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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes Bend.
So Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 4: One O four to five ESPN bet Rouge. You heard
Taylor there.
Speaker 2: All right, we're.
Speaker 3: Excited and we're gonna continue to try to do this
throughout the football season. Maybe at some point we had
this on video and it is the Meathead quad Box.
But we're gonna welcome on our meathead brethren here. Now
bear with us. Right, you got four meatheads trying to
figure out a three way call. I didn't know that
that was still something that you could actually do.
Speaker 4: Haven't tried one of those since middle school.
Speaker 3: Look, one of us meatheads is a professor of finance,
but he's not here. He's in Ohio, so we're gonna
pot him up. Let's see if we have our guys,
AJ Hawk and Bobby Carpenter fellas.
Speaker 4: Did we got you?
Speaker 5: Yea, sir, you got me?
Speaker 3: Oh, we got Bobby.
Speaker 5: I'm here.
Speaker 3: Look at us. Uh, you put four meathead brains together,
you get half a brain. Sell and here we are, fellas.
I am glad to have you on the show. How
fired up for college football? Bobby?
Speaker 4: I gotta start with you.
Speaker 3: I mean your boots on the ground like you've got
the game of the week in your backyard. You're gonna
be riding the bikes down to Ohio Stadium to check
out the Buckeyes and the Longhorns.
Speaker 4: How fired up are we for the game of the week.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is a game you've been waiting all off season.
Four guys, you've been talking about transfer portals, nil house
settlement court cases, all that nonsense. How you finally get
a chance to see some actual football? Started last night
with some great games on there. I know Hess and
I were talking about the South Florida Bowls and Alex
you'las gett't have done. But tomorrow you get the main
entree right off the bat, full slated games Saturday, full Sunday,
and then a little lunch you on Monday night as well.
But a noonkick. It is beautiful, came so highlight. You know,
we call it the San Diego the Midwest because of
the weather. You get about like eighteen good days a year,
and thankfully we're in that sweet spot right now where
we're in one of those nice little San Diego days
where I'm sitting outside. It's about sixty five degrees, no humidity,
and this is what it's supposed to be like all
through the weekend. So a beautiful day to watch some football.
Take it in and there should be no elements of
weather that are impacting what should be a phenomenal game. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Columbus and San Diego they pretty pretty equal
climates over there, so that's a good Yeah. So hey,
J So you're on the road right now, so you're
you're head I'm assuming you're headed to the McAfee show.
Where are y'all headed right now? So what's the plan
for the Friday for this season? On game day day?
Before game days?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Pat would just get into town and he has
game day stuff, but we're going to do a show
from inside the stadium. Actually, it's not like an outside
full like show with people there and all that. It
will be just Pat and I actually.
Speaker 7: At the desk. I think it.
Speaker 6: Somewhere inside Ohio Stadium and have a few guests stop by.
I think maybe benj Young is in town. I think
he might hopefully stop by and we'll see who else
we can wringle up. But yeah, like obvious said, just
a beautiful day, great time for football. I don't know
what it's like down where you guys, probably one hundred,
super humid yere in Ohio and we're excited. We're excited
about football starting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we gotta high in ninety one today, so
it's actually starting to cool down. But so y'all are
going to be in the stadium, not the crowd, so
you don't have to, like live and national television miss
a bunch of basketball shots anymore from the desk.
Speaker 6: Well, flinter, that's the great thing.
Speaker 5: That's a tough shot.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie from an elevated position shooting down
in a windy conditions. I think I've made more almost
everywhere where God will actually have had to shoot it.
Sometimes it's taken me three, four or five six shots
to get there. But uh, yeah, I've made a few
of them.
Speaker 5: But today I doubt.
Speaker 6: You never know, actually, who knows, well, if we find
a hoop, I might be shooting on it.
Speaker 5: You never know.
Speaker 6: I can miss ten or twelve today, Bob.
Speaker 3: I would also know. I mean, since I mean both
of you are going to be there. I mean, if
you know a certain Michigan fan that you know is
the owner of a pretty big sports company. I didn't
know if you were going to be maybe the tour
guide there, Bob, and kind of show him around Columbus
and just let him know.
Speaker 5: Well. The best part is the guy that played between us,
mister Anthony Schlegel. He used to be a strength CORITERI
at Ohio State. You know, he's in charge of security
for the weekend. They tapped him and he is a
big proponent of no trespassing. You know, you saw what
happened about a decade ago when one of the students
got a little out of pocket schlags. I mean, he's
about ten years older, but I've been training him, We've
been doing some of the h and still think of
hip and spread guys up. I think he feels pretty
good about the fact that someone owners the stadium. That's
you know, I permitted to be there. Maybe not really
all that welcome, but he'll be able to shut that
down in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Huh, Bobby, are you gonna be walking around the tailgate
in the pregame tomorrow you can be walking around with
the medaglasses kind of recorded and everything. Uh, just kind
of just a live feed of Bobby walking around with
his medaglasses.
Speaker 5: You know what's amazing, I've got him on right now.
I mean, I didn't realize it was going to be driving.
I was fully anticipating that the Stallions out there, you know,
to be cruising. That's that's the new name of them.
By the way, there's only one name in the Medicasses,
there's the Stallions. So I've gone them on and that's
you know, I did not think about that. That's a
great way. It's I've always kind of wanted to go
pro myself when I've been, you know, hydrating before a game,
because there's there's little parts to become omitted, and you know,
you get you get to where the tape gets cut.
And so maybe I just put these bad boys on
and cruise on around. It'll it'll be like me watching
myself and get into experience it all one more time.
The next day.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait to hear the stories about that.
I'm sure AJ will have some as well.
Speaker 5: A J.
Speaker 3: How you feeling about the game. I've asked Bobby about
it over all Meadhead Radio. But how you feeling? I mean,
Buck guys, national champ, welcoming Texas the number one team
the first time AJ the number one team in the
preseason eight people has ever been under in the opening
game and it's against the Buck guys.
Speaker 4: How you feeling about the matchup?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 6: I feel pretty good. I mean, that's the thing right now,
we don't really know. We don't really know what either
team is gonna be. There's there's so many guys that
are gonna be playing that don't have a ton of experience,
but they're super talented. But no, I feel good. I
know State we had to basically get a couple of
new coordinators, Matt Patricia. I'm excited to see what the
defense looks like under the helmets of him and r
and Brian Hartline on the offensive side. But Arch Manning like,
I'm sure you guys are intrigued by that, and the
guys awesome. I love how he cares himself, how he plays,
so I'm I'm looking forward to seeing how he handles
everything with Ohio Stateum, it'll be left for sure, but
nothing arts can't can't figure out or it can't or
hasn't been in front of the guy's been in some
games in his life, but it'll be I mean, talk
about a test thrown in there as first time really
as you're like the the main starter of the Texas
Longhorns and you come into Ohio State and it's gonna
be awesome. I think it's fat frying game. I don't
know what it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: You have think it's gonna be a high scoring game
and one of those leaders low scoring like early season games.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I know if a J Hawk and Bobby
Carpenter were taking the field for a hut of state
with a guy like Arch Manning coming to the town,
I know y'all would probably like to get together and
talk about sending a little bit bit of a message
to him early on. Do you guys have is Ohio
State have some linebackers right now that kind of fit
the mold of what you're you know, of what y'all
were for so long at Ohio State. Y'all, you have
some guys that y'all have kind of you would take
under your wing if you could, and say this is
one of our brothers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've they've got some great guys up there front.
I mean Sonny Styles, rbl Reeves six three six, four guys,
two hundred and forty pounds to run. They check all
the boxes and then a third guy is gonna be
rotating in with them, little Short Payton, Piercell six one
and a half. But all those guys they get to
the ball, they got bad intentions. The biggest thing is
they can run well and they can do a lot
of things. And so if you have versatile linebackers, which
I'd like to think that we have some position versatility,
you can get those guys up on the edge. You
can change up your front, you can change up your
coverages and to really try to keep the quarterbacks guessing.
And then above all else, the guys have great personality.
They've got a great sense of humor because because they
can tell you for whatever, and you're in the locker
room with him, I mean, you've got to be able
to have some fun on the field. Things got to
get a little weird. You got to try to psych
your opponents out by doing some things, you know what
may make them ask some deep questions about themselves and
really what they're into in their life.
Speaker 2: I'd like to get really take some deep dives.
Speaker 7: I am nervous.
Speaker 3: I am nervous for what Bobby said. Ajay, oh no,
don't be see Bob.
Speaker 6: What I realized early on in my freshman year is Bob.
I think I've told you guys like Bob was the
best ever at pumping the crowd. Like, no matter what,
Bob's going to be doing the hall cove and putting
his hand to the ear, one hand of the ear
to the other one, pumping them up. He all likes
all game long. But most people their shoulders will get
pumping the crowd up, and Bob would like I would
love I would love talking to Bob in between plays
when he would he'd be like, hey, hey watch.
Speaker 3: This, hold on, here we go.
Speaker 6: You go and get him going, coach, and he's look
at me and just start pumping the crowd. And he
would just at random times.
Speaker 5: Like the dude would be like a QB could be
in the middle of.
Speaker 6: His cadence and Bob didn't care. He's gonna stand up.
He's playing like a stand up d n outside Sambacker.
He's gonna stand up. He's going to point out individual
people that he's tied in the crowd. And start getting
them going so they feel really like weird, like, hey,
this number forty two stoo up, but actually looked at me.
I'm up and see deck a mile away. He pointed
at me and told me to get up and start cheering,
so I will guilt people into cheering.
Speaker 2: Is he just like is he just like waving his
hands up to the side like pumping it up that way,
or is he holding this like hands like prolonged like
a waiter carries a tray and pushing straight up like
which one does?
Speaker 6: He do both both. He's kind of raising the roof
every once in a while. Sometimes he'll raise the roof
with it. Sometimes he does the old school pump the crowd.
Speaker 5: But I tell you what, like he plays that crowd
like a fiddle.
Speaker 6: One hundred and five thousand people he's got eating out
his hands.
Speaker 2: Now, Bobby, were you a like a twel helicopter guy
on the sideline too when the offense was out there?
Speaker 5: No, listen all my pumping the crowds front. It was
reserved for on the field, Like you don't want to
be pumping the crowd on your offenses out there, like
they're just cheered for the big place I tell these
guys here defensively, you want them to cheer, You've got
to let them know, like they're coachable, but you've got
to really instruct them and kind of bring them there
with you. It's a symbiotic relationship. I do feed off them,
they feed off you, and you get so damn excited
just being out there being a part of that. I mean,
where else can you be down in the arena in
front of one hundred thousand people and when you throw
your hands up in the air, they're coming off of
their seats and gonna get going. Like that's a very
brief moment of your life. So once that's done, man, like, no,
it cares now. I keept going. He can walk into
a stadium, Dude, I kept walking to an airport and
start pumping the crowds. You will start cheering, but they're
probably put me in a straight jacket.
Speaker 2: You gotta win the crowd, like Maximus, you gotta win
the crowd.
Speaker 3: AJ four Bobby this weekend. If I was to set
the line on number of times, he's randomly gonna take
his shirt off. And if I set the line at three,
are you taking the over or the under.
Speaker 7: Cool?
Speaker 6: I mean It depends how the weekend is. But if
it's I'm always taking the over if you're giving me.
Bob taking a shirt off, I mean, but that's something
he could do to take a shirt off and whip
the shirt around two to pump the crowds. And maybe
he'll do it inside it. I don't know if he's
ever done that in the crowd in the stadium. That'd
be impressive, Bob. If you could do that, you could
run around the run around the perimeter of the stand
and get people going.
Speaker 5: See, this is why my wife doesn't go to games
with me anymore. Guys. She doesn't like that. I was
trying to entice her. I've got four tickets plus I
media passed. I was like, dear, why don't we take
the three oldest kids and you can be my date?
And she's like, no, just let one of the kids
bring a friend. And I'm like lobbying her. She doesn't
like to go to games with me, and I'm like,
I'm the same dude, really married, you know, twenty years ago.
So I don't know what we're complaining about.
Speaker 4: Bob.
Speaker 3: Is the car under HVAC company still got the flexing
Bobby carpenter on the scoreboard. It's a real question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's still hanging out there trying to work on
his guns. The best part is when it's a caricature,
you always stay the same size and you never lose
your hair. So I love looking at that guy. It's
aspiracial goals, you know.
Speaker 2: All Right? So hey, Jay, I'm watching the game, last
time watching Nebraska play, and I'm watching I'm watching Dylan
Raola play quarterback for the Chiefs, looking exactly like Patrick Mahons.
But it got me thinking about his dad, and it
got me thinking about like the battles that you had
with the center for the Lions, Dominic Royola and somebody
an LSU tiger that has beloved here Steven Peterman playing
guard right next to them, and I wanted to see, like,
do you have any like specific stories of how nasty
of a duo that Rayola and Peterman were. I never
just watch them from the sideline. I know you played
them twice a year, but I had never seen a
do on offensive line. Now, offensive linemen are nasty people,
but these guys were nasty and played dirty like within
the whistle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right, their next level, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: I grew to have so much respect for those guys.
Speaker 6: I love how they played, like even like Rea. One
of my favorite things was walking down the tunnel in
Detroit and I have to fight a way to break
up Reola and I'll go buddy, Nick Barnett are getting
each other's face, trying to get in a fight pregame
while they're walking through the into the tunnel just to
get to the field. Uh man, those guys like Rayola.
Speaker 7: Is never stopping like he every once in a while.
Speaker 6: I know he was just like your legs like as
the whistles blowner later like I always I appreciate it,
Like if you don't want to tell me on my head,
like trying to take my temple and knock me out
of because I can. I don't want you to take
out playing those students twice a year, you have to.
You know, they always say, you know you never stand
around the pile. I learned. I knew that young, but
I definitely at reinforcement when I played against Detroit with
those guys there. But like you gotta you love those dudes.
He've been trying to like end my career like I
would respect like I respected how they played, because like, man.
Speaker 8: It's always good to have those guys on your side,
Like when they're on your team, you love them. And
luckily we had some of those dudes with like we
had TJ City. We had all kind of players that
love to, uh to get nasty and weren't scared about it.
So it's you know, old school throwback NFL type stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just remember, I remember the stories for those guys. Man,
they were they were definitely a next level of just, uh,
you know, let's see how far we can push these rules.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, through the whistle.
Speaker 2: Probably probably probably a little bit like y'all probably back
in Ohio State the three meat Heads playing back Flinter.
Speaker 5: We played against his younger brother, Donovan. I was trusting
for two years and he's like the same version of Dom,
Like they're like the same dude, and so yeah, it
was brutal. And then like I was in Detroit with
those two guys out there, and I'll tell you this,
those are the guys that you much rather be on
their team than not. Because I watched them, I just
cut agent at.
Speaker 6: End of every play, I'm like Jesus, there's times your
what's gonna stick in?
Speaker 5: The ground and you're not gonna be coming up for air.
Speaker 3: Hey, all right, before we let y'all go, like, I
could ask you about, you know, prediction for Ohio State
in Texas, but I would assume both the y'all favor
the buck.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna flip it on you a little bit since
we're on here in Louisiana, Bob, you can go first
your prediction on Clemson and LSU in Memorial Stadium. We're
not calling a death Valley and Memorial Stadium there coming
up on Saturday night.
Speaker 4: How do you think it plays out?
Speaker 5: Gosh, this is gonna be a big one. It's gonna
be a really good one. And has you know about
you know, talking about my brother coaching and playing for
DK Cincinnati and Notre Dame. He's a heck of a coach.
They need this win. He needs an opening day win
against a good team. I think they get it done.
I mean, it's gonna be a hostile environment, but when
you have a veteran quarterback that makes it a little better.
I think this might be a little more of a
high scoring affair. Actually different than the highest State Texas game.
I would probably to take LSU let's say like thirty
one twenty four in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah we like that. We got buttons, Yeah,
we got buttons and everything up here?
Speaker 4: All right, aj what you got.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be here like this is Brian Kelly needs
this one. Either team, whatever happens, like, you're gonna be okay.
Hopefully you don't want to trust one early and Brian
Kelly needs a big, big win early.
Speaker 5: I think that's my say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll take ls. Y'all take LSU. I don't know
if you ask for a score perditioner, Now give me
l SU twenty eight twenty one? Yeah what you there?
Speaker 5: We go? There, we go.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, fellas man, this is a lot of fun.
We've been talking about trying to get this done for
a long time, so we appreciate it. Hey, y'all enjoyed
the scenes there Ohio Stadium in Columbia or Columbus, Ohio. Man,
it's gonna be incredible scenes. We're gonna be paying attention
to it, so we appreciate you hopping on with us.
Speaker 5: Thanks, it's a ways, big dog.
Speaker 2: Oh come on, great camera angles not great double check.
Speaker 3: Boys? All right?
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 4: A j Hawk and Bobby carpenter. It's the camera.
Speaker 2: That's the camera. It's the lighting too, Hm, can we
get some like yellow lights? Some warm lighting?
Speaker 3: At leak? It's Bow's fault. I think he set us
up for.
Speaker 2: Failure here out look at this.
Speaker 3: I'll work out once a week and every day in
the studio.
Speaker 2: Oh, we do a lot of push ups.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I guess I could do it here. Yeah,
but we get at least one hundred and fifty push
ups in every day, every morning.
Speaker 3: I wonder if Bob's watching and said hit the weights though,
how does that make you feel?
Speaker 2: Hey, there's the way. Why does he would he be watching?
Speaker 3: He's got metaglasses.
Speaker 2: That's a good point, watching with one eye, then the
other eyes watching where he's going? Smart?
Speaker 3: Smart all right?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: We, like I said, we we've been trying to get
that done life. We're gonna have that. Hopefully we'll figure
it out and AJ's not gonna be We were ready
to kind of test it today, but AJ on the
road there. But hopefully we can have the.
Speaker 2: I I don't know if I explained AJ that we're
doing this every week, but I'll have to explain that
to him later.
Speaker 4: I mean, if he's driving, what's it matter?
Speaker 2: That's true?
Speaker 3: I mean you you know you're gonna be listening to
some funk music like Flint on a Friday's.
Speaker 4: Right, What do you want to come join the quad?
Speaker 2: Sure you're not like busy on Friday. You don't have
like a huge national show to do or anything. Give
a shot, I mean, give him a Make sure to
watch him watching a day on the Pet Magavan Show
and every day on the Pet Making Show.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, I've got one of those national
shows that two ookl like every day as well. Nom
I here every morning, dang humble bragg am I here
every morning?
Speaker 2: You are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so fifty eight every single day, AJ can
do the same thing.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, absolutely all right? Yeah, for sure,
thank you. It's kind of one of your jobs. That's
not his think you get. Yeah, you got to do
your boys favors.
Speaker 3: I think. I gotta tell you Foxhil you're in the Fox.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you they're just they're lucky to get
the invite for sure, because that was fun out a blast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun. Bobby's going to be a total
liability this weekend in Columbus.
Speaker 2: Did anybody have on their bingo card that on Baton
Rus Louisiana Local Sports Radio that we'd have a weekly
segment with just two meathead Ohio state linebackers.
Speaker 4: Nope, nope, We keep you guessing, very random, keep you
on your toes.
Speaker 3: And look, they both cover college football nationally totally, so
I mean they can talk LSU, they can talk about whoever.
And they got great stories like Bob playing hul Colgan
trying to get the crowd ready to go raising the
roof like this. I guarantee you he was playing Sam
linebacker on the line in their room, no doubt, trying
to get the people what they want and get them
out of their seat.
Speaker 2: He said, those people's arms would fall off or as
much as they pumped pumped up the crowd.
Speaker 3: All right, we are going to step away. We do
have a new Orleans Saints hey, coach Kellen Moore in
about ten minutes from now. Stay locked in here. It
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back game O TB one O four
five ESPN Ben Rouge.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to catch you up right now in the
buy you for chat. A lot going on, a lot
of action, a lot of excited.
Speaker 2: About the game. We're not really talking about the game
in the chat, but people are excited. That's why they're chatting.
There's a lot of energy. Hey, we walked in here
at Rouses, right, We're right here at Rowse's and right
off Burb. And I got here, like I said, about
six thirty, and this place was staffed up. Staff was
here getting all the the deli, the cafe ready, getting
the food. I was like, man, I thought I was
gonna be one of the first people here at the
grocery store. Now, they were completely staffed up, getting ready
for the weekend, getting ready for a slew of people
coming in and stocking up on groceries for the weekend,
for their home parties, their tailgating, whatever it is. So
if y'all need something this weekend, come up, come by,
rouns and stop by, Come say hi to us, come
wave at us. So how to us during the break
whatever it is, Get your groceries, get ready for the weekend.
It's a good one.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I am. I am fired up to be here.
Speaker 3: Like football Fridays, we can say that we're gonna have
a great line up here on one o four five
ESPN all day long, and yeah, come say what's up
to us. We've had a couple of people already stopped by.
Speaker 4: I come hang out.
Speaker 3: We had some people you know, sitting down eat their
breakfast while they listen to the show. So if you
want to come hang out, we'll be here all the
way to ten o'clock normal showtime. So coming out, come
see us, Come get your tailgating packages. Just because you're
not gonna be in Clemson, South Carolina, I mean you're.
Speaker 2: Not gonna tell all right, you can go to any
parking lot. You can go to your driveway, go park.
We talked about parking yesterday. You talked about park Go
to your driveway outside, hit the old tailgate down, whatever
it is, or just go inside in the ac and
do it.
Speaker 3: On beautiful weather yesterday.
Speaker 4: Scoons your fall. Some would say.
Speaker 2: Games your fall. So tell me about your game day schedule.
So you travel with the team today, So do you
have any shows tomorrow, like leading up to the game, like,
how's how's your schedule lay out tomorrow? What are you
gonna do? What kind of festivities you get into?
Speaker 4: You know, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: Typically, so I have to take off my afternoon show
because I'll be in the air. I don't do my
serious XM show today. But now we get there and
I'm actually scheduled to have dinner tonight with one Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna be jealous.
Speaker 3: He's going to be there doing his acc show and
so going to link up with Jimbo.
Speaker 4: So excited about that, And you know, typically like on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Wait, we'll go back to that. How many if you are,
what percentage of the word count do you think you'll
get in during dinner?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Do you think Jimbo will get it?
Speaker 4: I would say eighty six fourteen Jimbo, Jeni fourteen.
Speaker 2: Generous And if that's it doesn't matter if that's just
y'all two or if there's eight people, it's still gonna
be eighty six Jimbo, yes, and then the fourteen will
just kind of get split up between.
Speaker 3: Everybody else cause I think it's with the Eric McClaine
who played at Clemson. He's on the ACC Show with Jimbo.
Good friend of mine as well. He comes on my
show every single Monday. So yeah, you're right eighty six
percent Jimbo. However, many people are there outside of Jimbo
fourteen percent. So I am looking forward to catching up
with coaching. He's with me every Tuesday on off campus.
He's a co host with us, and so you know,
we started that this week and catch that every single week.
But then on Saturdays, like typically we're in an SEC
city that I know the lay of the lamp, sure, right.
Speaker 4: I kind of know where to go.
Speaker 3: I kind of know where, uh you know you can
go sit down and have lunch and watch some games
and you know, do whatever. A lot of times, like
we know people across the SEC too. So like if
we go to Tennessee, like my guy Thrill is going
to like set us up and we're going to go
like to like the coach's locker room and we're going
to watch football.
Speaker 4: Don't have that at Clemson. Never been.
Speaker 3: Don't know where anything is, don't know what's cool what's
not cool, don't know what's good what's not good.
Speaker 4: So I have no idea what Saturday is going to
look like.
Speaker 3: Typically on the road, Gordy and I wake up and
we go down and watch Premier League soccer around six thirty.
That's fun, am competing on where we're at. So probably
get that done and then you know, I don't know, man,
I have no idea, no plan.
Speaker 4: Where the wind blows, I'm gonna try to figure it out.
Speaker 2: Oh are you going to try to be a man
of the people and walk around Oh yeah, tailgating scening.
I mean, I'm assuming you can only have eight to
nine pops because you're doing your job during that once. Yeah,
keep it light. Yeah, no's And that's tough to do.
You got to you got a job to do. It's
a very important job during the game. You do it
a great job with it. But I'm sure it does
take some mental fortitude to go into situations like that
and not be able to enjoy a libation or two
just as a socially socially just kind of get into
the flow.
Speaker 3: I had a couple of people that listen to off
campus every day that are Clemson fans that I did
get invited to three or four tailgates. Yep, I don't
know if that's a trap. I don't know if that's
a setup. They're gonna hold you, hold you, yeah, President
for a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, are just tar and feather me, you know,
just as soon as I get there.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It seemed like good people, but I
don't know. Now we're finding out there's snitches.
Speaker 2: They are snitches, so they indeed need to get stitches tomorrow.
They might start with Dabo running down that hill probably
the last night he's going to sleep without crutches.
Speaker 5: For a while.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's gonna be the better turnover chain? If Jerry
Jones passes away and a Launder gets it the next day, boy,
and we celebrate that, Or if Dabo falls down the
hill and tears his acl and Flynn gets the turnover
chain and that's what we're celebrating.
Speaker 2: I'd feel much better celebrating that, for sure. I wouldn't
feel great about either one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But if you're passing out this chain because of this.
Speaker 2: Bold prediction, yep, that's gonna happen. The Dabo thing, I
don't know. People are talking, people are talking, so he
better be getting treatment today, getting some hippo Matt, that
big dummy. Oh man, what about you?
Speaker 3: How are you taking I know you are getting a
little quick getaway, but like, are you gonna be able
to really hone in and watch the full slate of
games or is it like you got to do family
stuff and then once the yellish game comes, then that's
when you kind of separate yourself.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a combination of both. We're
going to do a little weekend as labor weight, so
the kids have offer off school on Monday, so you know,
you gotta you have to take advantage of the kids
are at this age where it's like they don'tt they
want to go stay at a hotel, they want to
go do something, right, you take them. You try to
You try to give your kids experiences. So just so
happens that it falls on too week one, it's fine,
It's fine, totally fine. So we're gonna go, and it's
gonna be tricky juggling the situation, certainly because I don't
want to be I don't want to be in a
place a large, largely crowded area to watch the LSU game. Certainly,
if that happens, I'll just go watch it in my room,
I guess but the rest of the day is gonna
be true because of course I want to be locked
in a game day at eight. I want to be
locked into the Ohio State game. I don't need to
be as locked in as I can just watch that.
I don't necessarily have to hear that one. I can
just watch it. But yeah, I can know. I got
to hear every second, every single word of the L
s U game, certainly, So it's gonna be tricky. It's
gonna be a a little bit of a juggling act to,
you know, be Father of the Year and also watch
every single second of every single game.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be It's gonna be impressive, is what it's
gonna be. I'm gonna be very excited to hear the
tales of hell that win. I did just get some
very very clutch information. Okay, guess what they have in Clemson,
South Carolina crutches walk ons. Okay, I've got my spot,
got your spot.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: I know the food, I know the menu, I know
the vibe. That's where I'm going. I'm gonna go hang
out there post up and watch all these games.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: I don't have I don't have anybody around me, so
I can act foolish. I can yell at the TV now,
not during the LSU game, like I literally can't do
it during that. With the other games, I can.
Speaker 2: Yell at it. You can laugh at people. I can
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Speaker 3: Right, So we will step away now, and when we
come back, you'll hear from the head coach of your
New Orleans Saints, Keller Moore, and we'll do it right here.
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You're listening to off the bench.
Speaker 3: Coach of your New Orleans Saints Kellen Moore Jones the show, coach,
We appreciate your time, thanks for hopping on with us,
Thanks for having me all right, coach. So I caught
up with you during training camp there on NFL Radio
and obviously a lot of different things going on during camp.
But now that camp is over, you're getting ready for
that first regular season game. How is like the entire
transition of becoming the Saints head coach, going through a
training camp now getting ready for week one been for
you and your family?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 10: You know, it's a long journey through the whole off
season process. Going through training camp. We I thought we
did an awesome job. We had a couple weeks here
in Metai, which was really fun to be down here
in Louisiana, be with the fans all the interaction that
came with that.
Speaker 7: And then we had a little California trip which was
really good.
Speaker 10: As you guys know, there's a point in training camp
that's about bonding and connecting as a team. I felt
like our guys were able to do that out there,
which is a ton of fun. And so you know,
through these preseason games, we've had to make some tough
decisions get this roster set.
Speaker 7: I feel like we're in a great play for a
great role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, coach, I know, it's a it's a huge transition
for you, h stepping into a head coaching rolla And
I know, and I wanted U wanted the opportunity for
you to just kind of introduce yourself to Louisiana outside
of the New Orleans because I know since you've you've
gotten to Louisiana, it's kind of as soon as the
boots on the ground, you were rolling, you got a
lot of things to do, and we really kind of
wanted to see, like, how's the transition been for you
your family? It can be kind of a culture shock
getting down here in South Louisiana, But how has how
do you feel like you've been received and just the
culture in general, and how has that moved to New
Orleans been for you?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 10: You know our journey we spent eight years in Dallas,
had a ton of fun there between playing and coaching,
and we're fortunate to be there for a while, which
you know in the NFL is sometimes a little bit unique,
just going from the plane the coaching aspect, and then uh,
we did the Chargers for one year and then we
did Philadelphia and so our kids have you know, moved
a little bit the last couple of years, uh, and
they were so excited to come down here. I think
one of the cool and unique experiences for for us
for so many was, you know, the super Bowl's down here,
and so our first really experience of New Orleans and
Louisiana was the Super Bowl and so you know, the
show that they put on was awesome. It was such
a fun week, and obviously we were able to win
the game, which was you know, the cherry on top,
and so you know, really quickly after that, we got
our kids down here.
Speaker 7: And they just had a ton of fun.
Speaker 10: I think what's what I really enjoyed about this is
how connected this state, this community is.
Speaker 7: You know, it's great people, it's great, great experience, and
it's much more of a small town, college connected vibe
than maybe some of the big metros that the NFL has.
So it's been awesome.
Speaker 3: Coach. Before we move on to this year's roster and
getting ready for the season, I know you're going to
be getting ready tonight for the Cardinals obviously in Week
number one, but the Boise State Broncos got a game
coming up here in a couple of hours. I mean,
how are we taking in that game? Are we going
to have it like on a side TV? Maybe we
I hustle every once in a while between getting ready
for the Cardinals.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 10: We turned into college football fans very quickly, still in
our house, and so we got Broncos.
Speaker 7: You know, my wife went to b YU. We got
Garrett Nesmyer at LSU.
Speaker 10: My brother coaches at Missouri, He's the offense coordinator there,
and so we got we got a lot of screens
on on Saturday, certainly throughout the.
Speaker 2: Ball I think I think people kind of tend to
forget because now Saints fans here in Louisiana, we think
of you as coach Kellen Moore, but we forget the
recent past. Uh you know, hint finishing fourth in the
Heisman voting list in twenty ten. You were quite the
stud yourself, and I know I played with I played
with a couple of Boise State proud alumni. I played
with Darren College, Corey, Corey Hall. Some of my best
friends Corey Hall up there, and he used to wax
poetically about mister Kellen Moore. So I know we're excited,
but we're going to be cheering on Boise State as well.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, No, I love it.
Speaker 10: It's a it's a fun place I was meet you know,
it's unique atmosphere to be able to play there for
four years.
Speaker 7: It's a really cool place. And yeah, I have great
memories there all right.
Speaker 3: Coach, One of the things that I want to start
off asking you about is everywhere that you've been and
you listed it off in Dallas, in Philadelphia, in Los Angeles,
the quarterbacks that you've worked with, and Dak Prescott and
Justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts, and they all had success,
but they're all different quarterbacks, Like all three of those
quarterbacks have a different skill set, but y'all were successful together.
So you've chosen Spencer Ratler to be your starting quarterback,
But I want to go kind of before that. When
you're creating your quarterback for your offense, is it a, hey,
we got a blank space here, I'm going to see
what the talent looks like around this quarterback will make
a decision off of that, or is there maybe like
a checklist that you kind of go over and you
try to implement your checklist with those quarterbacks.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's a really really good question. I
think there's the answer, which is in between. As far
as you know, certainly there's things that you have that
are your core values you believe in. As far as
the quarterback positions, the leadership position is a toughness position,
both mentally and physically. I think at the end of day,
you got to be able to make really good decisions
with the football and you got to be an accurate quarterback. Now,
you know, from there, there's a lot of different tools
and things that you can utilize to be really successful
in this league. And whether it's you know, arm talent, uh,
you know, whether it's you know, ability to play out
in space, whether the scramble drill is a big component
of yours, whether your ability to run the quarterback like
Jalen was able to last year. And so, you know,
we certainly have a foundation that we believe in as
an offense, but you got to have the flexibility to
be able to play different styles based off these quarterbacks.
And so we're really excited about Spencer. He's been a
really consistent player throughout this whole offseason. I think that's
the thing that showed up. You saw the highlights last year.
As far as you know, he makes some big time plays,
he makes some stuff, and the consistency as a rook
he just you know, he's growing in that aspect. And
so this offseason we've seen the consistency show up each
and every day. And he's he's an aggressive, confident football player,
and that's you don't want to ever lose that.
Speaker 7: But I think as he's grown, his decision making has increased.
Speaker 10: This offseason, he's made really good decisions football, and so
he's put the offense in a really, really, really good position.
And so it's fun to build these systems around these quarters.
Think that's the ultimate thing. I really don't care we
throw fifty times, run at fifty times, whatever we need
to do to win, we'll utilize something between those.
Speaker 2: Coach when when you look back at your playing days
and your coaching and your coaching stint from quarterback coach,
offensive coordinator with a couple of different head coaches, like
when you are when you were designing what kind of
offenses Kellen Moore want to install, what is my what
is my base core offense? At which one of your
offensive coach offensive coaches that you worked under had the
biggest influence on kind of who you are today as
an offensive coach.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a that's a really good question. I think,
you know, philosophically, I think it really goes back to
Boise State. Just our approach and you know style in
which we played with. Uh, you know, we're really creative,
really innovative. We certainly were very multiple in what we did.
I think, you know, a lot of the mindset is
how to stress the defense in as many different ways
as possible while keeping it simple and confident.
Speaker 7: For us, there's a lot of different ways of running
the same places.
Speaker 10: That's all was our goal as we go through a
season and then as I've been able to go through
our journey, just like you know, a lot of us
have been be fortunate to be in the NFL, you
get to add pieces from all these awesome coaches.
Speaker 7: That you either played under or coached with.
Speaker 10: And so you know, in Detroit with Scott Lenihan, uh,
you know where then Joe Lombardi came in as the
offensive corner. You learn, you know, two different systems. They're awesome.
Scott's backled be here and so that's been I've been
very fortunate for that. In Dallas you get Jason Garrett,
which kind of from the North Turner kind of the
digit system and more of a vertical passing game. And
then it was a cool transition because then to team
up with Mike McCarthy and he comes from a West
coast approach, and you're able to kind of implement some
of those pieces. And certainly when we went to Philadelphia,
that was probably a little bit of a style or
a system that I hadn't been as exposed to as much,
just with all the QB run game and kind of
the r P O RPR type world. And so it's
really fun just kind of, you know, grab all those
different pieces and keep it as clean as you can
for the players. Can't you know, be a master of everything,
But how can we utilize a few of these different
tools to stress the defense?
Speaker 3: CA you have no idea? How yeah, how happy you're
about to make it.
Speaker 7: We can keep going, you can go back to playbooks
from there's no doubt.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what you're about to You're about to
do this for me, okay, And I hope you have
an answer. I hope you answered this question because Flynn
and I have been going back and forth for a decade.
I played for North Turner most of my career in
the number system. I loved it. It told everybody what
to do. You could go really fast, and I used
to love Even with Philip Rivers, uh, you know, country accident,
we still understood exactly what was going on there.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So Flynn, like for Mike McCarthy most of his career,
he is a concept guy. He's not a numbers guy.
You know both, which one do you like?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 10: Okay, So so here here's my honest explanation. I love
calling plays in more of a West Coast approach, but
I love talking football in the digital system. Okay, all right,
on the field, like long play calls, I was just like, hey,
this word means the X, Y and Z. Let's let's
just all understand that. We're all good to go. We
can be big picture viewers. But it's so funny even
today because a lot of the coaches I've I've worked with,
the different places. Still you're sitting in the meeting room,
you're watching film and you're talking. You know, let's run
a seven route over there, and let's run a.
Speaker 7: Four over there.
Speaker 10: You're still using them to kind of describe maybe routes
and different specific things, and so it's kind of funny.
It's it's hanging on by a thread and our leadership
for not much of the digitous system left, if any,
but you know, some of us are old enough to
have gone through it.
Speaker 7: You know, I think it's still a way of talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a very nice way of saying because my position,
the fullback position, is already extinct. It's a nice way
to say I'm getting really old, Kellen, So I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Well, the fullback got tagged all the time, so you
didn't even have to loved it.
Speaker 3: Hey f angle f m f cross.
Speaker 7: Yet you really like that system. I see why.
Speaker 2: Now, all right, guys, let's let's circle back to the
Saints and getting ready for Week one. So you start
the season, I want to know, going into the season,
what do you think for coach Kellen Moore, what is
going to be the grading metric that you're going to
use to what a successful season is going to be
for the Saints.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, there's a lot of different ways of
doing that. I think we you know, when you focus
on the process and let the results take care of
their self. You really hammer in. You know, our place
hour we play in the right way that we want
to play is following our identity. You know, are we
cleaning all three phases? And really are we situational masters?
I think so much of this league comes down the
situational football.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 10: You know, there's so much ebbs and flows through a game,
and then there's just these critical moments and we spend
so much time invested on those and you know that's
ultimately the thing. Put yourself in a really good position
to be successful, win these games, and then when you
get those chances, we got to be able to convert.
And so you know, ultimately we want to go to
the playoffs. I'm going to win the super Bowl and
certainly you know that's our goal that that's always our goal.
You know, the NFC South as attainable for us. We're
really really excited to go go get after it. You know,
it's a long journey in the NFL season. We know
there's highs and lows throughout a season. I think that's
part of what you know, these guys have to understand
is you know that you're going to go through some
really high moments, and you're gonna go through a couple
of moments where you've got to gotta fight through, you know,
a couple of down games, and you just got to
keep fighting through it, keep navigating that all these great
teams this league do. Last year we're at Philly, you
start off too and two, uh, you know, only lost
one after that the rest of the year. Uh, you know,
and there's other years where hey, maybe you started really
fast and we kind of you know, didn't finish the
way we wanted. And so you understand how these NFL
seasons go, and you just got to keep keep moving forward.
Speaker 3: Coach, I do want to ask you about the receiver
room right now, because I like the additions that you've
made there. You go out your aggressive, you make a
trade and you you know, have a waiver claim as
well for a player that we all know here from
his LSU days and Trey Palmer. So you've been aggressive
adding to the roster. One, what does that room kind
of look like to you now? And two? Like, what's
that process to make sure that the pieces that you've
added can kind of get up to speed and help
you as soon as possible.
Speaker 10: It's been a really cool example of what player acquisition
looks like when you'd take it over the course of
the entire year. I mean, Mickey and his crew have
done an awesome job, but just continued to add different
tools into that group. And so certainly feel like we
got some really premier players. We've got Coo, we got Shee.
You know, to bring Cooks back and been awesome. You know,
his leadership and his experience and he can still run
and run past people and so he's got great value there.
But then to be able to make some moves that
provide us with a ton of depth. We know, the
NFL season is a long season. You know, you gotta
be able to navigate some things. You gotta play different
matchups and maybe a guy's down for a week or two.
And so to get Vele from Denver, which was awesome.
You know, his size, his high football IQ, his contestants
and catch showed up. Trey, you know, he's just been
like on the tip of the iceberg in Tampa, ready
to like take off. It just feels like, you know,
he's made a bunch of really good plays down there.
Obviously familiarity with the area, which has been awesome. And
then to still have Cedric Wilson, to still have Kevin
Austin on practice squad, and we're gonna.
Speaker 7: Call up on these guys. They're gonna play, you know,
meaningful snatch for us this year.
Speaker 9: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: All right, Very excited to have that sound for you, Kellermore,
New Orleans Saints.
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