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Hour One | LSU Baseball Lands WCC Freshman of the Year | LSU's Defensive Questions · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Friday, June fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Today and Ben Rouge, stop me if you've heard this
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  Speaker 1: one before. There's a chance of rain out there, high
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  Speaker 1: of about eighty seven. On today's show, we'll talk LSU
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  Speaker 1: baseball as they land a big time transfer portal edition
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  Speaker 1: coming up in the eight o'clock hour. Bill Bender of
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  Speaker 1: The Sporting News joins us at eight thirty, and at
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  Speaker 1: nine fifteen Bobby Carpenter from Series.
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  Speaker 1: of Off the Bench Live from the Raisin Kines Studios
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  Speaker 1: starts now off.
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  Speaker 3: The Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
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  Speaker 4: Ham'sday.
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  Speaker 5: Hester and Hester got it five out a five.
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  Speaker 3: Your locked in to Off the Bench seat is bright
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  Speaker 3: to troll for the Live from the Raising Kines Studio.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Jacobsser and Messlin.
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  Speaker 4: You welcome, no TV here on this Friday, Friday Friday.
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  Speaker 4: No Flynn, He's at the beach. He's beaching. Jake Moose
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  Speaker 4: Luke and Tata here with you for the next three hours.
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  Speaker 4: Fired up to be here. As Tate said, we do
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  Speaker 4: have some great guests lined up. Excited to have those
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  Speaker 4: conversations with our guy Bill Bender, who came up with
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback list that we talked about the other day.
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  Speaker 4: Also my guy Bobby Carpenter, the general Big ten. Bob's
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  Speaker 4: gonna join us. But before we get to any of that,
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  Speaker 4: like we always do, let's go around the room with
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  Speaker 4: a little vibe check, Moose, how we doing?
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  Speaker 6: I mean the news at ten pm last night?
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  Speaker 7: Feeling good, doing good here on this on this on
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  Speaker 7: this Friday morning.
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  Speaker 4: What was the news at ten pm?
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  Speaker 7: Jay Johnson's on the board, man landing Hood gonzagarighty freshman
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  Speaker 7: of the year coming to baton rouge. Look at a
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  Speaker 7: restore order.
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  Speaker 6: On the mound. Let's get hype, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's more hype than this man right here, Jake, We're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there this morning. Here moves in his office right here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good pitch, Oh what a throw. And I'm like, Moose,
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  Speaker 1: remember if it lasts longer than four hours, contact your physician.
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  Speaker 2: Buddy. Mooso's fired up about it.
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  Speaker 4: You should be, Yeah, you should be.
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  Speaker 7: And they have the full outings of his on YouTube.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm not gonna not just sit there and
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  Speaker 7: watch that. I mean, that's come on, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, that is good and well, and we'll certainly
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  Speaker 4: come back to that. Uh, I didn't see it last night.
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  Speaker 4: More this morning situation for me. Yeah, I mean he
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  Speaker 4: got the juices flowing though. I get it. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: I get it. I mean I didn't even touch a
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  Speaker 4: stair coming up here today, just right up there. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: even touch a stare today. How are we doing well, Jake?
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  Speaker 1: It's National donut Day, so pretty dang good. We're excited.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot about that. You were excited about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh we got we got.
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  Speaker 1: We got a dozen sitting right out there in the
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  Speaker 1: hallway for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, nobody's going to be in this building
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  Speaker 4: for like four more hours. That's not us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look they gonna have to have a cold donut
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  Speaker 1: then it is what it is, still a moves.
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  Speaker 2: Mary Lee's wasn't open this morning.
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  Speaker 1: At like five thirty, drove by not a car in
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot, not a no light on. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean I lived by like three donut shops. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: no big deal, will hit the next one.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder why mary Lee's wouldn't have been opened.
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  Speaker 6: I was wondering.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, I told Musso yesterday there was a
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  Speaker 1: shot that wasn't going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I figured they opened at like five.
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  Speaker 1: Their website says five thirty, but it was like five
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, and it was nothing on in that building.
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  Speaker 6: It's Friday, late start, understandable, get it.
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  Speaker 4: It's very true. It's very true. It a late start
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  Speaker 4: on the roads today. I don't I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 4: college kids aren't in school. I guess, you know, first
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  Speaker 4: maybe full week, summer time. I don't know. There was
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  Speaker 4: nobody on the road this morning. It looked like a
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  Speaker 4: ghost town in it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got here in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 4: I always know how the traffic was in Baton Rouge
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  Speaker 4: based off Taylor's mood when he gets here.
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  Speaker 1: True, dude, I'm a I am a I am a
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  Speaker 1: crash out driver. I mean, if there's even a slight
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  Speaker 1: inconvenience for me on the road, Like some poor souls
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  Speaker 1: got an accident, they're on the phone with their insurance agent. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's me that's inconvenience. I mean, it's it's it's bad
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  Speaker 1: Victoria like riding with me.
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine she would.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the only reason, but like that that adds
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I cannot imagine she would. Oh man, playoffs tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Mos is gonna give us a full breakdown the NBA finals.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, go Knicks?
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  Speaker 4: Question mark in this room? Yes, certainly, since Thelandra and
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  Speaker 4: Flynn aren't here, it is Go Nicks. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a tough one. It's gonna be a tough one for
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  Speaker 4: my old knickerbockers. Obviously, they are up one game to Nada,
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  Speaker 4: but it is gonna be very difficult for them to
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  Speaker 4: go up to nothing. But I say that, but man,
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  Speaker 4: they haven't lost in twelve games.
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  Speaker 1: Like I picked the Spurs game more easy because the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks sudden nothing lost in so long. But it may
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  Speaker 1: not matter. The Spurs are fighting for their lives. They
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  Speaker 1: have to win this game, like I'm picking them for
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  Speaker 1: that reason. You go down too, drop both games at home,
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  Speaker 1: You're done.
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  Speaker 7: Not only is it twelve straight for the Knicks, it's
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  Speaker 7: double digit win after double digit win after double digit win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been just weapons that they've been putting on
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  Speaker 4: teams now. Vegas says San Antonio is a six and
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  Speaker 4: a half point favorite. It opened up at five and
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  Speaker 4: a half. The first game, I think was four and
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  Speaker 4: a half is where it's settled. So this one, Vegas thinks, like, Tay,
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  Speaker 4: it's I mean, they have to have it. You're at home.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't get this one, oh, bagged case scenario
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  Speaker 4: for you, worst case scenario for you. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to it. I look as a Knicks fan, I
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  Speaker 4: want it to be a good series. I thought the
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  Speaker 4: game the other night it was a really good game.
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  Speaker 4: I had a lot of runs, a lot of back
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  Speaker 4: and forth. Now the Knicks pulled away at the end,
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  Speaker 4: and credit to them because it looked like so many
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  Speaker 4: times initially the Spurs are gonna pull away, or they're
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  Speaker 4: at fourteen, and then the Knicks come back. And then
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  Speaker 4: at one point it felt like the Knicks were going
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  Speaker 4: to pull away when they were out what eight or seven,
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  Speaker 4: and then here comes to Spurs. They went on a
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  Speaker 4: nine to zero run. It's like, okay, well here they come,
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  Speaker 4: and then the Knicks pull away from them. In the end.
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  Speaker 4: It was a great back and forth, a little nervous,
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  Speaker 4: A little nervous just to be expected, a little nervous.
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  Speaker 4: First time since ninety nine they've been in the finals.
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  Speaker 4: They say, act like you've been there before, but in
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  Speaker 4: my lifetime, they've been there once.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're I think it's gonna go your way.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that before Game one. I obviously think that now.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Knicks are going to take this series
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  Speaker 1: in six games.
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  Speaker 4: I hope. So, I hope you are certainly right. I
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  Speaker 4: hope that is the case.
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  Speaker 2: Moose.
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  Speaker 4: How much are you watching college baseball right now? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm I'm still on it. You're one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 7: I mean I I had Squeeze play on all weekend,
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  Speaker 7: like all weekend last weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: I the only time I wasn't kind of like in
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  Speaker 7: front of the TV Sunday Sunday afternoon, I went and
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  Speaker 7: chilled by the pool for like two and a half hours,
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  Speaker 7: but I was back inside ready to go for like
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  Speaker 7: the regional final winners bracket games on Sunday night, Like
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  Speaker 7: I I watched it all. I mean, it's it's rare that,
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  Speaker 7: thank goodness, it's rare that we get this opportunity where
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  Speaker 7: we can actually just sit back and watch the tournament.
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  Speaker 7: It's not super fun like it did feel like something
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  Speaker 7: was missing, but the theater and the games were great.
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  Speaker 7: I mean upset after upset, I mean extra innings, walk
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  Speaker 7: offs like it was. It was an awesome first round
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  Speaker 7: of the ENCIUL Baseball tournament last weekend. So yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 7: they'll get underway here eleven am super Regionals. I'll I'll
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  Speaker 7: be tuned in throughout the weekend at that as well.
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  Speaker 7: I'm watching I like baseball. So I mean I got
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  Speaker 7: on last night and turned on astros Pirates. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: that is that is a deep I mean I wasn't
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  Speaker 7: locked into it, but I had it on in the background.
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  Speaker 7: I'd peek at it every now and then, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I'm eating dinner or sitting on the couch.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you rooting for? I mean, because it's hard
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  Speaker 4: for me to watch a game where I'm not at
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  Speaker 4: least being like I want that team to win. But
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  Speaker 4: when el Sho's not in it, where do you go? Well,
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  Speaker 4: it depends you go for feel good story. I mean
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  Speaker 4: you don't go to the other SEC teams.
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  Speaker 7: A feel good story or wherever my money is placed.
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  Speaker 6: So I mean feel good for me. I mean, how
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  Speaker 6: can it not be Little Rock right now?
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  Speaker 7: With what they came out Swimmers stories awesome, They came
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  Speaker 7: down here last year, gave elshow everything they wanted. They're
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  Speaker 7: swept through the Hattiesburg Regional Super Regional. Like love to
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  Speaker 7: see Little Rock make run to them hall like gonna
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  Speaker 7: win anything when they're there. Maybe not, probably not, but
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  Speaker 7: love to see them do that. And then I'll tell
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  Speaker 7: you Jake, West Virginia, man, I I like that group.
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  Speaker 7: They feel like they've been on the cusp for the
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  Speaker 7: last few years. Steve Sabans has done a really nice
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  Speaker 7: job up there. It's a great atmosphere for college baseball
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  Speaker 7: in Morgantown. They've really embraced that sport up there, which
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  Speaker 7: is not common for that area of the country. So
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  Speaker 7: I love that. And it's their third straight Super Regional
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  Speaker 7: they finally get to host one. It's their best draw
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  Speaker 7: of the three because I mean, twenty four year at
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  Speaker 7: at North Carolina, twenty five you were at LSU. Now
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  Speaker 7: you get cal Poly at home, a team that's fly
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  Speaker 7: across the country, so that like Little Rock in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: I know they're probably not gonna win at all, but
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  Speaker 7: that's really the rooting interest right now, just because their fun,
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  Speaker 7: feel good st.
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  Speaker 4: If you're if you're hitting reset on everything that happened
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  Speaker 4: in the regionals. Now you're in super regionals and you're
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  Speaker 4: looking at the matchups, you're looking at the path, who
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  Speaker 4: would you say, top two, top three, maybe favorites.
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  Speaker 2: M I like.
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  Speaker 6: I like Georgia against Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 7: I know that might sound odd to say like top
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  Speaker 7: three favorite there because that's supposed to be such a
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  Speaker 7: tightly contested series, right Georgias beat them for to Georgia's
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  Speaker 7: four to zero against him now, and all of those
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  Speaker 7: have been away from Athens. They swept them in Starkville,
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  Speaker 7: they beat him in the SEC tournament. Right now, you
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  Speaker 7: get them at home a ballpark that plays so well
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  Speaker 7: to Georgia straints. I think that could go three games,
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  Speaker 7: but I do think Georgia ultimately gets that done. I
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  Speaker 7: like Texas a lot as well. Against Oregon. I think
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  Speaker 7: Oregon's got a really good ball club. The lineup is
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  Speaker 7: very impressive for Oregon. But I've also just seen this
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  Speaker 7: story before of Oregon going up against an SEC program
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  Speaker 7: late in the postseason and nor goes the SEC programs
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  Speaker 7: way so I like Texas there an awful lot and
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  Speaker 7: if I'm looking for a third one, man, I think
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  Speaker 7: the rest of them are actually going to be pretty
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  Speaker 7: highly contested.
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  Speaker 6: But Chapel Hill has my attention.
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  Speaker 7: Because North Carolina's got to face Mason Edwards from USC
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  Speaker 7: in game number one, and if USC can win that game,
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  Speaker 7: and then you have Gaval going in the next one, like,
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  Speaker 7: they put themselves in a great position, and they've been
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  Speaker 7: awesome behind Mason Edwards all year. I mean that guy,
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  Speaker 7: that guy's probably gonna be a Day.
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  Speaker 6: One draft pick come July. He's been great.
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  Speaker 7: So North Carolina last SEC ACC team remaining out of nine.
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  Speaker 7: They got one into the region, the Big ten, the
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  Speaker 7: Big ten, the Big twelve, got more teams in the
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  Speaker 7: superreason around in the ACC.
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  Speaker 6: So those really the three that I'm honed in on.
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  Speaker 7: And as I said, I mean, I obviously have eyes
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  Speaker 7: on West Virginia and Little Rock because of the story
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  Speaker 7: there with those two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, ACC tough, tough, tough scenes for them, and certainly
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  Speaker 4: when they're trying to make the jump to where the
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  Speaker 4: SEC is and try to be like hey, it's yeah
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  Speaker 4: and us and then stuff like this happens. It feels
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  Speaker 4: like every year.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that was a brutal showing.
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  Speaker 7: Like when when Oklahoma, who is a good team, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: but that's a middle of the pack SEC team. They're good,
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  Speaker 7: but they're middle of the pack in the SEC. They
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  Speaker 7: went and beat supposedly the ACC's best team twice when
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  Speaker 7: they had to beat them twice, like facing elimination twyce
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  Speaker 7: that's in their own ballpark. That's just a really tough
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  Speaker 7: pill to swallow. For the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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  Speaker 1: The people thought Georgia Tech was like the best team
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  Speaker 1: in the country. Yeah, we had a field in for
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  Speaker 1: hunt last week in Joe Healy on as mis natty
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  Speaker 1: pig like heading into regional Georgia Tech. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of people out there that liked them.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the Big ten team that doesn't have a baseball program?
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  Speaker 7: Wisconsin, Wisconsin does not, you know what you know, I
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  Speaker 7: remember that because Milwa Sea No. Because Milwaukee when they
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  Speaker 7: came down here, we all learned that they are the
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  Speaker 7: only Division one baseball program in the state of Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 7: that is is University Wisconsinent.
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  Speaker 2: And the conference still got more teams than the ACC.
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  Speaker 4: Wisconsin doesn't have one in the Big twelfth. Colorado doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have Colorado does not have believe that's the two that
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  Speaker 4: can always stand out.
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  Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And Vanderbilt doesn't have softball.
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  Speaker 6: They don't, they don't.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of weird.
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  Speaker 2: H it's weird.
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  Speaker 6: That is weird.
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  Speaker 4: It's college but the SEC and softball where most years
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  Speaker 4: every team makes the postseason. Yeah, maybe maybe you should.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe that's why they don't want one.
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  Speaker 7: They don't want to have to like start up a
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  Speaker 7: program in this gauntlet that is the SEC right now,
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  Speaker 7: we might pass on that.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, look, guys, we just got good at football. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I mean it took Corbs almost a decade to
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  Speaker 7: win the Natty and baseball and he has some really
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  Speaker 7: good teams.
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  Speaker 6: We just got good at football.
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  Speaker 7: It's maybe, I mean, it's maybe pumped the brakes on
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  Speaker 7: on the softball.
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  Speaker 4: Youven't heard, because I was talking with their ad one
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  Speaker 4: time down in Destin and meetings, and one of the
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  Speaker 4: things she said is we don't have a place to
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  Speaker 4: put a facility.
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  Speaker 6: That makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, we don't have anywhere to put a softball team,
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  Speaker 4: which is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: That makes sense. I mean, you think of that campus.
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  Speaker 7: I mean all all and all their athletic complexes are locked.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah they do. They're like right there.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have you don't have anywhere to expand because
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  Speaker 2: of the city.
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  Speaker 6: No Nashville, and that's on Worldway.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of people realize that,
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  Speaker 1: like that is on the main strip. If you've never
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  Speaker 1: been anywhere to.
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  Speaker 6: Go, Bandy Jared Curtis stand up.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Jake said, be why you somebody's basketball arena
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  Speaker 1: and football stadium technically connect, Like you can actually walk
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  Speaker 1: through a door.
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  Speaker 2: Who is that? It's a big school.
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  Speaker 4: I mean Vanderbilts does you can Like you walk into
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  Speaker 4: the end zone and you walk into the basketball facility.
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  Speaker 4: At least I know the practice facility. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you can get to the game for set, but
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  Speaker 4: I know for sure where the basketball practice is. It's
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  Speaker 4: like on the other side of the end zone. But
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  Speaker 4: it all connects. They don't have any room to go
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  Speaker 4: anywhere in Vanderbilt. You'll see teams have foul balls onto
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  Speaker 4: the football field.
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  Speaker 2: It's not by you. I'm trying to find those talk
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  Speaker 2: do it?
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  Speaker 1: Like he walked out of the basketball arena into one
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  Speaker 1: of the football corridors.
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  Speaker 4: I'll ba he's got a pretty good setup. LeVar Edwards Stadium.
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  Speaker 6: Lavell Edwards the backdrop man.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, god, so good, incredible. All right, we'll take our
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  Speaker 4: first break of the show. As you heard as soon
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  Speaker 4: as we went the moves, he's pretty excited about Landon Hoods,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll get a full break down there. We'll talk
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  Speaker 4: a little LSU football, little LSU defense in our number one,
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  Speaker 4: as we said. Bill Bender of the Sporting News joins
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  Speaker 3: Tigers turn talkers, this is off the bench.
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in otv.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: C.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: I said, I didn't touch a stair walking up here,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Musa hit the stairs with a different body part. All right, Muso,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: all right, baseball transfer for you said ten o'clock last night,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: some of us found out at six thirty am this morning,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: all found out. That's true Landon Hood and you taught
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: us about him yesterday, somebody that you talked about whenever
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: we and we didn't really talk a whole lot of players.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I mean we talked I think maybe two maybe three
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: specific players, and he was one of them. So for
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: LSU baseball fans, because right now you don't have anything
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to cheer for. LSU baseball is not in the postseason.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: It's a very odd place for all of us to
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: be here on this station. Right we're typically getting super
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: regional ready, we are breaking it down from every single
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: angle we're having every day we're having Ben McDonald and
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Todd Walker and all of our guys on to talk about, Well,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: we don't have that this year. What we have to
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: talk about is the baseball transfer portal, and so far,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: so good by getting Land and Hood.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so LUs who adds Land and Hood?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Obviously, you know, pitching is one of the top, if
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: not the top needs for LSU in the transfer portal
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: here in twenty twenty six offseason, after the year they
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: put fourth on the mound in the regular season. Hood
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: comes from Gonzaga, has two years of eligibility left. That's
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: really the first thing that I love I look back at.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: You know, some of the better transfers to Jay Johnson
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: has been able to bring in. They've been multi year
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: guys like a Tommy White, like Riley Cooper, like Zach Cowen,
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: like Chris Stanfield. They've been guys who have been able
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: to be here, and you can retain them and even
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: develop them in your program. So I love that first
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: and foremost with Landon Hood throws it from the right
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: side six three, two hundred pounds. High school player of
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: the Year in Arizona his senior season, had a sub
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: one er in high school. Carried that over to Gonzaga.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Was by far from a number standpoint, the Zag's best
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: pitcher in twenty twenty six, Freshman of the Year in
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: the WCC sixteen appearances overall, four starts. We can get
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: into all of that, but mainly a two pitch guy.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Right now, it's a really good fastball. Get up to
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: ninety six, ninety seven, really gonna kind of live of
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: mid nineties. The best pitch, his best offering is a
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: change up, just your kind of your normal right handed
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: change up, straight change with little tail upper seventies. Though,
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: so when you think about the difference there from his
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: fastball to the change up, that's really significant. Normally you
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: see about a ten mile prior difference. He's greater than that,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: and it's generating about fifty three percent whiffs this past
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: season as well, a lot of strikes. Was better as
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: a reliever as a freshman, did make four starts, struggled
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: to those. We can get into that a little bit,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: but the thing that really stands out is he faced
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: three Power four teams this year, Oklahoma Super Regional team
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: by the way, Oregon Super Regional team, and Washington was
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: the other. He threw five and a third shutout innings,
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: two walks, eleven punchouts against powerful competition. That shows you
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: that the stuff can absolutely translate, can absolutely play in
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: in league.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: In the SEC.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: And this is a guy who should come in and
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: contribute on the weekend and definitely compete for a starting rotation.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: And that's what my next question was going to be.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Where is he going to live for LSU? And nothing's
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: ever going to be set in stone on June and
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: the fifth as you get ready for the next baseball season,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: But what would you envision him doing? Would it be
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to like, as soon as you said change up, I'm like, okay, Well,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that Cowen kind of keeps in mind if somebody you're
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: trying to replace the same pitch arsenal as he had,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: would it be a role like that? Do you think
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: he would be a weekend rotation guy? Because that Cowen
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: he was Hey, we need you now what we need
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: from you, we don't really know at the point. We
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: do need you though, And that's who he was for
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the last couple of years.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: He definitely profiles as a starting pitcher, and he'll get
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: every opportunity to earn that spot in the starting rotation.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're not they're not.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Bringing Landing Hood in and Landon Hood's not coming to
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: LSU to be a bullpen guy.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: I will say the starts he struggled in, he made
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: four of them, eighteen innings in era of seven. In
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: those starts, that's really what drove his say, drove his
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: numbers up yet an era sub but drove his numbers up.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Were the starts.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Walks were elevated there, strikeouts remained. But what's encouraging to me,
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: at least about the start, if I'm looking through it,
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: is his first five outings or out of the pin,
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: he was so good, you move him into rotation. Right,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: That's that's normal, That's how this progression would go. This
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: guy's dominating. Let's put him on the weekend and give
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: ourselves the best chance to win series. He struggled in
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: his first three starts. They were back to back to back.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: He goes back to the bullpen and then gets a
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: start later in the year against San Francisco, and it
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: was his best start of the season, five and a third.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Gave up two runs, like one walk, like a handful
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: of strikeouts, so it looked like, okay, he maybe got
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: the jitters out early in the starting role, went back
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: to the bullpens, settled down and was good. The other
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: reason you look at this and go okay, profiles as
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: a starter. His relief wasn't an inning here and ending there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: His longest relief outing on the year was six and
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: two thirds innings. It was his last outing of the season,
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: if I if I have that correct, Yeah, I mean
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: he went over one hundred pitches twice in relief, ninety
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: nine another time and then ninety eight another time or
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: for that. So he's been stretched out. He's gonna get
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: that opportunity. We'll see. Not everybody can make the jump,
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: but some can, and we've seen guys make the jump
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: from a bullpen. Also, I think you look at it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: best case scenario, starting a rotation weekend guy right when
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: he gets to campus. Worst case scenario, contributes out of
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: the bullpen, moves into the rotation with one of his
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: extra years of eligibility that he does have since he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: not eligible till twenty eight.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Would you move casein potentially if it comes out, Because
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we've talked about that a lot on this show.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Let mean, what do you do with him?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Because you were talking about not everybody can make the jump.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: It's like, are you still out on him if he
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: can make the jump, like he's been awesome the times
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he has, Like, what would you do with him?
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: That's a hard thing to answer on June fifth, I
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: think right now on June fifth, and let me stress
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: that again on June the fifth, considering they've brought in
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: one guy, Case and Evans still has a rotation spot
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: for me. Cason Evans before the arm soreness at Mississippi
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: State was your best starting pitcher when you add everything
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: in totality.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: He got you deepest into the game.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: He pitched you into the sixth inning seventy percent of
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: the time before the arms soreness.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Were you always winning those games?
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: His struggle was early.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: He'd get off to a slow start, walks things of
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: that nature, and then really settle in and gets you
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: deep in the game. But I mean you've got quality
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: starts from Case and Evans. The way I've put it kinda,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: I think Cason Evans can absolutely be a starting pitcher
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: in the SEC. I don't know if he's the Friday
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: night guy in the SEC. I think he's better suited
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: in a starting role Saturday Sunday in the league.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: But you can you've seen it in the bullpen from him.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: How awesome he was a as a freshman landon Hood,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: But I look at it, it's similar, like their lines
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: are similar from their freshman seasons. The starts gave Evans
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: trouble outside of one his fresh they gave Hood trouble
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: outside of one his freshman year. That's not to say
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: he again can't make the jump.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Plenty of people can.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: Cooper More did that, like Cooper Moore was a reliever
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: his first year at Kansas made the jump as a
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: starter and was awesome, was very good and ended up
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: at LSU.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: So it can happen.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: But I mean, there's even their stuff is similar between
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: the two. So for me right now in June fifth,
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: I think Case and Evans is still rotation guy. He's
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: going to get an opportunity to earn that spot anyway,
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: like everyone there bringing in. This is competition, right, It's
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: not right you're coming in, you're starting, you're going to
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: the No, they're gonna let all these guys earn the
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: opportunity because that's why they're here. Like Cason Evans wants
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: to be a starting pitcher, William wants to be a
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: starting pitcher, Cooper Moore wants to be They all do.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: That's where you make the money. So they're all gonna
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: get that opportunity. We'll just see ultimately, ultimately who wins out.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: The great thing is landon Hood's an awesome get for
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: them stuff standpoint and production like that's proven production in
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: division one and he's.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Got a lot left. They got to keep developing the
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: breaking ball, and they do that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's what really could put him over as
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: a starter when you're not just fastball change up.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: If you were to say, and we talked about this
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: a little bit yesterday, but is so starting pitching and
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: arms in general, after you don't want to ever not
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: do that, after you set all the records for the
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: wrong reasons on the mound, is shortstopped the number one
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: priority Now with my law, you just you don't know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: like there's a chance. It's not a great chance, but
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: there's a chance. So how do you navigate that? And Taylor,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I want you to answer that as well. How do
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: you navigate that knowing that you do have a player
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: that potentially could come back, but you also know you
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: have to attack that with full force and the transfer portal.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: So you're telling me there's a chance.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, exactly what you just said. You attack it
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: full force in the transfer but you can't take the risk.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: You have to go out and try to sign it
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: a top flight shortstop, one of the best guys in
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: the portal. I mean, that's what you're going to do
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: in preferably one with multiple years of eligibility, who if
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Mylam does decide can come back, he can play one
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: of the other in field positions and then move over
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: to shortstop the next season. But you have to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: able to have somebody that you trust can play that
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: position at a high level at this level in the
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: SEC in case Mileam does leave. And furthermore from that,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Ethan Claus entered the transfer portal last night, not unexpected,
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: like I would say that was probably expected. The kid
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: had fort bats, he was a really highly toued a
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: guy coming out of high school. That's just the type
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: of player that LSU and most programs have struggled to
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: keep with him, leaving you return one infielder that you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: like Milem has his decision, Jack Rutgerts coming back. Jack
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: Ruckerts is the only one you're bringing in three. I mean,
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: I believe it's three or four shortstops in your high
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: school class. Some of them might go pro, some of
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: them might show up. You have to build depth and
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: experienced depth all around the infield.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: But you attack, you attack the transfer portal.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: In my opinion, like Steven Milam is going pro and
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: you've got to try to find his replacement.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I think you have to because if you don't, you
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: don't want to be left at the altar right with nothing.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Even if even if you find his replacement and he
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: comes back, just mentioned it, you basically have an entire
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: new infield.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Like take a short stop out of it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Can you get a guy that you signed to play
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: short MILEM comes back, Hell will put him at second
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: because guess what, you weren't good there last year.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Either.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You weren't good at third last year either. Your entire
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: infield was bad, So like, go get a guy, see
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: if you could plug and play it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. I think you have to be aggressive
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: at all positions anytime that it comes to this guy
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: might go to the draft, be at high school, or
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: be at one of your own guys. You can't sit back.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: You got to make sure you have the guy, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: then if you have both, by chance, hey go compete.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Like hell, go win a job, because we are not
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: sitting here and just being left with nothing to be
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: able to go back out there and put out there
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: to be our short stop, to be our lead off
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: hit or whatever situation might being. Really, I'm talking about
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: any position real quick, before we move on from baseball.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: They got crushed in the high school recruiting class, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: the guys that got drafted, even somebody a portal a
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: year ago. That's so hard to navigate. It's so hard
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: to predict. But you do hear people around the program
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: say they feel better about this class and not losing
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: as many as they did a year ago.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think one reason for that is
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: the class is bigger, uh too. I mean, you're you're
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: gonna and it's just deep and talented like they always are,
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: but you're looking at twelve twenty four guys in this
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: in this class. I mean, if you lose six of those,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: you're still getting a buttload of talented guys to campus.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: So you have a bigger crop there, right And I
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: think the top of your class is deeper because of that,
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: which is very good. And they're like they're they're gonna
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: be happy with the guys that that they get Jay
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: the way Jay were Crews. You're always going to be
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: happy with the guys that they get to campus. The
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: issue is keeping them here has been a bit of
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: an issue, not just for Relsue for all. I mean,
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: I think Kentucky's got like three or four freshmen in
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: the portal right now, so every program goes to that
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: guys want to play. I think that's one reason you're
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: seeing mid majors like Little Rock, like Saint John's, like Troy,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: like Mercer, like all those coasts be so good now
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: and be able to compete in these postseason formats because
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: they're getting more guys out of high school. They're getting
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: transfers that maybe go down a level like It's that
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: were at bigger schools.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: So yeah, no, I mean they'll be fine.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: The eight that they lost to professional baseball year ago
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: was the most by far in Jay Johnson's time at LSU.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: And given where the draft is positioned in July, which
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: they need to move it back to June just for
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: the college baseball calendar, that makes it really tough because
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: the decision happens.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: And where are you in the portal? Like you were
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: just talking about with mylem All.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Right, we'll take a break. We've still got much more
• 31:02
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• 31:05
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  Speaker 4: say you put this article inside the doc the the
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  Speaker 4: five burning Questions for the LSU Defense, and we'll kind
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  Speaker 4: of go around the room here answer some of the
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  Speaker 4: questions that we have. And the number one question is
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  Speaker 4: who starts along the interior defensive line? And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: say my answer is it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm good with that because it's a lot of talent,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of experience.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter because one, there's dudes. That's a big
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  Speaker 4: part of it. It's probably the key part. The second
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  Speaker 4: part why it doesn't matter is no position group rotates
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  Speaker 4: more than the interior of the defensive line. So who
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  Speaker 4: starts does not matter. It's how effective they are, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: But you've got three freshmen that I think are ready
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  Speaker 4: to play right now. You've brought in some players obviously
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  Speaker 4: through the portal, So I don't think it matters. I
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  Speaker 4: think you finally have a group. Last year. That group
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  Speaker 4: was it was poor. Kyle Williams did everything he possibly
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  Speaker 4: could with everything that he had, and I give him
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  Speaker 4: a lot of credit. I give Jacobin Guillery a lot
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  Speaker 4: of credit for working and being the best version that
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen him be. But there wasn't a whole
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  Speaker 4: lot there. Right, you had an undersized lineman from USF
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  Speaker 4: and he was really good and for what he was, right,
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  Speaker 4: not a drafted guy. None of those guys got drafted.
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  Speaker 4: They're undrafted, free agile rookies. They're in camps, but they
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  Speaker 4: didn't get drafted. It wasn't a very It wasn't an
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  Speaker 4: uber talented group. I don't want to say very because
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Jacobin Guillery does have some talent. It was one of,
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  Speaker 4: if not your weakest position group on the football team
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  Speaker 4: last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think you got this.
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  Speaker 4: Now You're like, hey, let's go get three really ready
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  Speaker 4: to play freshmen to put into that group.
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  Speaker 1: Well, dude, I mean in spring, this is why I'm
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: so high on Deucee Gerald's He was repping with the
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  Speaker 1: ones at defensive tackle. At two hundred and seventy pounds,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine he's gonna put on a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: than that and play closer to probably two eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably only going to make him better. Can Dominic
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  Speaker 1: McKinley take the next step, Richard Anderson, Lamar Brown wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even there in spring ball. What's he going to give?
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  Speaker 1: It's the filing green. I mean, he was in and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: out of the lineup in spring with an injury. But
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: he's a guy that's played a lot of football. Mylaitue
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  Speaker 1: blocked AND's played a lot of football. To your point
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  Speaker 1: about it not mattering, you got the perfect mix right
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  Speaker 1: now of like big time, highly touted freshmen. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: the savvy veteran group. I always like when a room
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  Speaker 1: is mixed with like that, that sort of difference, right
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  Speaker 1: like the veteran that's been there, done that may not
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: be eye popping, the highly touted freshman that's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: everybody better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of excited about this room.
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  Speaker 4: I think you should be. I think he's got a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of everything. I think it's got some young
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  Speaker 4: players even that have different skill sets, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: to see what Lamar Brown can because we didn't get
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  Speaker 4: yet in the spring. Because uh, you know the way
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  Speaker 4: that his high school schedule wasn't Actually, don't blame guys
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  Speaker 4: for doing that, Like, hey, man, go have your spring
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  Speaker 4: your senior year, go play enjoy this, to.
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  Speaker 7: Prom track all those things, all that enjoy high school.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and I know it's so tough because like eighty
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  Speaker 4: five percent of the recruiting class does it. But he
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  Speaker 4: will be here. He'll have an opportunity. You know, he can.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: He can play catch up here in the summertime. But
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: you know you've also got a couple of transfers in
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: from some big schools, from Auburn, from Clemson. That is
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the position group for l s U that I think
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: got head and shoulders more talent into the room than
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: it had the year before. It got has the most improvement,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I think. And I'm sitting here and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: write my brain. I don't want to misspeak. But without
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: even looking at the analytics of it, I can tell
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: you from what it was to what it is, it
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: got better more than any position.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, you hoop ed Drusher does the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Just think about last year you brought in Pieburn, you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: brought in Patrick Page and Jamari Butler. I mean pairing
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  Speaker 1: that with Gabrellaford. None of them were able to give
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  Speaker 1: you anything they I mean like Harold Perkins led your
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  Speaker 1: team in Sex with three and a half as an individual,
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  Speaker 1: Like think about that, he was your star last year.
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  Speaker 1: None of those guys were able to give you think
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: can you get I mean, we know Prince will Human
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  Speaker 1: Miel and I mean he was really good at Old Miss.
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  Speaker 2: You hope that translates.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Ross had played a ton because of injury, but
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that's a former highly recruited guy. Anything along that defensive front.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm cautiously optimistic because we haven't seen it, but
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the talent's there.
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  Speaker 6: It kind of looks like an LSU defensive liab does.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I.
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  Speaker 7: Said, Like that's the you know when you were going
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  Speaker 7: through it from last year, Jake, And you're right. It
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  Speaker 7: just and look the part. They played hard, they gave effort.
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  Speaker 7: It like they they went out there and they fought.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't it didn't look the part.
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  Speaker 4: No, you had three sacks between your two edge rushers
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  Speaker 4: that you brought in.
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  Speaker 6: This looks the part.
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  Speaker 7: Now we'll see how they go out when they go
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: out there and they actually put the pads on and
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: they play real football Week one against Clemson, which is
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: going to be a physical game. I know Clemson obviously
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: is not the team that they were, but that's going
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: to be physical.
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  Speaker 6: You know, the SEC is going to be physical.
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  Speaker 7: We'll see how it looks then, but at least now,
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: like Duke Geralds looks like an LSU defensive lineman, Richard
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Anderson looks like an LSU defensive lineman that.
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  Speaker 6: We've been so accustomed to.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: And when LSU has been their best, yep, they've had
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: first rounders and draft picks on the defensive line, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: it feels like you have that again across all class
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: levels and as you said, different skill sets.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Well, think about last year Bernard goodin six eight. Yeah,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: this is what he was on the roster, and like
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: sure he made plays in fall camp like that. That
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: was not a joke, Like he actually went out there
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  Speaker 1: and he made plays. It didn't translate on the field,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: but I mean neither did a lot of the transfers
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  Speaker 1: you brought in.
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  Speaker 4: But he had and Good and got hurt. He had
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  Speaker 4: he did shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had to get shoulder in playing through so
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: yeah he was playing through it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: But like to your point, like that's an undersized defensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman you brought in and you're like, we're so thin
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: at this position. You have to come in and immediately
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: start on the interior of the d line. Not that
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it's going to translate on the field. Maybe he does,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't, But the guys this year don't look
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 7: The depth is overall is just better too, and it's
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: more experienced at a high level of college football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the second question here on this same article,
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  Speaker 4: and this is on go two four seven you can
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  Speaker 4: check it out two four seven sports dot com. Will
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Lamar Brown hit the ground running. We've already kind of
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: talked about that and what he is. Watching him over
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  Speaker 4: the last couple of years, he played like right next
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  Speaker 4: to my son a lot of times, and so like
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  Speaker 4: I saw him dominate on a football field. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's got a great work ethic. I think he is
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: ready to go. Oh can't wait to see how Blake
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Baker in that staff utilized him, because again, he's got
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: a different skill set than the other two young defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 4: Question number three, we'll get to this last one before
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: we take a break. Who emerges as cornerback four in
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: baton rouge. And so if you're going to say that,
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  Speaker 4: you know the obvious statement here is DJ Pikett your
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: number one corner. But PJ Woodland, I know Teta, you're
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: a big fan of what he's done, certainly a year ago.
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  Speaker 4: We know those are your first two. So Jakeem Jackson,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: who actually didn't play a lot last year, but when
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: he did it was kind of impactful and made a
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: couple of big plays. You've got, you know Hall, who's
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: going to be a freshman. You got some younger players
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: that don't have really a lot of experience uh there
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: behind him. So it is a question because behind those
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: three guys, because you had a big injury was it
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: got one of during an interception, So you don't have
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: a lot there as far as depth. And so when
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: you see this question, you might be like, why does
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: it matter who your fourth corner is? But when you
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: look at it and you see your two starters and
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: you see Jakeem Jackson behind that, it's a lot of unknown.
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  Speaker 1: I'd expand it to safety as well, Like I didn't
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: get to go out there to every practice because a
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: lot of times it was during our show. But I
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: went out to pretty much every Saturday scrimmage, they had
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the depth on the secondary. I think your front line's great,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I mean Coolly, Benefield, Spears, Woodland, Picket, I mean, you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: name it.
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  Speaker 2: I think those guys are awesome.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Corner and safety the two's I think they have a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: lot to work on. Like you mentioned, Jackson anding was
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: kind of running. Is that second number two corner in
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: that second group. Secondary safety is a relative unknown right now.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of guys there. None of
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: them have played meaningful snaps here at LSU outside of
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: those top two to three guys, So like I'd extend
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: it to safety, corner safety, the secondary depth is a
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: big That's probably my biggest concern on defense.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, we can talk about some of those
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: other questions. We can get to the other ones. I
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: mean you mentioned kind of the safety position there. I
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: think the defensive backfield from what you have to roll
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: out there starting lineup, you feel really good about. The
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: problem is if you have one injury, think about it
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: to guys like Pickett, Cooley, Benefield, like you mentioned, Woodland
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: behind them, isn't comparable to what you're losing there because
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: of the experience. Even Deshaun Spears who doesn't have a
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: ton of starts, he still has a ton of experiences,
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: have big games against teams like Florida. So even your
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: star has a lot of success out there on the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: field in purple and gold. The backups just don't have
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: that right now, all right, we'll get to the final
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  Speaker 4: for the LSU defense number four. Just how great will
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  Speaker 2: Todd Benderfield is going to be really great, is the
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  Speaker 2: answer this second.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I was so excited when he got signed
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  Speaker 1: in the portal because you may think, oh, well, safety
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  Speaker 1: might not be your biggest need as far as starter wise,
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  Speaker 1: Yet he's gonna do so much for your defense. It
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  Speaker 1: allows the Shawn Spears to go down and play star,
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  Speaker 1: which I think he's perfect for. He was really good
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  Speaker 1: at in the spring. Todd Bennifield can cover, he could
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  Speaker 1: come up and make tackles at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: He's that complete safety center fielder at the line of
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  Speaker 4: Who does he like If you were to say, and
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  Speaker 4: again you know him as well as anybody. If you
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  Speaker 1: To Grant Delpit would be mine, because I would say
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Jamal spent a little bit more time at the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage Minnifield probably covers a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: all right. I mean, Delpit's taller, like Deulpit was six',
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