Speaker 1: Ros I'll start to what you want to presents. Off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob amer.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the bitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob aber.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's going off that roase?
Speaker 2: Welcome in Tuesday twenty five and it's time for bred
no O T B. I hope everybody had a great weekend.
Sorry we uh missed you yesterday traveling and whatnot. But
we are back and you'll forgive us if we celebrate
a bit of the weekend that was as we did.
I talk about LSU's fantastic series win over those damn
dirty Tennessee volunteers, and then uh obviously we got drafts. Look,
it's time to get to We got OTB mailbag coming
up today. I want to touch in the weird Bill
Belichick interview, which has caused many many questions to be
asked about many many things, Missippi State Baseball, FIR and
Crystal Monas some big news there. We got Nick Underhill
later start of the day day, Uh, it's gonna be
a fun day. So if you wanna get involved, YouTube
dot com Slash one in four five ESPN Come hang Out.
Also give you a spoiler free Thinners review in case
you have not seen it, watch it every week. And
good movie, very fun, very good movie. Which going on though,
Jake back from Lambeau. Back here in the in the South,
How are.
Speaker 3: You feeling about forty five degrees warmer? Yeah, without a doubt,
here in Louisiana it was. It was kind of cold,
cold ish. I mean, all these people from Green Bay
are walking around in shorts and a T shirt. There
was like it was the warmest, was the warmest day
they had to this point in the year, and it
was like the hottest. I think a guy was like
fifty three, fifty four something like that. But uh yeah,
Green Bay is certainly the most extended period of time
I've spent there, probably going to be the most in
my life. I can't imagine I'll ever spend that many
days in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Again, a lot of Green
Bay Packer fans. It looked like a lot of cheeseheads.
Like I was telling of laundry and Tata before the show.
Like in the last couple of years, Kansas City, Detroit,
it's been a ton of people and it's been obviously
mostly Chiefs and Lions fans, but it's been way more
from other teams. This was basically just packer fans.
Speaker 2: So did you you eat very healthy? Green Bay does not?
Did you engage in any of the local fair How
much cheese did you eat while you were there?
Speaker 3: It's funny when you checked into your hotel room, like
everybody had a different flavor of cheese.
Speaker 2: Good. That is that good? Yeah? Good, That's exactly what
I wanted to believe about Green Bay. Yeah, so you
have already put me in a good mood to start
the show here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So everybody had like the refrigerators in the room
obviously and had like a little note, Hey, welcome to
Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Here's what we chose for you. What cheese did you get?
Prol Okay? Hey, who doesn't love Provlon? I love the
premiere sandwich cheese. It's my favorite cheese actually, of all cheeses,
even to casually eat.
Speaker 3: I love Provolone.
Speaker 2: I love Problem as well.
Speaker 3: I think it's the number one sandwich pepper Jack as well.
I know some people have different thoughts on pepper Jack's
all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not the biggest I mean it's fine, but.
Speaker 3: I put it on like if I'm getting a sandwich,
it's going to be pepper Jack.
Speaker 2: I don't think we problem will have been number one cheese.
But it was just eating the cheese alone, but an
elite cheese nonetheless either way, a.
Speaker 3: Very kind cheese cho Yeah, it was. So that was
something A lot of chain restaurants, a lot of a
lot of chain restaurants there in Green but chains that
you recognize for sure. Colver's is something I know from
my time in my hand lost house in the Panhandle.
We did have a Dave in Buster's day. It was
oh hell yes, yes, it was me and e J.
Versus Chris Budden and Jason Horowitz. So it was off
campus versus college sports today and we had a lot
of fun with that.
Speaker 2: What was the best uh, what was the best day? We?
Speaker 3: You know, we did a basketball challenge, We did a
Mario Kart challenge, we did a baseball pitch challenge, football
Hungry Hungry Hippo challenge, which they actually dominated. Horowitz must
play that still, he was. Horwitz can with the best
of them, he was, and air hockey. So it's a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Do they still have the Derby Owners Club at David. Okay, no,
they don't.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: Once again, I am asked for someone to give me.
It's probably I've been checking out. The price is about
ten years, probably up to like one hundred k to
try to get a Derby Owners Club machine. So if
anybody wants to donate to the cause, you know, let's
make it happen. A lat dra viial, how was your weekend, girl?
Speaker 4: Weekend was good.
Speaker 5: I saw Cody Johnson on Friday nights. Okay, LSU baseball
had me very stressed pretty much the entire weekend, but
came out with a win.
Speaker 2: Yes, baby Tigers. Friday. I remember, so I was, I
was flying out. I had to wake up at like
a little like a little bit four or five am
to fly out on Friday. But I really was trying
to stay up and watch the game. And finally, uh
it must have been was it up to the top
of the eighth? Finally, finally at midnight the stroke of midnight,
so maybe it was going into the eighth the seventh
had just ended. Finally at the stroke of midnight, I
was like, all I do whatever, it's one I can.
I didn't think they're gonna think, Okay, I gotta go it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Little did I know the hour and a half of
madness that the final few outs of that game would
hold over, that that I would later wake up to
really mind blowing, this insane pictures duel that was so tight,
so just ruthless as I turned to these guys getting
cut down, and then all of a sudden just went
absolutely insane and then ends with four fifty to Dead
Center crazy. I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Insane?
Speaker 2: Four to fifty with the guy who entering the series
where everybody's nervous about he's your best hitter, but he's
been nice cold, was struggling that night, and then he
comes up four fifty Dead Center game winner. My god,
those who those who stayed were rewarded.
Speaker 5: Hanny was telling me, so, if y'all know, I help
Handy with his hand casts the podcast that he does,
and so we were talking about it yesterday. He said
pretty much the same thing that he had fell asleep
on the couch and he was in and out of
the game or whatever, and then uh, he woke up
and it was like the bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Oh, and he.
Speaker 4: He had like he was about to turn the TV
off and go to bed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he was like, no, let me let
me see what Jared Jones does.
Speaker 2: And then sure enough, I mean we.
Speaker 3: Just got yeah, we just gotten done with shows. So
like I was good, Like I was locked in still
because we didn't get back to like we didn't get
off air until like eleven thirty, yeah or something, And
so we started to get back to the hotel and
everything together. So we're sitting there and watching it, all
of us, all like six seven of us that worked
the show, like in the car.
Speaker 2: Oh josh, yeah, I'm so sad to not get to
see it live. I love I love thinking about everybody
who was there. Yeah, because a fair amount of people
stayed for the like at least to the start of
the game.
Speaker 4: The crowd pop was crazy.
Speaker 2: On the opening k Kate Anderson's first istraga what do
you end up with? Ten? Or eleven? Eleven eleven? But
that first run, I was like, oh, okay, like you
know for three our rain delay, that's insane. How how
many people stayed?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, the even more diehard sticking around till one
thirty am not bailing when it's three nothing and getting
a little alec box magic, which then sets you up
for a weekend in which you end up getting this
series win. Love the bounce back on Sunday two after
the disappointing eighth inning on Saturday. It kind of took
the wind out of that game a bit. So just
just a a hell of a weekend for LSU Baseball.
Curial case. Evan's singing into all of it, Tayda, I
think you got the flu this weekend? How are you feeling?
Speaker 6: Something happened? Man, doing a lot better than yesterday morning.
Shout out to musso Ana Landra. Had to lean on
them a lot yesterday morning. Could not have done the
show by myself, so uh, they were a big help
on that. We had a uh we had a wedding
on Friday night. It went well, almost the rain delay
there also it was an outdoor wedding so kind of
had to kind of had to dodge the rain there,
but hey, they made it work and the reception went
off without a hitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I trouble where you got it. Unless
you think you're feeling bad before.
Speaker 6: It's kind of feeling bad before, probably pretty probably Wednesday
Thursdays kind of kind of went on.
Speaker 2: Uh, Jake, good luck to you. I think you're the
only one that has not gotten the flu or whatever.
A lot.
Speaker 5: He has like five kids at home, so all the
all the all the bacterias in his house.
Speaker 2: He's trust me. It went it went through It went
through my home one by one. Yeah, took about a
full a little over a week to slowly bring every
member to their knees. Yeah, but uh, we made it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We weren't allowed to be sick of my house
growing up too, so maybe there's some of that. It
wasn't a lot, see.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I'm someone who like, yeah, okay, you
said you push through it. This this flew. Man. I
don't know if it's just getting older. I had this.
This thing was something different. This I felt like I
was in. I felt like I was in. I was
Most Jones in that little Uh what what is it
is that? What they call him? I can't remember anyway,
do you remember as most Jones?
Speaker 5: I remember the movie, I don't remember like details about it,
so I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: I just rewatched it like a few weeks ago, and
it's even funnier than.
Speaker 6: I remember growing up. And I thought it was very funny,
massive Bill Murray Pimple.
Speaker 2: Yeah that that. I mean, all of the making the
city into a body analogies are just all great, right,
Like that's like a greasy underground nightclub, is it is? Uh,
you know the pits or like the slums and everything,
like your arm pit. It's it's just all it's it's
all great. Shout out as most Jones. All right, So
where Okay, when we get back, we can decide whether
or not we want to dive into LSU Tennessee. Do
we want to dive into this New Orleans Saints draft.
If you want to get involved guys and tell us
how much you did or did not miss us, you
can do that at YouTube dot com Place one four
five ESPN. Again, huge credit to y'all for doing the
show yesterday and Tayte pushing through. I know you weren't
a hundred percent, so great job, brother.
Speaker 3: Last thing before we take this first break, I found
a Derby Owners Club and it actually wasn't as much
maybe as you thought. It's all for seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: What it was like forty some thousand time. Look what
this thing selfish seven.
Speaker 3: Thousand at coin Express like a secondary. Yeah, well seven
nine and ninety five.
Speaker 2: Sorry, oh, I mean, I guess the maintenance is probably
the biggest problem at this point if anything goes wrong.
But oh sheeesh Okay, okay, man remembers what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I see one right now that's trying
to ask for eleven thousand, So I think they've come down.
Speaker 2: Okay. It's the greatest arcade game of all time. You uh,
you breed a horse, you train it, you feed it,
and then you race it. But then the best part
is it prints out your horse's card, so you like
save your horse. So you would have guys who would
have binder.
Speaker 4: Ride a cowboy and then you ride a cowboy.
Speaker 2: No, that's an awful joke. Stop, take a lot. If
this is Leventar Show and we'd had a penalty box,
you'd be in the penalty box. It'd be a two minute,
would it'd be a two minute?
Speaker 5: But no.
Speaker 2: It was cool though, because then like, so you would
race a horse and then you would retire it, and
then you could breed that horse that was saved, So
you would have people with like trading card binders just
stables of horses. Dude, Oh, what a game. What a game?
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tell you get into it. More to be coming up next.
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Speaker 1: To Welcome back to the best morning sports show around
sort of. It's off the bench with Hester and t Bop.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, there we go, There you go, Landre, just
really make me accept your bad joke. I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of you lean in double down. These are
these are all the lessons I've taught you and and
I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 6: For tell you what though, Like I'm kind of learning
something here, like if you do a joke and it
doesn't stick to the person you're doing to, just keep
pushing it, accept it.
Speaker 2: Just keep doing it. That's what I'm saying. I don't
hate the strategy. I think this is a great strategy
by a laundri here. So what do you'all Okay, what
y'all already talked about the weekend series? Uh? I mean, obviously,
like I said, it was awesome. Derek Curiel was just
unbelievable by the way. Dereck Carryll named SEC Freshman of
the Week. Of course, he five to twelve on the weekend,
most of that coming Sunday, the incredible four for four
one home run, two doubles, five ribbies, but critically that
fifth hit, the two out RBI single on Friday that
tied the game in set up Bear Jones. I mean, uh,
what more can you say about him in case seventh?
I mean, just a couple of guys that when you
when you talk about you know, we've been talking about
a lot lately because the draft's been here about foundational
pieces upon which you build teams and evans and curry
out a couple of foundational pieces over the next three
years upon which championships can be built here at here
at LSU.
Speaker 3: Just he continues to amaze just not only with his play,
like his play is incredible, but his mentality continuing to
be the first guy out there for LSU, but you know,
batting in the leadofh position for a team that certainly
has championship ass for a and man, they needed him
in that big moment he did. He got fired up.
I've never seen him as fired up as when he
crossed home plate after Bart Jones hit the home run.
So you talk about a table setter and the mentality
to be that young at this program and be able
to not only handle it like in you know, fight
and scrap, but like to be thriving right now.
Speaker 2: Thriving at that age. It's it's it's it's it's insane. Okay,
am I crazy? Casey Evans both threw the pin and
started this weekend now right, yes, yes, right, he got
he got some limited acts pin. Then what he threw
about eighty five eighty six on Sunday. Yeah, obviously a
bit of a rough start, gets out of it, dominates
him there on out. But man, what a weapon Casey
Evans could be. Like, truly, I don't know, in all
the years now that have covered the team, which many
of you listening probably have way more years than that.
In the game, right, let's just say the been here
past six seven years whatever, I can't remember a guy
who you could plug in in that way. Like it
just he is the X factor to trying to guarantee
a series win. It just depends on Okay, do we
have the game two lead and now we just try
to close the game with him and we go all
in there to try to get the W or do
you need to save him and try to get it
done on Sunday? Just really really crazy versatility out of
how you can plug case in Evans in wherever you
need to to win the series?
Speaker 3: How were we feeling because I know some of us
in the room were fan I don't remember who, so
I want to say some of us I really don't
remember of keeping Evans and Cowan in the bullpen because
it almost guaranteed you if you had a lead, you
were going to win the game. But LSU needs to
find somebody they can count on in game number three?
Do we think it's going to be Evans? Do we
think it's going to be to be determined? And depending
on situation. If Evans has to go in on a
Friday or a Saturday night and he has to shut
the game down, then you'll figure it out later on
in the series. What do we think moving forward?
Speaker 6: We kind of decided yesterday as a group, like you
use Case and Evans to win games. If you have
to win on a Friday night, you have to go
to Case and Evans.
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 6: Worry about Sunday like wins or wins if you have
to win Friday or.
Speaker 2: Saturday Friday, because you do you not maybe go Cowen
on Friday.
Speaker 6: You can't, I mean you have that option for sure.
Speaker 4: Ahead were you talking about this past right now.
Speaker 2: No, I'm talking. I'm talking about a theoretical setup to
Cowen first and then save Evans either a Saturday lead
or a Sunday start.
Speaker 6: So then Cowen could start.
Speaker 2: I mean, you you have that about that if you
have to.
Speaker 6: Use them both to win a game, use them both
to win a game. That's kind of where we were,
like Tuesday Sunday pieces together if you have to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I was not a fan of like Cowen being
a starter. I don't really I still don't think that
we should do. But with Evans it kind of works.
He was a starter in high school. But we did say,
like so, I did the Jay Johnson Show last night
and he was talking about this specifically, and he said that,
like on Saturday, he told Case and Evans the same
thing that me and Taylor were just talking about, like, Hey,
if we win this game, if we're winning this game,
I'm gonna put you in to close it.
Speaker 4: But if we don't, I'm I'm starting you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay. He did not throw at all over the weekend.
Speaker 4: I thought he did Friday.
Speaker 5: I thought, yeah, so he knew going into it that
he was going to be used either way, and the
way that Jay explained it was like, yeah, I saw
where the game was going Saturday, so I was gonna
save Evans for Sunday so that we can have a
better chance to win then.
Speaker 4: So I think that's like a good way to go
about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look at it worked out perfectly. He
gives you six innings and Sunday, like you said, only
two runs, six k's, no walks, Cowen.
Speaker 3: This first is it all first start, first start, not
in the sec first start? Yeah, I guess that. Defending
national champ.
Speaker 2: And survived the early wobble to survive the first inning,
giving up two runs n stranding two, which is a
big win within a lock in there on out and
go five scores over the next six and also a
lot of that probably happen helped excuse me by LSU's
immediate response, Yeah, uh, scoring wid is kind of get
in the you know, getting them on go back, giving
him a little support, a little room to be like, Okay,
I can be aggressive. I you pitch content. If something happens,
it's it's not the worst thing. So but look all
in all, again, a a weekend where the two defending
national champs were going toe to Toe. A series that
has been very swingy as of late, like we broke
down with one team dominated this year, the next team
dominates the next year. And again a series that I
think even though Tennessee entered not playing their best baseball,
I felt like LSU fans, I don't want to say scare,
but I feel like LSU fans were very anxious going
into this series. I was nervous, like they needed to
prove something right, like Tony v and Tennessee has been
so hot, and it seems like, you know, they needed
to prove that no, no, no, no no, we still are
the big dog. And they did that. And then it
ends with the bats breaking out in Game three to
win the game, right, Which if that's what you've been
worried about, even with the performances of Friday and Saturday,
still you can make arguments, and there were concerns about
some of the kind of slumpy nature of the bats,
and Sunday just obliterates any any of that.
Speaker 5: Real quick to go back to Derekkurreele, you know, before
the series, we talked about how good this Tennessee pitching
staff is, like best in the SEC.
Speaker 4: One of the top of the country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Derekreole hit four seventeen against this pitching staff. Yeah,
that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I know, it's insane. It's insane again and timely too,
like when it was needed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, when we were talking Friday, what we were more
concerned with and we were talking about, you know, our
bats that were kind of cold against the Tennessee lineup.
How about this l s U seven home runs on
the weekend Tennessee won.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, for all of the uh, for
all of the good Rilla ball I mean, and this
is a Tennessee team that as they.
Speaker 6: Looked at it, because we were like, oh, they have
the small ballpark, like it was pretty even home.
Speaker 2: And it was even and but also there's a Tennessee
team that I mean, they broadly down a lot of
things on Friday's broadcast, uh with with with Lynnen and
and Jumbo, But they were talking about how look, Tennessee,
this Tennessee team was pacing on a record pace or
or at least through forty games. That is the ninety
seven or ninety eight l Shoe team Tennessee. It doesn't matter.
So you we alln the record old team Tennessee Opensburg
record last year did not, but this year, through forty games,
they were pacing ahead of that team and yet to
Taylor's point. So the final count seven to one on
the weekend home run rise.
Speaker 3: Great job by the by the Tigers. Yea Braswell run
under the up. Yeah, as Well got his first two
of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember big bad John. Not that it mattered at
that point, but still John Parson.
Speaker 3: Braswell last year came on strong late. Now he didn't
struggle like he did this year early. I mean he
was better, but he played his best baseball later in
the year. And if you can get that from third base,
nobody's really like Tanner Reeves hasn't just taken that job.
And Tanner Reeve's still going to play. Got a big
walk obviously on Friday night. But if Braswell continues to
hit well and play well, it's a senior. That's a
guy you're gonna cattle on every single time, and that
could be something. Obviously, with the way lsho'es lineup is,
third base has kind of been that one spot they've
been trying to figure out. And if you can solidify
a veteran player who's been there before, that just feels
like it could be massive for e this year.
Speaker 2: And again, I know the broadcast talked about this playing
with braswell, but your best SEC hitter last year. Yeah,
and it wasn't even particularly close. So him getting hot,
I mean, what a weapon that be here down the stretch,
Chris Lanrew. Shame Tennessee can hit home runs in a
real park ballpark, sit of their Matchboks, Hey, you know,
I mean these are the jokes and they have to
take him after this weekend suck it balls. God, I
know y'all felt good going in that night on Friday
night and then everything you weren't ready for a little
one thirty am Alex box magic and.
Speaker 3: I mean not just a home run, but one of
the most dead sinners, insane you've ever seen. And he
never left home plate.
Speaker 2: Dude, that pump is the biggest loser on the entire planet.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, certified.
Speaker 2: Ho Like it's one thirty am in one of the
biggest games of the year. You are truly in the
Twilight upside down world like you you are in Madness Land,
the crowds reaching a fever pitch. You slowly but surely,
against all odds, have tied this game at three to
three and Bear Jones, who has been something smacks and
just absolute freaking rocket shot a nuclear explosion of a
home run to dead center ft dub and you want
to yell at him for admiring his work, which Spear
would have turned around and just like just hit me
up with the bat.
Speaker 3: I love that he did talk to him though, he's like,
yeah he's.
Speaker 2: Here, bruh, get out of here. You should be saying
you're welcome, you go home, get some sleep.
Speaker 3: Nobody, nobody, You've heard me say it a thousand times.
Nobody thinks that everyone's there to see them more than
baseball umpires, right, they think they're all there to see them.
They are the biggest look at me guys in the world.
Speaker 4: I mean like it's about on every level two it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just MLB might, Yeah, those guys are the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just I mean over the batter's eyes,
says Jonathan. Even know it's insane. I mean, four fifty
in that moment in a midweek game would be dead
center would be awesome to see, much less. One thirty
am bottom of the ninth to win game one of
a massive Top ten matchup against the defending national champions.
Bang god, I love it, dude. What a treat to
wake up too.
Speaker 5: All right, one hundred and fifteen miles per hour off
the bat.
Speaker 2: And if you were in that number that stayed, I'm
very happy for you because you were rewarded with a
sporting memory that will likely last your entire life. All Right,
when we get back here on OTB, let's go in
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester Antibob.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is kind of insane, and I'll put
this in. Uh, I'll put this tweet in the document
at seven point thirty so you can see the when
I'm talking, I get a picture of it. What do
y'all know about cashews? Nut? What the nut? Yeah? Right, okay,
delicious nut. Probably my favorite nut, to be honest, And
I think I'm like cashews, pustashios and almonds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably wear cashews both favorite nuts.
Speaker 2: Just an incredible nut, the texture of it, the taste,
it's great. Plain, it's great, salted, it's great, like honey,
It's really just great. But did you know this? Cashews
don't grow inside a shell. They grow on the end
of an apple. What every individual cashew hangs from the
bottom of a cashew apple, and the apple's add a
bowl and sweet as well. So it's a fun little
two one treat. But like, that's insane to think of
about what happens all the cashew.
Speaker 5: Apples I had no idea I didn't exist, were.
Speaker 2: Whole bags of cashews. What happens all those? You tell
me and think about there's probably just millions upon millions
of cashews consumed, just millionsupon millions of apples every day.
Speaker 6: I realize I know less than I thought.
Speaker 2: I yeah, every day, which is a good place to be.
It's good to recognize that, and it's good to uh
lean into that. I do love a good pecan as well.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I'm do you love pecans? I think almonds
are my favorite nut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I eat almonds because they're Okay, they're there good
for you.
Speaker 2: I think they're very good. I think they're very good.
But I think I'm somewhere between y'all. It's not my favorite,
but I think they're very good.
Speaker 4: So I was curious about the cashew apple.
Speaker 5: They're not widely sold in stores due to high perishability.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I hope we have and they only last
for a day after harvest.
Speaker 2: Are we feeding that the feeding livestock or some with
these things only ripe for a day?
Speaker 6: Well, because because I bet that's a good apple the day,
that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They're more often used locally where they grow for consumption
or processing into items like jams or alcoholic drinks.
Speaker 2: Great right away, I hope not anyway. So, uh, New
Orleans Saints. I thought it was crazy. Uh the New
Orleans Saints also crazy guys. They used all of their
draft picks. Okay, And so I will say this, I
have I I I want to try to be consistent here,
and I said going into this draft, regardless of who
they selected, the main thing that I wanted was for
them to use all nine draft picks. Try to get
as many contributors as you can on this very kind
of bare bones roster. Rookie contracts mean more to you
now than they do to others. And I'll be damned,
for the first time in thirteen years, they didn't trade up. Now,
the crazy thing is last time they didn't trade up
was twenty twelve, but they only had five picks because
the Ingram trade because the bounty gate suspension. So that's
a little you know, that makes more sense to have
nine picks and for Mickey not to trade up. Okay, Okay,
now we can get.
Speaker 3: Into the players.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying from where I sit, good job,
that's exactly what I want to I'll give that. I'll
give that two thumbs up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't want to package three picks for one.
Your roster needs a lot. It needed a lot, and
so you get obviously first and second round pick, but
you get two and a third, two in the fourth
and you're gonna be counting on those third and fourth
round picks like they have to help you in this
upcoming season. So if you would have traded, you know,
away those picks and did like a four for one
just to move up, and it's like somebody in the
second round, I don't think that would have behooved you.
Speaker 2: No, No, I agree. I mean especially look, man, some
of the names you got, I mean Stutsman, let's go dude,
even like Devin Neila. I loved watching Devin Neil at Kansas.
Speaker 3: Devin Neil feels like, you know, it's a running back,
but still really good value there in the sixth round.
I mean three straight years of over a thousand yards,
So that is That was one of the other themes
of the of the draft was production. All these players
productive in college. So this is not a draft that
featured a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the high potential picks that has caused Saints
fans to kind of tear their hair out. Now obviously though,
we got to talk about Tyler Shutt at forty because
that is the story for the New Orleans States. And
I didn't realize this, guys, because we never said it
like this going into it. That whole Archie Manning stat
is nineteen seventy one, it's first and second round.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, although they still haven't done a first rounder, they've
completed half of it. Now for the first time since
nineteen seventy one, you drafted a quarterback in the first
two rounds. Getting shuck at Ford is.
Speaker 3: What was his name, Garrett Grayson? Was he the only third.
Speaker 2: Rounder, Yeah it was that Colorado State. Yeah, maybe Jim mcway.
Speaker 3: I can't remember, so real quick, I'll tell a store
before we get into it. Yesterday, so I'm doing off
campus and in the middle of the show, all of
a sudden, Tyler Schuck pops up on the zoom. I'm like,
oh god, do we teller shock today? I didn't see
it on the rundown, Like nobody said anything, and I'm
like looking at my text message. He's sitting there like
we're in a segment. He's sitting there and I'm trying
not to and I'm like, did somebody text me just happened?
He joined the wrong zoom link?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: He was, Well, he's gonna be made, y'all. Zoom link
just buryed in there. So to Dennis, our producer, who
you know, he is producing, Rhet Lewis's like NFL Draft
they do it all, you know, pre draft for a
couple of months and he was joining that show and
I was like, hey, I don't know if you're supposed
to be here. It was funny, so we figured it out.
But he was cool man. He sat there and he
talked to us for a little bit. One of our producers.
Dan had a giant hat on and he pulled like
three or four Saints hats. He's like, I can send
you one of these if you want me to.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 3: I had a good little three minute conversation with him.
Seemed very excited to be drafted by the Saints.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, he seems he seems static. He had
He had a quote along the lines of fight and
die as well when asked out what he was gonna
what he was going to do to the city. And
here's what I'll say before the draft. I you know,
I found Tyler's shuck to be a bit of an
unexciting pick. Right. He's played eighteen years in college. He
had the one really good year this last season. But
he's old. Blah blah blah. You know, Shooter has got
the flash, Milbro's got the speed. But as I continue
said before the draft as well, Uh, my opinion doesn't
mean anything. I'm not a scout. I'm not like, I'm
just here trying to make jokes and be like, look
at those kindshus come from apples, So like, I like, like,
whose opinion does mean something? Is Kellen Moore? That man
will forget more football twice over and then something I
will ever know. And Kellen Moore, Uh, it seems very
excited about Jack. And look, I'm not worried about the injuries.
It's all broken bones. Those things happen, but there's no
real long term damage from broken bones. That's all. That's
all well and good. It looks like so in a
funny way, Tyler Shuck did the inverse of what Shaudar
Sanders did because Shoulder Sanders had good film, have those stuff,
but through the pre draft process, through not working out,
through god awful interviews, he destroyed his draft stock. Tyler
Shuck by going and more Tall talked about this by
going to the combine, going to the senior ball, doing everything.
Speaker 3: San Peter Jacksonville, interviewing.
Speaker 2: Well, showing up well. He maximized his pre draft process
and he ends up getting drafted for forty the same
damn near first round pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's very important to point that out.
And I talked to a lot of different people in
front offices, even talk to a head coach in the NFL,
and they said just that. They said, look, I understand
that there's been people before that have you know, not
thrown at the combine, he said, but this class, there
was a ton of guys that just didn't do anything. Yeah,
just did not do anything. And so we appreciated the
fact that somebody went out there and we could see,
we could evaluate it. You know, we had we had
verified times on all, not just quarterback, but we had
verified times on this guy. So you know, some of
these guys didn't do anything a pro day either. So
it is a good le four six three forty unshuck, Yeah,
it is. It's a good lesson to go out there
and you know, compete. And then did y'all go over
tte elandra the timeline of his career yesterday, so a
little bit. Okay, well i'll quickly quickly kind of do
it here. Okay, So in twenty eighteen, that's when he
got to Oregon. Yeah, no, no, I know, all right.
So in twenty eighteen, coach he red shirted Jawan Johnson
was tight in at one point in Oregon, he red shirted,
played in three games as a reserve, okay. In twenty nineteen,
played in five games as justin Herbert's backup. In twenty twenty,
he ranked seventh in the FBS with fourteen point seven
yards per completion. Started, you know, seven games in that season.
Twenty twenty one, he goes from Oregon to Texas Tech.
Started the first four games, missed the rest of the
year with a broken collar bone. Graduated from Oregon in
three years. Decided to transfer to Texas Tech that season
after they signed freshman Ty Thompson. Then Anthony Brown. I
don't know if you remember that name. He came in
kind of later in the year, so that's why he
ended up at Texas Tech. Well. The next year at
Texas Tech, plays in seven games, five starts. Mix missed
six games with a shoulder injury, but he was the
Texas Bowl MVP against a good Old Miss team. Threw
for two hundred and forty two yards, threw a touchdown,
so you know, had some moments in that game as well.
Twenty twenty three started in the first four games, but
then he missed the rest of the season with a
broken leg. Into the portal after that season as well.
Then he goes to Louisville where he had a hell
of a year. Throws four almost thirty two hundred yards,
twenty three passing touchdowns, complete sixty three percent of his passes,
so it's it's a wild resume to breakdown because when
he has played, he's played good. Like even going back
to twenty nineteen, right played well when he came in
for Justin Herbert. He had another solid year at Oregon.
He had some solid years the beginning of some really
good foundation at Texas Tech. But he got injured every
time he started to build that foundation. So that is
the worry. Now, it's it does feel like you know,
air quotes just a one hit wonder one year, but
if you actually do a dive into it, he was
playing really well. He just could not stay healthy. So
that is a cause for concern. And I know it's
broken bones, but it's like, okay, well it's still something
like there's still a history here, Like I don't think
we can handwave it because it was broken leg, broken collar, bone,
shoulder injury as well. Can we get him some milk?
Speaker 2: Can osteo? First? No, I think, Look, I think so injury, Okay,
so injuries are gonna be well, we'll see, we'll see
what ends up happening there. But like Jake said, one
of the reasons why the way like him, not only
did he finally have a healthy year, but a very
good leader in Louisville, but it's a more pro style
system the both the Brown Brothers former NFL quarterbacks that
he's training under there. His size is grade at six
five two twenty. Kellen Moore specifically reference to different arm
angles he can throw from, which is funny because you
have the combine clip where he's like rolling out left
and he dries the sidearm and it flutters on him
or whatever. But I guess the question becomes and maybe
we'll explore this to in the hour here it's gonna
break on. This is Tyler's the Saint's QB. One more
on that coming up next year on O TB.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
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baseball team pretty damn good? Right? You know what they
did this weekend? They went for dose and at fourteen
and seven in the SEC they're going for dose every
single th weekend.
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Speaker 2: Me some Dosekis. I mean, there was no better way
to watch Bear Jones fracture the heart of those terrible
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hand at one thirty am with a little alignment salt.
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Speaker 1: Sekis Welcome to the Seventh Ranks morning sports show in America.
Off the bench and with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: What's happening y'all? I guess we still got to get
into the Derek Carr appearance at the church as well,
because if we're going to answer truly this question about
is Tyler Shuck QB one, but again the first first
or second round pick selected by the New Orleans States
take of the quarterbacks, it is Archie Manning in nineteen
seventy one. Hmmm. Oh here's what it was, Tyler Shuck.
It's just like it's just like what Will Campbell said
Tyler Shuck on an Instagram post, saying, God's timing. If
it was easy, everyone would do it. New Orleans. You
will get everything out of me. I will die on
that field for y'all, is that QB one?
Speaker 6: I think so, I mean just mentioned it. When's the
last time you spent this early of a pick on
a quarterback and your quarterback room's wide open?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, and look and look.
Speaker 2: This is not to say, like, sure, I hope Spencer
Rattler works as hard as he can, gets as good
as you can, and maybe he ends up being the guy.
Maybe Shuck's not that guy, I guess. I now, Mickey
Limis did say if Derek Carr is healthy, he's the starter.
I guess we still don't know fully what the deal
is with Carr's shoulder, he says them in the Saints
ertain conson communication, So we'll see. I mean, okay, okay,
what let's let's try to figure out the most true which,
by the way, Okay, even though I'm excited about Shuck
because he's huge, he's athletic, and telling more likes him
like that's honestly the main reason, like I said, was
my opinion me Nick cal moorees, there is something deeply
funny about taking a step back and looking at the
Saints quarterback room Tyler, Shuck car Jakyner and Spencer Rattler
The amount of money, time, and resources that went into
producing that room is actually objectively kind of funny. Uh,
But let's talk about we know for sure Jake's out, Yes, Yeah,
Jake's out. Jake's out right, Okay, okay, Jakes, Jakes, good kid,
but Jake's out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Fun phone with the photo shoot he did there
gave us a couple of days content.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jakes. I don't think their car is gonna be healthy.
I guess we can't know that. But if I'm trying
trying to parse do it? So what does this mean?
Then let's say Derek car let's operate under the as
subject of their car is not gonna play Game one?
Does Rattler start? But this isn't like a Tyrod Taylor
to your young drafted quarterback situation, since they're so kind
of equivalent in some ways, Rattler and Shuck Or do
you think Chuck could be the starter their game one
snap one?
Speaker 3: If he goes into camp and he's the best guy,
he'll be the starter. It's no longer the early two
thousands where you have to protect your quarterback and he's
not going to play, and the veteran guy's going to
get some run and maybe in week nine you can
take that job over that that doesn't really happen anymore.
Look at last year's class, I mean Jaden day one starter.
Bo Nicks was the day one starter.
Speaker 1: J J.
Speaker 3: McCarthy was going to be the starter for the Vikings.
I mean Pennix was really the only one. And that's
because you had a big free agent signing in Kirk
Cousins that you had there at Calla. Williams obviously day
one starter, so that that's kind of the norm.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: No longer do you have to you know, all these quarterbacks.
I think Peyton Manning was like remember how crazy that
was that he was the starter. Yeah, the guy's like
the earliest one that I can remember, and a good guy.
Speaker 2: To highlight because he threw about eighty picks at first
as the record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I can't really remember like going back to
those days, like late nineties, early two thousands, somebody coming
in and being the guy from Jump Street. But that's
what it is now, like they expect you to be
the guy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Those guys that I'm talking about were all first round picks.
But when you look to Tay's point at the quarterback room,
it's poor our, two decks off the bench