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Hour Two | Finebaum Crowns Kiffin, Saints Talk & Gymnastics Spotlight · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
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  Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied to
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  Speaker 1: come off the bitch. Hour two of Off the Bench,
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in our number two here on a Friday edition
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  Speaker 3: of Off the Bench, A Taylor show up here with
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  Speaker 3: the Elandavella, Rial, Braxton, Rosuto. Those asease while they look
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  Speaker 3: like ours to me, that was a hectic first hour.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I told you during the break, I was like, Braxton,
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  Speaker 3: I applaud you because you're the only, like none everyday
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  Speaker 3: member of the show and you've screwed up the least
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  Speaker 3: between the three of us. So I shout out to you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: We uh had a great time. I enjoyed the long
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  Speaker 3: commercial break. Actually it was fun. I mean we sat there,
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  Speaker 3: we were laughing about it. Wanted to talk about in
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  Speaker 3: that segment. We just combined too, No big deal. We
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  Speaker 3: made it work. You got to watch some SpongeBob like
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  Speaker 3: I Honestly, that was a good first hour, guys. That
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  Speaker 3: was That was a That was a Friday first hour
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  Speaker 3: if we've ever had one. Okay, a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: sportsy here in the second hour, do you want to
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  Speaker 3: talk a little LSU football? Do you want to talk
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  Speaker 3: some Saint's? LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark will be with
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  Speaker 3: us at eight thirty, and then the nine o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 3: We're we're pretty busy there. Ralse Jackson'll be with us
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  Speaker 3: at nine o'clock, nine to thirty. Former LSU pitcher Doug
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  Speaker 3: Thompson will join us. I gotta get his thoughts of
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  Speaker 3: what he saw on the opening weekend, what he expects
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  Speaker 3: to see this weekend in Jacksonville, And of course we'll
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  Speaker 3: close everything out like we do with ask the bench
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  Speaker 3: right now. Though Paul fine Bomb was going get Up
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  Speaker 3: earlier this week. Now, you guys know how I feel
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  Speaker 3: about Paul fine Bomb. Typically, I would never bring up
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  Speaker 3: anything Paul fine Bomb had to say. Only if I
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  Speaker 3: was anonymously calling into his show would I ever interact
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  Speaker 3: with him in the all likelihood. But he was asked
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  Speaker 3: on Get Up and their college football segment of who
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  Speaker 3: won the offseason, and fine Bom said, Lane Kiffen, how
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  Speaker 3: many times do I need to say that he dominated
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  Speaker 3: the end of the season with his move and then
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  Speaker 3: he managed the college football chaos look at what he
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  Speaker 3: brought in in the portal. He said he made major
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  Speaker 3: acquisitions there. But I think even with a difficult schedule,
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  Speaker 3: LSU is a college football playoff team. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: gotta tell you, I never agreed with anything. Paul Finebaum
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  Speaker 3: says he nailed this one. Lane Kiffin did win the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Lank Kiffin won the off season before he has ever
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  Speaker 3: won a game here. Because you have to admire what
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  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin's done. Whether you're the biggest Lane Kiffin fan
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  Speaker 3: in the world or whether you were at aim In
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  Speaker 3: Lee against him coming to this program, you gotta meyer
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  Speaker 3: what he's done. There was so much chaos surrounding his
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  Speaker 3: decision to leave Ole Miss, so many attacks on him.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody in college football painted Lane Kiffin as this villain,
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  Speaker 3: even though other coaches have done this multiple times. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't care. He came in, he went to work. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everybody you know talked about, Oh, Lane Kffin's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: so great for the media. I see anything really spoke
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  Speaker 3: to the media, and I'm I'm I prefer it that way,
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  Speaker 3: even as a member of the media, like we hear
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  Speaker 3: want Lane Kiffen to go out and add transfer portal
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  Speaker 3: players and retain your coaching staff and retaining key players
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  Speaker 3: from a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Lane Kiffin had his opening press conference and
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  Speaker 3: you didn't really hear from him again until two weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago when he was recapping his signing class.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. So all this chaos surrounding his decision.
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  Speaker 3: To move to Baton Rouge and leave poor little old
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  Speaker 3: old Miss, everybody made a spectacle out of this. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're the only person that did not make a spectacle
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  Speaker 3: out of this coaching change situation.
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  Speaker 2: Was it was Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin's not in the national media pushing this on
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  Speaker 3: TV every single day. Lane Kiffin's not one of these
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  Speaker 3: unhinged old Miss fans who seemed to can't understand the
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  Speaker 3: fact that, uh, Lane Kiffin left you to go to
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  Speaker 3: the prom with the prettier girl. That's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 3: If you're an old Miss fan and you can't wrap
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  Speaker 3: your head around that Lane coming to Baton Ridge, ignoring
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  Speaker 3: all that outside noise coming in, putting his head down
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  Speaker 3: and getting to work, That's exactly what you wanted as
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  Speaker 3: an LSU fan, because if you look at the end,
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  Speaker 3: of the Brian Kelly era and all the rumors and
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  Speaker 3: news and reports that came out around Brian Kelly maybe
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  Speaker 3: not having the best work ethic. Lane Kiffin seems to
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  Speaker 3: be the complete opposite. Lane Kiffen seems to be somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's like, hey, I came here to win. I know
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  Speaker 3: there's massive expectations around me. I don't want to let
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  Speaker 3: myself down. I don't want to let the people of
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  Speaker 3: Baton rouge you down. I don't want to let LSU down.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna come in, I'm gonna work my butt off,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna symbable what could very well be the
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  Speaker 3: best transfer a portal class of all time. You brought
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  Speaker 3: in forty two guys. Find me a position did LSU
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  Speaker 3: needed that LSU did not address in the offseason. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: was waiting on offensive line. You got multiple guys who
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  Speaker 3: I think are plug and play. I mean, Jordan Steeden's
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  Speaker 3: is gonna start on this team. I talked about it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit the other day with Aliu Bah kind
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  Speaker 3: of an under the radar guy, but started twenty four
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  Speaker 3: consecutive games at Maryland at guard. He's a plug and
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  Speaker 3: play guy, can play either guard, spot. You were able
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  Speaker 3: to retain Brayland Moore, You're able to retain Weston Davis,
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  Speaker 3: whatever that means to you. Trey Dez is back, like
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  Speaker 3: you didn't lose any major player in the portal by
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  Speaker 3: and large. I mean we've talked about Carrius Kerrent. I
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  Speaker 3: think Kyle Parker's actually a pretty big loss.
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  Speaker 2: To me.
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  Speaker 3: That one's gonna hurt more than Kerrn, just because I
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  Speaker 3: Thinkyle Parker's gonna be great next year to Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: next to Jeremiah Smith, with Julian saying throwing him to the football.
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  Speaker 3: But again, whether you're the biggest fan of Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 3: in the world or whether you despise the guy and
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  Speaker 3: thought LSU should have looked elsewhere, you have to admire
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  Speaker 3: what he's done, Like hand up. If you had asked me,
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  Speaker 3: like if I would have been the athletic director and
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  Speaker 3: you'd have said, Taylor, who you're going to hire? I
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  Speaker 3: probably would have hired Knny dialing him one. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know how gettable Lane was too. I didn't know how
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  Speaker 3: long you were gonna have to wait. I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 3: if Lane Kivin was going to pull that trigger before
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  Speaker 3: the early signing period he wound up doing it wound
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  Speaker 3: up working out perfectly. My thought was always if you
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  Speaker 3: can get Kiffin, yeah go get him. Don't put all
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  Speaker 3: your eggs in that one. Bask have a backup plan.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what, it is worked out as good
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  Speaker 3: as anybody could imagine, way better than I could have
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  Speaker 3: imagined at this point. So shout out Lane kivin everything
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  Speaker 3: he has done in the off season, everything I believe
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  Speaker 3: that he will continue to.
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  Speaker 2: Do in the off season as well. Want to stick
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  Speaker 2: with LSU.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of switching topics here before we take this
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  Speaker 3: first break. Folks over at LSU Wire put out an
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  Speaker 3: article of why this LSU football player can be an
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  Speaker 3: All American in twenty twenty six, and the guy they
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  Speaker 3: mentioned is DeShawn Spears. I think this is a great choice.
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  Speaker 3: I think DeShawn Spears has all the potential in the world.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a household name in the SEC YEP, but
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  Speaker 3: he could be. They mentioned his PFF grade. Spears graded
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  Speaker 3: out at ninety point one on PFF that was top
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  Speaker 3: five in all of college football among safeties, a ninety
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  Speaker 3: point three in coverage that was fourth in all of
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  Speaker 3: college football. He was the second highest rated defensive player
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  Speaker 3: on LSU's team last year, behind only Mansword Delane, who's
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  Speaker 3: about to be a top fifteen pick in all likelihood.
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  Speaker 3: I love the versatility that he could bring to this defense.
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  Speaker 3: He's six foot three, he's around two hundred and fifteen pounds.
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  Speaker 2: You get him up to two.
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  Speaker 3: You could slide him in there at the nickel or
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  Speaker 3: the star position that our guy Matt Flynn loved so much.
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  Speaker 3: Haryl Perkins was around sixty three to two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty pounds, and I actually thought he did a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good job for the most part at that star position.
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  Speaker 3: I've been highled on this guy's as he stepped fot
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  Speaker 3: on campus. Look, he's from my neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 3: I'm born and raising Walker, Louisiana, and I still live
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  Speaker 3: there to this day. He's right, he's a stone star
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  Speaker 3: down the road in Denham Springs. So I was a
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  Speaker 3: little bit biased, But I also saw the guy play
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  Speaker 3: a lot in New York. Goodie could be and you
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  Speaker 3: saw the flashes a year ago. Again, he wasn't an
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  Speaker 3: everyday starter in the secondary now, he said, behind aj
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  Speaker 3: Hawsey and Tamarcus Cooley, which no shame in that both
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  Speaker 3: are those guys were stud for you a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: But on the season last year, twenty nine tackles, three
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  Speaker 3: tackles were lost, two interceptions. Both of those interceptions came
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  Speaker 3: in that Florida game. One of them he took fifty
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  Speaker 3: nine yards back to the house for a pick six.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's losing with potential, which is why I
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  Speaker 3: love the Tide benefit signing out of the transfer portal
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  Speaker 3: so much. Anytime somebody asked me, favorite transfer portal addition
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  Speaker 3: outside of the obvious, so you had to get your
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  Speaker 3: quarterback and you had to get the offensive line, favorite
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  Speaker 3: player might be Tid Benifield because of the versatility he's
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  Speaker 3: going to bring to this defense. Bennfields a three year
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  Speaker 3: starter at Boise State. Last year one hundred and seven tackles,
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  Speaker 3: eight and a half tackles for a lost, two interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: He can play at the line of scrimmage. He can
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  Speaker 3: drop back deep and kind of be that center field
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  Speaker 3: or at the back of your defense. The year before that,
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  Speaker 3: eighty two tackles, five tackles for a loss, again, two interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: Tid Benifield can do a little bit of everything. Tamarcus
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  Speaker 3: Cooley's going to start in safety on this team. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's any question about it. I thought he
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  Speaker 3: was really good a year ago. Who's going to be
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  Speaker 3: that guy next to him? All of a sudden, you
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of options, And honestly, whoever's not the
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  Speaker 3: starting safety next to Tamarcus Cooley's probably going to slide
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  Speaker 3: down there into that star role. I would like it
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  Speaker 3: to be Deshaun Spears because of the again, six foot three,
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  Speaker 3: can he get up to two hundred and twenty pounds,
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna have options there. I think Bennifield would be
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  Speaker 3: great there. Even though Bennfield's a little bit on the
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  Speaker 3: smaller size. He's hovering around six foot but he's physical
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  Speaker 3: enough to do it. We saw it at Boise State
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  Speaker 3: Cjjim Coyly. He didn't get a ton of reps in game,
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  Speaker 3: but he repped the star position a lot during fall
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  Speaker 3: camp a year ago. They're in the media viewing portion
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  Speaker 3: of those fall practices. We got to go out there.
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  Speaker 3: He was kind of the number two star at times
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  Speaker 3: behind Harold Perkins. Got a lot of reps there. He's
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  Speaker 3: a big bodied guy. He could play safety, linebacker, star
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  Speaker 3: wherever you need him. But the talent of a Deshaun
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  Speaker 3: Spears perrying that with a tie Benifield. Those guys are
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  Speaker 3: basically interchangeable.
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  Speaker 2: At this point.
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  Speaker 3: I think the sky's the limit for this team. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I mentioned, you know the potential of a Deshaun Spears.
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  Speaker 3: People forget he was SEC Defensive Player of the Week
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  Speaker 3: after that game against Florida, and he was Bronco Negirsky
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  Speaker 3: National Defensive Player of the Week as well.
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  Speaker 2: That was the two interception game. He was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Now he had the privilege of playing against a DJ Lagway,
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  Speaker 3: who I don't think is a very good quarterback. Unl
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  Speaker 3: you picked him off five times that game and probably
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  Speaker 3: could have had another one in there somewhere. But he
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  Speaker 3: was awesome in every opportunity he got. And yes, people
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  Speaker 3: want to point out like when I mentioned he was
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  Speaker 3: his second highest rated player on your defense, Well he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't at every downstarter guys, he played over two hundred
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  Speaker 3: snaps on this defensive year ago. That's enough of a
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  Speaker 3: sample size. And think about the other players on that defense.
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  Speaker 3: DJ Pikett was really good. AJ Halsey was awesome, so
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  Speaker 3: Marcus Cooley was great. He greted higher than all three
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  Speaker 3: of those guys that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to
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  Speaker 3: translate into a big time role, and just because he
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  Speaker 3: was great at high a year ago means he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be an All American. But I think the potential's there.
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  Speaker 3: I think the talent's there, and I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have every opportunity to make a big impact on this defense,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's at star, whether it's at safety. I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: to see what tomarcut school he can do next year
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  Speaker 3: one Blake Baker's defense.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a quick time out when we
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  Speaker 2: get back.
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  Speaker 3: Rals Jackson put out an interesting article on Louisianasports dot
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  Speaker 3: that about the possibility of Teddy Bridgewater actually returning to
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  Speaker 3: the New Orleans Saints. I'll give you my thoughts on
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  Speaker 5: gonna come on next Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Will Helmers. Man I remember when they
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  Speaker 3: had to start him at third base that one game. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, that might have been my first baseball
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  Speaker 3: They reacquired mark Ingram in twenty twenty one, They brought
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: back Jimmy Graham in twenty twenty three. Number twenty twenty,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: they brought back Malcolm Jingins. Like, there's a lot of
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: guys that had been on this team previously did they
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: have brought back? And you know we're else right, Bridgewater
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: makes sense as another rekindled flame, especially if the team
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: sees veteran quarterback Taysom he'll leave after his contract voids
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: on March tenth, or if he'll retires. I don't think
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Taysom Hill is going to be back with this team,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: whether he retires, whether he goes somewhere else in free agency.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I just I just don't see that happening. I don't
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: know how much sense it makes for the Saints. And
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I hate saying that because I love Taysom Hill, but
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm not quite sure how that would work.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: So would you want Teddy Bridgewater back? I absolutely would.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Teddy Bridgewater was a great locker room guy. He was
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: loved by fans. The problem is Teddy hasn't played in
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: a number of years now.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He's been on rosters.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But the last time Teddy Bridgewater threw a pass he
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: threw fifteen passes a year ago from Tampa sixty two yards.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Before that, it was all the way back in twenty
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: twenty two, he attempted seventy nine passes for the Miami Dolphins.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Remember he kind of retired, and then he unretired, went
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: to Detroit to try to help him during that playoff run.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: B Jared Golf's backup Detroit for two years, and then
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: last year again fifteen total passes on the year for
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And he's thirty three years old.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: It'll be thirty four, so he still got some tread
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: left on those tires. And again, I would welcome Teddy
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Bridgewater back with open arms because I think he is
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: valuable as a backup quarterback in this league.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: He could help Tyler Shuck out.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: He's been in this league for a number of years
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: with a number of different franchises in a number of
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: different roles. When he went to the Minnesota Vikings, he
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: was their starting quarterback until injuries caught up with him,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: came to New Orleans, he had to fill in for
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Drew Brees when Brees had that thumb injury, and Teddy
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Bridgewater went five and oh as a starting quarterback here
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: in New Orleans. Nine touchdown, Stoneley two interceptions. So he
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: was really good here and I would welcome him back.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: But that also begs the question should the Saints trade
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Spencer Rattler?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I think they should trade Spencer Rattler. And this is
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: not a shot at Spencer Ratler. I think Spencer Radler
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: is valuable on this team. I actually think he's so
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: valuable that you could get some trade value back for
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: a guy like Rattler. I'm not saying second third round pick,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: but could you get a fourth a fifth for a
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: guy like Rattler. You could take advantage of a lot
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: of quarterback needy teams. I'll tell you that that could
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: be desperate. The Arizona Cardinals. You mean to tell me
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Spencer Ratler couldn't go in there with Arizona with a
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: brand new coaching staff, and that franchise seems keen on
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: moving on from Kyler Murray. Spencer Radler could go in
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: there and be a bridge quarterback for him at the start,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: and who knows, maybe he could develop into something there.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: What about the Las Vegas Raiders? Could he go there
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: with Clint Kubiak who coached him a year ago in
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: New Orleans. If you don't want Fernando Mendos that I
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: have to start as a rookie, or you want somebody
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: to come in and mentor him, that's a really good
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: locker room guy. Spencer Ratler could be that guy for
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: you there. I think there is value in trading Spencer Ratler.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Now the pushback will be Rattler's too good of a backup,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: you have to hold.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: On to it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: The reality is, if any team has to rely on
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: their backup, you're already kind of screwed.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: And again that's not a shot. It's Spencer Rattler.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Like when you look at his record, he has a
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: one in thirteen record as a starting quarterback for the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Now, not all of that is his fault.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I mean you look at what he did last year
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: over sixty seven percent completion, eight touchdowns, five interceptions, fifteen
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: So Spencer Ratlers are doing his part.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: He's just like you're not losing because of Spencer Rattler,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: but you also weren't winning with him either. He wasn't
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: elevating the players around him. He did a fine job.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: He played his role. I thought he did a good
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: job leading that offense at times. But think about the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: difference in that offense when Tyler Shack stepped in there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It just felt different. He kind of elevated the players
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: around him. Look at Devn I mean, Devon Veley had
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: career games like I know. I made the joke on
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: this show saying, oh, Devon Veley rode to one hundred
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: yards when people always say road to one k. It
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: was road to one hundred. Devon Veley wants Tyler Schuck.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: But game the starting quarterback really thrived. I mean that
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: was Shuck's third down go to guy. Him and Jawan
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Johnson made play after play. There was a game Tyler
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Shuck just ripping it down the seam on third down
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: for those first downs, throwing it up to Veyle, throwing
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: it up to Johnson, and Chris Olave had some of
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: the best games of his career with Tyler Shuck in
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: their quarterback. He just seemed like Shuck elevated the players
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: around him. It's not a shot at Spencer Rattler. There's
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of guys in the league that play their
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: role and they do it well and unfortunately they're not winning.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: That's kind of where I'm at with Spencer Ratler. Ratler
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: goes one to thirteen. Tyler Shuck had the same team
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Rattler did a year ago, and he went five and
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: four as the starting quarterback. If you do trade Tyler Shan,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I mean Spencer Ratler and you signed Teddy Bridgewater, that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: a good It's a step in the right direction. How
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: comfortable are you with Bridgewater at this point in his career?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I mentioned he threw fifteen passes a year ago. Then
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: he hadn't thrown a ball since twenty twenty two. How
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: comfortable are you with him being your primary backup? You
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: may have to actually bring in a third option. That's
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: where he gets a little dicey for you. You look
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: at some of the unrestricted free agents right now, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be realistic with this.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Like Marcus Mariota thirty two years old, had to start.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: A number of games for Washington last year due to
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: those Jade and Daniel's injuries. Mariotas still got it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I mean he looked.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: He looked good in a number of those games. Now,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Washington was terrible and they had no weapons on the outside,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: they had no running game, so Mariota was kind of
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: on his own, but he held up well. Mariota's played
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of games in this league. He is set
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: to be an unrestricted free agent unless something changes with
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: franchise tags and stuff like that. But a guy like
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Marriott is probably not getting franchise tag at this point
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: in his career. I mean, Zach Wilson's out there, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I get it. Everyone likes to clown Zach Wilson for
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: his year with the Jets. One, nobody does well Jets two.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You're not bringing him into be a starting quarterback. Zach
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Wilson still got some talent I would welcome. If I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: cheering for any team, I would welcome Zach Wilson. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: as the backup quarterback, why not. He's still got talent.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: He doesn't have to go in there and start sixteen
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: games for you a Lesha hope. Not Mitch Traubisky. He's
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: been in Buffalo for a number of years, but he's
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: a former first round pick. Started a bunch of games
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: in Chicago. Now Jimmy Garoppolo is a free agent. That's
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: that one's more wishful thinking than anything. I think the
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Saint should be a tough sell for a guy like Garoppolo,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: not because he doesn't like the city of New Orleans
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and the Saints, but like, Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna have
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: teams out there that want him to be a starter,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: like where it is, teams like Miami. You've already reached
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: out to him to like be that guy for this year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: So I don't know if Jimmy Garoppolo would turn down
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: a potential starting role to come to New Orleans and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: be the backup and mentor Tyler Shuck. But he's a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: name out there to watch who's currently a free agent.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: You have some options out there. I'm okay with signing
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Teddy Bridgewater. I'm okay with trading Spencer Rattler, but I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: think you have a little bit more work to do
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: in the quarterback room if that does in fact happen,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: all right, we'll step away. We'll take a quick time
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: out when we get back. Transition away from football. LSU
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: gymnastics coach at Jay Clark joins us next here on
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• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yea from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back in Friday edition of OTB Taylor Sharpy
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: with us sitting in for the time being for Jacob
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Messer and Matt Flynn. They will be back on Monday.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Right now, let's go out to the phone lines. Big
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: meat coming up. LSU Gymnastics coach at Jay Clark joins
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: us right now.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Coach Clark, good morning, How are you?
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Good morning? How are you this morning?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Doing quite well? Coach?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: You know your your your team's always one of the
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: top programs in the country.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Like y'all the rank number two right now, your you're
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: six six and one overall in the season. And yes,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I mean you know it seems like it's reload instead
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: of rebuild for you guys every year, but specifically this team,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Like what has made your squad so tough to beat
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: this year?
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean I think we had a lot of
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: kids come back from last year and a lot of
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: kids whose roles expanded that we all that we already
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: knew would be there even last year. But when you
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: have a Leah Finnigan and Haley Bryant and Sierra Ballard
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: and those guys leading the way, there's not a lot
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: of there's only so many opportunities to compete. So we
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: knew we had some kids coming in that, you know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: returning this year, that with their role would expand and
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: they'd be able to do the job. I think more
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: than anything, though, we've got a group that that really
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: seems to be bought into the way we like to
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: do things, and and they they they cared genuinely for
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: each other, and they're doing it for the right reasons,
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: and that's that's always a key to any anybody's success.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Could you talk about all the all the veterans you
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: have back and certainly, but you know, when you anybody
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that's watched this team, you see a gymnast like Nina
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Baloo out there freshman, I mean, what maybe you know
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: her specifically, some of the younger gymnasts on the team,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: what stood out uh to you about them?
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Well, Nina in particular, Nina been coming to our camp
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: since she was about eight years old. I think she
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: had her mind made up she was coming to LSU
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: before we knew even who she was. She's uh, she's
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: been a mainstay in our summer life for a long time.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: And you know, she just that kid is She's a
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: She's an alpha in every way, and she she brings
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: so much energy to everything that she does. Even as
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: a freshman, she has been one of the more vocal
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: leaders in the room and uh and willing to participate
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: and willing to put herself out there in terms of
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: giving her opinion about the way we ought to be
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: doing things. And and she's been an incredibly good impact
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: so far. And UH just couldn't couldn't be happier with
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: with the role that she has played so far. Over
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: the years, she will do a lot more in terms
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: of just sheer gymnastics than she's done so far. But
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: but she's already contributed in massive ways.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Coach, you're talking about gymnasts have contributed in massive ways.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and name the Gymnasts of the Week
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: award after Caitlyn Chio. I mean, she wins there last week.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: You know, she got this a number of times as
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a freshman. She's only built on that as a sophomore.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: That was her twelfth Gymnast of the Year of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Week award. You know, early in her sophomore year she
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: had a record all around performance on Friday. It was
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: thirty perfect ten on the floor. I mean, how is
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: she built on that great freshman year? What have you
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: seen from her?
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: I think more than anything, she's just shown a lot
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: of growth in terms of maturity and the way she
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: carries herself, the way she communicates with her teammates. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: think last year it was sort of just sort of
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: organic the way it happened. She just came in and
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: did her job, didn't say a whole lot, and and
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: and at times when things didn't go well for her,
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: which wasn't often, you know, her body language would reflect that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Now she's she's she's really changed the way that she
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: approaches things. She's done an amazing job of being a
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: better teammate and and just shown a lot of growth.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: When things aren't going well for her, you don't know
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: it anymore. And that's and that's that's the time of
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: a good leader, because she's she's focused on what's going
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: on with everybody else around her. You know, you always
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: worry when somebody has a freshman year like that that,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: you know, things can get sideways if they're trying to
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: duplicate or or repeat something that they did in the past.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: And I think she's done a really good job of
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: managing that expectation that she has for herself and also
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: really turning the focus away from that and onto her teammates.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: And I think that's been the key to her success
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: so far.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, judym Nasik's go to Jay Clark joining us right now. Coach,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: your team has been awesome the last two weeks. I mean,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you set your season high mark one ninety eight point
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: three two five against Auburn last week. You guys have
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: won eighteen straight inside the p MAC, haven't lost a
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: home meet since January sixteenth of twenty twenty three.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I did not realize it had been that long.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Like you, when you're at home, you know, people always
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: ask me what's the best environment you've ever seen in
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: the p MAC and coach for me. I don't know
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: if it was twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen, but you
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: guys were taking on Florida inside the p MAC. That's
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: the loudest I've ever seen that venue. I mean, it
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: was a top ten matchup at the time. You guys
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: pulled off a big win. What is it like knowing
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: like you have that kind of fan support at home,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: It's got to be a big advantage.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, that meat was twenty fifteen. It
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: was the first time we had sold that building out
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: and we'd been on a pretty steep trajectory of growth
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: at that point, and you're right, that place was unbelievable
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: that night. And look, it's different, you know, That's what
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: everybody's saying. Now. I've been saying it since I got
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: here in twenty twelve, So Layne can't have that all
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: to himself, but it is different here and we're just
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: so blessed to have that kind of support. It's there's
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: nowhere else in the country that you can walk into
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: an arena and have that kind of just amazing, almost
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: vitriolic support for your team. And in our sport. It
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: happens in other sports. It happens in football and basketball
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: and others, but the arena, the peedback on Friday nights
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: in Baton Rouge is unlike anything else in our sport,
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: in gymnastics, and it's it's an incredible blessing. It's as
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: part of what draws kids to want to come here
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: and to experience this as they go into the tail
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: end of their careers because there is no PROS, there
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: is no NFL, there is no NBA, and so they
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: want to experience the bigness of what LSU has to offer.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: And it's a tremendous advantage for us when our fans
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: are packed in there and as loud as they are.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I saw a graphic over the weekend else you put
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: it out. It was between your meat against Auburn, the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: women's basketball game against South Carolina, and opening weekend at
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: the Box. It was three events over the weekend, all
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: eleven thousand plus fans inside that venue. I mean, it
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was something. It was just really incredible. Coach, Again, you
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: guys have been great the last few weeks, but you
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: have been at home Penn State and Auburn. Now you
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: go on the road into a hostile environment. How is
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that different for you guys going into a meet because
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: obviously at home, I mean I just mentioned eighteen straight
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: inside the PMAG. But when you're in a hostile environment,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: is there a little bit extra you got to get
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: your team ready to go. Or is it just hey,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: it's business as usual, just a different atmosphere.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Well, in general, it's business as usual, but there are
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: adjustments that you have to make. I mean, everybody's equipment,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: even though they meet the same specs and everything, it
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: feels a little different. Takes us a little bit to
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: adjust to that. I don't know what to expect in
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: terms of a crowd. I anticipate, since it's one versus
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: two tonight, that it'll be be a big crowd. But
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: you know, we learned we'd much rather compete in front
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: of a large crowd that's against us than nobody. So
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: you know when we go some places and it's it's
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: vapid in there because it's you know, there's nobody in there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: But you know, for us, it's really it's really not
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: about the other team that's on the floor with us.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: It can't be. There is no defense. We can't tackle them,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: they can't tackle us. So it's it's a it's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: it's just a different approach. We have to stay true
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: to who we are. We're still in a growth period.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: We're still trying to become a finished product. And I
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: tell them every week. You know, we set a new
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: floor for ourselves every week. Hopefully, if we're doing things
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: the right way and we're moving forward and we're getting
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: closer to where we want to be in terms of
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: what our ultimate potential is, then every week we should
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: see improvement and we should set a new floor for
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: ourselves in different ways. And so, you know, we certainly
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: understand that this is a big meet here, and we
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: know where we are, and we know that Oklahoma's been
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: the gold standard. They won seven of the last eleven
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: national championships in our sport. But there's a nice, little
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: respectful rivalry between the two programs right now. We were
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: able to share the regular season title with them last
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: year and then beat them at the SEC Championship and
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: then unfortunately we came up short of making finals at
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: the end. But we know who we're competing against tonight,
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: and we just got to go in there confident and
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: really do everything we can to put pressure on them
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: and see see where things come out.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Courch you were.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Talking about the battles you guys have had with Oklahoma.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Obviously one versus two, you guys already faced them once
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: It was your first meet of the.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Year correct, And I mean it says, you know, one
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: point five for both teams, but OU wins in a
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: six score tiebreaker.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: How does that work?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Well? In our sport, we put six up on every event.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: You count five of them, you count the best five,
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: and so when you get into a tiebreaker situation. They
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: don't normally do it in a regular season meet, but
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: ESPN runs that according to championship rules because it's a
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: it's an ESPN event, and so they go to the
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: six score on every event. And our sixth score in
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: two spots was lower than theirs, and I think we
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: end up losing by a quarter of a tenth or
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: half a tenth based on that. But it goes in
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: the record book as a tie and they just break
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: the tiebreaker and they do the tiebreaker to decide the
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: champion of that meet. And that's the same way they
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: would do it in the postseason.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Well, coach, speaking of that tie the last time you
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: guys face the Oklahoma Sooners, what's it going to take
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: to get this team over the top tonight?
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: As I said, we just got to go in there
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: and be ourselves. You know it's there. It's tough to
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: beat them. I think the last time they lost here
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: was in twenty fourteen. You think we have a street
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: going into PMAC these guys and the team they lost
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: to was us, was in back in twenty fourteen when
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: Reagan Corville and Sarry Morrison. We're still on the team,
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: you know, but it's different times now, and they're they're
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: tough to beat at home. It's really for us, it's
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: just about going in there and staying true to the
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: identity that we're creating for ourselves and and go compete
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: hard and and you know see where see where we
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: end up. We're gonna see these guys again down the road.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: We'll see him at the SEC Championship and if everything
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: goes well, we'll see him in the NCAA Championship. So
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: this this meet, while it's it's big and it's exciting
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: and fans love it and it'll be great for TV,
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: it's not going to define a whole heck of a
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: lot for us either way. So we just got to
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: put it in its proper place and go compete hard
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: and try to win it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: One versus two, LSU versus Oklahoma.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: That is LSU Gymnastics coach j coach, Thanks for hopping
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: on with me and everybody back home is gonna be
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: pulling for you guys.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: A good luck to you tonight.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: Thank you, buddy, You'll have a great day.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. That was LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark. The Tiger's
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  Speaker 3: Come on, this is this song exactly four minutes long?
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  Speaker 2: It says four minutes and five seconds. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: it's just like the end of or outro whatever. I
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  Speaker 2: was hope, but it wasn't like that praxing. We were talking,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: uh treing shoes in the in the break Do you
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: have a pair of hate dudes? I don't anymore, but
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: you did?
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I did?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, last time I said I had hay dudes, people
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: said they were old man shoes.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: No people wearing for like.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Just like my dad loves hay dudes.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Anything wrong with them, but they're definitely dead bad boys.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Here huh the navy blue. I just bought these. These
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: are like two weeks old. Those are fresh. Yeah, look
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: at these, look like your dad.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Now, look at these da shoes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: At these you had to get look at them. Look
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: at them pearly white, right, they looks great. The problem
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: with these is though they don't make half sizes. What
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: size do I wear? Of course it's a ten and
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: a half, so I gotta buy the eleven. It's just
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: a little floppy and they kind of they kind of
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  Speaker 3: flop right off of me. But do their comfy? I mean,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: it feels like I'm wearing slippers. And see She's like,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: you know, they're duteo.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: I'm not.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I'm not Chris Marley wearing loafers with no socks into
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the office. Okay, and high waters. I at least I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing the loafers. Okay, We're just we wanted
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  Speaker 3: No, look, I was tired. I uh had to work
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the women's game last night. I walked into my back
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: door at eleven fifteen last night.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: The back door. Yeah, we'll go into your house from
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the back door. Well, so our back.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Door, Now, I could pull it up on Zilla if
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I want to just price still there, don't do that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Our back door.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Our back door is, uh, it's kind of like on
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: the back corner and then we have a long driveway.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: So I pulled right up and then the door's right
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: there at the back corner. So yeah, I mean we
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: don't We don't ever use our front door. The only
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: time our front door's ever us is when Frankie's barking
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: at the Amazon guys dropping off packages. That's pretty much it. Yeah,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: so I've walked in the back door at eleven fifteen.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: We're a little tired.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Luckily I got this brand new shirt so we didn't
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: need to be ironed or anything like that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: And honestly, how long did you have one of these?
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: These are the sports don net shirts.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Matt had a few, actually, he was passing them out.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: I guess it was Wednesday. A little bit seat through.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Hanging up in my closet.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I could see my hand on the other side. That's
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: why I had to wear an undershirt. I thought about
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: giving y'all show this morning. I was like, we could
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: be a little seed through on a Friday, a little scandalous.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: But I was like, a, you know what, I don't
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: want people to get too excited. We're gonna we're gonna
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: chill out a little bit. We're gonna rein it in
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: a little bit on this Friday. Call a call a
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: flag football tournament tomorrow. Yeah, Elton Gonzales. The range is
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: gonna be from four to fourteen. Kind of a wide
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: range there. A lot of people got their COVID years
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: of eligibility still remaining. Like the guy at mont You've
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: all seen the guy at Montana. There's a guy who
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: plays football at Montana. I say, guy, he's probably an
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: old man now. He got his ninth year of eligibility
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: the other day.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: I mean the dude from Miami, Miami. He was a
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: tight end, Like I don't know if he graduated.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: He had he had a couple he had a couple
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: of injuries, like this.
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: Guy year still it was eight years probably.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Like, what in the van Wilder are we doing? This guy?
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: He like nine years? His name is uh Solomon, No crap,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: tu lea to tupu. No way, I didn't nail that
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: last name.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Huh he uh. He was granted a rare ninth year
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: of NCAA eligibility. Oh yeah, Matt was saying his name
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the other day and it was making me laugh really hard.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not at Tempet's. It'm wanting done on that one.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: He graduated What were you do you graduate high school?
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Brexton, twenty twenty three.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: O laundry. You were probably fourteen or fifteen or six
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: fifteen or sixteen? What in twenty twenty three? No, like
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: graduating class high school? Oh sixteen.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: This guy graduated high school in twenty eighteen, and he
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: would be playing college football next year.
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: He had a number of injuries. He did have multiple injuries.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: It forced him to miss at least five full seasons
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: of competition.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: That's a lot.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: That's that's just bad luck at that point. And like
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I feel for you now, what you'd do eat? Like, Bro,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be collecting aarp here soon you're thirty years old. Yeah, like,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: I'll be thirty in September. This guy's guess twenty six
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: because I graduated high school and fourteen. Yeah, he's played
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: twenty six, twenty seven somewhere in there, depending on where
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: the birthday falls. Like, my god, there's grad assistant coaches
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: on the staff older than younger than you by multiple years.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: How far do you think it's TJ. Finley?
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Is he a senior? Finally, he's on his seventh year.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Seventh year, Yeah, but only six schools because he went
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: to TWU Lane. He never actually played at Tulane and
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: then like he enrolled at TU Lane in the spring,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: left after the spring.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: When in the falls, has it been injured?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I don't no, not really.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know how you getting that many year.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: His first year here was the COVID year at LSU, right,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: so that didn't count. I think he did have an injury.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: One year, red shirted, another year played in less than
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: four games. It's probably the Auburn year when bow Knicks
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: was there, and so I mean it just it kind
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: of snowballed on it a little bit.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, he's still in college. So was Max Johnson.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: People forget about that, he really people talk about TJ.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Finley, Max Johnson's playing college, but I have no idea,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: but he's there. They were in the same they were
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: in the same high school class.
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: I love the interview with Carson Beg. I guess leading
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: to the Nasauar champion ship. They said like they were
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: talking about classes in finals.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, graduating.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you said Howard classes and he said, oh, I
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: don't say any classes.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Right, he teaches the classes, MAXI Johnson, Max Johnson greaton papers.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Has been tough for this semester. I'm not gonna lie
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: to you. Max Johnson at Georgia Southern, so back in
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: his home state. But all right, that's gonna wrap up
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: our number two coming up Busy Hour number three or
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Roster Jackson nine o'clock, nine thirty Doug Thompson.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Then we're wrapping this week up here on off the bench,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Off the bench,