Latest / Off The Bench / Hour One | Senior Bowl 2026 Practice Risers | Top Standouts, Draft Stock & LSU Player Reports
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Thursday, January twenty ninth.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Today in ben Huge you can expect mostly sunny skies
- 0:09Speaker 1: with a high fifty nine.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Now we're one of today's show.
- 0:12Speaker 1: We'll wrap up our day four coverage the final day
- 0:15Speaker 1: out there in Mobile, Alabama for the Senior Bowl. We'll
- 0:18Speaker 1: talk draft risers, Senior Bowl standouts, we'll talk at all.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Also coming up a little bit later in.
- 0:24Speaker 1: The show, we'll have our Munchie segment with LSU executive
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- 0:46Speaker 1: now Off.
- 0:48Speaker 3: The Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Let's from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Hansay, Hester and Hester got it five five.
- 1:00Speaker 3: In Off the Bench control the live from the Raising
- 1:07Speaker 3: Kine studio. Here's Jacob Vesser in Matslin, Yo.
- 1:19Speaker 5: And welcome man to otb here live from the Mobile
- 1:24Speaker 5: Convention Center, downtown.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Mobile, Alabama.
- 1:27Speaker 5: We are here continue coverage to the twenty twenty six
- 1:30Speaker 5: Panini Senior Ball and of course our coverage brought to
- 1:32Speaker 5: you by First American Bank and Trust. Here in Mobile,
- 1:37Speaker 5: Flynn Hester, Alandra back in studio in the raising Kine studio,
- 1:41Speaker 5: our Guy Musso and Taite.
- 1:44Speaker 4: We are here. It is day number four in Mobile.
- 1:47Speaker 5: How we doing we we see the finish line there, Matthew, Oh.
- 1:50Speaker 2: We're doing fantastic. It's been a it's been a great week.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Very much enjoyed this week at the at the Senior Bowl.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Really great pricees yes today and the the prites have
- 2:03Speaker 2: been like surprisingly enjoyable as much as I used to
- 2:06Speaker 2: you know playing Uh, he'd kind of yeah, all was
- 2:11Speaker 2: surprised by me enjoying the football. But it's been it's
- 2:14Speaker 2: been very fun. They've been the price has been well run. Uh,
- 2:18Speaker 2: they get to they get to drill to drill. There
- 2:20Speaker 2: hadn't been you know, a ton of sloppiness, but there's
- 2:22Speaker 2: been a lot of really good competing and uh, it's
- 2:25Speaker 2: been really enjoyable. And everybody we've talked to has been
- 2:27Speaker 2: fantastic and uh so it's my first experience at the
- 2:32Speaker 2: Senior Bowl A plus Yeah, true plus five star plus Rady.
- 2:37Speaker 5: Five star plus Jordan's seed and chat out Alandra your
- 2:40Speaker 5: first experience at the Senior Bowl as well. How have
- 2:44Speaker 5: you thought the practices and everything have gone. Have you
- 2:47Speaker 5: enjoyed watching football practice with Matthew and him probably uh
- 2:52Speaker 5: can't help himself talking about coverages in fronts and all
- 2:55Speaker 5: the different things.
- 2:56Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, all of this has been great. Like, I've
- 3:00Speaker 6: really enjoyed everything that we've done, like this, the media
- 3:03Speaker 6: day yesterday. The practices are a lot of fun and yeah,
- 3:06Speaker 6: Matt's like teaching me ball.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just going to school.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been great.
- 3:14Speaker 6: I feel like I thrive in this type of environment,
- 3:17Speaker 6: Like I love doing stuff like this. So I've yeah,
- 3:19Speaker 6: I've really enjoyed this entire week.
- 3:21Speaker 5: I thought Media day was kind of cool. It had
- 3:24Speaker 5: a great intention to be a great setup. The only
- 3:26Speaker 5: thing is the media members weren't allowing the players to
- 3:30Speaker 5: like actually get into the room. Yeah, just like, hey, guys,
- 3:33Speaker 5: like let them get to those tables. That's where they're supposed.
- 3:36Speaker 2: To be, you know, like after a little league game
- 3:38Speaker 2: or like a you know, a ten U soccer football game.
- 3:42Speaker 2: After the game, the parents formed the hand tunnel. Yeah,
- 3:46Speaker 2: that's basically what they did. And then then they just
- 3:49Speaker 2: couldn't make it through the door. But it was good.
- 3:51Speaker 2: I was very That was the part I was most
- 3:53Speaker 2: stressed about. It was the media day. Couldn't tell no, no,
- 3:56Speaker 2: I couldn't tell honestly, you know, because as being a
- 4:00Speaker 2: former player, I just was like, man, I used to
- 4:03Speaker 2: hate it when I have these situations. You got to
- 4:05Speaker 2: talk to all these random people. You don't know where
- 4:07Speaker 2: they're from, you don't know anything about them. They're just
- 4:09Speaker 2: trying to get a couple of clips from you. Yeah.
- 4:12Speaker 2: Then well she was on the other foot. I was
- 4:15Speaker 2: that person having to bug these guys, and there was
- 4:18Speaker 2: definitely what they're down there for in that situation. There
- 4:21Speaker 2: is not a time and situation where you can preface
- 4:25Speaker 2: with like, hey, I get what you're going through real quick.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Not me. I was just like, hey, Bud, can I
- 4:30Speaker 2: ask you some questions? I got more questions here? Let
- 4:33Speaker 2: me rip. Yeah.
- 4:34Speaker 5: I guess you were doing fun stuff too, though, I
- 4:37Speaker 5: mean I could ask I at least I always just
- 4:38Speaker 5: try to, you know, find a way to be like, hey,
- 4:41Speaker 5: I'm cool, bro, Like.
- 4:44Speaker 2: I get it, I know it.
- 4:46Speaker 5: I promise you I'm not going to set you up,
- 4:47Speaker 5: and just like somehow some way try to get it.
- 4:50Speaker 5: Because then it's like, Okay, I can relax because I
- 4:52Speaker 5: know this guy's not trying to get me to say
- 4:54Speaker 5: the wrong thing.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but like your situation is a little bit
- 4:57Speaker 2: different because you do have like the real microphone. It
- 5:00Speaker 2: says like serious on it, like you got so y'all
- 5:03Speaker 2: get like people pulled away. Yeah, I was in there
- 5:06Speaker 2: in the scrum with all the bats, like with a microphone, Hey, bud, can.
- 5:09Speaker 6: I get and people trying to like cut out and
- 5:12Speaker 6: I'm like, go go.
- 5:13Speaker 4: I'm like, get in there.
- 5:15Speaker 2: You can't come off, bro, Yep, you gotta cut off
- 5:17Speaker 2: one o. Tommy tough Nuts cut me off one time.
- 5:21Speaker 4: Was I don't even know.
- 5:22Speaker 2: He was like he was a mouth breather for sure.
- 5:25Speaker 4: You got to point him out.
- 5:26Speaker 6: I don't even remember what he looked like, but he
- 5:28Speaker 6: was like he.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Come me off and made no eye contact and then
- 5:32Speaker 2: continue to ask about thirteen questions. What was he wearing?
- 5:36Speaker 4: Tell me everything, I'll show you.
- 5:39Speaker 2: He's like, basically, if you were to look up like
- 5:43Speaker 2: beat writer in the dictionary, that's what you would get
- 5:45Speaker 2: green jacket. I can't remember.
- 5:48Speaker 5: Okay, week Chin, super week Chin, So we can jump
- 5:52Speaker 5: him if you tell me.
- 5:53Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you said you enjoyed every interview.
- 5:57Speaker 2: No, I did not.
- 5:59Speaker 4: There's one.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Should we go ahead? Never meet your heroes? People don't
- 6:03Speaker 2: never meet you're disappointing. Jenning's Dunker, who I was so
- 6:07Speaker 2: excited about. I've talked about literally the entire week. Yeah,
- 6:12Speaker 2: I thought about it.
- 6:12Speaker 5: Refrigerator with legs, this six four three and fifteen pound
- 6:16Speaker 5: behemoth with no fat on this young man, beautiful bob
- 6:22Speaker 5: take that bud.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Beautiful red mullet, like incredible red mullet. He was the
- 6:28Speaker 2: one I was most excited about talking to you. We
- 6:30Speaker 2: had to talk to him, and I asked him. I
- 6:32Speaker 2: asked everybody for questions. Who's your favorite team growing up,
- 6:37Speaker 2: what's one thing you changed about college football? What's your
- 6:40Speaker 2: go to taco bell order? And what's your favorite football movie?
- 6:44Speaker 2: Then I'd followed up with have you seen Varsity Blues?
- 6:47Speaker 2: Spoiler alert? Nobody has col Peyton? Well here at the
- 6:52Speaker 2: table media day nobody? Yeah, Well, Jenning's Dunker. It wasn't
- 7:01Speaker 2: very good, wasn't.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Very good, no opinions on anything.
- 7:04Speaker 2: He's like, no, I don't. He's like, I don't think
- 7:08Speaker 2: it was bad.
- 7:08Speaker 4: I was like, it's bad.
- 7:10Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think I change anything about
- 7:12Speaker 2: college football. Like, all right, next question, what's your favorite
- 7:16Speaker 2: football movie? I don't think I've ever seen a football movie?
- 7:20Speaker 4: All right, I have TVs in Iowa.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Yep. What's your go to taco bell order? I've never
- 7:25Speaker 2: eaten talked about.
- 7:26Speaker 4: That's great answer. He was like first round to undraftable.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, yeah he was first round. He might
- 7:32Speaker 2: have been one overall pick in my eyes until that.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Now not even mister irrelevant, I know, very disappointing. Yep,
- 7:40Speaker 2: he could probably still play football pretty good. It's doesn't matter,
- 7:44Speaker 2: and it's actually a character indictment. I need to probably
- 7:47Speaker 2: let the scouts know. We'll find somebody else. We'll find
- 7:50Speaker 2: one more. Did you ask the tight ends up they
- 7:52Speaker 2: had seen it? Yeah, I tried to get to so
- 7:55Speaker 2: it's cool. Peat now the number one linebacker.
- 7:59Speaker 4: J Yeah, it's his last name. It's his last name. Okay,
- 8:05Speaker 4: nailed it, he whisper.
- 8:08Speaker 6: I think it's Rodrigo.
- 8:10Speaker 5: Yeah, you mixed it up yesterday, and I'm not going to
- 8:12Speaker 5: tell the whole story because I want you to stay
- 8:13Speaker 5: on air.
- 8:14Speaker 4: You messed it up yesterday, and I.
- 8:17Speaker 5: Immediately I had him next, and I'm sitting over there like,
- 8:20Speaker 5: oh my god, I know this lame.
- 8:22Speaker 4: I was like, am I going to screw this up?
- 8:24Speaker 4: Am I going to?
- 8:24Speaker 5: Because Flynn we just had so I didn't. I didn't
- 8:28Speaker 5: we got it.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Yeah, No, And y'all kept messing with me about it
- 8:31Speaker 2: and like saying different last names, and I was like,
- 8:34Speaker 2: now I don't know what it is, Like y'all have
- 8:36Speaker 2: messed me up completely. So we just didn't interview that guy.
- 8:41Speaker 2: But he was he was my he was my last hope. Yeah,
- 8:44Speaker 2: seeing varsity boys because he had a Texas Tech jersey on. Yeah,
- 8:48Speaker 2: get to him. He was one of the guys Like, yeah,
- 8:51Speaker 2: he was already. Yeah, there's about fifteen people surrounding him
- 8:54Speaker 2: at all times, and like I was gonna have to
- 8:56Speaker 2: shoulder my way in there, and I was like, I
- 8:58Speaker 2: don't want that much. I don't want that bad.
- 9:00Speaker 4: You should have just like right after me. If you
- 9:01Speaker 4: would have just sat right there, I would just pulled
- 9:04Speaker 4: you in.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Sure.
- 9:05Speaker 5: Yeah, he get caught like right after by a beat
- 9:08Speaker 5: reporter because he like he finished up with us, and
- 9:11Speaker 5: this guy's like, hey get you.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:17Speaker 4: I was like, oh man, this kid.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Yeah, poor kid. He didn't he could tell he was
- 9:20Speaker 2: all about ball. He didn't want to be there.
- 9:22Speaker 5: Uh do you know where he started his career? No,
- 9:25Speaker 5: you don't, Virginia, you know what position he started his
- 9:28Speaker 5: career at? Yeah, tight end, quarterback. Told you he's a
- 9:34Speaker 5: quarterback at UVA before he transferred. I believe he walked
- 9:38Speaker 5: on as a transfer to Texas Tech and became the
- 9:41Speaker 5: best middle linebacker in the country.
- 9:43Speaker 2: I guess he couldn't cut it throwing the ball, couldn't
- 9:48Speaker 2: cut it at the real position.
- 9:51Speaker 5: Or maybe he just like realized like he had a
- 9:54Speaker 5: brighter future at middle linebacker and became a.
- 9:57Speaker 4: Guy that got not couldn't spend fifth most Heisman.
- 10:00Speaker 2: I couldn't spend it, Okay Rodriguez. Yeah, but there was
- 10:05Speaker 2: a There's been a lot of really cool takeaways from today.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Seeing a lot of a lot of famous faces in
- 10:16Speaker 2: the NFL, a lot of gms walking around. You know,
- 10:19Speaker 2: I hit a couple of like little pieces and little
- 10:22Speaker 2: waves of some people I.
- 10:23Speaker 5: Knew I saw Mickey Loomis and he said hello as
- 10:26Speaker 5: he he walked by, and like, Mickey would come on
- 10:29Speaker 5: our fans, I think they'd like.
- 10:30Speaker 4: To hear from you.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Yeah, but do you want to take questions from the chat?
- 10:33Speaker 2: Mickey ask Mickey?
- 10:36Speaker 6: Ask Mickey, why do you smack your gum like that?
- 10:39Speaker 4: Micky? How that would be?
- 10:41Speaker 2: That'd be electric?
- 10:42Speaker 4: That would that would take us and we just Murphy Salmon, Jerry,
- 10:45Speaker 4: are we just.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Reading with no filter? Yeah, that would be the promise
- 10:49Speaker 2: for sure, the breakout star of the Senior Ball Division
- 10:57Speaker 2: three wide receiver. Yeah, Tyron Munta cum John Carroll University.
- 11:03Speaker 2: We are going to actually try to get him on
- 11:05Speaker 2: the show today if we can, and we'll guess we
- 11:10Speaker 2: won't go into it exactly right now. We'll kind of
- 11:13Speaker 2: since we're just kind of talking about how we're doing
- 11:14Speaker 2: little vibe checks right now. But I just wanted to
- 11:17Speaker 2: say that breakout star for two practices in a row,
- 11:19Speaker 2: has made the best plays at the Senior Bowl so far,
- 11:22Speaker 2: division three wide receiver, and he has some ties to LSU.
- 11:28Speaker 5: Actually, yeah he does, and I did not know that
- 11:30Speaker 5: before y'all told me. It's an incredible story. So yeah,
- 11:33Speaker 5: we're hopeful to catch up.
- 11:35Speaker 2: With him, but just to get a story because it's awesome. Well,
- 11:38Speaker 2: let's do this.
- 11:39Speaker 5: Let's take a break, and then like when we come back,
- 11:42Speaker 5: we'll get the show started. We'll talk about his journey
- 11:45Speaker 5: because even if we don't get a chance to talk
- 11:47Speaker 5: with him, he needs to be highlighted, no doubt, so
- 11:49Speaker 5: we will do that. When we jump back. It is
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- 13:11Speaker 3: Off the bench with Hester and Flynn live from the
- 13:14Speaker 3: twenty twenty six Panini Senior Bowl and Mobile presented by
- 13:17Speaker 3: First American Banking Trust.
- 13:22Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
- 13:23Speaker 5: It is OTB here live from the twenty twenty six
- 13:27Speaker 5: Panini Senior Ball. Our coverage brought you by First American
- 13:31Speaker 5: Bank and Trust FABT dot com. You know I hadn't
- 13:36Speaker 5: seen the first swing and soul from Panini. Nope, you
- 13:39Speaker 5: asked me during the break. I haven't you have an
- 13:42Speaker 5: Alandra hasn't I'm trying to rip packs here.
- 13:45Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been the two major disappointments for this week. Medium,
- 13:49Speaker 2: my hero Jenning's dunker and not meeting anybody from Panini.
- 13:54Speaker 2: You know, we dabble, Hester and I we dabble in
- 13:57Speaker 2: the sports card game in that world. That was very excited.
- 14:01Speaker 2: And I've actually been looking. I hadn't seen anybody walking
- 14:03Speaker 2: around with a with a polo or a quarter zip
- 14:06Speaker 2: with the Panini logo on it. Nothing, not one like
- 14:12Speaker 2: like I would think they would want signage all over
- 14:14Speaker 2: this place, right, you got you have all these kids
- 14:16Speaker 2: that are about to be rookies. Yeah, and now I
- 14:18Speaker 2: get it. You're not gonna have the NFL license. Now
- 14:20Speaker 2: you're gonna have whatever cards. You're gonna have NFL cards.
- 14:23Speaker 2: And we need to ask whoever we get on the
- 14:26Speaker 2: show today, hopefully we get we get the rest of
- 14:28Speaker 2: the LSU guys on the show today. Hopefully we get
- 14:30Speaker 2: Tyrone Montgomery on the show today. We need to ask them.
- 14:33Speaker 2: There was rumors that they were all going to get
- 14:34Speaker 2: a special one of one card. Yeah, but we haven't
- 14:36Speaker 2: asked or got confirmation of that. I would I wouldn't
- 14:39Speaker 2: be shocked if Panini just forgot to do it. I
- 14:41Speaker 2: guess at this point they forgot to show up.
- 14:44Speaker 5: I know, like last last year, actually last couple of
- 14:48Speaker 5: years when we showed up here, it was the Receis
- 14:51Speaker 5: Senior Bowl.
- 14:53Speaker 4: All right, love love some Recees. I think we all
- 14:55Speaker 4: do we're American.
- 14:56Speaker 5: But they would have bags of reeses on the table.
- 15:00Speaker 5: So in my mind, I was like, oh, yeah, they're
- 15:01Speaker 5: not gonna have like premium packs. We're going you some prism,
- 15:04Speaker 5: but they're gonna have some packs on the table something.
- 15:06Speaker 2: Yeah, some empty.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Boxes, something for everybody here.
- 15:10Speaker 2: But like, who's their director of marketing because they're not
- 15:13Speaker 2: very good at their job because there's no logos anywhere
- 15:16Speaker 2: in here, Like you got all these people, you got
- 15:18Speaker 2: this media people that are filming, actively creating content, and
- 15:22Speaker 2: you don't have a Peninni logo. So you know, I
- 15:26Speaker 2: don't know. I'm sure they gave a lot of money,
- 15:27Speaker 2: but it's been a disappointment from my spot, from my
- 15:29Speaker 2: point of view.
- 15:30Speaker 4: Did you take a picture in the kaboom box? I
- 15:32Speaker 4: did not out of spite protests.
- 15:37Speaker 2: Yeah, they made their marketing did do that? They made
- 15:39Speaker 2: one like sitting, you know, stand and take your own
- 15:42Speaker 2: kaboom picture. But it doesn't even have like a background.
- 15:47Speaker 2: So you just see the stadium in the background, so
- 15:49Speaker 2: you know, it's it's not even a real that history.
- 15:51Speaker 4: You should have a background so that way, like the
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- 16:56Speaker 5: All right, so what you mentioned a receiver from us
- 16:59Speaker 5: John Carrol. Yes, that has certainly been a star of
- 17:03Speaker 5: the show, Tire Montgomery. And he has an incredible story.
- 17:07Speaker 5: Yeah one that I only knew small details about. But
- 17:11Speaker 5: you did a deep dive yesterday found out a lot
- 17:13Speaker 5: of pretty cool information.
- 17:14Speaker 4: So he got here of the scene.
- 17:15Speaker 2: So drive him back from practice yesterday. So he made
- 17:18Speaker 2: a splash the first day last It was the last
- 17:21Speaker 2: play of practice, and he runs a go route and
- 17:23Speaker 2: he completely jumps over a kid most him whatever, makes
- 17:28Speaker 2: a great catch, a really powerful catch over a cornerback
- 17:30Speaker 2: from a big school. I don't remember a big school,
- 17:32Speaker 2: but it was a big school. And then before that
- 17:35Speaker 2: he had some routes. Well, it's like, all right, well
- 17:37Speaker 2: this kid he flashed for a day, made some good plays.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Big whoop. Well, Day two comes around Chris routes beating
- 17:44Speaker 2: people from Texas being for people of Ohio State. Clemson noted,
- 17:47Speaker 2: like he's beating everybody and all the different routes and
- 17:51Speaker 2: in one on ones and then in seven on seven
- 17:52Speaker 2: and teams continues to make play. Caught a post route
- 17:55Speaker 2: in the same fashion in day two that he did
- 17:57Speaker 2: in day one where he jumped over caught it over
- 17:59Speaker 2: somebody's head, incredible catches, incredible plays, and somebody when you're
- 18:03Speaker 2: looking for somebody to step up and turn heads, certainly
- 18:07Speaker 2: this kid has done it. And then because I was
- 18:08Speaker 2: looking at the kid that caught it yesterday, he made
- 18:10Speaker 2: two great catches, I was like who is this that?
- 18:12Speaker 2: Boston coll like what is that? And I was like, oh,
- 18:14Speaker 2: Les's Tyra Montgomery. He did it again. Then if he
- 18:17Speaker 2: did it again, and that's when you start turning some heads.
- 18:20Speaker 2: And caught our eyes. So on the drive back, yes say,
- 18:22Speaker 2: all right, we got to look this up. So Laundra
- 18:25Speaker 2: started looking up his story and I was like, whoa,
- 18:27Speaker 2: this is incredible. So the kid's from the Woodlands, Texas,
- 18:30Speaker 2: so you know, just outside of the Houston area. Went
- 18:33Speaker 2: to College Park High School and he was a top
- 18:35Speaker 2: basketball player at high school. So in twenty nineteen, Tyram
- 18:40Speaker 2: Montgomery attended LSU for one semester and walked on to
- 18:45Speaker 2: the basketball team. Now, after that one semester, he went
- 18:48Speaker 2: back home to Houston. He had some academic issues and
- 18:52Speaker 2: his mother fell ill, so he goes back home and
- 18:57Speaker 2: then just being at home, he's sitting there throwing with
- 18:59Speaker 2: his brother that they're playing they're playing catch. I don't
- 19:02Speaker 2: know if they're in the yard, in the street, whatever
- 19:03Speaker 2: they're doing in his bus Like, hey, dude, like you're
- 19:05Speaker 2: actually pretty good at this, so maybe you should look
- 19:08Speaker 2: at football. And mind you, he's already he's been playing
- 19:11Speaker 2: basketball as a live basketball already walked on at LSU,
- 19:14Speaker 2: and so they started posting videos of himself. So he
- 19:16Speaker 2: started posting videos of himself working out on Facebook, and
- 19:19Speaker 2: then he got somebody reached out to him from a
- 19:21Speaker 2: Miami based flag football team and he competed in a
- 19:25Speaker 2: tournament in Las Vegas. And then he briefly enrolled at
- 19:30Speaker 2: the University of Houston to try to walk on with
- 19:32Speaker 2: the Houston Cougars, but was unsuccessful during because this was
- 19:35Speaker 2: like during COVID nineteen, during the whole COVID situation, so
- 19:38Speaker 2: he was unsuccesful to the full name COVID in a
- 19:41Speaker 2: long time. COVID nineteen, not twenty, not twenty one. This
- 19:44Speaker 2: was just a base nineteen.
- 19:46Speaker 4: This is the OG Now what did it started out as? Sorry, squirrel,
- 19:50Speaker 4: go ahead.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Yep, one niner, I don't know Montgomery. Then he's so
- 19:55Speaker 2: he started creating this highlight reel after this, So this
- 19:57Speaker 2: is during covid from like his flag football days and
- 20:00Speaker 2: sent them to colleges all over the US, and most
- 20:03Speaker 2: people were uninterested. They didn't want anything to do with
- 20:05Speaker 2: him because he's never played tackle football before, not college,
- 20:07Speaker 2: on middle school, not peewed, nothing. But eventually he was
- 20:10Speaker 2: able to join Nichols State University, and then after sitting
- 20:15Speaker 2: out the twenty two season due to lack of eligibility,
- 20:19Speaker 2: he appeared in eight games during the twenty twenty three season.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Four Nichols recorded twelve catches one hundred and seventy one yards,
- 20:25Speaker 2: So okay, big whoop. Whatever. Then at that point he
- 20:29Speaker 2: ran out of Division one eligibility.
- 20:32Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what that means.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Don't know what that means at all. I ran out
- 20:36Speaker 2: Division one eligibility, But through some connections from his flag
- 20:40Speaker 2: football days and his teammates, he was able to transfer
- 20:43Speaker 2: to Division three. John Carroll And if you're in the
- 20:46Speaker 2: chair right now, guess what that mascot is. Don't look
- 20:49Speaker 2: it up. Guess so I know, I know you do
- 20:52Speaker 2: know you knew before me, we'll say to the second.
- 20:55Speaker 2: And then twenty twenty four became their top wide receiver.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I posted fifty seven receptions one thousands, seventy one yards
- 21:01Speaker 2: seventeen touchdowns, was named First team All Ohio Athletic Conference,
- 21:06Speaker 2: and then was named consensus Division III All American in
- 21:09Speaker 2: twenty twenty five after one hundred and nineteen catches, fifteen
- 21:13Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight yards, fifteen tutters and then, okay,
- 21:17Speaker 2: fast forward a couple of weeks. He got invited to
- 21:19Speaker 2: the American Bowl All Star Game a few weeks ago,
- 21:22Speaker 2: and after his performance there garnered an invitation to come
- 21:26Speaker 2: to the Senior Ball So, man that is just walking
- 21:29Speaker 2: up the ladder, right, yeah, stair stepping his way, find
- 21:32Speaker 2: in a way. So if you're out there thinking you
- 21:34Speaker 2: got excuses for not doing something, this man walked on
- 21:39Speaker 2: for basketball, could didn't do it. Mom fell ill academically,
- 21:45Speaker 2: had to go home, played flag football in a Vegas tournament,
- 21:48Speaker 2: sent highlights, put him on Facebook, got to go walk
- 21:51Speaker 2: on at Nichols, had twelve catches, ran out of eligibility,
- 21:55Speaker 2: found a way crazy and is dominating right now making
- 22:02Speaker 2: plays that So other receivers, other kid from Notre Dame,
- 22:05Speaker 2: the kid from US. See a lot of receivers making
- 22:07Speaker 2: a lot of plays, but nobody's making the plays of
- 22:10Speaker 2: this kid. Two days in a row, now two days
- 22:12Speaker 2: in a row, So what a cool story. And it's
- 22:16Speaker 2: and it ain't no accident either. He's running crisp routes,
- 22:19Speaker 2: clean routes and making contested catches strong at the point
- 22:22Speaker 2: of catch, which is fantastic. So I think every year
- 22:24Speaker 2: at these at these All Star Games, there's always some
- 22:27Speaker 2: sort of story.
- 22:28Speaker 4: Yeah if a.
- 22:29Speaker 2: Small school guy coming in making a name for himself,
- 22:32Speaker 2: and this kid is certainly fitting that mold right now.
- 22:35Speaker 2: So wish him the best. I don't know where his
- 22:37Speaker 2: story's gonna end. Hopefully we can get him on the
- 22:39Speaker 2: show today and kind of ask him the question we
- 22:41Speaker 2: asked the people that are kind of in charge of
- 22:44Speaker 2: bringing players over. We're like, they're like, who you want
- 22:46Speaker 2: to interview today? We're like tire Montgomery and he's like, oh, okay, yeah,
- 22:49Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's asked for that yet.
- 22:51Speaker 5: So I'm sure he'd loved to, but he hadn't had
- 22:53Speaker 5: a lot of traction in the media part of it.
- 22:57Speaker 4: He's getting it today.
- 22:58Speaker 2: He's getting it today. And then you can go and
- 23:00Speaker 2: kind of like look up the any Senior Bowl, probably
- 23:03Speaker 2: on the on the socials and highlights of him are
- 23:05Speaker 2: starting to make the round.
- 23:06Speaker 5: So I was shocked to see that his official height
- 23:09Speaker 5: was like literally right under six foot, which pretty goodurd
- 23:15Speaker 5: in eighty nine pounds.
- 23:17Speaker 2: He plays bigger than that, he really does. And it
- 23:19Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it doesn't matter really how tall you are,
- 23:22Speaker 2: because he's making the high catches, the high point if
- 23:24Speaker 2: you can, the.
- 23:25Speaker 5: Plays much bigger than So I was shocked at he
- 23:28Speaker 5: wasn't bigger than that, because he just he feels and
- 23:30Speaker 5: looks and plays bigger than that.
- 23:31Speaker 4: So a cool story.
- 23:33Speaker 5: I mean, didn't play football until much later in life,
- 23:36Speaker 5: and so you start to tell yourself, there's a lot
- 23:39Speaker 5: left in that tank.
- 23:40Speaker 4: There's like there's a ceiling that maybe we can get to.
- 23:43Speaker 5: Yeah, right, he keeps getting better and better and better,
- 23:46Speaker 5: and he's here against the best of the best, and
- 23:47Speaker 5: he's out there shining. Not like making a player too,
- 23:50Speaker 5: Like he's been the guy that everybody's talking about. He's
- 23:53Speaker 5: making everybody some man.
- 23:55Speaker 2: He's made multiple like big plays, and a lot of
- 23:57Speaker 2: times at these at these things like these like the
- 24:00Speaker 2: Senior Bowl, these all star games, like sometimes you don't
- 24:03Speaker 2: get a chance to make that head top catch, you know,
- 24:06Speaker 2: sometimes you don't get that opportunity, but you have to
- 24:09Speaker 2: show yourself Like I I'm disciplined in my route running.
- 24:11Speaker 2: I'm crisp, I'm consistent. When I do get my chance,
- 24:14Speaker 2: I do make the simple play. If the hard plays
- 24:17Speaker 2: not ever doesn't present itself in practice, because there's only
- 24:20Speaker 2: so many plays these get, these kids get. These practices
- 24:22Speaker 2: are not that long. But he's had the opportunity to
- 24:25Speaker 2: make big plays. But even like the simple things, the
- 24:27Speaker 2: little things that he's doing have been impressive as well.
- 24:30Speaker 2: So uh, it's no accident what he's doing out there.
- 24:33Speaker 2: So look for him to to continue to grow as
- 24:37Speaker 2: he continues to play better competition. He's an iron sharpens iron,
- 24:39Speaker 2: and he's never been sharpened by any iron. He's just
- 24:41Speaker 2: been I think he worked himself into being drafted player.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Gotta be, you know what I'm saying, Like that he
- 24:47Speaker 2: wasn't before he got here. He was American.
- 24:51Speaker 5: He was a high priority undrafted free agent that teams
- 24:55Speaker 5: would go up a couple of thousand bucks in their
- 24:58Speaker 5: signing bus and probably.
- 24:59Speaker 2: To get him team.
- 25:00Speaker 4: Yeah, but now now I think he's gonna hear his name.
- 25:04Speaker 2: God, I think you'd have to yeah, and like this
- 25:08Speaker 2: is you talk about teams that are already kind of
- 25:12Speaker 2: established and have good veteran corps, like this kid has
- 25:15Speaker 2: never gone against the best of anywhere close to the best.
- 25:19Speaker 2: And this you think about how much he's improven just
- 25:21Speaker 2: at the American Bowl and now here at the Senior Bowl.
- 25:24Speaker 2: He's going to improve every single day you put him
- 25:26Speaker 2: in an NFL camp. Talent is undeniable, for sure. So
- 25:30Speaker 2: what a cool story. And that's what these things are
- 25:31Speaker 2: all about. That's what these All Star games are here for.
- 25:34Speaker 2: And that's why it's not just like, yeah, it's the
- 25:36Speaker 2: big schools, big school All Star Game. No, it's everybody.
- 25:40Speaker 2: And he's earned his right to be here and making
- 25:42Speaker 2: the most of it. So you hear these stories all
- 25:44Speaker 2: the time. We love these stories. We love an underdog story.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Certainly he fits that mold. So good luck to him.
- 25:49Speaker 2: And nobody got a write in the chat, Jake, go
- 25:52Speaker 2: ahead and tell him what the mascot for John Carroll
- 25:54Speaker 2: University is.
- 25:54Speaker 4: It is the Blue Streaks.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Yep. Obviously, obviously, how y'all not get that?
- 26:00Speaker 4: I believe it's in University Heights, Ohio.
- 26:03Speaker 5: I know it's in Ohio, but I believe it's in
- 26:05Speaker 5: University Heights, Cleveland area, John Carroll Division III, Don Shula.
- 26:12Speaker 4: Who else we say yesterday it was Don.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Sula, London Fletcher super chef, Bobby Fly No, I didn't
- 26:18Speaker 5: see him.
- 26:22Speaker 4: McDaniels, the Cubes. McDaniels.
- 26:24Speaker 2: Oh, Josh McDaniels. That's right.
- 26:26Speaker 5: Yeah, So those pretty good lineage there. Bad Don Sula
- 26:30Speaker 5: winning his coach in NFL history. He's pretty good.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Well at LSU. We can claim him.
- 26:36Speaker 4: Oh for sure.
- 26:37Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where he's not where you finished, it's where
- 26:40Speaker 5: you start.
- 26:41Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 26:43Speaker 4: Oh, he said that, very cool story.
- 26:46Speaker 5: Hopefully we will get the opportunity to catch up with
- 26:48Speaker 5: Tyra Montgomery. Also, still some l s U guys. We'd
- 26:51Speaker 5: like to catch up with Aaron Anderson, Chris Hilton both
- 26:54Speaker 5: here at the game. We had barry On Brown and
- 26:56Speaker 5: we had Garrett Neusmyer already from the Tigers, So a
- 26:59Speaker 5: couple more Tigers here Inmobile and hopefully we can catch
- 27:02Speaker 5: up with both of those guys here at some point today.
- 27:05Speaker 5: All right, we will step away. When we come back,
- 27:08Speaker 5: continue talking about maybe some winners, some things that have
- 27:11Speaker 5: you know, been on the forefront here, some players that
- 27:14Speaker 5: have stood out here in the Senior ball some different things.
- 27:17Speaker 2: Oh, you know, kind of break down their performance Chris
- 27:22Speaker 2: Hilton first time. Yeah, straight off the plane.
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- 30:24Speaker 5: All right, we'd mentioned that the LSU guys. Obviously you've
- 30:27Speaker 5: got now four players. Start out with five. You had
- 30:30Speaker 5: aj Halsey, Jack Tibrin had to pull out of the
- 30:33Speaker 5: game with injury, but then you added one with Chris
- 30:36Speaker 5: Hilton who was coming over from the East West Shrine game,
- 30:39Speaker 5: so you do have a total of four tigers. We've
- 30:41Speaker 5: caught up with two of those tigers here on the show.
- 30:44Speaker 5: Hopefully we can catch up with Aaron Anderson and Chris
- 30:46Speaker 5: Hilton at some point here today. But a cool thing
- 30:50Speaker 5: about when you look up on the board and they
- 30:52Speaker 5: got all the analytics.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Top speed guys. It was Chris Hilton and it.
- 30:56Speaker 5: Was barry On Brown where number one in three I believe,
- 31:00Speaker 5: And so I did give barry On Brown a hard
- 31:02Speaker 5: time yesterday after practice I was like, man, you told
- 31:05Speaker 5: us yesterday that you know, you were the fastest of
- 31:07Speaker 5: the group. But I look up on that board and
- 31:08Speaker 5: I see Chris Hilton's name above yours, and they started
- 31:11Speaker 5: going kind of all in on You know why that happened?
- 31:14Speaker 5: Now fresh legs, fresh legs, like fresh, he's playing another
- 31:18Speaker 5: game that's fight.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, Chris Hilton getting the getting the invite,
- 31:22Speaker 2: then the late the last minute invite because of his
- 31:24Speaker 2: performance at the at the East West game. So yeah,
- 31:27Speaker 2: two nights ago, was playing in the game. The next
- 31:30Speaker 2: day on a plane to mobile, fresh off the plane.
- 31:34Speaker 4: And ten thirty and practice started at one.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Yeah, you better go ahead and carry on your helmet
- 31:40Speaker 2: and shoulder pads because you don't have time to check
- 31:43Speaker 2: them and wait, yeah, carry him on. Yeah, it gets
- 31:46Speaker 2: straight off the plane to the stadium, throw jersey on
- 31:49Speaker 2: and let's get out there. And you could tell they
- 31:50Speaker 2: were trying to get him. They didn't want to throw
- 31:52Speaker 2: them in there too much because he was just had
- 31:54Speaker 2: played a game the night before. He was fresh off
- 31:57Speaker 2: the plane. So they had him. Of course, you warm
- 32:00Speaker 2: ups to individual drills and then they had him and
- 32:02Speaker 2: do like the main like the one live ish period
- 32:04Speaker 2: they had him do was two versus two two on
- 32:07Speaker 2: two route combinations, and the dude is fast fast. Yeah,
- 32:11Speaker 2: they couldn't. There was nobody that could cover him in that.
- 32:14Speaker 2: I think he ran, he separated, and he was He's
- 32:18Speaker 2: one of these you know, I've never really watched him
- 32:20Speaker 2: just like watching like all right, let me just see
- 32:22Speaker 2: this kid's skill set ups. I've watched him on an
- 32:24Speaker 2: eleven on eleven football field, but I've never just like
- 32:26Speaker 2: singled him out and watched it. Kid is one of
- 32:29Speaker 2: these deceptively fast guys because it's kind of long stride
- 32:32Speaker 2: and a really smooth runner. So he doesn't he's moving
- 32:35Speaker 2: fast and he doesn't look like he's going fast. So
- 32:38Speaker 2: from a body language standpoint, is a defensive back you
- 32:41Speaker 2: have to kind of get used to that because you
- 32:43Speaker 2: kind of when you're covering, your job is to match
- 32:47Speaker 2: the receiver what he's doing, whether he's running slow or fast.
- 32:49Speaker 2: And so when you see a guy that's running like
- 32:52Speaker 2: so smooth and effortlessly, you tend to give the same
- 32:54Speaker 2: amount of effort as that you're seeing because you're supposed
- 32:58Speaker 2: to match it. But you're like, oh, he's not given
- 33:00Speaker 2: effort and he's going way faster than me. Nobody could
- 33:03Speaker 2: keep up with him yesterday. Now he didn't. I don't
- 33:05Speaker 2: think they completed anything. He ran like a They running
- 33:09Speaker 2: all these like stack combinations. So he released and runs
- 33:12Speaker 2: down the sideline and he just got cooked by like
- 33:14Speaker 2: three yards. At quarterback, they they weren't used ready for it.
- 33:18Speaker 2: He underthrew it. But the other he was open, like
- 33:20Speaker 2: every single time. So I looked at see him. I
- 33:24Speaker 2: can't wait to see how he does. Got to give
- 33:26Speaker 2: him a little bit more. He didn't do one on ones,
- 33:28Speaker 2: he did not do seven on sevens, didn't do any
- 33:30Speaker 2: team because again he had just got there.
- 33:32Speaker 5: Yeah, they had a coach that was like every time
- 33:34Speaker 5: trying to like obviously show him the plays in different
- 33:37Speaker 5: th catch because the other guys had a three day
- 33:39Speaker 5: head start on the playbook. Ye if he gets into
- 33:43Speaker 5: like the right offense, and I know, look, as LSU fans,
- 33:48Speaker 5: everybody was excited Chris Hilton went to media day. We
- 33:51Speaker 5: were all wanting to see what we saw at the
- 33:54Speaker 5: end of the season before. Remember against Oklahoma against Baylor
- 33:58Speaker 5: in the bowl game, We're like, oh my gosh, this
- 34:00Speaker 5: is the Chris Hilton that we have been waiting on him.
- 34:03Speaker 4: Because it all peered up, he got healthy.
- 34:05Speaker 5: And then you had the plays that rush actually pushing
- 34:08Speaker 5: the ball down the field. You didn't have that this year.
- 34:11Speaker 5: I mean every throw was five yards or less. Some
- 34:14Speaker 5: were negative five, just like that's what the offense was.
- 34:18Speaker 5: But that is a player that is going to have
- 34:20Speaker 5: every opportunity to make an NFL roster and if he
- 34:23Speaker 5: gets with the right team with the right quarterback that's
- 34:25Speaker 5: looking to stretch the ball down the field. And he
- 34:28Speaker 5: played special teams at LSU two, so he's got a
- 34:30Speaker 5: history of that. I think Chris Hilton's going to be
- 34:33Speaker 5: a professional football player next year on a fifty three
- 34:35Speaker 5: man roster, not a practice squad guy.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. I mean, he's got he's got
- 34:39Speaker 2: the he has got the skill set. Certainly, he looks
- 34:43Speaker 2: the part. He's fast. I think at LSG, I think
- 34:46Speaker 2: we all would like to for him to be a
- 34:48Speaker 2: little bit better at the point of catch, a little
- 34:50Speaker 2: bit stronger contested catches. I think that's one thing that
- 34:53Speaker 2: he can certainly work on. But I mean, how do
- 34:56Speaker 2: we really know after this past season. Didn't really have
- 34:58Speaker 2: the opportunities right. But just like every single one of
- 35:02Speaker 2: these kids that is at the Senior Bowl, unless you're
- 35:05Speaker 2: a first round guy, maybe some of the second round,
- 35:08Speaker 2: it's all about getting in the right situation. When I
- 35:12Speaker 2: was playing, I saw so many really good players not
- 35:15Speaker 2: ever make it. Then I saw some players that weren't
- 35:17Speaker 2: very good and they did make it. It's just all
- 35:18Speaker 2: about timing. It's all about situation. It's all about what
- 35:21Speaker 2: if you get into the right system that highlights your
- 35:24Speaker 2: skill set and allows your skill set to play the
- 35:28Speaker 2: way it should. So we just got to wish the
- 35:31Speaker 2: best for these kids that they get in the situation.
- 35:33Speaker 4: But he.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Certainly is a guy that you put him out one
- 35:38Speaker 2: on ones, he's going to impress by it just his
- 35:40Speaker 2: physical skill set, but he's got to make the players
- 35:43Speaker 2: when they're presented to him on these contested catches. So
- 35:46Speaker 2: that's why this week, the next couple of days, this
- 35:50Speaker 2: practice in the game on Saturday, when the balls in
- 35:52Speaker 2: the air, you got to go make the play.
- 35:54Speaker 5: Yep, He's got a great opportunity to go to impressing
- 35:57Speaker 5: players on his team, obviously with being able to come
- 36:01Speaker 5: straight off the plane, but also every NFL team here,
- 36:05Speaker 5: all thirty two teams are probably going to be looking
- 36:07Speaker 5: at a guy like that because you can't teach the
- 36:11Speaker 5: kind of speed that Chris Hilton has, So looking forward
- 36:12Speaker 5: to seeing what he can do on Saturday during the game.
- 36:17Speaker 5: Aaron Anderson another player that we hadn't had a chance
- 36:19Speaker 5: to really talk about very often. Somebody that I know, Matt,
- 36:22Speaker 5: you've been a big fan of You were hoping he
- 36:25Speaker 5: could stay healthy, obviously, and you thought maybe once he
- 36:27Speaker 5: got into a situation like this because it was football, IQ,
- 36:30Speaker 5: that that would stand out.
- 36:32Speaker 4: Have you seen anything from Aaron Anderson.
- 36:34Speaker 2: Aaron hadn't really had the opportunity in any of the
- 36:37Speaker 2: main periods to make a play, so all of his
- 36:41Speaker 2: highlights have come on one on one route running his
- 36:44Speaker 2: individual work. The ball. I don't think the ball well, okay,
- 36:48Speaker 2: I take that back last last play of practice. Yes, sorry,
- 36:50Speaker 2: Nesmier hit him over the middle for about fifteen yards.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Wait over the middle, Like, look too, lsu quick. I
- 36:58Speaker 2: know what you're saying.
- 37:00Speaker 4: To play in the middle of the field.
- 37:01Speaker 2: I know you're saying, Matt, you are full of pooh
- 37:05Speaker 2: because there's no way you can complete a pass over
- 37:08Speaker 2: the middle of field. Well there is, and they did
- 37:09Speaker 2: it yesterday, all right, and it was it was fun
- 37:12Speaker 2: to watch Aaron. He's looked very good, very I mean,
- 37:15Speaker 2: he's he's the guy that we know. He's He's like
- 37:19Speaker 2: a water bug out there. Man, It's hard to keep
- 37:21Speaker 2: up with him. He does great body control. He's you
- 37:23Speaker 2: don't know which way he's gonna go. When he gets
- 37:25Speaker 2: to the top of a route, You're like, all right,
- 37:27Speaker 2: TB has to hesitate a little bit and make a break.
- 37:30Speaker 2: He just hasn't what they're the plays at the rent
- 37:33Speaker 2: and I'll have to understand when seven on seven goes,
- 37:36Speaker 2: there's fifteen seven on seven plays, there's fifteen team situations
- 37:42Speaker 2: and like team first down, there's fifteen on another team.
- 37:46Speaker 2: So there's like forty five plays total. Half of them
- 37:50Speaker 2: not half of them, half of the team plays or
- 37:52Speaker 2: running plays. It's just like the rotation, and so you're
- 37:56Speaker 2: rotating with all these other receivers. So the receivers are
- 37:58Speaker 2: rotating in about once every three, yeah to maybe four plays.
- 38:03Speaker 2: And it's lucky to draw a lot of the times
- 38:04Speaker 2: when Aaron's been in there, they bad luck is just running.
- 38:08Speaker 2: It's like a running play. Yeah, he's running like he's
- 38:10Speaker 2: having a block or whatever.
- 38:12Speaker 5: So he even saw him one he was lined up
- 38:15Speaker 5: kind of like in almost like like an offset tight
- 38:18Speaker 5: end type of position.
- 38:20Speaker 4: So he's right on the hip of the tackle on
- 38:22Speaker 4: the left side, like in a two point stance.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Yeah, and they set the ball and he goes backside
- 38:29Speaker 5: all the way around to lead on the safety on
- 38:32Speaker 5: the back side, you know, kind of like selling like
- 38:33Speaker 5: you're cutting off a zone run. Then you go up
- 38:35Speaker 5: to the next level. I was like, well, I don't
- 38:38Speaker 5: know that Aaron Air she has ever done that in
- 38:40Speaker 5: his career.
- 38:41Speaker 2: He's never been out. Yeah he is. They've all then
- 38:43Speaker 2: you have to this is this is the place where
- 38:45Speaker 2: you have to do a nice job on everything you do.
- 38:48Speaker 2: Ton of effort by by him, by Aaron Anderson, A
- 38:51Speaker 2: ton of effort I'm seeing given by barry On Brown
- 38:53Speaker 2: who's looking fast fast?
- 38:56Speaker 4: Barry On Brown had so.
- 38:58Speaker 5: Again, there's all these analytics that they had here, and
- 39:01Speaker 5: Barryon Brown had the most yards traveled by like five
- 39:05Speaker 5: hundred yards. The second day of practice he had traveled
- 39:07Speaker 5: like five four hundred and ninety yards.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Well, every time he catches a punt, like even if
- 39:13Speaker 2: it's not in the punt drill, like the actual live
- 39:15Speaker 2: punch drill, they're just catching punts for warmut, he runs
- 39:17Speaker 2: the full length of the field as fast as he
- 39:19Speaker 2: can show speed.
- 39:20Speaker 5: Look if you got it flowing out, if you got it, buddy,
- 39:23Speaker 5: I'm telling you, why would you not. Yeah, there was
- 39:26Speaker 5: one they were doing like this, you know, very basic
- 39:29Speaker 5: punt drill where it was really for the gunners to
- 39:31Speaker 5: go out and save it before it goes into the
- 39:35Speaker 5: end zone.
- 39:35Speaker 4: They will save it.
- 39:36Speaker 5: On the one well, one of the gunners hits it
- 39:39Speaker 5: back into the field of play, and Barryon Brown, he
- 39:42Speaker 5: was the returner on the rep, he goes over there,
- 39:43Speaker 5: grabs it and then ran the whole length.
- 39:45Speaker 2: Of the field like you mean, trying to get it.
- 39:49Speaker 2: He's trying to get his name of that.
- 39:50Speaker 4: Scoreboard, no doubt, and he did.
- 39:52Speaker 5: He certainly did all right, we will step away. We've
- 39:55Speaker 5: got much more OTB coming your way right now. We've
- 39:58Speaker 5: got a ton of scout and coaches coming into the
- 40:02Speaker 5: convention center.
- 40:02Speaker 4: Of the players are starting to come in as.
- 40:04Speaker 5: They've got their early meetings, and so again, our hope
- 40:07Speaker 5: is that we can bring you a couple more LSU guys.
- 40:10Speaker 5: Tyra Montgomery from John Carroll is somebody we'd love to
- 40:13Speaker 5: have a conversation with, and we'll have all that for
- 40:15Speaker 5: you when we come back. This is our continued coverage
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- 42:45Speaker 4: In fact cool all right, welcome back in OTB.
- 42:52Speaker 5: We gotta get like fifteen minutes off script to be
- 42:55Speaker 5: able to catch up with Joel Thomas, who he wants
- 42:57Speaker 5: to the acting head coach year for the American squad
- 43:02Speaker 5: New Orleans Saints running back coach.
- 43:04Speaker 4: He told us he listened to the show. Shout out
- 43:06Speaker 4: friend of the show.
- 43:07Speaker 2: We appreciate that by now.
- 43:08Speaker 4: But I just want to talk about he wants to
- 43:11Speaker 4: sit here. I think he wants to talk football with I.
- 43:14Speaker 2: He came in here. He came by break that time
- 43:16Speaker 2: at least.
- 43:17Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. That's true.
- 43:19Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, so we see. Yeah, he was running
- 43:24Speaker 2: backs coach when I was there the Saints. Yeah, isn't
- 43:26Speaker 2: it a long time? Where else does it been?
- 43:29Speaker 5: I want to say it was the Giants. Maybe we'll
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- 44:12Speaker 2: Joel Thomas. He was a former stand up running back at.
- 44:15Speaker 4: Idaho, where he was played with Dougnas Meyer, where.
- 44:17Speaker 2: He was inducted into their Athletic Hall off that shout out.
- 44:20Speaker 2: We daily coached at Louisville, coached at Idaho, coach to
- 44:23Speaker 2: Purdue Washington, Purdue ar Kansas, coaching Purdue. Let's see, it
- 44:29Speaker 2: was with the Saints from twenty fifteen to twenty three,
- 44:32Speaker 2: and then with the Giants for a year.
- 44:34Speaker 4: I knew there was a giant s up there, and
- 44:35Speaker 4: then went back to the Saints. This past hit this
- 44:38Speaker 4: past season, Yeah, come out now, I can't leave the Saints.
- 44:40Speaker 2: He was funny because he's, you know, the first time
- 44:42Speaker 2: like probably being the head coach, and so he's talking
- 44:45Speaker 2: about how he had to like bring everybody up at
- 44:47Speaker 2: pritic yesterday because there was an interception early on in practice,
- 44:50Speaker 2: and being an offensive guy, He's like, no, no, He's like,
- 44:52Speaker 2: wait a minute, I gotta go celebrate with him, all right, Okay.
- 44:58Speaker 4: He pointed to me, said, yeah, you know you ruggle
- 45:00Speaker 4: with that, Like, yeah, I never cheer for the defense.
- 45:02Speaker 2: They're turns.
- 45:03Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all offense here.
- 45:05Speaker 2: Defense. Thanks.
- 45:09Speaker 4: I do like I can tell he wants to he
- 45:10Speaker 4: wants to talk a ball with us. Who can have
- 45:12Speaker 4: them on the show. He's a friend of the show.
- 45:14Speaker 4: He's a p one.
- 45:14Speaker 2: I mean, he seems kind of desperate to be on
- 45:18Speaker 2: the show a little bit, don't you think.
- 45:19Speaker 4: I think I think he appreciates our football knowledge. That's
- 45:23Speaker 4: what it feels like.
- 45:23Speaker 5: He's like he's around these college guys who kind of
- 45:25Speaker 5: get it, but not really get Yeah.
- 45:27Speaker 2: So true, so true. He's a good dude man, great,
- 45:30Speaker 2: great gay.
- 45:30Speaker 3: Right.
- 45:30Speaker 4: So yeah, excited to have him with this opportunity here
- 45:34Speaker 4: in Mobile.
- 45:34Speaker 2: So you got to think about, like these coaches have
- 45:36Speaker 2: an opportunity as well too. Yeah, for sure, like to kind.
- 45:39Speaker 4: Of Scott Tolzy, Like Scott's going to be an oc
- 45:44Speaker 4: one day.
- 45:44Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is like an opportunity for him to
- 45:46Speaker 5: show that he can put a game plan together, a
- 45:48Speaker 5: first fifteen together, h third and eight together.
- 45:51Speaker 4: You know, all like this is Scott's opportunity.
- 45:53Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, and it might not happen next year, but
- 45:56Speaker 5: it's it's a foot in the door to show that
- 45:58Speaker 5: he can't do it.
- 45:58Speaker 2: At this level. Yeah, and it could its for him
- 46:00Speaker 2: as well. So I've been watching Scott at practice and
- 46:05Speaker 2: I'm telling you he's a very very good coach. You know.
- 46:08Speaker 2: It's you never know how coaches are going to make
- 46:10Speaker 2: that stairstep if they'd be had good head coaches or whatever.
- 46:13Speaker 2: But I can tell you Scott's a very good football coach,
- 46:16Speaker 2: very good quarterback coach and offensive coach. So you never
- 46:19Speaker 2: know about the head coach and stuff. You never know.
- 46:23Speaker 2: But yeah, they're really good opportunity for these coaches as
- 46:26Speaker 2: well as these players and people making the most of it.
- 46:28Speaker 2: And we'll keep talking about those people making the most
- 46:31Speaker 2: of it. We need to talk a little bit quarterbacks
- 46:33Speaker 2: as well, a little nussbus action crushing him.
- 46:36Speaker 5: And we will do that when we come back here
- 46:39Speaker 5: outward number two of OTV, coming right back your way,
- 46:42Speaker 5: live from Mobile, Alabama.
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