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Speaker 1: Let's I'll start to you to present Off the Bench

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with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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yeah yeah, Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T

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Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Everyone? Welcome in to another edition about GB the first

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Speaker 2: As we are into a new year, and I hope

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you're having a good new year. Now.

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Speaker 3: Obviously twenty twenty five was rung in in a completely

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tragic and awful way. We will talk about the Sugar

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Bowl taking place later this afternoon instead of having taken

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place last night because of again a senseless terrorist attack.

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And it's heartbreaking, it's awful. It made it really weird

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to want to talk about college football or kind of

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enjoy It just made everything bad, tinged everything with bad

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yesterday and certainly been praying for everybody who's been mentally

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or physically affected. And I know it's it's its scope

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and reaches is very large, and so there's no you know,

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I again, I want this show to be what it

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always is.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to be a.

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Speaker 3: Distraction from the real world for everybody to sit here,

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maybe have some fun over the next three hours. We

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got a lot of fun stuff to talk about. But

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just know that our our hearts are definitely with everybody

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who we know or don't know. Just again, anybody who's

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been mentally or physically affected by this awful attack. Will

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continue to pray for them, pray for safety tonight during

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the game. And you know, the impossible pivot here is

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we are going to the show and we will talk

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about football and preview the game and talk about yesterday's games,

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and talk about the bowl game and and everything else.

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And hopefully, because that's one of the great parts about

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sports is they become that escape, They become that distraction

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from the real world and all of its complex problems.

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Hopefully this show can give you a little bit of

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a respite or a bit of an escape over the

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next few hours. For sure, anything Jake, before we kind

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, incredibly tragic for all those involved. But

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the best family is somebody that we know, certainly here

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in this building, in this city, in this state.

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Speaker 2: It is one of the best families that you can know.

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Speaker 4: I mean from top to bottom, very close knit family

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as well I mean, they do every everything together, like

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Speaker 2: Know one best, you know them all.

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Speaker 4: And so obviously I'm we're talking about everybody that was effective.

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But you know somebody that we know on an individual

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on a personal level, Tiger Besh losing his life, Uh,

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you know, just even he hits even more to you know,

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to your heartstrings and closer to home when you know

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somebody affected, when you know the family, when you know

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what they're all about. And so you're right, I mean,

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senseless just there's no words, there's no words when.

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Speaker 2: Just even something like this happens. Just evil, just pure evil,

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and it's heartbreaking. And again there's no I don't know,

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there's no there's no right way. I don't know.

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just it's just awful. It's just completely awful. And all

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I know to do is to uh pray for all

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those who are suffering right now.

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Speaker 2: So it's all we'll continue to do and I hope

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that you do as well. For now impossible pivot, Let's

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Speaker 3: We'll we'll, we'll do the show over the next three

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hours and again hopefully provide some sort of distraction if

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that's what you're seeking. If not, I understand, turn off, goat,

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do whatever you need to do for you today for sure.

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So we are back for the first time in a while. Taylor,

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how did Monday go? You hosted Monday?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 3: With the the ragtag Motley crew? Who all do we

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have in here? Cassie filled in? I owe her filled

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in last minute big time?

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Speaker 2: Well who else is here?

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Speaker 6: So you'll love this.

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Speaker 7: I'm hosting, Cassie's doing video, Musso's doing audio for a

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was it was all three of us. We kind of

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kind of handled the entire day. Yeah it was.

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Speaker 6: It was nice, It was fun. We made it happen.

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Speaker 2: Heck yeah, good job, man, very good job. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: That day off was excellent. Extending the vacation a little

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bit there, uh Aladra, welcome two weeks gone back home

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in Texas and we'll get to it. But your longhorns

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barely escaping the wrath of cam Skataboo yesterday?

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Speaker 2: How was how was going home?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: It was good.

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Speaker 8: Favorite part I've told you when I was at Whiskey

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and while I was telling Tata this morning kill Tony

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was ten out of ten. I would recommend if you

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ever thought about going to Kill Tony Show to go

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to it because it's really good.

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Speaker 2: So who all was on the Who all was on

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Speaker 8: It was Joe Rogan, Wow, Adam Ray impersonating Joe Biden,

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and Harlan Williamstic was really good. It was awesome. But yeah,

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glad to be back. I feel like I was gone forever.

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Jake walked in this morning, was like, do you know

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how to work everything back there? And I was like,

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Speaker 2: We'll see nice long reset heading in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Jake, what about you? I'm sure your day was insane?

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Speaker 4: So, I guess that would have been Monday. I mean, gosh,

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who even knows what day it is when you get

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to this point of the year. Covered Media Day down

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there on Monday, and then turned my attention to the

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Texas Bowl, So went over to Houston and then was

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guess it would have been Tuesday night. Decided to stop

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obviously the terrible news there, so a little bit of

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Speaker 3: And yeah, solay games at three pm this afternoon. Let's

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go ahead. Speaking of the texta bawl, let's go ahead

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and get this thing started.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get to work courtesy of Tiger Labor

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forwarding you resumes. Okay, we are interviewing and dispatching in

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person every single morning at five am. Shout out to

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Tiger Labor and Staffing. So LSU takes on Baylor in

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the Texas Fall and there are a lot of question

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marks for of five new starters on the offensive line

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or at least three new starters, four guys in new positions,

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a tight end room that had been depleted, and yet

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that LSU offense comes out, immediately sets the tone, kicks

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ass and ends up carrying the day. And in a

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day and age where people wonder about the value of

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Bowl games, I think they still matter. I think they

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still matter quite a bit. I think they set the

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tone for the offseason. It's not that a loss is

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the end all be all, but you know what's not

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fun having to explain away a loss, having to do

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the logical or mental gymnastics of well, yes this was bad,

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but here's why, and here's why it may be better

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next year. Like instead, now you get to get incredibly

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excited for trade as Green, you gained confidence in a

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new look offensive line that will have a couple more

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bodies added to it, but certainly will mainly be made

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up of who you saw on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Chris Hilton. What a moment for him.

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Speaker 3: Like the positives of this game I think kind of

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rocket you into the offseason on a platform of success.

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Speaker 2: Here's what you have to do with a game like this.

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Speaker 4: If you think Bowl games don't matter, okay, you have

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to understand that there is going to be a purpose

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because you're out there and you're actually playing the game,

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so you can get excited about players in their future,

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but also so you can understand. Treyde As Green got

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a chance to play real tight end. He got a

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chance to run block for a full entire game against

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a big twelve opponent. Cayden Durham got a chance to

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pass protect against a big twelve opponents, something where he's

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kind of come out of the game and Josh Williams

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has had to go in because Josh is better at

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pass protection. Look, Kayden's a freshman. He's going to continue

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to get better and grow there. So he gets an

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opportunity to go out there and do that. You get

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a chance on defense for Devine Keys to get reps

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for different players, for Jardon Gilbert.

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Speaker 2: Who was as healthy as he's been in a long time.

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Speaker 4: He looked like he had a different gear right, and

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throughout the year. Now there's still room for improvement, but

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that was a guy had a break, had fourteen practices

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to get healthy.

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Speaker 2: He looked like he was playing at a different speed.

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Speaker 4: So like there's little nuances in between every single play

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that we could talk about, and that's going to benefit

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Speaker 3: I think it's also a common team on culture in

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some ways. Right you saw a Texas A and M

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team up twenty four to seven against a USC team

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that in no way even resembled the USC team of

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the regular season, and yet the Trojans found a way

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to come back and win that game. In fact, funny

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little quirk here USC ends up two owing the SEC

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in Las Vegas. If only they could play every game

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in Vegas, USC would have been very good this season.

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But how do you think Texas A and M fans

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feel today about their program under Mike Lco? A year

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that feels all too familiar, hot start, fizzle out, eight

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and five record at the end of the day, I

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mean absolutely defeating What about Alabama? A Michigan team with

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multiple All American optouts in Alabama and in a similar

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position to Georgia last year, feeling snubbed we should have

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been in the playoffs, pissing on everybody's good time throughout

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round one, just yelling at us.

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Speaker 2: All we shut up been in there.

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Speaker 3: And then what did you do against a seven and

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five Michigan team, you got your ass whooped. Even though

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again I bring up the Georgia comparison there because Georgia

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was in a similar position last year, feeling Stubb point.

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Speaker 2: What did they do?

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Speaker 3: They dismantled FSU Alabama looked unprepared, got their ass kicked,

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and they finished without ten wins, nine to four in

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year one of caleboard. You don't think that matters, You

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Speaker 2: It absolutely does.

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Speaker 3: And so I come away from this Texas Bowl, despite

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all the bad, the month of bad, after the six

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and one start, the three game winning streak going into

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the offseason has given me more hope, much more hope

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than I would have had four next season from a

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culture standpoint, And now thanks to the ball game, just

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some of the players that you can start to get

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excited about. Maybe you had lesser roles during the majority

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of this season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, Taylor had more of the regular team

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in this game, certainly had more, right, they had most

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of their Jimmies and Joe's. They didn't have a lot

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of opt outs, they didn't have a lot in the

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transfer portal, they didn't have early and you know.

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Speaker 2: Entry guys into the NFL.

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Speaker 4: So this was a team that won six games in

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a row in the Big twelve that you were playing against,

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and you know, for the most part, in a couple

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of key spots, you were held together with duck tape

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and super glue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And so you're right.

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Speaker 4: About the culture and going out there and just playing football.

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And we saw some guys that we hadn't seen since August.

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I mean, Toviano's out there playing eighty six plays, all right,

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that's a guy that we haven't really seen. I mean

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we've seen him on special teams. We see him a

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little bit here, a little bit there. Gabrielford forty four

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plays a mod Bro forty three. PJ Woodland forty one plays.

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Speaker 2: In this game. And that's I mean, that's on the

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DEFENSESID Michael Turner Junior.

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Speaker 4: There's probably some people that had to go pull out

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the media guy to find out who that was. Probably

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forgot about him. Right, he's playing out there, He's playing

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twenty plays at corner. And then of course we could

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go to the offensive line talk about the plays that

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the I mean.

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Speaker 2: Bo borderline played tight end this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's starting and playing right guard and bow

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plays thirty two plays at right guard, So it was impressive.

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Speaker 2: You can, you know, get mad at what the season was.

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Speaker 4: We all can, and we can be disappointed the LSU's

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not in the twelve team playoff, But for what you

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could control after the situation was set, you did a

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really nice job of going to Houston, making the plays

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that you had to make, creating some guys that are

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going to have some momentum going into the offseason. I think,

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you know, your leaders did a really nice job that

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are coming back and we'll get to Wit Weeks here

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in a little bit. We'll get to Garrett nes Meyer.

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But for what the situation was after it was said,

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you did as well as you possibly could to go

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to Houston, take care of business, come back to Baton

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Rouge winning three games in a row, and now you

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got to.

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Speaker 2: Get to work.

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Speaker 3: So you can, again, I agree with everything Jake just said,

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and it's kind of reinforce that you can believe that

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overall you're a bit disappointed in the nine to four

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record and some of the missed opportunities.

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Speaker 2: I mean, again, you were one game way from Atlanta.

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Who knows what happens then, like.

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Speaker 3: You were closer than your final record would make it

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appear to doing some really big things.

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Speaker 2: So that is disappointing, but.

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Speaker 3: You can also engage in nuance and understand that despite

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that disappointment, the three wins that you finished here with

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were damn strong. You beat a good Vanderbilt team who

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beat a good Georgia Tech team in their bowl game

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to finish the season strong. You beat a very or not.

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You didn't beat a good Okloma team. You beat an

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Oklahoma team coming off of a twenty four to three

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beat down of Alabama, and you beat their ass.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't even close.

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Speaker 3: And then you catch a red hot Baylor team with

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one of the better quarterbacks in the country.

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Speaker 2: And so I robbed a guy who will be I believe, Well,

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does he return next year? Yeah, he'll come back.

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Speaker 3: He'll be one of the if not the best quarterback

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potentially in the Big Twelve. They had won six in

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a row, and you really handled them from the jump.

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So let's get we'll get into like the game and

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what we like most. We got to talk about Gartnasmeyer

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and wit Weeks and everything else, but overall, I was

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just tickled, very pleased. Eight plus marks for preparing for

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a Bowl game and showing that every time you step

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on that field, you're not going to accept excuses and

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you're gonna play your ass off because you are given

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the privilege and the honor of putting on that uniform

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and that helmet and going to fight for sixty minutes.

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Speaker 2: It would have been real easy for this team.

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Speaker 3: To not care like you you or lay an egg

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like you saw other teams who specifically in this conference

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throughout Bowl season. Yeah, and yet you did not. You

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held the rope and that is commendable and it was

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a lot of fun to watch. Frankly, you know, it

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was a very fun game. So more when we get back.

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And I used to think that tie was weld enough.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta

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it's off the Bench with Hester and t Bop.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Uh so we're just talking about Arizona State and Texas.

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In the commercial break, we will get there as Cam

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Scadby was the story of college football over the weekend,

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and that Arizona State team maybe saving college football. But first,

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let's continue to talk la and the Texas Bowl. As

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LSU defeats Baylor's the final score forty four to thirty two.

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Speaker 2: Forty four to thirty one, forty four thirty one.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Garrettusmier, because NUSS has a big day,

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three more tuds, another three hundred yards, one pick. He

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ends up though, four to so like when it's all

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said and done, over four thousand yards in his first year,

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starting twenty nine touchdowns, twelve interceptions, And it's impossible for me.

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And it's not just me, Like I know, when I

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talk about LSU, I have so much bias that I

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would never argue that anything I ever say is a

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fully objective opinion, because I think that's probably impossible per

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the definition of objective.

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Speaker 2: I try to be. But it's not just me.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the way too early

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Heisman odds even before this game, remember Garrett Usmeier was

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second in the country, second on that list, I think,

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only to Arch Manning. And then he comes out he

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and with a new offensive line and new weapons, he

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doesn't take a sack, He dices up Baylor and he finishes.

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He's a four thousand yards nine done twelve picks, And

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most importantly, you saw how he responds to adversity. We

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mentioned it during the year when he went through that

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slump where he throws a couple picks when guys are

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there that he's not expecting them to and then he

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gets rattled a little bit, loses some confidence. When he

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went through that slump, it would have been real easy

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to completely crater, but he managed to get out of it.

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Speaker 2: He managed to finish strong.

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Speaker 3: Even in this game, he threw a similar pick to

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those that kind of broke him during the season. Guy

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not there, or you know, guy was there that he

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wasn't expecting to be there. All of a sudden, it's

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that pick, and he comes back and he finishes.

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Speaker 2: Extremely strong and closes out the game.

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Speaker 3: So what I've seen in Garrettnsmeyer, especially when you combined

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with the context of Jaden Daniels here, wanted to you,

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Jojoe Burrow, like all these other guys you'd come through recently,

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how could you not be over the moon excited about

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this guy coming back with the weapons that you just

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saw and with adding guys like Nick Anderson, Barry and Brown,

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adding a couple o linemen to that old line that

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didn't give up a sack, like the scramble when Mabinga

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got beat one of the only time Joe really got beat,

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but the fadeaway scramble throw to Aaron Anderson and the

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next play is the touchdown to Chris. It's just really

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elite level stuff from your quarterback.

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Speaker 4: Garrett Nesmier, I thought he played fantastic in this game.

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You're right, he had the mistake and he knows that

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he's got to, you know, fix situations like that. It

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was a coverage that he's going to be able to

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read almost every single time. He didn't in that situation,

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but he finds his way back, and you're right. You

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look at his top targets in this game, and you

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know they weren't the top three guys that he had. Well,

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I wouldn't say top three, but certainly three of the

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top five with CJ. Daniels in the transfer portal. Now

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moving on, you don't have a Kyrien Lacy. You don't

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have your biggest, you know, kind of security blanket in

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Mason Taylor as well, and I can't imagine as a

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quarterback what that's like to lose that guy going into

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a game like this, because that's who you typically look

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for on third downs. But shout out to Chris Hilton Junior.

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We talked about him so much in August because if

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you went to training camp, and I mean Taya talked

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about it. He went out there all the time. He

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was dominating. Yeah, and you were so excited. We all

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were so excited about what he could do. He gets hurt.

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I was actually at the practice that he got hurt,

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and you could tell, like the air just went out

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of the building because everybody kind of knew what he

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was going to do early in this season.

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Speaker 2: Then he comes back in he was rusty. We all

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know that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, jumping for balls and not timing

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to jump. And then when he gets on the sideline

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with BK there. I believe that was the Florida game,

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and so you know there was some charals and tribulations

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to him coming back. But then he gets a chance

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to get healthy. We saw it against Oklahoma what he

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can do and then he continues that. I mean, he

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being there in the stadium, you almost felt bad for

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Baylor's corner because he knew what was about to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he still couldn't stop it.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, Chris Hilton is such an unrepresented element

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on this team in terms of just being a true.

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Speaker 2: Very tall, long deep threat.

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Speaker 3: There is no other person on the team that represents

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the same skill set that Chris Hilton brings the table.

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Speaker 2: And it's so impactful.

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Speaker 3: If you look at Oklahoma, you look at this game,

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it's hard to feel. I got to give a shout

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out to my friend, Professor Scott Burns. He says to you,

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whiskey wand that he's like, I think else who's one

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and a half wins better with Hilton. And look, I

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don't know you can argue about the number, but he

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is so impactful that when you look at a guy

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like that, I believe his absence or his attendance can

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represent an actual result change turning a loss into wind

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Like who knows what you happens if you have him

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here all year long, But.

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Speaker 4: It does so much tea to your like so it

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does so much for your offense, and not just with

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the plays that you actually hit to Chris Hilton Junior,

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like those certainly are part of the equation. But if

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you don't, and we saw it early in this game,

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everybody's a little bit closer to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 2: The running lanes aren't.

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Speaker 4: Exactly there like they're going to be there. If a

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safety group, if a corner group is terrified that they're

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going to get run by, If they think they're going

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to get run by, what do they do, Well, they

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back up, They back up two full yards and so

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those running lanes and a guy like Hayden Durham and

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Josh Williams, you know, in this game, that's all they need.

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They just need a little bit of room there and

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they get going. And so it just just even the

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thread of it changes the dynamics of your offense. And

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it was fun to kind of watch it play out

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in real time calling the game because you could see it.

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Speaker 2: You could see when Baylor's like, Okay, we got to change.

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Speaker 4: We can't do what we thought we could come again

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to this game, and it just opens up so many

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things for you. Hard heavy play action is going to

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be there because when you have a deep threat like that,

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if the corner or if this safety is a half

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second late. Chris Hilton Junior is gonna run by them,

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I mean even one of those. And Blair was joking

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on the broadcast Hilton beat the dB so bad and

476
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,279
nust do it as far as he could. But Hilton

477
00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:13,200
still had to wait on the ball. I mean he

478
00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:16,200
and he had time because he beat the dB. That

479
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,799
that you know, oh yeah, one that.

480
00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 2: He came back on, I mean he again. Yeah, it

481
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:20,799
was that.

482
00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 3: I kind of liked it though, because it showed it's

483
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,359
easy to catch a perfect throw in stride when you've

484
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,759
smoked the guy by five yards, When you smoke the

485
00:24:29,759 --> 00:24:32,599
guy by five guards and the balls severely underthrown and

486
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,160
you have to slide as you're being interfered with and tackled,

487
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,880
and you still come up with a catch in the end.

488
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,160
That actually makes me more excited than the than the

489
00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:44,519
cleaner first touchdown. Yeah, because it speaks to just how

490
00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:48,039
high the skills ceiling could be on Chris Hilton.

491
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you saw Chris Hilton junior.

492
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 4: You saw Aaron Anderson, who continues, I mean you want

493
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,880
to talk about most improved players on this football team,

494
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,119
he is certainly up for that conversation. From what he

495
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,839
was year one to year two, trade as Green was

496
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,799
on awesome and you know, being the full time.

497
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,079
Speaker 2: Talking about Trade's tighten here.

498
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 4: You know, we get this Avion Thomas as well, but

499
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,079
Trade as Green deserves, you know, certainly to be talked

500
00:25:08,079 --> 00:25:09,880
about because I give him a lot of credit for

501
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,640
doing what he did through the air, but also being

502
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,119
a willing blocker in the run game, which is something

503
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,759
he's going to have to do with where this tight

504
00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:18,920
end room currently sits.

505
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, setting the.

506
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 3: Tone to at the beginning of the game, fourth and

507
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,799
five opening drive. We know how the game played out,

508
00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:31,039
but at that point there's a lot hanging in the balance.

509
00:25:31,079 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 2: You're right at midfield.

510
00:25:32,319 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 3: Look at how good Baylor's offenses against a defense at

511
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,559
in some parts you're missing personnel. If you don't get

512
00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:41,799
that fourth and five, there's a very good chance you

513
00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:44,039
go down seven to zero with them getting the ball

514
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,200
after half, like the entire dynamic of the game changes.

515
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:51,119
And yet you get it because of Trade As Green.

516
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,720
And then he finishes that drive the touchdown. He comes

517
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:56,000
up aother touchdown later, he comes up with the uber

518
00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,839
athletic catch off of the bat and ball that almost

519
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,359
turns into first down, And as Jake said, valuable tight

520
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,319
end blocking as well, they did not treat him as

521
00:26:05,319 --> 00:26:07,920
wide receive. They treat him as everything this game but

522
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,880
another guy, this is a true freshman. How could you

523
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000
not be over the moon about the potential that he

524
00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:19,160
has next season, especially now that he has this sort

525
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,759
of game he already had I think a year in

526
00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:23,680
which it was easy for him to gain confidence.

527
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 2: But what a cherry on top where.

528
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: Everybody leaves and so he is thrust into the Okay,

529
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,799
you are now the guy role, You're no longer a freshman.

530
00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:36,720
It's a last game this season, and he validated that faith,

531
00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:41,519
and he validated that kind of promotion by the coaching staff.

532
00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:46,640
So yeah, trade as green really just I mean, because again,

533
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,200
the the body is something you can't teach, kind of

534
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,000
like Chris Silton physically, he represents something that you almost

535
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,200
never see. So to see him actually have the mental

536
00:26:57,279 --> 00:27:00,200
ability to be willing, like the mental toughness to be

537
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,319
willing to try to block, and then the mint ability

538
00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:04,960
to understand the playbook to handle so many varied roles,

539
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,880
Like his potential is first round pick NFL type potential.

540
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:13,839
Speaker 4: I think it was maybe at South Carolina, it was

541
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,640
early in the season on the road. I don't remember

542
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,759
exactly what game, but I'm sitting there talking with Joe

543
00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:21,759
Sloan and Trads Green walks by. He's like, you want

544
00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:24,079
to know what first rounders look like? They look like

545
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:24,599
that guy?

546
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,039
Speaker 2: Well?

547
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I played against it and with some

548
00:27:27,519 --> 00:27:29,960
and he looks like he's ready for that already. And

549
00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:32,519
so like the staff's excited about him. They've been excited

550
00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:35,400
all year. And I remember talking with Joe and he's like, look,

551
00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:37,480
the guy is going to continue to get better. He's

552
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,359
already gotten better each and every week, each and every

553
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,359
practice that we've had. You know, each and every game

554
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,440
we'll see something we're like, Okay, you didn't have that,

555
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,880
you know, the prior game before. So the staff understands

556
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,519
exactly where he's at. Now you've got to go get

557
00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:51,680
a new tight end coach, and I do think that's

558
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,000
going to be important to you. Not oftentimes do we

559
00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:56,720
talk a lot of tight end coach. Even when Mike Denbrock,

560
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,839
who was your offensive coordinator, was your tight end coach,

561
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,359
we didn't talk about it a lot. But with that room,

562
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,279
you're bringing in a transfer shark from Oklahoma. You're going

563
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,839
to try to pair him with trade as Green, I

564
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,759
do think it is going to be pivotal to bring

565
00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:11,480
in somebody with a lot of experience at that position

566
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,119
to be able to teach trade as Green how to

567
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,160
be a true three down.

568
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,279
Speaker 2: You gotta be a y.

569
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,839
Speaker 4: Sometimes you're going to live, you know, being an F

570
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,759
as well, but you've got to know how to be

571
00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:23,359
a y if they ask you to be a Y.

572
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,559
Speaker 2: I do think that hire is going to be important.

573
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 3: Uh well, and certainly Ellis you think is hired very

574
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,680
well in the assistant ranks as of late. So hopefully

575
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,880
you can keep that momentum going when we get back here.

576
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,160
Oh my god, dude, it will y'all shut the hell

577
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,119
up about the staff picks.

578
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:58,359
Speaker 2: You're a hoe game every single game. They don't mean it.

579
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,200
I believe you.

580
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 5: I believe that we would win. I believe that we

581
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000
would I believe that we would win. Then you highlight on,

582
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:10,759
Oh my god, for such a hoe. I told you

583
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:12,680
to be fair when I was fourteen.

584
00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 2: Nothing I said, don't let it happen. You think I

585
00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:18,519
wanted to don't let it happen? Does that? Picks don't

586
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:20,640
mean it? That mean something to me? Jake?

587
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,559
Speaker 3: We picked L s U every single game? Yeah, how

588
00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:27,480
can your pick you Christian balled on them? Oh my god,

589
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,599
I did. No, I did a pick up arts technique.

590
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:31,480
I negged them.

591
00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:36,599
Speaker 2: I tried that state them. That only counts when it's

592
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:38,200
not your team. No, that's not true.

593
00:29:39,079 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 4: Won.

594
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: I think there's so line on a lot of new weapons.

595
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:43,319
Speaker 3: I don't know they can do it. And look, no

596
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,039
lot of new weapons get him in the chest.

597
00:29:46,079 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

598
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: No, Jake picked l s U every single game. Yeah,

599
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,440
I picked LU twelve Gate eleven games, Like, what are you?

600
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,960
You're only as good as your last picks? So stupid.

601
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,200
This is so unbelievably stupid. And I know it's but

602
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,720
to the point that it shouldn't get to me, but

603
00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:05,799
it has been pissing me off. So shut up, Like,

604
00:30:05,839 --> 00:30:08,000
there's nothing objective in these picks.

605
00:30:08,359 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: We picked them every game. You're you're honestly mad at that.

606
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been annoying the hell out of me because

607
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,440
it's just filling all my mentions and everything, and I'm like,

608
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:19,839
what are you?

609
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 2: Everybodys like, he picked them every game? Guy, that doesn't

610
00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:27,640
mean anything. He went, not, what what are we talking about?

611
00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 3: Mine?

612
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: Don't either? I picked him on twelve regular season game

613
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:33,759
but not in the postseason. It's so stupid. The best

614
00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:37,720
teams show up in the postseason. Baby, my god, hould

615
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,480
your als up? You can't. You don't get through this week.

616
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 3: It's just so dumb. Its is so freaking You shouldn't

617
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,000
even be picking the game. That's a conflict of interest.

618
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,240
I'm gonna get you in some sort of legal trouble.

619
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,039
You're calling the game.

620
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,799
Speaker 4: You can't pick me like you got mega tigers like

621
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,759
Moscone and sitting in that chair picking the Baylor Bears.

622
00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:58,559
Speaker 2: Oh my god, not me.

623
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,759
Speaker 3: Just doing a classic negging technique, you know, just just

624
00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:05,960
just tell them they, you know, treat him like dirt.

625
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,480
They stick to you like mud. So I was trying

626
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:15,200
to do okay anyway, I said my piece. Y'all can

627
00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:18,359
y'all can keep it up. Just know I think you're

628
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,160
all dumb as hell.

629
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 4: Just think I think you're a very smart, intelligent chat.

630
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,720
I appreciate your interaction every single day. You're really I mean,

631
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:29,799
you're the backbone of the show, so we appreciate it.

632
00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:38,200
I mean, you got Hunt Palmers, Sicken Bears in the chat.

633
00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: I'm eight and five by lsu picks. Jake is nine

634
00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:45,920
and four yeah, great, one better.

635
00:31:46,839 --> 00:31:48,519
Speaker 4: If you can add if you can add an inch,

636
00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:51,720
everybody do it. That's true, Bradleydale. Pivotto always told us

637
00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:55,000
that that's true. What I do not put tomatoes in

638
00:31:55,039 --> 00:32:01,400
my gumbo. Guys, shut up, damn it.

639
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:03,559
Speaker 2: So let's just come back.

640
00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:05,519
Speaker 4: Look, let's just go to break. Let's go to break.

641
00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:08,480
When we come back, let's make fun of Hunt some more.

642
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:11,680
I'm sure he did something. I mean also like including

643
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:15,119
the take that he had that Arizona State didn't belong

644
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:21,839
and he was talking about Alabama, South Carolina they certainly belong.

645
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,920
They also Belama. Bad day for the SEC boys. All Right,

646
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,160
I said my piece, you can young keep it coming.

647
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,960
Whatever more Off the bench coming up.

648
00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:48,599
Speaker 1: Next Off the Bench, Welcome back to more sports talk.

649
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,279
What's some other stuff mixed in off the bench with

650
00:32:51,359 --> 00:32:53,880
hester at Bob all right?

651
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:59,359
Speaker 3: Uh, welcome back to OTB final thoughts and elgi here

652
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,400
because obviously, I mean, we during every commercial break, we're

653
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,799
just talking about Arizona State and Texas, so we we

654
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:08,960
we have to get there eventually, but we haven't emptied

655
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,359
the bag on the Tigers yet. And this we had

656
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,039
last time talking about a l s U team before

657
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:15,119
he entered the long dark of the off season, and

658
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,440
we're talking about the portal and projections and springball and whatnot.

659
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:25,599
Speaker 2: So I don't mind leaning into the game a bit here. Also,

660
00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:29,559
some some other dues. Shut up. Yeah, it's okay, it's okay.

661
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,200
Look shut up.

662
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,279
Speaker 4: I'll get him back on our side. He went to

663
00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:36,759
the dark side. No, that's not just a little bit.

664
00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:44,200
Handy picked two. I don't mean that to throw Hanny.

665
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,319
He picked Baylor too. I'm almost positive I don't.

666
00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:54,039
Speaker 2: Mean it was Yeah, I don't want to. I'm just

667
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:59,200
saying it's supposed to be the expert. Jimmy. Okay, here

668
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,200
we go. You thought that Bayley and beat You can't

669
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,559
do this again. We can't do this again.

670
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 4: They don't have a single person that looks like Traded

671
00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:11,400
is Green. They don't have a single person that runs

672
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,280
like Chris Hilton Junior. You think they got anybody with

673
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,880
the ball skills of an Aaron Anderson.

674
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,199
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna sit back and hide from this. On

675
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,000
Hunt Staff Picks and when I hosted for you guys

676
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,079
on Monday, I also picked the Baylor Bears. Are you no,

677
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:27,960
I'm I'm serious.

678
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 8: I did I didn't answer the email because I was

679
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:32,159
on VAC.

680
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,519
Speaker 2: But am I the only son of a gun? Yeah?

681
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 6: Building that you were, you were one hundred the same.

682
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 7: And look, it's it's one of those things like you

683
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,239
can say I took the.

684
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:43,039
Speaker 6: Cowards way out.

685
00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 7: I absolutely did, because in my head, I'm like, oh,

686
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,760
Lsu is gonna win this game. But I was like,

687
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:50,760
it makes more sense on air to pick the Baylor Bears.

688
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 6: So that's what I did.

689
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:54,599
Speaker 2: We were just doing a classicnique. Sure, guys, So I

690
00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:56,360
mean that, Yeah, I did.

691
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 6: I took the coward's way out and it backfired on me.

692
00:34:58,519 --> 00:34:59,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't.

693
00:34:59,159 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 3: I'm not i' I ain't go down this Uh, I

694
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,559
can't go down this road. Why anymore? Uh?

695
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,199
Speaker 2: The tea does not stand for Trader, Trader, Bob and Tvalve. Guys,

696
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,480
that's that's that's not true. Yeah, I was.

697
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 4: I was very upset when I saw that my brethren,

698
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,079
my partner in crime, my co host.

699
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 2: Well, then I didn't pick els you for a thirteenth time. Yeah.

700
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 4: Now in the games that you picked Lsu, I mean,

701
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,360
which one was crazy?

702
00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 2: None?

703
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,639
Speaker 3: But my point is I can I can lay out

704
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,199
my logic for why I thought they were gonna win

705
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,440
all twelve games, and they.

706
00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 2: Lost four of them. It's not great pitch just not

707
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,480
even gets the spread.

708
00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:43,679
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, you still though you bet money one,

709
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:45,679
you're probably making money, you.

710
00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 2: Think, Yeah, maybe, I don't know. I don't think so.

711
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,840
So I'm definitely not gonna finish eight and five.

712
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,679
Speaker 4: All jokes aside, because I'm still I just feel betrayed.

713
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:59,360
I'll tell you this, being on the side sideline like pregame,

714
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,400
I think you've you've heard me talk about this before.

715
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,280
So in twenty nineteen, you know, different game obviously what

716
00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:08,840
it meant, but still so twenty nineteen, l Shit's about

717
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,199
to play Oklahoma. Yeah, And I remember sitting on the

718
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,880
sideline talking with some coaches for LSU and they said,

719
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,400
oh man, they looked smaller on tape, but they're tiny.

720
00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:21,559
We're about to roll them. That That was a quote

721
00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:24,960
from an actual position coach. Go on the sideline for

722
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,280
this Texas Bowl teams are both out there, they're warming up.

723
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:34,280
There was an LSU coach that said, basically paraphrasing, they're tiny,

724
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,159
We're about to have some success.

725
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

726
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,119
Speaker 4: So that gave me really like a lot of confidence

727
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,920
being there, being on the you know, the field level

728
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,280
because it's interesting the right because the size difference is

729
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,840
not unlike what you saw in Texas Arizona State.

730
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,039
Speaker 3: Not yet the small guy in that matchup managed to

731
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,119
damn near knockout Goliath.

732
00:36:57,199 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

733
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 4: And when I say size, I don't necessarily mean you know,

734
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,079
just big tall. I'm just talking about you know, arm

735
00:37:05,199 --> 00:37:07,880
size and arm length and and just body type and

736
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,239
just some some different things.

737
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: In the lines.

738
00:37:10,119 --> 00:37:12,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, just look at the lines. Yeah, and you could

739
00:37:12,559 --> 00:37:14,360
tell that LSU was going to have. Now, it doesn't

740
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,360
always win you the game, but yeah it was. It

741
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,840
was definitely a different looking pregame warm up.

742
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,599
Speaker 2: So well.

743
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,679
Speaker 3: Even jv SR, who I had the pleasure of meeting

744
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,440
at Whiskey and Wine, says, uh, it's time to watch Murphy,

745
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,000
Sam and Jody because the tea bups pick.

746
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:36,559
Speaker 2: You're happy. You probably like that. I do, because they're awesome.

747
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 3: Even though now that it's on Christmas season, I probably

748
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,840
won't be listening to as much, uh as as much

749
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:44,280
for sure?

750
00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 2: Okay, real quick on wit weeks.

751
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 3: The injury sucks, but it's not like imperiently next seasons

752
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,519
already better than it could have been.

753
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I could like it's it's it's something got

754
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,639
when he went down to there's a lot of ls there.

755
00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:02,039
I mean it went quiet.

756
00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, But the real story there is the team all

757
00:38:05,519 --> 00:38:10,440
coming out and so clearly showing what he means to

758
00:38:10,519 --> 00:38:13,320
the team, the entire team getting off of the sideline

759
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,639
to go wish kind of the heartbeat of the defense

760
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:19,039
and their brother well uh And I loved.

761
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 2: A Rivershery quote where or tweet where.

762
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: She was like, how does wit Weeks manage to look

763
00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:27,039
so charismatic even after getting carted off with a with

764
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:30,000
a like in an air cast, like he still just

765
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:34,559
looked so good looking, like oh man, oh damn, oh man,

766
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:35,440
this sucks.

767
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 4: He kind of honestly, he actually kind of had a

768
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,880
quote like that apparently like when he was on the

769
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,800
cart some guys I'm trying to exactly I'm trying to

770
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,320
it was something like that. It was like, man, I

771
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,719
never been through some pain like that. That didn't feel good.

772
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,599
It was like one of his quiet but he was

773
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,639
smiling as he said it. Yeah, yes, I mean that's

774
00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:01,400
a guy. And you could tell like it it affected

775
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,679
his brother West Weeks because I'm I'm yeah, I'm sure

776
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:05,480
he thought like we all did, oh, man, this is

777
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,320
an a cl and then he saw him grabbing his

778
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:08,760
ankle like that.

779
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 3: Man, this made me feel Okay. See I never thought

780
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,360
Achilles for some reason.

781
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'm a thousand feet away from it

782
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,599
in the booth and they weren't getting in, but I

783
00:39:16,679 --> 00:39:18,599
just saw him. I had the binoculars out and I

784
00:39:18,599 --> 00:39:20,280
saw him grabbing the ankle. I'm like, oh, man, I

785
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,280
don't I don't like where he's grabbing it. First, but

786
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:23,880
then I saw a smile in his face.

787
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, not that all right.

788
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 3: I don't think when people do the Achilles, you see

789
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,840
that ghost white terror.

790
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see the blood drained from their face.

791
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 4: And not even necessarily from the pain, but just knowing

792
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,360
what it's going to take for you to come back.

793
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it's the worse. But so it looks like,

794
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:40,920
whit's gonna be fine. But it's located ankle.

795
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 4: He'll, you know, require I think I think a minor

796
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,760
little surgery. And look, if i'm lsu with you ain't

797
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,119
coming out here for spring practice?

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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench.

825
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Speaker 6: Me praises sheldy apt I need to see you and

826
00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:18,239
feel you next to me.

827
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Speaker 2: What hadding?

828
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,599
Speaker 3: Y'all welcome back to O t B. Closing out hour

829
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,880
number one of the show. We'll kick it off of

830
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,079
the playoffs. I guess we can get into the Saints

831
00:41:28,119 --> 00:41:31,440
maybe a bit at some point today, although there's there's.

832
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 2: One Saint silver lining. Uh.

833
00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 3: Now, we didn't do a show, well, we weren't here

834
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,079
on Monday. Taylor, what did you? What did you did

835
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:42,519
you actually did y'all talk about? I mean, I guess

836
00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:44,440
you had to. Did y'all talk to Saint Traders?

837
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: Oh?

838
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah yeah, I U led with the recap.

839
00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:50,679
Speaker 7: Dev came on, we chatted the rest of the season,

840
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,440
and uh, that's what you put in the dock and

841
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,559
like me and Dev talked about that exact thing, like

842
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,360
you're playing spoiler.

843
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 6: To one of your two biggest rivals.

844
00:41:58,079 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, so one of them, like the power of their

845
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:02,039
season is entirely in your hands.

846
00:42:02,159 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

847
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 3: So if you beat Tampa, Atlanta goes or does Atlanta

848
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:06,239
have to.

849
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 6: Win Atlanta because they have that tie breaker? Why he's

850
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:09,679
over at Tampa.

851
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 3: So if you beat Tampa on Sunday, the Falcons go

852
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,599
to the playoffs. If you lose Tampa on Sunday, uh.

853
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 2: The Buds go to the playoffs.

854
00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:20,599
Speaker 3: So either way, you get to end one of your

855
00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:24,159
rival season and most probably you will.

856
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,079
Speaker 2: Lose and then the Falcons don't go.

857
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 3: So it's even better, right, like, because you would ideally

858
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,559
probably want to pick Atlanta season being ruined over that

859
00:42:31,639 --> 00:42:35,079
of Tampa Bay and you will probably lose to Tampa Bay.

860
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:37,079
But yeah, if you're looking for silver linings as a

861
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:42,280
Saints fan in a completely lost year, well, uh, maybe that's.

862
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: What it is.

863
00:42:43,639 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 4: And I can I invite everybody to join the the

864
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,119
Bush League Bolts during the playoffs.

865
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, absolutely. I always cheer for them from AFAR

866
00:42:51,519 --> 00:42:54,840
thanks to our relationship. Yeah, just you know, just come

867
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:55,239
all over.

868
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: I mean, the Cowboys aren't there, obviously, the Saints aren't there.

869
00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:01,639
We'll see if the being up to ten and six,

870
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,960
huh yeah, yeah, there's I mean, there's a way that

871
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,840
they can play Houston in the first round. A couple

872
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,599
of different scenarios play out. I think that would benefit them.

873
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,599
That would behoove them. If you will, I'm gonna miswork

874
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:14,599
that day if they if that does happen, I'm gonna

875
00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:17,360
go over there and watch that one. But uh yeah,

876
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,239
the Bengals, maybe they get in. That would be an

877
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,159
exciting team certainly to watch with the way Joe and

878
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:23,679
Jamar and that crew are playing. Uh you know, with

879
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,639
the Commanders being in, certainly gonna be rooting for them.

880
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 2: Over in the NFC, Taylor.

881
00:43:28,199 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 3: Why don't you give me a give me a rundown

882
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:34,599
of the kind of playoff the spots that are still

883
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:36,199
up for grabs and.

884
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 2: Seeding too, like, maybe what has to happen good.

885
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,519
Speaker 6: But I can tell you right now they're on the

886
00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:42,400
outside looking in.

887
00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:45,639
Speaker 2: They they don't control their unders. No, they gotta have

888
00:43:45,679 --> 00:43:46,679
the Jets beat the Dolphins.

889
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 7: They gotta have the Jets beat the Dolphins. Somebody else

890
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,800
has to lose and they have to win.

891
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 4: So they're no, no, no, the Colts already lost, okay, Culture nine,

892
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,519
so they're done. The Dolphins have to lose to the Jets,

893
00:43:58,599 --> 00:44:01,039
and then of course the Bronz have to lose to

894
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:02,239
the Chiefs.

895
00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:06,599
Speaker 7: Yes, so okay, if the season ended today, the Broncos

896
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:08,760
would have the seven seed in the playoffs.

897
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 6: They would be in and the Bucks would be in

898
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:13,840
if the playoffs ended today.

899
00:44:14,199 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 7: Right now, it's Chiefs one, Bills two Ravens, three Texans,

900
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,719
four Steelers, five Chargers six, with that seven spot still

901
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,719
up for grabs. And then in the NFC it's Lions one,

902
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,000
but that could change because they play the Viking, so

903
00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:30,400
the winner if that game is going to get the

904
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:35,079
one seed. Eagles two Rams, three Commanders, six Packers, seven

905
00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:37,119
Bucks right now at eight, but that could change for

906
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:37,800
the loss.

907
00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:38,280
Speaker 2: Of the Saints.

908
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 3: Please Lord, let the Bengals make it and let Sean

909
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,679
Payton and the Broncos blow it. That would make me

910
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,119
so happy losing three in a row the Broncos at

911
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:48,840
the end of the year, scream.

912
00:44:48,559 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 4: Sean Oh my gosh, I loved just watching him.

913
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: Have to watch the Bengals win.

914
00:44:56,519 --> 00:44:59,599
Speaker 1: M off the bench,