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Today in ben Huge you can expect mostly sunny skies
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Speaker 2: Now we're one of today's show.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap up our day four coverage the final day
out there in Mobile, Alabama for the Senior Bowl. We'll
talk draft risers, Senior Bowl standouts, we'll talk at all.
Speaker 2: Also coming up a little bit later in.
Speaker 1: The show, we'll have our Munchie segment with LSU executive
Chef Michael Johnson, and we'll close it out like we
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Speaker 3: The Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 4: Hansay, Hester and Hester got it five five.
Speaker 3: In Off the Bench control the live from the Raising
Kine studio. Here's Jacob Vesser in Matslin, Yo.
Speaker 5: And welcome man to otb here live from the Mobile
Convention Center, downtown.
Speaker 4: Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 5: We are here continue coverage to the twenty twenty six
Panini Senior Ball and of course our coverage brought to
you by First American Bank and Trust. Here in Mobile,
Flynn Hester, Alandra back in studio in the raising Kine studio,
our Guy Musso and Taite.
Speaker 4: We are here. It is day number four in Mobile.
Speaker 5: How we doing we we see the finish line there, Matthew, Oh.
Speaker 2: We're doing fantastic. It's been a it's been a great week.
Very much enjoyed this week at the at the Senior Bowl.
Really great pricees yes today and the the prites have
been like surprisingly enjoyable as much as I used to
you know playing Uh, he'd kind of yeah, all was
surprised by me enjoying the football. But it's been it's
been very fun. They've been the price has been well run. Uh,
they get to they get to drill to drill. There
hadn't been you know, a ton of sloppiness, but there's
been a lot of really good competing and uh, it's
been really enjoyable. And everybody we've talked to has been
fantastic and uh so it's my first experience at the
Senior Bowl A plus Yeah, true plus five star plus Rady.
Speaker 5: Five star plus Jordan's seed and chat out Alandra your
first experience at the Senior Bowl as well. How have
you thought the practices and everything have gone. Have you
enjoyed watching football practice with Matthew and him probably uh
can't help himself talking about coverages in fronts and all
the different things.
Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, all of this has been great. Like, I've
really enjoyed everything that we've done, like this, the media
day yesterday. The practices are a lot of fun and yeah,
Matt's like teaching me ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just going to school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 6: I feel like I thrive in this type of environment,
Like I love doing stuff like this. So I've yeah,
I've really enjoyed this entire week.
Speaker 5: I thought Media day was kind of cool. It had
a great intention to be a great setup. The only
thing is the media members weren't allowing the players to
like actually get into the room. Yeah, just like, hey, guys,
like let them get to those tables. That's where they're supposed.
Speaker 2: To be, you know, like after a little league game
or like a you know, a ten U soccer football game.
After the game, the parents formed the hand tunnel. Yeah,
that's basically what they did. And then then they just
couldn't make it through the door. But it was good.
I was very That was the part I was most
stressed about. It was the media day. Couldn't tell no, no,
I couldn't tell honestly, you know, because as being a
former player, I just was like, man, I used to
hate it when I have these situations. You got to
talk to all these random people. You don't know where
they're from, you don't know anything about them. They're just
trying to get a couple of clips from you. Yeah.
Then well she was on the other foot. I was
that person having to bug these guys, and there was
definitely what they're down there for in that situation. There
is not a time and situation where you can preface
with like, hey, I get what you're going through real quick.
Not me. I was just like, hey, Bud, can I
ask you some questions? I got more questions here? Let
me rip. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I guess you were doing fun stuff too, though, I
mean I could ask I at least I always just
try to, you know, find a way to be like, hey,
I'm cool, bro, Like.
Speaker 2: I get it, I know it.
Speaker 5: I promise you I'm not going to set you up,
and just like somehow some way try to get it.
Because then it's like, Okay, I can relax because I
know this guy's not trying to get me to say
the wrong thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but like your situation is a little bit
different because you do have like the real microphone. It
says like serious on it, like you got so y'all
get like people pulled away. Yeah, I was in there
in the scrum with all the bats, like with a microphone, Hey, bud, can.
Speaker 6: I get and people trying to like cut out and
I'm like, go go.
Speaker 4: I'm like, get in there.
Speaker 2: You can't come off, bro, Yep, you gotta cut off
one o. Tommy tough Nuts cut me off one time.
Speaker 4: Was I don't even know.
Speaker 2: He was like he was a mouth breather for sure.
Speaker 4: You got to point him out.
Speaker 6: I don't even remember what he looked like, but he
was like he.
Speaker 2: Come me off and made no eye contact and then
continue to ask about thirteen questions. What was he wearing?
Speaker 4: Tell me everything, I'll show you.
Speaker 2: He's like, basically, if you were to look up like
beat writer in the dictionary, that's what you would get
green jacket. I can't remember.
Speaker 5: Okay, week Chin, super week Chin, So we can jump
him if you tell me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you said you enjoyed every interview.
Speaker 2: No, I did not.
Speaker 4: There's one.
Speaker 2: Should we go ahead? Never meet your heroes? People don't
never meet you're disappointing. Jenning's Dunker, who I was so
excited about. I've talked about literally the entire week. Yeah,
I thought about it.
Speaker 5: Refrigerator with legs, this six four three and fifteen pound
behemoth with no fat on this young man, beautiful bob
take that bud.
Speaker 2: Beautiful red mullet, like incredible red mullet. He was the
one I was most excited about talking to you. We
had to talk to him, and I asked him. I
asked everybody for questions. Who's your favorite team growing up,
what's one thing you changed about college football? What's your
go to taco bell order? And what's your favorite football movie?
Then I'd followed up with have you seen Varsity Blues?
Spoiler alert? Nobody has col Peyton? Well here at the
table media day nobody? Yeah, Well, Jenning's Dunker. It wasn't
very good, wasn't.
Speaker 4: Very good, no opinions on anything.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, I don't. He's like, I don't think
it was bad.
Speaker 4: I was like, it's bad.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think I change anything about
college football. Like, all right, next question, what's your favorite
football movie? I don't think I've ever seen a football movie?
Speaker 4: All right, I have TVs in Iowa.
Speaker 2: Yep. What's your go to taco bell order? I've never
eaten talked about.
Speaker 4: That's great answer. He was like first round to undraftable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, yeah he was first round. He might
have been one overall pick in my eyes until that.
Now not even mister irrelevant, I know, very disappointing. Yep,
he could probably still play football pretty good. It's doesn't matter,
and it's actually a character indictment. I need to probably
let the scouts know. We'll find somebody else. We'll find
one more. Did you ask the tight ends up they
had seen it? Yeah, I tried to get to so
it's cool. Peat now the number one linebacker.
Speaker 4: J Yeah, it's his last name. It's his last name. Okay,
nailed it, he whisper.
Speaker 6: I think it's Rodrigo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you mixed it up yesterday, and I'm not going to
tell the whole story because I want you to stay
on air.
Speaker 4: You messed it up yesterday, and I.
Speaker 5: Immediately I had him next, and I'm sitting over there like,
oh my god, I know this lame.
Speaker 4: I was like, am I going to screw this up?
Am I going to?
Speaker 5: Because Flynn we just had so I didn't. I didn't
we got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, And y'all kept messing with me about it
and like saying different last names, and I was like,
now I don't know what it is, Like y'all have
messed me up completely. So we just didn't interview that guy.
But he was he was my he was my last hope. Yeah,
seeing varsity boys because he had a Texas Tech jersey on. Yeah,
get to him. He was one of the guys Like, yeah,
he was already. Yeah, there's about fifteen people surrounding him
at all times, and like I was gonna have to
shoulder my way in there, and I was like, I
don't want that much. I don't want that bad.
Speaker 4: You should have just like right after me. If you
would have just sat right there, I would just pulled
you in.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he get caught like right after by a beat
reporter because he like he finished up with us, and
this guy's like, hey get you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh man, this kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, poor kid. He didn't he could tell he was
all about ball. He didn't want to be there.
Speaker 5: Uh do you know where he started his career? No,
you don't, Virginia, you know what position he started his
career at? Yeah, tight end, quarterback. Told you he's a
quarterback at UVA before he transferred. I believe he walked
on as a transfer to Texas Tech and became the
best middle linebacker in the country.
Speaker 2: I guess he couldn't cut it throwing the ball, couldn't
cut it at the real position.
Speaker 5: Or maybe he just like realized like he had a
brighter future at middle linebacker and became a.
Speaker 4: Guy that got not couldn't spend fifth most Heisman.
Speaker 2: I couldn't spend it, Okay Rodriguez. Yeah, but there was
a There's been a lot of really cool takeaways from today.
Seeing a lot of a lot of famous faces in
the NFL, a lot of gms walking around. You know,
I hit a couple of like little pieces and little
waves of some people I.
Speaker 5: Knew I saw Mickey Loomis and he said hello as
he he walked by, and like, Mickey would come on
our fans, I think they'd like.
Speaker 4: To hear from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but do you want to take questions from the chat?
Mickey ask Mickey?
Speaker 6: Ask Mickey, why do you smack your gum like that?
Speaker 4: Micky? How that would be?
Speaker 2: That'd be electric?
Speaker 4: That would that would take us and we just Murphy Salmon, Jerry,
are we just.
Speaker 2: Reading with no filter? Yeah, that would be the promise
for sure, the breakout star of the Senior Ball Division
three wide receiver. Yeah, Tyron Munta cum John Carroll University.
We are going to actually try to get him on
the show today if we can, and we'll guess we
won't go into it exactly right now. We'll kind of
since we're just kind of talking about how we're doing
little vibe checks right now. But I just wanted to
say that breakout star for two practices in a row,
has made the best plays at the Senior Bowl so far,
division three wide receiver, and he has some ties to LSU.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah he does, and I did not know that
before y'all told me. It's an incredible story. So yeah,
we're hopeful to catch up.
Speaker 2: With him, but just to get a story because it's awesome. Well,
let's do this.
Speaker 5: Let's take a break, and then like when we come back,
we'll get the show started. We'll talk about his journey
because even if we don't get a chance to talk
with him, he needs to be highlighted, no doubt, so
we will do that. When we jump back. It is
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Speaker 3: Off the bench with Hester and Flynn live from the
twenty twenty six Panini Senior Bowl and Mobile presented by
First American Banking Trust.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 5: It is OTB here live from the twenty twenty six
Panini Senior Ball. Our coverage brought you by First American
Bank and Trust FABT dot com. You know I hadn't
seen the first swing and soul from Panini. Nope, you
asked me during the break. I haven't you have an
Alandra hasn't I'm trying to rip packs here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been the two major disappointments for this week. Medium,
my hero Jenning's dunker and not meeting anybody from Panini.
You know, we dabble, Hester and I we dabble in
the sports card game in that world. That was very excited.
And I've actually been looking. I hadn't seen anybody walking
around with a with a polo or a quarter zip
with the Panini logo on it. Nothing, not one like
like I would think they would want signage all over
this place, right, you got you have all these kids
that are about to be rookies. Yeah, and now I
get it. You're not gonna have the NFL license. Now
you're gonna have whatever cards. You're gonna have NFL cards.
And we need to ask whoever we get on the
show today, hopefully we get we get the rest of
the LSU guys on the show today. Hopefully we get
Tyrone Montgomery on the show today. We need to ask them.
There was rumors that they were all going to get
a special one of one card. Yeah, but we haven't
asked or got confirmation of that. I would I wouldn't
be shocked if Panini just forgot to do it. I
guess at this point they forgot to show up.
Speaker 5: I know, like last last year, actually last couple of
years when we showed up here, it was the Receis
Senior Bowl.
Speaker 4: All right, love love some Recees. I think we all
do we're American.
Speaker 5: But they would have bags of reeses on the table.
So in my mind, I was like, oh, yeah, they're
not gonna have like premium packs. We're going you some prism,
but they're gonna have some packs on the table something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some empty.
Speaker 4: Boxes, something for everybody here.
Speaker 2: But like, who's their director of marketing because they're not
very good at their job because there's no logos anywhere
in here, Like you got all these people, you got
this media people that are filming, actively creating content, and
you don't have a Peninni logo. So you know, I
don't know. I'm sure they gave a lot of money,
but it's been a disappointment from my spot, from my
point of view.
Speaker 4: Did you take a picture in the kaboom box? I
did not out of spite protests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they made their marketing did do that? They made
one like sitting, you know, stand and take your own
kaboom picture. But it doesn't even have like a background.
So you just see the stadium in the background, so
you know, it's it's not even a real that history.
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Speaker 5: All right, so what you mentioned a receiver from us
John Carrol. Yes, that has certainly been a star of
the show, Tire Montgomery. And he has an incredible story.
Yeah one that I only knew small details about. But
you did a deep dive yesterday found out a lot
of pretty cool information.
Speaker 4: So he got here of the scene.
Speaker 2: So drive him back from practice yesterday. So he made
a splash the first day last It was the last
play of practice, and he runs a go route and
he completely jumps over a kid most him whatever, makes
a great catch, a really powerful catch over a cornerback
from a big school. I don't remember a big school,
but it was a big school. And then before that
he had some routes. Well, it's like, all right, well
this kid he flashed for a day, made some good plays.
Big whoop. Well, Day two comes around Chris routes beating
people from Texas being for people of Ohio State. Clemson noted,
like he's beating everybody and all the different routes and
in one on ones and then in seven on seven
and teams continues to make play. Caught a post route
in the same fashion in day two that he did
in day one where he jumped over caught it over
somebody's head, incredible catches, incredible plays, and somebody when you're
looking for somebody to step up and turn heads, certainly
this kid has done it. And then because I was
looking at the kid that caught it yesterday, he made
two great catches, I was like who is this that?
Boston coll like what is that? And I was like, oh,
Les's Tyra Montgomery. He did it again. Then if he
did it again, and that's when you start turning some heads.
And caught our eyes. So on the drive back, yes say,
all right, we got to look this up. So Laundra
started looking up his story and I was like, whoa,
this is incredible. So the kid's from the Woodlands, Texas,
so you know, just outside of the Houston area. Went
to College Park High School and he was a top
basketball player at high school. So in twenty nineteen, Tyram
Montgomery attended LSU for one semester and walked on to
the basketball team. Now, after that one semester, he went
back home to Houston. He had some academic issues and
his mother fell ill, so he goes back home and
then just being at home, he's sitting there throwing with
his brother that they're playing they're playing catch. I don't
know if they're in the yard, in the street, whatever
they're doing in his bus Like, hey, dude, like you're
actually pretty good at this, so maybe you should look
at football. And mind you, he's already he's been playing
basketball as a live basketball already walked on at LSU,
and so they started posting videos of himself. So he
started posting videos of himself working out on Facebook, and
then he got somebody reached out to him from a
Miami based flag football team and he competed in a
tournament in Las Vegas. And then he briefly enrolled at
the University of Houston to try to walk on with
the Houston Cougars, but was unsuccessful during because this was
like during COVID nineteen, during the whole COVID situation, so
he was unsuccesful to the full name COVID in a
long time. COVID nineteen, not twenty, not twenty one. This
was just a base nineteen.
Speaker 4: This is the OG Now what did it started out as? Sorry, squirrel,
go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yep, one niner, I don't know Montgomery. Then he's so
he started creating this highlight reel after this, So this
is during covid from like his flag football days and
sent them to colleges all over the US, and most
people were uninterested. They didn't want anything to do with
him because he's never played tackle football before, not college,
on middle school, not peewed, nothing. But eventually he was
able to join Nichols State University, and then after sitting
out the twenty two season due to lack of eligibility,
he appeared in eight games during the twenty twenty three season.
Four Nichols recorded twelve catches one hundred and seventy one yards,
So okay, big whoop. Whatever. Then at that point he
ran out of Division one eligibility.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what that means.
Speaker 2: Don't know what that means at all. I ran out
Division one eligibility, But through some connections from his flag
football days and his teammates, he was able to transfer
to Division three. John Carroll And if you're in the
chair right now, guess what that mascot is. Don't look
it up. Guess so I know, I know you do
know you knew before me, we'll say to the second.
And then twenty twenty four became their top wide receiver.
I posted fifty seven receptions one thousands, seventy one yards
seventeen touchdowns, was named First team All Ohio Athletic Conference,
and then was named consensus Division III All American in
twenty twenty five after one hundred and nineteen catches, fifteen
hundred and twenty eight yards, fifteen tutters and then, okay,
fast forward a couple of weeks. He got invited to
the American Bowl All Star Game a few weeks ago,
and after his performance there garnered an invitation to come
to the Senior Ball So, man that is just walking
up the ladder, right, yeah, stair stepping his way, find
in a way. So if you're out there thinking you
got excuses for not doing something, this man walked on
for basketball, could didn't do it. Mom fell ill academically,
had to go home, played flag football in a Vegas tournament,
sent highlights, put him on Facebook, got to go walk
on at Nichols, had twelve catches, ran out of eligibility,
found a way crazy and is dominating right now making
plays that So other receivers, other kid from Notre Dame,
the kid from US. See a lot of receivers making
a lot of plays, but nobody's making the plays of
this kid. Two days in a row, now two days
in a row, So what a cool story. And it's
and it ain't no accident either. He's running crisp routes,
clean routes and making contested catches strong at the point
of catch, which is fantastic. So I think every year
at these at these All Star Games, there's always some
sort of story.
Speaker 4: Yeah if a.
Speaker 2: Small school guy coming in making a name for himself,
and this kid is certainly fitting that mold right now.
So wish him the best. I don't know where his
story's gonna end. Hopefully we can get him on the
show today and kind of ask him the question we
asked the people that are kind of in charge of
bringing players over. We're like, they're like, who you want
to interview today? We're like tire Montgomery and he's like, oh, okay, yeah,
I don't think anybody's asked for that yet.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure he'd loved to, but he hadn't had
a lot of traction in the media part of it.
Speaker 4: He's getting it today.
Speaker 2: He's getting it today. And then you can go and
kind of like look up the any Senior Bowl, probably
on the on the socials and highlights of him are
starting to make the round.
Speaker 5: So I was shocked to see that his official height
was like literally right under six foot, which pretty goodurd
in eighty nine pounds.
Speaker 2: He plays bigger than that, he really does. And it
doesn't matter if it doesn't matter really how tall you are,
because he's making the high catches, the high point if
you can, the.
Speaker 5: Plays much bigger than So I was shocked at he
wasn't bigger than that, because he just he feels and
looks and plays bigger than that.
Speaker 4: So a cool story.
Speaker 5: I mean, didn't play football until much later in life,
and so you start to tell yourself, there's a lot
left in that tank.
Speaker 4: There's like there's a ceiling that maybe we can get to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, he keeps getting better and better and better,
and he's here against the best of the best, and
he's out there shining. Not like making a player too,
Like he's been the guy that everybody's talking about. He's
making everybody some man.
Speaker 2: He's made multiple like big plays, and a lot of
times at these at these things like these like the
Senior Bowl, these all star games, like sometimes you don't
get a chance to make that head top catch, you know,
sometimes you don't get that opportunity, but you have to
show yourself Like I I'm disciplined in my route running.
I'm crisp, I'm consistent. When I do get my chance,
I do make the simple play. If the hard plays
not ever doesn't present itself in practice, because there's only
so many plays these get, these kids get. These practices
are not that long. But he's had the opportunity to
make big plays. But even like the simple things, the
little things that he's doing have been impressive as well.
So uh, it's no accident what he's doing out there.
So look for him to to continue to grow as
he continues to play better competition. He's an iron sharpens iron,
and he's never been sharpened by any iron. He's just
been I think he worked himself into being drafted player.
Gotta be, you know what I'm saying, Like that he
wasn't before he got here. He was American.
Speaker 5: He was a high priority undrafted free agent that teams
would go up a couple of thousand bucks in their
signing bus and probably.
Speaker 2: To get him team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but now now I think he's gonna hear his name.
Speaker 2: God, I think you'd have to yeah, and like this
is you talk about teams that are already kind of
established and have good veteran corps, like this kid has
never gone against the best of anywhere close to the best.
And this you think about how much he's improven just
at the American Bowl and now here at the Senior Bowl.
He's going to improve every single day you put him
in an NFL camp. Talent is undeniable, for sure. So
what a cool story. And that's what these things are
all about. That's what these All Star games are here for.
And that's why it's not just like, yeah, it's the
big schools, big school All Star Game. No, it's everybody.
And he's earned his right to be here and making
the most of it. So you hear these stories all
the time. We love these stories. We love an underdog story.
Certainly he fits that mold. So good luck to him.
And nobody got a write in the chat, Jake, go
ahead and tell him what the mascot for John Carroll
University is.
Speaker 4: It is the Blue Streaks.
Speaker 2: Yep. Obviously, obviously, how y'all not get that?
Speaker 4: I believe it's in University Heights, Ohio.
Speaker 5: I know it's in Ohio, but I believe it's in
University Heights, Cleveland area, John Carroll Division III, Don Shula.
Speaker 4: Who else we say yesterday it was Don.
Speaker 5: Sula, London Fletcher super chef, Bobby Fly No, I didn't
see him.
Speaker 4: McDaniels, the Cubes. McDaniels.
Speaker 2: Oh, Josh McDaniels. That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So those pretty good lineage there. Bad Don Sula
winning his coach in NFL history. He's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Well at LSU. We can claim him.
Speaker 4: Oh for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where he's not where you finished, it's where
you start.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Oh, he said that, very cool story.
Speaker 5: Hopefully we will get the opportunity to catch up with
Tyra Montgomery. Also, still some l s U guys. We'd
like to catch up with Aaron Anderson, Chris Hilton both
here at the game. We had barry On Brown and
we had Garrett Neusmyer already from the Tigers, So a
couple more Tigers here Inmobile and hopefully we can catch
up with both of those guys here at some point today.
All right, we will step away. When we come back,
continue talking about maybe some winners, some things that have
you know, been on the forefront here, some players that
have stood out here in the Senior ball some different things.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, kind of break down their performance Chris
Hilton first time. Yeah, straight off the plane.
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Speaker 5: All right, we'd mentioned that the LSU guys. Obviously you've
got now four players. Start out with five. You had
aj Halsey, Jack Tibrin had to pull out of the
game with injury, but then you added one with Chris
Hilton who was coming over from the East West Shrine game,
so you do have a total of four tigers. We've
caught up with two of those tigers here on the show.
Hopefully we can catch up with Aaron Anderson and Chris
Hilton at some point here today. But a cool thing
about when you look up on the board and they
got all the analytics.
Speaker 4: Top speed guys. It was Chris Hilton and it.
Speaker 5: Was barry On Brown where number one in three I believe,
And so I did give barry On Brown a hard
time yesterday after practice I was like, man, you told
us yesterday that you know, you were the fastest of
the group. But I look up on that board and
I see Chris Hilton's name above yours, and they started
going kind of all in on You know why that happened?
Now fresh legs, fresh legs, like fresh, he's playing another
game that's fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, Chris Hilton getting the getting the invite,
then the late the last minute invite because of his
performance at the at the East West game. So yeah,
two nights ago, was playing in the game. The next
day on a plane to mobile, fresh off the plane.
Speaker 4: And ten thirty and practice started at one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you better go ahead and carry on your helmet
and shoulder pads because you don't have time to check
them and wait, yeah, carry him on. Yeah, it gets
straight off the plane to the stadium, throw jersey on
and let's get out there. And you could tell they
were trying to get him. They didn't want to throw
them in there too much because he was just had
played a game the night before. He was fresh off
the plane. So they had him. Of course, you warm
ups to individual drills and then they had him and
do like the main like the one live ish period
they had him do was two versus two two on
two route combinations, and the dude is fast fast. Yeah,
they couldn't. There was nobody that could cover him in that.
I think he ran, he separated, and he was He's
one of these you know, I've never really watched him
just like watching like all right, let me just see
this kid's skill set ups. I've watched him on an
eleven on eleven football field, but I've never just like
singled him out and watched it. Kid is one of
these deceptively fast guys because it's kind of long stride
and a really smooth runner. So he doesn't he's moving
fast and he doesn't look like he's going fast. So
from a body language standpoint, is a defensive back you
have to kind of get used to that because you
kind of when you're covering, your job is to match
the receiver what he's doing, whether he's running slow or fast.
And so when you see a guy that's running like
so smooth and effortlessly, you tend to give the same
amount of effort as that you're seeing because you're supposed
to match it. But you're like, oh, he's not given
effort and he's going way faster than me. Nobody could
keep up with him yesterday. Now he didn't. I don't
think they completed anything. He ran like a They running
all these like stack combinations. So he released and runs
down the sideline and he just got cooked by like
three yards. At quarterback, they they weren't used ready for it.
He underthrew it. But the other he was open, like
every single time. So I looked at see him. I
can't wait to see how he does. Got to give
him a little bit more. He didn't do one on ones,
he did not do seven on sevens, didn't do any
team because again he had just got there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had a coach that was like every time
trying to like obviously show him the plays in different
th catch because the other guys had a three day
head start on the playbook. Ye if he gets into
like the right offense, and I know, look, as LSU fans,
everybody was excited Chris Hilton went to media day. We
were all wanting to see what we saw at the
end of the season before. Remember against Oklahoma against Baylor
in the bowl game, We're like, oh my gosh, this
is the Chris Hilton that we have been waiting on him.
Speaker 4: Because it all peered up, he got healthy.
Speaker 5: And then you had the plays that rush actually pushing
the ball down the field. You didn't have that this year.
I mean every throw was five yards or less. Some
were negative five, just like that's what the offense was.
But that is a player that is going to have
every opportunity to make an NFL roster and if he
gets with the right team with the right quarterback that's
looking to stretch the ball down the field. And he
played special teams at LSU two, so he's got a
history of that. I think Chris Hilton's going to be
a professional football player next year on a fifty three
man roster, not a practice squad guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. I mean, he's got he's got
the he has got the skill set. Certainly, he looks
the part. He's fast. I think at LSG, I think
we all would like to for him to be a
little bit better at the point of catch, a little
bit stronger contested catches. I think that's one thing that
he can certainly work on. But I mean, how do
we really know after this past season. Didn't really have
the opportunities right. But just like every single one of
these kids that is at the Senior Bowl, unless you're
a first round guy, maybe some of the second round,
it's all about getting in the right situation. When I
was playing, I saw so many really good players not
ever make it. Then I saw some players that weren't
very good and they did make it. It's just all
about timing. It's all about situation. It's all about what
if you get into the right system that highlights your
skill set and allows your skill set to play the
way it should. So we just got to wish the
best for these kids that they get in the situation.
Speaker 4: But he.
Speaker 2: Certainly is a guy that you put him out one
on ones, he's going to impress by it just his
physical skill set, but he's got to make the players
when they're presented to him on these contested catches. So
that's why this week, the next couple of days, this
practice in the game on Saturday, when the balls in
the air, you got to go make the play.
Speaker 5: Yep, He's got a great opportunity to go to impressing
players on his team, obviously with being able to come
straight off the plane, but also every NFL team here,
all thirty two teams are probably going to be looking
at a guy like that because you can't teach the
kind of speed that Chris Hilton has, So looking forward
to seeing what he can do on Saturday during the game.
Aaron Anderson another player that we hadn't had a chance
to really talk about very often. Somebody that I know, Matt,
you've been a big fan of You were hoping he
could stay healthy, obviously, and you thought maybe once he
got into a situation like this because it was football, IQ,
that that would stand out.
Speaker 4: Have you seen anything from Aaron Anderson.
Speaker 2: Aaron hadn't really had the opportunity in any of the
main periods to make a play, so all of his
highlights have come on one on one route running his
individual work. The ball. I don't think the ball well, okay,
I take that back last last play of practice. Yes, sorry,
Nesmier hit him over the middle for about fifteen yards.
Wait over the middle, Like, look too, lsu quick. I
know what you're saying.
Speaker 4: To play in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: I know you're saying, Matt, you are full of pooh
because there's no way you can complete a pass over
the middle of field. Well there is, and they did
it yesterday, all right, and it was it was fun
to watch Aaron. He's looked very good, very I mean,
he's he's the guy that we know. He's He's like
a water bug out there. Man, It's hard to keep
up with him. He does great body control. He's you
don't know which way he's gonna go. When he gets
to the top of a route, You're like, all right,
TB has to hesitate a little bit and make a break.
He just hasn't what they're the plays at the rent
and I'll have to understand when seven on seven goes,
there's fifteen seven on seven plays, there's fifteen team situations
and like team first down, there's fifteen on another team.
So there's like forty five plays total. Half of them
not half of them, half of the team plays or
running plays. It's just like the rotation, and so you're
rotating with all these other receivers. So the receivers are
rotating in about once every three, yeah to maybe four plays.
And it's lucky to draw a lot of the times
when Aaron's been in there, they bad luck is just running.
It's like a running play. Yeah, he's running like he's
having a block or whatever.
Speaker 5: So he even saw him one he was lined up
kind of like in almost like like an offset tight
end type of position.
Speaker 4: So he's right on the hip of the tackle on
the left side, like in a two point stance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they set the ball and he goes backside
all the way around to lead on the safety on
the back side, you know, kind of like selling like
you're cutting off a zone run. Then you go up
to the next level. I was like, well, I don't
know that Aaron Air she has ever done that in
his career.
Speaker 2: He's never been out. Yeah he is. They've all then
you have to this is this is the place where
you have to do a nice job on everything you do.
Ton of effort by by him, by Aaron Anderson, A
ton of effort I'm seeing given by barry On Brown
who's looking fast fast?
Speaker 4: Barry On Brown had so.
Speaker 5: Again, there's all these analytics that they had here, and
Barryon Brown had the most yards traveled by like five
hundred yards. The second day of practice he had traveled
like five four hundred and ninety yards.
Speaker 2: Well, every time he catches a punt, like even if
it's not in the punt drill, like the actual live
punch drill, they're just catching punts for warmut, he runs
the full length of the field as fast as he
can show speed.
Speaker 5: Look if you got it flowing out, if you got it, buddy,
I'm telling you, why would you not. Yeah, there was
one they were doing like this, you know, very basic
punt drill where it was really for the gunners to
go out and save it before it goes into the
end zone.
Speaker 4: They will save it.
Speaker 5: On the one well, one of the gunners hits it
back into the field of play, and Barryon Brown, he
was the returner on the rep, he goes over there,
grabs it and then ran the whole length.
Speaker 2: Of the field like you mean, trying to get it.
He's trying to get his name of that.
Speaker 4: Scoreboard, no doubt, and he did.
Speaker 5: He certainly did all right, we will step away. We've
got much more OTB coming your way right now. We've
got a ton of scout and coaches coming into the
convention center.
Speaker 4: Of the players are starting to come in as.
Speaker 5: They've got their early meetings, and so again, our hope
is that we can bring you a couple more LSU guys.
Tyra Montgomery from John Carroll is somebody we'd love to
have a conversation with, and we'll have all that for
you when we come back. This is our continued coverage
of the Panini Senior Ball, brought to you by First
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Speaker 4: In fact cool all right, welcome back in OTB.
Speaker 5: We gotta get like fifteen minutes off script to be
able to catch up with Joel Thomas, who he wants
to the acting head coach year for the American squad
New Orleans Saints running back coach.
Speaker 4: He told us he listened to the show. Shout out
friend of the show.
Speaker 2: We appreciate that by now.
Speaker 4: But I just want to talk about he wants to
sit here. I think he wants to talk football with I.
Speaker 2: He came in here. He came by break that time
at least.
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Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, so we see. Yeah, he was running
backs coach when I was there the Saints. Yeah, isn't
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Speaker 2: Joel Thomas. He was a former stand up running back at.
Speaker 4: Idaho, where he was played with Dougnas Meyer, where.
Speaker 2: He was inducted into their Athletic Hall off that shout out.
We daily coached at Louisville, coached at Idaho, coach to
Purdue Washington, Purdue ar Kansas, coaching Purdue. Let's see, it
was with the Saints from twenty fifteen to twenty three,
and then with the Giants for a year.
Speaker 4: I knew there was a giant s up there, and
then went back to the Saints. This past hit this
past season, Yeah, come out now, I can't leave the Saints.
Speaker 2: He was funny because he's, you know, the first time
like probably being the head coach, and so he's talking
about how he had to like bring everybody up at
pritic yesterday because there was an interception early on in practice,
and being an offensive guy, He's like, no, no, He's like,
wait a minute, I gotta go celebrate with him, all right, Okay.
Speaker 4: He pointed to me, said, yeah, you know you ruggle
with that, Like, yeah, I never cheer for the defense.
Speaker 2: They're turns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all offense here.
Speaker 2: Defense. Thanks.
Speaker 4: I do like I can tell he wants to he
wants to talk a ball with us. Who can have
them on the show. He's a friend of the show.
He's a p one.
Speaker 2: I mean, he seems kind of desperate to be on
the show a little bit, don't you think.
Speaker 4: I think I think he appreciates our football knowledge. That's
what it feels like.
Speaker 5: He's like he's around these college guys who kind of
get it, but not really get Yeah.
Speaker 2: So true, so true. He's a good dude man, great,
great gay.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, excited to have him with this opportunity here
in Mobile.
Speaker 2: So you got to think about, like these coaches have
an opportunity as well too. Yeah, for sure, like to kind.
Speaker 4: Of Scott Tolzy, Like Scott's going to be an oc
one day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is like an opportunity for him to
show that he can put a game plan together, a
first fifteen together, h third and eight together.
Speaker 4: You know, all like this is Scott's opportunity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, and it might not happen next year, but
it's it's a foot in the door to show that
he can't do it.
Speaker 2: At this level. Yeah, and it could its for him
as well. So I've been watching Scott at practice and
I'm telling you he's a very very good coach. You know.
It's you never know how coaches are going to make
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But I can tell you Scott's a very good football coach,
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know about the head coach and stuff. You never know.
But yeah, they're really good opportunity for these coaches as
well as these players and people making the most of it.
And we'll keep talking about those people making the most
of it. We need to talk a little bit quarterbacks
as well, a little nussbus action crushing him.
Speaker 5: And we will do that when we come back here
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