Speaker 1: Let's all start to you to present off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob aberf the bitch.
Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in our number three of O tb.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna do a couple of things that we
typically would do on a Friday here. So here's you know,
here's kind of the plan the layout of our three. Uh.
Here to start off our three, we're gonna play what's
the Ticket? Then we're gonna give you our final Rams
Saints prediction, and then we'll put together our pontoon parlay
and then we'll finish it up like we always do
with ask the bench.
Speaker 4: So T Bob, you're ready to play what's the ticket? Sir?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. We need some like game music
we do.
Speaker 4: We always always put the prices right with us.
Speaker 5: Now it's time to play your favorite games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that would be that would be an intro.
Speaker 4: Okay, do shary production.
Speaker 2: What's the Ticket? All right with you, guster, And here's
your host, Jake Kester.
Speaker 3: All right, with as much as what your office has
going on right now. I feel like you know a
lot about finances, so hopefully you can get you can
get the ticket prices right this week because you know,
Rivalry Week a lot of a lot of big tickets,
lots of big big tickets here this weekend. All right,
Just a quick reminder to our listeners, Uh, the highest
ticket and the lowest ticket in the country. It has
to involve at least one top twenty five team. We
go around the room, we give you our guests, and
we typically start with lowess.
Speaker 4: So let's go ahead and keep that trend going.
Speaker 3: Is the lowest ticket in the country, UTSA shout out,
Peter Burns at Army? Is it Maryland at Penn State?
Is it Memphis at TWU lane? Is it Notre Dame
at USC CAL at s MU or Kansas State at
Iowa State? So one more time, UTSA at Army, Maryland
at Penn State, Memphis at TWU lane, Notre Dame at USC,
CAL at SMU, or Kansas State at Iowa State.
Speaker 7: So I'm between two lane and UTSA Army.
Speaker 4: But I think I'm gonna go with yeah.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, too loud, No, man, I think you
might be hitting a little bit here. I think cal
SMU could be really low, but SMU is rich, right,
so I'm with you a lot of dude, That's why
I can't go with him. Last, I think the answer
has to be UTSA Army. That was graphically that's a
heavy lift, like, yeah, it's got it, and you're.
Speaker 8: Coming off a blowout Laws. Everybody's looking forward to Army Navy.
They don't really care about this game.
Speaker 7: That's fair, right, So that's yes the answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the answer.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll go from highest to lowest here, Okay,
go highest to lowest. Coming in at eighty dollars, Notre
Dame at USC, coming in at twenty three dollars, col
at SMU.
Speaker 6: Went eighty to twenty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coming up at twenty dollars, UTSA at Army, Oh
what at fourteen dollars? Kansas State at Iowa State and
for two.
Speaker 6: Dollars two dollars.
Speaker 3: Two dollars to George WS Memphis at two lane.
Speaker 5: That's why, man, that's two dollars blonder.
Speaker 4: I mean, Memphis is a good team. Two lane is
a great team. What do we do anyhow?
Speaker 7: We fell off last last week, but I still got
my fastball.
Speaker 5: Guys, that's not how you're gonna keep Darian Mensa Greenway
Fans like you better be packing out Yeoman this weekend.
In fact, second until take this time to talk on it, Jake.
But like two Lane, priority number one not even close.
This offseason has to be keeping Darian Mensa.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Here's a redshirt freshman quarterback that is currently sixth in
the nation in terms of quarterback rating yep yards port
attempt He's tied for a third at nine point six.
So it's not like he's just checking down all the time.
He's got what is it, eighteen touchdowns just four interceptions
like he we he is all going to get paid
this offseason.
Speaker 2: Two Lane must protect him at all costs.
Speaker 5: And that.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if I'm.
Speaker 5: A fan, you got to pack out Yeomen and and
you gotta go sport the two dollars two.
Speaker 7: Kind of disrespectful.
Speaker 3: Like I said, like Memphis is good, tu Lane's good
to Lane still has it like an outside opportunity. Now,
I know the games on Thanksgiving and so that I
probably should have you know, mentioned that, But still, I mean.
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving Day game, that's fun. I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Actually, what else you're gonna do that.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what you know what mine like?
You know the meme and saying like an unpopular opinion. Yeah,
do you know what mine is?
Speaker 5: It's it's I like college football and Thanksgiving better than NFL.
Speaker 8: I like college football on any day better than the NFL.
I don't think that's crazy at all.
Speaker 5: I miss the Egg Bowl that it won't be on
Thanksgiving anymore.
Speaker 8: I even liked when LSU played the day after Thanksgiving
when it was LSU Arkansas.
Speaker 6: I don't even like the we play on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I agree the NFL games are gonna be Bears Lions.
I'll watch that obviously, Giants Cowboys won't watch a snap,
he'll be background fodder.
Speaker 4: And then Dolphins Packers. I'll watch that for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh, Dolphins Packers be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Beary's lines be okay, I mean Dan Campbell.
Speaker 3: Let's go, uh those tickets by the way, one hundred
and ninety eight dollars to get into Ford Field, so
those fans are fired up? All right, Let's go to
the highest ticket in the country again, involving at least
one top twenty five team. Is it Oregon State at
Boise State? Is it Oklahoma State at Colorado? Is it
Georgia Tech at Georgia, Michigan at Ohio State, Tennessee at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 4: Are Texas at Texas A and M?
Speaker 2: Oh god tex Texas A? M.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they then played in a number of years. I
was thinking Ohio Michigan until.
Speaker 7: You said, but I think Texas, Texas A and M
both big money, both fans are going to be out there. Yeah,
I think it has to be that one.
Speaker 4: Did you.
Speaker 3: Earlier Georgie Georgia at No, No, okay, somebody said that,
But no, it's in.
Speaker 4: It's in at them.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go Texas.
Speaker 8: Did you just see a couple of weeks ago all
the students, like two or three weeks ago at A
and M had to like apply for tickets for this game.
Speaker 6: They were standing in about a foot and a.
Speaker 8: Half of water in the parking lot because it was
flooded over there, and they waited for three hours.
Speaker 6: Like those fans are fired up.
Speaker 7: Dan said, rivalry, that's like getting renewed, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's deep. So yeah, it's a good game.
Speaker 3: I left the Iron Bowl off, but it would not
have been the highest ticket. In fact, it would have
been somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2: So and it's got a literal cult.
Speaker 4: That's the incrazy. All right.
Speaker 3: Let's go from lowest to highest, coming in at fifty
nine dollars.
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech at Georgia.
Speaker 3: Next on this list at seventy six dollars, Oregon State
at Boise State.
Speaker 2: That's impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at ninety three dollars, Oklahoma State at Colorado.
Speaker 2: That's surprising.
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty five dollars. Michigan at Ohio State.
So that's that's been that's been a game that typically
during this week, during this game that I've played, I've
played for like five years, that's typically number one.
Speaker 2: So is that not even second this week?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Oh, well, it would be ahead of the iron ball.
Speaker 3: The iron ball right now one hundred and thirty one dollars,
so would be ahead of that.
Speaker 2: Hate to see it, hate to see it.
Speaker 5: Just what I mean, how many losses does the iron
ball have combined this year?
Speaker 9: Like eighteen.
Speaker 4: Nine?
Speaker 2: Not a good game, all right?
Speaker 3: Coming in second on this list Tennessee at Vanderbilt two
hundred and forty seven dollars.
Speaker 5: So does make sense, actually, right, smaller stadium Tennessee playoff
hopes literally on the line. Two years ago, Tennessee fans
are in this exact situation against South Carolina.
Speaker 2: They blow it. It keeps him out the fourteen playoff.
Speaker 5: And Peter Burns had an interesting treet today where he
was looking at the payoffs that you get from making
a twelve team playoff and literally there's about ten million
dollars on the line for Tennessee Athletic to win this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but based off, yeah, what you get for the
playoff concessions for a home like all those things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's don't give Peter too much credit.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure somebody did that for him, Like
ESPN Stats and Analytics probably put that together for him.
Speaker 2: You know. Oh, I mean, look, he's still tweeted. He's
still tweeted.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, let's go to the highest game. Everybody
got a right surprise surprise Lance Harvard No Texas, Texas
A and M.
Speaker 4: Five hundred and twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Dollars cheapest tickets, cheapest and y'all have all seen that stadium.
Speaker 4: There's some Yeah, you know, you got to.
Speaker 6: Go to Kyle Field in College Station.
Speaker 3: So that's five hundred and twenty seven dollars to get
a single ticket in the nose please.
Speaker 7: That's actually insane.
Speaker 2: Queue that.
Speaker 5: Queue that scene that's been making the vible rounds of
Billy Bob Thornton as the oil man and then new
TV show where he's basically just laying out like wind turbines,
like we are oil. That's all our society is. That's yeah,
I mean then that that preser right.
Speaker 3: There, all right, And as we did a couple of
weeks ago, let's end it with which game across the country?
If you had a free ticket, free travel, free, hotel,
free everything, which one across the country would you go to?
Speaker 4: H tay Taye.
Speaker 8: Let's start with you, Oh State Michigan. I've never been
up there to see a football game. I would like to.
Speaker 6: I mean to go Texas, Texas, A and M would
be great.
Speaker 8: I feel like there's a better opportunity for me down
the road to watch one of those games because they're
right next door Ohio State Michigan.
Speaker 4: For me, all right, I mean Texas text then we know.
Speaker 2: I would go Texas tex Sat him as well.
Speaker 5: Like Taylor's logic is so abysmal here, why would you
You're going to the worst version of Ohio State Michigan
instead of the first time they bring back A and
M Texas and the winner goes it's the SEC Championship.
Speaker 2: Like, are you a kid in me?
Speaker 4: You don't have the thousand.
Speaker 8: I just feel like I could see that game in
a year. They're one stayed over. Plus I don't care
it's the first time they played in ten years, because
i'mnna give a crap about those teams.
Speaker 5: To come back of a rivalry, No, man, I'd be
you know, you catch me, I'll be in causation wearing
cowboy boots saying howdie wait?
Speaker 6: But who would you go for in that game?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Texas? Easy?
Speaker 5: I okay, it's interesting with my insteincts are tell me
I would actually go for A and M. That's how
much I hate like Texas. You know how I feel
about coastal elites in New York LA, like.
Speaker 2: Texas might as well be that, and how I feel about.
Speaker 7: Them actually down, I've never acted like I was better
than you.
Speaker 6: Well say, he actually appreciates you all leaders, So that tracks.
Speaker 5: Texas and I do like yell leaders and and also uh.
Speaker 2: The uh what was it?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: Oh? My favorite tiktoks or Instagram reels are Texas fans
being asked players on the Texas team.
Speaker 6: And they have no idea.
Speaker 2: Have you seen these Taylor, Yes, You're algorithm showed.
Speaker 8: The crazier one, the crazier one than that. Walking around
at Kansas City Chiefs Stadium asking the fans where Patrick
Mahomes went to college, they got fans, I think too new.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but see I don't. Actually that's crazier.
Speaker 5: I think the Texas thing is crazier because these people
can even name a single player on the team.
Speaker 6: They said, what do you think?
Speaker 5: Like, I don't care that you didn't go to Texas,
that's whatever, But you can't name a single player on
the you like, they don't know qu arch Manning.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: They even asked, like, what do you think about MoU Dang?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're just all they're all lying. They're like, oh,
you know they yeah, I think you get a great game.
I think I think you get some real opportunity.
Speaker 4: I y'all are all wrong.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, You and He's gonna know that
roster one hundred and twelve deep guarantee we'll go.
Speaker 6: No, you're you're right about that. That's what I love
about A and M. They try so hard and they
still can't do it. It's what I love about him.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: I would go to uh South Carolina at Clemson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good one too.
Speaker 4: I would go to that game absolutely.
Speaker 3: Both still alive in the playoff, but like far enough
where you know you have to win, you have to
have chaos around you.
Speaker 4: They hate each other.
Speaker 3: South Carolina's playing really well right now, obviously, like Clemson's
a big hunt for them to get over. When they do, like,
it just changes kind of the program for the entire
next year. Talked with Shane Beemer yesterday. Man, he was
as fired up as ever. He's always fired up, but
he had an extra a little bit of gleat in
his voice. There Davos calling it the SEC Invitational for
the playoff, Well, here comes an SEC team into your
home again. These teams hate each other, both ranked one
of the few ranked on rank matchups that we actually
have here in rivalry weeks. So yeah, South Carolina Clemson for.
Speaker 7: Me in state rivalry too.
Speaker 4: I know, h and a half four. That's such a
hipster answer, is it really?
Speaker 2: Answer? Yeah? Look at you, dude, I see you.
Speaker 7: Taylor.
Speaker 2: Why do you listen to more Kings of Leon?
Speaker 5: Okay, and these August halls like with this soiled peyton.
You ain't catch me at hey.
Speaker 6: That's that's all.
Speaker 3: That's the you literally, you literally said you would go
to the place that was a cult and you would
root for the cult.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, hell yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah true.
Speaker 2: I did say that to be fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, hipster, when we come back,
we are going to give you our final predictions. Because
Taylor keeps bothering me and telling me we have to
do it. That's the third time he's told me during
a break that we have to talk about Saints in
the So we'll do that and we'll break it down.
We'll give you our final prediction. Here, old otb off
the bench.
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Speaker 9: Two dress on tonight Dancing in the Dark film my
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Speaker 6: Up O my god.
Speaker 9: Ls last above like hanging it up.
Speaker 1: I'm welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 8: Time.
Speaker 3: Sir, we'll have to uh, well, when I say will,
you'll have to put this in a playlist and send
it to me.
Speaker 4: Go in to day, going to day. Look, oh, t Bob.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, look at T Bob palming
that little baby basketball, but then it fell out of
your hands as soon as I said.
Speaker 2: No, the fake pass.
Speaker 5: What do you mean when you go like that like
when you like push it out of the person, you
flick yours out to classic.
Speaker 2: And one move, dude, get out of here.
Speaker 4: It's a classic baby basketball. Is that, Bobby? It is like,
Oh my god, look at him.
Speaker 2: They called me the professor. Did you see that? I
learned that from the professor.
Speaker 4: Back in I think more like escalet when I think.
Speaker 7: You know, t Bob, it looks like a normal sized basketball,
but it's not.
Speaker 2: Not.
Speaker 4: This guy like a little baby basketball.
Speaker 5: Hey watch, I'm gonna spin this on my finger and
it's just for you, LAUNDI ready. Yeah, oh it fell
off my bad, dud, It fell off my finger, in
my bad.
Speaker 4: Oh, in my heart of heart, in my heart of hearts.
Speaker 3: I think he was really trying to spin that on
his finger, and then it was a well played joke
and then went with it.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I wanted to stay on my finger
for a little bit longer.
Speaker 6: But look, I can.
Speaker 2: I can spin a ball on all five fingers, but
this thing is a little tiny.
Speaker 4: It's all hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I thought it'd be easier for you. All right,
let's go to the Saints in the Rams, so Taylor
will shut up. I'm just kidding. Tata, I'm just kidding.
Those are just jokes. Don't get mad right now. The
Saints are actually a dog inside of the super Dome.
The Rams are favored in this matchup minus two and
a half. The Rams five and six overall, two and
three away from Los Angeles and New Orleans Saints as
we all know, four and seven, three and three at
home this year. For what it's worth, the ESPN matchup
predictor does have them winning this game fifty one point
six percent to forty eight percent for the La Rams.
Speaker 4: Very witable game. I think t Bob.
Speaker 3: Obviously, when you look at the Rams, the thing it's
gonna stand out to me as their offensive weapons, and
you know, Matthew Stafford and Pooka Nakua and Cooper Cup
and what they have as far as you know, exposing
you on on some of the edges. They are really
gonna test your corners, your safeties. Pass rush is going
to be at a premium here in this game to
try to get to Matthew Stafford. Now Williams the running
back is also really really good. That is the strongest
part of this La Rams team is their offensive weapons.
It's an interesting matchup, but still so why are they
Why are they five and six?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 5: Because that's what I understands, And I haven't really understood
the Rams since they won the Super Bowl, where it
feels like their record has not been as good as
maybe the team has been.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to say, what it was a
couple of years was it last year? A couple of
years ago?
Speaker 5: They lost early, they came on hot late, made a
run to the playoffs. Like I I don't understand, like
you said, how they can have all those offensive weapons.
Speaker 2: They still have Stafford playing at a very high level.
They still have how are they five and six?
Speaker 4: They won five games and they lost six of them.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you watch you and Taylor watch more
NFL than I. What do you all think?
Speaker 9: Like? What is.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean?
Speaker 3: So they were injured at the beginning, So Pokinku has
been out. Gooper cups beIN out. That's really been something.
Now they've had some players step up and play really well.
But they lost some close games early. They also close
went to the Bears, a close one to the Packers,
and they win three in a row, and you thought
they had it figured out, but then they played the
Dolphins after they get two of back, they lose a
one score game there, and then they just got beat
you know, last week against the Eagles, and it was
close for a while, but the Eagles kind of ran
away with it. So they've been real streaky. But I
think the injuries certainly, you know, held them back early year.
Because even their rookies, like you look at Braydon Fisk,
you look at Jared Verse. I mean, they're playing as
well as as any kind of rookies on the defensive
side in the league. And that was their first and
second round pick. So they're getting production from young players
as well. Tea bop. They just weren't able to win
the close games whenever they had their stars out.
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's funny. I didn't realize they went Fisk
and Verse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just went in the first round and then
Fisk was the seventh pick of the second round. I
believe Fisks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, what did you say too?
Speaker 6: Fiscus actually had a really like five sacks from or something.
Speaker 4: Like that, five and a half.
Speaker 5: H Well, I mean that's a man who we saw
what he could do, you know, first had Unfortunately, yeah,
you know, I don't the same way that I'm kind
of at a loss for how to predict LSU Oklahoma
because both teams have been so unpredictable.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of that same way with the Saints in
the Rams.
Speaker 5: I mean, like y'all alluded to, these are two teams
who's years in many ways have been defined by injury,
so it's been tough to get a true measure of
both teams. These are two teams that are getting healthier,
and when you're talking about the New Orleans Saints, it's
still just it was such a whirlwind two weeks with
the firing and Rizzy, I have no idea how they
emerge out the other side, right, because the Rams should
have a massive advantage in this regard. You were talking
about Sean McVay, one of the greatest coaches of the
modern era, if not the greatest. Maybe you could even argue,
I mean that probably Andy Reid, but whatever, and maybe
in that generation right behind Andy Reid, right like Sean
McVay kind of led the youth revolution in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And Darren Rizzy, You've got a guy who this is
going to be his third week of ever doing it.
Speaker 5: And one team has Matt Stafford, a certified Hall of
Fame quarterback and the other one has Derek Carr.
Speaker 2: So on paper, the Rams should absolutely win this game.
Speaker 5: But the element that gives me pause is a Saints
team that'll be at home and is just playing with
so much more confidence and executing at a much higher
level and keep a bit healthier, and allowing a guy
like Clint Kubiak, who seems to be at the forefront
of offensive theory, to shine. So I think the Rams
win if I'm being completely honest. But I see, I see,
I see a path of those Saints, and it's the
Saints excellent secondary neutralizing those weapons, and the Saints offense
continuing to surprise by using Taysum and Alvin and Derek
Carr around the edges.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, as good as the Rams offense is when they're
fully healthy, the defense has struggled. Even though they've had
some rookies play, you know, like first rounders. Both their players,
I mean even one was the second rounder. They've both
played like first rounders and both on the defensive line.
But still they give up twenty five points per game.
The Saints only give up twenty three, and you know,
towards the bottom of the league or both these teams
when it comes to overall defense. And so that's where
you have to make your hay. When you look at
what they're giving up on the ground, it's one hundred
and forty four yards per game, and so that's that's
gonna be. That's gonna be twenty eighth, I believe t
Bob in the NFL. And so this could be a
big Taysom Hill game to your point, because the only
teams that give up more on the ground are the Commanders,
the Giants, the Cowgirls, and the Panthers. Those the only
teams to give up more on the ground, and through
the air they give up two to eighteen. So you're
gonna have better chances for more success on the ground
against this Rams defense than you are through the air
because through the air, you know, there's somewhere around fifteen
or sixteen in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and remember it's not to speak Taysoum game, big
big Kamara games. Well, Alvin Kamara is on pace to
rush from war.
Speaker 4: He never has in his career, right, but we know,
like we know he's going to get the football. The
thing what Taysum is in every game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, will they actually you know commit to
having Taysum Hill out there in his role because we
know Ak is going to get his touches. The thing
with Taysum is, will you give him his touches because
I don't know for whatever reason, it's like three games
here and he takes three games off, and then three
games here and then two games takes. Just be consistent
with what you're doing, and if it's not working in
the first three carries, do like you do with every
other running back and allow him to find his flow
in the game.
Speaker 5: I would say this, I think the Rams win, But
because of that, I'm going to give Rizzy super bonus
points if he wins this game because I think the
Rams should win, right, they have the much more experienced
roster head coach in quarterback.
Speaker 2: Those are like just three massive elements, So.
Speaker 5: If the Saints managed to overcome that, then that speaks
way more highly of Rizzy than even beating the Falcons
or the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this is a Taysom Hill.
Speaker 3: Showcase yet again, and they're gonna think they have a plan,
but they've given up so many yards on the ground
that Ak is gonna get his Taysom's going to get enough.
They are going to find a way to get their
playmakers in space like they did last time we saw them,
and the Saints pull off and upset.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's go, dude. Heck yes, man, let's freaking go.
Speaker 3: Taylor, do you want to chime in here?
Speaker 6: Let's Saints of this game. And like, like Jake said,
you go back and look.
Speaker 8: Taysom Hills had a few near the thanks near the
Thanksgiven Holiday where he's went off most notably like two
different times against the Atlanta Falcons. But uh yeah, now
you run Taysom Hill, you ride the hot hand. I
think the Saints take this one.
Speaker 4: Oh see, Bob Yield little faith.
Speaker 5: As long as Taysom's not too bummed out about the
BYU game, I don't know where his head's at after
after that.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's still locked in. Hey.
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Speaker 4: That's great analysis. There I'm with you there all right.
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ESPN Beton Rouge. It is now time for Tait's NFL
Story of the Day Day.
Speaker 1: It's time for NFL Story of the Day day, your
daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 8: Well obviously t BO. We we do got to mention this.
Ta mentioned it during the break. Daniel Jones has been
signed uh to the Vikings practice squad right now. And
look at we were discussing this the other day and
we said, which team maybe makes the most sense for
him to go to as far a playoff contenders they
need a backup, And we said, look, however you feel
about Sam Donald's performance this year, the drop off from
Donald to Jones is not as drastic as the drop
off from like Lamar Jackson to Jones any of these
other teams that are looking for a backup quarterback. So
we'll see what happens there. They definitely got an insurance
policy for Daniel Jones. But also, guys, if any of
you ever performed so bad that work, just told y'all
they didn't need you to come in the next day,
Like y'all can just take the day off. That's what
the Washington Commanders have done.
Speaker 4: I have been cut twice in the NFL, so maybe,
oh no.
Speaker 8: We're we're actually worse than Commanders have put Austin Cybert
on injured reserve just two days after he missed two
extra points and a field goal to their loss to
the Cowboys. You know, they're just calling it an injury
in practice, a hip injury. But he has been placed
on IR and Zane Gonzalez, who he replaced, had missed
two games. He's out as well. So no word yet
on what they're going to do with their kicker situation,
but it will not be Austin Cyber.
Speaker 6: They didn't cut him, they just put him on I R.
Speaker 2: Good clear, Jake, you have to be hurt to go
on IR. Right, isn't it very illegal not to I.
Speaker 3: Mean, yeah, they would just cut him. He's a kicker,
there's nothing tied into him. They would just cut him.
So he probably is hurt, and good for him because
now he's gonna get paid.
Speaker 6: No, obviously, guys, I'm just you know, playing a little bit.
Speaker 2: Shut up Taylor. The funniest thing in the world.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, that was very aggressive. The funniest thing in
the world to me would be Daniel Jones winning the
super Bowl. That is uh, that would be the best
and most comedic result of twenty four the Dandy Dimes
coming in and leading the Vikings under O'Connell to a
super Bowl and really reinforcing to the Giants that it
was not a me problem, it was you problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: No, I do think text Jo I think I texted
y all that on Friday, Like, I want to see
him go on a Nick Foles or Joe flackod type
aron in the playoffs and just shock everyone.
Speaker 6: It's the perfect ending, ye.
Speaker 5: Got giants, Dude, what a disaster keeping Danny over Saquan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolute in sanity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we all saw it play out. We all
saw it play out on Hard Knocks so that makes
it even better. Multiple people are like.
Speaker 5: We sure, what is this?
Speaker 4: We sure, let's go a little pontoon parla eight here
I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: I'm generally get spreads right now.
Speaker 3: A couple that I say, A couple I got five
that I wrote down that I think I really really like.
And so y'all tell me if y'all like any of these,
and maybe we can include any of these. Oregon State
right now plus nineteen against Boise State.
Speaker 4: Now that's in Boise, Idaho. But that's one that I
have written down here.
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech plus nineteen and a half on the road
at Sanford Stadium against Georgia Bulldogs. You've got South Carolina
plus two and a half Memorial Stadium there, Clemson South Carolina.
You've got Syracuse plus eleven at home versus the Miami Hurricanes.
And then you've got the Auburn Tigers plus eleven and
a half on the road in Bryan Denny against Alabama.
So there's a lot of road dogs that I like
to cover the spread there. If I'm choosing one of
those to actually play out, I think I'm going to go.
Speaker 4: Syracuse plus eleven at home.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, That's exactly what I was thinking, Jake, That's
exactly where my instincts are. I'm a little worried about
George Doeori Tech because I know Jordian Tech's really good,
but it being in Sanford and Georgia feeling very kind
of pissed off looking to make a statement for last
year being a good game and everything. I mean, maybe
George is not capable of just running out of the
stadium because how good Jorge Tech is this year. But
I've motivated, George is still gives me cause of concern.
I'm right there with you on Syracuse though.
Speaker 3: All right, anybody else want to add anything into this pontoon?
Speaker 5: Barlay, Yeah, I mean this feels trappy, but like Kansas
minus one and a half at Baylor.
Speaker 2: With the form that they're in taking down three ranked
teams in a row.
Speaker 5: All right, again, Stinky Stinky, maybe a bit wrote you
always gotta be concerned with road favorites as well, But
give me Rock Chalk.
Speaker 2: Minus one and a half on the road at Baylor's
all right.
Speaker 3: So we've got Kansas minus one and a half, Syracuse
plus eleven, a Landra Tata, what do you want to add?
Speaker 8: I was looking at that Oregon State when you were
talking about, because you know, Boise State, they've done what
they had to do to win games. Credit them, they
really have not looked impressive doing it in any of
their victories. And I get at Oregon State's only five
and six, but they're coming off the win against Washington
State here recently.
Speaker 6: They got from the champ to pack twelve champs.
Speaker 8: The organ chaivers that. That's exactly right over Washington's. That's
what I've been looking at. Also, it's a weird spot
because Alabama had such a letdown at Auburn's riding such
a high. Alabama's had eleven and a half point favorite
over Auburn. Uh, that's an interesting one as well. I'm
kind of between the two state. Yeah, I mean Oregon
State is is kind of where I'm leaning, just because
Boise State hadn't been impressive lately.
Speaker 3: No in Oregon State will keep that one close. Boys,
you will probably win, but I would go with that one.
Speaker 5: I'm taking a look at the Auburn Playwait real quick, Elaundra,
the Auburn players.
Speaker 2: Have you all seen the comments the Auburn players are made.
Speaker 6: Yeah, couple of them been these they've been they've been
popping off.
Speaker 5: I mean, just straight up like, we're never losing Alabama.
Where I'm here, We're gonna beat that at high.
Speaker 2: Hi boys ride a little high after last week. Let's prove.
But I agree, stay away spot Sorry, Landra, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 7: I was looking at Kansas and Baylor. I think Baylor
covers plus one and a half.
Speaker 5: Wait, no, I just chose Kansas minus one to app
what's wrong with you? Yeah, you just literally shot you
shot a hole in the boat. Yeah, water is pouring in.
I don't care that you weren't listening, but the fact
that you put that into the universe, now, now I
feel insecure.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know what to think.
Speaker 6: Jeez, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It's okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you feel about Texas minus five
against Texas A and M.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I feel like we should go South Carolina.
Somebody's here.
Speaker 7: So I was looking at South Carolina as well, So
I'll do that one. I was looking at that one too. Sorry,
I didn't hear what tea bud.
Speaker 6: So there, South Carolina's plus two and a half and
a half.
Speaker 3: All right, So right, now the Pontoon parlay would look
like this, Kansas minus one and a half against Baylor
on the road, Syracuse plus eleven at home versus Miami,
Oregon State plus nineteen on the road against Boise State,
and South Carolina plus two and a half on the
road against Clemson.
Speaker 5: So we have a road favorite, a home dog, and
two road dogs. Yep, okay, I like a good spread there.
Speaker 2: I feel good. And by the way, everybody hate on
the pond toon parlay.
Speaker 5: Now, granted we haven't done it as much of resent
that's on us on me mainly, but getting distracted. But
we have a winning record if you just follow our
individual picks, we've got a very good winning record.
Speaker 2: Last week is actually our first week you went who
went one and three?
Speaker 4: So again I was the only win the myth last week.
Speaker 2: More than I think we had our first losing week.
Speaker 3: We left Bobby pick, Bobby picked, Bobby place Arizona State
in your place, and we were three and one.
Speaker 2: Well that was me.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm Bobby, No, no, I mean my name
is Bobby. And they called me, they called me, they
called me big t Bobby. So same thing as picked Bobby.
Speaker 2: I've never heard anything actually a laundrway. You do know
that my real name is Bobby though not Robert, No
that BS.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've always I mean we share that because my
father's side of his family, like, he's just Joey, not Joseph.
His brother Sammy not Samuel. His father was Tommy Joe
not Thomas Joseph.
Speaker 5: So yeah, now my middle name is Joseph, meaning you know,
my initials are BJ.
Speaker 4: Why would you point that out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because when I was.
Speaker 5: A little kid, I had a buddy named AJ in
Little league baseball and I thought that was the sickest
name ever.
Speaker 2: And I so desperately wanted to be called BJ. And
I don't know why my parents never allowed me to BJ.
Speaker 4: Sir Hoff was a great Baltimore oriole slash at.
Speaker 6: BJ Upton baseball player.
Speaker 4: You BJ stole money, I mean yeah, we signed the
contract with the Brads.
Speaker 6: Just Justin was also the better of the Upton brothers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's your middle name?
Speaker 8: To middle name is Malone. It's a family name. I know,
I know, it's a little out there. It's a little
lot speaking of so so everybody in my loe, Yeah,
everybody in my family's middle name starts with an M.
So me and my dad are Malone. He passed it
down to me, my mom and my sister and Marie,
and then my brother's Matthew. You'll love this, Pamela, Marie
Sharp and my mother's name p m S.
Speaker 2: I have a I have a I have a second
cousin named Malone. Yeah, and his last name is Johnson.
Speaker 6: This is Malone Johnson.
Speaker 2: In your mouth?
Speaker 5: Oh God, Aldredates away, count it slam dunk.
Speaker 4: You don't have a middle name.
Speaker 2: I don't have middle name.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not even lying right now.
Speaker 4: I don't have no middle name.
Speaker 6: Just take it back. I don't have I don't have
a middle name either.
Speaker 9: You do.
Speaker 4: It's Malone and now we all know it.
Speaker 5: A beautiful, sonorous, mellifluous name alone.
Speaker 2: And there's no middle name.
Speaker 6: There no middle name.
Speaker 2: That seems like a missed opportunity.
Speaker 4: None of us have them Malone?
Speaker 2: So is that so it makes wait to in your family?
Nobody has middle named me or my brother.
Speaker 6: And my sister don't.
Speaker 7: But like my cousin your parents, my dad does not,
my mom does.
Speaker 2: Damn. They're like then it cares. I mean, honestly, middle
names are pretty work. I mean, yeah, what am I
going to do with it?
Speaker 3: I was just gonna see, like if you could, like
you could have been BJ Taylor doesn't play for T.
Speaker 4: M would be JT, so I could have gone my
you know initials there.
Speaker 7: I will say that I'm glad that my mom vetoed
what my dad wanted to name me. My dad wanted
to name me Mercedes, and he wanted my middle name
to be Guadalupe.
Speaker 6: I gotta tell you I can do without the Guadaloupe Mercedes.
Speaker 2: No, it's not. I'm the opposite. I hate Mercedes. I
would love your name. That was a Landra Guadaloupe, so.
Speaker 7: That's like a family name too.
Speaker 2: But I didn't get the middle name.
Speaker 6: Like my great grandma's name.
Speaker 7: Was that my grandma's name, and then like my aunt
or whatever?
Speaker 6: All right, hmm, I really don't I agree.
Speaker 3: I'll check the driver's license during the break here we'll
wrap it up. Ask the bench whenever we come back
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Speaker 3: Memorable statement one of your football coaches ever said that
ended up looking really bad.
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Speaker 3: Asked the Bench, what's the most memorable statement one of
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Speaker 2: Said?
Speaker 3: That ended up looking really bad? I mean, I guess
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all mad and they brought the wood or whatever. They
still talk about that. It's like, yeah, yeah, they still
won the Natty.
Speaker 5: I would say, I mean, it's not the worst, but
it does jump out to me here. Uh, we've had
a new chatter today. Judge me off year three?
Speaker 2: Did it be Kate basically say that SC championships?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so he said that he said that last offseason,
but then this year he said judge me on year three,
and then like there had been word that. He was like, oh, well,
guys like next year's of the year, Like, well, a
little next year, you vibes.
Speaker 4: Next year? Asked Bench.
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Speaker 4: Sweet potato everything Sweet.
Speaker 6: Potato usually signs turkey first, and.
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