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Hour Three | Saints-Vikings Preview, New Orleans Run Game Tendencies, Munchies · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Hands to Hester, and Hester, yep, got it, five out
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  Speaker 2: of five.
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  Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
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  Speaker 1: other on the air. Flynn is back to throw for
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  Speaker 1: the end zone ball. Live from the Raising Cane Studio,
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  Speaker 1: it's Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 3: I can't stand it.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back in OTB, hour number three here on this
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  Speaker 4: Thursday morning, live from the Raising Cane Studio. Coming up
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  Speaker 4: this weekend for your New Orleans Saints, they are going
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  Speaker 4: to take on the undefeated Minnesota Vikings. Now, this is
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  Speaker 4: a game that's going to be difficult. The Vikings defense,
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  Speaker 4: really good. The Vikings defense throws a lot at you.
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  Speaker 4: And They're finding a way to run the football, and
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  Speaker 4: you can't. So they want to control the clock. They
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  Speaker 4: want to impose their will on you. That's their style.
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  Speaker 4: That's who they are. Kyler Murray is back.
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  Speaker 5: He is healthy. The stats might not show it.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he had some really good moments last week
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  Speaker 4: against a bad Dolphins team, a young Dolphins team. We
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  Speaker 4: gave you the stat earlier. The top six teams in
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  Speaker 4: rushing in the NFL are a combined 19-5. The top
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  Speaker 4: six teams in passing are 9-15. The Saints have to
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  Speaker 4: run the football this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've said that a lot this week.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 6: About both of our teams. Literally.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the thing for LSU, they do want to run
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  Speaker 4: the football. They've been successful running the football. They've had
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  Speaker 4: some 300-yard games running the football. That's just kind of
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  Speaker 4: our recipe for success for them. The Saints running the football.
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  Speaker 4: Couldn't play dead in a Western. They have to get
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  Speaker 4: better running the football. And, look, nobody cares about your injuries.
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  Speaker 4: The Vikings aren't going to be like, well, A-chan's down.
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  Speaker 4: They don't really have anybody. Kendre Miller, he's struggled. He
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  Speaker 4: let a cornerback rip the football out of his hands.
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  Speaker 6: They wouldn't even try.
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  Speaker 5: Who's going to be able to run the football for them?
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  Speaker 6: They don't care.
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  Speaker 4: They don't care what your situation is. But you have
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  Speaker 4: to try to establish it. You can't come out and
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  Speaker 4: run three plays and them all be pass plays to
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  Speaker 4: start a game.
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  Speaker 6: I understand.
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  Speaker 5: I get it. Your best players are your quarterback, your receivers,
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  Speaker 5: and your tight ends.
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  Speaker 4: It is what it is. Even if fully healthy, that's
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  Speaker 4: probably still the same. So you want to lean on
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  Speaker 4: your strengths. But in the National Football League, if you
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  Speaker 4: do that, You were going to have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: three and outs. You're going to give the ball back
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  Speaker 4: to them, and you're going to take about a minute
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  Speaker 4: and nine.
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  Speaker 5: Seconds off the clock. You have to try to establish it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how you get to that, we'll have to see.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to be creative. Be creative.
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  Speaker 4: You have to do something because right now it's just
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  Speaker 4: the formula for you, Matt, it's just not working. And
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  Speaker 4: we can give you every box score of every loss
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  Speaker 4: and even their wins. You ran the football 19 times
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  Speaker 4: for 50 yards. in this game against Atlanta. Atlanta ran
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  Speaker 4: it for 35 times and 205 yards.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you don't have a Bijon.
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  Speaker 4: I know that. Right now, you don't even have a
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  Speaker 4: Brian Robinson. But is it getting Barryon Brown involved in it?
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  Speaker 4: I know he had one carry. It didn't go well
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  Speaker 4: in the game. I'm just trying to think of... It
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  Speaker 4: was an unblocked jet sweep.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he can't... I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Just trying to think of people to get involved in
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  Speaker 4: the run game. I thought C.J. Donaldson had your best
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  Speaker 4: runs of the game. I don't care when it came
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  Speaker 4: in the game. I thought he saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Kreese.
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  Speaker 5: Foot in the ground, north-south, C.J.
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  Speaker 6: Donaldson.
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  Speaker 4: Undrafted free agent from Ohio State. He's played mostly fullback
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  Speaker 4: for the Saints.
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  Speaker 6: Put him.
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  Speaker 1: In.
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  Speaker 7: So I hear what you're saying, and I agree with
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  Speaker 7: you that you've got to do something to try to
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  Speaker 7: establish a running game. I just don't think you have
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  Speaker 7: the ability to establish a running game.
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  Speaker 5: They've run the football 99 times this year.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you know who else also believes that the
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  Speaker 7: saints need to try to establish a running game. Kelly Moore,
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  Speaker 7: Brian Flores, I hope the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 7: I think he probably also knows that the saints have
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  Speaker 7: to try to establish a running game.
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  Speaker 6: He's not dumb. He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, So I agree with you that they need to
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  Speaker 7: establish it. I don't know if I agree with you
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  Speaker 7: in the way they should go about that with starting
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  Speaker 7: the game. I think they should start the game in
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  Speaker 7: two minutes.
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  Speaker 4: To start the game was what I said, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying in a drive to go three straight passes over
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  Speaker 4: and over again.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think they want to do that again. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they were behind. They were getting crushed by the. Falcons
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  Speaker 7: who've been bad all year. Okay, not bad, though. They're
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  Speaker 7: not bad anymore. They started out bad. Pennix has kind
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  Speaker 7: of righted that ship a little bit. But they were
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  Speaker 7: down bad. I mean, they kind of had to throw
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  Speaker 7: it at some point. I just don't think. I think
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  Speaker 7: they can try to establish a run game. Has Kamara
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  Speaker 7: ever in his career been a 20-plus something good when
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  Speaker 7: he's carried the ball a ton of times in the
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  Speaker 7: A and B gap?
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  Speaker 6: That's never been his strength, right?
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  Speaker 7: It's kind of always been a perfect person to have
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  Speaker 7: a two-headed monster back there with.
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  Speaker 6: Can he do it? Yeah, he can do it. I
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  Speaker 6: just don't think he's ever excelled at that.
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  Speaker 5: So what do you do?
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  Speaker 6: I think you're in a rock and a hard... You
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  Speaker 6: got to go find somebody. I think you try to.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't think they can. At least consistently, they can.
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  Speaker 7: They're never going to... This year, they're not... The Saints
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  Speaker 7: are not going to be known as, man, they got
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  Speaker 7: a good running game. They might have a good game,
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  Speaker 7: or you get some clutch runs here and there, but
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  Speaker 7: this is not, I mean, they tried in the offseason, right?
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  Speaker 7: They've spent all the money. They did it, and that's
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  Speaker 7: what's frustrating is because I know they knew they needed
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  Speaker 7: to improve in that, and they made attempts, and we
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  Speaker 7: all praised the attempts. We all celebrated the moves that
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  Speaker 7: they made.
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  Speaker 6: It just hasn't panned out.
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  Speaker 5: Well, as you know, You can't wave the white flag.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to find a way.
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  Speaker 6: You've got the sixth-best quarterback in the league.
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  Speaker 4: What is that way, though? Is it throwing screen passes
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  Speaker 4: to your running back? Is it throwing swings to your
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  Speaker 4: running back? And it's a long, extended handoff, basically.
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  Speaker 7: I think you– we talked about it earlier this week.
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  Speaker 7: The Saints are going to– when they win this year,
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  Speaker 7: it's going to be exciting. They're not going to win
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  Speaker 7: 13-10 any week. Their defense isn't good enough. They're going
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  Speaker 7: to have to score in bunches, and they're going to
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  Speaker 7: do that, but they're going to have some games that
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  Speaker 7: it doesn't look great. You try to establish the run.
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  Speaker 7: You do everything you can to do it. How consistent
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  Speaker 7: can you be? It remains to be seen. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think it can be that good unless you start getting
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  Speaker 7: some injured guys back. But let's not just crush the
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  Speaker 7: running game. Let's lay a finger on Bijan.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, for sure. I get that part of it.
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  Speaker 4: But this isn't just for the Falcons game, though.
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  Speaker 5: It's for the entire season.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: The guy that you signed to be the fix, Travis Achan,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't horrible.
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  Speaker 5: He's 4.3 yards per carry, but he only had 30 carries.
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  Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara right now, 25 carries for 74 yards. Kendra Miller,
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  Speaker 4: 19 carries for 53 yards. For those keeping score at
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  Speaker 4: home that are good at math, that's 2.8 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 6: I knew it. And look, we kind of broke it
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  Speaker 6: down a lot, too, that.
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  Speaker 7: And Nick Hunter Hill made the same comments as well.
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  Speaker 7: It looks like they're running plays. It doesn't look like
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  Speaker 7: they're executing a game plan. So, with that being said, like,
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  Speaker 7: you're not... It doesn't seem like there's any flow, any identity.
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  Speaker 7: You're not trying to really set anything up. It's the
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  Speaker 7: lack of identity that's... Like, the identity right now is...
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  Speaker 7: tyler shuck goby clutch chris alave run some awesome routes
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  Speaker 7: john johnson play the best football you've ever played in
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  Speaker 7: your life like you're getting really good play from some
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  Speaker 7: guys but the identity is individuals right now you know.
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  Speaker 4: What it sounds like like you just said and it's
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  Speaker 4: true i'm agreeing with you hey tyler go do that
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  Speaker 4: thing yeah go do that thing it's like when you're
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  Speaker 4: like your parents want you to like kind of show
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  Speaker 4: out for when you have people over at the house
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  Speaker 4: and they're like hey hey hey moose hey do that
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  Speaker 4: thing you do yeah What are you talking about? That
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  Speaker 4: thing you do. That's the game plan right now. Hey, Tyler,
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  Speaker 4: go do that thing you do. That thing you do
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  Speaker 4: is not working.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's probably not the game plan going in,
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  Speaker 7: but it turns out to that because they haven't proved
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  Speaker 7: to be very good at drawing up a first 15.
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  Speaker 7: They haven't proved to be very good at their actual
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  Speaker 7: game plan just at working because they stink in the
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  Speaker 7: first half, especially the first quarter.
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  Speaker 6: They stink.
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  Speaker 7: And that's objective. That is not an opinion. They've led
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  Speaker 7: one time after the first quarter in the last two
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  Speaker 7: and a half seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 6: And that lead was 16.
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  Speaker 7: To three so it's not like they're growing up anything
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  Speaker 7: that's good so they just have to rely on okay
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  Speaker 7: well let's scratch the game plan cool and let's.
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  Speaker 6: Just go do that thing.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't always work it's going to work some that's why
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  Speaker 7: i said the wins you get this.
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  Speaker 4: Year are going to be exciting hey y'all ready for
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  Speaker 4: the uh the run concept breakdown This is going to.
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  Speaker 6: Should I sit down? You should stay seated.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Outside.
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  Speaker 4: All right, 94 runs. 94 runs for the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 5: Outside zone, 32. 34% of the run game. No surprise.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly with Alvin Kamara. He runs that well.
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  Speaker 4: It's his best run. Inside zone, 20 times. 21% of
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  Speaker 4: the time. Some sort of a man.
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  Speaker 1: Usually.
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  Speaker 5: playing that as duo.
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  Speaker 4: 10 times, 11% of the time. They've run four counters,
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  Speaker 4: so four counters, 4% of the time. They've had 11 draws,
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  Speaker 4: which is 12% of their run game. They've had two
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  Speaker 4: pull leads, which is a little less than 2%. They've
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  Speaker 4: had four traps, which is 4% of their run game.
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  Speaker 4: They've had two trick plays, which is a small percentage
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  Speaker 4: with Barry M.
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  Speaker 6: Brown.
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  Speaker 4: They've had four quarterback sneaks, Did you notice that something
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  Speaker 4: is missing? There's one run that's missing from what I.
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  Speaker 6: Just broke down. Don't tell me. Don't tell me it's power.
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  Speaker 6: Not a one. Are you serious? What in the Joe
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  Speaker 6: Sloan are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: They have not run a single power. That can't be right.
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  Speaker 6: That can't be right.
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  Speaker 3: Look how much money you gave David Edwards in the offseason.
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  Speaker 5: That can't be right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping that whoever charts the plays just had a
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  Speaker 4: short circuit moment and they missed something.
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  Speaker 6: And they were calling it a counter. It's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of powers.
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  Speaker 5: But even if they did, they only ran four.
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  Speaker 9: What is happening in the state of Louisiana? If this
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  Speaker 9: is factual, that's troublesome. It's a basic run.
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  Speaker 4: As Matt always says, the Dunham fifth grade team is
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  Speaker 4: going to run at least 10 in their next game.
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  Speaker 4: The U-High 8th grade team, Hudson said he pulled 40
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  Speaker 4: times last night.
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  Speaker 5: He plays guard. We call that a power.
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  Speaker 7: This can't be right. Did you just find this information
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  Speaker 7: out during this segment?
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  Speaker 6: I did. How did you not fall over? Man, we're being... Look.
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  Speaker 5: There's being bad in running the football.
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  Speaker 4: There's also egregiously not doing.
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  Speaker 5: everything you can to be successful in the run game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm serious. This is dead-ass serious. I need you to
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  Speaker 4: text Scott and say, is this true?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I will. This is new information for both of us.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 6: Just excuse us.
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  Speaker 7: We're reeling a little bit right now. We're emotional about this.
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  Speaker 7: There are things that are excusable.
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  Speaker 6: I get it. It's the NFL. Don't you play this.
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  Speaker 7: LSU excuse from last year and say we didn't have
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  Speaker 7: the personnel to do it. Our guards, these are NFL guards.
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  Speaker 7: And y'all know, when I started doing this show over
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  Speaker 7: a year ago, I admit it, I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: A Saints fan.
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  Speaker 7: Played for the Saints a little bit for a few.
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  Speaker 7: Got a couple cups of coffee there. I'm just not
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  Speaker 7: a Saints fan. I'll cheer for them because we're in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 7: But over the last year of talking about them, covering them,
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  Speaker 7: all that good stuff, like I've been watching these games
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  Speaker 7: and cheering with my heart a little bit. You know
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  Speaker 7: what I mean? So I've been trying. This is about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, to take one step back, two steps forward.
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  Speaker 7: This is about 10 steps backwards for me, if it's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and when we're kind of talking about this, and
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  Speaker 4: of course, look, we love that play. That play is
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  Speaker 4: like a staple of every offense. It's not even that.
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  Speaker 4: It's the fact that if this is true, if this
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  Speaker 4: has not been done, You have not turned over every leaf, okay?
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  Speaker 4: If you can't run it through a zone scheme, inside-outside zone,
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  Speaker 4: you go to a gap.
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  Speaker 6: Scheme, counterpower.
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  Speaker 4: Then, if you can't do that, you do something else.
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  Speaker 4: You go to a duo, where that's your lead thing,
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  Speaker 4: where you got two double teams.
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  Speaker 6: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: If you can't do it, you got to make sure
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  Speaker 5: you're trying everything you can to do it.
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  Speaker 7: You know what's crazy, though, Jake? There's a lot of
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  Speaker 7: teams out there that just kind of like do all
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  Speaker 7: of it, but not just one thing. What did you say?
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  Speaker 7: Outside zone was 30% of their runs.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think you can be a very good offense
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  Speaker 7: in the NFL and have 30% outside zone.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, maybe that's right. Like right on the edge.
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  Speaker 7: That's a little too much. People in NFL are fast.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good changeup, and I think some teams do
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  Speaker 7: it better than others. Obviously, the Saints aren't doing it
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  Speaker 7: very well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: If you don't have a good offensive line, like what
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  Speaker 7: you just said, like the gaps game, things like that,
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  Speaker 7: that's probably what you need to lean on. When your
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  Speaker 7: offensive line is not as good as the other team,
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  Speaker 7: the zone shouldn't be 50% of your– I.
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  Speaker 4: Also like if you're not very good at that. So Buffalo,
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  Speaker 4: who's– I forget where they were in the top six,
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  Speaker 4: but they were in the top six. They're a team
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  Speaker 4: that– they're a duo team. Two double teams right in
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  Speaker 4: front of James Cook. And that's their play. They have
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  Speaker 4: run it 38% of the time. That's who they are.
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  Speaker 4: Go be good at something.
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  Speaker 6: Try everything.
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  Speaker 5: And, look, they've got a little bit of everything in
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  Speaker 5: their run game.
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  Speaker 6: For the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 7: Are we sure Brian Kelly is working television right now
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  Speaker 7: and not a special consultant for the Saints?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not even going to answer that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going to take– God, you had to say that,
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  Speaker 6: didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'm going to reset.
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  Speaker 6: That was a joke. I know he's not.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Off the bench. I never knew.
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  Speaker 10: I never knew that everything was falling through, that everyone
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: I knew was waiting on a cue to turn and
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: run when all I needed was the truth.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: That's how it's gotta be. Tigers turn talkers. This is
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in OTV.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: As soon as we put the burnt CD tour together,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: our first call might be the fray.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: We'll see if they answer.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Their name is Bigger. On the poster?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, for sure.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: They're one of the bigger names.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: No doubt. They got the 24-5.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I think we said Goo Goo Dolls was the headliner.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: They got the big name, too.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: We got to pull in Hunt Palmer some type of way.
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: I mean, if the Goo Goo Dolls are there, Hunt's
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: going to be there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: You don't really have to pull a man.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, he's just going to be there.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Fair.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Let's see.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: MrBig553 in the chat.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Richards and Fuaga have been worse than Ruiz this season.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: That's actually factual. That's actually factual. In fact, now this
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: is pro football focus, so take it as you will.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Eric McCoy is your highest rated offensive lineman for the
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints, your center at 74.2. Cesar Ruiz is
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: your second highest rated offensive lineman with a 64.3.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: David Edwards, your big free.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Agent signing, 62.7. Quagga is 54.6.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Richards, 46. Your lowest rated player on offense right now?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Anybody want to take a guess?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know about the season. You told us he
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: was the lowest rated on last week. Is it Oscar Delp?
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: That's your guess? Okay, Flynn? Yeah, sounds right. Okay, Moose?
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: We're talking just offense or in general?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Just offense.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Is it Aiton?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: No.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Oscar Delp's a 53.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: So not great, but certainly.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Not the worst. Uh, Kendra Miller's a 29.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, of course.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Should have known.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I should have known that one.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: 29.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: It's okay.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's in a two and then a nine next
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: to it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Crystal lobby is your highest rated.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, I am no surprise that Juan Johnson's.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Got to be on Johnson is your third right behind
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Tyler shock or naturally Devon Bailey.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: He's been, he's been, he's been awesome, man. He's right
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: up there with a 71.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: I like this.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Let's keep talking about good players.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: We're just about out of those, Taylor.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: There's four. There's multiple defensive players in the red.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: There's four really good ones.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Your best defensive player, it's not really close, has been
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Chase Young, 82. Now, your edge rushers have actually been
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: pretty good here.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: They've been very good.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Pete Warner's been solid, solid player. K. Nails has been solid.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Your defensive line, I'm not even going to spend time
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: going through the names. It's a lot of 35, 34, 58, 51, 53.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: So we talked about this for the last three weeks
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: with Nick Underhill. We've brought it up in some way.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: This draft class right now, very poor.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Very poor. They're young.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: We were all young rookies. Swimming in the deep end.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I remember it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: You remember.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: So it's not their final story. They'll write more chapters
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: after this. But currently, right now, like Christian Miller, your
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: second round pick was a healthy scratch last week. You
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: couldn't stop a nosebleed in the interior. Jordan Tyson hasn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: been on the field yet. And in a normal situation,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: we probably wouldn't highlight that. But when that was the
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: biggest worry when you drafted him, it's going to get highlighted.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Oscar Delp, your third-round pick, what's he doing for you
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: right now?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: What's he doing?
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: What's he doing well right now? I mean, Jawan Johnson's
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: playing really well. Noah Phan's playing well.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: He's your third tight end as a third-round pick.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Everybody in the past game is playing well.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: There's nobody that you can point at that's not playing
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: well in the past game, I don't think.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: So that's your first three picks. Jeremiah Wright, the backup
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: offensive lineman.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: So he hasn't played. He's your fourth-round pick.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Bryce Lance, Barryon Brown have been out there, still waiting
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: for them to make an explosive play. Barryon Brown's your returner,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: so he has opportunities. They tried to get Bryce Lance
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: to the football in this last game, couldn't find separation.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Lorenzo Stiles Jr.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Is finally practicing again, so that's good to see, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: your fifth-round pick has not been out there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: It's a rough go of this draft class right now.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Well, the good part of all this, everybody is down
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: in the dumps after a performance like Monday night because there.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Was such buildup to it, such an emotional scene.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Everybody was pretty like, just a week ago today, we
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: were all pretty damn positive about the Saints. They were
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: 1-2 going into this past game. Sure, but it was
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: a nice-looking 1-2. You had a nice win. You had
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: a really nice one on the road. You should have
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: beat or could have. You had opportunities to beat Lions
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: on the road.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Two different ones. You lost two.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: The Raiders, who were like, man, okay, that's a pretty
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: darn good team. We saw the Raiders play the Chiefs.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: So we're going into Monday night thinking, this is a
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: nice one and two we're going into. And then you
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: throw that performance. So everyone, rightfully so, is upset and
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: emotional and looking at all the bad now. positive thing
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: is they're like, and I know we say this jokingly
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: a lot. There is 13 games left in the season. So,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: but you are trying to figure out what can get better,
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: what needs to get better. I don't think anybody had
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: any illusions that the saints were going to win 11,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: 12 games this season. There is still opportunities out there
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: to go and win exciting games. You're not going to
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: win them all. And you're not going to, and it's
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: going to look ugly sometimes because of these deficiencies.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: You're not going to be.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Able to just ride the passing game to every single,
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: every single victory. They do need to improve. They do
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: need to get healthy. And you win a game like this,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: this weekend, okay, everybody kind of forgets about last week
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: a little bit. Winning cures all. It rejuvenates the fan
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: base a little bit. It excites it a little bit.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: You know what else can excite the fan base a
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: little bit? It's Jordan Tyson coming back from injury. Whenever
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: that is, we know what kind of player he could be.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: What we saw in training camp was absolutely electric. And
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: all we saw were clips coming from practice. This pass
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: game is good. And it has a chance to be
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: absolutely great when he comes back.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: The chance. I'm not saying it's going to be. You
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: still got to protect.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: You still have to figure out how to run the football.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: But how do you make up for that? Well, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: have a great passing game. That can make up for
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: a bad running game. Says the quarterback.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Top six rushing teams in the NFL, 19-5. The top
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: six passing teams in the NFL, 9-15.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: That worries me. Well. It does. Saints were never going
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: to be a top six team in the NFL.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Not this year. Next year, Super Bowl.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: We'll take a break.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: After that, more OTB when we come back here live
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: from the Raising Cane Studio.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 26:14
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• 26:23
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• 26:26
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• 27:31
  Speaker 8: Please come now.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I think I'm falling. I'm falling on the wall. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: think it's safe. It seems I.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Found the road to nowhere. Locked in on LSU football 24-7.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Off the Bench. When I heard.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Thunder, but I'm down to one last breath.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: And with it, let me say.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Let me say, hold me now. I'm six feet from.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: The edge and I'm thinking.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: I hear you, Scott.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I wish.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I wish, brother.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Creed today. Why don't we get Chef? Chef probably appreciates Creed, though,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: if I'm being honest.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: For sure.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get to Little Munchies with our guy
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Chef Michael Johnson.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Munchies with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Let's eat.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Chef, what's going on, brother? Was I right saying that
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: sometimes you can dabble in some creed?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Hell yeah, brother.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Chef, how are we doing this week?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: You may lose me. I'm on the highway. I'm just
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: north of Grenada, Mississippi. I'm on my way to Missouri
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to get hitched.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Whoa, whoa.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: What?
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: To get hitched?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I'm getting married this weekend.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Hey! Holy cow!
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Let's go, brother! That's what I'm talking about.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: That's the way it should be.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: A bold move in the middle of a football season,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I might add.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, I'm not going to call you out
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: for a fall wedding, at least not on air. I'll
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: do that privately. Yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, last time I got married in the spring,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and that didn't work.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: Hey, I'm with you. I'm with you, brother.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, where are we going to Missouri?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I know you obviously have ties to Mizzou, but can
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: you set the scene for us?
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Do you even know, or are you just kind of
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: showing up?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: No. Lake of the Ozarks. it's beautiful this time of year.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: She and I are both born and raised in Missouri,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and there's a little place in the Ozarks called Ha
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Ha Tonka State Park that there's an old castle that
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: is kind of remnants of a castle. I don't know
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: if it burnt down or if it never got fully constructed,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: but my grandma used to take me there when we
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: were kids. Yeah. and it sits up on top of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the hill and looks over Lake of the Ozarks, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: it's October in the Ozarks.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: I'm sure it's beautiful.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: The foliage, everything. Well, congratulations, brother.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: That is awesome.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: I'm assuming this is going to be a nice little getaway,
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: but I'm assuming because it is fall, not much of
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: a honeymoon situation happening.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: No, we're waiting for the spring for the honeymoon. There
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you go. That was a little too much.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Are we going to focus that honeymoon around some good eats?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's what my life is, right? I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: think we're planning a little cruise trip around the Mediterranean
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: to dabble in the food there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Heck yeah. Yeah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed Greece a lot. I think we'll go back
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to Greece and then to Italy and perhaps to Spain
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and Maybe Portugal. I don't remember all the places that
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: we were expecting to stop, but it's kind of a
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: smaller cruise, so you're not 10,000 deep.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Now, Chef, be honest with us.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Are you going to be able to fully turn it
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: off with LSU on the road?
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Look, I know you've got a great staff.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Obviously, you have a great staff, but are you going
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: to be able to fully turn it off and not
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: worry about maybe the logistics of what's going on in Lexington?
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yet you know I've been it's it's been piled up
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: on top of me all week and the ride is
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: helping you know like that I love driving and the
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: highway helps but I'm sure come wedding day I will
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: be fine but you know it's um it is it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: a matter of it's a matter of trusting your team
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you know and I do that um you know the
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: dietician's kind of allowing me a little bit while we're
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: on the road and So they're stepping into my role
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: a little bit and getting to look at things from
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: a chef's lens. So that's kind of cool. But, you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: you still worry about it, man. You want everything to
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: go smoothly. And people are superstitious, you know, like if
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: things don't go well, it's chef's fault because he's not here, right?
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I don't know, man.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: Hey, next man up, chef. Next man up.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, you're right.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: For sure that's a good one all right so if
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: you're on a little road trip right now let's talk
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: about like this is important stuff here let's get down
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: to the important stuff the favorite snack on a road
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: trip you stop you got to get some gas you
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: got to run in to the gas station what's your
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: favorite pick mine's like a dry roasted peanut i love
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: it like a bag of dry roasted nuts it just
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: hits for me diet coke next to it oh hell
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: yeah fountain diet coke obviously obviously it's america what's your
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: what's your go-to snack on the road.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I don't drink soda too terribly often, but while I'm
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: on the road, I drink Coke. I like pistachios on
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the road. I don't mind the shells, although if I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: can find them without the shells, it makes it a
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: little bit less risky. Man, I'm an idiot for beef jerky,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: but I will eat one of those big, large $ 30
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: bags of beef jerky.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: A huge bag that's 5% full?
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, exactly. You're paying for air and disappointment,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: but I'll still pay $ 30 for it. That's my per diem, right?
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: I've never met a bad beef jerky, I can tell
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: you that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: That's right, yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Hey, Chef, why is beef jerky so expensive?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Man, you know, at Pride, I'm not really sure, brother,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: because they use cheap cuts of meat. I know. These
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: beef jerky companies are using the scraps off the cow.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to turn it into something that they're, you know, like, I,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I guess it's because the process and it's lengthy, you know, um,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that it takes time, you know, to dry it out
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and dehydrate it. Um, I don't know, man, people are
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: proud of the products, brother. I've, I've, I've made beef
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: jerky for pretty cheap several times. And, um, you know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I think about the margin that they're trying to keep,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: but that's why I like to buy the small local ones.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: At least if you're paying that much money for a
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: small local one, you know, it's going to go into a,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a man and his family or a woman and her family,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: rather than some conglomerate that just choose it up and,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: you know, puts it back out.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Corporate greed, baby. Effective beef jerky.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Uh, chef on your drive, like from where you're like,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure you've done it before, but from
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: where you're at to where you're going, is there like
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: a half to stop like a place on the trail
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: that you're like, I know we're going to make time
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: and you've almost timed your trip up based off this place.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's, well, a couple of fuel stations are important, right?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Mammoth Springs is at the edge of Arkansas and Missouri,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: and it is the origin of the Spring River, I believe,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: or the Mammoth River. And it's extraordinary. So water falls
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: in the hills there and gets captured in this gully
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: and actually goes underground. And then when it comes back up,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: it is the... source of the spring river and it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: very nutrient rich and very clear and it's warm because
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: it's coming up from underneath and it's colorful you know
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: like there's lots of seagrass and stuff or water grass
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: or whatever that lives in it because of the nutrient
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: rich and it's just a really beautiful place man you
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: know if you've never been to a place where I
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: walk where a river begins it's a pretty special place
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: and it it's something it's a place where I always
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: stop with my kids my son is with me and
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: we'll stop today and and gawk at it for a
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: little while and take some pictures not for too long
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: because I have a timeline to keep but Mammoth Springs
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: is definitely a place that if you're in northern Arkansas
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: southern Missouri you know it's worth stopping it's in the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: middle of nowhere it's on highway 63 cutting you know
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: as you Go up on 55, you cut west, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: go up through the middle of Arkansas and Missouri, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful place.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: Well, if there's something that we understand over here as fathers,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: you always got to make good time, no matter what,
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: no matter how many stops you make. Hashtag MachiChef. Does
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Chef like pierogies, and if so, sweet or savory?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like savory. I try to limit the sweets
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: in my life, man, just because I've always been that way.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I've always been a savory guy, but Now that I'm
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: borderline type two, it's something that I definitely keep closer
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to attention to. I even think about it, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: like if you put some cream cheese or even boudin, man,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: you put boudin in anything, pastry, and I'm going to
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: eat it, man. You know?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: I love somebody.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Man, now I'm hungry.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to stop eating.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Chef, now you know what we go through every single
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Thursday when we have you on the show. That's why
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: we moved it from the first hour to the third hour,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: so we can go get some food after we.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Talk with you. Chef, we appreciate it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Obviously, a huge, huge weekend for you, so congratulations. Can't
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: wait to hear all about it over the next couple
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: of weeks. Safe travels. Again, congratulations, and we'll talk.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: To you soon.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys. Y'all take care.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: All right, Chef Michael Johnson, good enough to join us
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: even on the way to his wedding.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: You could have taken the week off, Chef. Wedding week.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: No, you can't do that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: Okay, you're right.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: My bad. That's on me. What are we talking about here?
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: Football season wedding. When you work in football, good for him.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: He got it done. Good for him.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: It's hard to do. It's hard to navigate. It's hard
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: to make those wrongs right. I do want to tell
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: you about Tommy's Windows, Doors, and Siding.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Go Tommy's. G-E-A-U-X.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Tommy's with a Y.com. Go Tommy's.com. You'll clearly see the difference.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Award-winning difference every year since 2016. The Angie Super Service Award.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: How about Best Windows and the Advocate in 2025? That
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: went to Tommy's Windows, Doors, and Siding. Remember, they can
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: also do gutters as well. They do a little bit
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: of everything over there at Go Tommy's.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: G-E-A-U-X. Tommy's with a Y.com.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: Why is beef jerky so expensive?
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: It is ridiculous. I think they got used to it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: I think there was probably a shortage or something one time,
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: and they had to raise the price, and then they
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: just kept it raised because they liked the margins. It's ridiculous.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: And it's the bags. There's like four pieces.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: You get five pieces of beef jerky, and they're like,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: all right, they'll be $ 21.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and the little moisture bags are bigger than the
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: pieces of beef jerky.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Facts.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: It's true.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Even like a bag of.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Chomps you know like oh dude those are so good
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: you know how much that is yeah they're not cheap
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: yeah let's say it's before we gotta get in this
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: beef jerky game.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Vortex yeah forget this hydration stuff what's.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Big jerky doing see this is this is the thing
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: we need to solve.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: Big jerks i don't.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Know someone needs to fix it it's going to take
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: some probably some congressional situation i felt interference I think so.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: It's going to have to come from the big dogs.
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: Y'all go just regular beef jerky, like the flavored ones?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Like a teriyaki.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I do enjoy a teriyaki, the peppered.
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: I was going to say pepper is just always great.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: I like a jalapeno situation.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: You know, that dog hunt.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: I was serious. I've never had a bad jerky. That's true.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Like all the flavors. They used to have those like
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: the jerky depots. They were always about like that's for sure.
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: You guys have inspired me. Luke, desk right next to mine,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: he's had a beef jerky stick on his desk for
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: three days. I'm taking it. I'm eating it today.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Whoa.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: That feels egregious.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: I mean, you can't just steal, Taylor.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: You can't steal a man's beef jerky. It doesn't run out.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: It's not his. Cassie put it on his desk, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: he said he wanted it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: So you're stealing Cassie's beef jerky.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: No, she gave it away.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Luke said he wanted it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: He doesn't. That's community beef jerky.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: That's at a certain point.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: I was like, there's some heavy lifting there, but.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: If it's like, has he moved it from where she
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: placed it?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: It is in the exact same place as she placed it.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: I'm going to agree with you at a certain point.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: Not yet. Not three days in.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: He's brought in like protein drinks and everything. Two days
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: in a row. Now with the beef jerky sitting right there, that's.
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: A protein and beef jerky. What are we doing?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Uh, Guy's trying to supersit, and you're holding him back.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know. All right.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: Anyways, that feels weird. Just thief. Thief in the night.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: I'd say wait until next week. If it hadn't moved
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: by then.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: It's beat jerky.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: It ain't going bad.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if it hadn't moved by then. If he didn't
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: bring it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break. Our last break of
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the show. We're going to finish this one like we
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: do every single day. We'll ask the bench brought to
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: you by Dos Equis, answering your questions.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Get those inside the chat.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: We'll get to as many as we can to close
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: it out here on a Thursday morning.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: All right, go to RussellPools.com, the website for Russell Pool Company.
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• 41:00
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• 41:05
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• 41:08
  Speaker 4: when they build your pool, they build it to stand
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• 41:12
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  Speaker 1: Airwaves.
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  Speaker 10: It's Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back at OTB.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Well, Ask the Bench brought to you by our friends
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: over at Dos Equis. Always a great time to go.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Nice one.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Hashtag Ask the Bench. Who's going to be the Tigers'
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: leading rusher this weekend?
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: Dylan Jones? Yeah. Is that a trick question? It would
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: take a while.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I guess maybe they're asking a Sam Levitt question.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, Dylan Jones would get 90% of the carries.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Harlem's going to play. Harlem Berry's going to play. Harlem's
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: earned some carries. I think Stacey Gage is going to play.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: He's earned a carry or two for sure. Great performance
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: last week by both of those guys. But Dylan Jones
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: is starting to run it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Let's not get it twisted. This isn't like in the
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: past where it's running back by committee.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: No.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Dylan. He's the guy. Dylan Jones is your running back.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: He's also your best pass protector, and that's going to
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: be very important in this game.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, here's a good one right here. Hashtag Ask the Bench.
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: Who has the most important, air quote, desk? A teacher,
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: the boss, a principal, CEO, or coach?
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Ooh.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: I read this, and I got two that stick out.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: I think principal.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Principal probably spends the most time at theirs.
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: Teacher has a pretty important desk, man.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: It's a pretty important desk.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Principal, when you go in there, it's like, hmm.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: It's a big desk.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: Not good. It's big. He means business. She means business.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: What are the real contents of that desk? I mean,
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: teacher's desk, you might have, like, lesson plans, test answers.
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: It's pretty important.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I'm wondering if y'all are taking that a little too literal.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: I'm just wondering, maybe asking like jobs.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, I, yeah. I'll say teacher and coach.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Coaching spending a lot of time at their desk. If
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: they are, that's a problem.
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Good question. I like that one.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: Hashtag ask the bench favorite sports comedy movie.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's major league.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: Major League's so good.
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: That's a great answer. I mean, it's hard.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard to beat that one.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: Love the replacements. It's a great movie.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: The replacements, like, if it's, like, silly, silly. Like, Major
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: League's got a little bit of seriousness to it. But
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: if it's, like, just off-the-wall replacements.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, original Happy Gilmore.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: Man, that's good.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Happy Gilmore's a great one, too.
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: Caddyshack.
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: Caddyshack's fantastic. That's a good one, as well.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: If we sat here, I bet we could come up with.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Some good ones.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: Does dodgeball count?
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: Dodgeball.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: It's all the Ocho. Beautiful, man.
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: Talladega Knights.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: That, yeah.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: There you go. Jeez.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. I know.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Hashtag ask the bench. Fall break beach vacation canceled. What
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: can we do now as a family? How do you
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: feel about Six Flags?
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Go west.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: You can go to Dallas. San Antonio might be getting
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: some weather. I don't know.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know the weather there. Manifest destiny. Just go west.
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: Six Flags would be great at Lake Day.
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: Go to Six Flags Dallas. They got Arlington.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: I know it is in Arlington. That's true.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Everything in Dallas is actually Arlington.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: But Dallas, look, I have a lot of fun in Dallas.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Good city. Go to Six Flags. Do that. Watch some
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: film with us.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: We love you. We thank you. We'll see you tomorrow
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: live from Rouse's. Go America.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: All right, go to KDZBlinds.com.
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  Speaker 4: About to get some Roman shades as well. Going to
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  Speaker 4: in the kitchen because we want some privacy. Privacy if
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