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Hour One | Baseball Bounce-Back & Top Offenses in College Football · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: A bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
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  Speaker 3: Han'sday.
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  Speaker 4: Hester and Hester got it five out of five.
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  Speaker 1: Your luck's in to Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 4: Where it's back to troll for the inso.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising King Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome in a Thursday edition of Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 6: How we doing out there?
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  Speaker 5: Taylor Sharp here with the affiliate end for Jacob Hester
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  Speaker 5: and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 6: We got today, we got tomorrow. We are here with
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  Speaker 6: you all week long.
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  Speaker 5: Jake and Matt will be back on Monday at Landra Villa.
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  Speaker 5: Reale and Cassie Spizzelli This morning, she decided to wake
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  Speaker 5: up early for us one day and hang out with
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  Speaker 5: us year guys.
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  Speaker 6: How we do? How we do in this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Oh good, Cassie.
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  Speaker 8: It always makes me laugh when we're both doing Hunt
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  Speaker 8: show because he's like, that's a lot of vowels back there.
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  Speaker 7: It is, he says it every time.
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  Speaker 6: That is a lot of owls.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I have a five letter last name, so
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  Speaker 5: everything's a lot of owls for me.
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  Speaker 6: But uh, Cassie, how we.
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  Speaker 2: Doing I'm all right. I'm struggling with the yawns here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little early.
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  Speaker 5: I saw you walking down the hallway and I'm like, Cassie,
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  Speaker 5: we got to wake this thing up.
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  Speaker 2: I've already on at least five times before the start
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  Speaker 2: of the show. It's it's rough, but we're hanging in here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 7: He'll be low energy back here. The eyes are feeling
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  Speaker 7: real heavy too.
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  Speaker 6: You were at the box yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: I did go to the bar.
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  Speaker 6: How did that?
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  Speaker 9: Goya?
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  Speaker 6: It was good?
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  Speaker 7: I mean it was fun.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, big crop. You got a Landra got her.
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  Speaker 8: Run rules for Oh my gosh, I did how about that?
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  Speaker 6: I was watching the game be very specific, I know,
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  Speaker 6: and then in the.
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  Speaker 5: Eighth inning, John Pearson hits it and I'm like, there's
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  Speaker 5: the run rule.
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  Speaker 6: Two years in the making. We got the.
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  Speaker 5: We got the L shoe run rule over Nichols. We'll
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  Speaker 5: talk about that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just gonna start speaking things into existence.
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  Speaker 5: And now, you know you have to be specific. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Like you can't just be like, oh I want this, No,
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  Speaker 5: I mean we got to have.
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  Speaker 8: To say I need L s U Baseball to run
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  Speaker 8: rule Nichols instead of the other way where I said,
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  Speaker 8: I think I just said, like.
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  Speaker 7: So then Nichols run ruled this last season.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, not LS.
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  Speaker 6: She's fine as well.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, though, I think y LSU had a
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  Speaker 5: pretty decent ending to their season last year.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think they cared too much about that.
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  Speaker 7: LSU baseball will go back to back this season. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: I like that, I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 5: I like that you specified team. You specified this season.
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  Speaker 5: If anything screws up, it's not on you.
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  Speaker 7: So no, it's not. I was very specific.
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  Speaker 5: That you're you're good on that as I'm a little
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  Speaker 5: fired up this morning. Luke Combs is opening a brand
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  Speaker 5: new bar. Let's go so that one's already opened. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: we visited that one back in November. This one's coming
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  Speaker 5: to Orlando at the City Walk, right outside of Universal Studios.
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  Speaker 5: And for those who don't know, my family likes to
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  Speaker 5: frequent Universal. Yeah, now that's probably going to change in
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  Speaker 5: the near future. We'll probably have to wait a few
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  Speaker 5: years before we go back. But uh yeah, yeah isn't.
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  Speaker 2: He also coming out with a new album.
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  Speaker 5: No So a single came out last Friday. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 5: called be by You. Everybody go listen, dude, it's great.
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  Speaker 6: God. I should be Luke Comb's pr guy, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I really should.
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  Speaker 5: I should get some sort of like give me some
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  Speaker 5: sort of royalties from this. Uh No, And then is
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  Speaker 5: the whole album comes out like the middle of March.
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  Speaker 5: But so he's opening the category ten. First off, if
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  Speaker 5: you're going too Nashville, go to Category ten.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's the best one.
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  Speaker 5: Like I I had loved Jason Alden's bar for a
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  Speaker 5: number of years.
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  Speaker 6: I thought that was the best one. I visited the
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  Speaker 6: new Gorth Brooks bar, I visited the new Eric Church bar,
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  Speaker 6: I visited Lucombes. This Category ten by far the best one.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe you're just a barfly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to Nashville this summer and I want
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  Speaker 2: to go to all the bars.
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  Speaker 5: So it sucked for Victoria because I was like, I
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  Speaker 5: love Luke Coms, I love air Church.
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  Speaker 6: Like, oh no, we got to go to the bars.
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  Speaker 6: But luckily, like they said, launched.
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  Speaker 5: During the day, so we wound up just eating at
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  Speaker 5: one of them. Yeah, but I had to go into
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  Speaker 5: all of them. And this was two weeks after Victoria
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  Speaker 5: found out she was pregnant.
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  Speaker 6: So I mean it not a whole lot she could do.
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  Speaker 5: She kind of just tagged along and cheered me one,
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  Speaker 5: so probably not the best experience for her. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so this thing is gonna be thirty three thousand square feet,
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  Speaker 5: not a small boy. It's gonna be right there in
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  Speaker 5: City Walk. I think the one in Nashville is actually
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  Speaker 5: bigger than that. I could be wrong, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited about that. My sister might even be a
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  Speaker 5: bigger Lukecumbs fan than me, which is hard to do.
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  Speaker 5: Which like, me and my sister don't agree on anything
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  Speaker 5: music wise, except we are both big Luke Cums fans.
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  Speaker 5: So maybe I need to reevaluate things like like maybe
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  Speaker 5: that's where I'm at, But uh now I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 6: He actually has three locations.
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  Speaker 5: He guys went in Vegas too, But I'll you can
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  Speaker 5: bet in twenty twenty seven when this thing opens up,
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  Speaker 5: the Sharp family will be up in that thing. You
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  Speaker 5: guys are gonna like this. Victoria has this this little
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  Speaker 5: app that like tracks how many weeks a long she
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  Speaker 5: is and everything like that. It's a mango as of yesterday, guys,
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  Speaker 5: a mango.
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  Speaker 6: Nineteen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it gives you a bunch of different categories, so
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  Speaker 5: like it's got like this one's fruit category, your baby's
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  Speaker 5: as big as a mango.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and then with snack category.
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  Speaker 5: Your baby is as big as a cheese stick, which
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  Speaker 5: seems significantly smaller to a mango to me. And like
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  Speaker 5: last week it was so it's half a half a pound.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe is the weight six inches long? Half
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  Speaker 6: a pound? But so what cheese stick is six inches long?
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  Speaker 7: Huge? The ones that they used to have at walk ons.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a log.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, what's the chilies when they have they're like the rectangles,
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  Speaker 5: those are big.
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  Speaker 6: Two.
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  Speaker 5: It's as big as a cornhole bag, So we love that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we got the Olympics going on, We got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of sports going on. Cornhole bag. How about this one?
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  Speaker 5: It's as big as share cell phone used on Clueless, Cassie.
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  Speaker 6: Clueless was a movie.
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  Speaker 7: That came out Clueless.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So I was picking on you a little bit
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  Speaker 5: the other day, Yeah, asking Braxton if he had seen
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  Speaker 5: Billy Madison because like his last names in the movie,
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  Speaker 5: and I said, okay, I told him, like, thank you
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  Speaker 5: for seeing Billy Madison, because Cassie has seen.
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  Speaker 2: No movie I was even born yet you were like.
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  Speaker 6: Seven years old.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think any of us were.
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  Speaker 5: I would and I was a year away. I was
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  Speaker 5: born in ninety six. But I mean, I've seen a
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  Speaker 5: lot of random movies. But the giant cell phone that
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  Speaker 5: she used in the nineteen ninety three movie Clueless, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's as big as it's as big as the cell phone.
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  Speaker 6: So that that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: Found out Victoria can actually hear or feel when the
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  Speaker 5: baby hiccups. That's cool, it's cool, but that's also kind
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  Speaker 5: of terrifying. Why it's just weird to me, Like something
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  Speaker 5: growing inside of you still is just a foreign concept
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  Speaker 5: to me. Yeah, Victoria's like, yeah, the baby's growing like
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  Speaker 5: eyelashes and fingernails. I'm like, that's inside of you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think about that's just I don't Apparently they were.
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  Speaker 5: They were picking on me on the way back to
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  Speaker 5: the Senior Bowl, saying I'm in for a rude awakening.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, I mean yeah, Like she gives me updates
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  Speaker 5: so she finds out how far along she is every Wednesday,
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  Speaker 5: and this was the latest update. And last week they
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  Speaker 5: said the baby was the size of a pickle. Again,
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  Speaker 5: mingo doesn't seem bigger than a pickle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like a pickle is bigger than like
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  Speaker 2: a cheese stick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. It may have to do with weight.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess the pickle doesn't weigh that much
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  Speaker 5: like a mingo's probably bigger.
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  Speaker 2: I like aile weighs more than a cheese stick.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. Like a cornhole bag, how much
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  Speaker 6: does a cornhole bag? Way?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but you're telling me a mango and
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  Speaker 5: a cornhole bag way the same. I don't see it,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, that's where we're at. Where the size of
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  Speaker 5: SHARE's cell phone with the size of a cornhole bag,
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  Speaker 5: a cheese stick, not the giant walk on cheese sticks,
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  Speaker 5: the small cheese sticks, and a mango. So we are
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  Speaker 5: rolling right along nineteen weeks as of yesterday. We got
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  Speaker 5: a lot to cover here on today's show. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we had a baseball game yesterday. Lundra spoke it into existence.
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  Speaker 5: The right team got the run rule Lsu versus Nichols.
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  Speaker 5: It was the one o'clock game yesterday in alec box.
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  Speaker 5: We will break that down. We got Bill Bender of
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  Speaker 5: the Sporting News coming on. Bill put out his entire
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  Speaker 5: your sixty eighteen bracket for March Madness.
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  Speaker 6: March Madness is just around the corner, so we'll shake
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  Speaker 6: it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: We'll talk to Bill about that spoiler alier, guys, Lsu
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  Speaker 5: not in that round of sixty eight number we just missed,
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  Speaker 5: just missed it. I mean one more sec win that
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  Speaker 5: probably would have done it. But we'll talk to Bill
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  Speaker 5: about all of that. We will do our big dealer,
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  Speaker 5: no big deal at nine am.
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  Speaker 6: We'll bring that back for a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Munchie's chef Michael Johnson, he's coming on and Matt Flynn
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  Speaker 5: will be so proud of me. We might even do
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  Speaker 5: a little little Olympic update for you guys. Kind of
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  Speaker 5: excited about that. And Paul Fine bomb of all people
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  Speaker 5: giving Lane Kiff and his flowers yesterday, which if Paul
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  Speaker 5: Fine bombs doing that, I assume anything as possible. So
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  Speaker 5: we'll discuss that a little bit as well. Again, a
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  Speaker 5: ton to get to or the Saints in the market
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  Speaker 5: for a running back. We're breaking it all down, so
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  Speaker 5: we'll cut a little bit early here because we got
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  Speaker 5: a lot of baseball to get to. We'll actually break
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  Speaker 5: down Lsu versus Nichols next here on off the bench,
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  Speaker 5: off the bench.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in Thursday edition of OTB. Taylor
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  Speaker 5: Sharp Here with you filling in for Jacob Esher and
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  Speaker 5: Matt Flann Here in the Raisin Canes Studio. You'r LSU
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  Speaker 5: Tigers to call on the Nickels State Colonels yesterday at
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  Speaker 5: alex Baik Stadium. We're about to break it all down.
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  Speaker 5: But before we do that, let's go ahead and get
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  Speaker 5: this show started.
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  Speaker 5: Now for starters, all right, the Tigers take down the
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  Speaker 5: Colonel's twelve to one yesterday afternoon at Alec Box Stadium.
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  Speaker 5: The scoring went like this. Nichols actually comes out swinging.
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  Speaker 5: They get a solo home run in the first inning,
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  Speaker 5: and things looked a little bit dicey for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 6: However, LSU was able to get out of it.
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  Speaker 5: With limited damage one nothing deficit going into the bottom
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  Speaker 5: of the first inning, and LSU played it a five
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  Speaker 5: spot in that bottom of the first inning home run
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  Speaker 5: by Trent Carraway a grand slam in that first inning
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  Speaker 5: to really bust the doors wide open there for the Tigers,
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  Speaker 5: and things kind of remain steady at that six to
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  Speaker 5: nothing Mark LSU scores one in the bottom of the second,
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  Speaker 5: doesn't score again till the sixth inning. They add two more,
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  Speaker 5: making it eight to eight to one, and then a
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  Speaker 5: one run in the seventh inning, and then a three
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  Speaker 5: run spot in the eighth which the game early it
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  Speaker 5: was it was John Pearson.
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  Speaker 6: The game ended in the bottom of the eighth. He
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  Speaker 6: unloaded a three run home run.
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  Speaker 5: It gave the Tigers an eleven run advantage in the
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  Speaker 5: eighth inning, and that's all she wrote. The Tigers victorious
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  Speaker 5: twelve to one inside Alec Box Stadium. A lot of
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  Speaker 5: things to like in this game. Jake Brown, He's now
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  Speaker 5: batting five hundred on the season. He went two for
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  Speaker 5: five yesterday. He had a double, two RBIs scored a run.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Brown continues to just see the ball so well,
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  Speaker 5: he's tearing the cover off of it. Steven Milom. He
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  Speaker 5: bounced back after an up and down opening weekend.
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  Speaker 3: He was.
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  Speaker 5: He was one for three, but he scored two runs.
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  Speaker 5: Trink Carraway I mentioned him a Grand Slam. He had
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  Speaker 5: four RBI on that game, one for three. Tanner Reeves
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  Speaker 5: hit at the plate. He's Tanta Reeves is hitting four
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  Speaker 5: hundred on the season. Honestly, he just doesn't look comfortable
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  Speaker 5: out there in left field. I know he's out there
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  Speaker 5: due to the injury right now to Chris Stanfield, but
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  Speaker 5: Jay clearly wants his bat in the lineup because there's options.
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  Speaker 6: We talked about it. Yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: You had a chance to see Daniel Harden coming up
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  Speaker 5: from community college. He had a great year last year
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  Speaker 5: at the JUCO level.
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  Speaker 6: He was coming up.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't see a ton of him, and we saw
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  Speaker 5: him a little bit. But I mean, Mason Brawn's another guy.
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  Speaker 5: He DHD yesterday. We didn't see him in the outfield,
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  Speaker 5: we didn't see him in the infield. Clearly, Jay wants
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  Speaker 5: Tanner Reeves his bat in the lineup. He put him
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  Speaker 5: out there at left field, and you know he misplayed
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  Speaker 5: a ball in the second inning. No run scored off
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  Speaker 5: of it, but he just he just doesn't look comfortable
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  Speaker 5: out there in left field. We'll see, we'll see if
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  Speaker 5: something changes, you know, before Stanfield gets out. Hopefully Stanfield
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  Speaker 5: not out for a tremendous amount of time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Tana Reeves just doesn't look comfortable out there at left field.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's much more of an infielder. But he's
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  Speaker 5: seeing the ball well. Again, he's hitting. Was he four
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  Speaker 5: hundred on the season right now, So I understand wanting
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  Speaker 5: that bat in the lineup right now. In non conference play,
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  Speaker 5: the bullpen was excellent in this game. Dax's Day, Dax, Dothy,
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Zion Theopolis, Santiago Garcia, Reagan Ricken. They combined for most
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: of this game and did not give up a hit. Now,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: they combined for five walks. You gotta clean that up
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: a little bit, but it resulted in no runs, and guys,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: theres a hole this bullpen. Seven k's no runs between
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: the four relievers. Again, gotta clean up the walks a
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: little bit, but you gotta be really happy with what
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: you saw from the bullpen. I just laid out what
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: we saw in the batting lineup. I really liked what
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I saw from a Santiago Garcia. I thought that was
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: a good bounce back spot. I mean, Garcia goes in there,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: he throws an inn and now he walks two batters,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: but he gets two strikeouts. It does not give up
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: a single hit. Able to get out of that inning.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Reagan Ricken goes to the final three in this game,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: and this was his first outing as a Tiger. He's
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: a guy we highlighted yesterday him and theopolis of You'll
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: probably see these guys because you didn't see him in
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the opening weekend. Reagan Ricken three innings, two strikeouts, no walks,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: no hits. That's about as good as you're gonna get.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, I thought he was nails at the back
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: end of that bullpen. That's something you can build off of. Again,
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: I mentioned Santiago Garcia. He had the two walks, but
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: he had a big time bouncing back performance. Dax Dothy,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: he comes in in a spotty situation. He goes an
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: inning in a third phase, four batters, struck out two
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: of them, did not give up a hit. Zion theophilis
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: an inning and a third phase, four batters, got a strikeout,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: did walk three guys. He had a little bit of
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: control issues, but again he was able to get out
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: of it without a hit and without giving up any runs.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: There was a ton to like in this ballgame.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: A confusing part to me was you didn't see Connor Binge,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: which you'll see Connor Binge at some point.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: You saw him last year. I think he had sixteen
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: outings a year ago.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Jay Johnson kind of knows what he's got and Connor
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Binge still know Danny lock and Meyer.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Did not see Danny lock and Meyer at all.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: And I actually thought there was a chance that Cooper
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Williams could have started this game. He threw two innings
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: over the weekend. And you know, whether it's Cason Evans,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: whether it's a William Schmidt, you don't know if that
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: weekend rotation is set in stone, and a lot of
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: times Jay does like to put that left handed arm
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: in that weekend rotation. Cooper Williams probably the best candidate
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: as far as lefties to become a starter on the weekend.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Thought we might see him, you know, maybe two.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Innings kind of the opener if you will not even
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: necessarily a starter that's going to go four to five innings,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: because you'll probably still use him on the weekend.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: But we did not see Cooper Williams there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: That tells me, as of right now, they're kind of
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: comfortable with where they are in that weekend rotation, at
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: least for the time being. I would not expect any
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: changes over the weekend, and we're still going to see
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Cooper Williams probably early this weekend, probably tomorrow if I
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: had to guess.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: But really good outing by the bullpen. The not so good.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Zach Cowen with another another rough outing an inning and
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: a third, gave up three hits, gave up a run
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: which was just a bomb of a home run early
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: in that first inning. He only walked one batter, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: again an inning and a third, two strikeouts, face nine batters,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: gave up three hits, gave up a run, had thirty
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: four pitches in an inning and a third. I don't
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: know what you do with Zach Cowen now, because me
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: Anda Landra talked about a little bit yesterday, we were
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: cool with seeing Cowen for an inning or in Santiago
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Garcia to kind of get their confidence back, because really,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: out of all the relief pitchers you saw over the weekend,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: it was Cowen and Garcia that did not perform up
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: to their standard. Which Garcia was a big time transfer
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: from Oregon. We knew it's zat Cowen did a year ago.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: You weren't super concerned with him, but you would have
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: liked to have seen him get back in the right direction.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I thought, Santiago Garcia did that again. Two walks in
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: an inning. You gotta clean that up a little bit,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: but struck out two, didn't give up a hit, no
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: runs across the plate. You're happy with that for the
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: most part. I would call that a bounce back performance
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: for the most part. Zach Cowen, though, he gets the
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: start in this game, which came as a little bit
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: of a surprise to me. But he goes an inning
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: in a third and I mean, yeah, he gave up
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: You're gonna say, Okay, he gave up one run.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: I understand that. But he just never looked comfortable out there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: And yes, there was a slight fielding error on trend
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Carraway's part to kind of extend that first inning a
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: little bit. However, Caroway would make up for it in
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: the bottom of the first inning with that grand slam shot.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: But elandra I'll throw this one to you. Is it
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: is it time to be concerned with Zach Cowen.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, only because you kind of saw it toward the
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: end of last season, right, like he did really well
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: versus Arkansas. But before that, I think it was like
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: during the SEC Championship versus or maybe even during the
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: Texas A and M series, like it just started to
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: kind of like lose a little bit.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Of the control and maybe be a little concerned about it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: But I don't know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, I guess just try to get him some
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: reps out there. I mean, we know he has it, right,
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Maybe the am I going to come out the pen?
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: Am I going to start? Am I going to close?
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Thing might have been a bit of a like a
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: mental thing for him because I know it's different for pictures,
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: like if they know they're going to start, if they
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: know they're going to come out the pen, it's different
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: for them. So maybe it was a little bit of
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: that and kind of still is that, like you still
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: don't really know where he's gonna be, but maybe just
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: a little bit of concern for Zach Cowen.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: But we know he has it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that it was it was
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: kind of like I guess it was like halfway through
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: the season, was it Oklahoma was it A and m was.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: It was one of those and where you know, he
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: kind of got touched up a little bit. He almost
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: wasn't the same after that. Like you mentioned, he was
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: great against Arkansas, which you needed that, but SEC tournament
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: and then even when you got to Omaha, like Cason,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Evans was the one that emerged. I mean that was
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: that was his coming out party. It was it was
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Evans the freshman that you went to over Zach Cowen.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: And yeah, you could say it's two outings, it's non conference,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I get it, but it's everything she just laid out.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: It's not two out it's the back half of last
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: season or the back part of last season, less than
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: half the season, but translating into this season, that's not good.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: You You would have liked the veteran like Zach Cowen
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: to put that behind him, and I think he can.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: He's a good pitcher.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: We saw him last year and he was nails as
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: your closer for the first half of last year. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: mean he was one of the most dominant guys in
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: the SEC. So you know the potentials there and like
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: she just said, get him out there, continue to get
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: him reps. This is the non conference, you should have
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: an advantage over everybody you play, and guess what, your
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: team's gonna score a lot of runs if these first
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: five games or any indication. So there's a chance to
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: go out there, let him work through things, hopefully it
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: doesn't hurt you too much, and get him going in
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: the right direction before SEC play starts.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I like Zach cow and you know it's there. You've
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: seen it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Like, we're not even basing anything off of potential. He's done,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: been out there and actually done it again. He gets
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: to start yesterday, he doesn't even make it out of
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: the second inning, and it's not what you wanted to
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: see as far as they bounce back performance. However, the
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: rest of the team really solid. Davey Theopolis, Garcia Ricken.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: The four relief pitchers combined for seven strikeouts, no hits, obviously,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: no runs given up. So really solid job there from
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the Tigers bullpen. All right, we're going to take a
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: quick time out when we get back. CBS Sports put
• 23:56
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• 24:00
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• 24:03
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• 24:07
  Speaker 5: there's one reason for it, and I think it makes
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: a lot of sense. So we'll break all that down
• 24:11
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  Speaker 5: In Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp here
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• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Raising Kines Studio. CBS Sports yesterday put out their prediction
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: of the top ten offenses going into the twenty twenties
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: six football season. Run down him a little bit. They
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: have the Texas long Horns at number one. No surprise there,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I mean you have Arch Manning coming back.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I get it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: There was a lot of hype around Arch and I
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: was one of the ones pushing back saying, hey, he's
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: probably gonna struggle a little bit in year one, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: he did. But the back half of last year Arch
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: was really good. People like the pile on him and say, oh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: you know, he's overrated because he's a Manning. People are
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: gonna have to accept the fact that Arch Maning is
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: actually a pretty good quarterback, Believe it or not. It's
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: hard to play quarterback, and he was a first year
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: starter in the SEC. Shocker that he struggled through the
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: first half of the year, but he was good down
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: the stretch for the long Horns. They had Cam Coleman
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: number one ride receiver in the portal. You had Hollywood
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Smothers and Rayleigh Brown into that backfield, which is good.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, you lose Wisner, you lose CJ. Baxter, like
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: they were a big part of your running game. You
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: had some others and ray League Brown. That's huge. Texas
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: is going to have a good offensive line again. That
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: one makes a lot of sense to me. There's a
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: lot of proven there's very little unknown on the Texas offense.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Now they ring Miami number two. I'm not sure about that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, Darien Mensa's coming in. How good is Darien
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Mensa going to be? I mean, was he was good
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: at Duke. Let's not make the mistake about it. But
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: we'll see Miami. There's a lot to like, like Malachai
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Tony's coming back, you have Shannon Dawson back as the
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: offensive coordinator. I get all that, but they lose a
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: little bit as well. I mean, now Mark Fletcher does
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: come back, which is which is huge for the Hurricanes.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Indiana number three. We broke it down a little bit yesterday,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Josh Hoover stepping in at the quarterback role for Kurt Signetti.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: I think the Hoosiers are going to continue to roll
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: next year. Then your usual suspects, right, Ohio State, Oregon,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Notre Dame, which makes no sense to me.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: But it's Notre Dame.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: They're gonna be over hyped every year like this is
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: a team that's losing Jeremiah Love and Jadarian Price.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: However, CJ.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Carr does come back ten consecutive wins to finish out
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the regular season, so there is a little bit the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: build off there. Coming in at number seven. It's your
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: LSU Tigers, a little ride up on them. They say,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: when you assemble the nation's top rank transfer portal class
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: and commit every available resource to making year one under
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: lang kid In a success, the expectation is immediate production. Obviously,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: they mentioned Sam Levitt coming in at quarterback, the quarterbacks
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: behind him. They said, the unit that we're most concerned
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: about right now is the offensive line. We actually projected
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: as a strength, but there is some unknown that is
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: totally understandable. Think about how bad this offensive line was
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: a year ago. You couldn't do anything to run the football.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: On my argument's always last year was not the outlier.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: I don't think you've been able to run the balls
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: since Brian Kelly was the head coach. Here, take out
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels. I'm not looking for Jaden Daniels to drop back,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: see nothing and just be better and more athletic than
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: everybody else and take off running.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: That is a traditional running game. That is not a
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: designed run play.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Jayden Daniels was just an alien and he was better
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: than everybody else. You take Jayden and Daniels out of
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: there and you look at the traditional running plays. They
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: really hadn't been able to do that for four years.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: That's why Brian That's a big reason why Brian Kelly's gone.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: That's why Brad Davis has gone, because he's offensive linemen
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: never developed in the running game, never got any better.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: So sure, it is a huge area of concern coming
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: into the year, but I do like hell they said
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: it projects as a position of strength for us because
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Elishu did a really good job in the transfer portal.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Just look at some of the transfers Jakwan Sprinkle Jacobe Jones.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Those are two of the lesser talked about guys, just
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: because Sprinkle comes from NC Central. Jacoby Jones's Kapia Lincoln
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Junior College, so they step up a level. But you
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: got Darren Stray from Kentucky, William Satterwhite center from Tennessee,
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Devin Harper, who a lot of people believe is going
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: to be a starter on this team. I actually have
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: some questions about Harper, only because I think there's gonna
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: be a lot of competition for him at gart Sure,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: he comes over from Ole Miss, He's played under Lane Kiff,
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: and he's familiar with the Charlie Weiss offense. He does
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: have an advantage as far as the learning curve goes.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: But there are some guys you've added that they have
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: some serious playing time experience, like Shawn Tompkins. When you
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: look at what Sean Tompkins has done in college, there's
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: a lot to like from him. Now he's going to
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: be more of a tackle, but he's sixty five, he's
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: three hundred pounds. Played at Baylor for three seasons. He
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: was just a three star but when he got there,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: But in twenty twenty five, he appeared in ten games,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: started the last five of them, and most of them
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: were were at left tackle. Now, he did play fourteen
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: snaps of right tackle in the year, but Shawn Tompkins
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: sitting there potential left tackle candidate. When you look at
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: the PFF, they graded him fifty point one on offense,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: forty eight in run blocking.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: Not great. That is going to have to get better.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: A fifty six percent in pass protection.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: And however, six of his ten pass protection grades on
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: the year were over seventy one. So he had a
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: couple pretty poor games. But he flashed a little bit
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: as well. So he's a guy that if you coach
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: him up a little bit under coach Eric Wolford, he's
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: a guy that can come in and start for you.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: I mean he started double digit games in the Power
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: for He's a guy I like a lot. You add
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Jamar Jones, you added Lubah Jordan ced and Adrian Lamb,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: and then you look at your returners.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: You don't return a ton.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Just about all of them outside of Salomon Thomas, have
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: some sort of experience, though, Weston Davis and Braylan More back.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Braylan Moore's I imagine is still going to be your
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: starting center. I mean William Sader, why he does come in,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: he'll probably try to battle for that job. But about
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Braila Moore went fully healthy, actually did an okay job
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: a year ago. And then Weston Davis, I get it,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: he was probably the weak link on your O line
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: a year ago. But he's another year into this program
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: and I I always say losing a coach like Brad Davis,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: to me, is a net positive for this offensive line.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: There is no way the Weston Davis or any of
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: these other linemen can be as poor under Eric Wolford
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: as they were under Brad Davis, because to me, it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: almost impossible to be that way. I thought Brad Davis
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: was in over his head. It just it never looked
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: like it was working. And again, he was here for
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: four years under Brian Kelly. He was here under Argeron
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: a lot of people forget he was the interim coach
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: in the Texas Bowl when Joan drey Kirklan had to
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: play quarterback against Kansas State, and before Kelly actually got here,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: it was kind of a carbon copy of what you
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: saw this past Texas Bowl.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: That was Brad Davis.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: He had been here five years Warsron's last season all
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: the way through Kelly and I mean the offensive line
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: never saw really a significant improvement. I think Eric Wolford
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: is going to be an improvement at that spot. You
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: bring back bow border line never been a traditional starter
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: for you, but he's played a lot of football.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: He's been in there.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: That the tight end spot that yak as Jacob Pester
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: wants to call it. I mean, you get Solomon Thomas,
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: who a lot of people forget about. It's kind of
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: like what we talked about with Devin sheer and and
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Gavin Gidrey coming into the baseball season. These are two
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: guys that are as talented as anybody on the roster.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: They're just kind of out of sight, out of mind
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: right now because they hadn't played any year. Remember, Solomon
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Thomas was a big signing day flip for Brian Kelly
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: last year. He was a five stars committed to Florida State.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: They flipped him on signing Day and there was a
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: lot of hype around him. He got hurt right before
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: fall camp started. He missed the entire season. Solomon Thomas
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: is a talented guy. His second year in a college program.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: He's going to compete for playing time. I like what
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: you did with the freshman bryceon Martinez Ryan Murratt, who
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: was committed to Lane under old Miss Lane, was able
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: to bring him to Baton Rouge. So he's a guy
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: that's been on Keivin's radar for quite some time. Possibly
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Lamar Brown. I know he's on the defensive line. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: prefer Lamar Brown on the offensive side of the ball.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep banging that drum because I think you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: need more help there, and I actually think Lamar Brown's
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: probably better on the offensive line.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: We'll see what they do with him. As far as
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: like immediate impact guys.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Though, Jordan Seedon is going to start for this team,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: is that left tackle, is at right tackle? It's going
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: to be somewhere. He's too talented of a guy not
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: to not. I do think people will push him. I mean,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: whether it's Weston Davis, whether it's Sean Tompkins. I mean,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I think Ja Kwan Sprinkle could push for that. I mean,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: there's gonna be guys pushing him for that spot. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: think Jordan Seeden does win out. I mean, he was
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: an All Big twelve player a year ago. They did
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: everything they could to get him into the Purple and Gold,
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: and it ultimately worked out for him. Jordan Seeden's going
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: to start on this football team in some capacity, at
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: least to begin the year. I truly believe that I'd
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: be really surprised if opening game of the year pull
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: up the little graphic with the starting five offensive lineman,
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: you don't see Jordan Seedens in one of those spots.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: I just mentioned.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Sean Tompkins, kind of an under the radar guy, but
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: played a lot of football for Baylor. He hit some
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: ups and downs, but he flashed a little bit. He's
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: a guy that'll come in and play tackle for you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Aliu Bah probably my favorite signing of the entire transfer
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: portal because as far as experience, as far as production,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: boss the guy. I mean, he's sixty six, three hundred
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: and twenty pounds. He could play either guard spot, but
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: over his two seasons with Maryland, he started twenty four
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: consecutive games at guard for the terms. He also did
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: not allow a sack of the entire twenty twenty four season,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: only allowed his quarterback to be hit twice over a
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: seventy two pass grade. Like anything you want as far
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: as a plug and play offensive lineman. Aliu bo is
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: that and I think he's going to win one of
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: those guard spots. So I mean, I think you'll have
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Braylin Moore in the middle BA at either one of
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: those guard positions and Seaton. That leaves two spots up
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: for grabs. It's that other guard spot on the other
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: side of a BA and the other tackle spot. Weston
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Davis probably has an inside track. But again, Sean Tompkins
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: could do it. Could one of these younger guys do it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: But I think three of your five spots, you kind
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: of have an idea of who you believe is going
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: to fill those spots. Keep an eye on Bryston Martinez
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: though I understand he's a freshman, but he has six six,
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: three hundred pounds and he looks ready to play right away.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Remember the highlight tape that came out of one of
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: the games that East dissension Bryston Martinez. First off, he
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: played tight end for this team most of the year
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: for the Spartans last year. That's how athletic he was.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: But he can play tackle. He can play tight end.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: He lined up a wide receiver and was running dig routes.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: He threw a pass at quarterback, a long pass for
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: a touchdown. He lined up in the wildcat, took some
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: snaps and ran the ball. Like Bryceston Martinez is an
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: athletic freak, and he could come in and potentially push
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: for a starting spot.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: That's kind of your dark horse to watch.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I understand everybody wants to look at the transfer portal
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: and say, oh, you brought in all this talent, all
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: this experience. I get all that, but a young guy
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: like Bryston Martinez sliding in there, I wouldn't be totally
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: surprised if that happened. And if this offensive line comes together,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: like we're talking about, LSU is going to be higher
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: on this list of explosive offenses the number seven because
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: you have everything else. I mean, yesterday we talked about
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: the pass catchers, right like Jace Brown, Winston Watkins, Trey Wilson.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: That's just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, look
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: at all the guys you brought in. I thought you
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: did well in the high school ranks with Jabari Mack Braden, Allen,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Corey Barber. Corey Barber I think has some serious talent.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: You have Trey des Greenback, you have Harlan Barry and
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Kaden Durham, and you have your quarterback figured out everything
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: you need to be successful on offenses. There your only
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: question mark is the offensive line, and that's a big
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: question mark. But I think this coaching staff did about
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: as good a job as anybody could have done as
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: putting this thing together, bringing in into a combination of
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: veteran experience, guys that maybe don't have the experience you
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: need but have a lot of upside like a Devin Harper,
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: familiarity with Lane Kiffen, and then you bring in a
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: big offensive tackle like Bryceton Martinez in the high school
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: rank who I believe this s guy's the limit for him.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Like that might be my favorite signing in LSU signing class.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: As far as high school players go.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Keep an eye on them. It'll be fun to watch
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: as we go into spring. We'll get more updates as
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: we get closer.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: But if this offensive line can come together, I think
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: the sky's the limit for this offense under Lane Kiffen
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: and Charlie Weis Junior. All right, we'll take a quick
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: time out when we get back. Closing out hour number one.
• 39:51
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• 39:52
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back in final segment Hour number one here on
• 42:05
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• 42:08
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go back to Las Vegas.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: The problem is, though, it's gonna have to be with
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: something like that, Like it's gonna have to be a
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: March Madnis tournament, a sporting event or a concert, because guys,
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: I think I missed my Vegas window. Like we went
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: to Vegas. I took my senior trip after graduating in
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: high school to Vegas. I was eighteen years old. Couldn't
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: I mean you could go, you could walk into the casino.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: You couldn't really do anything while you were in the casino.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: I mean a lot of the bars out there you
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: were twenty one and up, and like, I'm not I'm
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: not a huge drinker.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: Anyways.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think we've talked about that a few times.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: But you know, I went, like my whole family went.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: First off, guys, we drove to Las Vegas, which I
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: do not recommend. It was a twenty six hour drive
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: or something like that, twenty six twenty four.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know why we chose to do. My part said,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: we want to see the country as we drive across it. Well,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: I can I tell you from West Texas pretty much
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: till you get to like Albuquerque, New Mexico, there's nothing.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: It's like, just just skip it. If you could just
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: get like.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: Halfway through Texas jumped straight to Las Vegas, that's the
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: best way to do it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean we were there. My whole family
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: went senior trip.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Again. I'm not even twenty one yet. And then I
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: always told myself I'm going to go back to Vegas.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: But I mean I'm about to be thirty years old.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I have a child on the way. I kind of
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: missed my recreational Las Vegas when again, I would go
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: for a sporting event or you know, a concert or
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: something like.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: I would love to go to the Sphere.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: I just don't want to donate a kidney in order
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: to buy concert tickets to go to the Sphere. But yeah,
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: it's kind of a bummer. I kind of I think
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: I kind of missed my uh my Las Vegas window. Now,
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: the thing about Vegas everyone that has told me there's
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: been multiple times, Like again, I went once back in
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: it was like June of two fourteen. I think we
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: stayed there three or four days. That's about all you're
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: gonna do in Lose Vegas. Like, that's not a like
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Elandra said she's going to New York. That that's like
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: I think my sister she goes to New York kind
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: of like you Landra, like she goes every year. But
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: like that that's a place I could continue to go. Unfortunately,
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: I missed my Las Vegas window. However, that March madness thing,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: I'd be all over that. I'd I would love to
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: go see a sporting event there or the the uh
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: where the Raiders play. I can't even think of the
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: stadium name, but where they play, like where LSU usc
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: like I would have loved to have went to that,
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: but hated the flight home because the game was absolutely
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: atrocious and unless she choked that one way, but that's
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: beside the point.
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: Upsetting. Kind of missed my Vegas window.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: All right, because we got two more hours to go
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: here on off the bench, we governed a lot. I
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: mean we we kind of broke down LSU versus Nichols.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Milandra two years in the making, finally got her h
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: run rule victory for the correct team. We figured out,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: you just got to be a little bit more specific.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: LSU does run rule Nichols twelve to one in an
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: eight inning yesterday at the box, we took.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: The little LSU football.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: CBS Sports put out their most explosive offenses coming up
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty six. I think LSU is a little
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: too low on that list. They come in at number seven. However,
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: with all the offensive line concerns, I'm okay with it.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: I just think LSU is going to exceed expectations in
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: that area, mainly due to the coaching change, but also
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: I think you brought in a lot of talented guys
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: coming up in the next hour. There has been so
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: much talk about the Saints going after Jeremiah Love, and
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of warming up to the ID.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: I think you still have a lot bigger needs.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: But Jeremiah Love is a really good player, So if
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: you grabbed him at eight overall, like I'm not like
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: Matt Flann, I'd be okay with it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: I think it's one of those things where I think
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: the Saints are sitting in.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: A really good spot because they have the eighth overall
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: pick and it looks like you have your young quarterback
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: of the future, so you're in a pretty good spot.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: But what if they don't get Jeremiah Love. What are
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: some other options to add to that running game. There's
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: a couple big name free agents, at least for the
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: time being, they have not been franchise tagged. Might happen
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: with one of them, but as of now that has
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: not happened. We'll look at how each of them fit
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: in the Saints offense. LSU record number of season tickets
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: sold for football, No surprise there, we're talking about that.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: And then Bill Bender of The Sporting News will jump
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: on with us to discuss March madness. That Field of
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: sixty eight coming up here pretty soon. We'll break it
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: all down with Bill Benders to stay tuned. We got
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: two more hours left with you. On a Thursday edition
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