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Jacob Hester.
Speaker 3: Welcome in our number two, a Wednesday edition of Off
the Bench. Taylor Sharp here with you, sitting in for
Jacob Hester here today tomorrow. Jake will be back on Friday.
Jake actually gonna send us back some interviews from the
SEC spring meetings, probably this afternoon. We will play them
during tomorrow's show. LSU Coaches, you know that that sort
of thing. Well, we'll have that for you all tomorrow
and then Jake ultimately we'll be back on Friday. Right now,
we want to look at a little bit of New
Orleans Saints because we're having Raster Jackson on at nine
am to talk some OTAs. But Ross, obviously he does
Locked on Saints now writes for us here at luisianasports
dot Net. He put out a thing yesterday, this article
talking about OTAs and some veterans returning for the Saints
that are actually battling for roster spots, and the one
he mentioned yesterday was none other than former LSU running
back Clyde Edwardsilaire. He says, look, there weren't a ton
of bright spots late in the twenty twenty four season
for the Saints, but one of those players that was
a pretty good bright spot was Ben Ruge Naive. Clyde
Edwards Hilaire, he said, the oellowsh Tiger was given a
chance to play for his home state Saints. Now he
was re signed this offseason after having you know, a
decent finish, about as good as you could behind that
offensive line on that offense a year ago. And he'll
battle for a spot in this running back room. And
when ross breaks down, why Clyde Edwards Hilaire has a
solid chance, He talks. Look, aside from Alvin Kamara, Clyde
Dwardshilaire is the most experienced player in this position room.
He's going into a sixth NFL season. If you remember,
Clyde was a twenty twenty first round pick for the
Kansas City Chiefs, the very last pick in the first round.
Chiefs Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes. They know a little bit
about offense, and you know, however you feel about Clyde
Oderson Hilaire's career at this point, they selected Clyde at
running back over guys like Jonathan Taylor, JK.
Speaker 4: Dobbins.
Speaker 3: I mean there were that was a really solid running
back class. Clyde Edwards Hilior was his first running back
to go. That's what the Kansas City Chiefs thought of him.
I trust the.
Speaker 4: Opinion of Patrick Mahomes Andy Reid.
Speaker 3: When it comes to offense, he was a solid pass
blocker so far in his NFL career. He's been able
to catch the ball out of the backfield. He could
be a three down contributor in the right scheme. He's
got flexibility to his game, He's got the maturity just mentioned.
He's the second most experienced guy in this backfield now
going into his sixth NFL season. And look, you know,
Clyde Sadden up and down NFL career, had a pretty
good rookie year, had a lot of injuries to deal with.
The Chiefs ultimately released him before he landed here last
year late in the season.
Speaker 4: With the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 3: But look, when you look at the depth of this
running back room, you can obviously pencil in Alvin Kamara
is RB one. You no longer have Jordan Mint, So
really your returners from a year ago, Alvin Kamara, Clyd Edwards,
Dlaire and Kendre Miller, who has shown no ability to
stay healthy. And look, even when Kindre has been healthy,
I mean, he's been a solid player, but just look
at look at what he's done in two years. He
has eighty carries, three hundred and four yards, two touchdowns.
That's that's it. All that came in fourteen games over
two years.
Speaker 4: Two starts.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's not getting it done. It's you
need more three point eight yards per attempt as well.
So again, even when Kindre Miller's been on the field,
he hasn't exactly lit up the statue.
Speaker 4: The young guys are exciting. Though.
Speaker 3: You were able to get Devin Neil in the sixth
round of this NFL Draft. We had talked about it
a lot on this show about you know, the deepest
positions going into this twenty twenty five NFL Draft. My
answer was always pretty steady the running back position. I mean,
look at what Cam Skataboo did in the college football
plaoff like any other year, that guy's a top two
round pick. What's got to be good round four. You
got Devin Neil in round six Devin Neil, the all
time leading rusher for the Kansas Jayhawks. You'll look at
what Devin Neil did in college in his four year career,
seven hundred and sixty carries, four three hundred and forty
three yards, forty nine rushing touchdowns. Oh and that's on
a five point seven yards per carry average.
Speaker 5: That's real production right there.
Speaker 4: That's real production right there.
Speaker 3: Also seven hundred yards receiving in four years, so we
can catch the ball out of the backfield eighty eight
point six yards per game. And that's one of Kansas
offense that wasn't exactly great. I mean at times teams
are key and n on him because yeah, you had
Ja Daniels, you had Jason Bean. But like neither of those,
Jalen Daniels has had so many issues. He never could
stay healthy. That's the only reason we know who Jason
Bean was was because he was j Jalen Daniels's backup
for two seasons. Devin Neil was that offense and he
was incredible three years in a row twenty twenty two,
one thousand ninety yards, nine touchdowns, twenty twenty three, twelve
eighty sixteen touchdowns. What does he do with that, he
follows it up the exact same sixteen touchdowns again in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: I think Devin Neil is the real deal.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy that's five to eleven, he's
two hundred and ten pounds.
Speaker 4: He has the size to play right away. I like
Devin Neil.
Speaker 3: I mean I think the longer OTAs goes on offseason workout,
you know, when you get into preseason camp, Devin Neil
is going to continue to rise up that board. I
don't think there's any question that he is going to
pass up Kendre Miller. I'm not even sure Kendre Miller
makes this team because don't sleep on Marcus Yarns, the
undrafted free agent, the rookie out of Delaware.
Speaker 4: You know, we we've.
Speaker 3: Seen Delaware in the past produce from an f players,
none bigger than Joe Flacco, of course, who's won a
Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Devin Neil.
Speaker 3: I mean Marc Descharn's five to eleven, hovering around two
hundred pounds, very similar to.
Speaker 4: Devin Neil. But you look at what he.
Speaker 3: Did last season at Delaware for the Blue Hens. He
led the team with eight hundred and forty four rushing
yards and six touchdowns.
Speaker 4: But he also had two.
Speaker 3: Hundred and ninety seven yards receiving and five touchdowns. He's
a guy that doesn't have a lot of tread on
the tire. He has the ability to catch the ball
out at the backfield. Could he potentially be a third
down slash pass catching back now? I know in his career,
Alvin Kamara has been that every down back on third
down in passing situations.
Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara has been that guy.
Speaker 3: But Kamara's not getting any younger, and you're going to
need somebody to spell Alvin Kamara to give Kamara a breather.
I think on early downs it's Devin Neil, no question
about it. He is that pure runner running back that
you need. But if you need a guy out of
the back, I mean Marcus Yarns did a really nice
job at catching the ball out of the backfield in college.
And again that's multiple seats. I mentioned that eight hundred
and forty four yards rushing to ninety seven receiving in
twenty twenty three was even better nine hundred and thirty
nine yards rushing fifteen touchdowns, also three hundred yards receiving
out of the backfield This is a guy that he
is an.
Speaker 4: All purpose back. He can do a little bit of
everything for you.
Speaker 3: If Marcus Yarns can pass, block as well as get
out of the backfield and catch passes, Marcus Yarns is
going to make this team.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: We're going to see how he performs in preseason, what
the rest of the offseason looks like, what the OTAs
looked like.
Speaker 4: When Ross hops on with us at.
Speaker 3: Nine am, I'm gonna ask him about Devin Neil and
Marcus Yarns. I'm not sure Kendre Miller makes this team
because I don't know about you guys. I trust Clyde
utit Layer more than I do Kendre Miller. I'm sure
Clyde edit z Layer has had injury concerns, but we've
only seen what he can do. He's been productive, He's
played in big time games with the Kansas City Chiefs.
You can't really say that about Kendre Miller. And I
just laid it out. Fourteen games in two years, three
hundred yards rushing, two touchdowns. That is what Kendre Miller
has given you as a New Orleans sink. And that's
a guy who's a third round draft pick. Keep in mind,
this coaching staff did not draft Kendre Miller. What they
did do was draft Devin Neil, and they signed Marcus
Yarns in the offseason, and they wanted to bring back
Clyde Edwards.
Speaker 4: Hilaire. Kendre Miller is still in his rookie deal.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where it's like you brought
in Clyde Yarns, Devin Neil, Kendre Miller was just kind
of here when he got here. Me and Jordan Jordan
we were talking about this not long ago, and you
and I were saying, Oh, we don't know if Kendre
Miller or Jordan Mims makes this team. They already got
rid of Jordan Mimes. They're already one down. Like, do
you think Kendre Miller makes this team because I don't.
Speaker 5: All right, so outside looking in, obviously not, because there
is zero production of Kendre Miller. And you've been you've
been wanting this so bad, not only for him to
be on the field, but you've been looking for that
guy to take that pressure off ak Like that was
the whole point of Kendrem Miller was to come in
and to believe. Yeah, literally just to relieviate the press
off ak. We did not asking Kendre Miller to come
in and be the guy. So I think the only
universe that there's a way that Kenjre Miller makes this
roster the first preseason game, he has to go off
like it has to be like a.
Speaker 4: Four yard or somebody like Neil or Clyde.
Speaker 5: I know, somebody gets hurt, you know, injuries, you know,
But I'm just talking like, you know, performance wise. I
feel like the only way that Kendre Miller can really
save himself on this Saints team this year is that
either the first two preseason games he has to explode,
like I'm talking like a fifty yard run, like something
that the coach is like, oh, we can't teach this,
Like this is something.
Speaker 4: That you saw, something that the other guys don't have,
that they don't have.
Speaker 5: Like the burst and pop you've seen at TCU. Only
way possible other than that, I think his bag's already packed.
Speaker 3: That's kind of exactly what I was getting at with
these other two guys, right, You're talking about something that
the other guys don't have. Yeah, Marcus jon can catch
the ball out of the backfield, at least in college,
probably better than anybody you currently have on your team.
Devin Neil, He's got the explosiveness out of the back here.
Speaker 5: He got production.
Speaker 3: You saw the yards per carry in college. You saw
the production. Clyde former first round pick, he had production
in college, which, like Kendre Miller's behind the eight ball
on all three of those players. Like, right now, you
have five running backs on the roster. I'm putting Kendre
Miller fifth. You got Kamara and Clyde, Edwards Hilayer who
have been there, they're veterans. You got Devin Neil who's
going to make this team. And I think if Marcus
Yarns outperforms Kendre Miller in preseason camp, like this staff
did not draft Kendre Miller, I'll keep going back to that.
Speaker 4: And then look, we always.
Speaker 3: Criticized Dennis Allen for pretty much everything in rightfullysa. I
mean you remember the press conferences with Dennis Allen, Right,
it was a whole lot of knot that he never
gave anything. The only time Dennis Allen ever got fired
up was when he was criticizing Kendre Miller. I mean,
we had talked about it multiple times and played the
clips here over and over of Dennis Allen being asked, hey,
whin's Kendre Miller being healthy? And Dennis Allen's answer was
pretty much quite so.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We don't really know what's wrong with it. So this
is more than just an injury thing. It kind of
seems like a miscommunication between him and the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 5: Hey didn't Dennis Island. Wasn't Dennis Island when I was like,
you can't make the team in the tub or something
like that about.
Speaker 4: Dre Miller's Yeah, he never threw his players.
Speaker 5: Under the bus ever. Ever, well, unless you unless you
score on the Falcons.
Speaker 4: Used to score the Falcons, but he did the Kendre Miller.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's the only buy That tells me a
lot about Kidre Miller. No, look, I don't know Kendre Miller.
I'm not in that front office. kN Dre might be
a great teammate. Dennis Allen didn't think he was. And
now you bring in a new staff of these offensive
minded guys. I mean, look at look at your offensive staff.
Doug Nussmeyer, Kellen Moore is your offense. You're the facto
offensive coordinator is also your head coach. Like these guys
no offense, they know how to score points. If Kendre
Miller's not producing in the preseason, Kendre Miller's not gonna
make this team.
Speaker 5: But you know the scariest thing though, that really goes
back to your your main point. You're talking about who
drafted him. Dennis Island drafted this man to under the bus. Yeah,
that's the biggest red flag. It don't get a bigger record,
a bigger reflag.
Speaker 3: And that's after two years because you know what they say,
it shouldn't be this way. But the higher draft pick
you are, the longer legal lea you have. Kin Trey
Miller's a third round pick literally, and Dennis Allen was
done with him halfway through his second season.
Speaker 4: That's scary, and it's because he has started two games.
He's only played in fourteen.
Speaker 3: He's averaging three point eight yards per carry, three hundred
and four yards rushing in two touchdowns. That is what
third round pick Kendre Miller has given.
Speaker 5: You in two seasons.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying the guy's not talented. I think he is.
We saw it at TCU.
Speaker 3: But there's some sort of disconnect, whether it's injuries, whether
it's a learning curve in the NFL, there is something.
And if Kendre Miller doesn't get it together, he's going
to get passed by Devin Neil. He's going to get
passed back Glader Jelaire, and he's going to get passed
by Marcus Arns and he's not going to make this team.
Speaker 4: Now, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Really, you have Alvin Kamara and a giant question mark
behind that, but I actually like the depth behind Alvin Kamara.
If these guys could stay healthy, all right, we're gonna
take a time out and we get back.
Speaker 4: Stuart Mandel.
Speaker 3: The athletic put out the top twenty five college football
program since two thousand and it is just an incredibly
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 7: Today and welcome.
Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: In nour number two Wednesday edition of Off the Bench,
Taylor Sharp here with you in for Jacob Pastor, Lundraville
Real Jordan Kitchens along for the ride as well. Stuart
Mandell of The Athletic put out a list on Twitter
of his top twenty five college football programs. It's the
year two thousand and When I look at this list,
the first two words I thought of were recency bias.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 4: I can't get behind this list.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at it, it's top twenty five,
So sixteen through twenty five doesn't really matter. I don't
care about that as much the top ten. If you
want to go top ten, by the way, first off,
Notre Dame at thirteen over Miami and Auburn. Now you
can argue that a bunch of different ways. Miami and
Auburn have the titles. Notre Dame, as I like to
point out, hadn't really won anything since the eighties, but
they have been a more consistent program in terms of
getting to big Bowl games and getting to playoffs. Miami
and Auburn haven't really done that in a number of years.
So whatever you're splitting hairs there. If you want to
look at reaching the pinnacle with titles, you go Miami Auburn.
If you want to go consistency, Eugo, Notre Dame, I'm
good with that. Florida State twelve, Michigan eleven, eh, whatever.
I think Texas, USC, and Florida should all be ahead
of Oregon. But again, Oregon has been more consistent, And
this is why I go with recency bias.
Speaker 4: They've been better off late.
Speaker 3: But this list is not the best college football programs
of the last ten years. It's the best since two thousand,
USC has titles. Since two thousand, Texas has a title.
Now Texas hasn't done anything since then. Now they've made
back to back playoff appearances, haven't won a championship. I mean,
since Vin Sjong walked off the field in the Rose
Bowl against USC, Texas has zero titles. They got the
same number that I do. Florida won two in three
years with Urban Meyer. We remember that six and eight.
Oregan hasn't done those things. But again, they haven't had
the fall off that the Texas that a USC, that
of Florida has.
Speaker 4: So I think you're splitting hairs it.
Speaker 3: Clemson at six, I'm fine with they have multiple titles,
but that's really only been the last ten years or so.
It is really when when Clemson started getting good. He
has LSU at five. I'm okay with LSU at five
for the most part. I mean, I think that's okay.
In the past couple of years, LSU's been a little disappointing.
I mean, hew, LSU's own fan base will tell you
that you do have Georgia over LSU, which I can't
get behind again. I'm gonna go back to recency bias. Recently,
the last ten or so years, george has been dominant. Hell,
they've probably been the premier program in college football. This
list is since two thousand. LSU has three titles and
it played for a fourth. Georgia only has two, and
even when LSU's had down years, it hasn't been super down,
not like a Texas, A Florida or USC.
Speaker 4: At number three, though, that's where.
Speaker 3: This list gets really really dicey, here's the Oklahoma Sooners
at number three. Oklahoma won a title in the year
two thousand and that's it now. They played for one
in two thousand and eight against Florida. And if you
want to go back to the argument of well consistency,
they've made multiple BCS Bowls, they've played for a national championship,
They've made the College Football Playoff a number of times.
So Oklahoma has gotten there. They've done what they've needed
to do in the regular season. They just haven't been
able to get over the hump. If you want to
have Oklahoma in the top five, that's fine. I think
the argument could be made for Oklahoma to be in
the top five because they've been a consistent program since
two thousand. Problem is, I can't put them over Georgia
and LSU, both of which have multiple titles.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma has not.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma has the Heisman's that's fine. If Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray,
Jalen Hurts finished second. Caleb Williams was there ultimately won
the Heisman at USC, but he was there as well.
But you're not ranking these programs based on quarterback play.
Sam Bradford won the Heisman, Andrey Jones was there. He
was a good quarterback. But are you just ranking this
on Oh well, these teams had a bunch of quarterbacks
that were drafted really high and they won Heisman trophies.
I think you have to dive a little bit more
into that. And I'm about to do something that I
never thought i would do, and that has defend the
University of Alabama because on Stuart Mandel's list, the number
one college football program since the year two thousand is
the Ohio State Buckeyes. How in the hell are the
Alabama Crimson Tide not the number one team on this list?
Speaker 4: Get it?
Speaker 3: Ohio State's consistent a lot like Oklahoma, but they have
the titles to back it up as well. Ohio State
three titles since two two thousand and two, twenty fourteen,
twenty twenty four, Alabama six of them. Oh nine, twenty eleven,
twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen, twenty twenty. Part of
the reason we hate Alabama Nick Saban so much in
these parts is because they beat you every year.
Speaker 4: They beat everybody every year.
Speaker 3: They were the pinnacle of college football for ten seasons,
and I get it up. Until Saban got there in
two thousand and seven, they weren't great, but two thousand
and seven to twenty twenty five, that's a big enough
sample size. I don't really care what they did before
two thousand and seven. I mean, you just go look
at Nick Saban year by year. Saban played in four
straight College Football Playoff National championship games. He wins it
in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, he loses. That was the
Hunter Renfro play Deshaun Watson to Hunter Renfro at the
last second for Clemson's first national title. He wins in
twenty seventeen, and then again Clemson in twenty eighteen gets
them again, that's four straight national championship games. Also, they
win in twenty twenty as they beat Ohio State, and
then they lose in twenty twenty one. Oh, don't forget
the three BCS national championships that Nick Saban has. I
am no fan of Alabama. I'll never get up here
and defend them again. This is one of those that
I'm hoping Stuart Mandel put out just for clicks. I mean, hell,
I'm talking about it right here. But you cannot have
the University of Alabama anywhere other than number one.
Speaker 4: I mean, look at what Nick Saban has done.
Speaker 3: There is a reason he is considered the greatest coach
in the history of college football. Sure, iiO State won
the national championship last year. I think they're in a
better spot to win one this year than they are
the University of Alabama. But this is not the best
programs in the last five to ten years. It's the
best sense of the year two thousand and Nobody touches
the Alabama Crimson Tide. With seven national championships, ten national
championship appearances in a twenty five year period, three BCS titles,
three College Football Playoff titles. They've done it in every format, BCS,
four team playoff, you name it. Last year was the
first year of the twelve team and they got left out.
But Alabama is always competitive every year. I mean, we
called last year a down year for Alabama because they
lost three regular season games, and it is because that's
how absurd Nick Saban was. Nick Saban's first year in Alabama,
they weren't great. They were seven and six. Saban went
ten to three in twenty ten. Since that time, he
never lost more than two games in a season. Ever,
twenty ten was time until this past season that Alabama
had three losses in the regular season. You're not going
to find a more consistent program than that. And again,
going back to the LSU factor, I'm putting LSU over Oklahoma.
I'm putting Georgia over Oklahoma. LSU has won three national titles.
They've played for a fourth against Alabama in twenty eleven.
And then if you want to throw the Heismans in there,
you have two Heisman Trophy winners Joe Burrow Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 4: I don't get this.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping this is just one of those clickbait things,
and Stuart Mandel is not serious.
Speaker 4: Because I have a big problem with this.
Speaker 3: I mean to have Ohio State number one with three
national titles, and yet they've been there. They've been consistent,
they haven't really had a drop off, whether it was
from Urban Meyer, they go straight into Ryan Day, he
finally gets through, he wins the title.
Speaker 4: But they've been a consistent team.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk about most consistent teams since
two thousand, sure maybe Ohio State has an argument. You
cannot tell me under any circumstances, there is Ohio State
a better college football program than Alabama in any decade
in any era, much less since twenty to twenty twenty five,
when Alabama has six national types.
Speaker 4: No way about.
Speaker 3: If you want to know the rest of the list,
I mean, the bottom of it doesn't really matter. But
we can just go through the rest. I gave you
the top fifteen. We can run through sixteen to twenty five.
Here real quick, Wisconsin sixteen, Penn State seventeen, Virginia Tech eighteen,
TCU nineteen, Boise State twenty, and then the bottom five
Okie State twenty one, Utah twenty two, I what twenty three,
Washington twenty four, Michigan State twenty five, I really care
about the bottom of that list. Sure, they're all consistent
programs that have hovered around eight and four every year.
I mean, that's that's kind of what you get to
sixteen to twenty five.
Speaker 4: I'm good with it.
Speaker 3: I'm really good with this list until you get to
Oregon at seven. I could drop them a few spots,
but that's up five. Having Oklahoma at three over Georgia
and LSU, I don't understand, and then having Ohios one
over Alabama is an outrage. I don't I don't know
how you can do that in good conscience.
Speaker 4: All right, Look, we're gonna take a quick time out.
We get back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: In hour number two, Wednesday edition of OTB, we just
got into a big Emmanuel McCrone discussion during break Alandra
filling me in. I remember you talking about this a
long time ago, and then I guess it was the
slap that brought it up because you mentioned it a
little bit yesterday when somebody asked about the Macron title fight,
and then Victoria asked me. She goes, this was last night,
like right before about to go to bed. She's like, hey,
do you do you know about this situation? Like it
is so funny. A Landra mentioned this exact same thing
two day. I was like, the first time I had
heard about it in a while. So I guess the
slap herd around the world is gaining a little bit
of attraction.
Speaker 8: I think, so something that I've been trying to tell
people about for a while now is starting to like
slowly come out. And I just hope everybody goes down
the same rabbit hole I did, because it's a great one.
Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't remember, like I remembered a long time
ago that you had, like I was trying to tell
you about it. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 8: Sometimes I come in here and I probably look like
Charlie on Always Sunny when he's.
Speaker 4: Like got all the yeah strings together.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I feel like sometimes I come in here
and I just tell y'all crazy stuff that like rabbit
holes that I go down, And when T Bob was here,
he was so dismissive about it, and he thinks I'm insane,
But I mean, eventually it all comes out. So what
do they say, what's done in the dark.
Speaker 3: Always comes to the light or whatever. Yeah, I don't
know where you're going. Yeah, I think it was the
saying it's something like that, something in the dark comes
to the light. That's That's what I know now because
I remember it a long time ago. You were telling
us about like, oh, well, there's a rumor that, you know,
Brigitte's not who she says she is, and then this,
this and this, and then I kind of forgot about
who it was. I remember the conversation, and then you
brought up McCrone yesterday, and then last night Victoria goes, oh, yeah,
there's a rumor that like it's not really her and
this and this. I was like, oh wait a minute,
now I remembered the conversation that you and I had
a long time ago.
Speaker 8: Like the worst part of this that has nothing to
do with like the I wouldn't even call it a
conspiracy theory, that has nothing to do with whether Brigitte
is a man or not that it has nothing to
do with that. Regardless of whatever, she was forty, she
was his teacher, and they say they say that she
was forty and he was seventeen, but really he was
fourteen when they first started like interacting and knowing each
other because she was like his teacher and he was
in theater and she saw him doing a play and
she just thought he was so well read and all
this stuff. And that's just weird to me. You're an
older teacher and you're trying to get with a student.
Speaker 4: How old are they now?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but that that's what let me see.
How long I mean, they're both like this is a
while ago, Yeah, they're so. Bridgie is alleged, Well she's
seventy two, Okay, so they've been together for a while
and he's forty seven.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And all I'm gonna say is this, this is
the last thing I'm gonna say about this, because I
feel like I'm sounding real crazy and this is probably
not something like this is probably like something we probably
shouldn't have like brought on the air. But you can't
find any childhood photos of Regie machrome, Okay, And I
just think.
Speaker 3: That maybe maybe it's just a secretive. Maybe she just
kept to herself. Flandra, I mean it doesn't always. No,
I'm kidding. This is sketchy. The more I hear about it, Like,
I'm as much of a conspiracy theorist as a landre Is.
I am normally a conspiracy theorist denier. I'm kind of
on board with this. I mean, I'm kind of like,
where where the hell was Brigie? Like, she didn't she
didn't take class pictures.
Speaker 4: She not that damn old. They took those when you
were when you were younger, I.
Speaker 8: Mean seven like photos of the rest of her family.
Speaker 4: Oh see, that's even sketchy, but just not in the
family photos. Not so she was always taking a picture.
Speaker 8: So they do have like a couple where they're saying
it's Bridgie, but it looks nothing like Brigie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you could find a random little girl and.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's like two photos that they show of
her when she was younger. But I don't know, we
have a y'all do the deep dive. Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's it's been a pretty good Wednesday.
Speaker 4: We opened the show.
Speaker 3: We opened the show talk about Jordan's bathroom situation, which
directly leads to, uh, did he get into a fight
with a coach with a kettlebell? And now we're talking
about some inappropriate teacher student relationship that may or may
not have even occurred, because we're not even sure this
is a real person.
Speaker 5: So that's that's called peak morning radio. You know something.
Speaker 3: The good news is if Brigitte's not real, then she's
not in trouble for the student teacher relationship.
Speaker 8: She has tried to Oh my god, y'all got me started,
because she she's tried to sue multiple people for defamation. Yeah,
and none of it it's about like small details, like
none of it is actually about the subject.
Speaker 4: So it's like, I'm not denying this.
Speaker 3: I'm denying this one little small part that you that
you mentioned or failed demand.
Speaker 4: I can tell you more.
Speaker 8: During the break, but it's I feel like I'm unlike
unhinged right now.
Speaker 3: I can I can feel that all right, before we
gotta break Jordan real quick. Eastern Conference, Western Conference Pacers
Thunder both up three to one. Are those series over?
Speaker 5: Uh uh okay, Minnesota? It might be because okay, see
This is the best way I had explained. Okay see,
okay see is like a boa constrictor. Like they're like
a python. They just squeeze the life out of you.
Like it feels like, I mean, they have the best
defense in the NBA. It feels like you're in the
game and then you look up and he's going to
twenty to two run or something like that. So, okay, see,
it might be over. Uh maybe that I can I
can see the Knicks getting one more, but there's I
think both series are over. I think it will be
okay see in the Pacers. I can see the Knicks
getting one more because they got to go back to
New York. I can see that. Okay. I mean Minnesota
is just like they uns Anthony Lewis pops off, which
I highly doubt will happen. With the defense, They're just
getting the life squeezed out of them. So yeah, I
think both series are officially over.
Speaker 3: How much of the game last night and I'm like,
oh man, you know this is a must win for
the Knicks because the Pacers will go up three to one.
It's hard to come back. Those a must win for
the Pacers. Yeah, because they won voted their games in
New York. New York wins the first one in Indiana.
If New York would have tied that series up last night,
go back to the home court would have been back
to New York. They would have went back to the Garden,
tied all the advantages, nicked. That was a must win
for the Paceries last night more than anything. One more
question before you gotta break is, however many bench warmers
or Hayden ass haters voted Tyrese Haliburton is the most
overrated player in the NBA. Is that the biggest slip
of the NBA season so far?
Speaker 5: I mean it's up there. I mean it's up there
because it turned him into a whole nother animal. Like
Halliburton was good, but this this shows you that he's
able to take that next step.
Speaker 2: Like he was.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say he was. Caliburn was around you know,
maybe nine ten talking about point guard. I'm not talking
about like probably around nine to ten before the playoffs started.
Now he's in the discussion where it's like, yo, it's Haliburton.
Speaker 4: See the best point guard in that lague.
Speaker 5: Best guard in the NBA. Yeah, So that it kind
of was like the juice that you know, game a
little bit of juice.
Speaker 7: He needed that.
Speaker 5: Everybody needs a little bit of hate. Everybody needs a
little bit hate.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: Look, I've been on this, this Haliburn thing for a
while just because like people act like all the Pacers
came out of nowhere. This team was in the conference
finals the last year. Like sure they got manhandled by
the Celtics. Celtics kind of did that to everybody, Like
this team was in the conference finals a year ago.
This is not the first time we've seen this from
tyre Celibert now, to Jordan's point, like he's at another
level now, like maybe to this level, this is the
first time we've seen it. But you know, I wanted
to bring up these numbers to tell you just how
overrated Tyrese Halliburton is in NBA history. They're the players
that have posted a thirty ten fifteen triple double in
the postseason, Oscar Robertson, Nicola Jokich, Tyresellabert the player to
do that without a single turnover, only Tyrese Halibert. He
had thirty two points, twelve rebounds, fifteen assists and no
turnovers and played over forty minutes for thirty thirty eight
minutes is what he played.
Speaker 5: It was special, like it it felt like you were
watching somebody in that flow state.
Speaker 3: It's it's one of the most perfect playoff performances I've
ever seen. And it's it's hard to say that.
Speaker 5: Over fifteen zero turnovers. You can't explain that in it
not one mistake, you didn't mess up one time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you can mention it. It's hard to say,
like quiet second half with thirty two points, but it was.
He had twenty eight and nine at halftime, Tyrey's Helibert
and Damn near out a triple double at halftime of
a must win Game four.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's how big he was. And there was
a stout on the broadcast.
Speaker 3: I will correct it if I find out it was wrong,
but I believe whoever was calling the game said they're
thirty thirty plus point fifteen assist games in the playoff
or yeah, have only been done by three players in
NBA history. Terre's Halliburton has five of them already and
he's twenty four years old.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: It's just you you look, he's the he's the first
player in Pacers history with multiple playoff triple doubles.
Speaker 5: But I'll be honest, what's holding him back. I'm not
even gonna say like this is his fault. It's just
because he plays for the Pacers.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: Like if he played for any.
Speaker 4: Other dude, if he was with the LA Lakers or
the New York Nags.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the conversation with his name would be oh man,
they went to the conference finals. Like you said, he
went to the COMSS finals last year. But just because
of the Paces, Nobody's like, oh, they can't do it again.
It's the Paces who cares like but.
Speaker 3: And then so many people are like, oh, this team
came out of nowhere, know what they did, and they
really didn't like they should have been. They should have
been one of your favorites coming into the playoffs. Yeah,
it was more than just Haliburton, Like Pascal.
Speaker 4: Sea, how comes a monster? Miles Turner's really good down low.
Speaker 5: Say Nimron, I mean Niece Smith went god mode again.
Speaker 3: We were talking about TJ McConnell during break like, he's
one of the best backup point guards in the league easily,
Like this team's deep bendic Matheren had twenty points off
the bench last.
Speaker 5: Nink about this though. You have Halliburton who's running at
his pace. The Pacers play with like so you have
Halliburton that's controlling the pace like this super fast, they
up and down. He comes out the game. Here comes TJ. McConnell.
Speaker 1: No kind of.
Speaker 9: He's a lot smaller like Halliburton six. But they the
same way, same thing, They do, the exact same thing,
just energy. It's hard, man, it's I'm gonn tell you.
Let me take this before we wrap up. It's super hard.
Speaker 5: The problem with the Knicks is I think they would
have matched a way better if the Celtics made it
this far. It's the Pacers are so deep and they
go so fast. The Knicks are running.
Speaker 4: They play five guys, that's what they do.
Speaker 5: Like it's dude, you got guys to sub it in
and out fresh. It's like, what can you do?
Speaker 4: I mean, the Pacers have a nine man rotation the Knicks.
Speaker 5: Sometimes that's crazy.
Speaker 3: All right, look, we're gonna take a time out. Just
wanted to get a little playoff talk in. There's there
was a hell of a basketball game last night between
the Pacers and the Knicks. We're gonna take a time
out here, we come back, Bryce Coon if twenty four
to seven sports is gonna hop on tug a little
LSU crewdon that's coming up here on off the bench,
Off the bench.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to It's the Bench, Welcome back in, Welcome
back in final segment. I re number two here on
a Wednesday edition of Off the Bench. Let's go out
to the phone lines right now. Bryce Coon covers LSU
for two four seven Sports. Bryce, how are you this morning?
Speaker 10: Dude? Well, man, I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for the time. We talk a little
recruiting here last week. Kind of the big news at
the beginning of last week was Bo Bentley narrowing his
choices down to LSU in Oklahoma. Appears to be a
two headed battle for his services, and you had a
nice write up on him. Just kind of give me
your thoughts on Bo Bentley as a prospect, Like, if
the Tigers do land in what would they beginning?
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, I think you know you can go with
far to really kind of look at what our national
scouting team has done, and you know, just even watching
the film you can kind of see it. I think
LSU fans will get a better glimpse of it now
that he's in the SEC, but that college comp right
now is John the Pier. And I think when you
got to have a guy that you kind of look
at some of the stats and the tier has put
up at the college level so far, I mean, a
great year last year out West, and we'll see what
he could do in Norman. But and just the guy
that can I wouldn't say a true true dual threat,
but really a player that can just hit you in
a multitude of ways. And so you know, there's a
lot of I would say, I guess qualms. Some people
have some gripes to have about Garrettnsmeyer's game if you
want to about the man the unwillingness or inability to
run the football. Bo Bentley is the guy that I
think that you know, he's not afraid to tuck it
and pick up some yardage there, He's willing to do it.
He's not the pure runner that a guy like Jaye
Daniels obviously is, but there just can hit you in
different ways than I think the biggest part about it
is just the precision and accuracy that he has showcased
at all three levels, not just in the shorten the intermediate,
but kind of the deep ball there as well in
the high school level. And that's something that Joe Sloan
like when you go out to these camps, especially in
the summer when they host the top quarterbacks each year,
that's something that just on immediately puts these guys in
the test, like, Hey, we are going to make sure
you can obviously throw the five yard out route, We're
going to make sure that you can throw the ten
to fifteen, but then I want to see how you
can throw the twenty to twenty five plus yard throw
as well. And so you know, Bentley checks those boxes
the prospect and let's Taydler, you mean you followed it
long enough, you know as well as I do. They're
far from a finished product, and you know, our ranking
system tries to do a pretty good job of these things.
But I think in terms of Bentley, you kind of
have the willingness to run the football and kind of
be that dual threat attack. But also, man, he can
throw the ball. He's got some really good accuracy in
some really good touch, especially in that intermediate to long
passing games.
Speaker 3: What do you think the Tygers stand with Bentley? Like
you know, LSU Oklahoma, like you think anybody has the
lead right now.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's kind of been why they reported that.
You know, Bentley is the guy that grew up Oklahoma fan,
and you know, I think that that definitely plays into
it a little bit of course, Like I mean, did
you playing for the hometown team? Looks LSU fans and
evens US in the media we always talk about, you know,
the pride for some of these kids in the state
to be able to play and put on for the
home state team. That obviously kind of makes sense when
you talk about Bentley and his favorite school growing up
being Oklahoma. But I'm very hard for us, and they
talked with some people, you know, when it was kind
of the top three was Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU, and Georgia
obviously secured the commitment of five star Jhurtis. It was
one of those things where Palmer's they really kind of
felt like it was Georgia versus LSU, and Oklahoma was
still there, but maybe Oklahoma was in that Tier two
category and was a one A, one B situation. You know,
I don't think Joe, Sloana them have done anything for
me right now to not think that they're in the lead.
I think this is something that you know and all
obviously with the announcement of his commitment date kind of
being right after that ov to Oklahoma here in the
next couple of weeks, it's something that's going to wrap
up quickly. So I think heading into this weekend, you've
got a really good opportunity to kind of iron out
some things, iron out some details that you like. Because
from all from talking with sources, he likes what Joe
Sloan and s LSU offense is about. They like what
he's about. There's not much of getting to know each
other more at this point. It's really kind of you
know the play and the purpose to pitch making sure
you hit on all those right marks.
Speaker 4: This weekend, there's a few more for you here.
Speaker 3: Tristan Keyes currently committed the five star wide receiver, but
he's still taking his visits.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: We see guys do this all the time, But I mean,
what's the confidence level right now that LS you can
keep him?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I went out to Hattie berg to about a week
and a half ago and sat down with his new
head coach, sat down with his offensive coordinator who's coached
him since he was in the eighth grade and even
sat down with Tristan for for a little bit, and
I think the feeling that I got away from it is, look,
I mean, this kid is a top rated receiver in
the country and he's going to enjoy the process. And look, Taylor,
I don't know about you, but you and I probably
weren't as beneficial to be able to enjoy things like that.
So go and enjoy it. Take the visit, you know,
and ginger fighting and guiding that OV season is. And
I think the big thing for dis recruitment is, you know,
every single person I talked to up and around that school,
from whether it was coaches, even a couple of teachers
as well, was that LSU has just made their presence
knows so well, and they've just consistently been around the school.
They've been around trust in his family, and they've been
around the coaching man who just to get to know
him more. And you know, and this day and age,
when you talk about a number one receiver, I think
the immediate reaction is when you see he sets up
a visit to their school, is like, Okay, the money
being thrown around, and that's that's a piece of the puzzle.
For sure when you have that high of a rank
and you're that type of player. But you know, just
talking with Keys, like the big message that LSU has
hit home with him is we can offer you opportunities
to help yourself, to help your family now. But this
is a place where you can come and you cannot
just get the you know, the first NFL check. But
we're we're getting guys that you know, we're developing and
they're getting that big second NFL contract and that's kind
of the big piece of the puzzle. So look, it
doesn't hurt when you have, you know, obviously the track
record that LSU does, even as recently as as Brian
Thomas Junior and league neighbors, who are you know, just
lived on fire last year. So I think heading into
the kind of you know where he's going to take
some more visits, I still feel comfortable saying LSU, you know,
is winning the battle. That's kind of how I talk
about recruiting. Now, you got to win the war. They've
won the initial battle. I still think that they're leading,
and you know the relationship with Courts has hankin just
from even talking with Keys, like it's much more than
just the bad. So I think it's just it would
be really surprising, which I know LSU has unfortunately seen
a lot of surprising stuff not go their way at
times in the recruiting world. But it would just be
really surprising with the work that they've done, was not
just him, but his family and everyone around him, for
him to kind of flip through the cracks. And I said, truly, Taylor,
I think LSU would have to miss up somewhere and
I just don't see that happening.
Speaker 2: Rush.
Speaker 3: Your Tiger fans really appreciate that. Bryce, we were up
against a heart break. But real quick, before we get
you out of here, where can people see more of
your stuff?
Speaker 10: Of course? Man, no, go twenty four to seven. Come
join us. It's a great time. We've obviously got Obcason
kicking off this weekend. As we were talking, I'm working
on a big piece kind of previous, a couple of
targets that are coming in this weekend college baseball. Obviously
we've got the region this weekend. But yeah, man, it's
a fun time. Come join the crowd for what's going
to be a really fentful months of June on the
recruiting space. But Taylor I appreciate it time man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Bryce, thanks for hopping on with us. That
right there was Bryce Coon covers LSU for twenty four
seven sports over there at go to for seven. That's
going to wrap up our number two here on a
Wednesday of OTB. We've had a jam pack show so
far and it's gonna continue an hour three top of
the hour nine am Rawster Jackson locked on Saints Louisiana
Sports dot Net. He's gonna hop on give us a
little update from OTAs. We're gonna talk some SEC Spring
meetings as that's currently going on, which is actually where
Capestor is. Then Doug Thompson's gonna hop one talk some
LSU baseball, and then we will close this thing out
with Ask the Bench to stay tuned. We got a
JAMP backed one number three. I got a lot more
coming up for you here on a Wednesday edition of
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