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Speaker 2: What's having y'all? Welcome back to otb.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Everybody's having a wonderful day here today. Stay stafe out there.
One more well, I'll get to it a little bit.
Coming up on this hour of the show. I want
to talk a little bit about link Atton college football topics.
Big news for Ohio State fans as President Trump has
actually signed an executive order he has pardoned all Buckeye
fans for all of their fire Ryan Day tweets after
November thirtieth. So gratulations to the Buckeyes. The fan base
is healing. If you were in that number, you have
now been given to presidential pardon. So congrats to you.
You are no longer held accountable for your actions. Jake,
what about the game itself? How was it there covering
the National championship in Atlanta?
Speaker 5: It was awesome.
Speaker 6: I have to say that media day, both teams were incredible.
Everyone that we talked with very well spoken, very team
you know, every like every answer was like the perfect answer, right,
I mean, And so it was a really good media day.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just like fluff. I mean, it was just
really good answers.
Speaker 6: You know, everything, like I said, was team first, and
so like Saturday, I believe was the media day. You know,
that was a lot of fun to kind of get
to know some of these players on both teams that
had Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, but I hadn't
really had Ohio State, and so you know, getting to
I had them after the Cotton Bowl, but that kind
of crazy, and so getting a chance to kind of
sit down and talk with them. Was able to interview
Marcus Freeman, Mike Denbrock and some of the Notre Dame coaches,
and then James Lernidis one of my good friends, and
Brian Hartline who we played against it in two thousand
and seven. It was kind of cool to catch up
with them as well. So Saturday, like leading into the game,
that was a lot of fun. And I do want
to like give a shout out to both teams because
I've done a lot of media days with a lot
of different teams, and that was probably the most impressive
I've done.
Speaker 2: Wow, And it was an okay game. Ironically enough, it
was actually the closest National Championship game from a final
score perspective that you've had since that twenty three to
twenty overtime game back in the seventeen eighteen season. So
for whatever reason, it has been a while before he
really had a great National Championship game. I thought that
Notre Dame ecquitted themselves pretty well in terms of fighting
back and making it making it okay. But yesterday we
asked the question where the playoffs a bust because there
were a lot of headlines about, you know, the average
of twenty two million viewers, third lowest eriership since twenty
fourteen for a championship game, twelve percent decrease from last
year's game. But it does appear that you could argue
that some of the people pushing that narrative maybe have
a bit of an agenda, because also this game was
the fifth most watched title game since the debut of
the BCS in nineteen ninety eight. Remember it did not
air on ABC, so it wasn't on your traditional easy
to watch cable. It was the most watched non NFL
sporting event since last year's Super Bowl, and it was
the only second time last five years that the National
Championship has been the most watched game of the season. Also,
when you think about game flow, it did peak at
twenty six million before it kind of got unexciting. It
peaked at the beginning. Had it not been thirty one
to seven in the third, you know, maybe that number
gets bumped up a bit. The other thing is everybody's
i'm the run up to the game, the ratings being bad.
The Rose bull at twenty one point one million, they
had the most watched Cotton Bowl ever, the second most
watched Orange Bowl ever. And here's the main Here is
the main point at all. But a lot of people,
I don't know why, if it's sour grapes against teams
who didn't get in or didn't give where they wanted,
But a lot of people trying to say this was
a failure. But the bottom line is that whatever reduction
in viewership there was was vastly overwhelmed by the inventory
they could sell by having more playoff games. So like, yes,
you can say that on a per game basis they
had less, but they had way more ads to sell,
and so it made way more money. So at the
end of the day, look are the things to improve, Yes,
the timing of it certainly, maybe seeding stuff like that,
like you can massage this thing to get better results.
But ultimately, I think it has to be a success
because it made more money. And that's whow this is
all decided. At the end of the day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I think it was a success.
Speaker 6: I mean I thoroughly enjoyed covering all these games, and
I realized that a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Are going to point to, hey, here's what the score
was in these games.
Speaker 6: We just we saw that in Wildcard weekend in the NFL,
like we see it in the second round of the NFL,
like it happens at that level too. You're not going
to have great games across the board, but the ones
that you get are going to be great.
Speaker 5: And we got some great ones.
Speaker 6: We got Texas in Arizona State, we got Notre Dame
in Penn State, even Ohio State in Texas. Right, you know,
first and goal, you got to go score Texas, and
you don't. Ohio State stops you, and then they go
the other way. So the score line at the end
might look different, but that was a great football game.
Even this National Championship game thirty one to seven, you're like, uh,
here we go again, but Notre Dame fault like hell.
Speaker 5: Like t being in the building and being on the sideline.
Speaker 6: There was a point in that game where I mean
the intensity was up to an eleven when it looked
like it's Notre Dame going to figure out a way
yet again to make this come back.
Speaker 5: And so even that game it had some of that.
Speaker 6: It was sold out, I mean sold out to the
brim of Mercedes Benz Stadium, and it was probably sixty
forty for sure, maybe sixty five you know for the Buckeyes,
thirty five for the Irish there.
Speaker 5: But what like it was sold out. There was a
buzz around the stadium.
Speaker 6: Like I said, the fanfare deal was sold out, and
so there was people like on location.
Speaker 5: You felt like, and this is hard to do.
Speaker 6: This is very hard to do in a big city
like Atlanta, and you know this well to make it
feel like you're there for a National championship game, because
there's some like sometimes like it doesn't feel like that.
Sometimes it's like you know, you're just somewhere and the
game happens to just be there at the same time,
but being in Atlanta, you felt like you were there
for a national championship game. And so, like I said,
I enjoyed it. I love more football. We're not going
to get great games across the board. And it look
it did feel long. It certainly did feel that, and
I understand that, Like I think we can get rid
of the ten days between games. Let's go, let's go
to seven days like a normal rest period for these players,
and maybe we can have one more round where it's
on campus. I'm not saying it's perfect by any means,
because I told you last week. I'm like, man, I'm
tired from covering these games. I can't imagine what these
coaches and players are kind of going through there. So
you could adjust some of the things, but I thoroughly
enjoyed all the extra football that we got.
Speaker 5: I thought we had enough games. I thought we had
star power.
Speaker 6: I thought we had everything that we were kind of
looking for as far as finding the one true national champion.
And I know Ohio State lost a couple of games,
but so did we and O seven, but we were
the best team. We didn't have our best on some
of those days, kind of like the Buck guys. But
at the end of the day, they went through Tennessee, Oregon,
Texas and Notre Dame to go win a national championship.
Speaker 2: Well how about this, Jake. If you look at the
final AP top twenty five from the regular season, Ohio
State beat the number one team, the number three team,
the number four team, the number five team, the number
seven team, and the number nine team, and they themselves
were the number sixteen. So you're looking at one, two, three, four, five,
six of the top nine that they could have beaten.
So yes, the most legendary run to a championship we've
ever seen. Unfortunately, we do not grant them the rank
of one of the greatest teams of all time because
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Speaker 5: I was like, hold up, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: So do you know what happened fifteen years ago? Today?
Speaker 6: I don't, but I'm looking forward to hearing the answer.
But also, like I'm just realizing as you laid out
Ohio State, are they the first two lost national champion?
Speaker 5: Like is it just us and them?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah without one hundred percent else she
was the only one in two thousand and seven. Something
that should become, hopefully in a new era where we
start scheduling harder out of conference games where hopefully everybody
eventually gets the nine conference games, and where hopefully I
still love the system that we could get to in
twenty six or you do fourteen teams and it's all
based on conference standings. This should become, uh, maybe not
as singular as it's been in the past. But yeah,
kind the kind of appropriate that the first champion of
this new era with the expanded playoff would be one
that had a bit more wobbles during the season, a
bit more NFL like in that regard.
Speaker 6: Speaking sorry fifteen years ago today, Let's go Tae hit
the tape.
Speaker 5: Okay, hold I didn't know we were doing this.
Speaker 2: Hold back in not saying anything.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the super Bowl boys right here, come
on baby, one time for your boy. Let's go to
the super Bowl?
Speaker 5: Boy?
Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, do they don't have the rest of
the call in there? They have the rest of Jim
Henderson's call in there? Oh man, I just assumed they would.
Henderson was one of the most legendary calls ever. There.
Pigs have flown, Hell has frozen over, the Saints are
headed to the super Bowl. And I bring it up
because it shows what the Saints can be, But it
also shows how far you've fallen. I mean, if you
were watching that in YouTube, if you're just listening, you
can see everybody they showed. But they show Reggie Bush,
you see Drew Brees, stay next to Sean Page. You
see Jeremy shockey, and then you look at this year's
team right and you see how far you have fallen. Now,
for whatever it is worth, the Saints are on the
cusp of kind of fully resetting. So right now the
Saints lead the NFL. They are fifty two million dollars
over next year's salary cap. However, if you look forward
to twenty twenty six, you are sixty million under the
projected cap, and in twenty twenty seven two hundred and
twenty one million under the projected cap. So sure to
get out of this season, you may end up taking
away from a little bit of that sixty million next
year by deferring contracts and everything else you do. But
we've talked a lot about the Saints kicking the can
down the road. Eventually that window is going to close.
They would have to kind of pay the piper. They
are in the process of doing that right now. You
make it through this offseason, you get your new coach.
I think you try to get as frisky as you
can next year while doing it on a budget, and
then next season it feels like you can finally start
to rebuild and make moves and kind of reset the
process of getting championship relevant once again.
Speaker 5: All right, T Bob.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna need you to kind of, you know,
catch me up with all the latest and greatest because
I've you know, trying to find my way back to
Baton Rouge. I haven't been as locked in maybe to
the coaching search. But like real quick, like with everything
that you just said there, I truly hope that these
Saints are like, Okay, here is our opportunity. We tried
to hold this thing together with duck tape and super
glue with Dennis Allen. He was you know, with Sean Payton,
and we're trying to have this same unit kind of
move forward.
Speaker 5: And they try to do it for a long time.
And I understand, you know, for some of it, I understand.
Speaker 6: Why, but like this is an opportunity to change the
direction of their franchise, and so you know, can they
get that done right now?
Speaker 5: Will they actually do that?
Speaker 6: Because I agree with you it's going to go through
some growing pains, but you have an opportunity to kind
of hit reset there.
Speaker 5: They haven't done so in so long. But what is
kind of the latest with the coaching search, So.
Speaker 2: A few things have broken the Saints way here and
that is that mainly they kind of don't have any
competition left, so the guy said they might still want
so of course, Aaron Glenn goes to the Jets all
report so that Brian Schottenheimer looks like he will be
the Dallas Cowboys head coach. The Raiders are apparently looking
for more experienced options, like they're talking to Pete Carroll
and Vance Joseph and Robert Sala. The Jaguars look like
Liam Cohen's gonna be the guy. Of course, he interviewed
to Jacksonville, said no, accepting an extension with the Bucks
only for the Jags. Then fire Trent Balkey, saying no,
we want you Liam more than we want Bulky. He
comes back. He's now back in Jacksonville, flew in secretly
to do negotiations with them. So like, honestly, you want
Joe Brady, you want Mike McCarthy. There's nobody really in
that market anymore. So you can choose your guy that
you believe is the guy to lead you through this rebuild.
It's just a question of whether or not they get
correct and that will all I mean. And for a
guy like Mickey Loomis, who's nearing seventy years old. His
entire kind of reputation and legacy is on the line here,
and it sucks because he was such a key part
of the rise in the Golden era and you know,
setting up for that Super Bowl again, the run in
from seventeen eighteen nineteen where you were one of the
winningest teams in the NFL. I think he might have
been the winning this regular season team. But winning does
make you kind of spoiled. And so although there was
a time when we said, you know, pigs have flown
and hell has frozen over, it's not really case anymore.
Expectations have risen a bit in New Orleans. And although
there is that good on Loomis's resume right now, nobody
attributed it to him. They attributed to Peyton, they attributed
it to Breeze. So if he can get this coaching
decision correct, and maybe that's Joe Brady working with Spencer
Ratler or car maybe that's Mike McCarthy, that would go
a long way towards sending him out on a good note,
as this is likely the last time that he gets
to make a decision like this, So they really have
a pretty unimpeded path to whoever they want.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, like I keep telling myself, Okay, well, you know,
as you continue to go down the road, it's probably
gonna be Joe Brady, because if it was Mike McCarthy, Like,
why would you not go ahead and just hire him?
Because he's available. People are making their decision. You could
do it right now. He could be moving forward, he
could go to Mobile, he could be the coach, he
could be scouting, and.
Speaker 5: You haven't done so.
Speaker 6: But like with everything you said about Mickey looms kind
of you know, having one more opportunity, then it's kind
of like, okay, well he's gonna have one more opportunities,
probably gonna play it a little safe here, and I
do feel like that would be the safe option.
Speaker 5: But it's like, Okay, well he hasn't done it, so
is it Joe Brady.
Speaker 6: Joe Brady's still playing, and so that's why they haven't
announced anything, And so you can kind of talk yourself.
I guess into either one of those guys. But I
do think like the farther we get down the road,
it's probably going to lean, in my opinion, Joe Brady,
because why would you not make the move if it
was Mike McCarthy with all the things that you have
kind of coming up. And again, I know it's not
the say all be all, but with Mobile being next week,
where you're going to have like most of your personnel
there watching scouting, why would you not go ahead and
have your head coach there.
Speaker 2: It is one of the interesting quirks about the NFL
schedule though, is like, do teams feel the need to
go ahead and act on a guy that maybe you
know that isn't coaching anymore because I feel like they
got to go ahead and get a deal done, or
if you really think a guy that is still the
guy is the guy that you know he's still coaching,
like are you willing to wait on him? And to
your point, the Saints may be waiting on Joe Brady,
but we'll continue to update and see over the next
few days. The other fly in the oint men here
that makes it hard to judge outside looking in, you say, well,
why I'm not Hiv McCarthy yet. McCarthy probably hadn't able
to get to town yet if you were trying to
fly him in right, Like basically everything got frozen over
for about three days, so that could affect the timeline,
but either way, the Saints will have their pick of
the letter. Like, sure, maybe Aeron Glynn was choice number one,
but after that, the guys that you valued most are
still available, and so maybe it's even Kingsburg or something
if he comes to interview after the Jaden Daniels run.
It remains to be seen. The more interesting thing to
me will be when you get one of these coaches,
what do they do at quarterback? Do they ride with
Derek Carr for a year? Do they lean into Spencer Rattler?
See what you have there so you know if you
need to go to it the different quarterback next year,
because like, yeah, Derek Carr is a good enough quarterback
highest graded player on the Saints by the way, Derek
Carr is a good enough quarterback where he's probably gonna
win like seven to eight games at least, right Whereas
Spencer Rattler you could be looking at like a disaster season.
Maybe not, But is this the situation where you engage
in a bit of pseudo tanking. You know, let's see
what we have in Rattler and that if we don't
like him and the season goes bad, that sucks. But
you're set up with a great draft pick and maybe
make a move this year. I don't know. Maybe the
new coach manages Mickey loves to trade up, so maybe
want to be a surprise in that regard that again,
you need so much, this almost feels like a draft.
Or you don't trade up, you wait on quarterback. You
draft everybody that you can try to inject this team
with some youth, and then you maybe look at quarterback
after that. Some fascinating crossroads that the Neworleon Saints are
currently at. All right, when we get back here on OTB,
we can keep talking about that. We got some LSU
baseball go down this weekend as well. Keep it locked on.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Welcome back into Off the Bench. I don't know where
Tea Bob's at. Jake, Oh there he is. Why would
I do that for two minutes?
Speaker 2: I'm letting it.
Speaker 5: Play right now.
Speaker 2: Schedule a doctor appointment and that's fine.
Speaker 3: I was gonna me and Jake and Taylor were gonna
hold it down till you got back on y'all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to O. T. B. H Alando. I know
you'll be very excited. Baseball. Look at my sweatshirt going
down this week and what is it? I can't see it.
Speaker 3: It's the box.
Speaker 2: Let's go to my shirt. Yeah, so uh Inn squad
scrimmage is gonna take place.
Speaker 6: Gets the doctor's appointments schedule. I know you've had that
thing you've been trying to get a look at for
you know.
Speaker 2: You're paying someone to do this.
Speaker 7: I have volunteered to do this for free, no less
than four times.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, But last Taylor, I don't know.
If I don't know, if you have a medical degree,
what's one of those.
Speaker 7: Things where it's like do you want it done quickly
or correctly? I totally understand that, but we could have
been had this done.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. But yeah, baseball preseason scrimmage is going
down this weekend two pm Friday, one pm Saturday, one
pm Sunday, three pm Monday. If you want to go
be in that number. I'm sure you'll find Moose and
Hunt at the box at some point this weekend. But
gates will open fifteen minutes before first pitch. So this
is a great opportunity. If you have a kid who's
baseball obsessed, do you want to get eyes on this
brand new very exciting LSU team, which in all the
major polls where they ran basically top five and every
single one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there'susually three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about two to three in the entire country.
I mean just great transfer, portal class, great returners. This
looks to me very But you want to go watch
Chase Sore's throw a little bit everything else, It'll be
good going down in the box this weekend as we
are about roughly twenty something days from the season starting.
Does it start on Valentine's Day? Maybe? I believe February fourteen? Yeah?
Is anybody gonna go to the box this weekend? From here?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about going, Yeah, okay, what are you
what are you going to be looking for? If you
end up going, I'm always looking at the bullpen. Yeah,
Like I love pitching, rotate, I love pitching. So I'm
going to be looking at the bullpen and the new
transfers that we have that are supposed to be making
a big impact on the team, like Daniel Dickinson that
we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, third team All American according to d one
Baseball and Daniel Dickson. A lot of people hyping up
Allanson as well, even though I don't know if Ayensin's
in this starting lineup right now?
Speaker 5: Is he mix?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We will. We will have to see Zax's will
probably check out the box tomorrow. Again, guys, it's really fun.
It's free, gates opened fifteen minutes before you go in,
and you just enjoy yourself some baseball and get get
hyped up. Also, I imagine the weather should be pretty
nice this weekend. I don't know if it will for sure,
but that's kind of what I would feel. So LSU
baseball right around the corner. You can almost taste it.
Speaker 6: It's fantastic, guys, everything like Hunt's feeling right now. Oh
you know, is he at an eleven right now? I
mean you actually have it like he can feel it.
There's gonna be a scrimmage this weekend. I know he
likes to go out there. What is it with a coke?
Speaker 5: Icy in? Something else?
Speaker 6: Like the fact that we all know what he likes
to drink while he's going to baseball practice. Lets us
know how much he loves it because he talks about
it so much and so like him.
Speaker 5: Muso right now probably on cloud nine.
Speaker 2: LSU baseball plus twelve hundred to win. It all, Sin
Scott Dice. Not a bad value play there if you're
gonna rock with your tigers to go home as national champions. Yeah,
I mean a coke icy is one of the best
pairings to enjoy any sort of entertainment.
Speaker 6: Again, every favorite favorite flavor of ice, he's probably coked
for you, right.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt. And every now and then I'll do
a little coke blueberry mix, maybe a coke cherry mix
as well, Like there's room for that. But if you
were to give me just one with a bullet, it
will always be a coke icy. Just too many good
movie memories, watching too many good movies with a buttery
popcorn and coke icy. It's one of my greatest pleasures
in life.
Speaker 6: You know that, Like, yeah, I'm sorry, no, no, no,
a Landra, I bet you've got a pretty good answer
to this as well. So for me, it's peach icy.
But you can't find it very many places. There's like
two or three places in the Port City and have
a peach icy. It is s tire at is next level.
Speaker 5: And maybe it's.
Speaker 6: Because you can't find it, and you know, one of
those things where it's like because it's not just easy
to get. Maybe you know, even taste even better. But
I'm gonna go peach icy but a laundraft. Feel like
you have a really good answer to this.
Speaker 3: I do cherry and coke mix together. That's that's my
go to every single time. But I do like mostly coke, yeah,
and then like a dash of Yeah, I just mix
it up real good. But what I was gonna say was,
actually I think I forgot what I was gonna say. Good, Oh,
I remember, so, you know how like whenever I don't know,
I guess I'll use like football season for y'all as
an example when y'all were players, and you can like
feel I don't know if I'm explaining this right, but
you can kind of like feel when it's coming up
and like the nostalgia or whatever. Yeah, that's if it's
any indication of like how Hunt feels. That's kind of
how I feel right now, Like I'm like it's here,
it's there, Like I feel like I'm at the box
right now.
Speaker 2: As an adult feel it sports fan, I can smell it.
I would rank the National Championship run as amazing, probably
some of my top five fan memories of all time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 2: Just the terror and anxiety of every single pitch against
Tennessee every single pitch again Wake Forest, every single pitch
against Florida. I mean, I've never lived in died like
it was my first appreciation as an adult of just
how insanely high stakes and locked in baseball can make you.
And I think that this team, and again, I know
last year is you know, on the whole disappointment, but
you cannot lose sight of the way that that team
finished last year and what it says about Jay Johnson's
ability to continuously tinker, continuously motivate, continue to get guys
to not give up. I mean, that was a team
that was dead and buried, that had no business whatsoever
even making the postseason. And not only did they make
the postseason, but you were what two outs away from
was it winning the Super Right or was it the
regional in Carolina region? It was a regional Okay, you
were two outs away. You had Carolina on the ropes,
Carolina team that objectively was much better than you, and
you were two outs away just couldn't quite get it done. Well,
this LSU team should be much better than last year's.
Remember last year's was kind of wild because all of
your preseason bets none of them paid off. The guys
that you thought would be great, almost to a man,
none of them were, meaning you had to kind of
scramble continue to find options squeezelood from the stones. Coming
into this year, it would appear that Jay Johnson would
have an overwhelming amount of options. And so when I
see a coach who managed to do what he did
last year that team, you even think back to year
one of Jay Johnson when he was managing that pitching
staff like like like like a like an OCD obsessive
doing Excel spreadsheets, I mean down to every single pitch
right like now, you give him this new crop of talent,
and you see why the ranked third, You see why
you become incredibly excited about this, about this game or about.
Speaker 5: This Yeah, I am right there with y'all.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned kind of the lead up for the
National Championship game. I mean, Harlow was born like right
after Tommy White hit the walk off against Wake Forest,
like I will that is a memory that I will
never forget.
Speaker 5: We're in the hospital, we're all watching it.
Speaker 6: I mean Katie's sitting there watching the game like intently
like about to have a child and she's still watching it.
And then when Tommy Tanks hits the walk off, it's like, okay, Harlowe,
you can come now.
Speaker 5: So almost like we were waiting until it happened.
Speaker 6: And so that run, like that's one of my greatest
sports memories, like me being involved, not involved, And so
that LSU baseball team, Like if you didn't already love
LSU baseball, that was the one that probably did it
for a lot of people or maybe even tea. It
brought a lot of people back that have you know,
loved LSU baseball in the past, but maybe you know
it's a little bit of a drought to LSU standards
for over a decade and that one brought you right back.
And so like that for me, like I'll always have
that and every baseball season like starting with that one
and then what we've had, you know, last year as well,
like that was you know, it was an exciting run
and they felt just short obviously there against North Carolina.
Speaker 5: But I'm firing up.
Speaker 6: For this baseball team and they've got so many new
faces and we're gonna have to learn them over time,
and we know the names, we know where they're.
Speaker 2: Coming from about baseball season, though, is my fact finding
mission of knowing who we're gonna fall in love with
last this year? Like, sure there was hype round Stephen Mylam,
but I didn't expect Mylam to be the monster that
he had become by the end of the year, consistent
clutch hits like it was. It was fantastic watching that rise,
watching the massive jump that Bear Jones took and now
wondering can he make a similar massive jump and what
the hell would that mean for LSU. So yeah, it's fantastic.
Alandra asks where were you and Tommy? What tanks hit
the walk off? I remember where I was. I was
actually in the airport and I was coming back from
the beach with my wife's family, and there were a
ton of LSU fans all on the gate. Everybody's watching
on their phones. There was a giant, impromptu celebration in
the middle of the airport. Is one of the coolest
memories I've ever had.
Speaker 7: Dude, that time on OTB was crazy too, not just
the baseball season. Jake was having a kid. You went
to a fake wedding in Florida, Like you were flying
back that day to uh God, I remember that you
lost this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I might have just been
on a family trip. You're talking about my brother's wedding
three weeks before. It was a fake wedding because I
wasn't actually your saying fake wedding because they were already May.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh that was this year. That was this yeah. Yeah. Also,
we had some insane whiskey and wines during that championship run,
just some really unhinged clips on the Morning show from
that run, after beating Florida, after beating Tennessee.
Speaker 3: It was I was producing that game. So I was
like in the LSU studio losing my freaking mind, Like
when I tell you, Tommy hit that home run and
I literally started like yelling and jumping up and down
in the studio. I was losing my mind, and I
was standing up like the entire time because my nerves
were just so bad.
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Speaker 1: Eighty Welcome in to the best morning sports This show
around Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
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great way to hype yourself up for LSU baseball. Speaking
of hyping up, how about the NFC and AFC Championships
this weekend? And Jake Taylor just showed me a stat
that is legitimately mind blowing. Now, I want to talk
jays Ands. I want to start Commander. I want to
talk Commander's Eagles, but let's start with Bill's Chiefs. Obviously,
that is the kind of closest you know, that is
the the the Tom Brady Peyton Manning matchup of our time.
Of the new generation, right, Patrick Mahomes playing the role
of Brady, Josh Allen playing the role of Peyton, Manning
here and Taylor. So these teams have played. Give us
the numbers, so last ten times, ten times that these
two teams.
Speaker 7: Have played, Yes, I will show to you either, dear
break the last ten times they're five and five. So
five wins for the Chiefs, five for the Bill.
Speaker 2: You know that that's pretty good, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 7: The Bills have scored two hundred and fifty one points
in those ten games. Okay, Kansas City Chiefs have scored
two hundred and fifty one points in those ten games.
Speaker 2: What I mean? Can you imagine that? So you have
a ten game sample size, nearly an entire NFL football season,
well over half of an NFL football season, and the
two teams are split dead even on wins and losses
and on points score. That's actually insane. Uh, who are
we feeling? Obviously, being in Arrowhead is feels like a
massive advantage for the Chiefs. But the same way that
you saw Brady excuse me, Manning eventually break through a
couple of times in the dominant Brady run. I don't know,
man this Chiefs team. Sure all they do is win.
I know they're faded. I know the referees are on
their side. I got a good chuckle out of Gronk
on the Up and Adams Show yesterday saying one of
the keys for the Bills be too If you sack
Patrick Mahomes, don't sack him too hard, because otherwise you
know you're going to screw yourself. But I have the
feeling that this is gonna be one of those times
where the kind of lesser counterpart breaks through, and I
think Josh Allen and the Bills go on the road
and win an airhead.
Speaker 6: I hope, So I can certainly hope. So I am
over the Chiefs. And I got a son that's right
next to me in this next room that is probably
not gonna like hearing that.
Speaker 5: But I don't want them to win at all.
Speaker 6: We have seen you, You've been here, You've done enough
at this point. And watching that Texans game and the
way they protected Mahomes more than any other quarterback, I
am just over it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of insane, like two Texans knocked
each other out and they were like, flack on my Homes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm over man. Just give me the Bills. And
the Bills have been so close before.
Speaker 6: And I was a critic of Josh Allen as far
as the playoffs, certainly over the last couple of years,
and he looks like he.
Speaker 5: Has truly turned a corner.
Speaker 6: And his supporting cast compared to the others, it's not
even close. I mean, he has truly bettered himself, even
though those around him aren't the same caliber that he's
had in the past. And so I can certainly get
behind that. And I hope the Bills, and I do
think they have a great opportunity with the way they're
running the football with James Cook. Now they have a
chance to go into Arrowhead and do what not a
lot of people can do, which is beat the Chiefs
in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: The Bills deserve this, dude, The Bill's mafia, excuse me,
deserves this. One of the most loyal, most exciting fan bases,
one of the most long suffering fan bases in all
of American sports, and the Bills. If you've been a
long time Bills fan, let's say you're forty something years old,
you've been a Bills fan your entire life. You have
suffered in a way that almost no one does. Where
you suffered the ultimate heartbreak when you were awesome consistently
losing the four Super Bowls, and then you didn't make
the playoffs for like twenty years. So you suffered while
at the top, and you suffered while buried at the bottom,
and you've been scratching and clawing and slowly climbing out
of that hole, and here is a golden opportunity to
try and get back to super once again. It does
show you, though, that the Chiefs, I mean, this game
is in hair awhead. Why because the Chiefs just always
find a way to win. Tay tay, what do you
think you got? I got one minute, and then we'll
get to the next team, next segment.
Speaker 7: Going Buffalo Bills on this one, guys, I think Josh
Allen's on a different level right now. You were talking
about the penalty discrepancy. Jake was Kansas City and the
playoffs plus and nine, next closest team plus two one
terms of penalties four and again. So there's a little
something to keep an eye on. But uh, look, I
think Josh Allen's on a mission this year. He hasn't
been all year. I mean any criticism that was thrown
his way deservedly, so, I mean he had had a
turnover problem. I mean, he just looks like he's playing
on another level. I know it's going to be super
tough to beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: You just get that.
Speaker 7: Feeling in your gut that it's time that a team's
going to do it. And I think the Bills are
going to do it all right.
Speaker 2: When we get back here on OTB, let's talky about
Jaden and the commander is taking on Jalen Hurts in
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the Bench with Hester and t BOBDN and y'all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to O T B. Get ready to wrap
up our number two and we're talking NFL playoffs. Just
broke down a little Bill's Chiefs and Arrowhead. On the
other side of the docket, Jaden Daniels and the Commanders
heading to the link take on Dalen Hurts and the
Philadelphia Eagles. Elandra, how do you see this one playing out?
Were Why weren't you weren't you ready on the mic?
There what's up.
Speaker 3: Through you weren't going to it looks it looks like
we I mean, it looks like it.
Speaker 2: There's you first, so you know you gotta I'm like
pistol pete, you gotta stay ready. This past maybe coming
from behind the bag and be coming from all different angles.
Get your hands up. Uh, what do you think though, comedy.
Speaker 3: Eagles are in commanders or Eagles commander PEPs So you can talk.
Speaker 2: We kind of rehash it next hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, I really really want the commanders to win
this game. I actually think that they might have a
chance to. Like, I'm kind of leaning toward the commanders
on this one. I know they I know Saquon is
like unstoppable, but the commander's defense is kind of like
better than we give them credit for. I feel like
we don't talk about it enough, but like I kind
of leaning toward the commanders on this one.
Speaker 2: Here's the question, Jake, and I'll pose this to you.
Is anybody in the playoffs right now playing better quarterback
than Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 5: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think so T And I really don't think
that it's that close. I think with what he can
do and you're starting to see like some of the
all time.
Speaker 5: Greats just really brag on him.
Speaker 6: And Tom Brady comes, they're even blown away with what
Jade's been able to do. And he can do it
so many different ways, and he's so cool, calm and
collected in the pocket. He's so good against pressure, and
so when his numbers are what they are against the
blitz and pressure and you like, you look at it, Okay, Well.
Speaker 5: No, damn.
Speaker 3: I knew he was going to have a good answer too.
Speaker 2: I know, I know he was rolling and they got
and then the internet came and reared to tuckyhead.
Speaker 3: But no, I actually don't think that any of the
quarterbacks are playing better except for Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: One thing I'm a bit terrified of for the Washington Commanders,
the thirtieth ranked rush defense in the league. Yeah, give
up over one hundred and thirty eight yards a game,
and this is a team that obviously wants to beat
you down with say com Barkley, have Jalen Hurts add
in on the edges. Now, Jalen Hurts seems to be
a bit hobbled, So that's something definitely to watch going forward.
But that's where that's where Jayden's going to be relied
upon even more, is that their best bet may be
to kind of disrupt gameflow if they can manage to
put points on the board, disrupt game flow and try
to force Philly out of being so run first. Like
if Philly is able to get an early lead, I
think the Commanders, even though have been so good in
clutch situations, I think they could be in trouble here. Also, yes,
the Commanders beat Philly to at the end of the year,
but that was a game without Jalen Hurts. Sorry, Jake,
you were talking about Tom Brady and everybody else bragging
on Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they realized, like what he's done, and
it's like, okay, well, we're gonna pressure him because he's
a young quarterback. We're gonna kind of get him off
his marker a little bit and maybe he can't run.
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, well, he's leaked against pressure, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's like, okay, well we can't really do that
because he is dicing teams up.
Speaker 5: Well, let's just sit back and let's play coverage.
Speaker 6: Well, the problem there is if you drop eight or
whatever of my BT, as you know, then he has
all day, and then if you give him all day,
he's either going to find the open receiver or he
is going to do it with his legs because you're
not getting that pressure. He's faster than you. He might
be the fastest person on the field. I know we
never got an actual forty time from him, but there's
nobody that really like catches up to him. And so
you're damned if you do. Damned if you don't against
Jaden and he is playing like in that like NBA
jam he's heating up. He can't miss type situation right now.
And you mentioned that they beat him and it was
without Jalen Hurts, and that's true, that is factual. But
you also know this t from playing as long as
you did. That gives you a confidence that, hey, we
we came back on these guys. They tried to throw
the knockout punch like four times and we didn't allow it. Yeah,
we came back, we fall to the end, we beat them,
not that long ago.
Speaker 5: We can do it again.
Speaker 6: And so it's a different team because of who's playing
quarterback now, but it still doesn't change your belief in
what you can do against the same uniform the same helmet.
They still sharkly, they had aj Brownlake, they still had
Jimmies and Joe's out there. And with the way that
Jayden's playing right now, the way that everybody on that
team is stepping up, and Bobby Wagner and Austin Eckler
finding the fountain of youth, it is a confident bunch
right now. And when you go bully a bully like
they did against the Detroit Lions and their building, man,
that goes a long way for me. I think they
have every opportunity to win this football game.
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