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here in the show, we hit a little bit of
everything coming up next segment. Actually, Devin snow Holde Mayo
will join us. Normally joins us Monday at nine fifteen.
He pushed it back to Wednesday due to the craziness
of all the Marti Gras festivities going on in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 3: I want to look at something at ESPN dot com
put out yesterday.
Speaker 1: They put out.
Speaker 3: The top transfer portal additions for each top twenty five school.
You go down the list, you see a number of
big name guys.
Speaker 1: For LSU.
Speaker 3: Surprise, surprise, they have quarterback Sam Levitt obvious choice, no
real surprise here. He was the top quarterback in the portal,
immediate impact starter if fully healthy, and he'll thrive in
Kiffin's offense. Go look at what he did a year ago,
and when you look at the raw numbers, you know,
I mean, it's nothing that's going to jump off the
page at you.
Speaker 1: But he was hurt.
Speaker 3: I mean, he only played in seven games, and even
some of the games he did play, he was playing injured.
Two years ago, this is the team that went to
the college football Playoff. They had Texas on the ropes
in that game that they played, in the quarterfinal game
that they played, and I think they probably should have
won that game. I think there was a miss targeting
call against Texas that ultimately took points away from Arizona
Arizona State in that game. I mean, that was the
Camp Scataboo game where he kind of announced his presence
to the national audience.
Speaker 1: And Sam Levitt was really good that year.
Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people wanted to see what he
was going to do without a guy like Cam Scataboo.
And you know, they had an up and down season,
So of course the critics came out and said, Okay, well,
Sam levit can't do it without camp scataboo.
Speaker 1: But the reality is he was just playing hurt. That's
what it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, you saw Garrettmeyer here. My argument all season
long was, Guys, if you don't think Garrett Osmeyer is hurt,
I don't really know what to tell you, because you
either think he's hurt or he completely forgot how to
throw a football. I think one of them's more logical
than the other. Turns out, Garrett Nosmyer was hurt. Huge
shocker to all of us. So look, I get that
they put Sam Levitt on this list. I understand. I
mean even last year he had five rushing touchdowns in
seven games. He's a mobile quarterback. I think he's going
to thrive in Lane Kiffn's offense. The thing that I
like more about this when you go down these list
of teams, he's kind of an obvious candidate that jumps
out right, like Chas Coleman for Tennessee, the big edge rusher. Yeah,
we know that's a huge get Cam Coleman, big git.
You could have kind of had your pick for LSU.
It didn't have to be Sam LENNITTT Like, yeah, it's
an obvious choice. You got the number one quarterback in
the portal. I get it, But look at some of
the other players you brought in first off, If you
could go quarterback room as a whole, if you wanted
to do it that way, look at Land and Clark
and Hussan long Street and Huson long Street didn't play
a ton last year for USC played in three games,
but he was a former five star recruit, and people
have a lot of expectations for him. Land and Clark
coming over from Elon. I get the Elon's a little
bit lower of competition, but he thrived at Elon. He
ran for a lot of yards. He scored a lot
of touchdowns last season. Those two guys are going to
battle it out in the spring in all likelihood with
Sam Levitt sidelined for most of the spring with recovering
from that foot injury. So I get the Sam Levitt
thing here, But who else could you have went with?
What about Jordan Seton. I mean he was one of
the later ads in this portal.
Speaker 1: I mean he was.
Speaker 3: Number one left tackle in the portal. He was second
team All Big twelve a year ago, and a lot
of people kind of raise their eyebrows at Jordan Seeden
being the number one target or the number one left
tackle in the transfer portal, just because when you look
at Colorado's offensive line as a whole the past two seasons,
it has not been good. He was a little bit
better last year, but not much. I mean, Schador Saders
set the record for most sacks in a season from
a quarterback because he was in front of an awful
offensive line two years ago. Jordan Seeden a former five
star player. He's big, he's physical, like anything you would
want in a left tackle. Jordan Seeden brings that to you.
I think he's gonna slide right in there at that
left tackle spot or right tackle. I mean, I think
he's got one of those tackle spots pretty much locked down. LSU,
you know, went and they spent a lot of money
in the portal to bring in players like a Jordan Seedon,
so you could have win multiple areas on offense. Heck,
you could have win Jase Brown. I'm gonna continue to
rave about Jays Browns.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Really good in this offense. He ran the ball a
little bit of Kansas State. He was their go to receiver.
He made a couple of tough catches and big time
moments for him. I understand that team didn't have the
season and a lot of people thought they were going to,
but it wasn't Jase Brown's fault. He was really good
when he was on the field for the Wildcats. Jackson Harris,
the receiver out of Hawaii nine hundred yards and ten
touchdowns in only twelve games. It's another guy that is
a big time playmaker on this offense. Brought in all
the running backs. I mean, you could go the offensive
line as a whole if you want to extend it
past Jordan Seedon, but it goes beyond that. Prince will
hu Mon Miellen the number one edge rusher in the
transfer portal. He's a double digit SAT guy coming over
from Old Miss, a guy that has already played under
Lane kiffn that knows what Lane Kifvin expects. He had
a lot of success for the Rebels last year.
Speaker 1: On defense.
Speaker 3: He was one of the He wasn't just Old Miss's
best pass rusher. He was one of the best pass
rushers in the SEC. That's why you wound up being
the number one edge rusher in the transfer portal. That's
why everybody was so thrilled with the Lane king. If
in transfer portal class you landed Sam Lavitt, the number
one quarterback in the portal, he landed Jordan Seeden, the
number one left tackle in the portal, and you landed
princewellam on me El and the number one addresser. What
does everyone always say most important positions in football quarterback position,
those who protect the quarterback, those who get after the quarterback.
All three of those positions you landed the number one
guy in the portal. It does not get much better
than that. I'd take it a step further and go
you could include tie Benfield on this list. He's a
guy that I rave about and I'm gonna continue to
rave about him because I think talent wise, he was
one of the best players you signed in the transfer portal.
I understand that one paper, safety might not look like
a big position of need.
Speaker 1: Kind of was.
Speaker 3: I mean, sure, you have Tmarcus Cooley and Deshaun Spears
coming back, but what do you have behind him?
Speaker 1: A little bit of a question mark? I mean CJ.
Jim Coyley.
Speaker 3: He looked the part last year in fall practice as
a freshman didn't get on the field a ton, but
he's a guy that plays some safety. They moved him
down to Star. He was repping Star a lot last
fall camp. You got some freshmen coming in that can
play safety, but outside of those top two guys, you didn't.
You didn't have a ton of depth there. And I'm
not saying TYD Benifield to depth piece. He's a lot
more than that. He's gonna be a starter on this team.
You go look at Todd Bennfield multiple big time seasons
in Boise State. Last year he had over one hundred
tackles from the safety spot. He was like eighty five
the year before that. TDD Bennfield can play football. I
think he's an immediate starter on this defense. And he's
a guy that he has the coverage skills, but he
also comes up to the line to make a lot
of those tackles. So getting TDD Bennifield, you could play
him at safety, move him to Star. If you like
him at safety, you could move to Sewn Spears down
there the Star, which is ultimately what I think I
would like to see. Shawn Spears is six foot three
pushing two hundred and twenty pounds That's about what Harold
Perkins was when he played Star Perkins was pretty good.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: There are so many you could look at in the
transfer portal for LSU and say, yep, Lane Kiffin hit
a home run with that kid. That's why you brought
Lane Kiff in here. To bring in players like this,
Sam Levitt, Jordan Seed and Prince Willumnmeal and Ti Benefield,
you could have win a number of places. There's probably
guys out there I'm forgetting. I mean, Fahim Delane Mansord,
Delane's little brother. He's coming in and I understand that
he wasn't an impact player or anything like that. At
Ohio State. He wasn't a household name. But when when
Mansword Delane got here, he wasn't a first team All American.
I mean he was a second third team All Conference
player at Virginia Tech. He's a solid piece that everybody said, oh, yeah,
you'll come in, he'll compete for a starting job.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He blew all of us away out there at fall practice.
If you were out there, you know what I'm talking about.
And once he got on the field, he showed that
it wasn't just a flash in the pan. Mansword Lane's
gonna be a tough twenty pick in all likelihood and
the upcoming NFL Draft, So it could be somebody completely
under the radar. But when you bring in forty two
players from the transfer portal, most of them at the top,
if not the top of their position, like top three
or four at their position in the portal, you're gonna
see results like this. Just a lot of these other
teams on this list, like you're like, oh, yeah, they
landed that one big name guy. That makes sense? Makes sense?
Speaker 1: Why Chas Coleman's on this list for someone that makes sense?
Why cam Coleman would be on this list for LSU.
Speaker 3: I think you could have went in a number of
different places. For what it's worth, uh ole miss on
this list. ESPN dot Com has their biggest impact transfers,
Curious Current from LSU. I mean talked a little bit
about it. You know, throughout the offseason, throughout the transfer
portal cycle, that you didn't lose a ton that's gonna
hurt you as far as LSU like a ton of
big time starters. I think Carrious Current was a big one,
probably the biggest. That's a guy that staff loved. He
was a five star. He got some early playing time
mix results, but he got throwed in there as a freshman.
That's going to happen. He can play guard for you,
he could play tackle for you. He's a guy you
didn't want to lose, and to lose him to the
whole miss of all places with the lane Kiffin saga, YadA, YadA.
I know it sucks, but you gotta move on. I think,
I mean curious Kern's gonna hurt losing in the portal.
I think Kyle Parker's actually going to hurt you. I
thought Kyle Parker was good. I thought he was one
of your top three receivers on this year's team. LSU
used him a lot in the fourth quarter. He just
didn't use him a lot before that. I could never
really figure out why that was. Kyle Parker over at
Ohio State, followed Cortes Hangton, and he's gonna have Jeremiah
Smith on the other side of him to take pressure
off of him. He has Julian saying, who I think
coming into this year is the best quarterback in college
football throwing him the ball. And those are your two
big losses. And it sucks to see Karrious Kern's name
sitting there next to whole Miss, But I mean outside
of Caius Kerrn, where do you go for old Miss.
That's kind of the point, like, yeah, they got a
big name guy who they get outside of that. I'm
like for Indiana. On Indiana on this list, they have
Josh Hoover as as their biggest name transfer.
Speaker 1: And I agree.
Speaker 3: And Josh Hoover that was kind of an early signing
and that was one that happened really really soon once
he entered the transfer portal, and Josh Houver was a
guy that I like. I pounded the drama a little
bit for Josh Hoover to come here. The only issue
I had was I wanted a little bit more mobile
of a quarterback for Lane Kiffen and his offense. That's
not really Josh Hoover as far as throwing the ball though.
I mean Hoover in his college career sixty five percent
completion percentage, seventy one touchdowns, thirty three interceptions. It was
twenty nine and thirteen a year ago. So anybody that's
wondering if Kurt Signetti and Indiana are going to be
a flash in the pan, No, I think they got
one of the best quarterbacks in the portal again outside
of Josh Hoover, where do you look for Indiana Like
Rocco Beck's on here for Penn State. Yeah, but they
had like thirty transfers all from Iowa State straight to
Penn State when Matt Campbell took that job. And just
when I look at LSU, I see Levitt, I see Seedon,
I see Benefield, who Monmeel and all of these guys
that could have potentially been on this list for the
top portal edition for LSU, And I get really excited
about what's to come, and I realize this is why
you brought Kiffin here. They called him the Portal King
for a reason. He did a bang up job. I'm
excited for spring practice to start. We will take a
quick time out coming up on the other side, Devin
Snow aka hold de Mayo had to move to Wednesday
from his normal Monday slob, but we're talking to him
next here on Off the Bench.
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Monday around this time. Buddy, he's been a busy man.
Uh sure, He's had a lot of fun with all
the Marty Girl going on in New Orleans. Our guy,
Devin snow aka hold the Mayo, joins us. Now, Dev,
what's going on?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: Yo?
Speaker 3: We're doing good? Uh Man, you've been busy last couple
of days.
Speaker 1: I was, how.
Speaker 2: Busy, having the time of my life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was amazing, man, really was, especially in Demi
and Sunday. And I'm just sitting here reading the the
Shia La Bust.
Speaker 5: It's about to ask you if you were out there with.
Speaker 2: Something so like I just got a chance to sit
down and look at this and it's just sob not.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you about that, like if you
had heard about it. So apparently he just was picking
on the wrong group of guys and they beat his
ass outside of this bar in New Orleans. It was
about two or three guys got arrested. I think he
I think he sent out of jail but got charged
with battery. Not a good day for our guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he got out of jail, went right back
to Bourbon.
Speaker 1: Oh see, I didn't even know that part.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, this is a New Orleans tale if I've.
Speaker 4: Ever heard one. I mean, we'll we'll talk about this forever.
Speaker 2: It's it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: That Louis Stevens is causing so much chaos right now
during Marti gras Man, I forgot about it. Dude.
Speaker 3: Even Stevens was an elite show. I mean I remember
when the Even Stevens movie was coming out. I mean
I thought that was gonna change my life forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And all the characters too, dude, like even Twitty. Uh,
Louis stevens best friend. Twity was funny. Wren had her
own style beans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these were real TV characters, bro, this is you know.
I just feel like they could never replicate something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Dev you uh you talking about having the time of
your life out there, Marti Gral how many parades did
we hit?
Speaker 1: Or were you just bouncing around all?
Speaker 2: I went to let's see, I went to muse This.
I caught two shoes at muse this.
Speaker 4: So that was a good night. That was Thursday night,
laylow Friday to get the spots for in Demian, went
to Demian. Then I went to Toath. I didn't make
it tobaccus this happens every year. And then went to
Zulu yesterday.
Speaker 1: And caught some coconuts tooth is the early morning when right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Toath is pretty early, but Zus even earlier, starts at
eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: Dude, I hear more people that like live out in
the New Orleans area go out there every year.
Speaker 1: So many people tell me Tooth is like their favorite parade.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, because Toth throws the most, you know what
I'm saying, Like they throw more than any other parade.
So yeah, you got a nice spot for Tooth. You're
gonna get bombed. I mean, they just they they throw everything.
Speaker 1: But the float literally, were you out there at in Demians?
You can see Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2: I did see Lane Kiffin. I did see Lane. He
didn't see me, but.
Speaker 4: Still in all I mean it was. It's a nice
float too, really was There's a cool looking float. Uh Lane,
I don't know, man, I don't know how Lane does this. Man.
I feel like he's on.
Speaker 2: Like a social tour right now. Uh, just dude, this
dude is that everywhere man.
Speaker 4: Especially down here, and he's been down here a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the Pelicans game.
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, you really got to be just fully
diving into Louisiana culture if you're gonna go to a
Pelicans game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's on a culture tour.
Speaker 2: That's that's right, he's on the culture tour right.
Speaker 1: Now, dev moving away from Marty grawl.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics going on right now? How locked in or
are you?
Speaker 3: Because I mean, you know you always like to to
dip you toes in a lot of different areas. I
know you're big on the UFC and I mean obviously
huge fan of all things Saints like Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1: Where where do you?
Speaker 3: Where do you fall in that category? Are you locked in?
Or is it just kind of background fodder?
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't say you I'm background. Where do
you even watch the Olympics?
Speaker 3: Peca, Yeah, peacockuse Uh it's it's NBC, so like you
got you got peacock on it. But uh no, no
Olympics for you.
Speaker 4: No, I mean I'll tune in for the Summer Olympics.
Like the win Olympics. I don't know, man, Like what
what you want to watch on the.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, what's a good thing
going with the win Olympics right now? What's a good sport?
Speaker 3: The downhill skiing is pretty good, that's kind of the
so I like, I like the ski jump where they
make like the one giant jump because I always wonder,
like how they trained for that sport because if you crash,
you're getting seriously injured. So I don't I don't really
understand how they how they trained for something like that.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I was always more locked into to Summer Olympics as well,
because growing up, like I like to watch the dominance
that was Michael Phelps, Like, I just feel like the US,
the US has never really had that one Winter Olympic
athlete that's kind of just captivated everyone.
Speaker 4: I guess you.
Speaker 2: Could say, maybe what but that wasn't Yeah, what was that?
Speaker 4: Was that one Olympics though? Was that X Game?
Speaker 7: I think it was both?
Speaker 5: He did like three Winter Olympics, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean he's definitely the most legendary gotta be
the most legendary American Winter Olympic guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like you got you got Lindsay Vaughan.
Speaker 3: But I mean every talked about her has been she
broke her leg going down the hill. I mean, she
didn't even really get to compete this year and she's
forty one. It's probably her last Olympics. Like the US
as far as like marketing for the Winter Olympics. Like
I just found out the Olympics was coming up like
three months ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then all right, so what's up with the
flag football?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the next Summer Olympics.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I saw it like during the Super Bowl
it had Jalen Hurts and is that is that our quarterback?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but they are letting they are letting
like NFL players play in it. Because there was a
big debate on like, oh do you let like the
current flag football leagues across America do And they're like, nah,
we want to get eyeballs on this thing, man. So
they are letting current NFL players play in the flag
football League.
Speaker 1: I imagine the US is wing to dominate that up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think at it. I would be devastated if
they didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean imagine, But then you.
Speaker 4: Never know, you know, there may be some other countries
that are strictly practicing flag football. Dude. The end and outs, you.
Speaker 3: Know, the time to the franchise tag people is going
on right now. And the Saints have a couple of veterans,
uh this contractor coming up. They gott to bring back
Cam and to Mario.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, no, they not tomorrow. I've said this on
this show before.
Speaker 4: I do not.
Speaker 2: Believe to Mario is coming back.
Speaker 4: I think Tomorrio They've just gonna be a Chicago band.
That's just my early prediction on it. Dennis Allen Yep, yep.
And then I think that if out of all these guys,
I think Cam would be the one that we work
something out with. And I think Taysom. I don't want
to say he's retiring, but I just don't think he'll
be back in the Saint tune.
Speaker 2: For me, that's just my that's.
Speaker 4: Just my guess. I'm pretty I'm.
Speaker 2: Pretty confident with the to Mario thing.
Speaker 4: Though, because of how he talked since the season has
been over.
Speaker 3: I mean, the thing about to Mario is though, man,
like I look at it, everybody, it's like, oh, you know,
he's gonna be thirty seven and all this. He set
career highs and tackles this year, and before that it
was last year. Like to Mario Davis has actually had
his two best years of the last two seasons. If
I'm the Saints, I got to bring this.
Speaker 4: Guy back, trust me. They're gonna want to. But I
think he's playing hordball, dude, because of all those things
you just said, I think that he's gonna be playing hardball.
I don't think it'll just be money either. I think
it will be hey like to go and get in
position with.
Speaker 2: I mean, look what the band did this past year.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, It just if you listen to
any of his interviews since the season ended, it just
sounds like he's about to play a little hardball.
Speaker 3: Respectfully, I think I think Saint Sam's would be devastated
by that. But like Cam Jordan, Cam Cam, to me,
seems like he's in it for the long haul. Like
I was talking about it the other day, Like you
go into the Superdome for any Saints games, you're gonna
see ninety four jersey. He's most, if not most, like
second most of any of any jersey in there. I
mean you'll see some Breeze ones obviously, But like Cam Jordan,
like kind of is the New Orleans Saints right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And a great season. I mean he had ten sacks.
It's not like this dude had four sacts and we
like just you know, rooting for a good guy here.
I mean, this guy played good, So yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't I could never see Cam Jordan playing in
another uniform or anything like that.
Speaker 4: And I do think that they'll work it out, but
it's just the other two.
Speaker 2: To Mario and Tashm, I think it's over.
Speaker 8: I really do, Man Bro, I was gonna say, like,
in terms of Cam Jordan, he did like come out
and say I love the Saints, would love to stay,
but to Mario did the complete opposite.
Speaker 5: So I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be like I think he is going to
play some hardball and it might be a little bit
of a challenge to get to Mario back on on
board with.
Speaker 4: The New Orleans. And the thing about it is is Stutsman,
who we know is you know a little flash that
a little flash.
Speaker 2: I'm still that kind of confident just rolling out there
with Stutsman, only though, you.
Speaker 4: Know, with Stutsman and who knows where.
Speaker 2: Or you know what I'm saying, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Just if the Mario doesn't come back, they're gonna they're
gonna have to go get somebody.
Speaker 3: It changes everything free agency, dev it changes everything in
the draft. Like the Mario leaving is not just losing
your middle linebacker, like it changes your entire offseason strategy.
And now I'm with you on stutsman, like he had
flashes last year, but I mean he's you know, he
still needs to put on a little bit of way
to be an NFL middle linebacker, Like can he can?
He can he be in every down player? Like we don't,
we don't know, but like if the Saints are doing
in fact, let him walk, man, They're they're gonna be
in for quite the hectic offseason deb Before we get
you out of here, what's the rest of the week
look like for you got anything coming up? Or you
just in pure recovery mode from the craziness that was
Mardy girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just figure another day of recovery mode.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it was like four straight days of this, man,
So it's over. Another day of recovery and then yeah, dude,
I got a lot of stuff to tackle, man, I
got a lot of challenges, especially you know the whole
YouTube thing. I'm really trying to get that going more
than what it is.
Speaker 2: So I'm back to off season Mayo.
Speaker 4: Trying to tackle challenges, man, do and do new stuff.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, man, I can't wait to see what you
do next. The RB and R was was awesome. I'm
excited for everything you got to come in your way.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: That is Devin Snow aka Hold the Maya. You can
catch them on Twitter Snow like John de Thanks so
much for hopping one today.
Speaker 4: All right, y'all take care.
Speaker 3: All right, that was Devin Snow. We're here on OTB.
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edition of OTB. Just about twenty minutes or so left
to go here on today's show. And my God, Strawberry
Wine might be my favorite one hit wonder of all time.
Like Dina Carter made that song and then just said,
you know what, I'm good. I mean, look, she obviously
had others, but none of them were as big of
a hit. As strawberry wine. My gosh, one of this
is a this might be a top five tailor song.
I love this song as a laundra's vibeing right now.
Speaker 5: This is a great song.
Speaker 1: This is an incredible song.
Speaker 5: It makes me want to like do karaoke right.
Speaker 3: This is a this is a race You're terrible, But
it's also what everybody would sing. I was gonna sa
it's a song that a lot of people know they
would join in and sing. Those are the best karaoke songs,
the ones where people.
Speaker 1: Will join it.
Speaker 8: Get out a lighter This is a lighter song yet
hell yeah, hold it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah the songs.
Speaker 7: So what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be thirty.
Speaker 3: Next by Braxton. You're like twelve years old. When you become,
you know, in your mid twenties, every birthday is pretty
much gonna feel the same. When I got to twenty eight,
everything changed. I was like, I'm like late late twenties.
I turned twenty nine in September, and I was like,
I gotta I gotta cherish this forever, Like that's it.
Speaker 1: In what September, I'll be thirty as a milestone. Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: I mean like I'll be thirty, I'll be a dad.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, that's real good dad part.
Speaker 8: That's like I know and you know what you So,
Jake and I when we were on the sorry, when
we were on the way back from Obile, we were like, ooh,
Taylor's about to have a straight up reality check when
he has a kid.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And the crazy thing about it is, I'm kind of
the last of my friger Like the guy who's the
best man in my wedding, he just had a baby
in December. Buddy of mine's uh firstborn turned one on Saturday,
So I mean, I'm they already have kids, So I mean,
where you getting old?
Speaker 7: I just had a mouth. I'm just twenty one, but.
Speaker 3: Jesus, Cassie's been my coworker for like two years from
now when she same age as my younger brother, which
makes me feel bad pretty much every day.
Speaker 8: I don't know, like I feel like, Okay, So I
just I just turned twenty eight, and y'all know that
I was having like a bit of an existential crisis.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, no, I think we're still young, Like
twenty eight.
Speaker 1: You're good, You're good, you got two more years.
Speaker 8: But I still feel like he is pretty young too, though, like,
I don't think you hit your rhythm or prime until
you're like mid thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, me too. That's what that's where I'm
going at.
Speaker 5: No, I think that's objectively true.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna adopt that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you see, you let your kids start, you know, walking,
hitting all these other milestones, then it might hit a
little different.
Speaker 7: But you haven't experienced all that yet. So young, we'll see.
Speaker 3: You know who's not young, Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill has
been He has been released by the Miami Dolphins for
failing a physical, but they were gonna move on from
him anyways. Tyreek Hill thirty one years old, and of
course all the wide receiver needy teams, these NFL insiders say, oh, well,
this team's got a land Tyreek Hill. So the question
presents itself. Should the New Orleans Saints sign Tyreek Hill?
Absolutely not, They should not sign Tyreek Hill, but you.
Speaker 5: Know that they're definitely looking at him.
Speaker 1: Mickey is an agent.
Speaker 5: V that is a Saints ass.
Speaker 3: Loves an agent, right, And like two years ago, back
to back seventeen hundred yard seasons, still looked like he
was one of the best receivers in the NFL two
years ago, played the full season less than a thousand yards,
six touchdowns, also at eleven point eight yards per catch,
lowest of his career. Last year, he only played in
four games. He was injured the entire season. He's coming
off of a knee injury. I just mentioned he had
a potential failed physical two hundred and sixty eight yard
receiving in a touchdown. Tyreek Hill is well past his prime. Also,
he's not what the New Orleans Saints need. He's an
aging vet. Also, it's clear that he's lost his step
when he's on the field, and he's a five to
eleven guy who relies on his speed, and I mean
his speed may not be there the same way. He's
coming off knee injury. He's thirty one years old. Go
find me a highlight reel of Tyreek Hill making contested catches.
You're not gonna do it because they're not out there.
Tyreek Hill, speed guy, not the best route runner, not
really a contested catch guy.
Speaker 1: That's what you need.
Speaker 3: We talk about Chris Alave all the time, great route runner,
he needs to be better with contested catches. Bringing in
Tyreek Hill solves none of that for you.
Speaker 10: You know who else is the free agent Mike Evans.
He's also don't bring him in.
Speaker 3: I got some options for us that are a little
bit younger than what maybe we could look at with
a Tyreek killer a Mike Evans, because right now, your
two proven weapons are Chris Olave and Jawan Johnson. I
am not putting Devon vey Leg in that proven weapon
option yet. He had a pretty good three to four
game run this year with Tyler Shock. But we need
to see a little bit more. So you got two
proven guys A Lave and Juwan Johnson right now. Jawan
Jennings is a free agent. Is Juwan Jennings wing to
solve all of your problems? No, but he's a different
type of receiver than what you already have. He's six
foot threes, two hundred and fifteen pounds. This year wasn't
the best year for him. I mean fifteen catches, I
mean fifteen games, six hundred and forty three yards, receiving
nine touchdowns. But that entire team was out of whack, right,
I mean, the forty nine ers had so many injuries.
Rumors as to why all these injuries occurred, we got
into all that. But when he was fully healthy two
years ago, and he was even in and out of
the lineup there. He had at a nagging injury nine
and seventy five yards and six touchdowns on a playoff
team and had seventy seven catches. Juwan Johnson is a
really good player. You're not gonna have to ask him
to be your bona fide number one receiver because you
got Chris Alave there to take some of the pressure
off of him. But Jawan Johnson is a guy. He'll
be twenty nine years old next season. He's a big body.
He could provide something for you that you don't already have.
What about Christian Kirk Again, he's not gonna solve all
your issues, but he's younger than Tyreek Hill. Now, Kirk's
been in and out of the lineup too, played in
thirteen games with three starts of this year, only eight
games of the year before. He's twenty nine years old.
But can you bring in Kirk to be your number
two behind a Lave. I'm okay with that, provided he
could stay healthy. He's still younger and cheaper than a
Tyreek Hill. He could probably make a little bit more
impact at this point. What about Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to say, Oh, Debo's old, he's fat, he's
out of shape. Debot was pretty good this year for
the for Washington, he started twelve games, seven hundred and
twenty seven yard receiving in five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He was their number one guy.
Speaker 5: He did terrible for my fantasy, though.
Speaker 3: He did terrible for your fantasy, sure, which again big
part of the equation. But Jayden Daniels is out all year, Like,
you go, look at how bad that offense was. Once
Jayden went down seven twenty seven and five touchdowns, you
go look at what everybody else put up. Even Terry
McLaurin had a down year, even he was in and
out of the lineup with an injury. Cod Deebo Samuel
maybe bring you something again. He's not going to solve
all of your problems. But I'd probably preferre Debo over
Tyreek Hill. He had a much better year last year
and again probably still a little bit cheaper. What about
bringing back Rashid Chhiheed, Now I would like it just
because you know Shaheed could do well in system. I
thinking about Rashiji heat is though he has never been
a target monster He's never been one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna have twelve thirteen catches a game.
Speaker 3: I mean, his best season in New Orleans yardage wise,
was back in twenty twenty three seven hundred and nineteen yards,
five touchdowns. Twenty twenty five combined between New Orleans and
Seattle six hundred and eighty seven yards, and in Seattle
he had fifteen catches. His The biggest m back in
Seattle was in the return game. If you want to
bring him back for that, I'm all good with it.
I just view Rashid I view Rashiji Heat is a
great number three option. I view him as a number
three option. I don't think the Saints will bring him
back only because I think he's kind of attached to
the Raiders right now. His offensive coordinator, in Clink Kubiak,
who he played for under here in New Orleans as well,
is the new head coach of the Raiders. I think
that makes a ton of sense for a guy like
Rashiji Heat because Kubiak knows how to use him. I
think it would be a tough sell to get him
to come.
Speaker 4: Back here.
Speaker 3: If you don't get any of those big time agents, though,
for me, like, my preference would be to draft a
young receiver in the draft.
Speaker 1: You have eight overall.
Speaker 3: At eight, it's tough for me to pass up on
a guy like Jordan Tyson or Carnel Tait in.
Speaker 1: Round one, but you could.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's been a lot to talk about Jordan Love,
There's been a lot to talk about ed rushers.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. Again.
Speaker 3: I would prefer one of those Eligue guys, but it's
a deep receiver class. Zachariyah Branch, he had a really
good year at Georgia. He'll be there when you're picking
at forty three. Omar Cooper from Indiana. Chris Brazl is
six foot five out of Tennessee. That fits some of
your needs. He's a really good player. Elijah Surrat Omar
Cooper's body from Indiana. He'll be there later in the draft.
Because you're picking for forty second overall and then seventy third,
a lot of these guys will be there. There's rumors
now that Casey Conception and could fall out of the
first round. I don't think you will, but if he does,
and he's there at forty two overall, you could take
Casey Conception a little bit smaller than what you would like.
He sits there at five eleven, but he's good enough
athlete to where it doesn't matter a lot of the times.
He was one of the most athletic receivers in college football. Issue,
you don't have to sign any of these guys. The
point I'm trying to make is there's gonna be a
lot of rumors, whether it's the Saints or other teams
trying to throw a bag at Tyreek Hill, trying to
see if they can make one last run at a
Super Bowl. And I just I don't think he's a
good fit in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: I think New Orleans is a year away from a
Super Bowl run. I'm not sure how desirable that would
be for Tyreek Hill. But also, Tyreek Hill around five
foot ten, a guy who's clearly lost a step while
he's on the field. He's thirty one years old. He's
gonna command a lot of money on the open market.
Is it really worth it to you? Like Tyreek Hill
is a one at most two year rental for the
New Orleans Saints. That doesn't really fit what you're trying
to build there in New Orleans. I say no to
Tyreek Hill. All right, we'll take a quick time out.
When we get back, we'll close the show out like
we do every day with as the bench off the bench.
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Speaker 10: All right, So in college basketball, there is one team
that is still undefeated.
Speaker 3: You know that is so yes, but I'm gonna cheat
a little bit because Jay Davis is last week.
Speaker 1: It's Miami of Ohio.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they currently have seven games left. Do you think
they can finish undefeated?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure, why not? Now are they gonna get a one seed?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: No, there'll be like a five seed in the tournament
or something?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they can't. I mean they're they're clearly at
the top of their conference.
Speaker 1: Why not.
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me on. I think they can do it.
Speaker 10: Then eight teams that have been unefeated for their entire season,
including ins a tournament, and one then like championship eight teams.
Speaker 3: Asked the bench heard briefly go over LSU wide receivers.
Who's going to be our one two punch like Malie
can be TJ. Jefferson, Chase Odell and.
Speaker 8: Landry Winnie and Trey Wilson.
Speaker 5: That's just off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: No, I like it.
Speaker 3: Do you put Trey Wilson in there, I'll go too,
completely different, Jays Brown and Jackson Harris.
Speaker 8: I like Brown, Okay, I'll go from Hawaiian.
Speaker 7: Yep, I got James Brown and Wilson.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's actually what I was That's actually what I
was gonna got. I just wanted to have two different ones, Okay.
Asked the bench, Are you sure it's your baby? Yes, guys,
I'm sure, Yes, guys. I mean technically I don't know
for sure for sure, but yeah, I mean I'm I'm
like ninety nine point percent sure that it is. Asked
the bench my baby. You know about Let's Stay that
Cat Williams. Though some I've never actually seen that movie.
I've seen the clip though of it. The clip that
is one of the funniest clips I've ever seen. He's like,
that's your baby, goes. No, just because him this one
might be just because you named him Darryl doesn't mean
he belongs to Darryl. He goes, I don't care what
this baby's name is. That's white child. He's like that
kid's got a seven thirty credit score right now, Kevin,
I mean Cat Williams used to be golly. I haven't
heard even stand up some while, but he used to
be like my favorite one out there.
Speaker 1: All right, that's going to.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh you've seen the clip of Theo Vonn
having like a statue of like a character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just looks exactly like Cat Williams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, that's pretty much gonna do it for
today's Off the Bench Fun Show hit A lot of
different things. Uh, it's some saying to melochie football, a
lot of baseball talk because the Tigers will take one
the Nickel State Colonel's this afternoon one o'clock in Alec Box.
That Steven Etheridge was in the studio for his normal
eight am segment. Thanks to him for coming by l
she Beach volleyball coach Russell Brock. We had a really
good talk with him. Eight fifteen, their season officially begins
one for Friday out in New Orleans and then Devin
snow Hold, the Mayor, he opped on with us at
eight fifteen.
Speaker 1: Normally here on Monday.
Speaker 3: But straight from the horse's mouth, he said, I was
busy having the time of my life for the past
four days. I don't doubt it. Saw some VIDs, some
picks from out there in New Orleans. Looked like it
was a really good time. A lot of people out
there the Endemian Parade. I don't know if they could
have fit a single person out there. But again, Tiger's
coming up this afternoon. We'll recap it tomorrow. We got
two more days left, Flynn. We'll be back on Monday.
We'll see with Jake as well. But we're hanging out
with you the rest of the week. Two more days
left with you.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of LSU baseball talk coming your way.
They start their next weekend series on Friday, so stay
tuned Thursday and Friday. We'll be right here with you
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