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Speaker 1: No, what's heading y'all. Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: T Bob, Jake Alonka and Taylor hanging out with you today.
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Speaker 3: We had a really good show play every day. We
have a very full show planned for you today. In fact,
Brian Kelly had some comments yesterday in his media availability
this week.
Speaker 1: Uh, that kind of set the tone for the off season.
Speaker 4: We have.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, we are going to do a not a
tier list, but I've gotten Taylor as a visual a Jake.
I've gotten Taylor to put all the teams and they're
in their conferences that are playoff relevant, and then we
have a playoff tier and we are going to vision
usually drag and place the teams and try to figure
out where we think the points of inflection are, like,
like what like who are the teams, what are the
games the angles that it's actually gonna come down to,
and who makes this thing? We had to TV mail
be I got Nick Underhill, we got hold the Mayo,
I got my girl mel and the aber coming in
and tell you all about the Nutcracker at the end
of our.
Speaker 1: Number two and well an the NFL storry of today today.
Speaker 3: So as you can see, besides the last thing mentioned,
a a pretty exciting show planned for you today. Uh,
and what's better than uh, what's better.
Speaker 1: Than two weeks? Three weeks? Right, you'll understand that in
a little bit. What's going on, Jake, How we feeling today?
Speaker 4: Doing all right?
Speaker 5: Uh? Enjoyed, you know, getting to see my Bush League
Bolts on Monday night. Fell a couple of plays short,
had a penalty. That was a penalty you got picked
up there, certainly wasn't.
Speaker 1: I missed the end of it.
Speaker 3: I was watching much of the game, but I did
not stick around for the end up going sideways, Yeah.
Speaker 4: They were. They were down fourteen.
Speaker 5: They throw it close to the end zone and they
throw a flag for passing interference on the Ravens. And
then the other official comes in and he talks to
the official who threw it out of it, he picks
it up, they go back and they do the replay
and treatment. He's like, that's it's interference. Who knows what
the game would have ended. The Ravens certainly made more
plays to win the game, but it was nice. Honestly,
it was nice to see the Bush League Bolts in
a game like that and you know, be well coached
and play well and they're not they're not there, but
they're not that far away either. And also I thought
about you because I was like, you know what I'd
love to hear, is this referee tell me what he
said to take him out of the penalty that he
threw out of his pocket, that was clearly past interference.
Speaker 4: But you know what, we'll never hear that. No, No,
we won't be great though if we did.
Speaker 3: Look, you know, that's a debate we have had many
times in the show, one in which I am clearly not.
Speaker 1: In the Jordy. I'm uh, you know, nobody agrees with me.
Speaker 3: So maybe one day I doubt it, but but maybe
one day, uh they'll end up doing that.
Speaker 1: Uh a, Landra, Mago Landra. How we doing today? It
seems like Magolandra's catching on? How do we feel about that?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a tough nick you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a tough nickname for me to have
thrust upon you for to now catch on.
Speaker 1: So I apologize for that.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't think you do because you keep doing it.
Speaker 3: But okay, fair, fair, Okay, that'll be the last time.
That'll be the last time that I say it. Maybe
I'm whiskey wine. That'll be the last time that I
say it don't here that no all good?
Speaker 6: I have those two sound bites you wanted, So if
you're ready to go whenever, but if you're ready, I
was wondering though, like this is technically our Thursday. So
are we doing R and B Thursday today?
Speaker 4: Or I think we are?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 6: I got you?
Speaker 1: I got you Taylor? How are you doing? Monsieur? H?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, anybody knows me, knows that I'm a
big spender, right, I'm a high roller. And I put
ten bucks down on Jake's Chargers last.
Speaker 1: Night and they let me down.
Speaker 7: So, uh, you know, thing's gonna be tight after losing
those ten bucks.
Speaker 5: You know what, I wonder if JK. Dobbins stays in
that game. I wonder what it looks like when he
went down. It definitely changed the offense because they had
to become past happy and not the best recipe for success.
Although lad McConkie had another big game.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, lads really good. I mean, so I watched
them first half.
Speaker 3: It's the weird first half of the Chargers seem like
they kind of dominated, but all of a sudden you
look up and it's like fourteen seven or fourteen ten,
but it's a great sequence to make it fourteen thirteen
right before half put unfortunate that's when I they.
Speaker 4: Ended thirty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good game, I mean whatever.
Speaker 3: The Chargers are infinitely better they than they than they've
been up to this point. I mean you're going against
in the Ravens, you know, one of the more established
and premier franchises. Really, I mean of our lifetime. If
you talk about the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like.
Speaker 3: They have not had many down years since my kind
of NFL brain has has come online.
Speaker 4: They were always good when I was playing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, every time you played them, you knew it was
probably going to mean something. Played them in the playoffs.
Just consistent organization. It's like, uh, you know, the Steelers
and the Ravens both there in the in the AFC North.
Speaker 4: Or just that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they might they might have years where they're not
the best, but their years where they're not the best,
there's not a big falloff.
Speaker 3: The weirdest part remains about the Steelers is that they
don't have the quarterback, like at least the Ravens end
up hitting. I mean, I guess they never had the
quarter actually, I guess this is the Ravens didn't have
a quarterback for a while. Its more just all about defense.
But uh, you know, and now they hit on Lamar
and that's you know, that's a relationship that will last
for ten to twelve. How many years has themar been
in the league? Now we gotta be almost closing in
on ten.
Speaker 7: Blieve this is either seven or eight. Yeah, makes you
feel a bit old. Was that he was in that
class with Baker.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen also bums me out that this is the
last week of the college football regular season.
Speaker 1: How do we get here so fast?
Speaker 6: Was drafted in twenty eighteen, so.
Speaker 3: Spend big math all off season, all off season, so
desperately trying to get you know, to the season.
Speaker 1: And now here it is, and it's the final week already.
Speaker 3: And we're gonna talk about this Oklahoma again, probably a
bit more tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a fun one, but this is gonna
be a tough one matchup.
Speaker 1: Wise for LSU.
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Labor and Staffing. So Brian Kelly was asked a bit
about a lot of things in yesterday's press conference. He
was asked about the price underwood, the commitment what you know,
he can't speak on specific players, but he was basically, look,
you know this is the it's larger than one player
and they'll still maybe take a quarterback there. But basically
that kind of transposed into a conversation about the transfer portal.
If you remember, in the past, Brian Kelly's always been
someone who has said, look, we want to build mainly
through recruiting and use the portal to kind of fill
in the corners, if you will. But here's what he
had to say yesterday about the Tigers approach to the
portal in this upcoming offseason will be very aggressive.
Speaker 8: I think everybody that's followed us knows that we weren't
very aggressive in the transfer portal. We put together a
defensive line using minimal resources. We've really put ourselves in
a position and I'll use this term loosely to stay
well under the cap. So we could be quite aggressive
this year as well as bringing in sixteen mid years.
We're gonna have sixteen mid years. We think that the program,
in terms of the culture and the standards are such
that we can do that now where we can bring
in sixteen freshmen and maybe one of, if not the
largest transfer portal classes as well.
Speaker 3: One of, if not the largest transfer portal classes. So
the kind of confirmation of what we had heard a
bit that LSU came into last season shopping, you know.
Speaker 1: A little lean.
Speaker 3: They sought savings, they were seeking out to get in
bidding wars. They went into the season with some money
on the table. Bit of a surplus. You heard it
right there, right under for lack of a better term,
underneath the salary cap. Well, the lessons learned from this
year of college football are extreme and it is.
Speaker 1: That you gotta spend it to win it.
Speaker 3: Now, you can always overachieve based on your spending, and
it's not a guarantee that if you spend a ton
it's gonna go great. I mean again, you know, look
look at Ole Miss. The dreams have kind of come
crashing down around them. But if you look at a
lot of top teams the country, be at Oregon, Ohio, State, Tennessee, Texas,
Ole Miss, Georgia, right, teams that have been in that
top eight, top ten for most of the year, those
not by coincidence or also the teams that have spent
the most. So LSU kind of changing there tun to
bit and now Jake with money to spend because you
have the leftover sirpus from last year. You've raised more
money because you you recognize even the greater importance of
it now and now you're willing to change your strategy
bit and we have a lot more data on how
to fit transfers in and what type of transfers you
should be aiming for and how to make that process work.
So this LSU team about to go hard when it
comes to high school and the portal and really filling
out the numbers. And one interesting thing about guys like
Underwood de committing h it is it is objectively not good,
you know, to lose a player of that caliber, right,
But most things in life you could find some sort
of silver lining.
Speaker 1: And it goes back to what we said. It frees
up resources.
Speaker 3: So if you want to bring those resources that one
and a half million a year that was going to
go to one.
Speaker 4: Player, maybe up to two million, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So what if that's now three plays for five hundred
and k a year, which by the way, would have
been the highest on Lshu's roster last year, Right, So
you could see that you could use those freed up
resources in effective ways. I'm not trying to say it's
a good thing when those players he commit, but that
is a silver lining that you look to take advantage of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he mentioned it there. They were, you know,
not very aggressive in the portal. They had a plan
to try to do it through high school, like you said,
supplement through the portal. I remember having a conversation with
someone on the staff at the Heisman ceremony last year
and like, yeah, hey, we're kind of looking at these
four or five guys that we think can be nice
additions to the roster, and maybe we can move forward
with these guys based off what we have coming back
and what we have in high school. Now, there were
some decisions that were made after that that kind of
changed the roster, but I mean, like early on they
knew they were going to kind of be light in
the transfer portal. But I think as this thing continues
to develop, it continues to grow. You see that one
not all things in the portal are bad. Right, You
can add through the portal and you can you know,
certainly help your team and benefit from it. And so
now them talking about being that aggressive, that actually is
really exciting because when you look at T Bob, who
the top ten teams were in the transfer portal rankings,
Like not who got the most players, but who got
the players that they thought on on three were going
to be impactful. Now there's there's really one miss out
of all of these teams. All right, So you've got
Florida State, Yeah, Yeah, You've got Louisville, Colorado, Florida State.
But then you've got old miss Oregon, Texas, Missouri, Syracuse, Indiana,
South Carolina, Arizona State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, look exactly right, every one of
those chages named are surprises are they're ranked except Florida State.
Speaker 5: Now Louisville's kind of back and forth, but still they've
had big moments.
Speaker 4: They've beaten Clemson this year.
Speaker 5: Outside of Florida State, those teams that we're talking about
that did well in the portal, they've either been ranked
for a majority of the season or they're currently ranked
right now.
Speaker 4: Like Syracuse, they're a good football team. Indiana, I mean.
Speaker 5: Arizona State certainly with a chance to make the College
Football Playoff. And so if you do it right, you
can add to your roster, not really mess with all
the process that you've built up, the culture of your
locker room. These players want to These players want to
come in here and they want to play well individually
and collectively as a team. So if you have the resources,
which LSU has a surplus right now, they've mentioned that, yeah,
go go get some veteran guys. Retain your guys. That's
key as well. You didn't do that a year ago,
and that was.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was the sin.
Speaker 3: That is honestly what screwed you up more than anything
you would have I mean I still am really very bullish.
And now the Stefens has played this season, but yeah,
you could have had maybe like a really could have
maybe like an upper tier defense and you manage to
get those guys back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, retain an attack and you're.
Speaker 3: Still well, it isn't I would say that you're still
going to be a school that is going to be
mainly recruiting. But I mean, you heard it right there.
He made no bones about its all the largest transfer
portal class. So they're like, okay, and again you lose
a high school guy. Okay, well maybe you go get
now up a guy out of the portal if you
don't find a high school guy that you think is
worthy of those resources. So an interesting sort of shell
game that could be played now as resources are freed
up and you choose to invest them in new spaces.
And so this first portal windows, especially the most important
one too correct, Yes, I mean, because it feels like
last year they kind of tried to.
Speaker 4: Play it away a little bit.
Speaker 3: The second one and then you just got slim piggest
of the prices get jacked up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the second one still will have players in it,
but the second one it's really like those defensive tackle
offensive guard type position players where you're trying to get
into the nitty gritty and trying to finish your roster.
Last year it was defensive tackle for a lot of
these teams, and those players get overvalued because of it.
Speaker 4: And yeah, credit to them.
Speaker 5: I mean you got players that are some of them
are just guys on roster, not even dudes, and they're
getting paid because there was a necessity to the are
and it was the last time you could add to
your roster. But no, this first portal window, that's where
you get the most impactful players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you didn't feel like Sime embarrass doing anything.
I mean he could be actually I don't know.
Speaker 5: No, he's playing, he's playing, well, he's playing okay, but
like compared to what the word was around him and
how much he got in the nil space, it's because
you don't want to be paying it with Lean.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, all right, so that was pretty incitful. We
got one more conference, Colly that I really want to
play for me and has to do with the Rev.
Sherry kicking in with the strategy there is for now
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Speaker 1: What's adding y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back to all of the bench, T Bob, Jacolandra
and Taylor hanging out with you. Having a great morning
here on o TV. Thanksgiving vibes in the air man
and what's not to be thankful for. We've got our
first ever twelve team playoff right around the corner. We'll
try to figure that out. We got friends and family.
Hopefully everyone's got somewhere to spend this holiday season.
Speaker 1: The vibes are great right now.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go back to Brian Kelly yesterday as
he was asked about revenue sharing kicking in on July
first and kind of what it means for LSU's office.
And this is a longer answer here, but go ahead
and let the entire thing play.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think we can say it's a fair
complete that rev shares here, right. I think the long
form from the courts is pretty clear in terms of
what that's going to look like. I think everybody is
got an idea of what those numbers are going to
be you know that will kick in, you know sometime
in the summer. It's what you do prior to it
kicking in. And that's really where everybody is keeping their
cards close, because that is the accelerator, right You want
to accelerate and be able to retain. You want to
be able to go out into the transfer portal, and
you want to be able to do that before revenue sharing,
so you can begin to balance off what your roster
looks like in terms of the numbers when everybody comes
into one locker, and if you just waited to revenue share,
it's going to be a different look for different players.
You can balance things off if you're aggressive here in
the next few months, and that's what we plan to be.
Speaker 3: So Jake that right there is confirmation of what we
had kind of heard and what we've been talking about
in terms of the accepted strategy right now in college
football is to get all the money that you have
built up and you're collective, which you know in theory
exists outside of the school right to take all of
that money, go all in pre June thirtieth, trying to
amass as much bodies in talent as you can then
in theory, collectives go away, the school takes over, and
you have in theory a more kind of a pseudo
salary cap. Yeah, everybody's got their twenty one million dollars
spit or whatever, and then you allocate that amongst the teams.
But right now, and and you know, for the players,
you know it's crazy, dude, it's probably gonna be well,
we'll se Actually, I don't don't.
Speaker 1: Want to say probably.
Speaker 3: EXP have no idea where the market could go right
like economics whoever knows right, But I could see a
situation where the money does go down a bit overall,
since it's going to.
Speaker 1: Be more of a cap.
Speaker 3: So good on all the players who were born what
two thousand, two thousand, two and two, like two two,
what makes you eighteen or like like like two thousand
and two to two thousand and six because you've kind
of been or maybe two that because you've kind of
been in the golden era here and especially these next
six months, a lot of guys are going to get paid.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to you.
Speaker 3: And I'm interested to see how LSU kind of tries
to win these battles when other schools are also gonna
be pushing all their chips in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's not gonna be It's not gonna be everybody.
Everybody's not gonna have the surplus that you know, some
of these major schools are going to have. And so
it's gonna be the major schools competing against each other.
I'm not gonna say it's gonna be fifty schools. It's
not gonna be that many. It might be t fifteen
to twenty, Yeah, schools.
Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think I think LSU probably
exists in a realm of top like seven, maybe somewhere
around there. Definitely top ten, but maybe even a little
higher than than not until five.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean I would guess.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have They're gonna have resources to go get
some really good place, yes, and to retain some really
good play.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: I think the retention in this little window that we're
talking about is going to be very crucial for teams
across the country.
Speaker 4: You start to look at and I forget what I
did with the paper yesterday.
Speaker 5: I started to write down the people that you need
to try to retain, and I can't find it. I
said it under the desk. It's not there anymore. But
you start to think about a Garrett nes Meyer, you
start to think about a Mason Taylor and just I mean,
we could go a bunch of different ways with a
bunch of different names. I know, CJ. Daniels is somebody
that BK mentioned yesterday, Like, there's.
Speaker 3: Harold Perkins is you know he was at the game
on Saturday, there's I mean, BK said yesterday in the
press confentee.
Speaker 1: He was very open. He said he's weighing his options.
Speaker 3: Obviously, we won him back, but we will support him
no matter what he chooses, and we'll give him all
the resources that he needs, no matter what he chooses.
Speaker 1: But Perkins coming back is potentially in play.
Speaker 4: Emery Jones has a decision that he estimate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now you know Will Campbell gone right, That's that's
a player that he kind of.
Speaker 3: Knows what Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, I think
I think I think Will Campbell's still clearly going to
your first round paid. He's maybe something a little bit
in terms where he ranks amongst the tackles.
Speaker 1: But you never know what's gonna happen during pro line
and everything.
Speaker 5: But in years past, like a guy like Hemery Jones
isn't even in the thought process of getting back because
like I've seen Mick drafts where he's late first round,
second round, like solid footing in the second round in
every mock draft, and a lot of times that guy
would go. But now you have an opportunity to get
him back. So it's about retention as well. You use
that those resources for retention and then you go get
you know, whoever you've identified through the portal or whatever
the case might be. But I think retention is going
to be crucial with the funds that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true, it's true. I do.
Speaker 3: Man, it's got to be so crazy to be like
an Austin Thomas, who's the GM of this team. Essentially,
what a crazy time to be in that position in
college football where you are having to manage resources for
a market that you can't pull from past data. I mean,
I guess maybe you could look at other teams to
try to figure out best practices, but there's no like
freedom information actually, but like you can't really know exactly
what other teams are doing or spending. Again, you don't
have Uh, like you can't study the Nick Saban process
and try to emulate it. I mean you are really
out here on you know, the edge, the new frontier,
trying to trying to figure this thing out. And and
even this year, because like even this year, this whole
idea that you spend everything for you there, even that
changes things drastically. Like Jake said, what do you earmark
for retention? What do you ear mark for acquisition through
high school? What are you ear marked for acquisition.
Speaker 1: To the portal?
Speaker 3: Crazy crazy times, But uh, here's to hoping that, uh
you know that that they can figure it out.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Someone was asking inside the buy four chat about who
is maybe the most valuable college football program. Now this
isn't based off a donor that will just say, hey,
I'm Phil Knight, here's a blank check. But this is
actual revenue from the athletic department and the football program.
And this was done. This was done at the end
of last year, so it's changed a little bit. But
just kind of give you an idea. Ohio State one,
Texas to Bama three, Michigan four, Georgia five, LSU six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this I had.
Speaker 3: A Georgia buddy who's a finance guy, and he was
like texting the group all day the other day and
he's wondering.
Speaker 1: Why you doesn't have money spend or it didn't spend.
Speaker 3: That much in nil and he kept like insinuating that
there was like some sort of like conspiracy because of
those numbers right there right now. But I kind of
have to continue to explain to him that that's not
the money that was being given, right I mean, you're
talking about collective, you're talking about boosters and whatever, state
of college like riche all that comes into play. But
in rev sharing era, you are lucky in that now.
I'm sure the people who are having to come up
with this money might hear this is a teavop, you're
an idiot. But outside looking in, I see something like that,
and I see maybe it's a bit of an easier
lift for LSU to get to that twenty one million,
like because I know I've read something like West Virginia
like whatever, how you know, how are you suppos to
come up with that there?
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of schools where it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Very tough to just carve out twenty million dollars from
revenue that you didn't have to account to before, whereas
for LSU, again maybe a slightly easier list.
Speaker 5: Every school on this list is either SEC or Big Ten.
I stopped at LSU at six A and m at seven,
Florida at eight, Penn State at.
Speaker 4: Nine, and Oklahoma at ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so every one of them is in the SEC,
the Big Ten, no Big twelve, no ACC. Even teams
in the Big twelve in the ACC that are good
football teams that have.
Speaker 4: Been good for a long extended period of time time.
Speaker 5: I don't know that's gonna be as easy as it
is other places to just come up with the revenue show.
Speaker 3: I mean, have you seen the Signetti quotes some last
week about why he went to Indiana. He's like, it's
about money, yeah, And he wasn't saying it's about the
money that he made, so certainly like he was getting
paid way more even before he got the extension. He
was talking about the money that Indiana makes from the
TV contract.
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that's what I'm gonna be fascinate to see. Dude, is
is Indiana. I don't know if sleeping giant is the
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I think in the country, or maybe like second or third.
Speaker 4: I wonder number one in the Midwest. I wonder how.
Speaker 1: They can.
Speaker 3: I'm very intrigued to see if he can capitalize on this,
create investment and maybe be good for an extad amount
of time. Anyway, So look, Brian Kelly, I thought that
was actually normally those press conferences you'll reach and find
some interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: I thought it was.
Speaker 3: Really impactful to hear him kind of lay out those strategies.
Speaker 1: So clearly.
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Speaker 2: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench.
Speaker 9: Y'all, Oh, welcome back.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So if you were job negotiations and your company said, hey, okay,
look you get two weeks PTO, what would you say
is better.
Speaker 1: Than two weeks? Three weeks?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Well, sometimes art imitates life or football in this case,
because not satisfied with having two weeks brothers playing linebacker
for them. Currently, the LSU Tiger has just got a
commitment from Zach Weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh check it out.
Speaker 3: He reclassified for twenty twenty five, meaning he's about to
sign in a week and you will have west, Wit
and Zach all playing football on this same team at
the same time to dast weeks.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, Very cool, guys, very cool. I don't know
much add beyond that.
Speaker 5: Very cool though, Oh it's I mean, it's a good
player as well. You know, it's not like it's just
because Yeah, he's also a really good player. Four star guy.
Oh hell yeah, so.
Speaker 1: There you go. So is he. I'm guess he's gonna
be early in Roly Did.
Speaker 5: They say so if you're reclassifying. I wonder obviously that means,
you know, he's gonna be done with school. I wonder
how much does that mean he's going to be early
or does that mean he's probably gonna have to wait
until he finishes everything in May?
Speaker 4: If he's like already ready, I mean that would be
you know.
Speaker 5: Three and a half years, two and a half years,
I guess of high school.
Speaker 4: To be a junior right now, a freshman sophomore.
Speaker 5: Though, yeah, I would assume he has to go to May.
But you know he's somebody, he's you know, thirty fifth
right now linebacker in the country come out of State
of Georgia top fifty player out of Georgia, Top three
fifty nationally.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's just like a nice story. It's a
good player.
Speaker 1: Well man, there were the Weeks Brothers V. Version of
the Watt Brothers. Uh.
Speaker 3: What I've seen a lot is and and I haven't
seen this movie. And I heard it's one of the
most depressing movies of all time. So maybe it's not
bes Memeus, but I have seen a lot of Iron
Claw memes. Right, movie was filmed here in bad Ruge.
Probably the best movie film here in bat Rouge the
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white boys like kind of seem.
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the little not the tag team whatever it's called with
the three they did, they did that.
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. They'd be called the try team.
Speaker 3: Either way, I haven't seen Iron Claw, and I haven't
been in the mood to do the emotional lift I
think that movie requires.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I already knew the story going in, so I
knew it was gonna you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So did you have you seen it?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's awesome, that's gat devastating Phantom Wait again, though
I knew the story going in, but yeah, I mean,
it doesn't make it any easier.
Speaker 1: But just one day, I'll do it.
Speaker 6: Very tragic the movie, but like the story is very
movie is good. I can't. I'm like you, I can't
do the movie right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: You know, sad movies are great, they really are, But
you got it. They got to catch you in the
right mood. It's not an anytime movie.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, Zach Week's being a linebacker just kind
of give you an idea. And I definitely want to
reiterate this is not just like a token scholarship because
it's the third Week's brother and he's actually rated ahead
of Keel and Moses like on on three, So I
mean and Moses somebody that we've spent a lot of
time talking about and certainly a lot of the fan
base because he plays.
Speaker 4: Right down the street at you High.
Speaker 5: Well, no, I mean this is this is a football
player that eventually will help you.
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You know it's a pretty cool story on New Orleans
stuff football. Right now, it's about Elis excuse me, it's
about New Orleans Saints D line coach Brian Young.
Speaker 1: How about this, Jake? I had never really heard of
Brian Young.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, And this is a man who got to
New Orleans in two thousand and four as a free
agent d tackle from the Rams. He laid the rest
to retire in two thousand and nine because he injured
his left knee.
Speaker 1: This is insane.
Speaker 3: He entered his left knee in two thousand and seven.
He has He has had twenty three surgeries.
Speaker 1: On that knee alone. He finally got it replaced a
few years ago.
Speaker 3: Right, So he ends up getting hurt in seven into
his career in O nine, then he immediately becomes a
coaching assistant for the wrong and he's been here ever since.
So you're talking about a guy that's been here two decades,
the longest tenured member in that building, and finally the
rizzler seeing Young's value for the first time he's been
grinding the develop for that long, for the first time,
he is now the main.
Speaker 1: Defensive line coach. Like he's on an assistant.
Speaker 3: He is the the defensive line coach is his position,
and we've given so much credit to the uptick and
play from that group recently. I thought, like Mike Trippler
wrote the piece, I think it's very cool to highlight
someone who's been here for two decades grinding and now
he's finally made it. And he's not a man with
great aspirations. He doesn't want to be DC. He says,
I'm a grunt, you know. I like being hands on,
I like worry about Like being in the church is
as far as I want to go. But it's cool
to see him finally get that opportunity and to now,
you know, have some early success with it the first
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I remember playing against him when I
was a rookie. A great sleeve tattoo, that's definitely what.
Speaker 4: I remember about him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's kind of like in the Dan Campbell mold
of intensity and kind of the person that he is,
and so I definitely I know him as a player,
and you know, I remember him just because he's been
with the Saints for so long, and you know, credit
to him for sitting there and just grinding away at
like every different job.
Speaker 4: As we list out, just what he's done. You mentioned
in O.
Speaker 5: Nine's where he got to start coaching intern for two years,
and then for two years he was just a defensive assistant,
and then for one year he was defensive assistant linebackers,
and then he went to assistant linebackers coach, then he
went to outside linebackers, and then he went to pass
rush specialist since twenty sixteen. So yeah, he's been grinding
away and not really having Hey, this is our d
line coach, this is our guy, and now he gets
that opportunity.
Speaker 3: You know, it's probably my favorite part of the story.
Just a wonderful little detail. So he was a military
kid growing up, and his school that he went to
in ninth grade, Jake was his ninth school of his childhood.
But because he's such a grinder, because he's worked so hard,
he's actually been able to have his kids completely born
and raised in New Orleans all the way through, and
so they've never.
Speaker 1: Known anything else.
Speaker 3: They've only been in And when he got the news
he was going to finally be the line coach, him
and his daughters, they eat breakfast at the facility before
school every day.
Speaker 1: It's like the tradition, and.
Speaker 3: So they were all together when he got the news
from the Rizzler, and he was gonna be de Lion coach.
It's a heartwarming story, I thought all around. Shout out
Brian Young. Also, you want to know what a psycho
he is, so they were talking about it. He used
to get these infections with all these knee surgeries, and
he basically told the doctor after the knee replacement, if
it gets infected, just take my leg off, like if
the bone gets infected, just take my leg off. And
he said he knew he could get one of those
bands and still function. So this man was so.
Speaker 1: Sick of it.
Speaker 3: He was just gonna ronnie lot his leg, get a
blade and still be out there coaching pass Rush. Absolute
psycho and he looks crazy sleeve Tad's sleeveless shirts, capri sweats.
Speaker 1: He is who he is. He is.
Speaker 3: Everybody says he's very genuinely himself. Shut up, Brian Young.
You'll love to see a guy honored after grinding for
so long. Shout out to the Wrizzler for giving him
his opportunity. And here's over that the Saints can kick
his old team's ass. Come Sunday, all right, when we
get back, let's close that hour one of OTB off
the bench.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with hester at.
Speaker 1: Bob uh Taylor.
Speaker 3: You want to come jump on it? My trampoline in
my backyard. My kids have been loving it lately.
Speaker 1: Nice weather. They're finding outside all the time. It's great.
We have a trampline. When I was little, I'm missing.
I never was allowed to tramplin when I was little.
Mom wouldn't do it. Yeah, too worried about his getting hurt.
I hate it.
Speaker 3: I wanted trampline so bad. I was a little backflipping beast.
We never seen a chubby kid backflip like me.
Speaker 5: We used to jump off the roof to the trampoline
into the pool, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like my sister's oldest boyfriend. He had a
little brother my age and my oldest sister's boyfriend, and
so she used to bring me over there. And they
lived in the woods and they built a you know,
they built like a ladder on the tree, and then
they had a platform on the tree. Yeah that jumped
to one trampoline, and then they had a second trampoline
next to it. So, yeah, you can do that same
thing off the tree tramp to the other trap. It
was incredible. Yeah, that is the closest I ever got
hurt to getting hurt though. I was doing a backflip
and I went like too far backwards and I landed
in the springs. But my leg got hung up and
so just straight like legs stuck in the springs. Body
kept going straight on the ground.
Speaker 4: Your long leg. Oh, he didn't account for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually was my long It was my right leg.
It was my long leg. Got me a little concussion.
I think, I don't know.
Speaker 5: And then then you know, because you got hurt, and
it sounds like your mom's pre protective over you.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it was a cam.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't tell her. I didn't don't say he
did not tell her.
Speaker 4: He is probably like, hey, Lock, it was Ryan was right.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, she would have been out there with us.
It was just the boys.
Speaker 4: It was just still like if it was at you know, somewhere.
Speaker 1: No, No, we're definitely definitely probably Lock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and don't you dare tell your mother.
Speaker 3: Definitely not telling the parents, that absolutely not because that
was literally I mean, we we spent hours on that setup.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. Dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, speaking of fun, LSU women's basketball having some
fun in the Bahamas, as they were in an absolute
battle last night against the Huskies. They end up winning
by one. You love to see a team tested and
come out there on the other side. Main takeaways from
the win last night.
Speaker 5: I had to fight back all game long. After a
rough first quarter. You get down twenty four to eleven
to Washington. Washington coming in was a six and one
basketball team, so certainly a quality opponent, and then you,
you know, you have to grinted out. You win the
second quarter, you win the third quarter, and you win
the fourth quarter to be able to win sixty eight
to sixty seven. You score with less than a second
left on the clock, and yeah, it looks.
Speaker 4: A good win.
Speaker 5: This is a team, as I mentioned in Washington, that
six and one, with a couple of nice victories early
in the season, and you got tested and you showed
that you can kind of get punched in the mouth
and fight back and you win the second, third, and
fourth quarter after getting down big there in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, it's all about how you finish,
right Taylor, did you did you watch any of the
game last night?
Speaker 1: What do you think, well, it.
Speaker 7: Was yesterday during the day, but during off game, but
you know, just yesterday I followed it on the radio.
Speaker 1: Though, idiot guy. All I needed was to take on
the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't need you to clearly show that I
did not watch the game or don't know exactly when
the game was.
Speaker 4: I was going to correct you if he didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I mean, I like, pose here you guys,
you're happy.
Speaker 4: No, I need the radio.
Speaker 1: All I needed was to take the you know, all
I needed it.
Speaker 5: It sts up a nice little ranked on the rank
matchup against n C State who was in the final
four last year.
Speaker 3: Right, that's good. See, thank you, thank you, Jake. That's
what I was looking for. Hell, yes, let's go little
defending national champ from a couple of years ago. It's
a final four team last year.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I think that's better information, right, winning when it was
tipped Taylor, give a take now because you got twenty seconds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was saying, take your ass to watch it
on TV here and snaps yesterday, I'm believing I'm dumb.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Hour two, Okay, we are going to engage in a
visual aid.
Speaker 1: We're going to figure out.
Speaker 3: The college will playoff the points of stress. We go
to the mail bag coming up after that. If you
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