Speaker 1: Yo, what's up y'all?
Speaker 2: Welcome in now number three of OTB, and it is
my distinct pleasure to welcome in the man of the weekend.
Who else could I be talking about but coach Jay
Johnson as is number one ranked very good LSU baseball
team prepares to open up the best ten weeks in
all of spring SEC play baby, that's right.
Speaker 1: Here we go, guys, coach, how we feel today?
Speaker 2: Man, thank you so much for making us time for
us during this very busy portion of the year.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 4: How you guys do it?
Speaker 1: Uh? Freaking excited, super pumped.
Speaker 2: I mean, great baseball in the box, great baseball and
softball Tiger Park this week like it's it's it's it's
going to be absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: So much of baseball coach, especially nowadays, where the SEC
is so clearly the best confidence in the country, it's
uh mind boggling, and how good it is top to
bottom and so so much of the build up to
this point feels like getting ready for this. Uh do
you feel your team's ready for the grind?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 5: And I think the reason I say that is all mindset.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: Everything you said is true? Relative to the best league,
you know, by miles by oceans. It's but that's that's
still all external stuff, and for us, it's about how
we prepare, how.
Speaker 4: We compete in the game, you know, how we respond
to things.
Speaker 5: That happen in the game, and and how we play fundamentally.
And there's been a lot of positive signs. But yeah,
I think we're excited to go. I think it's it's time.
And just like it was time for the season to
get here, it's time. It's time for this and you know,
we're ready, ready to get bloodied a little bit and
get and respond and be consistent in our play.
Speaker 2: And can't wait.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 7: One of the things we've talked about with you throughout
the season is the depth that you have on this team,
and it's certainly showed throughout the non conference as you
get ready for conference play, and you've been able to
create kind of these matchups that favor LSU Baseball. Like,
do you anticipate that kind of staying true in conference play?
Do you want to shorten the lineup? Like what kind
of path do you want to see? Or is it, Hey,
we just got to let this thing play out and
see what's best for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good question. I mean I say this all the time,
Like any decision I make relative to the lineup of pitching,
change and hitting, you know whatever, it's all in the
context of just helping us win that game that's in
front of us, you know, I mean, you know, certainly
the teams were gonna play are better than most of
the teams that we have played, but it's still.
Speaker 3: Baseball, and know winning is winning, and so.
Speaker 5: I never get too far ahead of myself. Yeah, I
said this going I said this going into the season, and.
Speaker 4: I believe it to be true.
Speaker 5: I feel like I know our team better this year
in terms of what we have, and part of.
Speaker 4: That is there is a peace of mind on the
depth you can set.
Speaker 3: Some guys really use their skills to be.
Speaker 5: Successful for this, and it'll get tested a little bit more. Obviously,
you need some guys to to really be on top
of their game in terms of their mindset and how
they execute. But I do feel good about how we
can match up, and ultimately that's what baseball comes down to.
Speaker 2: So something interesting, coach that in a roundabout way made
me think of you yesterday was Rich Rodriguez talking about
how hard it is nowadays in society where everything's kind
of like me me, me, me me. The dancing on
TikTok so off is funny too, Right, But there's a
quote about you know, everything's insight now in culture and
the algorith it's it's it's all about the individual.
Speaker 1: It's all about me, right. Uh.
Speaker 2: You have a saying uh or or I've been quoting
you as saying, you do the big we little me.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I love that idea. Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you find though, on a roster where there are
so many, so many talented players, is it harder easier
for them to get to buy in that philosophy? You
talked about it yesterday with Braswell. You know, I'm sure
you know Senior and everything. He's maybe like who knows
where his head's at right now in terms of playing
time and whatnot, but like.
Speaker 1: He's going to be needed.
Speaker 2: Like guys have to stay ready because during this grind,
everybody's going to be called upon at one time or another.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: With a roster this good, is it harder or easier
to achieve that goal of big we little me?
Speaker 5: Well, I will tell you it does. First off, great
Rich Rod reference.
Speaker 4: Like that's my that's my.
Speaker 5: That's my guy.
Speaker 3: We were at Arizona together.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's totally him. Like, by the way, one thousand percent,
like I saw that. I was I was laughing about
that yesterday as well.
Speaker 4: But you just you have to be intentional.
Speaker 5: Like I think there's this thought of Okay, well everybody
should just be a good person and selfless and place
beneath the team above their own and and he's right,
like that's not natural, and it's really not natural for
young people, and it's really not natural for young people nowadays.
So we've been really intentional about how we've done a
lot to try to build that and and knowing I
always go into the year thinking, Okay, what's going to
be the path for the team, And for this year,
it's pretty simple. It's we got to be tough and
we got to be together. I mean, it's it's really
boiling down to those two things. You know, the toughness
part is just focused and you know the task at
hand and sticking through adversity.
Speaker 4: And then the together part.
Speaker 5: Is the team over me. And when you have a
bunch of guys that come here as their path to
professional baseball, well they obviously all want to play and
I get it, and I don't want them to be
any other way than that because they're not they're not competitive,
but they have to understand that this particular program was
built on players being selfless.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not always your time.
Speaker 5: At a place like LSU, So you don't have to
not be competitive about it, but you have to be
a man and handle it in the right way. And
it's really cool to see, Like when I came here,
we brought back that tradition of the pitcher handing the
ball to the reliever.
Speaker 4: It's kind of almost like a baton on the relay.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, your your job now, you know, I'm
handing it off to you or you know something with
these guys that have been we've pinch hit a lot
this year, you know, and some matchup spots and and
seeing the guy that I'm pinch hitting for encouraged a
guy that's going up to pinch hit, like so far,
so good. Yeah that's gonna get that's going to get
tested more. And but I think as we sit today,
we're in a good spot with.
Speaker 7: That coaches, you you know, set to welcome Missouri into
the box and you look at the sec standings. I
realize where Missouri is, and I'm sure that you know
you and the team have realized where Missouri is. But
it's also an SEC baseball team. And so what are
some of the things that Missouri does well that you
have to make sure you get ready for this weekend?
Speaker 5: Yeah, left handed pitching, left handed hitting, you know Ian
Loch who I haven't seen the rotation yet, but who
I'm assuming they're starting, like through a few scoreless innings
against US last year up there in Columbia.
Speaker 4: Certainly capable.
Speaker 5: They're very athletic. You know. Their coach, Kerrick Jackson was
at Southern and did a good job there, and then
at Memphis and did a good job there, so he.
Speaker 4: Knows what he's doing.
Speaker 5: Tim Jamison used to be the head coach at Missouri
kind of in their glory days, Max Schures or.
Speaker 4: Aaron Crowe, you know.
Speaker 5: So they know what they're doing and it'll be a
tough series. Like I'm not looking at is any different
than you know, maybe somebody that's rinked up there in
the top five. It's honestly all the same. And I
know that's hard for really for people to get their
head around. It's just not like football and basketball. So
trust me, we're treated, you know, guns blaze and full
speed ahead prepared. Mike, it's Game three of the CWS Finals.
Speaker 1: Well, and coach, I know that. I know that.
Speaker 2: Look, there's a lot of new faces on this team.
But just thinking back to last year, I mean, I
just remember going now. Granted it's at the dude and
Missippi State is always good, so this is just bad,
cocky analysis by us. But outside looking in that's a
series we're like, oh, here you are, l you should
to kick their ass, So that it was kind of
like a bit of a rude awakening. Have you seen
any of the guys who were there last year?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like any lessons were learned or or
are they approaching it any differently this season?
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you this, like, this is such.
Speaker 3: A different team. And I don't mean that with any
disrespect to last year's team, because they ended up being
pretty good when all was said and done.
Speaker 5: But like, it's not like we only have twelve players
that were even that played in a game last year,
and those twelve, those twelve players are completely different players,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, I'll give you an example, of nobody would ever
think of like Jaden Newt.
Speaker 5: I mean he was coming off with Tommy john He
threw one inning last year. He's pretty good in the
ball game on Tuesday night.
Speaker 4: You know, a guy like Jake.
Speaker 5: A guy like Jake Brown who was just finding super talented,
like he doesn't need any more physical physical talent. But
I mean he had no idea what he was walking
into with that. And then you know, you look at
the transfers. You know, a Zach Callon, Chris Stanfield, Danny Dickinson,
Luis Hernandez. Those guys have played a lot of college baseball, and.
Speaker 4: So it's been a good blend with that.
Speaker 5: I want to say, we were in Frisco and I
looked out on the field and it was like, man,
this is this is where you want to get this too.
You got eight guys that have played a lot of
college baseball, and then you got Derek Curile who's freshman
as you could have. So so I don't think it
guarantees success, and we're not going to pretend like it does.
Speaker 4: Like there's gonna be some challenges throughout the course.
Speaker 5: Of this weekend and certainly through the league. So I
do like how these guys have responded to the challenges
that we've had within games so far, and that gives
me some confidence of readiness coach.
Speaker 7: One of the things and you just mentioned it that's
impressive to me is how you have these young players
that look like they're ready for the moment. It's not
too big for them. And we asked you about that
a couple of weeks ago. T Bob and I have
gone through that when we've been freshman trying to go
into Tiger Stadium and you know, be a player that
can help the team win. But the mindset of these
young players that you have, I'm talking like true freshman
and you mentioned one there, but like even like William
Schmidt he gets the ball on Tuesday night to start
the game, and just his confidence and just the way
he carries himself from the mound, like that feels like
somebody that the moment's not too big for a player
like that.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no. And it's like we've we've hit it
just right as far as what we wanted to get
done for these four weeks without overextending him, got him,
you know, basically a bullpen on Tuesday in.
Speaker 4: That game worked out perfectly.
Speaker 5: And he's lined up, you know, ready to go for
for the weekend.
Speaker 4: So really excited about him.
Speaker 5: I love putting him in the game. And the reason
I do is like, just like he thrives on, thrives
on the competition, it looks like he's been doing it
for a long time and he also is pretty darn talented.
So so I'm I'm excited about William. And yeah, I
think his his days is thrown on any Tuesday or
probably over for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of his career.
Speaker 2: Here coach J Johnson, LSU had baseball coach, you know him,
you love him? Opening weekend in the box this weekend
to the great role opening scc PL excuse me, but
one of just the best feelings in the entire world.
Six thirty tonight, six pm tomorrow, one pm come Sunday,
LSU Bazoo coach, best of luck this weekend. Cannot wait
to watch all right, guys, have good day, Yes, sir, thank.
Speaker 1: You so much for joining us. Coach J.
Speaker 7: Johnson love that at the end. I think his time
on Tuesday is probably over for it, he said. Career, Yeah,
he's a career.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: I get listen to that man talk forever. He's up
there with coach Molk and I mean coach Tarena is
greatest me.
Speaker 7: Well, look I said it for a long time when
that man was an assistant at the University of San Diego.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did.
Speaker 6: You were head and I was like, who is this dude?
Speaker 7: Just listening to him talk ball like in a side
weight room during the off season.
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Speaker 8: Off the bench. Welcome back to the best morning sports
show around sorta. It's off the Bench with Hester and
t Bob.
Speaker 1: Oh shoot, we call chef.
Speaker 6: Okay, hold on, you just gave me a heart attack.
Speaker 7: Yeah I bet, I bet Chef likes the song Peaches
and Cream being in the kitchen.
Speaker 6: Yeah. See I knew it.
Speaker 1: There he is, Chef. I missed you at Disney last week.
How are you doing?
Speaker 4: Boom you got it? How you guys do it?
Speaker 2: Uh freaking excited, super pumped, I mean, uh, great baseball
in the box, great baseball and softball at Tiger Park
this week? Like it's it's it's it's going to be
absolutely fantastic. Uh So much of baseball coach, especially nowadays,
where the SEC is so clearly the best conference in
the country, it's uh mind boggling, and how good it
is top to bottom and so so much of the
build up to this point feels like getting ready for this.
Uh do you feel your team's ready for the grind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: And I think the reason I say that is U
all mindset. You know what, everything you said is true
relative to the best league, you know, by miles by oceans.
Speaker 4: But that's that's still all external stuff.
Speaker 3: And for us, it's about how.
Speaker 5: We prepare, how we compete in the game, you know,
how we respond to things that happen in the game.
Speaker 4: And and how we play fundamentally.
Speaker 5: And there's been a lot of positive signs. But yeah,
I think we're excited to go. I think it's it's time.
And just like it was time for the season to
get here, it's time. It's time for this and you
know we're ready, ready to get, uh, get bloodied a
little bit and get and respond and be consistent in
our play and can't wait.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 7: One of the things we've talked about with you throughout
the season is the depth that you have on this team,
and it's certainly showed throughout the non conference as you
get ready for conference play, and you've been able to
create kind of these matchups that fai LSU Baseball like,
do you anticipate that kind of staying true in conference play,
do you want to shorten the lineup? Like what kind
of path do you want to see? Or is it Hey,
we just got to let this thing play out and
see what's best for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good question.
Speaker 5: I mean I say this all the time, Like any
decision I make relative to the lineup of pitching, change,
pinch hitting, you know whatever, it's all in the context
of just helping us win that game that's in front
of us, you know, I mean, you know, certainly the
teams were gonna play or are better than most of
the teams that we have played, but it's still baseball,
and you know, winning is winning, and so I never
get too far ahead of myself. Yeah, I said this
going I said this going into the season, and I
believe it to be true. I feel like I know
our team better this year in terms of what we have,
and part of that is there is a piece of
mind on the depth you could set some guys really
use their skills to be.
Speaker 4: Successful for this.
Speaker 5: And it'll get tested a little bit more. Obviously, you
need some guys to to really be on top of
their game in terms of their mindset and how they execute.
But I do feel good about how we can match
up and ultimately that's what baseball comes down to.
Speaker 2: So something interesting coach that in a roundabout way maybe
think of you. Yesterday was Rich Rodriguez talking about how
hard it is nowadays in society where everything's kind of
like me, me, me, me me.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: The dancing TikTok sof is funny too.
Speaker 2: Right, But but there's a quote about you know, everything's
inciting now and culture and the algorithm, it's it's it's
all about the individual.
Speaker 1: It's all about me, right. Uh.
Speaker 2: You have a saying uh, or or I've been quoting
you as saying, you do the big we little me.
Speaker 1: Uh. I love that idea. Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you find though, on a roster where there are
so many, so many talented players, is it harder easier
for them to get to buying that? You talked about
it yesterday with Braswell. You know, I'm sure you senior
and everything. He's maybe like who knows where his head's
at right now in terms of playing time and whatnot,
but like.
Speaker 1: He's going to be needed.
Speaker 2: Like guys have to stay ready because during this grind,
everybody's going to be called upon at one time or another.
Speaker 1: Uh. With a roster this good.
Speaker 2: Is it harder or easier to achieve that goal of
big we little me?
Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you it does.
Speaker 5: First off, great rich Rod reference like that's my that's
my that's my guy.
Speaker 3: We were at Arizona together.
Speaker 4: That's totally him.
Speaker 5: Like, by the way, one thousand.
Speaker 4: Percent, like I saw that.
Speaker 5: I was. I was laughing about that yesterday as well.
But you just you have to be intentional, Like I
think there's this thought of Okay, well everybody should just
be a good person and selfless and place beneath of
the team above their own and and he's right, like
that's not natural, and it's really not natural for young people,
and it's really not natural for.
Speaker 3: Young people nowadays.
Speaker 5: So we've been really intentional about how we've done a
lot to try to build that and knowing I always
go into the year thinking, Okay, what's going to be
the path for the team, And for this year, it's
pretty simple. It's we got to be tough and we
got to be together. I mean it's really boiling down
to those two things. You know, the toughness part is
just focused and you know the task at hand and
sticking through adversity and then the together part is the
team over me. And when you have a bunch of
guys that come here as their path to professional baseball,
they obviously all want to play, and I get it,
and I don't want them to be any other way
than that because they're not they're not competitive, but they
have to understand that this particular program was built on
players being selfless.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not always your time.
Speaker 5: At a place like LSU, so you don't have to
not be competitive about it, but you have to be
a man and handle it in the right way. And
it's really cool to see, Like when I came here,
we brought back that tradition of the pitcher handing the
ball to the reliever.
Speaker 4: It's kind of almost like a baton on the relay.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, your your job now, you know, I'm
handing it off to you, or.
Speaker 4: You know something.
Speaker 5: With these guys that have been we've pinch hit a
lot this year, you know, and some matchup spots and
and seeing the guy that I'm pinch hitting for encouraged
the guy that's going up to pinch hit, like, so far,
so good. Yeah, that's gonna get that's going to get
tested more and but I think as we sit today,
we're in a good spot with.
Speaker 7: That coaches you know, set to welcome Missouri into the box,
and you.
Speaker 6: Look at the SEC standings.
Speaker 7: I realize where Missouri is, and I'm sure that you know,
you and the team have realized where Missouri is. But
it's also an SEC baseball team, And so what are
some of the things that Missouri does well that you
have to make sure you get ready for this weekend?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Uh, left handed pitching, left handed hitting, you know
Ian Loch who I haven't seen.
Speaker 4: The rotation yet, but who I'm assuming.
Speaker 5: They're starting, like through a few scoreless innings against US
last year up there in Colombia. Certainly capable. They're very athletic.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Their coach, Karrick Jackson was at Southern and did a
good job there, and then at Memphis and did a
good job there, so he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 4: Tim Jamison used to.
Speaker 5: Be the head coach at Missouri kind of in their
glory days, Max Schuers or Aaron Crowe, you know, So
they know what they're doing and it'll be a tough series.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not.
Speaker 5: Looking at this any different than you know, maybe somebody
that's ranked up there in the top five.
Speaker 4: It's it's honestly all the same.
Speaker 5: And I know that's hard for really for people to
get their head around. It's just not like football and basketball.
So trust me, we're we're treating you know, guns blazed
in full speed ahead, prepared like it's Game three of
the CWS finals.
Speaker 1: Well and coach, and I know that, I know that.
Speaker 2: Look, there's a lot of new faces on this team.
But just thinking back to last year, I mean I
just remember going now. Granted it's at the dude and
Missippi State is always good, so this is just bad
cocky analysis by by us, but outside looking in that's.
Speaker 1: A series we're like, oh, here you are, l you
should to kick their ass. So that it was kind of.
Speaker 2: Like a bit of a rude awakening. Have you seen
any of the guys who were there last year?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like any lessons were learned or or
are they approaching it any differently this season?
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you this, like this is such a
different team. And I don't mean that with any disrespect
to last year's team, because they ended up being pretty
good when all was said and done, But like it's
not like we only have twelve players that were even
played in a game last year, and those twelve, those
twelve players are completely different players, you know what I mean. Like,
I'll give you a sample of nobody would ever think
of Like Jaden Newt. I mean, he was coming off
with Tommy John.
Speaker 3: He threw one inning last year.
Speaker 5: He's pretty he's pretty good in the ball game on
Tuesday night. You know a guy like Jake, a guy
like Jake Brown who was just finding super talented, like
he didn't need any more physical physical talent. But I
mean he had no idea what he was walking into
with that. And then you know, you look at the transfers.
You know a Zach Collen, Chris Stanfield, Danny Dickinson, Luis Hernandez.
Those guys have played a lot of college baseball, and
so it's it's been a good blend with that. I
want to say, we were in Frisco and I looked
out on the field and it was like, man, this
is this is where you want to get this too.
You got eight guys that have played a lot of
college baseball, and then you got Derek Currile, who's as
you could have so so I don't think he guarantees success,
and we're not gonna pretend like it does.
Speaker 4: Like there's gonna see some challenges throughout the.
Speaker 5: Course of this weekend and certainly through the league. So
I do like how these guys have responded to the
challenges that we've had within games as far, and that
gives me some confidence of readiness coach.
Speaker 7: One of the things and you just mentioned it that's
impressive to me is how you have these young players
that look like they're ready for the moment. It's not
too big for them. And we asked you about that
a couple of weeks ago. T Bob and I have
gone through that when we've been freshman trying to go
into Tiger Stadium and you know, be a player that
can help the team win. But the mindset of these
young players that you have, I'm talking like true freshman
and you mentioned one there, but like even like William
Schmidt he gets the ball on Tuesday night to start
the game, and just his confidence and just the way
he carries himself from the mound, like that feels like
somebody that the moment's not too big for a player
like that.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, And it's like we've we've hit it
just right as far as what we wanted to get
done for these four weeks without overextending him. Got him,
you know, basically a bull ten on.
Speaker 3: Tuesday in that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, worked out perfectly and he's lined up, you know,
ready to go for for the weekend.
Speaker 4: So really excited about him.
Speaker 5: I love putting him in the game. And the reason
I do is like, just like he thrives on drives
on the competition, it looks like he's been doing it
for a long time, and he also is pretty darn talented.
So so I'm excited about William. And yeah, I think
his his days is thrown on any Tuesday or probably
over for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of his career.
Speaker 2: Here coach J Johnson, LSU had baseball coach, you know him,
you love him. Opening weekend in the box this weekend
to a great role opening scc PL excuse me, but
one of just the best feelings in the entire world.
Six thirty tonight, six pm Tomorrow one pm comes Sunday,
LSU Bazoo coach, best of luck this weekend. Cannot wait
to watch all right, guys, have a good day, Yes, certain, thank.
Speaker 1: You so much for joining us. Coach j Johnson.
Speaker 7: Love that at the end. I think his time on
Tuesday's probably over for it.
Speaker 1: He said. Career, Yeah, he's a career. God. I get
listen to that man talk forever. He's up there. Coach
Moulky and I mean coach Tarena's great at me.
Speaker 7: Well, like I said, for a long time when that
man was an assistant at the University of San Diego,
Yeah you did. You were head And I was like,
who is this dude? Just listening to him talk ball
like in a side weight room during the off season.
Speaker 2: All right, coming to next, we got munchies. But before that,
I want to remind you about Goodwood men's sexual wellness,
your Goodwood dot com, your Goodwood dot com. If you
are suffering from a rectile dysfunction, you don't have to
be maybe just kind of performance in general. Right, You
don't have to settle for mediocre sex life or mediocre
life in general. We are not going quietly into that
good night. We are raging and banging against the night. Okay,
And you're gonna go to Goodwood today and you're gonna
get set up that free consultation.
Speaker 1: They're gonna draw your lab.
Speaker 2: See what your body needs physically, mentally, and create a
customized plan for you to accomplish those goals. So here
in twenty five guys, we're being the most that we
can the best that we can be. And it's a
ton of different treatment options. You can check them out online.
I mean again, a ton of solutions for whatever it
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Speaker 8: Off the bench. Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports
show in America. Off the bench and with Hester and
t Bob.
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I could do it again. It just happened. Uh, it's
time for another Tata.
Speaker 2: I don't know this, brother, Jacob. Sorry, time for another
Tata NFL Story of the Day.
Speaker 1: Day.
Speaker 8: It's time for Tate's NFL Story of the Day Day,
Your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 10: The quarterback carouselo continues in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers has
officially been released by the New York Jets. We knew
that was coming. The Pittsburgh Steelers appear to want Aaron
Rodgers to be their next quarterback. They're actually letting Russell
Wilson look around. Russell Wilson has been courted by the
Giants and the Cleveland Brown's tough decision between those two
story franchises. However, the report is that Aaron Rodgers wants
to go to the Minnesota Vikings and the Vikings have
not yet told him no.
Speaker 1: So the Vikings don't want airon Rodgers.
Speaker 10: If Pittsburgh doesn't quit drag dragging their feet, they may
not have Aaron Rodgers or run.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is my read on the situation outside looking in
is that Pittsburgh wants Rogers, but he's the one doing
the dragon.
Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't want You saw.
Speaker 2: Him with the blanket on the beach, looking pensively upon
the ocean.
Speaker 10: There was a rumor that like he wanted to stay
in New York and maybe even go play for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean again, Pittsburgh's his best chance to win,
I would think so.
Speaker 2: I mean they have well maybe no Minnesota would be,
but Minnesota is JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1: What do they want to do?
Speaker 2: Like a Kirk Cousins Pinnix thing like he wants two
years too, right, Like it just doesn't make sense with
the Minnesota front in my opinion. But maybe they're talking
to made Minnesota's like, look.
Speaker 1: We'll give you one year. I don't know.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but it kind of just seems like Aaron Rodgers
wants to do the exact Brett Farv Korea arc from
he didn't get drafted by the Falcons, but he goes
Green Bay to New York to the Minnesota Viking.
Speaker 2: He can still do the arc in Pittsburgh. It's not exact,
but like he's already doing it. He's dragging out this decision,
classic bar fashion congratulations and in the same way, all
he has to do is go to one more team
and then do good, just like Farve sucked in New
York but then still have that awesome run in Minnesota
where you do that pick in the NFC Championship they
got uh, like Rogers could do that maybe in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 10: If you're Pittsburgh I am. I am no Russell Wilson fan.
If you're Pittsburgh, do you want at least to a
significant am Are you willing to pay significantly more to
Rodgers than he would Wilson?
Speaker 2: If I'm Pittsburgh, I'm not worried about the money because
it's short term either way, So I'll pay her and
Rodgers whatever he needs to be paid whatever.
Speaker 10: I guess Pittsburgh could be without a quarterback though, if
they don't sign him in a hurry and Rogers.
Speaker 7: I actually saw a report where the Chargers were interested
in bringing him as the backup.
Speaker 1: Wow, how quickly your little tune would change? Huh?
Speaker 6: How long as he's the backup?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Start play that sound of Josh Allen being asked white
and try to beat Dak Prescott uch of money?
Speaker 9: Hang on, I didn't know who were doing this.
Speaker 1: I was taking a whole lot less.
Speaker 11: It didn't seem like to my perspective, I was taking
a whole lot less. But when the only the way
that I make sense of it. When when you start
getting these fairly big numbers throughout the entire league, you
know it's weird to say this, but what's what's five
we're going to do for my life that I can't
already do right now?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 11: So like it, it's not that crazy to me, right, Like,
I live a pretty good life, got a house, got
a car, We're good. But I wasn't looking to absolutely
kill them in every every chance that I could. And
I told my agent that I was like, hey, if
this this has any impact on the pack or impact
on the cap, I should say let's figure out a
way to not do that. So again we were both
sides were willing to move and change different things, and
it was a pretty pretty calm mannered and negotiation is
what I can what I can say, at least what
I can hear on both sides.
Speaker 6: So it was it was good, who's he? Who's he
interviewing with.
Speaker 1: Hills podcast or something?
Speaker 6: Is he doing that?
Speaker 1: What it was?
Speaker 6: Well, the setup was.
Speaker 1: Kind of weird.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was like it looked like a zoom like
nobody nobody had a microphone.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 7: And he's got a great country accident from being from California.
Speaker 1: I just look California, dude, Like.
Speaker 2: Caliboard's got rednecks in him if you yeah, if you
go above.
Speaker 7: Jeff, Yeah, you go above the southern portion. I guess
you can find some.
Speaker 1: But what's that?
Speaker 2: Not everybody's always wanted to hear from their star quarterback,
like is Josh Allen just like a fans wet dream?
Speaker 1: That's crazy? Which five million is my way?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 12: We know, yeah, y'all asked about Jamis Winston and the Steelers.
Former quarterback Sean King texted Mike Tomlin a dissertation on
why Jamis Winston is.
Speaker 9: A perfect fit for the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Let's go, all right, Well.
Speaker 10: We give somebody I'm trusting. It's it's Sean King.
Speaker 2: Yeah, more Otbanks. Yeah, former two late undefeated quarterback, former
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