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Hour Three | Mickey Loomis Responds to Gayle Benson, LSU Basketball & Ask the Bench · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 4: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: All right. So we mentioned it when we were talking
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  Speaker 2: a little bit earlier. Early risers for the Tigers and
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  Speaker 2: the Saints. But before we start getting into the Saints
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  Speaker 2: and the Steelers, Mickey Loomis did have a quote after
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  Speaker 2: Gail Benson called everybody out last week. And look, you
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  Speaker 2: call everybody out and you go and you have a
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  Speaker 2: winning performance. And Mickey Loomis said, I understand where she's
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  Speaker 2: coming from. And I think every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: we all need to be a little uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Hell yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You do need to be uncomfortable. Now, is it, was
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  Speaker 2: it true? Uncomfort? Are you like, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, when has Mickey Loomis ever
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  Speaker 4: been uncomfortable?
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while.
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  Speaker 4: Like, when has she ever put her foot on his neck?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Did she text him beforehand? She's like, I'm about to
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  Speaker 3: say these things. I'm not talking about you, Mickey.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about you, Mickey.
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  Speaker 3: So don't worry.
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  Speaker 5: It would have been great if he came out and
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  Speaker 5: been like, I agree. If I was Kellen Moore, I'd
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  Speaker 5: be nervous. I would have respected the hell out of that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they're listening over there across the pond. How
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  Speaker 3: do you think Paris is right now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we know they're listening. Their running backs coach
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  Speaker 2: literally told us at the senior bowl he's a P1.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. And Mickey said it, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mickey said it.
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  Speaker 5: I know the back of that guy's neck like nobody else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was not very camera savvy.
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  Speaker 2: No. Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It's radio, to be fair.
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  Speaker 2: It's radio, to be fair to him, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. Yeah, he was camera savvy. At that place.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we say it every time we talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Do I? Radio one, video two.
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  Speaker 4: It's true. What?
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  Speaker 3: We say that?
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  Speaker 2: We used to, like when we first started the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Video two?
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  Speaker 2: When we first started the studio and we weren't as
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  Speaker 2: big like YouTube and stuff. We were on Cox Sports
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  Speaker 2: TV back then. You know, Gordy and Matt used to
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  Speaker 2: always say radio one, video two.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, Cox Sports is rip.
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  Speaker 3: Rip, rip.
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  Speaker 2: You guys love watching the replays on Sunday mornings. Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: back to the Saints. Mickey Loomis. So he did acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: the comments from the owner. And regardless of who really
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  Speaker 2: felt pressure or who didn't feel pressure, they got to win.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe it worked somewhat. Maybe. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: know Matt's not very impressed with the way that they won.
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  Speaker 2: I know they still suck starting games. I know their
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  Speaker 2: first 15 needs to be balled up, thrown in the trash,
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  Speaker 2: or you need to uno-card it and flip it and
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  Speaker 2: reverse it. and do it in reverse order, maybe that
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  Speaker 2: will work for you. It's not working currently, one through 15.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you go 15 to one. I don't know. But
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  Speaker 2: they did win a game, and they have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to get back into the South race, but it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be an uphill battle. Pittsburgh does not feel like
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  Speaker 2: a great matchup for the New Orleans Saints right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I would say that because the Steelers, they lack in.
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  Speaker 2: Steelers can run the football.
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  Speaker 3: They can run the football.
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  Speaker 2: You can't stop the run.
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  Speaker 3: They lack in, like, you know, complete all 53 guys
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  Speaker 3: on the roster being really, really good. They don't have, like,
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  Speaker 3: the personnel that other teams do, but they have been
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  Speaker 3: forged in fire. It seems like for the last two
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  Speaker 3: years that it seems like every game comes down to
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  Speaker 3: the wire. And what is one thing that the Saints
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  Speaker 3: have proven? Like, they can't start. They can't finish. They
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  Speaker 3: had a good second and third quarter. I think Gale
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  Speaker 3: might have called Jameis Winston and asked him to do
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  Speaker 3: a favor for him. Cause he played that bad. It
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  Speaker 3: looked like he was, you know, trying to let the
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  Speaker 3: saints win. So I do think it's a bad matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean they can't win? Hell no. The Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: beat the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Like anything can happen, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know, like we've heard the Gail's said
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  Speaker 3: the things that she needed to say. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a press conference. She said it to a club, right?
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  Speaker 3: Got out.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've had to.
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  Speaker 3: Answer these questions for two weeks about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Like it has, it's a clearly a dish like in
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  Speaker 3: a distraction. Now, how much motivational, like how much motivation
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  Speaker 3: did it put on the staff? You would think a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody always needs to be a little bit uncomfortable in
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  Speaker 3: their job for sure. Competition. Like that's what coaches preach
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  Speaker 3: competition all the time. Why does competition bring the best
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  Speaker 3: out of people? Because there's a chance you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get fired. If you're not the best, the job's not yours.
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  Speaker 3: And in the NFL competition is the best because you
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  Speaker 3: play like you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To get fired.
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  Speaker 3: That is why competition brings the best out. That is
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  Speaker 3: the only reason competition brings the best out. So if
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  Speaker 3: you threaten the people that have always felt like they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be fired.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it makes them do their job better.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but coaches do it to players every
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  Speaker 3: single day. Do this or you get fired. The person
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  Speaker 3: that runs the coaches is, person that runs the front
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  Speaker 3: office every boss out there needs to hold your employees
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  Speaker 3: to a high standard if you don't do this we
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  Speaker 3: will replace you yeah and it shouldn't there should be
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  Speaker 3: nobody except the person that writes the checks outside of
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  Speaker 3: the person that writes the checks and signs their name
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  Speaker 3: on the checks nobody should be immune to that.
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  Speaker 2: Not one person It's such a unique situation. No other
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  Speaker 2: front office is as protected as the Saints. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not even remotely close, though. Like, when you start thinking
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  Speaker 2: about some of the, like, guys that have been in
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  Speaker 2: the front office for a long time and decades, it's
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  Speaker 2: because they got, like, you know, multiple skins on the
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  Speaker 2: wall and they built up some equity. Now, this front
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  Speaker 2: office led them to a Super Bowl almost 20 years
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  Speaker 2: ago now.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And nobody ever thought the Saints would do something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and they've had good seasons. I don't want to sit
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  Speaker 2: here and act like they haven't, but I know for me,
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  Speaker 2: and I know for you as well because I was
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  Speaker 2: around you, competition and being uncomfortable brings out the best
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of players, coaches, and front office members
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  Speaker 2: because you never feel like you've done enough. And so
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  Speaker 2: when you never feel like you've done enough, what do
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  Speaker 2: you do? You work.
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  Speaker 3: You grind.
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  Speaker 2: And you find a way and you try to put
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  Speaker 2: yourself in a better position than others around you. Not
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  Speaker 2: saying like in the same building, but I'm saying like
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be compared to other fullbacks. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be compared to other quarterbacks around the league. And
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  Speaker 2: you try to put yourself in a better light. And
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  Speaker 2: you never felt like, man, I can mail it in
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  Speaker 2: this week. I never felt like that in my career,
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  Speaker 2: in college, in high school, in the pros.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody should.
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  Speaker 2: And so like when you get to a position like that,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that's human nature. Like the things that
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  Speaker 2: you allow to creep in. And they've creeped in. And
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  Speaker 2: they've stayed.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Jake, he's the. They're squatters right now.
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  Speaker 3: He's the fourth. Fourth longest tenured general manager in NFL history.
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  Speaker 3: And two of those four are owners. Jerry Jones and
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  Speaker 3: Al Davis. They made themselves a GM. So, of course,
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  Speaker 3: they're not going anywhere. So, it's what the Saints have
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  Speaker 3: done is not a normal thing. The person that's been
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  Speaker 3: a GM the longest who was a non-owner is Mike
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  Speaker 3: Brown from the Bengals. 1991 to present. That's not a
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  Speaker 3: normal thing. Mickey, you've spent since what? 2000?
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  Speaker 1: 2001?
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah. So it's not a normal thing,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on. So obviously there's a security there. And
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great what Gale did. I know it's
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  Speaker 3: been a couple weeks, so this is kind of like
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  Speaker 3: old news. Yeah, but just seeing him kind of respond
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  Speaker 3: to it. You have to make people uncomfortable with their job. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Just like you said, whether you're trying to or not,
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  Speaker 3: if you feel like you're untouchable, whether you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: or not, Things happen in the subconscious. Things happen that
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  Speaker 3: you stop paying as much attention. You stop trying to
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  Speaker 3: work a little bit harder because you're fearful that you're
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  Speaker 3: going to lose your job. Things happen. It's human nature.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know that they're happening sometimes, but they do.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like preparing for a directional school U. We
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  Speaker 3: talk about that. You try to. You go through the motions.
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  Speaker 3: You do all the same things, but there's something that
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  Speaker 3: isn't the same as a big game.
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  Speaker 2: And in your mind, to your point, you think, I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing everything I would if I was playing Florida or
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  Speaker 2: Auburn or Alabama. It's like, no, you're not. But if
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  Speaker 2: somebody was threatening to take food off your table, you'd
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  Speaker 2: probably be doing a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the last couple of draft classes, they're hard to defend.
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  Speaker 2: They're really hard to defend.
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  Speaker 4: If they were playing, you could because they, like Jordan Tyson,
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  Speaker 4: we have no idea what he looks like. In the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to be judged off drafting a guy
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  Speaker 2: who had an injury history. Yeah. And that was the
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  Speaker 2: big negative checkmark. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And Kelvin Banks, like he's, I don't know when they draft.
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  Speaker 4: Was he first round?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So like he's good, but he's not playing.
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  Speaker 5: And also though, going back to not addressing corner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Free agency or the draft, not addressing corner. You knew
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  Speaker 5: you were shorthanded in that position. You didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And also you gave money to a guard and a
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  Speaker 2: running back to be better in the running game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the running back's out, and the running game has
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  Speaker 2: been 28th, I think, in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 3: And then I go back to the draft thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: like you're going to be judged on how good the
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  Speaker 3: players are playing that were right around that pick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sonny Stiles, balling.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Montsour Delane, balling. There's guys that you.
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  Speaker 4: Could have had that.
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  Speaker 3: Are absolutely– Fall in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: So you're going to be judged. Your guy ran a
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  Speaker 3: couple of slant routes in training camp. They're good slant routes.
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  Speaker 3: But then his hamstring pulled off the bone or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Could this team use Caleb Downs right now?
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  Speaker 3: My God. I was watching Sonny play the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That was the guy I fell for in the draft.
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  Speaker 3: There's multiple guys that aren't in the sexy positions that
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  Speaker 3: would be immediate impacts. Now, How many more wins did
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  Speaker 3: the Saints have? I don't know. But it makes the
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  Speaker 3: whole season feel a little bit different, I think. But, like,
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  Speaker 3: right or wrong, Jordan Tyson, great play. He just hadn't produced.
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  Speaker 3: You have to be judged by the people that were
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  Speaker 3: taken around him that you potentially could have had.
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  Speaker 2: After you drafted Chris Alave at 11, the next five
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  Speaker 2: picks after that in the first round, Trevor Penning at 19,
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  Speaker 2: Brzee at 29, Huaga at 14. then Banks at nine,
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  Speaker 2: and then Tyson at eight.
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  Speaker 4: She thought Fuaga was going to be a great piece, too.
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  Speaker 5: He's gotten worse every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's down great. Every year.
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  Speaker 5: He was actually the best as your rookie left tackle.
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  Speaker 5: Since you moved him over to right, which you thought
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  Speaker 5: was his natural spot, like, it hasn't been great.
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  Speaker 3: Finding bad first-rounders is tough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was literally just about to say. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you get a good draft position pretty much every season,
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  Speaker 4: and you mess it up this bad every time. 2021
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  Speaker 4: Peyton Turner. Who, I'm pretty sure they just, no, I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking Trey Palmer.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to say it.
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  Speaker 4: Cesar Ruiz.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Peyton Turner's like on a practice squad somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Marcus Davenport before that. You traded up. You traded aspects
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  Speaker 5: to go up and get him.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, I want to know what you want in this.
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  Speaker 3: If I was a GM the last eight years, I
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  Speaker 3: would have been fired. I would have been fired a
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  Speaker 3: while ago. You don't like Jeff? That was me. If
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  Speaker 3: Matt Flynn was the GM for the Saints.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, Ryan Ramchick was great, but that was short-lived.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that draft did a lot of heavy lifting. It
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  Speaker 2: built up a lot of equity. That was a really,
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  Speaker 2: really good draft. But, again, in the NFL, the not
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  Speaker 2: for long doesn't stand for just playing careers. It stands
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  Speaker 2: for equity built up. Think about players. You can have
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  Speaker 2: an MVP-type season, and then if you're eight games into
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  Speaker 2: the next season and you're bad, they're looking for somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but, okay, so it built up equity. One good
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  Speaker 3: draft class builds up equity, but you're already in a deficit.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they're not there anymore. None of those guys are
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  Speaker 5: there anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Marshawn Lattimore, not there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the more we dive, like, get deeper in this conversation,
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  Speaker 3: the more I feel like we're all taking crazy pills.
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  Speaker 4: No, they are.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And it has nothing to do with the person, like.
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  Speaker 3: Just look at it like blank.
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  Speaker 4: X's and O's. Don't even think about it as Mickey Loomis.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you could even look at the Colts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Like Carly Irsay just fired their general manager. She was like,
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  Speaker 4: get it together or bye. And then she actually did it.
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  Speaker 2: He was there for 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: So look at it as don't think Mickey Loomis, don't
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  Speaker 4: think Gail Benson. If this general manager is doing this
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  Speaker 4: awful for this long, why is he still there?
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  Speaker 3: There's one clear negative thing every single year, and it's first-rounders.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have the depth there. You don't have the
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  Speaker 3: depth there, your salary cap. The issues that are year in,
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  Speaker 3: year out haven't necessarily been the players. They're just in
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  Speaker 3: a bad position. We're rebuilding to this.
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  Speaker 2: How long?
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  Speaker 4: So long.
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  Speaker 2: How long?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And again, it's a great point that you made about
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  Speaker 2: the guys surrounding the picks that you make and what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. The guys right before the pick that you
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  Speaker 2: made and what they're doing. The guys after, like a
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Downs and some other players that we can certainly
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  Speaker 2: point out. And where you're deficient, like a Blake Miller
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: for the Lions right now. That's playing awesome right tackle.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: So you weren't going to take one because that's all you've.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, Jake, you were talking about Caleb Downs. Five
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: picks after you drafted a third-string tight end in the
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: third round.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: A.J.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Halsey.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Daylon Everett from Georgia. He hadn't been great, but he
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: was later in that third round.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He was available.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: You needed DB help, and you didn't address that either.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And it stinks, like, because we know a lot of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: these people personally, right?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's like, but you got to take the picture
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: of the person. You got to take the name off
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and just look at it, like, job that's being done
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: the positions that are being filled by who and just
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: make it a blank name and it's just like at
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: some point you just got to be you got to
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: be realistic you got to use common sense.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Well when you're running a organization i don't ever think
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: in the nfl you can be sensitive if you are
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: i just don't think it lasts very long for you
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: because you're right like there's people involved that we do
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: have great relationships with but also we were graded every
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: single day as players It's true. I have a great
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: relationship with North Turner. You have a great relationship with
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy and all the coaches that you play for.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, you would say so for the most part,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: you could text them right now. You'd have a great conversation. Well,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: North cut me one time.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I guess like you got cut by somebody.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Mickey did decide not to sign me. So it's true.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: So, you know what I'm saying? So like, that's just
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the way, that's the nature of the league more than any,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: like it is so competitive and there's, there's so few
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: jobs and you're, you know, the, the, The second most
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: popular sport in our country is what? College football. Every
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: one of those players that's playing college football in the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: second most popular sport is trying to play in the NFL.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: So that's what it is. That's by nature. So you
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: have to. You have to talk about the success, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: you have to talk about the failures. There's teams out
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: there that draft. For a long time, it was the Eagles.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: The Eagles drafted really, really well. I think the Lions
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: draft really, really well. Like, we're talking about that. But
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: if they have two bad seasons, guess what we're talking about? Man,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they can't draft. They suck at drafting. Because that's just
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: the way it is. And so, like, when you have
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: what we just talked about, and you have the history
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: of first-round picks since Chris Alabe. And I do think
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Banks is a good player. I think he's a good player.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: He's just not playing.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It's tough. And you've got to be graded off that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And it's hard.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: But people can do it. I mean, someone brings up
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: a good point in the chat. How many teams can
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: consistently draft well? No, because a lot of it's a
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: guessing game. You're guessing how they're going to. But there's
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: also not a lot that. Again, Mickey's the second longest tenured.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs draft really well. I think the
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Eagles draft really well. Seahawks, my guy Snyder.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks draft really well.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: But guess what?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: You don't. I mean, we could go down a list.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: You consistently don't draft well, but. Some people, they'll hit
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: every once in a while. You have not hit since.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: And I feel like it took Chris Olave a little
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: bit to have this much return that he has right now.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: It's a hit.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I'm saying it is, but I'm.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Saying like I.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: We could hit at a better rate, at a higher clip.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, have you seen my fantasy football?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: We could hit. We would have hit at a higher clip.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Look at the draft class you just pointed out. Brian Ramchick.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Marshall and Lattimore, like think about how long ago that was.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: You're still pointing to that one because that's the outlier
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: in terms of success.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah that was what like i was trying to say
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: is that there's people that hit every once in a
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: while mickey has like consistently not hit and at some
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: point whenever you're that consistent with it your seat starts
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to get hot for other organizations.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I mean you just went into the colds.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah I mean, Joe Shane's seat should be, I guess
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Jackson Dart kind of cooled.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It down a little bit.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Well, the Colts, I mean, they were pissed because Chris
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Ballard hitched his wagon to Anthony Richardson too hard. That
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: was one of his guys, and that didn't work out.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Tried to bring in Daniel Jones, salvage things. That didn't
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: work out, and they cut ties.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: It did until it didn't.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Did you just bring up Jack's son?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I did. Jack's son.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Who's Jack?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Obviously his dad.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: That's three. Inside the chat, are you sure the Lions
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: draft well? Their last five first-round picks, Jameer Gibbs, Jack Campbell,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: two all pros, Terry and Arnold, but really good on
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the field. It was off the field.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Ty Lake-Williams, who is a starter in the middle of
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the defense, and then Blake Miller, who's playing at an
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: incredibly high level. So, yeah, they draft pretty well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Look at what they did when they traded Matthew Stafford.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: The return on those picks, the guys they grabbed.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Amon Ross, St.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Brown.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: We didn't even, like, Aiden Hutchinson.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: They drafted really well.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: All right. We have gone really long there on the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Saints and where they're currently at right now. We'll take
• 21:17
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  Speaker 6: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
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  Speaker 6: OTB here live from the Razor Cane studio. Where Poncho?
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to Poncho. Every day, all day.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: All day.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: All right. We've been worried about LSU basketball having enough.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: I wasn't worried about it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I've been on the edge of my seat.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I always knew it was going to happen.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Just kidding.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, we've been questioning if LSU basketball is going to have,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you know, a full team, a full squad, and, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a little risky. But, well, you know what? Our guy
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Will Wade said, I got you. Said, trust me.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Never doubt.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Because, Tay-Tay, give us the list. of players that are
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: going to be playing for your LSU fighters.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, whoever runs their roster on the website, his fingers
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: are going to be busy today. They got four guys
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: eligible yesterday. Saliu Niang was the big one. Donovan Dent
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: is officially, officially eligible. We kind of knew that because
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: he actually played, yeah, I mean, he played in the
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: in the exhibition against McNeese, our guy to why sky
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: sky Clark, he's going to be out there as well.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: And Bryce dessert, all four of them were ruled eligible
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: as of yesterday evening. Now doesn't look like you're going
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: to have RJ Lewis. However, that was always going to
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: be a long shot anyways, but you do have all
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: of these guys. I remember like Niang was drafted by
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: the calves back in 2025 in the second round, never
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: played though. He, he played overseas and an Italian league
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: actually last year played 38 games in the Euro league. So,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: He is eligible, again, along with Dent, Sky Clark, Bryce Dessert.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: So, finally, these guys could play less than 39 minutes
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: on the court. That's what they were doing.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: You got two guys that are fouling out.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: One of their last two exhibitions, though.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. No way. No doubt.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I was at the McNeese one.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And, I.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Mean, it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Doesn't feel great when you're, like, in a toss-up with McNeese.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: during an exhibition game, but I will say that like
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: we had six players at six or seven players at
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: the time that were actually able to be out on
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: the court. The seventh one was a roost check at
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: the very last minute. And this is going to sound
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: like I'm kind of like trying to pump sunshine or whatever,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: but I will say that the one thing that I
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: was impressed by is it was obviously a gritty performance
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: because they had to play the whole entire time.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: So I do think that they were giving a lot
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: of really good effort. I wasn't at the last one,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: but the McNeese one, I'll say that part of it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the other guys look like, but
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I will say that there was a lot of good
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: effort out on that court. I think Donovan Dent is
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: going to be one of your most important pieces.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, him in the backcourt's awesome. They struggled in free
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: throws in the second half. Well, and part of that
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: goes back to her, right? Like what she was saying, fatigue, fatigue.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Like if you make those free throws, that game is
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: not as close as it looks.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: That's true. We missed a lot of free throws that,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: that exhibition game.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. I mean, you won
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: both those games. We love, we'll wait here. We just do.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: If you don't go fly kite, just the way it
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: is around here. He took a chance and, For the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: most part, the chance paid off outside of one guy,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and you're right. That was a long shot, and that
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: was the one that was probably the most egregious. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: so you get a full roster here, a roster that's
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: ready to compete, and I'm excited to go back into
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the PMAC. I have not been in the PMAC for
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: a men's game in a very, very long time because, well,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: it wasn't worth the price of admission. No. This was not. Look,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: my children love going to the basketball games, but we
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: were only going to go watch Coach Mulkey's team. Now
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: we'll watch Coach Mulkey and Coach Wade's team. And I'm
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: excited to get back into the PMAC and go check
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: out those games and have some juice and have a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: coach that has, you know, the fire and the passion
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: for his team that Will Wade does. And look, there's
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: nothing against Coach McMahon. He was always great to us.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Great guy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It's a completely different style of coaching. Yeah. And I
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: am here for what we're going to see inside the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: PMAC coming up for basketball season.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Have we checked on Greg Sankey? I imagine the Neang
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: News really sent him over the edge yesterday.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: No, because he's probably like, watch this penalty I get
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: called in the Auburn game.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I was so excited to see Will Wade coaching an
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: LSU basketball team again. Like it really was such a
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: good feeling to be watching that whenever I was at
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the McNeese game. And Mo Diabate, he's not like, I
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: think he's going to end up being another really important
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: piece on your team as well. Like Mo Diabate and
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Dent were the two that really stood out to me.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Well, Mo, that was like the first piece that Wade
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Wing got. Like, he's a guy that has not only
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Division I experience, experience in this conference. Like, yeah, he's
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: a huge piece.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Matt, thoughts?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I love it. I'm crushing it. We're going to, you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: lead the league in three-pointers.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: In three-pointers?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Okay.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: All right, all right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Excited about 2Y Sky?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Scott Clark with two Ys.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That's right. You have said that before. Do people call
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: him that for real?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I like it, too. I like it, too. Pretty good.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I can get behind that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Your next exhibition game is going to be against Florida State.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: You know you're going to have to lock in, right?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Because this isn't the old LSU team that's just going
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: to lose every game.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: This is going to be a good team.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You did good during baseball. Actually, I don't know.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: You did good during baseball.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Crush baseball.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So you've got an exhibition on the road in Tallahassee
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: against Florida State coming up on Saturday. And then things
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: get started on Tuesday, November the 3rd. You've got LSU
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: New Orleans coming inside the PMAC. You've got Texas Southern.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: You've got Louisiana Tech. And then you'll have your first
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: big test of the year. You are going across the country, Spokane, Washington,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: to take on Gonzaga on Saturday, November the 14th. All right,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: we will take a break. More OTB when we come
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: back here live from the Raising Gains studio.
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  Speaker 5: Off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Baby, let me.
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  Speaker 2: I did it again, so I'm going to let go.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my. Baby, let me love you down.
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  Speaker 6: There's so many ways.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so in love.
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  Speaker 3: I was disrespectful to that song.
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  Speaker 4: You know who does things the right way? Dabo Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: He does things the right way.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt. What are y'all talking about?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: What you on?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney. Aw, shucks. We ain't going to do transfer.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Kevin Moore does things the right way.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: We're going to do it through high school.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Did he ever land that 10-star? Remember the 10-star guy?
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Wait, the bedazzled football?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: You're a 10-star in my book.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Because I forgot your name.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: You know he forgot his name.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Totally forgot dude's name. Seems like they had a good relationship.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: 10 out of 10? 10 out of 10.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: He said, what are you, four-star, five-star? Don't even matter.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: You're ten-star in my book. I was like, hell yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Where do I sign?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: It's good coin fun. Yes.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: For entertainment purposes, I like that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: His knees are still making it, too.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I cannot believe that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I can't believe it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Is he still running down the hill?
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Is he still running down the hill?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Every game?
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: He's been there a long time and not.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: One slip of the fall. Okay, let me see this.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: At what point do we start respecting his athletic ability?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think he got to.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I kind of respect it right now, but like.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: You have to. Like, I don't look at Dabo and say, yeah, bud,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: you're super athletic.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: He did play football at Alabama.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Receiving.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Couldn't tell by looking at him. But when you couple
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: that with the fact that he sprints down a hill.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Every single day for over a decade.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You can't argue that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Look, I respect Dabo. His time has passed, though. Maybe.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: They're four and two-fourth in the ACC right now. I mean,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the ACC is not a great conference.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: You might as well be 15th in another real conference.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: At least they're in a conference.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Fair.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Why do you hate UConn?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: They're cowards. Fair?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: If Notre Dame's.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they probably tried to get in one there.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Now we're good. Now we're good.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: UConn actually tried.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Nah, bro. Actually, we're going to sit this one out.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: You should as well, UConn. Although they were actually pretty
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: good last year.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Anyways. I'm going to make a commitment to you all.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: I made a commitment to y'all last year. I made
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: a baseball commitment to y'all.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Oh. You going to make a basketball one to us?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I was about to, and I hesitated.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Then don't half-step into it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I don't want to hear it then.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I don't want your toe in the sand. I want
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: your foot in the sand, bud. Okay.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't commit to that now.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Well, man, that was anticlimactic, huh?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Announcement.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: So I was going to, and then I was going
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: to do it. Guys, big announcement.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: So when we have Coach Wade on. Because he used
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to come on OTV every single week. And this is
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: the show that has on Kim Mulkey every week and
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Jay Johnson every week. We have Jay Clark on. We
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have Coach Torino on. We're the coach's show. Everybody but
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the football coach. Matt's just going to sit here.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: We're not important enough for Lane Kiffin.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Well, he doesn't do any weekly interviews, I guess.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Just his show. That's it. He doesn't even do the
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: full thing. But I actually like it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Come on, bud.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Come on, Lane.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Of the coaches that I've met and hung out with
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: a little bit over there, I'd like to get my
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: guy Kevin Smith in here.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: His son's playing well, too.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We always talk about all of us were the
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: same draft class and got a chance to know him
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit. He would be our style of OTB here.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Come on, Kevin.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Come on. Again.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Come on, big coach. That's right.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: No, if Will's coming on the show, I'll dive in.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I'll make that commitment. I'll go ahead and do it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually... I'm going to dive in.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: I'm not that a little clawed before the interview. Can't
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: help you, Matt.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Bingo.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Coach Mulkey will probably be next week, by the way.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Probably start that back.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Up next week. Yeah. Love that. I'm already sweating.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Just don't call... I don't really know what you're asking.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: If there's a Richard on the team, just don't call
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it Richard. Now, Matt, you're from Texas. That was... God,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: that was one of my favorite moments ever.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I agree with Alvo. Should have a weekly cookie segment.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: He's in school.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He is a child.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: He is in school.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: He is a child. Yeah. Not an adult.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: He goes to the lab school.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Were we in Mobile when I mispronounced? I said Richard.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I actually feel like we were.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: The best part was she's kind of like, hey, now
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I know you're from Texas. Hold up now. I'm so
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: nervous right now. Why'd you throw that on me today?
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I don't really get what you're asking, but I'll try
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: to answer.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I wasn't here for that one. I don't know where
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: That was a good question.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: But I was not here for that one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: If you articulated it well... It would have been a
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: good question. There's just a lot of buildup to it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Like if you would have just straight up been like,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: is there any supervision on social media?
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Cause she answered it correctly.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: That was a great week. Paul Tuxey was born that week.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: That was a good week.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Freckle inspector.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: That was Olympic week.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Jake, you missed the Olympic week, bud.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: Four years from now, mark your calendar down. You gotta
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: be here.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Hats to be here.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Penis injections.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: That's what happened.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: On the ski jump.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: That was the week you decided to leave. Penis injection scandal. Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: What was that? Was that National Championship?
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl?
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because it was the Winter Olympics, so it would
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: have been February.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: It was Groundhog Day. Yeah, so Super Bowl.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Groundhogs. Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that adds up in time frame,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: but it seems like it. Are you going to bail
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: on the Super Bowl again?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: What Super Bowl?
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: This year. Weren't we supposed to go in L.A.? No,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not going there. Are you going to be by yourself?
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: No, they couldn't go because of your schedule.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: It was West Coast.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, because it would be too early. Yeah.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a West Coast thing.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: And we were going to do it for a long time,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and then they didn't want to switch Hanny's show with
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: our hunt show.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: It was too much.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: It was like a scheduling conflict.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: So you're not going again. So just to let you know,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: you'll be by yourself for a week again.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: We're going to run national. All right. You're leaving a
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: bunch when the playoffs start, aren't you? NFL playoffs.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I will be here way more.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I think that's what you said.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I will be here way more now than I was
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: then because I was going to every round of the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: playoffs for college, then the national championship.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Then NFL.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Then you did Army, Navy, right?
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All that rolled in. Like, December to March, not here.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: But new schedule, I do go to one round of
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, championship, We don't know AFC or NFC. During
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the Senior Bowl, we'll do that. But we'll be together
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: We're going to go to the Senior Bowl?
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Are we doing the Senior Bowl?
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I assume.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We've done it every year for like last six.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Let's do it. No, I do have to go to
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I do have to do that. So,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that one's up to you, nerd. God, I'm so nervous
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, I can tell.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Don't worry.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I wonder if that girl's going to be there again.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I'm checking the roster. She's got to make a living.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: The model.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, up in the top. All right. Anyways, we'll take
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: a break. Borrowed TV. When we come back, we'll ask
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the bench. Go ahead and get those questions inside the chat.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: We'll get to as many as we can to wrap
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: it up here on a Wednesday morning. Off the bench.
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  Speaker 5: She's burning me to hold on to this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. know this is something I got to do,
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  Speaker 2: but that don't mean I want to.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: What I'm trying to say is that.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: to you by Poncho.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: It's coming to an end. And it's better for me
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: to let it go now.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: All right, welcome back here.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Alchemist closing out the show. Before we get to this
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  Speaker 2: It's R & B Wednesday, bruh. Of course we do.
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  Speaker 4: That's two days in a row.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Catalyst might be fueling us.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: It's the way I feel.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I know I made a mistake and I was too late.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: But she ain't coming back.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: What am I going to do?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: That has been choked on that last one.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Guys, if you do it as much as me, it's
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: bound to happen.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: How long is 51 days?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Usher. 61 hours.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: 61 days.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: If I had to guess.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Matt, you're doing the hard math over there. It's 50
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: plus 11 would be 60.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: 50 plus 11?
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Hashtag ask the bench. Did y'all open the card? Yes,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: he's going to do whatever he wants. Did y'all open
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the card yesterday? We did. It was a base card,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: which is basically worth nothing inside of it.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Video is on.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Video is on. He ripped it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: He ripped it. It was a $ 350 card. He tore up.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have ever done it. I would have just
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: kept it.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Then Matt laughed at me. He called me an idiot.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Then he put a gif of him laughing at my pain.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: On the video we posted. It's true.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: It's true. I did. I can laugh because I've gotten
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: lots of bad beats in the card game.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: It's okay. Want to compare? Yeah. I promise I have
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: you beat.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Hashtag ask the bench. Revelry said.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Wait, didn't you sell a Bryce Young card that you
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: thought you didn't sell?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I would say it's still okay. I still made a
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: profit on it.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Now Jake, on the other hand.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I guess the old student paper said that we're all disappointed, depressed,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and impatient over year one of Coach Kiffin. Is that true?
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: I am. Why don't we have a natty yet?
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: No, we haven't won a national championship yet?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: That's ridiculous.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Calling games has been much more fun this year.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I would have thought week six we'd at least had
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: some sort of trophy.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, even losing is better.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, having a good offense for an
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: offensive player, so much easier to call a game. Then, oh,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: there goes another inside zone for one yard. You got
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: a top-rated offense. You got a top-rated defense.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: You just lost two games on the road in a
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: tough environment by less than a combined of nine points.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: With a chunk of starters out.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: With a lot of starters out. So, no, it is
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: not disappointing at all. Yeah, we're all going to be
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: disappointed if you end up not making the playoffs. But, look,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: it's– Year one, it's been a lot more exciting.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Hashtag ask the bench. Have you heard the phrase no button?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I was at Disney this weekend and was walking to
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: fill the available space in line, and a woman started
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: yelling that at me for cutting in line.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: You're filling the available space. You're not cutting in line,
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: so you can go pounce in.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: You should have told her, get out my butt.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Get out my butt.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: You don't have to have buttons with ponchos. They got
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: pearl snaps. Hey, now.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: See what I did?
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Well done, sir.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: That would have been a great comeback.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Pearl snaps, lady. Ask the bitch, did you prefer
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: early or late games as a player?
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Late.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Late in college, early in the NFL.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Late always. Always late. Wait, so let's go back to
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the button story.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Okay. So did we confirm you did cut in line?
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: He said he was removing the fill in the gap.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it feels like he added that to, like,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: I think he was cutting in line.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you cut. You cut. Don't cut.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I was just trying to fill the space.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: No, you weren't. I say something if somebody cuts.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, me too.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Loudly. You say no button? Oh, I'll be like, hey,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: that's not how this works. See, there's a line and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: you're in the back of it. Katie looks at me like,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: you can't help yourself. No button.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: No button.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: No button. What does that even mean? Hashtag ask the bench.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Is the top off the Bronco? No, but it needs
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: to be today. Very easy. I can just pop two
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: buttons is all. So I think I'm going to do
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: that on the way home. Hell of an idea.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: This is great weather. I got some friends that.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: That was a bitter yes.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: I got some friends that call this.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: I just wanted that Bronco so bad.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: They call this weather porn right here. I don't know why,
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: but I just heard it a couple years ago, and it's...
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Is that Mr.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Coach Jesse?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: It does sound like something Mr.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Coach Jesse would say.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, boy, there's weather porn out here.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: Or Stallone weather.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Either one.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, I see what you did there. That's a deep
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: cut OTB right there.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: It was from yesterday.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: It was a deep cut, though. Hell yeah. We love you.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: We thank you. Go USA.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Off the bench.
• 45:37
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