Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 2: The plays get broken down, then science gets denied. Off
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB. Here live from Mobile, Alabama, and.
Speaker 4: Of course our coach brought to you by First American
Bank and Trust, and we are going to be here
for the totality of the Senior Ball, which we've got
a couple of more days of practice, looking forward to
get back out there this afternoon, and then we've got
more practice tomorrow and then of course the game is
going to be this weekend.
Speaker 3: So not staying for the.
Speaker 4: Game because well, the practices are the star of the show,
and we had some yesterday, and looking forward to catching
up with some more LSU players. I believe barry On
Brown at some point here this morning is going to
join us. We've got his chair all ready to go,
we got the situation ready, in a setup ready, so
hopefully we can have him in the next couple of segments.
And we had Garrett neus Meyer yesterday, so if you
miss that, you can go back and listen to that
on demand, and you had your quarterback YEP rankings of
who you thought one through six maybe played the best.
Speaker 3: So are you starting six to one?
Speaker 5: You going one to say, I don't think it's real
fair to rank them all like together, but I kind
of had my list of I who probably had the
better day on each of these different teams. So it
started out with a national team first with the quarterbacks
of Diego pave Called Peyton.
Speaker 3: And Sawya Robinson.
Speaker 5: Those three were there, and for what it's worth, I'm
sure it's gonna switch every day. Diego Pavia did get
the first reps on all the drills, so individual one
on ones and then the first person to go in
on team. And so for whatever that is worth, and
I'm sure today it'll be cold Peyton getting one and
Diego will get the thirds whatever and they'll rotate like that.
Potentially we'll see. We'll see today. But watching individual, I
was giving a launder an education on quarterback mechanics. I
was like, yeah, he's a shoulder thrower, he's not creating
enough whip or whatever.
Speaker 3: He does a nice job.
Speaker 5: He's a he's a more rotational quarterback. And so we
were just kind of dropping some knowledge, some quarterback knowledge,
and I'll say in like individual, Diego Pavea is not
the best looking quarterback throwing the ball right. The other
two guys did absolutely. They looked like monsters as well.
And then I looked it up. I was like, these
guys gonna be six five. But I was like, wait,
this's cold. Peyton, he didn't interview. He didn't look that big,
but they did kind of look like look physically look
very big compared to Diego. But Diego had the best
day at quarterback for that first in the national. Just
from the plays that were being made, the guys had game.
Speaker 3: I get it. He's little, he's runner up to the
Heisman Trophy. He's runner up, so pretty decent, right, good player.
Speaker 5: I felt felt strongly that he should have won if
it wenting for people.
Speaker 3: Like you voters. Do you say something afterwards? He said
something afterwards.
Speaker 5: About remember that's something about that, something like that. Okay,
I thought he had the best day. Cole Peyton didn't
realize he was a lefty.
Speaker 4: I didn't of the show Cole Payton, friend of the show,
seen Varsity Blues. Full disclosure, I didn't either. I remember
him being a lefty. I just I just remember him
in his statu out of the box.
Speaker 3: Oh we got burry On right here? Oh we do nice? Yeah, sir,
what's up? How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: Good to see you, hey, Baron Brown.
Speaker 4: Good enough to join us here, Jacob Pastor, Matt Flynn.
We played at l s U when you were well,
I don't even know how how old were you in
two thousand and seven?
Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven, I was.
Speaker 3: Okay. I look actually older than I thought.
Speaker 4: He was going to be, so okay. So yeah, we
played LSHIT a long time ago. Man, glad to have
you on the LSUE squad this year. But how has
this week been for you so far? Obviously a couple
of days in, but had a chance to go out
there on the practice field yesterday for sure.
Speaker 7: Always grateful for the opportunity to come out here and
compete with the best and showcase what I can do
and just keeping my best for forward and just attacking
every day like it's my last and just perfecting my craft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Barrett, what's it major? You like to get the
invitation of the senior ball? Like I know that from
offensively this year. It wasn't the expectations that you all had,
right and but but the senior ball, y'all are recognized,
your talents recognized enough to have this opportunity to come
and showcase it with the best of the best.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just again, just thankful all.
Speaker 1: The hard work I put in.
Speaker 7: Of course, growing up as a child, I'm always watching
the one.
Speaker 1: On ones and exposive plays. So just being right here now,
incredible opportunity.
Speaker 4: How much of the return game do you want to
try to show out here as well? Because look, we
all know how many what six right sixty in college
and I covered the Texas both first play of the game,
I mean.
Speaker 3: Take it back to the house.
Speaker 4: I was very exciting, and you've done it so many
times in your career, so when you're having those conversations
with teams, I'm sure like that is maybe one of
the lead conversations, Hey, we know what you can do
for us in the return game.
Speaker 7: Yes, I always felt that people take plays off on
special team and that's why I take advantage of it.
That and just what I did in my career and
changed a lot of games with special teams. So that's
just something the back of my head that this one
might be the game changer. So I always took special teams.
Speaker 1: Very serious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this this week is a lot of there's
a lot of different strusts. You're getting pushed and pulled
in a lot of different directions that you're sitting here
talking to us right now, but like in a second,
you'll probably be in a meeting with learning next with
x's and o's and trying to like cram a playbook in.
But then thirty minutes later you might be meeting with
an NFL teams GM talking So how's this week been
for you?
Speaker 3: Like what are these days?
Speaker 5: Like you gotta wake up early, you go into bed late,
and just how stressed for it? Like it's speed dating
with a lot of these NFL teams.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I wouldn't say so much stress. So
this is the life I always wanted And like again,
I'm with for opportunity. So I wake up every day happy,
thanking the Lord that I'm right here right now.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I done.
Speaker 7: Have four different quarterbacks for different ocs for different years.
So just going in there learning a couple of plays
ain't really too much of nothing to me. I feel
like I processed stuff really well, and it's honestly just
a will to do it.
Speaker 1: If you want to learn it, you'll learn it.
Speaker 7: So then again, I'm just thankful to be right here
right now, So not too much pressure, just taking every
moment in knowing that you only get one life to
live and just making the most of it.
Speaker 3: What was your favorite drill yesterday?
Speaker 1: My favorite drill yesterday was.
Speaker 7: Honestly, just the the time with your receivers and the
receiver coach and y'all, just you know, taking it in
and doing the legit. Where can you get to meet
new guys and see new guys playing taking notes from
other guys, probably.
Speaker 4: Guys that you've seen play from across the country obviously,
like you know them just by watching them here and
there and flashing on film for sure.
Speaker 1: And that's just one thing that's good.
Speaker 7: And I always been a note taker, so if I
see something that somebody's doing good, I'll try to implement
it to my game and just taking coach all this
coaching points and just trying to my game.
Speaker 5: So when you're in line and up, I know, like
one on ones that that drill is always fun for everybody.
Speaker 3: Right, you get it. You get to talk a little.
Speaker 5: Trash, You gotta showcase your skills like This is a
cool week because it's like the ultimate helmet practice. Like
you see that, you see the big school helmets, you
see the small school helmets. You've seen helmets you might
not have ever seen before out there, Like when you
line up, are you looking for a helmet? Like, Okay,
that's okay, that's Ohio State right there. I want I
want that one or whatever it is. Are you looking
at that helmet when you line up?
Speaker 1: Honestly, it don't matter who in front of me.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not here trying to get paid and
make some money.
Speaker 7: So man, whoever whoever gets in front of me is
gonna get my best for sure, rather than D one
or D five. That's just the mindset and the tip
tip of my shoulder that I have just go balls
to the wall every time, no matter who he guarded me.
Speaker 4: So how was it for you this year coming to
Batteries playing for l s U. Obviously, unfortunately, you know
Garrett Nesmeyer is not able to play the full season,
and it's good to see him back.
Speaker 3: Here and being able to throw the football.
Speaker 4: But how was it for you just coming over from
Kentucky to Baton Rouge?
Speaker 7: Great experience, great coaches, great atmosphere, great fan base, and honestly,
I was only there for a year, but I feel
like that they took me in and I love Batnon
Ruge for life, and man l s u Is just
experienced that I wish a lot of other people got
got the chance to get for sure, especially up coming
down with you know, Lane going there and all the
hype around that. So it's gonna be a fun season
to watch next year.
Speaker 5: Obviously coaching change in the middle of the season, So
how was that going through that as a player right
middle of the season, coaching change and then Frank Wilson
kind of stepping in the plate, holding everything together, being
a being a glue guy?
Speaker 3: Right was that?
Speaker 5: How was that whole transition as a from a team?
Of course, as a fan base, you don't you don't
love that as a fan base, but it's uh, just
as a player being in that rim. How was that transition?
How are y'all able to leaders stepping up? How are
y'all able to just keep it all together?
Speaker 7: Honestly, that the power that that that happened was out
of my hands. So I was just making sure, keeping
keeping the guys locked in and doing we got to
do and keeping the main thing, the main thing, and
that's to go out there and do I best to
win these games for us and these coaches and these
fans and everybody that's been supporting us.
Speaker 1: So honestly, not nothing never changed for me.
Speaker 7: Coase Wilson did a great job stepping in and getting
us fired up, and you know, just leading us out
there each and every week knowing it was people doubting us,
and he says she saved, but man.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 7: It was a great experience to see that, and I
loved b K. And unfortunately the could get in crumble
for us how we wanted it to. But then again
that's life. Everything is not gonna go to where you
wanted to go each and every day. So it was
just a blessing to, you know, get get coached by
BK and then get coached by coach Wilson and love
them to death.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I was just trying to keep the main
thing the main thing.
Speaker 5: That's a good lesson for you and at going into
the NFL, control what you can control, right and do
the best that you can.
Speaker 3: UH favorite moment in an LSU uniform.
Speaker 7: For you, My favorite moment and the Lunforum uniform would
have to be the kick returning to Houston. Because the
coach wanted it for me, the players wanted it for me.
I wanted it for myself, and I told him that
this is not only a record breakerd for me, it's
one for y'all too, because it wouldn't have been able
to be done without y'all. It was a couple of
key blocks and a couple of key coaching points that
I took and order that in order for that to happen.
Speaker 1: So man, it was just a great experience.
Speaker 3: I love that one as well.
Speaker 4: I also love the touchdown that you caught against Clemson
that they called no touchdown.
Speaker 1: I wish I had, no you don't have the resume.
Speaker 4: You know, it's out there record. I don't know how
in the world they called that no touchdown because we're
sitting there and I'm calling the game and they go
to the booth. I'm like, oh, well, l s you fans,
you're good, like this is a touchdown, And when they
said it wasn't, I was blown away, like I couldn't
believe it.
Speaker 7: It's like it's like when when you're running to the
A zone and you put the ball over the piel
line and somebody hit your arm and the ball just fly. Yeah,
that's that's how I thought it was, but unfortunately it
wasn't it. Man, I wish I had that one.
Speaker 3: YEA, that's all right. The film is still out there
out there. Sure when I say it's still on your rest, Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. Hey, what's your what's your training been
like going for this? Where are you training out?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: What are some of the things. I'm sure there's guys
you grew up like watching looking up to and you
try to play like the comparable game and and take
what the guys you like to watch what they do well,
maybe try to implement it in some way for your game.
What's your training been mic and what exactly what what
are you working on for the next level.
Speaker 7: I've been up at training with in Dallas, XOS and
got a great, great set the trainers for me when
it come to weight room and nutrition and field work,
and I got a great receiver coach, so shut.
Speaker 3: Out to them.
Speaker 7: But honestly, I've just been trying to critique out the
little things. I feel like, the little things that played
a big part when a combine come and when a
season come next year. So honestly, just bits and everything
a part of my game. I feel like it's always
improving to get better, whether you're the best of the worst.
Speaker 1: So I never get complacent.
Speaker 7: And if I if I'm great at something, I'm go'na
keep working and be great at something. And if I
feel like I'm short, there's something, I'm gonna keep working
ten times harder to get better at that. So just
my whole life, I I never wanna get complacent, and
I always wanna keep my best for four and then
keep stacking days and you know, pray for the best
for the worst.
Speaker 4: Right, Hey, well man, best of luck this week. We
appreciate your time. We appreciate what you did and and
rouge and look forward to watching your practice this week
and then where.
Speaker 3: Your future takes you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Barry and Brown good enough to join
us here on OTB.
Speaker 4: He is trying to do what everybody here is trying
to do, right, put that best resume together, big week
for everyone here. Uh, certainly an explosive player, somebody that
has done it at a very high level of multiple
SEC stops and he's right, like record for kickoff returns
in a career. He has six six kickoff returns for
a touchdown in his career, including his last game in
an LSU uniform.
Speaker 5: So pack of mindset too, Yeah, yeah, impressive. So that
that guys like that impress in interviews, right, Yeah, when
they are very humble, they're just working. They sit there,
they work hard, they say the right things, and you
could tell, you can and you can tell when you
talk to somebody like are they just think they.
Speaker 3: Get told to say this? It's a train thing? Now?
Speaker 5: You could you could tell that humble, humble kid and
wish him the best.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love his style play.
Speaker 4: I wish that it could have been a different circumstance
for him in this LSU offense. I think there's so
many things he could have done in this offense that
we unfortunately just didn't see from a lot of the
players that we were excited about watching, including like Chris Hilton,
who's going to be here a little bit later on
after going from the East West game yesterday to the
Senior Bowl here today. So he'll actually pull up right
before practice, so excited for his opportunity.
Speaker 3: All right, we will step away.
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Speaker 3: Hey, did you hear that Vegas finally got one right?
I think they got a lot right. So I got
a lot of big buildings there. Joe Brady, he was
the favorite. Hey, finally he was finally got the job.
It's so funny that on somebody that was he was.
Speaker 5: He's been the favorite for every coaching opening from high
school to NFL.
Speaker 3: I think in the Vegas odds.
Speaker 4: I told I coach new Heidel, say, hey, Joe Brady
got the Buffalo job.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh okay.
Speaker 4: I was like, and now they can take him off
literally every single Vegas four of being the leader in
the clubhouse. And I made a joke because I was like, well,
I guess if if Philip Rivers would have taken the
Buffalo job, Joe Brady would have been the first one.
Speaker 3: The chart for Saint.
Speaker 4: Michael's no, Yeah, no doubt to be the head coach there,
absolutely can. Congratulations to Joe though, Yeah, it's fantastic, great guy.
Always enjoyed my conversations with him when he was at LSU.
He went from LSU to Carolina and it felt like
it was gonna be a fast track there to be
a heay coach.
Speaker 3: Remember he had interviews after his first year.
Speaker 4: It kind of spiraled on all of the Carolina Panthers
organization and it doesn't work well, and he kind of
gets let go there and then he finds his way
to Buffalo where he goes quarterback coach, then gets elevated
when Candorsa gets let go two OC and now he's
elevated to head coach. And I have to assume that
Josh Allen was probably one of his biggest cheerleaders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, you have to assume, because that's probably
not Every organization is a little bit different on how
much they lean on their franchise quarterback to make personnel
decisions and the coaching stuff. Like Aaron Rodgers famously didn't
have any say that's kind of why the relationships.
Speaker 3: Set are there.
Speaker 5: Peyton Manning had a lot like it was the different
organizations are run differently, but he got to think that
there was some sort of put given given by Josh Allen.
But congratulations to Joe Brady. I mean, he gets the
one job that probably everybody had towards the top of
their list as the best available job in the NFL
just from a you know, stability at the quarterback position.
You have an MVP, a raning MVP franchise quarterback, a
young guy and so you know, congrats to him. And
you know, Joe Brady's this guy that has been an
ultra talented play caller, ultra talented offensive mine. I mean
dating all the way back obviously to the LSU year
in nineteen. But it's been on the top of the
list for a reason. And it's always been kind of confusing.
Why is he at the top of the list for
all these college jobs. Like I don't talk to Joe Brady,
and I don't know this from you know, firsthand, but
it seems like he doesn't want to go back to
college now.
Speaker 3: He's not a college guy.
Speaker 5: He left and he wants to be And look, we
were talking to Scott tolesand the other day, Yeah, and
he emphasized a lot of the same things that you know,
I think a lot of coaches in the NFL have,
and a lot of coaches in college have. You have
to have the right gene to be a college coach
this day and age with the n when the NIL
the transfer. You have to have a special mindset and
love that love outside just x's and o's and watching
film and game plan it. He goes, what a lot
of the coaches in the NFL are saying right now
is there are so many college coaches position wise, position
coaches that are trying to get to the NFL because
they don't like the way college football is. And those
NFL guys they're not going to They don't want to
give them up. They do not want to go back
to college because the mess that college football is right
now with all that, So uh yeah, Joe Brady what never.
He was on the top of the list for a
lot of colleges and he wasn't going to go back
to college. So he waits his time, bides his time,
and finds a great opportunity because I'm sure he had
been happy being coordinator for five more years until the
right opening came, and of course it did, and now
he is the head coach for the Buffalo Bills coaching
and he's got a raining MVP quarterback to his name
as well, So I would expect they're going to have
a lot of success.
Speaker 3: Can they get over.
Speaker 5: That hump that Buffalo has been tripping up on for
the last five years?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they need to go get Josh Allen a dude too.
And this I'm not trying to be the Buffalo Bills GM.
Speaker 3: Kim Coleman, k Goleman's like a good piece ish, he's
not the dude. Uh.
Speaker 4: And they've got some nice tight ends, they've got some
nice receivers, they've got a stud running back.
Speaker 3: Go get it.
Speaker 4: Go get Josh Allen, Go get your guy, Go get him.
Speaker 3: Somebody that everybody fears in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kim colebody that they fear right now.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna be a healthy scratch, you better be
a dude. Yeah, and you're not.
Speaker 5: He's a healthy scratch at least one time this year
for disciplined reasons of being me to me late to
a meeting or whatever. That ain't it? So yeah, you
gotta And this is what a great place to find
a dude, right serable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's plenty of receiver talent here. There's plenty of
length here.
Speaker 4: He talked about like Jacobe Lane, I was telling you,
like that guy, he looks the part.
Speaker 3: And Malackatte Fields.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did not day, I did not realize malacatt
Fields was six to four.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, both those guys.
Speaker 5: So, Chacobe Lane, malacott Field's post sixty four, and then
the Texas Tech, the Caleb Douglas Gott he's.
Speaker 3: Almost six or eight a half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I want the Saints to find. I
don't care if it's first, second, third, one of those
first three draft choices. I want a receiver that is
not I would put the line at six to one.
Nobody under six to one. No small boys, those small boys.
Jordan's would call them those small boys six to one
in a buff please.
Speaker 3: That's right at that position. Now, what you do at
other positions, I don't care.
Speaker 4: But if Chris Olave is going to be on this
team for the long term, you signed him to an extension,
I need somebody across from him that is six to
one plus, preferably six three three plus and has some real.
Speaker 3: Juice to them six one eighth. I don't care that
don't have to throw in the eighth part you had.
Speaker 5: You don't recognize fractions, there's no you're dealing whole numbers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's no point like what you said.
Speaker 5: They you've said fractions when you're talking about Diego Pavia
seven eighths.
Speaker 4: Son, that's because I think it's funny that they throw
that in there, like that's going to change our are
now on a short king.
Speaker 5: I mean, basically, it's five to ten. It's basically like
pricing something at nine ninety nine. Like everyone we know
it's ten. That's ten dollars.
Speaker 4: Oh my brother used to be the worst growing up.
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it's ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the stores like got them.
Speaker 3: I mean you got to throw the tax in there
as well.
Speaker 5: So like five nine and seven of the eight. So
let's give them five to ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So all right, let's go ahead and do this.
Speaker 4: Let's step away, let's take a break here more OTB
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we are live here in Mobile, Alabama covering the twenty
twenty six Panini Senior Ball. But there is no way
we can miss our Wednesday catch up with LSU head
basketball coach Kim Mulki. No matter where we're at, Coach,
it is always a pleasure. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 6: I'm doing great. Are you guys outside? And it's so
uh you covered up?
Speaker 4: So no, So practice was a little chili yesterday, coach,
but they moved practice back and so we actually get
to do the show from a convention center and then
the outside portion of it comes a little bit later on.
Speaker 3: But coach, you are right, it is pretty damn cold
out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah it is. I try to walk every morning, and
I gave up on it. I was like, oh no,
and I can't put any more clothes on. But yes, listen,
we're okay. And I know our North Louisiana, Yeah, partners,
bless their hearts, they're still out of school. Many still
do not have power. Even in Waco where my children,
my daughter and grandchildren are, they they're still out of school,
so we can complain about being told. But we're not
near in as bad shape as those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right about that, obviously.
Speaker 4: All my family coach still up in Shreveport and they
are shouting now, trying to get some power, trying to
get some different things going. And coach, you know how
it is like down here in the South, Like we
can handle a lot tornadoes, rain, hurricane rain, Yeah, but
when it comes to snow, Coach, it just shuts it down.
Speaker 6: It does, and you add ice to it, sleep too,
and it's crazy. But anyway, y'all having fun and Mobile,
you know, Mobile takes claim to having the first martigral Grade.
Speaker 3: They do, they do, and they try to.
Speaker 4: I think they find out we're from Louisiana, coach, and
then they like try to like start, like to pick
a fight with us, and we're like, hey, you you
might have started it if you say so, but we
perfected it.
Speaker 3: That's what I like to tell them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of like bark troop here. Mississippi won't
sack like they did it, and then Louisiana won't sack
like they did it because they bottle it. I don't know,
it doesn't matter. All I know is it's too wonderful things.
Speaker 4: There you go, There you go, coach, Do you have
your Mardi Gras outfit already picked out? Like that's a
real question. I can't wait to see what you're gonna
roll out for Mardi Gras season.
Speaker 6: I just wear whatever the heck they lay on the bed.
Listen the last game that jacket I will was set
in my closet for I guess a couple of years.
Someone sent it to me, never took the tag off
of it, and it has this beautiful painted tiger on
the back, and so I just wore it. Well, you
wouldn't believe the number of people who want to know
who painted it. I just took the name of the
woman who's inside the jacket, and yeah, they said Lane
Kiffin even said he wanted one, so I I better
buy one.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, coach, that's where I was going to go.
Speaker 4: I said, I saw you know Lane Actually quote tweet
is like, I need to find out where I got
this coach. But he can buy it though he's doing okay,
I think he can buy it for himself.
Speaker 6: Listen, I'm not a social media person, but my kids
and players and friends, they keep me posted. I'm supposed
to be dating Lane for the last three months. See,
he and I finally came out, so you know, I
guess he's trying to be a little smart Alec when
he probably saw that and they say trolls all the time,
whatever the hell that means, and said I need one. Well,
you know, he's funny, he's clever, he's really He's gonna
be a hit with a lot of people in Louisiana.
But I'll give him one bit of advice. You can troll,
you can do all that you want, but you better.
Speaker 3: Win, big boy. That's the truth, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Speaking of winning, there is the hot news topic in
the football world is we saw yesterday afternoon that one
of the greatest coaches ever do it at the NFL level,
Bill Belichick, got snubbed as a first ballot Hall of Famer.
He will not be in as a first ballot. So
I don't know if you followed that or saw that.
I just kind of from.
Speaker 6: Absolutely I follow it. Let me tell you my Bill
Belichick story. We were at the Athletes one year and
is about five in the morning, LA time, and I
thought I was going to get up early and get
to the workout room and beat everybody. And guess who
was in there. The only person on one of the
only two treadmills. It was this boutique hotel. The treadmills
were side by side. So I had a great conversation
with him. He was working, had his paperwork spread out
in front of him, and I was coarse jogging at
the time, and man, I've jogged longer on that treadmill
than I had in my life because I was picking
his brain. And then I got back to Baylor in
Waco and this huge box of New England Patriots geary
and with a note that said, I know you're in
Cowboy country, but I thought you might enjoy wearing this,
so I have much respect for him. I think it
is petty. I think it's a typical example of the
media probably got their feelings hurt because when he would
go to the media, he'd get one word answers and
they probably think, oh, well, we'll get back at him.
I don't give a rip what you think about the
flake gate or whatever they call it. So you're not
gonna put Tom Brady in because you remember all that
he made it mall a little salter so he could
grip it better. It should be based on exactly what
it is your career on that field, and guys, this
is this is an example of really, this is so
sad because if he's not a Hall of Fame coach,
who is right right?
Speaker 3: Nobody? You better say a lot of those busts out
of Canton right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's crazy. That that's nuts.
Speaker 4: Catching up with one of our favorites, LSU head basketball
coach Kim Mulkie here on OTV. Coach, you mentioned the weather,
and obviously it's been bad throughout Louisiana, but you played
a game the other day that's still had ten thousand
strong inside of the p MAC.
Speaker 3: It was a great environment. What does that mean to
you to know, like, Okay.
Speaker 4: It's not going to be the easiest situation to get here,
but to have home court advantage like you have throughout
your career, certainly here at LSU and to see ten
thousand people in that victory against Florida.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, I drove us. I get there about an
hour before, but one of our coaches had texted us
as a staff and said, y'all will not believe these students.
Section the students, they're backed up all the way to
Mike the Tiger and have been for a while.
Speaker 3: And it was so cold.
Speaker 6: And so when I drive to the arena the FMAC,
I look and I'm like, this is crazy. It's wonderful.
But they didn't have school and they still got up
and you know, it was just it's amazing. But here's
the fun part. During the game, we're going to win
the game, and all of a sudden, you know our
students love to start chanting neck. Well it wasn't the
other night. It was you know, it's great to be
a Florida Gator. Well they took that chance and they
created their own here, and I thought, only at LSU
can you have fun, be sober, be sober, be freezing cold,
and figure out how to have a little life and
a building. And kudos to our students, man, they were awesome.
And then our season ticket holders, a lot of those
are elderly people that have to, you know, plan ahead,
and we moved the game time to six pm, and
for them to show up it was really good. Now
we got another one tomorrow with Arkansas and then eleven
am Sunday against the top twenty five team in Alabama.
So we have three home games and we need to
keep filling it up and keep hoping and praying that
our cohorts, your family in North Louisiana, they all saw
out there at some point.
Speaker 5: Coach five straight for your ladies, and talk about individual performing.
I know you had some great performances with Jada Richard.
I joant like, there's a lot of good performances. Highlight
some of the some of the ladies on your team
of what you've seen over the over the stretch of
the season, certainly but especially recently on this five game stretch.
Speaker 6: All right, Matt, you got to get your mindset out
of East Texas and Tyler it's Jada Rechard, right, baby rear.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 4: We even had this conversation on the way to Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 6: Card It's hard look, man, been in East Texas.
Speaker 4: What can we say?
Speaker 6: Jada Reschard, She's She's the straw that stirs our drink
right now. And nobody, nobody saw this coming. They knew
she was a very good player. We knew that, but
for her to step up, and I guess the most
impressive thing to me is she has guarded some tremendous
players in our league and this is really just her
first year to be on the court. Last year she
didn't get the minute she wanted and she just figured out,
I'm not coming back there without getting on that floor
and make that woman play me. And she is having
a unbelievable start to her sophomore season. And of course,
you know flage A and Michayla. Don't look at their
stats being down. I tell people, no, no, no, no,
their stats are up because they have talent around them
that they're making better. And you just got to look
at our team, the depth I have. I don't know
from game to game which post players I'm going to
start a lot of that depends on who we're playing,
but they all played pretty much equal minutes and they're
all producing it and that's a good thing to have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question about a coach.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned some of the games that you have
coming up on the schedule, and it's just what we
talk about every single week. You got a game against Arkansas,
then it's a ranked Alabama, it's a rank Texas, it's
a rank South Carolina and Old Miss and of course
you got a trip to Alburn and mixing there in
the middle.
Speaker 3: It is put your head down and go to work.
Speaker 4: How far ahead, coach, do you talk to your team
about a game or is it truly Like I know
it's cliche, but it's like, we can't focus on three
games from now because you got a team in Arkansas.
We got a team in Alabama that obviously was a
good back and forth a year ago. Like how far
ahead do you try to maybe tell your team in
advance kind of what's coming up on the schedule.
Speaker 6: The only thing that I've shared and will ever share
is an opportunity to win the league. And right now,
who's going to win this league? Look and see the
remaining schedule for the teams that are at the top
and who they have to play, and they have to
go on the road. It literally is going to come
down to the entire remaining nine games. We're almost halfway
through the SEC season. That's the only way I would
ever let them look forward. But then you break it
down and go, Okay, you have a chance to win
the league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you do that?
Speaker 6: You take it one game at a time. We got
to go one and oh, okay, flush that. Got to
go one and oh flush that, And that is how
you add up a lot of wins. We know what
we face and it's going to be interesting because I
don't know in my five years, unless you even the
national championship team at this point, I don't know that
we had a chance to win the league because there were,
you know, some that were still undefeated. Well, Tennessee is undefeated,
but you look at who Tennessee still has to play,
right Who the hank knows what's gonna happen. I do
know this. We've got ten teams in this league ranked
in the top twenty five somewhere in the NCAA playoffs.
We're gonna have to play each other again. And I
don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing,
but it certainly speaks volumes to how tough women's basketball
is in the SEC.
Speaker 4: All right, there she is, Coach Kimmulk, You get enough
to join us every single week here on OTV Reminder
tomorrow night, seven pm inside the PMAC LSU and Arkansas,
and we always look forward to watching that team play. Coach,
we appreciate time as always, look forward to every conversation
and enjoy the rest of your week.
Speaker 6: Y'all, stay warm and see that's why I'm coaching indoor sport.
Speaker 4: Maybe absolutely absolutely appreciated.
Speaker 3: Coach. What's that We talked about this on the way here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, but she said it was the one
place that wasn't Richard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one place, but it's not she's from Opelousas me.
To be fair, it was Robert, but not really. But
we talked about the whole life bear Richard. And also
you didn't know she was from Louisiana. I didn't. I
messed that up. I'm trying to make him feel better,
that's me.
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench, Off the Bench. Welcome back to Off
the Bench with Hester and Flynn live from the twenty
twenty six Panini Senior Bowl in Mobile presented by First
American Bank in Trust.
Speaker 3: All Right, welcome back in It is OTB.
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And we just had our absolute favorite coach, Kim Mulkey
join us. I always look forward to our conversation. I
loved her message to Lane Kiffin. She's like, man, I
love you on social media.
Speaker 6: I love you.
Speaker 4: I love having you around, and you've been great and
I know your troll on social media is like, that's great.
You can do all that, but you better win, big boy.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 5: She said, you can be as funny as cute as
you want on social media.
Speaker 3: When baby when Yeah, I always appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: It was very cool ten thousand people inside the PMAC
to watch LSU And you know this isn't so Chris
Dorian can hear how bad Florida is a Basketballorida floridast
terrible doring. That's not for me yelling just for that.
That is my point is, oh he heard us. My
point is it's not South Carolina. It's not Texas. It
wasn't Vanderbilt, it was Florida, and you still had ten
thousand people in bad weather school being canceled finding their
way to the p MAC. And it's incredible culture that
Coach Mulk and a team have built.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 5: And that was very kind of coach Kim Malki to
subtly correct me when I said Jada Richard and not Reshart.
Speaker 3: That's on me. You don't have to bring it back up.
I know. No, I needed to from Texas and in the.
Speaker 5: Air well, I am from Texas, hadn't been there, hadn't lived.
Speaker 3: There, and what with twenty two years I'm trying to
help you just been a minute.
Speaker 5: No accountability, that's what it's all about. I've got to
have accountability in life.
Speaker 3: And I messed it up. That's fair.
Speaker 5: So that's the last time I'll ever mess up a
name or a word.
Speaker 3: No right here, heard here first. No, This show misses
no regates up a lot, and we'll continue to do.
It's just who we are, the work of the.
Speaker 5: Show, usually unapologetically. But you know, Devis, I just want
to bring it so that's very nice of her to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Uman miel One is one that we're gonna have
to say, I'm sure I messed it up right there.
Speaker 3: So we got used to all these all these words. Yeah,
you just just rip it. Yeah, it's like when you
had the.
Speaker 4: Like when two a tongue of Baila started started.
Speaker 3: Yep, no shot, God, there was one more. I'll get there.
Speaking of ripping it, have you met anybody from Panini?
Not one person.
Speaker 4: I hadn't seen one person that I did see the
big Did you see the thing yesterday when you walk
into the stadium like.
Speaker 3: Where you can get the card and them. I just
knew that I was going to get a picture from
a Landra with you in that box.
Speaker 4: As much as you've talked about Lsu getting in and
then card lover as well.
Speaker 5: And I looked at it, I was like, oh, that's
that's that's cute. I should have gotten it. But yeah,
I was kind of this point. I wanted to meet
some big wigs. I wanted to meet the owner of
Panina and like, you know, maybe get a couple of
free packs out of them. All right, we haven't asked
anybody either. Weren't they supposed to all the participants in
the Senior Bowl where they supposed to get like a
special Senior Bowl.
Speaker 3: One of one car to themselves.
Speaker 5: I think it's what it's the rumor, that was the rumor.
We need to get that confirmed. Yeah, I'd like to
see it. You think they'll make one of us then
maybe like steal it.
Speaker 3: No, I'll make it.
Speaker 4: I'll barter it for it's gonna be. I don't think
Garrett Nessmeyer is in the card world like we are.
So I hey, Garrett, not yet, do you really want
to I'll give you this my high hat if you
give me this one of one card.
Speaker 3: I got packs here. I want five packs five my highs.
You know were getting the boxes five individual Well, you
gotta start low. Maybe we'll meet in the middle somewhere.
So he's gonna give you this one of one card
from the Senior Bow.
Speaker 5: No one wants to speak first when it comes to negotiations.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair. It's a very fair point, all right.
So we still have out number three coming your way.
Speaker 4: We'll take a look at some of the guys that
we kind of highlighted yesterday that potentially could be fits
for the New Orleans sine and kind of what they're
looking for.
Speaker 3: The deep edge Rusher class and I thought the edge rushers, I.
Speaker 4: Thought they showed out yesterday. I thought there was multiple
that did a really nice job. And look it's a
defensive drill, but they did a really nice job in
one on ones getting to the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a certainly an exciting period that you could
tell because there was every single scout was sitting there
and like I said earlier, circled up like it was
a it was a school recess fight and they were
sitting there watching and it was man, it was exciting.
And you can tell you gotta you can't. There's no
hiding in that drill. There is no hiding. All eyes
around you. It is mono emanou.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was some I.
Speaker 5: Can't remember the player who it was flat back to
a tackle in one on ones, but in the next roup,
tackle one, the tackle one, the tackle one, the drill.
Speaker 3: So it's just it's all about that.
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