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Hour Three | Saints Talk with Nick Underhill, Olsen Stays, NDSU Joins Mountain West & Ask the Bench · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Say. Hester and Hester got it five out a pat from.
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Speaker 1: Carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other
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Speaker 1: on the air were there's pract control live from the
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Speaker 1: Raising Caine Studio.
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Speaker 3: It's off the Bench.
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Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in our number three Tuesday edition.
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Speaker 4: Here on off the Bench Tyler Sharp and Ladra villar
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Speaker 4: Rel Braxton Risuta. We've been trying to find a caffeine
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Speaker 4: free drinks for Laundra to drink and haven't found any
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Speaker 4: winter so far.
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Speaker 5: But I'll put I'm in the chat if you know us.
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Speaker 4: Apparently that's what she's gonna give up for lant I
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Speaker 4: don't participate in lant one.
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Speaker 5: I'm not Catholic.
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Speaker 4: Even if I was, though, I don't think I'd be
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Speaker 4: able to survive. So look, I'm a man that knows
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Speaker 4: my limitations. Let's go to the phone lines right now.
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Speaker 4: Our guy Nick Underhill of New Orleans and Dot Football
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Speaker 4: joins us. Right now, Nick, how are you this morning?
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Speaker 2: Doing great?
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Speaker 5: How you doing doing good? Uh?
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Speaker 4: Make you taking in any Marty girl out there in
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Speaker 4: the city today?
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Speaker 5: What you got?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I live like two blocks off Saint Charles so it's
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Speaker 2: kind of kind of not optional, like you're you're in it,
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Speaker 2: even if you don't want to be in it, like
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Speaker 2: they're bringing it to your house. But you ever, we're
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Speaker 2: out there, man, we're out there having a good time.
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Speaker 2: It's great to see the city's the weather has been
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Speaker 2: great this year. It's been it's been a great time.
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Speaker 5: Did you see Lane Kivin on Indimian Saturday?
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Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, And like everything's running on time this
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Speaker 2: year too, on top of that, so like that's a
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Speaker 2: major win. Like normally, normally these things are like two
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Speaker 2: and a half hours behind when they're supposed to start.
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Speaker 2: Like it seems like everything's running on time to clean up,
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Speaker 2: spend crazy good. So like New Orleans is on top
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Speaker 2: of things this year. But as far as Lane goes, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and then I've seen the video of like everybody coming
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Speaker 2: up to them to take pictures. I don't know that
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen someone regretted decision in real time the
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Speaker 2: same way that looks like in that in that video.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, I think it's awesome he's out there
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Speaker 2: and like I feel like the way he handled I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he saw the float where they were
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Speaker 2: kind of you know, comming him a little bit fun
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Speaker 2: and Gale Benson a little bit like him treating it
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Speaker 2: as a joke just kind of shows that he kind of,
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Speaker 2: you know, gets it, and even if he doesn't, he's
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Speaker 2: smart enough to pretend like it doesn't bother him. So
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Speaker 2: it just seems like Lane's kind of hitting the right
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Speaker 2: notes right now too, So you know, that's a big
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Speaker 2: part of being there, Like when people talk about and
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, like these are kind of the little
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Speaker 2: things beyond like just the coaching and winning that you've
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Speaker 2: kind of got to just be cool with and roll with.
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Speaker 2: And him getting that early on even again, like if
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Speaker 2: he's just it's smart enough to know that that's the
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Speaker 2: right pr play, that's good because I don't feel like
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Speaker 2: Brian Kelly got that right away at all. He tried
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Speaker 2: and it just came off his face. Like Lane's kind
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Speaker 2: of you know, he's sit in the right moves like
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Speaker 2: Kyler shuck. You've seen him at all the right moves
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Speaker 2: over and over and over. Like that stuff ends up
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Speaker 2: mattering in the end, you know. Like I'm on a
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Speaker 2: rank here about Marty drawn out relate some people like
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Speaker 2: I feel like how like you know, like Dyne Williamson
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Speaker 2: is someone who never really has felt like our guy.
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Speaker 2: Like he's never been out there. He's never been You
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Speaker 2: don't see him at prade, you don't see him wearing
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Speaker 2: like a Saints jersey anywhere. Like just those little things
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Speaker 2: when people want to start calling you bat and you
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Speaker 2: you know it's a guy from Chicago like that, don't
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Speaker 2: get Louisiana behind you. I'm rallying for But when you're
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Speaker 2: not that guy, like, they aren't going to show up
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Speaker 2: for you the same way. So like those little things matter, man,
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Speaker 2: Like you can just just show up and try to
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Speaker 2: be part of the community and you're gonna have built
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Speaker 2: some loyalty forever. So I think I think Layne is
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Speaker 2: smart to recognize that right away.
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Speaker 5: All right, nixt think about New Orleans.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, New Orleans Saints got a draft coming up here
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Speaker 4: in April, and the name Jeremiah Love.
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Speaker 5: I keep seeing it pop up.
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Speaker 4: And I keep seeing people get into heated debates over
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Speaker 4: this name. Some people like it, some people hate it.
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Speaker 4: In your opinion, how serious of an option is that
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Speaker 4: for the Saints in realm.
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Speaker 2: One, Yeah, I think it's a It's a real option.
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Speaker 2: I'm running in my computer right now to get you
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Speaker 2: some spreadsheet because I got some numbers that I want
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Speaker 2: to uh that I want to rattle off here. But
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Speaker 2: I think it's a real option. I think I think he's,
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Speaker 2: you know, in this draft, in this class with that player.
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Speaker 2: Like I think the thing that people do that drives
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Speaker 2: me crazy when when they have these conversations is that
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Speaker 2: they never kind of equate it with what's actually happening.
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Speaker 2: They just have these hard and fast roles like a
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Speaker 2: lot would never take a running back in the top ten. Cool,
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Speaker 2: Like I generally agree with that too, But in a
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Speaker 2: draft where there's really no quarterbacks besides the one, the
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Speaker 2: offensive tackles aren't that great. The best pass rusher as
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Speaker 2: Will Campbell's arms, like, you aren't going to have like
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Speaker 2: necessarily a ton of guys pushing other people down. So
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Speaker 2: this is a week top ten draft, so I think
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Speaker 2: you kind of gotta gotta take that into consideration. And
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Speaker 2: then when you look at Jeremiah Love, I think he's
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Speaker 2: just the uh old. I'm looking this up real quick,
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Speaker 2: But I think when you talk about Jeremiah Love like
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Speaker 2: he's a special player, like his numbers, like, you start
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Speaker 2: doing these comparisons to say Kwan to give to uh
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Speaker 2: bjarn to everybody else that that that you know, you
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Speaker 2: look at like the numbers that are just stacked them
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Speaker 2: up incredibly in his favor, and you start bringing it
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Speaker 2: down by run type, vers top twenty five opponents, all
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Speaker 2: these things, Like his numbers stand well above everybody else.
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Speaker 2: The average is eight yards of carry on outside one
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Speaker 2: runs like those are or numbers that translate to the NFL,
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Speaker 2: like you're just hitting the crease and you're going and
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Speaker 2: obviously you know the competition level is a little bit different.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think that you can. I don't think
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Speaker 2: that you can just dismiss him in that role. Like
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Speaker 2: I think he's a special player. And again, like if
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Speaker 2: you're telling me that that you can get a pass
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Speaker 2: rusher in the positional value is better there and he's
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Speaker 2: graded equally to Jeremiah Love, I'm taking that ever least
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Speaker 2: single time. But if you're telling me that it's a
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Speaker 2: little bit different, you know, I'm looking at the running
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Speaker 2: back and I got to look at the special player
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Speaker 2: and like he does everything, Like all right, I got
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Speaker 2: it right here, Like Jeremiah Love, is it supposed to
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Speaker 2: run rate was seventeen percent. Djon Robinson's was sixteen percent,
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Speaker 2: Ashton Jensen's was sixteen, Barkley was sixteen, Gibbs was sixteen percent.
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Speaker 2: So you're ahead of all these guys there yards before
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Speaker 2: contact versus after contact. Saque was pops two before contact.
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Speaker 2: Love is second at two point oh five. After contact,
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Speaker 2: Love is at four point three. That's that's the best
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Speaker 2: among that whole group. Inside zone runs, he's the best
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Speaker 2: one on those six point nine seven yards per carry
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Speaker 2: out of the whole group talking about Jeremiah Love, gen
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Speaker 2: T Dejon, Jamior Gibs, and Taekuon Barkley. Outside zone runs,
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Speaker 2: he's top of that list too. Power runs, he's a
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Speaker 2: little he's thirty on the list. The counter runs, he's
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Speaker 2: he's stirted on the list again, Like he just go
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Speaker 2: down and you can go through all these and he's
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Speaker 2: better than people that are, you know, the the top
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Speaker 2: twelve picks in the NFL drafts, and the numbers just
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Speaker 2: stack up so favorably on all of them, and then
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Speaker 2: you know, I think the most impressive thing about him
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Speaker 2: is is that against loaded boxes, he averaged almost six
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Speaker 2: yards of carry. Like these numbers are insane, and like
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Speaker 2: nobody else in this group compares to a lot of them.
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Speaker 2: I think he's genuinely special. And as you go through this,
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Speaker 2: so I'm gonna write something on our side, like if
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Speaker 2: you go through this, like you can start to see
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Speaker 2: where the GENK case deterior rates as you get like
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Speaker 2: more on like a molecular level of breaking this down,
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Speaker 2: and you see where a lot of kind of himself.
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Speaker 2: I think, I think he's different. I would not recall
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Speaker 2: him picking him back.
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Speaker 4: I hear a lot of people say, like the pushback
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Speaker 4: of drafting to Jeremiah Love that highest, Yeah, we like
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Speaker 4: the player if he's the final piece for the Saints.
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Speaker 4: And then they go on to say, yo, you know
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Speaker 4: you need this this and that's like in your opinion,
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Speaker 4: not just to Jeremiah Love, like running back in general
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Speaker 4: for you, how high up is that on the priority list?
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Speaker 2: I think it's up on the power you list. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: look I think you do got to have all that.
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Speaker 2: Like all those things are true. But like if you're
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Speaker 2: telling me that you can't go in the free agency
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Speaker 2: and say, hey, look like we want to add too
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Speaker 2: interior offensive lineman, spend a lot of money on them
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Speaker 2: so that we can go draft Jeremiah Love. I don't
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Speaker 2: think it's not hard to do. I don't understand why
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Speaker 2: it's always talked about in a way where it's like
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Speaker 2: mission impossible to do it and you just got to
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Speaker 2: have the full scale plan. But like, I think this
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Speaker 2: is always a little bit disingenuous too, because anything you're drafting,
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Speaker 2: if you aren't building the right structure on him, you're
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Speaker 2: wasting that player, Like Miles Garrett's being wasted in Cleveland, right,
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Speaker 2: But nobody's like don't draft a pass rusher because he
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Speaker 2: doesn't change your fortunes immediately. You obviously always have to
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Speaker 2: build a good team now, Like, yeah, the different perier
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Speaker 2: is that the positional values lower, like the argument for it,
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Speaker 2: And I think it's especially true like when you're in
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Speaker 2: a different cap situation too, Like positional value matters a
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Speaker 2: ton in that instance, because like if you're the Saints
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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, let's chuse twenty eighteen. It's a real example,
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Speaker 2: Like if you're the Saints in twenty eighteen, if you're
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Speaker 2: up against the cap, you don't have the money to
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Speaker 2: go out to really sign a difference maker or pass rusher.
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Speaker 2: You got to kind of try to do something to
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Speaker 2: get Marcus Stavenport because it's going to change your fortunes,
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Speaker 2: and you have no other way to acquire that player,
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Speaker 2: and you don't have the cap space to go out
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Speaker 2: and get it. So you've got to try to do
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Speaker 2: these things so they become a greater consideration. But if
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Speaker 2: you're the Saints and you have a rookie quarterback in
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Speaker 2: your cap, you have the dead money this year, you're
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Speaker 2: a little iffy on the cap this year. But if
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Speaker 2: you actually know all the cap works like they're in
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Speaker 2: the clear next year, nobody's gonna be able to say
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Speaker 2: they aren't the clear because the numbers are going to
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Speaker 2: be incredibly obvious. Like, I think you have a little
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Speaker 2: bit more wig over them because you have five years
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Speaker 2: from now really until that first bloated cap number hits
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Speaker 2: on shuck if you sign them to an expection because
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Speaker 2: of the way you can structure that contract. So like
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Speaker 2: the idea to me that that like positional value, you
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Speaker 2: should drive conversation here. No, Like I think the Saints
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Speaker 2: are in a situation where where just the quality of
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Speaker 2: the player should be at the forefront of it, because
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Speaker 2: you have the financial wiggle room over the next five
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Speaker 2: years to kind of construct it however you want. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, I just think there's a lot that goes
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Speaker 2: into it, and I think every situation is unique. Again,
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Speaker 2: Like if you're telling me Ruben Bain Junior is grated
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Speaker 2: exactly the same as Jeremiah Love, I'm taking Ruben Bain.
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Speaker 2: But if you're telling me that Jeremiah Love is higher
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Speaker 2: and Bain's below, I'm literally drafting Bpa because I just
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Speaker 2: don't think like I think when you're in a rebuilding,
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Speaker 2: you have pass space, which is thinks they're going to have,
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Speaker 2: Like just getting the best players on your team is
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Speaker 2: this thing that's going to get into the next level.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to be well, we got good value
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Speaker 2: on a pass rusher and good value on a running back. Like, no,
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Speaker 2: go go buy the pass rusher if you think he's better,
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Speaker 2: and draft the running back if you think he's better.
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Speaker 2: And who cares. Like you got five years to kind
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Speaker 2: of get everything into place and be ready, But like
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Speaker 2: right now, you just need to be building a team
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Speaker 2: to take advantage of this this rookie quarterback. And the
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Speaker 2: best way to do that is just to build the
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Speaker 2: best team.
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Speaker 3: Mc roll.
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Speaker 4: Those that football our guest right now, Nick, If they do,
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Speaker 4: in fact go Jeremiah Love round one.
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Speaker 5: How do you think the rest of the draft falls
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Speaker 5: were the Saints?
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Speaker 4: I mean everyone everyone wants to talk receiver, they want
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Speaker 4: to talk pass rusher, Like, where do you think it
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Speaker 4: falls after Jeremiah Love?
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Speaker 5: If they do go that way, I.
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Speaker 2: Think it's a good draft, like for those two two
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Speaker 2: like those two positions specifically, Like I think it's kind
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Speaker 2: of deep on on pass rushers, Like I think second
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Speaker 2: third round, like the Illinois guys will probably be there.
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Speaker 2: There's a tennesseee pass rushers that will probably be there.
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Speaker 2: Both those guys are pretty good, you know, they got
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Speaker 2: from Millais. I think I had like eleven and a
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Speaker 2: half stacks last year, eleven stacks like and he's probably
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Speaker 2: around there. Got to show you can do a little
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Speaker 2: bit more in the run game. But like I think
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Speaker 2: you can hit. I think you can hit on wide
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Speaker 2: receiver and as rusher in rounds two and three and
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Speaker 2: get guys that can that can help, you know, and
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Speaker 2: also like probably hear the end of the first round,
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Speaker 2: like if if you really wanted to get a difference maker,
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Speaker 2: like the uh the other Miami pass Rusher is probably
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Speaker 2: gonna be available mess with Orf like probably probably in
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Speaker 2: the twenties. Like as things look right now, I won't
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Speaker 2: be surprised if he actually gets moved up a little
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Speaker 2: bit if this process goes along. But they guys there
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Speaker 2: that I think you can go get, like Chris bella
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Speaker 2: wide receiver coming up to ACL like he could dip
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Speaker 2: a little bit and he already has built in chemistry
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Speaker 2: with with Shock. Obviously they were both at Louisville and
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I think he averaged like almost eight
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Speaker 2: yards after the catch per reception like that. That's something
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Speaker 2: they badly need in this offense. Like Surrat from uh
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Speaker 2: Indiana's going to be there. You know, there's a ton
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Speaker 2: of guys that I think you can get it either
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Speaker 2: one of those positions that can probably help. Obviously, you know,
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Speaker 2: Jordan Tyson and Makaya Lemon and Karnil State are like
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Speaker 2: way better than the rest of the group, and they're
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Speaker 2: gonna probably be top ten, top twelve pix. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I think you wait a little bit, you can get
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Speaker 2: a difference maker. It's some of those spots. So however
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Speaker 2: you kind of want to do it, I think just
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Speaker 2: think fit in a really good spot. Like, I think
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Speaker 2: they can get somebody at eight to help their offense.
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Speaker 2: Look if if if a lot, say Taylor goes like
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Speaker 2: and you told me they took Blaine, Like, I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: hate that pick at all. Like, I think that would
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Speaker 2: be a good pick too. Caleb Downs would be a
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Speaker 2: good pick there, you know, David Bailey, Ruben Baying, Like
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of stuff they can do. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: if they go running back at eight, I still think
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Speaker 2: they can check off those other things, probably grab a
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Speaker 2: garden round four. Like, there's just so many needs good
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Speaker 2: that if you just start drafting the best players at
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Speaker 2: every spot, the guys that you think are actually the
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Speaker 2: best players, instead of chasing we got to get this,
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Speaker 2: we gotta get this. I don't think they can screw up.
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Speaker 2: Like I think your odds of hitting on your picks
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Speaker 2: like go way up if you aren't chasing that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Like every single time we talk about one of these
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Speaker 2: guys and it's like, ah, like this pick didn't work,
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Speaker 2: Trevor Penning, they felt like they had to go get
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Speaker 2: a tackle. The squad has been a little bit ify
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Speaker 2: with the health and you know everything overall, I still
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Speaker 2: am very high on his potential, but like they backed
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Speaker 2: themselves from the corner where it was like they have
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Speaker 2: to take a tackle whether it's the third best one
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Speaker 2: available or the fourth best one available, Like andres Peek
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Speaker 2: kind of fell into that box a little bit. Like
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Speaker 2: every single time Sheldon Rankins was like they got to
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Speaker 2: get the interior pass rusher, they got to every single time,
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Speaker 2: like they chase that like that, that's where the mistakes
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Speaker 2: end up getting made. So if they really do DPA,
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Speaker 2: like I feel like they're in a way better situation.
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Speaker 5: Nick, you got a couple of big time veterans on
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Speaker 5: this team. Who's uh.
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Speaker 4: The Saints have to make a decision on their future.
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Speaker 4: And of course I'm talking Cam Jordan and to Mario Davis.
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Speaker 4: Where do you think things stand with them? I mean,
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Speaker 4: I imagine the Saints and Saints fans would love to
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Speaker 4: have both of them back, But where do things kind
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Speaker 4: of stand right now?
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Speaker 2: If I had to make a production prediction today, I
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Speaker 2: would predict Cam back to Mario the Mario leaves, and
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Speaker 2: I think they want both of them back. I just
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Speaker 2: think they want both of them back at a specific price.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I think to Mario is somebody who
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Speaker 2: is incredibly intentional with with his words and what he says,
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Speaker 2: like his postgame press conferences or pre playing sermons. A
14:54
Speaker 2: lot of times like they'll come them with his talking
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Speaker 2: points for his weekly media session that that he's you know,
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Speaker 2: saying for well, yeah, he wants fansy here because it's
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Speaker 2: intended for everybody in the building to hear it. And
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Speaker 2: you can you can just tell he prepares and he
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Speaker 2: thinks about everything, and he's thoughtful. So when he's out
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Speaker 2: there talking about you know, the business things to do
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Speaker 2: a line and you know he's looking at his options
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Speaker 2: and his door is open. I thank him at his word.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he just says those things. And every
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Speaker 2: other time this put track is aspiring, like there wasn't
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Speaker 2: that stuff he wasn't going on, you know, Ay Adams
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Speaker 2: Show and doing these press scores, and you know, I
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Speaker 2: think it's all very intentional. I don't think the doors
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Speaker 2: closed on him coming back. I think he'd be open
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Speaker 2: to coming back. But I do think that you know,
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Speaker 2: he's looking for just that that right combination of situation,
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Speaker 2: playing time, coach, money, opportunity. And I also think, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's very aware that he's you know, in the backside
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Speaker 2: of his thirties, he's stacked up a lot of accolades
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Speaker 2: and he's probably right on that touch to getting into
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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame and another all Proud would probably
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Speaker 2: do it. And you know, if you're playing for you know,
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Speaker 2: I let the Rams. Like, if you're playing for the
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Speaker 2: Rams and you're on Monday Night football, Sunday night football,
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Speaker 2: you're in the playoffs, Chris palins Worth saying your name
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Speaker 4: Well, guys, Lane Kiffin wins again because it was reported
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Speaker 4: on Friday, reports its surface that safety's coach Jake Olsen
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Speaker 4: would leave LSU to become the safety's coach with the
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Speaker 4: Washington Commanders. Well, yesterday afternoon, Pete Nacos of one three
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Speaker 4: reported that Olson will remain with the Tigers on the
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Speaker 4: coaching staff.
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Speaker 5: Again.
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Speaker 4: It's just another win for Lane Kiff. I mean, think
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Speaker 4: about it. Shortly after Kiffin got this job. I mean
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Speaker 4: it was just a few days before that early signing period.
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Speaker 4: And remember all the talk was Labar Brown, Richard Anderson.
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Speaker 4: Are they going to sign in the early signing period
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Speaker 4: or are they going to wait? The reason they were
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Speaker 4: considering waiting was because the status of Blake Baker was
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Speaker 4: up in the area it interviewed for the two lane
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Speaker 4: head coaching job. Everyone here really expected Blake Baker to
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Speaker 4: take that job. Well, at the last second, Lane Kiffin
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Speaker 4: convinced him one way or the other to stay here.
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Speaker 4: In Ben rude. So Blake Baker back as LSU defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 4: That means that Corey Raymond stays. That means that Jake Olsen,
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Speaker 4: who came with Blake Baker from Missouri, is over here.
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Speaker 4: I mean, basically, your entire defensive staff stayed outside of
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Speaker 4: your D line coach because Blake Baker did not take
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Speaker 4: that two lane job, and he goes far beyond the
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Speaker 4: coaching staff. Lane Kiffin said at his press conference a
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Speaker 4: few weeks ago recapping the entire signing class, whether it
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Speaker 4: was the transfer portal to high school players back in
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Speaker 4: you know, about three weeks ago that he was asked
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Speaker 4: the question, why did you feel the need to follow
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Speaker 4: Sam Levitt to Knoxville and talk to him one more time?
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Speaker 5: And then Kiffin was very blunt.
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Speaker 4: He said, you know, I really thought I should have
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Speaker 4: sealed the deal and not let him leave Van Rouge
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Speaker 4: without committing. I wasn't able to do that, and I
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Speaker 4: realized my mistake, so I flew out to Knoxville to
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Speaker 4: talk to him. Kiffin said, I don't like being told no.
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Speaker 4: When someone tells me no, it only makes me want
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Speaker 4: to keep going even more so he did that with
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Speaker 4: Sam Levitt he went up to Knoxville. He talked to him, Boom,
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Speaker 4: Sam Levittson Ulshu Tiger. He did it with Blake Baker.
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Speaker 4: He talked to Baker. Baker pulled his name out of
22:58
Speaker 4: contention for the two lane job, and he convinced the
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Speaker 4: other two quarterbacks after sam Levitt side like you got
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Speaker 4: Landon Clark and sam Levitt pretty much.
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Speaker 5: Back to back.
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Speaker 4: Clark was actually first, but it was within about a
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Speaker 4: twenty four hour window of each other. And then you
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Speaker 4: still convinced Hussan Longstreet from USC to come over. There's
23:18
Speaker 4: a lot of schools who's on Long Street could have
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Speaker 4: went to that had a much easier path, a much
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Speaker 4: less competitive path to the field, to that starting job.
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Speaker 4: But Lane Kiffin has a way of convincing people, Hey
23:29
Speaker 4: buy into my vision. There's a chance we do special
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Speaker 4: things here. And Jake Olsen's just the latest pulls his
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Speaker 4: name out of contention to be the safety's coach with
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Speaker 4: the Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 5: We saw this with Charlie Wysh Jr.
23:43
Speaker 4: Remember Charlie White Junior was going back and forth between
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Speaker 4: Ole Miss and LSU due to the playoff run, and
23:47
Speaker 4: Tiger fans were like Okay, well, when he's done with
23:50
Speaker 4: the old miss Rod, he'll come over here. Then multiple
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Speaker 4: NFL teams he was linked to them for the offensive
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Speaker 4: coordinator position. A lot of people thought he was going
23:58
Speaker 4: to take that Pittsburgh Steel offensive coordinator position.
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Speaker 5: And what does Charlie Wise Jr.
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Speaker 1: Do.
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Speaker 4: He ultimately pulls his name out and wants to stay
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Speaker 4: here at LSU. To me, that shows the buy in
24:10
Speaker 4: of everyone involved. You got Baker to stay. Baker turned
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Speaker 4: down a head coaching job. Charlie Wise Junior turned down
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Speaker 4: the same position, but in the NFL most people would
24:20
Speaker 4: consider that a step up. Jake Olsen turned down the
24:22
Speaker 4: same position, but in the NFL, all of them to
24:26
Speaker 4: come back and work under Lane Kiffin because they all
24:31
Speaker 4: going in the same direction.
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Speaker 5: They all believe in this goal.
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Speaker 4: He got Sam Levitt to leave and come back to
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Speaker 4: LSU after you let him leave this building without committee.
24:39
Speaker 4: You landed not one, not two, but three quarterbacks who
24:42
Speaker 4: probably could have went to all other programs and started.
24:44
Speaker 4: But they have that much belief in Lane Kiffin and
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Speaker 4: what he's building here in Baton Rouge and this system
24:49
Speaker 4: he is putting in place to take a chance and say, hey,
24:52
Speaker 4: I'll push that down the road a little bit.
24:54
Speaker 5: I'll kick that can down the road.
24:56
Speaker 4: I'm gonna come in here and I'm gonna see what
24:58
Speaker 4: we got here in Baton Rouge. And I think that's huge,
25:01
Speaker 4: Like safety's coach, you know, safeties coach. Like some schools
25:04
Speaker 4: don't even have a safety coach. Some schools will just
25:06
Speaker 4: do the dB coach, like Corey Raymond did that here
25:08
Speaker 4: for a while. Corey Raymond was not always just corners coach.
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Speaker 4: He was the dB coach. So you could say, okay,
25:14
Speaker 4: well you didn't lose the safety coach, a great it's
25:17
Speaker 4: always nice to have him back. You could replace him,
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Speaker 4: or even if you don't, Raymond could just be the
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Speaker 4: dB coach. But it's bigger than that. You've convinced multiple
25:25
Speaker 4: people like Kayden Durham pulled his name out of the portal.
25:29
Speaker 4: Harlan Barry announced he was coming back to school. That's
25:32
Speaker 4: when losing your running backs coach Frank Wilson to an
25:34
Speaker 4: SEC rival in Ole, miss. Both of those guys decided
25:38
Speaker 4: to stay here at LSU. There were multiple guys that
25:41
Speaker 4: put their names in the portal and came right back out.
25:45
Speaker 5: I mean, I think like to me.
25:47
Speaker 4: Kyle Parker was a big loss in the portal that
25:50
Speaker 4: one hurt, and a Carrius Kern. You would have liked
25:53
Speaker 4: to have kept both of them. Outside of those guys,
25:58
Speaker 4: you didn't lose any of your big time players in
26:01
Speaker 4: the transfer port and the ones that did enter came back.
26:05
Speaker 4: I mean Treda's Green was one of the first people
26:07
Speaker 4: to announced he was coming back. DJ Pickett coming back.
26:10
Speaker 4: Like you had the cornerstone. You had the big name
26:13
Speaker 4: pieces of this program all buy into Lane Kiffin, and
26:17
Speaker 4: now the coaches are doing it as well. Whether it's
26:19
Speaker 4: Blake Baker, whether it's Charlie Weis Junior, whether it's Jay Colson.
26:26
Speaker 4: All of these guys have such a big buy in
26:28
Speaker 4: because they believe in what Lane Kiffin is doing here
26:31
Speaker 4: in Baton Rouge. You love to see it. As an
26:33
Speaker 4: LSU fan, you gotta be excited because the guys in
26:36
Speaker 4: that built again, the returning players, whether it's a Leavitt
26:40
Speaker 4: or a land In Clerk or who's on Long Street
26:42
Speaker 4: or now multiple coaches on this staff turning down positions
26:46
Speaker 4: at other spots. And for like Blake Baker, that's a
26:47
Speaker 4: step up. Charlie Wis Jr. Like you had a chance
26:50
Speaker 4: to be an NFL offensive coordinate. Same with Jake Colson.
26:53
Speaker 4: That's an NFL job. A lot of people would love
26:57
Speaker 4: to have those jobs, all of them to return to
27:01
Speaker 4: LSU for one reason or another. And I think it
27:03
Speaker 4: all boils down to Lane Kiffin and what he's building
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of OOTB We got about
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Speaker 9: I mean, they're like having a resurgence.
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Speaker 5: Right? Like, that doesn't seem like a band that gets
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Speaker 3: I guess Mama Mia.
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Speaker 5: Some Abba come up. I listened to Abba for like
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Speaker 5: an hour.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you want to talk about some good songs
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Speaker 4: to bring this up for a little bit just hit
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Speaker 4: on this for just just a few minutes here. North
31:32
Speaker 4: Dakota State football is going to join the Mountain West.
31:36
Speaker 4: Now this is football only pretty much immediately. It's going
31:39
Speaker 4: to take into effect July twenty twenty six, so they
31:42
Speaker 4: will be in the Mountain West for the foreseeable future
31:46
Speaker 4: in football only. And you know, a lot of people
31:48
Speaker 4: look at this and be like, oh, yeah, okay, it's
31:50
Speaker 4: a it's an FCS school moving up a level of competition.
31:54
Speaker 5: We've seen it before, Like we've seen it the other
31:56
Speaker 5: way too.
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Speaker 4: Idaho the Vandals, you know, they couldn't quite compete on
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Speaker 4: the FBS level.
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Speaker 5: They move down a level.
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Speaker 4: They're kind of an FCS power right now. So mean,
32:05
Speaker 4: we've seen it the other way, but I mean a
32:07
Speaker 4: lot of recent memory. James Madison's done this, Coastal Carolina,
32:10
Speaker 4: did this, Missouri State, Delaware State, like there's been some
32:14
Speaker 4: teams Sacramento State as in the process of doing that
32:17
Speaker 4: as well. But North Dakota State moving up to me
32:19
Speaker 4: is interesting. Like every time I look at North Dakota
32:22
Speaker 4: State on someone's schedule, on like a big name program schedule,
32:25
Speaker 4: like why are you scheduling North Dakota State Because they're
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Speaker 4: an absolute wagon, Like, don't schedule North Dakota State.
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Speaker 5: North Dakota State has.
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Speaker 4: Ten Division one national championships between twenty eleven and twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty five.
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Speaker 5: I mean that's a fourteen year period.
32:41
Speaker 4: They had eight titles in a nine year period from
32:44
Speaker 4: twenty eleven to twenty nineteen, and then they had another
32:46
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one another in twenty twenty four. This
32:50
Speaker 4: is not your run of the mill program, like, oh,
32:54
Speaker 4: you know they're gonna this is cute. They're gonna try
32:55
Speaker 4: to move up a level of competition. The Mountain West
32:58
Speaker 4: better watch out. I mean, because they've had sustained success
33:03
Speaker 4: for a number of years. A number of their coaches
33:05
Speaker 4: have gotten bigger jobs and they've they've still done this.
33:10
Speaker 4: They've went to a turnstyle of coaches. Think about all
33:12
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks that have come through there. Carson Wentz was
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Speaker 4: the number two pick out of North Dakota State, and
33:18
Speaker 4: before he messed up his knee in Philadelphia, he probably
33:20
Speaker 4: would have been the MVP of the NFL that year. Now,
33:24
Speaker 4: he never quite rebounded properly from that from an injury.
33:27
Speaker 4: But I mean, look, Carson Wentz has had a solid
33:29
Speaker 4: NFL career, and he was a really good NFL starter
33:32
Speaker 4: for a number of years. He comes out of North
33:34
Speaker 4: Dakota State. Trey Lance, I mean, his NFL career hasn't
33:38
Speaker 4: worked out like a lot of people thought it would.
33:39
Speaker 4: But he was the number three pick. Yeah, he's bounced
33:42
Speaker 4: around team to team, But I mean, forty nine ers
33:46
Speaker 4: sold the farm to get Trey Lance. We always talk
33:48
Speaker 4: about it saying, hey, they're lucky they hit on brock
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Speaker 4: Party in the seventh round because they gave up a
33:52
Speaker 4: lot to move up to number three, and it was
33:54
Speaker 4: specifically to take Trey Lance. Christian Watson with the Packers,
33:59
Speaker 4: he was a second round pick. He's a really good
34:01
Speaker 4: NFL receiver. He set some injury issues, but when he's
34:03
Speaker 4: out there, he's as good as anybody on the field.
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Speaker 4: This is a program that you got to watch out for.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this is not your your run of the mill. Oh,
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Speaker 4: let me see if we can make something happen here
34:16
Speaker 4: and try to move up. They're going to be They're
34:18
Speaker 4: going to be a problem for the Mountain West, I think.
34:23
Speaker 5: For a while.
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Speaker 4: I mean just this year at the Senior Bowl, Jacob
34:26
Speaker 4: Matt interviewed Cole Payton he's one of the good performers
34:30
Speaker 4: at quarterback. He's a North Dakota State guy. The Tama
34:33
Speaker 4: Bay Buccaneers have Cody Mout starting on their offensive line.
34:36
Speaker 4: North Dakota State guy. I mean, this is a school
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Speaker 4: that time and time again just continues to churn out
34:42
Speaker 4: an fl talent. When you know, I heard a lot
34:44
Speaker 4: of people when when Idaho moved down from FBFS to
34:48
Speaker 4: FCS a few years back, everybody said, oh, this is
34:50
Speaker 4: gonna be good for them. They can't compete in the FBS.
34:53
Speaker 4: They're gonna be a lot stronger of a program.
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Speaker 5: I get it.
34:55
Speaker 4: I think this is a great move for North Dakota
34:57
Speaker 4: State and they're gonna get extra money out of this deal.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's not a power for conference,
35:04
Speaker 4: but I mean the Mountain West has been around for
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Speaker 4: a long time for some good programs in the Mountain West,
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Speaker 4: and I think North Dakota State's gonna come in right
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Speaker 4: away and compete.
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Speaker 5: This is a team to look out for.
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Speaker 4: Like again, Sacramento States in the process of doing this
35:19
Speaker 4: as well, moving up and they're gonna try to move
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Speaker 4: up in football first, but they hope to have multiple
35:24
Speaker 4: sports move up. North Dakota State. They're ready to go
35:27
Speaker 4: right now. I mean up in Fargo, they love this team.
35:31
Speaker 4: You've ever seen a game inside the Fargo Dome on TV.
35:34
Speaker 4: I've obviously never been in person, but that place is rocky.
35:37
Speaker 4: That's one of the toughest places to play. I mean,
35:39
Speaker 4: I remember when I was at Southeastern in a really
35:42
Speaker 4: good year. One season they make it to the postseason.
35:45
Speaker 4: Everybody's like, Okay, all roads, all roads leads to the
35:47
Speaker 4: Fargo Dome.
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Speaker 5: Get ready.
35:49
Speaker 4: If you want to make the National Championship, you got
35:50
Speaker 4: to go through the Fargo Dome. And I mean they've
35:53
Speaker 4: been the gold standard on that level of ball for
35:55
Speaker 4: quite some time now. I mean schools have caught up
35:57
Speaker 4: to him, like Montana, Montana State in Illinois State like
36:01
Speaker 4: teams have caught up to them. But I think this
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Speaker 4: is a huge move for the Mountain West because despite
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Speaker 4: the fact that their FCS, that's a huge brand that
36:09
Speaker 4: everybody knows about. You have a lot of big time
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Speaker 4: NFL players that have went through that school. I think
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Speaker 4: that is a big time move for the Mountain West.
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Speaker 4: We'll see how they compete, how long it takes them
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Speaker 4: to adjust. Again, I kind of think it's gonna happen
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Speaker 4: right away. But I mean, I am really excited to
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Speaker 4: see what North Dakota State can do in the Mountain West.
36:30
Speaker 4: Remember they played Colorado opening game of the year two
36:34
Speaker 4: years ago, and I mean there were people picking Colorado,
36:37
Speaker 4: I mean Northdakota State to win that game, and they.
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Speaker 5: Almost did, and probably should have. Colorado came back.
36:42
Speaker 4: They won that game. I think it was about a
36:43
Speaker 4: four or five point win, kind of a come from
36:45
Speaker 4: behind winning overtime. But North Dakota State had them on
36:48
Speaker 4: the ropes. They beating a number of big time programs.
36:50
Speaker 4: This is a big time get for the Mountain West,
36:53
Speaker 4: and I think North Dakota State is a team to
36:55
Speaker 4: keep an eye on coming up here in the near future.
36:58
Speaker 4: All Right, we'll take a time out. We'll close this
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Speaker 4: thing out like we do every day. Get your questions
37:02
Speaker 4: in the chat. We got asked the bench. Coming up
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Speaker 4: next here on o TV Off.
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Speaker 1: The Bench Tigers Turn Talkers. This is Off the Bench.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back.
37:24
Speaker 4: In final segment here on a Tuesday edition of OTB.
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Speaker 4: Taylor Sharp sitting in for Jacob Pastor and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 4: We'll close up today like we do every day. A
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Speaker 4: little bit of ask the bench. First one here, ask
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Speaker 4: the bench, favorite Marty Girl throw to catch?
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Speaker 5: First off? Wondro w what'd you catch at Spanish tap?
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Speaker 9: Mostly just beads. That one jello shot that I took
37:49
Speaker 9: from the float. Let this man just inject one into
37:52
Speaker 9: my mouth. I don't know why I did that. I
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Speaker 9: got some cups, but they were mostly just beats.
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Speaker 5: I like the light up beads, and they got like
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Speaker 5: the little like the mortar girl hat or something. Yeah,
38:05
Speaker 5: I like those.
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Speaker 6: I wish I went to the one this last weekend finish.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one where Drew Brees was.
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Speaker 5: Oh he was?
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Speaker 9: It seemed like there was it No never mind because
38:19
Speaker 9: Lane was in Demian.
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Speaker 5: Speaking of leads us right to the next one. Ask
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Speaker 5: the bench. Would you rather be on a float with
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Speaker 5: Drew Brees or Lane Kiffin?
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Speaker 6: Drew Brees, Lane Kiffin sober, Yeah, I mean Drew Brees
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Speaker 6: is now orland like in.
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Speaker 4: Case, I'm gonna go a little That's true. So like
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Speaker 4: for me, like a lot of Saints fan, I'm not
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Lane Kiff because I'm a lot bigger
38:41
Speaker 4: LSU fan than i am a Saints fan.
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Speaker 5: So like like would I pester Lane Kiffing a lot more?
38:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably, he'd probably want to get rid of me
38:48
Speaker 4: by about ten minutes. But uh yeah, No, I'm picking
38:50
Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin just because I mean, my l shoe ties
38:53
Speaker 4: are a lot bigger than my Saints on just like chunking,
38:56
Speaker 4: Like that's somebody. I want to be on the parade
38:59
Speaker 4: float with Tyler Shuck.
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Speaker 5: You kidding me? You see him walking?
39:02
Speaker 4: He was so before that parade, Like I know, the
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Speaker 4: video went went viral of him chucking the beads of people,
39:08
Speaker 4: but before that, he was just walking down the street
39:11
Speaker 4: with everybody else, carrying a case of a beer in
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Speaker 4: one hand and a King Cake in the like are
39:16
Speaker 4: you kidding me? From Derek Carr saying his favorite restaurant
39:20
Speaker 4: in New Orleans with Chipotle to Tyler Shuck rocking the
39:23
Speaker 4: King Cake, carried a case of beer and pelted people
39:25
Speaker 4: with beads like you want to talk about a one
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Speaker 4: eighty and like you could see it, like the vibes
39:29
Speaker 4: are so much higher.
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Speaker 5: New Orleans, right, depend on that?
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Speaker 4: That's my answer. I'm taking an option three. I'm going
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Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck. I want to be on a I want
39:36
Speaker 4: to be on a parade float with Tyler Shuck. Ask
39:43
Speaker 4: the bitch, what is wrong with a closet nursery? Guys,
39:47
Speaker 4: it's not big enough.
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Speaker 9: Do you really need that much space for a baby?
39:51
Speaker 4: Well, what's the whole like dresser next to it with
39:55
Speaker 4: the changing table on top. Yeah, and then so I mean,
39:58
Speaker 4: like a lot of these things coming sets, like it's
40:01
Speaker 4: not just a crib. You would think it's just a crib.
40:03
Speaker 4: It probably should be just a crib, it's not. Most
40:05
Speaker 4: of these are going to come in sets where it's
40:06
Speaker 4: like a crib. You got a dresser with a built
40:09
Speaker 4: in changing table on top, and then a second dresser
40:12
Speaker 4: on the other side, Like it's a decent sized closet.
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Speaker 4: You know, I don't think all blank Space Razor Sharp's
40:20
Speaker 4: gonna be able to uh to make that.
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Speaker 5: Happen after me.
40:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go. His first name would be blank space.
40:26
Speaker 9: Your middle name is uh is okay, So you know
40:30
Speaker 9: what I was thinking about. I forgot to mention this.
40:33
Speaker 9: So I listened to I watched the game on TV
40:37
Speaker 9: on or yesterday, right the base the baseball game. So
40:40
Speaker 9: I got to listen to Ben and Lynn on the call,
40:43
Speaker 9: and I texted y'all yesterday, and I was like, what
40:45
Speaker 9: are Ben and Lynn even talking about? Is this how
40:47
Speaker 9: people feel listening to OTV? Like I didn't hate it,
40:50
Speaker 9: but I was like, is this how people feel when
40:53
Speaker 9: they listened to us?
40:54
Speaker 5: That was the tripod? Was the tri sure?
40:57
Speaker 9: And then also he said, wait what did he say they? Lynn?
41:02
Speaker 9: I think it was whenever Mylam threw to first and
41:07
Speaker 9: York had that pick, he was like, that place needs
41:11
Speaker 9: to go straight to Broadway. And I was like, that's elite.
41:14
Speaker 9: I hadn't heard that one before from Lynn, but that's
41:17
Speaker 9: a great one.
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Speaker 5: Lynn like has so many sayings and he and he
41:22
Speaker 5: very rarely repeats the sayings like he's got to roll again,
41:26
Speaker 5: set to pucker up.
41:27
Speaker 4: He does puck her up every run, but that's also
41:30
Speaker 4: kind of becomes his signature now, I kind of.
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Speaker 5: Over pucker up.
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Speaker 9: Is oversaturate?
41:38
Speaker 5: Saturate the pucker up? You can't.
41:40
Speaker 4: We had this, Me and Braxent had this conversation right
41:42
Speaker 4: before the show. Not a Rollins guy.
41:46
Speaker 9: I like Lynn Rollins like Liz.
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Speaker 5: I get it.
41:50
Speaker 4: I get that, I get the bucker up thing. But
41:52
Speaker 4: there's so many sayings like I'm trying to remember. I
41:53
Speaker 4: think it was it was either Bo or Bryce. I
41:56
Speaker 4: think it was Bryce and Jordan that that took all
41:58
Speaker 4: the hits they hit by pitches back when you could
42:01
Speaker 4: still lean into him. I think he like set the
42:03
Speaker 4: NCAA single season record or something like that. And uh,
42:07
Speaker 4: he got hit, didn't even flinch, went down to first base,
42:10
Speaker 4: and Lynn Rolin said, he's as tough as a green
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Speaker 4: pine cone.
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Speaker 3: Some of it doesn't make sense.
42:14
Speaker 5: Well, no, that one's that one's perfect. That fine because
42:17
Speaker 5: you stop and thinking.
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Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, you ever pick up a green pine cone?
42:19
Speaker 4: Do you realize how hard a green pine coon is?
42:22
Speaker 4: Like that's perfect because like he gives good ones, but
42:25
Speaker 4: they're also like kind of thought provoking, Like.
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Speaker 6: You heard the one about Jake Brown when he got hot,
42:31
Speaker 6: like hit his second home run.
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Speaker 9: Wait, no, what was it?
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Speaker 6: I think was like he hit the second home run
42:37
Speaker 6: and Lynn was said, uh, he's hotter than a fire
42:40
Speaker 6: on a ever blister.
42:43
Speaker 5: Bro, that's elite, I know, but I like.
42:47
Speaker 9: Right hot. And this one's so obvious, like that play
42:50
Speaker 9: needs to go straight to Broadway. That's obvious. But I
42:53
Speaker 9: never thought to say that he's got too.
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Speaker 5: Much time during the Dude, they're so good.
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Speaker 4: I mean what's the what's the one used to bring
43:02
Speaker 4: up the blue stars? The color of like something gatorade? Yeah,
43:06
Speaker 4: the blue geacier glacier gatorade?
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Speaker 3: Is that new?
43:10
Speaker 6: When he comes up with like a different like colors
43:12
Speaker 6: of the sky like before, like when the game starts,
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Speaker 6: that's what That's what we're talking about, or that always
43:17
Speaker 6: been a thing.
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Speaker 5: He's still a few times. Yeah, he's he's done that
43:21
Speaker 5: a few times. I think Len's of treasure. I mean,
43:26
Speaker 5: so I was listening.
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Speaker 9: To are we talking about the vernal equinox yesterday?
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Speaker 5: I was wondering, and I was like, this is so.
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Speaker 9: O t B coded. I'm like, this is how people
43:34
Speaker 9: feel when they listen to us. Like that was fine.
43:38
Speaker 9: I didn't care. I thought it was funny. But I'm like,
43:40
Speaker 9: what are they even talking about right now?
43:42
Speaker 4: You want to get Flynn locked into l SU Baseball,
43:45
Speaker 4: Give him that broadcast, Matt Flynn be all over that.
43:48
Speaker 4: Like I was listening to the radio call uh yesterday
43:51
Speaker 4: evening because I was out and about. But yeah, I
43:53
Speaker 4: called I called Lynn game three, uh most of the game.
44:01
Speaker 4: Game three is the one that I called him the most,
44:03
Speaker 4: and I mean just incredible stuff, like him and Ben
44:05
Speaker 4: are great together because like Ben's normally like, you know,
44:09
Speaker 4: to the point analytical guy, but Lynn brings out the
44:12
Speaker 4: personality and Ben as well, like Ben's Ben is really
44:16
Speaker 4: really good. Here's an ask the bench question. Are you
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Speaker 4: a neutral ground or sidewalk person? I'm assuming you mean
44:25
Speaker 4: where you stand for the parade. I'm sidewalk. I'm not
44:29
Speaker 4: big on the neutral ground because you got a cross
44:32
Speaker 4: to get there and back. I'll park on the same
44:34
Speaker 4: side of the road as I am on the sidewalk
44:36
Speaker 4: a lot easier in and out. Again, this is coming
44:40
Speaker 4: from someone who's not a parade person. So as much
44:42
Speaker 4: convenience as I could possibly get, That's what I'm going
44:45
Speaker 4: to go with. And I went to a Christmas parade
44:48
Speaker 4: out in Denim back in December. But I'm done Marty
44:54
Speaker 4: Girl parade in a number of years. Guys, kindcakes are
44:57
Speaker 4: about to go away. I think today is the last day?
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Speaker 1: Is it?
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to go pick one off. But still,
45:03
Speaker 5: you know, like Victoria's not big into.
45:05
Speaker 3: Sweets right now, what's your favorite?
45:07
Speaker 5: Just strawberry cream cheese.
45:08
Speaker 4: As far as the filling, like I gotta have some filling,
45:10
Speaker 4: like I have this This really really. It's apparently hot
45:14
Speaker 4: take because most people I know love the plain cinnamon.
45:17
Speaker 4: I think if you eat a plain cinnamon kancake, like
45:19
Speaker 4: you just like a crappy cinnamon.
45:21
Speaker 6: Roll, you've had a banana quiddon, dude.
45:24
Speaker 4: I've had pretty much all of them, but I like
45:26
Speaker 4: the I like the strawberry cream cheese, so like still
45:29
Speaker 4: a traditional but not too basic to wear. It's just
45:32
Speaker 4: a dry and there's no filling, like all the same
45:35
Speaker 4: people who are like I just like the cinnamon unfilled.
45:37
Speaker 5: That's all fuugh take. You gotta have a filling in
45:40
Speaker 5: the middle. Strawberry cream cheese is elite.
45:43
Speaker 4: Some of them are, but that's why you get the strawberry.
45:45
Speaker 4: It's got a little bit of the fruit flavor, sweetness.
45:47
Speaker 3: With the cream cheesecake.
45:49
Speaker 5: See, I'm out on the show.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
45:51
Speaker 6: I haven't tried.
45:51
Speaker 3: Heard a lot of hype about it.
45:52
Speaker 4: Can be it can't be too fruity. That's why I
45:54
Speaker 4: go the strawberry crea cheese. All right, guys, that's pretty
45:56
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46:02
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46:11
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46:14
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