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New SEC Schedule + Saints QB1 Uncertainty · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
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  Speaker 3: Hansday, Hester and Hester got it?
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  Speaker 3: You're locked in to Off the Bench to troll the.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: You welcome in oh TV Right Friday, Friday one four
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  Speaker 2: five ESPN, Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 4: Jay Flynn, a Laundra Tata, The Gang's all here with you.
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  Speaker 4: We are Football Friday. Let me count, let me use
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  Speaker 4: the fingers and toe. We are twenty nine No.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eight, now twenty eight hours away from college football
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  Speaker 2: starting in Dublin, Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: In Dublin Farmageddon, Farmageddon. I'm excited. So what do we decide?
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  Speaker 4: It's at eleven tomorrow right neon Eastern Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I keep I have to think in Eastern time, and
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  Speaker 2: I have to remind myself that no wrong, God's time
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  Speaker 2: or Elvis time.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that would be.
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  Speaker 5: I think I'm not mistaken. I think there's a six
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  Speaker 5: hour time difference from here and there, so it would
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  Speaker 5: be five pm Ireland time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, let's get sat on the internet yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even care what time the game is. I'm there.
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  Speaker 2: It's football, it's real, it counts. It's between two good teams.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: They tell me no real plans for the weekend, which
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  Speaker 5: is incredible. So good to get a chance for just
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  Speaker 5: concentrating on the TV standing up thirteen inches fourteen to
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  Speaker 5: twenty five inches away.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not an LSU, you can stand back and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to move back quite as much, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you get it.
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  Speaker 5: I like to stand right next to it. So I
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  Speaker 5: moved my head around like back and forth, like it's tennis.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. How are we doing everything? Good? Everybody good?
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  Speaker 3: Good night?
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  Speaker 4: Is laundro overachieving? Running in the rain miserable? Why did
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  Speaker 4: you do it?
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  Speaker 6: Because I was already.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was grip the rain doesn't wash away, grip.
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  Speaker 1: Bro.
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  Speaker 6: It was a mile and a half away from my house.
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  Speaker 7: I had to Okay, So that was that was in
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  Speaker 7: your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Like my dad, like when we used to run sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: like he drops off away from the house and drive off.
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  Speaker 4: You got one way to get home. Both working out
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  Speaker 4: that picture.
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  Speaker 7: It's raining. I'm here, I'm looking out the window. I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: where is she? It was it wasn't raining, neighbor, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: right in here?
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  Speaker 4: I had nothing, no rain really, Yeah, well that's what
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  Speaker 4: I was.
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  Speaker 7: I was looking. I was like, where is she? I
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  Speaker 7: was like, drops avoid that area.
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  Speaker 4: I did see some.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's that time of year where there's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be some dark clouds rolling in every single as
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  Speaker 5: it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was thundering here, but there was I saw some
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  Speaker 4: in the distance, but we didn't catch any. This little sunshiny,
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: It was very hot and sunny whenever I left for
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  Speaker 6: the run.
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  Speaker 4: So run faster, yeah, I do. We missed it. How
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  Speaker 4: far did you run?
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  Speaker 6: I was, so's three point four something miles because I
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  Speaker 6: was already a mile and a half out five Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you're getting ready for one, right, half marathon?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen thirteen points something?
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  Speaker 6: Thirteen point something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The bumper stickers you see them all around town?
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen point something. I can't remember. That sounds like a
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  Speaker 4: super fun, voluntary thing to do to yourself.
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  Speaker 6: It's not, but that's the point, completely voluntary.
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  Speaker 4: What's it?
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  Speaker 8: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: What's it for? Which one is it.
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  Speaker 6: It's the Louisiana Marathon in January.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we got some time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I gave myself time. I cannot just get
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  Speaker 6: up and go do a half.
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  Speaker 2: If we're already hitting like a good pace a little
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  Speaker 2: bit over three miles and we're in August, you're you're good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you think? Can we get a get
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  Speaker 4: you like my high sponsored shirt to do this running?
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  Speaker 4: How we feeling?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Doing sponsorship?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Can we get our girl a hat? She wants one.
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  Speaker 4: I mean she's at your baseball hat, your baseball I
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  Speaker 4: love a baseball. She sent the pictures running in a
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  Speaker 4: hat yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: But this isn't a running hair like runners like to have,
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  Speaker 5: like those little short ones. I don't care what like
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  Speaker 5: the volleyball.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I actually don't like.
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  Speaker 2: That, like uh Wesley Snipes and white Man King John. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: exactly that kind of that's kind of exactly you get it.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm where one. I wear this hat to run in.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be able to wear melons and they're
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're supposed to be able to sweat in them,
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  Speaker 2: wash them, clean them.
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  Speaker 4: The best way to wash your hat throat in the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 4: Really absolutely, no idea. It'll sparkle kind of hat you wearing,
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  Speaker 4: sparkly ones, sounds like it. That really works. The dishwasher, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it does what I do with mine. I actually have
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  Speaker 4: like these things.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to buy these, and I've never had one,
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  Speaker 5: but I seen like the infomercials, the former, Yeah, the former, like.
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  Speaker 4: The shade it. Yeah, and that's why you just buy
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  Speaker 4: a melon hat. You can, they say you can just
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  Speaker 4: clean it. You're good.
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  Speaker 7: Dallas cowboys had got some dirt spots on. I've been
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  Speaker 7: trying to get out, so I'm gonna have to dishwashers.
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  Speaker 4: That's do doo.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got some spots on the organization right now too.
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  Speaker 5: And ain't pret your guy, man, he just keeps digging
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  Speaker 5: himself a hole.
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  Speaker 6: Does something else happened?
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  Speaker 7: I gotta tell you, Matt little offended that you said,
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  Speaker 7: my guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you guy.
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  Speaker 5: It is your guy, the guy I'm stuck with. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: You've been stuck with him for your whole life.
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  Speaker 4: So and you chose this.
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  Speaker 7: Pass to your choice about decisions. To your point though
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  Speaker 7: about like him digging a deeper hole. He said, well, guys,
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  Speaker 7: this is the exact same as the Dak Prescott situation, Like,
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  Speaker 7: what's the problem by freaking out? I'm like, Yeah, you
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  Speaker 7: paid Dak the highest paid player in the league, which
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  Speaker 7: he didn't deserve. Like, you're costing yourself more money in
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  Speaker 7: the long run, contracts ain't going down.
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  Speaker 5: And this feels a little bit different, doesn't it. Like
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  Speaker 5: I kind of feel like Michael Parsons might just say,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, Bud, you can hold my shoulder pads
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  Speaker 5: during the first game because I'm not wearing them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of how it feels. Like it's what's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 7: And like you're gonna get the deal done with your
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  Speaker 7: quarterback always. The quarterback's always going to get the deal done.
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  Speaker 4: This is different.
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  Speaker 7: Plus, I mean, Michah deserves it more than Dak. The
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  Speaker 7: team in the NFL Michael Persons wouldn't start for.
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  Speaker 5: And then I guess, I guess Jerry's trying to sell
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  Speaker 5: his documentary right now because he like who asked him
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  Speaker 5: to say these things? He just came out and said,
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  Speaker 5: like the agent said some very disrespectful things to him
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  Speaker 5: about this contract negotiation. All right, why would you put
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  Speaker 5: that out there? And then he keeps saying you guys
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  Speaker 5: get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: He keeps saying, if y'all saw what I offered Michael Parsons,
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  Speaker 7: all right, show us would you give him? Keep saying that,
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  Speaker 7: and he's like, this is going to work out in
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  Speaker 7: the long run. I'm like, it's good for the Dallas
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  Speaker 7: Cowboys because you run it like it's a soap opera.
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  Speaker 7: It's not good for them from a football standpoint, but
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  Speaker 7: he doesn't care about that.
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  Speaker 5: I was reading recently that Michael Parsons has the same
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  Speaker 5: agent as I believe Jalen Ramsey, and a couple of
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  Speaker 5: years ago, he was in a similar situation and he
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  Speaker 5: set out games to Stronghold and he got a deal done.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember what team it was, but he set
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  Speaker 5: out games, games, and so same agent, so I might
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  Speaker 5: have a similar playbook.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun to watch. It's gonna be fun
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  Speaker 4: to watch just.
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  Speaker 7: The super Bowl hopes for this season.
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  Speaker 4: There it is. They're all down the drain. I love so.
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  Speaker 5: One of my favorite parts about the beginning a football
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  Speaker 5: season is after the first game to see all the
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  Speaker 5: eliminated posts. Yeah, team eliminated from playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: I love the ones that are like ass.
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  Speaker 4: Especially when they got like a tear system.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, oh my gosh, he has The tier list that
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  Speaker 8: they did last season was so funny. I remember we
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  Speaker 8: were like regularly sending it to each other.
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  Speaker 6: Was so funny.
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  Speaker 4: Quarterback tier lists like that are fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and the Saints were always like super mega ass Yes,
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  Speaker 6: oh we.
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  Speaker 4: Laugh because that's how we don't cry. We'll get to
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  Speaker 4: the pain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to some Saints quarterback news. Who they're
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  Speaker 2: going to start in their final preseason game. We certainly
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  Speaker 2: got to get to some SEC scheduling news. Herb Vincent
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  Speaker 2: out of the SEC office is going to join us
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  Speaker 2: at nine to forty am to kind of go over it.
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  Speaker 2: How it all kind of came together certainly was a
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  Speaker 2: talking point at spring meetings in Destin this year. You
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of people that wanted you had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that did not want it. There was
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  Speaker 2: not an agreement there by any means, So how did
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  Speaker 2: that agreement happen? So looking forward to catching up with
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  Speaker 2: Herb at nine forty We'll go ahead, listen, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take a break on time.
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  Speaker 4: What this isn't even on top this is early.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually like a minute and a half early because
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  Speaker 2: I do want to get into the scheduling model.
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  Speaker 4: Also, I put it out there to the people who
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  Speaker 4: did they.
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  Speaker 2: Want to see LSU's three permanent opponents, be like if
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  Speaker 2: you could pick one, like who would that be? And
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  Speaker 2: I put the four teams that I think would be
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  Speaker 2: most people's choice for LSU. You probably know that we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a little bit different opinion here on this
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  Speaker 2: show than you've probably heard on other shows, and so
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  Speaker 2: we'll give.
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  Speaker 4: You that opinion, wouldn't we come back here.
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  Speaker 5: So listen to find out three hours all three hours,
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  Speaker 2: All Right, we got news out of the SEC, and
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  Speaker 2: it broke yesterday around I'm excited about this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know four thirty or so. I know I
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  Speaker 4: was still on air whenever it broke.
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  Speaker 2: But the SEC something we've long talked about, talked about
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  Speaker 2: it for a lot of years.
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  Speaker 4: It was the main.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, the main conversation it was there was
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  Speaker 2: like three or four because college football is college football now,
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  Speaker 2: but probably the main conversation down in Destin for spring meetings.
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  Speaker 2: And they are now going to implement a nine game
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  Speaker 2: conference schedule in twenty twenty six. So this will continue
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  Speaker 2: with a single standings, non divisional structure. Each school will
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  Speaker 2: play three annual opponents, focused on maintaining many traditional rivalry games.
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  Speaker 2: Each team's remaining six games will rotate among the remaining
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  Speaker 2: conference schools. Each team will face every other SEC program
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  Speaker 2: at least once every two years in every opponent home
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  Speaker 2: and away in four years. So you won't have the
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  Speaker 2: situation where we played at Kentucky in two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: seven and you didn't play at Kentucky again until twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: Like, you won't have those situations anymore. This is a
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  Speaker 4: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that you know people outside of the
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  Speaker 2: SEC wanted the SEC to you know, to take part
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  Speaker 2: him because the Big Ten, Big twelve, that's what they had.
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  Speaker 2: So now the ACC is the only one that still
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  Speaker 2: has eight games. The Big Ten remember, like the last
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  Speaker 2: two national champions they didn't play another power for opponent
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  Speaker 2: in non conference and their argument well as they had
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  Speaker 2: nine conference games. And so now i SEC also has
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  Speaker 2: the nine conference games that the Big Ten and the
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  Speaker 2: Big twelve have always talked about.
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  Speaker 5: So look here here's I got a question just before
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  Speaker 5: we kind of get into who at the three yearly
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  Speaker 5: opponents should be is what what game is going to
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  Speaker 5: be excluded going forward? Like when when people start getting
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  Speaker 5: used to this and start planning their non conference schedules.
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  Speaker 4: Is it the big.
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  Speaker 5: Is it the bigger games out of conference games or
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  Speaker 5: is it gonna be the rental win games? Which game
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  Speaker 5: are people going to drop?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think?
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  Speaker 2: So when you got these contracts like these, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these primetime opponents, they usually are the ones that get
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  Speaker 2: picked up by TV partners and they get put in
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes in a neutral site location and they'll
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  Speaker 2: be in Mercedes Benz in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 5: So I would just like, like from an LSU standpoint,
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  Speaker 5: like if you know you're playing one extra SEC game
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  Speaker 5: the year, are you scheduling Clemson anymore? Or are you
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  Speaker 5: still going to schedule Clemson and not schedule Lois in attack?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the SEC still have the rule in fact, where
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  Speaker 2: you have to play a power for non conference opponent.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna be the question too, I hope.
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  Speaker 4: So I like to see it. I want a game
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  Speaker 4: that matters every single week, and that's that's like it.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we're gonna start our conversation. I put it
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  Speaker 2: out there last night to a vote. Pull out these
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  Speaker 2: numbers here, three hundred votes, so appreciate the interaction there
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  Speaker 2: as always. And I asked, I asked the people, like,
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  Speaker 2: who do you most want to see as a permanent
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  Speaker 2: opponent for LSU? Because you're gonna play three, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have three every year. Those three stay on your schedule.
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  Speaker 2: The other six just rotate around it, okay. And I
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  Speaker 2: put the four teams that I believe the most that
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  Speaker 2: LSU fans would want to see at least one of those.
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  Speaker 2: I put Alabama, I put Auburn, I put miss and
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  Speaker 2: I put Florida three times.
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  Speaker 4: Times. Three times would probably be my answer.
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  Speaker 2: So with thirty five point four percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 2: Alabama with twelve point nine percent of the vote, Auburn
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  Speaker 2: with thirty three percent of the vote, Old miss in
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  Speaker 2: Florida three times eighteen point seven percent of the vote.
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  Speaker 2: So so we're joking with the Florida part. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: not joking when I put those four teams. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to play in your three permanent opponents Mississippi State, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: and Vanderbilt and be serious about it, that is your opinion.
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  Speaker 2: You're entitled to that opinion. We are just wired differently.
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  Speaker 2: We think about things in a different way. Because when
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  Speaker 2: I think of Mississippi State, when I think of Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: and when I think of Vanderbilt, nothing jumps into my brain.
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  Speaker 2: You could go a bluegrass miracle, cool moment on Jefferson Pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Sports was the breakfast game. Those teams don't create any
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  Speaker 2: emotion for me. Zero I played against those teams. I
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  Speaker 2: played against Mississippi State every year. Hell, we had a
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  Speaker 2: great game with Kentucky where we lost in triple overtime.
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  Speaker 4: Good game. What's the end of that game? Like when
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  Speaker 4: people were finishing up their lunch.
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  Speaker 2: But Vanderbilt, like we played against Vanderbilt when Vanderbilt was
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  Speaker 2: one of their better teams.
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  Speaker 4: With bad body language Jay at quarterback does nothing for me.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: College football is about looking forward to every single Saturday
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: and looking forward to tailgating all day with your people
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: and having this anticipation in this.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Build up that you can't even turn it off.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You just you're giddy all day long because you're like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: it's LSU Alabama, it's LSU Ole Miss, It's LSU Florida.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I love the Auburn series. I wish that came back,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: like those are the memories.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Immediately Auburn, Blenda Bird, Alabama, Jayden Hitt and Mason for
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: a two point conversion Florida. I can give you ninety
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: seven of them. I can give you nineteen ninety seven.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I can give you oh seven. I can give you
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: fake field goals that bounced up and a kicker caught it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I can give you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I can give you a guy that throws a cleat
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: that gets a fifteen yarder and LSU hits a fifty
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: plus yard field goal in the fog you can't even
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: see it go through in a night where LSU was
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: a twenty one point underdog.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss last year.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I can give you moments immediately, and every single Tiger
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: fan is going to know exactly where they were when
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: those moments happened. And you want to take that away
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: because it's easy. Life ain't easy. Easy, ain't fun, you say, ah,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: But winning is. Yeah, winning those games is real fun.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Winning those games that are memories forever. That's what's fun.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Beating the teams that you hate, that's what's fun. Beating
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the teams that when you see your their colors, it
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: makes you want to punch them right in the chest.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: That's what's fun. I getting three teams that create no emotion.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: What does that do for fans that spend their hard
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: earned money to go into Tiger Stadium to see the
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: team that they just very much dislike and for LSU
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: to go out there and beat that team. Mississippi State,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Kentucky and Bandy. If that happens to be on the rotation,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: we'll play them. But every year.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: That that that doesn't create the emotions that I'm looking for.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: In college football, the people that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Get assigned to your three yearly opponents by default become
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: your three rivals. And I don't want a rival to
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: be either one of those schools. But I guess the
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: counter argument would be, yeah, win of those games is fun.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: To win in championships is more fun, well unless just
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: won three and not too long of a time frame here,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: playing those playing that schedule, playing those teams, playing those big,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: big games, And it's more meaningful that way when it
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: happens that way, when you have to go through the
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: hearts of light.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: But that's why people go to the SEC.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: That's why players choose to put on an LSU hat
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: when they're sitting in front of their family and their
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: friends and they're making a decision for the next four
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: or five.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: It is those big games.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: So when we look back, when I look back at
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: the time playing like I, you know, I think about
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: the Ohio State National Championship game, sure, but I probably
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: think about playing Florida more. I probably think about playing
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: aub Or more just because of the games and what
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: it means, like playing in Tiger Stadium, playing in front
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: of your home fans, and like, you know, that was
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: how electric the atmosphere is, and you're going to take
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: that electric electricity way down, like if you if you
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: get that and that's not what you know, SEC Foo,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: if you want to kind of do that and choose
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: your own schedule, like an easy schedule. Just drop out
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: of the SEC, become independent. How about that Notre Dame.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Make your own schedule.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I think they won one back in the set. Yeah. Probably. Hey,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: yeah you can schedule.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You can go play Stanford, you can play cal Yeah,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: you can play maybe Pitt one year, so Michigan State
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: on the rotation.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Then when you finally play a real team, you're not
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: ready for it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: No, because you're not callous. You got punch right in
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the mouth and you're like, oh, wait a minute, this
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: is different. This punch is a little bit harder than
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I'm used to.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: At.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Like the emotions that those teams create in players and
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: coaches during that week, you can't explain it. Like when
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you're playing against Mississippi State, you think I'm doing everything
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I possibly can to get ready for this game. You
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: truly do, and you're like, I'm gonna go about my business.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do my work. I'm gonna make sure that
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I watched that tape and you maybe you get your
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: work done, You're ready for the game. When you play Florida, Hey, Matt,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: let's stay, like, let's stay like seven minutes after real
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: quick like, let's, uh, let's work on this one, will route. Hey,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: let's work on this option that we put in this week.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't feel one hundred percent about it
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: right now. Hey, let's go Hey, real quick, real quick,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: let's go watch some of that extra protection tape that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: we had there. Because the last thing that you want
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: to do is lose to the jort wearing Florida Gators.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You want every like, with all of your being, you
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: want to go out there and you want to be
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: victorious against that team.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Help.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: We came back from the NFL one year, me and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Flynn had the same bye week, okay, and so we
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: come back to y I had been in the NFL
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: for two years, both of us.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: We're supposed to be like professionals. All right.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: We're playing against the Florida Gators and those front running
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: sobs are jumping on the eye of the tiger. I'm
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: on the sideline. I feel somebody tugging at my belt.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I look back and it's Flynn because my ass is
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: at the hash Mark trying to fight college kids. Okay,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: because that's what kind of emotion Florida brings out in me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: And it's not just them.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It could be the Auburn Tigers, it can be Alabama,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss not as much, but I know there's a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: lot there because those are the teams that create those emotions,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: not Mississippi State. Like Kentucky and Vanderbilt. It's nothing against
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: those programs. Nothing against this again, Kentucky beat us Vanderbilt.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with them, but it's like, no, no, no, no, no.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: These are the opponents that create what we love about
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: college football.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Hey, can you imagine hosting the top recruits, the top
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: recruits in the country, and bring them to a game
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: and it's a home game versus Vanderbilt or Mississippi State,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and that's like the big one.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: You bring him to you and you think the crowd
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: would be.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Doing like they did the gator chomp in twenty nineteen,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and the whole crowd, you think they'd be doing that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: When you're when you're hosting these genuinely wholeheartedly ultra competitive people,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: ultra athletic people. You bring them to the games and
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: you want them to be in a crowd that you're
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: seeing people gator chomping. I don't care if it's left over, right,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: right over, left, whatever it is you want to see
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: him against Alabama at night because they want to see
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the best on the best, and that is what college
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: football they got. College fans want to see. And like
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: in this like day and age where you know you're
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: kind of starting to stray away from a lot of tradition,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: at least the least you can hope for is good
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: competitive games every single week. That's why I want the
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: I want the rent and win out of the schedule completely. Yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I wish every single game was competitive.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Ye.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, FCS schools, I love you. I got to
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: place in my heart right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, there's there's hall of famers that were much better
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: football players and both of us sitting up here right
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: now that played at FCS schools, a lot of them.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: All right, this isn't a slide at you. So there's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: different there, there's levels to this thing, okay. And in
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the springtime, I would love to set up something where
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: FCS schools had a chance to come over to FBS
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: schools and you had fans in the stadium and it
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: was a spring scrimmage and hey, you get paid money
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to come over here, you will give you the entire game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Twenty thousand people might show up and you get all
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: of it all right, But I don't need to ever
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: see that again in Tiger Stadium.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I just don't need to see it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I want the games that create the emotions that we're
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: talking about here on the sideline, in the stands, in
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: the booth, all over the stadium. And so there's maybe
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: there's a place for those games. Maybe it's a springtime.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know. But it's not our job to care.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: It's just not.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: That's harsh, but it's not. It's not the fbs's job,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: it's not LSU's job to take care of the now
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: called group of six are the FCS level.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: It's just not.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: And again, like if you get those teams on a rotation, great,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: like your strength to schedule it worked out in your
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: favor whatever for that season, but like to say year
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: and year out that you're like, you'd rather position yourself
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: to like get in or have a chance to get
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: in by default because the schedules easy, Like that is
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: the most that's that's Notre Dame energy right there. In
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: my opinion, I keep coming back to that because Notre
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Dame pisses me off all the time, like getting the schedule,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: getting the conference and I'll respect you, but I don't
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: respect you until you do that. I don't care who
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: you schedule because I know what your schedule is gonna
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: be every year. I know you're gonna schedule with the
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: best possibility to get yourself in a game that you're
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: gonna lose.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when they play that game every single time,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and you and I have been a part of one
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: of those games when they play somebody that you know
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: has gone through the fire, somebody that is calloused and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: came out on the other side.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Now, our stats look great at the end of the year,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: and they just don't have like what memories of their
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: fan base have.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I mean two thousand and six Notre Dame Sugar Bowls
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: probably like one of the easiest games.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they got Rudy. We don't want to only have
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Rudy in forty years.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: No, h Inside the Balue four chat, people talking about
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the you know, the stands in some of these games
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: being completely empty by halftime, and hey, that was a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: point of conversation again. Down spring meetings, that's where everything
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: kind of gets handled. That's why they have those meetings,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and they're there and they're in those boardrooms for you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: twelve hours a day.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: And the athletic directors that I talked with.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: And we talked to thirteen of the sixteen on air,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: they said, we don't want our stadiums looking half empty
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: on TV ever again. And they point that's why they
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: wanted to add this ninth game. Like it's going to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: bring in revenue. Obviously, look we're not, you know, we're
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: not going to pretend that it doesn't. But also you're
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: going to have more competitive games. You're gonna have people
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: actually stay for the entire game instead of when Oklahoma
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: plays Bethune Cookman and you got, you know, twenty thousand
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: people in the stands. And so like athletic directors noticed it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: They notice and they understand that it's now easy to
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: sit at your house and watch the game. They're trying
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to create that environment that we're talking about, the environment
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: that I could go across every LSU fan and say, hey,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: give me the moment in Tiger Stadium, and every single
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: one of you's gonna have one ready to go. You're
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: gonna have it ready. It's gonna be the first thing
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that popps into your brain is gonna come out. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: as like five seconds into it. You're gonna explain why
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you fell in love with LSU and why you fell
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: in love with Tiger Stadium, and you're gonna have that
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: right there ready to go. And you know who, It's
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: not going to be Mississippi State, Kentucky or Vanderbilt, not
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: one of y'all.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Nothing like mentioned like the economic benefit that we get
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: from the big games and the lack of like the
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: effect that that'll have. Like we can let the Pro League,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: we can let Brian Holding talk about the economic impact,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: but like those big games have a huge impact on
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: the state and the city and just every in small
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: business all around. But like as a competitor, you want
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: to go to a place and you want weekend. You
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: want to face the best. You want to play people
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: you hate. You want to play people that create emotion,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: that stir you emotionally. And as a fan base, you
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: want that too. Like in the in the middle of
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: the season, like you're worried about the big picture. You
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: want to win a national championship. We're not taking that
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: away again. You could do that, and it means we've
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: won three in the last what twenty years, less than
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: twenty years, we've won three. No twenty five year old
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: whatever world. I can't I can't keep count his old brain.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: But the blueprint is there. You could do it, you
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: just and you can't manufacture it with a schedule. You
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: have to play the best. You have to play those
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: teams at callous. You have to play those teams that
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: as a competitor, you want that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Like.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: I hate it. I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: the games we were supposed to win. Let's go out
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: here and play Fresno State this week.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: That I didn't even I mean, I hated eleven o'clock
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Mississippi State games at the time. I know Missippi State's
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: a lot better than they were then, but you know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: not by a ton, Yeah, not by a lot.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I hated playing Anderbilt.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Yep, I'm right there with you. I mean I had
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: same It's I'll give you an example of kind of
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: just from our experience. When we played Miami in a
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: top ten matchup in the Peach Bowl, beat the hell
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: out of them. When we played Notre Dame in a
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: top I think it was top five, top five matchup
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: in the Sugar Bowl, beat the hell out of them.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: When we played Ohio State and National championship game, even
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: though they got out to a ten to nothing lead,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: we beat the hell out of them. We were so
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: callous and so ready for those games because what we
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: had gone through in the sec the teams that we
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: had played to get to that point, and once we
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: played somebody outside of our conference that had not done those.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Things, it was easy. Games were easy.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: They quit all three of those teams, quit all three
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: of them, And I think that's because of what we
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: had gone through to get to that point.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Of those ended in a national championship. Six was very
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: close to ending in a national championship.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: So you know what, But I get and I get
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: there's probably people out there like going through the seasons,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: be like and creating counter arguments, Well, what about this
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: year you lost?
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: You what about this year you lost? They had a
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: weaker schedule, and they.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Did tell us that we need to go watch the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighties LSU Florida series, like Florida all ten all
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: ten games that they played there.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, now, and I'm not even talking about that. I'm
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: just talking about, like, well, here's the here's the counterpoint
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: to the argument. This is, like, you had a strong
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: strength of schedule, you played a weaker strength to schedule
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: opponent and they beat you.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: They were less count the way strength to schedule metric
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: is in play. Now we'll talk about that a little bit.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: But like I get there, you know, I can understand
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: everybody's counterpoint. But at the end of the day, it's
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: just soft. Really like play the best. It's LSU. They'll
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: play the best, want to play the best, look forward
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: to it. They'll put somebody in the mouth.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you have those three letters and you're representing
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: those three letters, those three letters are not soft. Those
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: three letters want all to smoke. Those three letters should
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: strike fear in people. Those three letters shouldn't look for
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the easy way out. Those three letters are champions. Those
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: three letters have some of the best to ever do it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Those three letters don't need to be grouped with Mississippi State,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: with Vanderbilt and with Kentucky.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Not every year.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break and when we come back, we'll
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: tell you who we want to see. Everybody's gonna go
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: around the room.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: You get to pick one team. Who do you want
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: LSU to play. The one that cannot go away no
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: matter what happens, it can't go away. And we'll tell
• 32:48
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  Speaker 4: Last night. Yeah, the scheduling talks got me through that funk?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how are the cartoons last night? Wild? Wild? Unreal?
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm the top recruit.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, just witness y'all destroy Vanderbilt fifty to
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  Speaker 5: nothing at two thirty?
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  Speaker 4: Where getting two thirty? Yeah? Okay, I about to say
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  Speaker 4: that starting at noon? Did y'all see that? Did y'all
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  Speaker 4: see that? Eight thousand people in the crowd? Wild? Why
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: where do I sign? Wow? Can I come? Now? M
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: this is purple and golds for me? Destroyed them?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: You could make the argument I get it, like I
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: want the easiest path to the playoff. But now strength
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: to schedule is a metric that they're going to use
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: like it's going to mean something. So we'll get to
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: that point a little bit later on. And look, I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: am a self described meathead. I know I'm a meathead.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Like I don't want things easy. Some people do, and
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: that's great. Life's about choices and decisions. We talked about
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: that often. But I can't tell you, like how how
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: much pride I had in NFL locker rooms. When I
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: could hear a Florida guy yapping and just yapping, I'm like, yeah,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: we went three and one against you, Bud. When I
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: heard a Bama guy just yapping, yapping, Hey, we went
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: four to oh against you, matt went five and oh
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: against you just constant yap, and it's like they're like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: there's this pride and there's this yeah because we went
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to LSU, all right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I don't really care where you went. We went to LSU,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: We went to the place, you know that's had some
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: of the best college football players of all time. We
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: went to the place that Right now, we're in this
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: NFL locker room, and y'all know, y'are all huddled around
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: this TV. You know who you're huddled around this TV
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: even though we're pros to watch the Honey Badger, every
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: single one of y'all.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: That's what y'all. Y'all are watching Tyron Matthew right now.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Because he goes to LSU and he's special and he
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: strikes fear in everybody. So you can call it whatever
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: you want. LSU's an alpha. They're not They're not a beta.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: They're just that's what it is. LSU's a big dog.
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  Speaker 2: They they they want to play the best. So if
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  Speaker 2: if you don't have that again, that's that's fine. I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: not I'm we're wired differently and that's okay. But l
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  Speaker 2: s U and that helmet sits in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: That's an alpha. And if you don't want to play
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the best of the best, I got nothing for you. So, Matt,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: who do you want to play?
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: It's taken a lot. It's like mental fortitude for me,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: say I say.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: It just means it's taking me a lot not to say,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: not to say bad words and that and try to maintain.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: What we got journalistic integrity on this show. Buddy, I'm
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: just just surprised. I'll say that I was surprised with
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: some of the reactions. Go ahead, Oh well, the answer
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: is really easy for me. I will be very upset
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: if we do not play Florida every single year. I
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: hate Florida, but it's like, uh, I love to hate
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: him like I love it. I love that passion, I
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: love that rivalry.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: I love that game.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: I love the emotions it brings out. I love the
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: games being in the stadium for that one. I love feeling.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: I love feeling a game like. It's just a weird
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: feeling that when you go into those types of games,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: the air feels different, it smells different, like I don't
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: know if it's barometric pressure. I have no idea. We
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: have all been there, old fashion. You can't explain it,
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: but it feels different.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: And I love it. And I hate them, and I
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: love that I hate them, and I love that they
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: hate us. I do too, Yes, And.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: You know, for the players I played with a bunch,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: loved having cold pops with them, love talking about it.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: One of my best friends in this world is a Gator.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: But guess what that's still telling them how much I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: hate them. When we talk about the games, we both
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: get mad at each other. We both want to fight
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: each other. Yes, we both talk that ish to each other.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: And it's great. And that's what college football is. Don't
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: take that away. Leave that in college football when a
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: lot of other stuff is getting taken away with transfers
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: and nils and paying people and like pseudo professional players.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of like old heads, and I'm like, oh,
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: that's taking the spirit away from college football with the
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: amateurism and all that stuff.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Don't take the rivalries away.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: They've played every year since nineteen seventy one as well.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if people realize that. And I mean
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: there was only a gap because they played, you know
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: before that. I mean they played every year. There's like
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: a five or six year gap. But I mean this
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: is a true rival. This is somebody that you played
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: every single year. And by the way, what is our
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: guy Handy talking about? Nineteen eighties and we got to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: sit down and watch it LSU one, one, two, three four.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: They won four times against Florida in the eighties and
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: tied one or four to four and one.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: There we go. I think, let me see eighty nine,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: oh eighty nine went their way. Sorry, so five four
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  Speaker 4: or four, five and one? That bad Handy terrible, too bad?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, Florida. No surprise at your answer, Alandra.
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  Speaker 8: So I have two that I feel very adamant about.
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: But I'll go to the obvious answer here and say
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: Texas A and M. Because of how competitive that's that
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: always is, like it we go back and forth with
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: them pretty much every year, like the home team usually wins,
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: and I feel like there's juice to that game and
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: it's usually I feel like.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: A night game and then it's only been a day
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: game that I can remember. Once in Jaden's senior year.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, yeah, when I had my my boys there,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Flynn brought his his crew there, Flint sat behind us,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and every time Matt House gave up a touchdown, I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: remember Matt coming upstairs.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Like what coverage? What are we doing? What we play
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: it here? Quarters? Yeah?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: You knew the rhetorical you knew the car Yeah, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: rhetorical question Farley.
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  Speaker 4: All right, text A and M.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I feel like there's like a genuine hate
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: between the.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Two seven overtime game. Did that?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah it wasn't before then, but that that game certainly
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: did it. Yeah, all right, Texas A and M.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, one of the answers is Florida,
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: but y'all already did that. So I'll go to Auburn
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: because I'm upset l issues not playing Auburn this year.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Like growing up here, I agree with that.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: You know, back when you guys played, the two big
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: games of the year were always Florida and Auburn. And
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: the thing I loved about him the most was they
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: were always home the same year it was the odd
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: years like oh seven. Like I was telling you guys,
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: like I can remember the exact spot that I was
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: sitting in when you hit Burd in the end zone.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: It was a section three or one or thirty four.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: If anybody's wondering, which is the Auburn game like something
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: out of the ordinary always seemed to happen, Like the
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: play at the last second LSU coming back at that
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: scorchy eleven AM game from twenty to nothing, the four
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: net game when he throws a guy over his shoulder
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: and you go back to the earthquake game, Like to
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: me outside of Florida, the Auburn game, like, at least
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: for me growing up, you know, early two thousands, really
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: getting into LSU football, that game always meant something and
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: something crazy always happened. So like Auburn's an easy answer
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: for me.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right there with you all. Florida and Auburn
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: probably would be my choices as well.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Wow, when when we were getting recruited at our at
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: our age, that was Auburn was the rival like we
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: like LSU has like this the rivalry that kind of
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: shifts and changes with the tide. But that was, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: coming off of the cigar game. That was coming off
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: of all different like the like all sorts of things
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: happening in pregames and post games. And I just remember
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: being recruited at the time, seeing the seeing the highlight
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: film that they show the recruits with Phil Collins in
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: the air tonight. Yeah, And I could see it coming
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: in the air tonight and they're smoking cigars in Tiger Stadium.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: And look go back to a couple of years ago.
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: Bone Digs gets pulled out of the game from TJ.
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Finley comes back in. It's one of the greatest plays
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: I've seen in Tiger Stadium. Home more away on that
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: fourth down where he throws a touchdown pass. Like Auburn
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: was dead in the water. They came back and won
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: that game. And like my dad raised me to hate
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Auburn because of the cigar gave me's like Tyler that
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: got down, there's Tommy Tupperville and that sob was smoking
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: cigars on our field and like so like growing up,
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  Speaker 7: Auburn was like the team I hate it all.
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