Speaker 1: All start to it. You to presents.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T.
Speaker 1: Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yea yea yeah, off the bench.
Speaker 1: With Jacob Hester and C. Bob Abert. I gotta come
off the bench.
Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hester and T.
Speaker 1: Bob Abert. All right, welcome back in our number three
of OTV one O four five ESPN Baton rouge as
I was telling a laundr and Tata during the break,
a little nervous about having to put together, you know,
all of the the deep cuts in the NFL draft,
the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh round. But I mean,
I just got a gift from an angel. I guess
this is the perks of working for NFL Radio. I
just got sent a three hundred and twelve page document
of the inn Fell draft. Now this is just projected
rounds one through three, but you know, there's going to
be some of these players that go in the fourth
and fifth round. So at least fifty percent of my
work is already done. And again, Gordy, I do apologize
for the three hundred and twelve pages that I'm absolutely
about to print out on work inc.
Speaker 2: Three hundred and twelve pages I.
Speaker 3: Mean chapters as such.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: I want to know how long it took him to
put that together and how much outerall it took.
Speaker 1: Too, And the email says too, I think I'll have
more of a full version soon. This was just what
I put together as a frame. What shout out to
you NFL Radio.
Speaker 4: My goodness, He's like, I don't want you to think
I'm not doing work.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, I.
Speaker 2: Know it's only three hundred and twelve pages.
Speaker 3: But the next one's well over six hundred.
Speaker 1: Man. That is It's great though. I appreciate the work there.
Speaking of the NFL, let's go go ahead and get
the NFL Story of the Day day from Taytay. It's
time for Tata's NFL Story of the Day day, your
daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers still uncertain of his futures. Stop me if
you've heard that one before. He was on the pad back.
If you showed Thursday afternoon, right before the holiday break,
and he said I'm open to anything and attached to nothing,
retirement could still be a possibility. My focus now has
been and will continue to be on my personal life,
and that's what I've told the coaches some like to
say I'm stringing anyone along. I am not stringing teams along.
I'm not holding anyone hostage. I've been honest from the
jump about where I'm at mentally and some of the
constraints I have in my life right now that warrant
my attention. He also kind of dove into the conversation
he had with Aaron Glenn and Jets GM. He said
that they called him in, flew him in. He flew
across the country, and he's like, okay, well, if they're
gonna fly me in, and like it's going to be
a good conversation.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 4: Thirty seconds in, Aaron Glenn walks in the room with
the GM and said, hey, Aaron, you're sure you want
to play football? And Aaron said yeah. He goes, well,
we're actually gonna go into a different direction. So they
flew him in. I had assuming a meeting with him
to let him know that he was officially being released.
At this point, I gotta feel like Aaron Rodgers is
just retiring honestly, Like they came out the other day,
why quitting the helmet that he wore for years is
now officially banned someone like Aaron Rodgers is like going
to take that personally, Like, at this point, where's he
gonna go? He clearly does not want to go to
the Pittsburgh Steelers. He doesn't because it's been his only
option forever a month now and he hasn't committed anything
to him.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: Look, you got stuff going on in your personal life.
I understand that, but he clearly does not want to
go there. I don't know if another place he's going
to go. I think Aaron just hangs it up.
Speaker 1: So I guess if you're a New Orleans Saints fan,
like the question would be, would you want a year
of Aaron Rodgers in New Orleans and you still have
Spencer Ratler Jake Haner on the roster? Maybe maybe even
you draft another quarterback? Maybe you do draft somebody in
the second round Tate. Is it not worth it to
bring him in because the Derek Carr situation? And again,
like who knows even where that's at right now with
his shoulder? Is he trying to get out of town?
Because he's trying. I'll help, I'll drive him. But would
you want a year of Aaron Rodgers and maybe select
a quarterback early in the second round.
Speaker 4: Depends on how much you'd have to pay him for me.
I mean, what kind of money would Aaron Rodgers demand
to come to New Orleans. I imagine Rodgers is gonna
want to go somewhere where he can win. Now obviously
that's not New Orleans.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess it would depend on what kind
of mentor you think he would be for the next QB, because,
like we've heard mixed opinions on like some people say
he was great with Jordan Love, some people say he
was awful with Jordan Love. Like, yeah, it all depends
on that, because like, if you're gonna bring in Rogers,
you know you can't compete. You're gonna have to pay
him a lot of money, and he's not gonna be
a good mentor to the next quarterback. Like what's the
point you kind of just wasted money on a guy
that you're not gonna win with. Anyways, it all depends on,
like what Aaron wants out of his last couple of
years in the NFL. If he just wants to come
in make money and help another quarterback grow, then New
Orleans might be the place for him. If he wants
to come in win and be the guy. I don't
think New Orleans is a place for him.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of different situations that can
play out for New Orleans at quarterback. I mean, maybe
it is Derek Carr, and maybe everything isn't the way
it looks right now because who knows, Like who knows
where he's at in the shoulder deal. It's like it
kind of came out of nowhere. Is he trying to
get out of town? You know? I think people in
the building do, like Spencer Rattler, Could you roll with
Spencer Rattler sign a veteran quarterback just as an insurance
policy like we're seeing some other teams do. But that
is a problem, like all the veteran quarterbacks that will
kind of be like the placeholder type and are in
case of emergency break glass here Joe Flacco's and Damis
Winston like they've signed elsewhere. So I don't really know
what is out there, what is available right now. But
you know, Aaron Rodgers is it maybe Pittsburgh? Is it
New Orleans? Is he going to retire it? Does it?
And Flynn would probably be much better to ask this too,
since obviously that's somebody that he knows very well. Like
is he is he just waiting to feel wanted? Is
he waiting for somebody to be like, no, Aaron Oak
we really want you like you, we want you to
be our guy. Is that what he's waiting for?
Speaker 3: I mean, it kind of seems like that.
Speaker 4: But again, like I feel like Pittsburgh has been after him.
Speaker 3: They haven't signed anybody else.
Speaker 4: Like Pittsburgh's off season quarterback acquisition is Mason Rudolph. That's
the only guy they've brought in. If you remember, it
was like Cleveland was looking to sign somebody. Minnesota like wasn't,
but there was rumors of it, and then the Steelers
and I kind of thought it all boiled down to
what Rogers wanted to do. Minnesota backed off, Cleveland went
and grabbed Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3: They said, hey, look we're gonna roll with that for year.
Speaker 4: The Giants signed Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston and Russell.
Aaron Rodgers is still sitting there, Like I imagine all of
those teams would have rather had Aaron Rodgers and what
they have now, Like this kind of seems like it's
on him, right I mean, I get it, he wants
a team to feel wanted, but I gotta imagine the
Steelers have at least had some talks with him, because again,
they have Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback and they're
picking twenty first overall, so they don't have an obvious
path to get a top flight quarterback in this class,
at least not the top two guys. Maybe shitd Or
falls to him. I think there's a chance that happens,
but maybe he doesn't. I gotta imagine they want Aaron Rodgers,
Like this kind of seems like it's on Aaron.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying that the best football
in his careers ahead of him. We obviously know that,
but there's some quarterbacks that are being signed that don't
have the ability that Aaron Rodgers still has left in
my opinion, I mean, you look at even last year's
tape and him still being unsigned. So it's a head
scratcher for me, Like you figured like he would have
already made that move, and now you're at a point
where it just feels like there's not going to be
a quarterback kind of available to be your starter, like
in free agency, like Aaron Rodgers is kind of it.
So if it's not through free agency, like if the
Steelers don't move to Aaron Rodgers, it's going to be
in the draft. And so Rogers feels like the only
free agent quarterback that's still available right now. We've even
had quarterbacks that have been traded for I mean, like
Joe Milton, Like that's somebody that went to the Cowboys.
And so it doesn't feel like there's like a landing
spot right now if it's not going to be one
of those two teams. The Steelers are the Saints, and
so are they looking for a veteran quarterback? Because I'm
trying to look right now, here's what you have available,
all right? And actually Ross Jackson mentioned one of these names,
Teddy Bridgewater earlier. Here's your free agent quarterbacks that anybody's
heard of. You've got Aaron Rodgers, You've got Carson Wentz,
You've got Easton Stick, Teddy Bridgewater, Tyler Huntley, Brett Ripkin Rippin, sorry,
Jeff Driscoll, and Desmond Ritter. That's what's available right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and well, and then remember like Teddy retired, came
back last year for the playoff run for the Lions.
He essentially hasn't played in over two years, and that's
probably your best option.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, this seems like a situation where Aaron
Rodgers is just waiting to feel wanted. I don't know
that what he is waiting for is ever going to
be fully achieved, and so it's an option. It's certainly
an option for the New Orleans Saints. And again it's
fascinating because we don't know what they're going to do
at quarterback. If Derek Carr and this shoulder injury, we're
not out there, and we'd be like, Okay, well they're
gonna go Derek, They're gonna have Spencer Ratler Jay Canter
as their backups. Maybe they still draft a quarterback. Maybe.
But now that it's come out that Derek Carr is
potentially not going to play, that he's trying to have
this coup and trying to get out of town, well
it's like, okay, well, now a lot of options are
open for the New Orleans Saints. They could go with
Spencer Ratler and sign one of these quarterbacks that I
just mentioned. If they can draft a quarterback, be it
at number nine or be it at number forty or B.
That's the fact that they moved up back into the
first round, and they could still send one of these
veteran quarterbacks because nothing's tying them like to a Jay
can So if they wanted to go rookie Spencer Ratler,
veteran quarterback like a Carson Wentz, they certainly could still
do that. I mean, Jay Canterer was a fourth round pick,
but they've already kind of seen what he is and
he started games. There's not been a lot there, so
they could move on from him. But it is interesting
New Orleans Saints and what they're going to do at
the quarterback position. Now, as we've mentioned, they've got more
issues than just quarterback, but certainly when you have a
void at that position, it's always going to be the headline.
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Speaker 4: Com back at it where sports talk meets pure chaos.
Speaker 3: Off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: All Right, welcome back in otb here. On a Monday
morning yesterday, I think all of us here celebrated Easter
are different ways. I was still at the beach, toes
in the sand, enjoying some last minute family vacation. A
lot of dad tacks going on with the Easter candy.
I mean, just all over the place, at least minimum,
I mean, Reese's Eggs are involved. It goes up to
twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: Those are the best.
Speaker 1: It's like we're living in California when Reese's Eggs become
the go to.
Speaker 2: Those are the best Easter candy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll have a Cadbury egg better than Ess No,
I mean is goaded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but right there it is. It's it's neck and neck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I mentioned it on Thursday.
Speaker 4: Y'all, y'all attack my list, Okay, I want, I want,
I want some pushback here. I gave my top five
Easter candies. Okay, number five, hollow chocolate Bonnie. It's easier
to eat. I like the hollow chocolate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: Before I went gold Breake egg a classic. At three,
Starburst jelly.
Speaker 1: Beans, Okay, I get behind that.
Speaker 4: At two, I Went's Peanut butter eggs two and number
one and number one. I love the Cadbury cream egg.
And that's actually only recently. So that's that's my five.
Speaker 1: Any list, it doesn't start with Ree's Egg and number one.
Speaker 3: I know, I know it was so well.
Speaker 4: The thing about I guess the thing is like I
have Rey's year round. I can't really have Cadbury egg outside.
Speaker 2: I feel like it tastes different outside of.
Speaker 3: No, the eggs, the eggs the best one.
Speaker 1: The eggs the best one because like I don't know
what it is, and this is gonna sound straight fat boy.
It's something about the shape of it. Yeah, the shape
of a Reese's egg makes it so much better. Like
the shape and like the those suck, Yeah, compare it
to the eggs. I agree.
Speaker 3: Well, And like Christmas, they do the tree and it
doesn't look like a tree.
Speaker 4: At all, but it's good Halloween. Halloween, they do the pumpkin,
not as good.
Speaker 1: So it's so the the Reese's egg, tree, pumpkin, the heart.
You know, when you're trying to bake cookies and you're
trying to put them into a shape, Yeah, and you
feel like, man, this is going to turn out great.
I just used a cookie cutter and then you put
it in the oven and it turns into a big blog.
That's what the Reese's egg and tree. But you know what,
it's still delicious good.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. I don't know why they taste different, but
they do.
Speaker 1: They hundred percent. Yah.
Speaker 2: I had my first doctor Pepper in forty days yesterday. Man,
the first sip.
Speaker 1: Got me real, right, Oh I forgot.
Speaker 2: I haven't had any sort of soda, did you go?
Speaker 1: Okay? So if if you haven't had soda, any soda,
all right, so you have options here. You could have
gone can, yeah, plastic bottle or fountain. Right, so those
are probably the three options. I mean you could as well,
which would probably be the last been extreme. Yeah, you
have to know of the four options, which one did
you choose?
Speaker 2: Okay? So my favorite is a canned soda.
Speaker 1: Can soda. I went with a cold can.
Speaker 2: Of doctor Pepper yesterday, not even doctor pepper zero, I did,
oh no, no, no regular doctor Pepper.
Speaker 1: It was amazing because like fountains my favorite. But you
can get a bad.
Speaker 3: Fountain's syrupy or like carbon.
Speaker 1: You don't want to risk it.
Speaker 4: Literally thought a good fountain is elite, but cans consistency,
the sound when you crack.
Speaker 2: It open, it just tastes so much better too. If
it's like just ice cold. Amazing.
Speaker 1: If you would have said like you went like bottle. Yeah,
his bottles never cold enough. It's never col's never cold enough.
Speaker 2: No, and it like gets warm very easily too. So
it for me, it goes can fountain bottle.
Speaker 1: If you could have a glass bottle, that's a game changer,
it is. But not everybody has that, No, I know
Mexican coat usually comes in a glass bottle, bottle, regular coke,
but a Mexican coat. Yeah, I have a glass bottles
est tear. Yeah, because I'm the guy like if I
have to, if I have to get a bottle. It's
not every gas station is going to have like a
coke zero in a can. Like, I'm the guy reaching
in the like the like the very middle. Yes, to
try to get like the coldest possible one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not getting the first one out there.
Speaker 1: It's not above me like to try to walk in
the back and grab it before. Yes, I'm not drinking
a lukewarm or even like a barely cold.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's got to be ice cold drinks to
be ice cold. That's one of them.
Speaker 1: Taylor. When's the last time you've had had a fully
leaded soda like coke dr pepper? Now, I will say like, Okay.
Speaker 4: I only had an energy drink twice last week, so
I did good there. I've been cutting back on the
I've been cutting back on the crap. But no, yesterday, like,
because if you're gonna eat crawlfish, right, two crawfish boils.
Speaker 1: Yesterday you went to two a one o'clock and a
four o'clock. How many pounds did you eat.
Speaker 3: The first one? Not much because I was coming up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you kind of slapped the first the first one,
like yeah he did. They made home made ice cream.
They had that, so I kind of like deserted it before.
Maybe you had like two or three pounds the first time,
you know, and a lot of but the second time,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean we got there was seven of us.
Speaker 4: We finished seventy pounds, so I mean it was it
was a good bit the second go around, but we
episode because like you got to just have the sodium
at that point because the crawfish all that the crab's
going in your body anyways, I'm not gonna be like, oh,
I'm gonna go healthy.
Speaker 2: So you went crawfish, then you went ice cream. That
you went more crawfish.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a choice.
Speaker 2: Well, so I went, like, I respect it, but that's
a choice.
Speaker 3: I went well better than that.
Speaker 4: I went crawfish, chocolate, homemade ice cream, carrot cake, then
took a break, then did crawfish, corn potatoes, slice of
cookie cake, all while having a doctor pepper.
Speaker 3: It was a day yesterday.
Speaker 2: Okay, your fingers are probably swollen as hell right now.
Speaker 3: No, they're not bad. No, I'm man, and you did
pretty well. They're not. They're not bad.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm proud though. Yeah, would be so
proud of you right now?
Speaker 1: You would? You would? I mean, I actually I went
ham this week like it was like the y'all know me.
I like, I'm I'm typically annoying with how healthy I eat.
It was none of that. No, it was none of
that on vacation. So Hudson shout out to Hutty Paul.
By the way, he turned twelve two days ago on Saturday,
so we celebrated him at the beach there. Got his
first phone last night. Surprised him with the phone. He's
fired up because he didn't he didn't think he was
getting it at all. So like anytime. So he's gonna
start middle school football. It's like, okay, anytime we get
in that and we got to be able to practice
communicate with you practice you get the phone. Yeah, and
so he like he's twelve going on thirty, so I
know he's mature enough to be able to handle it now. Also,
he could be ordering things and finding ways to make
other people pay for them, because we do call him
Jimmy Swagger. He does have a little bit of that,
a little bit. But so we're celebrating his birthday and
Katie's sister in California sent a birthday cake to my
in laws house. It was a cookie cake. And the
way that Katie's family does it, they covered the entire thing,
the entire thing in white icing and they write more
ice on top of it. Yeah, and so that thing
was smothered and covered.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had at least half the cake myself.
Speaker 2: I I just scraped like a little bit off of it.
Speaker 1: But I didn't even do that straight to the dome.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's vacation, but I'm assuming you didn't. I
have to know did you stay committed and not put
sunscreen on while you were at the beach? How much
sunscreen was used by you?
Speaker 1: This leek very little, very little, If y'all saw now
we did, so we do on the kids. Well yeah,
but it's funny. I mean, we got five of them,
so I guess it's not that surprising that they're going
to be different. But like Harlowe and Memphis super Tan.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I saw a picture of Harlow and I was like,
she is tan.
Speaker 1: I mean ten Yeah. Memphis right now, like just out
of this world. Like he he doesn't need it as much,
but my man hoodie, Paul, he needs all of it,
you know what I mean. So, like it's a little
bit different there.
Speaker 3: I put.
Speaker 1: Hey, actually, you'd be proud. I put a little bit on. Okay,
I put a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of sunscreen. You would be proud. I'm not proud
of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should not be.
Speaker 1: But because forty I think so, I think. So it's
like I don't you know, yeah, I've never really done sunscreening,
but I did put a little bit on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, were you like reapplying and stuff?
Speaker 1: No, okay, so there's there. I have never reapplied sunscreen.
Speaker 2: I can be okay with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean we were out there for like four hours, yeah,
and it was it was a no cloud in the sky,
just straight sun. We're throwing the ball, you know, doing
a whole disc. So we were out and were under
an umbrella. So that sounds amazing, not not reapplying. I
just don't want to look like leather. And you know,
I feel like as I'm getting forty, it's getting closer
and closer to leather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you burn, you don't know what it's going
to look like.
Speaker 1: I don't care about burner. I never I've never really
had a sunburn.
Speaker 2: But I was like, you know, yeah, a little leather.
Speaker 1: I mean Memphis, it was like very quick spray and
he's like I'm out of here and I'm gone, and
so yeah, Taylor, how do you feel about sunscreen?
Speaker 3: I use it all the time. I have to look
at him, look at me, at me like I used to.
Speaker 1: I used to not.
Speaker 3: I showed you all the picture that really bad sunscreen
shoulders that time. It was literally, yeah it was. It
was the yellow, the little yellow pockets on the shoulder.
Speaker 4: It's very tasteful ever since then, like I have to,
I'm just I'm too pale not to Its just it's
one of those things. And I can I can actually
get an okay saying, but I burned so easily, Like
I gotta I gotta use a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't do like the the lotion and make you
look chalky. I do a little spray on spray.
Speaker 1: There be little kids walking by that all they all
you could see was the sunscreen they had on, like
just you know, so caked on.
Speaker 3: It was just like, yeah, no, I'm a spray, I'm
a spray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, do you really know it's in that spray?
Speaker 3: No, I don't care. Look, I know what happened the
time I didn't use it. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Is not gonna I'm gonna take a break because I know,
I know my suns screen takes are not popular. So
I can see the chat already calling Elandre and I
out on our sunscreen takes. So we will take a break.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to off the bench where the takes are
hot and the sports talk is questionable.
Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back in It is OTB here on
this Monday morning. One of the things that we probably
miss being out last week. So the spring portal window
opened up on the sixteenth. It goes all the way
until the twenty fifth, So players on your team can't
enter the portal all the way to the twenty fifth. Remember,
they don't have to have their decision made when they
go into the portal. They just have to be in
there and then later on they can make that choice. Tatay.
So last week with us being out, not players entering
the portal from LSU, But was there any news surrounding
maybe players coming to LSU, any news as far as
maybe LSU looking into the spring window portal Because they
hit the fall portal, window, winter window, whatever you want
to call it, certainly as hard as they've ever hit
it before. So I feel like last year, certainly there
was more whispers of them with a whispers they were
kind of yelling that they needed a defensive tackle where
you've heard some of that this year, still wanted to
add at that position, but there hasn't been a lot of, Hey,
we have to go get this position out of the portal. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually, last week Kelly met with the media post practice,
he kind of said the opposite.
Speaker 3: I mean, he says, I like our roster right.
Speaker 4: Now, it wouldn't surprise me if we didn't have anybody
in the portal on either side either leaving our program
or adding. He said, if you asked me right now,
I would be happy to take this roster right into
May on both sides of it. So to me, that
sounds like unless they can't miss a must ad player
enters the transfer portal, Kelly thinks they're good as of
right now, that player hasn't entered. I mean, you look
at the positions of need that you have, a lot
of people are gonna say safety depth. I mean the
name that people have mentioned, Terrence Love from Auburn. Obviously,
he couldn't transfer over and play right away from the
spring window because he's in the SEC. But Kennedy Erlackers
a big name obviously because of who his dad is.
But I mean he's somebody that's kind of been a
backup safety.
Speaker 1: It Notre Dame saw him attached to USC potentially, Yeah, yeah,
he has.
Speaker 4: He has a new contact clause on him, so he
kind of knows where he's going already. There's not a
ton of good I mean, big time players in the portal.
I mean, everybody's talked about defensive tackle depth. It's kind
of slim right now any anywhere you look O line.
I mean it's I I understand why Kelly said that
unless there's an obvious guy that enters that is not
in there yet, and I can't imagine who that would be,
Like I wish it was probably good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look at the safety position and the
defensive tackle position, what's currently available in the portal, there's
not a lot of game changers in there. I'll give
you the example. So Patterson from Miami top rated safety
available in the portal window. He has ranked the three
hundred and forty six best player in the transfer portal,
like you know, both windows combined, but three forty six,
Trevor Woods from Colorado another safety, four to ninety seven
c J. Brown from Bowling Green five p. Thirty one.
So that's at the safety position. When you go to
the defensive tackle position, one seventy one, two fifteen, three
twenty two, three thirty seven, five thirty three as far
as overall ranking, so last year you did actually have
some I think Sunday qual defensive tackles. Now they didn't
end up being the game changers that they were aspiring
to be, and they look they wanted a lot of money.
They got a lot of money to go to Miami
to go to Oklahoma, to go to other places. But
you don't have that this year. You don't have a
top fifty portal player at that position, at either position
where you feel like you'd just be adding a body
to add a body, right and now, deepensive tackle, I
think you want to add somebody that can change the
math for you. You have the bodies there, like you
have the numbers. I think you just you would add
if you had a top fifty player, then you could
push all of your chips to the middle of the
table here in this spring transfer portal window and go
get that player. But that player's not there right now. Now.
Could you go do a deep dive and find a
diamond in the rough that you know we're not talking
about right now. Yeah, potentially you go do your homework
and you go get somebody that in there. Alexander Whitmore
is a defensive tackle in the portal, right, He's a
three star transfer player from UNLV. Okay, if that player
is somebody that we haven't identified as a game changer
and he is, okay, sure, but I don't think that's
the case. And so I think it's also a good
thing that lsho's not having to be overly active in
this transfer portal window. It's not to say that they're perfect.
I still think you need a couple of different spots,
but you're okay moving forward without that, without having to press.
That was not the case a year ago. You were
trying to press. You just couldn't get to the finish
line because there were players that were getting paid almost
two times what they technically were worth because teams will
felt like that that was the missing piece for them
to go be a championship team. And so you're not
in that position right now. And when you look at
what's available outside of just the defensive line and the
safety position, there's a lot of edges that are available
right now in the portal and that's probably the position
that is I would say the strongest. Like bo Atkinson
from UNC, that is a player that is a higher
rated transfer than he was coming out of high school,
started multiple years there. He is going to find a
landing spot. He is going to get whatever his value
is and probably then some it's going to be a
little bit of a bidding war situation. You're not in
play on a player like that right now, you feel
good you've already made moves in the portal at that position.
Another position that has some depth here in this spring
window is the receiver position. You certainly are not in
the market for a receiver. In fact, I don't know
how you're going to get the ball to all the
playmakers that you have. Embarrassment of riches almost again, a
great situation to have. You have different receivers that have
different skill sets, and I think it's going to be
one from top to bottom that you might not have.
You don't have a Jeremiah Smith, and that's okay, but
from top to bottom, it's gonna be as deep as
any receiver room. I think in the country. You're good there.
So like where the portal is strong right now, you've
already made those moves. You made those moves in the
first portal windows. So you're not going after an edge
defender unless one just falls in your lap, which I
don't think is going to happen, because I think these
guys are going to really secure the bag here in
the receiver position, like Trey Penia from Syracuse hell of
a football player. Now, Frank Brown came out and said
he wanted two million dollars and he said, the only
guy that's getting two million dollars at that position, in
his words, is that homie from Ohio State talking about
Jeremiah Smith. And so he wasn't going to make that move,
but it looks like Penn State is actually going to
pull the trigger there on Treypinia from Syracuse. But that's
kind of that's where the portal is strong. Like Micah
Hudson curious case of Michah Hudson as I see shaking
his head, five star player out of high school signs
with Texas Tech in the portal window goes to Texas
A and M. Tayte. Do we know if he ever
even put on a uniform. I don't think a college
station like for a practice.
Speaker 4: Well, and remember, like it wasn't confirmed, but he was
the guy that there were a lot of ports like
the kind of outland dish, right, yeah, And I mean
there were some people that were like, oh, well, that
might not be true, but I mean it was. It
was tied to him, and reports like that ain't tied
to every player. And the fact that he left A
and M so quickly kind of tells me there was
at least some sort of validity to that, but yeah,
Micah Hudson, I mean that's somebody that I remember everybody
wanted out of the portal and I was kind of
wondering why because he hadn't done anything in college. But
when you have the five star attached to your name,
like kind of like Niko Yama Leono, I mean going
back to that, like when you have that five star name,
you think you can get a lot more and sometimes
you can't. But to your point about you know this
defensive tackle room, I was looking at it the other day.
I actually brought this up, like Jacobe and Gillery returned
to practice on Tuesday. That's a guy that's been on
your team for like six years now. Amad bro and
Dominic McKinley have been running with the ones in spring practice.
Bro I think exceeded everybody's expectations and played with Kyle
Williams in high school. Dominick McKinley was raw, but I
mean he's got all the potential. You hat Cider Mitchell
from Texas shown Washington still on the team, but you
you have four freshmen coming in in the fall. There
were all decent recruits. I mean, Zion Williams, Dylan Battle,
Walter Mathis and Brandon Brown are all coming in in
the fall. All of those guys are defensive tackles. And
if you're just looking at adding a body, you don't
need to because you have four more guys coming in.
I mean that's that's nine bodies right there between who's
coming back and the freshman coming in.
Speaker 3: I kind of think you're good there.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see, you know, four freshmen coming in and
we'll see if any of those players are ready to play.
And not many times now do you get a player
that doesn't enroll early. Right, so you've got multiple players
that aren't here yet. How quickly can they get up
to speed? Like how quickly can they get on the field?
Does their body need to go through a transformation? One
thing we haven't talked about, and maybe you did when
you were sitting in for us TATA, like you go
from Bo Davis to Kyle Williams, Like we don't know
that Kyle Williams is gonna want the same defensive tackle
that Bo Davis had. And like one thing about Blake Baker,
he's going to give his position coaches like the ability
to go out and recruit the kind of guy that
they want now within his defense, certainly, but I think
Bo Diddley wanted bigger players like he wanted, you know,
an over three hundred pound defensive tackle. Now I don't
know this, I hadn't talked to him about it, but
maybe Kyle Williams wants a leaner defensive tackle. Maybe Kyle
Williams wants a two ninety five guy instead of a
three twenty guy. So you know, that is a part
of the equation when it comes to maybe who's getting
on the field. Tata mentioned in my bro there like
he he knows him as well as anybody. He coached
him in high school. That was his defensive coordinator, and
so like, is that more of the mo the player
that you want. We'll certainly find out as we get
ready for this twenty twenty five season, but that is
something to pay attention to. Every position coach is going
to maybe want a different style of player. We'll see
if Kyle Williams maybe goes for a leaner player where
Bo Davis certainly like that's how he was molded, That's
how he came up with coach Saban and you know,
enjoying the bigger defensive tackles and you might see a
little bit of a change there at that position. I
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where is T Bob only wrong? Answers, Well, whatever answer
we gave you would be wrong because we have no idea.
I really don't. Like I saw that he was that
grateful dead again in Vegas. But then like I saw
him with his family somewhere.
Speaker 2: He was going to California. So maybe they were playing
in California, or maybe he went a little.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was usually when he goes he's grateful dead
with his boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they did.
Speaker 1: Bet I bet that's what he did. I bet he
either started in Vegas and went to California, or went
to California and went to Vegas and pop back over.
I have no idea where T Bob's at.
Speaker 2: He wanted to spend the Pope's last moments with him,
so he was by his bedside somewhere. Ye.
Speaker 1: Well, I always say that the best thing about T
Bob is he would be the same Tea Bob in
front of me that he would be in front of
the Pope. So that's maybe not that far off. Uh
ask the bench. What food can you not have as leftovers?
Can you not have anything anything like fried seafood? Yeah,
Like fried seafood is not gonna hold up.
Speaker 3: French fries in general are tough. Yeah, fries in general
are tough.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I even have like we have the fryer,
like the actual grease pit frar in our house, and
even if you throw it back in there, it's still
not I.
Speaker 2: Know people that will eat like fast food as leftovers,
and that is very questionable to me. Any sort of
fast food as a leftovers insane behavior.
Speaker 1: Mmm. Yeah, I'm I'm not a big fast food person
in general, so yes, yeah, no, Uh ask the bench?
Hester Florida or California beach. Florida Beach like California School
because it's got like the cliffs and the hills and
stuff like Tory Pines is cool, but like the sands
betteran Florida. The water's warmer. The water down I know
where we go in Panama City Beach is clear. Yeah,
like super clear right now, like that stretch between Panama
City Beach and Deston having me miles that is, you
get some really clear water in the Gulf. So California
beaches aren't. Aren't that great. Actually, the sand's not as good.
The water's not as good as to like even like
in Newport Beach, like in the summertime. My kids when
we go visit family, they still like getting their wet
suits to go out into the water paddle around.
Speaker 2: So never been to either. I remember this was like
a conversation that y'all made fun of me for that
I've never actually been to the beach because I've only
been to Texas beaches. But that's not true anymore. I
was in Newport, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: Still you need to get your ass to a Florida beach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never It is something about the Florida Beach
because Okay, Golf Shores is fine, but when you cross
right over into Pensacola. Even in Pensacola, it's it's a
huge difference that it's right there. Like it's some about
the Florida beach.
Speaker 1: Florida beaches are my favorite act all right, asked the bench,
how good was last night's episode of The Last of Us? Uh,
they don't watch it, right, No, we confirmed that during
one of the break because Ricky I asked that during
one of the breaks. It was incredible, incredible TV. One
of the best episodes of TV that I've seen in
a very very long time. Wow, yeah, I mean it was.
It was that good. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Being asked if I even spring break? Yes in South
Padre Island and Portances.
Speaker 1: Asked the bench. If you had two hits but people
refer to you as a one hit wonder, would you
be angry which one A were talking about?
Speaker 4: All you don't one hill wonder puts you in a
category like there is no two hit wonder category. So
it's like you said, better to be a part of
the group than not part of a group at all. Like,
I don't know, I probably don't care I'm.
Speaker 2: Making money as long as I've got hit right, making
royalty he's off of Yeah, that's the bench.
Speaker 1: Chocolate or white icing on cookie cake?
Speaker 2: Chocolate chocolate or white icing.
Speaker 1: Go white icing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why chocolate as icing on cookie
cake isn't registering to me, So I'm gonna go white icing.
Speaker 1: As the bench. Do you believe in the clutch gene
for baseball at bats or are you moscona No? I
I fully believe in a clutch gene. Steven Mylam has
a clutch gens. Believe there's there's players and like we've
seen it, like when the moment becomes too big, they
never produce. There's some that can be struggling, but when
the moment is there, they always come through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh Pearson is the best example of it. But
I believe in the clutch gene in every sport.
Speaker 1: Not just too Yeah. I played with too many players
that are really, really talented, but when times get tough
or when that moment you know, kind of comes in
front of them, they just, yeah, they can't. They can't
be there in that moment. They don't play their best
whenever no too much pressure. H asda bench thoughts on
ESPN's twenty twenty five Way to our College Football Top
twenty five rankings. I have not seen them taste. It
feels like something you would beat all over seen them.
Speaker 3: I know what, guys, I was busy last week. I
hadn't seen it.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I kind of took the weekend off
of sports for the most part, asked the bench.
Speaker 1: Is t Bob the least foxhole on OTB?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I don't.
Speaker 4: First off, this weekend did nothing to confirm or deny
that this has been known since T Bob would admit
that this is pretty much just.
Speaker 1: That's true, Like he doesn't even try to run from it. Yeah, uh, acid, Bench,
remember when you used to see a movie trailer and thought,
I can't wait to go see that movie. Have you
seen a trailer recently that gave you that feeling? No,
that's a great question actually, and even even y'all. I
know I'm older than y'all, but like movie trailer voice guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah in a world, yeah, where.
Speaker 1: Two strangers meet in a random location. Whatever he said,
I was like, yes, you got me. The Mission Impossible
trailer was good. That just came out. Okay, so there
that I haven't seen that one the Fantastic four trailer.
I'm like, Eh, why do.
Speaker 3: They keep remaking that? Is this a third Fantastic Four remake?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Third different?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just see the same plot, just different people
with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the last two of Bond, well, not the last
two last one Bond for sure. Yeah. So I don't know.
I have no idea, just like I have no idea
if T Bob is going to be back tomorrow. Tune
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