag graphic
on the TV, and Nance or I think yeah, Nance
was being told by his producers that there was a
flag called on the fourth down and it looked like
maybe the Chiefs were going to be on the losing
end of one of those PI calls that extended drive
at the end of the game.
Speaker 4: And instead the NFL said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
not so fast. Perfect.
Speaker 5: We need tte in New Orleans for that super thank you,
uh so sorry for the Tea's there, Bill's fan. No
flag on the play, uh, Daniel Blent says Mike McCarthy
or John Gruden, Mike MacCarthy, McCarthy, Yeah, for sure. Who
would get the touchdown if the rest did it? Is
it a rushing touchdown and pass touches? Then it's kind
of fascinating thing about Pierces asking the real questions.
Speaker 4: It had been a whole move if they would have
done that. Uh, I think, I think, I think that
would have been referee put turn your mic off. Nobody
shut up, just shut up.
Speaker 6: We will award them if you keep doing this, this
type of behavior. They were a modesty, their children go
so stupid has to ask the Vincent Quin yours make
the right decision? Turned down eight million dollars and claim
for the NFL draft. Uh No, I mean, I he's
probably I think it's interesting.
Speaker 5: He's probably made enough money where money is not his
main motivation. But if you were to argue strictly financially,
it's probably the wrong decision. But career wise, given the
relative weakness of the quarterback class, like maybe to Alange's
point a bit there, it's it's I can see why
he would want to go because if it's a more
full quarterback class, maybe he gets shuttled down the list
even further.
Speaker 4: It remains to be seen. Landra, Why do you think
that he made the.
Speaker 9: Right choice kind of for this what you just said,
where like the class this year isn't the greatest one
that we've ever seen or anything like that. Also, we've
got like Nusts next year too, where he's gonna like
obviously be at the top of that. And then Carson Beck,
I mean, he's not super great but he's also next
year as well, and you've got like, what eight pretty
good ones this year if that, And then it's the
same thing as like we might be impressed with him,
but a lot of times it seems almost like he's
hurting his draft stock. And I feel like he would
have heard it more if he would have stayed.
Speaker 5: Well, he would have not been at Texas, which would
have been fascinating, So who knows where he would have
ended up. They have you all seen Carson Beck's social media?
Speaker 4: No, Oh, it's it's getting very cringey.
Speaker 5: He's just constantly in the back of cavit or twin videos,
just like standing there kind of like half tiktoking dances.
Speaker 4: And I know he wants to give off that vibe.
Speaker 5: He's got the tats, he's got the lambeau, but he's
just such a kind of paper potato sort of personality.
And oh man, it's like this is the times when
it bums me out. They were not in studio because
it's hard for us like watch videos together and laugh
about them. So everybody, here's your homework for the commercial break.
Go look up Carson Beck on Instagram over the weekend,
and it's it's just really really really cringey.
Speaker 4: Are they still a thing?
Speaker 6: Like I don't have TikTok and so like the little
dances that aren't aren't impressive dances, like is that still
a thing?
Speaker 4: Well, no, they're kind of like fit checks. Right.
Speaker 5: They'll like set up the camera and then they're showing
what they're going out with. But then they might do
a little like okay, I don't know, just like he's
kind of putting a half effort into I tell you,
he's like a little awkward with it.
Speaker 4: It's really good though. It'll give you a good laugh,
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Speaker 4: Well, it's been some time. You still look black and dangeil.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench got promoted back in day.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, so you just saw the Carson Beck It's
one of multiple posts. If you look at Cavender's Instagram,
it's not it's it's it's it's awkward. It's it's it's
it's an awkward look. It's an awkward look for sure.
Speaker 6: That does not QB one energy. No, I'll tell you that,
but I mean he also busted begging for nudes. I
don't want my QB one begging for nudes. I want
the nudes coming in, you know, Like I want him
saying it's time and then receiving not not out here, Yeah, like.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's time. Oh man, he better be. It's
crazy too.
Speaker 5: He got paid a lot of Money's the highest paid
college athlete of all time, and he's gonna have to
outdo cam Ward season, which was objectively legendary this last
year at Miami. Like I know that eventually the team
let him down and the defense was awful and the
Miami didn't end up doing anything like too much of note.
But cam Ward has made himself in the number one pick.
He was the best quarterback in the country pretty objectively.
I mean you could say Hemiatetruder or whatever put up
insane statistics, number one offense in the country objectively. Like
that's what Carson Beck's gonna have to live up to.
Speaker 6: So we'll see he's gonna try to follow the same
blueprint for sure.
Speaker 5: So I think this may be our last hunt Pummer
player portal profile.
Speaker 4: I don't think we've talked about Bauer sharp yet.
Speaker 5: It's been too long here, but Bower Sharp, this is
a tight end. Oklahoma's leading pass catcher from last season
comes over from Oklahoma, a big guy, but somebody who
has a lot of officitive statistics as well.
Speaker 4: It's interesting we talked about.
Speaker 5: The rebuilding of the LSU tight end room, and now
you seem like you have all the elements of what
a tight end can be. We saw trade as Green
with that dunk against Alabama on Saturday. That's your freak
athlete past catcher, first sort of tight end. We talked
about Donovan Green in this profile series. That's gonna be
your yackle, big body, blocker, guy with a ton of
potential who injuries kind of set him back a bit,
but he's gonna be again more of your yackle, your
blocker type. And then in Bower Sharp, Jake, is it
fair to say that you have your kind of in
between man, the man who maybe brings the most when
it comes to the the catching him blocking combination.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, and more I guess of an
f than it would be a why he's only two
hundred and forty seven pounds, so six four two forty seven,
so he's you know, he's not a two hundred and
sixty five pounds. Why tight end and you're starting to
look at maybe some of how he was used a
year ago, and he played grade.
Speaker 4: Well as a blocker for whatever that's wort, So maybe.
Speaker 5: Giving him a bit too much fifty percent right blocking love, Yeah,
he was last fifteen in the running game thirty eight
pass checks. Now my pass for as much because I
absolutely loaths when they put tight ends in pass bro Yeah,
but uh, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the run blocking needs to get better.
Speaker 6: When you look at his snap breakdown, he played six
hundred and forty four plays for Oklahoma last year. It
was three twenty four in the past game, three twenty
two no, sorry to seventy seven in the run game.
But he played three twenty four in the past game,
and so uh, definitely in there are more passing plays,
But I mean two seventy seven in the run game.
Still like he they caounted on him to be a blocker.
You don't play two hundred and seventy seven snaps and
run situations if you're a liability in the run game.
And so I do think he is truly going to
be kind of the in between guy. He'll probably be
in twelve personnel a lot of the times he'll be
the Y because I'm sure trade has Green's going to
be the f but depending on how they kind of
match it up there. But I mean, it was certainly
a position to need somebody. You needed somebody that played
a lot of football at a place like Oklahoma, certainly
has Louisiana ties, being a Southeastern guy as well. So
coming back home and look, I think he's a player,
is gonna play probably five hundred snaps for you.
Speaker 5: And look, bottom line, don't take trade as off the
field if you can avoid it and work those other
guys in around them. However, you can trade As after
that Bowl game, could not be more excited about his potential.
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Bowl Day one. We're getting very excited for practice cranking
up day number two. Alandra, have not I did not
eat anything yet about the baseball scrimmage over the weekend.
I'm taking a shot in the darket. Did I prep
you for this?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Do you have any baseball takeaways from the scrimmages that
took place in the box.
Speaker 9: So I didn't get to go to the Scrimmages this weekend,
but no, you just Hunt Palmer was Hunt.
Speaker 4: Hunt was just in here and.
Speaker 9: I was gonna throw them on the mic, and no,
he came back. He came back. Hunt's gonna give us
a little here you go.
Speaker 4: Hunt. Yeah, you know what, t Bob.
Speaker 8: If you'd like to learn more about the Scrimmages this weekend,
you can go to Louisianasports dot Net got a great
Sunday Scrimmage synopsis on the website.
Speaker 5: Tea So I was actually I meant to read that
pre show today and then we just got caught up
setting up and I never ended up getting to it.
Speaker 4: So what were the highlights from Sunday Scrimmage? Did you
have a coke? Icy? I did not have a coke Icy?
Speaker 8: I did have I did have some lunch up there,
but we were just we were locked in trying to
get some work done. So Steven Miilum and Michael braswell
all weekend long split time each day at second it's
shortstop and third they would switch mid scrimmage. Defense was
not very good yesterday. Kate Aaron bed struggled at catcher,
threw one into right field. And had a couple of
wild pitches get by him. Jared Jones kicked a couple
of hard hit ground balls at first base mile and
made a bad throw, but it's January, so they're still
trying to work through that a little bit. Offensively, though,
Aaron Beatty was great. He's been awesome since the fall.
He hit a line drive to center field that actually
got caught, but it was one hundred and eight miles
an hour off the bat, and then he hit a
big double into left center field, which was good to see.
Tanner Reeves Junior College bat hit a home run over
the right centerfield wall that went about three hundred and
eighty feet. It was a day where most of the
big time arms, the arms you expect to see in
high leverage spots early in the season, pitched on Friday
and Saturday, so Sunday he saw kind of guys more
down the line, So not a lot of notable names
on the mound on Sunday, but a couple of good
swings at the bat. I thought that it was a
really good day for Chris Stanfield as well, the center
fielder from Auburn who had a great suicide squeeze bot
and then had a line drive single into left field
as well. He kind of looks like he might have
the inside track at center field right now, but the
outfield's kind of jumbled at this point.
Speaker 5: Okay, I will play the role of just the common
fan here then, because I think like probably one of
the names of people are most excited for is got
to be Chase Shorts this season. What is the latest
on Chase Shores how he's been throwing in this offseason.
Speaker 8: He's healthy, which is the first thing, and then you
look at the stuff. The fastball is gonna be in
the upper nineties. It's a matter of how good are
the other pitches. When he was a reliever as a freshman,
it was just a lot of heaters. He came in
there and just threw a lot of fastballs. You can't
really start in the SEC and just throw a lot
of fastballs. Ty Floyd learned that and he had to
figure out how to throw throw the breaking ball effectively
before he kind of blossomed into what he became there
at the end. So Shorts threw a ton of sliders
in the fall every time I saw him. I did
not see him back over the weekend. I think right now,
in my opinion, it's likely he starts one of the
first three games. I kind of think it may bee
on Sunday. I saw what LSU saw on Sunday's early
in SEC play last year, where they saw Jerangelos Sanga
and they saw Carter Holton and they saw Jack cagleone
and you're seeing this crazy velocity late in the weekend
when maybe your legs are a little bit tired. And
I think Jay saw that when LSU struggled ands thinking
man team that's been on the road or has played
eighteen innings already, and then they got to show up
on Sunday and it's Chase Shores though in ninety seven,
like that might be a pretty good spot to slot him.
And so that's certainly not a decision. I don't think
that's been made right now, but that's kind of where
my head is with three weeks to go.
Speaker 5: Yo, guys, And if you want to continue to note
where Hunt's head is again, we've been breaking it down
every day here with his portal series, but there's baseball series.
It's about to start tomorrow. Louisiana Sports Net is the
place to get all of that all latest on the Saints, coaching,
search everything Louisiana Sports.
Speaker 4: Thank you Hunt Taking easy, brother, All right, boys, you'll
be good.
Speaker 5: Be good, takeing ease. When we get back here on
o to me. Let's close out with ask the bench.
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Speaker 2: Back to sports talk maybe Off the Bench.
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in to OTB. Here live from
the Singing Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. It is now time
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Speaker 5: All right, as the Bench. Are you all gonna be
doing any shows from Nolephant super Bowl? Yeah, We'll be
on Radio Row all week long.
Speaker 4: I'll be doing three shows a day. Yeah, Jake Radio Row,
so half of OTV.
Speaker 5: Then he has to do super Bowl Radio nine to
twelve and then off campus.
Speaker 4: Two to five.
Speaker 5: So brutal, brutal super Bowl Jake. Jake's marathon is not
yet over.
Speaker 4: It is close, though, it is so close, asked the bench.
Speaker 5: What's the spot y'all looking forward to most for meals
and drinks and Mobile? Probably Las Flora Ditas, a little
cool speakeasy that is built to mimic Hemingway's favorite bar
in Cuba. But it's got one of those great gimmicky
speaking to the easy entrances where you go to the
bottom of the Handcock Whitney building like you go in
the Hancock Whitney Building. You go into what looks like
a normal basement, and when you round a corner there's
like this like bookshelf and almost island look little like
corners movie set, and you give the guy a password,
bookshelf opens and you're in this bar.
Speaker 4: Restaurants very cool. So I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to catching up on some rest, yeah, hopefully,
and writing scripts for Super Bowl Radio next week.
Speaker 5: Ask the Bitch odds a jak t Bob both order
room service club sandwich this week. I don't think we
have room service at Holiday Inn, but we did already
have a club sandwich, or at least I.
Speaker 4: Did I too. You're the Chicken Club.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't put a yes. But I don't stay
at the hotel. We stay at a house. So Sirius XM,
it'll be me dooring and coach new heisl staying in
a house and so we'll have like groceries and stuff
like like we're living here for a week.
Speaker 5: Asked the bench of the report's true that Jake was
spotted holding a boom box over his head out tight
Camp Scataboo's hotel room last night.
Speaker 6: I like a player, It's it's like that. But whenever
boy else likes the player, it's just normal because you.
Speaker 4: And Cam Scataboo. But it was like that with Cody
Schrader last year.
Speaker 6: Because y'all have connections that are extra normal, right, But
it's not like all have connections that are more. But
I always feel like when I like a player, it's that,
and that's conversation.
Speaker 5: Because both Schrader and Scatterboo you were white running backs
well because you were advocating for them in ways at
other media that the other media was not. You were
highlighting them and seeing their praises in ways that others
are not, and you were justified.
Speaker 3: I agree, we need to we need to lay off
Jake a little bit.
Speaker 10: I personally stand outside of Baker Mayfield Hollus once a
week with a boom box.
Speaker 4: I mean, I actually don't. I do not doubt that.
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the bench Jake. Between weather delays and atlantomobile and the
super Bowl coming up, do you even see your kids anymore?
Speaker 4: This has been two No, this has been a trying,
trying time.
Speaker 6: Certainly. I've been gone every weekend since December. The weather delays,
I was, man, I was to a point where it's
like emotional draining just because I wanted to get home
to see my family. No, it's it's been tough. Changes
will have to be made to the schedule that I have. Yeah,
next year, the thing, all the things that I did
this year, well, you know, very appreciative of them. But
I have five children. I have five children for a reason,
and I want to see those five children more.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you a personal question because I know
I might answer to this would have definitely been yes.
Speaker 4: At some point, did you ever cry?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: I got close bry when I was in and I'm
not a crier, but when I was when I was
in Atlanta, I told Katie, I was like, I I
am emotionally like close to my breaking point right now
because if I don't see my family, knowing I'm going
to be gone for the next two weeks. I hadn't
seen them really, you know, Yeah, no, it was it
was bad. It was bad in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Well, it's gonna get good from here on out, dude.
It's gonna be a great week here in a great
Superowl week, and then you'll be done as the bench
Bart's rankings are out next week. Nervous, Yeah, I told you.
I am a little nervous because I think the show
is great right now. But you have no idea if
it's gonna go up or down on these things. Ask
the bench is Loomis to blame for coaches not wanting
to coach the Saints. So here's you know, sometimes perception
can matter just as much as truth, and so I
don't even know if it matters if it's factual or not.
That people say no reflects poorly on Loomis because the
belief and and the perception and how it feels and
looks from the outside is Yes, it makes the Saints
and Mickey Loomis look deeply unattractive and you know, like
a bunch of people don't want to be there. So
I don't know if he's the reason, but it certainly,
it's impossible not to feel that way.
Speaker 6: I think, I definitely after kind of the way it's
played out and where people have ended up and what
you have left, just kind of listening and piecing together
some of the quotes, I definitely think it's it's part
of the issue.
Speaker 5: Chat showing fullback one a lot of love. Keep it up, guys,
I agree.
Speaker 4: Someone get Jacob fresh Piccadilly mill.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't let there be a Piccadilly here, Mobile, Uh, ask.
Speaker 5: The bench caging cannon for I just assume there's a
Piccadilly everywhere?
Speaker 4: Is there not?
Speaker 5: It's starting? Oh what the headquarters know that? Oh that's crazy.
Has they got some bench cannon for the saint? Said
coach offensive minda fireberd New Orleans ties. Uh No, he
has been pushing more though he's been pushing uh more,
so he's probably liking now this is developing a little bit.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: That'll do it for today's show, Day one from Mobile
in the Books again. We way more interviews tobout the
rest of the week as practices start, practice reports coming up. Uh,
it's gonna be a great time. I don't have my
time dot guv Jake it's not loading right now.
Speaker 4: Now we're done. We're done. See tomorrow later.
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