Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn say.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on the air Control live from the Mercedes Benz
Baton Rouge studio. It's off the bench.
Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back in OTV here on this Wednesday morning.
We got LSU linebacker what Weeks joining us in about
thirty minutes from now, Anthony Nardo good enough to just
hang out with us. We're like, hey, we're just gonna
force you to come chill, hang out. I can't leave this,
I know no doubt about it. All right, Flynn, I
hope you got at least one question ready. Uh, you
don't have one ready?
Speaker 3: I asked my question.
Speaker 2: That was it?
Speaker 4: The one so simple to just chat.
Speaker 3: EBT would you right or other? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What all you? Right now? I got that be where
your feet are in the studio right now. I was
you can we we ring my high in fifty nine
minutes we were off.
Speaker 5: I took your chair. You're standing. It's a different element,
So I'll give you. I'll take the blame for that.
Three chairs is a bit much to ask for.
Speaker 2: Well, three of the same chairs because like there's that
one over there, but then you end up being like
six inches lower than everybody else, and it's just it's
a whole situation. So all right, we used to have
imaging for this. You would have to go I know,
you would have to go so far back in the archives.
Speaker 3: How long is a long time, isn't it?
Speaker 2: So when I first so, you and I used to
do this on hanging with hester like way back, used
to come up with a question. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
te Bob used to do it. I think I think
he did it with Geordie as well. We kind of
stopped whenever.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Maybe t Bob didn't like it, but I love it.
It can be sports, it can be whatever, whatever, whatever.
So I'm just gonna ask you, would you rather? We're
gonna go around the room. I mean, I'm gonna ask
a question. We're gonna get four answers. It's not that hard,
pretty self explained to her. You would think, so I
just came up with a question. Thank God, think of
some All right, here we go, would you rather? Wednesday?
We're gonna have imaging in the whole deal for this,
but we're gonna do it every Wednesday. Would you rather
have a ten year solid NFL career with no Pro Bowls?
Or one legendary season and flame out? So ten super
solid years but you never reached that peak of being
elite or having like an MVP one off crazy season
and then you just kind of go away. How many
years do you play though? Like, do you like, are
you on a rock, like just kind of you flame out?
Maybe you spend years in my car? Wow? Or maybe
you know maybe does.
Speaker 3: It include a super insurance?
Speaker 2: Would be okay on that? So like I feel like that.
I mean, we look, there's a quarterback in Cleveland, Like
he didn't get hit by a car, but he did
some things and so like he kind of flamed out, right,
you know what I mean? So you want ten solid
years or do you want the one season?
Speaker 3: I guess where you're like, would be does that once
you get you win the super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Huge question?
Speaker 3: Huge question if you win the super Bowl and taking
the one Okay, Also what year in your career because
it's year three.
Speaker 2: Day.
Speaker 3: He's like, I wasn't prepared for all these super bowl
I'm going one year. If it's a no super Bowl,
then I'm going to.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, I think I'm I'm probably in this.
Speaker 5: That was my first question, Like if I get a ring, yeah,
I can be okay with it, all right, but otherwise
I want the consistency.
Speaker 4: So I was worried about the background music, so I
didn't really hear what the question is.
Speaker 2: Would you rather a ten year NFL career where you
never like reached like the best status, right you never
in that upper echelon group or one legendary season an
you flame.
Speaker 3: Out, I'll be one wonder.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm surprised by this.
Speaker 6: Okaye probably still make more money in the ten years
a ten year, So I'm going ten years because like
for me, I played a position that you know, didn't
get a lot of love.
Speaker 2: But like I love the fact that I, you know,
I was able to get six years and consistent and
invested like in all all that stuff. Like I always
think about, like what kind of career I'd want to have.
I would much rather play six years and play like
in all six of those years and be a starter
than like a fifteen year career where I started, like
looking at you, Chase Daniel, like seven games. Yeah, yeah,
you know what I mean. I got much rather a
six year career where I was like a dude on
the team that actually contributed.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of thought because if you're grinding your
own special team.
Speaker 2: Listen, I've already told you this. I'm going to be
eating out of a straw at sixty five. I didn't
know that at the time. Yeah, I do it all again.
Speaker 5: Here's another thing that you think about with the ten
year thing. I just thought about this too. Ten years
is a long time with a lot of teammates. You
meet a lot of people who make a lot of connections.
Speaker 2: Along the way. And if you're a part.
Speaker 5: Of a team and you're like, you're not the super star,
but you're the grinder in there.
Speaker 2: You're making your boys with a lot of guys like you.
How many boys you have because you play for different If.
Speaker 3: I'm a super Bowl winner and a Super Bowl MVP,
just one time, I can go to every.
Speaker 2: Door trip. Yeah, I love the spotlight.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, so two hours. I got kind
of nervous when you asked your question because it's like
pretty similar to my question, but no different. Would you
rather win an Olympic gold medal in an obscure sport
that you that you can barely find on like the
back end of True Team, didn't know it was a sport,
didn't know the sport, or be a bench player in
the NBA. NBA makes money. It's not a question bench players. Yeah,
for him, it is for.
Speaker 2: Him, it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think because it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Like to not play. I don't like to that you
can make.
Speaker 4: Money as an Olympian, but not an obscure Olympian.
Speaker 7: I don't feel like you can't know there's no money
and eventually a millionaires.
Speaker 5: I just think the lifestyle of the loneliness of like
this week, I shouldn't say weird this unique sport, right,
there's probably not a lot of people around in not
support systems, but you might.
Speaker 3: If you're good at this obscure sport, you might be
a gold medalist from your twenty twenty years old, your
your legacy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you and I talk about would be sick that
would that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love a gold medal of that. I
would be like, like, just talk about all we played
the one sport that literally you can't win a gold medal,
you know, Yeah, so this flight football, Yeah, but even
a difference different, there have no chance you can make
it come back but you never had it.
Speaker 3: Like you had all the me wo drink out of
your stroll like this.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, like a bench player for the NBA.
You know how bitter I am about a bench player
for I know you are. But it's like the ninth
guy on an NBA bench makes seven times what I
made in my entire career being a six year starter
in the NFL, and you don't know any other name,
no clue in school, nothing, No, it's crazy, no clear.
The guy never even throws the warm up off, like
those buttons that go they never even come off.
Speaker 3: I didn't everyone. I didn't realize everybody here hated America
so much. You don't want you don't want to look
at that. You don't want to run. No, I'm going
to NBA. Okay, well.
Speaker 2: America. The best defender on the practice squad all day.
Anthony didn't have a computer. I feel bad like.
Speaker 4: He didn't have Do you want to ask one? Do
you have one?
Speaker 2: And I don't. It was not I think on it
for a second as we go around, what you're going,
I'll go.
Speaker 4: I did chat GPT it and this is one that
it gave me that I kind of like would you
rather be the goat, like the greatest of all time
in any sport, but everybody hates you or kind of
average and everybody loves you, go.
Speaker 3: And be hated. If you're hated, you made it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't need I don't need to add of boys. Yeah,
I just don't. I'm trying to be the best. Not
my love language. I'm trying to be the best. And
if somebody hates you, you're doing something right.
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: So I think I want to be the goat and
people just not like me.
Speaker 3: Like it's okay for the people that you're competing against
to hate you, but you're doing something right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But like, if everybody hates you, that means you're just the.
Speaker 2: Are talking like fans and teammates too. Everybody hates you, tmates,
That's what I'm saying. It's like, at the end of
the day, there's six people the other six that live
in my house. If they love me, I don't really care,
So give me the goat. Everybody can hate me because
I'm not here to be your buddy, your best friend,
and and everybody loved me.
Speaker 3: As long as like your teammates are cool with you.
Speaker 2: Teammates are good with you because the Goats usually they
have a work ethic that is unmatched for anybody else.
Speaker 5: And at least I can get behind and respect that
and like be like, you know what, I can.
Speaker 2: Understand why they don't like people didn't like Kobe. Yeah,
you know there's a large portion and like you sit
back and you look at who Kobe was. How do
you not love that guy? Absolutely? Like you might hate
the Lakers, but you're like, man, I could get behind
the way that guy's process was. It was all about that.
Speaker 5: That's a goal, right, So the public sentiment is different
teammates and like organizational yeah you.
Speaker 7: Ready, Yeah, I'll keep it sports related because we've all
done like these these team sports things. So individual wise,
professional golfer, professional tennis player, which one would you rather be?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Tis would be more fun?
Speaker 2: That's a great question.
Speaker 3: But I feel like if you if you're really good
at golf, you make a ton of money.
Speaker 2: That's an easy question.
Speaker 7: But I think, like, I think I'm going to like tennis.
Speaker 3: I think I play on the Live tool right now.
Speaker 4: Like Jake said, you get to travel, you do it's fun,
you move a lot more. I don't know anything about.
Speaker 7: Golf, well, and the cool thing about tennis, like you
got the clay court, you got the grass court, Like
it's it's a little bit more diverse.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, maybe maybe tennis. You're in better shape, your
heart's in better shape. Yeahs these days do work really hard.
Speaker 2: You're going in cool spots if you're like the best,
like one of the best tennis players. Yeah yeah, I
mean you're going and you're going Australia.
Speaker 3: You're going to Wimbledon until you're seventy, Like that's true
for sure.
Speaker 4: You could be like John Daily super just drunk.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a cowboy killers the.
Speaker 5: Mail and be a golfer jat GBT, spit spit some
good ones out to me. Okay, okay, what we got one?
Here we go real quick. Would you rather have your
I like this one? Would you rather have your jersey
retired by your hometown team? Will be a more mortalized
in a famous sports movie as a legendary underdog.
Speaker 2: I'm underdog.
Speaker 3: Movie because that's your life, like Rudy, Like you're already
think about Rudy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think about Rudy, Like whose jersey's retired to Notre
Dame I don't know exactly. Yeah, I think it's like
it's Rudy's jersey. Probably not, there's actually for the movie.
Speaker 3: I'm actually pretty sure Rudy's teammates didn't like.
Speaker 2: Yeahbably had a nice little podcast interview about that. But
still I was saying, like everybody like knows Rudy. That
was kind of like the first example, Like they make
movies about underdogs, they don't make movies about Michael Jordan
and what you're.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jake's probably had both of these scenarios. He probably
has this jersey.
Speaker 2: Retired in high school and you've heard you've heard my story.
I know you've never heard the story of total narrow
A bunch. No, we don't listen. Thanks for being a
p one. So I'm in Denver, real quick. I'm in Denver.
John Fox, our head coach. He's in front of the team.
He's trying to make a point. He's trying to make
the point of everybody was somebody and the man somewhere
in their career, and we all got here, and now
we all got to come together. Nobody's bigger than the team.
You know that kind of speech. It's like, I mean, guys,
who in here? Doesn't have their high school jersey retired,
and it was me and the punter raised our hands no, yeah,
in front of the entire team. I mean I got,
I got Wes Welker, Eric Decker, Peyton Manning, No Sean Moreno,
like all just sitting here and I'm like, look, other
people are gonna put me and then would over here
have our hands up from Jersey Bays Jersey. No. Sean
is one of the funniest human bities of all time,
and so he ripped me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, They're like, Angel, You're immediately texted calling your coach.
Speaker 3: Like, how was I what?
Speaker 2: They only have one jersey retired at Evangel, which is
crazy because Brock Berlin was National players didn't he does
not have his retire They've had first They've had a
first round pick that was a third round pick. They've
had NFL guys. Josh Booty is the only one that
has his jersey retired. His brother, who won two Rose
Bowls at USC as a starting quarterback, doesn't have his.
It was the same number, but it's for Josh.
Speaker 3: I was going to guess. I was going to guess
John David. Yeah, oh my gosh, what I'm one be
better retired. This man's not his but brock Berlin.
Speaker 2: Brock Berlin was the USA Today high School Player of
the Year. Retire that man, yeah yeah, wow, oh my,
And he won an Orange Bowls the quarterback for Miami.
So there you go more.
Speaker 3: You know, Sanna, isn't he the owner of like the
greatest tier in like sports history national anthem?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Why that's right. Yeh, that's right.
Speaker 3: That looks like it's like a I generated back. Yeah,
it is the perfect too.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can tell some of his
stories on air, like not like that, not like that.
But he had the funniest list of kangaroo court finds. Yeah,
it was so funny. I'll tell one that would be
a funny segment. So I'll tell I'll tell one real
quick before we get out of here. So Ronnie hillm
and Ben rest in peace. Ronnie passed away. But Ronnie
was was a guy that was a big hand clapper.
When he messed up, our coach hated it. So no,
Sean's like, hey, we gotta put that up on the board, Like, man,
you got in trouble for that, like so many times,
like we got to put up on the board any
handclap is one hundred dollars, and so he missed a
pass protection. We're playing against I think the Browns of
the Bucks, one of those teams I can't remember. He
missed a pass protection. Peyton got sacked like it was
it was a bad deal. So like Ronnie's like he's
a young player, so he's like watching tape and just
like you can tell, like it bothered him. He didn't
want a joke right then. But no Sean, well, no
Sean was a joker and No Sean was going to
keep up with the kangaroo court. And so we played
the player or whatever and not No Sean's like, oh
well hold up, hold on, go back, go back, go back,
And everybody's like this is like what happened? What Ronnie do? Whatever?
And he goes back and Ronnie's like hand clapping like
over and over and over, like he countered. Man he's
slow mode goes one, two, three, I mean he gets
all the way up. He had like nine hundred bucks
of like hand claps, and like Ronnie's like, I just
got Peyton Manning crushed. Yeah, no shots like up in
front of the room, slow mode, just counting the hand claps,
wait wait, wait, wait, man, I mean that that was
so good? Good Anthony, you're the man. Appreciate you hanging out. Yeah,
for sure. Want to you know, do this more often anytime,
if you're open and available anytime.
Speaker 3: We can talk some more cards.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you. Well, we could spend three hours some
more quick. All right, we'll take a break. We got
what weeks joining us in about fifteen minutes from now.
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton
Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's up? Welcome back OTB. We just got done
talking to Muster Anthony Ornando. Awesome, dude, awesome conversation. I
really enjoyed the car talk. I know y'all wanted to
talk baseball.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 3: My wife texted me what you said? Man, y'all should
be asking some of these questions to the wives. She's like,
you played ten years for sure, sod of the one
year I chose to you.
Speaker 2: I know you did. I didn't thank you, Lacy. I
appreciate it. Back you played? How made you play? Eight? Wow?
Speaker 3: At eight?
Speaker 2: Or me? Yeah? Six?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: We do look at games play. It's a different story.
Y'all have to understand me, and have been doing this
for since two thousand and four, And it was pretty
immediate that we were going to be slappies together. We
were roommates on the road in two thousand and four,
so my freshman year, his red shirt freshman year, and
it's almost like coaches knew we had too much fun
and they wouldn't allow us to be roommates after that year,
was like, nah, you're gonna be with the I guess
it would have been jam Marcus or m rand Rand
and JaMarcus was so five. You would have had a
room with JaMarcus, I think. And then did you have
to parent? Was parently your roommate maybe at one time
or no? Jimmy Walker no? Or do you have JaMarcus?
I'm trying to pick up my you hatch Jared, we didn't.
We didn't room our last year. No, they wouldn't let us.
Speaker 3: I think they might have put me or maybe we did.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I know Jimbo is like.
Speaker 3: Nah, it could have been it could have been j
It could have been Jared y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I so I went from you being
my roommate on the road and at the love Cook
to it being Joe d In five, and then it
was Ali Brussard and O six and then actually it
was Chuck Scott and O seven. So yeah, I remember
it now as I lay it out.
Speaker 3: I think me and JaMarcus were roommates our first year. Yeah,
and then it is not the second then US five
and six, Yeah, I guess it was. I guess I
roomed ajerately after that. We did room in a training
camp for.
Speaker 2: Last year though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, West Apartment, West Camp. Isn't it crazy that
West Campus apartments is now like old, like decrepit. Yeah.
I was there for the first like the yeah, like
pop the bottle of champagne on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was because my first summer was
East Campus. I stats where I stayed East Campus my
first summer in the summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and now my my and O three was
when it opened.
Speaker 2: Right, I wasn't in school, Yes, they put me to
East Campus I think maybe yeah for something.
Speaker 3: That summer was different because you could officially like yeah,
move in, yeah, unless you were already there, right uh.
But yeah, West it was brand new, brand spanking new,
beautiful glorious.
Speaker 2: It was nice.
Speaker 3: Now it's old.
Speaker 2: Turn that ac down about fifty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where did the athletes stay at the I think
it's like the new Pentagon was trash when we were there. Yeah,
that's where. That's where I stayed for my first training camp.
Me and Marcus Randall were roommates and training camp at
the old Pentagon. Yeah, and it was like welcome to college.
Speaker 2: Bud was my senior year. I'm like coach Miles, I'm married.
What do you mean I gotta stay at West Campus
for camp? I'm I'm old, I'm a man. Yeah, my
wife definitely wasn't in the West Campus apartment waiting when
I got there. Definitely not that definitely did not happen
Stelt's it was like Stell his girlfriend was definitely not there.
Sewn Jordan's girlfriend was definitely not in that situation. Lacey
was nowhere to be seen. I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's all about football, but all about ball, all
about ball, I will tell you.
Speaker 2: In teammate in two thousand and five, Joe and I
one of my favorite teammates of all time, the most
athletic person that I played with at LSU. When I
got here and I saw number ten, I said, so,
wait a minute, you want me to play the same
position as that human that's the thing, Like him and
I are going to end up playing like yeah yeah,
And no disrespect to any of the other running backs
that were on the roster at the time. They didn't.
I got peace of mind when I was like, oh, oh,
he's more like me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeahkas the outliers.
Speaker 2: That guy, yeah, crazy, crazy athlete, that's why he's a
first round pick, played and won a Super Bowl. But
he would wake up in the middle of the night
and the love cook cookies were famous, and he was
just like, not even knowing it. He would wake up
and he'd eat cookies in his sleep. I'm like, Joe, dude,
you crush like three cookies in your sleep last night.
I was like, no, I didn't know. Now, Joe, you
ate three cookies in your sleep?
Speaker 3: Saw you with my eyes.
Speaker 2: And he even like he even finished it with some
milk and he didn't even know he did it. So
that was like he I.
Speaker 3: Don't think there was refrigerators in those rooms.
Speaker 2: There was another way. Yeah, no, no, there was refrigerators. Yeah.
And then so like the next year when Ali Brussard
was my roommate. Ali would keep me up because he
would be working on his wraps. So he'd be in
the corner and he'd be putting together a rap and
he was trying to like you know, he's doing it
into the phone or whatever device he had or trying
and he play it back to see if it was
like a good, you know whatever, Like I don't I'm
not in the game. I don't know, but like he
would play it back, and my man would stay up late.
He'd stay up late out there.
Speaker 3: Not in the game.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, but like he would
be in the corner like of the other room and
that's what he was doing. So like and I got
Chuck Scott and he would go to sleep before me.
I'm like, okay, all right, good, we're good, We're good,
We're golden.
Speaker 3: Here. Did y'all have to in the NFL? Did y'all
stay in any apartment, dorm, hotel situation for camps? Did
y'all y'all stayed right?
Speaker 2: Now? We stayed. We did. We were right by our
facility in both the places that I was. So we
had a holiday inn like a mile down the road
from our San Diego.
Speaker 3: That's real state.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: When we in Green Bay, we would stay in uh
Saint Norbert's College and to Peer, Wisconsin, which is just
like right outside of Green Bay. Yeah. St. Norbert's College.
No one's ever heard of it.
Speaker 2: Never. No.
Speaker 3: We stayed in these old like like again like old school,
like Pentagon type dorms. It was three three story level.
It was like a It was like a rectangle with
a courtyard in the middle outside like staircases all the
way up to the doors, and good god, it was.
It was not very comfortable situation for being an NFL team.
And yeah, you're not like trying to like break people
at that point in career. You're professional football players. Yeah,
but everybody from you know, the top, like Aaron Rodgers,
whatever your career staying at Saint Norber's. But that place
was haunted. Yeah, absolutely, one thousand haunted. Yeah, and there
was every year there was stories that came out and
it was like, yeah, we get it.
Speaker 2: It is funny you're talking about like Aaron Rodgers staying
in that place, right, It's like when I'm with Peyton
Man and he's staying at the same Radison in right,
we're staying up training camp. You know, you know how much?
And you would never know. I mean Peyton literally pulls
up to the hotel in a buick. That's that's what
he That's what he drives. I think he has a sponsorship,
but still he's driving a buick and he pulls up
and gets his bag and going. This Radison in and
goes and it's just like man's guy's worth a lot
of money, but he's he's worried about ball, right, even
get a sweet? Nah, there's no sweet.
Speaker 3: He was sharing a door with somebody. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty I mean when we I went to other
teams and you stayed a different plague in Oakland, we
went and had training camp in Napa, like we stayed
in like this beautiful Mariotte And like in Seattle, we
stayed in the hotel nice hotel Bell Like Green Bay.
It was you're gonna go rough it at this terrible Oh.
I mean it's a beautiful little campus like a hockey team.
They but the dorm room's not nice. There was no
arched gates entrances to the dorm room. Yeah yeah, I mean,
maybe I can tease that haunted story. But you know,
I definitely experienced some supernatural stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, we are going to experience one of my meathead
brethren when we come back, very excited for our next conversation.
A guy that look, I was there for his official
visit at LSU, saw him and his family. We knew
we had to get him to LSU. We got him here.
He's been a hell of a player ever since. We're
gonna catch up with LSU linebacker Wit Weeks when we
jump back here on o T beat off the bench.
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Speaker 2: We are all right, We are very excited for this
next conversation. LSU linebacker Wit Weeks joins the show. Now,
wit Man, what's going on? Glad to have you on
the show. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I'm doing good. I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2: All right. So I knew you. You grew up an
Atlanta Braves fan. We had Chipper Jones on the show
on Monday. Now you're quite a bit younger than us,
and so maybe you missed like the Chipper days, but
I did see I think recently I saw that you
went to a Braves game. You're from the state of Georgia.
Give me your Atlanta Brave memory.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember Chipper when I was grown up. He
was he was coming to the end of his career.
But anytime I go home, we always try to get
up to Atlanta and go to a Brave game. Whether
that's me and my friends or go with my family,
they're always a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Gosh, I mean Chipper Jones as somebody that played.
He played long enough.
Speaker 3: Where he was like a multiple generation with Week's Day.
Speaker 2: That's awesome there with So I know you've been like
all SEC some preseason All American stuff, but none of
that matters. You know why because for a second year
in a row over on my Serious XM show, we
put together the All Meathead radio team because you know me,
meat has a term of endearment. It's in the field
Steel College Football magazine, and a little breaking news here.
For the second year in a row, you are the
Mike linebacker on the All Meathead Team.
Speaker 8: Let's go. That's the biggest honor I've gotten.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I want to ask you this, if if
you could add an LSU teammate to the All Meatthead team,
because I put a couple on there. I think there
was I think there was three total LSU guys. Which
teammate would you put on the All Meathead team?
Speaker 8: Easily? Jack Fover, the new defensive ends from Florida. He's easily.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know that Jack is the edge defender
on the All Meathhead team.
Speaker 3: That's good. So he So there's a term that's being
thrown around on social media right now, a nickname for you.
I don't know if you've seen it, hurt it, whatever
it is, but it's a huge term of endear man.
People out there are referring to you as the Honky Badger,
all right, obviously a shout out to to Tyr Matthew,
but it just goes to kind of show you there,
even comparing you, putting you in the same sentences that
of like how the LSU fan base as like falling
in love with your game, the attitude, the passion you bring.
Just talk to us about what the experience has been
like the last last year, year and a half for you,
just in South Louisiana, with the fan base, just knowing
like you're you're you're one of the guys that everybody
cheers for and loves right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really cool. I mean whenever I, you know,
came here as a freshman, coming down to South Louisiana
from walking to Georgia, it's a bit of a culture
shock for me. But really, I'm just I've fallen in
love with this place and with this culture and with
this community. So I could have been more excited to
be put in the same sentence as Tyron Matthew because
I remember when I was growing up, it was like
every every kid wanted to be the honey Badger. Like
when we're out of recess playing, we're like, oh, I'm
the honey Badger. I'm the honey Badger. So to be
putting the same sentence as him, it's it's pretty special now.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you remember this, but like
I was there for your official visit. It's actually the
only time that Lshu's ever like called me out of
the bullpen coach like BK called me. He's like, hey,
we got this linebacker out of Georgia, Like his brother's
gonna be here as a transfer, but his old man
played at Georgia, and like he's he's a big recruit,
but he's not the highest rate of recruit, but we
got to have him, like whatever we do in this class,
like we got to sign this guy. And again, like
they called me, like, hey, when should come eat with
this guy, eat with his family, talk with his family.
And so I remember how big of a deal that
was because again, like they never asked me before, They've
never asked me again. It was like to get you
to try to come to campus. And so what was
that like for you? Because again, like you've got family
members that have played in other places. I mean, and
I know a family friend of y'alls, Billy Bullock was
my teammate there for the San Diego Chargers. I know
him and your dad are good friends, and he talks
about how a player your dad was there at Georgia.
So for you, like what all went into that was it?
Because like LSU identified you and like we gotta have
that guy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's one of the main reasons. But I tell everybody,
really the three reasons that I came tell us you
is the people, the place in the football right when
I stepped on campus. I mean, everybody here was just
they were I mean they I just felt like they
were my type of people, good hardworking people. And then
the place, you know, I love I love the food.
I love crawfish, Cajun food, all that. And then the football.
I mean, obviously LSU's football is second to none. And
getting to play in Death Valley every weekend, you can't
beat that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you've been such like a bright spot on this LSU,
not only the defense, but the team the lot last year,
and it's just something that's been like refreshing for us.
You just the way your style of play, whether it's
you know, playing hard, getting a sack, but the motor
you play with, whether it's that or you know, doing
some some airshot guns of beer in the end zone
like all those things. It's a perfect place for you.
So hey, going forward, like, talk to us about where
you're at now, the team. You've been through spring practice.
I'm assuming you've already started summer workouts, are about to
start summer workouts. Talk to us about the team, the defense,
how you're feeling going into this season.
Speaker 8: I'm excited. I mean I'm more excited for this football
season than i've ever been. I mean me personally coming
off with injury. We just got cleared last week, so
my first workout back with the team was this past Monday.
We have our first team run today and a little
player ran practice this afternoon, so I'm looking forward to that.
But I mean, I think our defense is going to
be special this year. I mean, the dudes that we
brought in on the transfer portal, they're all dogs and
you know, getting this step back and watch from the
sidelines this spring. I think that our defense this spring
was better than we were last season. And you're missing
Me and Harold out there, so it's a promising sight
to see.
Speaker 2: And also the guy y'all have got leading the defense,
Blake Baker. I mean, if there was a defensive coordinator
on the All meatthead team, Blake and I have talked
to this, Blake would be the nomination from me. Uh.
I love every conversation I have with Blake, no matter
if it's about football, if it's about life. I know
y'all have got a close relationship as well.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I love that dude to death. I mean, whenever,
whenever the guy who's leading you into into battle, into
a football game, whenever, whenever you know that he has
your back and you have his back no matter what.
It's a refreshing feeling knowing knowing that the guy that's
leading you into into a football game is a good one.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you do you give him a hard
time for still wearing the cleats to a practice because
he wants to be that involved. He wants to make
it seem like he's still athletic.
Speaker 8: Oh, I love it. I mean I love it. Whatever
whatever you would do that's bringing that much energy every
single days, it's hard not to come in and be
excited to go play football.
Speaker 3: I think I was a practice is either in the
spring or maybe maybe his last training camp, and there
was a throwaway. I think Grett threw it away, yeah,
and Blake he reached out to catch it, he dropped
it and he was like he dropped down and had
to do like twenty push ups or something like that.
I was like, Yeah, that's a dude, yep. That eleven
guys are going to play their asses off four right there?
Speaker 8: Yeah exactly. You want to go play for that guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All right. So I know you've been out with
injury and so glad to hear that you got cleared
in your back and you're with the team working out.
So I don't know how much you've been around one
of our former teammates at LSU, Kyle Williams. Now Kyle
was Matt's roommate at LSU and certainly they lived right
above us. Man, we had some great times. He was
the ultimate teammate, had an incredible motor. Have you been
able to kind of see and maybe I hustle Kyle
working and how that's been him working with the defensive line.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I've had a couple of conversations with him too.
I think I think he's a great fit for us,
and I know all the d linemen respect him and
respect respect his football career, and I think I think
he's a perfect defensive line coach for a.
Speaker 3: All right, with there's uh, We're you're a great football player.
You seem like on social media a great fishermen as well.
There's one thing that I think you've struggled with this spring,
and that is coaching flag football. Uh you Uh, Blake
Baker had to be somewhere this week. He was the case.
All right. So my son, my son Hawk, who's listening
right now, shout out to my son. Uh, but the
elite bingles out there playing flag football, so they had
to call all with Weeks in to be the defensive coordinator.
I think Nussells running the offense as well. Like what
a treat for these kids were But yeah, I think
Wit was blitzing about four guys every play, letting them lose.
We got beat, so I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 2: Which we got to break it down, like what was
the mindset? What defense were we thinking here?
Speaker 8: We were being aggressive. I'm pretty sure we only let
up two touchdowns. The offense couldn't put it in the end.
You're gonna need to call Hi Nutsmeyer and get on
him for that one.
Speaker 3: That's a good gives it on the point.
Speaker 2: You only give up two scores in flag football. I
don't care what age like, you're doing something right. This
is not on win. This is on nothing right.
Speaker 3: It was funny too, all the kids because he can
blitz in that league and all the kids every play, Uh,
coach Wit, coach, Wait, can I blitz? He's like, yep,
gouple blitz yeplitz yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah. We were sitting. We were sitting in the house
pretty much every play.
Speaker 2: Playing cover zero kids, you better get home because we
ain't got nothing back here in the back end. You
know what, I think you and I have actually talked
about this speaking of like blitzing, and obviously you do
a good job of it. There is nothing worse as
a running back than when one of you turns playing
Mike linebacker comes through the A gap and like a
double a mug any kind of a gap pressure because dude,
you got a three way go on the running back.
You can go left, right, you can go through the
running back, and there's so much that I've got to protect.
The quarterback's obviously going to be taking this drop. He's
right there when you're blitzing through the A gap. I
want to get inside your brain a little bit here.
Do you predetermine what you're going to do? Is it
based off the running backs leverage? Is it based off Look,
this guy's one hundred and ninety five pounds soaking wet.
I am bull rushing this guy. Like, where do you
kind of go? Because you've had a lot of success
doing it whenever your number's called to be the guy
that go gets the quarterback.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say it really starts on Mondays when
you're getting your scouting report on the running backs. If
you're blitzing a two hundred and thirty pound running back,
you're not going to run right through his face. But
if you're blitzing one hundred and ninety pound running back,
you're running right through his face. So it really whatever
the scattering report has on him, and we have tips
and keys of all this, dude loses every time if
he's trying to block a guy that's rushing to his
right or vice versa, he's rushing to his left. So
you really just got to take that into factor. And
then also you know, in the spur of the moment,
it's usually just run right through his face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, win in doubt, win out, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly, win it out, run right through the state.
I mean sometimes you put a little move on him
and right and then you just go right through.
Speaker 3: What's the what's the most satisfying feeling for you on
the football field, beating or running back one on one,
sacking the quarterback, or get an interception.
Speaker 8: Definitely getting the sack. Nothing, Nothing beats the feeling of
getting a sack because you know that you're just you're
causing havoc whenever you get a sack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew that. I knew that you knew that
you knew the answer to that one real quick though.
I do want to ask you kind of about the
linebacker room. I think it's incredibly deep. And obviously you're
gonna have your brothers in there, and that's incredibly cool.
I mean I played one year of high school football
with my older brother. It was awesome, amazing, certainly something
I always cherish. And you're gonna get a chance to play.
You know, you've been with Wes obviously for multiple years,
and you've got your little brother who's going actually probably
got here the other day last weekend, so you're gonna
have three of you. So but it's it's a deep
room overall. We're talking about the linebackers. I mean, what
Devine Keys was able to do last year with I
mean he was a bright spot. I mean that guy
played star, he played next to you, He was kind
of all over the place, a very smart football player.
That room, man, it's going to be hard to get
on the field in like a very good way. It's
going to be a very competitive room.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, definitely, one hundred percent. I mean I would
I would say we easily have the best linebacker line
backing room in the country. You know, we have so
many dudes that you could put out there at any
time and feel comfortable with him playing. And I mean,
that's what you want in the linebacker room.
Speaker 2: And then obviously, you know, you start talking about you
and Perk being back together, getting him back healthy. I'm
excited to see him back at the star position. Man.
I think it's a place that he can thrive. And
you look at today's NFL game and like, he's like
a perfect fit for kind of that nickel sam which
is what you're looking for in the star role. Devine
did a really nice job last year. But if it's
you and him, and you and your brother all they're
playing in the middle, then you've got harl Perkins at
the star position. I really think that's the best case
scenario for everybody.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do too, And I mean, I cannot wait
to play with Perk again. He's so fun to be
out there with. So I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3: All right, last question for you, this is the simple one.
Everybody wants to know. How's how's the like feeling.
Speaker 8: It's good, It's we're getting there. I would say I'm
about ninety five percent right now. Like I'm I'm clear
for all football activity. I've been doing everything, but I
just got to get that last little step back.
Speaker 2: And look, if you're a card carrying member of Meathead Nation,
if you're at eighty percent, you're one hundred percent. So
not worried about that.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: I am so ready to get you back on the field.
And I go out there and watch y'all practice here
coming up this summer. We appreciate the time.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll holler at you see you at the facility.
So we appreciate it, man, and best of luck as
you come back.
Speaker 8: Awesome. Yeah, I appreciate y'all having me on.
Speaker 2: All right, there is LSU linebacker Wit Weeks good enough
to join the show. And uh, if you listen to that,
you know why he is back to back. Let's all
meathhead team. It'll still magazine Drew faces. Yeah you knew that,
no doubt. And yeah, Jack Tibron is certainly on the
all Meahead team as well. You know who else I
put on there? Put Aaron Anderson on there, because you
look at we go, we go every position, right. I
was like, you know what Aaron Anderson will do a
little bit of whatever. Whatever you ask that guy to do, slot, outside, punt,
kick returner, whatever. And I was like, there's a lot
of people that had a lot to say about his game.
He proved him all wrong last year, and everybody's talking
about the other guys coming in the transfers. I'm like,
you're leading receivers coming back, right, Aaron, and so he's
on the meat.
Speaker 3: You talked about what it's the motor that never stops,
and you know, like when you game plan for a
defense on offense, like when you watch a defensive line tackle.
We used to say that in Green Bay about Kyle
Williams when we played Buffalo or Kyle Vanner. But like
the people that has the motor that never stops are
the worst people that you just don't want to because
you can't ever take a playoff, Like I remember Kyle
vannerbisch would he Aaron one time when he threw it
as he threw it and then he tackled Jordy Nelson
sixty yards down the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he probably had those red contacts in where
he had red eyes. He was like like, that's the
kind of like when he was with the Lions probably, yeah, right.
Speaker 3: The Lions. Yeah, but that is what whit brings. Yeah,
not only talent and leadership, but it's the motor man
motor that never stops. Makes it so difficult and a
pain in the ass for offenses.
Speaker 2: I hated blocking Jared Johnson when he was with the Ravens.
Jared wasn't the most talented guy, but I'll be damn
a son of a gun would come and come and
just never ever stop. Like, hey, Bud, the play's way
over there.
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