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Speaker 5: Welcome Man, Hour number two, Wednesday edition of Off the
Bench Taylor Sharp sitting in here were Jacob Hester and
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and tomorrow we got the Dynamic Duo on the other side,
Matthew Musso Cassie's Bizzali on audio and video, and we
were rocking and rolling here on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 6: Really good first hour.
Speaker 5: Baseball heavy right now, There's been a lot of talk
about LSU's Spring scrimmage or whatever you want to call it,
that was open to the fans on Saturday. Well, a
few other teams in the SEC wrapped up their springs
with an open practice on Saturday as well, And I
want to look at him because look, people can say,
what's gonna happen with LSU's QB situation behind Garrett Nosmyra
And there's still some people out there who criticized Nosmayer
about things that went on in twenty twenty four. And
I'm here to tell you that you better be happy
to have Garrett Nosmayer because you could be one of
these three teams. First team I want to start with
is everyone's favorite. The Alabama Crimson died. After that scrimmage
on Saturday, offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb went to the podium
and he was obviously asked about the play of all
of his signal callers, and he said, if we were
to play a game today, Ty Simpson would start. Yes,
the same Ti Simpson that could not beat out Jaylen
Milroe and Tyler Buckner. Tyler Buckner wound up leaving going
to Notre Dame. Couldn't play quarterback there, went to play
wide receiver and then just said, I to hell whether
I'm gonna go play lacrosse. Ty Simson could not beat
him out. The same Jaylen Milroe, who last year looked
lost at times in the passing game. Ty Simson couldn't
beat him out. It's the same Ty Simson who has
done next to nothing in his college career. Now there's
a lot of people out there that are like, oh, well,
you know is where's Nico gonna go. He's not gonna
go to Alabama. I'll tell you that right now. Even
if they wanted to bring him in, I don't think
they would. You have, you have Ty Simpson, you have
Austin Mack who you brought over, who kind of followed
Kayln de Borre from Washington. He's a talented guy, but
he's played no college football. He's done absolutely nothing in
his college career. And then you bring in five star
Keeland Russell, which, Okay, everyone's gonna look at Keiland Russell
and say, okay, well, Keilan Russell's a five stars typical
in the Alabama lot. We always talk about the Alabama bomp.
And I'm someone who's like, okay, yeah, yeah, the Alabama bomp.
You're also just mad because they steal all of your players.
Keillan Russell was a three star quarterback when he committed
to Alabama. By the time everything was said and down,
he was a five star. Now, I get it, guys
are allowed to improve, but me musso, Cassie, anybody else
in this building. You're not gonna be able to go
and be like, oh, this guy used to be a three,
but now he's clearly a five. First off, I'm not
gonna be able to go out there on one Friday
night and tell you the difference between a three and
a five star.
Speaker 6: Most of you can't.
Speaker 5: That's why I think recruiting rankings are crap about half
the time. But the fact that he's a three star
commits to Alabama and then like four months later, after
a pretty good senior year, he jumps all the way
up to a five. I've seen guys go from three
to four. I've seen guys go from four to five.
I have never seen someone go from a three star
to a five star in like a five month period.
I've never seen that. So you can say, Okay, yeah,
he's a five star freshman. Eh, maybe a five star
might be a little bit misleading, but right now you
would have Ty Simpson as your starting quarterback.
Speaker 6: I can't say that I'm shocked by that.
Speaker 5: I kind of figured this was going to be the
situation because if you hear the reports out of Alabama,
it's well, you know, he's not doing anything to light
it up, but he's kind of the veteran guy in
the room. He's controlling the offense. He's playing within the system.
Speaker 6: That's fine.
Speaker 5: You won national championships with Greg McElroy, AJ McCarron, and
Jacob Cocher, and none of them were ever going to
be NFL All Pro type caliber guys. You were also
a lot more talented top to bottom. You also had
a lot more talent on offense around them. So I'm
not so much as worried about the quarterback position, but
how can the guys around them elevate the quarterback? We
know about Ryan Williams. Ryan Williams is an excellent football player.
Do they have outside of Ryan Williams?
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 5: Justice Hayins was a little bit of a disappointment in
Alabama's first two years.
Speaker 6: He was a solid back. He wasn't the stud that
they wanted him to be. But he's gone. You have
jam Miller back of running back. That's great.
Speaker 5: You got Jeremy Bernard, he's probably gonna be your number two.
You bring in Isaiah Horton the transfer from Miami. Isaiah
Horton had a solid year, But I mean, is that
really the guy that is gonna help Ty Simson look
a lot better than he was?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, Ryan Williams is certainly a special player, there
is no question about it. Jeremy Bernard did some okay
things last year. He showed flashes, and then you look
at Isaiah Hordon. In three years in Miami, Isaiah Horton
seventy catches, seven hundred and ninety yards, six touchdowns, eleven
point three yards per catch, twenty seven point two yards
per game in three years. And you can actually take
twenty twenty two out. He only played in four games.
He had one catch for six yards. Okay, so let's
say seventy catches, seven hundred nine yards and six touchdowns
in a two years stretch. I mean, still nothing to
beat your chest about of Oh, we got another solid
playmaker out here. And you can say, okay, well, you
know he didn't have a good quarterback as virgu It
cam Ward last year, and I get it. You had
Isaiah Royo with tight end. You had Xavier or Shrepo,
you were competing for catches. He's a solid player, But
I mean, is that the one piece that's going to
put Alabama over the top. No, So even if ty
Simpson plays over his head, how are the weapons or
lack thereof at Alabama gonna elevate Ty Simpson and get
this team where they want to beat?
Speaker 6: I just don't know if I see it.
Speaker 5: The next team I want to highlight is the Tennessee Volunteers,
because let's be honest, this is the talk of the
SEC and rightfully so.
Speaker 6: Also, guys, I don't know if you saw this.
Speaker 5: We have updated the Niko iam Aliava situation at nauseum.
I'm not gonna talk about it anymore outside of this.
You remember the report that he wanted somewhere near four
million dollars just stay at Tennessee. And this is the
kind of advice and Eco's getting now that he's a
quote unquote free agent in college football and he's in
the transfer portal where it is now, they actually want
well over four million dollars.
Speaker 6: They're on the open market. They think they can get that.
Speaker 5: Look, you're a guy who's played one year college football
under three thousand yards, nineteen touchdowns, five picks, and in
your one college football playoff game, you completed forty five
percent of your passes and you lost forty five to seventeen.
That is the resume that you're bringing in the transfer
portal back to Tennessee and the guys that are actually
going to be there.
Speaker 6: At least during the spring game.
Speaker 5: It appears a true freshman, George McIntyre is actually the
leader in the clubhouse. LSU fans may remember the name
George McIntyre. LSU was in on him for quite some time.
They were actually considered the favorite to land him for
a large period of time. I love his potential. He's
a big kid. He's about six foot four. For his
high school career, he threw for eight two hundred and
ninety three yards sixty two touchdowns in thirty six games.
He had nine rushing touchdowns. He was first team All
State Player of the Year finalists as a junior.
Speaker 6: I mean, you name it. George McIntire's done again.
Speaker 5: To a lot like Alabama. You can be excited about
George McIntyre. I just said I loved this potential. I
really liked him when he was coming out of high school.
Keildon Samson's not there anymore. You didn't have the receiving
corps last year to help out Niko Yama, Liama, how
you gonna help out George McIntyre. And I don't think
this is necessarily McIntire's fault. I'm not gonna be like, oh, well,
Nico's gone, Tennessee's They're season's over. I didn't think they're
gonna be that great with Nico. But breaking in a
true freshman quarterback in the SEZ with very little offensive
weapons around you, he's going to be a tough ask
because look, I just crapped all over Ty Simpson. At
least Ty Simpsons has been in this program for three
years now. George McIntire's nineteen years old. You're putting a
lot on that young man's play. Now, Well, they dip
into the portal and see if a quarterback pop. Maybe
we haven't seen the final list of who's going to
be in the portal who's not.
Speaker 6: Maybe they do.
Speaker 5: Maybe they find some guy that nobody's talking about that
they're absolutely in love with. Right now, it's just like
Alabama if the season started today, George McIntyre's probably their
starter as far as the Auburn Tigers go, they may
have the best situation of the three teams. I'm mentioning
you bring in Jackson Arnold from Oklahoma, Ashton Daniels who
was a starter at Stanford, and freshman Duce Knight, who
a lot of people love. Obviously, Jackson Arnold looks like
the leader in that clubhouse. Now, he didn't practice on
Saturday during that open practice because you know it was
a lingering injury, just a precaution, nothing major. We still
have Ashton Daniels who has experience. You have the hot
shot freshman Induce Night. Also, you've added weapons in that
transfer portal. That is something that the Auburn coaching stuff
has done a really good job. You had Cam Coleman
last year who was really good as a freshman. He
was a matchup problem.
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 5: You bring in Eric Singleton from Georgia Tech. This is
a guy who had around one thousand yard receiving last year,
showed he could be a really exclusive receiver. LSU showed
some interest in Eric Singleton. I mean that was a
name that was brought up time and time again for
any team when it was like, hey, which wide receiver
can you go get in the portal. Eric Singleton was
one of the top names out there. You pair him
with a cam Coleman. I think Jackson Arnold's actually going
to have a lot of success at Auburn this year.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 5: He didn't really live up to the five star hype
last year at Oklahoma. He was disappointing. At Oklahoma had
no running game. We know that Nick Anderson basically was
out before the season even started. Jackson Arnold had bower sharp,
but that's about all he had. His offensive line wasn't great.
The running game was non existent, and that's been the
biggest knock on Brian Vinnibles. I'm sure Vinibles is a
defensive coach, but you have to have some semblance of
an offense, and they didn't have it out there at Norman.
I think under this coaching staff, their offensive center and
I think Jackson Ronold could have a successful year. But look,
I bring up all those different quarterback situations. Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn.
I mean Tennessee was a playoff team last year. Auburn
was right in the thick of it. I mean Alabama
was right in the thick of it. Auburn looks like,
you know, they're getting a lot of hype going into
the twenty twenty five season. Anyone who wants to criticize
Garrett Nelsemyron lsu in this offense for whatever you see
in twenty twenty five, take a look at these three teams. Look,
you have a returning quarterback who had one of the
best first years that you have seen here in Ben Rouge.
I think you're actually better at receiver this year than
you were last year, even when losing Mason Taylor. At
tight end, Douse, you have Aaron Anderson back, you have
Zavi On, Thomas Beck bringing Nick Anderson, Barrion Brown Francis
is the freshman coming in. He's got a lot of potential.
Bower Sharp's gonna play a lot, trade is Green. I mean,
you lose Mason Taylor, but those two guys combined, I
think you're gonna be fine a tight end.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Well, Garrett Nelsemeyer tak that second year johnp like a
Joe Burrow or Jayden Daniels. I don't know that's a
lot to ask, but so many people last year criticized
Garrett Nelsmeyer and being like, well, he's not Joe Burrow,
and Jaden Daniels. Yeah, no, kid, Very few people look.
But what I thought was unfair was that they were
comparing first year Garrett Nelsmeyer to second year Joe Burrow
and Jaden Daniels. Look at nels Meyer's first year as
a full time starter, sixty four percent completion, four thousand yards,
twenty nine touchdowns, twelve interceptions.
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow.
Speaker 5: Furst year starting at LSU fifty seven percent completion, twenty
nine hundred yards, sixteen touchdowns, five picks. So the turnovers
were very good, there was only five of them. Touchdowns
weren't quite there. Jayden Daniels in his first year. Now,
obviously you got to take into consideration Jaden's ability to run.
I understand that that's something that Barrow had a little
bit of. As far as we know, Nelsmeyer doesn't really
have any of at all. As far as passing, Jayden
and Daniels sixty eight percent completion, so that was fine.
Twenty nine hundred yards, seventeen touchdowns, three picks. You get
the point, get it. He turned the ball over a lot,
he had twelve interceptions. He didn't take off and run
quite as much as everybody wanted him to. When the
pocket collapse. There's certainly things to work on, but Row
numbers wise, like garon Osmar's right there. I'm not saying
he's going to take a second year jump like a
Jayden Danners or Joe Burrow, but he could. He's got
more weapons than he had last year. There's obviously a
lot of question marks on the offensive line, but if
you can shore that up, I think you might even
be better at running back. You got Durham and Jackson back,
but Harlan Berry, whos looked really good in spring practice.
Speaker 1: J T.
Speaker 5: Lindsay's coming in in the fall. I think you're fine
at tight end. I mentioned Boutwer Sharp and trade is
green nothing.
Speaker 6: They'll be good to go.
Speaker 5: If you can fix the offensive line and make them
a really good unit, this offense could be as good
as anybody in the country. And I think that a
guy like Art Olsmar is gonna be a big part
of that obviously. So I'm not saying he's going to
take a Burrow or a Daniel's jump in year two,
saying he's got all the pieces around him to do
just that. You're under Joe Sloan for a second year,
the returning starter in the SEC. He got your feet
wet last year. You worked out a lot of the
kinks and the issues. Looked really good in the bowl game.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 5: He threw that bad interception. I know that was on him,
But outside of that, he looked really good in the
bowl game. He looked good against Vandy, looked really good
against Oklahoma. As bad as that three game stretch was
from Garrett Osmyer and really the entire LSU team, you
lose to A and M, then you go Alabama Florida,
I get it. That was not great football. But the
last three games of the year, Vandy, Oklahoma and then
the bowl game against Baylor, Garrett Nozmeyer looked as good
as any quarterback in college football.
Speaker 6: We'll see what he does this year.
Speaker 5: But look, there's a lot of talk about, oh, well,
NUSS has just gonna throw a lot of picks and
all this. Look around the SEC guys, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn,
they'd love to have Garrett Nesmyer. You got him, you
got a lot of weapons around him. We'll see what
he does here in twenty twenty five. Right, we're gonna
take a quick time out when we get back. We're
gonna kind of get away from sports a little bit.
I like to do this every time I fill in
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we used to do on OTV. He got away fro about.
I'm gonna do a would you Rather Wednesday? I got
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questions in the chat as well. Me and Musocassi. You're
gonna have a little fun coming up here on the
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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back again Wednesday edition of Off the Bench.
What I wanted to do right now?
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 5: Look, everybody in the chat always asks worst T Bob,
we need to hear about the latest celebrity gossip in
the other nonsense that he yells about.
Speaker 6: So what I try to do is one nonsports segment
every single day. We're gonna do it here.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do a little would you rather Wednesday? It's
something we used to do here on OTV. I like
to do it every time I fill in if it
happens to be on a Wednesday. I got a few
questions ready. We'll see if more and more come in
through the chat, guys, I will ask them and I
will go to you guys first, Would you rather go
to space or the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 3: Space, I'd rather go to space.
Speaker 7: Space.
Speaker 6: Okay, well we're going to be three for three on space.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the bottom of the ocean seems like the most
terrifying place in the entire world.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 5: I mean, like, at least if you're in space, you
got something to look at. You can't see three inches
in front of your face in the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 6: And what did they say, Like, Okay, you.
Speaker 5: See all the terrifying creatures that are already in the ocean,
right They're like, okay, well we've only discovered like seven
percent of the ocean. What the hell else is out
there that we don't know about? Like, at least in space,
like I got some sort of a view and can
float around. It might be kind of fun. I mean,
you know, until I ultimately perish, but it might be
kind of fun. But yeah, no, I am out on
a deep sea exploration. That is something that I have
zero interest in.
Speaker 7: Muso.
Speaker 5: This one's for me and you, and I think I
know our answers. Would you rather be a fill in
host for the morning show or the afternoon show?
Speaker 9: Yeah, the afternoon shack. It's not it's not even close, man.
I uh, not a morning person. Although we were talking
at the break, we have crossed the thresholder Like, I mean,
I would be awake at this point in the morning now,
but and probably for about forty minutes or so.
Speaker 3: But still the first alarm this morning went off at
like four forty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's not a great feeling.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's not fun for me at all.
Speaker 5: The worst feeling is like, not even when the alarm
goes off, it's going to sleep, but you set the
alarm and you're checking what time you said it.
Speaker 6: That is the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 3: No, yet, that's true. That absolutely sucks.
Speaker 9: A little part of me died last night whenever I
had to set the four forty alarm and then like
the four fifty and then the five.
Speaker 5: So, Jassie, this one actually is probably the best for
you because, like, my answer is obviously going to be
the morning show, because I'm someone who likes to keep
the same schedule.
Speaker 6: Almady year in the morning.
Speaker 5: Anyways, I don't hit traffic on the way home usually
unless something incredibly rare happens, which is kind of the
norm here in ben Rudge.
Speaker 6: But what would what would your answer be?
Speaker 10: Definitely the afternoon show.
Speaker 6: But you seem like such a morning person.
Speaker 10: I think we all know that I'm not a morning
persinger at all. I'm still struggling to keep my eyes
away and the show started at seven.
Speaker 7: It's it's rough.
Speaker 5: We were talking about this the other day. Would you
rather be a professional singer, actor or athlete?
Speaker 3: Oh? Singer? One percent?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No.
Speaker 9: We were talking about say and I said the other day,
and I said that if I could choose one.
Speaker 3: Talent in the world to have, it would be seen
like that would be awesome.
Speaker 5: I agree, Cassie, Yeah, I agree. Okay, well, we can't
all pick singer, but you know what, We're going to
all pick singer. But I'm picking up for a different
reason one like tomus to this point. Yeah, having the
talented sing. Also, you can like pick up gigs really anyway,
if you learn how to play the piano or the guitar,
like that helps you as well. But also, if I'm
a professional singer and like I make a big time,
the rush when you're about to walk out on stage
and a sold out arena has to be just phenomenal.
Speaker 10: Some could say the same for an actor or an athlete.
Speaker 5: It does, but Here's here's where it differs. Okay, here's
where it differs. When you're singing one of your big
hits and you stop and the rest of the crowd
sings a word for word and doesn't miss a beat,
that's gotta be one of the biggest honors you can have,
like for me, like those two particular reasons, Like it's
singer for me all the way. Like sure, every you
know kid growing up like me and musso anybody, like
they all grew up like, oh, I want to be
a professional athlete when I grew up, Like, you can.
Speaker 6: Be a singer a lot longer.
Speaker 5: You don't get injured as much being a singer, Like
the singer has a longer shelf life, and a lot
of singers ultimately get into movies anyways, So I'm going
singer right there.
Speaker 6: Okay. Would you rather only eat dessert or never eat dessert? Again?
Speaker 10: Only eat dessert?
Speaker 6: Okay, big dessert? Okay, but PASSI that means no Chick
fil A?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 10: But is that milk chase?
Speaker 6: Oh she got chicken in them? So okay, so you
do you just like the aura of Chick fil A.
It doesn't even have to be chicken not necessarily.
Speaker 9: That's a hard one because I don't want to eat dessert, yeah,
for every meal for the rest of my life. But
I also don't want to have to give up dessert entirely.
So that's actually really difficult because I don't want to
give up dessert entirely. I guess I have to pick
eat dessert, which doesn't sound fun at all.
Speaker 5: So I'm actually gonna go the other way. I can
do without dessert. Like, I like dessert, but it's kind
of always my least favorite part of the meal. Like,
don't get me wrong, I will throw it down on
a chocolate cake and apple pie like whatever it is.
But I like my savory foods way too much, Like
I don't. I don't think I could deal with sweets
like every day for the rest of my life. I'm
actually gonna go opposite you, guys. I'm I'm cool with
never have a dessert again. I don't want to only Like,
I love pizza, I love burgers all that. Like, I'd
rather have all of that and not have dessert than
like get desserted, but like have to give up every
single thing. I love seafood, big seafood fan, can't have
that if I only do dessert. No, this is this
is an easy one for me. I'm I'm never eating
dessert again.
Speaker 3: Oh you're a psycho.
Speaker 6: Would you Would you rather win the super Bowl or
win the Masters?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go with the Masters. And here's why. Yeah,
not just the the the aura of it and everything
that surrounds the tournament. I mean, we all understand that
you hear it so off with the super Bowl, even
if you win it, there's no guarantee you can go back.
Speaker 3: You win the Masters, you get to go back every year.
It's a guarantee.
Speaker 9: Well, you get to have your own Master's dinner, to
a dinner, you get to play in the tournament for
as long as you want, as long as you live,
for the rest of time, and it just becomes a
part of you forever. Not that a super Bowl doesn't.
It's just there is no guarantee of more, you know,
success or or return to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Winning a super Bowl would be absolutely awesome.
Speaker 9: Both immortalize you, but because of everything that kind of
comes with the Masters, or like surrounding the tournament, Yeah,
I'm gonna go with the Masters, Cassy, what we got.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go with.
Speaker 10: Super Bowl, but I think you still kind of convinced
me to go to Masters. Because I'm not a golf person,
so I don't really know much about the Masters, but
I mean that after Masters dinner would be really nice,
and I think you'd convinced me such Masters.
Speaker 5: So it would depend on what position I'd play in football.
If I am a quarterback that wins the Super Bowl,
you were forever a legend of the game, no question
about it. If I'm like an offensive lineman or a
defensive lineman, ten years from now, nobody's even going to
remember that I won the Super Bowl. Also, like when
you see a guy in college win the Heisman Trophy,
you got all the old Heisman winners standing behind him,
and I mean, it's a shrine, it's a fraternity of greatness.
Speaker 6: That's kind of how I view the Masters.
Speaker 5: I view the Masters more like winning the Heisman than
I do winning the super Bowl. Which you could say, Okay,
well you're literally picking super Bowl, not necessarily because you're
in that group forever, you will forever have that green jacket.
Speaker 6: You get to pick the Masters dinner.
Speaker 5: Like Musa mentioned, you get to come back next year,
and everybody's gonna be pointing, Hey, look there's a returning
champion right there. Can anybody get this guy? Look as
big of a fan as I am of football, Like,
would I'd rather go to the Super Bowl the Masters
super Bowl for me because you get the halftime show,
it's a spectacle and everything. As far as winning, I
think I'm actually gonna take the Masters as well, Guys,
I mean I think I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 6: All right, we'll get a few more in here.
Speaker 5: Would you rather binge watch a TV show or watch
one episode every single week?
Speaker 10: Watch a TV show?
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I can do both. It It doesn't uh. I
really honestly don't have a preference there. I mean, you know,
with certain shows like on Netflix obviously binge. But I
mean I watched Yellowstone Weekly from the entire like four
or five.
Speaker 6: I know a lot of people did that with like Waltson.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I mean, like I really I don't have
a preference. It's I can take it or leave it
with both.
Speaker 5: I'm actually gonna go binge watching a TV show like
Musso is a very patient person.
Speaker 6: I have figured out, you know, I'm in certain areas.
I feel like you're the.
Speaker 5: Type of guy that could like like not here, like
not when something goes wrong, but like I feel like
outside of work, like, uh, you don't have to have
like like you can be a scheduled person outside of work.
Speaker 6: I'm so scheduled here. I can't.
Speaker 5: I cannot take the time to sit down every single
like one night a week for the same exact time
and do it like I will intentionally wait, Like Okay,
there's a new show out called Mobland with Tom Hardy
and it's it's very similar to like Peggy Blinders and
all that.
Speaker 6: And my my brother and my dad they're all watching.
Speaker 5: They're like, oh, you got to check out Mobland, And
my how many episodes are? Like oh, like two or three?
I was like, oh, wait for the first season to
come out, Like I'm good, Like, I can't. I'd rather
just sit there to vote one afternoon to it watch
the entire thing, Like I don't. I don't think I
can sit down the same time every single week and devoted.
I would forget then I would be episode behind. Then
I'd have to wait for it. Like I'm I'm good
with just binge watching ya, you know what?
Speaker 1: I just learned.
Speaker 6: What did you just learned?
Speaker 3: You know nothing about me?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, obviously at work.
Speaker 3: No, okay, guys, I'm not scheduled outside of work.
Speaker 6: You seem like you could be.
Speaker 9: I could be, but I I like to just kind
of do nothing most of the time when I'm not here. Now,
it doesn't always work because I don't do well doing nothing.
I have to like always do something.
Speaker 3: See that. That's where I'm at normally find things to do.
But it's uh yeah, no, no, not not here.
Speaker 6: So okay, everybody out there listening.
Speaker 5: Me and Muso and Kassi ar Desk are kind of
all right next to each other right outside in this
whole way, and you know, me and Cassie will be
sitting there and Musa is a little bit away, and
I'll hear Muso like hit his hand down on something
or yell something, and I'm like, yeah, I'm thinking, like catastrophe.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Muso, what's wrong? My computer won't print.
Speaker 9: I'm like, yeah, man, well we're okay. What he's got
to get it done. We work on deadline, and a
lot of the time that happens, it's like two.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's true, since ten minutes where you before starts.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 6: I get it all right.
Speaker 5: Look, that's going to do it for would you rather
Wednesday when died to kind of get away from from
the sports talk? I know that's you know, we try
to do that on a TV. I try to do
wana shit. Okay, I'm not gonna be like T Bob
and I have like the whole first hour just about
whatever pops into my head. But look, when we come back,
Zach Naggy's gonna hop one with us. He was at
practice yesterday. We'll get a practice report, We'll get his
thoughts on the open scrimmage that occurred last Saturday, and
maybe what else you could do in the transfer portal.
That's all coming up on the other side here on
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Off the Bench and with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 5: Welcome back in wednesday edition of Off the Bench Sharp
with you sitting in for Jacob Ester and t Bob Abay.
Right now we're gonna go out to the phone lines.
Welcome in, Zach Natt. You covering the Ylow Shoot Tigers
for s I.
Speaker 6: Zach.
Speaker 4: What's going on man, morning, Taylor? How are we doing
doing good on this sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Doing good?
Speaker 5: You know we were gonna have you on yesterday, but
it turns out that Brian Kelly actually let you guys
extend your stay a little bit out there in the
practice field. Let's kind of dive into that right now,
Like what was your what was your main takeaway from
practice yesterday? The first one you guys got to see
after that spring scrimmage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think most importantly Taylor is about evaluating this
offensive line and getting the opportunity to see the rotations
that they continue to throw out there. Obviously we've seen
DJ Chester kind of rolling with the ones at the
center spot. That's gonna be a position battle that cruises
all the way leading up the Week one at Clemson.
So getting the opportunity to sit back evaluate that offensive line,
see who they're rolling with, who they're going to continue
to work with this summer. And that's kind of the
major takeaway yesterday. It's kind of the same thing over
and over again, that that we begin to see, but
nonetheless opportunity to check out the O line, see defensive
line ceased, dear Mitchell back on the field. Just a
couple of little takeaways that we had the chance to
see yesterday mornings.
Speaker 5: Speaking of the offensive line, I'm glad you mentioned that
I actually talked about that earlier in this show. Look,
you know we the two big transfers that came in
was Braylin Moore and Josh Thompson. I mean, do you
think both of those guys are going to get that
starting spotter? Is like this a legitimate battle for those
guys to earn that job.
Speaker 4: I think this O line is just kind of a
big old puzzle that you got to put together and
you have a couple of months to do so. But
you were a ton of versatile pieces that you throw
in the mix there obviously, like you said, Josh Thompson,
and then that's the epitome of a versatile piece up front.
He can play guard, he can play tackle. Right now,
they've been throwing him in with the second team at
that right tackle spot behind West and Davis. I think
ultimately when things come down to it week one at Clemson,
he's going to be a guard for this team. I
think his interior spot is where he's thrived the most.
I think is where he's the chance to be most
successful under Brad Davis. So for me, I think there's
an opportunity for him to start come week one at
the guard spot. Braylan Moore and DJ Chester. That's a
true battle right there. They've been going at it for
the last couple of weeks. It's going to continue to
trickle into the rest of the offseason as well. But
I don't think you brought in a guy like Braylan
Moore to sit on the bench. I think this is
a guy who's going to continue to battle and continue
to do what he needs to do in order to
be on the field come week one. But those two guys, man,
I think they have an opportunity to obviously be upfront
and be in that starting fog.
Speaker 5: As far as the scrimmage goes on Saturday, I mean scrimmage,
spring game, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 6: It was kind of the extended action we got to see.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you were out there, you saw full team,
eleven on eleven, you saw seven on seven, goal line,
red zone. I mean you saw a little bit of everything.
What was your biggest takeaway, like positive or negative? Offensively
or defensively, Like, what was your biggest takeaway? When you left,
you were like, Okay, maybe wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's unfortunate. Taylor is going to sound like a
casual here, but it's the Edge Rushers unit. Yeah, I
think everybody's been raving about them for good reason. Everybody
was talking about his talent to the depth there, and
like I said, it's for all good reasons. It starts
to the trio of newcomers Florida State's Patrick Payton, Lord
Jack fiber Nebraskas Jamari Butler. Those trio of newcomers have
looked the part during camp and it trickled into that
open event on Saturday in Tiger Stadium. Those three are
going to recavoc this season. I'm excited to see how
it pans out for them. And then you throw in
Gabriel Rele Relevord who's returning for his second season with
the program. Fran Kellyes, raved about him time and top again,
that was going to be very important stopping the run
in twenty twenty five. So when you kind of look
at those quote unquote standouts during that event and really
all throughout Camp, Taylor, it's going to be about that
Edge Rusher's unit. I think they've looked some stational Kevin
Peeple's has pieced together a really talented, too deep depth
chart and this is about continuing to get that continuity,
that chemistry flowing throughout the rest of camp leading up
the week one again at Clemson. Man, it's one of
the biggest games I think in a very very long
time for LSU, clearly, and you're gonna need that defensive
front to be able to stop Kate club Nick. When
it comes down to it that Ed Rusher's unit has
lived up to the hype so far. It's about continuing
to have a very very positive offseason, Zach.
Speaker 5: I know this day in agent college football, like things
can change drastically between the end of spring in the
beginning of fall. But like today, what do you think
the deepest position for this Selish team is.
Speaker 4: It's a great question, and it's the wide receiver unit.
I think they're extremely talented and I know we just
talked a little bit of the defense. It important to
talk about the offense and the pieces that they have
right there, and it starts with that wide receiver unit.
Whether it's gonna be Chris Hilton, who had a fantastic
catch yesterday during live work from Garrett Nussmarch, just a
fantastic play, and again he's had a fantastic offseason. It's
about bringing that into the regular season. We've heard it
time and time again. It's just about staying healthy. So ultimately,
the wide receiver unit is the group that I've been
looking at. That's the deepest on the entire team structs
with Chris Hilton, Aaron Anderson, Levion Thomas, that's been the
trio that's been working with the ones. Look at the twos.
You got Nick Anderson, Barrion Brown, even a Kyle Parker,
Destin Hill, Taylor. You could throw out seven receivers any
Saturday and you have the opportunity to be successful and
not skip a beat. You have a talented unit right there.
Forteed Tankan has a really good problem and that's a
ton of talent and it's about how he's going to
have to divvy up the snaps in twenty twenty five.
I'm excited to see how it fans out. Garret nuss
Meyer has been working with an embarrassment of riches during camp.
He's got that unit looking the part. It's about continuing
to ripple into the rest of the offseason and had
that work out.
Speaker 6: It's fun.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, there's always been a lot of talk
about the receiver room. We know LSU is always going
to have a bunch of receivers. I want to kind
of shift to the tight end room here a little bit,
because you'll lose a great talent in Mason Taylor, but
you have trade As Green back. By all accounts, Bower
Sharp has been excellent in spring. How do you think
the combination of Bower Sharp and trade As Green, like,
how can they coexist.
Speaker 6: In this offense?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great question. I think Bower Sharp's been
one of the winners of camp. I mean, he's been sensational,
he's dynamic, he's a great pass catchrick and put his
hands in the dirt and being a fish and blocker.
I think when you talk about a guy like trade
As Green, he's not necessarily a polished blocker just yet.
Heading into year two, we know he's more of a
receiving threat at the tight end. So I think just
that dynamic of the boat of both of them together
is a really positive sign for this team. I think
they are really solid one two punchs. We know, oh
that trade As Green. You know that five star top
side end in America, that guy that has really really
lived up to the heights so far during camp. We've
been excited to see it. It's about continuing once again
to have a good rest of the off season. And
then you look at a guy like Bower Sharp, a
guy who's coming in from Oklahoma, led the team in receptions,
in receiving yards, He's proven to be a receiving thread himself,
but he also gives the ability to have a staky net,
put his hands in the dirt and then peel off
and catch a short pass in the backfield if needs be.
That's what Mason Taylor's specialty was last season, kind of
being that safety net for Garrett Nusmeyer, those short, chunk
yard plays when needs be. I think Bower Sharp can
really give an opportunity to continue to carry that into
twenty twenty five, where Garrett Nusmeyer doesn't have to skip
a beat after losing Mason Taylor. Then you throw in
the versatile aspect of trade as Green the rescue for success.
I think they have a really good opportunity to be
a solid tight end roumin twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: So we've talked pretty positively so far about you know,
how deep the receiving core is, how good the tight
ends looked. Zach biggest question mark for this team in
your eyes going into ball camp.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's easy to sit back and talk
about the positives of this team and the depth that
they have in a bunch of different rooms. But the
one quote unquote concern in the one spot that I'm
intrigued to see if they utilize this spring window in
the transperport is going to be at that safety room.
And again, I think that's one that a lot of
people are talking about. It's the spot that might have
the least amount of competition in that room, the least
amount of depth you've thrown in North Carolina State. To
Marcus Cooley, a guy who's thrived in the ACC, it's
about upping the competition level and continuing to handle business
in the SEC. And then you look at the other
guys who are quote unquote not proven to Shaun Spears,
Joel Rodgers, Javian Toviana. Those are the four that have
really rounded out that room during spring camp, while Jordan
Gilbert nurses that shoulder injury. So there's a lack of
competition in that room and there's really a lack of depth.
I mean, you got four guys that are stolid, but
you don't have that experienced piece who's dominated at the
power four levels so far. So Marcus Cooley has handled business,
but he hasn't necessarily dominated. So for me, I think
is the matter of going in and potentially getting another
guy in the portal to add to that room and
try to up the competition up to talent level. You
got to Marcus Cooley, who's a fantastict defensive back, but
can you get somebody else next to him as well
that can really balance out the secondary and give them
kind of a nice core moving into twenty twenty five,
I think that safety room might be that one quote
unquote question.
Speaker 5: Marks to this team, No, Zach, if they don't go
into the portal and they don't add another safety and
I agree with the out though they were going to
add two in that first portal window. But if they don't,
let's say they roll with to Marcus Cooley and the
other guys they got. Let's assume Cooley gets one of
those starting spots.
Speaker 6: Who do you like next to him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great question. And Brian Kelly talks about
not really necessarily hitting the portal with fours during the
spring windows, so you might be dealing with what you got, right,
now and you throw into Marcus Cooley in one of
those spots. And at the other side, Davi and Tobiano
has been been getting a lot of reps with the one.
I just want to see de Shan Spears take that
next to that man. I think he's got all the intangibles,
he's got the he's got the physical tools. It's just
about getting a little bit more aggressive and continuing to
become more of a heavy hitter. I think DeShawn Spears
has a chance to line up next to him, of
course next season, just a matter of if he takes
that next step. If you were to tell me right
now who I think it would be, it'd be Javian
Tooviano based off the reps that he's been getting with
the ones during camp. But if I really want to
see somebody take that next step and quote unquote surprise
some people, it's gonna be Shawn Spears.
Speaker 5: Forget j out of here. Zach zach Naggi joining us
right now. His thoughts about the interior D line. I mean,
everybody talks about the addressers, how great they look look.
Kyle Williams is coming in your new D line, coach,
what have you seen from the interior right there on
the D line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, a really good question, Taylor, And for me,
obviously a mod bro and Dominic McKinley. Are those two
guys that be getting reps with the one you're sophomores,
you're kind of rising stars from the season ago, a
mod Brow exceeded expectations. Dominic McKinley came on towards the
back end of the season. Those are two guys that
are gonna have some lofty expectations atting end of this year.
You got to stop the run. It's a whole of
how it stopping the run. Stopping those mobile quarterbacks obviously
starts up front of the trenches. You've gotta have those
guys dominated. So for me, during camp so far, you
can seeing a heavy dose of that one to two
punch inside of McKinley and bro throwing. See Mitchell, the
Texas transfer, who to me has had one of the
better camps so far. On this defensive unit, I think
Sader Mitchell has a chance to take them impact the
snatch in twenty twenty five next to him with the
twos has been shown. Washington really intrigued to feel that
two deep depth chart shakes out. I think those are
the four names obviously monitor, but don't sleep on a
guy like Zion Williams, a true freshman who's really emerged.
In my opinion, he has the physical tools, he looks
the part inside, doesn't look like an early en roller league.
This is a guy who looks physically capable of making
an impact as a true freshman. Just a matter of
a style Williams wants to throw him in the fire early,
but nonetheless we got some salon up front. And obviously
McKinley and Brow are two names to monitor, but don't
sleep on guys like Sade Mitchell of course, as Zion Williams.
And then you're kind of veteran in the room right
now as shown Washington, those are the guys to watch,
as Jakobean Gillory can and you just get back in
the mix themselves.
Speaker 5: Zach Naggiy Zach, before we get you out of here.
Where can people find more of your stuff?
Speaker 4: Absolutely for me, you can go to the personal page
on Twitter or X that's at z N eighty twenty.
To LSUS I page on Twitter or X whichever one
you want to call. It is at LSU Tigers SI
if you're not on social media, go to Google sofar
at whichever search engine you use in punching LSUSI LSU
Sports Illustrated and you'll see all things you need LSU football, baseball, basketball, recruiting,
priple and goal related. We got it on the site,
so make sure to check it out.
Speaker 6: Zach, thanks for hopping on with me today.
Speaker 4: Absolutely have a go with Taylor.
Speaker 5: Yep, that was Zach Naggi covers l O Shoot Tigers
for Sports Illustrated. All right, we're going to take a
time out. We get back a little bit of a
shorter segment. We're gonna close out otur number two of
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It's off then with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 5: Welcome back in final segment now our number two Wednesday
edition of Off the Bench. A little bit of a
shorter segment here, Thanks Zach Maggy for his time. Coming
up in now our number three, we're gonna have Ali
Cosell hop on with us to talk some New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 6: They have a lot going on right now.
Speaker 5: We'll also talk about a veteran cornerback, see if the
Saints have any interest there, and then we'll close it
out with Ask the Bench Right now, though, got a
few minutes if you want to mention that scone mentioned
this on AFR A little bit yesterday. LSU was added
Eric Hill to its support staff as the new Director
of High School Relations. This was confirmed to Louisianasports dot Net.
Shaye Dixon of When three first reported this news. Look,
if you follow any sports here in Louisiana, you know
Eric hild. I mean he served as a director of
the Louisian High School Coaches Association since twenty nineteen, and
prior to that he spent twenty five years as a
teacher and a coach here in the state of Louisiana. Look,
if he is the director of High School Relations, I
don't think you could have hired a more per if
a guy. First off, he's here in the state of Louisiana.
LSU builds their recruiting. Look, whether they dip in any
school from the transfer portal, their foundation is still the
state of Louisiana and that's where LSU goes first.
Speaker 6: Eric Keel is a guy that knows the coaches. He
knows all the athletes.
Speaker 5: So if you're putting on summer camps, if you're putting
on coaching clinics, Eric Kell, this is as simple as
a phone call for him. I mean he's been around.
I talked about twenty five years as a teacher and
coach in this state and he's been director of the
High School Coaches Association.
Speaker 6: Since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: He knows some people. Look, he was a Brother Martin graduate.
He played football at Nichols. He was a special teams captain,
So like, maybe can he help out with LSU special teams.
I get it, you have analysts and support staff, but
now you can have whoever you want on the sidelines
during games like they do.
Speaker 6: Mistake about it.
Speaker 5: One of Brian Kelly's biggest achilles heels since he's been
here at LSU has been special teams.
Speaker 6: Maybe coach Hellad can help with that. He was at
Saint Michael's. He was the head coach there.
Speaker 5: He was on Catholic staff on their football staff during
the team's first state championship back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 6: This is a guy that has been a lot of places.
Speaker 5: He's well connected, and he's had success everywhere he's bet
And if you meet Eric Keld, if you ever have
the pleasure of doing so, I have met Eric Keild,
You're not gonna find a more personable guy, great personality.
Coaches love him, the players love him. He did a
great job with Louisiana High School Athletics for a number
of years. This is the perfect higre for issue again.
I'll go back to it unless she sets up a
lot of coaches clinics. Eric Kelt's great at that. He'll
be great at setting up summer camps and seven on
seven camps and anything else you need looking at athletes.
Speaker 6: This is the guy to do it.
Speaker 5: I don't think there could have been a more perfect
hire for director of high school relations then coach Eric keld.
All right, that'll do it for hour number two. Coming
up in our third hour, Ali Kosell is gonna hop
on with US Pelicans Insider. He's gonna talk his reaction
to the firing of David Griffin, thoughts on Joe Dumars
as the new VP out there in New Orleans, What
does this mean for Willie Green, the Pelicans chances in
the draft lottery.
Speaker 6: We're gonna get into it all.
Speaker 5: I know we're not typically a Pelicans heavy show, but uh,
the news cycle they are dominating that lately. We'll get
into Saints possibly outing to dB because Jalen Ramsey asked
the Miami Dolphins for a trade. We'll see if the
Saints are interested and if they should be interested. Also,
everyone's favorite quarterback in the state of Louisiana, Derek Carr,
has a new YouTube channel. We'll play you a clip
of that, guys, it's as good as you think it is.
And we'll close things out with a little bit of
Ask the Bench. There's still got a lot to do here.
On a Wednesday edition of OTB, recapping hours one and two.
Hour one, we're very baseball heavy. Hour two more LSU football,
Zach Naggie hopped on with us. We got one more
hour to go. Stay tuned again. We're talking Saints, we're
talking Pelicans. We're closing things out with Ask the Bench.
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