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Saints QB Battle | NBA Conference Finals - Off the Bench, May 28, 2025 · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Let's all start to it. You want to present some
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Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.
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Speaker 1: The hype is off the bench the bitch. Now here's
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Jacob Hester.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in our number two, a Wednesday edition of Off
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the Bench. Taylor Sharp here with you, sitting in for
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Jacob Hester here today tomorrow. Jake will be back on Friday.
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Jake actually gonna send us back some interviews from the
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SEC spring meetings, probably this afternoon. We will play them
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during tomorrow's show. LSU Coaches, you know that that sort
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of thing. Well, we'll have that for you all tomorrow
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and then Jake ultimately we'll be back on Friday. Right now,
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we want to look at a little bit of New
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Orleans Saints because we're having Raster Jackson on at nine
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am to talk some OTAs. But Ross, obviously he does
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Locked on Saints now writes for us here at luisianasports
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dot Net. He put out a thing yesterday, this article
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talking about OTAs and some veterans returning for the Saints
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that are actually battling for roster spots, and the one
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he mentioned yesterday was none other than former LSU running
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back Clyde Edwardsilaire. He says, look, there weren't a ton
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of bright spots late in the twenty twenty four season
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for the Saints, but one of those players that was
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a pretty good bright spot was Ben Ruge Naive. Clyde
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Edwards Hilaire, he said, the oellowsh Tiger was given a
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chance to play for his home state Saints. Now he
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was re signed this offseason after having you know, a
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decent finish, about as good as you could behind that
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offensive line on that offense a year ago. And he'll
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battle for a spot in this running back room. And
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when ross breaks down, why Clyde Edwards Hilaire has a
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solid chance, He talks. Look, aside from Alvin Kamara, Clyde
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Dwardshilaire is the most experienced player in this position room.
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He's going into a sixth NFL season. If you remember,
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Clyde was a twenty twenty first round pick for the
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Kansas City Chiefs, the very last pick in the first round.
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Chiefs Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes. They know a little bit
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about offense, and you know, however you feel about Clyde
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Oderson Hilaire's career at this point, they selected Clyde at
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running back over guys like Jonathan Taylor, JK.
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Speaker 4: Dobbins.
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Speaker 3: I mean there were that was a really solid running
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back class. Clyde Edwards Hilior was his first running back
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to go. That's what the Kansas City Chiefs thought of him.
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I trust the.
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Speaker 4: Opinion of Patrick Mahomes Andy Reid.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to offense, he was a solid pass
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blocker so far in his NFL career. He's been able
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to catch the ball out of the backfield. He could
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be a three down contributor in the right scheme. He's
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got flexibility to his game, He's got the maturity just mentioned.
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He's the second most experienced guy in this backfield now
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going into his sixth NFL season. And look, you know,
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Clyde Sadden up and down NFL career, had a pretty
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good rookie year, had a lot of injuries to deal with.
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The Chiefs ultimately released him before he landed here last
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year late in the season.
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Speaker 4: With the New Orleans Saints.
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Speaker 3: But look, when you look at the depth of this
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running back room, you can obviously pencil in Alvin Kamara
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is RB one. You no longer have Jordan Mint, So
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really your returners from a year ago, Alvin Kamara, Clyd Edwards,
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Dlaire and Kendre Miller, who has shown no ability to
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stay healthy. And look, even when Kindre has been healthy,
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I mean, he's been a solid player, but just look
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at look at what he's done in two years. He
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has eighty carries, three hundred and four yards, two touchdowns.
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That's that's it. All that came in fourteen games over
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two years.
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Speaker 4: Two starts.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's not getting it done. It's you
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need more three point eight yards per attempt as well.
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So again, even when Kindre Miller's been on the field,
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he hasn't exactly lit up the statue.
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Speaker 4: The young guys are exciting. Though.
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Speaker 3: You were able to get Devin Neil in the sixth
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round of this NFL Draft. We had talked about it
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a lot on this show about you know, the deepest
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positions going into this twenty twenty five NFL Draft. My
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answer was always pretty steady the running back position. I mean,
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look at what Cam Skataboo did in the college football
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plaoff like any other year, that guy's a top two
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round pick. What's got to be good round four. You
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got Devin Neil in round six Devin Neil, the all
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time leading rusher for the Kansas Jayhawks. You'll look at
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what Devin Neil did in college in his four year career,
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seven hundred and sixty carries, four three hundred and forty
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three yards, forty nine rushing touchdowns. Oh and that's on
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a five point seven yards per carry average.
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Speaker 5: That's real production right there.
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Speaker 4: That's real production right there.
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Speaker 3: Also seven hundred yards receiving in four years, so we
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can catch the ball out of the backfield eighty eight
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point six yards per game. And that's one of Kansas
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offense that wasn't exactly great. I mean at times teams
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are key and n on him because yeah, you had
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Ja Daniels, you had Jason Bean. But like neither of those,
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Jalen Daniels has had so many issues. He never could
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stay healthy. That's the only reason we know who Jason
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Bean was was because he was j Jalen Daniels's backup
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for two seasons. Devin Neil was that offense and he
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was incredible three years in a row twenty twenty two,
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one thousand ninety yards, nine touchdowns, twenty twenty three, twelve
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eighty sixteen touchdowns. What does he do with that, he
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follows it up the exact same sixteen touchdowns again in
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twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: I think Devin Neil is the real deal.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy that's five to eleven, he's
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two hundred and ten pounds.
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Speaker 4: He has the size to play right away. I like
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Devin Neil.
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Speaker 3: I mean I think the longer OTAs goes on offseason workout,
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you know, when you get into preseason camp, Devin Neil
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is going to continue to rise up that board. I
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don't think there's any question that he is going to
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pass up Kendre Miller. I'm not even sure Kendre Miller
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makes this team because don't sleep on Marcus Yarns, the
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undrafted free agent, the rookie out of Delaware.
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Speaker 4: You know, we we've.
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Speaker 3: Seen Delaware in the past produce from an f players,
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none bigger than Joe Flacco, of course, who's won a
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Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Devin Neil.
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Speaker 3: I mean Marc Descharn's five to eleven, hovering around two
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hundred pounds, very similar to.
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Speaker 4: Devin Neil. But you look at what he.
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Speaker 3: Did last season at Delaware for the Blue Hens. He
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led the team with eight hundred and forty four rushing
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yards and six touchdowns.
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Speaker 4: But he also had two.
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Speaker 3: Hundred and ninety seven yards receiving and five touchdowns. He's
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a guy that doesn't have a lot of tread on
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the tire. He has the ability to catch the ball
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out at the backfield. Could he potentially be a third
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down slash pass catching back now? I know in his career,
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Alvin Kamara has been that every down back on third
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down in passing situations.
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Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara has been that guy.
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Speaker 3: But Kamara's not getting any younger, and you're going to
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need somebody to spell Alvin Kamara to give Kamara a breather.
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I think on early downs it's Devin Neil, no question
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about it. He is that pure runner running back that
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you need. But if you need a guy out of
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the back, I mean Marcus Yarns did a really nice
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job at catching the ball out of the backfield in college.
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And again that's multiple seats. I mentioned that eight hundred
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and forty four yards rushing to ninety seven receiving in
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twenty twenty three was even better nine hundred and thirty
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nine yards rushing fifteen touchdowns, also three hundred yards receiving
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out of the backfield This is a guy that he
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is an.
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Speaker 4: All purpose back. He can do a little bit of
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everything for you.
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Speaker 3: If Marcus Yarns can pass, block as well as get
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out of the backfield and catch passes, Marcus Yarns is
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going to make this team.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: We're going to see how he performs in preseason, what
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the rest of the offseason looks like, what the OTAs
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looked like.
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Speaker 4: When Ross hops on with us at.
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Speaker 3: Nine am, I'm gonna ask him about Devin Neil and
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Marcus Yarns. I'm not sure Kendre Miller makes this team
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because I don't know about you guys. I trust Clyde
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utit Layer more than I do Kendre Miller. I'm sure
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Clyde edit z Layer has had injury concerns, but we've
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only seen what he can do. He's been productive, He's
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played in big time games with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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You can't really say that about Kendre Miller. And I
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just laid it out. Fourteen games in two years, three
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hundred yards rushing, two touchdowns. That is what Kendre Miller
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has given you as a New Orleans sink. And that's
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a guy who's a third round draft pick. Keep in mind,
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this coaching staff did not draft Kendre Miller. What they
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did do was draft Devin Neil, and they signed Marcus
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Yarns in the offseason, and they wanted to bring back
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Clyde Edwards.
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Speaker 4: Hilaire. Kendre Miller is still in his rookie deal.
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Speaker 3: It's one of those things where it's like you brought
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in Clyde Yarns, Devin Neil, Kendre Miller was just kind
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of here when he got here. Me and Jordan Jordan
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we were talking about this not long ago, and you
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and I were saying, Oh, we don't know if Kendre
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Miller or Jordan Mims makes this team. They already got
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rid of Jordan Mimes. They're already one down. Like, do
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you think Kendre Miller makes this team because I don't.
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Speaker 5: All right, so outside looking in, obviously not, because there
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is zero production of Kendre Miller. And you've been you've
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been wanting this so bad, not only for him to
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be on the field, but you've been looking for that
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guy to take that pressure off ak Like that was
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the whole point of Kendrem Miller was to come in
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and to believe. Yeah, literally just to relieviate the press
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off ak. We did not asking Kendre Miller to come
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in and be the guy. So I think the only
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universe that there's a way that Kenjre Miller makes this
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roster the first preseason game, he has to go off
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like it has to be like a.
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Speaker 4: Four yard or somebody like Neil or Clyde.
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Speaker 5: I know, somebody gets hurt, you know, injuries, you know,
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But I'm just talking like, you know, performance wise. I
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feel like the only way that Kendre Miller can really
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save himself on this Saints team this year is that
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either the first two preseason games he has to explode,
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like I'm talking like a fifty yard run, like something
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that the coach is like, oh, we can't teach this,
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Like this is something.
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Speaker 4: That you saw, something that the other guys don't have,
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that they don't have.
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Speaker 5: Like the burst and pop you've seen at TCU. Only
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way possible other than that, I think his bag's already packed.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of exactly what I was getting at with
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these other two guys, right, You're talking about something that
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the other guys don't have. Yeah, Marcus jon can catch
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the ball out of the backfield, at least in college,
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probably better than anybody you currently have on your team.
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Devin Neil, He's got the explosiveness out of the back here.
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Speaker 5: He got production.
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Speaker 3: You saw the yards per carry in college. You saw
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the production. Clyde former first round pick, he had production
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in college, which, like Kendre Miller's behind the eight ball
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on all three of those players. Like, right now, you
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have five running backs on the roster. I'm putting Kendre
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Miller fifth. You got Kamara and Clyde, Edwards Hilayer who
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have been there, they're veterans. You got Devin Neil who's
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going to make this team. And I think if Marcus
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Yarns outperforms Kendre Miller in preseason camp, like this staff
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did not draft Kendre Miller, I'll keep going back to that.
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Speaker 4: And then look, we always.
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Speaker 3: Criticized Dennis Allen for pretty much everything in rightfullysa. I
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mean you remember the press conferences with Dennis Allen, Right,
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it was a whole lot of knot that he never
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gave anything. The only time Dennis Allen ever got fired
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up was when he was criticizing Kendre Miller. I mean,
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we had talked about it multiple times and played the
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clips here over and over of Dennis Allen being asked, hey,
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whin's Kendre Miller being healthy? And Dennis Allen's answer was
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pretty much quite so.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: We don't really know what's wrong with it. So this
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is more than just an injury thing. It kind of
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seems like a miscommunication between him and the New Orleans Saints.
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Speaker 5: Hey didn't Dennis Island. Wasn't Dennis Island when I was like,
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you can't make the team in the tub or something
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like that about.
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Speaker 4: Dre Miller's Yeah, he never threw his players.
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Speaker 5: Under the bus ever. Ever, well, unless you unless you
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score on the Falcons.
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Speaker 4: Used to score the Falcons, but he did the Kendre Miller.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's the only buy That tells me a
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lot about Kidre Miller. No, look, I don't know Kendre Miller.
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I'm not in that front office. kN Dre might be
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a great teammate. Dennis Allen didn't think he was. And
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now you bring in a new staff of these offensive
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minded guys. I mean, look at look at your offensive staff.
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Doug Nussmeyer, Kellen Moore is your offense. You're the facto
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offensive coordinator is also your head coach. Like these guys
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no offense, they know how to score points. If Kendre
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Miller's not producing in the preseason, Kendre Miller's not gonna
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make this team.
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Speaker 5: But you know the scariest thing though, that really goes
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back to your your main point. You're talking about who
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drafted him. Dennis Island drafted this man to under the bus. Yeah,
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that's the biggest red flag. It don't get a bigger record,
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a bigger reflag.
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Speaker 3: And that's after two years because you know what they say,
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it shouldn't be this way. But the higher draft pick
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you are, the longer legal lea you have. Kin Trey
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Miller's a third round pick literally, and Dennis Allen was
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done with him halfway through his second season.
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Speaker 4: That's scary, and it's because he has started two games.
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He's only played in fourteen.
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Speaker 3: He's averaging three point eight yards per carry, three hundred
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and four yards rushing in two touchdowns. That is what
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third round pick Kendre Miller has given.
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Speaker 5: You in two seasons.
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Speaker 4: I'm not saying the guy's not talented. I think he is.
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We saw it at TCU.
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Speaker 3: But there's some sort of disconnect, whether it's injuries, whether
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it's a learning curve in the NFL, there is something.
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And if Kendre Miller doesn't get it together, he's going
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to get passed by Devin Neil. He's going to get
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passed back Glader Jelaire, and he's going to get passed
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by Marcus Arns and he's not going to make this team.
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Speaker 4: Now, we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 3: Really, you have Alvin Kamara and a giant question mark
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behind that, but I actually like the depth behind Alvin Kamara.
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If these guys could stay healthy, all right, we're gonna
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take a time out and we get back.
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Speaker 4: Stuart Mandel.
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Speaker 3: The athletic put out the top twenty five college football
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
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Speaker 7: Today and welcome.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back.
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Speaker 3: In nour number two Wednesday edition of Off the Bench,
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Taylor Sharp here with you in for Jacob Pastor, Lundraville
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Real Jordan Kitchens along for the ride as well. Stuart
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Mandell of The Athletic put out a list on Twitter
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of his top twenty five college football programs. It's the
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year two thousand and When I look at this list,
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the first two words I thought of were recency bias.
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Speaker 1: I just.
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Speaker 4: I can't get behind this list.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: You know, you look at it, it's top twenty five,
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So sixteen through twenty five doesn't really matter. I don't
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care about that as much the top ten. If you
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want to go top ten, by the way, first off,
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Notre Dame at thirteen over Miami and Auburn. Now you
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can argue that a bunch of different ways. Miami and
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Auburn have the titles. Notre Dame, as I like to
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point out, hadn't really won anything since the eighties, but
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they have been a more consistent program in terms of
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getting to big Bowl games and getting to playoffs. Miami
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and Auburn haven't really done that in a number of years.
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So whatever you're splitting hairs there. If you want to
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look at reaching the pinnacle with titles, you go Miami Auburn.
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If you want to go consistency, Eugo, Notre Dame, I'm
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good with that. Florida State twelve, Michigan eleven, eh, whatever.
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I think Texas, USC, and Florida should all be ahead
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of Oregon. But again, Oregon has been more consistent, And
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this is why I go with recency bias.
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Speaker 4: They've been better off late.
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Speaker 3: But this list is not the best college football programs
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of the last ten years. It's the best since two thousand,
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USC has titles. Since two thousand, Texas has a title.
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Now Texas hasn't done anything since then. Now they've made
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back to back playoff appearances, haven't won a championship. I mean,
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since Vin Sjong walked off the field in the Rose
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Bowl against USC, Texas has zero titles. They got the
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same number that I do. Florida won two in three
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years with Urban Meyer. We remember that six and eight.
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Oregan hasn't done those things. But again, they haven't had
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the fall off that the Texas that a USC, that
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of Florida has.
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Speaker 4: So I think you're splitting hairs it.
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Speaker 3: Clemson at six, I'm fine with they have multiple titles,
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but that's really only been the last ten years or so.
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It is really when when Clemson started getting good. He
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has LSU at five. I'm okay with LSU at five
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for the most part. I mean, I think that's okay.
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In the past couple of years, LSU's been a little disappointing.
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I mean, hew, LSU's own fan base will tell you
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that you do have Georgia over LSU, which I can't
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get behind again. I'm gonna go back to recency bias. Recently,
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the last ten or so years, george has been dominant. Hell,
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they've probably been the premier program in college football. This
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list is since two thousand. LSU has three titles and
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it played for a fourth. Georgia only has two, and
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even when LSU's had down years, it hasn't been super down,
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not like a Texas, A Florida or USC.
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Speaker 4: At number three, though, that's where.
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Speaker 3: This list gets really really dicey, here's the Oklahoma Sooners
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at number three. Oklahoma won a title in the year
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two thousand and that's it now. They played for one
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in two thousand and eight against Florida. And if you
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want to go back to the argument of well consistency,
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they've made multiple BCS Bowls, they've played for a national championship,
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They've made the College Football Playoff a number of times.
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So Oklahoma has gotten there. They've done what they've needed
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to do in the regular season. They just haven't been
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able to get over the hump. If you want to
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have Oklahoma in the top five, that's fine. I think
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the argument could be made for Oklahoma to be in
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the top five because they've been a consistent program since
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two thousand. Problem is, I can't put them over Georgia
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and LSU, both of which have multiple titles.
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma has not.
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma has the Heisman's that's fine. If Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray,
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Jalen Hurts finished second. Caleb Williams was there ultimately won
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the Heisman at USC, but he was there as well.
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But you're not ranking these programs based on quarterback play.
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Sam Bradford won the Heisman, Andrey Jones was there. He
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was a good quarterback. But are you just ranking this
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on Oh well, these teams had a bunch of quarterbacks
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that were drafted really high and they won Heisman trophies.
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I think you have to dive a little bit more
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into that. And I'm about to do something that I
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never thought i would do, and that has defend the
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University of Alabama because on Stuart Mandel's list, the number
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one college football program since the year two thousand is
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the Ohio State Buckeyes. How in the hell are the
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Alabama Crimson Tide not the number one team on this list?
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Speaker 4: Get it?
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Speaker 3: Ohio State's consistent a lot like Oklahoma, but they have
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the titles to back it up as well. Ohio State
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three titles since two two thousand and two, twenty fourteen,
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twenty twenty four, Alabama six of them. Oh nine, twenty eleven,
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twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen, twenty twenty. Part of
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the reason we hate Alabama Nick Saban so much in
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these parts is because they beat you every year.
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Speaker 4: They beat everybody every year.
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Speaker 3: They were the pinnacle of college football for ten seasons,
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and I get it up. Until Saban got there in
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two thousand and seven, they weren't great, but two thousand
19:47
and seven to twenty twenty five, that's a big enough
19:50
sample size. I don't really care what they did before
19:52
two thousand and seven. I mean, you just go look
19:54
at Nick Saban year by year. Saban played in four
19:59
straight College Football Playoff National championship games. He wins it
20:03
in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, he loses. That was the
20:07
Hunter Renfro play Deshaun Watson to Hunter Renfro at the
20:10
last second for Clemson's first national title. He wins in
20:14
twenty seventeen, and then again Clemson in twenty eighteen gets
20:17
them again, that's four straight national championship games. Also, they
20:22
win in twenty twenty as they beat Ohio State, and
20:28
then they lose in twenty twenty one. Oh, don't forget
20:33
the three BCS national championships that Nick Saban has. I
20:38
am no fan of Alabama. I'll never get up here
20:40
and defend them again. This is one of those that
20:44
I'm hoping Stuart Mandel put out just for clicks. I mean, hell,
20:47
I'm talking about it right here. But you cannot have
20:50
the University of Alabama anywhere other than number one.
20:53
Speaker 4: I mean, look at what Nick Saban has done.
20:55
Speaker 3: There is a reason he is considered the greatest coach
20:57
in the history of college football. Sure, iiO State won
21:00
the national championship last year. I think they're in a
21:02
better spot to win one this year than they are
21:04
the University of Alabama. But this is not the best
21:07
programs in the last five to ten years. It's the
21:09
best sense of the year two thousand and Nobody touches
21:11
the Alabama Crimson Tide. With seven national championships, ten national
21:17
championship appearances in a twenty five year period, three BCS titles,
21:23
three College Football Playoff titles. They've done it in every format, BCS,
21:27
four team playoff, you name it. Last year was the
21:30
first year of the twelve team and they got left out.
21:32
But Alabama is always competitive every year. I mean, we
21:36
called last year a down year for Alabama because they
21:38
lost three regular season games, and it is because that's
21:41
how absurd Nick Saban was. Nick Saban's first year in Alabama,
21:45
they weren't great. They were seven and six. Saban went
21:49
ten to three in twenty ten. Since that time, he
21:55
never lost more than two games in a season. Ever,
21:59
twenty ten was time until this past season that Alabama
22:02
had three losses in the regular season. You're not going
22:04
to find a more consistent program than that. And again,
22:07
going back to the LSU factor, I'm putting LSU over Oklahoma.
22:11
I'm putting Georgia over Oklahoma. LSU has won three national titles.
22:16
They've played for a fourth against Alabama in twenty eleven.
22:20
And then if you want to throw the Heismans in there,
22:22
you have two Heisman Trophy winners Joe Burrow Jayden Daniels.
22:27
Speaker 4: I don't get this.
22:28
Speaker 3: I'm hoping this is just one of those clickbait things,
22:31
and Stuart Mandel is not serious.
22:32
Speaker 4: Because I have a big problem with this.
22:36
Speaker 3: I mean to have Ohio State number one with three
22:40
national titles, and yet they've been there. They've been consistent,
22:44
they haven't really had a drop off, whether it was
22:47
from Urban Meyer, they go straight into Ryan Day, he
22:50
finally gets through, he wins the title.
22:52
Speaker 4: But they've been a consistent team.
22:54
Speaker 3: If you want to talk about most consistent teams since
22:57
two thousand, sure maybe Ohio State has an argument. You
23:00
cannot tell me under any circumstances, there is Ohio State
23:03
a better college football program than Alabama in any decade
23:06
in any era, much less since twenty to twenty twenty five,
23:09
when Alabama has six national types.
23:11
Speaker 4: No way about.
23:13
Speaker 3: If you want to know the rest of the list,
23:14
I mean, the bottom of it doesn't really matter. But
23:17
we can just go through the rest. I gave you
23:18
the top fifteen. We can run through sixteen to twenty five.
23:21
Here real quick, Wisconsin sixteen, Penn State seventeen, Virginia Tech eighteen,
23:26
TCU nineteen, Boise State twenty, and then the bottom five
23:30
Okie State twenty one, Utah twenty two, I what twenty three,
23:34
Washington twenty four, Michigan State twenty five, I really care
23:37
about the bottom of that list. Sure, they're all consistent
23:40
programs that have hovered around eight and four every year.
23:42
I mean, that's that's kind of what you get to
23:44
sixteen to twenty five.
23:45
Speaker 4: I'm good with it.
23:47
Speaker 3: I'm really good with this list until you get to
23:49
Oregon at seven. I could drop them a few spots,
23:53
but that's up five. Having Oklahoma at three over Georgia
23:56
and LSU, I don't understand, and then having Ohios one
24:00
over Alabama is an outrage. I don't I don't know
24:03
how you can do that in good conscience.
24:05
Speaker 4: All right, Look, we're gonna take a quick time out.
24:07
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24:13
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24:15
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24:18
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24:19
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
25:49
Speaker 4: Welcome back.
25:49
Speaker 3: In hour number two, Wednesday edition of OTB, we just
25:54
got into a big Emmanuel McCrone discussion during break Alandra
25:59
filling me in. I remember you talking about this a
26:01
long time ago, and then I guess it was the
26:05
slap that brought it up because you mentioned it a
26:07
little bit yesterday when somebody asked about the Macron title fight,
26:10
and then Victoria asked me. She goes, this was last night,
26:14
like right before about to go to bed. She's like, hey,
26:15
do you do you know about this situation? Like it
26:18
is so funny. A Landra mentioned this exact same thing
26:21
two day. I was like, the first time I had
26:22
heard about it in a while. So I guess the
26:25
slap herd around the world is gaining a little bit
26:27
of attraction.
26:27
Speaker 8: I think, so something that I've been trying to tell
26:32
people about for a while now is starting to like
26:36
slowly come out. And I just hope everybody goes down
26:41
the same rabbit hole I did, because it's a great one.
26:43
Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't remember, like I remembered a long time
26:46
ago that you had, like I was trying to tell
26:49
you about it. Yeah, Okay.
26:51
Speaker 8: Sometimes I come in here and I probably look like
26:53
Charlie on Always Sunny when he's.
26:56
Speaker 4: Like got all the yeah strings together.
26:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I feel like sometimes I come in here
27:01
and I just tell y'all crazy stuff that like rabbit
27:05
holes that I go down, And when T Bob was here,
27:08
he was so dismissive about it, and he thinks I'm insane,
27:12
But I mean, eventually it all comes out. So what
27:16
do they say, what's done in the dark.
27:20
Speaker 3: Always comes to the light or whatever. Yeah, I don't
27:23
know where you're going. Yeah, I think it was the
27:24
saying it's something like that, something in the dark comes
27:26
to the light. That's That's what I know now because
27:29
I remember it a long time ago. You were telling
27:31
us about like, oh, well, there's a rumor that, you know,
27:34
Brigitte's not who she says she is, and then this,
27:36
this and this, and then I kind of forgot about
27:38
who it was. I remember the conversation, and then you
27:41
brought up McCrone yesterday, and then last night Victoria goes, oh, yeah,
27:44
there's a rumor that like it's not really her and
27:46
this and this. I was like, oh wait a minute,
27:48
now I remembered the conversation that you and I had
27:50
a long time ago.
27:52
Speaker 8: Like the worst part of this that has nothing to
27:56
do with like the I wouldn't even call it a
27:59
conspiracy theory, that has nothing to do with whether Brigitte
28:03
is a man or not that it has nothing to
28:05
do with that. Regardless of whatever, she was forty, she
28:11
was his teacher, and they say they say that she
28:17
was forty and he was seventeen, but really he was
28:22
fourteen when they first started like interacting and knowing each
28:27
other because she was like his teacher and he was
28:29
in theater and she saw him doing a play and
28:32
she just thought he was so well read and all
28:35
this stuff. And that's just weird to me. You're an
28:39
older teacher and you're trying to get with a student.
28:44
Speaker 4: How old are they now?
28:47
Speaker 8: I don't know, but that that's what let me see.
28:50
How long I mean, they're both like this is a
28:51
while ago, Yeah, they're so. Bridgie is alleged, Well she's
28:55
seventy two, Okay, so they've been together for a while
28:58
and he's forty seven.
28:59
Speaker 2: Okay.
29:00
Speaker 8: Yeah, And all I'm gonna say is this, this is
29:05
the last thing I'm gonna say about this, because I
29:07
feel like I'm sounding real crazy and this is probably
29:09
not something like this is probably like something we probably
29:12
shouldn't have like brought on the air. But you can't
29:15
find any childhood photos of Regie machrome, Okay, And I
29:23
just think.
29:23
Speaker 3: That maybe maybe it's just a secretive. Maybe she just
29:25
kept to herself. Flandra, I mean it doesn't always. No,
29:29
I'm kidding. This is sketchy. The more I hear about it, Like,
29:31
I'm as much of a conspiracy theorist as a landre Is.
29:35
I am normally a conspiracy theorist denier. I'm kind of
29:38
on board with this. I mean, I'm kind of like,
29:40
where where the hell was Brigie? Like, she didn't she
29:43
didn't take class pictures.
29:44
Speaker 4: She not that damn old. They took those when you
29:46
were when you were younger, I.
29:47
Speaker 8: Mean seven like photos of the rest of her family.
29:50
Speaker 4: Oh see, that's even sketchy, but just not in the
29:53
family photos. Not so she was always taking a picture.
29:56
Speaker 8: So they do have like a couple where they're saying
29:59
it's Bridgie, but it looks nothing like Brigie.
30:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you could find a random little girl and.
30:04
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's like two photos that they show of
30:07
her when she was younger. But I don't know, we
30:13
have a y'all do the deep dive. Yeah, I mean,
30:15
you know, it's it's been a pretty good Wednesday.
30:18
Speaker 4: We opened the show.
30:19
Speaker 3: We opened the show talk about Jordan's bathroom situation, which
30:23
directly leads to, uh, did he get into a fight
30:25
with a coach with a kettlebell? And now we're talking
30:27
about some inappropriate teacher student relationship that may or may
30:31
not have even occurred, because we're not even sure this
30:33
is a real person.
30:33
Speaker 5: So that's that's called peak morning radio. You know something.
30:37
Speaker 3: The good news is if Brigitte's not real, then she's
30:41
not in trouble for the student teacher relationship.
30:43
Speaker 8: She has tried to Oh my god, y'all got me started,
30:48
because she she's tried to sue multiple people for defamation. Yeah,
30:53
and none of it it's about like small details, like
30:57
none of it is actually about the subject.
31:00
Speaker 4: So it's like, I'm not denying this.
31:01
Speaker 3: I'm denying this one little small part that you that
31:04
you mentioned or failed demand.
31:05
Speaker 4: I can tell you more.
31:06
Speaker 8: During the break, but it's I feel like I'm unlike
31:10
unhinged right now.
31:12
Speaker 3: I can I can feel that all right, before we
31:15
gotta break Jordan real quick. Eastern Conference, Western Conference Pacers
31:20
Thunder both up three to one. Are those series over?
31:23
Speaker 5: Uh uh okay, Minnesota? It might be because okay, see
31:30
This is the best way I had explained. Okay see,
31:32
okay see is like a boa constrictor. Like they're like
31:35
a python. They just squeeze the life out of you.
31:37
Like it feels like, I mean, they have the best
31:39
defense in the NBA. It feels like you're in the
31:41
game and then you look up and he's going to
31:43
twenty to two run or something like that. So, okay, see,
31:46
it might be over. Uh maybe that I can I
31:48
can see the Knicks getting one more, but there's I
31:50
think both series are over. I think it will be
31:52
okay see in the Pacers. I can see the Knicks
31:54
getting one more because they got to go back to
31:55
New York. I can see that. Okay. I mean Minnesota
31:59
is just like they uns Anthony Lewis pops off, which
32:01
I highly doubt will happen. With the defense, They're just
32:04
getting the life squeezed out of them. So yeah, I
32:06
think both series are officially over.
32:07
Speaker 3: How much of the game last night and I'm like,
32:09
oh man, you know this is a must win for
32:10
the Knicks because the Pacers will go up three to one.
32:12
It's hard to come back. Those a must win for
32:14
the Pacers. Yeah, because they won voted their games in
32:16
New York. New York wins the first one in Indiana.
32:19
If New York would have tied that series up last night,
32:22
go back to the home court would have been back
32:24
to New York. They would have went back to the Garden,
32:26
tied all the advantages, nicked. That was a must win
32:28
for the Paceries last night more than anything. One more
32:32
question before you gotta break is, however many bench warmers
32:37
or Hayden ass haters voted Tyrese Haliburton is the most
32:41
overrated player in the NBA. Is that the biggest slip
32:44
of the NBA season so far?
32:50
Speaker 5: I mean it's up there. I mean it's up there
32:51
because it turned him into a whole nother animal. Like
32:56
Halliburton was good, but this this shows you that he's
33:00
able to take that next step.
33:01
Speaker 2: Like he was.
33:02
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say he was. Caliburn was around you know,
33:05
maybe nine ten talking about point guard. I'm not talking
33:07
about like probably around nine to ten before the playoffs started.
33:10
Now he's in the discussion where it's like, yo, it's Haliburton.
33:13
Speaker 4: See the best point guard in that lague.
33:14
Speaker 5: Best guard in the NBA. Yeah, So that it kind
33:17
of was like the juice that you know, game a
33:19
little bit of juice.
33:19
Speaker 7: He needed that.
33:19
Speaker 5: Everybody needs a little bit of hate. Everybody needs a
33:21
little bit hate.
33:22
Speaker 7: Man.
33:22
Speaker 3: Look, I've been on this, this Haliburn thing for a
33:24
while just because like people act like all the Pacers
33:27
came out of nowhere. This team was in the conference
33:28
finals the last year. Like sure they got manhandled by
33:32
the Celtics. Celtics kind of did that to everybody, Like
33:34
this team was in the conference finals a year ago.
33:36
This is not the first time we've seen this from
33:38
tyre Celibert now, to Jordan's point, like he's at another
33:40
level now, like maybe to this level, this is the
33:43
first time we've seen it. But you know, I wanted
33:45
to bring up these numbers to tell you just how
33:47
overrated Tyrese Halliburton is in NBA history. They're the players
33:52
that have posted a thirty ten fifteen triple double in
33:55
the postseason, Oscar Robertson, Nicola Jokich, Tyresellabert the player to
34:01
do that without a single turnover, only Tyrese Halibert. He
34:05
had thirty two points, twelve rebounds, fifteen assists and no
34:08
turnovers and played over forty minutes for thirty thirty eight
34:11
minutes is what he played.
34:12
Speaker 5: It was special, like it it felt like you were
34:15
watching somebody in that flow state.
34:18
Speaker 3: It's it's one of the most perfect playoff performances I've
34:20
ever seen. And it's it's hard to say that.
34:22
Speaker 5: Over fifteen zero turnovers. You can't explain that in it
34:25
not one mistake, you didn't mess up one time.
34:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you can mention it. It's hard to say,
34:31
like quiet second half with thirty two points, but it was.
34:34
He had twenty eight and nine at halftime, Tyrey's Helibert
34:38
and Damn near out a triple double at halftime of
34:41
a must win Game four.
34:42
Speaker 4: I mean, that's how big he was. And there was
34:44
a stout on the broadcast.
34:45
Speaker 3: I will correct it if I find out it was wrong,
34:47
but I believe whoever was calling the game said they're
34:54
thirty thirty plus point fifteen assist games in the playoff
34:59
or yeah, have only been done by three players in
35:03
NBA history. Terre's Halliburton has five of them already and
35:05
he's twenty four years old.
35:07
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
35:08
Speaker 3: It's just you you look, he's the he's the first
35:11
player in Pacers history with multiple playoff triple doubles.
35:13
Speaker 5: But I'll be honest, what's holding him back. I'm not
35:16
even gonna say like this is his fault. It's just
35:19
because he plays for the Pacers.
35:20
Speaker 2: That's it.
35:20
Speaker 5: Like if he played for any.
35:21
Speaker 4: Other dude, if he was with the LA Lakers or
35:24
the New York Nags.
35:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, the conversation with his name would be oh man,
35:28
they went to the conference finals. Like you said, he
35:29
went to the COMSS finals last year. But just because
35:31
of the Paces, Nobody's like, oh, they can't do it again.
35:33
It's the Paces who cares like but.
35:34
Speaker 3: And then so many people are like, oh, this team
35:36
came out of nowhere, know what they did, and they
35:37
really didn't like they should have been. They should have
35:39
been one of your favorites coming into the playoffs. Yeah,
35:41
it was more than just Haliburton, Like Pascal.
35:43
Speaker 4: Sea, how comes a monster? Miles Turner's really good down low.
35:47
Speaker 5: Say Nimron, I mean Niece Smith went god mode again.
35:50
Speaker 3: We were talking about TJ McConnell during break like, he's
35:52
one of the best backup point guards in the league easily,
35:55
Like this team's deep bendic Matheren had twenty points off
35:57
the bench last.
35:58
Speaker 5: Nink about this though. You have Halliburton who's running at
36:01
his pace. The Pacers play with like so you have
36:03
Halliburton that's controlling the pace like this super fast, they
36:06
up and down. He comes out the game. Here comes TJ. McConnell.
36:09
Speaker 1: No kind of.
36:11
Speaker 9: He's a lot smaller like Halliburton six. But they the
36:13
same way, same thing, They do, the exact same thing,
36:16
just energy. It's hard, man, it's I'm gonn tell you.
36:19
Let me take this before we wrap up. It's super hard.
36:21
Speaker 5: The problem with the Knicks is I think they would
36:22
have matched a way better if the Celtics made it
36:24
this far. It's the Pacers are so deep and they
36:27
go so fast. The Knicks are running.
36:29
Speaker 4: They play five guys, that's what they do.
36:32
Speaker 5: Like it's dude, you got guys to sub it in
36:34
and out fresh. It's like, what can you do?
36:37
Speaker 4: I mean, the Pacers have a nine man rotation the Knicks.
36:41
Speaker 5: Sometimes that's crazy.
36:43
Speaker 3: All right, look, we're gonna take a time out. Just
36:44
wanted to get a little playoff talk in. There's there
36:47
was a hell of a basketball game last night between
36:49
the Pacers and the Knicks. We're gonna take a time
36:50
out here, we come back, Bryce Coon if twenty four
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36:54
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to It's the Bench, Welcome back in, Welcome
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38:23
a Wednesday edition of Off the Bench. Let's go out
38:26
to the phone lines right now. Bryce Coon covers LSU
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for two four seven Sports. Bryce, how are you this morning?
38:32
Speaker 10: Dude? Well, man, I appreciate you having me on.
38:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for the time. We talk a little
38:37
recruiting here last week. Kind of the big news at
38:40
the beginning of last week was Bo Bentley narrowing his
38:43
choices down to LSU in Oklahoma. Appears to be a
38:46
two headed battle for his services, and you had a
38:49
nice write up on him. Just kind of give me
38:51
your thoughts on Bo Bentley as a prospect, Like, if
38:55
the Tigers do land in what would they beginning?
38:58
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, I think you know you can go with
39:00
far to really kind of look at what our national
39:02
scouting team has done, and you know, just even watching
39:04
the film you can kind of see it. I think
39:06
LSU fans will get a better glimpse of it now
39:08
that he's in the SEC, but that college comp right
39:10
now is John the Pier. And I think when you
39:13
got to have a guy that you kind of look
39:15
at some of the stats and the tier has put
39:17
up at the college level so far, I mean, a
39:19
great year last year out West, and we'll see what
39:21
he could do in Norman. But and just the guy
39:23
that can I wouldn't say a true true dual threat,
39:26
but really a player that can just hit you in
39:28
a multitude of ways. And so you know, there's a
39:30
lot of I would say, I guess qualms. Some people
39:34
have some gripes to have about Garrettnsmeyer's game if you
39:36
want to about the man the unwillingness or inability to
39:40
run the football. Bo Bentley is the guy that I
39:43
think that you know, he's not afraid to tuck it
39:45
and pick up some yardage there, He's willing to do it.
39:47
He's not the pure runner that a guy like Jaye
39:49
Daniels obviously is, but there just can hit you in
39:52
different ways than I think the biggest part about it
39:55
is just the precision and accuracy that he has showcased
39:59
at all three levels, not just in the shorten the intermediate,
40:01
but kind of the deep ball there as well in
40:03
the high school level. And that's something that Joe Sloan
40:05
like when you go out to these camps, especially in
40:07
the summer when they host the top quarterbacks each year,
40:10
that's something that just on immediately puts these guys in
40:13
the test, like, Hey, we are going to make sure
40:15
you can obviously throw the five yard out route, We're
40:17
going to make sure that you can throw the ten
40:18
to fifteen, but then I want to see how you
40:20
can throw the twenty to twenty five plus yard throw
40:22
as well. And so you know, Bentley checks those boxes
40:25
the prospect and let's Taydler, you mean you followed it
40:27
long enough, you know as well as I do. They're
40:29
far from a finished product, and you know, our ranking
40:32
system tries to do a pretty good job of these things.
40:34
But I think in terms of Bentley, you kind of
40:36
have the willingness to run the football and kind of
40:39
be that dual threat attack. But also, man, he can
40:42
throw the ball. He's got some really good accuracy in
40:44
some really good touch, especially in that intermediate to long
40:47
passing games.
40:48
Speaker 3: What do you think the Tygers stand with Bentley? Like
40:50
you know, LSU Oklahoma, like you think anybody has the
40:53
lead right now.
40:55
Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's kind of been why they reported that.
40:57
You know, Bentley is the guy that grew up Oklahoma fan,
41:01
and you know, I think that that definitely plays into
41:04
it a little bit of course, Like I mean, did
41:06
you playing for the hometown team? Looks LSU fans and
41:10
evens US in the media we always talk about, you know,
41:12
the pride for some of these kids in the state
41:14
to be able to play and put on for the
41:16
home state team. That obviously kind of makes sense when
41:18
you talk about Bentley and his favorite school growing up
41:21
being Oklahoma. But I'm very hard for us, and they
41:24
talked with some people, you know, when it was kind
41:27
of the top three was Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU, and Georgia
41:31
obviously secured the commitment of five star Jhurtis. It was
41:34
one of those things where Palmer's they really kind of
41:37
felt like it was Georgia versus LSU, and Oklahoma was
41:40
still there, but maybe Oklahoma was in that Tier two
41:43
category and was a one A, one B situation. You know,
41:46
I don't think Joe, Sloana them have done anything for
41:49
me right now to not think that they're in the lead.
41:52
I think this is something that you know and all
41:54
obviously with the announcement of his commitment date kind of
41:57
being right after that ov to Oklahoma here in the
42:00
next couple of weeks, it's something that's going to wrap
42:02
up quickly. So I think heading into this weekend, you've
42:05
got a really good opportunity to kind of iron out
42:08
some things, iron out some details that you like. Because
42:11
from all from talking with sources, he likes what Joe
42:14
Sloan and s LSU offense is about. They like what
42:16
he's about. There's not much of getting to know each
42:19
other more at this point. It's really kind of you
42:22
know the play and the purpose to pitch making sure
42:25
you hit on all those right marks.
42:26
Speaker 4: This weekend, there's a few more for you here.
42:29
Speaker 3: Tristan Keyes currently committed the five star wide receiver, but
42:32
he's still taking his visits.
42:33
Speaker 7: Now.
42:33
Speaker 3: We see guys do this all the time, But I mean,
42:35
what's the confidence level right now that LS you can
42:37
keep him?
42:39
Speaker 5: Yeah.
42:39
Speaker 10: I went out to Hattie berg to about a week
42:41
and a half ago and sat down with his new
42:43
head coach, sat down with his offensive coordinator who's coached
42:46
him since he was in the eighth grade and even
42:48
sat down with Tristan for for a little bit, and
42:50
I think the feeling that I got away from it is, look,
42:52
I mean, this kid is a top rated receiver in
42:55
the country and he's going to enjoy the process. And look, Taylor,
42:58
I don't know about you, but you and I probably
43:00
weren't as beneficial to be able to enjoy things like that.
43:03
So go and enjoy it. Take the visit, you know,
43:05
and ginger fighting and guiding that OV season is. And
43:08
I think the big thing for dis recruitment is, you know,
43:12
every single person I talked to up and around that school,
43:15
from whether it was coaches, even a couple of teachers
43:17
as well, was that LSU has just made their presence
43:20
knows so well, and they've just consistently been around the school.
43:25
They've been around trust in his family, and they've been
43:28
around the coaching man who just to get to know
43:31
him more. And you know, and this day and age,
43:33
when you talk about a number one receiver, I think
43:35
the immediate reaction is when you see he sets up
43:37
a visit to their school, is like, Okay, the money
43:39
being thrown around, and that's that's a piece of the puzzle.
43:41
For sure when you have that high of a rank
43:44
and you're that type of player. But you know, just
43:46
talking with Keys, like the big message that LSU has
43:49
hit home with him is we can offer you opportunities
43:52
to help yourself, to help your family now. But this
43:54
is a place where you can come and you cannot
43:57
just get the you know, the first NFL check. But
43:59
we're we're getting guys that you know, we're developing and
44:01
they're getting that big second NFL contract and that's kind
44:04
of the big piece of the puzzle. So look, it
44:06
doesn't hurt when you have, you know, obviously the track
44:09
record that LSU does, even as recently as as Brian
44:13
Thomas Junior and league neighbors, who are you know, just
44:15
lived on fire last year. So I think heading into
44:18
the kind of you know where he's going to take
44:20
some more visits, I still feel comfortable saying LSU, you know,
44:24
is winning the battle. That's kind of how I talk
44:26
about recruiting. Now, you got to win the war. They've
44:28
won the initial battle. I still think that they're leading,
44:31
and you know the relationship with Courts has hankin just
44:34
from even talking with Keys, like it's much more than
44:37
just the bad. So I think it's just it would
44:39
be really surprising, which I know LSU has unfortunately seen
44:44
a lot of surprising stuff not go their way at
44:47
times in the recruiting world. But it would just be
44:49
really surprising with the work that they've done, was not
44:52
just him, but his family and everyone around him, for
44:55
him to kind of flip through the cracks. And I said, truly, Taylor,
44:58
I think LSU would have to miss up somewhere and
45:00
I just don't see that happening.
45:03
Speaker 2: Rush.
45:03
Speaker 3: Your Tiger fans really appreciate that. Bryce, we were up
45:05
against a heart break. But real quick, before we get
45:07
you out of here, where can people see more of
45:08
your stuff?
45:10
Speaker 10: Of course? Man, no, go twenty four to seven. Come
45:12
join us. It's a great time. We've obviously got Obcason
45:14
kicking off this weekend. As we were talking, I'm working
45:17
on a big piece kind of previous, a couple of
45:19
targets that are coming in this weekend college baseball. Obviously
45:22
we've got the region this weekend. But yeah, man, it's
45:25
a fun time. Come join the crowd for what's going
45:27
to be a really fentful months of June on the
45:29
recruiting space. But Taylor I appreciate it time man.
45:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Bryce, thanks for hopping on with us. That
45:33
right there was Bryce Coon covers LSU for twenty four
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seven sports over there at go to for seven. That's
45:39
going to wrap up our number two here on a
45:42
Wednesday of OTB. We've had a jam pack show so
45:45
far and it's gonna continue an hour three top of
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45:53
little update from OTAs. We're gonna talk some SEC Spring
45:57
meetings as that's currently going on, which is actually where
46:00
Capestor is. Then Doug Thompson's gonna hop one talk some
46:03
LSU baseball, and then we will close this thing out
46:05
with Ask the Bench to stay tuned. We got a
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JAMP backed one number three. I got a lot more
46:09
coming up for you here on a Wednesday edition of
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Off the Bench.
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