Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Han'sday, Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 1: Five your locks in to off the bench.
Speaker 2: Well, there's back control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hesser and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo, yo, we're missing two years this morning, guys. If
you're watching on YouTube, yes, that is an empty studio
with the host chairs of Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Tak Sharp here, Orlando Villarreal here as well. Elandro. You
ever do something.
Speaker 3: You're excited about it, you show up early and you realize,
wait a minute, this is not actually taking place.
Speaker 4: Happens all the time.
Speaker 2: Well what happened today, guys?
Speaker 3: We thought they were going to be on remote at
U Club for a golf tournament this morning. Then it
turns out there was no golf tournament. Now there is
a golf tournament. It doesn't start till noon, so they'll
be here in like ten minutes. They are currently just
en route. They left U Club after getting there at
like six forty. Now they're driving back, so they will
be here. You just got us for the first segment.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if I fully trust Matt because
he said, let's throw to National and just go grab breakfast.
Speaker 3: Jake is on, wait, yeah, we're not sure. Flynn may
not show.
Speaker 4: You can't speak for Matt.
Speaker 2: We we do not know.
Speaker 3: Yet, but there's certainly a lot to talk about on
today's show.
Speaker 2: We'll get to it.
Speaker 3: First off, we'll get to the morning that Jacob Hesser
and Matt Feleinn had. I'm sure that'll be an interesting one.
Our guy Moose got a phone call from him going
through it.
Speaker 4: I got a phone call from him. Oh, is he
just calling the whole entire building?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I called him because he was telling me he couldn't
get internet. And I called him and I said, hey,
like we got the camera, we got the audio, Like
we can do it. And he was like, they already
called me and told me to pack up because he's
here anyways.
Speaker 2: Which I get.
Speaker 3: You don't want to start a show uninvited, quote unquote,
and then seven thirty everybody shows up. I was like,
how did you get in? I totally understand that, but
uh yeah, not the best start to the morning.
Speaker 5: How this man called me this morning was like the
camera won't turn on. I don't know how to like
the camera's not turning on. I was like, I don't know.
I haven't had that issue yet. And then he facetimes
me and showed me what he was doing, and he
was hitting the record button and I said, well, first
of all, that's not the power button.
Speaker 2: You gotta turn it on.
Speaker 4: He said, where is the power button? I said, right
there where the power symbol.
Speaker 3: Is to two big things about cameras, turn turn them on.
Lyn's cap. Yeah, those are kind of there's a kind
of the two mazing there two things.
Speaker 4: The power is like very clearly labeled too.
Speaker 3: Well, well we'll get that figured out. But uh yeah,
I had to wake up at four thirty. He just
turned around and went home.
Speaker 4: So you better take a nap.
Speaker 3: Look, you know, that's that's what happens. Sometimes you get
your wires crossed. But uh, Elandra, how we feel in
this morning?
Speaker 4: Great? I think I whooped Pollend's butt.
Speaker 2: I here, you're good.
Speaker 4: I gave a can a butt whip.
Speaker 2: You're good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, o TV.
Speaker 3: That's patented, by the way, anybody looking to steal that
patented a TV butt whip created by Lundra Villario. So
she gets most of the royalties. Me and Matt get
like two percent of each, just because we kind of
supported her.
Speaker 4: Yes, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I uh so I'm selling my truck today.
Speaker 2: Actually, oh yeah, and uh.
Speaker 3: I have had to wash it three times because people
keep coming to look at it to try to buy it,
and every time I wash it, Uh, the pollen falls
right back on it. So uh, not great there, not
not great at all. I wanted to start this with
free agency, but we'll wait for Jake and Matt to
do all that.
Speaker 4: Some big stuff going on there.
Speaker 3: We got a baseball game tonight and I wanted to
get to it here because I I don't know how
much more in the rest of the show we're going
to get to. The Tigers will take on Creighton. This
is not a good Creighton team. Teams are batting three
hundred against what they do so so LSU actually uses
their field a lot. Dan Cannavery told me this yesterday.
LSU uses their field a lot to practice whenever they
go to the World Series. So big connection there between uh, Creighton,
the Blue Jays, and the Tigers. But it's one of
those games, right that you have to hit. I mean,
this has to be a Friday night Sacramento State game. Right,
I mean this has to be one of the ones
where you get out of your slump, because like, yes,
there's one or two guys in a slump, the whole
damn lineup is in a slump.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's something we know, uh for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you've watched any of these games, your
pitching is going to be fine.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, your pitching really hasn't been the problem in
most of your losses. I mean, you've had one or
two bad outings, but for the most part, it's been there.
Speaker 2: It's been the hitting. Elandro is there like maybe.
Speaker 3: A sob in the line like somebody want to see
somebody want to take out like tonight, just to get
things going against Creighton.
Speaker 2: What we gotta do?
Speaker 5: So I don't know why, but I just really believe
in Well, first of all, I think you need to
keep Trent Carroway in the lineup, Like I you.
Speaker 4: Can't not have to make sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that is one thing that I would love
to ask Jay about because I don't really get that one,
just because I feel like he's been pretty consistent in
the lineup when he's up there and I would like
this might be a hot take, but I would like
to see more of Omar Serna because I feel like
if you give him more reps, he does great behind
the plate, or I feel like behind the plate is
kind of you can do one or the other, like defensively,
but I feel like if he's in the lineup more
often offensively, he can get hot.
Speaker 4: He's one of those that can get hot.
Speaker 5: I think he has the highest exit velocity on the
team right now. So Omar Serna is somebody else that
I would like to see a little bit more of,
But you try. The care away thing is just puzzling
to me.
Speaker 3: You and I were talking about it a little bit
after the show off air yesterday. Did we overestimate the
catcher position at LSU coming into the season, Because like
everybody's like, Oh, you have Aaron Beady, he's going to
take the next step, and you have Omar Cerna coming
in that everybody was super hyped about.
Speaker 2: Aaron bead struggled offensively and defensively.
Speaker 3: She just mentioned no more SNA and it's like, yeah,
that's certainly an option. And then it's like he's betten
two hundred right now. Now it's to her point, like
with more wraps. Sure, but it's like, did we kind
of overvalue that spot because coming in I felt really
good about the catcher position. Right now it's kind of
one of your biggest weaknesses. So that's something certainly to
keep an eye out on for tonight.
Speaker 2: Six point thirty.
Speaker 3: First pitch out at the box, lsu versus Creighton excited
to just move this thing in the right direction. This
is your last tune up game, this is it our
sec play, and you're on the road right at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at Vandy. Also, I just a side note.
Speaker 5: I did the Jay Johnson Show last night and he
was talking about, like, we all want Chris Stanfield back,
right He went full swing yesterday for the first time,
and he said that we're probably gonna start seeing him
like in a like a little bit, just kind of
working his way back a little bit.
Speaker 4: And how do you need him?
Speaker 5: Jay was just very much like, stick with this team
because you know, it's.
Speaker 4: A long season.
Speaker 5: And I I said this yesterday and I still kind
of believe in this team. I think we have the
right pieces, just kind of cold right now, and that's
just kind of how baseball is sometimes it is a
little alarming.
Speaker 4: That they're all cold, But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't want to fully give up on them, but I,
like I said yesterday, it's hard to say anything about positive,
anything positive until they do something positive.
Speaker 4: But I believe they will at some point.
Speaker 3: Like we were talking about it yesterday, it's funny, like
you could see unless you fans want to panic, Yeah,
but they know better with j Johnson, And like what
was brought up yesterday, Oh, this is the worst record
you've had before conference play since two thousand and seven,
which is before like Manary's first year here essentially. But
people need to realize that team went on a little
bit of a run, they made a regional and Jay
Johnson squad this year is a heck of a lot
more talented than that twenty and seven team. So you're
not out of it. You haven't even started SEC play yet.
When was it it was it was twenty four in
between the two Natties. Remember you started like three and
twelve an SEC play, You made a regional, almost won it,
probably should have won it, honestly, and you pitch away. Yeah,
and you would have hosted a super regional in bat
Rouge if you win that series and then hell you
got the advantage, maybe you're right back into Omaha. Like
that team. I think it was three and twelve that
they started an SEC play. Think you're gonna be fine?
Is this team gonna win a Natty?
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 3: It's way too early in the season. But they're a
heck of a lot better than they're playing now. Like
to your point, I don't like I'm all being cold
at the same time. The good news is maybe they
all get out of their slump at the same time.
I mean, it can't be a whole lot worse. And
about Chris Stanfield, it was. It was the Sunday game.
A ball goes over Mason Brawn's head and Mason Brown
was pretty deep in the outfield. Mason Brown's more of
a first baseman, Like I understand he could play both,
but coming out of high school, Mason Brown was a
number one first baseman in the country. Like, he's a
lot more comfortable there. Stanfield makes that play. If he does,
who knows how far William Schmid actually goes in that
game because he keeps his pitch count a lot lower.
There was a couple throwing errors in that game. That
helps Gavin Gidrey out a little bit. You had opportunities
to win that game and you just didn't do it.
I think tonight hopefully LSU turns to this thing around
now hand up. I was the one that was like,
oh yeah, the ULL pitching staff's really good, but they've
given up fourteen homers in twelve games. You're gonna turn
this thing around. And it didn't happen last week.
Speaker 4: But it's okay. I said we were gonna sweep Sacramento State.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: Look, look a lot of a lot of hot baseball
takes this week apparently.
Speaker 4: I mean, you should have swept Sacramento State to be fair.
Speaker 3: Right, and you should like it's it's it's not hot takes.
It's just well they were wrong back of it. But
they SAYND did good at the time. That's what matters
the most. Okay again, Taylor Sharp here a Laandravilla Reale.
If you don't hear Jake and Matt they are en route.
They had to go to U Club for an early
morning golf tournament that no, it's not that far did
not occur. So they're on the way that will be
here next five or ten minutes or so. So, uh,
what we'll do now, We'll take a break. Hopefully they
get here during break. If not, we'll get this show started.
On the other side, we'll talk to the Saints Free agency. Next,
you're on Off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn, presented
by Community Steel.
Speaker 2: You welcome, inn. We made it.
Speaker 4: We got both of them.
Speaker 2: Actually I made it first somehow for you. What a morning?
Good morning everybody. Andrew Taylor, thanks for rolling it down right.
Did something happened? No, what happened? I blacked out this
How I got about thirty eight miles on the vehicle
this morning? See?
Speaker 6: Can we expence miles if there's a mistake in the scheduling?
Speaker 2: I think we should.
Speaker 4: You should.
Speaker 2: Well, we made it.
Speaker 3: Be like, hey, man, I'm gonna need like ten bucks.
Speaker 2: You just slide me that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just give me a receipt. Nah, the schedule right,
I don't need a receipt. There was a apologize for
being a segment late.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 6: We were all four of us in the foxhole under
the understanding that we would be live from U Club.
Speaker 2: For a little golf attorney. Well, we get there and
I'm walking this dark in the parking lot, and I'm
walking around trying to figure out where I'm going. I
walk up to the main clubhouse. No one's there. Everyone's
looking at me. Funny.
Speaker 6: I look outside, like trying to look towards the eighteenth
Green to like see if I can see anything, and all,
all of a sudden, I hear this faint voice just
yelling in the distance.
Speaker 2: It was Muso Muso from the pro shop little outhouse.
It's like fifty sixty yards away from the main pro shop.
I hear him.
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, that's exactly where I need to go. Well,
he's yelling at this early in the morning, but he's
yelling some sweet nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't matter how early it is.
Speaker 6: Right, if it wasn't for his yelling, I wouldn't have
found him. And then I got the call. I was like,
I was looked around. There was no golf carts lined up.
Usually in a golf tournament there's a lineup of golf carts. Well,
not this one. This wasn't happening. Not their fault, Not
their fault.
Speaker 2: No. Typically when we do that tournament, the tournament's still
at eleven thirty. We just do the the show and
then people start showing up as like the last hour
of the show, getting everything ready, So I don't think
the time was wrong and things just move screwed it up? Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4: Well there's also no one there.
Speaker 2: Right, nobody's ever there when we start.
Speaker 5: So like there's like nobody liked lets you in the
building or anything that was outside?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we sit outside. It's usually me, Bo Weggman
and t Bob for two hours. Yeah, I mean even
even that third hour, that'd be tough. It's a shotgun
start at twelve thirty. Yeah, people start to get there,
set up and uh, Coach Andy typically like would come
on and talk about you high and.
Speaker 3: Gollare forgetting Look we're burying the lead here.
Speaker 2: That's one me. You guys get to test off the
brand new golf buttons. Yeah, we got pictures of those yesterday.
They look much bigger in the picture.
Speaker 3: I like that they're smaller though, because the other ones
were very petio Yes for screen.
Speaker 2: Size. Don't matter, it matter, guys, this is work. Hello, Hello, Hello,
hell like that. There's no wires hanging out, no screws
hanging out. It's not the size of the Titanic.
Speaker 4: It's not an ocean violation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like this.
Speaker 6: Hey, for all of y'all listening that live in University Club,
I just want to say, leaving there right before seven am,
it's something absolutely electric.
Speaker 2: It's hard to even pulling out of my I'm the
neighborhood next to it. It's even hard pulling out of
my neighborhood because of the people leaving there. You have
to when I say be aggressive, it's almost like I'm
going to get rear ended every day. It's I'm exciting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was easy leaving. There's a police escort there
stopping traffic.
Speaker 2: You see people pulling out in my neighborhood, and like,
you know, I didn't even notice.
Speaker 6: I just figured that you were in front of me somewhere,
but you weren't where you just stop somewhere.
Speaker 2: Get a donut now on you donuts? All right, my bad, kidding, delicious,
all right, dunkers here we kidding. Jenning's Dunker whatever your
name is. I know we can't get his name right,
never will. Yeah. Hello, they's were underwhelming. I was expecting,
like some exciting yos. It was more Ron Burgundy yo's,
but it wasn't. It wasn't with conviction because they felt
bad that we weren't here.
Speaker 3: Well, my my Ron Burgundy was intentional. It was wondering
where you guys were.
Speaker 2: We're here.
Speaker 4: It felt weird yelling with two people. That's not really
a waterfalls.
Speaker 2: It's just me and laundry yelling back and forth at
each other.
Speaker 4: We should have done yeah.
Speaker 2: See, that had been electric, would have been good. People
were like, what the hell is going on in the studio?
I know, I know, all right, so we are here.
Shout out to community. Still glad had them back on
the squad bringing you checks the watch Tuesday show every
single week. I don't know. Days are hard. We have
the same shirt on again, the same brand. Oh okay,
I'm the same brand. Yeah, but it does look the same,
like yellow backgrounds. Yeah, T shirt. I hate the rolled
up bad day to be that hates to see they do.
How are actual shorts today? Because I thought I was
going to a country.
Speaker 3: Club to chill out with the quads of this early
in the morning.
Speaker 2: You got it, you know what I mean? Used to
have a profile on YouTube. His thighs, his white, he
had dies. He had me. Yeah, I'm short shorts, you know? Yeah?
When is that again? Into this month? We're like two
and a half weeks out. What day you not to
be here again?
Speaker 4: That Friday or Thursday? Right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I will definitely not be here the Friday three weeks
from now. That feels like he's setting it up like
he's gonna be here at the other days. I gotta
warm up. I'm definitely not gonna be here on this
one day. Prep.
Speaker 5: You got to go get accustomed because you're traveling, right.
Speaker 4: You got to get your body right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got three hours work Monday and then you're done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, work Monday, maybe half day. Acclimated to that climate.
I tell you, I get you the time change. You know,
I understand that it's at the end of the side
of the border. It's wait, hold on, it's at the
end of this month. Yeah, yeah, dude, that might be
at league meetings the end of this month. I don't
even know what that means, owner's meetings NFL. All right,
where that all the hair coaches take the picture together.
You've seen that, we've you've broken it down before. I
don't really think you'd need to go to that. If
I'm being completely honest with you, what was that because
you were just with all the coaches talk about repetitive.
Now now see owners though they were there too, not
all of them. In fact, I don't think like, yeah,
some owners were there. Jerry was definitely there. We didn't
see them though. He sent his son Stephen Jones. He's
just a co owner. It was a good combo.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: What percentage do you think Steven owns right now?
Speaker 3: Whatever Jerry allows, Yeah, it's like his weekly allowance. If
he's good, he gets a one percent more.
Speaker 6: Every time he gets a good pick ride in the
draft he gets a half percent. Well, if it was
up to Landra, he'd have one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: Now, right, He survived my bold prediction.
Speaker 2: Who did Jerry he was gonna pass away?
Speaker 5: Yeah, which, okay, I don't know if I was going
to bring this up.
Speaker 4: But when was it? Fried? When did lou Holtz die?
Speaker 2: Thursday? And we talked about it, Freda.
Speaker 5: So he died Thursday, right Thursday morning, before the news
broke that he died. I was upstairs in Chris Marler's
office and he said something about lou Holtz, and I said,
isn't he dead? He had not yet died, oh Man,
Literally two hours later.
Speaker 4: Lou Holtz has passed away.
Speaker 5: Oh man, so Jerry really survived, So like, yeah, really.
Speaker 2: The grim Reaper.
Speaker 3: Are you going to get in trouble for this maybe?
Speaker 5: And then you know how we did the baby picture thing,
the trend with the baby picture and it was like,
this is who you're listening to on one of four
five escare or whatever. So he sent me one and
it was like my baby picture and it was like,
this is who killed Lou Holtz.
Speaker 2: Jesus teets.
Speaker 4: I didn't do it, guys.
Speaker 2: The man was just trying to pop off these I just.
Speaker 4: Thought that I had already seen were news that he did.
Speaker 2: You were here when we played his newspapers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the newspaper name blew my mind.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, incredible.
Speaker 3: In fairness to her, I called my dad Thursday and
I was like, hey, Lou Holds died, and my dad goes.
Speaker 2: I thought I saw that he got like five years ago.
Speaker 4: I swore I saw reports like not that long.
Speaker 3: So he actually he actually had the exact same responses you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna back y'all up.
Speaker 4: You thought he did too.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been surprised if I found that he
was all right, A right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I text my dad. I said, hey, we all
passed away, and he goes, oh, that's terrible. And then
I got another text and he's like, I feel like.
Speaker 2: This already happened. Yeah, all right, guys are insensitive. So
here's what we're gonna do. All right, because we're a
little off this morning, we're a different location, we'll take
a break, we'll come back get it started. Free Agency News.
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Speaker 6: How was it yesterday on the NFL Show? For four hours?
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The New Orleans Saints made a big splash yesterday in
free agency, so look shout out to Mickey Loomis as
much as much as like when he doesn't make moves,
like we give him a hard time, like you gotta
get him some praise for what he did yesterday, certainly,
and you know you're sit situation in the interior of
your offensive line is bad when like collectively the entire
fan base celebrates the hell out of you signing a
guard like they you know what I'm saying, Like typically
like you'll sign a guard and a casual fans not
gonna know who a guard is and be like, oh,
we got signed a guard. The news came across the
wire that the Saints signed David Edwards from Buffalo, and
it was the biggest celebration on social media for the
Saints in and offseason in a long time. Yeah, I
think they probably realized that we weren't going to take
him at the eighth pick. Now, right, we've taken that
decision out of his hands. Now we take him. But
that's what happens.
Speaker 6: When you have a season of really poor interior offensive
line plays and so you sign somebody that is.
Speaker 2: Proven to be a really good place. He's the best
guard on the free agent market this year. How many
times have we come on here and talk about the
Pro Football Focus grades for season Ruiz or whoever was
playing the other guard. This was somebody that graded it
out for the entire year at seventy four percent. Like
if they would have gotten that grade in any game,
we would have been excited. He had games where he
graded out in the nineties. When you look at what
he was able to do this season, all right, So
he was in the eighty third percentile and pass blocking
win rate in the eighty six percent out and run
block win rate. So he's not a one trick pony either.
This is an outstanding signing by the New Orleans Saints.
And Edwards is only twenty nine years old, just going
to turn twenty nine like this month. This is still
a young football player. You got him at just over
fifteen million dollars per year, which that feels like a
pretty good bargain considering he was the best guard on
the free agent market four years sixty one million dollars
and you had to have it, like, you had to
have help in the interior of your offensive line. It
was poor at best a year ago and really in
the last couple of years. So I think this is
a great move. It really solidifies what you've done at
tackle with your two young tackles. You love Eric McCoy.
If he can stay healthy, now you have an offensive
line that can protect a young quarterback and can also
help in the run game, right, because, oh yeah, you
made a big signing in the run game as well.
You bring etn Over from Jacksonville. That's a big get.
But it wasn't just in pass protection. You needed help
in the run game and protecting your quarterback. And so
you go get a running back that we'll get to.
But as you can tell, we're pretty excited about the
guard signing here because of how poor it was a
year ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you talk about the money too. I mean
you kind of perks people's ears up when you say
that a guard interior offensive lineman getting fifteen is quite
the deal. And I look up the you know, the
top five interior offensive linemen are getting twenty three and
a half, twenty one, twenty and they hover around that
twenty million dollars a year mark. So for the Saints,
and of course they have to secure that offensive line
because you going into your second year with your offensive
minded head coach. You're going into your second year with
your you know, hopefully franchised quarterback for a long long time,
and when you try to install offense, when you're trying
to do different things, you have to have good offensive
line play or it really takes down what you can
try to do as an offensive play caller, as an
offensive coordinator, installing plays if you have to, if you
have to all it's kind of like running a defense
when you have bad corners.
Speaker 2: It's like what do I call here?
Speaker 6: There's so there's a certain amount of plays I can't
call defensively in certain situations because I don't trust my corners.
Speaker 2: It's the same way of like developing or building a
game plan.
Speaker 6: There's only there's so many there's there's I got all
these plays that I want to put in, but like
I'm so worried about my offensive line play, I can't
do it. So if you secure that, not only do
you do you help the players on the field, do
you help your quarterback, you're running back, you help everybody,
but you help your offensive designers, you help your your
new head coach design more plays, you help your offensive coordinate,
your play callege. You help all of that be better.
So hopefully this continues. This is not just like one
like let's get some more. Yeah, we need more. And
I'm sure the offensive line is going to be a
position that they address in the draft as well.
Speaker 2: Now what kind of.
Speaker 6: Immediate need can can that have a kind of guy
in the draft, because I don't We're hoping it's not
a first or second rounder, but maybe mid rounds you
take somebody else.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 6: But obviously David Edward is going to make an immediate
positive impact on that offensive line.
Speaker 2: And he is going to be blocking for your new
running back. Travis dtn JR. Het In is somebody that
is from Louisiana and so a lot of us have
watched him play when he was in high school and
very talented family, great bloodline there obviously with his brother
Trevor ETM. But this is a player that really raised
his level of play a year ago. He did it
on the ground and through the air. He also did
it in pass protection. I thought he was really good
in pass protection, which look, I love AK, but he's
never been great in pass protection. It's always kind of
been the part of his game that was probably the
one that stood out the most as far as needed improvement.
Travistn is somebody that pretty good. So he's going to
give me an upgrade there. I don't. Look what happens
with Ak, We'll see. I don't obviously, I don't expect
both these players to be on team. If they are
and the Saints have a plan, okay, but you upgraded
at the running back position. This is somebody that was
thriving a year ago. He was above all projections last
year over thirty five catches. I think he had six
receiving touchdowns. And you don't pay look running back money
is It's funny because a lot of people like don't
like throwing money at running backs. He's like, oh, you
can get one in the fourth round, get you that production.
The Saints have tried that a couple of times. They
needed to go make a splash at the running back position.
You had to run the football better. You had to
protect the quarterback better at the running back position. You
signing for four years.
Speaker 6: Fifteen millionaire, you're paying more for your guard than you're
running back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's under the franchise tag number for running backs.
That's like around fourteen and some change. Right.
Speaker 6: Damn, I didn't realize that's under the franchise tag amount,
which is that's a heck of a deal. Yeah, I
forgot that's you know, he's certainly a veteran, but certainly
he's still on his prime. He's one of the top
certainly a good fantasy pick, certainly a top touchdown getting
like he's a touchdown getter, smells the end zone, has
been such a great player for a long time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder how much that played in the
decision making for him a lot, because I saw him talk.
Speaker 6: I assume that this team that he's wearing the uniform
on was trying to get him back, yeah, because he
was an important piece to their to their offensive success
this year.
Speaker 2: And we'll see what happened with the Saints backfield as
far as who they keep, who they let go, who
they try to move on from. But obviously, when you
signed Travis etn to. You know, fifty plus million dollar contract.
He is going to be the guy, but you needed
to upgrade. Now. If you do keep Alvin Kamara and
you come up with the right game plan, I mean
AK can be deadly in the passing game. Like, there's
ways to keep both of them. We don't know what
they're going to do, but this is somebody. Because the
Saints ranked twenty third in run block win rate and
thirtieth in yards before contact per carry last season, so
you had to improve the running back position and the
guys in front of the running back and you did
that yesterday. And it certainly feels as if this is.
Speaker 6: This is a signing to replace Alvin Kamara. It certainly
feels that way. There's clearly a changing of the guard
with the New Orleans Saints. They have made a move.
You see it with the two veterans on defense. What's
happened with them and what is happening and that's that
same guy on offense as Alvin Kamar been there a
long time, been very loyal, has loved it, has been
loved and I'm sure the Saints won him there forever
and want to retire as a Saint. But like they
also probably realized that we kind of lost his fastball
when it comes so the things that he used to
do Now, is he still good compared to a lot
of people, Yeah, he is, but he's not the same
Alvin Kamara that he once was. So it certainly feels
like a guy that has maybe a little extra speed
and a step it can do, can do the things
that Kamara used to do for you. Yeah, but maybe
Kamara does. Maybe he proves wrong, maybe there's something maybe
he's maybe he was working through ankle stuff or foots
like whatever it was this past year that we've never
really heard about. You never really know how the body's feeling.
Never really know how an off season is going to
treat a player. Maybe he has maybe changes something in
the off season it feels great the next year.
Speaker 2: You just never really know.
Speaker 6: Well, he would love to have Alan Kamara back now
with this move, does he want to be back?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: He's kind of said he wants to stay here forever,
like he's he's signed team friendly deals and even at
a point where I was screaming like go somewhere else,
like if you love something, said it free. Yeah, I
don't know. We'll see, but it certainly feels like that
it's a move to replace. I don't know, how do
you feel about Etn his gate?
Speaker 2: His gate's pretty good. I know there's something that questioned
his gate back in high school recruiting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe coach at l L s U maybe questioned
his gate. Didn't recruit him as hard as they should.
Speaker 2: Have, said they had a bad gate, bad game. Didn't
like his gate in high school. Yeah, I thought it
was pretty good. The gate's fine. Yeah, thirteen million dollars
a year now to play running back. Yeah, decent gate. Anyway,
Just you're not following. That's what l she thought of him.
Speaker 3: Well, keep seeing, people say, keep seeing be et and
he has a lot of carries. He's been like Traves.
Etn has missed two games total in four years of
being in the NFL at the running back position.
Speaker 2: He's been remarkably healthy.
Speaker 3: So all these all this talk about, oh he's got
all this tread on the tires, not all treads equal.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has been very, very healthy. Yeah, I
think it's a good move. I think the Saints made
a couple of great moves. Now that the Saints did
lose some players in free agency as well. So we'll
step away and when we come back, we'll give you
all the guys that aren't going to be in a
Saints uniform moving forward, including well one of your absolute favorites,
and we'll have that for you when we jump back
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why they were available.
Speaker 2: Anyways, before we go down that rabbit hole up there,
the New Orleans Saints lose a couple of players, uh
to Mario Davis two year deal with the New York Jets,
and you kind of knew this was coming. Still doesn't
make it any easier. Jets started crazy, Well we started
with the Jets. He knows the organization.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I thought he said he wanted to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah in his bank account.
Speaker 3: I thought he was going to either stay of New
Orleans or go to a contender.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he knows the organization, What does that mean
the owner is the same, No, I'm saying, like he
like he knows what he's getting into. He'd been there before,
he got drafted by him. So he goes to the Jets,
which surprising the team. It is I thought he would
go somewhere that had an opportunity. That's a bad man.
It's a bad look. So in my humble opinion, too
years twenty plus million fifteen, two years twenty two mil
fifteen guaranteed it gets a nice pay day, and he
chose that over I think going to a contender is
what it is what he did. I mean, the Jets
aren't a contender. They never have been, never will be,
certainly not this year.
Speaker 6: My question is like as well as he's played, I
know he's up there in age for a linebacker, but like,
as well as he played, he couldn't find ten million
somewhere else the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he could have. The linebackers were going
absolutely one could have fast and furious yesterday. So he
makes a move to go to the Jets. Wish you
met them, but luck Mariyo, Dave's awesome human being surprised
he went to the Jets, like we're talking about, thought
he was going to go to a true contender. Alante
Taylor is also on the move. He signs a three year,
sixty million dollars deal sixty million dollars now. Alonte Taylor
is a versatile player, talented player. I didn't have him
getting twenty per But the Titans right now, they were
in a position they had money to spend and they said,
you know what, let's see if we can spend all
of it in day one a free agency. Yeah. They
I'm counting. They got a lot of corners for a.
Speaker 6: Ten moves so far for the upcoming of the year.
And now maybe it all wasn't there. There could have
been a trade or something before, but this is the
looking at the PA.
Speaker 2: They sent him for sixty million. They signed Wandell Robinson
receiver from the Giants, four year, seventy eight million sort.
Speaker 6: They signed Cordell Flot another corner three year, forty five
million with thirty two fully guaranteed.
Speaker 2: So they brought in three corners. So they clearly don't
listen to this show.
Speaker 6: Between those two people, I believe it's one hundred and
two million dollars they spent on two cornerbacks. Yeah, because
if you're a listener of this show, you know that
if you want to not be a good football team,
go overpay for cornerback.
Speaker 2: I get it. Their defense was papoo and they got
to improve it. But you got a defensive head coach
which is always going to add to that. That and look,
Brian Dayball's there as well, so he's kind of giving
a report on these former Giants that you're signing.
Speaker 6: So you know, let's see how it plays out for him.
I'm sure it'll be really great for the Titans in
the next couple of years.
Speaker 2: They also signed defensive tackle John Franklin Myers three years,
sixty three million from the Denver Broncos. He's a good player,
though a lot of money. Hey got to fill seats
in that new stadium both, I guess so, and ain't
gonna pay for itself for insdue those corners really gonna
drive those ticket sales more. OTB when we come back
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