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what's up, brother, how's it going today?
Speaker 4: Doing great?
Speaker 3: How you guys doing doing very well? Man? Enjoying a
beautiful wintery Christmas morning here and joined another Saints win
and was what was probably one of the most unwatchable
football games of all time. And I mean, I mean
look in terms of like in terms of this elite
background noise, right, keep it on, you do stuff around
the house and check in every now and then, some
plays being made, and then certainly there was some frustration
at the end when it looked like you were gonna
blow up. But at that moment, what a play by
Brian Brazi to come up with the dub Saints b
the Giants fourteen to eleven. In a season where you
can paint anything as negative, nick or you know, it's
kind of in the eye of the beholder. What was
your main takeaway from the win on Sunday?
Speaker 4: Honest takeaway?
Speaker 5: I mean, given the circumstances that you're your quarterback gets
hurt and you're gonna be playing it back up the
next four weeks or the next couple of weeks or
whatever it's going to be in your odds of winning
games and making the playoffs or damn they're gone. I
feel like this is a game we're going to look
back at when they're like a pick away from getting
the best quarterback in the draft and being like man,
if he hadn't blocked that field goal, you know, what
was the point of winning that game? Oh, I'm the
grinch on this one. I'm the grinch on it, honestly.
I mean just I don't feel like the playoff thing
is Is it all realistic anymore? And you know, there's
no way you're beating the Commanders with Jake han Er
at quarterback, I don't think. I mean, maybe they'll surprise us,
but I just right now, coming out of it, I
feel like the long term benefit of the team would
have been it's draft pick now. And I know, you
know that probably pisses some people off. And there's people
that are off pro draft pick. There are people that are,
you know, against that line of thinking. And I get it.
I mean, you want to see them win games. You
don't want to see him lose to the Giants. That's
really the moral Yeah, But the long term big picture here,
I don't know. I mean, I feel like they aren't
you know, I feel like the odds of making the
playoffs are pretty pretty low right now.
Speaker 2: I would be.
Speaker 3: Clear, I have no I have no illusions about the playoffs,
Like that's not all where I'm saying. But I also
maybe not if you lost this game to your point,
but now like you're not getting the pick. All those
teams with three wins beneath you are not winning five games,
So it kind of is what it is like. I
don't know, man, again, I just think there is something
to be said for the pride displayed as a professional
on Sunday to go out there and win that game.
How'd you feel about your boy Kendre Miller? Overall the
set's nothing too special, but that a touchdown run was
pretty awesome? Is Kendre Miller?
Speaker 2: We are?
Speaker 3: We are? We thinking he might be a piece going forward.
Speaker 5: Just going back to your previous point, Like, I don't
disagree that the professionalism and all that stuff's great.
Speaker 4: It really is. It really is.
Speaker 5: It's good to see him still fighting, still going for
the rizzy, fight for the job, is still alive. All
that stuff is really good. All I'm saying is is
if you bring the Giants up to three now there's
only one two win team and you're sitting on four
with four games ago and your backup quarterback in there,
you're in a good possibility.
Speaker 4: Of getting into the top five.
Speaker 5: Is actually kind of maybe maybe realistic and that's not
a terrible thing to kind of have, is the wheels
might be coming off here down the final four games,
this might have been the last hurrah.
Speaker 4: And if the last hurrah's beating.
Speaker 5: The Giants fourteen to eleven on a black field, well,
I don't know, maybe it is kind of fitting for
the for the season. As far as Kendrick goes out,
I thought he played great. I mean, this is kind
of what we see every single time we see him
on the field, though, Like he runs hard. There's life
to him that, you know, just kind of shows up
on the field. There's pop to him, runs hard, plays hard.
I think he's a good player. You just can stay healthy.
If you can stay healthy, like down the stretch and
you get for Zi going down the stretch and you
see some more moments from Alante like that pass, break
up the neighbors, or some places from Kuloyth, like there
are a couple of little bright spots here. Maybe going
down the stretch of the season, he would definitely be
one of them. If he can show he can stay healthy,
you know, I would I would feel a little bit
better about next season. I mean you can maybe look
at him then and like count on him for a
little something, whereas right now it's kind of like he's
a guy on the team and if he gives you something, great,
but you can't count on him being part of the
solution to anything.
Speaker 4: And if you could change that.
Speaker 5: Narrative a little bit, I think that'd be a huge
benefit down the down the stretch of the season.
Speaker 6: Nick Will, Derek Carvey is the starting quarterback Week one
of next season.
Speaker 4: It's a great question.
Speaker 5: It's hard to analyze it because if you know, if
you're a coach coming in and you have Derek carr
maybe it gives you a chance to like actually survive
beyond three years. And if you get off to the
right start, you know, he's obviously gonna help you win games.
If you tear it down and you and you cut him,
you basically have zero cap dollars to do anything else.
You're filling out your roster with league minimum players. But
if you're looking at it like, hey, like what's the
better path forward to me? Look, it's hard to talk
about Derek car because there's these camps of like absolutism
where he's either the best quarterback in the world to
some people, and he's on fairly judge and everybody's super
negative and it's onfair or he's the worst quarterback to
ever play and he never does anything right. I think
he exists somewhere in the middle. And if you put
him with the Bucks, like he could probably be similar
to Baker, if you put them in Minnesota, they're probably
still a playoff team. Is he the right quarterback on
a team with cap issues that can't really fill out
the roster around him and are going to ask him
at times to win games for him?
Speaker 4: I would say the answer is no.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's right quarterback for the team, but
that doesn't mean he isn't the right quarterback for a
certain team. So if you want to start that process,
I think getting rid of him, I think that that
could gets you maybe on a path to more.
Speaker 4: More healing.
Speaker 5: I guess like, if you go and get like an
eight million dollar replacement level quarterback, that's probably a better
situation than paying thirty three or whatever the ap y
is for him. I will say this, like, I've watched
that play now, it's got to be one hundred times,
and I just don't I don't understand it. I don't
understand what he was thinking in that moment, it's second
in ten, the you he was.
Speaker 3: Fired up, dude, he's fired up, trying to put it
on for the boys, dude, Like like I get it
out there everybody. Everybody gushed over Spencer Rattler lowering his
shoulder in preseason.
Speaker 5: I thought that was dumb too, though, Like you know,
I thought that was dumb too, Like it's second in ten,
your playoff hope, like you're if you win this game,
your two games back, you play the bucks once, like
you actually have a realistic playoff shot. Just step out
of bounds, like it's like you know, the optimal play
there is the slide even a yard earlier and keep
the clock running. If you aren't going to have that
awareness like step out of bounce, do not like launch
yourself into a hit. I don't understand it, and like
I get it before I even knew he was hurt,
Like when I seen him do it, I audibly said,
you know, WTF, like the out loud, like I didn't
understand what was happening, why he was doing it.
Speaker 4: I didn't like to play.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the motivation was, Like I get it,
like I do know what the motivation is he's trying
to give it up for the team and everything, but like,
man live to fight another down In that situation, that
was not a I don't know, like my personal take
on it, Like I did not like that play. I
would have liked a better decision. But I'm also a
guy who when Alvin is, you know, eleven yards down
the field and he steps out of bounds instead of
taken a hit, like, I'm like, yeah, like do that
because the better thing here is not to fight for
the yard and to be at your best on December
twentieth or whatever, Whereas other people are like what is
he doing fight for the yard? Like if it's a
pointless yard, you know there's yards worth fighting for in
their yards that aren't. I don't feel like that was
a yard that was worth fighting for.
Speaker 3: Not WTF Nick Wwe. It kind of looked like Wwe
bit when he was laying on the ground too, But
then I was like, oh, wait, no, he's actually really hurt.
How about this. You said you don't believe Jake Hayner
is capable of beating the commanders, but what about Spencer Rattler.
Speaker 4: I don't think either one of them. I mean I
think your yards will win in But who's the next
two games?
Speaker 3: Who's good?
Speaker 7: Heart?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 5: If I if I go put my money on I
put my money on Hayner. I think I think they'll
probably go with Ayner this week. Could be wrong. It's
kind of my anticipate. My anticipation is, uh, I would
say Hayer, why why?
Speaker 3: Why would that be?
Speaker 6: Like it's kind of weird because we've seen Hayner come
in a game, but then the next week Spvince Ratler
got the start. Like it does It just feel like
they're completely unsettled at that position, and it's just kind
of like whatever the gut feeling is.
Speaker 5: I think that you know, you kind of saw and
you probably feel like your odds are are distant, just
kind of giving that the structure on the court, like
they got their offensive linebacker, Like who's he throwing the
ball to?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like you're asking so much of them in your odds
of winning, I think are probably pretty low. And if
you're making a pragmatic decision about your own future and
you already feel like you've seen one thing and kind
of know that it's going to be tough given the structure,
maybe you try your luck with the other thing and
hope that there's something onsee that can be found. But
I think you've kind of seen everything with Rattler to
this point, and I.
Speaker 4: Don't think you know this.
Speaker 5: This is a situation I think would be hard for
a lot of quarterbacks, you know, even going up in
the like quarterback best, you know, quarterback fifteen in the
league probably isn't coming in and leading you to victory
against the Commanders. With Mark haz Valdez scalling age your
number one receiver and just kind of being bogged down
everywhere else. I don't think there's a lot of quarterbacks
that can win in this. So it's not like a
Rattler thing. I think you just kind of already know
it's tough and you're just hoping that, okay, maybe there's
some magic somewhere else. So if I was Darren Rizzy
and I was in that situation after seeing the one
thing already and like all right, there wasn't enough help
there to help him, I might like try my luck
with the other guy, just because I already know.
Speaker 3: So Nick Taysom Mill gets hurt and who knows what
this means for his long term career. I got a
kind of a multi fascinated question here because I I
don't know, Like, it's not it's a weird position. It's
not a position Taysom Hills that exists on the majority
of invel teams. But if you wanted to keep it going,
whenn't somebody like Army quarterback Bryson Daily look potentially very
intriguing in that regard. I mean a cat you can
play the quarterback position. You know, he'd be willing and
he has a grit to block whatever that the case
may be, leads touch on and rushing touchdowns. Like I guess,
do you do you continue this idea of the taysoum position?
And if you do, do you think about drafting someone
with that in mind? Like a bryceon Daily.
Speaker 5: It's funny I wrote about this like about maybe a
week ago, just the kind of idea of it. Every
time I look at someone like that, I'm like, well,
why don't they just go do this? Because there's so
many backup quarterbacks in the league that it seems like
they can run, they have a little bit of size
to them, they can throw, Like, why wouldn't you go
do this? You could get on the field, make more money,
and potentially have a longer career.
Speaker 4: But I think it's probably so hard. I think I think.
Speaker 5: I think like the number one thing here is that
you got to find somebody beyond the physical traits which
you're kind of unicornish, and you know, he's a guy
that might have those traits.
Speaker 3: Yea is like the fastest guy on the team potentially, So.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to find somebody that's willing to let
go of the quarterback dream. And even Taysom wasn't really
willing to do it. He was willing to let go
of it kind of temporarily because he's in a situation
He's like, well, yeah, that's Drew Brees.
Speaker 4: What am I going to do? And I want to play.
I'll get on the field. Like this could be like
a cool way to do some some stuff.
Speaker 5: But my biggest what if with Taysoum is like what
if you let go of that sooner and you just
kind of went all the way into it. It's like,
what could he have been? Like could that have been
a potential? I don't know, Like he makes way more money.
I think he could have become like the most marketable
player in the league, just being willing to do like
all this different stuff. I think it's hard though to
find somebody with the physical attributes and the mentality and
the willingness to do it that's like just just actually
a freak. Like people have been kind of looking for
him for a while. And there was kind of that
like little little mini trend there where there were like
three or four teams trying to find taste some type players.
I can't remember who it was for for Denver at
one point, but they had one, uh that was trying
to do it and it didn't really work out.
Speaker 6: Stevens.
Speaker 3: I think it was just Tommy Stevens again. They just
signed him. They just signed him again afterwards.
Speaker 4: I think it was dumber though.
Speaker 5: There was somebody like around like nineteen or twenty, like
when the Saints played them, like they brought him in
if there was some team that had to taste some
type player and they like brought him in for a
player or whatever, and then kind of.
Speaker 3: Way you're talking about the quarterback that started a game
for the Broncos during the NO there was a quarter.
Speaker 4: They had like a quarterback in the taste role.
Speaker 5: It might it might not have been the Broncos but
there there were a couple teams that tried to get traction.
I remember the Saints played someone and they brought brought
him in, but like it just didn't work. It didn't
work for anyone. But if you could find that player
and develop them, Like I don't get why it's so hard,
Like it can't be that hard to find somebody that
can like throw just enough, can run, can block, like
they have to be out there, but it's apparently way harder.
Speaker 4: Than it is.
Speaker 5: But like my other deep football thought is like why
aren't there more wide receiver fours and fives on teams
that are Yeah, I'm gonna go get a little bit
bigger learning how to block and be a killer tight
end and like that seems like something that should easily
be able to happen to but it doesn't, and it
must be because it's really hard to do. So I
don't know, like it feels like you should be able
to find that guy, but they just don't really seem
to be out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, like the separating factor, I guess
what we take for granted there is is it Taysom's
raw physical freakness. Because again, like you could you know,
you see big white guy, You're like, okay, yeah, like
Bryson did a big white guy, but Tasim's like actually
got like elite elite speed.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, maybe maybe that's a I mean,
Bryson David is actually a good calm because of his size,
because of his mentality, and he's out there, you know,
playing well.
Speaker 3: If you're talking about being selfless somebody who would you know,
you got to imagine the army training would have him
like he would be willing to do the hard stuff,
to do the gritty stuff.
Speaker 5: But literally got to go to the Army to get
to the next face from all right.
Speaker 6: You got to are the Navy horror bath. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: He's not as big as Yeah, Nick, what's going on? Man?
How's CHRISTMP been so far?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so far, so good, so far, so good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, takeing ease you guys.
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guess the bigger question is do you keep the Taysom
roll going right? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, you checks, you know, a version of it
is not the same. You know, could ix certainly hand
that in the past. We talked a lot about that.
Uh yeah, you'd have to. If you drafted bryceon daily,
obviously he'd have to get a release from the army
as well. That's the whole situation.
Speaker 3: Well, if you draft them, aren't they pretty straight up
that it's been hit or miss?
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apparently set to reopen in uh twenty five.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: So they're saying they're gonna Okay, first off, this is
pretty cool. So you know the architecture that building is
really cool. Apparently it's uh, it's in the historical building.
It's like protected in her historical buildings, saying, and so
they got some credits that they can use. They're they're
gonna re re red. They're going to restore the building,
they say, while while maintaining that original architecture in charm right,
they taking the spirit, so they say. And this code
feels a little long. I don't know if it's one
hundred percent confirmed. They're going to reopen it at as
flur to Lee. And the other thing he said is
the plans are to open it as a pizza restaurant.
And that's I'm kind of like, well, I mean, come on,
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to Lee m hm. And so I guess here's my hope,
right is, or here's what I'm a bit afraid of.
First off, I maybe you open it as a different restaurant.
It works, you know maybe maybe so right, anything can
work if you X you do well. But I would
hope that you bring it back. And then I I would,
but even a bigger misstep, maybe than Jake. Then going
to completely different style of food would be reopening it
and not doing the pizza like the same style pizza,
right that rectangular what is it Greek?
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Speaker 3: Is that a Roman Roman style pizza?
Speaker 10: I believe Detroit in the square one Detroit.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, no, no, you are. I think you
are correct, but I don't know. I've always I would. Yeah,
I never had it before. It was my favorite. I
loved it. I really loved it. In a city that
has kind of a dearth of great pizza options, I
thought it was it stood out. I mean, do anybody
else care about Flurtally? You're the only ones you just
move on?
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Speaker 10: Quite a bit. Uh well back we used me and
Victoria went.
Speaker 11: We would I wouldn't say frequented, but I mean, you know,
we went three or four times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, look, you know, hopefully you
start taking cards and they don't really care if you
do or not. I mean, it's it's easier on everybody
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with the bulls, pimping.
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tiny little thing has a money clip on it and
I try to keep you know, a little bit in there.
But so so, I just recently started carrying cash. Not
to brag, but you brag, Yeah, but I'm an involved
human being. I'm an adult now because you carry cash. Yeah, yeah,
I mean cash money.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Look, I I I hope they just bring back the
same old pizza. That would be my great hope. Maybe
it's some updated tag make a little more family friendly.
But we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah again, I just yeah, taking cash would be But
you like pizza, right nostalogy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you gotta take card hopefully, I mean you will,
like even you're not gonna put money into renovating the
building and everything and not take card.
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Jake losing saving Jones? Is Brady Swinson now losing to
Sean willmack uh Going in the portal, try to find
some replacements, and it looks like a couple of Big
ten names could be coming down the pipeline. As LSU said, well,
you sure did get hit in the head. LSU said,
hose Purdue transfer deep invent will help on a visit
bit of a breakout sophomore year. And like everybody else
in Purdue, he's leaving, Like anybody who is any good
at Purdue, they were awful. Ryan Walters out, he's leaving
and ten tipples, five sacks, melike Jaki and LSU's set
to host him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Purdue is going to have just a ton
of players. You'd be like, well, produce a very bad
team they have any good players? Of course, they have
good players. I mean they're in the Big ten ye too. Yeah,
he's he's maybe even more you know, of a need
than anybody. But yeah, there there's going to be players
from Purdue that are going to go to different places
and be very impactful. I mean, one of the best
edge rushers in the SEC at A and M came
from Purdue. Yeah, you're score, So like you're going to
have a ton of those players that are going to
be available because everybody is leaving, and this is a
good start. Hey, I'll take an edge rusher and a
safety from Purdue Big.
Speaker 3: Ten honorable mention Helt was he has visit scheduled to
l s U and then A and M so you know,
I'm sure Scurton will try to convince him to go
down there. But I remember Scorting was originally from right
by college station, so that was a bit of a
returning home. I don't know where. Will Help is originally
from Carmel, Indiana, so either way he'd be going far away.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 3: Here's hoping to else you can land him and then
els you apparently also Jake in the top three schools
for Jamari Butler, who is coming over from Nebraska. He
has one year of eligibilly left. He's spent five years
in Nebraska. Ten starts this year seven timples two secs
pretty good, nothing too crazy, six five, two sixty. But
he has narrated down to Texas A and m LSU
and Florida State. So A and M n LSU already
competing over a couple of edge guys in the Pardal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to go get more than one too.
I mean, you can't just assume a player is going
to work out for you. Oh yeah, I mean you
have to go out there get multiple players at multiple positions.
There's some positions where you've got some good depth built up.
There's some that you you know, maybe you can add
one player because you feel good about where the first
three are. Edge and safety, aren't those positions. You got
to go get multiple players because maybe they don't work out.
I think we we we now have enough of a
case study to know that it doesn't matter if you
were a five star top fifty player out of high
school and you're in the portal, right, that doesn't mean
you're going to work out in your new place. Right now.
You have to go get production. You have to go
get guys, multiple guys that you think can fit your
system and whatever you're trying to get done here. And
so I would like multiple edges, multiple safeties, probably multiple receivers,
multiple tight ends. There's a couple of position groups here
that else she's got to add multiple bodies.
Speaker 3: Well, old boy that BK was grinding on's back in
the partal.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, Danny Lewis from Alabama.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you go have your dlu He's got one
career catch, but has it only been one year? No, no,
two years, three years, he's been three years?
Speaker 2: Has he got grinding on?
Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Time is going that was before me K coach a
game is? Time is going way too fast?
Speaker 10: You whiffed on Danny Lewis. So who did you sign?
Speaker 6: That's funny?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I say that worked out. It worked well
pretty well. Wow, that's been that long. So do you
have a tight end? Uh? A tight end candidate that.
Speaker 6: Is not just like trending to LSU or anything like that.
Like we don't know any information. But Tita and I
were talking hearing one of the breaks yesterday. I mean,
this portal class is going to have a ton of
really good tight ends, productive tight ends, and it actually
already does. And so you you have to add so
multiple tight ends but also multiple types of tight ends.
I think you need a Y and you need an
F because I don't know what you're going to do
with trade eds Green, Like I don't know where he
ends up as far as last year. He kind of
got moved to a receiver as we all know. But
can he help you in the tight end game? Fight
that Yon fight? That Yon fight? It tell that you
who's boss. TVOB you did. That was actually well done.
So there's multiple players in the portal at that position, Tite.
You were mentioned in a couple yesterday. There's some that
l She's played against just last year, including your cousin.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Bower Sharp from Oklahoma State.
Speaker 6: He'sorto.
Speaker 10: He's their best player Oklahoma.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: Not quarterbacks in the portal. Not a quarterback as we
saw in the game again tell.
Speaker 11: Us you but Saturday or Sunday he entered the boy Okay,
and then Luke Has from Arkansas.
Speaker 6: Remember a couple of years ago, I mean crushed l
s U.
Speaker 11: Hell yeah, dude, Lsu has offered a tight end. This
actually happened middle of last week in the portal. You're
saying Zach Atkins and now he's from Northwest Missouri State,
so he's playing up a level of competition. But get
a solid career there. And if you go look at
Zach Atkins's Twitter, he has a scholarship offer from basically
every team in the SEC.
Speaker 7: So you know that.
Speaker 6: He's definitely an f though he's a smaller, he's tall,
he's like two oh five. He's not a big guy.
Speaker 3: That is one thing about the portal, and I think else,
she's got a lot of money spend the port and
they can. You don't have, Like Jake said, again, you
don't there's there. It's gonna be interesting why people develop
different strategies. Do you go all in on the big
guys or do you do a little diversification of risk
right and make one guy into like two good guys
right or or or three like you know, and and
and spread out. So I'll be interested to see how
they attack it.
Speaker 6: I just don't think you put all your eggs in
one basketball But then like what about a Yeah, so
I'm saying less it's like a proven guy who's an
All conference player. Again, I don't take chances on guys
that were five stars out of high school. They're three
years into their college career and they've got one catch. Yeah,
they've got with the productive I have seen that play out,
not just at LSU, but across the country. That Denver Harris. Yeah,
like the guy got it wrong. That was evaluating you
out of high school. And that's okay. It happens. Nobody
has one hundred percent hit rate. But I am not
chasing stars right now. That's not what I'm doing. If
I'm LSU. I'm chasing production. I'm chasing something that I've
seen on film the Eye, And this guy told me
a story of this player being able to help me,
not what somebody said about a player three years ago
that we're still trying to develop that player. The development
did not happen. That player is who that player is.
Go get production, Go get people that you can plug
and play, because that's what you need with this team.
And so I hope that's how they attacked the portal. Right,
you got a couple of transfers in from Ohio State
of the last couple years DBS.
Speaker 3: They're both gone now, the same situation to.
Speaker 6: Drive star players. They didn't work out of Ohio State.
They didn't work out here. I think we all know why, right,
They're just not the players that we thought they were
going to be that Ohio State thought they were going
to be. That's not what you need. Like the first year,
think about the first year in bk and and the staff.
The players they hit on, it was all conference type
players that weren't these you know, highly coveted Harold like
but our converse all conference player and when you got
him out of the portal was like, oh, Okay, cool
when Denver Harris comes out of the portal. Oh my god, no, no, no,
ye give me Mackay Gardner, get like, give me those players,
Greg Brooksrooks, the players that we have seen play in
college football, that have proven they can help you win
football games. That's what you hit on your first year here.
You got to the SEC championship game. That's what I
hope they hit on this year production over what we
expected them to be out of high school.
Speaker 11: Well, we were talking during the break that Cole Westnowski
from North Dakota established in the portal. He's in the
portal as a safety. He didn't play this year and
I figured out why to Bob. He had a foot
surgery in August, so he did not play this entire year.
Speaker 2: He's in the portal.
Speaker 11: Last time he played, twenty twenty three, he was the
conference player of the Year at North Dakota State ninety
two tackles, eight interceptions at the safety position. He's also
started ten games at linebacker for North Dakota State. He's
six four two eighteen. Don't even look at him as
a linebacker. That guy can play somewhere for you and
you say he's a North Dakota State Transfer.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, we'll see what else you ends up doing.
We'll continue to keep an eye on it. Keep it
locked here on OTV.
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Speaker 3: Mom? Welcome back to O TV. Uh So Flurtally guys,
Flurtally apparently set to reopen in uh twenty five.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: So they're saying they're gonna Okay, first off, this is
pretty cool. So you know the architecture. That building is
really cool. Apparently it's uh, it's in the historical building.
It's like protected on her historical buildings thing. And so
they got some credits they can use. They're gonna they're
gonna re re read. They're going to store of the building,
they say, while while maintaining that original architecture and charm. Right,
they taking the spirit, so they say.
Speaker 2: And this code feels a little long.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's one hundred percent confirmed. They're
gonna reopen it at as flur to Lee. And the
other thing he said is the plans are to open
it as a pizza restaurant. And that's I'm kind of like, well,
I mean.
Speaker 6: Come on, I would. I would.
Speaker 3: I would hope so right, like like the play should
quite simply be just reopen Flur to Lee. And so
I guess here's my hope, right is, or here's what
I'm a bit afraid of. First off, I maybe you
open it as a different restaurant. It works, you know
maybe maybe so right, anything can work if you ext
it well, but I would hope that you bring it back,
and then I I would, but even a bigger misstep,
maybe than Jake thing. Going to completely different style of
food would be reopening it and not doing the pizza
like the same style pizza, right that rectangular?
Speaker 6: What is it Greek?
Speaker 7: Is that? Is that? No?
Speaker 2: Roman?
Speaker 3: Roman style pizza?
Speaker 4: I believe Detroit in the Square one Detroit.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, no, no, you are I think you
are correct, but I don't know. I've always yeah, I
never had it before. It was my favorite. I loved it.
I really loved it. In a city that has kind
of a dearth of great pizza options, I thought it
was it stood out. I mean, do anybody else care
about flurtally? You're the only ones you just move on?
Speaker 10: Oh, I went quite a bit. Uh well back, me
and Victoria went. We would I wouldn't say frequented, but
I mean, you know, we went three or four times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, look, you know, hopefully you
start taking cards and they don't really care if you
do or not. I mean, it's it's easier than everybody
if you do, for sure.
Speaker 6: But I hadn't had cash, and Scottie Pimping was pimping
with the bulls pimping ever since.
Speaker 3: I got one of those little thin razor wallets or
whatever they're called I don't know, some little tiny little thing.
It has a money clip on it and I try
to keep you know, a little bit in there. But
so so, I just recently started carrying cash, not to brag,
but you brag. Yeah, but I'm an involved human being.
I'm an adult now because you carry cash. Yeah, yeah,
I mean cash money. So I don't know, Look, I
I I hope they just bring back the same old pizza.
That would be my great hope. Maybe it's some updated
tag make a little more family friendly. But we'll see,
we'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah again, I just yeah, taking cash would be but
you like pizza, right nostalogy. Yeah, but you gotta take
card hopefully, I mean you will, like even.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna put money into renovating the building and
everything and not take card.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think you're right.
Speaker 2: Go to main events.
Speaker 3: Main event, guys. Right here in bad Ruge is your
home for fun, your fun quarters.
Speaker 2: And I call it.
Speaker 6: I made that up.
Speaker 3: They don't tell us to say that, but it is
okay because any activity you and the family want to do.
You want to do a gravity robes course, which is
also like great team building stuff. You want to go
bowling professional level bawling you to play in a multi
level laser tag arena. You want hundreds of arcade game,
you want delicious food with our newly reworked menus, want
great drinks. It's all a main event. And so again,
anytime you want to bring the family main events there.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: But what if you're a business owner, a leader of
a team of some sort, as I said, you want
to team building, you want to celebrate a big milestone,
you would have a Christmas party, anything like that. We
have dedicated party planners on standby, ready to go and
make sure that you don't lift a finger and your
event goes off without a hitch. Go to main event today,
that's main event.
Speaker 7: I wonder.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to know. I'm sorry, I'm scolding to you.
Train seen I everybody can tell me, like, like what
kind of pizza?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: That that it?
Speaker 3: That technically that technically is.
Speaker 10: At uh at Florida Lake. Yeah, the building says Rouman.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. But I'm not getting anybody. I'm
not getting anybody. It's a firm used to pizza. No,
I know, I know, I know, man, I missing pizzas.
What else was I gonna talk about here. Sorry, guys,
I yes, thank you, thank you the pearl. That's right,
the pizza pearl I forgot. Uh So LSU Jay losing,
Saving Jones, losing Brady Swinson, now losing to Sean willmack
uh going in the portal, trying to find some replacements,
and it looks like a couple of big ten names
could be coming down the pipeline. As LSU was said, well,
you sure did get hit in the head. L S
you said, hose Purdue transfer deep invent will help on
a visit bit of a breakout sophomore year, and like
everybody else in Purdue, he's leaving, like anybody who is
any good at Purdue, they were awful. Ryan Walters out,
he's leaving and ten tiffles, five sacks, I mean like
Jake and LSU set to host him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Purdue is going to have just a ton
of players. You'd be like, well, produce a very bad
team they have any good players? Of course, they have
good players. I mean they're in the Big ten. Yo. Yeah,
he's he's maybe even more you know, of a need
than anybody. But yeah, there there's going to be players
from Purdue that are going to go to different places
and be very impactful. I mean, one of the best
edge rushers in the SEC at A and M came
from Purdue. Yeah, you're score, So like you're going to
have a ton of those players that are going to
be available because everybody is leaving and this is a
good start. Hey, I'll take an edge rusher and a
safety from Purdue.
Speaker 3: Big ten honorable mention Helt was he has visit scheduled
to l s U and then A and M, so
you know, I'm sure Scrton will try to convince him
to go down there. But I remember Scrton was originally
from right by college Stations, so that was a bit
of a returning home. I don't know where. Will Helt
is originally from Carmel, Indiana, so either way he'd be
going far away. So we'll see. Here's hoping else you
can land him and then els you apparently also Jake
in the top three schools for Jamari Butler, who is
coming over from Nebraska. He has one year of Elgibilly left.
He's spent five years in Nebraska. Ten starts this year
seven Timples, two sacs pretty good, nothing too crazy, six five,
two sixty but he has narrated down to Texas A
and m LSU and Florida State so A and m
n LSU already competing over a couple of edge guys
in the perdal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to go get more than one too.
I mean, you can't just assume a player is going
to work out for you. Oh yeah, I mean you
have to go out there get multiple players at multiple positions.
There's some positions where you've got some good depth built up.
There's some that you you know, maybe you can add
one player because you feel good about where the first
three are edge and safety. Arent those positions, you got
to go get multiple players because maybe they don't work out.
I think we we we now have enough of a
case study to know that it doesn't matter if you
were a five star top fifty player out of high
school and you're in the portal, Right, that doesn't mean
you're going to work out in your new place. Right.
You have to go get production. You have to go
get guys, multiple guys that you think can fit your
system and whatever you're trying to get done here. And
so I would like multiple edges, multiple safeties, probably multiple receivers,
multiple tight ends, there's a couple of position groups here
that else she's got to add multiple bodies.
Speaker 3: Well, old boy that.
Speaker 11: BK was grinding on's back in the partal Right, yeah,
Danny Lewis from Alabama?
Speaker 6: Okay, do you go after your dlu He's got one
career catch? But has it only been one year?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: No, two years? Three years? He's been three years? He
got grinding on.
Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Time is going that was before BK coaching game is time.
Speaker 3: Is going way too fast?
Speaker 10: You off on, Danny Lewis, So who did you sign?
Speaker 3: That's funny? Uh? Well yeah, I say that worked out.
Speaker 10: It worked well pretty well.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's been that long. So do you have a
tight end?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: A tight end candidate that is.
Speaker 6: Not just like trending to LSU or anything like that.
Like we don't know any information. But Tita and I
were talking during one of the breaks yesterday. I mean,
this portal class is going to have a ton of
really good tight ends, productive tight ends, and it actually
already does. And so you you have to add so
multiple tight ends but also multiple types of tight ends.
I think you need a Y and you need an
F because I don't know what you're going to do
with trade eds Green, Like, I don't know where he
ends up as far as last year. He kind of
got moved to receiver as we all know. But can
he help you in the tight end game? Fight that
Yon fight? That Yon fight? It tell that Yan who's
foss t Bob?
Speaker 3: You did?
Speaker 6: That was ext well done.
Speaker 3: So there's multiple.
Speaker 6: Players in the portal at that position. Uh Tte you
were mentioned in a couple yesterday. There's some that LSU's
played against just last year, including your cousin.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Bower Sharp from Oklahoma State. He's okahool, he's their
best player Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: Not a quarterbacks in the portal, Yeah, not a quarterback
as we saw in the game. I can tell us you.
Speaker 11: But Saturday or Sunday he entered the pot Okay. And
then Luke has from Arkansas.
Speaker 6: Because remember a couple of years ago, I mean crushed.
Speaker 7: L s U.
Speaker 11: Hell yeah, dude, LSU has offered a tight end. This
actually happened middle of last week in the portal. You're
saying Zach Atkins and now he's from Northwest Missouri State,
so he's playing up a level of competition. But you
had a solid career there and If you go look
at Zach Atkins's Twitter, he has a scholarship offer from
basically every team in the SEC, So.
Speaker 6: You know that's he's definitely an f though he's a smaller,
he's tall, he's like two oh five. She's not a
big guy.
Speaker 3: That is one thing about the portal, and I think
else she's got a lot of money spend the port
and they can. You don't have, Like Jake said, again,
you don't. There's there. It's gonna be interesting while people
develop different strategies. Do you go all in on the
big guys or do you do a little diversification of
risk right and make one guy into like two good
guys right or or or three like you know, and
and and spread out. So I'll be interested to see
how they attack it.
Speaker 6: I just don't think you put all your eggs in
one basket. But then like what about a fin Yeah,
so I'm saying unless it's like a proven guy who's
an AWE conference player. Again, I don't take chances on
guys that were five stars out of high school. They're
three years into their college career and they've got one catch. Yeah,
they got with the productive lower I have seen that
play out, not just at LSU, but across the country.
That Denver Harris. Yeah, like the guy got it wrong.
That was evaluating you at a high school. And that's okay,
it happened. Nobody has one hundred percent hit rate. But
I am not chasing stars right now. That's not what
I'm doing. If I'm LSU, I'm chasing production. I'm chasing
something that I've seen on film. The Eye and the
Sky told me a story of this player being able
to help me, not what somebody said about a player
three years ago that we're still trying to develop that player.
The development did not happen. That player is who that
player is. Go get production, Go get people that you
can plug and play, because that's what you need with
this team. And so I hope that's how they attacked
the portal. Right, you got a couple of transfers in
from Ohio State of alast couple years DBS. They're both
gone now, the same situation, top fifty five star players.
They didn't work out of Ohio State. They didn't work
out here. I think we all know why, right, They're
just not the players that we thought they were going
to be. That Ohio State thought they were going to be.
That's not what you need. Like the first year, think
about the first year in BK and the staff. The
players they hit on, it was all conference type players
that weren't these you know, highly coveted Harold like but
our converse. Yeah, all conference player And when you got
him out of the portal, was like, oh okay, cool,
Like what Denver Harris comes out of the portal? Oh
my god, no, no, no, yeah, give me Mackay Gardner
get like, give me those players, Greg Brooks, the players
that we have seen play in college football that have
proven they can help you win football games. That's what
you hit on your first year here. You got to
the SEC championship game. That's what I hope they hit
on this year production over what we expected them to
be out of high school.
Speaker 11: Well, we were talking during the break that Cole Westnowski
from North Dakota established in the portal. He's in the
portal as a safety. He didn't play this year, and
I figured out why to Bob. He had a foot
surgery into August, so he did not play this entire year.
Speaker 3: He's in the portal.
Speaker 11: Last time he played twenty twenty three, he was the
Conference Player of the Year at North Dakota State ninety
two tackles, eight interceptions at the safety position.
Speaker 3: He's also who.
Speaker 10: Started ten games at linebacker for North Dakota State. He's
six four two eighteen. Don't even look at him as
a linebacker. That guy can play somewhere for you. And
you say he's a North Dakota State transfer.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. We'll see what else you ends up doing.
We'll continue to keep an eye on it, keep it
locked here on OTB off the bench.