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Hour Two | Saints Free Agency, LSU Baseball Preview & Jay Clark Joins the Show · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, oh tb Our number two here
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  Speaker 3: live from the Raising Kine Studio. Jake playing a Landra
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  Speaker 3: Cassie here with you on a Friday afternoon. One of
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  Speaker 3: the most underrated players in l s U history got
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  Speaker 3: some dollar dollar bills yesterday. Like, take guess who I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about. Okay, Landra, I guess I want to talking about
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  Speaker 3: He still currently plays in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 4: An underrated l s U.
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  Speaker 3: One of the all time, might be a Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Famer by the end of his career. Actually should be.
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  Speaker 3: By the numbers. Daniel Hunter, Daniel Hunter, Loanda knows ball.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, Matthew does. Cassie was sweating.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you. Okay, don't call me, don't call me.
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Hunter and the Texans agree to a one year,
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  Speaker 3: forty million dollar contract extension.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Forty so well deserved this. Oh yeah, I mean top
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  Speaker 3: five in the league in sacks yet again. This is
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  Speaker 3: Hunter's second extension with Houston after signing a two year,
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  Speaker 3: forty nine million dollar deal back in March of twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four. Whoa I finished with twelve sacks in a
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  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl in twenty twenty four, So the Texans gave
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  Speaker 3: him a one year, thirty five point six million dollar
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  Speaker 3: extension to the back end of that original deal. They
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  Speaker 3: also gave him twelve million dollar raise in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: bumping his salary to thirty two million, and then now
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  Speaker 3: this year, one year forty million dollars for the nail hunter,
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  Speaker 3: who was third in the NFL with fifteen sacks a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, just continues to be so impressive, continues to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the best in the game. He's an
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  Speaker 3: incredible human being if you've ever had the pleasure of
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  Speaker 3: having a conversation with him. And he's going to end
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  Speaker 3: his career potentially with a gold jacket. Yeah, he has
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  Speaker 3: one hundred thirteen and a half career sacks. He had
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  Speaker 3: like four LSU.
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  Speaker 5: Previous to this year. I mean, I would say the
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  Speaker 5: common fan out there who isn't like fully into the
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  Speaker 5: NFL probably didn't really know the name, just like the
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  Speaker 5: Sander passerby Er fan, Like you don't see any Hunter
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  Speaker 5: jerseys walking around and you're talking about like stats, just
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  Speaker 5: having this sleepy I don't even want to say sleepy,
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  Speaker 5: like this subt a little career that nobody's talking about.
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  Speaker 5: And then you're mentioning him with a gold jacket, which
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  Speaker 5: is pretty incredible, So well deserved. Good for you, and
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  Speaker 5: certainly try to keep that defense together. Get rid of
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  Speaker 5: c J. Stroud, replace that guy. Did he hurts you
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  Speaker 5: at some point?
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  Speaker 3: You hate c J. Stroud?
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  Speaker 4: Those card stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's card. Yeah, that's true. It's an investment, so.
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  Speaker 2: It always circles back to the car.
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  Speaker 3: So Daniel Hunter in his career, this is going back
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  Speaker 3: to twenty fifteen, has seasons of six sacks, twelve and
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  Speaker 3: a half, seven fourteen and a half, fourteen and a half,
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  Speaker 3: only played seven games, still had six sacks ten and
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  Speaker 3: a half, sixteen and a half, twelve and fifteen. He
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  Speaker 3: just had his second most in a season.
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  Speaker 2: Hey look good doing it too, muscles.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we used to look like in our uniform, right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, for sure, obviously I didn't want to say it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing it up, though.
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  Speaker 3: What an incredible career though, I mean, really, one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fourteen and a half sacks, very well deserved, one
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  Speaker 3: of the best to do it in his position. Houston's
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  Speaker 3: not going anywhere now. They got to get better quarterback
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  Speaker 3: play to your point, But so you can do those
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  Speaker 3: kind of things too, when you've got some money to spend.
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  Speaker 3: That's what kind of brings us back to the Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Like the Texans twenty two million dollars of caf room.
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  Speaker 2: Still, hey, that's enough to go get your little quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: You know who has the most caf room in the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, let me cause uh blind guests here. Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: No, although they got a lot. Seahawks got fifty eight million. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: pretty decent. That's John so good at his job. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know John Snyder. I love that man so much.
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  Speaker 3: He was a dude.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great dude.
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  Speaker 5: The most room in the Let's say someone else ran
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  Speaker 5: out the Dolphins playoff team playoff ten Eagles, Chargers, they.
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  Speaker 3: Have the most calf room by over six million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: They've got ninety nine million dollars of cap space. Titans,
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  Speaker 3: your Second Raiders, Jets, Commanders, Seahawks, Bengals, Steelers, Cardinals, Patriots.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody getting overpaid that's not really their mo though.
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  Speaker 2: They they have to spend a certain percentage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't hold on to all of it. I
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  Speaker 3: believe they did just sign a center from the Commanders,
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  Speaker 3: but that was like three years, thirty million dollars. So
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  Speaker 3: you're a like, Okay, let's let's have this conversation because
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you're done and talking about numbers. You're
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers. You've got ninety nine million dollars to spend. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you just made the playoffs in a very difficult division
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  Speaker 3: with the Broncos and the Chiefs. All right, I know
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  Speaker 3: this isn't the best free agent class. I had a
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  Speaker 3: GM tell me at the combine. He's like, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: know those top one hundred lists that you see of
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  Speaker 3: top one hundred free agents. He said they could probably
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  Speaker 3: cut that down to thirty five. Right, He's like it's
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  Speaker 3: not great. I'm like, okay, but still like you can
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  Speaker 3: add pieces.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred free agents list is pretty ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, to make like your windows open right now. You
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  Speaker 3: have justin Herbert, You've got hardball like, you've got nice pieces,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a good defense. You got to go spend
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  Speaker 3: that money, like you gotta be smart. But like for
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers, Like, if i'm them, I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: i am going to sign a veteran running back. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to a couple of them. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: have what happened to me last year with Nagie Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I'm signing multiple four to six solid offensive or sixteen
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  Speaker 3: probably the way they get there, you know what I'm saying. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, the guys that I'm signing to be backups
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  Speaker 3: are guys that have starts other places. Yeah, Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: giving them like a two year, four million dollar contract,
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  Speaker 3: four to six of them. Like maybe guy passes Prime,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a guy that's a spot starter, but with the experience,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not having uber drivers out there protecting Justin Herbert anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a way to spend money in a good way,
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  Speaker 3: not overpay for somebody, create depth and have a good
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  Speaker 3: Like you make the postseason and you got almost one
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  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars under the cap, Like you got to
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  Speaker 3: go spend some of that because these windows don't stay
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  Speaker 3: open very long. They only have they owner, they only
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  Speaker 3: have five million dollars of dead money.
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  Speaker 2: YEP.
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  Speaker 3: To give you a comp the Saints have sixty six
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  Speaker 3: million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know, can you restructure people let's just say
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  Speaker 5: they let's just say that they can't find ninety nine
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  Speaker 5: million dollars to spend on new people, so you're going
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  Speaker 5: to restructure. Maybe you have you have some guys of
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  Speaker 5: course in your room that you're gonna want to sign
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  Speaker 5: the long term deals that might be coming up on
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  Speaker 5: their last year or whatever it is. We like, could
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  Speaker 5: you restructure, like at justin Herbert to not to change
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  Speaker 5: his pay because I know he's he has recently somewhat
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  Speaker 5: When did he sign his contract extension two years ago? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: something like that, But like, could you say, all right,
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  Speaker 5: well he's owed fifty million this year, fifty million next year,
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  Speaker 5: fifty million the following year. Could you structure to say,
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  Speaker 5: let's take twenty five of it from next year and
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  Speaker 5: put it towards this year's salary cap?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? Like if that works that way?
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  Speaker 3: I don't could don't think that everybody anybody's ever been like,
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  Speaker 3: hey we got some extra, we got some extra.
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  Speaker 5: I want to seventy five million cap. It would just
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  Speaker 5: Herbert this year, because then you know how it is.
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  Speaker 3: I think then if you do something like that then
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  Speaker 3: you're like resetting the market again. And then like all
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  Speaker 3: these quarterbacks like Herbert's making seventy five million this year,
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  Speaker 3: he's not.
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  Speaker 5: He's not resetting the market because this annual salary is
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  Speaker 5: just the cap is getting like the cap hits differently.
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  Speaker 5: He's not restructured to seventy five per year. It's just
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  Speaker 5: like when somebody signs for fifty million a year, but
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  Speaker 5: the cap, you know, eight of it gets hit in
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty nine. It's just like, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know how those gymnastics work. Just saying like this, we've
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  Speaker 5: never really been in this position, this situation.
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  Speaker 3: You just said.
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  Speaker 5: They got almost one hundred million dollars to spend for
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  Speaker 5: a playoff team. Who's offensive line they had players on
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  Speaker 5: their offensive line, they just all got hurt. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: it's not like they have like these glaring weakness, like
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  Speaker 5: enough weakness, go spend one hundred million dollars, but they do.
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  Speaker 5: You have to spend what up to ninety five percent
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  Speaker 5: of the salary cap. It's at least ninety it's I
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  Speaker 5: think it's not. I think it's ninety To your point,
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  Speaker 5: either way.
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  Speaker 3: Spend it right, like you got to spend like two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million per team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great problem to have, but problems aren't
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  Speaker 5: problems no matter if they're good or bad.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta they have to be solved.
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  Speaker 3: So that like that makes them a player for Trey
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  Speaker 3: Hendrickson and some of the other top free agents that
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  Speaker 3: are out there. I'm just glad the Saints have some
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  Speaker 3: money as well.
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  Speaker 5: Now what they do with that money, I'm glad they
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  Speaker 5: have money. And Mickey's on a heater.
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  Speaker 3: So when you go to ESPN dot com put out
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  Speaker 3: an article in u Kat Tarrell contributed to this biggest need.
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  Speaker 3: It says for the New Orleans Saints interior offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: It says Saints coach identified the run game as one
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  Speaker 3: of the areas the team needs to improve, and that upgrade,
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  Speaker 3: of course, does begin with your offensive front. So it
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  Speaker 3: is funny, like we always talk about how bad they
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  Speaker 3: are in pass protection, but they weren't great in run
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  Speaker 3: blocking either. So I know it's not sexy, I know
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  Speaker 3: it's not flashy, but you need some real help in
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  Speaker 3: the interior that offensive front. Like Eric McCoy's good, but
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  Speaker 3: he's got to stay healthy. Sees rees not good and
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  Speaker 3: you gave him more money, like you got to and
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  Speaker 3: I hay bagging on the guy, but it is what
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  Speaker 3: it is. Just like if if we didn't play well,
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  Speaker 3: people told us not played well in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: People tell us every day, like we don't do well
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  Speaker 5: at radio, Yeah every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, people tell us we don't do good and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things, yeah, don't do great.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Caesar was hurt, maybe had a couple of broken
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  Speaker 2: legs for four years.
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  Speaker 3: You gave him more money, So that's on you. So
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  Speaker 3: you can't do another one of those deals. But again,
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  Speaker 3: it's a place where you've got to upgrade and you've
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  Speaker 3: got to make some tough decisions. Uh, you know, Alonte Taylor,
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  Speaker 3: he might walk, Marshaun Lttimore got traded, Paul Stondebo left
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  Speaker 3: in free agency, Like you've lost some real talent at
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  Speaker 3: that position. But can you bring him back? I don't
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  Speaker 3: know they're gonna bring back Cam Jordan, as we've talked about.
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  Speaker 3: So and it's kat kind of summarizes here, like what
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  Speaker 3: do you expect to happen? And it says re sign
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  Speaker 3: only one of their big four free agents. The Saints
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  Speaker 3: seem set to lose Alonte Taylor Cam Jordan will become
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  Speaker 3: a free agent next week. The league year starts Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Mentions that cam Jordan reunion isn't out of the question,
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  Speaker 3: but it's more likely that if you bring back one
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  Speaker 3: of your savvy vets, it's gonna be to Mario Davis
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  Speaker 3: and not Cam.
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  Speaker 5: Jordan's okay, who's playing at an extremely high level as well,
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  Speaker 5: well into his thirties.
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  Speaker 3: If you lose both those guys, that's a big hit
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room as well.
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  Speaker 5: That's I mean the production this year, their leadership, because
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  Speaker 5: it was great. Their production was great, But that's a
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  Speaker 5: big void to fill, like just a strength, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 5: how long has those two been in the locker room
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  Speaker 5: and everybody's leaned on them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's hard to replace that for any dollar amount. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and there's gonna be some people that want Tomorroow Davis.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's thirty seven years old, but when you
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  Speaker 3: look at the linebackers that are available, the top guys
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  Speaker 3: are all older guys. Bobby Wagner's gonna be thirty six,
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  Speaker 3: Leavonte David is thirty six, Kaden Ellis is gonna be
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  Speaker 3: thirty one, Matt Malonald's gonna be thirty one in zelone.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be thirty two when the season starts, So
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  Speaker 3: all the top linebackers are going to be older. So
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to like completely shy away from Tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: Davis because he is thirty seven. He just had one
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  Speaker 3: of his best years of his career, so you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have competition for him as well. That's why I was
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  Speaker 3: so imperative you get under the number, because you got
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  Speaker 3: to make some moves, and you got to make some
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  Speaker 3: moves on some guys that were on your team. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just bringing in new guys from new places. But
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  Speaker 3: Matt Flynn, big Mickey fan, say he's gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna get it done. Playoff bound Saints who.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about? I was told
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  Speaker 3: the numbers are not what we want to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Elis Baseball Sacramento State. Hell, yeah, they need to bounce back.
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  Speaker 2: Boy do they.
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  Speaker 3: Couple losses in a row, Well, get right weekend, need
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  Speaker 3: one lose Monday thirteen to ten, you lose Wednesday seven
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  Speaker 3: to two. Sacramento State coming into town on Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: Sunday six thirty pm first pitch, Saturday six pm first pitch,
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  Speaker 3: and then Sunday a one pm first pitch, and then
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  Speaker 3: he got Creighton in the midweek on Tuesday before you
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  Speaker 3: head to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt. Need some momentum,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure. We're going into SEC play and it's
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  Speaker 3: got to start this weekending at Sacramento State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta get the bats rolling, certainly.
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  Speaker 5: I think I feel like that's fans, and I think
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  Speaker 5: Jay Johnson probably feels pretty good about his.
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  Speaker 2: Three weekend starters right now. And I think he even mentioned.
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  Speaker 5: That he's got a pretty good idea of his or
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  Speaker 5: like Maine, you know, four Leavers are that he feel
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  Speaker 5: really comfortable with. But it's all about the bats. Gotta
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  Speaker 5: get him hot.
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  Speaker 3: Sacramento State's three and nine, it didn't really matter. I
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  Speaker 3: think with Northeastern the kind of similar record, Uh, sacramentost
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  Speaker 3: State is not one of an away game. They've lost
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  Speaker 3: five games in a row.
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  Speaker 2: It beat Saint Joseph's twice.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Saint Joseph salty this year.
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  Speaker 2: Salty real salty.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you gotta sweep the series. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost five in a row, they lost two Pacific,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: they got swept by col and they lost to Fresno State.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Hmm, it is what it is.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You hate conference sweeps. You need to get right. They're bad,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: you haven't played well. You gotta dominate. Yeah, you see,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Irvine is a good program for sure, but I'll swept him.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: It's not a great team. You got to do the
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: things that you haven't been doing right. You have to
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: go out there. You have to be better at the plate. Obviously,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: we talked about it going back a couple of weekends ago,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Like you were really good on the mound. That has
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: kind of falling apart. You've given up thirteen and seven,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: so twenty combined runs your last two games. I know
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: he scored ten runs against Northeastern. I know you made
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a little comeback there, but like as y'all pointed out,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: that was with a lot of backups. That's guys that
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: were pinch hitting in that game. They were the ones
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: that made the comeback. You didn't get anything started after
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you got your first two hitters on base a ton
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday night in Lafayette. This lineup as much as anything,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: they've got to have a breakout weekend. They got to
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: get a get right situation at Sacramento State.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Wandra, what we say yesterday the last six game
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: is bad about.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: To ten seventeen sea the starting Yes, that's with Curiel
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: having a really nice day at the played against Lafayette,
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: So that's even with that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So obviously he was little.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: He wouldn't getting on base how you like, until that game,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: so hopefully that carries on. Yeah, and you got to
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: get the middle of that lineup going.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's really the middle of the lineup.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: And if you want to make a change, like I
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: would say, Trent Carraway is making a case to be
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: like third in the lineup because he's second on the
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: team and RBI.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: He's clutching the moments.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: He had that Grand Slam a couple of weekends ago.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: I think it's two because he had the other one
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: versus Lafayette. Yeah, we're scored the only two runs that
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: we had, So I mean again, like I think that
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: LSU probably will and can sweep the series because they've
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: swept every weekend. It's the midweek games that are kind
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: of struggling. And yes, one hundred percent they need to
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: get the offense going. But I just I still feel
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: really good about the team, even though they're kind of
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: cold right now, and it's really the defensive side that
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: like kind of gives me some worries. You've got it
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: like a lot more air this season then you had
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: the entire last season, and you're replacing a lot. You're
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: replacing second base, first base, and third base. So I
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: just think that they everybody just needs to find a rhythm.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: And I feel like it's been in the past where
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Jay's teams kind of start off a little slow and
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: then once you get into that sec play and everybody
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: starts to kind of get to know each other and
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: like find the team chemistry and stuff like that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Not that not that they don't have it now, but it's.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Different practicing and scrimmaging than being an actual game.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: So I think that.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: The issue that that can cause issues with Sacramento State
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: is that team's smaller Mid major teams try to like
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: pepper you a little bit and just get the ball
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: and play and will play like some small balld like
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: situational hitting and stuff like that. Yeah, so that's that's
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: the one thing that I would watch out for with
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Sacramento State is ken Elishu's defense that has been kind
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: of struggling a little bit deal with the small ball.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: I guess it's more normal for batters to go cold
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: than like defensively to Yeah, could, but I mean, I
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: guess it's the beginning of the year. Jay's still figuring
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: out who what his roster is, who's defensive line. There's
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: probably positions that he's still probably tweaking, and then sometimes
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: you got to take a lower batting batting average to
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: get a better glove. Yeah, and so maybe he's still
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: trying to figure all that. But that I would I
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: would agree like that's more of a concern on defensively
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: the airs than like going cold at the play that happens.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: So it's baseball. It's a long season.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Like you go through these streaks and hopefully you got
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: more guys that aren't on them than than are. But
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: everybody gets a cold streak. So it's just been unfortunate
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: that everybody's kind of been cold. Right, most most of.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: The batters, like Whenever Kuriel's hot, York and Steven Mylam
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: are cold. If Milam's hot, Curiel's cold. So I don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: think that they've ever.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Been like, yeah, they're not ham and egging right now.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: You're not synergized.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: They're not synergized.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: You'll probably see Ethan Leighton, who is usually their Friday starter.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: Interestingly enough, he bats too. I don't know if he
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: has this season, but he's like a two way player,
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: like he'll hit.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: And he'll pitch.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: But probably see Ethan late and night, and probably see
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Cason Evans for LSU.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We're gonna crush Ethan and strike him out.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Both and strike him out. Yeah, three losses.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Sorry, defense is certainly not something that has been stellar.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Last year. The biggest thing Jay would always talk about
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: was the defense and how good they were. And these
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: losses you've had, you know, multiple errors in these games.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: You have not given yourself an opportunity. So there's a
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: lot of things, right, a lot of things that LSU
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: needs to work on here in this series against Sacramento State.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Something they need to go out there and kind of refocus.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: They started the season so hot, right, they've hit a
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: rough patch here. Certainly, to their standard. And you've got
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: conference play coming up here next weekend. I mean it
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: is here. You've got this series, you've got Creighton, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: you've got a road trip to Vanderbilt. So let's see
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: if the boys over at the box can get it
• 24:15
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• 25:54
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  Speaker 3: I want it most much, all right, Welcome back in
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: OTB here live from the Raising Kines studio. Gonna go
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to the phone lines now. Jay Clark, head coach, Yell'
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: shoe Gymnastics joins us. Now, coach, we appreciate the time.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I hope you're doing well.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: What's up this morning? Guys?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Uh doing fantastic. Any chance that the Tigers get to
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: face off against the Florida Gators is a good day
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: for OTB. So we've got that going for us, but
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: for you, and every time I feel like we talk
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: with you, it's like the same story. If we go
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: back over the last you know, two and a half
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: three weeks, you were going to face the number one,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the number three team in the country twice, the number
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: seventeen team in the country, and now you're going on
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the road against the number four team in the country. Uh,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: just kind of business as usual for you and your
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: gymnastics team.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of getting kind of repetitive, for sure,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: but when seven of the top eight in the country
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: or in this conference, I guess it's unavoidable. It's uh,
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: it's crazy, but we enjoy it. Man. I think I
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: think our kids do better in those environments against those
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: kind of teams, and and uh so on to the
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: next one. Man, we we'll, we'll, we'll be down there.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Uh uh in Gainesville Sunday, Sunday evening. I think it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: sixth Eastern and uh, I guess it's on ESPN two
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: or something like that. So uh, hopefully everybody tunes in
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: and we can pull one off.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Coach.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Let's let's take I know it's Friday, headed into the
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: week ahead, and then the next uh.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Next meet.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: But let's take a look back, since we hadn't talked
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: to you since last Friday, and let's look at what
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: you did this past week. And of course you uh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: you beat Alabama, You top Alabama on Friday night, then
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: you go to the Podium Challenge and come on top
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: of that one. It just seems like your girls are
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: really kind of performing at a very high level at
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: this point of the season.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: They are, they are, and we were able to make
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: some some lineup changes and get some people in that
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: had not been in a whole lot and and see
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: what they would do and and try to developed the
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: depth that we keep talking about we have, but it's
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: not depth if you don't develop it. So we got
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: we got an opportunity on Sunday to see how they
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: did and actually improved our score from Friday to Sunday.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: So feel really good about where we are right now.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: And knock on wood, you know, our health is holding
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: pretty well right now, so you know, we feel good.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: We've got two more meets in the regular season and
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: then get into the SEC Championship and see where we
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: can take this thing.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: So coach, being in this situation like you have so
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: many different times being one of the top teams in
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the country getting to this point in the season. Are
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: there a lot of things that you do with your
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: team that are going to be repetitive, a lot of
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: things that you've done in years past or is every
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: year kind of different and there's new challenges, there's new things,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: there's new teams, there's new teammates, and maybe you got
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: to kind of switch it up a little bit.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Well, the overarching, the overarching principles stayed the same, but
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: as you know, every team has its own personality and
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: different people emerge, you know in terms of filling voids
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: that were left, and you know, voices change and all
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: those things. So you know, we make we make allowance
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: for that, and we sort of read the tea leaves
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: and try to stay present and where we are. But
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: at the same time, you know, the the overarching principles
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: and the messaging and what works for us stays the same.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: And a lot of these kids came here because they
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: understood what that looked like and and uh so it
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: doesn't change an awful lot, but you do have to
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: make allowances for those that step up into the leadership
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: role that that have different sort of nuances to the
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: way they like to express things.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And do things.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Coach here, I'm curious, so you're going into this next
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: meet against Florida. So, like from Jake and I's perspective,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: when we just hear the name Florida Gators, it like
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: creates a very emotional response in us with bro me too.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Man, I'm telling you, it is, it is. It is
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: the all time word. Now you listen, you're talking. I've
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: been here fourteen years and as far as I'm concerned,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I'm an LSU Tiger. But you got to remember where
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: I'm from too. I'm from I'm from Georgia. We don't
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: like those as a whole lot. So it's it's it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: it evokes a visceral response from me as well, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: I don't I have a hard time tamping that down
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: during the week and remembering that we don't have defense
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: because I really would like to play something.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Because it's so funny, guys, it's such a cool thing
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: about sports, especially in college sports, and no matter what
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: the sport is, it's like sometimes we could just drop
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: the coach speak and just talk how it is, like
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: we we don't like them over here, and it's it's fantastic.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: It's a it's a great rivalry and that's why. And
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: you always want them to be good too. We talked
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: about from a football respective, I want Florida to be
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: good at football because when I beat them, I wanted to, like,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I wanted to hurt a little bit.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, And look, there's a difference between not liking
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: people and also have a respect for your opponent. Because
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: I look that roster we're going against this weekend, maybe
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: maybe the most loaded I've ever seen in thirty five years.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're ridiculously talented. But but we always compete
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: hard when we're there, and I love going there. It's
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: generally very very close and in a great environment, not
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: quite like the p MAC, but but also very good.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: And we get excited about these environments. Man, it's it's uh,
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: it's why they come here, it's why you it's why
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: you come to the SEC, and it's why you come
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: to ls US to get into this kind of situation.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: That's really where I wanted to go next and ask
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: you because obviously you've been very successful. LSU's won national championship,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: a lot of attention around the gymnastics program, so coach.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: When you go on the road to one of these
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: sec environments, I have to imagine they're not whispering sweet
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: nothings to your team. I mean, you're a team that
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: everybody wants to beat, and that's a that's a compliment
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: whenever you get to that status.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, people think of our sport that
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: haven't been to the PMAC or been in these environments
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: and they think you're sitting on your hands like you're
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: at Wimbledon or something. But it's it's you're not. I mean,
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: these students sections are crazy. Some of the things that
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: get hurled at you verbally or every bit as as
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: a as a hard to hear as they can be
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: in a football stadium. So it's it's interesting, it's you know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: people don't people don't extend greater respect just because it's
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: it's a bunch of young women out there.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Coach this part of the season, you have quite an advantage,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: especially on your your staff. What kind of what does
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Haley Bryant mean to the girls on a team right now,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: especially kind of going into into the season, getting ready
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: to postseason. What does she mean to your your team
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: and your staff.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: She stabilizes a lot of things because they had such
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: an incredible respect for her as their teammate. And you know,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: you worry about that when you hire somebody right out
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: of school and you don't know, you know, in a
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: in a typical situation, I would not have done it
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: if it had not been Hailey Bryant. I would not
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: have hired somebody right out of right out of college
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: and coaching their teammates from the previous year. But they
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: had such an amazing high level of respect for her
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: that the transition has been very, very easy, and they
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: now they feel like they've got an even deeper confidante.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: And I trust her with that, you know, they can
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: they can bring things to her that she understands that
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: that she can provide a greater level of perspective on
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: now that she's you know, crossed over to the dark
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: side of the force, and and and and she's she
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: just really does a great job of of of honoring
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: her position but also kind of staying in that role
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: where she was as a teammate, where they can come
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: to her with things that she can. She has such
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: a gentle, sort of servant minded leadership style that she's
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: you know, she's cossibly trying to help you even if
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: you you know, if you make a mistake, you mess up,
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: she's gonna kind of come alongside you rather than point
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: her finger and bark at you. And I think they really,
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: they really appreciate that about her, And uh, I think
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: it's it's really helped us a lot in in ways
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: that I guess I didn't even anticipate that aren't necessarily
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: tangible thing that I could express to you.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something certainly an experience and a leadership that
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: not many girls like you said, if it wasn't Haley Bryant,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: then it probably wouldn't have happened. So it's quite an asset,
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: and I can only imagine just from a mental perspective
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: that's going to help in the postseason as well. Coach,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: I want to stick with ask another Haley Bryant question,
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: but it's not really it's not about LSU. So I
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: want to get away just for a second, and I
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: want to ask a question for kind of the common
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: the casual gymnastics fan that love LSU gymnastics but maybe
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: not tuned into like the rest of it in the
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: in detail of gymnastics. So, Haley Bryan, I want to
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: ask you what's the difference between college gymnastics and Olympic
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: type gymnastics, because I when Hailey Bryant was beating girls
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: that would going to the Olympics, Like, I want to adjust.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: You can give me, like just a brief explanation of
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: what the difference is between that competition and the college competition.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: In simpless terms, it's the number of skills that we
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: have to do. Like, the difficulty level is still very
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: very high for us, but it's the number of skill
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: When you get to the Olympic level, they may have
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: to put so many skills into their routines when they
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: come to school, come to college, we're able to take
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: the best of what they do and kind of shrink,
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: if you will, the duration of these routines, so you'll see,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a barantine for us might last twenty five seconds.
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  Speaker 6: A barantine at the Olympic level might might last twice
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  Speaker 6: that long. So we're still doing We're still doing that
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: level of difficulty. And Haley certainly physically was able to
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: do pretty much anything at a at a world class level,
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: but the collegiate rules are such that it makes no
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: sense for us to push the ovelope to the ceiling
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: of what these kids are capable of, whereas at the
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Olympic level, I mean they're uh, execution sometimes goes out
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: the window because it's just about stacking difficulties. So philosophically
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: it's very different. We're much for about clean execution, really
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: good landings and making things clean, whereas at the Olympic
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: level it's stacked your difficulty because you get two different scores.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: You get a difficulty score and you get an execution score,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: and that difficulty score makes the difference. Like Simone Biles
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: was so much better than everybody in the world, is
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: that she could do things nobody else could do, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: do a lot of them, and that's the biggest difference.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: We sort of have condensed it at the collegiate level.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I just know saw Haley whipping up on some Olympians
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: she has.
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  Speaker 6: She's dude that if she had wanted to pursue that pass,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: and she didn't, she was all about, you know, staying
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: at the level ten level, which is one step below
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: the elite level, and then going to college. But had
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: she chosen to do that, I think she would have
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: been a force to deal with at at the elite level. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Catching up with LSU Gymnastics head coach Jay Clark
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: here on OTB, Let's go back to this meet against Florida.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: What do you feel like maybe or what are you
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: hoping to get done to be able to go out
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: out there and put the best score like it? What's
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: one maybe event? What's one thing that you're like, Okay,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I've started to see it. It's close to happening. We've
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: played really well, We've done really well out there, but
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I want to see this as we challenge ourselves against
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Florida coming up.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think we've seen we've seen a lot of
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: people go in spots on three events and be able
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: to handle it and still keep us at a very
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: high level. There's one spot on vault that you know,
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: we just we need to kind of settle in that
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: middle part of our lineup on vault still. And it's
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: hard to believe that when you're you're ranked number two
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: in the country on an event, but we we just
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: want to make sure that we can we can reasonably
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: expect every time we go out there that we're going
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: to go six for six, and we seem to have
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: one little spot where it keeps giving us trouble here
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: and there on that event, I'd like us to really
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: get off to a great start in the first half
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: of that meet. If we've had trouble in the past.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: This year, it's been early in meets whether we start
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: on bars or whether we start on vault. And this
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: week we'll be the away team, so we start on
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: and I want to see a start pass on bars
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: and then continue that through the first half of the meet,
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: because I think if we do that, we've got a
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: chance to finish very strong. I like where we are
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: on beam and floor right now. I think Courtney and
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Haley have done an amazing job getting our kids in
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: a really good mindset and of consistency over there. I
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: just want to see us improve on those first two.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Cause you have a luxury have so much depth on
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: your team. Uh, I'm curious as when you're when you're
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: deciding on the rotation. For me, how much of that
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: is a game day decision because of the depth you have,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: maybe one person is not feeling it as well. Then
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: have as good of a warm bat is there? Every
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: like game time decisions that you thought that you make
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: that you didn't think you'd make earlier in the week.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Well, we don't. We try not to do it right up,
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: you know, at the time at the beginning of the competition,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: but we uh, we will make them late in the week.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: So we've had two days of practice so far. We're
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: going to train tomorrow morning before we get on the
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: airplane and go, and we'll make our decisions immediately after
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: that practice and make sure they have it in their
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: heads so they can wrap their heads around. Some times
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: people are surprised if they're not in, and sometimes they're
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: surprised if they are, and I like to give them
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: time to kind of digest that so that we can
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: set aside any emotional reaction to that and make sure
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: that we're dialed in for everybody else. It can be difficult.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: It's the best problem in the world to have, but
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: nonetheless it's a problem, and it's the one I want
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: to have, is to be able to have to make
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: those decisions. And we're still making decisions. In a typical year,
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: by now we've sort of settled in, we know exactly
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: what we want to do, all sticks on every event.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: That's not the case right now because we've got some
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: options that have all done very well and I just
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: want to make sure that we go with the hot
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: hand and that we put the right people in to
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: give us the best chance to win. So I wouldn't
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: say game time, but it is close. I mean we
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: try to do it definitely within the last twenty four
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: hours of each meat.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: All right, there he is Jake Clark, LSU gymnastics head
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: coach going on the road to take on those Gators
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: hashtag Gator hater here OTV coach. We appreciate it. You're
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: the best. Good luck coming up, safe travels, and we'll
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: catch up again with you next week.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: All right, guys, have a great weekend. Go Tiger.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Thanks all right, you as well.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I mean that's great.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: That's double wave me Florida. I love hate there.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Wow, he interrupted my question to talk about how much
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: you didn't like.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Him, what you'd even finish? What you even say?
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: It out exactly what I wanted them to do.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck. It's gonna be a good meet number
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: two versus number four teams in the country on the
• 40:32
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• 40:35
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  Speaker 3: I do think j Clark just went up in the
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: tier list of LSU coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. He kind of dropped that coach
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: speak a little bit.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: I love hearing it now. He came back through the
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: respect on it which I don't have. That he does
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: he does. We don't no respect, no r E S
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  Speaker 5: P E c T. You're Jort wearing losers, nerds, dorks.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: You don't even look good doing it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even look good doing it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we get to play them in baseball
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: this year either. We do. Actually, it's in if I'm
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: not mistaking it, because I remember Dorian was talking about
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: coming to the games. I think it's very very like
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: maybe the last series.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: It's usually late in the season.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: I think it's a very last series. It's going to
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: be home.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, punks, Did I see some people? Does Matt Flann
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: need to throw out the first pitch?
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Wait? Do I need to hit a bill? Would you
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: do it?
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Matt?
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Hell?
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I will hit a bill and ask him.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Wind up or stretch. I would you got to do
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: full wind up. I used to pitch as a youth.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: I had a big high kick too. I had like
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: it because I was Nolan Ryan guy, Nolan Ryan high kicked.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: I might come out of pants on baseball pants.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: I think I should. Can you throw it out on Friday,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Kevin Fog throw it out on Saturday, and.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: You on Sunday.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: And that's to Davis Price. On Sunday, he is at
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: the rushing record.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: It would make more sense for you to throw it out.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got I got youth baseball, Like, that's gonna
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: be out.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: There one night. You gotta go.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Can we do double cannon action?
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've done that before at the same time. Yeah,
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: they've done that. We're like Riley Green threw it out.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: And then I think the governor did after or something
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: like that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: I want to go at the same time, though, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I want to see who's gets there faster.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Bro.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I'd sling that thing. I'll be I'd be at the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: park three hours early getting treated.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know that they'd let us do it before Florida.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: We'd be ripping our jerseys all trying to get the
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: crowd ready to go.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: We're gonna make this happen.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Sneak a beer in my back pocket. I'd shot get
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: it right there on the mound.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Be awesome.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: I've got a lot of ideas.
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: I need the gun to be working too, so I
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: can see the speed on that.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'll sling that. I am afraid. I'm afraid of.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: I am afraid of A while pitch.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just don't miss.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Just don't miss short. You can throw it third road,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Just don'ts.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: That'd be embarrassing if it went straight to the ground.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Dude, I would throw it probably about eighty five. Make
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: make the catcher go down, have to dig it out
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: of the dirt. Hit him like in the inner thigh.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: I heard him for the game, all right, Oh.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: This might actually be when we're in what he.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: We'll figure it out.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: We'll figure it out. More TV women come back off
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: the bench.