Speaker 1: All Star Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go.
Speaker 1: From a championship backfield to your morning drive Hanesday.
Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 1: FA, You're locked in to Off the Bench control the
Live from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: That threw me off Thursday, Your Day, Thursdays on Day.
Speaker 5: Although you did the rhythm, I didn't know what. I
thought you were having a heart attack over there.
Speaker 4: Guy's gotta change up, got to keep the listeners.
Speaker 2: And also the people in this room.
Speaker 5: Jake Flynn, A Landra Tate Ah here with you.
Speaker 2: Flynn, I told you it's Thursday morning. How did we
do last night? A Landra?
Speaker 3: So, I think I did pretty well. Okay, So we
figured it out. If you just grab a bunch of
beers and walk around with the beers and you're like.
Speaker 6: Old beer here, like you're like a.
Speaker 3: Dodgers stadium is what Hun was calling it last night,
and you just walk around with the beers.
Speaker 6: People just grab a beer and tip you. Yeah, so
that was our strategy last night.
Speaker 3: Hunt actually took it a lot more seriously than I
thought he was going to. I thought he was just
gonna go like drink some bud lights and pretty much it. Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, he like was putting in the work shout
out hunt all right. I was like, look at you.
Speaker 3: He would show me all his little tips whenever he
would get on and I'd be like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Where was he put in the front pocket?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, so they were in the pants.
Speaker 4: In the pants straight in waistband.
Speaker 2: In the waistband.
Speaker 6: But yeah, no, I think it went well.
Speaker 3: I ended up leaving before they announced like the winners
or whatever, how the people.
Speaker 6: That had the most.
Speaker 3: But I will say this, I don't think I went
or even got top three in like the whole entire
competition because there's like doctors out there, and I feel
like doctors like they're really good at raising money because
they work with a bunch of super rich people. You
could basically just go around to the hospitals and be like, hey,
I know you're super rich, donate a bunch of money
to the kids. And I feel like whenever I looked
at the leaderboard last week, because they posted one, they
posted like a leaderboard or whatever, there's just doctors up there.
Speaker 7: They have pre donations and then day off it's like
and they're like, oh, day up. I dominated It's like the.
Speaker 2: Ballots in ballots too at the end of the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I've been talking about it just like last week. Yeah,
shout out Chuck. So I got some. I posted it
online and everything. So I do think that I got
more than Hunt.
Speaker 4: Should we be like mad at our listeners? No, what's
going on?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: They did good.
Speaker 6: Listeners were great. Also. I met like a couple of
them last night, and one of them was super cool.
Speaker 2: Here's one.
Speaker 6: He was like a big fan. I was like, things, man, good,
you had fun. He gave me a tip.
Speaker 2: There you go go.
Speaker 5: One thing also to remember for the Hunt portion of
this is his wife is involved as well.
Speaker 6: She is involved.
Speaker 5: And when the wife's involved, everybody in here knows. When
the spouse is involved, you better take it serious. You
better not go in there and just try to delete
some bud lights.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it can't.
Speaker 4: Be half stuffing in celebrity waiters.
Speaker 3: He had to like really make up for last year
because last year he did he was supposed to be
a celebrity waiter and he didn't show up.
Speaker 6: Because he thought it was the day after the day
it actually was.
Speaker 3: And Jimmy Brooks came into work the next day and
was like, Hey, I saw your name on the list.
Speaker 6: Why aren't you a celebrity waiter?
Speaker 3: And he was like, because it's tonight and he was like, no,
it's definitely last night.
Speaker 6: So he said somebody texted him last night. He said
someone texted me him.
Speaker 3: Last night, just like Aaron hunts out. But he told
me he knows that I do this. But he said
that somebody texted him last night. Was like, hey, friendly
reminder for no particular reason that celebrity waiters tomorrow.
Speaker 2: No reason at all, no particular reason.
Speaker 5: You literally forgot last year. Hard to forget something like
that or mess up the days I feel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say I would say it is, but
then the kettle on. Yeah, I've forgotten some things before.
I need a lot of reminders. And if the wife
is involved, I'm assuming she wasn't involved last.
Speaker 2: Year, she was involved this year.
Speaker 5: At the table he came in here yesterday, he was
talking about the clothes that they were going to be
wearing the seventies.
Speaker 4: Oh did we do this? Did we dress up?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: But I tried to as much as possible.
Speaker 3: Like I said yesterday, I don't have seventies clothes at
the ready, but I did some like cool upper pants
like a ban tee and some red boots, so I
feel like it was kind of seventies.
Speaker 4: Okay. Was there some people that were decked out?
Speaker 6: There are people that like I took it serious. Yeah,
I took it very serious.
Speaker 4: Probably got the best tips they probably did.
Speaker 6: There are people like in bell Bottom, Oh my god,
Elija do Elijah forgot?
Speaker 2: How you do forget?
Speaker 6: How I did great?
Speaker 2: How do you do recruiting?
Speaker 6: I think I did great?
Speaker 3: Okay, I was like, hey, what a I didn't actually
know it sounds like so I actually didn't really talked
to them all that much, but I probably still do better.
Speaker 6: Than Flynn anyway something. But no, he did great. The
people coming up to him, though.
Speaker 3: I felt like I wanted to tell people to chill
out though, because people kept coming up to.
Speaker 6: Him and be like, so you're going to LSU right?
His answer every single time was.
Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see. Like super cool. But I'm like, okay,
can everybody relax, because like, if you keep asking him
this all night, he's gonna get so irritated.
Speaker 4: He's like, I don't know.
Speaker 7: My my my QB trainer keeps trying to get me
to go out of state.
Speaker 3: Right, He's like, my QB trainer keeps telling me to
look at my options, so who.
Speaker 4: Knows, but it's best for your family.
Speaker 2: My QB trainer keeps telling me go to Florida. I
don't know, but he did.
Speaker 3: Like his answer every time was like, we'll see, and
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4: With a smile on his face.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm like, can y'all stop asking him?
Speaker 6: I was getting like cringe from asking him.
Speaker 4: Relaxed, guys, He's.
Speaker 6: Right, leave the kid alone. Let him do his little
celebrity waiter thing.
Speaker 4: If I guess that's part of being a celebrity.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh yeah, And Brad Paisley had a song about that.
Speaker 4: So did Nickelback.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 5: He did so when when Hunt came in here yesterday
and he's like, hey, it might be seventies style or
you know, whatever situation might be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know that Brittany she had.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta you got to try to get something. Yeah,
if somebody went into each of your closets, which style,
like which kind of decade era? Would they no doubt
be able to find. I'm going early two thousands for
your boy.
Speaker 4: You can still you can.
Speaker 5: Get rid of that early two thousands. I feel like
you can. You can find something to make it.
Speaker 4: Is it just because you still are holding on to
like your rookie year suit such a bot in the NFL.
Probably like that one company like Astor and Black or
something came into the locker.
Speaker 2: LV.
Speaker 4: I think was another one. LV was pretty good. They
were a little bit later, but like that first company,
they were like they specialized in the box pants and
the shoulder pads and in the suit jacket. I still
have a lot of those suits. I'm like, oh my god,
go look at.
Speaker 2: The LV one. I don't have the other one though.
Speaker 4: You look at the early two thousands, what's that picture
of there was the Patriots like before the Super Bowl
and they're all wearing their suits like getting on. It's like,
oh my god, everybody dressed like that and that's normal,
Like that's a style that should never come dou Like
I get everything rotates like seventies goes back to eighties?
Everything right now, is it not? It can't be early
two thousands.
Speaker 7: Maybe it can't be pretty early I consider early two thousands.
Speaker 6: Like tire, but low rise jeans are back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that tube tops with the jeans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, like a tight fitting kind of like
Hollister type shirt.
Speaker 4: We consider that early two thousands. I'm assuming that's.
Speaker 7: That's a that's a I mean, I grew up in
early two thousands, but it's just I don't know. I'm
trying to like my fingers to have seventies.
Speaker 5: Play eighties your claw. Like you'd be able to find
some like great band T shirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find some grungy stuff in my closet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I have some pretty baggy jeans in my closet.
Speaker 2: Well that's the early nineties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I feel like you'd be okay, I've.
Speaker 7: Got a lot of shar early two thousands. Yeah, sure,
ye standardize that's like early two thousands is the one
I can't put my finger on.
Speaker 5: Like, I guess probably I feel like you still have
clothes that you wore to high school in your closet.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, Yeah, for sure. I guess when I
think of earlier, I just think of the suit game,
and I hope that that should never come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bag.
Speaker 4: Suits, super baggy suits the shoulder like throughout.
Speaker 5: The show, I want to try to find the suit
that I wore to my draft party with the shoulder pads, Like, yeah,
I want to find it.
Speaker 4: Oh man, see yeah, see if you can find that
early two thousand picture of the Patriots going I can't
remember if they're getting on the bus, so they're like
a walk through or something. But Tom Brady with terrible
like early two thousands hair too. It's it's ugly, and
it's like that everybody did it.
Speaker 2: You must have got his hair cut it apparently like
I did.
Speaker 4: Apparently like women like thought that looked good too, because
they let their.
Speaker 2: You don't you don't know within the moment, you don't
know what in the moment, like what were we all
looking at early two thousand suits? Like suits and hair styles.
Speaker 6: And oh like you're saying, like how were women like yeah,
this is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's this is the one that's the fit. Yo.
Speaker 2: In the moment, you don't know any better, I know.
Speaker 4: But when you look back on it, and I guess
that's any era, you look back at yourself and you're like,
what was I thinking like those suits? That's a different
level of bad. Yeah, I amo.
Speaker 6: I mean two thousands fashion wasn't the best. No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was awful.
Speaker 6: I would say that my favorite is probably the seventies.
Speaker 3: Like whenever I binge watched Dallas, it went from like
seventies into early eighties Dallas.
Speaker 6: I'm freaking love Dallas.
Speaker 3: I probably reference it like so much, but like it
was like late seventies, early eighties, and I love the
fashion in that show.
Speaker 6: It's so good.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 6: But yeah, Dallas is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like the fifties was easy, though. It's
like you were.
Speaker 5: Decked out in the four like if you were either
had to were like wear a suit, yeah, or you
could just go white.
Speaker 2: T shirt jeans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, roll up this, roll up those jeans a little bit,
say swears. Yeah, hand I give you them fifty cups.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's fifty I don't think that's.
Speaker 6: That's like the guy that calls the boxing matches on
the radio.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm glad that Landra had a great time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually raised some money for a great Yes,
I'm glad that Hunt also had a great time and
did the same thing.
Speaker 2: So it sounds like a great event.
Speaker 6: It was great. It actually is a great event. Like
if anybody wants to get involved in it, you definitely should.
They do it every year.
Speaker 3: It's the big twentieth anniversary for it next year, like
it's it started at walk On so it's grown so much,
like it's at Laberge now. So it really is a
great event. And you're helping kids who need people to
advocate for them. They're partnered with KASA the specialty. Yeah,
so it's it's great. Shout out that Rich Children's Advocacy Center.
Speaker 5: Oh, also shout out to walk Ons for the other day,
we had a poncho clothing photo shoot and they boiled
some strimp for us, shut it down for us.
Speaker 2: We crushed it. I crushed it the next day and
the next day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they didn't make it sound like NDA's or anything,
but guess what looking at a couple of male models
up here, I.
Speaker 2: Mean yeah, people already kind of knew that, no big deal.
Speaker 6: The blue steal from y'all was great.
Speaker 2: It is funny, like so like.
Speaker 4: You were laughing, Yeah, you were laughing. It was like, yeah,
it's honestly amazing when you're asked to do something you've
never like like you're not yearly comfortable, and then the
cameras in your face. Yeah, just act natural for a
little bit. It's amazing how fast you turn into a
car brother well because you're like, like charisma just goes
out there.
Speaker 7: Now people can tell that you're like a like actively
trying to act naturally.
Speaker 4: It doesn't laughing in the corner like two laughs.
Speaker 5: It was funny moments. I laughed whe her, so like one,
we are very excited like we are. We're team Poncho
for for life, so we appreciate that partnership. But we
did kind of do a photo shoot here in the studio.
We did want to walk on but.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 5: I can get up in front of it doesn't matter
like you like thirteen thousand people, like I did the
the National Championship Parade MC that I found found out
the night before because Gordy called me is like, hey,
I can't do it.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, cool, let's go. It feels very yeah, cool,
we'll do it. We'll ride like that does I have
zero nerves about that. But when I'm doing something like
we had to do the other day, and people like
my friends like A, Landa and Taylor are in here
and I have to do it. That is like the
most embarrassing thing, and that's nerves, Like you have to
you have to look.
Speaker 2: At the camera.
Speaker 6: Can we get like a point? Can you point out
the camera?
Speaker 4: Anybody's ever done like a photo, whether it's like like
wedding shoot or senior photos, you do all these things.
They're like, it's gonna look, it's gonna feel and seem
really stupid to you, like in the moment, but it's
gonna look good when like the pictures come out. Well,
they're right, yeah, it look It felt dumb. It looked
great though when.
Speaker 7: Goodell, anybody out there listening, you can tell our guy
Matt Flynn did some QB photo shoots back at the day, unprompted,
spinning the ball, looking at the camera like it was
it was, it was impressed.
Speaker 2: Spinning it, holding it with like one hand, the camera a.
Speaker 4: Little cheese on it. Yeah, I guess, guess A little
A little quick story time. I was actually, uh see,
after my rookie contract in Green Bay, that's when I
was hitting free agency, about to go to When this
was like pre going to Seattle, I didn't know where
I was gonna go. They were doing a Sports Illustrated
decided to do like a cover story on on me.
They just picked me like because I was, I don't know,
talking about four. It was all for free. So Peter
King flew down to Baton Rouge Monday morning, blew there
a photographer down spent the whole day with Peter King,
riding around like Lacey and or living a like Indigo
Park or something like that down on down Nicholson. We
went to the levee, We did like a big photo
shoot for like a couple of hours doing stuff, and
then so it spent the whole day with Peter King, Austome,
We went to eat, we hung out, blah blah blah,
and uh uh. I was like, all right, this is
gonna come out in like March or something like that.
When Free Agency hits well like a week later Bounty Gate. No,
so obviously clearly that goes on. So helltole article. So
you did, do you have a picture? Yeah? Yeah, Okay,
all right, I think oh, I think, yeah, yeah, for sure, Okay,
we're we're back. We're back. But yeah, it was supposed
to be.
Speaker 5: But I think you got you got bumped one time too,
didn't you. I got from the cover of SI I stayed.
I was sort of on the cover. It was the Rockies.
So so we're playing Florida O seven and they do
the same thing. They send a couple of writers down
and we do. They follows me around, and you know,
he was They were intrigued because I was married. I
had like a little a little bit different lifestyle than
most college athletes, and so they followed me around.
Speaker 2: We did a whole story or whatever, and I'll never
forget this.
Speaker 5: As the guy's walking away, like it's like this Saturday
morning before the game, he was at lot Cook or whatever,
and he's like, hey, like we've we've kind of done
a lot here, like and he was serious.
Speaker 2: He goes, I kind of need you do something special.
He was serious.
Speaker 5: So he's like, I kind of need you do something special,
Like we've we've kind of put a lot into the story.
Speaker 4: And I'm like.
Speaker 5: No, so but I was like, okay, right, a lot
Cook and then so like we you know, we end
up having a great game, and it was a wild game.
The whole fourth down is the whole deal. And so
I'm like I see him after the game and of
course he you know, he's laughing about what he said.
He's like, that's kind of what I meant something like
that was like, Hey, you're gonna be on the cover.
I'm like the cover of what like the magazine? Like
you're on the cover.
Speaker 2: So like I'm telling everybody, like I'm gonna be on
the cover, like this former two.
Speaker 5: Star running back Slappy's gonna be on the cover of
Sports Illustrated. Well, the Rockies end up making the World
Series that year, the first time only time they've ever
made it, and so like because of that, because of
their run, it changed the cover to Rockies from like
bottom to top and then your boys about an inch
wide in the top left corner out there of the
cover of the Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2: Maybe's top er. I don't really remember you were on
the cover, but it was on the cover a small
picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 5: But like, hey, Sports Illustrated, do you think America cared
about the Rockies making the World Series?
Speaker 2: Are one of the greatest college football games of all time?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 7: Right, Like that was gonna be my question, even if
the Rockies would have won it all, Like, do the
Rockies have fans do anybody care about it?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 5: When I was playing for Denver, I would go and
I'd wear my braves hat proudly to the Rocky games.
Speaker 4: I don't like the Rocky and with.
Speaker 5: Terrible jerseys, black vests with black undershirts.
Speaker 4: What's the purpose and what's the purpose of the purpose
is that because vest are classy? No rockies, so fly
kite rockies and fly kite. Greg Williams, Yep, was that
one though?
Speaker 2: You make the cover? I forgot I was trying to
get to you were almost to big.
Speaker 4: It would have been big. It would have been huge,
would have been like MJ.
Speaker 5: Stadd is a little bit bigger than my picture. See
that you see like that you and and illustrated. That's
about how big mind is.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: The worst part is I imagine somewhere on stage you
almost made it on this one.
Speaker 5: Too, just like just like ducked in, like peeked over
your shoulder, maybe made a cameo there, like like.
Speaker 4: Your face, your faces in the confetti exactly exactly honest?
Speaker 6: Do you have that framed in your house?
Speaker 2: And one if he doesn't, yeah, I don't. Actually, Okay,
that's stupid.
Speaker 4: We have some we have some copies of it. Have
it framed. I used to have that magazine, all right
it is now? Uh yeah, I should have that frame. Yeah,
probably get that frame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll work that out during the break I got you,
all right.
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Speaker 5: ESPN dot Com put out their swing game for every
top twenty five college football team. We'll quickly go through
the top ten before we come back swing LSU, YEP, your.
Speaker 2: Money and you don't even know it BYU coming in
at number ten.
Speaker 5: It has October the third against West Virginia Alabama at
number nine. It's got Georgia on September the twenty seventh.
That game is going to be in Athens. For number
eight Oregon. It's got at Penn State on September the
twenty seventh. Notre Dame coming in at number seven, right
off the top at Miami on August the thirty first,
we'll skip LSU come back to them. Number five Ohio
State versus Texas another opener August the thirtieth for the
Georgia Bulldogs at number four at Tennessee on September thirteenth
for the Texas Longhorns at number three. It's got Red
River against Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl on October the eleventh.
At number two Clemson, it's got well the LSU Tigers
on August the thirtieth, Penn State number one in the
preseason versus Oregon on September the twenty seventh. So if
number two Clemson has LSU, who does LSU have, Well, they.
Speaker 4: Return the favor. Oh, come on, that's born.
Speaker 5: Their swing game at Clemson August thirtieth. And here's what
the ride up says from Harry Lyles Junior. LSU is
oh to three in season openers under Brian Kelly. Well,
they're oh to five if you go back to coach
oh as well. If there was a year to change
that and set the table for the season, this is it.
Kay Klubnick is expected to be by many among the
best quarterbacks in coege football this season. With Clemson prime
for another run into the CFP, LSU looks just about
as talented and ready to make a national championship push
as any team in the country, But the Tigers need
to look closer to their final form from the jump
than they have in recent years. Do we agree that
Clemson is the swing game?
Speaker 7: I actually I actually do, yeah, because I was I
was talking about this when y'all were out on Friday.
I actually like LSU schedule overall, like most of your
tough games are at home. My point was, if you
beat Clemson, you could go on the road and lose
to Ole Miss. You could go on the road and
lose to Alabama. If you take care of business at home,
you're in the College Football Playoff. But you lose to Clemson,
you can only lose one of those games, Like there's
so much more margin.
Speaker 4: Verra, like, I get that it's week one. I think
that is a swing game.
Speaker 2: Matthew, you seem to disagree.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't agree. Swing game to me, says
can make or break an entire season. So what's make
or break of the season as if we make the
playoffs or not. So if we do, something happens something
we don't want to happen in open wiehmes like we
still have a whole SEC schedule. I mean yeah, So
I'm looking at it and I'm looking at the swing games.
To me, and we talked about this at SEC media days,
is I think like right, smack da close to the middle,
South Carolina comes to town. Yep, that's to me a
game because I I'm high on South Carolina this year.
What what Leonora sellers? I think he has the potential
to do and be in the SEC, can be one
of the dominant figures in the SEC this year. I
think that's going to be the game that you know,
I think leading up to this point, LSU is undefeated
in the SEC, and I like Taylor. I agree that
I like the schedule this year. A lot of the
big guys are coming to us, including South Carolina. But
I think that's one of those games that could, yeah,
be a tipping point.
Speaker 2: There, Alandra, I'll go, and then you give your aunt
there is you're drinking a tata.
Speaker 6: This is the tataste, but actually, have you ever had
a rain?
Speaker 7: Okay, I gotta tell you my ears perked up. I
didn't see what she was drinking. I was like, now
I gotta look, yeah, like I get why drinks.
Speaker 4: The Okay, all right, you can you can like.
Speaker 2: I was confused because usually when I look over there,
it's him drinking those as you were.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say, I didn't see yours. All right, So
you're going Clemson, You're going South Carolina. I'll go because
South Carolina probably would have been my pick. I'll go
Texas A and M. You got Texas A and M
after you have South Carolina and then Vanderbilt on the
road and before Alabama. I know it's Bie weeks in there,
but that series recently has been home team, home team dominant.
And like Taylor was saying earlier, if you you know,
you drop some of these games on the road, if
you drop two of them, if you win Clemson, you
know you still got an opportunity. I get that, but
you have to to in this year's schedule. You've got
Florida at home, South Carolina A, and m Arkansas all
at home in the SEC. You have to keep that
trend going. You have to be home team dominant in
this schedule. The home team has been dominant in this
series against Texas A and m as of late. That
feels like and also last year, like how that game played.
That was the swing game for you last year on
the road. You win that one and you were up.
You had all the momentum. The people that were in
the press box and some of our friends that work
with textags, they were like, all right, well, congrats, like
y'all got a dub Like that's that was the feel
of that.
Speaker 2: It was like Ohnuss Myers might, hell he might win
the Heisman.
Speaker 5: I mean there was people like that game felt so
one sided, and then A and M, to their credit,
they found a way and they dominated the second half.
So there's some juice to that game. I think it
being at home, it being after a road trip to Vanderbilt.
Who's look, they're not going away. They're going to be
just that little brother that just keeps poking you and
poking you and poking you. It's like, finally, like he's
going to get you off your marker a little bit,
and how do you respond? That's Diego Pavia. Yep, all right,
so that's not going to be a role to helmet
out there game. So I still think you win it,
but you gotta fight. And then this game is before Alabama,
so I think because of all those things, the A
and M is gonna be there.
Speaker 4: And I know this is like we're just kind of
this isn't really like a debate, but we're just going
back to the article like you can lose Clemson and
still take care of business in the SEC. But well,
I said, South Carolina is because before that, you know,
Florida's going to be a tough a tough out, a
tough beat. But we haven't at home. Yeah, Ole miss
they're going to be down this year. We win that one,
so we're going to go into undefeated in the SEC
to the South Carolina game. But following, just like you said,
following that game, Vanderbilt A and M Alabama like three
in a row out there, there is a bye week
sandwich before the Alabama game. But if you lose the
South Carolina game, then you have then it's like, okay,
we have to win the new X three when we
have to win out in the SEC. But if you
win that one, it's like, all right, you have a
little bit of pressure off you. You can take one
at some point. Yeah, but if you have to get
the South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Game, all right, Alandra, blank space Villa Real, which game.
Speaker 2: Do you have?
Speaker 5: It is a swing game for LSU, And you could, like,
if you want to pick one that we've already because
we made you want to picked that one, I probably
would have picked.
Speaker 3: To be honest, well, I actually think you make a
really good point with the Texas A and M game,
and I so I do, like, obviously it's so important
to win the home opener because of all the stuff
that we've already said, like it you are over in
the last five years for the season opener, it is
a big game versus Clemson, and yes, that is a
very important game to win, but to me, the more
important ones are the SEC games every game after Clemson
up until maybe well, I don't really know too much
about Ole Miss going into the season, right because they
don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 5: Rights coming in. He had a couple of drives against Georgia,
But no, we.
Speaker 2: Don't really know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: But like I, I think you make a very good
point with the Texas A and M one because it
is usually like whoever hosts that game wins.
Speaker 6: Except for wasn't the seven overtime game in teger ctity?
Speaker 2: I mean you go back to that. I think the
home teams won every game since they got started, because.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I honestly think that out of all these teams.
Speaker 3: They're starting to probably become like our actual rival because
I know that we like hate Bama or whatever, but
they that was I don't like Alabama, but I never
had like a deep genuine hate for them, And I
feel like with Texas A and M it is back
and forth. But yes, and it but it is a
back and forth and it is like, uh, yesterday was
or last year was so brutal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that you kind of want to go out there
and win that game, and then you're right.
Speaker 3: You come home from Vanderbilt, which I think if I
want to go different from y'all, that might be going
to be an annoying game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be an annoying mud like not
muddy like the actual field, but just the flow of
game is going to be kind of clunky, muddy like, just.
Speaker 8: Like that.
Speaker 4: Sandwiched in between the two. Like you're on the road
at Old Miss.
Speaker 7: That's a dulk fight if you even if you beat
South Carolina at home, that's tough. Then Vandy then after
that an M Alabama. It is very easy to overlook
Vanderbilt on the schedule, very easy. I think that your
sandwiches in between probably your four toughest game and probably good.
Speaker 5: Alabama went there. Alabama went there and got punched them out.
Last year, Texas got punched too. They just were still standing.
Speaker 2: At the end.
Speaker 6: We beat them, but we were at home.
Speaker 3: So well Vanderbilt and I did yeah, I did the
little voodoo on him. But if I have anything to
do with it this season, we'll probably win. But I
think at Vanderbilt is a big one to mark on
your calendar. But I do like the point you made
with the Texas A and m one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be man, there's gonna be some Uh.
Speaker 6: I don't fully agree about South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Because you don't think South Carolina is gonna be as
good as we think.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't because like I don't. I
just think that we're going to be better than them,
and I think it will be.
Speaker 5: I think the roster's back, like Lenoris is gonna have
to do some more. Cam Newton like he did last year,
like his his weapons, but and he gonna do that
now he did it, he's gonna do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just watch, You'll just watch.
Speaker 2: I believe you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I like I believe you, but like I
just I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like last sear he probably had more weapons than he
willed this season, but I don't know if that's fully true.
Speaker 6: Is that true or no? Norris, he didn't have an.
Speaker 4: He didn't have a ton last year.
Speaker 2: I had rocket Sandy rocket Sanders about it.
Speaker 4: I agree LSU's better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: If you get that game, then you can still lose
one after that with a with three game stretches like
three in a row.
Speaker 6: Fe losable games after.
Speaker 2: That, All right, let's do this.
Speaker 5: Let's step away, take a break, and when we come back, like,
let's because Taylor kind of started to do it, let's
give that stretch whatever you think the most difficult stretch.
I always talk about it. Y'all heard me say it
a thousand times. There's always a three game stretch for
every SEC team unless you're Missouri. This year, that schedule
is just wild. There's always three games. I want to
hear from each of us, which three game stretch is
going to be the most difficult. We'll do that when
we come back here on OTV.
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Speaker 1: Tigers Turners, This is off the bench.
Speaker 2: Knock cockock, knocking on the ball. As soon as again,
knock cockock knocking the ball.
Speaker 8: Your legs keep shaking.
Speaker 4: Why are her legs shaking? What are they squat squashed?
Speaker 2: Look you gotta squat down, use the restroom.
Speaker 6: Oh the legs are shaking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it, clearly, all right, l She used
three game stretch showing their schedule that is going to
be the most difficult and the one that's going to
maybe mean the most.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I got to that. I want to choose from here.
Speaker 3: I actually think it's the like what were were talking
about earlier, South Carolina Vandy at Texas or Texas A
and M.
Speaker 6: Because well, I don't know, actually I.
Speaker 2: Know we were talking.
Speaker 5: You can South Carolina Vanderbilt, you can go South Carolina
Vanderbilt A and M.
Speaker 2: You can go Vanderbilt A and M. Alabama. That's where
I'm going. That's going Alabama.
Speaker 7: I know there's a bye weekend between, but I mean,
look ole miss dog fights, South Carolina dogfight. We just
talked about, like Vanderbilt's not going anywhere.
Speaker 4: That's on the road.
Speaker 7: You come home against A and M. That's a tough one,
and then you got to go back on the road
to Alabama. So two of those three are on the road.
I get that there's a bye weekend between, but I
think I think that's the answer for me because after that,
like you finish Arkansas, Western, Kentucky, Oklahoma. Yeah, I got
the I think if you can get past that three
game So for me, it's it's at Vandy, A and
M at Alabama.
Speaker 4: Uh, my three game stretch to me kind of sticks
out very very strongly. Feel pretty good about this one,
and I alluded to it last segment. South Carolina, Vanderbilt,
Texas A, and M all in a row. No bye
weeks in between eny of these. And the reason why
is South Carolina, Vandy A, and m All have quarterbacks
that do things with their legs, not just in passing
situations where they can scramble, but designed runs, and that's
part of the game. Is an actual dual threat quarterback.
We play Kate club Nick at the beginning of the year,
We're gonna play John Mattier at the end of the year.
But those guys want to throw in the pocket every
now and then, maybe do a quarterback draw. But those
three teams are going to actively present problems that are
designed to use quarterback the legs of the quarterback. So
those three weeks in a row are going to be
a challenge defensively, and by that point our new defensive
line everybody better be meshed and jailing. Pretty good for me,
there's no bie weeks there. That is the hardest stretch.
Speaker 5: I think I actually agree with you. That's a great
point that you make about the dual threat quarterback. It's
been something it's been a bugaboo for you. You've done
much better against pocket passers. I mean the A and
M game that we're talking about. What change, Well, they
change quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I'll agree with you. I'll go South Carolina Vanderbilt, Texas
A and M. Final answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my first answer, and I think it's
gonna end up being my final So because I was gonna,
I was thinking, like what about Ole Miss at ole Miss?
Speaker 6: Before that? But there's a lot more question marks over Ole.
Speaker 3: Miss as a team than there is for South Carolina,
Vandy and Texas A and M. Like I do have
some questions about Marcel Reid, yeah, just because like the
only time he looked elite was against LSU, So I
there are questions about him, But I have more questions
about Simmons than I do.
Speaker 5: Read Ole Miss lost a ton from Yeah, their defense, Yeah,
their front seven was maybe the best they've had in
school history. And those guys are now Sunday players, So
that like that's something that Old Miss because of how
they've built their roster. They can't just replace overnight, Like
they don't have a five star defensive tackle that's weighted
as he was a freshman. Now he's gonna be a sophomore.
Like when you go portal hunting like they do. Like
you don't have that waiting in the wings, so it's
gonna be some growing pains. And Pete Golding is a
really good defensive coordinator, but he's not gonna have as
much to work with. So like for that reason, not
to say Old miss on the road or at home
beat LSU, But yeah, we don't know about them. I
feel like I know more about South Carolina, Vanderbilt and
A and M.
Speaker 7: It's funny like South Carolina defense I was looking at
the other day. They're replacing a lot too. They do,
but they at least back but and worry player of
the year last year, he was the player of the
year in the league. I want to see what Stewart
does without him on the other right, So that's my thing.
Speaker 5: But they do have some homegrown, like recruited at a
high score guys, four star guys have been waiting, and
so I like that foundation better than I like Old Missus.
Speaker 2: So all right, Taylor, he said.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm going I'm going Vandy A and M Alabama
just because two of the three year on the.
Speaker 4: Red okay, and then here on July twenty fourth, is
that what it is the year of our lord.
Speaker 5: And three of us said, it's South Carolina at Vandy,
Texas A and M. So there's always there's always a
three game stretch and we'll see what ends up being
for your LSU Tigers. All right, we'll close out our
number one when we come back here on OTB.
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