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Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.

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Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied to

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come off the bitch. Hour two of Off the Bench,

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Live from the Raising Kine Studio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in our number two here on a Friday edition

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of Off the Bench, A Taylor show up here with

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the Elandavella, Rial, Braxton, Rosuto. Those asease while they look

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like ours to me, that was a hectic first hour.

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I mean I told you during the break, I was like, Braxton,

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I applaud you because you're the only, like none everyday

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member of the show and you've screwed up the least

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between the three of us. So I shout out to you, ma'am.

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We uh had a great time. I enjoyed the long

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commercial break. Actually it was fun. I mean we sat there,

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we were laughing about it. Wanted to talk about in

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that segment. We just combined too, No big deal. We

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made it work. You got to watch some SpongeBob like

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was That was a That was a Friday first hour

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if we've ever had one. Okay, a little bit more

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sportsy here in the second hour, do you want to

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talk a little LSU football? Do you want to talk

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some Saint's? LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark will be with

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us at eight thirty, and then the nine o'clock hour,

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We're we're pretty busy there. Ralse Jackson'll be with us

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at nine o'clock, nine to thirty. Former LSU pitcher Doug

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Thompson will join us. I gotta get his thoughts of

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what he saw on the opening weekend, what he expects

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to see this weekend in Jacksonville, And of course we'll

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close everything out like we do with ask the bench

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right now. Though Paul fine Bomb was going get Up

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earlier this week. Now, you guys know how I feel

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about Paul fine Bomb. Typically, I would never bring up

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anything Paul fine Bomb had to say. Only if I

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was anonymously calling into his show would I ever interact

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with him in the all likelihood. But he was asked

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on Get Up and their college football segment of who

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won the offseason, and fine Bom said, Lane Kiffen, how

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many times do I need to say that he dominated

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the end of the season with his move and then

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he managed the college football chaos look at what he

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brought in in the portal. He said he made major

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acquisitions there. But I think even with a difficult schedule,

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LSU is a college football playoff team. I mean, I

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gotta tell you, I never agreed with anything. Paul Finebaum

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says he nailed this one. Lane Kiffin did win the offseason.

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Lank Kiffin won the off season before he has ever

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won a game here. Because you have to admire what

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Lane Kiffin's done. Whether you're the biggest Lane Kiffin fan

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in the world or whether you were at aim In

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Lee against him coming to this program, you gotta meyer

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what he's done. There was so much chaos surrounding his

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decision to leave Ole Miss, so many attacks on him.

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Everybody in college football painted Lane Kiffin as this villain,

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even though other coaches have done this multiple times. He

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didn't care. He came in, he went to work. I mean,

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everybody you know talked about, Oh, Lane Kffin's gonna be

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so great for the media. I see anything really spoke

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to the media, and I'm I'm I prefer it that way,

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even as a member of the media, like we hear

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want Lane Kiffen to go out and add transfer portal

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players and retain your coaching staff and retaining key players

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from a year ago.

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he did.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Lane Kiffin had his opening press conference and

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you didn't really hear from him again until two weeks

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ago when he was recapping his signing class.

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Speaker 2: That's it. So all this chaos surrounding his decision.

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Speaker 3: To move to Baton Rouge and leave poor little old

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old Miss, everybody made a spectacle out of this. You know,

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you're the only person that did not make a spectacle

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out of this coaching change situation.

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Speaker 2: Was it was Lane Kiffin.

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Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin's not in the national media pushing this on

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TV every single day. Lane Kiffin's not one of these

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unhinged old Miss fans who seemed to can't understand the

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fact that, uh, Lane Kiffin left you to go to

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the prom with the prettier girl. That's exactly what happened.

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your head around that Lane coming to Baton Ridge, ignoring

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all that outside noise coming in, putting his head down

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and getting to work, That's exactly what you wanted as

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an LSU fan, because if you look at the end,

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of the Brian Kelly era and all the rumors and

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news and reports that came out around Brian Kelly maybe

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not having the best work ethic. Lane Kiffin seems to

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be the complete opposite. Lane Kiffen seems to be somebody

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who's like, hey, I came here to win. I know

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there's massive expectations around me. I don't want to let

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myself down. I don't want to let the people of

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Baton rouge you down. I don't want to let LSU down.

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I'm gonna come in, I'm gonna work my butt off,

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and I'm gonna symbable what could very well be the

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best transfer a portal class of all time. You brought

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in forty two guys. Find me a position did LSU

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needed that LSU did not address in the offseason. Everybody

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was waiting on offensive line. You got multiple guys who

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I think are plug and play. I mean, Jordan Steeden's

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is gonna start on this team. I talked about it

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a little bit the other day with Aliu Bah kind

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of an under the radar guy, but started twenty four

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consecutive games at Maryland at guard. He's a plug and

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play guy, can play either guard, spot. You were able

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to retain Brayland Moore, You're able to retain Weston Davis,

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whatever that means to you. Trey Dez is back, like

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and large. I mean we've talked about Carrius Kerrent. I

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think Kyle Parker's actually a pretty big loss.

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Speaker 3: That one's gonna hurt more than Kerrn, just because I

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next to Jeremiah Smith, with Julian saying throwing him to the football.

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in the world or whether you despise the guy and

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thought LSU should have looked elsewhere, you have to admire

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what he's done, Like hand up. If you had asked me,

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you'd have said, Taylor, who you're going to hire? I

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probably would have hired Knny dialing him one. I didn't

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know how gettable Lane was too. I didn't know how

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long you were gonna have to wait. I wasn't sure

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if Lane Kivin was going to pull that trigger before

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the early signing period he wound up doing it wound

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up working out perfectly. My thought was always if you

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can get Kiffin, yeah go get him. Don't put all

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imagined at this point. So shout out Lane kivin everything

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Speaker 3: I kind of switching topics here before we take this

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first break. Folks over at LSU Wire put out an

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article of why this LSU football player can be an

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All American in twenty twenty six, and the guy they

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mentioned is DeShawn Spears. I think this is a great choice.

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I think DeShawn Spears has all the potential in the world.

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he could be. They mentioned his PFF grade. Spears graded

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out at ninety point one on PFF that was top

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five in all of college football among safeties, a ninety

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point three in coverage that was fourth in all of

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college football. He was the second highest rated defensive player

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on LSU's team last year, behind only Mansword Delane, who's

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about to be a top fifteen pick in all likelihood.

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I love the versatility that he could bring to this defense.

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Speaker 2: You get him up to two.

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Speaker 3: You could slide him in there at the nickel or

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the star position that our guy Matt Flynn loved so much.

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Haryl Perkins was around sixty three to two hundred and

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twenty pounds, and I actually thought he did a pretty

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good job for the most part at that star position.

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I've been highled on this guy's as he stepped fot

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on campus. Look, he's from my neck of the woods.

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I'm born and raising Walker, Louisiana, and I still live

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there to this day. He's right, he's a stone star

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down the road in Denham Springs. So I was a

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little bit biased, But I also saw the guy play

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a lot in New York. Goodie could be and you

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saw the flashes a year ago. Again, he wasn't an

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everyday starter in the secondary now, he said, behind aj

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Hawsey and Tamarcus Cooley, which no shame in that both

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are those guys were stud for you a year ago.

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But on the season last year, twenty nine tackles, three

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tackles were lost, two interceptions. Both of those interceptions came

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in that Florida game. One of them he took fifty

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nine yards back to the house for a pick six.

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I think he's losing with potential, which is why I

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love the Tide benefit signing out of the transfer portal

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so much. Anytime somebody asked me, favorite transfer portal addition

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outside of the obvious, so you had to get your

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quarterback and you had to get the offensive line, favorite

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player might be Tid Benifield because of the versatility he's

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going to bring to this defense. Bennfields a three year

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starter at Boise State. Last year one hundred and seven tackles,

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eight and a half tackles for a lost, two interceptions.

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drop back deep and kind of be that center field

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or at the back of your defense. The year before that,

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eighty two tackles, five tackles for a loss, again, two interceptions.

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don't think there's any question about it. I thought he

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was really good a year ago. Who's going to be

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that guy next to him? All of a sudden, you

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have a lot of options, And honestly, whoever's not the

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starting safety next to Tamarcus Cooley's probably going to slide

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down there into that star role. I would like it

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to be Deshaun Spears because of the again, six foot three,

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can he get up to two hundred and twenty pounds,

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great there. Even though Bennfield's a little bit on the

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smaller size. He's hovering around six foot but he's physical

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enough to do it. We saw it at Boise State

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Cjjim Coyly. He didn't get a ton of reps in game,

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but he repped the star position a lot during fall

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camp a year ago. They're in the media viewing portion

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of those fall practices. We got to go out there.

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He was kind of the number two star at times

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behind Harold Perkins. Got a lot of reps there. He's

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a big bodied guy. He could play safety, linebacker, star

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wherever you need him. But the talent of a Deshaun

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Spears perrying that with a tie Benifield. Those guys are

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basically interchangeable.

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Speaker 2: At this point.

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Speaker 3: I think the sky's the limit for this team. I

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mean I mentioned, you know the potential of a Deshaun Spears.

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People forget he was SEC Defensive Player of the Week

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after that game against Florida, and he was Bronco Negirsky

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National Defensive Player of the Week as well.

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Speaker 2: That was the two interception game. He was incredible.

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Speaker 3: Now he had the privilege of playing against a DJ Lagway,

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who I don't think is a very good quarterback. Unl

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you picked him off five times that game and probably

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could have had another one in there somewhere. But he

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was awesome in every opportunity he got. And yes, people

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want to point out like when I mentioned he was

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his second highest rated player on your defense, Well he

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wasn't at every downstarter guys, he played over two hundred

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snaps on this defensive year ago. That's enough of a

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sample size. And think about the other players on that defense.

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DJ Pikett was really good. AJ Halsey was awesome, so

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Marcus Cooley was great. He greted higher than all three

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of those guys that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to

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translate into a big time role, and just because he

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was great at high a year ago means he's going

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to be an All American. But I think the potential's there.

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I think the talent's there, and I think he's gonna

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have every opportunity to make a big impact on this defense,

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whether it's at star, whether it's at safety. I'm excited

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to see what tomarcut school he can do next year

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Speaker 6: What that was?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back? Ye here Friday attorney? That was Gordon Guy.

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I knew I was gonna say I'm attorney, but I

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couldn't remember. Okay, shut out, Gordon, what's up?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: Get Gordon right?

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Speaker 5: Speaking of Will Helmer's part of the G team is

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gonna come on next Monday.

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Speaker 2: Talk a little baseball.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Will Helmers. Man I remember when they

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had to start him at third base that one game. Actually,

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you know what, that might have been my first baseball

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game working for RELASHU because it was Manary's last year.

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And I think that's right, Like I always remember, like

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I started working on I moved from Talk to ESPN

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Oars rounds last year. I started working over at LSU

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Minaris last year. It always kind of lined up that way.

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But yeah, you had to start at third base. He

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had the rough out, and you know, people wanted to

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wanted to crucify the dude, and like he's playing third base.

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He was too good of a picture. And then I

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mean he was a great pitcher for Relashue for a

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number of years. Shout out Will Helmers. He'll be year.

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He'll be here Monday.

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Speaker 2: Right He'll tell you that straight up too. He'll be

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be here Monday.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk a little New Orleans Saints because

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nine am. Put on an article on Wednesday talking about

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the New Orleans Saints potentially bringing back Teddy Bridgewater this

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year in free agency. He mentioned, you know, the Saints

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have never been shy about bringing back players from the past.

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They reacquired mark Ingram in twenty twenty one, They brought

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back Jimmy Graham in twenty twenty three. Number twenty twenty,

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they brought back Malcolm Jingins. Like, there's a lot of

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guys that had been on this team previously did they

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have brought back? And you know we're else right, Bridgewater

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makes sense as another rekindled flame, especially if the team

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sees veteran quarterback Taysom he'll leave after his contract voids

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on March tenth, or if he'll retires. I don't think

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Taysom Hill is going to be back with this team,

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whether he retires, whether he goes somewhere else in free agency.

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I just I just don't see that happening. I don't

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know how much sense it makes for the Saints. And

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I'm just I'm not quite sure how that would work.

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So would you want Teddy Bridgewater back? I absolutely would.

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Teddy Bridgewater was a great locker room guy. He was

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loved by fans. The problem is Teddy hasn't played in

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a number of years now.

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Speaker 2: He's been on rosters.

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Speaker 3: But the last time Teddy Bridgewater threw a pass he

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threw fifteen passes a year ago from Tampa sixty two yards.

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twenty two, he attempted seventy nine passes for the Miami Dolphins.

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to Detroit to try to help him during that playoff run.

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B Jared Golf's backup Detroit for two years, and then

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last year again fifteen total passes on the year for

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the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And he's thirty three years old.

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left on those tires. And again, I would welcome Teddy

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Bridgewater back with open arms because I think he is

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valuable as a backup quarterback in this league.

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Speaker 2: He could help Tyler Shuck out.

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Speaker 3: He's been in this league for a number of years

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with a number of different franchises in a number of

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different roles. When he went to the Minnesota Vikings, he

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was their starting quarterback until injuries caught up with him,

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came to New Orleans, he had to fill in for

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Drew Brees when Brees had that thumb injury, and Teddy

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Bridgewater went five and oh as a starting quarterback here

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in New Orleans. Nine touchdown, Stoneley two interceptions. So he

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was really good here and I would welcome him back.

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But that also begs the question should the Saints trade

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Spencer Rattler?

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 3: I think they should trade Spencer Rattler. And this is

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not a shot at Spencer Ratler. I think Spencer Radler

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is valuable on this team. I actually think he's so

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valuable that you could get some trade value back for

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a guy like Rattler. I'm not saying second third round pick,

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but could you get a fourth a fifth for a

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guy like Rattler. You could take advantage of a lot

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of quarterback needy teams. I'll tell you that that could

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be desperate. The Arizona Cardinals. You mean to tell me

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Spencer Ratler couldn't go in there with Arizona with a

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brand new coaching staff, and that franchise seems keen on

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moving on from Kyler Murray. Spencer Radler could go in

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there and be a bridge quarterback for him at the start,

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and who knows, maybe he could develop into something there.

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What about the Las Vegas Raiders? Could he go there

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with Clint Kubiak who coached him a year ago in

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New Orleans. If you don't want Fernando Mendos that I

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have to start as a rookie, or you want somebody

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to come in and mentor him, that's a really good

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locker room guy. Spencer Ratler could be that guy for

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you there. I think there is value in trading Spencer Ratler.

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Now the pushback will be Rattler's too good of a backup,

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you have to hold.

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Speaker 2: On to it.

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Speaker 3: The reality is, if any team has to rely on

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their backup, you're already kind of screwed.

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Speaker 2: And again that's not a shot. It's Spencer Rattler.

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Speaker 3: Like when you look at his record, he has a

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one in thirteen record as a starting quarterback for the

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New Orleans Saints.

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Speaker 2: Now, not all of that is his fault.

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Speaker 3: I mean you look at what he did last year

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over sixty seven percent completion, eight touchdowns, five interceptions, fifteen

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hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: So Spencer Ratlers are doing his part.

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Speaker 3: He's just like you're not losing because of Spencer Rattler,

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but you also weren't winning with him either. He wasn't

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elevating the players around him. He did a fine job.

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He played his role. I thought he did a good

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job leading that offense at times. But think about the

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difference in that offense when Tyler Shack stepped in there.

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It just felt different. He kind of elevated the players

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around him. Look at Devn I mean, Devon Veley had

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career games like I know. I made the joke on

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this show saying, oh, Devon Veley rode to one hundred

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yards when people always say road to one k. It

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was road to one hundred. Devon Veley wants Tyler Schuck.

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But game the starting quarterback really thrived. I mean that

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was Shuck's third down go to guy. Him and Jawan

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Johnson made play after play. There was a game Tyler

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Shuck just ripping it down the seam on third down

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for those first downs, throwing it up to Veyle, throwing

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it up to Johnson, and Chris Olave had some of

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the best games of his career with Tyler Shuck in

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their quarterback. He just seemed like Shuck elevated the players

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around him. It's not a shot at Spencer Rattler. There's

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a lot of guys in the league that play their

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role and they do it well and unfortunately they're not winning.

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That's kind of where I'm at with Spencer Ratler. Ratler

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goes one to thirteen. Tyler Shuck had the same team

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Rattler did a year ago, and he went five and

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four as the starting quarterback. If you do trade Tyler Shan,

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I mean Spencer Ratler and you signed Teddy Bridgewater, that's

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a good It's a step in the right direction. How

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comfortable are you with Bridgewater at this point in his career?

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I mentioned he threw fifteen passes a year ago. Then

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he hadn't thrown a ball since twenty twenty two. How

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comfortable are you with him being your primary backup? You

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may have to actually bring in a third option. That's

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where he gets a little dicey for you. You look

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at some of the unrestricted free agents right now, and

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I'm gonna be realistic with this.

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Speaker 2: Like Marcus Mariota thirty two years old, had to start.

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Speaker 3: A number of games for Washington last year due to

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those Jade and Daniel's injuries. Mariotas still got it.

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Speaker 2: I mean he looked.

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Speaker 3: He looked good in a number of those games. Now,

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Washington was terrible and they had no weapons on the outside,

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they had no running game, so Mariota was kind of

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on his own, but he held up well. Mariota's played

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a lot of games in this league. He is set

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to be an unrestricted free agent unless something changes with

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franchise tags and stuff like that. But a guy like

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Marriott is probably not getting franchise tag at this point

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in his career. I mean, Zach Wilson's out there, and

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I get it. Everyone likes to clown Zach Wilson for

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his year with the Jets. One, nobody does well Jets two.

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You're not bringing him into be a starting quarterback. Zach

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Wilson still got some talent I would welcome. If I'm

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cheering for any team, I would welcome Zach Wilson. And

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as the backup quarterback, why not. He's still got talent.

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He doesn't have to go in there and start sixteen

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games for you a Lesha hope. Not Mitch Traubisky. He's

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been in Buffalo for a number of years, but he's

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a former first round pick. Started a bunch of games

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in Chicago. Now Jimmy Garoppolo is a free agent. That's

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that one's more wishful thinking than anything. I think the

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Saint should be a tough sell for a guy like Garoppolo,

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not because he doesn't like the city of New Orleans

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and the Saints, but like, Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna have

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teams out there that want him to be a starter,

474
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like where it is, teams like Miami. You've already reached

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out to him to like be that guy for this year.

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So I don't know if Jimmy Garoppolo would turn down

477
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a potential starting role to come to New Orleans and

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be the backup and mentor Tyler Shuck. But he's a

479
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name out there to watch who's currently a free agent.

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You have some options out there. I'm okay with signing

481
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Teddy Bridgewater. I'm okay with trading Spencer Rattler, but I

482
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think you have a little bit more work to do

483
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in the quarterback room if that does in fact happen,

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all right, we'll step away. We'll take a quick time

485
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out when we get back. Transition away from football. LSU

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gymnastics coach at Jay Clark joins us next here on

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off the bench, Off the bench.

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Speaker 1: Yea from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off

510
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the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

511
00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:05,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back in Friday edition of OTB Taylor Sharpy

512
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,480
with us sitting in for the time being for Jacob

513
00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:12,240
Messer and Matt Flynn. They will be back on Monday.

514
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,359
Right now, let's go out to the phone lines. Big

515
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,440
meat coming up. LSU Gymnastics coach at Jay Clark joins

516
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,119
us right now.

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00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 2: Coach Clark, good morning, How are you?

518
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 6: Good morning? How are you this morning?

519
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: Doing quite well? Coach?

520
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,839
Speaker 3: You know your your your team's always one of the

521
00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:30,119
top programs in the country.

522
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that.

523
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,759
Speaker 3: Like y'all the rank number two right now, your you're

524
00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:36,880
six six and one overall in the season. And yes,

525
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I mean you know it seems like it's reload instead

526
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,160
of rebuild for you guys every year, but specifically this team,

527
00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,319
Like what has made your squad so tough to beat

528
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:44,720
this year?

529
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean I think we had a lot of

530
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kids come back from last year and a lot of

531
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kids whose roles expanded that we all that we already

532
00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:57,240
knew would be there even last year. But when you

533
00:26:57,279 --> 00:27:01,160
have a Leah Finnigan and Haley Bryant and Sierra Ballard

534
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,799
and those guys leading the way, there's not a lot

535
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:04,920
of there's only so many opportunities to compete. So we

536
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,480
knew we had some kids coming in that, you know,

537
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returning this year, that with their role would expand and

538
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they'd be able to do the job. I think more

539
00:27:12,319 --> 00:27:14,960
than anything, though, we've got a group that that really

540
00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:16,960
seems to be bought into the way we like to

541
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,279
do things, and and they they they cared genuinely for

542
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,759
each other, and they're doing it for the right reasons,

543
00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:28,519
and that's that's always a key to any anybody's success.

544
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 3: Could you talk about all the all the veterans you

545
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,960
have back and certainly, but you know, when you anybody

546
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,960
that's watched this team, you see a gymnast like Nina

547
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,559
Baloo out there freshman, I mean, what maybe you know

548
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,119
her specifically, some of the younger gymnasts on the team,

549
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,279
what stood out uh to you about them?

550
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Speaker 6: Well, Nina in particular, Nina been coming to our camp

551
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,200
since she was about eight years old. I think she

552
00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:52,359
had her mind made up she was coming to LSU

553
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,200
before we knew even who she was. She's uh, she's

554
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,000
been a mainstay in our summer life for a long time.

555
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And you know, she just that kid is She's a

556
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She's an alpha in every way, and she she brings

557
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,279
so much energy to everything that she does. Even as

558
00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:12,960
a freshman, she has been one of the more vocal

559
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,200
leaders in the room and uh and willing to participate

560
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,279
and willing to put herself out there in terms of

561
00:28:19,319 --> 00:28:21,200
giving her opinion about the way we ought to be

562
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,720
doing things. And and she's been an incredibly good impact

563
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:29,480
so far. And UH just couldn't couldn't be happier with

564
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,920
with the role that she has played so far. Over

565
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,359
the years, she will do a lot more in terms

566
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,759
of just sheer gymnastics than she's done so far. But

567
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but she's already contributed in massive ways.

568
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Speaker 3: Coach, you're talking about gymnasts have contributed in massive ways.

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Let's go ahead and name the Gymnasts of the Week

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award after Caitlyn Chio. I mean, she wins there last week.

571
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You know, she got this a number of times as

572
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a freshman. She's only built on that as a sophomore.

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That was her twelfth Gymnast of the Year of the

574
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Week award. You know, early in her sophomore year she

575
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had a record all around performance on Friday. It was

576
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thirty perfect ten on the floor. I mean, how is

577
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she built on that great freshman year? What have you

578
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seen from her?

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Speaker 6: I think more than anything, she's just shown a lot

580
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of growth in terms of maturity and the way she

581
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carries herself, the way she communicates with her teammates. I

582
00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:25,599
think last year it was sort of just sort of

583
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organic the way it happened. She just came in and

584
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did her job, didn't say a whole lot, and and

585
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and at times when things didn't go well for her,

586
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which wasn't often, you know, her body language would reflect that.

587
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Now she's she's she's really changed the way that she

588
00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:45,000
approaches things. She's done an amazing job of being a

589
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,119
better teammate and and just shown a lot of growth.

590
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When things aren't going well for her, you don't know

591
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680
it anymore. And that's and that's that's the time of

592
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,240
a good leader, because she's she's focused on what's going

593
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on with everybody else around her. You know, you always

594
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worry when somebody has a freshman year like that that,

595
00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:02,279
you know, things can get sideways if they're trying to

596
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duplicate or or repeat something that they did in the past.

597
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And I think she's done a really good job of

598
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managing that expectation that she has for herself and also

599
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really turning the focus away from that and onto her teammates.

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And I think that's been the key to her success

601
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so far.

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Speaker 3: Oh, judym Nasik's go to Jay Clark joining us right now. Coach,

603
00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:25,400
your team has been awesome the last two weeks. I mean,

604
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,599
you set your season high mark one ninety eight point

605
00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:32,400
three two five against Auburn last week. You guys have

606
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,079
won eighteen straight inside the p MAC, haven't lost a

607
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,079
home meet since January sixteenth of twenty twenty three.

608
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Speaker 2: I did not realize it had been that long.

609
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Speaker 3: Like you, when you're at home, you know, people always

610
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,920
ask me what's the best environment you've ever seen in

611
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,319
the p MAC and coach for me. I don't know

612
00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:53,799
if it was twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen, but you

613
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,319
guys were taking on Florida inside the p MAC. That's

614
00:30:56,359 --> 00:30:58,279
the loudest I've ever seen that venue. I mean, it

615
00:30:58,319 --> 00:31:00,480
was a top ten matchup at the time. You guys

616
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:02,920
pulled off a big win. What is it like knowing

617
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,519
like you have that kind of fan support at home,

618
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:06,960
It's got to be a big advantage.

619
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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, that meat was twenty fifteen. It

620
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:12,119
was the first time we had sold that building out

621
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:15,440
and we'd been on a pretty steep trajectory of growth

622
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,079
at that point, and you're right, that place was unbelievable

623
00:31:19,119 --> 00:31:22,119
that night. And look, it's different, you know, That's what

624
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,559
everybody's saying. Now. I've been saying it since I got

625
00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:26,920
here in twenty twelve, So Layne can't have that all

626
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:32,079
to himself, but it is different here and we're just

627
00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:34,599
so blessed to have that kind of support. It's there's

628
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,720
nowhere else in the country that you can walk into

629
00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:42,279
an arena and have that kind of just amazing, almost

630
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,519
vitriolic support for your team. And in our sport. It

631
00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:50,319
happens in other sports. It happens in football and basketball

632
00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:55,880
and others, but the arena, the peedback on Friday nights

633
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,400
in Baton Rouge is unlike anything else in our sport,

634
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,680
in gymnastics, and it's it's an incredible blessing. It's as

635
00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:05,680
part of what draws kids to want to come here

636
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,160
and to experience this as they go into the tail

637
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,119
end of their careers because there is no PROS, there

638
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,359
is no NFL, there is no NBA, and so they

639
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,200
want to experience the bigness of what LSU has to offer.

640
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,160
And it's a tremendous advantage for us when our fans

641
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,480
are packed in there and as loud as they are.

642
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.

643
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 3: I saw a graphic over the weekend else you put

644
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,039
it out. It was between your meat against Auburn, the

645
00:32:32,079 --> 00:32:34,759
women's basketball game against South Carolina, and opening weekend at

646
00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:37,319
the Box. It was three events over the weekend, all

647
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,680
eleven thousand plus fans inside that venue. I mean, it

648
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:44,559
was something. It was just really incredible. Coach, Again, you

649
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,960
guys have been great the last few weeks, but you

650
00:32:47,079 --> 00:32:50,519
have been at home Penn State and Auburn. Now you

651
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,920
go on the road into a hostile environment. How is

652
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,079
that different for you guys going into a meet because

653
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,880
obviously at home, I mean I just mentioned eighteen straight

654
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,640
inside the PMAG. But when you're in a hostile environment,

655
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,279
is there a little bit extra you got to get

656
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:06,359
your team ready to go. Or is it just hey,

657
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,960
it's business as usual, just a different atmosphere.

658
00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:12,039
Speaker 6: Well, in general, it's business as usual, but there are

659
00:33:12,039 --> 00:33:14,519
adjustments that you have to make. I mean, everybody's equipment,

660
00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:16,640
even though they meet the same specs and everything, it

661
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,960
feels a little different. Takes us a little bit to

662
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,880
adjust to that. I don't know what to expect in

663
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,319
terms of a crowd. I anticipate, since it's one versus

664
00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:26,960
two tonight, that it'll be be a big crowd. But

665
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,000
you know, we learned we'd much rather compete in front

666
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:32,319
of a large crowd that's against us than nobody. So

667
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,079
you know when we go some places and it's it's

668
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,960
vapid in there because it's you know, there's nobody in there.

669
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,440
But you know, for us, it's really it's really not

670
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:43,680
about the other team that's on the floor with us.

671
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,200
It can't be. There is no defense. We can't tackle them,

672
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:49,160
they can't tackle us. So it's it's a it's a

673
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:51,559
it's just a different approach. We have to stay true

674
00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:53,440
to who we are. We're still in a growth period.

675
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,039
We're still trying to become a finished product. And I

676
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,799
tell them every week. You know, we set a new

677
00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:01,759
floor for ourselves every week. Hopefully, if we're doing things

678
00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:05,359
the right way and we're moving forward and we're getting

679
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,279
closer to where we want to be in terms of

680
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:10,239
what our ultimate potential is, then every week we should

681
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,360
see improvement and we should set a new floor for

682
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,400
ourselves in different ways. And so, you know, we certainly

683
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,159
understand that this is a big meet here, and we

684
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:21,559
know where we are, and we know that Oklahoma's been

685
00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:24,639
the gold standard. They won seven of the last eleven

686
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,159
national championships in our sport. But there's a nice, little

687
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,280
respectful rivalry between the two programs right now. We were

688
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,599
able to share the regular season title with them last

689
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,000
year and then beat them at the SEC Championship and

690
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,360
then unfortunately we came up short of making finals at

691
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,960
the end. But we know who we're competing against tonight,

692
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,599
and we just got to go in there confident and

693
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,480
really do everything we can to put pressure on them

694
00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:52,280
and see see where things come out.

695
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: Courch you were.

696
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 3: Talking about the battles you guys have had with Oklahoma.

697
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,280
Obviously one versus two, you guys already faced them once

698
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:00,760
this year.

699
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,559
Speaker 2: It was your first meet of the.

700
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 3: Year correct, And I mean it says, you know, one

701
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,760
point five for both teams, but OU wins in a

702
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,119
six score tiebreaker.

703
00:35:11,199 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: How does that work?

704
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 6: Well? In our sport, we put six up on every event.

705
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:17,719
You count five of them, you count the best five,

706
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,159
and so when you get into a tiebreaker situation. They

707
00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:22,320
don't normally do it in a regular season meet, but

708
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,039
ESPN runs that according to championship rules because it's a

709
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:31,239
it's an ESPN event, and so they go to the

710
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,480
six score on every event. And our sixth score in

711
00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:37,519
two spots was lower than theirs, and I think we

712
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:39,679
end up losing by a quarter of a tenth or

713
00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:42,519
half a tenth based on that. But it goes in

714
00:35:42,559 --> 00:35:44,559
the record book as a tie and they just break

715
00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:47,360
the tiebreaker and they do the tiebreaker to decide the

716
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,800
champion of that meet. And that's the same way they

717
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:50,960
would do it in the postseason.

718
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 3: Well, coach, speaking of that tie the last time you

719
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,440
guys face the Oklahoma Sooners, what's it going to take

720
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,800
to get this team over the top tonight?

721
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 6: As I said, we just got to go in there

722
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,280
and be ourselves. You know it's there. It's tough to

723
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,079
beat them. I think the last time they lost here

724
00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:09,360
was in twenty fourteen. You think we have a street

725
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,519
going into PMAC these guys and the team they lost

726
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:15,320
to was us, was in back in twenty fourteen when

727
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,079
Reagan Corville and Sarry Morrison. We're still on the team,

728
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,360
you know, but it's different times now, and they're they're

729
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,639
tough to beat at home. It's really for us, it's

730
00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:27,320
just about going in there and staying true to the

731
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,760
identity that we're creating for ourselves and and go compete

732
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,440
hard and and you know see where see where we

733
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:35,679
end up. We're gonna see these guys again down the road.

734
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:38,320
We'll see him at the SEC Championship and if everything

735
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,440
goes well, we'll see him in the NCAA Championship. So

736
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:45,440
this this meet, while it's it's big and it's exciting

737
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,320
and fans love it and it'll be great for TV,

738
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,400
it's not going to define a whole heck of a

739
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,480
lot for us either way. So we just got to

740
00:36:51,639 --> 00:36:53,840
put it in its proper place and go compete hard

741
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:54,559
and try to win it.

742
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: One versus two, LSU versus Oklahoma.

743
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,159
Speaker 3: That is LSU Gymnastics coach j coach, Thanks for hopping

744
00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:03,400
on with me and everybody back home is gonna be

745
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:04,039
pulling for you guys.

746
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:05,039
Speaker 2: A good luck to you tonight.

747
00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:07,079
Speaker 6: Thank you, buddy, You'll have a great day.

748
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely. That was LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark. The Tiger's

749
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taking on the Sooners in Norman the Lloyd Noble Center

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Speaker 3: We'll take a time out. We're closing out out on

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Speaker 2: I'm tirely all, I got it home. I'm at the time,

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and all I got a whole minute. I'm all, I

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got it. I'm love Simon.

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Speaker 1: All I got from the locker room to the airwaves.

781
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It's off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

782
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go to the website and see which one is nearest you.

786
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787
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about it. Man, they've got incredible deals going on at

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789
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Right when you walk in. All the things that make

792
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Rouses great. You're gonna be welcome by Kingcakes and all

793
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these things that are so Louisiana, right, and they are

794
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so local they're gonna have their own stuff there. But

795
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when we say Louisiana, they're in more than just Louisiana.

796
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Speaker 4: Across the Gulf Coast.

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Speaker 5: We just went to one in Mobile, Alabama a couple

798
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of weeks ago when we were down there for the

799
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Senior Ball. So again, find that location nearest you.

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802
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do it local at local grocery store. Go check out

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your nearest local Rouses.

804
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Speaker 3: Come on, this is this song exactly four minutes long?

805
00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:05,559
It's a good question because that would be a missed

806
00:40:05,599 --> 00:40:08,519
opportunity if not, the song has to be four minutes.

807
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 2: It says four minutes and five seconds. But I'm sure

808
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,760
it's just like the end of or outro whatever. I

809
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,519
was hope, but it wasn't like that praxing. We were talking,

810
00:40:20,599 --> 00:40:25,599
uh treing shoes in the in the break Do you

811
00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:29,320
have a pair of hate dudes? I don't anymore, but

812
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:29,760
you did?

813
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 4: I did?

814
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 3: Okay, last time I said I had hay dudes, people

815
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,440
said they were old man shoes.

816
00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:38,119
Speaker 4: No people wearing for like.

817
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 2: Just like my dad loves hay dudes.

818
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with.

819
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 2: Anything wrong with them, but they're definitely dead bad boys.

820
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,360
Here huh the navy blue. I just bought these. These

821
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,760
are like two weeks old. Those are fresh. Yeah, look

822
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,559
at these, look like your dad.

823
00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 4: Now, look at these da shoes.

824
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 3: At these you had to get look at them. Look

825
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,159
at them pearly white, right, they looks great. The problem

826
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:04,639
with these is though they don't make half sizes. What

827
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,400
size do I wear? Of course it's a ten and

828
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,239
a half, so I gotta buy the eleven. It's just

829
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,119
a little floppy and they kind of they kind of

830
00:41:11,119 --> 00:41:13,679
flop right off of me. But do their comfy? I mean,

831
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,280
it feels like I'm wearing slippers. And see She's like,

832
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,119
you know, they're duteo.

833
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 6: I'm not.

834
00:41:18,079 --> 00:41:20,679
Speaker 2: I'm not Chris Marley wearing loafers with no socks into

835
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,760
the office. Okay, and high waters. I at least I'm not.

836
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,239
I'm not wearing the loafers. Okay, We're just we wanted

837
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,039
to be. Chris is listening. He's gonna text me immediately

838
00:41:32,159 --> 00:41:35,519
after hearing that the man had high water. I love

839
00:41:35,599 --> 00:41:35,920
my guy.

840
00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 3: No, look, I was tired. I uh had to work

841
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,960
the women's game last night. I walked into my back

842
00:41:43,039 --> 00:41:44,920
door at eleven fifteen last night.

843
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 2: The back door. Yeah, we'll go into your house from

844
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,440
the back door. Well, so our back.

845
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 3: Door, Now, I could pull it up on Zilla if

846
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,360
I want to just price still there, don't do that.

847
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,159
Speaker 2: Our back door.

848
00:41:56,599 --> 00:41:59,039
Speaker 3: Our back door is, uh, it's kind of like on

849
00:41:59,159 --> 00:42:01,920
the back corner and then we have a long driveway.

850
00:42:02,159 --> 00:42:04,039
So I pulled right up and then the door's right

851
00:42:04,079 --> 00:42:05,880
there at the back corner. So yeah, I mean we

852
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,920
don't We don't ever use our front door. The only

853
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,960
time our front door's ever us is when Frankie's barking

854
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,119
at the Amazon guys dropping off packages. That's pretty much it. Yeah,

855
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:17,480
so I've walked in the back door at eleven fifteen.

856
00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 2: We're a little tired.

857
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 3: Luckily I got this brand new shirt so we didn't

858
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,719
need to be ironed or anything like that.

859
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 2: And honestly, how long did you have one of these?

860
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:27,079
Speaker 6: Well?

861
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: These are the sports don net shirts.

862
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.

863
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: Matt had a few, actually, he was passing them out.

864
00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:35,639
I guess it was Wednesday. A little bit seat through.

865
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 2: Hanging up in my closet.

866
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 3: I could see my hand on the other side. That's

867
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,760
why I had to wear an undershirt. I thought about

868
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,400
giving y'all show this morning. I was like, we could

869
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,519
be a little seed through on a Friday, a little scandalous.

870
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,760
But I was like, a, you know what, I don't

871
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,079
want people to get too excited. We're gonna we're gonna

872
00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:52,360
chill out a little bit. We're gonna rein it in

873
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,320
a little bit on this Friday. Call a call a

874
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:03,320
flag football tournament tomorrow. Yeah, Elton Gonzales. The range is

875
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,159
gonna be from four to fourteen. Kind of a wide

876
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,760
range there. A lot of people got their COVID years

877
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,639
of eligibility still remaining. Like the guy at mont You've

878
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:15,320
all seen the guy at Montana. There's a guy who

879
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,079
plays football at Montana. I say, guy, he's probably an

880
00:43:18,079 --> 00:43:20,920
old man now. He got his ninth year of eligibility

881
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:21,440
the other day.

882
00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:23,559
Speaker 4: I mean the dude from Miami, Miami. He was a

883
00:43:23,639 --> 00:43:25,360
tight end, Like I don't know if he graduated.

884
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,119
Speaker 2: He had he had a couple he had a couple

885
00:43:27,159 --> 00:43:28,159
of injuries, like this.

886
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,119
Speaker 8: Guy year still it was eight years probably.

887
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,159
Speaker 2: Like, what in the van Wilder are we doing? This guy?

888
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 3: He like nine years? His name is uh Solomon, No crap,

889
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,599
tu lea to tupu. No way, I didn't nail that

890
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:50,280
last name.

891
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: Huh he uh. He was granted a rare ninth year

892
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,960
of NCAA eligibility. Oh yeah, Matt was saying his name

893
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,920
the other day and it was making me laugh really hard.

894
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,039
I'm not at Tempet's. It'm wanting done on that one.

895
00:44:02,159 --> 00:44:04,199
He graduated What were you do you graduate high school?

896
00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:06,039
Speaker 4: Brexton, twenty twenty three.

897
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 2: O laundry. You were probably fourteen or fifteen or six

898
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,400
fifteen or sixteen? What in twenty twenty three? No, like

899
00:44:11,519 --> 00:44:13,519
graduating class high school? Oh sixteen.

900
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: This guy graduated high school in twenty eighteen, and he

901
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,239
would be playing college football next year.

902
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:20,159
Speaker 8: Now.

903
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: He had a number of injuries. He did have multiple injuries.

904
00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:25,159
Speaker 1: Uh.

905
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: It forced him to miss at least five full seasons

906
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:30,920
of competition.

907
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:32,559
Speaker 4: That's a lot.

908
00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:35,199
Speaker 3: That's that's just bad luck at that point. And like

909
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,920
I feel for you now, what you'd do eat? Like, Bro,

910
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,880
you're gonna be collecting aarp here soon you're thirty years old. Yeah, like,

911
00:44:46,039 --> 00:44:50,000
I'll be thirty in September. This guy's guess twenty six

912
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,920
because I graduated high school and fourteen. Yeah, he's played

913
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,599
twenty six, twenty seven somewhere in there, depending on where

914
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:59,519
the birthday falls. Like, my god, there's grad assistant coaches

915
00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:02,960
on the staff older than younger than you by multiple years.

916
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:05,639
Speaker 8: How far do you think it's TJ. Finley?

917
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 4: Is he a senior? Finally, he's on his seventh year.

918
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 3: Seventh year, Yeah, but only six schools because he went

919
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,480
to TWU Lane. He never actually played at Tulane and

920
00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:17,199
then like he enrolled at TU Lane in the spring,

921
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:18,280
left after the spring.

922
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 4: When in the falls, has it been injured?

923
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:23,599
Speaker 2: I don't no, not really.

924
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,559
Speaker 4: I don't know how you getting that many year.

925
00:45:25,599 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 3: His first year here was the COVID year at LSU, right,

926
00:45:28,199 --> 00:45:31,559
so that didn't count. I think he did have an injury.

927
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,119
One year, red shirted, another year played in less than

928
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:38,840
four games. It's probably the Auburn year when bow Knicks

929
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,360
was there, and so I mean it just it kind

930
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,559
of snowballed on it a little bit.

931
00:45:42,599 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, he's still in college. So was Max Johnson.

932
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,639
People forget about that, he really people talk about TJ.

933
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 3: Finley, Max Johnson's playing college, but I have no idea,

934
00:45:51,079 --> 00:45:53,800
but he's there. They were in the same they were

935
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,880
in the same high school class.

936
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,079
Speaker 8: I love the interview with Carson Beg. I guess leading

937
00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:02,039
to the Nasauar champion ship. They said like they were

938
00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:03,599
talking about classes in finals.

939
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, graduating.

940
00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, you said Howard classes and he said, oh, I

941
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,320
don't say any classes.

942
00:46:09,159 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 3: Right, he teaches the classes, MAXI Johnson, Max Johnson greaton papers.

943
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,480
Has been tough for this semester. I'm not gonna lie

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to you. Max Johnson at Georgia Southern, so back in

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his home state. But all right, that's gonna wrap up

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our number two coming up Busy Hour number three or

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Roster Jackson nine o'clock, nine thirty Doug Thompson.

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Speaker 2: Then we're wrapping this week up here on off the bench,

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Off the bench,