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Hour Two | Football Talk, Saints Check-In & LSU Baseball with Patrick Coogan · 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.
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  Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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  Speaker 3: To come off the bitch.
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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 4: Welcome in our number, our number two here Monday edition
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  Speaker 4: of Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp, Alondra Villarrial Brex and
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  Speaker 4: Rizzuto hanging out with you here on this Monday morning.
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  Speaker 4: We talked a lot of l Shue Baseball and our
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  Speaker 4: number one and rightfully so, I mean there were dominant
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  Speaker 4: moments over the weekend, the three game series against Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 4: They will take one the Kent State Golden Flashes tonight.
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  Speaker 4: We'll recap all of that tomorrow and I speaking of
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  Speaker 4: what's coming up here in the next two hours. At
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  Speaker 4: eight thirty four, Relship pitcher Patrick Coogan is going to
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  Speaker 4: hop on the show. We'll get his thoughts, a former
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  Speaker 4: player what he saw from the Tigers in the opening weekend,
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  Speaker 4: and of course of Devin Snow in our normal nine
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  Speaker 4: to fifteen spot. We'll have weekend winners at nine am.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get to all of it right now, though. Zach
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  Speaker 4: and Naggy, who covers LSU for SI This is actually
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  Speaker 4: something he put out a week ago was a graphic
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  Speaker 4: of offseason workouts for your LSU Tigers and it was
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  Speaker 4: broken down by position groups of their top speed and
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  Speaker 4: Jabari Mack true freshman twenty two point two miles an
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  Speaker 4: hour he was topped out at He was second on
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  Speaker 4: the team behind Philip rad who was twenty two point seven.
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  Speaker 4: I really hope Jabari Matt can be a difference player.
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  Speaker 4: Like when you look at what he did, he was
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  Speaker 4: a he was a big time player at Destrahan and
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  Speaker 4: that's been an LSU factory for years. I mean, think
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  Speaker 4: about some of the guys that came out of Destrahant.
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  Speaker 4: All three of the Jefferson brothers, so Jordan, Ricky and
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  Speaker 4: Justin John Emery came out of there. Glenn Logan's from there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many guys out there that you
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  Speaker 4: could name that came out of desh Ran High School
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  Speaker 4: that were big for this Yellowship football team. He's six one,
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  Speaker 4: he hovers around two hundred pounds. He was a four
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  Speaker 4: star coming out of high school. This is a guy
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  Speaker 4: that if he could have a really good offseason, who knows,
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  Speaker 4: I mean he can, he could potentially make an impact
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  Speaker 4: right away. And I know people laughed at oh, Wayne
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  Speaker 4: Kiffn's only going to bring in wide receivers. They're gonna
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  Speaker 4: play seven on seven on offense. But you have thirteen
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  Speaker 4: receivers between the portal, you have one returner in Philip Wright,
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  Speaker 4: and you have three high school guys. Wayne Kiffin last
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  Speaker 4: year played about six or seven guys that had I
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  Speaker 4: think he had six hundred six guys that had four
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  Speaker 4: hundred yards more receiving and no player with a thousand,
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  Speaker 4: So they spread the ball around a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So we think about it.
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  Speaker 4: If you have five, five, ver six every day receivers,
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  Speaker 4: you're really only too deep that point. With thirteen guys
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  Speaker 4: and maybe a couple to spare, why can't Jabori Mac
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  Speaker 4: be in that number. Like we know about the transfer
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  Speaker 4: portal guys that are coming in, Everyone's excited about Jase Brown,
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  Speaker 4: Jackson Harris was super productive at Hawaii. Winston Watkins comes
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  Speaker 4: over joins Lane Kiffin after showing flashes as a freshman
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  Speaker 4: last year at Old Miss. You bring in Trey Wilson
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  Speaker 4: from Florida, and I get it, Like you go look
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  Speaker 4: up the stats for Eugene Wilson. Nothing's going to jump
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  Speaker 4: off the board at you. But he played with Graham
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  Speaker 4: Mertz and DJ Lagway where his two quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give Trey.
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  Speaker 4: Wilson a little bit of a pass as far as
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  Speaker 4: uh not having the eye poppy numbers. He's a guy
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  Speaker 4: that was a high recruit. When he got there. People
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  Speaker 4: in Gainesville loved him. I mean like Chris Dorrian's raved
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  Speaker 4: about him, Tebow's raved about him. I mean, anybody connected
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  Speaker 4: to that Florida program has had good things to say
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  Speaker 4: about Trey will I think he's gonna fit in here.
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  Speaker 4: So we know Wilson, Harris, Jason Brown. I mean those
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  Speaker 4: guys are going to play. We got that. But what
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  Speaker 4: about the younger guys. Why can't Jabari Mac be one?
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  Speaker 4: And even outside of Jabari Mac, I think all three
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  Speaker 4: of these freshman wide receivers you brought in have a
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  Speaker 4: chance to be really good.
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  Speaker 2: You look at Braylen Allen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean Braiden Allen was a three star from LCA,
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  Speaker 4: just down the road in Lafayette. He was the he
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  Speaker 4: was actually committed to Lane Kiffen, him and Corey Barber,
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  Speaker 4: who will get to in a minute. He was committed
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  Speaker 4: to Ole Miss with Kiffen. When Kivin got the job,
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  Speaker 4: Kivin immediately flipped him lshoo. So this is a guy
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  Speaker 4: that Lane's had his eyes on for quite some time.
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  Speaker 4: And you can see why. The athleticism is there. Forty
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  Speaker 4: three catches, seven hundred forty one yards, eleven touchdowns, but
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  Speaker 4: on defense thirty four tackles, two interceptions, also had a
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  Speaker 4: defensive score and returned to punt for a touchdown in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. The athleticism is there with Braidon Allen.
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  Speaker 4: He's a little bit longer of a receiver. He needs
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  Speaker 4: to put on a little bit away, but I mean
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  Speaker 4: the potential is there. And again that's a guy that
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin targeted early on and liked him so much
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  Speaker 4: that he's like, I have to bring him with me.
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  Speaker 2: Tell a shoot.
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  Speaker 4: Kiffen has a certain mode of guys he likes to
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  Speaker 4: put into his offense and clearly thinks Brad now and
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  Speaker 4: fits that well. Which brings me to the last freshman
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver. Then we have, for lshoot Corey Barber, four
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  Speaker 4: star wide receiver from Trussville, Alabama, and he was actually
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  Speaker 4: a five in some services. Nan Corey Barber had a
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  Speaker 4: heck of a finish to his high school career. As
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  Speaker 4: a junior, seventy four catches fourteen hundred yards eighteen touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: Last season, sixty eight catches eleven hundred yards, fourteen touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: Corey Barber is a stud. He's got the size, he's
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  Speaker 4: got the production. You go watch the guy's tape. He
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  Speaker 4: can do a little bit of everything. He could run routes,
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  Speaker 4: he's got good hands, he's got the size. When Ulosu
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  Speaker 4: flipped Corey Barber to me, that was one of the
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  Speaker 4: biggest Like Lane Kiffin's really coming in and making an
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  Speaker 4: impact right away out of the high school guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we knew, you know, Lane Kiffin, the portal king. We
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  Speaker 4: knew he was going to bring in big time players.
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  Speaker 4: May hell, he brought in Sam Levitt, Prince Will Luman, Miellen,
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  Speaker 4: and Jordan Seeden. That's the number one quarterback, the number
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  Speaker 4: one ed rusher, and the number one left tackle. We
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  Speaker 4: knew what he was going to do in the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 4: But when Corey Barber flipped over from Ole Miss and
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  Speaker 4: followed Lane Kiff and Lsu, that's when it clicked, at
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  Speaker 4: least for me, because I think Corey Barber out of
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  Speaker 4: the three freshman wide receiver we're talking about, I think
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  Speaker 4: Corey Barber has the potential to be the best of
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  Speaker 4: those three. He's got size. I mean, he's over two
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  Speaker 4: hundred pounds right now, he's over six feet tall. And
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  Speaker 4: you saw his production that I just laid out. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: twenty six hundred yards over thirty touchdowns. That guy can
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  Speaker 4: play and that's just the last two seasons of his
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  Speaker 4: high school career. Corey Barber is a really, really good
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  Speaker 4: football player, and I think Ellish's lucky to have all
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  Speaker 4: three of these guys. So, I know there's been a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talk about the big name transfers, and I
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  Speaker 4: get it, the transfer portal era. You know what these
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  Speaker 4: guys can do. You've seen him do it, like I've
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  Speaker 4: seen Jace Brown play at Kansas State. I know he's
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  Speaker 4: an athletic guy. You look at what Jackson Harris did
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, nine hundred yards at ten touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: in only twelve games. It's really good production from a
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  Speaker 4: guy on the college level. Trey Wilson has SEC experience,
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  Speaker 4: Winston Watkins has SEC experience. You're so concerned with those guys,
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  Speaker 4: and rightfully so they've done it here at this level
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  Speaker 4: that you kind of forget about the high school guys
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times. But look, Jabari Mack obviously one
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  Speaker 4: of the fastest guys on the team already, and for
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  Speaker 4: what it's worth, Corey Barber seventeen point five miles per hour,
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  Speaker 4: so not the speed of a Jabari Mac, but I
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  Speaker 4: mean he's going to make an impact for you, no
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  Speaker 4: question about it. Jace Brown third on that list, Jackson
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  Speaker 4: Ara's fit, so I mean, you get the point. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of these guys have big, big time talent. Before
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  Speaker 4: we take a time out, speaking of guys with major speed,
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  Speaker 4: harlem Berry this offseason. Look, you saw him last year
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  Speaker 4: four hundred and ninety one yards on one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: four carries, so little over four yards per carry. That's
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  Speaker 4: something that Jake talks about here a lot, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: even though the running game wasn't good, Cayden Durham over
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  Speaker 4: four yards per carry, Harlan Berry over four yards per carrey.
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  Speaker 4: Harlem Berry has been one of the fastest guys on
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  Speaker 4: the team across offseason workouts. Twenty one point nine miles
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  Speaker 4: per hour. That's impressive. I mean, you look at Cayden Durham.
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  Speaker 4: Durham twenty one point five. Both of these backs for LSU,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's Durham, whether it's Harlem Berry, I think you
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  Speaker 4: brought in some good backs. Dylan Jones from Wisconsin comes in.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you have five running backs. Barry and Durham
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  Speaker 4: are obviously going to be the featured guys. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to headline that room. But whether it's a receiver, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's a running back, this offense has a ton of weapons.
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  Speaker 2: And you can see what Lane Kiffin's doing.
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  Speaker 4: He's prioritized speed, he's prioritized athleticism. It was something that
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  Speaker 4: I brought up, like anytime Jake er Matt were like, hey, Tylor,
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  Speaker 4: what's this receiver we just signed. At one point, like
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  Speaker 4: all of these guys had averaged double digit yards per
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  Speaker 4: catch outside of Trey Wilson, which again Florida quarterbacks couldn't
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  Speaker 4: throw the ball down the field, so that's not on him,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean Jase Brown, Jackson, Harris guys like that,
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  Speaker 4: Like they were averaging sixteen seventeen yards per catch, all
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  Speaker 4: of them across the board. Lane Kiffin definitely had a
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  Speaker 4: vision of what he wanted to do, what he wanted
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  Speaker 4: to accomplish and he's done that. I mean, he's put
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  Speaker 4: together playmakers on the outside, Guys with speed, guys with versatility.
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  Speaker 4: You just saw it there with the freshman wide receivers,
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  Speaker 4: Braylen Allen. It's been committed to Kiffin for quite some time.
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  Speaker 4: Corey Barber, he also flipped from Ole Miss LSU and
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  Speaker 4: then Jabari mac Louisiana native from Destrahn. And I just
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  Speaker 4: broke down earlier all the guys that had come out
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  Speaker 4: of that school, the number of athletes you have at receiver,
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  Speaker 4: at running back, around a guy like Sam Levitt, You've
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  Speaker 4: got to be super excited for what this offense can
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  Speaker 4: do coming up here in twenty twenty six. All Right,
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  Speaker 4: we'll take a quick time out. When we get back.
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  Speaker 4: The New Orleans Saints have some big time decisions to
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  Speaker 4: make in terms of bringing back veteran players. We'll talk
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor SHARPIY,
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  Speaker 4: whether you're sitting in for jcap Heser at Matt Flann.
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  Speaker 4: They are all for the Mardi Girl Holiday, hanging out
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  Speaker 4: with the kiddos that are out of school. So Rosse Jackson,
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  Speaker 4: on an article on Friday talking about the NFL free
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  Speaker 4: agencies coming up. But the Saints have a few deals
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  Speaker 4: currently on their roster that are set to avoid the
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  Speaker 4: day before the new league year. So the Saints will
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  Speaker 4: have four veteran players that they have until March tenth
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  Speaker 4: to get new deals. And I just want to go
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  Speaker 4: through and see who they could resign. Who they wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: first name up Taysom Hill for me. Unfortunately this this
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  Speaker 4: is going to be a note and it's hard for
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  Speaker 4: me to say because Taysom Hill has been my favorite
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  Speaker 4: Saint for a number of years, but I think it's
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  Speaker 4: best for you to move on from Taysom Hill and
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  Speaker 4: look compared to last season, he was relatively healthy here
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  Speaker 4: like in twenty twenty four, Taysom Hill played eight games.
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  Speaker 4: He had two hundred and thirty nine yards rushing.
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  Speaker 5: He had.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty seven received six total touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: This year, he played in thirteen games, but his season
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  Speaker 4: still ended early due to an injury. Now Mickey Loomis
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  Speaker 4: has said it's not a particularly substantial injury, but it's
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  Speaker 4: another injury. Nonetheless, coming off a season where his production
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  Speaker 4: did not live up to the usual expectations, I'm etionured
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  Speaker 4: he played in all thirteen games, but it wasn't great.
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  Speaker 4: So when you look at what Taysom Hill did on
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  Speaker 4: the season, fifty two carries, one hundred and fourteen yards,
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  Speaker 4: one rushing touchdown. That's two point two yards per carry.
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  Speaker 4: That is by far a career low for him. Taysom
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  Speaker 4: Hill's career yards per carry is five point two. For
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  Speaker 4: the New Orleans Saints did point out just how effective
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  Speaker 4: he's been here in the Black and Gold. You just
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  Speaker 4: didn't see it this year. He's thirty five years old again,
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  Speaker 4: coming off of injuries back to back seasons. I just
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  Speaker 4: I just think it's time to move on from Taysom
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  Speaker 4: Mill and again, that's tough for me to say. The
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  Speaker 4: next two names on this list are absolutely yes, his
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  Speaker 4: for me, the first being Cam Jordan. Yes, you bring
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  Speaker 4: back Cam Jordan. I understand that he's an aging veteran
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  Speaker 4: and there's people out there that want to say that
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  Speaker 4: Cam Jordan's lost a step. Kim Jordan turned back the clock.
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  Speaker 2: This past year.
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  Speaker 4: He had ten and a half sacks. That's the most
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  Speaker 4: he's had since twenty twenty one. He's a veteran presence
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  Speaker 4: in that locker room. He is a great leader on
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  Speaker 4: this football team. And if you can get a veteran friendly,
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  Speaker 4: our team friendly veteran deal for Cam Jordan, then you
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  Speaker 4: bring him back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he played.
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  Speaker 4: Cam Jordan hasn't missed the game since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: He's played in seventeen games in twenty thirty, twenty four,
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  Speaker 4: and twenty five. They gonna mentioned ten and a half
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  Speaker 4: sacks this year forty seven total tackles, fifteen tackles for
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  Speaker 4: a loss for Cam Jordan. Again, best season he's had
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  Speaker 4: since twenty twenty one. I just think you have to
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  Speaker 4: bring back Cam Jordan. And then that kind of leads
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  Speaker 4: straight into the next player, which is de Mario Davis. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: you bring back de Mario Davis. He was healthy this
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  Speaker 4: past season. And he's still super productive.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: You have a thirty six year old middle linebacker in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. Normally that doesn't sound ideal, but I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: He's played all seventeen games this year, and in the
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  Speaker 4: seventeen games he played, he missed a total of nineteen
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  Speaker 4: snaps on the year. That's basically one defensive snap per game.
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  Speaker 4: Not only is he healthy, not only is he productive,
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  Speaker 4: he does not come off the field for you. Also
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  Speaker 4: get this, the last two years he's been in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 4: This season one hundred and forty three tackles. That's a
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  Speaker 4: career high for de Mario Davis, and his career high
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  Speaker 4: before that was one thirty six, which yeah, that happened
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. So the past two seasons in
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  Speaker 4: New Orleans, he said career totals in total tackles his
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  Speaker 4: career highs. He had half a sack this year, two
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  Speaker 4: sacks a year before. He's never gonna be a big
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  Speaker 4: time sack guy. I mean, he's played the league fourteen years,
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  Speaker 4: he has forty five sacks total. He's your middle linebacker.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a guy you asked to rush the passer
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: a lot. So I mean again, it's a lot like
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Kim Jordan. I hear a lot of people say, oh, well,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you know you have an aging guy in the middle
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: of your defense and it hasn't been up to up
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: the par He's what they say, he's lost step. Cam
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Jordan's lost the step to Mario Davis has lost his step?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Have they?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Because the Mario.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Davis in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five at
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: the two best years of his career, and he did
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: so at age thirty five and age thirty six, So
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's lost a step. And everyone wanted
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: to talk about Chase Young in the offseason, Oh, you
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: signed Chase Young. Oh what kind of production are you
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: gonna get from him? Cam Jordan on the.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Other side with ten and a half sacks.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying long term deals here, but if both
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: of these guys want to come back and the money
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: makes sense, you absolutely bring them back because they mean
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: a lot to your football team, not just on the field,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and the on the field was really good for both
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: of them, but in the locker room you need leaders.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Tyler Shock, everyone wants to joke that he's twenty six
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: years old, He's still a rookie. He was still at
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: his first year in the NFL. Kella Moore was a
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: first time head coach. It's veteran voices in the locker room,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: like Cam Jordan, like de Mario Davis, like Taysom Hill.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: If you will, to a little bit lesser extent, there
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: can be leaders on this team that are the voices
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: in this locker room that will help out a rookie quarterback,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: a first year head coach, and I get it. Keller
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Moore and Tyler Shark they're going into year two together,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: but they're both still new to this whole starting quarterback
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: head coach Kamba.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Why not let Demrio?
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Why not let Cam Jordan come in and continue to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: be those leaders, provided that they do want to come back,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: and I have no reason to believe that they don't.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: They should want to come back. They are both perfect
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: fits in New Orleans. City of New Orleans has loved
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: both of these guys. I mean, both these guys are
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: fan favorites. I bet if you go into the Superdome
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: next year for a football game, if Cam Jordan comes back,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the ninety four jersey is gonna be very popular in
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: the stands. That's gonna be one of the biggest ones
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: as far as a number of people wearing it. People
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: love Cam Jordan, Mario Davis, He's been a stalwart on
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: this defense for a number of years. The last name
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: that Ross mentions is Foster Mora. Now, Foster Morow hasn't
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: done a ton you know that'll show up on the
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: stat sheet. He's not one of those stats stuffer guys.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: But look, he's been a nice veteran voice, a vocal presence.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: He's from the city of New Orleans. I mean he
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: played at Jesuit High School. Again, Ross mentioned right here.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: While the stats wearing eye popping in twenty twenty five,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: his contributions in protection, the run game, and as a
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: leader could be worth the reinvestment for a manageable deal.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Foster Mora had seven catch ups for fifty nine yards
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: no touchdowns this past season, but that's he's not going
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to be receiving tight end. That's what you have Juwan
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Johnson for Tyler Schuck and Juwan Johnson had a good
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: connection later in the year. You bring back Foster Morow
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: for a lot of the things I just mentioned. With
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: the Mario Davis and Cam Jordan, their veteran presence, their leadership,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: they're good locker room guys, and look, I'm all about
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: bringing back these guys. I'm not saying throw money at
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: any of them. It needs to be a manageable, team
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: friendly deal. But if Davis wants to come back and
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Cam want to come back, you give them a contract
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: as fast as you can, because they're studs and they're
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: still really good players on this team. As well as
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Foster Moro goes, yeah, I'd welcome him back. He's been
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: nothing by all accounts, but a great teammate and a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: great locker room guy. And you need somebody to block
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: in the running game. Your running game hasn't been good.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: You run blocky hasn't been good. Can Foster Morrow help
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: in that area? I think all three of those guys
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: are yes. It's the Mario Davis and Cam Jordan absolutely.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Taysom Hill, on the other hand, like I love Taysum,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: He's done a lot for this franchise, I just I
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: don't know what his role is on this team going
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: forward at his age, with his injuries, and how much
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: you'd potentially have to pay him now. Again, as far
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: as the team friendly deals, if Tayson wants to come
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: back on a minimum deal. I'm good with it, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: you can't extend to give him a big top deal
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: just due to all the injuries that he's had. Speaking
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: of to Mario Davis, another article on Luisiana sports dot
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Net that Ross Jackson puts out does mention that he
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: believes that the Chicago Bears are actually the biggest threat
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: to sign to Mario Davis and pull him away from
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: New Orleans if a team actually did. Obviously, former Saint
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: said coach of Dennis Allen, the defensive coordinator there and
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: their defense, you know, it was shaky. You know, a
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: lot of Saints fans poked fun at the hiring of
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Dennis Allen. And I mean, yeah, they were in twenty
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: third in scoring defense twenty nine and total yards allowed,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: but they were number one in the NFL with thirty
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: three turnouts. If you can have a stud veteran linebacker
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: in the middle of that defense at twenty three is
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: going to go up, that twenty nine is gonna go up.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: You're gonna start to move up to the higher spots
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: of total defense because I think Tomrio Davis makes that
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: big of an impact. That was a defense that had
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a lot of young players on it. They could use
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: a veteran presence like that. Again, they were really consistent
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: when it comes to taking the ball away, inconsistent everywhere else,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: but they knew how to get a good turn of
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: You plug in the veteran like the Mario Davis, that
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: would be worthwhile, I would think for the Chicago Bears.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And as far.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: As their cap situation goes, they sit at five point
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: three million overage, you know, right right around where the
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints are. But with a few restructures, they
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: could be right in the game to spend some money.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: This is the time for them to build on the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: eleven and six sies and they had last year. If
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: you think you got the coach and the quarterback in place,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: and your quarterback's under a rookie deal, you do whatever
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: you can and bring in whatevery veteran, whatever veteran you
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: have to to put around them to make a run
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: at this thing. I know that the city of Chicago
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: is starving for a championship. They haven't had one in
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: such a long time. They haven't even been relevant in
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: such a long time outside of this season. Can you
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: build on the eleven and six, the Mario Davis could
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: be a big opportunity to do that, and for what
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: it's worth. Greg Allman on Fox Sports, he is he's
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: already predicted that he believes the Chicago Bears will steal
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the Mario Davis away. So I mean he thinks that
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: whether the Saints want to keep him or not, the
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Mario Davis would ultimately sign with the Chicago Bears. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: have a little hard time believing that if Davis wants
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: to come back, New Orleans can't find a way to
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: make it work. I think that if he went to
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the Bears, it would be because he's just he wants
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: to get out of New Orleans, wants to go try
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and chase the title and try to win it. Now,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: are there better places to try to win a title
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: than Chicago traditionally? Yeah, but again, you saw what Caleb
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Williams did year one under Ben Johnson. I can only
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: assume that that's going to get even better. So we'll
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: see what happens there. But a couple of veterans to
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: keep an eye on as the March tenth deadline looms closer. Right,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: will take a quick I'm out on the other side
• 24:01
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• 24:04
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• 24:08
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• 24:11
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• 24:13
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  Speaker 3: back in here on off the bench. Halfway through today's show.
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  Speaker 4: Here on this Monday, we're gonna work on a hooking
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  Speaker 4: up with a former LSU pitcher, Patrick Coogan here in
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: just a second. LSU did take down the Milwaukee Panthers here,
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  Speaker 4: which first off, if you've seen the Milwaukee Panthers logo,
• 26:46
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  Speaker 4: But they'll take on the Kids State Golden Flashes tonight.
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  Speaker 4: We are actually three and oh on the season and
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  Speaker 4: I'll break that down. But right now, let's go out
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: to the phone line. Bring on former l SU pitcher
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Patrick Coogan. Patrick, how are you this morning?
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: I'm doing well, Taylor, Thanks for having me.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Man absolutely wanted to have you on because you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: all the talk going in was, okay, how's Case and
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Evans going to look as this ace on the staff
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: potentially you got Cooper Moore, got the Saturday Star William
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Schmid on Sunday. We'll start with Case and Evans first,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: what'd you see from him on Friday.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I saw a little bit of kind of what
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: everyone expected, you know, come out there, very dominant, you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: struck out a bunch of guys coming in. And then
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: the the issue potentially was, you know, how would he
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: adjust to be become a starter, you know, and how
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: would that look? And so I think he's still gonna
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: have to navigate through that a little bit because it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: different with a starter's mentality than than coming out of
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: the bullpen and just emptying the tank one time through
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: the order. He gonna have to to understand how to
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: how to hold back some pitches to get guys out,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: you know, the second and third time through the order,
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: and that takes a bit of an adjustment. Anytime ago
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: a guy goes from a you know, empty the tank
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: reliever to to the starting uh, the starting staff. It's
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: it's it's a mentality shift. And you know, I think
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: that that one that that he's got the ability to make.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: But if he can't, he just slides back into the bullpen.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: And is that you know all American type believer that
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: they have and L s U just cycles up through
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: their their rotation because they've got all the depth in
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: the world to fill that spot.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: As far as the Saturday and Sunday go Cooper Moore,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: we kind of knew he was going to be a
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: starter in this rotation at least to begin the year
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: in some capacity. And then William Schmidt on uh on Sunday.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: What did you see from both of those guys that
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: you liked well?
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Cooper more was you know, kind of ads advertised. You know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: not a lot of people knew a lot about him
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: coming in. They just yeah, I think we all heard
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: whispers of how well he was doing and uh man
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: that he'd delivered. It's it's fun to watch him pitch.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: He attacks his own goes right after right after guys,
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: he had you know, a number of strikeouts and a
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: limited number of pitches, which is you know, as a
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: former pitcher, that's impressive for me to watch, right and
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: you know, you think of a high strikeout number that's
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: going to really tally up the pitch count and you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: jeopardize your ability to lengthen out a start. But he's
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: able to do it really efficiently, throws throws a lot
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: of strikes, and you know, it was it was fun
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: to watch. And then uh, you know William Schmidt was
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: William Schmidt yesterday, and you know, I think that's that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: a compliment, and it's it's also you know that that
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: that next gear I think everyone's waiting for him to
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: kick into. You know, he he's got just electric stuff,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: you know, the type of stuff that scouts dream about, right,
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: and that's why I was so highly heralded coming out
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: of high school and happy to have him on the
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: staff here. But it's that next gear that we're really
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: waiting for, and it's the ability to land a first
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: pitch breaking ball right and to get them off the heater,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: because you know, if his only ability is to throw
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: a heater for a strike early in the account or
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: a swing and miss type breaking ball, then those guys
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: are just going to sit on fastball until they don't
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: have to write. And that's why you saw the early
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: solo home run, as that guy was just sitting all fastball.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: He's probably never seen ninety eight ninety nine in his life,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: but he's swinging as hard as he can because he
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: knows the heater's coming down the middle at some point,
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: and so he ambushed him. And so William Schmidt's next
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: step that he has to be able to take is
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: locate a breaking pitch early in the count. That keeps
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: those guys on, so they just don't jump ship and
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: you know, try to try to launch one into the
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: you know, onto the railroad tracks on him.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Patrick Kruegan our guest right now, former LSU pitcher Patrick.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: As far as the bullpen goes, I mean, it almost
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: seemed like everyone outside of Zach Cowen performed really well.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: But I said a little bit earlier in this show,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not concerned about Zach cow when he was excellent
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: for you a year ago.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I expect him to bounce back.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: But as far as the bullpen guys, like, let's start
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: with with Devin Sheeron and Gavin Gidrey just because we
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: haven't seen him in over a year due to injury.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Would you what you make of those guys in there
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: first outing back in a while?
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you, I feel like we need like
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: maybe two more segments just falling the bullpen alone, right,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's an embarrassment of riches, it really is,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: how how good and talented these guys are. And look,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: there's another game today and there's still a couple of
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: names that we haven't seen yet, right, I would guess
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: that Jadan Nuke gets to start today and you'll see
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: see you know, Danny lock and Meyer. DJ Primo has
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: been around forever. He's as you know, good as a
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: left handed arm as as there is out there, you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: And then I guess we'll see, you know, repeat of guys.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Maybe we see Gavin Gidry again, just to kind of
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: test his durability. But Devin Shearing, Oh my goodness, that
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: that's that is electric stuff. It's just nasty, right, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: it's it's an easy and and this this makes me
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: embarrassed to say that that's an easy ninety nine, right,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Like it doesn't even look like he's exerting any effort
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: and it just explodes out of his hand. You know
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: that that people people aren't just born like you know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: like those people just don't show up on campuses. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: the fact that that he's able to be here and
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: playing for the Tigers, and guy, we feel like we
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: were robbed last year of him with the with the
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: knee injury. But he's going to be He's gonna be
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: something to watch because his stuff is just unworldly. And
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: and look, there's three or four other guys we could
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: name that better exactly like them. These guys are just
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: aliens that landed on LSU's playing it right.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Uh, Patrick Coogan joining us right now? Patrick, I do
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: you want to get into the lineup a little bit
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: as far as the position players go in just a second,
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: but before we move on from pitching, you mentioned a
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: little bit earlier like, hey, if case It Evans can't
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: work out as a starter, you could just move him
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: into that bullpen roll where he was so excellent for
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: most of the year. Cooper Williams is a guy that
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: a lot of people were thinking, Okay, you'll have case
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: and Evans, you'll have Cooper Moore.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Who will be that third guy? Will it be Schmidt?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Will it be Williams?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: If they do have to move case and Evans into
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: the bullpen, could you see maybe Cooper Williams sliding into
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: one of those starting roles.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah? I think he was, you know, kind of that
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: fourth candidate to be a starter, and and it was
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: kind of up in the air. And so like the
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: last probably the last weekend of of Innsquads where Schmid
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: kind of won that race. If you will, I do
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: feel like there there's a sense of comfortability with having
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: uh Cooper Williams in the bullpen. I think the staff
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: you know, really likes his his ability to come in
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: and shut the door kind of in those middle innings
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: if if need be, and he can extend out in
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: that reliever's role, right, so you don't have to you know,
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: cash in your bullpen too early. But uh, you know,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: I do think he translates really well to the start
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: of rotation. So that's to be seen. Like, don't get
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: don't get me wrong, I am not advocating one bit
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: for a change with case and Case and Evans. My
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: point is just that we know how elite he can
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: be out of the bullpen, and if if the conversion
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: to the starting role doesn't work out for him, it's
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: gonna be just signed for l SU because they can
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: they can take that blow because of the depth they
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: have not only in the ability to sub in a
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: new starter, but to absorb of him into the bullpen
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: and had that work on the back end.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Patrick want to switch from pitching to to offense here
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: right now. I mean, you know, when you look at
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: the lineup, you knew who Zach York was. He had
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: hit a bunch of dingers over there at Grand Canyon,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: and it's funny, you know, his first swing off the
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: bat of the season ends up halfway into the right
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: field bleachers for a home run.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: But how perfect was that? By the way it was?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: It was it was awesome.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: I was talking about it earlier, you know, I had
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I was leaving work because it was the early first pitch.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: As soon as I'm getting on the interstate, I hear
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: it on the radio and like I audibly laughed just
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: because I'm like, how perfect is this that happen?
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: Like I heard somebody yell, oh, yeah, I'm in the
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: middle of nowhere. I heard somebody, and I was like,
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: that's Jacob Hester. He's cheering so loud. I just heard
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: him cheering for the big body guy.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: You know we were talking Jay's first National championship run
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: back in twenty three. You know, you had a Riley Cooper,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: you had a Kate Beloso, like you had these big
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: buddy guys, and I guy Jake, He's been he's been
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: asking for more of them for quite some time, so
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he was happy about Zach Yorke.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: But another guy I want to talk about.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: They went yard this weekend, except dard Ar you know,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: he was in a battle with Braden Simpson and Tanner Reeves.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: It's kind of a three headed rotation all throughout the
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: fall scrimmages at second base.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I thought he was awesome this weekend. What'd you make, Supt. Dardar?
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Your assessment is spot on? He was awesome, you know,
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: And how cool is it? You know you can I
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: don't know if you've heard any of his interviews, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: I've caught a few of them, and the just the
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: genuineness and how proud he is to play at LSU,
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Like you can't help but cheer for a guy like that,
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Like he always wanted to be here, you know, didn't
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: quite get there coming out of high school. So he
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: goes and plays at Kansas State, I believe, and has
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to come back and play for the team
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: he's always wanted to play for. And to see him
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: have so much success right of the gate man, it's
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: just it's just a guy that you you you cheer for,
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: right But I mean, don't get don't get me wrong.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: He has every ability to play. Like you see that
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: swing and it is violent and when he gets a
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: bats of ball, you know, it goes right and and
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: you know, I think I think what the issue potentially
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: was him And while he wasn't named the definitive starter,
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: is he struggled with the glove a little bit, right,
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: and so I think the offense is going to be
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: there for him. It's it's his ability to you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: maybe play a position that he's uncomfortable with, whether it's
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: second base or third b And I don't mean uncomfortable,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: just not used to playing, because that's that's his opportunity
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: to play for l s U. But man, I tell you,
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: just hear his his voice and how excited he is
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: to be here and then to see him with the
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: success he had, it's just a feel good story. And
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I love it for local kids that can, you know,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: come to l s U and have success that it's
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: fun for me as a former player getting to watch him.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: What'd you think of Jake Brown over the weekend.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a guy, you know, he's been in
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: the program for a long time, hasn't really been that
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: every day starter, but it looks like he solidified.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: That's bun right field.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: He's the guy you know I remember playing and we
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: go play against Mississippi State or the old miss or stuff,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: and you're like, gosh, dang, this guy's still here, you know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: like it just seems like he's been there forever. And
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: I mean that in the best way possible. And for
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Jake Brown, that just means for him that he's comfortable.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: You know, there's not a whole lot that can happen
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: in the game of baseball or a game of college
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: baseball that Jake Brown hasn't seen at this point, you know.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, he looks and feels like an old soul
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: out there, just you know, kind of that coach on
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: the field. He's just got you know, the low heartbeat,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: the low pulse, ice water run through it, you know,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: whatever cliche you want to use it. But oh, by
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: the way, he's really good too. It hits the Grand
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: Slam yesterday, I think he had two home runs yesterday.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: And it's just always a good swing to the ball
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: he takes, you know, very mature professional at Bassie. He
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: rarely swings at balls out of the zone, you know,
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: and I know for a coach, you know, it gives
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: it gives Jay a whole lot of confidence to have
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: that calming presence, that older presence, the you know, the
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: mature approach in that line up, not only when he's
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: at bat, but to help with the with the newer guys,
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: to say, hey, look here, here's what to expect in
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: the SEC. And so it's almost like you get an
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: extra coach on the staff with with a guy like
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: Jake Brown and oh, by the way, he puts up
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: kind of like all American numbers and is a really
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: good player.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Patrick.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Before we get you out of here, one more, you
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: mentioned you think Jade Noodle'll probably get the start tonight
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: against ken State, whether it's a pitcher or position player
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: or somebody we haven't seen yet.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Who are you excited to see tonight?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: You put me on the spot. God, let me go
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: with the chalk answer. I want to see news. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: know he's got really good stuff. You know we've seen him,
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: but like, what does it look like a year later
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: with another year under his belt? God, I feel bad
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: for giving you such a chalk look.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Sometimes chalk answer is correct, right that that's why they
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: call it the chalk answer.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Like, let me let me give you I'll go wild
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: card for you. And this is a complete guest. Let's
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: go with Jack Rutgers to start and get two knocks tonight.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Uh, I like it.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: We like a bold prediction here on OTB. Patrick, thank
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: you so much for hopping on with me. Man, you
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: were awesome. I appreciate the time.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: You got it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Thanks too.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: That was former l s U. Pitcher Patrick Coogan. All right,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: we'll take a time out. We get back. We're closing
• 40:55
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  Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Welcome in final segment at were number two here on
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: a Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor show up
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: here with you. I was not a two thousand and
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: seven national champion. I was in the building, though, is
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: maybe we can count that. I was told Jaco and Matt.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Out of the three New Orleans national championships, I've seen lsuplay,
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: and the only one I went to was the only
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: one that they were actually playing in on the field. Alandra,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I almost watched Traders yesterday.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I just need somebody. I've found like a couple of
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: people that I can talk to you about. Like I
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: may my sister start watching, so now I can talk
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: about it with my sister. But like, I just wish
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I had people to like discuss this show with because
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: it's just so good.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: I made the effort. So I had kind of a
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: busiest Sunday morning. Yesterday, we get home, I put it on.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: The baseball game had just ended, so it's I don't know,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: four o'clock in the afternoon.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I put it on. I get the first like ten
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: minutes in.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Guys, I fell asleep, and like I am notorious for like,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: so don't think I didn't like it just because I
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: fell asleep. Like, I'm notorious for putting something on and
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: falling asleep ten minutes in.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, I did that.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I made the effort. Uh old but old boy that
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: hosted he's got some energy. Allan, Yeah, Alan, I remember
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: him from Spy Kids? He uh yeah, he ran the
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: was it the Thumpkins on Spy Kids? But guys, new season,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Love Is Blonde dropped your boy watched the first two episodes.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: It was awful. It was terrible.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: So Braxon, Love Is Blind is like my that's that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: my thing, right. I'm not gonna watch any of the
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: other reality dating shows with my wife, but Love is
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Blind I will just because I think it's so ridiculous.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: I like to ultimately watch these couples be like, how
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: come this didn't work out? We've known each other for
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: six days and got engaged. I can't believe that the
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: logistics weren't right. But I got a bone to pig
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: because at the end of the first episode, like a
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Landra loves Drama, she would have been all over this.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: At the end of the first episode, they tease what's
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: gonna happen coming up? And it's this girl like screaming
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: at this dude through a pod. Okay, like she's screaming,
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: she's crying. They had to remove her, like they removed
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: her I don't know, from the show or whatever. So
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, well, I'm gonna watch another episode now.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Didn't play it, so they teased it for the next episode.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Wasn't in there. So what am I gonna do tonight?
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Well, probably watch another episode to see I just want
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: to see that one part.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: If you don't know Love is Blind.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: So like they're in two pods, they date each other
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: through a wall, and they get engaged without ever actually
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: seeing each other. Then they ultimately meet, Then they move
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: in together, meet each other's families, then decide if they
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: want to get married or not. I know what you're thinking.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't propose unless you know you want to get married.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: It's about the point Brixton not relevant in this particular show.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's I watch it for the for the outrage,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: like it's it's it's my shameless one that I that
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I watch. Everybody's got there one thing, you know, this
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: is this is my one thing. It's not good until
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: after they get out of the pods and they start arguing,
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: and then the one guy's like, oh that girl's way
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: better looking than the one I picked. Let me go
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: over there to her, you know, and then the the
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: one he's engaged to actually gets mad. But uh yeah, disappointed, disappointed.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: First two episodes of Love is Blind. Uh not what
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: I had in mind, but we'll see. Also, guys, I
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: made the purchase. We're doing Scream on scene tonight instead
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: of Mystery Movie Monday. Tickets have been purchased, so uh,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: I'll give you an update on that tomorrow. Do I
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: think the movie is going to be terrible. Yes, yes,
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: I do think it's going to be terrible. Am I
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: still gonna enjoy it? Yep, that's me.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm easily pleased.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, look that's going to do it. For hour two
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: of Off the Bench, we talked a lot of baseball.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Hour number one, we just had Patrick Coogan, former LSU
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: pitcher on. We took the little LSU football in Saints
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: our number three. We are gonna have our weekend winners
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: at nine am. No, Devin snow Dev is a bit
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: under the weather, if you know what I mean. We're
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: gonna move him to tomorrow and then we'll talk LSU
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: women's basketball since we didn't get to that in hour
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: number one. So all that coming up and more, stay tuned.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: We got one more hour left here on a Monday
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: edition of Off the Bench.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Off the Bench