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It is Tuesday, it is nine am. So you know
we're gonna catch up now with our guy Nick Underhill,
New Orleans dot Football. That is the site. It is
your go to place for the latest and greatest Nick.
What's going on, man? How are you doing this week?
Speaker 4: Hey? Doing great? How you guys John?
Speaker 3: We're in that off season mode where we're like, you
know what, maybe they're not gonna be that bad. I
don't know, Maybe they don't know any better. They got
a young head coach, he's worked with a lot of
different quarterbacks, a lot of different skills sets. They've all
been really good. That's where we're at in the off season.
Speaker 5: Nick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that's the kind of kind
of the cycle that it goes through every year. But
I'm I'm holding steady at five until we see something.
I just can't. I can't get there yet, but I'm
pot Like, you know, I find myself leading more into
the the optimism that what happened. You start to all
the faults along, they're like, well, maybe they'll fix this,
maybe they'll fix that. But there's a lot of fixing
that's got to get downe.
Speaker 5: Here are you? You're stick with five, like five wins
or like five on a scale of ten, of like
your excitement.
Speaker 4: Five five wins. My excitement though, is like I'm not
like at nine. Man, Like I just kind of want
to find out, like what they're gonna be. I find
it seemed to be way more interesting than I than
it was in previous seasons. I think, you know, it's
just that it's that kind of the the on wrap
the un wrap box under the Christmas tree, you know,
like it's just you're just looking at it. It could
be anything, and uh, you know, maybe maybe Tyler Shuck's good,
Maybe maybe there's some upside here. It hasn't disappointed you yet.
There's just nothing really to be super negative about. You've
never seen, you know, the coach make a bad decision before,
So like my interest level is just kind of is
through the roof, and you know, I think they could
win five games, and it might be it would be
way more fun than five With Derek Carr. I think
it's just kind of you know, you're at the start
of something instead of trying to like hang on to
something at the end. Look, even if they suck, like
all these guys that were just at the manning camp,
like all of them are on the table now, Like
if Shuck's not good, like, all those guys become possibilities.
So I think even in like the extreme disappointment, like
it's just like, well, all right, well I'm gonna watch
punts and then you know, on Saturday and imagine what
it's gonna look like on Sunday. And I think that's
kind of exciting too.
Speaker 3: So you've been there obviously pretty much day in, day
out over the last couple of years. What does it
look like now compared to what it looked like last
year or maybe the last few years with Dennis Allen
as the head coach. Does it have a different field,
does it have a better feel, is it more organized?
Is it more fun?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: What are the vibes now compared to what they have been?
Speaker 4: I think last year was actually kind of similar to
this year. And I mean I think I think, you know,
I think the players kind of go through the same
thing too. Like last year it was you know, new
offensive staff. The year before it was you know, I
think still kind of like that that continuation of frustration
because you know, Carmichael was coming off the bad season.
They tried to replace him, they couldn't. He comes back,
and that that season kind of felt stuck and I
don't know that there was like like the hope and positivity.
But last year around this time, I feel like it
kind of felt the same way. You know, they were
all excited about that that staff. They thought it was
going to turn around. They thought things were going to
be a lot better, and you know, for two weeks
it was and then you know, all of a sudden,
it wasn't. But it's it's interesting though, because like I
don't know, like the veteran players kind of seem like
maybe they've been through too much, so like there's more
of a guarded optimism than stort of just like one
drinking the Koli type of optimism. You know, I think
there's a little bit of skepticism about like, all right, well,
look like I'm gonna do what I can do, but
they got to, you know, the organization has to show
me kind of what they have, you know, going on,
and you know, I get it. Like, you know, I
feel like even from my point of view, I went
through the same process and become a little bit jaded
and and you know, you're kind of more like, ah, man,
like I found this trap before, I'm not gonna do
it again. So I think there's a little bit of
that feeling in there too. But I think in general,
people are excited and curious, and you know, they like
the vision of the offense. You know, there's a lot
of that. But yeah, I don't know that it's like
pull on kool aid drinking at this point. I think
there's a little bit of you know, you know, show improved.
Speaker 3: Wait, I thought you was going to be better this year.
Speaker 4: Cards, Well, well let's see you.
Speaker 5: Nick kind of like piggyback and on that a little bit.
So I'm watching I'm watching the news last couple of days,
and it seems like the Steelers have been in the
headlines all off season. They've made so many uh, they've
made so many moves. They just had a big blockbuster
trade yesterday with Mega Fitzpatrick and Jalen Ramsey, and it
just got me thinking about the Saints. Say, I didn't
hear hardly any splashes this year in off season, whether
it's free agent signings, trades and it may. I mean
there's a little bit here and there, but no big
splashes on trying to like instantly improve a team overnight.
So is that a is that a because of the
season last year where they kind of were was it
a new coach situation or is that just veterans in
the NFL thinking it is not a desirable place for
me at this time.
Speaker 4: I think it's both. I think it's like both those things.
You know, as far as trying to attract the free agents,
you know, I think if Derek Carr's retirement had been
a thing in March, you know, I doubt Justin Reid's here,
I doubt Tyram Matthew takes a peika. I doubt Camp
Jordan's is willing to do what he's willing to do
to stick around. Like, I think a lot of stuff
this offseason plays out completely differently if they knew that
because all of a sudden, like now there really isn't
a chance to win and then beyond that, you know
where they're at now if you're Jalen Ramsey, like this
isn't this isn't where you want to go. You saw
the video with Aaron's where he was up on the stage, like, yeah,
I would never like, there's no way I go play
for the Stains when I don't know where he was at.
But somebody asked him that and he answered it. You know,
I think that's just kind of reflective of where they're
at right now, Like this isn't a place where you're
looking to go to try to win right now, you know,
I think it's a it's a major rebuild, you know, organizationally,
every time there's one of these guys out there, like,
you know, I try to reach out find out hey
look like anybody looking at him if they reached out
about him, and you know, universally the answer has been
like no, there was a report yesterday about Gilmore. I
checked up on that. The answer was not, like they're
not looking at him. So like, I think they're kind
of at a place where they just want to find
out what they have and either they have answers or
they don't. And I think they're trying to do this build,
you know, sort of the right way and not be
reckless about anything or try to put too much weight
on trying to win this season, because yeah, I think realistically,
like if you look at it, I mean, there's not
a chance to be a like a real winning team
right now. And you know, what's the value of getting
from let's say, let's say they are a five win
team and you go out and you add some veteran
that that's going to help you get the six and
a half seven wins? Like, what's the value in that?
Like now you're just kind of lowering yourself in the draft,
and you know, you kind of got to weigh both things.
You want to build your culture, you want to have
some success. I think having success helps you build that culture.
I think you have to be like mindful of all
that stuff. But like trying to spend money and assets
on like trying to improve a team that's not going
anywhere currently, I don't think it's the right way to
do it. Like, I think you got to find out
what your answers are. I think there's a lot of
unknowns on this team. Let that stuff reveal itself this year,
and then I think next year you start trying to
add to what's good, get rid of what is it,
and go from there. But I think it's I think
it's both those things. I think they're kind of you know,
I don't want to say put off the gas, but
they aren't. They aren't pressing on it like they have
in the past where they felt like the NFC souths
was attainable. And at the same time, I don't think
there's many veterans trying to get into this vehicle right now.
Speaker 3: Where are you most worried on the defense side of
the football, because I think we know a lot of
the offensive issues, But what about on the other side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious for you guys think too. Like for me,
it's a pass rush like one hundred percent. I just
don't feel like they have a top end the answer.
I feel like they have like doo good like you know,
the answers at that position. You know. I like Brian
Brazi as a pass rusher. I think he's got to
play the run a lot better. I'm gonna be interested
to see how that kind of you know works out
with this staff and how they view him since they
don't really have anything invested in him. But you know,
I'm gremely worried about that aspect of it. And then
if the corners are at pick worse than they were
last year, you know, I think that becomes even harder
to get you know, pressures into stacks. So yeah, I'm
I'm I'm real worried about that one. And with that
big investment, like hopefully Chase Young gets you a little
bit of something. But I think, no matter what happens
that need number one on the list next year, assuming
quarterback is in a disaster, and you know it could
be need to as well, I think there's still just
major major questions there.
Speaker 5: Nick did uh? Did Tyler Shuck? Did he hire a
Louisiana pr firm to run his offseason campaign of just
absolutely endearing himself to every single Louisiana And he's done,
He's done everything. And then of course this past Weeknd
shows up at the Many Passing Academy, gets rave reviews
from him. Peyton Manning is doing interviews on the Pat
mcavee show talking about Shuck coming down. So like he's
doing everything, Is there anything is that? Has there been
one misstep from Tyler Shuck this offseason?
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know, I don't think so man
Like he just seems to have like studied everything that
went wrong with the previous quarterback. Yeah, I mean that
that would be. That would be My criticism is like
this almost feels like like too calculated, like too much,
but like, yeah, he's making all the right moves, says
all the right things. I think, you know, him being
a little bit older too, like plays into him coming
in here like the right way understand and where he's
at with it and everything.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I think there's like a maturity to it. But looking
like even if it is like you know, a plan
and it's kind of coming from like you know whatever,
like if he's game planning and how he's coming into
a city, Like I like how. I like what that
says about how he approaches things in general, being a
h smart, calculated, thought out individual. Like I feel like
it's going to translate into you know, his his actual job.
I like him. I like how he's how he's handling things.
I like everything that that he says. I like what
he's doing. He just seems I don't know, he just
seems smart and look, I think there's like a genuineness
to it. Too, like even if you are kind of
sitting down plating that stuff out, like it's coming from
like a place of understanding and you know, wanting. I mean,
you guys know how it is here man like it
like wanting to be part of the community and all
that stuff like it it actually like matters probably more
than it maybe you know it should, but it's part
of it, and it's part of how people, you know,
react to you and accept you and all that stuff.
And he just seems to get it. And uh yeah,
I mean it almost a little too perfect, but uh
it's better than kind of what the opposite was. And
look for my purche, I like it that people like
the quarterback because then when we talk about him, it
could just be about the football and it's not about
you know, what he puts in his Chipotle bowl or
any of this other stuff. Like it's just you're kind
of evaluating it on that level and not like through
this like the veneer of hate. And I think it
makes it a little bit easier to talk about like
what's actually happening on the football field.
Speaker 3: Who you're referring to, Yeah, we're talking about catching up
with our guy Nick Underhill. New Orleans. Dat Football is
the site, Nick, there's going to be you know, going
back to the defense, there's a lot of mid round
selections there that I don't really know what their role's
going to be. We can go Danny Stutsman who took
in the fourth round, Riley he took in the fourth round,
Tank or he took in the third round. I mean
there was you know, Diggs in the seventh round. Off
the top of my head. So there was a lot
of investment in the draft on that side of the ball.
Now we haven't heard a lot. And some of that's
because you got a quarterback competition. Some of it's because
your first round pick, your second round pick obviously main
positions being a left tackling quarterback. Any of those guys
did they pop maybe in these early camps. Do you
think there's going to be a starting role for any
of those mid round defensive selections.
Speaker 4: Scot's been definitely popped for sure. I mean his range
and just like those seven on sevens was kind of crazy.
Like he broke up one pass. I was probably like
I don't know, man, it was probably like twenty some
yards down the field on the sideline, Like just know,
really really good range, moved around Pop just one of
them guys that you consistently noticed. Sanker had a nice
pick in one of the Mini camp practices, jumped route
from from Rattler kind of like you know, cut underneath.
They showed good vision anticipation there. I'm interested in what
they're gonna do with safety. Like the rotation at Mini
camp was kind of weird to me that they had
Justin Reid and Jordan Howden out there with the first
team defense. I don't know what that was about. I
don't know what it means. I don't know if it's
just you know, Timer wasn't out there for Ota, so
maybe they were bringing him along slowly. I don't know,
you know. And as far as Riley, like he just
started getting out the practice in Mini camp like he
had some type of procedure. I believe I'm his like
leg I don't know exactly what it was. Wasn't out there,
and OTAs was starting to get his legs under him there.
I think the doors wide open for him to compete
for one of them outside corner spots for for sure,
you know. I think him against Ike Adam is probably
gonna be one of them. The battles, the play out
throughout camp, but I think all of them have a
chance to get get out there. Stepsan's probably a little
bit more block than the other guys, but I think,
you know, I think there's gonna be some opportunity for sure.
Speaker 5: Nick. July first, man, it's uh, it is training camp month,
so happy July. We got July fourth coming, So before
we get to training camp, let me know what you got.
What you got planned this July fourth? You any big plans, fireworks?
Cooking out? What we got? Uh?
Speaker 4: I really got nothing, man, I don't know. Like we
were gonna go on a trip. It kind of got
canceled by by some light stuff. So kind of just
like piecing it together right now, but probably just hanging
out man Like, Yeah, I don't know. I haven't I
haven't put it together yet. The plan must to be
at Wrigley Field on July fourth, but that's uh, that's
sidetrack a little bit, so I don't know, putting it together.
Speaker 3: Some fireworks, yeah, Yeah, Were you gonna go hang out
with Tabo? Was that the plans for the fourth?
Speaker 4: No? But I might actually have some baseball tickets to
send him, so that'll that'll tell might he might find
himself a little come up.
Speaker 3: If they are free, they are te so he will
certainly take those free tickets. Nick, you're the man. We
appreciate you joining us every single week. It is getting
closer and the closer cannot wait to start talking about
Saints and training camp. We appreciate the time as always, sir.
Speaker 4: Yeah, taking these you guys.
Speaker 5: There we go. We're getting excited.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 5: I I mean we were so I was. We're doing
our best to get ready and become big Saints fans
right now, I said we earlier talking about the Saints.
We got we had some good energy.
Speaker 3: We technically both did wear that uniform. Yeah, we had
a lot of good That was our last uniform we
both wore.
Speaker 5: Then, like the Saints insider, Nick Underill comes on and says, yeah,
five wins. I got like in my brain, like in
between those last couple of segments, I was like, man,
I think we could get eight, nine, maybe ten. Let's
go underdogs, maybe win a couple at the end.
Speaker 3: If you get seven or eight, it's a it's a
good it's a good year. Would you rather have always?
Would you rather have a nine win season? And be
in the conversation maybe fall short of the playoffs, or
would you rather just say Leroy Jenkins and just have
like two wins and get the number one pick.
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, I'd rather be in the conversation too, for sure.
I don't know, especially now that you know you got
the quarterback.
Speaker 3: I know the quarterback class is elite, at least we
think it's going to be next year. But man, I
don't know that I could sit there for a two
win season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. No, I'd much rather be especially since
you drafted Shuck this past year. You know, I really,
I really hope that Rattler goes in there and wins
the job, so Shuck and sit a little bit himself,
pops off, plays well, and then improves his trade value
for the Saints, potentially with then Shukka doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't give a damn, he don't give
a Shuck or rotb when we come back.
Speaker 5: For are those coming.
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Speaker 3: Between Walking Back, Oh TB So, my afternoon co host
is EJ. Manuel and e J also is a regular
on Get Up on ESPN, and he just he sent
me a text this morning because he was on there
and fine Baum was on there as well, and he
asked if I saw it. I was like, no, man,
we don't have it on in studio, Like what was it?
He sends it to me. Fine Baum said arch Manning
is the best college football quarterback we have seen since
Tim Tebow.
Speaker 8: We haven't seen it.
Speaker 9: Can you say it again?
Speaker 3: Wow? Fine Baum said that arch Manning is the best
college quarterback we've seen since Tim Tebow. We've had a
lot of We've had a lot of quarterbacks that have
then then Tim Tebow my opinion overall as a thrower
and a runner. But like we're just skipping over cam
Burrow Baker whoever.
Speaker 5: Let me come to this. I'll come to his defense
real quick because I haven't seen it. We hadn't heard it,
nobody here has. So I am going to assume. I'm
gonna make this assumption that he was talking about as
far as hype coming in, he's the most the best
college football as far as like all the hype and everything,
the build up leading now because the Tim Tebow build
up was really big. It was huge. I don't know
if you remember.
Speaker 3: That I was supposed to host Tim at l s
U passed Luke Sanders.
Speaker 5: Well, glad he didn't come me too. Yep, but that five,
But like he would be out of his mind if
after the limited playing time he would say, like the
best quarterback since team in college football. He has to
mean the best like build up, most hype, the most
maybe prepared to play. I don't know, but I'm just
gonna come to his defense there without knowing this situation
at all, because he's he's been doing this Alon.
Speaker 3: You can find the audio. See if you can find
the club I'm not calling Paul want to say, Paul, nobody, Paul,
they ain't played nobody.
Speaker 8: Y'all will be shocked to hear this. High school me
would go home.
Speaker 10: Every day after an Alabama show, After an Alabama loss,
I would.
Speaker 8: Go home, turn on the Paul Fine Bomb Show.
Speaker 10: And just laugh at the hysteria, enjoyed it so much.
Speaker 3: Paul has been doing this for a long time. He's
an og in the game. But if you host a
Paul fine Bomb show, A lot of solo shows are
very difficult. Like what our boy j D Pickel does,
what Josh Pyton does, that's not easy. We've certainly all
done solo Like you know, Taylor, you're doing it right now,
you're doing it for Scone.
Speaker 5: I would never do it.
Speaker 3: You'll eventually you'll get comfortable enough where you do. But
like for his show, he's basically like open monologue, next segment, caller,
let her rip. We got Gail down in mobile letter rip,
we got Franklin up in Montgomery, let him rip?
Speaker 5: How about Franklin.
Speaker 3: I don't even think it's like it's just really like
for Arch, he's tried to I can appreciate he has
literally tried, I think, from my view, try to do
everything the right way.
Speaker 5: It seems like he's.
Speaker 3: Like he's not like there's guys that invite this now,
like there's some guys like I think Tim enjoyed the
hype of t bou mania and all that. Arch has
felt like he's been like man Can I just hang
out with my friends, do call and go play some ball?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's certainly not like he's not enjoying
the height because everything is on his shoulders now, So
people think that, man, it's a no win situation. There's
so much hype, so much hype. So well, it can
turn into a really good thing. Go and Beatlehigo State
Game one. You're gonna be the favorite for the Heisman
because of that hype. Yeah. Now with that being said,
if he underperforms, it's going to be just I mean,
it's gonna go one way or the other. It's gonna
be He's the greatest of all time or this guy's awful.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see what kind of context we can
get from this. Here is Paul finnebum earlier today on Get.
Speaker 8: Up Fine baumb What are your expectations for Arch.
Speaker 7: The absolute roof. I think there's a reasonably good chance
at Arch Manning will be sitting on the front row
in New York at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that
his team does what it's supposed to do and compete
for not only the SEC but for the national championship.
And I really believe they will. I think Steeve Sarkisian,
who's one of the most amazing play callers I've ever seen, made,
made a critical mistake late in the year. He was
way too loyal to quinn Ewers, who was banged up
and was really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted in
the second half of that game, like Nick Saban did
a couple of years ago, with a tongue of I loa,
I think there's a reasonably good chance that Texas would
have beaten Ohio State and won the national championship. They're
very capable of doing it again this year. I believe
also that arch Manning is the best college football quarterback
we have seen since Tim Tebow entered the scene in
two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: I you tried, I.
Speaker 5: Tried, you tried, kind of did say.
Speaker 9: His expectation was that, so it's kind.
Speaker 3: Of a yeah, because like Taylor said, we don't have
anything to go up.
Speaker 6: It kind of is like his games.
Speaker 3: That he's playing is ul Monroe UTSA in Mississippi State.
Speaker 5: He led up to his statement saying the expectation yeah,
but then he's I believe that he will be Then
he said, I will I do believe he the best guy.
Speaker 3: What did Quinn yours do to all these people?
Speaker 6: We were talking about that after the show the other day.
Speaker 3: He led his team of back to back semi final appearances.
Speaker 6: But we were like, we were kind of talking about
that the other day where Aaron Murray he came on
the show and she's talking about, like, well, what do
you think, Like, how is somebody like Arch so highly
rated when he sat behind a seventh round pick And
it's like, Okay, well I don't think that should have
happened in the first place. And like you said, he
took Texas from being like nothing mediocre to write mediocre
to like you said, taking them to the playoffs and
leading their team.
Speaker 9: To national not to the national.
Speaker 3: Team to a semi final two different times.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: What the whole seventh round pick take his. I mean
you gotta have a take, like you got to say something.
Speaker 3: I mean, the quarterback, the quarterback that final moms talking
about like who throws the football better, like when yours
are Tim Tebow? Yeah, I mean, we like, it's just
wild disrespect.
Speaker 5: And you could argue says that when yours fell because
Arch was there and there was so much pressure to
put him in. There's all these different things, and maybe
the pressure got to yours at some point. But like
you said, back to back semi final appearances, Yeah, guy
make every throw in the book. Yeah, he kind of
disappeared in a couple of games here and there. But
like it happens, happens everybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I talked about this a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 10: Like when Archer was coming out of high school, I
thought he got unnecessary hate. A lot of people were
like Archie Manning's a five star because of his name,
and I'm like, oh, I think arch has a shot
to be a really good quarterback. It has completely flipped
and like people put so much expectation on him and
he really hasn't done anything.
Speaker 8: Like I understand he's good. I understand that.
Speaker 10: Seeve Sarkesian made Mac Jones look like a Heisman Trophy finalist,
Like we've seen how that's worked out since then.
Speaker 8: Like I get all of that.
Speaker 10: But Texas lost their top three receivers from a year ago.
They lost their left tackle who's going to be the
starter for the Saints. He was a first round pick.
They lost two of their three running backs from a
year ago. Like, I think Arch is going to be good,
but like, let's pump the brakes here a little bit,
Like this Texas team has to replace a ton now.
He did it in twenty four because they had to
replace a ton from the year before, Like, you gotta
do it again. You got to go out there and
show me something before we're gonna annoint these guys like
the best in the sec not just Arch but.
Speaker 8: Texas as a whole.
Speaker 5: And if anybody's set up to like go out and
prove it, it would be him. He's got the skill set,
he's on the team, he's got the play color everything.
But like I think even the Mannings would tell you, hey,
let the kid go prove it. Yeah, right, I think
that that's what they would prefer happen from the public opinion,
But it's not.
Speaker 6: I feel like it kind of sucks too for Arch
because he's not the one that's out here being like, oh,
I'm not.
Speaker 3: A size right way yeah, and trying.
Speaker 6: To everyone's kind of like setting him up for failure
because you're hyping him up so much and obviously they
are gonna be bumps in the road on the way there,
and everyone's gonna be like see he was overrated the
entire time, and it's like, I mean kind of just
because like y'all crowned him this before we even saw
anything from him.
Speaker 5: It's gonna let him.
Speaker 10: Let him go up there in Columbus Week one and lose,
which right now I think they're going to. I think
Ohio State does win that game. But like let's say
Arch goes up there one touchdown, two picks, So how
State wins about two touchdowns. They're gonna they're gonna crucify
the kid.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, they are the quarterback and head
coach for every football team always gets unnecessary praise, undeserved praise.
But he also gets undeserved blame all the time as well.
That's the nature of the beast. Arch is like that,
magnified by like a thousand. So he's gonna get If
he plays well, he's gonna get way more praise than
he deserves. And he plays bad, he's gonna get way
less than he deserves.
Speaker 3: When you look at what Quinn was last year, going
back to Quinn years, he threw for thirty five hundred yards,
completed sixty six percent of his passes, thirty one touchdowns
to twelve interceptions, and so I just I have a problem.
I guess this isn't even necessary. Like what fine Mom
said about Arches is wild, just because like you're skipping
over generational quarterbacks. But also like I don't know why,
but I just feel like I got to stick up
for Quinn Ewers because he was a good, solid college
football player. You look at the stats. He was tough,
He came back from injuries multiple times. He humbled himself.
He went to Ohio State for the money, said that's
not me. I want to play at Texas. What am
I doing? You know, gets rid of the mullet, comes
back down to Texas and tries to make everything about football.
He goes out there, plays pretty well, like him talking
about well, if Arch Manning comes into the game, then
Ohio State might not win a national championship. Did y'all
not see Jack Sawyer like free reign to the quarterback,
like nobody touched him. I don't care if it was
Cam Newton back. There's gonna be tough to escape that. Like,
it's not like Quinn went and lost that game on
the fumble. You had one of the best rushers in
college football last year. Unblocked with a clear path to
the quarterback. I don't think I'm gonna blame Quinn Ewers,
who was leading his team down There was on the
goal line. They couldn't run it in. They tried to
throw it, sack, fumble, ball goes the other way.
Speaker 9: But and that one play that was like the last play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think we can all agree we just
said it. He's done it the right way. I think
we're all going to be cheering for him in a
Louisiana kid. Seems to do all the right things. Seems
like he's got a good head on his shoulders. Let's
cheer for him. I hope he comes in the second
place in SEC every year he starts.
Speaker 3: Bilbo asked how many college junior quarterbacks have entered a
season as a Heisman favorite with less than one thousand
passing yards before arch I was favorite.
Speaker 5: I was shocked that he was a Heusman favorite when
I looked it up this morning.
Speaker 8: That's what That's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 10: Like it was Athons. Athons like magazine that comes out
of everything.
Speaker 3: I feel still magazine here.
Speaker 10: And uh, they ranked arch as the number one quarterback
in the SEC coming into the season over nuts like
the guys played like I bet if you added up
the quarters he's played, he's probably played five to six games.
Speaker 3: I would say. The only person that would fall into
this category, it's to a tongue of bay Loo. Remember
he came in, won a national championship, coming into that
game late, and then when he was entering the next season,
he was a Heisman front runner coming into that year,
which I also believe was his junior year. That's the
only one I could think.
Speaker 8: But I mean, you just mentioned that he accomplished more
than an Arch.
Speaker 10: He came in, he won that game. They were down
double digits. Like to fine Baum's point, if Arch would
have come into that game against Ohio State, he would
have led a comeback, maybe we'd feel a little different.
Speaker 5: He didn't.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do this, let's step away, let's regroup.
Wild behavior out there, Wow this morning on get up
more OTB. When we jump back on one oh four
to five ESPN, baton.
Speaker 2: Rouge off the bench.
Speaker 3: Now and anytime, it's always the perfect time to go
for dose with eight dose sekis now.
Speaker 5: I'll fine, Mom, drinks those seconds.
Speaker 3: No, don't have a chest. There's going to be a
lot of dose sekis, as Flynn would say, eliminated here
for the fourth July, as they should be celebrating having
a good time. Hot dogs, hamburgers, the whole works with
eight ice cold dough secies. But a lot of y'all
going out of town. You're going to the lake, You're
going to the beach. We say it every day toes
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Speaker 5: Long time ago, our forefathers declared independence. The taxes were
too high. Guess what not too high on dose secids.
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twenty four pack, forty eight whatever, cool it down. I
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Go for dots with dose seqis.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven. Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB. So we were supposed
to have Roddy Jones. He's gonna move to tomorrow. He
had something pop up last minute, and it is Tuesday.
We had four guests and so kind of replacing OTB
mail Bag. But since we got fifteen minutes left in
the show, two segments, let's go ahead and do two
segments of OTB mail Bag.
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the internet.
Speaker 2: What the fuck is the internet.
Speaker 3: Hashtag?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: TB mail Bag build your ultimate July fourth plate.
Speaker 6: Oh, I've gone Glizzi.
Speaker 9: No questions asked?
Speaker 6: What do you potato salad?
Speaker 3: Potato salad for sure? Mustard based or mayonnaise base.
Speaker 9: Oh, mustard based.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we usually we usually mixed both.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we usually do.
Speaker 8: Victoria makes like a mix puts both in there.
Speaker 6: It's pretty good macaroni salad.
Speaker 3: Okay, see, I'm going a lot of protein. I'm going
Glizzie for sure. Probably some mustard on that thing, depending
on what we got for like mustard all upon it,
depending on what we have, you know, at our disposal there.
I'm going cheeseburger fully dressed. I'm probably going like some
kind of a fried onion ring french fry, something with
potato salad, our bank beans, so it's gonna be a
heavy place.
Speaker 8: I'm going dog too, obviously, I'm going chili cheese dog.
Speaker 3: To come with a diaper.
Speaker 8: Chili cheese dog is say, top five tailor food easily
easily so.
Speaker 3: You get out the gas.
Speaker 8: No hope, but I would. I if I wanted one
bad enough, I would.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6: Seven eleven chili dog is fired.
Speaker 8: There ain't no place.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you have ever had one, but
they are fired.
Speaker 3: It's a gut bomb, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: There ain't a person in Walker, Louisiana.
Speaker 10: That's Boltimore foot long chili cheese coni from Sonic than
your boy right here.
Speaker 8: I guaranteed it.
Speaker 10: Let's go guarantee it's so we're going chili cheese hot dog,
fully dressed cheeseburger like Jake did fries, catch up with
a sod of cheese and dip the fries and food
and there we go.
Speaker 5: I'm definitely going hot dogs, but I'm not going with
it on my plate, because a proper hot dog off
the grill is consumed straight off the grill, but in hand,
just put it on on your head mustard, maybe a
little like finely diced onions. Don't give me the thick stuff.
I don't want the thick onions. I want this finy
dice onions on my plate, baby back ribs all day
with like a vinegar barbecue sauce. I like a potato
salad made with like some mustard bait. Oh yeah, I
am a little fans. I love a good cheeseburger, but
like my sides, like keep it simple, like a little
like fun pack of cheetos.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, nothing, I'm going glizzi with mustard, a little
bit onion like you and dill relish and.
Speaker 5: Then does anything like some grilled sausage sliced with some
toothpick appetizer with little barbecue sauce and mustard must little
barbe whole bunch of like a little bottle of toothpicks
out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, come salad, little macaroni salad, plain ass like that.
Speaker 5: Everybody's chilling.
Speaker 7: On.
Speaker 3: All right, we got wet we uh go to the
mail bag. Your car breaks down in Europe, your own
a family vacation, where you located and what's your first move?
Speaker 9: I don't really get it.
Speaker 3: I don't know about to locate you are? Would be
like if I'm in Europe. It's to go watch Premier
League soccer. So I'm probably in England, unless Swansea would
be up, then i'd be in Wales. But I'm probably
in England. The good part about Europe is there's always
a train nearby. Yeah, so you can walk to a
train station go wherever you need to go.
Speaker 6: Wait, Okay, so I don't know if I fully get
the question, But.
Speaker 5: You're in Europe. Yeah, with your family your car breaks down? Yes,
he wants to know where you are and what are
you doing?
Speaker 3: Like, why are you in Europe?
Speaker 9: Why am I in Europe?
Speaker 6: Probably vacationing sipping on some wine in Italy, so I'm
probably somewhere. Yeah, that's a banger, Probably sipping on some
wine somewhere in like the mountains in Italy. So I'm
probably somewhere very like remote. Yeah, so I don't know
what I'm gonna do. We'll probably just die like don.
Speaker 8: Leads like to death.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I mean I can't even start my own
car here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speaker 5: So I would be So if I'm going to Europe family,
I'm going to drink some wine. So I probably be
in like Italy. But I'd be around some wine. Yeah,
that's what I've done in the past. So if my
car breaks down, if you're in the right area, like
there's winery that's walkable wherever you are, you just go
there and then they might not speak a lick of English,
but you just like speak real slow to them. They
get it right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hand gestures and.
Speaker 5: Gess I need wine.
Speaker 8: No, I'm somebody that likes to like fix things on
their car themselves within reasons.
Speaker 10: So like I'm gonna figure it out. If it's something
I can't fix, it's a rental car anyways, I mean Europe,
don't care. Call somebody to come and get it. Walk
to the next spot.
Speaker 8: We're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to fix your Yeah, actually it broke down.
Speaker 8: I actually have two long wars and when.
Speaker 3: I'm Victoria's got a little rattle, like I gonna get
under the hood. Sorry, Tony Romo. What's your Fourth of
July playlist? Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith For me.
Speaker 6: I mean, you've gotta have Fourth of July by Sound
Garden on there, like you have to.
Speaker 5: You've already hit all the bangers party in the USA,
Myley Cyrus.
Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously it's the obviously the song feels like.
Speaker 9: You've got to have some Tom Petty in there.
Speaker 5: Music.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, hashtag go to the Mailback fourth July, Soda,
coke or pett I say pepsi doctor, I've been on
pepsi zero. It is hitting.
Speaker 9: I'm cringing.
Speaker 3: Pepsi zero is hitting.
Speaker 5: What I know?
Speaker 3: What? I like die coke? Like coke?
Speaker 5: Has anybody ever met a pepsi person?
Speaker 8: Like the prefers like that's not a serial killer? Actually enough?
Speaker 9: What this is crazy?
Speaker 3: Like y'all telling me like a good diet pepsi from
Taco Bell when you're.
Speaker 10: I if I'm a Taco Bell, I'll get it because
they only have pepsi products.
Speaker 8: I don't think I'm ever going to go pepsi ever.
Speaker 5: But I mean question was asked basically, Coker pepsi, and you,
with a face, immediately said pepsi.
Speaker 3: I said, I've been on pepsi zero lately, like you said,
this is crazy. My drink of choice when I go
to restaurants is coke zero.
Speaker 5: This show just got wild.
Speaker 6: I'm going doctor Pepper all the way and.
Speaker 8: Doctor Pepper with a light beer. I gotta do bots.
On fourth of July.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even know where I am right now. Rattle.
I'm die Coke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you're a big coke powery guy.
Speaker 5: I just I never I don't think I ever met
a pepsi person.
Speaker 6: This is causing like a riff right now.
Speaker 5: Our relationship can get through a lot.
Speaker 3: I like both. That is that weird you said Pepsi.
I prefer Mountain Dew Code Red over the original Mountain.
Speaker 8: Code Red is the best one they've made.
Speaker 6: Baja Blast is pretty great.
Speaker 5: But has anybody gone back and had a red cream
soda recently?
Speaker 3: Probably my dad.
Speaker 10: Anywhere I got one of BUCkies in Mississippi two weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Yeah, out of their machine.
Speaker 5: So we got some at the house, like not to
I can't remember. Someone brought some over and my wife
and I'm like, oh my god. Yeah, And so it's
one of those things I haven't had since I was
probably in sixth grade or something. I was like, oh
my god, what a familiar flavor this is. And it's delicious,
makes you feel all right.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break. We're still gonna do more
of this. We're gonna get to your questions a little
otb Backs asked the bench to close out this Tuesday show.
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Speaker 6: I used to think a witch lived on the top
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Speaker 9: In My aunt told me that a witch lived up there.
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Speaker 5: So what was the red light in?
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Speaker 5: I'm sure she Yeah, whatever she wants to be smart.
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Speaker 8: On my He got shot in the eye with fireworks.
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