Speaker 1: All start Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Han's day, Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 1: Fatta Ba, You're locked in to Off the Bench control
the live from downtown Baton Rouge. Here's Jacob Hess and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: You welcome inn O TV. That's the day. Wednesday morning, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday,
Oh finally past Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, God, Tuesday, Tuesday the worst Tuesdays, the most punishable.
Speaker 4: Punishable day of the week. Tuesdays, Yeah, Wednesdays a little
bit better. I mean, Tuesdays should truly be what they
call hump day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially during football season, especially even worse because Wednesday,
I might I got Thursday night.
Speaker 4: Football coming up all right on deck. I'm bad for
me personally, Like I get a full meathead radio in
the afternoon, So I got Bobby and e Jay, Like
makes Monday pretty easy. Word counts real low that day,
you know, compared to what it normally is. Like I
don't know, you know, and Bobby's going to say something
that's utterly ridiculous that makes me laughing.
Speaker 5: It's just a little different, you know, Tuesday, yeah, Rose,
But we're past it. We're past it though, so you
don't worry about it. It's all downhill from here, buddy,
all love it, every bit of it. How are we doing?
Oh man, we're doing pretty good. Little little sleepy today.
We got to get the energy up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you was like tenth Matt Flinn right now, like
the when you first started with what'd you start? Is
that your first day or a second? June second, Matt Flinn,
Jane second. Yeah. I was a little tired that day too. Uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yesterday the fighting Packers took the field or
flag football.
Speaker 4: Outcome wasn't what we wanted people.
Speaker 5: So I sat in bed and I was just dreaming
up plays, not dreaming because I wouldn't sleep. I was
just sitting there thinking, thinking about what we did wrong.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just couldn't let it go. It's a tough
one for the coach. Couldn't let it go. I don't
know the players felt. I'm pretty sure they were pretty
excited after the game. Still, Uh what happens in attend The.
Speaker 4: Chargers coach wasn't very excited about his loss to the Chiefs,
you know, and you tried to give the good word,
the good speech after the game. I'm not sure that
it hit. I'm not sure that it hit home the
way I wanted it to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't. I don't know if like I had
to get a game of speech at halftime. I don't
know if it like hit like al Pacino's speech. I
don't know if it was like then some Bardi esque
or anything.
Speaker 4: I didn't improve that anytime that I felt like I
was getting too far and maybe like a little too much.
I tried to come back with a great compliment, but
then I quickly go back the other way. Yep. You know.
I was trying to have a balance of it. Yep.
Speaker 5: And you know what, they're a little bit older. You know,
it's it's not eight you anymore. It's tenu I. We're
in fourth grade. So it's not anymore of like it.
It's not as much like, hey, I'm proud of you boys.
Good effort out there, like had some I saw some
really good tries out there.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit less of that. Good tries, good
tries out there, good tries out there.
Speaker 5: But no, we played hard, we played, made some good plays,
played a good team. I gotta beat by the Ravens.
Good squad. Go to a lot of good squads out there,
some really good.
Speaker 4: Flight football there.
Speaker 5: Like we thought we we got we got some really
talented kids and really good kids try hard.
Speaker 4: Just uh, what do we times seven or eight? Seven teams? Seven? Yeah,
and I'd say like seven good teams. Yeah. I was like, uh,
excuse me, where's the rental win of the schedule? Where's
that at? When's that COVID? Yeah? I mean can we
play La Tech this week? Yes? Please? Nope? Look seriously, whoa,
it's awesome though. It's fast.
Speaker 5: It's fast. It's so fast out there. Yeah, the fields
a little bit narrow, so it's like, you know, they're
longer and more. It's probably good because it's a little
bit more defense emphasis on it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, the old coach.
Speaker 5: Was rethinking some play calls, rethinking some of the scheme.
You know, it's tough when you got about sixty minutes
of practice every week.
Speaker 4: It's up to install too much. I know, we don't
even like we don't even practice anymore because we're playing
Tuesdays and Thursdays. But you know what, it's okay, it's fun.
It's all right, you can install before the game. That's hey,
show up twenty five minutes early this time, guys.
Speaker 5: I'm sure that's gonna dude, just right, exactly what we need,
all right.
Speaker 4: I gotta know a true circle here. All right. So
yesterday was Huck's birthday. Yep, and he's obviously into cards
sports cards. Did he clown the cards I gave him
for his birthday? Considering that, you know he's got a
pretty good.
Speaker 5: Collection, No, because you gave him a Stingley, okay, and
his big sting which is probably like of the ones,
it was the only one that wasn't numbered, but that
was the one because like Stingley to him is the
best football player in the world. Okay, all right, he
goes to dun him so like Stingley Duneham guy like
het like hate that is his guy. So you gave
him that. And the only thing he said in the
card is like, Dad, what are the like these random
country flags on here?
Speaker 4: I'm like that's probably the international box, but oh yeah,
it is cool. It is origins. He liked Hunter Hunter.
Speaker 5: After I told him, He's like, he's like, yeah, this
guy Daniel Hunter pretty good.
Speaker 4: I think it's I think the other guy actually went
to Florida, which I didn't mean to. He was very
appreciative and that because I mean, like when I'm picking
those out and I'm like, look, you can't just give
Huck playing a base card.
Speaker 5: No, you can't give it base He knows this stuff.
Yeah base guard cool jake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like mister taking me a base car? Who is
this guy? Uh?
Speaker 5: But yeah, no, he's And that went straight into the box.
He's got like this little box of his like personal collection.
So we collect, we we do these cards, and we
and and Huck and I we like we.
Speaker 4: Sell cards and we do all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But he's got this stuff a little little pocket that
he keeps, so straight to the collection.
Speaker 4: Nice nice a Landra Tay Tay. How are we doing
this morning?
Speaker 6: Doing good?
Speaker 3: Like y'all said earlier, Tuesday is the worst day of
the week. So we got through that and I don't
have anything extra that I have to do today, So
happy about that. I feel like there's every day of
the week there's something there in the fall.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure, Like yesterday was Hanny's podcast. I got to hang
out with him and Dick Dixon last night.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, good. I think it went well, I was talking.
Speaker 4: To Richard like before before they went on.
Speaker 6: He mentioned he asked you about a play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was funny because I could tell he's
like he did that on his own.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was the touchdown text guard.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It had a little rogue, a little.
Speaker 6: Rogue when he wasn't supposed to or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe watch it, maybe we can pull it up. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh I told you all that the thing works now
the cord.
Speaker 4: Wor and Matt sends the picture and I'm like, what
if you only have one plug in there? Because you
don't have one? Right, I got to Oh I got
four it. Oh my god, it's not a big we're yeah,
all right, that's good.
Speaker 5: A right, shout out dig Dixon and Handy HANDICASP, which
is out.
Speaker 6: Now, Yes every Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Awesome, there we go. How are we doing? We're feeling
good this sorry.
Speaker 3: Wait, sorry to cut you have Ta was here when
we got out the out of the hand cattle after.
Speaker 4: We recorded the compost player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he Hanny was trying to remember an Auburn
player's name. You just hear Taylor. We didn't even know
he was here. You just hear Taylor from his desk
and who was it.
Speaker 4: It was Derek Brown tackle.
Speaker 6: And we were just like, thank you.
Speaker 4: Spikes. Derek Brown.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was the guy that couldn't block in nineteen
the tackles like Derek Brown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was like three of them. Yeah, it was
him and Marlon Davidson. Yea, oh god. I thought he
was gonna be a really good pro yeh.
Speaker 7: Never never really did anything but uh that we're feeling good.
Woke up this morning, even cares how you're doing this morning?
Speaker 4: Oh oh wow, man.
Speaker 5: We yep started right now just because he didn't pick
the packers.
Speaker 4: That's really why I didn't sleep well last night. I
tried to have a good break up.
Speaker 7: Some people apparently just can't take rejection well.
Speaker 5: Some people can't get out of their own way.
Speaker 7: It was one of those mornings, though, where you wake
up and you think you're late. I looked at my phone,
it was like three forty five, and I was like, yeah,
going back to bed, great feeling.
Speaker 6: Great feeling happened to me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now the worst, unless it's like twenty minutes before you
say the worst, is like, if it's five to ten,
you're like why why why?
Speaker 4: As well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so did I did that? I will go up
like around the same time Taylor did, and I was.
Speaker 3: Like whoa, And then I snoozed my alarm and then
it win again. When my alarm went off this morning,
I snoozed in and then it went again and I
was like, oh crap. I signed up for a class
this morning. So I was like, I'm so glad that
I woke up in time because I made it in time,
but I was gonna snooze it again.
Speaker 4: We snoozers.
Speaker 5: I'm a snoozer sometime one one snooze.
Speaker 4: I used to be a two until the old missus
is like, yeah, that's gonna be one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be a onnth a time. Yeah, old situation.
Speaker 4: Victoria actually had to wake me up this morning.
Speaker 7: I guess, like when I woke up the first time,
turn the alarm off, she wakes. I don't really get
up around five, and she goes she goes, hey, it's
five twenty.
Speaker 4: I was like, it's five twenty. That's normally the time
I leave.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I jump up and uh shout out to
the UH police officer on the motorcycle this morning on
the interstate who I followed. His lights were on. His
lights weren't on, but everybody was kind of getting out
of his way. I was like, I'm getting behind this dude,
so got and old diehard three real quick.
Speaker 6: I would like to propose something to the room.
Speaker 3: Okay, since we have we are on remote most Thursdays, now,
should we move R and B Thursday to today or
do we want?
Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I can't hear the music on Thursdays, yeah,
or Fridays, and it's.
Speaker 4: Like seventy six yestionally the reason why I show up. Yeah,
so yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 6: Adeay, let's do it be Wednesday now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wednesday feels like a good R and B day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure,
every day. I mean, don't tempt me with a good time.
Not Tuesdays though, No, we don't want to ruin yeah, Tuesdays. True.
Should we are going to be back out at Pro
Dreams tomorrow? No, wait, yep, today's Wednesday tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I'm actually going to be there Saturday hanging out watching
college Game Day from ten to eleven thirty.
Speaker 4: Okay, So anybody wants to come hang out, what you're
doing more than welcome, just hanging just chilling. Yeah, gets
people in the shop, buy some stuff memorabilia. Yet yeah,
uh pretty rude.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that if I asked Matt to be there,
I think I would know the answer.
Speaker 4: What time you going? Ten?
Speaker 6: Ten?
Speaker 4: Why? Really early? You know what?
Speaker 5: It's early to me because I'm yeah, you're right, this
is this is I'm taking my I feel like and
he doesn't like to like.
Speaker 4: Between ten and noon is like like it's college football time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you were game day and you know the whole
ting Like, so my schedule is a little bit screwed up.
So like if I'm going with like friends, and like
when I go with the kids, they they they don't
they hadn't figured out they're not old enough to enjoy
like the walking around part and like going and hanging
the tailgate.
Speaker 4: It's like that, what are we doing here? Can we
just like go to the stadium now?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 4: Same with the Hester kids. Yeah, it's like they don't
want to do that stuff. So like to me, like
it's a six o'clock game, six thirty game.
Speaker 5: We're four maybe oh even later in that maybe Yeah, Wow,
he's walking, You're.
Speaker 4: Like parking and walking like they get there, you're getting
the policemen to get the barricade.
Speaker 5: Hey, can I park real quick? Yeah, park real quick?
Sort the roads are closed park Uh. And then they
don't get it like they got these cool experiences we
get to get, like to the l club stuff at
the p MAC and like watch the band play like
right in front of our faces, like in the p
MAC and do some cool stuff that you know, they
get access to. They it's it's underappreciated as of right now,
at this time of life. But it's like, so we're
sitting there at p MAC and literally the the band
and the Golden Girls are like performing like eight feet
in front of the face, like all this cool stuff.
And they're like, hey, I'm trying to go in that. Uh,
let's go watch the game now. And I'm like, yeah,
well it doesn't sorry for two hours, but sure.
Speaker 7: This is why I don't do anything early on the
weekends guys, something like uh on Step Brothers when they're
at the Catalina Wine mixer and Dale's like, I don't
want this real job.
Speaker 4: Had to wake up at ten o'clock this morning. That's you.
So anyways, yeah, come hang out, Come hang out with
me on Saturday and maybe Matt can swing by and
he can show Huck all the cool stuff. They've got
a pro dreams and then they can go back home
and I don't know, he go the game. You probably
want to buy it all it will be their second quarter.
All right, we'll take a break. It is uh Wednesday
and not Tuesday, and we're all thankful. We are all
thankful for that more O TV when we come back here.
One four five ESPN by Tom.
Speaker 1: Rouge off the bench.
Speaker 4: All right, go to All Star toy Vanrouge dot com.
If you are buying new, if you are leasing, or
if you are renting, every single thing is always available.
And if you want to go watch the Tigers play
coming up this far, Hey, maybe you want to watch
the Saints play. He who knows? Right? Maybe maybe they
maybe they find their way to some dubs. Okay, it played,
okay Sunday, and you want to go watch them play,
like you want to go drive to Atlantair Tampa or
one of these games they've got coming up. You can
rent a Toyota to do so. Everything is always available.
When it comes to the rentals, per day rental prices,
call them as Lisa's sessions. Today in the rental department,
I'll start to at venders dot com.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you might be thinking to yourself, like, okay,
per day rental places from a big dealer here in town.
Speaker 4: It's probably like per day is probably pretty expensive. No,
it's not.
Speaker 5: They can actually match or beat the prices per day
that those big box rental car rental places do at
the airport. So go check them out that they rent
anything that is on the lot. Call them, go see
them the other website. I'll start to it at vetrougters
dot com.
Speaker 4: I don't want the sad way you got it.
Speaker 2: I'm the hottest of run around there and knowing when
they see you rolling the police of round got sound
with the top down, filling the sounds, quaking and bringing
your right hard.
Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 2: Don't try to shoot a shell and kick it with
Kelly your holiday. They gotta be Geza leave.
Speaker 8: We like them boys, bet them like clean open them
the grill, clean it, Pankita will clean it clean always
you're talking to consciously. We like to beat the beating
the bag be as this so little from the chief.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in to oh t B. Before
we throw it to tay with some l s U news.
Let's go ahead and get this show started.
Speaker 1: It's time to get glowing courtesy of go flow ivy Spa,
where hydration, vitamins and a summer ready glow are always
on tap now for starters.
Speaker 5: The call button looks like if you whisper to it,
just yeah, don't blow up. Oh go go flow ivy
dot com, Go flow ivy Spa.
Speaker 4: Ah, don't allow the uh scoon you fall to trick you.
It did. Yeah, still got to be hydrated. Yeah, still
got to be ready to go. And it's not like
it's just not the only benefit you're going to get
when you go see them over go flow ivy Spa.
So go check out the full list, the whole menu
that they can offer you at go flowivy dot com.
You see the number behind me two two five nine
three eight one five zero, that's right, Jake said.
Speaker 5: A menu of ivy is not just like your normal
intravenous fluid. We got vitamins in it, we got medicines
in it, we got uh anton flams in it.
Speaker 4: Whatever you really need.
Speaker 5: So go check them out today right there on uh
near bokaj On Jefferson Highway.
Speaker 4: You can set up. Have you never been there? You
can still get up.
Speaker 5: Get an accounts set up, get there, get an IV
I think I was in and out my first time,
like thirty to forty five minutes. Super easy, feel great,
immediately works, Get vitamins, get hydrated, go flu All.
Speaker 4: Right, let's throw it to with some LSU news.
Speaker 7: Yeah, defitsive tackle sid deer Mitchell transferred here in the
off seat no longer with the team that came out yesterday.
We were not allowed to ask about a player interviews
because Kelly wants to talk about it on Thursday, so
you'll know a little bit more tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But this makes total sense to me. He was kind
of the odd man out.
Speaker 7: I mean you were actually the one who talked about
it when Kyle Williams joined the staff saying what kind
of defensive tackle is he going to bring in? It
was very evident that it was a smaller, leaner guy.
I mean, you look at Bernard Good and I'm odd
bro Dominic McKinley, they're all built the same. Sider Mitchell
is sixty six, three hundred and forty five pounds. He
was the odd man out, Like if I'm sideer Mitchell.
I'm mad at O'Davis. O'Davis left this dude twice. Recruited
him at Texas, moves to LSU. SIB follows and about
two weeks after he joined LSU, bo leaves as well.
He was always going to be the odd man out.
Didn't play in the first two games. So this is
something that's it's weird that he left in the middle
of the season, but I saw who left.
Speaker 4: It wasn't big of a surprise.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, guys leaving the middle of the season,
it's like, okay, like why are you leaving?
Speaker 4: Like you can't go anywhere now. He's not gonna play here,
like he was never gonna play here. Like again, like
that's not what Kyle was looking for, that's not what thrives.
In Blake Baker's defense, we talked about it when Kyle
got hired, like expect LSU to kind of change the model,
and like Tae just laid out there. I mean they
have now. It's not just the size. It's not like, Okay,
well you can't have over a three hundred and ten pounds, No,
it's if you are that size, you got to be
able to move. It's more about the movement than anything.
Like he wants guys that can get upfield and create
havoc and you know, obviously still a whole point and
be strong enough to do so, and you just already
see able to do that.
Speaker 5: You don't see defensive tackles a lot like that in
this day and age for the defenses that coordinators and
personnel folks have to feel put out.
Speaker 4: It's just a different look like we used to.
Speaker 5: I mean, you had those guys that, like the classic
defensive title is just like a whole clogger, like he'd
get there and be big and take up two blockers
and take up.
Speaker 4: More more at the next level than this. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just as much like really l s u
Like if you think about like the really really good
ones that we've had, let's go like all the way
like Chad Levla when you first got here, right and
then you had Claude Roten and Glen Dorsey and Kyle
Williams and those type of guys that were you know,
going to be able to move around, get upfield.
Speaker 4: No big favor, I didn't throw you in there, settle down,
don't text me. Yeah, uh so like that that's what
you were looking, and then you had Benny Logan and
Drake Nevis and.
Speaker 5: Like they were just you think about it like that,
especially the way the SEC football used to be, which was,
you know, two three yards and a cloud of dust.
It was you know, there's some nine to six games
throw in there every now you it is kind of
surprising with the success we had in the talent. We
had a defensive tackle for so long that they we
didn't have like one, like a big guy that was
that classic. I mean when I was in Green Bay
we had bj Rogi and he was like he was
had some he had some years where he was dominant.
Now he can move a little bit, but kind of
like that classic guy that you that we're talking about.
But yeah, this Dame and age with college football, how
quick people go, how fast people go, the the emergence
of more and more quarterbacks that can run and move,
like you just can't have that, Like there's not a
there's not a place for that type of player anymore
for the most part.
Speaker 4: Now unless you can of course, unless you can move. Again,
like the size maybe one thing, but you gotta be
able to move. Like Helloa, Nati Nada was a giant.
Elodi Nada was a large human being, but he can
move right. Guy was super athletic. So like that's what
they're looking for. They're looking for disruptive guys that like, okay,
they've got to committed to them right now, right And
those are top players in the country and you ask
LSU staff about them, they're like, yeah, they're big, and
they can also move, and they're super athletic, and so
just look, it's just unfortunate for him as a player,
like you saide, like he signs with Bodavis, Bodavis comes
here and then he trains first here and Bodavis goes
to the New Orleans Saints. But for Mitchell, it's just
not a great fit. And now he's gonna be looking
for his next spot. And look the transfer portal giveth
and to take it away as well kind of. I mean,
it's a harsh reality. Like you move here for a coach.
They always tell you what in recruiting, Matt, don't commit
to and sign with.
Speaker 1: The what.
Speaker 4: With a coach? With the coach?
Speaker 5: There you go, God, you're I would have I would
love to do a case study on your recruitment.
Speaker 4: It just feels so weird. You never heard that like
commit to the place sign but that's that's totally unrealistic.
It is, but well that's why I signed with coach
Sabment and he was here for a year. Coach, this
coach really sucks. But like campus, it's not suck. It's
like that's a weird statement. You just have like you
have to you have to well the whole, the whole,
the whole reason he loved the Indian Mounts, the whole
reason a high is just like you know, like coach
Saban left after one year for me sure, and I
remember Bobby Petrino was the name that was tied to it,
and it's like, well if he comes here, that's gonna
suck for your boy. He doesn't even play fullbacks, Like
that's not gonna be great, you know because Jimbo, we're
gonna stay with Bobby Petrino as a head coach, and
so like that'd have been a real situation for your boy. Yeah,
that was That would have been tough offense with no
fullbacks for a fullback.
Speaker 5: Then then like you it kind of it sinks for
the kids because like you go to place I think
you're gonna be you have some stability at least have
an opportunity to play and do what you were cruited
to do, something that you're probably pretty good at and
a certain type of defense. And then with the tran
it's like you said, the transferporter giveth and to take
it the way, like the more you transfer, like you
got guys that transfer and transfer and transfer, then all
of a sudden you kind of got like a little
tainted a little because it's like that restaurant that's been
like that building, it's been like eight different restaurants.
Speaker 4: Ye, it's like, well that's not it's not gonna.
Speaker 5: Work whatever that whatever the next restaurant is in that spot,
it's just not gonna work. Yeah, like switch Bank gave
them the loan, don't they know the other seven places
that have been before. They could be the greatest restaurant
in the world. But like if it goes in that
building for whatever reason, it's not going to work. And
it's just like that with a kid. It's like you
might be the greatest player in the world, Like you've
been at five different places. I don't care where you
go next. I'm pretty sure it's not gonna work. Yeah,
I'm not saying it's gonna happen with this guy. It's
just like the whole transfer situation in general. We talked
about t J. Finley. Where's he right now? What what
school's he on?
Speaker 4: In his sixth school and six years?
Speaker 6: Two lane? But I think he's suspended right now.
Speaker 4: And he just for where do you go to if
you don't know?
Speaker 7: He's No, he's currently at two lane, but like he
was Texas State, Western Kentucky.
Speaker 4: He's got a new one since then, boys.
Speaker 6: Since two lane? Yeah, no, I thought he got suspended
from there.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a good reason to go somewhere else.
Speaker 6: Georgia State.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's actually where it is. Auburn, Texas State, Western
Kentucky two lane, Georgia State, Taylor two lane. Did Georgia
State pipeline not my area?
Speaker 6: Well, it happened on September first, so we were just like.
Speaker 7: Well, there you go, literally the day of the first game,
day after and like I.
Speaker 5: Said, he could be he could be the greatest kid
in the world, But like, is it gonna work? I
hope so so far, some people are asking them, uh,
so you're going to see more of this, You're you're
going to see in like the transfer portal area, you're
going to see more of it.
Speaker 4: You're going to see guys that go somewhere and you know,
things happen. Situation changes, and we stuck and we suck,
and that's that's a part of that. I say, like,
you can transfer and you can go to a great situation.
But maybe you transfer and it's like, well, you get
a new D line coach in that D line coach
is really aligned with the defensive coordinator, like he has
a certain type that he's looking for because he's like,
if I'm going to be graded off these defensive tackles
playing in this system, I know what I need for
this system. I'm not just going to recruit you because
you were a star in high school. You can have
five stars, but if you don't five star fit into
my defense, what am I gonna do? Right? So, I mean,
this isn't going to be the only case, and we've
seen it already play out and position coaches change all
the time, coordinators change all the time.
Speaker 5: But I guess that's the positive part about this day
and age in college football is like if this does
happen to again, he can't change.
Speaker 4: Uh. I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, I mean how many times back in the day,
like if you get a new coach, and like you said,
what if we would have after Nick Saban would have left?
Speaker 4: And four we brought in Mike Leach, Like.
Speaker 5: You better polish up those routes, those routes. That's my
first was, Yeah, did he play?
Speaker 4: Did he know what position you played? We wanted me
to play slot receiver because I kind of did that
as an angel. He had a type he had. He
did have a shout out to the pirate.
Speaker 5: That's that that meme, uh Belichick at the combine. Yeah,
with like the mouthful is it popcorn or something with
the binoculars. Yes, Mike scouting you in high school deep
as a tackle. Sonny Dikes was my recruiter. Heard of
them shout out to Sunny Ducks. He's the head coach
of he was, and now I is got it.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 5: I got this, you got this, I get we come back. No,
you got it, you got it. It's just you got it.
You got itol.
Speaker 4: Well, well you can't tell me so random school Sunny Oh,
I know this.
Speaker 3: They just played in a couple years ago, a few
years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, three, totally, I know totally. It's in the state
of Texas. Yep, it's in the Fort Worth area.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh tea, yes, here you go. Good job, great job.
Great guess you got there with very little. There was
no roadmap there at all anymore? Is that coaching?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: He gave it up a couple of years ago. He
had a good defense. He had hell of a run.
All right, we'll take a break more ot B when
we come.
Speaker 6: Back off the bench.
Speaker 4: This weekend, when you're getting ready to go tailgate. You
got the tent, you got the generator, you got the TV,
but you better not forget the ice chest that is
full of ice cold do sekis Uh. We got a
pretty cool do sexies now in our office. They would
do no big deal because we're always ready to go
for dose. So this weekend it's gonna be great weather.
I don't know that that's gonna be factual, but you're
playing Florida, so you'll make it in your mind. Think
it's great weather because it's the Florida Gators. It's Florida
hate week. Like, enjoy the tailgate the way you're supposed to,
which is with ice cold do scis right, Grab.
Speaker 5: A delicious ice cold dough sequis raise it high up
in the air this weekend and celebrate. Celebrate with your
fellow LSU Tiger fans. You know this past weekend on Saturday,
those beers were hitting pretty good.
Speaker 4: They taste it real good.
Speaker 5: But guess what, it's Florida week They're gonna taste even
better better this weekend. So you're drinking some beers, drinking
some bruis. Wanted to delete some beers. Make sure it's
a dose seconds.
Speaker 6: I don't want to room w.
Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 9: So you think about a chance you find yourself trying
to do my dance.
Speaker 4: Maybe because you've known me, you do well.
Speaker 9: So then we tried.
Speaker 5: Because you want to the house we touch, We touched.
Speaker 9: Guys don't care no never mind show we know how
from you know Lesion?
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in well off the bench here
on a Wednesday morning, speaking of l s U football.
How does it feel to know that LSU is top
ten in the country defensively in yards per game?
Speaker 4: How does that feel? How that sounds really really good?
Speaker 5: It sounds very familiar to us, but like in it
like in it feels like a distant past. Yeah, it
was almost as good as watching them fly around live
against Kate Club Nick and Clemson.
Speaker 4: They are seventh in the country and rushing yards allowed okay,
they are thirteenth in the country and points allowed feels
pretty good.
Speaker 5: Boll hm, not a lot of pointsmen scored and there's
still not cracked the top ten. And they must have
played some bad, bad offenses.
Speaker 4: And you and you when you think about again, like
you had a bust of coverage, you had a player
who hadn't really played all game. Go Rowan decided to
add himself to the blitz and leave a receiver open.
Like you take that off the board, and you blame
Louisian Tech, and you would have given up five points
per game. I mean, it is so far been incredibly dominant.
Now this game you have coming up, I'm very curious
how Florida is going to try to attack you. And
Florida was horrendous in the red area against South Florida.
That's why they lost the game. They had to settled
for field goals and credits to South Florida. We caught
up with one of their players yesterday. He goes, yeah,
that's kind of our game plan. He was like, well, Ben,
don't break get in the red area, and we felt
like we had an advantage. Now, he didn't go into
detail of the game plan. It was like, we felt
like we had an advantage in the red area, and
we did, and we held them to the field goals
and that's how we won the game. So like that's
something you got to take advantage of. But I'm curious
how Florida is going to try to attack them right now.
It doesn't look like Florida has a receiver that is
going to be able to go out there and separate. Now,
they've got some big running backs that were successful last
year against LSU, but this LSU team, I give the
rushing stats because so far this year they've done a
really nice job of stopping the run. So if you're
Florida and you're looking at LSU's defense, I'm wondering how
they're going to try to attack knowing that LSU's only
given up forty four and a half yards on the
ground per game in two games.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because I haven't watched the film of Florida
or South Florida, so it's interesting to hear that the
mentality was a kind of a bend, don't break, because
that certainly isn't the mentality for the DNA of Blake
Baker and what we've seen you know, so far so
far this year from LSU. So from a defensive perspective,
I'm just going to kind of throw the tape away
from Louisiana Tech because I think the true what coordinator
wants to do is goes going to kind of fall
back to the bigger game.
Speaker 4: So you can look back at Clemson and it was
it was chaos.
Speaker 5: It was controlled chaos from the defense from a priest
snap perspective and certainly a post in that perspective of
lining up trying to create a lot of confusion, confusion
on the quarterback. So like, is that going to We
know that's the part of his DNA, That's what he's
always going to fall back to, is trying to create
chaos and try to create pressure. But if you look
at a game tape and A and A and A
team is having success with more of a bin don't
break mentality. And when we say bin don't break, we
mean you are not con creating a lot of chaos,
You are playing more of a shell. It kind of
looks like what we talked about with the Saints Cardinals.
They played a bin don't break. They're playing, they're playing
over the top. They're not going to let you make
an explosive play, hit a sixty seventy yard touchdown for
a quick six. They're going to make you go the
link to the field and they're going to bet that
you're going to not execute one play or you're gonna
miss something, or your quarterback's gonna get bored with taking
the check down and he's gonna try to push one
that you can pick, or a first down running play,
a holding call and it's first and twenty. Like they
that's what a defense does, a ben don't break type
of defense. So would Blake Baker kind of readjust his
philosophy and switch to that, I don't know. I don't
see that happening completely. I still think he wants to
create payoffs because I think that personnel wise, the way
his linebackers can fly around, the way his defensive backs
have proven already that they can cover and blanket and
work with each other and coverage and fill the gaps
and the voids that linebackers leave when they when they pressure.
They're gonna do that, And then how DJ Lagway can
pick that up. How can he process that information? Can
he process and react to it fast enough to make
the plays? But when you do that, you do leave
yourself vulnerable too big plays. Watched a lot of the
film from the from the Clemson game, and Klubnik did
have big play opportunities to make if he could process
the information, find the whole decipher the puzzle of what
was happening. Okay, where the safeties lined up, where they
pre snap? Okay, okay, he was their pre snap, But
like he's flying the other direction post a Like, can
I decipher all that information of Okay, he's flying post snap,
but why is he flying? Does that mean somebody's coming
off the the other side? Is their corner coming? Is
there a defensive end dropping into a space?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: What is what is happening? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So DJ, LIKEWLY is gonna have a lot of film
from that week certainly to watch and decipher.
Speaker 4: But it's a whole.
Speaker 5: Heck of a lot of things to study from from
that week one game against Clemson. So I don't know,
I just don't see him changing completely the mold of
this philosophy, defensive philosophy to kind of match a beIN.
Don't break game plan. But you know, we will see.
I think you do what you're good at, and we're
really good at being fast and outside of the one
play again where a player that hasn't played a lot
busted a coverage and like I said, added himself into
the blitz like you haven't had. You know, Typically when
you're that aggressive, it's like you're gonna give up one,
like you're gonna give up a shot, like you're going
to give up something like. But to this point, outside
of again, someone playing outside of the defense, like you
haven't done that.
Speaker 4: So it is organized chaos. It's not just chaos to
create chaos, Like there's a plan for the chaos at
least it looks like it's so far on tape. Yes, certainly, well, yeah,
there's there is a plan.
Speaker 5: But still when you create chaos, you also leave yourself
vulnerable in positions. But that's what I'm talking about. Like,
the defensive backs have proven, you know, at least to
this point in the season. As a long season, and
there's a very small sample size to judge this from,
but from what we have seen, the defensive backs have
been really good at disguising pre snap of what is happening,
what the linebackers are going to be doing, and then
filling those voids and kind of seeing where So I'll
give you an example of in Clemson, Harold Perkins would
be a curl flat defender and as soon as club
Nick would get out of the pocket, he would abort
his coverage responsibility and chase the quarterback. You don't really
like that's not a normal thing to coach, but he
was obviously given the green light that we could do that,
and when he did it, it seemed like the DBS
would recognize it in at least attempt to kind of
fill that area that he left. Now, they can't completely
fill it. It can't completely leave their responsibilities to take
over his, but it seemed like there was a plan
to kind of if this happens, if we have a
linebacker that aborts his responsibility, there's kind of a plan
in place to keep things campaigned at least. But we're
gonna but we're also, like like with any blitz, we're
also banking that you don't completely decipher it. You can't
react fast enough because we're coming so fast that you
can't make that decision and process it. And what's happening
into your eyes doesn't get to your brain. Your brain
gets your hand and your arm, your shoulder to make
the throw accurately enough. We think that's gonna make me
do it once. Maybe you do it twice, but by god,
you're gonna make more mistakes than you do good plays.
Speaker 4: You're not going gave me twice. Yeah' gonna gave me twice. LSU,
we talked about it often. They brought pressure over sixty
percent of the time against Clemson. Against Louisiantaica, it still
was very aggressive forty four percent of the time. As
far as bringing a corner blitz fourteen percent of the time,
they brought at least five seventy one percent of the time. Yes, well,
I mean kind of the nickel sar, Like god, let's
start that debate thirty six percent of the time, so
linebacker blitz whatever you wanna call sure, I mean, I look,
I told you'll love it. Yeah, I love the start.
I know you do. So look, they're still going to
be aggressive, but like how much? Because this is a
quarterback that certainly has a skill set to be able
to go out there and make all the throws, even
different than Kate Klubnick. I think Kate Clubnick overall right,
he has a different skill set, but DJ Lagway can
make all of the throws. Now, if you go back
and you watch the South Florida tape, they did have
him confused a couple of different times. And if LSU's
shown you anything in the first two weeks, they can't
confuse even a veteran quarterback. So I'm looking forward to
seeing what Blake Baker and that staff come up with
for DJ Lagway coming up here on Saturday. All right,
we will step away more OTB when we come back
off the bench. All right. Go to Russell Pools dot com.
That is a website for Russell Pool Company.
Speaker 5: One of the great things that you know, we'll talk
about pretty often is it being a one stop shot,
like from the very beginning, so the very end, but
then also after you're done, because they are going to
be able to be the maintenance for your pool. So
truly that's the only company you need to deal with,
and plan's going to tell you all the other great
things that they can do for you, and so one
stop shop.
Speaker 4: But also check out that gallery of work on the homepage.
I mean, just check out the homepage itself like you
will see like there is no just boring pools. There
is no just hey, this is going to look like
your neighbors. No, it is going to be custom as
custom can be custom to what you are looking for
to be.
Speaker 5: Russell Pools dot Com and if you check out that gallery, man,
you're going to see like beautiful work, beautiful craft.
Speaker 4: They are the best.
Speaker 5: When you think of custom pools and quality custom perls,
you think of Russell Pools, they can turn to your project.
They got two landscape architects right there on staff, so
whatever you dream, they can design it, they can.
Speaker 4: Build it right there. Russell Pools dot Com.
Speaker 5: You will.
Speaker 1: One thousand and seven Champs Purple and gold to the core.
This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn. Baton
Rouge is go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 6: Like you smile, I don't want them to see your craft.
Speaker 4: Got some questions? Did that guy that asks him out?
Hope you can come up with this.
Speaker 9: It's easy to love me now, but you love down
and now would you still have me?
Speaker 4: Welcome back in O TV? And I mean my guy
Fiddy basically just saving tree for making movies. There all
Right Studios.
Speaker 5: Bringing work back to Street for gonna gonna build a
permanent dome there, fifty dome basically Las Vegas, Let's go,
Let's go Fiddy. You know that had that Super Bowl
halftime a couple of years ago with but I think
it was eminem Snoop Dog Doctor.
Speaker 6: Dray West Coast, Yeah, it was La Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, they they did fifty. They just they started that
Man upside down.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 4: The video was I know, I get it, but like
it didn't it didn't hit.
Speaker 6: But he's also like older.
Speaker 5: Everybody looked like everybody was like, had such cool moments.
Then they started with Fiddy upside Down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't talking bad about Fiddy on this show. No,
we're not talking bad about We're talking about the producers,
the directors. That's they did.
Speaker 6: A photographer messed that one up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Ta put this in the dog and I do kind
of want to talk about it. The Hailey Sawyer things.
Where did y'all see this?
Speaker 4: The AP voter?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they asked her why she voted that way
that she did. I don't remember what it was, Taylor,
do you have it on there?
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 8: It?
Speaker 4: Was South Florida Florida, right, yeah, or she Hadorida but
there was more than that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she had she bumped Florida up two spots after
the loss. Does not have South Florida rant. She has
f SU with ten, which is fine, but she has
I don't hate.
Speaker 6: That, but I mean they're pretty good.
Speaker 3: But yeah, And then she was asked about it, she
was like, well, it's not really gonna matter at the
end of the day, and just very flippant and nonchalant
about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't feeling about the A people. There's a
lot of people coming after. Cokie Riley actually got mentioned
by Danny Canell, like Danny Canell kind of mentioned him
by name because it might be going on their ship.
Kokie might be going on Danny. He probably did this morning.
I think he might have this morning over on Serious
SECT channel eighty four because he had Alabama two spots
ahead of Florida State, Florida five spots ahead of South Florida,
and Arizona State ranked in Mississippi state not ranked. Look,
here's here's what I'll say. Okay, go ahead, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: But then like she's gonna catch all the heat because
she's a girl, and like this just gives so much
credence to people that like.
Speaker 4: I think that's why Danny kind of.
Speaker 7: Pointed out her explanation was terrible, right, said, I don't care.
Speaker 4: So like if if you have an AP vote and
you don't care, and if you're a coach's pull and
you let your s I D vote, like why why
why do we have that? Then like I'll take a vote.
I'll sit down every week and I'll go, yeah, how
long do I have to do the show till I
get a vote? Buddy? A couple more months? Sure it's
more a TV.
Speaker 1: Coming off the bench.
Speaker 4: Sure, Bud, a couple more months right there?
Speaker 5: All right, it's like the people turn in their Heisman
vote like really early, Like no, don't do that, all right,
go to Campus Federal dot Org.
Speaker 4: So excited to be with them. And look, they've been
helping the state of Louisiana for a very very long time.
I mean from North Louisiana, South Louisiana right throughout the state.
And the cool thing about what they offer you, like
if you're looking to open an account, they got multiple
options in which account that you can open up over
at campus Federal And when you go to the website
you click on it, it's gonna pull up all the
different options and you're gonna be able to choose the
one that fits you the best. And if you've got questions,
you can have a chat on the website that's gonna
pull up bottom right corner of the website.
Speaker 5: So go there today, Campus Federal dot org. Sorry, don't
settle for one of these big national banks. When you
can join a credit union that invests back in the
Baton Rouge, back in the Louisiana.
Speaker 4: It cares about your financial future.
Speaker 5: So stop by any Campus Federal branch or visit Campus
Federal dot org to see how you can become a
member today