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Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied to
come off the bench. Hour two of Off the Bench
Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in our number two here on a Thursday
edition of Off the Bench. Guys, we got us an update.
We left the studio for our number one. Send a
text saying I said, h'mb a you up text the
guys we hear. The response I got was we're on
the way. We're hurrying. I think they're in the hallway
right now, changing into their Halloween caush, it's not them. Okay,
never mind, somebody we are rumbling. There was a disturbance
in the hallway. Landra went to go check it out.
I was too scared. I sent her to go do it.
But look, we are rocking and rolling here in hour
number two. If you're just tuned in on YouTube, it's
it's Halloween dress up day. You're on off the Bench
because Jake and Matt obviously over remote every Friday at rouses.
Speaker 4: I'm Jason, here's the mask.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, and maybe maybe maybe during the Munchie segment.
I'll put it on when we're not talking so much.
Speaker 5: Uh, someone was wondering if that's real or fake blood
on your shirt?
Speaker 4: Why would I give Why would I give that information out?
Why would I not it's fake blood?
Speaker 5: Did I already what the people want to know?
Speaker 4: Did I already have it at home? Yes?
Speaker 3: I did not have to go buy anything that I
have on today. I already had fake blood. Why did
I have fake blood?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I love Halloween and we dress up every year for
my family's Halloween party.
Speaker 4: Also, they were lacking this year. First, You'll love this
a lot real.
Speaker 5: Quick because I just thought of it.
Speaker 6: It was funny, like I walked out there and it's
Taylor Reina, who works in sales, and then Kate wasn't
who I'm sure I don't know who Kate is. I
walk out there and they're like talking, and I just
peeked out and they looked at me like what.
Speaker 5: I was like, where I'm in my Halloween costume? I
don't know.
Speaker 3: It's better than them looking at you like, oh, that's
totally normal, right, she does this so for Halloween, I mean,
we by far had the best costume, but in our
credit we put the most effort into it.
Speaker 4: Sister sends us a text a week before she was
in New York.
Speaker 3: Guys, we we we didn't. We didn't dress off this year.
I'm like, okay, my parents had.
Speaker 5: She told me she wasn't gonna dress up, and that.
Speaker 3: Was true, by the way, Like she did not and
my parents had a great costume. It was my dad
was Bill Belichick, your mom was Jordan.
Speaker 4: My mom was Jordan. Here's the problem. My dad had
to work late that night, so your mom was just Jordan.
Speaker 3: My mom showed up dressed this Jordan with no Bill Belichick,
so she just had like a black wig onto the
sparkly dress.
Speaker 4: She's like, Bill Belichick was supposed to be here, but
he's not.
Speaker 3: It was objectively really funny. But yeah, didn't go quite
according to plan. But uh no, we did great.
Speaker 5: We had the I'm disappointed in the Sharp family.
Speaker 3: This year is a little bit rough. Like my sister
just got back from VAK. Dad found out he had
well we in fairness, we moved the party. So it
was supposed to be this Friday night on Halloween. We
moved it to Sunday, so his work schedule got kind
of screwed up. He wasn't sure when he was supposed
to be off. My sister had just gotten back in
from vacation like four days before, so I mean, I
get it. I had to get painted for about an
hour and a half. That took about an hour and
a half to get done. But look today, Jason over here,
we got Mia Wallace or Mina Kime. I haven't figured
out which one she is. I think it's Mia Wallace
because she is. I was confused when the show started.
You showed up and I was like, are you mean
a come for me ESPN And you were like, no,
A MEA Wallace makes a lot more sense. Yeah, it
makes a lot more sense. So Alandra over here, Mia Wallace.
It would have been great if we all could have
done the same theme. But honestly, they say pat the chest.
That'sld us. We kind of put it off. A Laundra
actually reminded us on Tuesday, like, yo, we doing this
or not?
Speaker 5: Reminded y'all a handful of times.
Speaker 3: Well, the final reminder Tuesday, and at that point we
were like, oh, and then with them having to go
miss the first hour of the show, what do we
think they are?
Speaker 5: I feel like they're still at the facility. They said
they're on their way.
Speaker 3: But I think, what do we think they are? Like,
are they showing up? I gotta fill on one of
them is not gonna be dressed up. Unfortunately, we met yeah, yesterday,
Like Jake was all about it yesterday. Matt's like, I'll
throw something together. We'll do a quick change. I was like,
m we'll see or Matt'll be like something that just
requires every day closed. He'd be like, no, I'm this,
We'll see okay. Before we went to break to end
our number one there, we mentioned that a big time
name in the world of college football has thrown his
name into the ring to become LSU's next head coach,
and it is former LSU National Championship head coach Edwards rot.
He joined Unsportsmanlike on ESPN Radio yesterday morning. Actually comes
on right before us. Actually a pretty good show and listen
to it every morning. He joined the show, you know,
to talk about the world of college football. Obviously, the
LSU head coach at opening was brought up and he
was asked point blank, would be would you ever consider
returning LSU? Orgeron's response, I'd love to. Are you kidding me?
I'm only one phone call away. I just got to
get in my truck and I'd be there today. There
was a little bit of back in and then Evan Cohen,
one of the hosts of the show, added, Okay, we'll
take head coach out of the equation. Would you ever
consider coming back being an assistant? He said, yeah, I'd
consider it. I still love LSU, still love my house
in Ben Rouge, loved working with coach Miles being the
D line coach. He said, I want to get back
into coaching, so for sure, I'd consider it, no doubt. Okay,
Edwzron is not going to be the head coach of LSHIP.
That's not happening. I know that you know the story
kind of caught fire yesterday.
Speaker 4: Not happening. Appreciate what you.
Speaker 3: Did, Ed, Thanks, but no thanks, but to take it
a step further. I don't know if I want him
here as an assistant coach, not because I don't think
he's a good D line coach.
Speaker 4: What coach that you hire is it.
Speaker 3: Gonna want to have it orizr On on their staff and
take the name it Olazeron out of it. What coach
that gets hired is going to want to bring in
a coach that was a head coach and won a
national championship at this very school and have that on
your weight, on your shoulders, have that breathing down your neck.
Speaker 4: Anytime you'll lose the game.
Speaker 3: Hey, they gonna fire him and ed Orgron gonna become
the interim head coach again. Who's gonna want to do that? So, like,
I appreciate it. I appreciate his passion for LSU. I
don't see a world where any coach that gets hired
hires Ed Orgron as an assistant. I just don't see
it happening. And look, I see people in the chat
mention it. And you know, Lane Kiffin's name was brought up.
Lane might I don't.
Speaker 4: Think it's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Look Edorgron was the perfect coach for LSU at that
particular time. It ran its course. So let's say Lane does.
I don't know if he is the right fit for
LSU anymore. I appreciate the passion. I know there's a
lot of people here that still support him. Remember, like
it was a little messy, a little messy towards the
end of his tenure. Here is the LSU head coach
I don't know if you want to bring that back.
I don't know if you can bring that back. I'm
gonna say no. I'm gonna say no to ed Orsron Again.
I appreciate the ashion Elandra not hiss head coach. I
know you mentioned strength and conditioning. Anyway, a head coach
that gets hired brings back ed Arsan.
Speaker 6: I can see it happening in like some sort of role,
not like a huge one, but maybe in like or
an analyst. Yeah, I can I can see it, or
at least somebody reaching out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if they will though. I mean
that that is a you know, national championship coach at
that school.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's a great position coach. Like he's
a great D line coach, he's a great recruiter. I
think he'd be a great analyst. I just don't know
if the coach will do it or if they should
do it. There's a possibility. I'm just not sure. But look,
it's it's one of those things that his name is
gonna keep getting brought up, and not just at LSU.
I mean he's been linked to the Oregon State job.
I think that's a great spot for Edo. That program
right now was winless when they fired their head coach.
Orsron's proven that he's a good interim and he can
get in there and maybe turn things around quickly at
least establish an aggressive culture.
Speaker 4: That's one thing about ed ors Rock right.
Speaker 3: So people will say, oh, he got complacent after the
national championship. Maybe his teams were always physical, always physical though,
even when he was losing all those games his last
two years here at LSU, his teams were always physical.
They never got beat up, they never got punched in
the mouth. So like a team like Oregon State, yes,
you could use that. I think a team like Virginia
Tech would be great for ed Orsroan. I know, you
know there's been mentioned a jimbo Fisher because he's from
West Virginia and Ryan Silverfield's the name has been brought
up for Virginia Tech as well, but iron fits there.
I don't I don't know if LAS use the right
spot for him anymore. I think you would do well here.
I just don't know if it would happen. Would I
welcome it, eh? I don't know, but I I just
don't know if that happens, all right, here's what we'll do.
We'll try to stay on time a little bit better
this hour. We'll take an early break. See if jac
and matter back on the other side. If not, we're
talking New Orleans Saints. Look, trade season's coming up, the
deadlines approaching. Everyone's wondered are the Saints buyers or sellers
coming up in the trade deadline?
Speaker 4: Some say they're sellers.
Speaker 3: And a really interesting name has been brought up because
I don't know how big of a trade market he
has anymore in New Worlds. So we'll take a quick break.
We'll come back and on the other side, we're talking
to New Orleans Saints next year.
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Speaker 1: See who from the locker room to the Airwaves gets
off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Being good God, pulp fiction. It's such a good soundtrack.
Speaker 3: We listen to the pulp fiction music in honor of
uh around the Ladra villar Real dressed as mea Wallace
this morning, I went very less tasteful and did Jason
a blood all over my shirt somewhere, asking if it's
real blood.
Speaker 4: I'm not giving that information away.
Speaker 3: In the chat, someone asked if he coached the coach
a little giants is available, danny O'Shea would sit in
bad ruge. Get you want to talk about getting the
most out of your players, danny o'sha pulling the upset
against the Cowboys exactly what his team needs. And there's look,
obviously still some edors are on discussion going on, Look,
this is kind of where I ultimately land on Edorzron.
You paid on Editorzron seventeen million dollars not to coach
your football team. I don't see him coming back to
coach your team Unlesscott Woodward's gone, which if you caught
the opening of our show, he very well maybe by
the time this next week rolls around. But right now
I want to look at the New Orleans Saints a
little bit because the trade deadline's coming up in the
NFL and some names of guys on the Saints roster
has been thrown out there if possible trade candidates, look,
Pete Werner's name comes up, Alante Taylor, Carl Granderson.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: All those guys have trade value right now, There's not
very many guys on the team that do have a
lot of trade value. I think those three do. But
Espian's Jeremy Fowler yesterday says, teams I've spoken to are
under the Russian that Saints guard Caesar Ruiz might be
available at the right price.
Speaker 4: What is the right price for Caesar Ruiz? What is
his trade value? At this point?
Speaker 3: This is a guy that you spent a first round
pick one, and this was never going to work because
you drafted a guy who played center at Michigan after
you had a really good center in Eric McCoy and
said we're immediately going to move Caesar Luiz to guard.
Literally was never a fit from the time you drafted him.
But what is Caesar Reed's trade value? And what do
you realistically think you're going to get in return? Trying
to get any anything close to the draft capital you
use on Caesar rees as delusional. I mean, what would
you realistically spend on Caesar Luiz hoping to get back
some draft capital, Like that'd be like a lodger. If
I give you this stick of gum, will you trade
me your cell phone? No, it's a good stick of
gum though. We spend a lot of money on the
stick of gum.
Speaker 5: Cell phone.
Speaker 4: No, we spent a lot of money on the stick
of gum though. And I want I want my value back.
Can I have your phone?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 7: Sorry?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that's like it lost its value.
Speaker 3: It lost its value. Yes, it's pre chewed. Gum's already
been chewed up and spit out. What what are you
gonna get for Caesar Ruiz? I mean, if I'm a GM,
I don't even know if I would entertain that offer.
Maybe a sixth round pick. Maybe I'd offer a six
for him. So if I get something out of him,
And that's if I'm a team that needs a rotational piece,
I'm not. I'm not trading for Caesar Ruiz hoping he
can be a starter on my offensive line, because he
hasn't proven that. He can't listen to the AFR a
little bit yesterday and Matt brought up the PFF number
and it's it's it's shocking. Caesar UZ's PFF grade is
seventy ninth among guards not offensive lineman guards. I'm not
a math whiz, but there's only sixty four starting guards
in the NFL. That means you got about fourteen fifteen
backups that are better than the starting left guard over
there in New Orleans. I don't understand who would trade
for Caesar Ruiz. And again it says at the right price,
but you're saving a small number world at this point,
like let Caesar Reese's contract run out and just move
on from him. You're never gonna recoup any of the
draft capital you got. You're only gonna save yourself a
little bit of money by trading him. If you want
to make trades and finally get into full rebuild mode,
I'm good with that. But it's about Caesar Luiz. Carl Granderson,
I think he's he's tradable. As much as it pains
for me to say, Chase you ollng you could trade him.
I don't know if you'd want to because he's been
so good for you, But you gotta look at guys
that have draft capital. I mean, we had Nick going
on Tuesday and he was like, I think Alvin Kamara
has played his way out of being traded because he
hasn't been good lately. Part of the reason, well, he's
running behind an offensive line that Susan Ruiz is a
starter on. I mean, you have Fuag and Banks out,
you move on from any of them for in his
second year, Banks and Rookie both first round picks, Like
you're keeping those guys. We've talked about Chris Alave, who
I think as a number two. The problem is with
Chris Olave, he's the number one receiver on your team,
but he's a number two.
Speaker 4: Rashichi head I think it's three.
Speaker 3: I think Rashichi is a slot guy who could take
the top off of defenses, and he's your two. Everybody's
having to play up and they just haven't shown the
capability of doing that consistent.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: We got an update. We got us an update. Not one,
but two new gentlemen just walked in the studio. We
got mister Jacob Ester and mister Matt Flynn dressed up.
We'll let you, We'll let them explain to you what
they are. But uh, Fellas welcome back, yo, yo.
Speaker 7: So what's that? What's up? How are we doing? How
we living? What segment we guys?
Speaker 3: I was just talking about uh the second Jeremy Fowler
said that, uh, Caesar Reaves could be traded, And my
point is, no one can trade for Caesar.
Speaker 2: Who the help of trade for going to.
Speaker 7: Give an asset for old Caesar? Yeah, I don't see
that one happening.
Speaker 6: Maybe a super late round picks go back to the
old days.
Speaker 2: What's the Maybe Trump Trump the Flint Tropics semi pro
washing machine. They got trade for a washing machine.
Speaker 4: We really needed that washing machine.
Speaker 7: Really, it didn't really need people glad to be back.
Speaker 5: I need to know who y'all are.
Speaker 7: We appreciate.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to do the thing from the Yellowstone.
Speaker 4: I think I know who Matt is. That's got to
be Joe Dirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking like a Joe Dirt situation. I
could also be like, uh, I don't know. Uh, this
kind of looked like AXL Rose back in the day,
maybe a little bit more uh more Midley Crew, But yeah,
I was gonna wear like all old denim outfit, like
a like a Canadian tuxedo. So I got everything. I
got everything dinhim. The one thing I don't have is
the one thing everybody would have in his jeans.
Speaker 7: Yeah you got.
Speaker 2: Yes, I went with the short shorts, some boots.
Speaker 7: Okay, look like Carnival.
Speaker 4: We all dressed up like that. He's tell me, y'all
were dressed up like that all morning.
Speaker 7: No change in the office. Yeah, we didn't want to.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm a Carney
about that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 4: You operate the tilted world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got a pack of marbles right here.
Speaker 5: I think we're thinking, who's the uh the guy from Poison?
Speaker 4: That's Michael's log Vincent, look like somewhere.
Speaker 2: I think I could pull this hair stop. I went is?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: I went is Jason?
Speaker 4: Okay, you can't really wear this while you're hosting the show.
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Speaker 5: Holding it down.
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Speaker 7: What the teenage.
Speaker 6: Waiting and the old folks wished up.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 7: Say gold to show you damn a man. Ten they
furnished off an apartment with a room the rule box
say all right, welcome back in oh TB live on
the raise of King Studio. Glad to be back. Can't
thank Landra and Tte enough for holding it down for us.
Speaker 2: I assume crushing it. I guess what. They don't print
your They don't print your grade or your GPA on
that degree. Sure nowhere on.
Speaker 7: That degree just says general studies on that we passed.
Speaker 4: I'd give us a passing grade.
Speaker 7: Well, we appreciate it. And I don't know if you
what you know what y'all told him or whatever, But
we had a chance to go over to football ops
today and Frank Wilson reached out to us and wanted
us to be there for the morning workout before the
team goes and uh, you know for a couple of
all stay because bye week obviously, like typically they probably
already would have been on the road, but Frank wanted
to get one more work out in and we had
a group of former players over there, and we got
a chance to speak with him and got a chance
to look him in the eye and you know, just
have real conversations with him, and so really enjoyed it.
We appreciate Frank for asking us to come be a
part of that. Some great former Tigers in that building,
and I can tell you it's a team that, to
a man, whoever was up there talking, they were in
they were all into the message. And it's a team
that is still fighting, you can bet that, yep. And
a team that was still grinding this morning. And I
think they understand what the situation is. They also understand
the assignment and the opportunity that they have in front
of them to finish the season strong. So again, y'all
know what that place means to me, what it means
to Matt And so anytime that the head coach reaches
out to you and want you to be a part
of something like that, You're gonna drop everything and thankfully
we have Taylor and Landra to be able to do
something like that. So again, we appreciate y'all, but it
was it was important for us to be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell all LSU Tiger fans something that
we knew after this move was made, the transition over
to Frank Wilson being the interim head coach, I can
assure you you can be rest assured that there is
no better person at this moment in time, at this
point in the season, after what this team has kind
of gone through, They've lost and they have not played
up to their standard that they want to play. There
is not one better person in the world to step
into and lead those men right now than Frank Wilson.
It's kind of hard to put your finger on the
pulse of what everything was prior to this, where the
disconnect was, where the put your finger on what it
was that kind of led to the results on the field.
It's hard to put your finger on that because you know,
up to this point, I would say the former players
and that kind of what we saw this morning wasn't
really available, I guess to these players, and Frank Wilson
has made an effort to kind of galvanize this team
under the respect, the admiration, the love of not only
Louisiana but LSU and trying to communicate that and one
of the first things that he knew that needed to
be happened. If he wants these men to kind of
come together, they got two decisions to make, right, Yeah,
there's two. It's it's black and white.
Speaker 7: Ye are you going to quit?
Speaker 2: You fight, and you fight together and you fight with
everything you got, or you kind of start looking at
what's next, whether that's the next school, next team, what's
next in life, the NFL, whatever that is. And what
we saw today was a group of men. Now I
don't know what their record from here out is going
to show. Oh, what we saw was a group of
men and on the team support staff that had everybody's back.
And I can tell you right now what decision they've made. Now, again,
I don't know.
Speaker 7: What that was.
Speaker 2: Result on the scoreboard it's going to be yeah, but
I can tell you what decision they've made based on
what I've seen. And there's no better person that had
to step into those shoes. No one, there's no playbook
for us. There's no playbook for you lose your coach.
You've lost three games this season, you were predicted, you projected,
you were expected to be in the playoff this year.
There's no playbook on how to transition from that to
where they are now. But Frank Wilson's doing a great
job and the guy that cares. And I think the
point of having former players come back is not to
be like, yeah, look what they did, look at the
blah blah blah, look at this guy, but really just
to know that all the noise that is out there
that surrounds the program, and we've I know y'all talked
about it before we got here, the outside noise from politicians,
from fans, from other coaches, from former players. There's a
lot of noise and you can't ignore it as a player.
What they want to know is like, if you ever
put on that helmet, have you ever put on that jersey?
You got the back of the men in that building.
And I think that's what Frank wants them to know
is I guess there's a brotherhood there. Everybody's put on
the helet we're all brothers. We might not have ever met,
might not ever worked together, but we share that brotherhood.
And I think Frank just wants to know that everybody
on the outside noise, screw it. Everybody's got your back.
We're behind you, we want you to we want y'all
to be successful. I just got to know there's a
choice to me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's going to do it in a way
that LSU football's don't done for a long time in
the past as well. You know, it's all right during
the bye week, we're still working. During the bye week,
we're still going to talk about the game that just happened,
because it happened, and you got to learn from that.
Like you can't just say, oh, that game's over. We
got to move on to the next one. At some point,
you do. But you also got to learn from that game.
You had to watch that tape. You have to make
corrections off that tape. You've got to show your players
what went wrong and when it went wrong and what
can't happen again. Then also, they got after it on
Tuesday and Wednesday, you know, oh yeah, they got to
got after it. That's the first thing I heard when
we went over there was like, let did y'all did
y'all come yesterday? I's like no. On the radio, they're like,
oh man, you should have been here yesterday. Pads were
popping right, and they went a little bit old school there,
and again very easily could have after Wednesday's practice, said
all right, we'll see y'all Sunday. Bye week. Like, no,
we're gonna work out one more time as a group
before we get out of here. We're gonna have one
more you know, opportunity together. We're gonna work out, we're
gonna run, we're gonna push each other, and then well,
you know, enjoy a bye week. And so that was
good to hear. It's refreshing, like it's a place that
you have to have some of those old school mentalities.
You still got to be, you know, able to go
out there and push yourself in like and Jimbo says
this all the time, Like I want to ask him
about his time at LSU. He's like, I've been in
a lot of great places I have. He's been at Auburn,
he's been you know, Cincinnati going way back in his career,
Florida State obviously, Texas and m he said. The thing
that was noticeable in such a big attribute for us
at LSU. He said, Man, you can coach Louisiana kids
so much harder than anybody else I've ever been around.
And I was like, when we tell me, he goes,
it's just tough. It's like they've been raised tough. They've
been you know, brought up in a way and coaching
through through the high school ranks where it's not been
you know, oh you're the star player, you can do
what you want. It's been tough love. And that's not
a shot anybody that's from anywhere else, But that's when
somebody's coach a law place. He goes, you can you
can coach them. You can coach them right. They're not
going to feel sorry for themselves. They're not going to
just go in a corner and start weeping because you
coach him. He's like, no, you can get after him
and you can make them better and you can develop them.
And that's something that has always been there and you
can tell like, those are some of the things that
like Frank wants to make sure gets gets done because
it is a place where you've got to be mentally, physically, tough,
and that's the DNA of the program. So those players
have been raised and molded kind of in that style.
Speaker 2: I was from Texas though they could coach me hard.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, Jimbo started yelling to you. You're like, stop, jim.
Speaker 2: Big daddy, no, daddy, No, No, that's right man. Like
it was. It was a it was great to be back.
I know, there's been a lot said. We even talked
about it on Monday after after Brian Kelly was was
let go. That like for a long time for former players,
it felt like, you know, you could you could go.
She's kind of had to make an appoint Man. You
kind of had a lot of players that didn't necessarily
you know, wasn't Jacob, wasn't myself Like I had issues yeah,
getting there, they didn't. They felt kind of isolated from
the program. They didn't feel real welcome all the time.
Well this is a far cry from that that feeling.
So it's it's a great thing and it's an important thing.
It's an important thing for those players and uh yeah,
I'm just I'm proud of Frank Wilson and everybody on
that supportment. There wasn't a sad eye in that building.
There wasn't anybody in there feeling sorry for themselves. There
wasn't anybody in there that wasn't ready to go, I mean,
wasn't ready to go hit somebody from Alabama in the mouth.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, they got new people game planning, calling plays like
there's it's a hurdle, right, it's a big hurdle. But
I can tell you from the mental standpoint, in the
psychology standpoint, we canna be a right Yep.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to it, looking forward to seeing how
they respond. Again, you go back last time you were
in this situation, you let your coach go. Now, Coach
oh still coached that team, but you did some things
that you just hadn't done all season long. And it
was a game plan that you loved. I was like
cover zero and bringing guys from every single direction and
you had a chance to beat Alabama when you were
a three touchdown dog in their stadium. This team's better
than that team. This team has, you know, obviously, like
even right now, more things going for it than that
team did. But I want to see that kind of effort.
And again, you know, an hour and a half spending
time with them this morning, but from what I saw,
I think you're going to get that effort, and I
know that all the things that you wanted to do,
all the things that we thought. I thought I was
a ten and two football team. I was a ten
and two football team. And it's not. They've already got
three losses, right, we understand that, But you still have
all those pieces for the most part that gave you
what a lot of us thought was going to be
a ten to win season. So you got the opportunity.
I'm looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you still got the same dudes on the roster
that you did before the game, where everybody was talking
expecting you to be at a place that you have
not met. You hadn't met the expectations. You still got
the same guys. You got the right guy in front
of that team room every single day talking to you,
bringing the right attitude. So I'm so excited about seeing
what this team can do for the rest of the
season starting next week. What an opportunity. I know it's
they're gonna be underdogs. They people are gonna be counting
them out, counting LSU out, count Louisiana. Yep, guess what
Tigers are gonna show up. They're gonna have a helmet on,
they have shoulder pads and everything.
Speaker 7: Like we said yesterday, and we didn't say it. John
Dre Kirkland said it. We got eleven. We go and
go play, and that's what they're gonna go do in
Tuscaloosa coming up here. So all right, we'll step away
and we'll kind of get into some of the news cycle.
But again, we appreciate Frank Wilson, and we appreciate the
football team for reaching out to us. We enjoy getting
a chance to spend a couple of minutes there with
the caw.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess probably should answer the elefant in the
room here. We did not wear our costumes when we
went to the We just changed when we got I
did not have the wig on.
Speaker 5: Did y'all see Blake Baker?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, done.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I told him I was well done. That was
very very well done. I was gonna go like full
food man chew too, And I was like, m they're
probably already like, there's no way this guy played running
back at l s U. Like when I'm talking to him,
they're certainly not gonna believe it.
Speaker 2: If I have a food manchew because he's tiny and
he's white.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there was a lot of people
like when I got up there, they're like, oh, that's it. Wait.
I thought that guy was like on the Just the
Radio team and travels with us.
Speaker 2: I hear I see this guy speaking to us. I
thought you said he played running back or he wouldn't
like the sports stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, wait, sports science, we.
Speaker 3: Say on a little giants when he when he's looking
for coach Osha and Rick Morana shows up and he's
like a little small for a husband.
Speaker 7: Thought, yeah, oh love it, love it all right, we'll
take a break more ot B when we come back
here live from the Raisin Kine Studio. Off the bench, Well,
if anybody's you know, ever looked like they've already enjoyed
a couple of ice cold do sechis. It's Flynn right here,
right from the pockets. I bet he would delete as
many as you put in front of him right now.
But uh, Drick responsibly go for dose. It's always a
great time. I mean, what great weather we've got right now.
You get home from work, you go on your back porch,
maybe you're grilling, you're certainly chilling, and you're just enjoying
some ice cold do sechis. So it's always the perfect time,
but now is the best time to go for dose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the coolest way You've ever seen somebody open
up a bottle of beer? Like in between like flex
or arms. Teeth is dangerous. I've seen someone do the
ice socket before. You're gonna delete some beers. If you're
gonna indulge in a couple of adult bevies on Halloween,
you got some tricky treating happening. I think tomorrow man,
Jerry Gimar, if you're gonna do it while we're walking
around the neighborhood, make sure it's a do seki's. Make
sure you get an ice down and cooler, get it
in the fridge, get some cold, delicious slice limes for
that Mexican lager man. Come on, go for dose, drink responsibly.
Speaker 7: Do seqis.
Speaker 6: Soon.
Speaker 4: Hello is almost cut?
Speaker 5: All the wills of God.
Speaker 2: You're done all that.
Speaker 7: She's not so cut.
Speaker 2: We'll never get t.
Speaker 4: I never know when I come a well, what I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: File two thousand and seven Shamps purple and Gold to
the core. This is off the bench with hester and
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Speaker 7: That's a great song. What's this from?
Speaker 5: So we in pulp fiction soundtrack?
Speaker 7: That's okay, I knew it. Okay, So we've been playing.
Speaker 5: That soundtrack all morning, which is a fire soundtrack.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's really little doing all right. So again,
we appreciate y'all so much and can't thank Launder and
Tates enough. And I'm gonna keep saying that because like
that was something that Matt and I certainly wanted to
be a part of. And you know, the show is
gonna be a little a little bit different today and
since we got here, clock see be a little different whatever.
And actually I think we're kind of on times very
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One of the things that I don't I don't know
that we've really covered it like this, But this is
for me, and I'm not speaking for Matt. I'll let
Matt speak on it himself. I know there's some out
there that think that what LSU did was a knee
jerk reaction and too quick. And I do realize that
you know BK's record thirty four and fourteen and you're
five and three this year, so it's not like you
were falling off of a cliff. I do get that.
But also I actually I do appreciate the standard of
LSU football that it has gotten to. And I know,
for me, again, this is all just me. I'm not
speaking for Matt. I know that every regular season that
I was a part of, we never lost three games.
You didn't either, right, So we would have ten to
two seasons and feel disappointed and feel like it wasn't
good enough, and we would want to be better. That's
just what it is. That's what the standard of this
place is. Now. That's not for everybody. Not everybody agrees
with that, and that's fine. It's just not fine here.
You should expect to do the greatest things, not the
good things. That's what we talked about the other day.
It's like, I want the guy that's gonna attack this
job at an elite level, not great, not good, not okay,
because that's what this job deserves. You look at Tiger
Stadium on a Saturday night and how many people are
in there, and the sacrifices that they have given to
be in that stadium, to be in the number. I
know how much those tickets cost. So does Matt. We
pay for tickets. We understand driving from Shreveport to a game,
staying in a hotel, staying again the night after, and
then driving back in Monroe or wherever you're from. It's
a lot, and a lot should be expected from this program.
So I don't think it was a knee jerk reaction.
I think if you were in that stadium on Saturday night,
and again I'm gonna keep saying it, this is just
from me. I never want to see that again, as
far as somebody else leaving you behind, somebody else celebrating
on your field, somebody else taking pictures and celebrating and
doing their fight song and trying to take out I
don't ever want to see that issue again. I never
was a part of that. Matt wasn't. There's a lot
of people that weren't. And this program is a place
that I know, like the current players right now, I
think are good enough to not have that ever happen
on their tenure. So for me, if you were there,
if you had the same feelings that I did, it
was to a point of no return. It was to
a point of no return. Once that happens to you,
and was in the first time, there's no coming back
from that. Just my personal pandion, And it's not knee jerk.
It wasn't the first time. And you could tell the
vibe and you could tell what direction it was going
in and you can tell it wasn't all going in
the same direction. Now, there's some people in that building
that absolutely gave you everything they had. And when we
just went across the street and talked to with them,
I told them so, Aj Halsey, love you to Marcus Cooley,
love it mon, sort of Lane, love it right. Would
have loved to see what weeks out there. I talked
to before the Vanderbilt game. Think I had tears in
his eyes because he couldn't play in that game. I
talked to him before the A and M game, same situation.
He's just over there looking at Texas A and M
wanting to be out there.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: So there's guys that it means everything too. But to
say that it was too fast or not warranted, there's
a lot of things that kind of led to what
happened last Saturday. But for whatever reason and however you
got there, I don't ever want to be a part
of something like that again, because this place went a
long time where it never had anything like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's very that's very well said. And like
something like this happens, it's there's no there's no it's
not like a knee jerk reaction that you're gonna fire somebody.
Uh like if you were in, if you were on
that sideline, if you're if you if you felt what
that stadium felt like. But in order for something like
that to happen so quickly, there does have to be
things that lead to that. There does have to be
people that decision makers and a feel around the program
that of different things that have happened or not happened
that you don't like or don't think or the right
move or you know there's something in the program you
you know, you can't put your finger on it. But
if they're win, it's fine. If you're winning, you can
overlook a lot of the things. But when you get
the feeling like you did, if you get embarrassed at
home like you did, like what Jake said, like all
these people are sacrificing to go and the product, that's
like even in the South Carolina game, like I was
sitting there watching it, I'm like, yeah, like we won,
which is great. I don't want to be spoiled, but
there's just there's just something it's like, Man, this isn't
fun to watch this. You know this this product right now,
and I don't. I can't. You can't put your finger
on what it is. Yeah, we can break down the film.
We can look at x's and no's. We can see
deficiencies here and there on plays and you know, a
linebacker that should have you know, scraped over the top,
a guy that was open, or whatever. That happens in
all football, what happens at every play. I don't care
if you go undefeated in the NFL, you're gonna have
fifty plays where someone does something wrong, oh or got
beat one on one. That happens, and we call it
out and we're not calling out individual people. We're just
talking football with y'all. When we call it out, we're
not because it happens, win or lose. But there's an attitude,
there's a there's a character of a team, there's a
character of a program, an organization that was missing. And
I think it was a lot of build up and
they were just waiting for one thing, to one little
crack in the dam to break it open. And that
happened in a big way. It wasn't a bit, It
wasn't a small crack either. It was a gash that
happened to you this past Saturday, and so we've now
turned over a coach, we got a new staff, and
I just told you last same and Frank Wilson. If
you are worried about anything, you shouldn't because Frank Wilson
is a person person to step in right now in
this moment. And no, I don't think it was a
knee jerk reaction. Now you can look at the money
and be like, all right, well, it's like kind of surprise.
It might have been, you know, reactionary for to like
try to find that money, but from it making that decision,
making the call, once you knew you had it, had
the backing to do it, I think it became an
easy decision.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This Look, there's good people over there, man, there's good
people that want to fight.
Speaker 7: And we just saw a lot of them. And it's
not spoiled. It's not spoiled. It's demanding excellence and it's
working at an elite level. It's not spoiled, working at
what the common main goal is every single day when
you take this job, it is family one A and
it's LSU football one B. And it has to be
that way. There's no negotiat That's what it is. This
is not for every one. And so that's why when
the next coach comes in, that's why I'm not kidding.
I want to be in the room because I promise
you in five minutes, I can tell Macintel two it
was five minutes. And I'll tell you if you're about
what this life is about, if you're ready for these challenges,
if you're ready to accept what the demands are here,
and the demands are justified because of everything that you
get and everything that everyone sacrifices to give it to you.
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