Latest / Off The Bench / Hour Three | Nick Underhill Talks Saints, OTB Mailbag & Ask the Bench
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Hands to Hester, and Hester, yep, got it, five out
- 0:07Speaker 2: of five.
- 0:07Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
- 0:10Speaker 1: other on the air.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone foul.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Cane Studio, it's Off the Bench.
- 0:19Speaker 2: I can't stand it.
- 0:29Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
- 0:31Speaker 5: Hour number three of OTV here live from the Raising
- 0:36Speaker 5: Cane's studio. Of course, our Tuesday show is brought to
- 0:39Speaker 5: you by our friends over at Community Steel. CommunitySteelCo.com is
- 0:42Speaker 5: the website. Every Tuesday at 9 a.m., we have our
- 0:45Speaker 5: guy Nick Underhill, NewOrleans.Football, who joins us.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Nicholas, it's so good to see you, sir. How you doing?
- 0:53Speaker 6: My bad, man. I'm just going to... I'm finishing up
- 0:55Speaker 6: a text to Flynn here. Wow, F me. I guess
- 0:58Speaker 6: I see how it is.
- 1:02Speaker 5: We went back into the archives, and we have not
- 1:05Speaker 5: all three been on a show together.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Let me make sure I get the date right. Since
- 1:10Speaker 4: July 14th.
- 1:11Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a while. You've been ducking, though. He's ducking. Like,
- 1:15Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 1:16Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:16Speaker 6: Maybe we're cooked, man.
- 1:18Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. We've got some good stuff that,
- 1:21Speaker 5: you know, Some good reasons why. We got excuses, and
- 1:25Speaker 5: I know typically I don't like excuses, but we were
- 1:27Speaker 5: at Media Day, and then I went on the NFL
- 1:30Speaker 5: training camp tour, and then last week they were giving
- 1:33Speaker 5: out number 18.
- 1:34Speaker 4: I had to go. He's got a pep rally today
- 1:36Speaker 4: with his son.
- 1:37Speaker 6: I mean, I guess that works. I guess that works.
- 1:40Speaker 4: That's why.
- 1:41Speaker 5: Before we get started, Flynn said it was weird that
- 1:44Speaker 5: I had a favorite musician. He said that's a 12-year-old take.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Do you have a favorite musician, and is it weird
- 1:49Speaker 5: that Flynn thinks I'm a 12-year-old for having one?
- 1:52Speaker 7: No, I mean, absolutely. I got one and it's probably
- 1:55Speaker 7: been the same one since I was 12 years old.
- 1:57Speaker 7: But yeah, definitely. Nas is number one on my list. Yeah,
- 2:01Speaker 7: Kendrick's coming up. You know, that would be the new
- 2:03Speaker 7: age pick for me. But yeah, absolutely. I mean, I
- 2:07Speaker 7: think it's weird if you don't.
- 2:09Speaker 4: I thought so too. I was like, are you?
- 2:10Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 2:11Speaker 4: I was like, oh, Matt's cool. He doesn't have a
- 2:13Speaker 4: favorite artist. Okay, good. I'm glad you're in the same
- 2:15Speaker 4: like mindset as I am.
- 2:17Speaker 1: All right.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Who is it?
- 2:19Speaker 5: I like John Mayer. And he said that that was weird.
- 2:21Speaker 5: And I was like, I like slow jazz. He plays
- 2:23Speaker 5: slow jazz.
- 2:24Speaker 4: I don't like rap. It's fine. I don't like heavy metal.
- 2:27Speaker 4: It is what it is. Everybody knows that about me.
- 2:30Speaker 4: He thought that was weird.
- 2:31Speaker 6: So yeah, you gotta have a guy. You gotta have
- 2:33Speaker 6: a guy.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:34Speaker 4: Okay. Anyways, Flynn, nerd, dork, get out of here. Um,
- 2:39Speaker 4: we're down to 53. Uh, that's exciting. Always great times.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Uh, the question that you've probably already been asked 37 times,
- 2:46Speaker 5: but we got to give our audience the same answer. Um,
- 2:50Speaker 5: Surprising cuts, surprising guys that made the team. What were
- 2:53Speaker 5: some of the biggest takeaways?
- 2:56Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess like my most surprising cut probably came yesterday.
- 2:59Speaker 6: Kevin Austin Jr.
- 3:00Speaker 7: Getting let go after they claimed those guys. That was
- 3:03Speaker 7: a big surprise to me because he's kind of been
- 3:05Speaker 7: wide receiver three all throughout camp. And I assume that
- 3:09Speaker 7: he's going to sign to the practice squad today at 301.
- 3:12Speaker 7: And I assume week one against the Lions, he's going
- 3:15Speaker 7: to be elevated and he's going to play and he's
- 3:17Speaker 7: going to get snapped. So yeah, It's usually a little
- 3:20Speaker 7: bit of manipulation. Who can you get around? Who can
- 3:21Speaker 7: you get up? Who can you get down? They might
- 3:23Speaker 7: play some guys on IR. Maybe he comes back. That
- 3:26Speaker 7: was a big surprise to me. And then the other
- 3:28Speaker 7: one was Easton Kilty and Torricelli Simpkins both getting released.
- 3:34Speaker 7: And Kilty is back on the practice squad. He'll come up.
- 3:37Speaker 7: Simpkins had to go to Carolina. I was a little
- 3:41Speaker 7: bit surprised by Bub Means, but I think there's some.
- 3:43Speaker 6: Yeah, me too.
- 3:46Speaker 7: Maybe other factors at play there where maybe it just
- 3:48Speaker 7: wasn't necessarily the greatest fit for him. And I think
- 3:51Speaker 7: it was probably wise for him to, to go somewhere else.
- 3:55Speaker 7: So that, that one, you know, on field surprised me
- 3:58Speaker 7: kind of knowing the politics behind it was like.
- 4:00Speaker 6: Ah, all right, I get it.
- 4:01Speaker 7: Like I understand why this happened, but it's still like,
- 4:03Speaker 7: I think he's going to go somewhere and probably be
- 4:06Speaker 7: Brandon Coleman or something like that. Like I can see
- 4:08Speaker 7: him being that type of player for somebody. Those are
- 4:11Speaker 7: the big ones for me though. I mean, outside of that,
- 4:13Speaker 7: I think it kind of, kind of went, You know
- 4:16Speaker 7: how I expected Mike Reed making the team was, was
- 4:19Speaker 7: one of the surprises to me, but with styles on IR,
- 4:22Speaker 7: like you need, or not on IR injured, you need
- 4:25Speaker 7: someone that can do special teams. But I think it
- 4:28Speaker 7: kind of went, it kind of went scratch across the board.
- 4:30Speaker 7: There wasn't like a big, like, Oh my God, I
- 4:32Speaker 7: can't believe this happened. You know, there were just like
- 4:33Speaker 7: a few, like, wow. Like I didn't, I didn't necessarily
- 4:36Speaker 7: see that coming, but I don't think it's like anything
- 4:37Speaker 7: that shifted the team.
- 4:38Speaker 6: Like you see some years.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Probably no surprises. They kept three quarterbacks either.
- 4:42Speaker 8: Right.
- 4:44Speaker 7: No, I mean, they were getting calls on both those guys. So,
- 4:47Speaker 7: you know, I know there's like a viewpoint in the
- 4:49Speaker 7: fan base. I like the backup quarterback supposed to be,
- 4:52Speaker 7: you know, Patrick Mahomes Jr.
- 4:54Speaker 6: And pushing the starter.
- 4:55Speaker 7: But like, I think they got, they got two guys
- 4:57Speaker 7: that could probably come in and operate in a certain way.
- 5:00Speaker 6: You know, like we seem right.
- 5:02Speaker 7: Look, everybody wants to point to like Mac Jones, right?
- 5:05Speaker 7: Like in last year, what'd he, what'd he do? He
- 5:07Speaker 7: went like five and two with the 40 or whatever
- 5:09Speaker 7: it was. But the year before he had the same
- 5:11Speaker 7: type of line that, that Rattler had in Jacksonville. I
- 5:14Speaker 7: think he started like seven games, went two and five.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:17Speaker 7: It wasn't spectacular. Maybe it was one in five or whatever.
- 5:20Speaker 7: If you get into a situation where your backup quarterback
- 5:23Speaker 7: can just be a distributor of the ball, not commit
- 5:25Speaker 7: a lot of turnovers and keep you in games. It's
- 5:27Speaker 7: kind of on, you know, George Kittle to find a
- 5:29Speaker 7: way to, to win you a game or Christian McCaffrey
- 5:31Speaker 7: at that point. I think Spencer in the right situation
- 5:34Speaker 7: could be that. Jacksonville wanted to trade for him. There
- 5:37Speaker 7: were other teams that called for him. Obviously, the compensation
- 5:40Speaker 7: wasn't there to make it happen, but I think he's
- 5:42Speaker 7: a fine backup quarterback. I want to see what Zach
- 5:45Speaker 7: Wilson can be as well. I think there's some upside there.
- 5:50Speaker 7: There's obviously downside there. A lot of coaches have tried
- 5:53Speaker 7: their hand at it. It hasn't quite worked out, but...
- 5:55Speaker 7: You know, you look at Chuck last year against Jacksonville
- 5:58Speaker 7: in the preseason and then who he was against Carolina
- 6:00Speaker 7: in the regular season. And like over that, that 10, 11,
- 6:03Speaker 7: 12 week span, immense growth.
- 6:06Speaker 6: Yeah. Rattler with Kubiak. Like it was kind of first half.
- 6:09Speaker 7: They can smoke and mirrors it, get them on the move,
- 6:11Speaker 7: kind of scheme up these easy throws. And then it
- 6:13Speaker 7: will fall apart as soon as, you know, the five
- 6:16Speaker 7: minute market in the second quarter.
- 6:17Speaker 6: And it was over a year later with this group.
- 6:20Speaker 7: Kind of you know was was at least interesting in
- 6:23Speaker 7: his tenure not good enough to be a starter but
- 6:26Speaker 7: like it was interesting enough to like at times be
- 6:28Speaker 7: like huh I wonder where this could go and then
- 6:30Speaker 7: this year I don't think he elevated it enough to
- 6:32Speaker 7: continue that conversation but again a guy that I think
- 6:34Speaker 7: made it quite a bit of growth so like I'm
- 6:36Speaker 7: curious to see what Zach can do with the staff
- 6:38Speaker 7: too like there's maybe some stuff that says they know
- 6:41Speaker 7: how to develop quarterbacks but you know we'll see over time.
- 6:44Speaker 5: Yeah I can tell you being around the league for
- 6:46Speaker 5: the last month or so Spencer Rattler's name kept coming
- 6:48Speaker 5: up in conversations of guys that were intriguing to teams
- 6:52Speaker 5: that were looking to add to the quarterback position. Multiple places,
- 6:54Speaker 5: not just one, Nick, that I was at. They kind of, hey,
- 6:57Speaker 5: where are you living now?
- 6:58Speaker 4: Back in Baton Rouge.
- 6:59Speaker 5: And then we'd start a Saints conversation, and it would
- 7:01Speaker 5: always find its way back some way, somehow, to Spencer Rattler.
- 7:04Speaker 5: So in the league, as you know, in league circles,
- 7:06Speaker 5: he has talked about this potentially being somebody that another
- 7:10Speaker 5: team would value more than he's valued with the Saints.
- 7:13Speaker 7: There's no doubt about it. And look, I understand the disconnect.
- 7:16Speaker 7: I would say if you're out there, and again, it's practice.
- 7:19Speaker 7: Who cares if it's not on the field?
- 7:20Speaker 6: But Like, training camp was really solid.
- 7:22Speaker 7: That first preseason game, I think, put a really sour
- 7:25Speaker 7: taste in people's mouth. Like, you know, Saints fans' mouths.
- 7:28Speaker 7: And I understand it. The pick six did as well.
- 7:31Speaker 7: As I'm sitting here being like, well, hey, you can
- 7:32Speaker 7: distribute the ball and not make a mistake. Well, yeah,
- 7:34Speaker 7: I mean, he threw a pick six.
- 7:35Speaker 6: So, like, I understand.
- 7:36Speaker 5: The joint practices were so much different for him, though.
- 7:39Speaker 5: I mean, at least the ones I was at.
- 7:42Speaker 6: Yeah. Look, I think he's a solid backup.
- 7:44Speaker 7: Like I, I don't know what the, when I think
- 7:46Speaker 7: of a backup quarterback, a really good one, I think.
- 7:48Speaker 6: Of Brian Hoyer and you know, it's like he.
- 7:51Speaker 7: He wasn't going to start, he wasn't going to push
- 7:53Speaker 7: Tom Brady, but if he went into a game, he
- 7:56Speaker 7: might be able to get the ball to, you know,
- 7:59Speaker 7: Gronk or, you know, whoever in let them try to
- 8:02Speaker 7: win a game. And I think, I think Spencer could
- 8:03Speaker 7: do that for your team. So yeah, keeping all three makes,
- 8:06Speaker 7: makes a ton of sense to me. Um, And there
- 8:08Speaker 7: was interest in Zach Wilson too. Like I know a
- 8:10Speaker 7: couple of teams called on him as well, like trying
- 8:12Speaker 7: to offer like a six, seven swap or something like that.
- 8:14Speaker 6: And they're like, ah, we'll just keep them.
- 8:15Speaker 4: Right. All right.
- 8:16Speaker 5: Let's go to the running back position. You're going to
- 8:19Speaker 5: keep four guys right now. It's a position that's been
- 8:22Speaker 5: banged up all throughout training camp. I guess it's probably
- 8:25Speaker 5: hard to really get a handle on who can do
- 8:28Speaker 5: what for you. Now the lead guy has actually been
- 8:31Speaker 5: available more than anybody. It's a group that's very talented,
- 8:34Speaker 5: but it's also a group that, it's got some injury
- 8:38Speaker 5: history to it.
- 8:39Speaker 4: And so I like it on the surface. I like
- 8:42Speaker 4: the group. I like what they can do.
- 8:43Speaker 5: They're all different backs, I think, but the injury stuff
- 8:46Speaker 5: kind of does make me nervous about the saints running
- 8:48Speaker 5: backs behind a chance.
- 8:51Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree.
- 8:52Speaker 7: Um, you know, AK, I would say as it sits today,
- 8:56Speaker 7: September 1st, what is it? 12 days away from, from
- 8:58Speaker 7: that game, I would say 45% chance of playing. Um,
- 9:02Speaker 7: I know people closer to him say it's probably more
- 9:06Speaker 7: like 65% chance, but like, you know, I, I, I'm,
- 9:09Speaker 7: I'm handicapping that a little bit down, but I think
- 9:11Speaker 7: there's a chance he could play week one is what
- 9:13Speaker 7: I'm saying.
- 9:13Speaker 6: I'm not saying it's a guarantee.
- 9:14Speaker 7: I think there there's, it's in the cards at least
- 9:16Speaker 7: with the way things are trending for him. So I
- 9:18Speaker 7: guess that would be a positive, but yeah, like Kendrick Miller,
- 9:21Speaker 7: we know what he is, but we don't know when
- 9:24Speaker 7: he's going to be able to be that. Like, cause
- 9:26Speaker 7: the availability could change any moment estimate as some injuries
- 9:29Speaker 7: came back. I would say in like the little perfect
- 9:32Speaker 7: on paper, nothing bad happens when your name's written on
- 9:34Speaker 7: a piece of paper. Um, I, I think it's an
- 9:38Speaker 7: extremely talented group of players. Um, a chance really good
- 9:42Speaker 7: at like, um, Kendra Miller kind of tipped their hands
- 9:45Speaker 7: a little bit and said they want to flip it
- 9:47Speaker 7: from last year and have it be more.
- 9:48Speaker 6: Outside zone than inside zone.
- 9:50Speaker 7: Like that benefits AK a lot.
- 9:52Speaker 6: Like he's a he's a good outside zone runner. So
- 9:55Speaker 6: if they were doing that with him, it would be
- 9:56Speaker 6: it would be good.
- 9:57Speaker 7: Kendra, I think every time you looked at him in
- 9:59Speaker 7: the preseason.
- 10:00Speaker 6: It reminded you of like, this is why that guy
- 10:02Speaker 6: was a third round pick.
- 10:03Speaker 7: And that's the amazing guy that like, I, if he's
- 10:06Speaker 7: your fourth, I think you ever have a pretty good room.
- 10:09Speaker 6: He is man.
- 10:10Speaker 5: I mean, he runs off. He's one of the other
- 10:14Speaker 5: guys too. So you can kind of justify keeping him
- 10:16Speaker 5: because of his style. And then also let him be
- 10:18Speaker 5: a team scout.
- 10:20Speaker 7: And then he also randomly will just break off a
- 10:24Speaker 7: 16-yard run.
- 10:26Speaker 4: I like him.
- 10:27Speaker 6: I like him quite a bit.
- 10:28Speaker 7: He's someone that I kind of expect at some point
- 10:31Speaker 7: to get an opportunity beyond here and get more carries
- 10:35Speaker 7: and do all this stuff.
- 10:36Speaker 6: I like him. a lot.
- 10:37Speaker 7: Like I think in the right place in the right scheme,
- 10:39Speaker 7: like he, he can be a guy that could give
- 10:41Speaker 7: you legitimate carries. If you wanted to make him your
- 10:44Speaker 7: RB two or something like that, he's four here, which
- 10:46Speaker 7: is a good place. And then Zemir white, I was
- 10:48Speaker 7: encouraged by how he moved in the final preseason game.
- 10:50Speaker 7: He's on the practice squad. So there's some, there's suddenly
- 10:55Speaker 7: some depth there. There's enough guys there that, you know,
- 10:57Speaker 7: I look at it and I think this could be
- 10:59Speaker 7: a part of their identity, which it, which it has
- 11:01Speaker 7: to be last year.
- 11:02Speaker 6: The run game was, was terrible.
- 11:03Speaker 7: We've seen more under center stuff and, it's getting kind
- 11:06Speaker 7: of getting married into play action a lot more their
- 11:08Speaker 7: first down play action usage last year like in the
- 11:10Speaker 7: first i don't know two quarters of games was really
- 11:13Speaker 7: weird like i think that's going to change i think
- 11:15Speaker 7: it's going to be more cohesive i think it's going
- 11:17Speaker 7: to fit and then yeah a-chan has looked great like
- 11:20Speaker 7: start to finish so i like that group quite a
- 11:22Speaker 7: bit i mean i think they're part of the reason
- 11:24Speaker 7: why you can look beyond like jordan tyson being on
- 11:26Speaker 7: ir and like okay there's other ways that you can
- 11:28Speaker 7: move the.
- 11:28Speaker 5: Ball here Yeah, and if we go to Jordan Tyson,
- 11:32Speaker 5: and not really just him specifically, but the receiver position,
- 11:35Speaker 5: it is a group that I feel much better about
- 11:37Speaker 5: right now than where they ended last year, and you
- 11:40Speaker 5: drafted a couple of players, and I think in some part,
- 11:44Speaker 5: because of Jordan Tyson's injury history, now they were fourth
- 11:47Speaker 5: and sixth rounders, but you kind of said, hey, okay,
- 11:50Speaker 5: if we don't have that guy, we still have to
- 11:51Speaker 5: make our room better, and I think the room is
- 11:53Speaker 5: much better right now and maybe to some people's surprise
- 11:57Speaker 5: means is cut Palmer's cut Austin ends up making the
- 12:01Speaker 5: team and so what did you make of that one
- 12:03Speaker 5: and then two you and I have talked about this
- 12:05Speaker 5: so many times in the past the returner had to
- 12:09Speaker 5: be better than it was a year ago the return
- 12:10Speaker 5: game had to be much better than it was a
- 12:13Speaker 5: year ago so is it Barry on Brown and both
- 12:15Speaker 5: of those roles do you see him in that role I.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Do, yeah.
- 12:19Speaker 7: I think they're going to lean into that quite a bit.
- 12:22Speaker 7: And I'm excited to see where it goes. When was
- 12:25Speaker 7: the last time you said we were all on the
- 12:26Speaker 7: show together?
- 12:27Speaker 6: June 2nd? It was like early July.
- 12:31Speaker 7: Okay, so the last time we were all on the
- 12:33Speaker 7: show together, like imagine we said, okay, let's talk about
- 12:37Speaker 7: the wide receiver depth chart. Trey Palmer's not on the team.
- 12:40Speaker 7: Jalen Polk's not on the team. Jordan Tyson's going on
- 12:43Speaker 7: a high arc. We would have been like, oh my God,
- 12:45Speaker 7: it's a disaster. They're going to win four games. And
- 12:48Speaker 7: you look at it now and you're like, yeah. Like
- 12:50Speaker 7: it could be okay. Like it's not that bad. Barry
- 12:52Speaker 7: and Brown has looked really good. Bryce Lance is his
- 12:55Speaker 7: look way better than I expected them to look in
- 12:57Speaker 7: year one.
- 12:58Speaker 6: Crystal Ave feels like he's leveled up a little bit.
- 13:01Speaker 4: Even Velez.
- 13:02Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean, Velez looks great.
- 13:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:05Speaker 6: Kevin Austin jr.
- 13:06Speaker 7: Is cut, but we think he'll be back probably, you know,
- 13:08Speaker 7: like I said, probably three Oh three today. One of those, oh,
- 13:11Speaker 7: is it okay for me to come back in the
- 13:12Speaker 7: locker room now type deals? So I think, yeah, I
- 13:15Speaker 7: think that group.
- 13:16Speaker 6: Is solid, man.
- 13:17Speaker 7: And then Jordan Tyson's on the shelf and, okay, take
- 13:20Speaker 7: your time. You know, like four weeks, week fives, that
- 13:23Speaker 7: MetLife surface, like, ah, maybe take it to week six.
- 13:26Speaker 7: Maybe make it a Paris debut. Don't want to fly
- 13:28Speaker 7: over there and get an extra week. All right, take
- 13:30Speaker 7: your time. It just kind of feels like they actually
- 13:32Speaker 7: have options with this stuff.
- 13:33Speaker 6: They don't have to hurry him back.
- 13:34Speaker 7: You can take your time and just kind of make
- 13:36Speaker 7: sure that everything's moving forward the right way. Because these
- 13:40Speaker 7: two guys have just extremely exceeded expectations.
- 13:43Speaker 6: Like, Barry and Brown looks.
- 13:45Speaker 7: Man, like, 14, they wanted to do all this stuff
- 13:47Speaker 7: with Brandon Cooks, and he couldn't, like, stop and turn.
- 13:49Speaker 7: And then, like, in this game, you see one of
- 13:51Speaker 7: those plays. Brown kind of plants. He has the wiggle
- 13:53Speaker 7: to him. He cuts up the field. Like, there's just
- 13:56Speaker 7: a lot of stuff you can do with him that
- 13:57Speaker 7: I think opens up your offense. That's a group I
- 14:00Speaker 7: feel great about. Like, there are some real players there,
- 14:05Speaker 7: and they're young, which is, you know, the best part
- 14:07Speaker 7: about it.
- 14:08Speaker 5: It's a group that I like a lot as well,
- 14:10Speaker 5: but let's go to the other side. Maybe a group
- 14:13Speaker 5: that you're still a little nervous about. What's one that
- 14:15Speaker 5: you're worried about? Final rosters there. You can still pick
- 14:19Speaker 5: up on the waiver wire, obviously. Things can happen, but
- 14:22Speaker 5: for the most part, you are what you are.
- 14:24Speaker 4: What's that group?
- 14:26Speaker 7: Cornerback I think is, is one that I'm a little
- 14:28Speaker 7: bit worried about. Um, and you know, there's an element
- 14:31Speaker 7: on though, and they're like Quincy Riley has this injury.
- 14:34Speaker 6: They haven't put them on IR. So I guess that
- 14:35Speaker 6: that's a good signal, but still.
- 14:37Speaker 7: I think not seeing him doesn't allow you to see that,
- 14:40Speaker 7: that growth that he's made.
- 14:41Speaker 6: So it's still a bit of a mystery. Sanker.
- 14:43Speaker 7: We've seen some good things is that, you know, star corner, um,
- 14:49Speaker 7: Bit of an unknown there. You know, I feel good
- 14:50Speaker 7: about Kool-Aid. Emerson, for a minute, had me feeling great,
- 14:53Speaker 7: and then it was kind of shaky. I do think
- 14:55Speaker 7: if he went into a game, they'd be able to
- 14:57Speaker 7: game plan around it and, you know, make sure he's
- 15:00Speaker 7: in spots where, you know, kind of those PBUs and
- 15:02Speaker 7: some of the stuff he can do can show up.
- 15:04Speaker 7: But it's worrisome overall. And, yeah, the is-what-it-is element of
- 15:08Speaker 7: it I think kind of is where you're at. Like
- 15:11Speaker 7: you probably aren't going out and getting a, a cornerback
- 15:14Speaker 7: that's changing your fortunes right now. I was looking at like,
- 15:16Speaker 7: I don't know, Tredavious white. Like, is that the guy
- 15:19Speaker 7: that's not like that? That's the type of player that
- 15:21Speaker 7: you could probably bring in right now to bolster that depth.
- 15:23Speaker 7: But I don't know that you're changing your reality without
- 15:26Speaker 7: making a trade.
- 15:27Speaker 6: And who's, who's trading the corner or.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Sean Latimore's out there.
- 15:29Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 15:31Speaker 7: I mean, the last time, I don't know if he's
- 15:34Speaker 7: changing the fortunes for me either. Um, So yeah, I
- 15:38Speaker 7: just kind of think you are what you are there.
- 15:39Speaker 7: Like it's really on Quincy getting back and being good.
- 15:42Speaker 7: Sanker coming back and being good. But I think as
- 15:43Speaker 7: it stands today, that that's, I don't know that I
- 15:46Speaker 7: would like go full blown.
- 15:47Speaker 6: I'm worried, but it's on that, that list of concerns.
- 15:49Speaker 7: I could graduate to worry pretty quickly depending on the
- 15:52Speaker 7: first couple of weeks ago.
- 15:54Speaker 5: All right, give us the player that maybe coming into
- 15:57Speaker 5: training camp, Nick, you were like, there's no way, there's
- 15:59Speaker 5: no how, move on, they're not making the roster, but
- 16:02Speaker 5: one that throughout training camp continued to impress, continued to
- 16:05Speaker 5: catch eyeballs at practice, at joint practices, at preseason games,
- 16:09Speaker 5: somebody that maybe you didn't give any chance to make
- 16:12Speaker 5: the team that ended up either making the team or
- 16:15Speaker 5: if they didn't make the team, they're on the practice
- 16:17Speaker 5: squad and they're going to have a real opportunity.
- 16:20Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess.
- 16:22Speaker 7: I guess Zach Wilson would probably be the guy for
- 16:24Speaker 7: me when they signed him. I was like, there's no,
- 16:25Speaker 7: there's no chance. And then he kind of, I don't know.
- 16:28Speaker 7: He kind of convinced me. And there was a little
- 16:29Speaker 7: bit of a case there in the moment where it's like, Ooh,
- 16:32Speaker 7: could he be QB too? And then he kind of
- 16:34Speaker 7: reminds you he's not, but I guess that was the
- 16:35Speaker 7: guy when they saw him, like, you know, is this
- 16:38Speaker 7: actually worth it?
- 16:39Speaker 6: You know, I like Rattler. I like shock.
- 16:41Speaker 7: And then he ends up making the team. So, so
- 16:42Speaker 7: that would probably be one. I don't know that there's
- 16:45Speaker 7: anyone like, it felt like this was a year where
- 16:49Speaker 7: it went almost exactly to plan. Like, yeah, No, you know,
- 16:52Speaker 7: UDF has made it, which is kind of weird.
- 16:56Speaker 6: Yeah, man. Like just straight across the board.
- 16:58Speaker 7: It felt like kind of like chalk all the way,
- 17:01Speaker 7: all the way down the line for him.
- 17:05Speaker 5: I think a lot of it, even because they brought
- 17:07Speaker 5: in like veteran players to like in different times of
- 17:10Speaker 5: the year, wasn't just like the first free agent splash.
- 17:13Speaker 4: So I can think about edge rusher.
- 17:15Speaker 5: They trade for Tyree Wilson during the draft, and they
- 17:17Speaker 5: bring in Anthony Jennings during draft time. And so it
- 17:20Speaker 5: wasn't that first wave of free agency, but they kind
- 17:23Speaker 5: of went in with a plan that, hey, we're not
- 17:25Speaker 5: going to just add young guys. We're going to add
- 17:26Speaker 5: guys that have been in the NFL, good or bad, right?
- 17:30Speaker 5: Like Tyree Wilson and his situation, we kind of all
- 17:32Speaker 5: know it. But I feel like they did more of
- 17:34Speaker 5: that this year, and so maybe that's why. Even Zach Wilson,
- 17:38Speaker 5: typically that would be Hunter Deckers would be your third quarterback.
- 17:41Speaker 5: but they bring in a Zach Wilson. So I think
- 17:43Speaker 5: they kind of planned it a little bit different than
- 17:45Speaker 5: they have in the past.
- 17:47Speaker 7: Yeah. Like the biggest surprise make of the team and
- 17:49Speaker 7: he got waved yesterday, but you know, again, he'll be
- 17:52Speaker 7: back trading Welch, but last year on cut down day,
- 17:55Speaker 7: I was literally on this show.
- 17:57Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
- 17:57Speaker 6: Like nine Oh three. I said, I think trade.
- 17:59Speaker 7: Mulch is going to make the team that the notification
- 18:02Speaker 7: is that like nine Oh eight, it was like, Oh,
- 18:03Speaker 7: trade mulch got cut. So like, even though what isn't,
- 18:06Speaker 7: isn't even a huge surprise. Cause we we've kind of
- 18:08Speaker 7: been up on him for a while.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:09Speaker 7: I don't think, I don't think there's anyone that kind
- 18:11Speaker 7: of blew my mind on the list. It just really
- 18:14Speaker 7: felt like, okay, we're slotting the names in. And then
- 18:16Speaker 7: by the end of camp, they were pretty much, you know,
- 18:19Speaker 7: a couple of little things like Mike Reed or whatever,
- 18:21Speaker 7: but like nothing that, that was, that was outlandish.
- 18:24Speaker 4: All right. There he is.
- 18:25Speaker 5: Our guy, Nick Underhill, new Orleans dot football. Always good
- 18:28Speaker 5: enough to join us here on a Tuesdays. Nicholas, we
- 18:31Speaker 5: appreciate it. Good to be back with you, sir. And
- 18:32Speaker 5: I promise next week is going to be the trio.
- 18:36Speaker 5: We're going to have Flynn back in here. All three
- 18:38Speaker 5: of us together. For the first time since this summer.
- 18:42Speaker 5: Don't make promises, man. Don't, don't do it.
- 18:44Speaker 4: We appreciate it, brother. All right, man.
- 18:46Speaker 6: Take it easy.
- 18:52Speaker 5: Saints didn't have a lot of surprises. I mean, I'm
- 18:55Speaker 5: with Nick on there. As you sit there and you
- 18:56Speaker 5: look at the 53, there's not a ton of surprises
- 19:00Speaker 5: and the saints have always been, you know, Mason Tipton
- 19:03Speaker 5: made the team type team.
- 19:04Speaker 4: And so, I don't know if that's good. I don't
- 19:07Speaker 4: know if that's bad.
- 19:07Speaker 5: But less surprises for the New Orleans Saints. I think
- 19:10Speaker 5: they constructed this roster a little bit differently than they
- 19:13Speaker 5: normally do. And we said that all offseason. Mickey Loomis
- 19:16Speaker 5: spending money. They got rid of some salaries.
- 19:19Speaker 4: They had some money to spend.
- 19:21Speaker 5: So many times, so many years, they were right there,
- 19:23Speaker 5: either up against the cap or over the cap. But
- 19:27Speaker 5: now they got some dead money. We're not going to
- 19:30Speaker 5: act like they don't. But now it feels like a
- 19:31Speaker 5: completely different situation. It feels like they formatted this roster
- 19:35Speaker 5: in a different way. I mean, even right now as we.
- 19:38Speaker 3: Sit here, they have $ 11. 2 million to spend if they
- 19:43Speaker 3: wanted to. Saints never had that much at this time
- 19:45Speaker 3: of the year. So they extend some people, they make
- 19:47Speaker 3: some trades, a different looking roster for the new Orleans
- 19:50Speaker 3: Saints heading into this season.
- 19:52Speaker 4: All right, we will step away.
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- 23:02Speaker 4: little OTB mailbag.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Special delivery.
- 23:06Speaker 8: I have this special delivery for Dr.
- 23:08Speaker 1: Bench.
- 23:08Speaker 6: And look, it is marked most urgent.
- 23:10Speaker 4: We'll be writing to you.
- 23:11Speaker 1: The internet.
- 23:13Speaker 6: What the f * * * is the internet?
- 23:33Speaker 4: All right, let's see.
- 23:34Speaker 5: I want to make sure I get them all. There's
- 23:38Speaker 5: some at the top here. Hashtag OTV mailbag. If Coach
- 23:43Speaker 5: Lane Kiffin wins a natty, two natties. Within his first
- 23:48Speaker 5: three years, how long does he stay?
- 23:51Speaker 9: Long as he wants. I mean, where else is he?
- 23:55Speaker 9: I don't know if Lane Kiffin has NFL aspirations.
- 23:58Speaker 4: He's been there, done that.
- 23:59Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, where else would he get?
- 24:01Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the college game certainly is more suited
- 24:03Speaker 5: for the way that he likes to conduct everything.
- 24:05Speaker 4: I don't think there's any place better than LSU, certainly
- 24:08Speaker 4: if you're winning national championships. Hashtag O2B mailbag. Do you
- 24:17Speaker 4: all know what musical artist is going to be performing
- 24:20Speaker 4: during game day this weekend?
- 24:23Speaker 9: No, but we got a lot of options. I mean,
- 24:26Speaker 9: we got Laney's an option. Jordan Davis is an option.
- 24:30Speaker 9: And held some girls from Louisiana. And you got to,
- 24:33Speaker 9: you got to, and that's, that's just country.
- 24:39Speaker 5: I do think, I think I remember Jordan telling me
- 24:41Speaker 5: he was going to be at the game.
- 24:44Speaker 4: So, if he's already going to be here.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Well, Braxton's going to kick the field goal, so.
- 24:49Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 24:50Speaker 4: I forgot about that.
- 24:52Speaker 5: Jordan and Jacob Davis went to the game at Clemson
- 24:56Speaker 5: last year, and I'm pretty sure they're.
- 24:57Speaker 4: Coming back this year. Hell, yeah. Hashtag O2B mailbag. Has
- 25:04Speaker 4: Boosie ever been on game day?
- 25:06Speaker 9: Like, as a guest picker, I don't think so.
- 25:09Speaker 5: I don't think so, but he'd be great. Hashtag O2
- 25:13Speaker 5: email bag. Does Dajon Love have eligibility?
- 25:16Speaker 4: Yep.
- 25:17Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't play in the NFL, so I
- 25:19Speaker 2: think so.
- 25:19Speaker 5: The fact that anybody saw him running a route and
- 25:22Speaker 5: thought he was a pro is wild.
- 25:24Speaker 2: That's what we were telling Matt yesterday because he was like,
- 25:29Speaker 2: I was like, the videos were so funny. And he
- 25:31Speaker 2: was like, why does he not look fit? And I
- 25:32Speaker 2: was like, no, he looks fit.
- 25:34Speaker 4: Not even really, though.
- 25:35Speaker 2: No, I mean, he wasn't fat and obese, but he
- 25:40Speaker 2: had some muscle on him. But I was like, he
- 25:42Speaker 2: just looked unathletic doing it.
- 25:44Speaker 4: He's wearing his 49ers helmet. On the beach.
- 25:47Speaker 5: Well, like, people do weird stuff for social media now, training-wise.
- 25:50Speaker 4: True.
- 25:50Speaker 5: So, like, that part of it is, like, the least
- 25:53Speaker 5: he's not a pro part. It was his stance. His
- 25:56Speaker 5: outside foot was up. That outside foot's always.
- 25:59Speaker 4: Going to be back.
- 25:59Speaker 2: The video of him doing karaoke is really funny, too.
- 26:01Speaker 4: Oh, this is so bad.
- 26:03Speaker 5: I guarantee you Harlow can run a better route than
- 26:05Speaker 5: he ran in that beach video.
- 26:06Speaker 9: Well, I mean, dude, at some point.
- 26:07Speaker 4: I know Memphis can, without a doubt.
- 26:09Speaker 9: We were talking about it yesterday. At some point, it's
- 26:11Speaker 9: kind of on you because, like. No, it's fully on you.
- 26:14Speaker 8: 126 women.
- 26:16Speaker 9: Get fooled by this? There's like a quick Google search
- 26:19Speaker 9: will tell you that Dajon Love is not a person.
- 26:21Speaker 2: Like, just stupid. That or you're so desperate to want
- 26:25Speaker 2: to be a wag and like an influencer or whatever
- 26:28Speaker 2: that you're just so stupid that you fell for it.
- 26:31Speaker 2: But like, me? I do my due diligence when I'm
- 26:35Speaker 2: talking to a man. I thought everybody would. So like,
- 26:37Speaker 2: I thought so too. I thought like we were crazy
- 26:39Speaker 2: or whatever.
- 26:40Speaker 4: I was like, the first time you get his name, Google.
- 26:42Speaker 2: So, the, There was a girl... Yeah, Google 100%. Like,
- 26:46Speaker 2: I'm Googling you immediately.
- 26:48Speaker 6: Right.
- 26:48Speaker 2: And so, especially if you're trying to tell me that
- 26:50Speaker 2: you're an NFL player.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Right.
- 26:52Speaker 2: And I guess one of the girls that found out,
- 26:55Speaker 2: and she didn't get scammed. Like, she was one of
- 26:57Speaker 2: the smart ones. She was looking at his.
- 27:01Speaker 2: He sent her a video and she felt weird about
- 27:03Speaker 2: the video. So she looked at the metadata of it
- 27:06Speaker 2: and she was like, Oh, this wasn't recorded when he
- 27:08Speaker 2: said it was. And I was like, that's something I
- 27:10Speaker 2: would do. And how was not everybody else doing this? Wait,
- 27:13Speaker 2: like you can look at the metadata.
- 27:15Speaker 6: I don't know what that means.
- 27:16Speaker 2: I got you.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Metadata.
- 27:19Speaker 2: So like, so the metadata tells you when something was taken,
- 27:22Speaker 2: where it was taken, what it was taken with like
- 27:25Speaker 2: an iPhone camera, whatever. And I guess like she had
- 27:28Speaker 2: looked at it. And she was like, wait, this wasn't
- 27:31Speaker 2: on the date that he said that this was taken
- 27:33Speaker 2: or the place that it was taken.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 27:35Speaker 2: So that's how she found out. And I'm like, that's
- 27:38Speaker 2: something I would do.
- 27:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 27:39Speaker 9: I would just Google Dajon Love 49ers.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. But to Alondra's point, there's ways.
- 27:45Speaker 9: Well, that's just cool. I didn't even know you could
- 27:46Speaker 9: do that.
- 27:47Speaker 4: I still don't know what she's talking about. I'm just
- 27:49Speaker 4: going to shake my head and smile.
- 27:50Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 27:51Speaker 4: And she's going to show me later.
- 27:52Speaker 2: I'll show you.
- 27:56Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Anyways, you're stupid, and I don't feel sorry for you
- 27:58Speaker 2: if you fell for it.
- 28:01Speaker 5: Daniel said, get Anthony Mackie for game day so Jordan
- 28:03Speaker 5: and Scone can melt.
- 28:05Speaker 4: Bro. I've always had a great time with Anthony Mackie.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Wait, does Matt not like Anthony Mackie?
- 28:10Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 28:13Speaker 5: They got in like an altercation after I think the
- 28:17Speaker 5: Peach Bowl maybe in 2019.
- 28:18Speaker 2: That's really funny. That is really funny.
- 28:21Speaker 4: I think something like that.
- 28:22Speaker 2: He holds grudges.
- 28:23Speaker 4: I love Anthony Mackie. He invited me to go fishing
- 28:25Speaker 4: in St. Francisville one time. Let's go. Let's do it.
- 28:30Speaker 9: Jordan's reasoning is still the funniest thing in the world.
- 28:32Speaker 5: I know.
- 28:33Speaker 4: It really is.
- 28:35Speaker 9: He's like, I was about to ask him another question,
- 28:37Speaker 9: and he walked away before.
- 28:38Speaker 4: Uh-oh. MR Video said, yeah, right. You can turn that
- 28:42Speaker 4: data off for photos and videos.
- 28:44Speaker 9: Don't tell people.
- 28:44Speaker 4: Don't tell people that. I don't even know what I'm
- 28:46Speaker 4: talking about, though. Scone would have dropped Mackie. Okay. Captain America.
- 28:51Speaker 4: Get out of here.
- 29:00Speaker 5: Hashtag OTB mailbag outside of the LSU game this weekend.
- 29:03Speaker 4: Which one are you looking the most forward to? I mean,
- 29:05Speaker 4: Ole Miss Louisville.
- 29:07Speaker 9: Sunday night. It's not a great slate week one. We
- 29:11Speaker 9: were talking about it earlier.
- 29:14Speaker 4: It's a terrible.
- 29:15Speaker 9: There's a couple, but.
- 29:17Speaker 5: There's not even a couple. Outside of the game that
- 29:19Speaker 5: we're talking about, LSU Clemson, there's one. What other game
- 29:22Speaker 5: is going.
- 29:23Speaker 4: To be good?
- 29:25Speaker 9: I'm looking right now.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:26Speaker 6: No. No.
- 29:27Speaker 4: If you say Utah Tech and BYU.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I can't wait for that one.
- 29:30Speaker 9: Utah Tech, all right.
- 29:31Speaker 2: I'm going to be tuned in.
- 29:33Speaker 4: The Trailblazers. Is there any on Thursday? Yes, I was.
- 29:38Speaker 9: Telling you, Georgia Tech, Colorado. is Thursday, which I don't
- 29:42Speaker 9: think is going to be a good game.
- 29:43Speaker 4: What about Friday? There's a slate of games on Friday.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Let me see if I have any.
- 29:48Speaker 5: I mean, if you're looking for a barn burner, you've
- 29:53Speaker 5: got Long Island University at Kansas.
- 29:56Speaker 2: I got a text. Hashtag OTB mailbag. How many legs
- 30:00Speaker 2: for a college football parlay is too many?
- 30:03Speaker 4: How many likes?
- 30:04Speaker 2: Legs for a parlay.
- 30:05Speaker 8: Legs.
- 30:07Speaker 4: I like six is a sweet spot.
- 30:08Speaker 9: Yeah, I think anything more than six.
- 30:10Speaker 4: I like six is a sweet spot.
- 30:12Speaker 2: I like to do like a.
- 30:13Speaker 4: Like if you're going big, I'm saying.
- 30:14Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:15Speaker 4: Three's typically like what you're going to do. Six if
- 30:17Speaker 4: you're going for all or nothing.
- 30:19Speaker 2: If there's a good UFC card.
- 30:21Speaker 4: $ 25 six leg parlay is usually $ 1, 000.
- 30:23Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:25Speaker 2: If there's a good UFC card, I love to do, like,
- 30:27Speaker 2: a combo. Like, I love to do a college football
- 30:30Speaker 2: slash UFC one. Hashtag OTB Melba. What school would you
- 30:32Speaker 2: want to replace LSU in the SEC?
- 30:38Speaker 9: Clemson. You still have a Tiger. You still have Death Valley.
- 30:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:42Speaker 6: Still have a.
- 30:44Speaker 9: Coach that a lot of people don't like.
- 30:46Speaker 4: That's a good one. Clemson. I would say if I'm
- 30:49Speaker 4: going different.
- 30:50Speaker 5: Tulane's the obvious answer because they've been in the SEC before,
- 30:52Speaker 5: but so has Georgia Tech.
- 30:53Speaker 4: I think Georgia Tech would make a lot of sense
- 30:55Speaker 4: in the SEC.
- 30:55Speaker 9: That could be good.
- 30:57Speaker 4: You know what's funny? I've been dealing with this one-ear
- 31:00Speaker 4: situation all show long.
- 31:01Speaker 5: I just accidentally stepped on the cord, stepped on it,
- 31:04Speaker 5: and now I can hear out of both ears if
- 31:05Speaker 5: I keep my.
- 31:06Speaker 4: Foot on it. If I take my foot off, it's done.
- 31:08Speaker 4: If I step on it, oh, no. Yep, there we go.
- 31:10Speaker 4: Both ears. There we go.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Do you have the adapter on it or it's just?
- 31:17Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it.
- 31:18Speaker 6: Okay.
- 31:18Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. I don't know what's going on here. It's fine.
- 31:22Speaker 4: It's fine. We're all fine. Florida State makes a lot
- 31:25Speaker 4: of sense to the SEC, too.
- 31:27Speaker 9: Three years ago, I would have said Florida State.
- 31:28Speaker 4: I mean, I know they're not good anymore.
- 31:34Speaker 9: North Carolina would be fun. It's a state you're not
- 31:37Speaker 9: in yet.
- 31:46Speaker 4: Didn't tease hype video caused LSU to lose. When did
- 31:49Speaker 4: he do a hype video? I don't remember that. I
- 31:51Speaker 4: know Anthony Mackie's hype video was the best that we've
- 31:53Speaker 4: ever had.
- 31:54Speaker 2: Has it, has there been a hype video come out yet?
- 31:56Speaker 2: I don't think so.
- 31:57Speaker 4: For this week? I don't know. Maybe. 2019 was so fun.
- 32:00Speaker 5: Like I remember, so I was working with the team
- 32:03Speaker 5: and I remember being on those Tuesday morning meetings. I
- 32:05Speaker 5: think it was Tuesday, maybe it was Monday. And we
- 32:08Speaker 5: would be sitting there at the beginning. It was like, Hey,
- 32:10Speaker 5: who can do the hype video? And it started off
- 32:11Speaker 5: like somewhat big, but you know, whatever. And I got
- 32:14Speaker 5: my guys, Shane West to do it.
- 32:17Speaker 4: And it was awesome. And like, they kept growing and
- 32:18Speaker 4: they kept growing and, Then by the end of it,
- 32:21Speaker 4: we'd be in those meetings.
- 32:22Speaker 5: It's like, hey, do you think this week we can
- 32:24Speaker 5: either get The Rock or maybe we can get Anthony
- 32:26Speaker 5: Mackie or can we get just the most, not random,
- 32:31Speaker 5: but the most.
- 32:34Speaker 4: They're going to do a hype video for you, and
- 32:35Speaker 4: they both did, by the way.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:37Speaker 4: It's Coach O's relationship with The Rock.
- 32:39Speaker 2: Nice.
- 32:41Speaker 4: Some fun meetings to throw names out there.
- 32:49Speaker 2: The person that asked... Derek, he asked about the legs
- 32:53Speaker 2: of a parlay. He said he normally does 10 or more.
- 32:56Speaker 8: Oh, my.
- 32:56Speaker 9: I think we get into 8 territory. Like, that's where
- 32:59Speaker 9: you cut it.
- 33:00Speaker 4: Abbo said, if my parlay ain't legal, I don't want it.
- 33:03Speaker 4: 18 plus.
- 33:04Speaker 5: Oh.
- 33:07Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Here.
- 33:08Speaker 2: OTB Mailbag. Can Matt and Jake, I guess Jake, talk
- 33:12Speaker 2: me off the ledge about all this blowing up in
- 33:14Speaker 2: LSU space? I guess the provocative slash aggressive headlines and
- 33:17Speaker 2: threats got me, which was exactly what they wanted.
- 33:20Speaker 4: Yeah, and I get that.
- 33:21Speaker 5: I get you asking that question, and we're going to
- 33:24Speaker 5: have to see how it plays out on Thursday.
- 33:28Speaker 4: There's still a lot of moving parts to it.
- 33:29Speaker 5: That's what's crazy because it's game week, and there's still
- 33:31Speaker 5: moving parts to that. I don't know because I'm stuck
- 33:35Speaker 5: in a place like they're not doing anything to LSU.
- 33:37Speaker 5: LSU is LSU, but then I also know Commissioner Sankey
- 33:39Speaker 5: pretty well.
- 33:41Speaker 4: That also kind of makes me a little nervous.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Lane train.
- 33:46Speaker 5: We'll see on Thursday, I guess. We'll see how it
- 33:48Speaker 5: all goes down. All right, we've got to take a break.
- 33:52Speaker 5: We're going to take that break. We've got more OTB
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- 35:07Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Presented
- 35:11Speaker 1: by Community Steel.
- 35:26Speaker 6: I feel so unsure.
- 35:32Speaker 4: As I take your hand And lead you to the
- 35:37Speaker 4: dance floor As the music dies All right.
- 35:46Speaker 8: Welcome back in OTB.
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- 37:01Speaker 5: Obviously we talked a lot about college football because it
- 37:02Speaker 5: started and we got a game this weekend. Tomorrow will
- 37:05Speaker 5: be a week from the NFL. There's going to be
- 37:07Speaker 5: a game on September the 9th.
- 37:08Speaker 2: I know, I'm so excited.
- 37:09Speaker 5: There's going to be actual football, Seattle versus the New
- 37:14Speaker 5: England Patriots.
- 37:15Speaker 4: Yeah. On a Wednesday.
- 37:16Speaker 2: A little Super Bowl rematch.
- 37:19Speaker 4: And then on Thursday, you get the game from Australia.
- 37:22Speaker 2: I know, I'm excited.
- 37:23Speaker 4: Rams and Niners.
- 37:24Speaker 9: That's going to be a hell of a game.
- 37:26Speaker 2: But, like, for the first two games, I don't think
- 37:28Speaker 2: I have anybody on my fantasy team that's going to.
- 37:32Speaker 4: I got to chill.
- 37:32Speaker 9: I had another draft last night.
- 37:34Speaker 4: Yeah, you really do, bro. You got to dial now.
- 37:36Speaker 9: I only have two.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Let's do an ESPN staff one.
- 37:39Speaker 4: I'm surprised we don't.
- 37:40Speaker 2: We haven't. We've never done one.
- 37:42Speaker 9: We did it my first year on OTB. Remember, we
- 37:44Speaker 9: did it.
- 37:45Speaker 4: Yeah, just us, though.
- 37:46Speaker 9: And then T-Bob never.
- 37:47Speaker 2: But a four-person one isn't as fun.
- 37:49Speaker 4: T-Bob never changed his lineup ever the whole year. Don't brand.
- 37:56Speaker 4: Maybe if we could do like a whole staff one.
- 37:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:59Speaker 4: Put 10 bucks in.
- 38:00Speaker 9: That'd be fun.
- 38:03Speaker 4: Like 12 deep, right?
- 38:04Speaker 2: What if we did an OTB 12-league one, and then
- 38:09Speaker 2: the first, like, I don't know, what? What's the math there? Eight.
- 38:15Speaker 2: The first eight people that say hashtag OTB fantasy join
- 38:19Speaker 2: it with us, like listeners.
- 38:21Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that. We still got a week.
- 38:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Yeah. They say you're.
- 38:25Speaker 2: The fantasy commissioner. You'll be the commissioner, so you plan this.
- 38:29Speaker 9: That's cool. Yeah, I mean, as long as we get
- 38:31Speaker 9: it done. I mean, like literally by Wednesday night. So
- 38:34Speaker 9: we got a whole week.
- 38:37Speaker 5: Now we've got the chat trying to figure out who's
- 38:39Speaker 5: going to be the guest picker on game day. You're
- 38:42Speaker 5: right about the NFL not playing this weekend, but I'm
- 38:44Speaker 5: not sure the names that you're saying you're going to
- 38:46Speaker 5: come back.
- 38:47Speaker 4: I know my guy Will Campbell is going to come back.
- 38:49Speaker 5: I saw him in New England for the training camp,
- 38:52Speaker 5: and he said he was going.
- 38:53Speaker 4: To be back for the game.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Like two days after he got drafted– Y'all are going
- 38:58Speaker 2: to think I go to Chipotle all the time because
- 38:59Speaker 2: I just said I had it for dinner. But, like,
- 39:01Speaker 2: two days after he got drafted, I saw him in
- 39:03Speaker 2: the Chipotle parking lot, and he was just smashing a
- 39:06Speaker 2: bowl in a wife beater. In a wife beater.
- 39:09Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
- 39:09Speaker 2: With his windows down. Yeah. It was the best image.
- 39:13Speaker 4: My God.
- 39:13Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 39:15Speaker 4: I saw Bear Jones last time I was in Chipotle.
- 39:17Speaker 3: Really?
- 39:17Speaker 4: Okay.
- 39:18Speaker 9: Bear must go to Chipotle a while because I've seen
- 39:20Speaker 9: him there.
- 39:21Speaker 2: We've already got two people saying hashtag OTB fantasy.
- 39:24Speaker 4: Oh, man. Tay-Tay, you got to do this.
- 39:27Speaker 9: Who we got?
- 39:28Speaker 2: JP, KCK.
- 39:30Speaker 9: Okay, why no Joey?
- 39:32Speaker 2: KCK and Gulf South did it.
- 39:34Speaker 4: That's three right there.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Nookie kind of did it. He said hashtag OTB fantasy.
- 39:41Speaker 2: So we got some people wanting to play.
- 39:46Speaker 4: Nook, I forgot to go to live chat today.
- 39:49Speaker 9: Oof.
- 39:50Speaker 2: Free him.
- 39:51Speaker 4: My bad. He's the only person, right?
- 39:54Speaker 2: I think so.
- 39:55Speaker 4: He's the only one I noticed. My bad, Nook. My bad.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Three's up.
- 40:02Speaker 4: I usually do it the first time when I pull
- 40:04Speaker 4: it up. I forgot. There's a lot of people that
- 40:08Speaker 4: can make an appearance for LSU on game day. A ton.
- 40:10Speaker 2: I want it to be Lucy.
- 40:11Speaker 4: That'd be fun.
- 40:15Speaker 5: It's like a big milestone show. It's like 500, right?
- 40:19Speaker 9: Yeah, it's $ 500.
- 40:21Speaker 4: So there's a chance it could be somebody that's been
- 40:23Speaker 4: there before, like Shaq. Ooh, I love Shaq.
- 40:26Speaker 9: Or not just a guest picker. Yeah, like one guest picker,
- 40:30Speaker 9: but they bring in people throughout the show, you know,
- 40:32Speaker 9: like interview. That'd be cool.
- 40:33Speaker 4: Yeah. Flynn's available if you want him. He can come on.
- 40:39Speaker 4: He can hang out with you.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Can you imagine Flynn on game day?
- 40:43Speaker 4: He did something on game day before. Oh, really? Like
- 40:46Speaker 4: Florida LSU 20... We.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Should get Flynn to kick the field goal since he
- 40:52Speaker 2: hates kickers so much.
- 40:53Speaker 4: Yeah, we should. Or at least hold it.
- 40:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 40:57Speaker 4: He did something because he had a Gator hater shirt on.
- 40:59Speaker 4: I don't remember what it was.
- 41:00Speaker 9: Flynn can kick the field goal and T. Martin can
- 41:02Speaker 9: hold it. You know, being a former quarterback and all, T.
- 41:04Speaker 9: Martin can be his holder.
- 41:05Speaker 4: I mean, he is like his autistic level of hate
- 41:09Speaker 4: that he has.
- 41:10Speaker 5: It's like, I don't get it. I don't understand why
- 41:14Speaker 5: he does it. He gets on something like that.
- 41:16Speaker 4: And digs his feet in. Digs his feet in.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Or, I mean, heels.
- 41:18Speaker 4: I meant you, man. And it's on part.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on that, yeah.
- 41:22Speaker 5: So, I don't know why he does that. And he
- 41:25Speaker 5: won't let it go. And then he makes his inside jokes.
- 41:27Speaker 5: And if you don't laugh, he's like, you're being so
- 41:29Speaker 5: serious about this.
- 41:31Speaker 9: Getting real offended.
- 41:32Speaker 4: Yeah. Like, sorry, I... You don't know who Jon Bernthal is, Flynn.
- 41:37Speaker 4: That's on you.
- 41:37Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break. More OTB when we
- 41:39Speaker 5: come back. A little Ask the Bench brought to you
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- 43:01Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn, presented
- 43:05Speaker 1: by Community Steel.
- 43:07Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
- 43:09Speaker 5: A little OTB here on this Tuesday morning. One final segment.
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- 44:05Speaker 4: brought to you by Ice Cold Dos Equis. Ask the Bench.
- 44:08Speaker 5: Is it called the pontoon parlay because it almost rhymes
- 44:11Speaker 5: with Piccadilly carrot souffle?
- 44:15Speaker 9: It wasn't.
- 44:16Speaker 4: I love carrot souffle from Piccadilly.
- 44:18Speaker 2: I'm about to go to Piccadilly after this.
- 44:19Speaker 4: So good. I got to interview Luke Keekly. I got
- 44:24Speaker 4: to record it.
- 44:25Speaker 2: I used to have the biggest crush on him.
- 44:27Speaker 4: I'll tell him. Hey, my producer Alondra.
- 44:30Speaker 2: She used to love you.
- 44:32Speaker 4: She said, I heart Luke Keekly.
- 44:34Speaker 2: I used to for real.
- 44:36Speaker 4: Ask the bench.
- 44:38Speaker 5: Hester, did you have a curfew for road games in
- 44:40Speaker 5: the NFL? Edelman talked about the Patriots travel routine recently,
- 44:43Speaker 5: and it was something I never thought about before.
- 44:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:47Speaker 5: On the road as a grown 30-year-old adult, somebody would
- 44:49Speaker 5: come knock on your room and check to see if
- 44:51Speaker 5: you were in there. Major League Baseball, NBA, not like that.
- 44:55Speaker 5: They can just make it to the game. NFL, completely
- 44:59Speaker 5: different in college and the pros. You had bed check.
- 45:02Speaker 5: You had somebody knock on your door. They had a
- 45:04Speaker 5: universal key. So if you didn't answer the door, they'd
- 45:07Speaker 5: walk in and they were going to see if you
- 45:09Speaker 5: were in your room.
- 45:09Speaker 2: That's crazy with the key.
- 45:11Speaker 6: Yep.
- 45:12Speaker 5: That was every year. It probably still goes on. Football
- 45:15Speaker 5: coaches are the most paranoid people in the world. That's
- 45:18Speaker 5: why when we tell y'all that they don't like distractions
- 45:21Speaker 5: in the NFL, like we mean it. Any distraction, anything
- 45:24Speaker 5: that can take away from the team, they get all
- 45:26Speaker 5: of that. You stay in a hotel for home games.
- 45:30Speaker 4: So you get a game on Sunday. On Saturday night.
- 45:32Speaker 5: You're in your city at a hotel staying there the
- 45:35Speaker 5: night before a game. Then you can go back home,
- 45:37Speaker 5: go to church, early service, and then you go drive
- 45:40Speaker 5: yourself to the game. But you will stay that night
- 45:42Speaker 5: in a hotel that is monitored by security and they're
- 45:45Speaker 5: going to check your room.
- 45:46Speaker 2: That's crazy.
- 45:47Speaker 6: Yep.
- 45:51Speaker 4: Baseball players just be wild.
- 45:55Speaker 2: They got no rules.
- 45:56Speaker 4: That's why David Wells can throw like a Perfect game.
- 45:59Speaker 4: A little bit hungover.
- 46:00Speaker 2: I love those stories.
- 46:03Speaker 4: Go ahead. Go out there, bud. All right. We love you.
- 46:07Speaker 4: We thank you.
- 46:11Speaker 5: Tomorrow we'll be live from the garage. And on Friday
- 46:15Speaker 5: we'll be live from Rouse's. Only one more show together
- 46:19Speaker 5: here in studio before boot meets ball.
- 46:22Speaker 4: Before ball is placed on tee.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Before the whistles blow.
- 46:26Speaker 5: Before the whistles blow. Before the coin toss. All of
- 46:29Speaker 5: those things. Because Flynn can't handle boot meets ball. And
- 46:31Speaker 5: he's not here. So, forget him.
- 46:35Speaker 4: Go America.