Speaker 1: It's the most wonderful time of the year. George Grove
fall 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 t Bob aber
Come off the bench. Now here's Jacob Hester and T
Bob a bear, guys.
Speaker 3: Christmas is right around the corner. Come on, a landraad,
Come on. No.
Speaker 4: I took all of them off of the hot buttons
hot keys except for that one, because if I take
it off, then there's.
Speaker 5: A blank space left and I don't like that. I
need something to replace it with.
Speaker 3: That That that yeah that everyone esteemed inn't it the song?
Speaker 5: Well you didn't keep going.
Speaker 3: I know, I know. Turns out if you're doing a
live radio show, one of the keys to kind of
making it work is talking. Yeah, so Taylor, have fun.
You just talked the whole hour. I kind of need
to cut it on some emails and stuff, so you
could have said anything else.
Speaker 6: Everybody in this building notice that there's two people that
cheke me.
Speaker 3: True, I check my mail.
Speaker 6: That's you and that's don't put me in my mouth.
I checked my emails at least once a week. Most
people check them twice a day. It should it should
be better. It should be and you you were me
weird saying I'm not saying that we're both really bad
at it. Yeah, yeah, but I got it, I say.
Speaker 7: He probably does.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I do.
Speaker 6: I gotta see if you look at there would be
like thirty five thousand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is. Literally I think we're at twenty something
twenty five thousand now. But the problem there is like
I've had this email address, the Gmail at least, for
so many years that at this point it's like just
a it's just a venereal disease has written corpse of
an email account. It's been passed around and used and
abused by so many different companies, selling its data over
and over and over again. My email account is I
feel bad for it. I feel bad for it, but
at the same time, I don't want to change everything.
You know, that's a lot of work. Yeah, that's too
much work. That's too much.
Speaker 6: Then you'll be like nervous, like the one person that
doesn't have it, you need them to have it. I mean, now,
I don't know how you're going to see anything new.
What do you mean, like if somebody really needs to
send you an email. Oh, I know, it is, it is,
it is truly. Did you just select all delete mountains
of crap? I mean what just select all delete?
Speaker 3: I did that on my text I got rid of
like I email and and I read them all that
mark is all read and.
Speaker 8: Now we're back up to like one hundred something already.
It's just marking them is all read and reading them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very different things. Well that's what Jake was
saying though, just to lead him. I meant emails. Yeah,
for sure, saying the same thing. That's going to read
all twenty five thousand. There's only so many fabletics ads
that I need thrust into my inbox.
Speaker 6: You know, think I'm a firm believer. I'm a subscriber Fabletics.
Speaker 3: Let's go. They got community notes today on Twitter, which
I was laughing.
Speaker 4: About who did fabletics because they had some ad that
was like a fake snapchat and it was like, what
is this real?
Speaker 3: And it's like shorts for ten dollars or something. In
the community It's like, no, this is not really. You
have to get the subscription and you can get the
shorts of dollars whatever.
Speaker 5: I never did Fabletics because subscription.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jake loves I get new stuff every month. There
you go, I mean, Jackson.
Speaker 5: I've heard good things about it.
Speaker 4: I just can't bring myself to pay that substrigers right here,
those Fablet Fabletics.
Speaker 3: I'm in my cozy dad from Santa Claus sweater era,
so I have no need. You did wear that Friday?
I wore this. I have. I got two brand new
sweaters for Christmas that I love. I saw somebody at
church red something on this like this on a few
weeks ago, and it just really struck me. I was like,
I need to be an adult and I need a
sweater like that, and I need to wear sometimes like
a colored shirt under it to let people know that
I'm I'm not I can go to Collatu today, but
to let people know that I am, you know, put
together and responsible. I need a belt, though. As soon
as they get a belt, then I'm gonna be complete.
You don't own a belt, not one, not one that fits. Uh.
It sucks. I gotta get one. I gotta get one. Bro.
Speaker 6: You just get your old drill bit and you just
I thought, I you joked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I thought knocks.
Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, went to his first like
middle school party and he needed a belt and I
was like, well, I don't have one that'll fit you,
but we get the.
Speaker 3: Drill out in there and you and how the dance go?
He said it went well. You know.
Speaker 6: I was like, did y'all like talk to each other?
He's like, no, really, grinding, no.
Speaker 3: No, grinding.
Speaker 5: They left room for Jesus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, they don't.
Speaker 6: Go to a private school, but we had Evangel that
was supposed to be the rule.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they used to get a mazed I can
that was a little grinding machine. Gets so mad at me.
Speaker 8: I could see the I could see you causing problems
at the private school dance. Yeah, it seems like did
they do the little balloon thing? I went to public schools.
We didn't do it, but like you see it on TV.
They're like, you put the balloon and if it pops,
your too close or something like that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, but obviously yeah, no balloon would have survived.
Speaker 7: That's about popping that thing.
Speaker 6: I don't think I even went done for I might
have gone to like one dance at Evangel.
Speaker 3: It was I would go to other school. Yeah, to
be fair, we started having off site dances, like when
we showed up for prom and they had the local
DJ from one o four to seven, the Fish, Yeah,
the local Christian station. You know, I think a lot
of jars of clay. Yeah, I think, I think. I
think I think we have to start having somebody's parents
rent out somewhere and through our own, uh, our own
dance kind of.
Speaker 7: Did you ever go up.
Speaker 3: To the at all? Not once?
Speaker 8: I think one time did you go up to the
Christian DJ and be like, hey, like you know, it'd
be really cool, like if you played something.
Speaker 3: Else you ever heard, like trying to gain twins?
Speaker 7: Yeah, like t bumps.
Speaker 6: Flame No, no, uh yeah, what are we talking about?
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That's how win it has done.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 10: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer, got too far.
I'm by winning. I went here and I win there. Now,
what are you.
Speaker 6: Doing what it takes to win a championship.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Winning, Well, then I guess there's only one thing left
to do.
Speaker 2: What's that win the whole thing?
Speaker 3: All right? My first weekend winner again, it's it's everything
that LSU did with Coach Mulkey over the weekend. Taylor,
give me the video of the Coach Mulky lookalike contest.
It was fantastic, but especially the woman that wraps up
the video here was absolutely wonderful. Coach Molkey's fit, as
we said, a certified weekend winner as well, walking bucket
and whatnot? Is that called? What are they potting there?
And Coach Molkey's team, you know, seventeen to oh now
two and o And look look at this one right here.
See that is excellent. She's got a blonde wig on.
She's bringing the intensity just like coach does. She's got
her daughter with the wig on ready to go. Oh man,
that is perfect week in winter. Shout out to LSU
Sports Properties or whoever came up with that idea. Really good.
The stance there was really good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the stands, the hands on the knees weekend winner,
Los Angeles Chargers getting into the postseason last week, better
seed this week, right, better their position. Now they get
a chance to go play the Houston Texans and not
have to travel to Baltimore, Like even like just how
far the travel is going to be? I mean certainly,
you know, a quicker trip to Houston than it would
be to Baltimore. And after winning five games and having
Brandon Staley as a head coach, they have now made
the postseason with an opportunity to maybe move on to
the divisional round. Can't wait again, going to take my
oldest son beating the number there in Houston, fired up
for that far, their son, the experience and hopefully it
ends with a bolt victory.
Speaker 2: Hold on it.
Speaker 3: I mean you always soak crap out Staley. Steely was
just in the playoffs two years ago.
Speaker 6: What have you done for me lately? And who feels better?
Harball or Staley?
Speaker 7: Also, how did that game go?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah ptsd ear yeah uh yeah, the uh the
turnaround Harball did? Affected is actually insane to think about
going for five wins now looking so competent his NFL
resume is it is really well staggeringly consistent.
Speaker 6: And also and like I was probably one of the
ones that that criticized him during the draft a lot
of people wanted him to go receiver, right, and different
people different receivers. Actually, a report came out that the
Chargers were going to either go Joe Alt or Brian
Thomas Junior at number five and so like they had
BTJ as their number one receiver on the board, but
instead of going receiver at five, they draft aught to
show up the offensive line and they go get Lab McConkie.
They trade up in the second round to get him,
and certainly Lab mcconkey's over a thousand yards this year
been one of the better receivers in the NFL. So
their draft strategy, at the time questionable, played out really
well for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, R was a genius man also thinking about this.
Imagine going from Ann Arbor weatherwise to now, La, boy,
you have done emerged out the other side.
Speaker 4: Yep, Okay, weekend I'm gonna give them weekend losers.
Speaker 5: Everybody at FS one they are like.
Speaker 4: Basically all of them were named in a sexual assault lawsuit,
but Skip Bayless being probably the main one. He offered
Fox Sports hairstylist one point five million dollars to sleep
with him.
Speaker 3: So okay, okay, okay, we should say.
Speaker 4: Allegedly allegedly, And I would also say to the lawsuits,
some of.
Speaker 3: These skiffs, some of these skip quotes that I've seen,
feel very tough for me to believe that they are real.
Speaker 7: Some of them I enjoyed there.
Speaker 3: They're almost written like you're writing a comedy that's like,
aren't you what do you got?
Speaker 7: Like four foot four?
Speaker 3: Like, I'm like, I don't know, man, maybe maybe he's
maybe he skips it. I don't know. I don't know.
I guess that's for the Yeah, that's true, for the
court to decide, but that some of them feels a
little a little extreme.
Speaker 4: He offered the Hairstyle is one point five million dollars
to sleep with him. But this lawsuit is also alleging
that Joy Taylor basically slept her way to the top,
if that's how you want to put it.
Speaker 3: She's They said that she was sleeping with an executive.
Speaker 4: That with Dixon and then with Emmanuel Aucho, and then
allegedly the Hairstyle has told her like, oh, maybe you
shouldn't sleep with both of them at the same time,
and she was like, Joy Taylor allegedly said that she
wasn't gonna let Charlie Dixon push her out like he
does all the other females, and that if that were
to happen, she was gonna say that he forced himself
on her.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I mean, look, Hetty played by her. It's
not a good look for an exec to be sleeping
with the talent when somebody they have direct power over.
Speaker 4: Also, I feel like the same way that, So like
if you were gonna say, I agree, it's not a
good look, but like if it's all consensual, and also
like if you have this plan of like I'm gonna
say he forced himself on me, then I think that
just like hurts people who have like actual.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if that is true, absolutely, it's a just a
small situation for sure, if that was actually the plan. Uh.
Speaker 5: But but again this is all alleged.
Speaker 3: What I'm also saying is like, you know, there's like
lawyer client privilege or whatever or stuff Like in the
makeup chair, that's an intimate setting. There should be some
sort of protections here.
Speaker 5: I would feel very betrayed if I was you, my hairstylist.
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought we were girls. Yeah, you know, female
to female were sitting here every day hanging out.
Speaker 5: But I guess you could say a week in winter
emmanual watch.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think. I mean he took down
videos in which he's like praising Joy Taylor, which why, bro,
that's a bad look bad? Just leave it up. Like
the video wasn't bad. He was just he was just
giving her credit for being like very smart professional and
have her own takes, and now he deletes it.
Speaker 4: The videos that people are pulling out though, are kind
of cracking me up because it's like, hey, how do
you have time to find these videos? B you're kind
of telling on yourself without his I mean, nobody knew anything.
Speaker 3: I'll just say this back.
Speaker 5: It's like the videos are.
Speaker 7: A little funny.
Speaker 3: I'll just say this, Gordy, you better give me what
I want during these contract negotiations or you know, some
stuff's gonna come to Like understand, you know, you know
I got this job? Hell tell us I can't yet.
I told you that's my that's my ace in that
that's my ace up my sleeve. Should it need to
be played? Tay Tan Yeah.
Speaker 7: Weekend winner for me. Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 8: He had four touchdowns yesterday and the went over to the
Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 7: That gave him the number one seed.
Speaker 8: Fay Gibbs became the first Lions player to lead the
NFL and scrimmage touchdowns with twenty this season since Barry
Sanders all the way back in nineteen ninety one when
he had seventeen. Gibbs also set these single season franchise
record for touchdowns yesterday in that four touchdown performance, So
we can winner Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 3: Kind of crazy because at the time they drafted Gibbs,
they saw DeAndre Swift right, and he was all right, Yes.
Speaker 6: I said, Gibbs with twelve overall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they they knew, they felt that they were
really complete elsewhere they could use a big upgrade. And
I'll be damn Jamiir Gibbs hasn't.
Speaker 6: It's been great him and Montgomery together. Y'all remember, like
laid in his recruiting process out of high school, he
was going to Georgia Tach but Lshoe missed on the back.
I forget who they missed on, and Elshoe put like
the full court press on Jamiir Gibbs to try to
get him to flip from Georgia Tech. They weren't able
to do so, obviously, ends up a Tech then goes
to Alabama. But I mean he very very easily could
have ended up in Elishi Tiger.
Speaker 8: Oh if you watched him at Georgia Tech, you knowew
how good he was. I mean, I remember the day
he entered the portal and he announced he was going
to BAM. I was crushed. I was like, this dude's
going to be a problem. And I mean he just
continues to get better. He's only twenty two.
Speaker 6: Weekend loser quarterback Jade and Rashada entering the portal yet
again from Geojia. So he goes from the whole Florida
situation to Arizona State to Georgia and now he is
back in the transfer portal. My guy, just go find
somewhere you can play. Just go find somewhere where you
can be the guy. Make us forget about all the
situation of promises, and you were gonna make this much
and then like you were playing a little bit at
Arizona State. Now they move on, they go get Sam Levitt,
but you go to Georgia. You have to understand when
when you go to Georgia, you're gonna have to compete.
There's gonna be a lot of Jimmy's and Joe's around you. Okay,
so when you made that decision, you had to have
the chess for it. Well, I mean, you're leaving again,
Mike man. You got to get your career started. You
got to go somewhere and you have to play. Eventually,
you have to look in the mirror. You have to
point fingers at yourself, like, I am never going to
root against somebody. I want you to go play. Go
find somewhere where you can be the guy tomorrow. There's
one school that takes That's what That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: He had to go though, right, I mean it sucks,
it's it's a bad look that he's enter again. But
like he ain't gutter stocked as their quarterback next season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but just but you kind of I mean I
feel like you knew that probably going there. Like, just
go somewhere man, where you can play. You only get like,
you only get so many opportunities at this and when
it's gone, it is gone. Even in today's age where
it feels like everybody gets another year, eventually it will
be gone.
Speaker 3: Maybe get started somewhere to start his fifth school, you know, starting.
Speaker 6: I don't really love that either, but he started everywhere though,
and he lost the job.
Speaker 8: Florida State hurt. That makes us a full circle moment.
He goes to Florida. They have the huge fallout. He
goes back to the state of Florida to the rival
Florida State Seminoles.
Speaker 7: They need a quarterback. Make it happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds awful.
Speaker 7: It does.
Speaker 3: My next weekend winner. A couple other NFC South teams, right,
Mike Evans, the Bugs weekend winners, Bryce Young and the
Panthers and a week in winners. So by extension weekend
loser the Atlanta Falcons, not the New Orleans Saints, because
all you did was help your draft in losing that game.
But the Atlanta Falcons, you blew it. You had the
playoffs in your hand. You play, You paid Kirk one
hundred and eighty MILLI now you're starting the rookie head
he play getting pinnick though, you know, to be fair,
but still disastrous. In to Raheem Morris yere number one.
And here's told me that they stay bad, although I
don't know if I feel like they will pretty good,
That's what I'm saying. I know, I know, so I
like even though the key difference because you both have
Kirk and car which sucks right now, but the key
difference being I don't know if Rattler's well right now,
he's definitely not Rattler versus Pinnis feels like Pinnix has
the big advantage. But then again to Jake's point from
earlier in the show, like who's Rattler throwing to? He
didn't have Drake London, No, didn't have cow pits you know, well,
John Jones, I guess kind of in compared to that.
Speaker 6: Moony's had certainly had big, big moments, you know, this year.
Speaker 3: So I just think about the falcon. I was like,
who am I missing here? When they won those games
and Kirk fucking you know, walk into your trap, take
over your trap and they're swag surfing and everything. They
were so tight and where are you now? Nowhere at home?
Any other one? We should go break when we get back. Uh.
Jeff Duncan with a pretty damning right up on the
New Orleans Saints that I want to discuss. Geld you
locked hear and Off the Bench, Off.
Speaker 1: The Bench, Welcome in to the best morning sports this
show around. Off the Bench with Hesther and t Bob.
Speaker 9: Holley here, sorry and no microsh I was ready, it's
fine years early.
Speaker 3: Well, I know, I was just singing it. I wasn't
gonna wait for it the whole time.
Speaker 5: You don't have to wait that long.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you're feeling all, you know, jubilant and happy.
This is January sixth, but you need to pump the bricks. Okay,
New Year. I'm just you know, she's no, I don't
finish that statement. I actually, I actually don't know. You panicked,
you hit a filler phrase and then you had nothing
to follow up on New Year? You know, hey, there
you go to New Year.
Speaker 4: I was gonna go into a whole thing, but I
was like, nobody cares.
Speaker 8: She's happy that it's January six she'll really love this.
Today is Jameis Winston's birthday.
Speaker 3: Happy we do, but we do love Jamis here the show.
Happy birthday, Jamis You miss you? I miss you. I
wish the Dennis how.
Speaker 5: Would have let you play I miss James.
Speaker 3: An offensive coach would have let.
Speaker 7: Him only two years older than me, which is just
you know, crazy am I doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I know I feel that dude.
Speaker 7: He was born at night.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm looking at Kenny Dillingham out here, damn
near making the college football.
Speaker 6: Ye five years older than Kenny doing. I know it's
I am in my fortieth year because I'm about Joe
Brady being head coach of the Saints and he's he's
so young twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna make the J six joke and reference, but.
Speaker 3: I've never heard it called J six.
Speaker 5: I like, Jason, That's great.
Speaker 3: You beat me to it, so so.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 3: On Twitter, one of the premier Saints fans and one
of the premiere Saints Twitter follows is Dat boy Wolf
and he tweeted this out. He says, Jeff Dugan spitting,
I might have to unblock him. Prince's I won't so
regardless of whatever BFS is Jeff Aside, the excerpt that
he highlights on his Twitter is very honest, and I
hope the Saints recognize it, and I hope they engage it.
Jeff writes, quote. The Bucks have done what the Saints
tried and failed to do. They adroitly navigated a roster
transition while repairing their salary cap and managing to not
only remain competitive but win the division along the way.
They clinched a fourth consecutive division title with their win
against the Saints and have a roster full of talented
young prospects to ensure a promising future. Hopefully, the Saints
are honest in their assessment of the team and the
entire football operation. They can't fool themselves and are thinking
they're better than they are. They need to remove the
rose colored glasses and be honest with where things stand.
The Saints are much closer to the team that finished
with four consecutive losses last season, the team that finished
the four losses, than they are the one that opened
the season with back to back blowout wins. The worst
thing they can do is think they're close. They're not,
and the first step to recovery is admitting there is
a problem. I mean absolutely, nailed it, absolutely, And something
that is concerning because everything I've heard from the Saints
or from what people who know about how kind of
that that front office thinks, is that they maybe view
themselves in a light that is a bit unearned. You know,
they kind of view themselves like the Steelers a bit.
They don't want to be reactive. They think they're very
you know, consistency and in the end will be proven right.
I mean, remember, Mickey Loomis did not even want to
fire Dennis Allen after the seven game losing streak. It
took a directive from on high. And remember this is
a team that continued to think that they were close
the last couple of years. And I know the record,
I know the reasons why, but it's it is. It
is untenable at this point. You cannot continue with this facade,
the charade, this fraud of a roster. And the other
part on this is it did cause me to really
actually appreciate what Tampa has done because he nailed it. Yeah,
they got the bridge quarterback that ended up being good.
They managed to fix their broken capball. Still investing in
young players. Well, the Saints just get older, more injured,
more decrepit, and less good at quarterback as the years
have gone on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've said it for really the last couple of years.
Credit to the Saints for having their window open for
as long as it was, because it typically does not
stay open that long. It just doesn't, and there's did
for over a decade. It's stayed open, but it is
slammed shut right now and it really has been for
two years now you could probably say three. Yeah, they
are reluctant to move on, though they've been stubborn and
moving on. They've got older pieces and even pieces that
are still good players. But when you're in this spot,
you can keep some of those guys to pair them
with younger players and try to make the best unit.
Speaker 3: But they have held onto too many of those players.
Speaker 6: They've held on to too many people familiar with the
program as far as coaches and who they bring in
and who they let's stay around for a long time.
And they are in purgatory right now because of it.
Their salary cap is a and look, so many people
when we say that, they roll their eyes like they'll
figure it out.
Speaker 3: Okay, well have they figured it out.
Speaker 6: No, they can't go get a big time quarterback because
of where they're currently at right now. They can get
a bridge quarterback a Derek Carr. They can't go get
a top tier quarterback. They haven't drafted one since Archie
Manning in the seventies.
Speaker 3: Like we all know.
Speaker 6: That the draft choices that have hit, they've hit for
other teams, not your team. Yeah, like that's a problem,
it's a real problem. And like even this year in
this draft, Like, I think Koolai mcinstry had a really
nice game yesterday. He did, but that wasn't your biggest need.
You had other needs that were bigger than that. And
I know you traded Marshawn Lattimore, but I still would
argue that, you know, a playmaker on the outside was
a bigger need. There was certainly needs that were not
met in this last NFL draft, and that's really been
the story of the Saints, and I just I don't
know if it's going to change. It feels like you're
going to continue on down the road with more of
the same because that's what it's been. Now you have
a top ten pick, what are you gonna use it on?
Like nobody knows, it's probably gonna be some edge rusher
with a no no I you know, athletics score that's
from UTSA or U TAP or Sacramento State.
Speaker 3: Now, I was like, we're gonna say they got a
lot of money. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't mean anything. The
I would say, if I want to go, maybe just
a ray of sunshine through the clouds. Flong was a
great first round pick, you know, tell yes he was.
It starts at left tackles entire rookie year does pretty well.
Like I think you know that that's successful maybe if
nothing else, but uh, but yes, I completely agree with
Jeff's assertion that and this is something that you see
in alcoholic in anything, right, the first step to fixing something,
to fixing a problem is admitting that there's a problem
in the first place.
Speaker 6: And who longer graded out at sixty five this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I know, but it's a rookie left tackle. Bro,
you don't think he played well? I didn't. Was that
that was kind of rhetorical? I don't. I don't know
if it was. I think I think you were intimating
some things.
Speaker 6: You bring up a player. I'm going to tell you
he graded out.
Speaker 3: So do you think he did well as a rookie?
Do you think he was worthy of a first round
I think he was fine. Yes, he was fine.
Speaker 6: If you redrafted it, depending on what tackles there, maybe
you look really maybe, I mean the Saints offensive lines
as a unit was bad. Caesar Ruiz was sixty seven,
Trevor Pinning was fifty nine point six.
Speaker 3: And it's funny because those are all first and second round,
Like the entire all those first Linement. Yeah, I know.
And then Eric McCoy second rounder. McCoy's actually, I mean
he was.
Speaker 6: He's a Pro Bowl alternate and only played in what
seven games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he actually really good. But uh but the point,
my point is you've tried to invest a lot there
and it's been a bit missed. But I think whatever
I think, Telly s He's gonna be great. But maybe
maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is like this fun Anthony situation.
Speaker 7: We're like, oh, it's funny thing.
Speaker 3: They had one hundred tackles as a rookie. But wait,
he actually sucks. He just had to play because you
had nobody else.
Speaker 6: You want to know a first round pick that really
really struggled this year for the Saints that we don't
talk about Brian Brazy.
Speaker 3: I thought, but did he like lead the team in sacks?
But he just did a greade out?
Speaker 6: Well, he's just in the run game, Tea. He gets
moved out of the way. His final grade this year
was thirty six point five.
Speaker 3: What in rush defense? No, no, overall?
Speaker 6: What lowest graded starter on your team by a pretty
wide margin.
Speaker 3: Good God. Again, the point like, you gotta be willing
to admit there's a problem, and where it becomes hard
to accept that the Saints will do that. It just
all goes back to the Mickey Lewis press conference's smacking
that gum because he is so clearly given off the
vibe I know better than you, and I know that
things are good as the house burns down around him.
Speaker 6: So Brian Bersey's run grade twenty eight. Yeesh, yeesh, pass
rush fifty seven point two. I'd like seeing Clyde made.
Speaker 3: A couple lays on Sunday that was kind of Yeah,
what if he signed a two year little thick He's
always no I know, he's always been ball. He looks,
he looks I might play nose guarded evangel here pretty soon. Well,
I mean it gets a two fifty three to do that. Damn,
How did you lose all that weight? That's easy. I
gained it, so I had to lose it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder if you signed a two year deal
because a lot of teams, So some teams, if you
sign like Clyde did, like late in the season, you'll
just sign a one year deal, you're done. But a
lot of teams they'll sign you on a two year deal.
When you do that because if you end up coming
in you play well, they want to have your control.
Speaker 3: The broncos.
Speaker 6: We're going to shore us for it. So I wonder
if he sign a one or a two year deal.
I don't know, but I mean, you know whatever at
this point.
Speaker 3: Sure, So again the Thints have to be honest with
themselves about how bad it is and that is the
first step to recovery. Will they I don't know. I
don't know that. I feel great about that, but they'll
have the chance to prove it to us. All right
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what a football week we got coming up. So now
only do we get the NFL playoffs going down this weekend.
We'll continue to break down to picks four, but college
football playoffs cranking up Thursday and Friday as well. I
haven't looked it up. Which game Thursday? Which game is Friday?
Friday is the Cotton Bowl? Oh? Because yeah, because you're you're, you're,
you're calling it now. Who's in the cupbol? It is
Texas and Ohio State. M m mm hmmm, probably too
most not probably objectively the two most talented rosters in
the uh in the left in the field. M hmm.
It's real hard to get behind Texas right now when
Ohio State's playing in the way that they do, and
also Texas has Texas is like a video game boss
where there is a giant glowing part of the body
that says hit me here. Now. Granted, not all teams can,
but like, if you can stop Texas running the ball,
they become incredibly shaky. One thing that's been a theme
of this playoffs the teams that win the most the
ones that stop the run and play great defensive house.
State has done both those things. You Gohi State can
stop the Texas run. Yeah, I mean, I think it's
gonna be a game where Queen Ewers has to go
make the plays. Now he did against Arizona State to
his credit at the end. Yes, he's gonna have to
go make him again. Yeah, I would say that.
Speaker 6: Now, these safeties for Texas against Ohio States, like you know,
not only did the receiver room, but some of the
run game where they want to get to the edge
and stuff.
Speaker 3: That's the matchup that I'm watching. These Texas safeties now.
Speaker 6: I mean we saw him against Scatterboy now Scataboo warm
warm down.
Speaker 7: But Michael Taffin he can lay the woods.
Speaker 3: I mean they got three of them that will. So
One thing that I find interesting about Ohio State is
they seem to be running the ball much better as
of late. But they are a team that almost you know,
most teams are run first and run to set up
the pass. I feel like Ohio State's the opposite. I
feel like they have to unlock you through the air
first with their weapons and now after they've done that.
Like as well, Howard's continue to play better and better
here as of late. You see Travon Henderson and Quinchhn
Junkins starting to look like the backfield combination that you
thought they would. It's just real hard going into this
final four to not feel like Ohio State's a favorite,
and it's it's honestly, it's because of the skill positions,
because they're even with I think a lot of the
other schools in terms of the trenches, and now in
quarterback play, they probably have the advantage. I mean, if
you just look at all the quarterbacks that are left
have played this year, but yeah, they're pretty even. But
like the biggest separation point of any of the four
teams are Jeremiah Smith and Igbo right, and in the
running backs, like no no other team left has that
collection of weapons.
Speaker 8: No other team has both, right, because like Jayden Blue
and and why isn't there for Texas they've been good?
Why is there a thousand yard rush? Yeah, they don't
have the receivers on the outside. Matthew Golden is excellent,
He's been a really good receiver. He is not Smith.
He's not Jeremiah Smith. I mean, he's just he's just not.
And they haven't ed Buco on the other side of things,
like Texas's most consistent player all year in the past
game has probably been done a helm. They're tight end.
I mean, Golden didn't start this level play until recently.
Speaker 6: Elandra, how you feel about You're like sorry, like isay
a bond is?
Speaker 3: Is somebody that better? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I thought it would make more plays in that uniform.
And I know he's been injured a little bit. He's
still like high up on draft boards and all that stuff,
but I don't know, he just hasn't been that the
game changer.
Speaker 3: No Elandra, how do you feel about your long hornies
going against the buck Eyes?
Speaker 4: To be honest, not great. Ohio State's playing really really
well right now. Texas was a little shaky in their
game versus Arizona State. But I don't think it'll be
a I've seen people saying that like Ohio State's gonna
roll over Texas and it'll probably be.
Speaker 5: Like a blow out. I don't think it'll be a blowout.
Speaker 3: I'd be very disappointed if that game was a blowout.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I am a little I am a little concerned.
But Golden is a playmaker. We've said before, you were
steps up when he needs to.
Speaker 6: And yeah, to tail this point, I mean, Matthew Golden
is somebody that like that down the sideline just go
route that quinn Ewers can drop in a bucket, Like
he does a really nice job of leaving just enough
room between the defender and the sideline, Like he runs
that route as well as anybody in the country, and
they continue to hit that. And so if teams aren't
going to adjust and play coverage over the top of that,
like that is a that's a route.
Speaker 3: That can change a game and win you a game.
Speaker 6: So like Golden has that now they need gunner Helm
to be able to intermediate stuff. They need Bond to
make a play because like more juniors made a couple
of plays. Certainly the talent is there and we've seen
it in flashes, but outside of Golden, nobody else has
been really consistent enough game in the game out because
if they were like Texas can match you weapon for weapon.
Speaker 3: M h yeah, yeah, no, you're right. I mean the
they definitely have the second best collection because Penn State
and not Name they're very interesting because there's emniately so similar.
Speaker 5: I also, if.
Speaker 4: They used like hear me out, if they used arch
a little bit more like we know.
Speaker 3: You want it, you were literally calling for him at
the end of last game.
Speaker 4: But if you put him down in like fourth down
situations like fourth and short or something like that, or
in the red zone, I feel like that could be
very useful.
Speaker 3: They tried that and it worked at first, but I
feel like it hasn't worked as a late.
Speaker 8: Though the last couple Timesies did it, Like to a
Lunch's point, like it's it's worked well all season, but Okay,
he's doing this against Clemson. The game is in the
bag pretty much. You have the ball, there's about four
minutes to go. You're up by like nine or ten
at this point. Yeah, it's fourth and one. Weisner and
Blue are both averaging over five yards per carry. They
both have one hundred yards. It's fourth and one. All
you gotta do is convert the and the game's over.
He puts in Arch to do a QB sneak with
their backup center because Jake Major's was out. You put
in a new center, a new quarterback. What happens, fumbled snap,
They have to jump on it. Clemson takes over, give
it to Wisner and Blue. Like, you don't always have
to be the smartest guy in the rooms. Like that's
the thing, Like you can give it to arts. That's fine,
But like Stark's gonna have to not overthink that because
he did that a lot in the Clemson game.
Speaker 3: Again, Guys, here's what happens. High State wins, Queen Yours
leaves and then goes to a Hot State and Ahi
State wins back to back national championships with Will Howard
this year and Quinn years next year.
Speaker 6: I think Quinn de clares for the NFL Draft because no,
I'm kidding, because it's such a week class.
Speaker 3: He goes, Yeah, for sure, I'm just kidding. That'd be awesome.
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Speaker 7: I'm not a Georgia fan, so Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mattelyn. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Also, only one of them has a NAT there QB one.
Speaker 3: You know you didn't have two Q one both.
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