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Hour Three | Saints vs. Steelers Preview & Extended Ask the Bench · 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.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, got it.
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  Speaker 4: Five out 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.
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  Speaker 4: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's Off the Bench. So listen up, cause I can't
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  Speaker 1: Be down.
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  Speaker 5: With the punch on your butt, but.
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in. OTB here live from the
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  Speaker 4: you laughing at over there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what's happening in this chat right now.
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  Speaker 2: I was laughing at that. I don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: There's this girl in the chat. I guess she's trolling,
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  Speaker 2: like maybe like an anti-LSU troll, and her name's Tennis Girl.
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  Speaker 2: And they're like making up this scenario where Tennis Girl
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  Speaker 2: and I go to the Sonic across the street and fight.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone's like, Alondra ends in seconds. But then Tennis
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  Speaker 2: Girl in the chat said, who is Alondra? And Mark goes,
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  Speaker 2: your worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 5: Tennis Girl. Also, coming up into your troll about Auburn, like,
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  Speaker 5: stick to tennis.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Your worst nightmare made me laugh.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know this to be factual, but just knowing
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  Speaker 4: Alondra for as long as I have, I think she's
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  Speaker 4: got hands. And they're rated E for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody could get it. Nobody's safe. But they're reserved for
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  Speaker 2: very serious situations.
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  Speaker 4: I get you. But I still think they're rated E
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  Speaker 4: for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I would.
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  Speaker 2: If a guy got in my face, I'd definitely smush it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd smush his face.
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  Speaker 4: Smush it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like one of those.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hell yeah, brother.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to face-smush.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I just can't. All I see is a fist. Smush
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  Speaker 4: face now. You smush it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Getting back to some of the talking points here for
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  Speaker 4: Steelers and Saints. Tay-Tay mentioned it a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 4: The third point here, make Pittsburgh earn its yards on
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  Speaker 4: the ground. Warren and Dow are going to be your
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  Speaker 4: lead backs. That's what we're going to do. assume a
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  Speaker 4: little one-two punch. We don't know which one of those
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  Speaker 4: guys is going to get more carries. They've kind of
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  Speaker 4: been sharing carries if Rico Dowdle was healthy. So you've
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  Speaker 4: been really bad. You've been really, really bad at stopping
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  Speaker 4: the run. These are two capable backs. You've got to
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  Speaker 4: stop them somehow, some way. You've got to make that
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  Speaker 4: 42-year-old quarterback be the reason that you lose the game.
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  Speaker 4: Can he do it? Absolutely. But you can't lose by
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  Speaker 4: giving up yards on the ground. You're bad at it.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to stay committed to it. Mike McCarthy's an
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  Speaker 4: old school football coach. He is not going to just
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  Speaker 4: go away if it doesn't work early in the game.
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  Speaker 4: That has to be something that the Saints take away
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  Speaker 4: from the Steelers. The next point, the young players have
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  Speaker 4: to continue to try to take a role on this
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  Speaker 4: football team. So we've talked about this draft class and
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  Speaker 4: what it hasn't done. So Jeremiah Wright played last week,
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  Speaker 4: Oscar Dell, Christian Miller. Those rookies are coming off encouraging performances.
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  Speaker 4: but it has to be more. All right. Cesar Ruiz
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  Speaker 4: missed Wednesday's practice. The offensive line, we all know, has
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  Speaker 4: its issues. So if Jeremiah Wright goes in there again,
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  Speaker 4: you got to count on some young players. And by
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  Speaker 4: this point in the season, you can't claim, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a rookie anymore. Even if Jeremiah Wright hasn't had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of snaps, they're going to count on you to
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  Speaker 4: be a pro, count on you to be somebody they
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  Speaker 4: can count on. So that has to be Another part
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  Speaker 4: for the Saints that has to continue to grow, develop.
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  Speaker 4: Those young players they drafted in the first four rounds
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  Speaker 4: of the draft because knowing you're not getting anything right
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  Speaker 4: now from your first round number eight overall pick, you've
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  Speaker 4: got to get something from your second, third, and fourth rounder.
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  Speaker 4: Last week was better. It's still got to go up.
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  Speaker 4: And then the last point on the Saints and Steelers,
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  Speaker 4: can the Saints finish if they get a lead? Can
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  Speaker 4: they hold on to a lead? Last week, we mentioned it.
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  Speaker 4: It got real hairy. If you get a lead in
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  Speaker 4: this game, can you salt that lead? Can you salt
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  Speaker 4: that clock? Can you get to triple zeros having more
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  Speaker 4: points than the Steelers? Now, you don't start fast. That
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  Speaker 4: is a problem. But last week, the thing that was
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  Speaker 4: a little bit troublesome was how easily the Giants got
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  Speaker 4: led back in the game. What did you do? What
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  Speaker 4: coverages were you playing? What pressures were you bringing defensively?
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  Speaker 4: You can't have the same formula. This Steelers team is
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  Speaker 4: better than that Giants team. You cannot try to just
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  Speaker 4: get to the finish line. You have to sprint through
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  Speaker 4: the finish line. So that's something I'm watching for. Can
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  Speaker 4: the Saints play with a lead if they do, in fact,
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  Speaker 4: get that lead? This is going to be an uphill battle.
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  Speaker 4: Alondra Tate, I don't know how you all feel about it.
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  Speaker 4: Right now the Saints are going to have to play
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  Speaker 4: their best game of the year. They're going to have
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  Speaker 4: to play their Baltimore game that they played at the
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  Speaker 4: end of that one. for at least three quarters of
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  Speaker 4: this one if they want to have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: What worries me is the injury report because we were
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  Speaker 5: talking about that throughout the week. Like, man, Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 5: is doing it with a lot of different receivers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: none of them are on the injury report anymore. That
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  Speaker 5: means Metcalf, Michael Pittman, Roman Wilson, Jeremy Bernard. They're all
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  Speaker 5: available and that's probably the weakest part of your defense
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  Speaker 5: is that secondary. Now, Martin Emerson, he was named NFC
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  Speaker 5: Defensive Player of the Week. He had two picks last
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  Speaker 5: week in relief of Kool-Aid. So, That's a guy that's
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  Speaker 5: going to have to step up because you don't have
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  Speaker 5: a ton of weapons on the perimeter of your defense.
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  Speaker 5: Your cornerback position is really, really light. Now you've got
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  Speaker 5: four receivers that have shown that they're good this year,
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  Speaker 5: along with Pat Friermuth, who is kind of playing like
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  Speaker 5: a top-ten tight end so far this year. He's been
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  Speaker 5: in the end zone a lot with an Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 5: That's the matchup for me because, yeah, even if you
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  Speaker 5: stop him on the ground, if you don't get to
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  Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers, I don't see that secondary holding up against
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  Speaker 5: these pass kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with everything Taylor just said. Like, you
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  Speaker 2: cannot stop the run. And your corners, like, that, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know much about how Jerry, I didn't watch the
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  Speaker 2: last game where Jerry Bernard apparently, like, did really well.
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  Speaker 5: He said a few of those.
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  Speaker 2: But DK Metcalf is another one that is a true threat.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I mean, I don't like any of
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  Speaker 2: the matchups that we have in the passing game. So,
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  Speaker 2: y'all are right. The way that you have to do
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  Speaker 2: this is, like, you got to get after the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He's 42 years old, so you probably can, but. Everything
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  Speaker 2: about the Saints team worries me. Also, like, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we used to use the Titans a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I think Juwan had two targets last game.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. Like, early in the season, they were some of,
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  Speaker 4: if not, Chuck's biggest targets. Yes. And Noah Phan had
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  Speaker 4: that two-touchdown game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like the last couple weeks, it's like milk cart.
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  Speaker 2: And why is Oscar Delp? in there so much.
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  Speaker 5: Because their O-line's bad and they're having to use it
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  Speaker 5: as a blocker.
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  Speaker 2: Why is he in there so much? Are they doing
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  Speaker 2: 13 or they got three in there?
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  Speaker 5: They're just using him as an extra blocker.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to get the snap count. I have them
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  Speaker 4: all in my notes right here. The snap count. Noah
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  Speaker 4: Fant played 42 plays in the game. Jawan Johnson played
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  Speaker 4: 42 plays in the game and Oscar Dell played 31.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a lot. It's a split.
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  Speaker 5: It's a split. And when Delp's in there they're having
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  Speaker 5: to use them a little bit more as a blocker.
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  Speaker 5: Cause your offensive line's not holding up.
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  Speaker 4: It just felt.
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  Speaker 2: Like Juwan was a bit of like Tyler's safety blanket.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like his, okay, let me go to Juwan real quick.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't feel like we've been seeing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that lately. Uh, maybe people caught onto it and
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  Speaker 2: Kate Kellen changed the scheme up a little bit. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but there's just not a single part of
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  Speaker 2: me that believes that the saints can win this game. Yeah. I,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm giving the Steelers a lot of credit,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean to say the Saints are just not
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  Speaker 2: playing well.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a tough matchup for the Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think just where they're strong, you're weak. It's not
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  Speaker 4: even necessarily the totality of the Steelers. It's just the
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  Speaker 4: matchup against which you're not doing well.
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  Speaker 5: They've also played well while being banged up. They're not
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  Speaker 5: as banged up coming into this game.
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  Speaker 2: Matt is so right. We've been talking about this. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't start the game.
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  Speaker 2: Like, whatever your first drive of the game is and
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  Speaker 2: has been, throw it out of the playbook and do
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  Speaker 2: something different.
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  Speaker 4: Uno card it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Reverse it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Do that.
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  Speaker 5: Just go wing it. You don't need a first 15.
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  Speaker 2: Just go wing it.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly needs to be like, Tyler, you go out there,
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  Speaker 2: you just do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 5: You need a first one. Decide your first play. However
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  Speaker 5: that goes, throw everything else out the window and just go.
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  Speaker 5: Just use a first one. No first 15 anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to go off too long on this,
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  Speaker 4: but I always thought the first 15 was stupid. It is.
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  Speaker 4: And every coach I ever played for did it.
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  Speaker 5: 15 plays is a lot to just no matter what.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes it's no matter what. It's based off like
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  Speaker 4: if the first two don't work, it's third down. You
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  Speaker 4: go to your third down stuff. You kind of get
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  Speaker 4: off the script. Then you try to get back on it.
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  Speaker 4: But my thinking was always like, guys, every game is different.
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  Speaker 4: Every flow of every game is different. Every defense that
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  Speaker 4: you face is going to have something different for you
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  Speaker 4: each and every week than they showed on tape. It's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be what you think it's going to be.
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  Speaker 4: So why are we creating these 15 plays? I was
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  Speaker 4: always more in the, hey, let's have first down plays.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have second down and eight plays. Let's have third
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  Speaker 4: down and four plays. Then that's okay. You go to
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  Speaker 4: the little area on your play sheet. Hell, when I'm
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  Speaker 4: calling flag football games, I'm like, all right, here's in
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  Speaker 4: this situation. We need to take a shot. Here's if
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  Speaker 4: we need to pick up.
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  Speaker 5: A third and three.
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  Speaker 4: Here's if we need a two-point play. Here's if we
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  Speaker 4: need a red zone play. I am always more in
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  Speaker 4: favor of that. And you have your staples that are
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  Speaker 4: always in the back of your brain. So if you
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  Speaker 4: get into a situation and you've got to immediately get
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  Speaker 4: on the ball, you've got to go, your staples are there.
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  Speaker 4: And you throw it out there. But the game flow
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  Speaker 4: just changes from play to play in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 4: And so get off script some.
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  Speaker 5: Get off script.
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  Speaker 4: Because the script is not working for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's not working.
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  Speaker 6: At all.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's three and out, three and out, three
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  Speaker 4: and out, three and out. And if you don't go
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  Speaker 4: three and out, it's turnover. Or it's maybe a five-play drive.
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  Speaker 4: This team's got too much talent for that. You've got
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback that's banged up. I realize that. But also,
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  Speaker 4: you have a quarterback that can make every throw. You've
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  Speaker 4: got one of the best receivers in the NFL. You've
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  Speaker 4: got a couple of tight ends. Like, you've got these pieces,
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  Speaker 4: but you've got to be not as predictable. Because it's
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  Speaker 4: very predictable what the Saints are going to be in
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  Speaker 4: their first 15.
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  Speaker 2: Super predictable.
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  Speaker 4: Have a little fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Eat a little fast food. Drink a couple beers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know? Maybe we don't go.
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  Speaker 2: You really think Kellen Moore is going to be out
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  Speaker 2: here drinking beers?
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  Speaker 4: We don't go for the green smoothie this week.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: We don't go for the kale smoothie.
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  Speaker 2: Go for a chocolate shake.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Have them all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then wash the cheeseburger down with a couple beers,
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  Speaker 4: a couple Dos Equis.
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  Speaker 2: I'm down with that.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like, do something a little
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  Speaker 4: bit different, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because right now you're so predictable and you're so bad
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  Speaker 4: to start games. You're bad in the first quarter. And
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  Speaker 4: you can't keep hitting your head on this brick wall.
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  Speaker 4: You can't do it. It's going to get you fired
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  Speaker 4: if you continue to start this slow because then you
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  Speaker 4: get behind, you make this cool comeback, and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times the cool comeback is just short. We saw
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  Speaker 4: it at the very beginning of the season. We've seen
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  Speaker 4: it multiple times with this Saints team. Now, last week,
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  Speaker 4: the comeback worked because you were playing the Giants and
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  Speaker 4: Jameis was bad. And then J.J. came in and almost
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  Speaker 4: made it real interesting. He did make it interesting. He
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  Speaker 4: almost put another loss to your standings there. But just
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  Speaker 4: think about all the times, you know, the Raiders game,
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  Speaker 4: they had opportunities and they just couldn't find it. But
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  Speaker 4: you got to get off script. You got to be unpredictable.
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  Speaker 4: You got to do something you haven't done. Because right now, everyone,
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  Speaker 4: including the Steelers, they feel like they have the book
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  Speaker 4: out on how to stop the Saints, certainly early in
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  Speaker 4: the game. And they do.
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  Speaker 2: And they do. They don't think they do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they're running defense. Just check. They're 14th in the league.
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  Speaker 5: So they're still in the top half. You're towards the
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  Speaker 5: bottom and running. We were talking about earlier. Get the
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  Speaker 5: ball out of Shulk's hands quick. Short passing game. You
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  Speaker 5: got to do something creative because that traditional is not
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  Speaker 5: going to work.
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  Speaker 4: Spread the carries out. Like, Kendra getting 20 carries. Right. Like,
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  Speaker 4: AK had the best game last week. Yeah, like, people
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  Speaker 4: want to point to– I know CJ Donaldson fumbled, but, man,
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  Speaker 4: he's– right now he is seeing it better.
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  Speaker 5: When people want to point to Kendra's, like, overall yards, like,
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  Speaker 5: I get it. He got a lot of carries. He's
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  Speaker 5: averaged three yards per carry back-to-back weeks.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: Like, he really hasn't been that effective. He's just got
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  Speaker 5: the carries.
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  Speaker 4: He's got the carries. All right. We will take a break.
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  Speaker 4: I talked myself into the Saints during that segment. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: we'll get there tomorrow. Maybe we'll get there tomorrow. Just
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  Speaker 4: if you do something different in the first 15, that's
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  Speaker 4: all I'm asking for. More OTB, a little Chef Michael
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  Speaker 4: Johnson to answer your munchie questions when we come back
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  Speaker 4: your munchie questions with our guy, Chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
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  Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Munchies with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Let's eat.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chef Michael Johnson joins us now. Chef, how
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: we doing? How we living?
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I'm good, guys. I'm currently sitting at Bucky's.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't do
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: that without getting us like a sandwich now. I know.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: A little pulled pork sandwich. Me and Alondra, they hate
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: to see us coming.
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  Speaker 3: This place is serious, man. I'm surprised every time I
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: stop in here how crazy this place is, man. It's wild.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so you're obviously, you're in Mississippi. Are you
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: on your way to Montgomery, Alabama?
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  Speaker 3: I am, yeah. We're taking a little pit stop and
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: then we're getting on the road.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I can appreciate that. And look, I haven't
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: seen a Buc-ee's that I'm not going to stop at either.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Before we get into your munchie questions, I mean, what's
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: your go-to at your, you know, your favorite Buc-ee's?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Gosh, man, you know, like, I haven't really dug into
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the hot food yet. You know, I've gotten the fresh fudge.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: You know, like, the wall of beef jerky is usually
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: what grabs me, man. Like, I've been known to go
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: in there and get one of each flavor.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, can't have money with that beef jerky, Chef. God, dog.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: My son, we went to the gas station last night, Chef, and,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: you know, you put your snacks up there, get a
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: little fountain drink, wife got a bottle of wine, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: they're like, that'd be $ 68. And I'm like, 68?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: And the beef jerky was $ 23.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's crazy? I was just sitting down here.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I was waiting on my buddy to come out. They
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  Speaker 3: have a sign out here advertising for help. all the
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: way up to the general manager of this place. And
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the GM of a Buc-ee makes between $ 225, 000 and $ 300, 000
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  Speaker 3: a year.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: That's what they have advertised. That's crazy, man.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Chef, are we about to lose you to the Buc-ees?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Holy cow, man.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, Alondra and Tay-Tay just got up to go
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: run to Buc-ees. I might be with them.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Like, they're paying their utility team
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: $ 25 an hour, man. It must be all right to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: work at Bucs. Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Man, my goodness.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I'm not going anywhere.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: But, boy, that's good.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Good paper. Yeah.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Chef, get you one of those, uh, those, uh, barbecue pool,
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  Speaker 4: pork sandwiches and report back to me. Just go ahead
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  Speaker 4: and get one of those. I promise you won't be disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do you proud. All right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Hashtag munchies chef. Since we're playing in
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the state of Alabama, what is, I guess the question
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: is kind of like the way this word is a
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: little weird, but what is the best food that Alabama produces?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Alabama actually has some good seafood, and I
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: don't like to talk too good about Alabama at any time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but they do have some good seafood there. Alabama has
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: some red shrimp, too, that are darn good. They're kind
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: of sweet.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're called Alabama Reds, and they eat very well. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's assuming you're close enough to the Gulf
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  Speaker 3: to get the seafood. But, yeah, Alabama has some pretty
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: darn good seafood.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: All right. Hashtag munchies. Chef, I am making a meatloaf
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: this weekend. What is the best meatloaf recipe?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: So we blend chicken, ground chicken into our meatloaf. You
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: got to have egg and breadcrumb in it, too. You know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it's kind of like the Eddie Murphy burger. You got
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: to put some onions in it.
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  Speaker 4: Better than McDonald's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've got McDonald's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, Chef, we might be the only two that are
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: laughing at that, but, David, that's funny.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Nobody understands what's going on right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sorry, I'm trying to navigate and drive at the
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: same time. I'm trying to get out of this beast.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: All right, go ahead.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is the ideal beard length to not
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: have issues in the kitchen?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Well, it has to be under a quarter inch if
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: you don't want to wear a beard net.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: The health codes say that if you're wearing a beard
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: in the kitchen, it has to be under a quarter
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  Speaker 3: inch to not have to wear a beard net. I'm
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: not a man of beard nets, so I keep mine
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: trimmed back.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. I'm going to bake some pumpkin bread. Can
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: I substitute almond flour for regular flour?
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  Speaker 3: You can. I'm not sure of the ratios. Look, guys,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I'm self-admittedly not a baker. I appreciate the question, but
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: You can, but I don't know if the ratios work evenly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like with Splenda and sugar. Splenda is supposed
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: to be cut for cut measurement.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Always add a little bit more of a Splenda in
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: there for the sugar.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: A teaspoon of Splenda is going to go a long way, son.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is Auburn, Alabama's signature go-to dish, according
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to Chef? I don't know. That's a deep cut. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: don't know that Auburn. Is Auburn big enough to have
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: a signature dish?
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: You know, that's the thing. We don't really go and
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: dine in Auburn. We go and dine in Montgomery.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: That's true. That's so true. It's like when people ask
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: you about, like, you know, Starkville. It's like, we stay
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: in Tupelo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Montgomery's big enough to have some pretty good
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: steak places because it's got gastropubs and stuff like that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: So you can find good food in Montgomery.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. Uh, hashtag munchies chef. This
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: is going to be an early game. Now it's not
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: going to be at home. It's going to be on
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: the road. So what should I make for brunch for
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: the LSU Auburn kickoff at 11 AM?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm a fan of Keith, but with like
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: steak in it, you know, it's something kind of hardy
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: and I'm a steak and egg guy. Like if I
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: wake up and I'm having a big game or, or
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: like a shrimp and grits for breakfast, it's something I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: really enjoy for, you know, early morning game. It's a,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: easy to settle or even you can even skip the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: grits and do shrimp and rice, you know, like a
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: shrimp creole and rice. And I think, I think you
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: can make that breakfast be enough to still have a
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: hearty breakfast with some eggs on the side, perhaps. I
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: can eat bacon any time of day, so it doesn't
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: have to be breakfast, you know, but something along those lines,
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  Speaker 3: I think is where my mind settles.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is Alabama white barbecue sauce?
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: It's a mayonnaise-based barbecue sauce.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It's rich, rich, rich. Yeah, yeah. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: That's why it tastes so good.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good on the palate for sure, but it's
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: not good on the hips, as they say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, bad on the saddlebags is what you're telling me.
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  Speaker 4: I got you. Fair enough, fair enough. I mean, gosh, Jeff,
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  Speaker 4: I love mayonnaise, though. Yeah, I know. Mayonnaise makes a
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: lot of things better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, aioli, you know, like that's the fancy mayonnaise, and
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: it's just the same on my emotional radar, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Chef, can you make your own mayonnaise? Is that something
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: that you do? Yeah, absolutely, man. I've seen, like, some
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: videos that make it look really simple. Is it as
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: simple as they make it look?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: It's really not that difficult. It's kind of like a hollandaise.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: It's an emulsion, so you're using egg yolks.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And some people put the egg white in there to
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: give it a little silkiness, but you're using egg yolks
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: and you're... Blending the heck out of it with oil.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: When I used to work, I used to work for
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Philippe Perrault at this restaurant called Philippe's. And I mean,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: we made mayonnaise every day of the week because we
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: made our own dressing every day of the week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: You know, like so, yes, I'm well familiar with the.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: with the process. Some people like to put a little
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: lemon juice or a splash of vinegar in it because
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: it helps stabilize and coagulate the proteins, which I think
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: has its worth. And it also has a little tang
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  Speaker 3: to it, which I also like. You know, that's why
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I like aioli because it has a little lemon in it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: And I like that bite. It kind of cuts through
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  Speaker 3: the oily, fatty oil.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. Chef, have you gotten creative in the kitchen lately?
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  Speaker 4: If so, what did you make?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't exactly in the kitchen. I was outside
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: and I was cooking on cast iron. So, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I got married last weekend and I absolutely refused to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: let anybody, you know, in Missouri ruin my reception. So
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: my buddies and I, we made red beans and rice
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and we made gumbo and some just potato salad, man.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And then, you know, I haven't, I mean... I'm sure
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: that I've made something in the kitchen this week, but
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: it's actually, you know, yesterday, last night and the night before, uh,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: we did a cooking demo with the softball team, which
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: was really fun. And we made burgers bowls and, and, uh,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: you know, like power bowls and they, they were doing, uh, uh,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: what they call a survivor series. So we're teaching the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: athletes of LSU life skills and cooking is one of them.
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  Speaker 4: So, right.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, yeah, a little burger bowl, ground, ground beef,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: some in the head that they had the choice of, uh,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: starch so you could do sweet potatoes fingerling potatoes or
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: rice and then build that cook it and then top
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: it with you know heirloom tomatoes and avocado and stuff
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: like that and I taught him how to make a
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: little burger sauce and how to make a little chipotle
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: mayo so that was fun I don't know how creative
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you call that but it was pretty.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Cool that was creative to me a couple more here
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: chef hashtag munchies what's the superior dry red bean I
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: guess your favorite yeah your favorite red bean Oh, man.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I guess that depends on what part of the country
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: you're in, to be honest with you. I don't know, man.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm struggling to read the packages at the moment, to
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: be honest with you. I'm absolutely botching this one.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to assume you just know by what the
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: package looks like. More than anything.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of them. There's a blue bag
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: that I like, and there's a bag with a lady
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: on it. Yeah, and that's what I have for you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What's a good pregame soccer breakfast for a
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: 13-year-old that can't stand oatmeal?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Fruit's always good. Fruit is a quick sugar thing. buzz.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: What you're looking to do is give them carbs. There's
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: two different types of carbs. You have simple carbohydrates and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: complex carbohydrates. You really need a little bit of both.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Eggs and rice in the morning is relatively easy to digest.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They mix well together. It gets you a little protein
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: in there. It gets you some complex carbs. The complex
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: carb rises a little bit slower but burns longer. A
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: simple carbohydrate, which you're going to find in your fruits,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is going to rise quicker and then burn faster. And so,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: you know, put a little, I would say like a
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: little egg and rice bowl and then some fruit of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: some sort, you know, like I wouldn't say watermelon, right? Strawberries, grapes,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: you know, stuff with water in them too because it
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: helps hydrate.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, watermelon hydrates, right?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not watermelon season anymore, right?
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: That's why. Because we stopped buying watermelon because they're really
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: not season anymore.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Touche. All right, last one, Chef. Hashtag munchies, ribeye or T-bone?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, that's tough. Probably T-bone. You know, I really,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: you know, I can do it with or without the clay,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: but I'm an idiot for strip, you know, and I
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: like steak on the bone still. It just kind of
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: presents well and Some people don't like to cut around it,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: but I love the texture of a strip loin, man.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I'll start with the fillet side and warm up there
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: and then move on to the strip.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Chef, you're the man. We appreciate it. Safe travels, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I will see you tomorrow in Montgomery, Alabama.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Look forward to it, brother. Y'all take care.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: All right, you as well. Chef Michael Johnson, executive chef
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: for LSU Athletics, joins us every single Thursday to answer
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: your munchie questions. All right, we will take a break.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Going to start to get to some of your questions
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: in the chat a little bit early. A lot of
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: times we maybe run out of time, but since Matt
• 29:28
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• 29:33
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• 29:35
  Speaker 4: here in the last back half of the show, and
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  Speaker 7: a swimming pool chicken fight which pair is taking down
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  Speaker 5: Yeah y'all are y'all are strong dude i don't the
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  Speaker 4: That there is two i can say this for matt's
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  Speaker 4: I think 38th birthday. We had it in a swimming pool,
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  Speaker 4: and we were all very well hydrated, and then we
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: started just like pool fighting. Yeah, and Flynn did actually
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: take down T-Bob, took him down in the pool. So
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Flynn's water strength is pretty high.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: He's a water bender?
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Pretty high water strength there for Matt Flynn. A couple
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: cold pops in.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: And plus, I mean, like, I lost where who said
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: it in the chat. Flynn's base, incredible. Those ankles, are
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: you kidding me?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: I mean. It's true.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Those bases.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, those ankles are meant for pool chicken fighting.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they really are. Taylor on bottom, Musso on top, baby.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Let's go. Let's go. Musso plays dirty, Daniel says. Musso's
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: just mad and dirty to himself when he just starts
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: crashing out.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: He's got the anger, though. That'll give him a little
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: bit of an extra jolt.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: He does. I'll give him that. I mean, something's not
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: going right on the remote, and he's just MFing himself.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Hashtag ask the bench. Favorite Auburn game.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, for me, it's y'all's game in 07. 07 was fun.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Linda Bird was great.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Dude, I loved. I'm going to say Cole Tracy game, though.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: So I'll go a little bit earlier than that.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I love that one.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: It was 16 here, unless she was down 20 to
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: nothing in that game.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Was it 17? Yeah, it was our 10-year anniversary of
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: our 07.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: And DJ Shark had the punt return. That's a good one.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Russell Gage. Yeah, that was 11 a.m. A lot of
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: people don't talk about that game. It was a day
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: game in Tiger Stadium.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Hot as hell in Tiger Stadium that day. That was
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: an awesome. That's a good one. I was sitting in
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: the skyline, because at the time, it's the only place
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: you could drink. in tiger stadium. And we had, we
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: had a whole family here. Cause it was again, the,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: the reunion.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: 17. Right. It was 17.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: So I was sitting in the end zone and up
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: and I could see DJ's punt return. Like as soon
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: as he caught it, I was like, Oh, this is
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: a touchdown.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: You saw the wall form and you, and you knew
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: who DJ was and he got to the edge. It
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: was really, really cool. And then we were down and
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: then some were saying that the Oh, 17 and halftime
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: getting the crowd ready to go is the reason we
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: came back. I mean, dude, Connor Culp. Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I would, Credit it all to y'all.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, y'all score. Auburn was up 17-0 in
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: the first quarter. They scored six points the rest of
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: the way.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a good one. Although the Cole Tracy
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: game in 18, I celebrated a lot of that one.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: That was fun. Cole Tracy, forgotten LSU Tiger that had
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: a nice short run, but he was elite.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because he gets a little overshadowed by Cade York.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Cade York comes in the next year. You win the natty.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Cole was great. Uh, hashtag ask the bench prediction on
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: trade as greens chances of dressing for the game and
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: playing a few snaps.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I think, I think it's, I think he dresses.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I think he dresses. Absolutely.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: I think that's a hundred percent.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: There's so many mind games that these coaches play.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I think lane is the only one playing them.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Is he?
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I think there's some other sec coaches too, that
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: try to hide it. Like drink drinks, gonna play some games. Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Drink will do it. But I wonder if trade as like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: stay with me here. I wonder if he dresses. Okay.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Is ready to go. Maybe he's 80%, and if you
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: need him, which I kind of think you're going to
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: in this game, then maybe you play him.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, or situational. You can do a spot.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Hey, red area.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Can you give me 10 to 15 plays, something like that?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Any trade as green snaps, though, is going to be
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: an added bonus, to say the least. I think he
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: dresses regardless, though. He'll be in uniform. All right. Getting
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: through a lot of stuff I can't ask on air. Hashtag,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: ask the bench, other than LSU, who has the best
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: color scheme in college sports? I am a sucker for
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: purple and true gold. Like Washington.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: JMU's another good one.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I'm a sucker for that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Washington's good.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: It's a good combo.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Dude, I like the UCLA. I like the UCLA unis.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: True gold and black. I love the Saints. Gold and
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: black is... True gold's hard to beat. Colorado's got great uniforms.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like they're all black with the gold helmet.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: That's great.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I like anything that's all white.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. Icy white.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: When Texas wears all white, I really like that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I don't mind an all black uniform if black's in
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: your color scheme. If it's not, get it out of here.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: I don't like it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Who wore all black? I was like, why are we
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: doing this? Yeah, UCF has great unis too. A lot
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: like Colorado.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Hashtag ask the bench. What's the craziest thing a teammate
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: of yours bought? Crazy expensive or just random like a Batmobile?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: A Batmobile.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Glenn has a flamethrower.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: He does, which is awesome.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: That is such a good answer. He does. He legit
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: has a once upon a time in Hollywood flamethrower.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he was illegally burning the other day.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: He was, and he quickly tried to backtrack.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: He was like, actually, he was in a safe zone.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: I was allowed to burn here.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: I've told this story before, but I think it's hilarious,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: and he's one of my favorite guys, so I don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: even mind telling it. So Antonio Gates bought a Panorama Porsche.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Great car. I wanted one, but by the time I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: could afford one, I already had a family too big
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: to fit in And Billy Volek, our backup quarterback, he
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: also was into Porsches as well. And so he had
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: this– and I don't know what the language was. It's
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: like a– let's just call it– I know it's not it,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: but like an SS. And he had a Panorama and
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: had like the SS logo on it or whatever. I
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: know it's a different company, but just stay with me.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: And so Billy knew Porsches inside and out, knew everything
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: about them. And Gates had the SS logo on it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: And Billy's like, that doesn't sound– like the one that
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: it's supposed to sound like. Like, it's not as mean. Like,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: it's not as loud. It's like, it doesn't quite drive
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: like it's supposed to. And with some investigating, Billy found
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: out that Gates had just bought the logo and placed
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: it on his base package panorama.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: And it actually wasn't the model that he was claiming.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Your Antonio Gates used to get the damn luxury package.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Which I appreciate Gates was, like, balling on a budget.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: You know, I appreciate that about him. But Billy couldn't
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: help himself. He's like, I know Porsches pretty well, and Gates,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: you bought that on eBay, didn't you?
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: You're going to take more crap for that. If you
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: want to get the base model, that's fine. It's still cool.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: He fought it until the end.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Shout out to my guy, Hall of Famer, Antonio Gates.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see if we can get to one
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: more before we take a break. Hashtag ask the bench,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: what is your absolute worst experience watching LSU football? Last season?
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Worst experience?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Last season.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Last season, I was at the Texas A & M
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: game with my dad and my grandpa, and it was awful.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I was upset the whole game. My grandpa was making
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: fun of me the entire time.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Obviously, the aftermath of it, but I think that the
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: worst LSU football game that I've ever been in attendance
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: of is Texas A & M.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma last year was bad. I was like, the defense
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: is playing their balls off. What do offense do something?
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: A little bit of a chalk answer, but you could
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: see it coming, I guess, which is why it was
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: the worst for me because I didn't even want to
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: watch when we sat down. The 2011 Natty versus Bama.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, any LSU fan, if they're completely honest with yourselves,
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: you knew what was coming before that game was even
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: kicked off. So, I mean, that was just a helpless feeling,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: even like as soon as it was kicked off. So,
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: hated that one.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I will say the Texas Bowl, where LSU played Kansas State,
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: and you barely had enough players to play in the game. Now,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: every player that played in that game, I will always
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: appreciate them. It was a John Trae game, right? I
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: will appreciate John Trae until the day I die. What
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: he did for the football team that day, throwing for
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: three touchdowns, by the way. That part made me proud.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: But the fact that we were in that position, that's
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: the first time I've kind of been, I don't want
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: to say embarrassed. I'm never embarrassed about LSU. But the
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: first time I'm like, this is not us. What do
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: we do? How are we playing this game with 38
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: people on the sidelines right now? And it just didn't
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: feel like LSU. It felt like it was just pieced together.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: And again, everybody that played in that game, I give
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: them so much credit. So much credit.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: It was a late night one. I remember I went
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: to the LSU basketball game, laughed, and then listened to
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: it on the way home.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: I remember sitting there watching the game with Alex Bregman,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: and Bregman's like, what's going on here? I'm like, Alex,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: we have like 38 scholarship guys in there.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: My goal in that game.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Alex, you are a step away from playing quarterback for
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: this game right now.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: My goal in that game was like, oh, it would
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: be cool to see John Trayther touch down pass.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: That was it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Last play of the game. He did. He threw his third.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: All right, we will take a break. Going to get
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: to some more of your questions. We'll ask the bench
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: to wrap it up, and we'll do it right here
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• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football 24-7. You're listening to Off
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the Bench.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: What a song.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: It's been a while since I could stand.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Oh my, one, two, three, four, five. All right, let's
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  Speaker 4: continue to ask the bench. Brought to you by Dos Equis.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Favorite trick-or-treating candy.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: The next one. Snickers.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: I love Snickers in any aspect.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Alondra? Recess. Yes, I mean.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Both elite. Both elite. Just don't give me the strawberry...
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: The one that's wrapped up looks like a strawberry.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Don't give me the popcorn balls.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: Don't give me that.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: What are the... Don't give me dots. They don't taste bad,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: but I'm not trying to go to the dentist.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: What is the name of the strawberry candy? Does it
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: have a name?
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Strawberry candies.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Nobody likes them. How do they keep making them? A
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: lot of Flynn talking in the chat. Hashtag ask the bench,
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: is there any NFL accomplishment that you would trade your
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: 2007 championship for? Any accomplishment? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: trade it for a Super Bowl. Now, Matt would be
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: a better person to ask this question to because he
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: actually did win both. I wouldn't trade it because I
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: don't live in San Diego. I don't live in Denver.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: I live in Baton Rouge. I came back here for
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: a purpose. I came back here because this is the
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: team that means the most to me. I played for
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: the Chargers longer than I played for anybody in my life,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: longer than I played for Sunset Acres Indians, longer than
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: I played for the Evangel Eagles, longer than I played
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: for the LSU Tigers. But it doesn't matter. LSU is
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: always a place. So to be able to have that
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: with these fans, with somebody that I grew up around
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: being from Louisiana, no, I'm not trading that for a
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. There's nothing I would trade that for. Hashtag
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Ask the Bench. What's the biggest skill you wish you had?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Apparently speaking on the radio better.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Somebody need to catch these hands on the chat.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I dumbed the show down. So I guess I wish
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I was smarter. No.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: You can go fly a kite with that. Musical instrument.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I wish I could sing.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: If I could play an instrument.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: I wish I could sing.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Instrument's good.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: Anything with a band.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, if I could play the drums. That'd be a
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: good one.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I would love to be able to shred a guitar solo.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: That'd be sick.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: That'd be sick. He says it's called the Grandma Strawberry Candy.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: That's gotta be the name of it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: And candy corn is good. Yeah, it is.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I'm here for candy corn.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Candy corn's awesome. I got a pack at home right now.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I don't do candy corn slander.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: I love candy corn. Billy Bullock won me a fantasy
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: football championship back in the day. Yeah, he threw for
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: 500 in Week 16. Let's go, Billy B. Go, America.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Off the bench.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: That's a real stat. He threw for 500-plus in Week 16.
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