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and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo, yoo yo.
Speaker 4: I need your time in a little bit better there, Flynn,
get out of the tour and get into the Yo.
Speaker 5: I'm into brother, I'm trying to find this charger down there.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, if you got to charge
something at seven oh one, you need to check.
Speaker 4: Your life because one, you didn't prepare properly or too
you're just on that thing too much.
Speaker 5: No, it's not that, not that you know. I always
got this wire plugged into it, but I didn't look
at what the wire this wire was played into down here.
It's a lot of wires down here.
Speaker 4: It's probably now, Taylor, if you plug that one into
your computer, he can see what you're looking at, so
just be careful.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying, that this is played
in Taylor can check it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is he is he watching cycling?
Speaker 6: No he's he's not connected, or no he was earlier.
Speaker 5: I'm connected right now. Then it might not be, but
I've watched the cycling on my iPad. No one's getting
in this, nobody's hacking into this one.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: He does bring multiple devices. Uh, Jake, Flannelandro Tata all
here with you. And yes it is Friday. This week
actually felt quick, so I do like finally Friday, this
was a quick week. We got a lot of exciting
stuff on the horizon. We got media days, Tata laid
it out, Lsu gets a big commit But before we
get there, how's everybody doing?
Speaker 3: How we live?
Speaker 4: And I know Flynn's all fired up because people are
and bikes in France.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing great. Thank you for that intro. Ready
for the weekend, Ready to get a little R and
R before I guess next week starts next week. I
don't you know still, I've heard all the warnings, got
everybody's opinions, know kind of what to expect, but I
really still I don't think you know exactly what kind
of hornet says you're about to jump into till you
actually do it. I'm excited I've kept like thinking all
week that I'm gonna have this opportunity, like every day
to just shave off a couple hours to dive into
some film of some random SC teams and players. Yeah,
really crunch the stats so I really know what I'm
talking about when I meet these people face to face
and I have to ask them questions. But we hadn't
had a chance, not yet, So this is gonna be
a cram weekend for me.
Speaker 3: I work better under pressure. See here's the problem with that.
Speaker 4: You've had the opportunity when but you've used your opportunity
to watch Grown Man in Spandex right up a mountain.
Speaker 5: I only watched that while I'm here m and usually
not even like paying attention unless we're.
Speaker 3: At the break. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You give me a lot of names with a lot
of syllables and just keep on going.
Speaker 3: Todd A lost the yellow jersey about second, Yes, one second, Quinn.
Speaker 5: Now Quinn came in second though, really valiant effort, but
he couldn't win. He couldn't he couldn't overcome and catch
Ben Healey the Irishman.
Speaker 4: Do we get points for being seconds?
Speaker 5: But it's a good showing you don't get nothing for
being s I don't know. Actually they probably get some
sort of bonus.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. If you don't know, I
share as held.
Speaker 5: On second in a stage. I mean, nobody remembers who
came at second in.
Speaker 7: The stage, but I'll always remember Quinn Simmons came second.
Speaker 6: In the stage.
Speaker 3: Stage six twenty five.
Speaker 5: Remember, remember Quinn told you what yesterday was a big deal?
You know it's a big deal for him. Obviously would
have been a way bigger deal if you want. But
Stilly had that beautiful flow, a beautiful mustache, riding up
the mountains.
Speaker 3: Olandra, how are we doing?
Speaker 7: Doing good?
Speaker 8: Ready for the weekend. I don't think I'm getting into anything.
But again I told y'all on Monday, trying to get
my life together, So maybe I'll try to do that again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you put in gas into your car.
Speaker 7: With your car on, and I didn't blow.
Speaker 3: Up, and you are still here to tell the story.
Speaker 7: I survived it.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I'm gonna keep doing that just
because it makes me a little nervous, but I didn't
turn it off.
Speaker 5: Based on the way you asked her that question. All right,
have you been trying to get her to do that.
Are you like.
Speaker 3: Not me all?
Speaker 1: But leave their car off?
Speaker 6: I don't, Bob.
Speaker 3: Store, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'm in te Bob. Leave their car on.
Speaker 5: You're supposed to turn that off. But like right or wrong,
I've always like heard or known that, like for regular gas,
turn it off, for a diesel, you can leave it on.
I don't know if that's I don't know who told
me that, but I believe that for a long time.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I don't know, but I got a diesel.
I'm still here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm still here. I survived the pumping gas. There
was my Volkswagen really badass.
Speaker 3: You got a diesel, not a big deal.
Speaker 7: There used to have a diesel. It was a Jetta,
but it was diesel.
Speaker 3: Matter.
Speaker 7: You didn't say what In Europe diesel lasted forever.
Speaker 5: So sorry. There was this one time in college I
was at I was at a gas station filling up.
You know, I had they have the signs like don't
use your cell phone around the Yeah, I'm always thought
like why, like is the cell phone ringing gonna like
make everything explode? Well, there was this one time in
college I was using my cell phone near the pump
and I was talking. I can't remember who I was
talking to and talking blah blah blah. I feel up.
I'm talking, get in my car, drive off. Well I
forgot to take the the hose out of the car. Yeah,
and it just classic, it just ripped off the top. Yeah,
what did you do? And I was like, well, did
you did you?
Speaker 4: Did you go in you retrieve and be like say, hey,
we got problem here.
Speaker 5: I went and I asked the young lady who was
working like the registers, and she didn't. She wasn't like
real thrilled. I wasn't impressed, and I just was. I
was trying to, like, you know, chum it up with her,
make her laugh a little bit, like, yeah, this was unfortunate.
Didn't mean to do this, blah blah blah. And I
was like, yeah, I was just on my phone.
Speaker 3: I got in.
Speaker 5: She's like, well, that's why the sign says don't use
your phone near the near the pump. You get distracted,
get distracted or distracted. I don't know if she really
knew the scientific reason, but feels like it feels like
it pulled off. Did you know if you ever do it,
it's okay? They have a safety flatch. You knew that, yeah,
because I've done. I was like, how, how do you
know that? I've witnessed?
Speaker 3: Yeah, years, I know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's either Nashville and chatting Due.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: We're all the way to Gallenberg.
Speaker 9: This lady pulls out of the gas pump, but like
unlike you, she just does not stop pulls it out.
Speaker 3: I just go. It's just like flapping.
Speaker 9: I don't know how long it took her to realize
she didn't stop, so she was out of my line.
Speaker 6: It's like she kept on going.
Speaker 5: Good for her because she was probably still on her
phone probably probably.
Speaker 3: How we doing? Have we living?
Speaker 6: We're doing good.
Speaker 9: Thumbs are a little sore, but uh where we're going okay.
In my exercises this morning though, we're fine. We're had
some cracking to do this morning. But uh, good to go.
Speaker 3: Who were playing with?
Speaker 6: So uh we uh we're playing with.
Speaker 5: L s U right now.
Speaker 4: What I start, well, I started with you gotta go
be the O C at Tech.
Speaker 6: I started with I'm not I'm not in Dynasty.
Speaker 9: I'm a Road to Glory recruit, and I was I
was originally like, well, I'm not going in l s
U because like, I want to play right away.
Speaker 6: I don't want to sit behind nuts.
Speaker 5: Sure, but you play a.
Speaker 9: High school season first, so it's technically twenty six wasn't there?
So I was like, okay, well let's go. Yeah, okay,
I gotta tell you that I got a bone to
pick with. Brian Kelly screwed me. Oh screwed me, like,
promised me I'd be the starter. I enroll, I get there,
third string. I had to work my way up. We
go nine and three, but I'm seven and oh as
a starter, I had to sit the first like four games.
We were one in three and then he put me
in like wait to wait till the last second, Bud
tay something.
Speaker 4: If you're one and three at LSU, you're not gonna
be the only person disappointed?
Speaker 3: Right, Well? Did he did?
Speaker 8: He?
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 5: He promise you'd be the day one starter.
Speaker 9: That's what it said, like, because when you when you
go to commit, it's like, here's where you stand on
the depth chart.
Speaker 6: It's like starter, second string, bitch.
Speaker 5: You must have been pretty good in high school. Then
guarantee the star. A four star was guaranteed the opening
day starter? Did he didn't have anybody. LSU didn't have anybody. Well,
they probably went to that portal, probably, so yeah, they
got Keelan Russell.
Speaker 9: Okayla as his one win, a sixteen to ten overtime
victory against Miami Ohio.
Speaker 5: All right, I can see Taylor's really upset about this.
I can see you get mad. So can you control
on the game? Can you control like you're willing or
your desire to transfer? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can enter the portal.
Speaker 9: Like every off season, they give you option even Actually,
when Kelly messages you, he'll give you like a game
plan or what if you're not happy, you can like
give like a d bag response.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a lot. Oh what does d bag stand for?
What does that mean?
Speaker 4: I went saw Superman last night with the boys. Really Yeah,
yeah Superman. Yeah, didn't get home till eleven. It's late
for your boy. Here, Cad is late for your boy.
It is good though, It's good, you know what? Like
an origin story, it was pretty much like, hey, here's Superman.
Speaker 5: Who is I've never seen him before in my life. Okay,
I didn't even know there was a Superman out either
came out. He came out yesterday.
Speaker 3: Look at me?
Speaker 4: Opening Night movies. Oh boy, who says you can't have
fun after.
Speaker 7: Forty David corn sweat.
Speaker 3: I've never seen him before.
Speaker 6: He looks like a Superman?
Speaker 3: Does he look like a Superman?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Was good. It was pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good.
Speaker 4: It was better than than the last couple of superhero
movies the boys have have you know taken This wasn't
because I don't really take that and they take me
because DC.
Speaker 5: That got I mean that guy looks like Superman, super World,
like the Marvel World, like really took it downhill.
Speaker 8: Turn Yeah, yeah, it's peak was like the twenty like
in the teens. Yeah, like twenty eleven twenty Well that's
not a team, but you get what I mean, like
the double digit. Yeah, but I looked up this guy.
He was in Twisters, but I never saw twisters, so.
Speaker 3: Twisters.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was like the best comment I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: I forgot about that.
Speaker 4: You don't remember wearing a hat for like a full
week and jeans and a white T shirt and boots,
And I'm pretty sure it was the same white T shirt.
Speaker 5: I know he went through some different you know, uniform stages.
Speaker 4: On the show. Does he got like if he gets
a shirt that he's button up for like for a
little bit. Yeah, yep, there's a brown button up that
everybody knows and loves. There is a like now that
he's got the one that has the four different Disney
characters on it, that puppy. It's like, yeah, I think
those are rugby shirts is what they call that style
of shirt. Loves it married to the game Disney game.
Speaker 9: That is Jersey Yesterday, I did Mickey, that's so tea Bob.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, pork McCollum.
Speaker 5: So what was the Superman popcorn bucket?
Speaker 3: Did they have one? I did not see that.
Speaker 4: I'm so interested in this new like they so, you know,
Fantastic Force about to come out. So they had Galactus
and it's massive in the lady it was really She's like, look,
you and the four boys, there's a lot of popcorn, Like,
why don't you go ahead and get the bucket. I'm like, ma'am,
do you know how much it costs to send this
many children to the movies and this many children to
go through this line? I don't need the Galactis bucket
forty five dollars. The is gonna like, what in the
hell are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yep? That's going. Yeah, so no, I don't know. I
didn't check it out.
Speaker 5: I always like looking at them. Though they're fun. I
wish they're a little cheaper.
Speaker 7: The buckets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it was a card, dude, buy it. Well,
obviously that's an investment, that's true.
Speaker 4: It's an investment, babements.
Speaker 3: Not that financial will in our happiness exactly.
Speaker 4: All right, we will step away and when we come back,
as Tata laid out, LSU got some fantastic news yesterday
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like only champions can Today.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in oh TV here on this
Friday morning. LSU got great news on the recruiting trail yesterday,
something we talked about on yesterday's show.
Speaker 3: It is athlete Lamar Brown from you High.
Speaker 4: Now, he is going to play on the offense, our
defensive line, but he is an athlete because he plays
both at an incredibly high level.
Speaker 3: This is a huge git for LSUN.
Speaker 4: He's going to project to be a defensive lineman in college,
but certainly somebody that can play multiple positions, even along
the defensive line, and we talked about it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, when you're from Baton Rouge and you've
gone to school on LSU's campus, it's difficult to get
that player to decide to go to LSU. There's been
and look, it's not just a U High thing. I
know a lot of people are kind of pigeonholing it.
So you know, it's there's certainly been players from dutchdown
and Catholic and all over the place that if you're
from the Baton Rouge area, like sometimes you want to
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Speaker 4: All right, so like we're talking about, you know, it's hey,
it's always a little bit of a fifty to fifty deal.
But if you do stay, if you are one of
those players that is from Baton Rouge, you go to
LSU and you perform.
Speaker 3: Like we think you're going to man. You are going
to be a made man.
Speaker 4: You are going to be somebody that is going to
be taken care of for a long time. And again,
like I was going to say, obviously like I'm biasing
that answer, I just think that is one hundred percent true.
We kind of laid it out like there's a lot
of great football teams across the Southeast, but in every
other case, they've got a brother. It could be little brother,
it could be a big brother, but they've got a brother.
Like here in Louisiana, you've got some other good programs.
Speaker 3: I'm not going.
Speaker 4: Shade that way, but it's you space Space space everybody else,
and so when you make that decision, it is going
to be that forty year decision that we talk about.
So yeah, it's a big, big get for LSU to
not only get him as a player, but when you
get you know, this is multiple years now in a
row that you've gotten a player from you High, You've
gotten a player from the Baton Rouge area.
Speaker 3: They signed guys from Catholic.
Speaker 4: I think that is like, hey, start that trend, get
that trend going, and then maybe you know, instead of
seventy percent, maybe you get ninety percent of those guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so important to get these guys. I mean
that that's the number one goal for LSU. And we
discussed this yesterday about like this, you know, the only
like big, big, big program in Louisiana, LSU. So the
number one goal every year in recruiting is to put
a fence around Louisiana, but certainly put a fence around
Baton Rouge and on your own campus as well. With
this with the LAPS goal being on campus, so such
a big deal. I mean, I in respect to the
big hat.
Speaker 3: Oh that looks like my it looks like my older
brother's regular size hat right there.
Speaker 4: He has got a domb on him now with the
baseball jersey too. I forgot about that. Heck yea that
Jeff Levy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you want to endear yourself? Do that right there?
Have the baseball jersey on?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And okay, so can we pull up this tweet
from yesterday too? Can you pull that up?
Speaker 7: What tweet?
Speaker 3: This tweet? I do want to say it, like I didn't.
I don't want to make too much of it.
Speaker 4: Like but my son, oh no, he plays it you
high uh he plays right next to Lamar and he
and this is for like two years.
Speaker 3: He couldnot say enough good things about him.
Speaker 4: And look, Lamar has been somebody that received a scholarship
hoar from LSU, like when he was going into ninth grade, right,
so he's been on the radar. So he has known
that and it is so good to hear. Like, no,
he's like, hey, he holds everybody accountable, Like he's like, hey,
if we got film, Like he's like, hey, he's writing
in the group to hey not we got to be
there first one there, Like those are things that set
you up and can really when you're talking about going
from high school to the next level you want to
play fast, you want to be somebody that they can
count on fast.
Speaker 3: Those are the traits you have to have. Good read
the tweets there.
Speaker 5: I'm scrolling scrolling through x Twitter whatever it is, and
I come across it yesterday and here I quote mister
Lebar Brown. I'm locked in, man, ain't none of that.
It ain't over till the ink dry. Everybody had their chance.
I'm just blessed to be able to call Lsu home.
If you're not with us, then you tiger bait. I
love this man. I loved him kind of getting ahead
of this, putting this out there for a couple of reasons.
I mean one, it shows you like a kid that's
pretty cerebral and knows like you could tell he's trying
to get his process over yeah before his season starts,
which I understand that that's what I wanted to do
when I was when I was getting recruited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no idea. You have no idea.
Speaker 5: If you combine yours and O stars together, we equal
his stars. So we don't know what it's like to
have five stars like me plus you equals h right
in the star in the star realm. So yes, but
for him to put that out there, like I wish
more young men would have this mentality of like so
often today in the college football world, in college recruiting world,
like it's a commitment, but it's like a soft Yes,
it's A'm a Pennsylvan. I'm gonna commit because that's the
thing to do. I guess I'm gonna still take my trips.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the hard launch. This is Instagram official.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Instagram official. It's not complicated. Okay, So
like I'm committed, but I'm committed an LSU, but I'm
still going to take.
Speaker 3: A trip to Florida. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like we talked about this with with Tristan Keys,
Like remember he wanted his recruiting trip to Tennessee and
he was in full uniform and they had people extras.
Speaker 3: I think that they hire from the street and they
line the walkway and yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: Just like to me, when you make a commitment commitment
to somebody, you're saying, hey, I like you, you like me,
Let's not see other people.
Speaker 3: And so I like how he got got out ahead
of this.
Speaker 5: This is this is it like if I had if
I had a piece of paper in front of me
right now, I would sign it. So what does that help?
That helps just like endear him LSU fans even more.
But two, it helps recruiting the rest of his class.
So you get these guys that high school kids. Now
he can help recruit other kids. Yeah and so, And
I know what people are saying, like, well, kids say
this all the time. It's like a coach saying he'll
never leave blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But he didn't have to say this.
Speaker 5: He didn't have to come out and put this out
there in the public like coaches have to sometimes lie
out there coaching stability because they have to sit in
front of a microphone and get asked yeah, like so
they have to kind of misdirect guy. This guy didn't
have to do this. So I just like the commitment.
I love people when they go and say this is
my word, I'm giving it to somebody. I'm making a
promise and I fully intend on fulfilling it.
Speaker 3: And I spoke on this yesterday.
Speaker 5: The only reason you can, like I would ever say, man,
kid's got to do it's best for him is if
the university that he commits to does something to him
that they said they wouldn't do and that at that point,
it's like yeah, fuck fair game, Like if they're not
going to help hold their commitment, then you do what's
best for you.
Speaker 4: I can tell you so it's true before like lsu
really even like fully a kay offer. We want you
to be here, and I was committed to Texas like
they and you don't have to. Here's the thing that
coaches don't understand, or at least they didn't in my
recruiting process. I can only give you mine like the
whole time, like we're not recruiting any other running back.
We're not recruiting any other running back, like you're with us,
like you're our running back. Wait, okay, cool, but I
don't care if you are. It's not like quarterback, like
if you're recruiting another guy, we can both play. There
was a guy in my signing class from the state
of Texas. He was pretty good. His name was Adrian Peterson.
We're the same year, all right. I know you're recruiting
Adrian Peterson. You should be recruiting Adrian Peterson. You should
be actually doing everything you can, moving heaven and earth
to get Adrian Peterson to Austin.
Speaker 3: But they kept telling me like, no, nope, and I'm
like I was young, I.
Speaker 4: Didn't all right, they told you they weren't recruiting him.
They told me like they weren't recruiting any other run
because you committed. Yeah, you committed, were shutting down, right.
Speaker 3: Which.
Speaker 4: The well, look the internet, the internet is not like
it is now. Like I knew who Adrian Peterson was
just because we had gone to camps together.
Speaker 3: I had seen this highlight table which was incredible. We played.
Speaker 4: We played a lot of East Texas schools right that,
and so like the buzz was around him.
Speaker 3: You'd see him at Nike camp or whatever.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't like now everybody in America would know
who Adrian Peterson was. They would have already seen his
tape all these things, right, But the thing for me
was all right, well I know you are. But then
there was like another running back that was pretty similar
to my skill set that they were recruiting and offered
and talked with, and like I had known that. It's like,
all right, so if you're gonna lie to me like
about something like this where I and again, you shouldn't
be lying. You should just be recruiting those players. I
that's not we're not starting off on the best foot here.
But with coach Saban after, he he's like, hey, look
we got Joe Ade, we got Charyon Kerry, we got
Ali Brustard, we got Barrington Edwards, We've got Justin Vincon.
Speaker 3: Like he listed off all the runans. He's like, we're stacked.
Speaker 4: He's like, now, I think you're different than all those
running backs, like not good, bad, or and different. I
think you're different. So I think we'll have a place
in a space carved out for you. But we have
a deep running back room. And I was like, I
like that better. I like the fact that he's like,
we want you, we're going to offer you. Here's who
we have, though, and if you want to, you know,
integrate yourself somewhere in that rotation, you've got to be
the guy that we think you can be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I said it when when they recruited me, they
said we're taking two quarterbacks. This is a two quarterback
signing class. So you're not gonna be the only guy.
You're gonna have to compete as soon as you get
to LSU and every year after that.
Speaker 3: I was fine with that.
Speaker 5: I was good with that it was why I wavered
at the end, was because there was too committed and
they still recruited somebody else.
Speaker 3: You can take the names out of it.
Speaker 5: It's not that they were who they recruiting, just the
fact that there was too committed, like they said, and
continue to recruit one other person. Anyway, we got through it.
We worked it out. You know, every every couple has
a fight every now and then. Yeah, it's true, worked
it out. It be complicated, it'd be complicated sometimes before
signing a too, tears rolling down my cheeks, like, well
we do what are we doing? Yeah, it's a big
decision tomorrow, got pretty big. I gotta sign on a
piece of paper. That's what you told me and Jimbo
talked for a couple hours.
Speaker 3: Did your did your parents leave it up to you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah I did? Yeah, Yeah for sure. Yeah. Now I
don't know.
Speaker 4: It's probably different now because of n I L and
money and parents are going to be more involved with
that because there's dollars and cents attached to it.
Speaker 3: But now let me tell you this.
Speaker 5: When I committed my story, I don't know if I've
ever told you or said this on air, but like
my story with committing to LSU was my junior year,
so I got you made fun of me this, But
like I didn't start in high school till my second
game in a junior year, maybe a second or third game,
I can't remember.
Speaker 3: It feels like third.
Speaker 5: So I was a little late to getting recruited. But
I had been offered by let's see, like like Baylor,
Vanderblt like some smaller schools, and then LSU was a
little bit later, a couple like a couple of weeks
or a couple of months later later. But I come
down to camp in June, and this is like the
old school, like the one of the only camps I'd
ever been to that you had to bring your helmet.
So it was like it was like we're gonna get
after it. We're gonna we're gonna work. This is like
training camp. So I go there the first day of
camp and it's a three day camp and it's hot.
It's like middle of June. It's humid. I'm like, where
the hell am I and savans out there screaming like
like like you would like a normal put us through
a training like to a day's like ask kicker, And
so I'm like that's the first day. I'm like, Dad,
this is awful, Like there is no way I am
coming here. Like this was it was like I was
screamed at the whole time. It was hot, it was
just terrible. And I was like, let's just we can
go home cause this this ain't happen. This isn't going
to work out. And then he's like, no, we're not
going home. We committed to like staying at this camp,
right and you're going to stay. And so of course
I stayed. And then like after the second third day,
I was like, no, this is awesome, yeah, like I
love it here. And then we went home went back home.
This is like like June seventeenth, nineteen. I remember the
dates because it's like right around my birthday. And then
we were eating out. I think we were at like
on the border or something.
Speaker 3: Like on the border right there with their college half
toward sea at Chips.
Speaker 5: So this is on the border in Tyler, Texas at
the corner of Broadway in Loop three twenty three. We
were there and I was talking to my dad about it,
but he's like, well, he was kind of like looking
at me, like I'm kind of crazy not to like
commit right, because we knew we wanted to do it
before the senior year started, right, and so well, the
next I think it was either that night after I
think it was that night after on the borders, like
the day before my birthday. Yeah, called Jimbo say I'll
be your first. Yeah, I'll be the first. But yeah,
but if I would have had my way, I would
have left after that first day camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was like, this is miserable. My dad was like,
uh huh, No, you committed to do it, understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got plenty Yeah, plenty of those stories. Plenty
of those stories from Jimbo and coach Saban saying sweet
nothings too.
Speaker 5: Plenty money in the chat said clones getting the smart
scholarships bayl Or Vandy Yep, scholar right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.
I think scholar when I hear Flynn talk. All right,
So when we come back, I do want to kind
of break down this recruiting class that you have just
really based off who you have committed, what positions they play,
where you need to fill out the roster, and also
like what that can do for you in the future.
Speaker 3: So we'll do that when we come back on OTB.
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Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench, all right.
Speaker 3: Welcome back again, OTB. Here on this Friday morning.
Speaker 4: You look at Lshoe's recruiting class and they do now
have three five star players committed to them, Tristan Keys,
Lamar Brown, and Richard Anderson. And for Anderson and Brown,
they're both defensive linemen.
Speaker 3: They're both right there.
Speaker 4: For Anderson, by the way, he is six three and
a half three point fifty, so Lamar Brown's a little
bit different. He's six four two eighty five. So obviously
they can be on the field at the same time.
I bring it up because, Matt, when we were really
good at LSU our entire time, you're starting in O three,
we both finished in seven. What did we have that was,
without a question, dominant.
Speaker 3: Defensive tackles, defensive line.
Speaker 4: I mean Chad Lavalley, Melvin Oliver, Kyle Williams, Glenn Dorsey,
Claude Roten, Ricky, Jean Fansois.
Speaker 5: It seemed every.
Speaker 3: Got your big fave. I got you dog.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean every year there was stacked and
usually that there was crossover between the two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and all those players were like all conference are
all American players, all of them.
Speaker 5: When we first got there, it was you had well
I think he was before you got there. But it
was La Williams, and I think I can't remember if
Roten was on the three or not. Definitely a four.
He was four for sure because he was here when
I was for sure. But I mean, I mean you
talked about an interior. Yeah, that whole defensive line of
A three was insane.
Speaker 4: But that's where, Mikey, when you think about when LSU
was going through that winning national championships, playing for national championships,
because even like in twenty eleven, that was another dominant group,
Like that is the position where if they've got like
true Jimmy's and Joe's true dudes, not just guys, that's
when LSU is its most successful.
Speaker 3: And it's look, we gotta call like it is.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time since LSU's had an ass
kicker on the defensive line like that. They've had good players,
so I don't want to act like they have not,
but I'm talking about to that standard.
Speaker 3: Now. You could you say, well, yeah, it's kind of
flipped it. You know. Now it's at quarterback, it's receiver.
Speaker 4: You've had, you know, an offensive lineman now with Will
Campbell because that was for a long time as well.
I get all that but when LSU is at its
very best, the defensive line is the most dominant position
group on the team in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you don't and normally you don't see game
changers at that position. We were just fortunate in the
two thousands to have multiple players that went through there
that were game changers, and at that position you don't
really have to be that. But really, a really good
defensive tackle sometimes gets unnoticed. It's like a it's like
offensive line, it's like a good center, it's like a
good left guard. A guy that can be an anchor
in the middle of a defensive line. So what we
mean by an anchor is a guy that doesn't move
when you're trying to open up gaps. Tighten up the gaps,
tighten up the holes, tighten up the reads for running backs.
And then not to mention being able to push.
Speaker 3: On your pass rush.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when when a quarterback doesn't have anywhere to step
up to, like you, a defensive tackle, it's going to
be rare when you have a you know, a defensive
tackle get a lot.
Speaker 3: Of sacks or like a high sack count.
Speaker 4: Would you agree that it is much harder to game
plan for somebody that is disruptive in the middle than
the ad because I feel like for an edge defender,
because somebody said it's all about the edge, Now, well
it's the edge rushers. It's always been about them, Like
you go back to Lawrence Taylor and we go even
farther back from that. But I can do things to
slow him down easier within my offense than if somebody
is just kicking my butt right there between the two guards.
Speaker 5: It's all I mean, it's not all about the edge.
It's certainly the sexy position because they come around the
edge and it's a pretty and it's a it's a something.
Speaker 3: That make all the sound effects from the right.
Speaker 5: But I mean, if you got a guy rushing around
the edge, he benefits a lot from a really good
defensive tackle, Yeah, being able to push a center and
a guard back to where the if the quarterback can't
step up into a pocket because there is human carnage
right there in front of him, which is and we're
not talking about a defend tackle being able to beat
and swim and swipe and have a free a free
lane and a three hit free hit at the quarterback.
I'm just talking about pushing an offensive lineman back to
where the quarterback can't step up into them. That makes
it easy for the edge rushers to come so all.
But I mean, of course ed rocher is a ultimately
important position. That's why they get paid so much. Yeah,
at the next level, but a defensive tackle can just
really secure everything in the pass game and in the
running game.
Speaker 4: Right, there's nothing worse than when I get a handoff
and I've already got a three technique that's two yards
in the backfield, right, and it's.
Speaker 5: A lot of really good defensive ends. It's a little
bit less these days, but like when I first got
in the league, there was third down specialists, like people
got paid the most poscause defensive ends that would just
go in on third downs they weren't there because they
couldn't really stop the run. But defensive tackles you're in
every single play, and they can make a big difference,
even if they don't have a high tackle count, even
if they don't have these huge Gaudi stats.
Speaker 3: A really good secure one.
Speaker 5: In the middle can stop the run, make it hard
on them, and control the quarterback, being able to step
up and make moves in the in the a gap
and be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look and that's why I love this LSU recruiting
class so far, because you know, two of the three
better players here the five stars, are on that defensive front,
and it is a place again where LSU, when they've
had them, they have certainly thrived. And when you can
get somebody in the middle of your defense, which like
LSU hasn't had in a while, like right now, even
they've got, in my opinion, one of the best football
players I ever played with in Kyle Williams coaching them up,
and it is a unit that he is going to
get the most out of. But you need some of
the guys that we're talking about. You needed Kyle Williams.
You need a Glenn Dorsey, you need a Ricky gene
franzois like. And I know there's not a lot of
those guys walking the earth, but there is some, and
you got to get them. Got a couple at the
end of.
Speaker 5: The two thousands that played like seemed like fifteen years
in the league that was with us. Yeah, I Woods,
I woulds, there you go, there you go, would.
Speaker 3: Fourth round draft choice out of the Saints.
Speaker 4: The Saints cut him out of training camp and he
played fifteen years after.
Speaker 5: That he's a great example of what he is, a
really great example of what I'm talking about. That guy
that never had these big stat I mean, maybe he
had some seasons where he got it him full sacks whatever,
but like a guy that you never really even knew
was out there, but then all of a sudden, he's
racking up year after year after year of NFL contracts
and being on teams and being like an anchor guy.
Because he was good at being an anchor. Yep, he
was good. He didn't get pushed around, he did his job.
He clogged up holes, which is exactly what you.
Speaker 3: Have to do with that position.
Speaker 5: So one of those guys that, now that I'm thinking
back on Hunt's question, was that the survey, the Station
survey the other day, by most surprising pro careers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he would. He would have been a
good answer.
Speaker 4: Especially getting released as a fourth round pick that training
camp that typically I'm not saying that a fourth is
completely safe. I don't really know a whole lot of
fourth rounders that don't get at least one season with
that team. So Mickey missed on that one because he
cuts him and then he goes to place fifteen years
after that.
Speaker 5: I knew a couple of fourth rounders that got released,
but it was like there was injury involved.
Speaker 3: Okay, little.
Speaker 4: You you at least like and maybe Lineman's a little
bit different, but if you were a fourth rounder and
he got there, it's like, oh, we messed up. You're
gonna be a teams guy at least right.
Speaker 3: For a year.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna look at al and be like, oh,
we messed up on this one, right, do you There
was a clip of him. I can't remember. He was
on kickoff return. Do you remember this? Yeah, it was
on kickoff return. And I remember Peevotoe walking through this,
remember walking through this special teams meeting because the whole
team was in there, like on the the Monday after
the Sunday after for the for the Special Team's film review,
and he pointed out this clip and I think we
were playing Louisiana Tech and it was a kickoff and
he's like, all right, I want you.
Speaker 3: To watch big out here.
Speaker 5: Now he's running up and this guy comes from out
of nowhere and he tries to blind side out. Yeah,
so he come like I was not even looking at him.
He's looking to the right. This kid's coming from the
left and tries to like clean him up on the side.
Do you remember this clip? He tries to clean him out,
de clean.
Speaker 4: Him no matter how good or you know, how big,
how strong you are. If that happens, typically like your
head hits the ground before anything else.
Speaker 5: It looked like a cartoon when somebody is running down
the street and like hits a street pole, like he hit.
Al didn't even move the kid. Literally his head snaps back,
his feet goes straight up in the air and bounces
off the ground, probably three foot off the ground. Yes,
it was the funniest clip I've ever seen in my life.
And Al just like he's running and he just kind
of like looks down and you can just probably you know,
hear him in your head just going to.
Speaker 4: Shout out to al Woods, large American, biggest hands I've
ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5: What a career.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll close out our number one when we
come back here on otb off the bench. You know,
like even like a.
Speaker 4: Nice dose sekis can would look like a pebble in
Olwood's hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looked like one of those many like those
many cokes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like nope, Yeah, so because of that, instead
of grabbing one, he could probably grab two and go
for dose right there on the spot.
Speaker 3: Responsibly, very responsibly.
Speaker 4: I wonder if they have those sekis in Atlanta. I
bet they got a few where you think we should
try to make a din in it. I think we
should try to drink all of them well responsibly. All
these We say it all the time. There's never a
bad time. Beach beer, pull beer, lake beer, river beer
does not matter. It is the beer of choice. So
go ahead, go for dose, grab a Shaky's drink.
Speaker 5: Respond I'm gonna have my first media day beer.
Speaker 3: You are, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure after a long day of talking.
Speaker 3: First airport beer. Sunday too, Right.
Speaker 5: Sunday morning, let's do it? Do sakis? Go for does
drink responsibly? Delete some beers?
Speaker 2: 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 4: All right, So right now LSU football, when we're talking
about this, the next recruiting class and Tata laid this
out either earlier this week or late last week. They
are a top ten recruiting class. They actually now come
in at number six. But the thing that is different
for LSU compared to the teams ahead of them or
even like right underneath them, So high state seven, but
they've got twenty one guys committed. Alabama has nineteen, Notre
Dame has twenty five A and m has twenty four.
Georgia has twenty seven, USC thirty one two.
Speaker 3: LSU has sixteen. So how do they do this?
Speaker 5: This is like a total amount of stars or like
the average her commitment.
Speaker 4: Right, so you kind of get a score, you get
an average rating, and it gets kind of put all together,
and that's how they get it. But obviously, like if
you have more players that are highly rated, like it's
going to improve. So the fact that LSU only has
sixteen players TATAE and they're still this high up kind
of tells you the quality they have.
Speaker 3: Here we go they hit that button, baby, I was like,
it's on.
Speaker 9: If you look at the average rating per recruit, like
they do like the average, LSU has a higher average
recruit rating than all five teams in front of them.
They're at ninety two point one four. The next closest
is Alabama with ninety one four. So like it's a
quality versus quantity thing right now.
Speaker 4: If you look at the group and like Taytay's talking
about LSU and Oregon probably the most impressive classes so
far ms ninety shay towards USC but they have thirty
one guys, and it's gonna be fascinating to see how
LSU and organ those other teams. But certainly LSU kind
of finish it up here. All right, let's continue talking recruiting.
We're gonna do that when we come back here. It
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