Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 2: Plays get broken down and science gets denied.
Speaker 1: Got to come off the bench.
Speaker 2: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB. Here live on location,
and again we are at the Louisiana Restaurant Association Betton
Rouge Chapter golf tournament here at U Club.
Speaker 4: Hell, there's a lot of distractions as the morning goes on.
And again everybody knows that who listens every now and
then we are we are diagnosed squirrel sears over here
hosting the show. And there's a lot of squirrels out
here today. Lata just the most. Just something we got
fresh herbs being brought in over here. I don't know
what he's cooking up. He's cooking up something fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I don't know this because typically typically that
tent is the superior tent, that one right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, see that's.
Speaker 3: A margarita machine there in the back left. And let
me just tell you my former partner would indulge.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is a monday, they're in the show.
It is a Monday at eight.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody's got to take care of these margaritas.
Speaker 3: Might as well be t Yeah yeah, LSU spring football, Okay,
starting this week. Okay, let's go all right, exciting looking
forward to it. I know that our guy Hunt Paul
Merrow is going to have a little station survey out
probably a little bit later today. No big deal. Me
and Matt Bow turned in our answers. It's not that deal.
Definitely saw that email before he sent the third text
to remind us, and it was kind of, you know,
what are you excited about for l s U football? Like,
what are you looking forward to? You can check the
answer out later on Louisiansports. Done that, but we'll spoil
our answers maybe here for you here in this segment. So, Matthew,
the thing that you're most looking forward to for the
Louisiana State University.
Speaker 1: Bird's got a fish in its mouth? Where wait, you
can't say, wait, you cannot tell me that? Well it did?
Speaker 4: It just went by the tree. It had a fish
in its mouth. Love that. What kind of bird was it?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It was a fish eating bird, repelican. It was not
a pelican that'd be in his bill you wouldn't be
able to see that one.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know if it was like mid byzone.
Speaker 4: Yeah swallow, But anyway, that was fine to see that.
Spring football, okay, uh okay, So two things. For one,
I don't really get excited for anything in spring football, honestly,
usually in the normal situation, spring there running the back. Yeah,
as players, we hated spring football.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 4: Once spring football was over as a player. As a coach,
you never went and watched the film again. You didn't
talk about spring football. You're not sitting in training camp
and you're like, hey, remember that the second week of
springball when this happened.
Speaker 1: You never do that.
Speaker 4: So springball is just it's it's an exercise to get
out there and play a little football. You get a
little bit of evaluation done normally in any normal circumstance,
any normal year. However, this year is a little bit
different because of the lane train, and that is the
whole reason that there is any excitement or buzz. Well,
we thrive, we thirst for football, any football news here
in South Louisiana, of course, especially when it comes to
LSU football. So yeah, there's always going to be news
coming out of spring. So there's a couple of things
to look out for. Certain only the battle for the
backup quarterback job will certainly ensue planning Clark, who's on
Long Street and I just want to go going into spring.
Don't count out Landing Clark on this whole deal. I
know that Long Street. He's former five star guy. Yeah,
he's got all these all these accolades and different things.
Don't count out the small school guy. And of course
lan Kevin didn't care. He's proven it everywhere he's been.
He doesn't care who you are, what your resume is,
how many stars you got. Now this day and age,
it's a professional football, so you the money plays an impact, certainly,
money and promises things like that. And so certainly Sam
Levitt is going to be the guy once springs over,
once he gets he's a full go and he can
play it at one hundred percent again, he'll be the guy.
So this is going to be a great opportunity for
these two quarterbacks to show what they have, what they
can prove. And again I'm just I'm just telling you,
don't count out the land and Clarkia Like, it's hard
to tell a lot of the a lot of the
footage and a lot of film.
Speaker 1: You go back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looked great where he was Yeah, Chico, Yeah, no, No, Elon.
He looked great on the Elon game tape because I
watched the Lodge just and I saw the highlights. You're
not going to go back and like find a full
All eleven game to go watch it, but you can
watch the highlights.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: You got to be careful watching highlights, yeah, because everybody
looks like Joe Montana a handful of plays in their career.
Speaker 1: If you look like Joe Montaigne, then that's when you're
in trouble. That's when you got an issue.
Speaker 4: Yes, but certainly he looks the part in those clips
that we've seen. But he's talented and Lane doesn't care.
So if he's the better guy, he's the better guy
period into story. And that's the way it should be, right.
So it's going to be exciting to watch and how
that offen, how we adapt and can implement the high
flying offense. But the main thing indeed this spring and
I'm how is he going? How is Lane and that
offense going to utilize trade as? So that is what
I'm most excited about, and I believe that if he
has utilized the right way in this high flying, fast
paced offense, he can be the most dominant player on
offense in the entire country. So it's going to be
one of these deals where if you do it the
right way, and we believe that's why Lane came here
because he is an offensive guy. He knows how to
put up points. He's got this system in place, he's
fast paced, and they everywhere he's gone, they've done it right.
So he's got this weapon that nobody else has and
that skill set, the stature, the size, all the things
that he has. He can be the most dominant player
on offense in the entire country in college football. And
that is not an overstatement. We've seen glimpse of the
of that. We saw glimpses of this past year on
a terrible offense. So when you put him in the
right situation, if you and yeah, he's a tight end,
I guess on the prayer, but he's a wide receiver.
Can you're going to split him out For the most part,
He's going to make his plays, but he is a
willing blocker certainly, But if they can find a way
to do it, he can absolutely take the college Football
World by storm this year, and I'm so excited to
see it. So I just want to see, are we
going to get a glimpse of that this spring? Or
is like, if I'm looking at it from a realistic standpoint,
this whole spring is going to be We're going to
install twenty plays and we're just going to get used
to the speed, the tempo, calling the plays at the
line of scrimmage and going fast. Like all we're trying
to do this spring is go fast, which is probably
what we're going to see. We're not going to see
a lot of the game plan, of course, not the
game plan stuff, but really I want to see how
are they going to utilize him and can they get
him going? Because sky's the limit for that kid, and
if you've got talent around him, that's going to distract
and take away double team opportunities because he's he's going
to see his fair share of double team opportunities.
Speaker 3: Even if it's not double team and you could speak
to this way better than I could. Even if it's
not straight up double teams, there's gonna be coverages to
try to stop him.
Speaker 4: And let me tell you something about the speed of what.
Speaker 1: Oh that I like that. That was like a let
me tell you, let's go all right? You ready? All right?
Speaker 4: So the defense is worse nightmare when you're trying to
game plan is speed. Yeah, And I'm not talking about
four to three speed. I'm talking about speed of snapping
the ball get into the line of scrimmage. So what
lane Kiffin's offense does. You get to the line of scrimmage,
you call it play fast and you run it.
Speaker 1: What does that not do?
Speaker 4: That does not give the defense of time to call
anything intricate. It's hard to call these intricate blitzes, these
walk around pressures, these disguises. You got to call pretty
base plays. And it's tough on a defense. And we
saw it. We saw it this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean and LSU had a very aggressive defense,
and when you're going that fast, it is hard to
get all those things going. And I hope to that point,
I hope that LSU's playmakers understand and get the tempo
that it's going to take. Because Ole Missus did. I
always talked about it was so impressive. They would make
an incredible one handed catch toe tap on the sideline
and there was no celebrating. It was they'd go grab
the ball if like, if it was on the ground,
they'd grab it and they'd rush it.
Speaker 1: To the middle of field and spot the ball. Yep.
Speaker 3: Like you don't just have that, Like that's practiced, and
that's a buy in to understanding how fast you want
to go because if you do that, all those exotics
that we talk about let's go out the window.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and there's another element to that, not only
the exotics. So, like I learned this lesson in the
NFL when I was where.
Speaker 1: Was I at?
Speaker 4: I was in Buffalo in the Matthew Clayton. We're in
Buffalo and for three weeks, not a big deal, and
seventeen pretty much fast to Josh, Yeah, pretty much. It
was kind of like eighteen up there. I passed it down.
So we're sitting there and we're not very good, right
and the starters out they're playing like the third string quarterback.
I had just got there. I was going to be
the backup. We're playing the Bengals at the time, which
with coach Zimmer, who was basically the godfather of the
double A gap blitz, which is if you've heard Jake
and I talk when we're watching film and stuff. There's
nothing harder to protect in the game playing against and
a double A gap muggers with two linebackers in the
A gap and when you're like an eleven personnel, it's
just it's impossible.
Speaker 1: You have to guess.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of guestswork involved, there's so many different things,
and he's basically the godfather, like he created this and
there at the time this was twenty fourteen or fifteen,
like nobody had come up with a great answer for it.
So we're playing them and I'm like, oh, we're gonna
get crushed. Well, we go to this game with like
ten plays, Yeah, just to go fast. They didn't get
in double A gap once in that game and we
beat them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that was their bread.
Speaker 4: But because you went so fast, you did not allow
them to get into those exotic looks. Right now, the
other element that this is going to bring in with
this speed, you also can't uh you also can't call
it exotic coverages, which means double teams. It's going to
be hard to double team. Trade is green in this
the speed up, hurry up. The LSU offense is going
to operate in and I don't know if lane Kiffin's
ever had a weapon like this guy.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I mean his tight end last year was good at
Old Miss, but he was built more like I know
you hate this, but he was built more like a
y tight end than a trade is tight end, like
a traditional you know, two hundred and.
Speaker 1: Right sixty five pound tight end.
Speaker 4: Now, I know Lane's had a lot of talent, but
like you look at the just the weapon. Yeah, of
the size, the speed, hands, the ability.
Speaker 1: To blocker, which is important in his role.
Speaker 4: You aren't going to be able, of course, the pressures.
You're going to have a lot more vanilla pressures and
defenses you face, but they're not going to get an
opportunity to double a lot. Like if you go into
the huddle in the red zone and operate in a
normal tempo, you can call these plays. All right, we're
gonna shade the safety over, we're going to double team.
They're gonna if they're going to score, they're not going
to score with that guy, right, you shut that one
person out and make them make a play somewhere else.
It's just hard to do that. So I'm excited to
see it. I really do think that he's uh gonna
be on the trajectory of certainly all American, certainly all
world whatever. Whatever the accolade is for a tight end,
he's going to get it.
Speaker 3: Ooh, Mackie award. Pretty sure, pretty sure it's award. I
feel good about that. Absolutely, I feel pretty good about that.
That's a great breakdown there, Bud. I mean, you went
hulk Holgan, you had notes.
Speaker 1: Well facts.
Speaker 4: I had to redeem my self from when you left
me by myself when in a baseball segment, O.
Speaker 1: Great, what the listeners need to be fair?
Speaker 3: The guy who had the blower turned up to an
eleven and he like he was right there and I
couldn't hear a word Ta Ta was saying.
Speaker 1: I could.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know if they were throwing it back
to us at the point, so you know, I had
to go kindly ask him.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, Like, I don't know if you
are like next, like when if the lawnmower guy comes back,
if you want to bring up the warn out ran
then just leave. Is that what you're gonna do next?
Speaker 1: I'm not, Well, you already covered that. We did, We
covered that earlier in the show. Yeah, obviously, all right,
it wasn't lawnmower. It's a leaf blower. Fine, I think
we did get in the of the leaf though. It's fine.
Speaker 4: Who's right behind us snuck up?
Speaker 1: He did? All right.
Speaker 4: Well, when we get back from break, you got to
give us what you're excited about on spring ball, because
I kind of took over the mic there.
Speaker 1: I said, that's great, that was great. That's that's exactly
what I was hoping for.
Speaker 3: And I will give you what I'm looking forward to
the most when we come back here. We are at
U Club, going to be here obviously all morning long,
and so.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to spring football. Unfortunately, their morning practice team,
I know.
Speaker 4: That's see, that's the only thing I'm a little bit
nervous about the season. Not many championship teams practice in
the morning. A lot of them are moving into the mornings.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess because the school portion of it's
like online now.
Speaker 1: For all these kids.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think it's real dumb. Yeah, what do you
want a midday or an afternoon afternoon? I want to
go in there.
Speaker 4: I want them to get this start getting their ankles
taped about twelve forty five to one, get into the
meeting rooms at one thirty one forty five. Okay, walk
throughs at two forty five. So we wanted to pro
schedule and practice from three to seven. Three to seven though, yeah, wow,
I don't think they can do that anyway hard All right, again,
we are here with Louisiana Restaurant Association, the Baton Rouge chapter.
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Speaker 1: A couple of things here.
Speaker 3: First off, sir, you have seventy six missed calls, two
hundred and sixty two text messages, three four hundred and
five emails. Sure that is unacceptable, sir, and then move
that back that's yours.
Speaker 4: I think those are voicemails even worse. Okay, So all right,
look by my home alarm company, fantastic.
Speaker 1: They're great.
Speaker 4: However, once one of the like the little batteries and
one of the sensors goes down, they call me about
nine times a day to tell me my back all right.
Speaker 3: And I think it's the text messages that's the most surprising.
Like emails, like, you know, I'll let my email kind
of get out of hand a little bit, yep. Text messages, no,
I mean two hundred and something like those poor people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what happens.
Speaker 4: And to people who know me and they know that,
sometimes I don't get back to them.
Speaker 1: Every now and then.
Speaker 4: Minus is sometimes I get I get it all distracted, yeah,
throughout the day, and that's okay, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was doing a card show this weekend. I
was doing a card show this weekend. It was a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Shout out and.
Speaker 3: They said, yeah, we uh, you know, we'd like to
have t o TV here like you and Mett together.
Speaker 1: We reached out to him a couple of times and yep,
and then I'll yeah, that's on me. Loising a card
con was the shows a great success? I think? I
mean I was there Saturdays packed, Samara Dixon.
Speaker 4: So if you do know me and I haven't got
back to you, it's not.
Speaker 1: You, it's me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you look your stuff in the mirror something, look
yourself in the mareor we want to talk about this
chair and this week.
Speaker 1: Chair are you talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Those chair that clearly Tea bopsat in that chair many
many times. Yeah, and you know he's pretty hard on
chairs too, But he didn't break it.
Speaker 1: You did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did break a rocking chair. I don't know how.
I mean, have you never been to Cracker Brow, my guy?
You didn't know first time? First time I tried to
rock sideways? I guess I don't know. Yeah, I broke
a chair, guys, it's you know, it's something that everybody does.
At least once in their life, and it's always embarrassing, right,
But gotta remember, muscle weighs more than fit.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. I mean you're about to be
a hybrid rock star. It's true.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, don't remind me. Friday morning, be doing
a high Rocks event.
Speaker 1: Live call into the show.
Speaker 4: I've been training one to two times a week for
the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: It's right. We're excited. It's a lot for me. Excited,
excited to hear how it goes all right?
Speaker 3: Spring football take from Matthew earlier, great breakdown trade as
Green probably think he's most excited about I am going
to go he probably no surprise here. I'm going to
go with the running backs. If they had one Harlan
Berry and Caden Durham, why am I going to be
excited for them? Well, I'm excited because Lshu's run concepts
for horrid last year. They were basic, they were vanilla.
They had no diversity in the run game, and it
didn't set up anybody for success. It didn't set up
the running backs for success, it didn't set up the
offensive line for success. It just it didn't because you
didn't really do different things, Like, you kind of ran
the same stuff and you didn't switch it up, and
teams knew when you're running the football you were going
to run out of mostly eleven personnel and is going
to be zoned out of shotgun. It doesn't really terrify anyone.
And you tried a couple of times to run duo,
but you were still predictable when you did it. It
didn't really matter. So let's go back to last year's
Old Miss running game. Okay, they ran the football five
hundred and thirty nine times.
Speaker 1: I like that, But the thing I like even more.
Speaker 3: Of those five thirty nine they ran outside zone nine
percent of the time, inside zone twenty eight percent of
the time, duo twenty six percent of the time, power
fourteen percent of the time. They ran a power get
out of seventy three of them ELDT sec. Yeah, LSU
didn't run a single one.
Speaker 1: You can do that. You can, it's not a rule. Nope.
You can pull the guard.
Speaker 3: You can even pull two people on counter, which they
ran twelve percent of the time.
Speaker 1: They ran draw eighteen times.
Speaker 3: They ran pull lead twenty three times, which was five
percent of their run game. So as you can tell
very diverse because if I sat here and I pulled
up what LSU ran.
Speaker 1: Just a year ago, they threw some counters in there.
Speaker 3: They ran inside and outside zone a combination of sixty
percent of the time. Counter was the only change of
pace thing that they had, and they ran thirty eight them.
Look at that number, Matthew, for our listeners, tell them
what that highlighted number right there says right there, that
one right there, and oh, that's a zero under PWR
with power zero zero percent of the time. That can't
happen in no run game in America. It can't happen
at this level. It can't happen at the pro level.
It can't happen on Greg Olsen's seventh grade team that
him and Luke Keigley coach together.
Speaker 1: It can't happen on any level of football. Right.
Speaker 3: Hell, I'm pretty sure we got closer running of power
in flag football last year than LSU football actually did.
All Right, diversity in the run game helps everybody. It
keeps the defense on their toes, file them to say,
oh gosh, here's that tendency where they're going to run
inside zone at a gun. So for the offensive line,
that helps them. But for the running backs, this is
a running back group that's still both averaged over four
yards of carry and I don't know how in the
running scheme that they were running behind. So we know
Lane Kiffin wants to run a football. Don't allow the
ten bow and the fast paced nature of this offense
to think it's air rate.
Speaker 1: It is not air rate. It is we want to.
Speaker 3: Run the football first and foremost before we do anything else.
Speaker 1: That's what we want to do. All right. So you've
got two backs that are very capable. All right.
Speaker 3: You've got Kaden Durham, who well, you know, freshman of
the Year in the SEC. Going back a couple of
years ago. You've got Harlan Berry, who I really like.
Speaker 4: Maybe also maybe if Farland Berry is averaging nine yards
of carry, maybe give him a carry in the second half.
Speaker 1: Maybe feature him in the second half as well.
Speaker 3: That's right, the running back rotation which was head scratching,
to say the least at times even last year.
Speaker 1: So go out there, run the football.
Speaker 3: What you're going to do, be diverse in the run game,
which you've always done, and you're gonna see much better results.
So that's what I'm looking forward to the most. It
helps everybody out. Like I can't imagine being an offensive
line that did not have the opportunity to run a
stinking power down down in a round, the most basic
concept in football. I mean, my guy, Jim Taylor and
the Packers, they were running power, all right. John Riggins
for the Redskins, he was running power. Mike all Stop
for the Bucks was running power. I mean, we could
want football across football timeline. Power has been power and
you ran goose egg, not a single one, so you.
Speaker 4: Know else ran power besides Jim Taylor. Also the Seahawks
this past year.
Speaker 1: Yah're pretty good ad. So it's not like an outdated No,
it's not.
Speaker 3: It's like it blew my mind and like you would
ask about it, and like you should always want feel
good about our guards in that situation.
Speaker 1: How do you know? How do you know because I
went to practice a bunch, never saw one there.
Speaker 4: Well, they fit every every week, every day they practiced
for an hour and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Brother, that's true, so they got time. They didn't have
time to time. But like I would get the answer,
like we didn't love our guards in power? Like what
how do you know if you don't do it.
Speaker 3: And Power's not a practice play like you can run it,
you got to run it. I mean you got to
work on it. Power is going to be better. It's
a violent run. How are you going to do a
violent run in practice and thing that you know what
the outcome is going to be because practice you can't
play it the same like you can try to do
the same things. You can simulate like what you're trying
to do. But it's a violent run. You got people
crashing down. You got a guard that's pulling around for
a kickout violently, and then the running backs going a
gap to expand and he's hitting it downhill full speed.
It's hard to get that in practice. But you're basing
you not running that play off. We don't like our
guards in practice running Power, Oh.
Speaker 4: You have to you have to run. You have to
run inside or inside run drills. You have to run
nine on sevens, you have to do line like they
didn't do those things in practice.
Speaker 1: So how can you work on it?
Speaker 4: And Jake, there's no when you run power, you have
to commit your tackles to blocking run plays instead of
holding up for potential RPO passes and behind it. So Yeah,
we were just that that is a very there's a
lot to be excited about going into this season certainly,
and again like this is and this is coming from
a guy that just despises spring football just from a
I think it's so overrated and you don't get a
lot out of it from a from a you know,
certainly a fans perspective, but as a player, I hated
it wasn't like there's you're you're not working towards anything,
but this year in particular, very excited just because you're
coming from the struggles offensive struggles from the past year.
I can't wait, Like we haven't even brought up like
Blake Baker coming back and being able to even hone
in his defensive strategy even more because he guess what
he gets to learn from a guy that everybody struggles
against offensively, So I expect that the defense.
Speaker 1: Will be better and better. But certainly this is LSU.
We've got to be able to run to.
Speaker 4: And so we know that's a you know, as much
as Elaine gets credit for, you know, throwing the ball
in the passing game and touchdowns and all that and
fast paced stuff, he doesn't get enough credit for the
commitment that he does have to that running game. And
it's a quarterback's best friend, it's a receiver's best friend,
it's an offense's best friend. If you can sit there
snap the ball, you know we're running it. I know
we're running it. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Spring football.
Speaker 3: Believe tomorrow tomorrow is the first practice there again, going
to be early. So we got a little some Saints jerseys,
maybe the number twenty two or a sheet sheat from
a year ago.
Speaker 1: I guess, so figure it out. One of those falls
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not gonna have to worry about financial difficulties anytime soon.
Speaker 1: No, he won't.
Speaker 4: He'll be okay, jsn UP in Seattle four years, one
hundred and sixty eight point six million dollars.
Speaker 3: And Jackson Smith and JIGBA for those out there that
aren't in the Linga.
Speaker 4: With one hundred and twenty million of that fully give.
Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty million guaranteed.
Speaker 4: Twenty million dollars. Gre like these guaranteed numbers are absolutely
unheard of and insane, So good for him. I mean,
I'm hoping that I've said this for years, that all
the contracts get fully guaranteed. You know what, just like
every other sports in the whole world, maybe make a
contract guaranteed, so if you're gonna do it, if you're
gonna pay the big bucks. I mean, good for him.
What an incredible season he had certainly and certainly got
me thinking a little bit as I try to go
back to play receiver about state income tax, because Washington
is your first thing that you do in Washington has
no state income tax, so that's a pretty big raise.
But he better I hope he frontloaded this because the
state of Washington voted in starting to twenty twenty eight
a millionaire's tax of nine point nine percent for anybody
making one million dollars or more of income. So he's
going to get a ten percent pay decrease in two years.
Speaker 1: If you're successful, we're gonna tax you.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's ten percent nine point nine percent on
a millionaire tax coming to twenty twenty eight. So if
anybody worried about Jackson Smith Nijigma's income, how much he's
gonna clear, Well, he's gonna clear a lot of the
next two years, but ten percent less than twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder, like if you.
Speaker 3: If it's one hundred and twenty million guaranteed, I wonder
how much, Like initially because he I mean, look, he
knows that's coming, right, right, So he had to front
end that thing like no doubt.
Speaker 4: Right, And it seems crazy to think that and John
would try to take care of him. Two agents kind
of didn't matter to John Schneider. Yeah, it's funny, how
like you wouldn't think people would make decisions based on
little things like that. But that's a significant amount.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, ten percent of one hundred and.
Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty million guarantee hundred.
Speaker 3: Six hundred and sixty eight point six million. Yeah, it's
a pretty big number. Bud pretty big, pretty large. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's yeah, they got that news sweet. Well, so
the Seahawks did have let's see, before this, they had
forty two point one million dollars in salary cap space.
Speaker 1: They spent it so they had room to do this.
Speaker 3: It's pretty incredible the Seahawks, I think we talked about
this on this show, but of dead money, to tell
you how good John Schneider and that staff are, they
only had four hundred and eighty three thousand dollars of
dead cap money. Say it again, they only had four
hundred and eighty three thousand dollars of dead cap money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we the blueprints out there.
Speaker 3: They have one hundred and thirteen million in dead cat money.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: One hundred and thirteen million, and the Super Bowl champions
have four hundred and something thousand of dead cap money.
Speaker 4: It's not towarding Bud. We had the best draft glass
last year, true, and he hit some bangers in free agency.
Speaker 3: You know how hard that is to have the roster
that the Seahawks have and only have four hundred and
eighty three thousand dollars a dead cap money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we've turned every decision they've made, it's been positive.
Speaker 4: Well, the blueprints out there how to successfully be a GM,
and John Snyder is the best GM in the NFL.
And I don't even know if that it could be
argued if you like a guy or like your team,
you got a good player, you got a quarterback, whatever,
But if you want to go, look to see who's
done the best job top to bottom. Pretty much every
aspect of his job. He's completely built a team and
coaching staff twice.
Speaker 1: They brought him to a super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Sure, completely different, thinking about completely different teams players, There's
nothing the same besides maybe a couple of strength coaches
and athletic trainers.
Speaker 1: Right, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe some secretaries are the same, there's some carryover.
But he has built the team from scratch through the
draft with new coaches twice and won a super Bowl.
And you could argue with not one of the top
quarterbacks in the NFL either on both teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, doubt be the worst one time. I mean
that guy, that guy U Limited. It is crazy.
Speaker 3: You look at the playoff teams, It's like Chargers only
have five million a dead cap. You look at the
let's see Seahawks. I mentioned the four hundred and eighty
three thousand. You look at the Panthers only sixteen, forty
nine Ers do have thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Steelers only have twelve.
Speaker 3: The Broncos only have one point two million, The Rams
only had ten million. It kind of gives you an idea,
like of these front offices and how well they're doing
and the decisions that they're making and not giving out
just contracts to Jags just a guy, because like, look
the Dolphins eighty nine million bad football team, the Jets
ninety one million bad football team. The Raiders fifty two
million bad football team is one hundred and thirteen million
bad football team.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get some other back because look, the
phones are blowing up with the stare Car trade situation.
We're gonna get something good out of it. Yeah, we're
gonna get something. Look, it's not a great situation on
the dead cast bace like that is. That's a makes
you sick to your stomach as a fan base. Yeah,
it's not your money, but you understand it's not your money,
but it puts you in a bad spot. Yeah, just
from a business standpoint, an overall organization standpoint, it's not
a great look. But you know what, I think Vicky's
learned from his mistakes of the past, and certainly there
have been plenty of mistakes to learn from.
Speaker 1: But let's be positive. Okay. The salary cap looks good.
All right, We've got good players. See got a branch
ase QB.
Speaker 4: We hit on the draft last year, We're about to
hit on a second draft in a row. Make a limits,
we learn from mistakes. And he's on a heater right now?
Speaker 1: Yeap?
Speaker 3: All right, thirteen point two million in cap space. There
you go, boom, so you can sign your draft class.
Speaker 1: Then that's all you need.
Speaker 3: The Bears are two hundred and forty three thousand under
the cap. They're still gonna well because you had to
be under about the start of league year, so they
bare minimum, so they're gonna have to still.
Speaker 1: Make moves to sign their draft class. Yep, you got it.
How did you feel if you're the Dolphins? Not great?
I don't know about to say you have.
Speaker 3: Two point one million dollars in cap space and now
they're dead money because of the two A deal. It
just became a like official in the books earlier. They're
one hundred and seventy nine million in dead cap.
Speaker 6: Space, one hundred and seventy nine million dollars in dead money.
Saints fans, you're not last any the last the Jets
went up to one hundred and eleven million.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Good.
Speaker 3: God, if I'm a Dolphins fan, I've got two point
one million to spend, which is nothing. You're gonna have
to still make moves to sign your draft class, and
you're paying one hundred and eighty million dollars to nobody
that's gonna help you this year. That's cool, Yeah, that's cool.
You got a guy who was not a great college
head football coach as your head football coach. As far
as like success, I mean, I'm not saying like you
didn't know football.
Speaker 1: Obviously does, but in Boston.
Speaker 3: College, they weren't very you know, they didn't go out
there and win the league or anything.
Speaker 1: He's now your coach.
Speaker 3: You took a big gamble on Malik Willis to be
your starting quarterback.
Speaker 4: We'll see how that one plays out. I mean, certainly
shown signs. Yeah, and that was really good. But I
mean I think the Packers, I mean I think two,
I think he's still just you know, two and two
as a starter, I believe if I remember off the
top of my head correctly.
Speaker 1: So thank God for the Dolphins. Is no the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Dolphins there, they're I'm not gonna say they're the worst,
but they're they're just never like you can clip this
if you want. They're never gonna win the super Bowl again.
It's not gonna happen. It's a last one. They won
the year they went perfect seventy two. Yeah, they'll always
have that year. Yeah, but they're just not gonna win it.
It's just upset it. There's too many distractions in Miami
for kids that are twenty two to thirty years old.
There's just too many distractions to win a championship. Well,
let's were talking about distractions. Too many David Busters, too
many Dave of busters, got too many movie theaters.
Speaker 1: That's right, tock ops. Go see a picture show.
Speaker 4: Skating rinks, too many of them.
Speaker 1: That's what last ye should tell us. Go see a
picture show. What a picture show? Les? What are you
talking about?
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to do it right. Certainly because when you go to
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Well I didn't either till I heard it. Where are
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season kind of what they've done.
Speaker 1: And look, we threw out the dead cap number.
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and now we're starting to see people kind of grade
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of weeks of free agency, We've had a bunch of trades,
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