Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Hen'sday, Hester and Hester got it far aaa bah.
Speaker 2: Your luck's in to off the bench.
Speaker 4: Where let's strip control for the.
Speaker 2: US live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hesser
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: For the next forty eight years of our lives.
Speaker 6: I'll say that, all right, I'll.
Speaker 7: Say for that.
Speaker 1: Let's go out there and we'll play the.
Speaker 5: Next twenty four minutes, for the next twenty four minutes,
and we'll leave it all.
Speaker 7: Out on field.
Speaker 5: We got the rest of our lives to the mediocre,
but we have the opportunity to play like gods for
the next half of football. But we can't be afraid
to lose. There's no room for fear in this game.
We go out there, are we half pass it because
we're scared? I would left with this n excuse. We're
always gonna wonder. But we are out there and we keep.
Speaker 8: It absolutely everything.
Speaker 5: That's heroic.
Speaker 7: Speak. Heroes.
Speaker 4: Come on, let's go West Cane and what do you
say boys?
Speaker 8: Jonathan Moxon rest in peace. James Vanderbeek.
Speaker 4: If you've ever listened to this show, do you know
how big of a fan we are. A Varsity Blues
of Jonathan Moxon, of James Vanderbeek, and also of Dawphin's Creek.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pretty much all of his work.
Speaker 8: Everything he did.
Speaker 4: There was no other way we were starting this show
than the exact way that you just heard, with Jonathan
Moxon in the locker room getting the boys fired up
and ready to go, and.
Speaker 7: The boys fired up.
Speaker 1: I mean how often when you were playing, especially in
high school, we're all cheering and saying what do you say?
Speaker 7: Boys? Yeah, just because how fired he gott tweeter right there.
That's right.
Speaker 1: So we are with a heavy heart, of course. I
think everybody has kind of heard the news, especially if
you're a sports fan or if you have access to
any social media whatsoever. Certainly, James Vanderbeek passes away yesterday.
Battling cancer for quite some time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a couple of years.
Speaker 1: A couple of years, so, h forty eight years old
and very sad, very sad. And we've seen I've seen
a lot of like clipse of him, you know, randomly
they had the I think the Dawson's Creek Reunion this
past fall.
Speaker 7: I think we might have even watched a clip of
it on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one he couldn't go to certainly certainly looked
like he was he was battling at the time, but
had lots of words of encouragement towards the end. And yeah,
I think everybody has a heavy heart, and I hope
it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, six children, young children, it's always incredibly tough. And
I think the family, you know, because James Vanderby couldn't
work for a couple of years and he's got six children,
and they used a lot of their savings and different
things to try to beat cancer. And now is I
think they have a go fund me asking, you know,
if you could, if you're able to do so, uh,
to give to the family. So maybe we can put
that link up there as well. But all jokes aside. Man,
I quickly met him one time. He was incredible. Uh,
he played some of our favorite characters. Everybody has said
anything about him, it was, you know, all kind words
and what a family man he was. And so again,
if you know OTV, yeah, you know how much we
love Varsity Blues. So our Jonathan mox and Jersey is
going to be here. I don't know for how long.
Probably for a while, because we gotta pay respects to
QB one.
Speaker 7: Maybe yeah, maybe forever. Why not? Can we get the
overhead view here, Taylor, look at that thing? Can go?
It's beautiful, it's beautiful. Maybe we get a wes Canan
Cayots helmet. That would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: Letter jacket, certainly, Yeah, that would actually, that would be
pretty happy. So there's not a lot of reasons here
on this show that we would.
Speaker 7: Skip the yo's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Jonathan Moxon is only one man, and.
Speaker 4: That might have to be another clip that we play. Guys,
the amount of times that I've used that in actual.
Speaker 1: Interviews, I don't want your laugh.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't walk by somebody our age and
say that and someone not know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 8: One of those iconic lines.
Speaker 1: The senior ball or that.
Speaker 7: Age.
Speaker 8: Shout out to Cole Peyton from North Dakota State.
Speaker 7: He'd seen it.
Speaker 1: Who else Blake Shaping? Watch I feel like Blake Shape
and watch it like voluntarily? True, col Peyton, he looks
like he was forced to watch it. On the bus,
forced to watch it.
Speaker 8: Forced he was given the opportunity.
Speaker 7: Given the opportunity. What an opportunity, the.
Speaker 8: Great opportunity to watch and now man Paul Walker.
Speaker 4: Gone, James vander He gone, Billy Bob gone, just Tweeter
and Budd Kilmber left.
Speaker 1: Worlds down there Saturday, Saturday, World's down A couple of
really good fake quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: I say QB one even though he was QB two.
Speaker 7: QB one.
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, I mean that that song by the
Food Fighters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's the first of whose soundtrack that could
be great. We got a chance to play that. We begged,
begged to.
Speaker 8: Play that.
Speaker 4: One time an evangel because the only thing we played
was Braveheart. The instrumentals like.
Speaker 1: When when are you playing this a pre game? Like
in the locker room? No no, no, like on the
PA system.
Speaker 4: Oh kind of like when you come out too, Like
we were getting fires cool. It was cool, but you
need some words. We were getting Kirk Franklin stomp.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's that's all.
Speaker 1: We were getting pretty good though, great song after you've
heard it seventy third.
Speaker 4: Time though, And so finally, finally we got him to
allow us to play it. As we came out of
the tunnel, we finally got food fighters. There goes my hero,
like in two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
somewhere around that time. Incredible chills thinking about it. And
I don't have many moments in high school that I remember.
I remember that, Remember that one. Yeah, good for you.
We did a lot of we ready.
Speaker 8: Oh I knew you didn't have to sing it for me.
Speaker 7: I'll sing it for the people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I got a great voice, you're ready, voice of
an angel except for a generation.
Speaker 4: Except for that semi final game we couldn't win. That
was meaning I'm sorry, uh not. A lot of things
haunt me at night.
Speaker 8: That's one.
Speaker 9: It's one of them. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that spiders, spiders?
Why spiders so scary? Little ones, big ones? I mean
obviously the big ones. The scarier they are, the scarier
they are. All Right, that's a little weird, is it?
Speaker 7: I think?
Speaker 1: So that's that scene from the Replacements when they're like,
what do you fear most in life?
Speaker 7: Like spiders, snakes? And he said, I don't think that's
the meaning what he's talking about? Good saying, Taylor t
of L like that one.
Speaker 8: All right, so we do have a big show playing
for you today.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have Kim Malkey join us. We're gonna have
Jay Johnson join us. We're gonna have chef Michael Johnson
join the show as well. But again, and there was
only one way that the show was gonna get started. Yeah,
and it was with Jonathan Boxing. And you might hear
from Jonathan boxon more than once today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly maybe some songs. I wanted to ask Doc Yester,
we didn't. I didn't get a chance to because we
were in ask some some other very important questions. And
maybe we'll ask him next week if we can, if
we can remember, maybe write it down. We think coach
Bud Kilmer got a bad rap for the medical practices
he was using on his players.
Speaker 8: I swear Gop that Nato goes anymore close to.
Speaker 1: His name, because I mean, like in high school, when
you're watching that for the first time, you're like, oh,
that's the worst thing you could ever do. But then
the more you go into athletics, you're like, yeah, shoot
me up.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think bub was just trying to be gritty. Yeah,
let's go the needle in there. Dot. Yeah, it's number.
This baby up.
Speaker 8: Can't remember a game where I didn't have at least something.
Speaker 1: So I want to know if Bud Kimber got a
bad rap? Mmm, whereas players just.
Speaker 9: Kind of maybe, I don't want to say that. I
don't want to say that. I don't want to say that.
I don't say that.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask dot from a medical opinion,
did buy kim get a bad rap for his at
the time questionable medical practices? Yeah, Star that Okay, it's
worth asking two weeks.
Speaker 8: From now when we're back here, because we're off next week.
Speaker 7: In two weeks, I'll remind us.
Speaker 4: We'll definitely remember uh, but we will remember to uh
honor and remember our guy GB one, Jonathan Mox and
James Vanderbeek rest in peace.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: We will take a break kind of get everything back
on track if the show started.
Speaker 8: When we jump back here on O TV.
Speaker 4: Off the bench, all right.
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Speaker 4: That's not a fair I'm talking about saying Davis here
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Speaker 8: It's Twitter in zone dance.
Speaker 1: When he breaks his father's nose in the backyard. You know,
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Speaker 7: But then you can do it.
Speaker 8: Rolled into it.
Speaker 7: And then later he's in a big game.
Speaker 1: He's stopping the clock instead of spiking it. He hits
the mascot in the nose, right square in the nose,
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Speaker 7: Like, oh, he hit me on purpose. Yeah, in the nose.
It's a good one. Well.
Speaker 8: The mascot too, is like a random It was.
Speaker 7: Like a like a mosquito or something. He did it twice.
Speaker 6: He knocked the guy off the horse, the one that
he hit in the nose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like a beer or something.
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Speaker 4: All right, there's eleven former LSU Tigers that are headed
to Indianapolis in the NFL scouting Combine. We've got quarterback
Garrett Nesmeyer, receivers Aaron Anderson, berry On Brown, Chris Hilton,
Xavion Thomas, tight end Bower sharp edge rushers Patrick Payton
and Jack Pyburn, linebacker Harold Perkins, corner Monsor Delaine.
Speaker 8: And safety A J. Hawsey.
Speaker 4: All those players are going to be headed to the
combine to try to improve their NFL draft stock. So
eleven Tigers, I believe that is third most. I believe
A and M and Alabama the only team to have
more people headed to the combine. So a long list
of Tigers. Certainly a group that has got some guys
like a Gary Nessmeyer we've seen play here for a
long time, guys like Harold Perkins that played in LSU
uniform for a long time, and even some guys that
only played a year in an LSU uniform like A
Monsour Delaine and an AJ Hawsey. But certainly a good
group of Tigers heading to Indy with an opportunity to
better themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a uh, it's it's a goal that you
set early in college. Right, you always want that opportunity
to at the end of the day, when you take
off that helmet for the last time in college, you
want to have that invitation. Now, the Senior Bowl and
all those all star games are great, and that's a
that's high praise, it's a high reward.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: It's it's the combine, Right, it's the it's the last
step or it's one of the last steps before the draft,
and it's a big deal.
Speaker 7: And it's uh, you know, it's two or three days of.
Speaker 1: The exhausting meetings, doctors meetings, and then the last part
is on the field stuff. It's basically they sleep deprive
you for two days and then they throw you on
the field to run a forty And but it's exciting.
So congratulations eleven players is incredible, especially when you when
you're looking back at the team, you're like, oh, what
in the best year? Right, we got eleven guys, third
most in the country. Yeah, so congrats to them. I
hope they do. This is one of those times that
certainly you can absolutely improve your draft stock. Whether you
agree with all that or not, but you have certainly
also heard it as well, So you got to go
and you've got to be prepared. It's and it's more about,
you know, everything is equally evaluated by From the NFL perspective,
it's certainly on the field. The guys that can that
go out there and they bump their draft stock a ton.
To the guys that run really fast right and look
really good doing it and physically have a really physical
presence out there, that's just a little bit different. But
I think a lot of the hay is made by
how well you do in your meetings, how well you
talked to these teams, because you are going to speed
date like crazy at this place and it's wild, and
then half your visit's going to be in the doctor's office.
So guys like Garrett Nessmeyer, he's going to have thirty
two team doctors poking pride and twisting doing all the stuff.
And by the end of it, when I went, my
experience was I was coming off of I had a
sprain ac joint sprained against Arkansas the last game of
the season.
Speaker 7: I missed the SEC Championship.
Speaker 1: I rehabbed and came back and played in the National Championship,
but I still wasn't one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I likeded not to play in the East West Shrine Bowl,
which I was invited to because I was trying to
get my shoulder well for the combine to go throw there.
And I felt great going to Indianapolis. Yeah, and then
by my last doctor meeting of thirty two doctors pushing it,
twisting it, including our guy doctor Banks, by the end
of it, my damn arm hurt because of the doctor
made it right. So it's it's just one of those
things you got to get through. You gotta do, you know,
and you're you're gonna spend a couple hours in the
tube get.
Speaker 8: It in right, oh hours? He is not kidding, And
it's they're.
Speaker 7: Not just one.
Speaker 4: I didn't miss a game at LSU, not one, and
I was in there for hours. I'm like, man, I
don't I'd hate to be some guy that missed like
fifteen career games or a season hours. I never missed
a game. It is a like they want to see
if they can just warp your mind and what you
can handle. It's crazy and I don't know if it's changed.
And then after all that, then you go do the
on the field stuff.
Speaker 8: Right and like teams back then.
Speaker 4: Now the Falcons got in trouble for some of the
questions that they were asking, and so it changed a
little bit. But they would be out of pocket the
questions they would ask you because they wanted to piss
you off.
Speaker 8: They wanted to see how mad can I get this guy?
Can't he handle it?
Speaker 4: Can't he keep his composure and still get on the
whiteboard and draw protections and different things like that was
their goal. Think about that, like the biggest job interview
of your life. And they want you to mess up,
like they want you to get mad and see if
you can handle it. It's like nothing I had ever
done before. And you're right, like about speed dating, like
you go to all these teams, but then you have
formal meetings where you're going to go for an extended
period of time. Like for me, I remember just I
had the Jags, I had the Lions, I had the Seahawks,
and like walking through like Seahawks had everybody that's ever
been a part of their organization in this hotel meeting room,
like this long, big table.
Speaker 8: It looked like it was out of the Adams Family movie.
Speaker 4: And you walk in there and like all of them
are sitting there and everybody had a question that you
wanted to answer, and every team does it a little
bit differently, but it is pressure packed, to say the least.
And all of that, Like Matt said, it's before you
even get to the actual on the field portion. And
even once you get to the on the field portion
of it, you'll have heard me tell this story before.
They want to also mess with your mind there. For me,
like I knew what the fort the forty was for
me was going to be between a four five five
and a four to six flat. That's what it was
going to be. It could have been on the high
end of the low end, right, that's what it was.
And I ran four five nine and a four to
six flat right there.
Speaker 7: I knew that.
Speaker 8: So like that to me, wasn't the pressure thing.
Speaker 4: The pressure thing for me, because I was trying to
prove back to play fullback, was the bench press.
Speaker 8: What's your benchin?
Speaker 4: Because I had to show that I was strong enough
to play fullback, and so I mean, I got my
wrist taped, I've got chalk on my hands, ready to go,
and they're like, ah, actually, this group, let's go take
the wonder lick test, and I'm like, hold up, like
I literally have chalk on my hand ready to go
to a bench press, but it was another test and
they wanted to bring you in this room to take
this wonder lick test. So you also you got to
prove you're not a big dummy. So you gotta go
do that, and then you go back to the bench press.
And then you've got this strength coach for the Cardinals
that's just yelling at you, hitting you in the chest.
He kept calling me raging Cajun. I'm like, wrong school, Bud,
It's not who I played for. Stop calling me raging Cajun.
And then like you got to go out there and
you got a.
Speaker 7: Bench I'm not a raging Cajun.
Speaker 8: Well that wasn't a football thing yet, but because I
didn't have two l's up, you get it.
Speaker 7: Yeah uh yeah.
Speaker 8: So like everything that that happens there, and then.
Speaker 4: Like when you get on the field, you're there with
your peers and you're like, oh man, I get to
go behind Chris Johnson.
Speaker 8: That's what running a four to two after his first time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, And it's it is just so many
different things rolled into one. It is a week that's
supposed to get you uncomfortable. How do you handle being uncomfortable?
And if you handle it, then that's going to give
you a positive check mark. Now, can it raise you
two to three rounds? Probably not unless you're just like
a receiver that runs a four to two three.
Speaker 7: It's the real fast guy that helps themselves.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: Outside of that, you might can help yourself. You might
confirm some things to different teams. It's not going to
be the reason that you get drafted where you're at
like it's going to help you and confirm. It can
hurt you more than it can help you. I feel like,
and we talked about this at the Senior Bowl. It's
every everything that every one of these kids does. Every
day they wake up, every event they go to, everything
they do right now between the inlet last game in
college football till the beginning of September, everything they do
is to not get cut, not get scratched off a list,
not get fired from your job, and do keep have
the opportunity to keep playing football. It's every because all
thirty two of those teams, their job, the scouts job,
the general manager's job, the coach's job, is to find
a reason not to pick you or not to invite
you to be an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1: It's they're trying to They're trying. They have a list,
a huge list of people, just from thousands of people.
They have to scratch it off, they have to narrow,
they have to make their list. So they're looking for
any reason that you can give them. So that's why
the pressure is put on. That's why they try to
make you upset. They tried to get you out of
your comfort zone to see how you respond because football
is not a comfortable game, and so they want to
see how you respond. So it's one of those things
that it's certainly not fun, but it's a challenge and
it's the it is the goal of everybody to get
there and just and to your point, there's not a
lot of guys going there to help themselves.
Speaker 7: You're going there to.
Speaker 1: Either stay status quo, confirm what they believe in a
good way or negative way. But if you don't go
and accept the challenge of going to the combine, that's
a negative.
Speaker 7: Oh for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you have a team that you thought you
absolutely were going to go to after meetings and kind of.
Speaker 7: How they spoke to you, Jaguars. That's so funny.
Speaker 8: I felt like Jack del Rio and the Jaguars were
trying to.
Speaker 4: Not draft me because when I went into the team
meeting with them, and I had a formal meeting with him,
so a scheduled formal meeting, and when I got into
that room with Jack del Rio, he threw every blitz
that he possibly had ever.
Speaker 7: Ran before at me to see if I could pick
it up. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, is he trying to find a reason
not to draft me? I'm talking about every blitz. I
mean we were on the board for the entire twenty
minute meeting and it was me with a marker on
my hand. Del Rio in a chair right in front
of the board. Hey, bring the will free safety. Hey,
I want you to bring corner cat. This is our protection.
Speaker 7: How do you hint?
Speaker 8: It's like, right, you want me to mess up, like
you don't want to select me?
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 1: I see I had So we had you have the
speed dating, which is like twenty minutes with every team
in this big over the over two or three nights
you sit down with I mean you're doing meetings till
midnight every night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, with these teams, I.
Speaker 1: Only had three of the private meetings. One of them
was with the Jags. They were the ones that talked
to me the most. They're the ones that's that the
their scouts were with me a lot. Yeah, Mike Shula
came down and privately worked me out and watched, like
spent a whole day or two with me here. They're
the ones that like tried to make me laugh in
the probably like they pulled up the meeting the picture
of me in spring break when I was like nineteen
years old, like, Hey, what's this? What were you doing here?
Said drink in your hand. I'm like, I don't know,
cold pop spring break, Bro, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Uh look cold pop. Uh. Sorry. I liked the party,
so it was like one of those deals. I was like,
I'm going to the Jags.
Speaker 1: And then during the draft, I think in the sixth round,
they selected a punter or a deep snapper and I
was like, wow, I that picture more than the hell,
I guess. I remember like the Packers, with the team
that I've talked to the least. I think I had
one meeting with their quarterback. It was Tom Clemens at
the time. I think I had one in like the
round table. It was like what was it the train
station room or the train station. Yeah, right, different from
the Yellows train station.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this was they made it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we made it through.
Speaker 1: I talked to him like for twenty minutes, and Tom's
kind of like a soft spoken guy, didn't say a lot,
and I'm like, well he wasn't interested in me at all?
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, I chargers pretty much like that for me.
Speaker 4: I did take a visit out there, but like during
the whole process, I didn't talk a lot to them.
I thought I was going to the Lions for sure.
Like I was looking at apartments in Detroit, like I
was that sure I was going to Detroit because they
told me. I always asked every team like you got
anything for us? I was like, who's your fullback, who's
your starting fullback? Like what's the deal there? Like that
was you know whom I competing with? Yep, And I
remember they said you you are starting fullback. I'm like
all right, And remember Detroit was bad, bad during that time,
and so I was like, this is gonna suck, but.
Speaker 7: Here we go. You would have gone and sixteen year year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it had have been fun. Maybe you would have
been teamates with our guy dig Dixon.
Speaker 7: The next year. It would have been competing that had
been fun, I.
Speaker 8: Guess so, yeah, because he kind of played h back.
Speaker 1: True, he was playing tight end full back and actually
he was like on the roster for two straight years
and had hurt himself the last preseason game.
Speaker 7: I know, like second half our.
Speaker 4: Guy h LSU running back coach Kevin Smith would have
been the other guys competing with for running back snaps.
Speaker 7: How about that?
Speaker 4: Thank you, so good luck to all eleven LSU football
players trying to achieve the dream of hearing your name
called or seeing your name across the ticker coming up
at the end of April in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7: I hope we're all back on the nuts bus.
Speaker 8: Top ninety. Pick around the room, I say, yes, top ninety,
top ninety.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, what is that fourth round?
Speaker 8: No, top ninety would be third round round. Yeah, I
think he goes late.
Speaker 10: If we're going off of like the predictions and stuff
like that. He's like ranked to be the fifth quarterback
that goes in the draft. Now Drew Aller is ahead
of him on that, so I don't know how much
you can trust that, but yeah, I think he'd be
top ninety.
Speaker 8: Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then there's that fight for three right yeah
between Drew Aller, k Klub, Nick, Garrett ands Meyer.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a quarterback draft class.
That is, you're going to have obviously a number one
overall pick, you might have Tye Go late first round.
Then I think there's going to be a drought yeah
in quarterbacks in the second and third round, and I
think it starts to pick up towards the end of
the fourth round. Certainly a run in the fifth round.
So I'm gonna say, I'm going to say over on
the ninety, the top ninety, Now, would I take him?
Speaker 7: Yes? Do I think?
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a quarterback drought Yeah,
in the and then there'll be a lower to mid rounds.
It's just not the strongest class, right, So.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say Rams in the third round. I'll even
give you the team. I fe like the Rams in
the third round.
Speaker 7: I'm not ready to give you a team yet.
Speaker 11: Well, respect definitely top ninety though.
Speaker 1: The edge I said, he's a guy. He might be
a guy for the Packers. Just his style of play
kind of reminds me of Jordan Love a little bit, so.
Speaker 7: You remind you more.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've always said, I've always made the comparison between
him and Stafford.
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't don't. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: So I agree, But I got to pick somebody else
like based on this past year, Like Jordan Love sits
there and throws off his back foot a lot. Well,
Garrett threw off his back foot a lot. I got you,
and he doesn't. And Jordan Love doesn't move around right.
Speaker 4: All right, good luck to all those LSU Tigers as
they head to Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine. When
we come back, we got to talk about one of
the biggest snubs in NFL Scouting Combine history. I'll tell
you who that is and which player we're talking about
when we come back here.
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This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn Baton,
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Speaker 1: You've been locked into the Olympics. It's give mean a
lot to you. It's Team USA and.
Speaker 4: If Gordon Bombay was there, I'd be watching it and
I will watch when hockey presents itself. When I say that,
I haven't and again I'm not trying to, but I
haven't watched a single second unless it's been in this studio.
Speaker 7: Tell us how tough your nuts are.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 4: And they've been through the fire before us and they
come out on the other side of five kids.
Speaker 1: Well, USA is third in the metal count currently, Norway one,
Italy two was just kind of fun the home country,
so I were said. With four gold medals, six silvers
and three bronze, that's thirteen total metals if you're keeping
count at home.
Speaker 7: So off to a.
Speaker 1: Pretty darn good start. I think they've a couple of
silver medals that they were hoping for gold. Quick recap
from yesterday, the events from yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yesterday, there was.
Speaker 1: Some exciting stuff avenue. Well, we were locked in. Fun
family was locked in to the ice dancing last night,
which is not figure skating.
Speaker 7: They don't do like a lot of the spins. It's
just a impressive dancing, just as dancing dancing.
Speaker 1: So America had one of the favorites, Madison Chuck and
Evan Bates, seven time US champions, three but the married couple.
Speaker 7: The married couple yep, and not not the same last name.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: Three time world champions, defending world champions.
Speaker 1: They take home the silver medal last night, and they
were fairly disappointed. They got beat by a French couple.
I'm not even gonna try to say their names, but
I'm there's a little outrage at this. So the guy
on this French team, he is the defending Olympic gold
medalist with a different partner who they retired their team.
Him and his other partner, they were tired like a
year ago, a little bit over a year ago. His
new partner, they've only been together for since like last spring,
last March or something like that, which is an incredible
feat to like be this good at that, like only
being partners for that long. I think the American couple
they've been skating together for like fifteen years. Well, the
girl for the French team is Canadian and she was
granted French citizenship three months ago and they just took
him the gold.
Speaker 7: Medal last night. Coolbeck, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1: Probably the French Canadian part. I don't know, a little
bit of outrage. Well, they are these new like the
the US team has been the favorites, the three time
world champions, they've been the dominant force, they've been crushing it,
and all of a sudden, this new dream team gets together.
A French, a Frenchie and a Canadian get together and
they win it. Well, disappointing, but anyway, we got the
silver medal, so the ads to the medal count we
did get.
Speaker 7: Take him a gold medal, Jordan Stols, Stoles or Stolts,
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: In the speed skating, he is the most dominant man
on skates, the fastest guy on skates on the planet.
Takes some of his first gold medal. I'll say his
first because he got four events and he is the
favorite in all of them.
Speaker 7: He is from Wisconsin as well.
Speaker 1: Really cool story that they played last night about how
he got started in the speed skating. And then Klok
Kim snowboarder. She is a two time defending gold medalist
in the half pipe. She won in twenty eighteen in
peong Chang, twenty twenty two in Beijing. And she's actually
a girlfriend of Miles Garrett, NFL sack leader Miles Garrett.
Speaker 7: Nice. Yeah, then we won.
Speaker 1: I'll see this guy named Ryan Cartland Siegel won an
alpine skiing.
Speaker 7: He won the silver.
Speaker 1: And then today looking forward to today, I can't wait,
can't wait too.
Speaker 7: I'll get to the office.
Speaker 1: I always have it on the office, have it in
the background that I'll watch the Prime Time with the
family at night.
Speaker 7: We love it.
Speaker 1: I got men's moguls, Women's Super G, men's snowboard cross
which is awesome, Women's half pipe finals, and speed skating
finals today, so it's gonna be a good day.
Speaker 7: There's curling, there's hockey action pack, Jake, I'm going.
Speaker 8: To tune into the hockey.
Speaker 7: Twitch stops.
Speaker 6: I watched that alpine skiing last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: I was pretty They go like seventy five miles an
hour downhill they did getting out of turns.
Speaker 7: And like they're just like, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: These speed skaters are on skates, rolling around, turning left
in a circle and they're going like thirty five forty
miles an hour. Problem with speed skating.
Speaker 6: I can't take it seriously because I only think of
deck the Halls when Matthew brought Uk and Dann DaVita
race each other.
Speaker 1: That's all I think of.
Speaker 7: I think of Dan Janssen, American legend.
Speaker 8: Am I the only one that's not dialed in like Flynn?
Speaker 6: No, I'm not dialed in like Flynn. Like I'll have
it on background. Like last night wasn't much else going on.
I watched a little cites Se Mississippi State basketball and
then it was kind of back and forth.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's lock into that one.
Speaker 1: You know, I was locked into either one.
Speaker 8: Miss Yeah, absolutely, do you say yourself up for that one?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 7: And how about you?
Speaker 11: You you I haven't really been watching much of it.
Speaker 8: Okay, she had to work a remote yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I didn't really watch anything yesterday. I watched like half
an episode of Love Island and that was it. But no,
I'm not super locked into I'm watching.
Speaker 10: So there's like a guy named Rob on The Traders
and he was on Love Island, so I'm watching his
Love Islands.
Speaker 4: You know who I was watching the interview is a
huge Love Island fan, Bradley Cooper. He was doing an
interview and I think it was Will Arnett who was
like doing it because they do a lot of stuff together.
And he's like, you're gonna tell me you're guilty pleasure
or whatever. He's like, I love Love Island and he
starts going through like all the stories.
Speaker 11: I love it.
Speaker 7: Jenny go South, that's say southing.
Speaker 1: So the speed skater for the USA, that's like the
fastest guy s case, the Jordan Stoles guy. They did
like a little special line like a little heart warm
and like this is a story. This is where he
came from, you know, like build build your build, your
Olympians up from your country. They were talking about his
like his origin story of how he got started. Like
five six year old Jordan Stoles was watching the Winter
Olympics and watching Apollo Ono win gold medal and that's
how he wanted to do it. I was like, oh
my god, I feel like that was like last year
when Apolo was in the Olympics.
Speaker 7: Now you don't remember because he had.
Speaker 11: The longer hair, yes, and I haven't heard that name
in years. Like that just set me back to that's the.
Speaker 7: Guy you watched growing up. Boy, we're getting that is wild.
How does that make you feel patriotic?
Speaker 11: I do need to get into his speed. I do
really like watching speed skating. I don't know why it's
so entertaining.
Speaker 7: It's good people going fast.
Speaker 11: Didn't Jake Paul's wife.
Speaker 1: Or something like that from the nether one and ones
on gold was that that was over the weekend. Yeah,
that was one of the first first gold medals given.
I think Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 11: I saw a video of him like sobbing in the crowd.
Speaker 7: Yeah, guess is John's Okay, I guess. So they didn't
get it broken.
Speaker 11: In half, hit a wired shut that Okay, I can't remember.
Speaker 4: We gotta take a break. You're right, still got a
big show planned for you, Coach Kim Mulkey. Coach j
Johnson stayed locked in OTV off the bench. All right,
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Speaker 2: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Night we signed the Ross.
Speaker 8: I mean, talk about it, nostalgia all. It's like seven
movies make When I hear this song, I think about
here in the late nineties.
Speaker 11: I switched to Dawson's Creek.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what makes me think of I'll even say it.
I'll even give Dawson his this day. It's not Pacey's Creeks. Dawson,
thank you, sir. Yeah you come around. Yeah, man, I
had because me and my older brother both like enjoyed
some good Dawson's Creek, and then me Matthew, Clayton Flynn
and Kyle Williams enjoyed it here in college on TBS.
Speaker 8: I had a lot of mixed CDs that had like
the songs you heard on.
Speaker 7: Dawson's nine to ten AM, but after athletes aren't supposed
to be in clown.
Speaker 1: I say, that's after before class. Yeah, yeah, the answers. Yes,
we got degrees, names on it everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gotta take classes whether you're soon to be
wife and so got all the notes?
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Well I had a medical disease, so I
got the notes too. You did.
Speaker 8: That's true, man, This might be This might be like
the song of like the late nineties.
Speaker 1: And she's all that. Yeah, was justin not another teen
movie when they were No, it's on, It's on.
Speaker 11: How to Lose a guy?
Speaker 7: Well done.
Speaker 11: I did a pilates class and it's like nineties theme.
We had to do like exercises to this song, and
I was dying.
Speaker 7: About you. Good vibes for the song.
Speaker 11: Maybe probably it feels like its.
Speaker 8: Hour two o TV coming back from the Raisin King studio.
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