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Speaker 4: All right, welcome in our number three here on a
Friday edition of Off the Bench. Jacob Ester, Matt Flynn
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about another hour, closing out that work week here on
this Friday. Right now, I want to go out to
the phone lines bringing Mike Scarborough from Tiger Bay dot
com as locked in as anybody when it comes to
LSU Sports.
Speaker 3: Mike, how are you this morning? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Thanks so much for hopping on. It was a
little bit short notice, but uh, look like SEC media
days wrapped up, uh just yesterday.
Speaker 3: Obviously LSU went on Monday.
Speaker 4: But you know, all the talk is always going to
be about the quarterbacks, like, oh, who's who's gonna play
for this team? Who's gonna be the starter here? And
like I was talking about a little bit earlier in
the show. It's weird like some of the bottom tier
quote unquote teams in the SEC kind of know who
their quarterback is going to be. It's kind of the
teams at the top, like Texas, Georgia, Alabama, like they're
all breaking in new qbs except the LSU Tigers. So like,
let's just go with Garrett nelse MYI right now, Like
in terms of heading into the season, for you, where
does Garrett knowse my rank among SEC quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I don't have a problem ranking at number one. You know,
certainly he's the uh, the top returning quarterback and all
of college football with the with the with the yards
and what he did last year. And look, he's you
can talk about Leonora Stale, you can talk about DJ Lagway,
you know, as Marcel Reeve can be the next guy up,
Frank lam Lenny's for the arch manning hip bubble to pop. Yeah,
but I think everything that's coming Garrett Usmar's way during
talking season is correct.
Speaker 4: Mike, as far as like I'm with you, like it
has to be Garrett Osemeyer because like you just mentioned,
like there's kind of a question mark around a lot
of these other guys.
Speaker 3: As far as biggest question marks for l s U.
Speaker 4: We know it's the offensive line, right, Like, you lose
four starters from that group a year ago. So let's
go outside of the offensive line, like take them out
of the equation outside of O line. For you, what
is your biggest question mark for the Tigers?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's just did it.
Speaker 4: But you.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know, uh we lot of text. A
and M is proud of their running back room. LSU's
running back rooms loaded, the tie end room was loaded.
The wide receiver room is an embarrassment of riches. I
don't know that. You're, like most schools, very enthusiastic about
your number two quarterback. But offensive line, You're right, is
the only real worry on the offensive front. Defensively, I
think this is probably the best defensive line, and that's
interior in edge rushers because BK's been here. I like
the linebacker room. I think there's a reason to be
probably more enthusiastic about Harold Perkins at this point than
at any time in his career. I just for some reason,
I feel like, you know, if he's one hundred percent healthy,
I think they're they're going to find the right spot
for him. So then we go back to the issues
that have played this team, and that's dB cornerback and safety.
Do I see enough of the spring to know that
they've got cornerbacks sewn up and they're not going to
have the issues. I think the edge rushers are going
to help those cornerbacks. And I just have a hard
time believing that the safety position at some point isn't
going to be solidified, whether it's with DJ Pickett or
whoever that ends up being a starter. At some point,
there's just too much talent there to find to not
be able to find the right combination. Is when I'm
getting at there's there's there's a whole lot of safety
in numbers at the safety position right now.
Speaker 4: I'm with you, like, really, it's it's O line. And
then everyone else she's like you kind of feel okay.
Like I was talking about it earlier in the show,
I thought this coaching staff did a really good job
in the portal, like filling all your needs, especially on
the defensive side.
Speaker 5: And here's my thing. When when I think about the
offensive line, look, I think the offensive line recruiting at
L s U on a consecutive yearly basis has been
the best it's been probably this century under BK. So
why isn't that equating to a out running game. And look,
you'll be able to point to the fact that they're
all newcomers and four starters are lost if they don't
get it done. But I also wonder if there's an
issue with the way that the technical part of that
offensive line, it's to why they have the inability to
run a football. Mean, a lot of offensive linemen come
out of high school in these offenses, RPO offenses, And
it used to be years ago you your offensive line
would come out of high school. All they knew how
to do was run blocks. Now is that what it is?
It's completely the opposite, and you have a rough time
teaching on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I get you.
Speaker 4: It's like the conversation everybody has about, oh, this quarterback
can't take snaps under center. They don't do it anymore. Mike, Like,
I've got away with you on the running game thing. Look,
a minute ago you mentioned an embarrassment of riches and
wide receiver, and I agree, Like, there are a ton
of bodies there. You got a bunch of big time transfers,
and you did a good job retaining a lot of
your weapons from a year ago. Like we saw Chris
Hilton at SEC Media Days on Monday, So like, let's
assume Hilton's gonna get that start against Clemson. And I
know it doesn't really matter, you know, who gets the
start because they're going to rotate these guys in and out.
But like in your opinion, like top three guys going
into the Clemson game, who do you think it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm it's gonna be Aaron Anderson, Chris Hilton, and
Barry and Brown? Right, but how how quickly is Nick
Anderson out there? You've got Tron Francis. That's I think
it's gonna be a fantastic freshman. You know. That's where
it's like, you know, we know how special Harlem Barry
can be, whether he's gonna be lined up in the
slaughter at running back, and you can go, you know,
five through eight in your wide receiver room and see
guys that could probably be starting in a lot of schools.
How do you get all those guys involved when you've
also got to tie it in room that the people
other schools are very envious of. Uh. With the addition
of bower Strup on top of traders Green, I just, uh,
I'm if you were you know, you remember early season,
mid season last year, everybody just kind of upset about
Chris Hilton. Man, there's some reasonable much reason to be
hyped for Chris Hilton the way he finished last season,
at the end of the year and in the bowl game.
I'm absolutely convinced and Chris Hilton been there all season
long last year, they would have at least would have
had at least one more win that that deep threat
was just so lacking, and they addressed it in the
portal in a big way. But then the next question
is in my mind is who's who's gonna be your
leading receiver is in touchdowns and who's gonna be your
leading wide receiver and receiving yards? That is it two
different people? Is it is it one person? And what's
going to be the total of receiving yards across the board?
And I think the running backs are going to catch
a whole lot of balls as well, Mike.
Speaker 3: As far as.
Speaker 4: You know, we we've talked about a lot of transfers
and a lot of guys that are kind of known commodities.
Right We're talking Aaron Anderson, Chris Hilton. This can be
offensive or defense. Like, just give me a guy you're
watching heading into the season a freshman, You're like, Hey,
that guy can break out.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I think that that's where it's kind of hard. You know,
as much as I think harlem Berry's is as legit
as can be, how to see break in? You know,
I'd always like to pick on Frank Wilson's running back location.
You know, at what point do you think there's any
chance that harlm Berry is an integral part of the
offense at Clemson on the road in that environment, even
if he never put even if he didn't put the
ball a round one time in fall camp, do you
think he's gonna get utilized quickly? I have my doubts,
just based on on history and in the way I
know that BK and Frank like to rotate those guys.
So yeah, it's a good question. I think if it's
gonna be a freshman, it's gotta be someone like DJ Pickett,
uh and on the on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now I'm with you.
Speaker 4: Like DJ Pickett, that's that's the name that that everybody's
going to watch, right and like that's like you we
were talking about the safety room, like they actually did
a pretty good job at the cornerback spot as well.
Like you have Stamps back who in his third year
and I know we wasn't like a full time starter
as a freshman and played a lot of ball though
was the starter last year, Like he's entering his third year.
You got some guys in the portal. You got DJ Pickett,
Like that's that's a room as well. To keep an
eye on, Mike before we get you out of here,
Mike Scarborough tagabay dot com joining us right now. I
want to talk. I want to ask you too quick
record rooting questions before we get out of here. Look, obviously,
Tristan Key is number one wide receiver in the country
currently committed to the Tigers. But I mean he's he's
taken all the visits, he's made no bones about Like
I'm going to continue to talk to other schools. In
your opinion, do the Tigers keep Chris and Keys on board? Uh?
Speaker 5: I like their positioning right now, but I think there's
gonna be some antsy moments and some back and forth
and drama all day until the moment he does it.
Look in this day and age. Anytime you get a
guy like that, it's got the stuff going on on
on Twitter and the Nil deal, you're gonna have a
whole lot of people who are skeptic skeptics of it.
But I think you're you'd much rather be an LSU's
position with him right now than other schools. You just
don't want to get blind sided in November because you
thought you had what you needed and then someone came
and drove a huge dollar amount and it's just it's
just too much for you. At the same time, I
think that's the same you can reverse and say that's
probably what else she needs to do. At the quarterback spot.
They've got to be the spoiler and go Yanks a
quarterback and be in positioned to flip a kid in
November at the quarterback spot.
Speaker 4: That's actually right where I was going next, Mike, like
like you were. LSU was after Bo Bentley for a while.
He chose Oklahoma. You'll offer Bryce of Beavers, and the
next day after you offered him, he commits to Oregon.
So they've they've kind of swung and miss on a
lot of these guys. And you know, there's that old
adage of like oh, you have to sign a quarterback
every class. Well with the portal, Like, in your opinion,
does that change at all? Because like a lot of
people are saying, oh, you have to get a quarterback
in twenty six. Others are saying, well, you'll just dip
into the portal, get one out of there, and then
you have the good twenty seven class coming up. Hopefully
you can land one of those guys. Like, where do
you stand now with like having to take a quarterback
every class?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean we've been having been posing the question
for a couple of weeks. Now when you look ahead
and because that's what everybody's doing, if k doesn't make
the playoffs, what's it like for him in twenty six?
And think about all what you're gonna lose because of
how much eligibility you've gotten, all those anil guys you
just signed. You know, do you think the starting quarterback
for the twenty six football season is currently on the
LSU roster? I don't got any. So and then when
you look you say, okay, who are the guys that
you know we're mostly familiar with that Joe Sloan has
relationships with and I I'm pretty sure there's some guys
that we probably aren't talking about. But if it's gonna
be trying to flip guys that committed elsewhere, and you
look at where they're at, the resources at those schools,
whether it's several quarterbacks committed to organ that LSU offered, UH,
Jared Curtis at Georgia, faithOn Brand at Tennessee, UH Bitley Oklahoma,
DA Bell at Texas. You know you're not gonna flip
those guys by doing the reverse Bryce Underwood UH this year?
So do you to me? It's it's like, do you
go down a level into you know, a low four
star a high three to get your high school quarterback
and then after that go into the portal and get
you a marquee quarterback that's either a grad transfer or
has one year and then how? And then the question
there is how much do you have to pay to
get that guy? And how many other schools A you're
gonna battle for them full well knowing what you're recruiting
for the class of twenty seven and what those price
tags might be. How many millions of dollars can you
have wrapped up in your quarterback room right now?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the it's it's the question that everyone's asking.
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Speaker 3: Mike, thanks so much for hopping on this morning.
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Speaker 4: So welcome back in Freddy Edition. Them off the bench
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left with you, and we are closing out this very
busy sec media day's work week. Jake and Matt will
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Speaker 3: I mentioned it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4: NFL coaches and executives have been interviewed all week heading
into training camp about hey, give us the top ten
players at every position and coaches execs across the league
and the wide receiver one came out just two days ago,
and if you wanted any conversation about who is wide
receiver you this list ends that conversation. And I'm not
saying this list is the end all be all, but
I thought it was wrapped up before this. This is
just further confirmation in my opinion that your LSU Tigers
are in fact wide receiver. You they got ten names
on this list. Alabama. Hey, that's a team we bring
up all the time, right, DeVante Smith, Jerry Judy, Jaylen Waddell.
Speaker 3: Julio in the past.
Speaker 4: Like, clearly they got some guys on this list, right,
No former Crimson Tide players in the top ten. Okay, well,
Ohio State's the next big and going back to Michael Thomas,
you had Ted Terry McLaurin in the league now and
look Chris Alave with the New Orleans Saints. The Ohio
State Buckeyes, even though I think they should have another
have one guy on this list. It's Garrett Wilson at
number ten. You're LSU Tigers have three of the top
seven wide receivers in the NFL according to coaches and executives.
Speaker 3: So this isn't coming for me.
Speaker 4: This is guys that are in the NFL around the
league every single day, and that's what they think of
these guys. They got Jamar Chase one, justin Jefferson two.
I'm good either way. You slice that Chase is coming
off the bigger year. I'm good with it. Jefferson I
think was one a year ago. Doesn't really matter. Those
guys are neck and neck. And then coming in at
number seven, New York Giants wide receiver elite neighbors makes
a lot of sense as well.
Speaker 3: But going through the rest of the list.
Speaker 4: At three, you have Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
I can't get behind this at number three. Look, Tyreek
Kill is a good player. He had a down year
last year, but before that he had back to back
seventeen hundred yard seasons. Tyreek Kill is a good player.
Tyreek Kill is not a top three wide receiver in
the NFL. You have CD Lamb at four, which I
would bump him up to three. You have AJ Brown
at five from the Eagles. I would bump him up
to four. You know, me and I don't remember who was.
It was me and Jordan the other day. He's one
of showing this list and we were talking about it
and we're saying, like, you know, Cede Lamb and AJ
Brown are neck and neck, And my response was yeah,
and this is AJ Brown's fault. But the Eagles are
just a lot better than the Cowboys, and they have
a lot more weapons like CD's putting up the same
numbers as AJ Brown, and teams are having to key
in on them because they don't really have anything else.
And Philly's got a better quarterback in Jalen Hurts than
Dak Prescott. George Pickens will be huge for CD Lamb.
We'll see what he can do this year with that.
That'll take a little pressure off of him. I wouldn't
be surprised if he's in that three spot next season.
But it's six. It's amenroas Saint Brown. Seven I mentioned
Elite Neighbors. Eight Nico Collins interesting that he's on this list,
Like I personally think Nico's very talented. I was kind
of on the Nico hype train two years ago before
the that big season that he had. But he's heard
a lot last year. Not to say that he wasn't good,
he just he wasn't that available. Eight it's a little
rich for me. Nine at Mike Evans for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. People aren't gonna want to hear this. Mike
Evans should be higher on this list. I love my
League neighbors. I'm a big fantom Nico Collins as well.
Mike Evan should be ahead of both of those guys
just because of the longevity. I remember Saints fans were
mad last year because Bakers got a force feed in
the ball to Evans at the end of that second
Buccaneers Saints game because they they wanted Mike Evans to
get a thousand yards. He's been in the league for
what is it nine seasons now, He's never had less
than a thousand yards, and even last year because remember
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a year ago. I just mentioned
it with Ceede Lamp, Like the Bucks were devastated by injuries.
A lot of teams were keying in on Evans a
year ago, and they still couldn't stop it. So like
you're getting double teamed a lot of times, you're getting
up there in age. You've done it for nine years now,
and think about me. Different quarterbacks he's had. He had
Jamis Winston for four years, then he had Tom Brady
for two. He's going on a year three with Baker Mayfield,
and he's performed regardless of which quarterback is in there,
like all three of those guys. Pretty different, pretty different quarterbacks.
Hasn't mattered to Mike Evans at all. He's got it done.
Like Mike Evans has to be higher on that list.
And then at number ten you have Garrett Wilson look
back to back thousand yard seasons, former first round pick.
He's at ten, Like that's fine, Like I'm probably taking
if I had to do this list, though tyreey Kill
is getting dropped a way down. Like Tyreek Kill for me,
he's like six or seven, he's not three. I might
take Nico out. Evans will bump up because like Tyreek
can't be at three at all. Like if Tyreek Hill
has another bad year, he's not on this list at all,
much less top three. He's not top ten if he
has another down here. But I think there's some big misses,
Like there's a guy with our guy, Jaden Daniels out
there at Washington, Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 3: Terry mclaurin's been in the.
Speaker 4: League seven years, He's had one thousand yards six straight years.
Early year he did not was his rookie year. He's
a bad quarterback play too. I mean, did you think
about some of the qbs that were there before Jayden
Daniels got there. You had Sam Howell that was there,
Taylor Heineke was there, and very similar to Mike Evans,
like he puts up numbers regardless whose quarterback is and
he's still just twenty nine years old. Terry mclauren should
be on this list. But going back to the whole
LSU wide receiver U thing, Like, yes, if mclauren's on there,
that gives Ohio State two receivers in the top ten,
but they're both towards at the bottom. Not only does
LSU have one and two, you have seven with Malik Neighbors.
I could argue Brian Thomas Junior deserves to be on
this list. He actually had a little bit better of
a year than Elike Neighbors last year. No, we had
a better situation. I mean, Malik plays for the freaking Giants,
Like what are you gonna do? But I mean look
last year, Brian Thomas thirteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns, so
double digits there get eighty seven receptions, Like Brian Thomas
had a heck of a year. If he has another
one like that, like Garrett Wilson, Elite Neighbors, those guys
are getting nocked off. Brian Thomas is in there, that
would give you four. Assuming Chase of Jefferson and Neighbors
stay there. I have no reason to believe that they won't.
Jefferson puts up good numbers in Minnesota. Doesn't matter who's
stowing in the ball, Chase has Burrow, they're not going anywhere,
and whether it's Russell Wilson, Jackson, darr Jamis Winson, whoever.
Maleak's actually gonna have a better quarterback than he had
a year ago. Yet Daniel Jones ntil they cut him,
he had Tommy DeVito. I can't bad quarterback play last
year doesn't really matter who wins that job. Elite neighbors
is getting an upgrade at the quarterback position, but Brian
Thomas Junior could be right there with another solid season.
There's no more Gabe Davis in Jacksonville. There's no more
Christian Kirk in Jacksonville. Kirks with the Texans pairing Benico Collins. Now,
Travis Hunter does come over, but I don't think Travis
Hunter is gonna be a full time receiver. I know
they say he is, I just don't see it. I
would like for him to be, because I think he's
a really good receiver. But I think Travis Hunter at
least rookie year until they get a feel of things.
I think eventually Travis Hunter is gonna stick to one
side of the football, and that's what's gonna happen. As
good as he is as a two way player, you
just don't see it in the NFL. I think eventually
that's what's gonna happen. But rookie year, Travis Hunter, I mean,
I'm thinking, Hey, we're gonna start you out at receiver
a little bit easier of an adjustment, and then we're
gonna play you a little bit more at corner here
and there. If a corner goes down, you're gonna play.
If a receiver goes down, you're gonna play. I think
he's gonna be a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of a twiner.
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna have a good year, like impact wise.
Maybe maybe the numbers don't reflect it right, the row numbers,
because he's gonna bunce around a little bit everywhere. I
think he's gonna have a huge impact. I don't know
if he's a long term play two way. I think
he's just gonna stick corner receiver. They're gonna find a
place for him and stick him there, just because that's
what the NFL likes to do, not to say Hunter
can't do it. We saw him do it for two
years at Colorado. I mean, he just won the Heisman Trophy.
The guy's phenomen I just don't know if that's gonna happen. So, look,
there's there's not a ton of guys competing for catches.
Evan Ingram's going in Jacksonville. If Trevor Lawrence could step up,
he's a two bad years in a row. Trevor Lawrence
has one more year and that's it, at least in
my opinion. So you could potentially have Jefferson, Chase Neighbors,
and Brian Thomas all in the top ten of wide receivers.
The wide receiver U conversation's over. It was over before this,
but it's that's it. Wrap it up, put a bow
on it.
Speaker 7: It's over.
Speaker 4: Probah State in Alabama can battle for a second because
LSU is wide receiver U and that's going to continue.
Look at the guys on campus right now. We just
said Mike Scarborough and we were talking about the embarrassment
of riches at the wide receiver roop. That's going to continue.
And right now the number one wide receiver in the
country is to LSU for twenty six. We'll see if
they hold on to them. But that LSU NFL pipeline
for wide receivers is not slowing down anytime.
Speaker 3: So all right, we're going to take a time out.
When we get back.
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Speaker 2: Because if you get like up to like three thousand
Chick fil A points.
Speaker 3: You get a prize. Jassie's a kid at an arcade.
Speaker 2: Like thirty count like tail gaming tricks, save them.
Speaker 3: Jassie's a kid at an arcade.
Speaker 4: Like mom, just a few more points. Wait, three thousand
tickets gets me the big stuffy animals. I've been saying, Jesus,
Cassie wants that tailgate pack. What's gonna happen is you're
gonna go to Chick fil A and they're gonna be like,
I'm sorry, we don't have the tailgate pack anymore, and
you were going to lose your mind. And I can't wait.
I need to see a Cassie's bazrely blow up. I've
never seen one.
Speaker 2: I've never seen Cassie like not that way, like the
way that she is right now, That's how she is
twenty four Centd'll.
Speaker 4: Tell you what though, she's kind of a mean text.
You never know the uh, you never know the tone.
You never know the tone you're gonna get with Cassie.
Speaker 2: That's the I think I'm just dry in.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've heard I haven't.
Speaker 4: Experience in personally. That's that's the word on the street though. Okay,
possible transition here.
Speaker 2: A thousand gives you a whole Chick fil a cow,
Daniel passion wold Chick.
Speaker 3: Fil a Cow. We need that, Cassie, five thousand, that's
the goal.
Speaker 2: Give me, I feel like, give me like a month
or maybe two months.
Speaker 4: Okay, how many points did you get this? This is
how long you've been saving up. How many points did
you get per order?
Speaker 3: Like on average? How many points you like?
Speaker 2: Like my order just now, I got like two hundred
something points, But like if I just go through the
drive through, then I think I only get like one
hundred points.
Speaker 4: Like I've I've picked up a Cassie's bizally Chick fil
A order. It's an eight count nuggets with a root
beer and honey musk.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: How many points is that normally?
Speaker 2: I think it's usually like one hundred something point.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I thinking like ten per order, and I'm like,
how many years have you been saving one hundreds?
Speaker 3: Actually? Okay, yeah, that's not that's not as crazy. Okay,
coming up.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they're so funny in the chat. If you're not
like in the YouTube chat during your day, you need
to get in it.
Speaker 3: Some people are in it all day.
Speaker 2: I know, right, there's some people that are in it,
like the every show.
Speaker 3: Some people are in it all that I looked.
Speaker 4: I'll admit like sometimes if I if I get home early,
I'm like a f RS one slip in the YouTube
channer and I was in it yesterday.
Speaker 3: I'm hanging out with our guys yesterday.
Speaker 2: Sometimes during Hunt show, Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I'll get it in on the show every
now and then, are your Hunt given some outlandish golf take,
I'm like, chat needs me, so we'll slip in. It's
like the bat signal in the sky. It's just Hunt
swinging a golf club. That's the logo. And I'm like,
we get a slide in there and help the people out.
UFC three eighteen coming up in New Orleans actually tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Dustin Poorier, Max Holloway.
Speaker 4: The send off for Dustin Poier is what has been
an excellent fighting career. A Landra will be there. You're
gonna be in the number. I imagine this bad Boy is
gonna be sold out because we talked about it. It
hadn't been in a decade. I imagine it's going to
be because, like I think the people in New Orleans
are gonna show up to prove like, hey, we need more,
we need more, We need more fights here in New Orleans,
not less, because there was there was all that talk
about like oh well we just want to keep it
in Vegas because like that's where all the money is.
I think New Orleans is gonna show out. I mean
we'll probably get a final final number after the fight. Yeah,
how do you We got a few minutes before we
break here? How do you think this goes though?
Speaker 2: So, first of all, like I just want to say
that I am very very excited about this aig one. Yeah,
And if you listen to OTV, then like you know
that I love the UFC. I love boxing, Like this
is like my stuff right here. And I've never been
to a fight before, Like I've gone to those combat
championship like amateur ones that they're around here at the
Texas Club. But I've never been to a fight fight before,
and I'm so excited about this. Y'all know, I love Dustin.
He was so good to me when I interviewed him,
so like, I'll never forget that I was a fan
of him before. But he's just a really good person
and that makes me like an even bigger fan of him,
and he one hundred percent deserves this send off for him.
And Dana said it himself, Dana, Whye, y'all know, I
was spitting distance, as you said, from Dana at the
press conference yesterday, and he was like, I mean, Dustin
has been a huge part of the UFC since he
was in it, and it's true, like he has so
many iconic fights. He has, like the last I don't
know ten fights that he's had have been incredible fights.
And what's going on? What do you mean are you
like texting you to or what is going on?
Speaker 3: We'll see, We'll see in a.
Speaker 2: Second, I don't know anyways. I so Dana himself said
that they're just very appreciative of Dustin and that's why
they're having this Senned off in New Orleans because he
deserves it, he really does.
Speaker 3: So, oh, how's it go? We what we think? Who's
winning it?
Speaker 2: So I think it's gonna go five rounds.
Speaker 3: So do you think he goes to a decision?
Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, I do. So they fought twice before,
and Dustin himself said this yesterday, like it's hard beating
Max Holloway once. It's really hard to beat him twice.
Beating him three times is gonna be like very very tough.
And I agree with this. Max Holloway is a great fighter,
and the lines are about even. Max is a slight
favorite at minus one forty eight and Dustin's plus one
twenty four on DraftKings right now. So he is the underdog,
and usually when Dustin's the underdog, he finds it in
him to like dig deep and really like just surprise
everybody and come out on top with like that. Ben
was Saint Deny fight that he had. He was a
heavy underdog in that one. So I do think it
goes to a decision. The last two times he beat Max, uh,
one of them was by submission. The other one did
go to a decision, So we're missing a third one.
We're missing a knockout.
Speaker 3: ND knockout.
Speaker 2: I'm not calling fifth round knock I don't want to
call a knockout, but it is. They are gonna get
in there, and like it's gonna be a chaotic like
just throwing punches fight, like they're both of them are
like two of the best boxers in the UFC. So
I think it's it's gonna be a great fight. I'm
really hoping that Dustin takes this one. I don't even
want to, like, I don't even I'm gonna pig Dustin
just off of like fandom and going with my horror
and it's his retirement fight. He needs this. But like,
how awesome would it be? Max Holloway's only been knocked
out once, Yeah, by our guy, Ilia.
Speaker 9: To Poria, I said, our guy, but I don't know
if you're you're a guy.
Speaker 2: I love Ilia Tuporia.
Speaker 3: But I watch him. I'm not as quite as locked
as you like. I don't watched him enough yet.
Speaker 2: So I mean, again, it's hard to beat Max Holloway,
so beating him three times is going to be a
really hard feat. But if there's anybody that can do it,
I think it's Dustin and it's his last fight, so
I don't even want to give a pick, Like I
really don't because I love both these fighters so much.
Speaker 4: I will say this, I appreciate that Poria is not
taking the easy way out, like not not the thirst
shade of others, but like there's a lot of guys
that are like they'll do a big fight and they'll
be like win or lose. They're like, I want to
do it a little bit of an easy for fight
going on top. This is a big boy, yeah, but Dustin,
Dustin's not taking the easy road out and taking like
like okay, for example, when Floyd Mayweather Manipeg, yeall finally
fault Floyd Mayweather, that gave him I think he was
like forty seven and zero, and he's like, I want
to get to fifty. Yeah, he kind of did three
easy fights on his way out, Like that's fine if
you want to get to fifty.
Speaker 3: The Pacqui album was kind of the the ultimate one.
Speaker 4: Pourier is going out like swinging like Max Holloway is
not an easy out. I'm gonna go Dustin and Poorier
unanimous decision. Yeah, that's that's my pis.
Speaker 2: He is like, again, this is for the BMF title.
Max Holloway holds it right now. But these are two
of the bmfs in BMC.
Speaker 3: I know what that stands for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bilbo says, when do you not make a decision
based on vibes? I mean, that's just I probably do
a lot, but like I think, most of the time,
it's based on facts, all facts. Whenever I got that
plus five point fifty bet on Ryan Garcia with David
Devin Haney, like that was facts. Sorry, I don't know
why I'm losing my voice right now, but that was facts.
I mean, this one's a vibe.
Speaker 3: He got a chicken call on your throat.
Speaker 2: I got to chocken many in my throat. But uh,
this one's vibes because I just can't again, the lines
are even. Everybody feels this way about this fight, like
you really can't. You don't know.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, it sounds like she's leaning Pourier. I'm
gonna go Poorier. I hate when that that means Holloway's
gonna win. I hate when we both picked the same book.
Speaker 3: You know what we gotta do. We gotta do.
Speaker 4: Speaking of vibes, whenever you're at a concert like it's
it's a great vibe, right, like you're all having a
good time. Not not tech Ceo Andy whatever the hell's
name is and is?
Speaker 2: I think he's an astronomer.
Speaker 4: He's the CEO all of Astronomy. The company is called Astronomer.
He's the he's the techeo.
Speaker 2: I messed that up.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've never even heard of the company, Astronomer whatever.
He's a billionaire. He's at this suite at a Coldplay
concert and you know they're they're panning to the crowd
and a camera pops up. Cassie, we actually have the
picture of the couple. You can go ahead and pull
this up. So this is the couple. This is tech
ceo and his uh hr lady who apparently were having it.
Speaker 3: That's not the one. That's me and T Bob. That
that's me and t Bob. That's not that's not the one.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, I wanted I wanted to give t bot
a shout out because you know, since T Bob left
the show, we hadn't had many that there's a gym,
but anyway.
Speaker 2: The group, I didn't look at it.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's me.
Speaker 4: And T Bob as the uh Hey, anybody want to
guess which one of me and T Bob's the woman.
Speaker 3: That's a soft one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyways, that's funny. Tech ceo Andy whatever his name is,
it doesn't matter, and the head of his HR were
snuggling up at a cold Play concert. Now everybody's you know,
up in arms about it. My opinion is they reacted
very poorly, Like if you see the real video, she
turns away, he climbs under the table, climbs under the table.
Like my thought is right, Like, I get that you're
a billionaire, you think you're awesome. I didn't know who
this guy was or what he looked like up until
Tuesday or winds there whenever that came out. And the
only reason we saw it is because of their incredibly
awkward reaction, Like Chris Martin's on stage and goes, hey,
they're either having an affair or they're really shy. Well,
Chris Martin, little did you know? That's exactly what was
going on. And then you know there's a lot of
like it's coming out saying oh, well, you know, our
privacy was like you're in a cold Plate concert, there
is no privacy. They're not walking up to your bedroom
window and snapping photos of you from outside you're in public,
like whether or not that video service, they're not like
how many people saw you walking to your seats?
Speaker 3: Like that's that's the part I don't get. First off,
maybe maybe don't cheat.
Speaker 4: However, I will say this, I told Cassie this yesterday
when I was filling in on a take it or
leave it get in travel at the office, if you
cheat with the HR lady, So I mean, I guess he,
I guess he kinda he kinda chose a good one there,
but yeah, don't do that. And then like, don't don't
play victim.
Speaker 3: I don't don't. I don't want to hear I don't
want to hear anybody being like, oh, well you know
the the private moment.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, you're a cold Play concert, You're
you're a you're a billionaire ceo. No, there there is,
There is no privacy a cold Play concert. They were
taking pictures of you from your bushes in your yard, Like, sure,
that's an evasion of privacy.
Speaker 3: Not this.
Speaker 4: You were super reckless. Your reaction to the whole situation
was awful. You made it one hundred times worse, and
then on top of it, maybe don't cheat you with
your HR lady, But that's just uh, that's just where
I stand on the whole situation. All Right, we're gonna
break right now when we get back, guys. The work
week's pretty much over. We got it done. It was
a hectic week here on ot B, but we're closing
it out next with a little ast the bench off.
Speaker 1: The bench, we'll be back.
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Speaker 1: From Players to Legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 4: Well Hester and Flynn not breaking down LSU football in
a championship Maynor on this Friday. Jake and Matt both out.
They will be back on Monday. Taylor Sharp sitting in
the host chair bound Ville Real. Cassie's Bazaly here as well. Guys,
we've had a jam picture. We took to a lot
of sec media days. We got out on Mike Scarborough
from tuger Bay dot com to kind of preview the
upcoming Lashue football season. Nick Underhill hopped on kind of
give us a preview of New Orleans Saints' training camp,
which is coming up next week. Right now, you only
got a few minutes left. It is time for a
little ask of the bench. First, question comes in from
Joey LeBlanc. He says, ask the bench, be honest. Who
brushes their teeth in the shower? Joey, I hope you
don't do this because I don't want to think that,
like you are a psychopath. Like who in the hell
brushes their teeth in the shower? Like the way Cassie
smiling right now, I know she doesn't. I don't think
Alandra brushes her teeth in the shower.
Speaker 2: Not in the shower.
Speaker 3: I don't brush my teeth at all. I'm kiding.
Speaker 4: I don't brush my teeth in the shower. Actually, I
got one, Cassie.
Speaker 3: Jacob Beck because he's always in a hurry.
Speaker 4: So Jacob Beck has the brother Jacob Beck has the
brush his teeth while he showers because he's always in
a hurry to get here.
Speaker 3: So it's gotta be bet like that. That's gotta be
the answer I got.
Speaker 2: Time he rolls in stresses me.
Speaker 4: Out, I could not live. You guys know how much
I like show prep and everything. Like I think I said,
y'all a completed document at like three o'clock yesterday, Yeah,
like I could not.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you the kind.
Speaker 4: Of respect the hustle, kind of kind of respected a
little bit. Ask the bench just comes from Poe Boy.
Speaker 3: Does that issue beat Clemson?
Speaker 9: Yes, Mark the tape.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, Yes, I mean you can't. I mean
I have said no, batistically like you can.
Speaker 4: Go for you ain't gonna get me six times averages.
Speaker 2: You can get me three times, you can give me
four times, you can give me five times, six.
Speaker 4: Times, not getna give me six my les. I have
said no all off season long. I don't know if
it's the donuts. I don't know if it's the Chick
fil A talk. I don't know if it's all the
nickelback we've played this morning.
Speaker 3: But I'm in a good mood today. Vibes are high. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh shoot, takes down Clemson. They gonna beat that ass.
We I'm in Okay, I'm in.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: I changed my tune probably three or four times. You're
out the season. We'll probably go back and forth. That's
just what I do. But uh yeah, no, No, Tiger's
taking him down. The real Tigers will reign Supreme.
Speaker 2: Real Death Valley, No Real Death Alley.
Speaker 4: Ask the Bench. Does the CEO survive? This being seen
in a Cold Play.
Speaker 2: Concert not with his wife.
Speaker 3: No, So we were talking. We were talking. I think
he's making for the cold.
Speaker 4: We were talking during break, I mean know, Launder were like,
I think I only.
Speaker 3: Know like two or three cold Plays.
Speaker 2: I know Yellow, Yeah, Scientists or something.
Speaker 4: There's there's another that like I I don't want to
hear it, like I can't name it.
Speaker 9: I know it when I hear it, right, yeah, I
know I'm not a cold Play right yeah Yellow.
Speaker 4: Like every time I hear cold Play, I'm like, oh yeah,
a big time band. But then like like I don't
actually know that many cold Play songs. So yeah, you know,
I mean that they're crowded. Fact they tell you what
there's Uh, there's gonna be a lot more people at
the next Coldplay concert. They all want to see the
breaking news. Uh that's going to happen at that one. Uh,
not asking that this guy not not a not an
ass the bench, but it said not giving Dabo bulletin
board material. I appreciate that in midstream, I really do.
Do you think Dabo Sweeney knows who I am or
gives a crap what I say about him?
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: I tell you what if Dabo Sweeney got bulletin board
material from me and Clemson Weed. It went on to
beat l s U. I'm still victory lapping around this room.
The Debosweeney actually knows who I am. I don't even
care the result of the game, but that point debis
when he has no idea who I am. Also tell
me an idiot, you're gonna send Brian Kelly a text message?
It's not even spelled the same way. How's Brian Kelly
spelled in your phone? You weren't looking at the name
when you send it.
Speaker 3: Like I like Dabo.
Speaker 4: That was a little bit too far on the Oh
g Gotti look at me like I'm I'm I'm done
with the with the Dabo thing for the time being.
Speaker 3: I do like Dabo.
Speaker 4: I do think that the Debot is a good coach
gets it gets a lot of hate just because he
does things a little bit differently. Ask the bench, Oh, Andrew,
maybe you know this when you were a big m
You're a big Fleetwood Mac fan, right, yeah, Well, Lindsey
Buckingham joined Fleet Mac for its final tour. I don't
know who Lindsay Buckingham is.
Speaker 2: Well, we gotta, we gotta get out of here. But
I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe, all right, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I mean Oasis can. If Oasis can get get it together,
maybe Lindsay and Stevie can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that's going to do it for a
Friday edition of OTB. We'll be back same time on
Monday here on one four five ESPN.
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