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Matt Flynn Officially Retires, Richard Dickson Talks Tight Ends & 2025 Season Preview · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome again our number two OTV one O
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  Speaker 3: four five ESPN. Ben Rude So talking a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: Tyron Matthews, he retires yesterday, and this is a year
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  Speaker 3: that you know, guys officially retiring, Guys surprise retiring, like Tyron,
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  Speaker 3: we mentioned it. Jimmy Graham was yesterday as well. Philip
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  Speaker 3: Rivers was the day before that. Patrick Peterson officially retired
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  Speaker 3: this year. Nothing makes you feel older. To me, there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things that make me feel old when
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  Speaker 3: guys start retiring that we're older, like older than you
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  Speaker 3: or you played with or even guys like tiring that
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  Speaker 3: are younger than you. And then also like seeing your
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  Speaker 3: teammates or guys you played against, sons going into college
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  Speaker 3: football in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: That really makes you feel old.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like Jeremiah Trotter junior played for the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: last year. I'm like, oh, man I played against Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Trotter one. Yeah, Irlackerson playing for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, does a Frank Gored junior play somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: He played at Southern Miss and now I think he's
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  Speaker 3: practiced squa off the bills.
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  Speaker 5: There's another one makes you feel really old. Thing Y's
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  Speaker 5: fair with Elijah? What you were you born two thousand
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  Speaker 5: and eight?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm h eight A little bit eight? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I was a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's like John Runyon still drop these times though
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  Speaker 3: getting paid. I'm like, oh cool, I played with his dad.
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  Speaker 3: Play with that John Runyon. That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Two thousand and eight, that hurts.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, if two thousand that one, that one
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  Speaker 2: cut deep.
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  Speaker 3: If he doesn't end up at LSU, that's completely your fault.
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  Speaker 3: I mean right, I can do all agree in the room.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot right Elijah Haven. If he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't end up at l s U flynts's quarterback coach,
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  Speaker 3: it's without questions.
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  Speaker 6: Because you're also supposed to be like low key recruiting him,
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  Speaker 6: minus the low key, like.
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  Speaker 3: The highest aid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm you.
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  Speaker 6: Are a representative of LSU because it will be your
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  Speaker 6: fault if Haven does not commit to Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: State.
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  Speaker 4: On him, because not only do you have to have
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  Speaker 4: no doubt your fault if he doesn't go to L SHU,
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  Speaker 4: it's Matt's fault if he doesn't pan out in college
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  Speaker 4: anywhere he goes.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of also about I think everybody has human beings.
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  Speaker 7: Career is in your hands.
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  Speaker 5: I think everybody is human beings want other, really good
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  Speaker 5: human beings to do what's best for them. Right, That's
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  Speaker 5: how I feel, at least, well, what's best for human beings,
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  Speaker 5: especially ones that are good.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so let me ask you this. If he's ever like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: what do you think? Do you think I should go
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  Speaker 6: to L s U? Are you like I think you
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  Speaker 6: should do whatever you think is best?
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  Speaker 2: I say, let's lay up, let's let's lay out the facts.
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  Speaker 3: Do you give like ls better than Lshu's facts.
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  Speaker 4: It's like creative proves and comms lost.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm, I mean, conn, you got over there, but we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna keep it all ball. Wow. Just I'm just letting
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  Speaker 3: y'all know. Now. I don't know that L shoes recruiting
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  Speaker 3: any fullbacks, but if they were and I was working
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  Speaker 3: with them. You get one choice. B yeah, one, actually
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  Speaker 3: you got two choices. You got to you can go
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  Speaker 3: to the service academies or you can go to else here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just subtenly do it, not like just show up
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  Speaker 4: where you're old like like.
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  Speaker 3: Work. I do.
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  Speaker 2: Throw the old cleats on.
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  Speaker 5: And there are green and yellow cleats fourteen and they're.
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  Speaker 3: Even purple Goldlease, but what are we doing? This is
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  Speaker 3: this is not this whole This is shocking. Actually this
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  Speaker 3: started out as a bit, and now I'm getting kind
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  Speaker 3: of mad.
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  Speaker 7: It's getting sorry.
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  Speaker 3: As what a bit?
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  Speaker 5: A bit, yeah, but a bit. So I was just like, amazing,
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  Speaker 5: amazingly good person.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, yeah we need we need those guys at
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  Speaker 3: L Shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. But I'm there to help guide, help
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  Speaker 2: guide his coaches.
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  Speaker 5: His coaches, His coaches had done him, do a great job.
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  Speaker 5: They got him on the field. I just helping them
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  Speaker 5: in the shout out. I'm just there trying to help mechanics,
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of the mental stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Elijah, if you're listening, Lamar Brown committed l
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  Speaker 3: s U. So my job's done there.
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  Speaker 4: Right, You gotta you gotta, you gotta hold up your
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  Speaker 4: end of the deal. You got you got his coaches
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  Speaker 4: guide him. You guide him to l S Huh, you're
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  Speaker 4: the You're the private coach man.
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  Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 5: I think you know, we all like know what we want. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: mm I don't like that. I'd love to see it
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  Speaker 5: the more the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna push him though, kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Me, I'm not kidding you at all. Just that top
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  Speaker 3: player in the country plays quarterback m Baton Rouge gets
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  Speaker 3: worked out by a former l s U National championship
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  Speaker 3: winning quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: Wait okay, sid Bo Bowden.
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  Speaker 6: Bowden in the chat says Elijah Haven is a celebrity
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  Speaker 6: waiter as well.
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  Speaker 7: He just can't serve alcohol and I just went to
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  Speaker 7: go see it he is.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Elianja's on the case. I feel better about it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel better about it. True.
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  Speaker 7: I can talk to today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeahty, you got ted LSU. You can talk to him
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  Speaker 3: all you want.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, have you spoken? Have you talked to him before?
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  Speaker 6: Brittany and I so last season she did like a
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  Speaker 6: high school prep video series that she did, so we
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  Speaker 6: that was actually the done him was the first school
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  Speaker 6: we went to and we talked to Elijah and a
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  Speaker 6: couple other kids, and yeah, he's a great kid.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's even better.
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  Speaker 6: Like you're already participating in like a fundraising event.
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  Speaker 7: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course everybody wants him to go to show.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody does also like we got it, but like I
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  Speaker 5: hate I don't feel comfortable saying, hey man.
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  Speaker 4: Because it kind of heard a laundro But like he
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of donations and tips and he wound
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  Speaker 4: up winning.
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  Speaker 2: You feel better about the YELSU fans.
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  Speaker 7: He would. But if you're listening, I want you to tip.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But but I'm also in the fox on.
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  Speaker 2: I want to line you to win.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this hold on now, Okay, go ahead, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, because I need clarification because I've only talked
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  Speaker 3: to one junior.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say one if you're.
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  Speaker 3: In high school and his name is wit Weeks and
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  Speaker 3: he's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: One of your children. Yeah, okay, the top recruit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, are you telling him you're not going on any visits.
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  Speaker 5: You're not keeping an open mind, you are not gonna
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  Speaker 5: do it best for you.
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  Speaker 3: You want the real answer, if you got to offer
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  Speaker 3: from l s U, If you could offer from LSU
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  Speaker 3: and his last name is Hester, purple.
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  Speaker 5: And gold, Okay, what would you would say immediately, don't
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  Speaker 5: don't go and at least talk to people.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, you can't go to A and m Florida,
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  Speaker 3: Alabamare you go?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? I got it, I got it. That's love that
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  Speaker 2: those were a.
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  Speaker 3: Little Michigan in there, like USC in there, Miami in there.
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  Speaker 5: Especially this day and age, I think kids that are
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  Speaker 5: getting recruited, I think they should go and talk and
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  Speaker 5: visit and see it because you can change your mind.
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  Speaker 5: So as I want kids to have conviction when they
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  Speaker 5: make decisions. I want them to have an educated decision
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  Speaker 5: because if not, they're gonna leave in.
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  Speaker 2: A year because they can.
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  Speaker 5: But if they actually go through their recruiting process responsibly
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  Speaker 5: and actually talk to different coaches and go see different things,
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  Speaker 5: then they make the decision. And I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more solidified or has the potential to be
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  Speaker 5: at least.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll do the same.
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  Speaker 3: I will all jokes aside and piling on Flynn here.
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  Speaker 3: It was funny because my son is very gifted mentally,
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  Speaker 3: like compared to me or Flynn, and I was like, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't get an l U offer, uh. Stanford, Vanderbilt,
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  Speaker 3: Northwestern like, those are the schools we're looking at. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not letting you go to big State U unless
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  Speaker 3: Big State U is l s U.
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  Speaker 2: You guys in the chatter, funny, lookie that's Flint.
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  Speaker 5: Does Flint recommend my high to Haven or just suggests
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  Speaker 5: you make the best decision for him?
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  Speaker 7: Very good question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like, hey, liquid IV's out there as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not saying like, get mine, Like, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: saying my decision for you and your hydration.
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  Speaker 3: If you think liquid you know, maybe is better, you
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  Speaker 3: should test the waters, you know.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, I don't want you to get liquid IV
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  Speaker 4: to help me out. I mean, I'll tell my high
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  Speaker 4: to help me out.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to get it because it's what you
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  Speaker 3: want to Yeah, how about that. Now he hates.
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  Speaker 2: You get suck.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, It's okay, like if if Hey, if you mess
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  Speaker 3: up and you don't get him here, there's an evangel
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  Speaker 3: quarterback that's also like a top ten quarterback in the country,
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  Speaker 3: I'll just take over. It's fine, I'll get him here.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I'm okay, a little uncomfortable spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're making it known and it's the best.
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  Speaker 2: I know I get it. That's what I had Chad
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  Speaker 2: GBT do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually kind of nervous.
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  Speaker 2: I had Chad GB two right, Mia football retirement speech.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, let's do this. Let's do this all right
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  Speaker 3: when we come back, because you're going to officially retire
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  Speaker 3: eight year NFL VET, eight year, eight year NFL veteran,
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl champion, National champion quarterback Matthew Clayton Flynn. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do it right here.
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  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. It's off the
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  Speaker 1: bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 8: Generals gathered in the mass just like witches at black masses,
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  Speaker 8: evil minds, a plot destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Sorcerer.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, gain OTV one of four five
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  Speaker 3: ESPN Baton Rouge and this is today. It's been upon
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  Speaker 3: us for well almost a decade. It's a big moment
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  Speaker 3: here on O TV. There's retirement in the air. Patrick Peterson,
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  Speaker 3: Philip Rivers, Jimmy Graham, Tyro, Matthew and our very own
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  Speaker 3: Matt Fluin. Eight year NFL VET decided that it was time.
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  Speaker 3: It was also time for him to hang up his cleats.
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  Speaker 3: But the way the shoulder pads deflate the football, no
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  Speaker 3: more pickskin being thrown around, and we're gonna give him
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  Speaker 3: the floor for this moment to uh to find say
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  Speaker 3: goodbye to the game he loves so much.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Jake Landre Taylor, to save me all. I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna try to make it through this. Wow, this is
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  Speaker 5: a little surreal. I didn't think this moment would feel
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  Speaker 5: quite like this, but here we are. After a lot
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  Speaker 5: of thought and some tough conversations with my family, coaches,
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  Speaker 5: and the people closest to me, I've decided to.
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  Speaker 2: Officially retire from the game of football.
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  Speaker 5: Sport has been a part of my life for as
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  Speaker 5: long as I can remember, from playing backyard ball in Tyler, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: to win in a national championship at LSU, to stepping
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  Speaker 5: onto the NFL fields with some of the best ever
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  Speaker 5: play the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's been one incredible ride.
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  Speaker 5: I want to start by saying thank you to the
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  Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers, the team that gave me my first
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  Speaker 5: opportunity backing up Aaron Rodgers, learning from him being a
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  Speaker 5: part of that locker room. Let's set the tone for
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  Speaker 5: my entire career. I learned what it meant to prepare
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  Speaker 5: like a propoe, to compete and stay ready.
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  Speaker 2: Even if.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you can do it, you can make it there.
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  Speaker 5: I know, even if even if you're holding a clipboard
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  Speaker 5: more than football that thought last year, it's tears to
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  Speaker 5: the Seahawks, Raiders, Bills, Patriots. Thank you for trusting me,
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  Speaker 5: for giving me a jersey, giving me a jersey, for
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  Speaker 5: believing in what I could bring to your team, even
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  Speaker 5: when that wasn't always a starting role. I know I
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  Speaker 5: didn't have the flashiest career. I wasn't the face of
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  Speaker 5: a franchise, but I was always proud to be the
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  Speaker 5: guy who showed up, stayed ready, and did the work.
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  Speaker 5: I'll never forget that game in Week seventeen against the
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  Speaker 5: Lions in twenty twelve, That's a memory I'll hold on
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  Speaker 5: to forever. For one afternoon, I felt like a rock star.
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  Speaker 5: That's the beauty of this league. You never know when
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  Speaker 5: your number will be called. When it is, you gotta
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  Speaker 5: be ready to shine like my coach, is, teammates, trainers,
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  Speaker 5: and ever.
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  Speaker 2: We got to skip a few. This is emotional.
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  Speaker 5: It's too emotional. I can't get it up. To my family,
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  Speaker 5: especially my wife and kids. Thank you for the sacrifices,
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  Speaker 5: the moves, the long nights, and the support through every
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  Speaker 5: high and low. I couldn't have done this without you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm leaving this game with a full heart. I got
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  Speaker 5: to live my dream. I got to play quarterback in
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  Speaker 5: the National Football League. That little kid in Texas never
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  Speaker 5: imagined he'd make it this far. I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 5: what next, but I knew though that I'll carry the
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  Speaker 5: lessons from football into every chapter of my life. Leadership,
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  Speaker 5: persevere parents, humility, and knowing how to laugh at yourself
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  Speaker 5: when you get sacked five times and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Football football gave me more than I could ever repay.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's time to give back, to be there for
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  Speaker 5: my family the way they were always there for me,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe just maybe coach a few young quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 5: remind them that it's not about how many starts you get,
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  Speaker 5: it's about how you handle the moments you're given. Thank you, Football,
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  Speaker 5: Thank you ever everyone. I'm forever grateful. Goodbye that.
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  Speaker 3: Hell of a career, Matt of a career.
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  Speaker 7: But oh my god, why was it roasty?
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  Speaker 2: What were you sacked five times and a half? I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember.
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  Speaker 7: I doesn't forget.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I don't want to get roasted by AI.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an stay unretired.
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  Speaker 5: GBT asked me if I wanted to get it rewritten
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  Speaker 5: in first person. Matt Flynn is only one man. Matt
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  Speaker 5: Flynn is retiring from the NFL today, he.
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  Speaker 3: Won't, Thank god, I won't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is people.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's official, it's been it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 5: But like Taylor said at the break, like I outlasted
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  Speaker 5: Honey Badger, I retired after him.
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  Speaker 3: You did, And Blake Miller says retired from football and
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  Speaker 3: fires from recruiting, all in the same day.
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  Speaker 2: Rats. Oh that's well done.
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  Speaker 3: That's well done. You You got through that much better
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  Speaker 3: than I was. Emotional. I couldn't that.
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  Speaker 5: It's like when you spend your life doing something when
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  Speaker 5: you finally turned the turn the page. God, I couldn't
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  Speaker 5: make it sad, even if you're holding a clipboard more
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  Speaker 5: than football.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks listed.
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  Speaker 3: The teams was like that was come on, much of
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  Speaker 3: a journeyman.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is let me read down all name.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do mine during the braid, just to just
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  Speaker 3: to laugh myself. It's probably gonna talk retired to maybe.
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  Speaker 2: No, it'll it'll, it'll roast you. It'll be like, Jake,
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  Speaker 2: what's a fool? What I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna definitely do What did Deon Sanders say he
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  Speaker 6: got a fridge on his back?
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, God, what did he say, mmmm, were you here?
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  Speaker 3: Were you here? That?
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  Speaker 7: I still t bob.
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  Speaker 3: God, he said something, so I hope Colorado wins two games.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Prime talking ish while I'm running in for a touchdown
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: that I was waiting on a whistle to be blown
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: because I didn't think it was gonna count judging my speed,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I'll beat you right.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Now, little little stubby legs.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I feel confident in saying I could beat Coach Prime
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: in a race right now. He's going through some.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Stuff, doesn't Did he lose a tower?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: It's about longevity.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Are we not taking care of our toes?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know what are we doing?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: I don't know else, health like diabetes.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what he's got going on.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: But come on, Prime, I do miss Tea Bog's impression
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: of Dionne. It was really good.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Job, Yeah, Jeb, Hey, you know what job.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: I don't even know what that means.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Hey, I might have tried to roast you, but I
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: was sitting here and when you said that, one of
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: my good friends in this world is Charlie Whitehurst. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: at least you don't have the nickname clipboard.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Jesus. True, that's so true.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Mm Hm and.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Charlie had some starts. He made a couple of dollars
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: at Seattle. Was that after you? Before that was before
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: that was like twenty eleven, It was before you And
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: then he went So he got traded to the Chargers
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: first Seattle, Yeah, and then I think he got traded
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: by Seattle with somebody Tennessee maybe, and then he one
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: year then he found his way back to the Chargers.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: But that man's nickname is clipboard. Jesus, he is like
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and he's the most interesting man in the world.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But guess what, not many people get NFL nicknames.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: That's very true too, Jesus, we know it's Chuck that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: we're talking about exactly. That's actually a really good point. Yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: only nickname I was ever given with stubby legs by saving.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Guess what be a back of the NFL. Guess what
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I means? You gotta be in the NFL. Well, yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: so that's pretty cool.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I think we should uh take a break now because
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I'm sure we gotta let our next guest kind of
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: catch his emotions if he was watching.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: So it's probably talking about a box of Kleenex.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Dick Dixon's gonna be able to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: compose himself to be able to talk with us after
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: that retirement speech, but he's gonna try.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I just I appreciate for for you guys to support
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: system I have here in this room, Like I should
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: be like.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Messive ball teers right now. I don't know how I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: holding it together so well right now?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: How you got through that incredible strength in the chat.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Can't believe it's over.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Welcome to off the bench with stubby legs and fat ankles.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Oh shout out to Jimbo.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Jimbo Fisher is joining the ACC network. He's
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: going to be on the desk for their coverage. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: think actually taking EJ spot because EJ is moving to
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: main ESPN. Jimbo's coming in. He's going to be on
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the desk right there.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: So they're gonna be like a national version of our show.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: They'll never go to break on time, never Jimbo.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: We had Jimbo on Tuesdays and the heartbreaks, the heartbreak
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: like into the hour. You gotta do it, you gotta
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: take it. There's no discussion that man would just roll
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: right through it. And I've be in the zoom like no,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I just try. I ain't care. I mean that man
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: would go forty seven seconds over the heartbreak, just talking
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: knowing that we had already gone to commercial, and I
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: didn't have the heart to tell him that nobody heard
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: those forty seven seconds or whatever you're talking about, Jobo.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: So but yeah, he'll be great at that. You're gonna
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: talk fast, and you're gonna talk a lot, but it's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: gonna be really good stuff. So all right, Richard Dixon,
• 23:26
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• 23:31
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  Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: like only champions can.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back again, OTB one of four five
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: ESPN baton rouge and we'll see if see if he's
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: composed himself after the Matt Flynn retirement speech. Probably not.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: We're all very emotional here in the room as Matt
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Flynn officially retired from the NFL. But we'll see. We'll
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: see if our guy dig Dixon, you know him as
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Richard Dixon number eighteen, has composed himself. Dick, what's up, brother?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: How we doing doing?
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Good man?
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: What's going on?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: You know? Majest officially retired here on there, So all
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: emotional here you know.
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: Oh oh, I'm glad.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: It's been a big day.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: Congratulations, Thank you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Everybody's been on the edge of their seat wondering when
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: it was gonna come. It's here, buddy, it's over. It's
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: officially over.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: What'd y'all say, I'm deflating my football?
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna go ahead and retire today too.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: All right, Hey, I'm thinking about doing it later.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It's all it's in vogue, definitely in vogue. Dick Dixon,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: what's up, brother? How we doing? How we live in?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: This is old school, hanging with hester us three together,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: chopping it up. Hopefully we can get you in the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: studio pretty soon.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I know you actually have as a launder. Put it
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: like a real job, unlike me and Flynn earlier today
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: when we said you were coming on the show. So
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: glad to have you back on feels like old times.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: Oh man, I'm I'm enjoying it. Could it could be better.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: I could have in the house right now, but we're
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: struggling over here. We're waiting on you. Got to get
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: to the house.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: So we were I know we were talking last night,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and you know, sometimes sometimes twenty four to seven, like
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: one hour Like that doesn't.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: All liars liar every single when I'm the liar one
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: hour Air, Yes, attempt be uh they all full of crap.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Dude, I was laughing. I'm sitting in bed and which
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I was trying to help help dig Dixon get somebody
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: to the house, because when your AC's out in Louisiana,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: this this man called everybody and all that advertising everybody
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: does about tallis will be there, Dig Dixon. That is
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: not true.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: That's not true. The only one that really made me
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: bad was the one Hour airplace because they said they
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: were coming and then all they did would waste one
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: hour of my time because forty five minutes later they said,
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: you know what, we're only servicing warranty installations.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I will tell you you did come.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: And it's funny. Out of all the people in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: world that came, it was Fallless Heating and Air got
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: out great company.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Kyle.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Actually he gets to my house, he said, hey, you
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: Richard Dixon. Like yes, sir, He goes, I'm doing Matt
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Finn's house like a week.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Oh look at that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: Matt knows how to pick them.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, I would he did have me rolling
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: because hey, we're going through like the Rolodex of companies
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: and he's just like, yeah, that one ps all that
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: advertising they're doing. So hey, I'm glad you found the
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: right person because you were trying. You know, you had
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: a business meeting, but I think we've all been there
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: when something's going wrong at home and you've got a
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: business meeting, but also like the thing at home is
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the most important thing, and you're trying to juggle both
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: of them. So I'm glad you got to the bottom
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: I was praying to God that when I got home
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: from that dinner this situation would have been fixed.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I love it. Uh wanted to have you
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: on like and we talked to I think it was
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, Dick about the tight end
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: position and what else you's doing there because you lose
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: a big one, like the only guy to ever have
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: more anything than you. Mason Taylor is no longer in
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: purple and goalie. He is now a New York Jet
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: he declared early and he goes to the NFL. You
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: bring in a couple of tight ends. You got kind
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: of a a little bit of a tweener. A guy's
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be an f all day. He's not gonna be
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: a lie ever in green. But do they have enough?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Like in the room Bower Sharp comes over Southeast Louisiana, Oklahoma.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Now he's at LSU. You go to A and M
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: and you get a tight end. You're trying to replace
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the guy that again did things that no other tight
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: end like you and him are like in rare air.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Are they gonna be able to get it done with
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: those three guys?
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: I think so. You know, I've watched a little bit
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: of Bauer Sharp. I think that he's you know, I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: not gonna say he's as athletic as Mason Taylor. Wasn't
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: going to be his electric and receiving game, even though
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: he is very good. But I think they're comparable blockers.
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: You know, Bason Taylor, I loved the guy to death
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: that he was a B plus B plus B minus blocker. Yeah,
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: I think Bawer Sharp can do that. You know, Trede's
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: is gonna just do what he does. He's a freak athlete.
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: He's gonna get open, he's gonna cause mismatched problems. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: think the big one to watch is the titling coming
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: from A and m. He's a big body guy that's
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: done a lot of blocking in his career, and I
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: think they got a good mix to get it done.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I guess like the thing's going to be and you
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: know this as well as anybody like, because Richard, you
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: were somebody that could play y and f and we
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: always talk about that your y tight end, luge a
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: little football one on one. You're why tight end oftentimes
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: going to be attached to the line and have, you know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: three fingers in the dirt, your ass going to be
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: in the slot, kind of move around, play some different positions,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and you could do both. Mason could do a little
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: bit of both as well. Maybe not as much of
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: the why stuff like you said, but I mean he
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: was a willing blocker.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I guess the thing's gonna be like not to fall
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: into tendencies with this tight end group, Richard, because you
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: do have three guys that all of them are a
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: little bit different, and you got to make sure that
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, when this guy's in, it's going to
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: be this, When that guy's in, it's going to be that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Like they're gonna have to do some things that maybe
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: they're not comfortable with.
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and you know, I still need to see more
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: from the A and M guy because from the people
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: I've talked to, and I talked to a buddy of
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: mine that was coaching every day, and then he's an
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: athletic guy as well, So I think you can cover
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: up tennessees with him. He's a guy that can get
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: out and you know, still run your dig routes, your
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: corner routes, you know, sit down. But he also can block.
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: I think Bower Sharp is going to be a guy
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: that can sit into that as well. And you look,
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: you know, Trade has green. Let's let's see how he
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: looks after year. I haven't watched him block hasn't done anything,
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: but the guys what six eight two forty five, two fifty,
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: they get his frame up and really get him to,
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: you know, understand the technique and how to go after it.
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: He's a guy that I thought was, you know, which
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: you said earlier, a willing blocker. I mean, there was
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: a few plays where he'd stick his head in there
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: last year, and he gave it. He gave it an effort.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: He didn't have the best technique, but it's something that
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: he can continue to work on.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well let's stick with trade des here.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: But the frame you just talked about sixty seven, six eight,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: whatever it is, year one to year two, like last year,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: you know, get in the weight room right between that
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: year one of year two, physically, get better understand leverage
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: of route running. Like there's so many things that you
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: can do to utilize him, especially like when once you
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: get into the red zone, even if you're not throwing
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: him the ball, you're he's you can get to a
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: situation where he at least he's commanding not maybe not
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: double coverage, but like shading a safety his direction, or
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: playing over the top of a corner to loosen up
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: some of the other slot receivers or whatever it is.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: But like, tell me about like your experience. I mean
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: you played a lot as a freshman in your year
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: one to year two. Like what difference did it make
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: for Richard Dixon? And do you think that maybe it
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: can kind of be comparable to what we see from
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: trade is.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's just you know, you all know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: the game slows down, you start to understand it, like
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: we always you know, tell the story my freshman year
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: y'all went to the movies, and Jimbo made me stay
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: back and go over past detections. I didn't get to
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: go to the movie. I had to study the night
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: before because I was always too nervous and freaking out.
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: And you were thinking so much of the freshman and
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: I felt like later in my freshman year, I wasn't
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: thinking as much. But by the time we got to
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: my sophomore year, I mean it was just taking nature.
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: Like you got up to the block, you got up
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: the line, you understood what you were going to do.
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: You know, everything slew down, slowed down better technique, and
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: it would just it became easier.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: And also the tight ends, Like we're talking about the
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: passing game here, but you know, Dixon, you obviously were
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: somebody that and the run game was was big for
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: us as well. Like we had you, we had Keith Zinger,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: we had mit Cole, like we had some tight ends
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: that would do the dirty work. And the running game
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: is something that has to to go up. It wasn't
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: even like really, you know, the running backs. I actually
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: thought the running backs did a nice job of what
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: was in front of them, but like you can't turn
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: into like two thousand and eight Texas Tech. Like you
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: can't throw for four thousand yards and then have your
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: leading rusher have seven hundred yards. Like that just can't
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: be the case there. And so like that's a big
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: part of like if we're talking about trade as Green,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: like how do you utilize him? Like how do you
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: get creative? Because look, you don't have to just line
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: up and have him like attached to a tackle, Like
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: there's different ways and to get guys on the edge,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: and maybe you motion him from outside and you bring
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: him in motion, he cracks the defensive end, you run
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: a toss crack. So I mean something like you have
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: to be creative in the run game to go back
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: to what we started with so you don't fall into
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: those tendencies.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he's an athlete, man. I think he's
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: a guy that you can get on the second level.
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: You know, maybe do an arc release to a linebacker
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: and get a pulling guard to kick out the end.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: You know, he's a guy that he can move with
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: your safeties and your linebackers, and you know he's not
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: going to be you know, not athletic enough to get there.
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: So he's a guy that I know that can block
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: on a second level, like you said, do some different
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: things with him, but we can get on the running
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: game that was last year was frustrating.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: This is this.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Covertation going so well. Everyone's in a good man.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's a mindset. Y'all know that you
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: got to go one out there and go kick somebody's ass,
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: and that the offense line has to make that decision.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: The Titans have to make that decision. And there's no
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: you know, standing up and just trying to you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: let it happen. You've got to go out there and
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: make it happen.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Richard.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: With so many good weapons on offense this year at
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: the wide receiver and of course Garrett Usmeyer returning breaking
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: in a kind of a new offensive line as well.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Is the tight end a vital role this year, especially
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: immediately for kind of a safety blanket for Garrett Nusmeyer
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: and also and for the receivers to help them, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: to help them with one get one on one coverages
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: and get open as well.
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: No doubt. I mean that's how I got the ball.
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: You had early and Jojo a running down the field,
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: and I was your safety blanket, you know, I was
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: the guy that sat down a load got something going.
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: But yeah, I think it's going to open up the
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: middle of the field. And we all know garretting is
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: scared to throw it there. You're gonna have speed on
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: the outside. They're going to have to respect that. They're
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: gonna have to play high coverages. So guys winning across
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: the middle in the intermediate zones, guys that are gonna
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: be key.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Is it is what's the most important position for what
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: part of playing the tight end position it is? Is
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: it being physical? Is it being fast? Is it being
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: a good route runner? Is it understanding the offense? And
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: like where you're at in your progression, Like when you
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: when you if you were training at tight end and
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: say this is one thing you need to work on.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: What is that one thing?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: It depends on how you're going to use the tight
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: end Like for me, it was understanding the defense. You know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: with Gary Croton, every route was an option route. You
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: you had a way to get open on every route,
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: whether you know you scat you the broke, a slant
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: man covered you, chase space and zone if you had
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: the back or beat them one on one. Understanding what
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: the defense is doing understanding what everybody else on the
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: field is doing. Because you know, a tight end, like
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: you said, could play y, could play f you get
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: moved around. You got to understand everybody's situation. You got
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: understand what the defense is doing, and just you know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: getting down and sitting down on the right zones.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: We got a question inside to buy you four chat
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: for dig Dixon. How big his two year old is?
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Biggest I've ever seen a kid at his age. He
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: wears basically the same sizz closed as our seven year old.
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: He could start for a middle school team right now.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean your oldest son as well well, is
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: a giant, Like Jackson's a giant. So you have multiple
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: giants in your home.
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, but I mean Jackson's still like the really nice,
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: good kid. Duke wants to fight everybody. He greets you
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: by punching you when you walk in the door. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: can't There's nothing I can do. I can't thank him anymore.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: I can't say anything to him. It's like one of
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: those things. It's just like, come on, buddy, stop.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Ask Dixon if he was training a five star tight
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: end when he try and sway him towards l s U.
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, because I want him to be gone three years
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: at least I keep some career records.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Pretty good answer. You know, maybe you can talk to
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: matt after this.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: I was happy about Mason Taylor, the greatest tight end
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: to come through in a long time. But thank god
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: he left that for three.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Oh Okay, yeah, I love it speaking of somebody hanging
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: him up and maybe moving on somewhere else, Tyra, Matthew's
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: going to move on to the next phase of his life.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I know you didn't you know you weren't teammates. I
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: think I'll see each other by a year, right.
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: I think a year or two. I think I will
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: say I had a class with him when I came
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: back to get my degree class retiring.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, but I mean, look, we all know, like we
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: all know who he was and what he was and
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: the kind of player that he was. Your favorite maybe
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: honey Badger moment as we reflect on his outstanding career.
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: Man, there's there's so many of them. I heard you
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: talking about this earlier and trying to come up with one.
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: He was the most electrifying player that I watched at LSU.
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, he was something, he was different, There was
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: you know, We had a lot of great players. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: mean we played with first rounder after first rounder, but
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: to what he just did it in a different way.
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: He was he was the shorter guy, he wasn't the
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: fastest guy, but he was such a ballhawk the way
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: I almost say. There was a game against the Oregon
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: where he hawked the guy down caused the fumble that
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: everybody else thought would be a touchdown, and that one
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: sticks out. There was an A and M Bowl game.
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: He made some big plays in it. I mean that
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: was that was when he was number fourteen, that was
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: before his number seven, and I you know, he is
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: just one of those guys that he's gonna be in
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: every LSU highlight reel for the rest of his life.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I have a very true like, you're not going to
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: see one, You're right without having tiring be a part
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: of it. Dig Dixon, we always appreciate the time.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: Hold on, don't let him go. I gotta we got
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: to settle something real Quay two thousand and seven National
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Championship Game. Is it of your opinion that if I
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: apparently I allegedly threw a ball behind you and you
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: say you would have scored a touchdown on you scored
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: a touchdown, do you win the MVP.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: Well, so here's your argument. You always say, well you
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: would have had three touchdowns, but would you had four
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: or five?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I would have had five. I think if
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: you would have scored that one, did you get down
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to like the one or head?
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well if you if you would have scored, I
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: would not have had a touchdown in that game.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: You did score the next Richard had two touchdowns and
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: we ran this like play where I rolled out to
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: the right and he came out like the back door
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: to the side.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Allegedly a thw behind him made him.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: You were trying, You were trying so hard to score too,
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: the raging Oh, I said, don't reach for the pie line,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: but you said screw that.
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Miles and Hampson kind of jumped my butt for reaching,
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: but you know what, I want to score.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: In the long run, I'm glad.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for all three of us got touchdowns.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, Flynn was a little selfish and throwing it
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: behind you, but I appreciate you not.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: Being selfish anything for you.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Good, thank you. I appreciate that. Uh dig Dixon man,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: we gotta get you in studio pretty soon. Man, misch
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: you love you and hopefully we can get that done.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: All right. There, he is Richard Dixon, former l s
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: U tight end number eighteen, good enough to join us here.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: And yeah, we were talking through it last night. Man,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: he was any company, he needed, any company to come
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: help him out last night. No, dude, when you're like
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: he was in a business like lunch, dinner, meeting, whatever situation,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: and you've got no AC in South Louisiana.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, then it last overnight.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: You gotta get a hotel. They're not good.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I know where. Like we're kind of spoiled these days
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: with AC.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Like if it's hot, I can't sleep, it's not I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: not sleeping, not sleeping a wink.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Or during.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: In college, one of the five one of the hurricanes
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: that knocked the power out here. I don't think it
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: was Katrina. I think it was it was a Rita
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: right afterwards, knocked our power.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Out for days. And uh no, he was hot.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: I couldn't sleep, So I got a nice chest full
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: of beer and I just put the beers like I
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: boarded them around my body and bed cooled me off
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: like them.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Slept like a baby. Drink if you two.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Also, what did you call Tyron and Dixon when they
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: were in school together? Class teammates otherwise known.
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: As that would be a classmates, class team.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: He was the same he had just beenished saying we
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: weren't teammates, Okay, I said what we were in class together?
• 41:59
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: Teammates, class teammates, last teamtes.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Also, we got dear Delandra at nine am, so we
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: got twelve minutes.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, get your questions, twelve minutes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Get your questions into me, tip a Ladra, and let's
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: make them good. All right, Let's make some Yes, let's
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: give them some Yeah, like give something that because Alandra's
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: got a particular set of skills that she's really good
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: at getting to the nitty gritty of any situation. So
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: give her something to do that. We'll do it in
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: about bear your soul twelve minutes from now. So you
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: got some time, Dear Delandra coming up at nine am
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: or OTB when we come back.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Speaking of having no AC, if your power goes out
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: and you don't have a whole home generator, guess what happens?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Nothing works. That AC is included in that a look.
• 42:54
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• 42:58
  Speaker 3: you don't have ruined.
• 43:02
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• 43:05
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• 43:09
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• 43:12
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• 43:16
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• 43:20
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• 43:22
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• 43:24
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• 43:27
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• 43:46
  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Remember how cool you were in middle school high school
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: when you learned to play this one on the the
• 44:23
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• 44:28
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• 44:32
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• 44:35
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• 44:38
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• 44:42
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• 44:47
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• 44:50
  Speaker 2: That helped a lot.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Peter Daikowski, Hey, Canadian breath, absolutely legend.
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• 45:00
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• 45:04
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• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Conservative in a very like liberal area city and it
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: actually pretty well.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah in Canada?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. He was from vancouvery normal for
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: the Hamilton Tiger Tiger.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: Cats in Canada. Thinks he's conservatives.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he still lives in Hamilton. What do you do?
• 45:27
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• 45:28
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• 45:29
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• 45:33
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