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Hour Two | Tommy White Gets the Call, Saints RB Room & Bill Bender · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn, where
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  Speaker 1: the plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: Kine Studios.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in oh TV. Here live from
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  Speaker 2: the Raisin Kine Studio. Jake elandra Tata, all here with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about LSU baseball, well, at least a
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  Speaker 2: former LSU baseball player here in this segment, Tommy Tanks.
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  Speaker 3: Tommy White gets promoted.
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  Speaker 2: To the big leagues, so we're gonna get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to see him there for the Athletics.
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  Speaker 3: We don't really know what city.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna call them, Sacramento, Las Vegas, the artist formerly
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  Speaker 2: known as Oakland.
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  Speaker 3: You know, well they don't play.
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  Speaker 2: In Vegas yet, you know, they kind of just go
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  Speaker 2: by the Athletics at this point. Congratulations to Tommy White.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing him in the big leagues. He
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  Speaker 2: is certainly somebody that all of us LSU fans not
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  Speaker 2: only do we remember, I mean he kind of changed
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  Speaker 2: the game for like youth baseball here, stay with me.
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  Speaker 2: After he played I cannot tell you how many forty
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  Speaker 2: sevens there were in youth baseball and what nobody wearing
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  Speaker 2: forty seven before Tommy White's kind of an ugly number.
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  Speaker 2: Every team had a forty seven. Every team had a
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  Speaker 2: kid that had long hair, Every team had a kid
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  Speaker 2: that had three or four chains on wearing number forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: And that was because of Tommy White and the impact
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  Speaker 2: he had here in Baton Rouge. Now, he obviously had
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  Speaker 2: an incredible college career, but he's really done well this year.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a power hitter, as we know, like throughout
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  Speaker 2: his entire minor league career, in eight hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: professional played appearances, he's hitting two seventy nine, but it
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  Speaker 2: was this year in fifty five games where he hit
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  Speaker 2: three h three showed that he still has the power.
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  Speaker 2: He has only struck out on fourteen percent of his
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  Speaker 2: plate appearances right now. The walks, the walk rate isn't great,
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  Speaker 2: only four point eight percent, but still puts the ball
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  Speaker 2: in play, doesn't have a lot of strikeouts. We know
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  Speaker 2: he makes hard contact, so it's going to be exciting
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  Speaker 2: to see how all of that translates. All the growth
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  Speaker 2: that he's made in the minor leagues this year. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's never had a bad minor league season, but it's
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  Speaker 2: been the best minor league season this year. Again, only
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  Speaker 2: strikes out fourteen percent of the time. With the power
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  Speaker 2: that he has, that is a low strikeout rate. And
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  Speaker 2: I certainly can always root for Tommy White because I
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  Speaker 2: will never forget my man, Tommy White. Right before we
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  Speaker 2: had Baby Harlowe, my man hits a walk off home
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  Speaker 2: run against wake Forest. I tried to get Harlow named
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Tanks Gator Hater, hester it fell through.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't get that done, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Will always remember exactly where I was when that man
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  Speaker 2: hit one of the biggest home runs in LSU baseball history.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to Tommy Tanks.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not even trying to be funny, but the
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  Speaker 4: Athletics actually might be like a perfect place for you
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  Speaker 4: to make the leap from minor league to the Show,
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  Speaker 4: just because they're just not They've lost nine straight. I
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  Speaker 4: know they're just not doing well, and maybe like the
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  Speaker 4: competition part of it, sure, but I think that Tommy
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  Speaker 4: is a competitor and he's incredible and hit so many
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  Speaker 4: home runs FORSU and like you said, he is doing
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  Speaker 4: really well in the minors. Ten home runs and sixty
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  Speaker 4: four RBI in this season. So without trying to be funny,
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  Speaker 4: I actually think that the Athletics are a good place
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  Speaker 4: for him to start his career at and hopefully won't
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  Speaker 4: end it there, but it.
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  Speaker 3: Could be better. They got plenty of young talent.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he might already be the best player on that
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  Speaker 5: team to our point.
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  Speaker 3: Like, well, Nick Kurtz is just down right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on he's on the injured list.
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  Speaker 5: People talk about Tommy White at LSU and obviously the
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  Speaker 5: home runs, but you know, we talked about it at
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  Speaker 5: the beginning of the year when you were looking for
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  Speaker 5: a third baseman. He developed into a really, really good
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  Speaker 5: defensive third basement. Like it was twenty four. He saved
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  Speaker 5: runs for your team that year. Yeah, Like remember in
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  Speaker 5: the postseason when you got hot late in the year, Dude,
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  Speaker 5: Tommy White was making plays and only a handful of
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  Speaker 5: college third basement could make. I mean, yes, Tommy tanks,
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  Speaker 5: he hits the home runs, we get it. He developed
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  Speaker 5: in such a good defensive player. I think he's I
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  Speaker 5: think it's gonna be fine in the major leagues both ways.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the learning curve is gonna be
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  Speaker 5: very very small.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it didn't look it didn't take him too
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  Speaker 3: long to get to the show. I mean no at all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know, like sometimes we'll some of these
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  Speaker 2: former LSU guys get there quick and it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like Cruise is not. He's an outlier, and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think this is further proof US two while issues
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  Speaker 4: a powerhouse in college baseball.
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  Speaker 3: So I am looking forward to seeing what it looks
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  Speaker 3: like for Tommy White.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the a's right now, Like y'all said, it's just
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  Speaker 2: not a good situation.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. They do have young talent.
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  Speaker 2: They've got young talent, but that talent's got to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and they've got to seize that opportunity, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those guys have not. So it gives
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  Speaker 2: Tommy White a great opportunity to go do just that.
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  Speaker 2: And it is another kind of feather in the cap
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  Speaker 2: of Jay Johnson to be able to have another player
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  Speaker 2: caught up to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Hanging out with his boy Gage.
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  Speaker 3: Jump Yeah, Age Jump went through.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean talk about translating to the majors, he's
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  Speaker 4: doing it. So I guess Friday is when he's expected
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  Speaker 4: to make his debut.
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  Speaker 2: Against the Washington because they're on the a couple more
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  Speaker 2: days for the All Star break right now.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't put him in something gross like sixty one
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  Speaker 5: like they did with our guy, Gauge. You did that.
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  Speaker 3: That was awful. He's still wearing sixty one.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, dude, sixty one doesn't look good in any sport,
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  Speaker 5: any position. Camp.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's sixty one.
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  Speaker 5: They don't have him on the roster yet, I guess
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  Speaker 5: because he hadn't played yet.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They also, I don't think the Athletics have announced it
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  Speaker 4: yet either.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Again, like all of this will kind of go down
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  Speaker 2: as you get back, because right now everybody's off for
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  Speaker 2: the All Star break. But I was sitting there and
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at, you know, Gauge Jump and what
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  Speaker 2: Gauge has done so far. I mean, his last time out,
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  Speaker 2: he struck out seven against the White Sox, and so
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  Speaker 2: right now Gauge Jump has a three five one ERA.
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  Speaker 2: He struck out forty eight batters in forty eight and
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  Speaker 2: two thirds innings.
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  Speaker 3: So he is doing just fine. And Gage Jumps.
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  Speaker 2: One of those players that, man, I would have loved
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  Speaker 2: to see him in you know, twenty three or twenty
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  Speaker 2: five with the LSU team. You know, Unfortunately he was
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  Speaker 2: on the team that lost at North Carolina in the
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  Speaker 2: Chapel Hill Regional. That was the only year that we
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  Speaker 2: got And remember he came in relief in that last
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  Speaker 2: game as well to try to shut the door after
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  Speaker 2: our guy Will Helmers had an absolute performance against North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: Dude, I wanted to see him healthy for a full year.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, remember he wasn't when he got in from UCLA.
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  Speaker 5: And late in the year, Jay was like, he jumps
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  Speaker 5: the best picture on our team, Like he.
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  Speaker 3: Would say that. He said that over and over.
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  Speaker 5: Even if he would have been fully healthy to start
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  Speaker 5: the year. Hell, who knows what your final record is?
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  Speaker 5: Do you get a better draw in the postseason? Like
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  Speaker 5: that guy changed everything. He was awesome late in the year.
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  Speaker 5: And Gage jumps an awesome name.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 5: Let's not bury the lead there, kids, jumps awesome name.
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  Speaker 5: If he didn't get a he didn't get a Jordan
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  Speaker 5: sponsorship at some point, the last name jump, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what do we do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this wave of LSU players that right now they're
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  Speaker 2: either in the minor leagues or they're just getting caught
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  Speaker 2: up to the big leagues. And again, like it's in
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  Speaker 2: the moment it's right in front of us. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we do this, but I can't remember a time. And
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  Speaker 2: this is with LSU baseball as historic as it is,
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  Speaker 2: that they've had so many players that are right there
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  Speaker 2: on the verge about to be in the big leagues
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  Speaker 2: and now they've already got plenty of big leaguers for sure,
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  Speaker 2: like even that that number of big leaguers might be
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  Speaker 2: one of the best they've ever had.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like the guys that.
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  Speaker 2: Are on the verge to get and now Tommy White's
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  Speaker 2: in the big leagues. Kate Anderson, I mean, they were
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  Speaker 2: both in the futures.
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  Speaker 4: Game, like I mean the Mariners. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 4: long before Kate Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're you know, where they're at. Their division
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  Speaker 2: is not great, and they're at the top of their division.
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  Speaker 2: They're in a spot where when they call him up,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna want him to be very impactful. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be for something of meaning. It might be it might
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  Speaker 2: be a September call up, and then if they make
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  Speaker 2: the postseason, he's gonna be on the postseason roster. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do better than what he's doing. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: impossible to do better than what he's doing right now.
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  Speaker 3: If he gives up a run, it makes headlines.
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  Speaker 6: At this point, they're like Kate Anderson, he walked a
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  Speaker 6: guys such a good team.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, would we give up two runs and two
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  Speaker 5: games in the finals with those two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, then you're gonna have guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here and as we're playing this out, like,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have other players that like lou Coleman at
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  Speaker 2: some point, like this year, I know he hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: able to to go out there a ton so dealing
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  Speaker 2: with some stuff. Like that's a guy that when he
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  Speaker 2: gets healthy ready to go. His minor league numbers they've
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  Speaker 2: been great, and like that's a guy that we don't
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  Speaker 2: talk a lot about but had a special year obviously
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  Speaker 2: at LSU. I can't again, I can't remember another group
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  Speaker 2: of LSU baseball players that are all getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: go to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of guys just getting into the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: This is about as good as you can hope for
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  Speaker 2: if you're Jay Johnson to recru to to talk about
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  Speaker 2: think about all the guys like we don't even have
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  Speaker 2: conversations about because guys like Kate Anderson, Anthony Jansen, and
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  Speaker 2: Tommy White are dominating the minor leagues, but there's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be plenty of other players that are out there. Like
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  Speaker 2: right now, Ty Floyd is like a name we don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about. Like Ty Floyd's doing well this season. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a three seven five Era's got more strikeouts than
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  Speaker 2: he does innings pitch. So it's about to be a
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  Speaker 2: next wave of players. It's already started, and I'm very
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  Speaker 2: excited to follow that journey and it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: good for Lship Baseball moving forward, as it always is
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  Speaker 2: when you can recruit to guys that are going to
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  Speaker 2: the show.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we will take a break.
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  Speaker 2: We do have our guy Bill Bender joining us in
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes from now, talk a little college football
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  Speaker 2: feel pretty good about it. There are two players that
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  Speaker 2: Devinill was a late round draft choice. He's a good player.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to right now. Look at him, say
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: he's a must keep. So he's got to go out
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: there and have a good camp. And then Rodrick Essima
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: actually finished the year pretty strong, Tate. He kind of
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: put out some really good game film. He had the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Saint's longest run last year. I mean, they just didn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: have a lot of explosive plays in the run game.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: So he's gonna have at least like for these coaches,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: he's gonna have kind of the last memory of success.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a guy I love talking about. I thought
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: it was weird that Denver moved on from him as
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: quick as they did after just one year. I thought
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: he was productive there. You look at the Tennessee game
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: that you're talking about, ninety four yards rushing in a touchdown,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: six point seven a carry. Now the next week it
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: gets in Atlanta when he got a start just sixty
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: three yards on twenty one carries, but he had five
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: catches for forty three yards out of the backfield. That's
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: one hundred yard game right there for him. I like
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: all your guests to may also when you talk short yardage,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: he's an option. He's your biggest back at two hundred
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: and twenty seven pounds. I think with Kamaron and Aitchen,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: you got four backs for two spots. I think they
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: keep four backs probably that's just the guests on my part,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: So meil estimate Miller and Chandler right now with those
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: four I mean, if you're going by what they did
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: for you lately, he might have a leg up on
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: the rest of the guys. Ty Chandler is a guy
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: that' would turn kicks and punts in his career at times.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: You mentioned he's a short yardage guy. I think it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: gona be tough for Kendre because you just can't rely
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: on him. Yeah, Devin Neil, he had an ok year.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Can he take a jump. But I would really like
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: if this team kept Aldric Estume.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and estimate as far as body type, is that
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: bigger back, ty Chandler's more worth running style because he's
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: probably he's probably a two eight, two ten body they
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: have Okay, yeah, yep, but he man, he I love
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the way that guy runs. He runs hard as hell,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and so he can be some of that short yardage
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: yet we're talking about. But yeah, body type. Rodrick Estime
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: certainly would fill in a blank there. Now, we don't
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: know exactly what this new deal is going to look like.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: We know they're finalizing a reworked contract, so the financial
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: deals haven't really been released yet. We'll find out what
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: those look like a little bit later on, but it
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: is good to know he's going to be back on
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: this team and what your running back room is going
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to look like.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Achan is going to have the major role, like we
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: know that, but still now with Alvin Kamara being able
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: to be a secondary piece to kind of pick and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: choose when you put him in the game, he's not
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: going to have to go out there and have the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: wear and tear. Look, he's gonna be thirty one, right,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: so that's ancient and running back years and quarterback years now,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Mahomes is thirty one, that's fine, that's great. You can
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: play for eight more years. In running back terms, we
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: know that's ancient. So I don't know how much lunger
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: he has, but you can utilize his skill set. You
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: can pick and choose, like I said, when you want
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: him to be a receiver out of the backfield, when
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you want him to be a change of pace type weapon,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you're going to have that ability.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Now. I think that's going to serve him.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Much better than it would if he had to be
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the lead back yet again, so exciting to see that news.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think it completely changes your backfield. It gives you
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: another offensive weapon that you know is going to be there.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And now it's going to be about who's the second
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: option behind the those first two options. Who's gonna be
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the other guy that you keep, and also who is
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: going to be probably left out of this roster. It's
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: gonna be some running backs that are talented running backs
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: are gonna be left off this roster with this news
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: as well. So Ak gonna be back in New Orleans
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: for another year. So Alvin Kamara, Cam Jordan both a
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: lot of worry in the all season, but both gonna
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: be New Orleans Saints in this twenty twenty six football season.
• 22:26
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• 22:31
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• 22:34
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• 22:36
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back in OTV. Here live from the Raising Caines Studio.
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  Speaker 2: Very excited to catch up with our next guest. It
• 24:12
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  Speaker 3: Our guy.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Bill Bender of The Sporting News joins us. Now, Bill,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: what's going on?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Brother? How are we doing?
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: Hey, Jacob? I'm doing well, man. How are you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic now. I know, before we get into
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the sports stuff. You're at a Goldie camp, That's what
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: you said. So are we talking lacrosse, hockey, soccer.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming lacrosse.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're out in Maryland at a lacrosse camp.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Maryland. Maryland's a dead giveaway.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: You're right. Yeah.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: We drove here yesterday, so I missed your facts last
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: night because we had to get up early. But uh yeah, no,
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: doing well. He's having fun here. It's supposed to be
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: very very hot today, which means we're getting closer to
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: college football in those August days and two days. You
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: know that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Bill, the hottest I've ever been in
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: my entire life. And look I'm played football in South Louisiana.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I played across the country. I went to a Nike
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: camp when I was a sophomore going into my junior year.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: It was a football camp.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And it was at Kyle Field, but it wasn't on
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: their main field. It was on their practice field at
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: A and M. And it was the old astro turf,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: not like this, like the stuff you have with the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: rubber beads, like the actual old school carpet astro turf.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And it was in like June, late June, maybe early July,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and it was so hot you just saw spots and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: you tried to pick the one in the middle.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, I mean obviously. Yeah, it's one of those
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: things where you just got to make sure you stay hydrated.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think they're going to be off by
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: one or two today, so it shouldn't be too too bad.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: But so it is certainly an enjoyable, enjoyable experience. Grants
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: definitely put in the work and we're having fun with it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That is awesome, man, And you're right, like, when it
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: heats up like this, we do know that college football
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: is right around the corner. And also we know whenever
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: there's media days, we know that kickoff is soon to
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: be the ACC currently going through media days. The SEC
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: is going to be in Tampa next week. So when
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: you look at some of the storylines, you know, involving
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: some of those teams, and we could start really with
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the ACC. And I say that because obviously, you know
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: we're here in Baton Rouge and LSU kicks off with Clemson,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: who has always been over the last decade kind of
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the standard of the ACC.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: But I don't think that's the case any longer. No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: I think you know, obviously Miami coming off what they've
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: been able to do last year, and they were first day.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Brought them out yesterday with Terry and Mensa, their quarterback,
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: who I'm really excited about because not only did he
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: play at Tulane and do well, he went to Duke
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: and did well and he has a high touchdown the
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: interception ratio. I think they are the top dog now.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: And Florida State we're looking at like wondering, Okay, are
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: they gonna have a winning season?
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: You know? And then Clemson and and you get into
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: sleepers like SMU and Louisville. But it is an interesting
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: conference coming off a really good year and I think
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Jim Phillips has done a great job negotiating all that
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: with that conference.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: It is surprising to see Clemson kind of where they're
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: at now. I do think that Lshu's got to be careful,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: And we talked about this the other day on air.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of a trap game for LSU
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: because nobody's talking about that one as much as they
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: talked about it last year. Everybody's talking about Week three
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: when you go to Ole, miss, which I know, I
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: understand why those are all the storylines. But you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Clemson is a team that certainly is going to have
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: enough Jimmy's and Joe's to be able to go out
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: there and beat you. But for Clemson and Dabo, Sweeney like,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I don't like, I don't ever hear any of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: pressure surrounding Dabo that we do from other places.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: We know pressure really well down here in Baton Rouge.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You've had a national championship coach fired after a year
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and a half past that. You've had Brian Kelly come
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: in from Notre Dame and they paid him a lot
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: of money to not be the coach at l SHIT,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: So we know what it looks like feels like, sounds like,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: but I don't ever really hear that surrounding Clemson. But
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: maybe it's because we're not in that scene. Maybe because
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: we're not in the ACC boots on the ground, that
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: type situation. Bill you cover this obviously from every angle.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Is there a little bit of heat on Dabos Sweeney
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't go out there and get back to
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the Coege football playoff?
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: I think there was a little bit last year just
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: because of the amount of talent that they had that
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: went into the NFL draft yacope, I mean, and they
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: went seven and six with it. And part of it
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: for me, and I've stuck on this for the last
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: five or six years, is you know, they did have
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: a great quarterback run from Deshon Taja Boyd to DeShawn
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Trevor Lawrence and now you know they haven't had that
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: unbelievable quarterback kid club Nick had his ups and downs.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Obviously it was drafted, but you know where's that where's
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: the receiver position? And their offense has gone through some
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: bumps from the high powered teams that ran through Alabama.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: So I think that's what I'm looking at this year
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: as far as his job status. I mean, I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Dabo would go leave Clemson on his own terms, knowing
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: that he won two national titles there and has done
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: more for that program than any other coach. But another
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: seven and six season, it could get loud.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Catch it up with. I got Bill Bender of the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Sporting News here on O t B.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the SEC and let's get
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: to SEC Media Day.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: It's going to be in Tampa coming up.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Excited to get down there and look at all the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: different storylines that are going on as always, But for
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you from somebody that you know, you covered the SEC,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: but you also you cover the Big Ten. You live
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: in Ohio, So for you, what storyline is most intriguing
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: to you because you're a little bit outside of the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: SEC footprint.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I would think in the SEC, it's just how
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: when you have half of your league that is in
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: playoff contention and not enough spots for everybody? What's that?
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: It's not so much Georgia and Texas. I think they're
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: the lead storylines obvious, but that clump of teams from
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: old Miss Oklahoma, Texas A and m LSU Alabama and
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: even Tennessee and Vanderbilt. To some extent. I mean they're
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: they're capable teams, so which ones to get in? Obviously
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: the lead story lines Lane playing at LSU and how
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: quickly is this going to happen. I saw Sam Levitz
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: not coming to SEC media days. That's interesting to me
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: because it would have been an opportunity to tell, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: he's a grinder, he's your type of quarterback. We both
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: like that kind of guy. He runs, takes hits, I
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: can throw the ball down the field, and I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: he's the most interesting quarterback in the SEC. As a result, yeah, I.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Was a little bit surprised that he wasn't the choice
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to go to media day, and I was hoping to,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of had the opportunity to have him
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: go through the car wash and listen to some of
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: his answers. They decided to go two linebackers in trade
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: as Green the tied end. There's gonna be a lot
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: of quarterbacks though obviously they're at SEC media Day, and.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Bill I said this the other I didn't put a
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: lot of thought into it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't, you know, lay everything out and try to
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: figure out what's what and who's who. Just off the
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: top of my mind. We were talking about who is
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the most important player to his team in the country,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and very easily, I said Trinidad Chambliss at Old Miss,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like they are going to go as far
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: as Trinidad can take them. If he gets nicked, if
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: he gets hurt, if something doesn't work out, that's a
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: completely different football team. I said the story like I
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: covered the sugar ball against Georgia.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I was on the sideline for that game.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: He was doing things that I don't think anybody else
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: could have done in that setting in that day, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: he did those things.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: They won that game.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: If I do the same question to you, would Trinidad
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Chambliss be the answer or would it be somebody else
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: in the sec the most important player in his team.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Well, Trinidad's probably a really good answer. And I think
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: on some level, Gunner stocked in at Georgia. You know
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: what he has been able to do with that team,
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: and I think he's a little bit underrated in what
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: he can do. Both of those two quarterbacks, by the way,
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: put on a show in their bowl game last year,
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: their playoff game. Yeah, but Trinidad is, like you said,
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: they're going to go as far as they take. He
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: takes them much like last year, and Pete Golding's not
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: doing it on the fly this time. And I'm not
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: saying he didn't do a good job. I'm just saying
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: last year it was probably going one hundred miles an
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: hour and you just go out and play. Now you've
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: had a full year to prep for everything, and you
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: know at all points to September nineteenth, when they play LSU.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: That's going to be a turning point for both, probably
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: more so for All Miss because they I think they
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: need to win that game a little bit more.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, O man, that is going to
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: be one for the ages.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I just I'm trying to navigate the path to the
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: broadcast booth because at Old Miss you kind of go
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: right through the crowd, and you know me, I'm going
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to have the brightest purple polo on I possibly can
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: have as I make my way to the broadcast booth.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes for everybody involved there. I'm
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: actually looking forward to that a lot.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Bill.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I know that I believe it was earlier this month
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you kind of put out what the playoffs going to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: look like as we stand right now, and if I'm
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: not mistaken. You had four four or five SEC teams
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: in your playoffs.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Four we have four SEC, four Big Ten. And what
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: throws that off is is every year Notre Dame makes
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: the playoffs, it means the SEC or the Big ten's
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: not gonna get five, right, I mean, that's just how
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: and that's what we're talking about with that clump of teams.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: So we have Ole, miss Oklahoma, Georgia, and Texas, which
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: I think will be when SEC media Day hits the
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: preseason number one and number two in either order. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: then you get into Alabama LSU. You know those type
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: teams that can they be in that plump Texas A
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: and might probably talked about the least somehow, and they've
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: had a pretty talented team coming back around Marcel Reed.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do. It's gonna be interesting to see how
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: far they can go.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: They lost some weapons, they've done some stuff through high
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: school recruiting in the portal, but they do have their
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: quarterback coming back, which in today's Coege football just feels
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: like that never happens. But also know, as I'm looking
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: at the playoff prediction right now, you still are pretty
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  Speaker 2: high on the Indiana Hoosiers.
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  Speaker 3: The defending national champion.
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  Speaker 7: I am just because I mean I've doubted them long enough,
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  Speaker 7: I was one of those guys that was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 7: are they gonna win at Tinnick? Are they gonna win
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  Speaker 7: at Oregon? Are they gonna beat Ohio State? And they
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  Speaker 7: did all of those things, and then the amount of
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: talent they have coming back from last year's team, combined
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  Speaker 7: with the transfers they brought in, like Nick marsh and
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  Speaker 7: I think the key is Josh Hoover, a guy that
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  Speaker 7: you know, he obviously has had. I think coming in
• 34:46
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• 34:49
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  Speaker 7: of year, especially though if he cuts down the interceptions
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  Speaker 7: and sees that passer efficiency BOMP. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 7: gonna miss much of I just think they're going to
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: be in contention for Big Ten in playoffs and perhaps
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  Speaker 7: national title as long as Kurt Signetti is going to
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  Speaker 7: be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to go against Signetti after what he did
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• 35:18
  Speaker 2: there with you. So you have Indiana, you have Ohio State,
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• 35:32
  Speaker 2: out of the Big Ten means no Michigan out of
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten. What's going on right now with that program?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Obviously you're bringing in a new head coach. It's not
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: been a great offseason. You have to bring in a
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: new head coach because of everything that went down. There's
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are down right now on
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  Speaker 3: What's the latest out of Van Arbor.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I would think that, you know, with with Bryce Underwood,
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  Speaker 7: it comes down to development. Does he become that five
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: star quarterback that they've had this year, you know, with
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Kyle Whittingham, with Jason Back who did a great job
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: with Devin Dan Pierre. I think part of it is
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: I mean, Michigan was in the news again this week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: that scandal, Yeah, the signs feeling and everything that went
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  Speaker 7: on in the last five years. It's almost like a
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  Speaker 7: him and who if Ward gets fired and they bring
• 36:31
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• 36:32
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• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Catch it up with They got Bill Bender of the
• 36:50
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• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to ask you then, because we've talked about Michigan, we've
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: talked about some of the teams that have a lot
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: of pressure. We've talked about Clemson kind of in that scenario.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So I'll give it to you. Let's go full totality
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: of every team, every league, every conference who has that
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: pressure pack season that's going to be the most pressure
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: if you don't win.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: We could see a situation like an LSU.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Like where you fire Brian Kelly in the middle of
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the year because it wasn't going the way that you
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: thought it was going to go. Do you have a
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: program that could fall into that same situation this year.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm not saying they're going to fire him, but
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: there I would say there's a lot of pressure on
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: Texas this year just because Texas is been in the
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: final four, so to speak, the semi finals two of
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: the last three years. You could have made an argument
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: they should have been in last year. They do have Arch.
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: It's another year with Arch Manning. They do have a
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: loaded definitely at the skill positions, They're very loaded. Worked
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: the portal well. But I think when you have that
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: kind of roster and you've seen what A and M's
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: done and you've seen what Texas Tech has done, I
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: think it does put some side pressure on Startesian if
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: they weren't to Winmber last year and he just spelled
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: this quickly. There were some NFL rumors with Stark going around,
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: and you know, I could see that happening if if
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: it goes awry for them, you know, And I think
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: in terms of the pressure packed for real Florida State,
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: they have to be better under Mike Norbel this year.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: He is the number one hot seat coach going into
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: the season.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a good call. There's no doubt that's
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: too proud of a program. To continue on down that
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: same road that they've been going down. Bill, you're the man.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 38:30
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  Speaker 7: Hey, anytime, Jacob. Thanks for fitting me in and I'll
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it absolutely.
• 38:43
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• 38:49
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• 38:57
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• 39:00
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  Speaker 2: so we were talking about playoff predictions. We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's given and they're going to be wrong. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: But there's two SEC teams that are in almost every
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  Speaker 2: single playoff prediction that I'm a little bit surprised with
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  Speaker 2: how much people are thinking of them currently right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's Ole miss and it's also Oklahoma. Those two teams. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm a little bit higher on Oklahoma than most,
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  Speaker 2: but I am surprised how many people are putting them right.
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  Speaker 3: I guess not to say those teams can't make.
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  Speaker 2: It, but I am surprised with almost everybody you look
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  Speaker 2: at Sporting News, ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Those two SEC teams are in almost everybody's playoff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm generally surprised at how much, or I guess, how
• 43:25
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that like they're gonna be awful.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that at all.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just like.
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  Speaker 4: Surprised by how much nobody's really questioning Pete Golding and
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  Speaker 4: Trinidad Chambliss and the entire staff at all. Like they
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  Speaker 4: just became the heroes in that story, which I get it,
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  Speaker 4: but I feel like they're kind of getting a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a free pass here.
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  Speaker 5: They are absolutely are. I think you nailed that, And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean Lane getting to play the villain. Everybody, I
• 44:16
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  Speaker 4: I get it, But like Charlie Weis, Junior is not there.
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin's not there. I feel like correct me if
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong. That's kind of who made Trinidad Chamblet. It's
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: not Pete Golding.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: But that's the part that And I think Pete Golding's
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• 44:37
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he is, I think he.
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  Speaker 2: I've sat down and talked football with him before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but that's on the other side of the football.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they lost their their middle linebacker, they lost their
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: best edge rusher.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Those are gonna be hard. They've done some things in
• 44:48
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  Speaker 3: We just don't.
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  Speaker 2: So the offensive staff not being there and then not
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  Speaker 2: really being talked about to your point, Laundre is probably
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  Speaker 2: the biggest surprise for me as well. Yeah, you've got
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback back, you got your running back back. The
• 45:05
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  Speaker 2: to look a little bit different. You're counting on your
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: second tight end to elevate to your first tight end.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: We'll see if that can happen. Your offensive line looks
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: a lot different as well. There's a lot of question
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: marks that typically get asked about teams losing that much
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: that nobody's really asking about Old Miss.
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  Speaker 5: Right and people are people are blindly trusting Trinidad and
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: like the comment you hear from Old Miss fans, Oh well,
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  Speaker 5: hell we did in the playoffs without Laye Kiffin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: who is your play coler? Where's he at right now?
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: Like that's that matters. Five of their six receivers from
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: a year ago that led them in receiving yards are gone.
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  Speaker 5: The only one that's back was a freshman a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: He's a solid player. You lost both of your starting tackles.
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  Speaker 5: You lost Devin Harper, who was going to push for
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: his starting job this year. I think trinidaun at Kewon
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  Speaker 5: Lacy that might be the best quarterback running back combo
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  Speaker 5: in the conference, But I really worry about what's around him. Yeah,
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: you got Centrian Perkins back on defense, but you lost
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: a lot on defense. And we haven't seen Pete Golden
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  Speaker 5: go into the year as the starter with all the
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  Speaker 5: ear as the coach, with all the pressure around him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if he's gonna handle it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I actually don't think it's going to go well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And this isn't a wise and LSU in the conversation.
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