They Just Keep Coming

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in the zone, Auto Zone. We're in the zone here
all the time. Friday morning, Rejoice. I hope you guys
are having a fantastic early start to a weekend by
hanging out with us. It's not too far now until
Saturday and Sunday. And to prove that fact, we just
started football, college football and the NFL too interesting results.

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N C State gets a double digit win over Louisville
and the Patriots are not dead yet. They go on
the road and they beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The
Buccaneers just look average. Maybe the most surprising thing about
this game was not that the Patriots one, because the
Patriots are like the horror movie villain that you can't kill. Right.

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This is the first must win regular season game I
can remember from the Patriots in a very long time,
so I anticipated they would find a way to get
it done. But I thought they would find a way
to get it done by scoring more points than the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I did not think that their defense
would show up, and also didn't necessarily think that Nick
Folk was gonna miss three different field goals, including a

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thirty one yard or that I would imagine an awful
lot of people. Really, legitimately, people can make a thirty
one yard field goal in an NFL game. So Cam
Newton and the Tampay Bucceteers have a chance to go
to three and one to serve notice that they are
a legitimate threat in the NFC South, to kind of
stamp themselves as a team legitimately on the rise by

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beating Tom Brady and the Patriots. Instead, they frankly don't
play that well. They missed several field goals, which obviously
is a dispositive factor, and when you actually look at
the box score, the two teams are relatively even. The Patriots,
while they held uh the Buccaneers and just fourteen points,
still gave up over four hundred yards of offense. But

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it's nothing near nowhere near as bad as they had
been prior to this moment. So the Patriots now at
three and two, feel pretty good about themselves. And the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at two and two, well, I mean,
you're pretty much aware every decent team is in the NFL,
everybody kind of sitting around two and two. Only one

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team is undefeated, and that remains the Kansas City Chiefs,
while there are a lot of teams out there that
have had both impressive and disappointing performances already. Even as
we're just a little bit past a quarter of the
way through the NFL season, the Major League Baseball playoffs
also officially off and underway, the n LDS and the
a L d S. I'm gonna bring in Danny g

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what happened in these games. I was kind of focused
on football. We also had a big cool event at
Zaney's last night. Thanks d the hundreds of you who
came out last night and uh and saw me perform.
We're gonna be doing a lot of those events. I'm
gonna be in St. Louis today, uh this afternoon evening,
so if you want to hang out there, you can
check out the out kick v i P message boards

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see where it will be On Monday, we will have
another event in Birmingham, Alabama, So I'm kind of running
all over the place taking care of these events. It
was a lot of fun. I hope you guys who
are listening to this now that we're there, had a
good time. Let me know what you thought of the event.
Um and look forward to doing more of them. But
let's bring in the crew and Danny g give us

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an update on the Major League Baseball postseason. This is
the time of year, October best sports month of the
year when there are a lot of different moving parts
going on all at once, and uh, let's hit it
on the Major League Baseball front. Yeah to a l
playoff openers yesterday, Both home teams were winners. The Indians
were pretty dominant as they shut out the Yankees for
to nothing. Trevor Bauer had a G eight start. He

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shut out the New York Bats and uh, the scary
part Bauer is the Indians number three starter, so this
could only get worse for the Yankees if their bats
don't come alive and then the Astros they went ham
on Chris Sale Houston, second baseman Jose Altuve had he
had three home runs all of September. Clay he hit

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three bombs just yesterday. Amazing for a little short, little
second baseman. And uh Altuve is a legit ale m
VP candidates, so he showed out yesterday. Verlander also looked
great for Houston Astro's clawbered the Red Sox eight to two,
and you have four games to look forward to today,
Boston at Houston for Game two on FS one, New

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York at Cleveland, Chicago at Washington for Game one in
that NL series, and Arizona at the l A Dodgers
on TBS to end things off tonight. Lots of people
are gonna be playing hooky down in Houston because that
game is a one o'clock Central, two o'clock Eastern art
for the Red Sox in the Astros, but games going
all day long, in addition to the fact that there

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are obviously going to be a lot of great NFL
and college football games that are getting set to t
off as we move into the weekend. So were these
outcomes in Major League Baseball, the Astros over the Red
Sox and the Indians over the Yankees, to you, Danny
g indicative of the way these series are going to go.
In other words, do you think those teams should be
prohibitive favorites. Yeah, well, I think the Indians should definitely

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be a team that we would expect could get all
the way to the World Series. But I mean, the
thing that surprised me was that the Yankees. They they
looked so good against the Twins, at least their bats did.
But maybe they celebrated a little too early because man
did they have fun in the locker room after beating
the Twins. But then when it came to figure out
figuring out their pitching situation, they went through a lot

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of pictures in that wild Card game, so so they
got to get their bullpen act together. And then the
Astros they're another favorite, so it didn't surprise me. But
Mookie Bets and company, the Red Sox, they've they've been
up and down their streaky team, similar to the Dodgers,
so we'll see if they can bounce back as well.
But it was pretty much as expected with both home

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teams winning. Yesterday, Clayton Kershaw on the Mound in l
a for a seven thirty pm Pacific time ten thirty Eastern.
If you're interested in watching that, game. Uh start this
after this evening late and the Dodgers are minus two
fifty to win that game, big favorites. What's the vibe
in La La Land as the Dodger chance to win

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the first title since officially begins. Everybody wants tickets. I've
been going on the you know, the ticket apps and
everything for the past week. And where do they cost?
And I have no idea. Well, to sit lows, to
sit anywhere down uh, you know, towards the field normally
would cost you, you know, two hundred dollars for good seats.
It's double that right now, so beow for those same

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two tickets. So the nosebleed Sea right now are a
couple of hundred bucks. So it's a pretty penny to
get into the game right now. But best believe the
Dodger parties in this city are kind of crazy. There's
a bar right down the street from my house and
they've been showing all the Dodger games all season, and
that place is going to be jumping tonight. The whole
city is psyched because obviously it's been since what a

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long drought, and this is the year. It feels like awesome,
This is the year indeed, all right, let's circle back around.
I think the biggest story of the night is and
remains the performance by the Patriots against the Tampa Bay
Buccan the years, and I think we have a couple
of clips of audio if you somehow have been out
of touch the pucks. Bucks are throwing the ball into

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the end zone trying to win from the nineteen yard
line to end the game. But the missed field goals
led to the fact that the Patriots kind of had
control of this game throughout. Let's listen from Jamis Winston
talking about the outcome in that game. This game is
behind us. I guess that's a pause. I wish we
could have came over with a win. But you know,
when you're playing the best for the back in the
world and you're playing against a great defense, you got

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to be on top of everything, and uh today I wasn't.
So their quarterback played way better than I did, so
they end up winning a game. Never gave up, kept
fighting and uh and it just shows you about how
you know hungry this team is and how much the
fans helped us out. You know, being at home, you're
not wanting to lose the game at Homes battle back.

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But again, there's two seconds on the club. Your quarterback
has to make a play for you. You gotta you
gotta do something that's a quarterback. You gotta make a play.
That's Jamis Winston talking about that game. Now, Tom Brady,
we said, Brady maybe still be Brady. I think I
know I did yesterday, but the Patriots defense is not
still the Patriots defense. Well Brady kind of looked a

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little bit old. And I'm not gonna be the person
who is gonna talk about Tom Brady every week because
I've said before I think he's the most reliable aspect
of the Patriot offensive attack. But without Gronkowski, he had
two turnovers, he fumbled, he threw an interception early in
that game. Patriots turned the ball over twice and overcame
it and got a massive win on the road. I'm

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gonna bring in the crew, will get everybody's opinion. I
think until the page again. Patriots to me are a
horror movie villain. You know how the horror movie villain
always comes back. Right. You don't just have to kill
the Patriots. You have to burn him to death. You
have to like throw him, bury him alive, like everything
in order to keep them from re emerging as a

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threat to win the Super Bowl. And I fully expected
them to find a way to beat the Bucks on
the road and this Thursday night turnaround, and they did.
They lost a tough game on Sunday to the Panthers.
They are now one and two at home. They were
going on the road just a couple of days rest
Rob Gronkowski's not playing. It seemed like everything was set

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up for us to come on the show Friday morning
and have a Patriots funeral, And every time that that's
been set up for about the last fifteen years, it
seems like the Patriots ever is into the challenge and
told us not so fast. And that seems to be
to me the story so far. Now, what exactly are
the Patriots gonna be capable of from here? They gotta

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get healthy. They've got to get better on the defensive
side of the ball, There's no doubt about that. But
they have the best coach in football, and they have
a pretty talented a quarterback, by the way, maybe the greatest,
certainly the greatest, I think in the history of the
game itself. They now get the Jets. You would think
the Patriots even on the road against the Jets. Are

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not gonna lose that game. With extra days, that gets
them to Foreign too. Then they have a big game
against the Falcons, but that game is in Foxborough. If
they win that game as a rematch of the Super Bowl,
everybody will say, hey, look the Patriots are back. They'll
be five and two. Then they get the Chargers, all right.
I think they have a good chance to win that
game given the fact that the Chargers are oh and four.

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So in their next three, probably worst case scenario, the
Patriots go two and one. Likely I think to go
three and oh. If that happens, there six and two
just in time for them to roll out to face
the Broncos at the midway part of the season schedule.
Not gonna get that easy. But the next three are
very very easy for the Patriots. And Jason Martiner you

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with me that the Patriots looked a little bit like
their vintage selves last night and finding a way to
win a big game national television Thursday night. Everything lined
up against them, and they find a way to get
it done on the road against a good young Bucks team. Look,
this team could be one and one and four easily
right now, if it wasn't for some serious heroics from

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Brandon Cooks a couple of weeks ago against the Texans,
and then certainly Nick Foulk going ridiculously bad last night
and missing three field goals for the Bucks. That's nine
points they left on the board right there. Obviously, you
know what I gotta I already Jameis Winston in a
lot of respects the way he's comported himself as a
pro to stand up there and put all the onus

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on himself about not being able to make a play
at the end of that football game, not saying anything
about his kicker. There are players in this league that
would have thrown Nick Folk on to the bus, yet
they didn't do it, so you know, they win nineteen
to fourteen. I think that if you want to talk
about a forty year old starting to look old, I
don't think he looks old with full rest. But when
you're coming off playing on Sunday in a tough game

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and losing that and then having to turn around four
days later and play, yeah, I think maybe it takes
a little bit more time for a Tom Brady perhaps
to be ready to play after a short turnaround like that.
But they did win the game, They're going to be okay.
And I think that that's the worst case scenario for
the rest of the a f C, in particular, because
this team really should be potentially one and four, or

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certainly should be two and three right now, if the
Bucks were able to do anything last night. But it
is kind of I'm not gonna give him too much credit.
The defense certainly came around Tampa Bay made it look
easy for him at times because they left some serious
points on the board, But I'm not gonna give them
that much credit. When the Bucks missed three field goals
that could have potentially changed that entire game. Good deal.

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What about you guys out in l A. Are you
believing that the but that the Patriots are back or
do you think the Patriots ever left? I mean, I'm
still not sold on on their defense, but I never
thought that Tom Brady left, And when you have Tom Brady,
you've always have a chance to win games. So um, overall,
I think that you know, with with him under center,

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they they're always gonna be a good team. Overall. It
is amazing to think about how much different our our
conversation would be if Jamis Winston made a play with
two seconds left, right. I mean, I was watching that
game live and I was thinking, my god, what am
I rooting for here? Because I didn't I didn't gamble
on this game, so I wasn't like kind of dialed
in on the gambling front. And I was sitting there thinking,

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as the Bucks took this snap, you know, if Jamis
Winston makes this throw, then everybody's gonna focus on the
fact the Patriots or two and three. I think it
would have been more about the Patriots being two and
three than it would have been about the Bucks being
three and one. But it would have been amazing to
think about how different the way we would have covered
this story would have been if that would have happened. Well, regardless,

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we are gonna talk with my guy Todd Ferman up next.
We've had some games in the books now Thursday Night
football college football. We'll talk a little bit about the
big win over n C State as this as this
show progresses as well. Um, but we're gonna get you
ready for the big games in college football in the
NFL with my guy Todd Ferman. He is waking up early,
you know what, I think he's just staying up just

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staying up actually because it's three fifteen on the West
coast and my guy Todd Ferman is out in the
desert in Vegas, so he's gonna be with us to
break down the college football and the NFL storylines. I
guarantee you're not gonna want to miss it as we
get you ready from a gambling perspective for the weekend
to come in both college football and the NFL. That's
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he joins us live from Las Vegas. And before we
even get into any of the handicapping aspects of the
upcoming weekend in college football in the NFL, what was
your experience like this week in Vegas. Todd a bit
of a somber, obviously experienced to say the least. I
actually didn't know about the tragedy taking place until I
got a text message not to make light of the

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situation from my cousin asking me how I was, and
I said, you know, I didn't have the best day
betting the NFL on Sunday, but I'm going to be Okay,
says No, it's not what I'm talking about at all.
You flip on the news and you see the horrific
pictures coming from the Harvest ninety one music festival. Uh contry.
You know, Clay, I'm a big You're a big country
music fan. My first thought when I saw all this
when I woke up was God, I hope Todd's okay.

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And then I went into Twitter and saw that you
had tweeted because this happened overnight for a lot of
people on Sunday into Monday. I mean, I bet you've
been to that before. I have. I've actually been there
two of the last three years. Know that stage, know
the setup all too well. So when you think about
this senseless violence and people out there enjoying a good
time for what's been one of the best country music
festivals that I've been to, uh in my ten plus

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years in Las Vegas. Just so hard to wrap your
head around it. Um make sense of the violence that
took place, and for somebody to have this kind of agenda,
it's so scary to try and think exactly what was
going through, has had and apparently nothing. So thoughts and
prayers out to all the families that were impacted by
this and can't think the first responders, the Las Vegas

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Police Department, and everybody else that made this situation. It
took a bad situation and made the best of it
at least to protect some of those lives and the
folks that were injured. Does it feel normal now or
does it still feel strange? In Las Vegas? It does
feel strange, um, you know, when you try and forge
gure out who was impacted by you talk to some
of your colleagues, the bartenders that were there. Las Vegas

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for tourists feels like it. You come here, you're here
for seventy two hours, you go through a vendor and
it's kind of an escape from reality. But for those
of us live here, it takes on a small town feel.
So there's always a connection, a common thread linking everyone together.
And as those pictures come out their venues you've been to,
you talk to people who describe it as almost like
a horror movie that unfolded there. So I think it's

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gonna take the city a little while to repair itself.
And knowing how important tourism is, the one thing that
you have to hope is that people aren't discouraged and
they don't see this is becoming the new Norman Las
Vegas as a terrorism, whether it's domestic or otherwise target
at these type of mass gathering. We're talking to Todd Ferman.
Follow him on Twitter at Todd Ferman. He joins US
Weekly And obviously there's no easy way to transition between

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serious talk and sports talk, but that's what we do
on the show. So I'm gonna transition into college football.
Let's start with college football. Um, you've got you know
the Vegas top ten that you do. I've looked at odds.
Alabama is becoming a prohibitive favorite, and behind Alabama is Clemson.
Do you buy into the idea that there's a big

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gap between Alabama and Clemson and everybody else in college football?
If Alabama were to play Clemson this weekend, Clay, we'd
be looking at the Crimson Tide right around a six
and a half point favorite. As far as an opening
number now, which is almost identical to what they were
in the title game. If I don't, if I'm not mistaken, exactly,
be deja vu all over again to not just the
last year's title game, but the title game a year

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before as well. Were Alabama was a slightly heavier favorite,
but all in that same ballpark, I'd be interested to
see where the general public and or professional betters were
to take that number. Don't think you'd see it open
at a full touchdown, But if this Alabama juggernaut continues
on down the tracks at ten, They've outscored their Power
five opponents so far this year, obliterated the numbers against
Vanderbilt where they were nineteen point favorites, covered that by halftime.

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Similar situation last weekend against old myths. To put in perspective,
what oddsmakers have how to do with Alabama numbers. This
game against Texas A and m Over the weekend would
have been about two touchdowns had the game and played
a week ago. Now you're talking about North of three touchdowns.
Looking ahead down the road against Arkansas and Tennessee, we're
talking about Alabama right around five touchdown favorites in those games.

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The L s U game that we always circle every
single season is being, you know, kind of a prove
it type scenario to determine dominance in the SEC West.
Alabama a twenty four and a half point favorite right
now in that game. The only number that appears to
be somewhat competitive before a potential SEC championship game with
Georgia would be the Iron Bowl or Alabama projects out
to about a ten and a half eleven point chalk

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for their trip to Jordanary. So how do you play this?
You've talked before about the difficulty hanging numbers for the
books and the off shoes and everybody else, because Alabama
is a public favorite and the public is probably gonna
play them. But if a public favorite keeps covering, you
have to keep raising that number. But when do you
raise it to a level where the sharp money comes

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pouring in On the other side. I think we're gonna
get to territory where you start to see it and
in a b as soon as this coming Saturday against Texas,
A and m when we figure out exactly what the
Aggies can do. Do they have the fire offensive firepower offensively,
maybe not to win the game outright, but to keep
it inside what we would determine to be an inflated

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price tech. But going down the road, I think it
really boils down to when can you identify a spot
where Alabama may not be that focused because that appears
to be the only way you're gonna slow this team
down and might serve to explain why they didn't cover
against Fresno State in Colorado State and found another gear
once they start a conference play against the Commodore's LSU
Florida is a fascinating game to me. The line is

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right around. Florida is a three point favorite. L s
U big blowout loss. Mississippi State loses at home Detroit.
Now going on the road to the Gators. The Gators, now,
you can probably have to stick with Felippe Franks. They
don't really have a great quarterback. How do you handicap
this one? This is a game clay where oddsmakers open
the number low. You had some professional betters come in
to kind of dummy up the price with Florida and

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What I mean there is they make smaller bets on
the gate. They get some of that momentum going on
late Sunday night at bed online, Dot a G and
other shops. It gets out to six and that's where
pros came in and they absolutely obliterated L s U
taking that number down closer to a field goal. Uh,
you look at a Bilow opportunity for l s U.
This is a perfect scenario. They were disjointed. There's no

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way to sugarcoat there when you lose to Troy as
three touchdown favorites. Um, but I think they're gonna get
back to basics. Coach oh may not be as metalsome
in their offensive game plan. And for Florida, we know
this team isn't exactly stocked with skill positions talent. They
could be without the services of Tyree Cleveland, he of
the fifteen catch three hundred plus yards receiving. So Florida

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could go into this game against L s U with
one receiver that's got double digits and catches. And you
mentioned the change from Luke del Riot to Phelipe A. Franks.
I think that's the major drop off in terms of
knowing the offense inside and out, Washington State going on
the road at Oregon coming off a huge win over USC.
I'm kind of surprised this line has moved a lot
back and forth, but Washington State Oregon starting basically a

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walk on quarterback. Washington State has been the underdog a
decent amount. What is Vegas telling us here? And this
is a game where I think it's all about trying
to quantify what the drop off is from dark horse
Heisman candidate and Justin Herbert too, you know, guys that
don't have the same experience running this Oregon offense. And
you had books actually open Oregon a short favorite earlier

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in the weeks. That number has since corrected itself, and
as people you know, feel comfortable knowing exactly who's going
to be under center, would not shock me if we
saw Washington State start to balloon past three and take
out even further despite it not being a great situational spot.
With Washington State coming off of that emotional upset of
USC last Friday. You couldn't get me to the window

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with a ticket on Oregon knowing that they're still deficient
on the defensive side of the ball uh and that
you have a quarterback that may have to go score
for score with Luke Falk and a high powered Washington
State offense. Okay, NFL, well at this pivot to the
NFL quickly here and there are several really interesting ingals
I think to approach with the NFL. I want to
start with the Rams. The Rams are three and one,

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they are playing the Seahawks at home, and they are
a short favorite over the Seahawks. Would you have ever
believed that was gonna happen in Week five of the
NFL season. Not at all. And I think it's a
credit to what McVeigh has done getting this offense to
look like a competent offensive par cry from what we
saw under Jared Goff his freshman campaign with Jeff Fisher.
They're calling the shots the Rams number to win the division.

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We've seen them go from a twenty five to one
long shot all the way down to five to two.
If they're able to win this game against the Seahawks
and give themselves a little bit of separation, we have
to start considering the Rams a viable threat. I don't
like to jump to conclusions, though, Clay, and until you
you know, knock the king off, you're not going to
get that honor bestowed on you. I think as we
get closer to kick off on Sunday, despite Seattle having

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some issues on that offensive line and Aaron Donald starting
to look a little bit better defensively so the Rams
can do the things they got back to last year,
I think we're gonna see Seattle potentially close this short
road favorite here. Okay, two big games Packers Cowboys, Chief Texans.
One of those is the late night game, the other
one is the afternoon game for much of the nation.
What do you see in Packers Cowboys? And what do

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you see in Chiefs Texans? You're gonna want to keep
eyes on injury, the injury report for Dallas. If Shawn
Lee is unable to go, he changes the dynamic and
mentally for what the Cowboys are able to do. On
the defensive side, we saw them kind of running around
ill equipped to handle the rams high powered passing attack.
Last week, Todd Gurley had a field day. Green Bay
a much different team home and Roads. So I would

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caution folks that become enamored with Aaron Rodgers and the
gaudy numbers they put up and they're playing at Lambeau.
Uh not to really run and try and back them
here would be shocked though, if this game didn't eclipse
the total at fifty two and a half. I think
the side a very fair number at one and a
half to the Sunday nighter that you mentioned Houston being
listed as a home underdog, I don't expect them to
hang fifty plus and back to back weeks the Kansas

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City some major questions on the offensive line. I think
the Chiefs continue to remain one of the more overvalue
teams in the league. That cover on Monday night defied
logic and probability with them scooping the ball late to
get outside the number for the only time again and
also to hit the over Yeah exactly if you if
you went under forty eight right before kickoff, that was
a cruel twist of fate and you deserve much better there.

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But I think the Houston Texans defensively, they get back
to basics. The one concern that I have what will
do Shaun Watson look like? Will he continue to show
that improvement? But his dynamic running ability will put the
chief defense on their heels. I like to Texas here
last question for you were talking to Todd firm and
he's out in the desert. In Las Vegas, Titans and
the Raiders, both quarterbacks seemed twinned at the hip, both

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Marcus Mariota and Derek Carr potentially out. They got injured
on the same day last year, they got injured on
the same day this year. How much line movement is
there in a Raiders game and the Titans game predicated
on Car and Mariota both being out From Derek card
j Manuel, you're talking about a five to six point
drop off, and you're still going to see the Raiders

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installed his favorites this weekend against the Baltimore Ravens. Without Car,
that number just gets cut considerably from where it would
have been. And when when you look at the drop
off from Mariotta to Matt Castle, not necessarily because Marcus
isn't a much better quarterback, but because Tennessee's offense is
predicated on running the football and that won't change without
him out there. You're looking at the drop off closer,

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and that's three and a half to four and a
half point range. Anything else we should know about the
NFL before we let you go. I think it'll be
interesting to see exactly what we're going to get out
of another rookie quarterback. On Monday Night with Mitchell Robinsky,
you mentioned some of the big games. I will say
one of the sharper positions we've seen from professional betters.
I was on Carolina early in the week that three
disappeared for their road trip to Detroit. Despite not being

(26:43):
a good situational spot the other game, be careful what
you see and don't always trust the I. Buffalo has
been out gained in each of their last two victories. Uh,
this could be a more daunting challenge than it would
appear on paper. And in fact, the Bengals are favored.
Even though the Bengals are one in three, their favored
to beat the Bills this weekend exactly, and you'll probably
see a pros versus Joe's divide. I think you'll see

(27:04):
professional money coming on the Bengals, where you see the
betting public become enamored with Buffalo's back to back upsets
of the Denver Broncos and of course the Atlanta Falcons
last weekend. That's Todd Ferman. Tell people how to find
you on social media. Follow me on Twitter at Todd Ferman.
Of course, read our bet the board Top ten available
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(27:26):
you thought you never wanted to help get you to
the window each and every week throughout the ball. Outstanding stuff.
That's Todd Ferman. Let's toss it now to my guy,
Eddie Garcia. Find out what's happened in the world's sports
well clay postseason baseball. Yesterday we had the opening game
of both America League Division series. Will start off in Cleveland,
where the Indians shut off the Yankees for nothing. Mind
starting Vintor Trevor Bauers. He took a not hitter in
the sixth ending finished with six and two thirds shot

(27:48):
out innings, allowing two hits with eight strikeouts in the win.
J Bruce hit a two run homer drove in three
in the game. That was more than enough offense for Cleveland.
Game one, a LDS and Houston Astros beat the Red
Sox eight to two. Who is a alt two Bay
for Houston had three solo home runs. He's a tenth
player every had three home runs in the postseason game.
Justin Burlander gets the win. Pitched well he has not

(28:08):
lost since joining Houston in that trade. Five and oh
in the regular season, now want to know in the postseason,
and Boston started Chris Sale, who pitched so well in
the regular season, in his first career post season start,
not good at five innings seven runs on nine hits.
Week five in the NFL got under way with the
Thuresday night game in Tampa Patriots hold off the Buccaneers
for a nineteen to fourteen win. Now Jamis Winston had
a pass from the nineteen yard line into the end

(28:30):
zone as time expired, it fell incomplete. Kicker Nick Folk
was not good for Tampa Bay over three in his
field goals. Meanwhile, for New England, Tom Brady had a
TV pass and their kicker Steve and Gotzkowski booted four
field goals in New England's three and two. Tampa Bay
is two and two and Clay College football kind of
forgotten all the baseball in NFL action, but there was
a battle of ranked teams in the a SEC where

(28:50):
twenty fourth ranked n c State beat seventeenth frank Louisville
twenty five the wolf Packer five and one. Down on
the season. Three and oh in the a C c Yeah. Look,
NC State had has really kind of risen from the dead.
I don't want to say, uh that that they are
a huge surprise, necessarily because there were a lot of
people who believe they were going to be good. But
they lost to South Carolina in Week one in a

(29:11):
neutral sight game in Charlotte, and since then they've been
basically on fire. I mean, a huge win for them
over Louisville, Uh Lamar Jackson. Remember how there was a
lot of talk about, oh why is Lamar Jackson not
getting more coverage? I mean it's because just about every
time that Louisville has played a good team, they have
gotten exposed. Uh in particular, I mean, and again you

(29:32):
can break down all of those losses. Louisville lost four
down the stretch last year, um and then obviously or
three down the stretch after a close game, lost to
Clemson earlier in the year, and then this year. Now
they've played just a couple of good teams and they
really haven't been able to get out of their own way.
So we'll see. To me, Bobby Petrino is a fascinating question.
What is he going to decide to do? Because when

(29:55):
Tom Jurch lost his job the athletic director at the
University of Louisville then, and Bobby Petrino's buyout dropped from
eight point five million dollars to four point to five
million dollars. So with their being potentially a lot of
decent sized programs that could potentially come open, I'm curious
what the long range future of Bobby Petrino is going
to be at Louisville and UH, in particular, what a

(30:18):
school like Tennessee, which I think is number one on
the list of big jobs that are most likely to
fire their coach at the end of the season or
even before. I think what's gonna happen with Tennessee is
they'll they're on a bye week this week, they decided
not to fire Butch Jones. This week, I think Tennessee
goes up against South Carolina. Will must Champ has yet
to lose the University of Tennessee. We'll see what happens.

(30:39):
Last year, Tennessee also had a two week by week
and then managed to lose UH. And then the week
after that you go to Alabama, and Tennessee is gonna
get their teeth kicked in like everybody does when they
play Alabama, I think, Butch Jones gets fired the Sunday
after the Alabama game. I think you go ahead and
pull the trigger then and start to make a decision.
And who were the guys that are out there that
you can potentially make a run at, right, Chip, Kelly

(31:01):
Bob Stoops, we have to start him because the groomer
season never is over. Do you make a call of
John Gruden former University of Tennessee graduate assistant who married
a University of Tennessee cheerleader. Is John Gruden ever going
to stop working on Monday night football? I don't know
the answer to that question, but I think you certainly
reach out to him and talk to him a little
bit too. Do your due diligence, particularly for the guys

(31:23):
who are not coaching right now, and see whether or
not you can persuade any of those guys at high
end candidates. Again, Uh, Chip Kelly Bob Stoops, John Gruden,
three guys that are out there that might be somewhat
interested in the University of Tennessee job, just gage o
their interest and uh, and then proceed from there. In
the meantime, I gotta tell you we're live from the

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long time, Cam Newton officially apologized for his comments yester
day that we talked about. We'll play you those comments
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(32:05):
our kick the coverage. I hope you guys are having
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It's time for the Geico Play of the game. And
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(32:25):
series against the Boston Red Sox. Not one, not too
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(32:46):
hit three home runs in one playoff game. One of them,
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(33:08):
lot about the Cam Newton controversy surrounding it, the way
that he spoke to a reporter from a Charlotte newspaper,
and the yesterday evening, Cam Newton released an official apology.
This is that audio. I have to careful with thought.
I understand that my word choice was extremely degrading and

(33:30):
disrespectful to women, and to be honest, that was not
my intentions. And if you are a person who took
offense to what I said, I sincerely apologize to you.
I'm a man who tries to be a positive role

(33:51):
model in my community and tries to use my platform
to inspire others and our own. I take ownership to
everything that comes with that, and what I did was
extremely unacceptable. Um. I'm a father to two beautiful daughters,

(34:15):
and at their age I try to instill in them
that they can do and be anything that they want
to be. And the fact that during this whole process
I've already lost sponsors and countless fans. I realized that
the joke is really on me, and I've learned a
valuable lesson from this. And to the young people who

(34:38):
see this, I hope that you learned something from this
as well, Um, don't be like me, be better than me.
And to the reporters, to the journalists, to the mom's
super moms, to the daughters, the sister, and the woman

(35:02):
all around the world, I sincerely apologize and hope that
you can find the condness in your heart to forget
this story I think has been really probably way overplayed.
I mean in the grand scheme of things, Uh, it's
not that significant of a story. Although in typical Internet fashion,

(35:23):
the woman that cam Newton spoke to also evidently had
some racist tweets that she sent like four or five
years ago while she was in college. It's just the
typical Internet story, right, somebody's offended and then that person
who was offended has maybe done worse things in her life.
And I'm just ready for this story to officially be

(35:45):
over right. I mean, there wasn't much substance to this
thing from the get go. Cam Newton probably just should
have avoided commenting in any way just to answer the questions. Um,
but it puts a lot of onus on him now
going forward as as we see whether or not the
Panthers are capable to build on that three and one record.

(36:06):
And still the big question with Cam Newton is is
he ever going to get back to the m v
P caliber season that he had in what was it
now twenty Cam Newton seventeen and one in the Super Bowl,
and the expectation is that the Panthers are gonna win
that game, Cam Newton is going to become the face
of the NFL. Instead, his team loses, he gets beaten up,

(36:28):
he doesn't perform very well in the postgame press conference,
and then he's awful all of last year. This year,
early in the season had not been very impressive, but
had a good game on the road against the Patriots.
And we'll see whether the Panthers can build on that
and turn it into more of a substantially successful season.
But for me, I am completely over this, uh, this controversy.

(36:51):
I still find it insane that Cam Newton and his
response to a reporter at a press conference is getting
more attention than Michael Bennett lying about the Las Vegas
Police Department. And to me, this is an indictment in
some ways, many ways of the media as a whole,
that they can get trapped in stories like these which

(37:13):
aren't that significant in the grand scheme of things. Now,
Cam Newton lost a few sponsors. It sounds like there
was a significant pressure on him to speak out that
statement to me, and I haven't watched it, I've only
heard it. That statement to me seems a little bit
like a hostage video, like he's reading and being told
exactly what he needs to say in that video to

(37:34):
put this story behind him. But if I were him,
I'd be like, Hey, I've addressed it. I've answered it.
There's nothing else to be said here. And we'll see
what happens as they roll into the UH into the
weekend of the NFL and college football now coming up
an hour too, coming up an hour two, We're gonna
talk with my guy Lance Taylor. We'll talk about the
level of dominance that Alabama has achieved their last two games.

(37:58):
The tied of outscored opponents a hunt in twenty five
to three. Does that continue this weekend with Alabama going
on the road against Texas A and M. We'll discuss that.
We'll talk about the Rams. Uh, the Rams maybe the
best story of the first four weeks in the NFL
in terms of expect expectation versus reality. The Rams are
three and one. Do we buy into the idea that

(38:19):
they are legitimate contenders to win the NFC West? And
we will get you ready in general for those uh,
those stories and more again Lance Taylor, an hour two,
an hour three, we'll talk with Casey Smith. My thanks
to all of you. Go download the podcast. We should hopefully, god,
I don't know when now at this point, we're gonna
have news on satellite radio. The lawyers have the contracts,

(38:41):
and the lawyers have had the contracts for a while.
I'm hopeful that by Monday it will be resolved. At
this point, I've just kind of said, I have no
idea what's going on there. It's gonna happen eventually. Here
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into the weekend, what do I try to do? I
try to make everybody money, try to make everybody rich,
try to give everybody an opportunity to be able to
cash out. And that's what I'm gonna do right now,
a little bit earlier than normal, but I think it
makes sense. It's the gambling picks from out kick, and
I got a couple of blood bank guarantees. Let's go
ahead and hit the music voice. It's time move for

(39:30):
Clay Travis to make us rich, including the legendary, famous,
well known, talk of the town, most celebrated. I'd buy
that for a blood bank guarantee. Now, I want you
to all get your pens ready, pencils. I don't want
people to be sending me text messages. Text messages are

(39:52):
the wrong thing. Sending me tweets saying hey, can you
give me your picks? I'm giving them out right now.
You can go see him at OutKick dot com as well.
I got ten winners for you, and we start with
Penn State at Northwestern. Lots of people not aware that
Pat Fitzgerald is three O against James Franklin head to
head once at Vanderbilt, twice at Penn State. Northwestern's coach

(40:15):
has come out on top. And this line I think
is a little bit high. Two touchdowns on the road
at Northwestern. I think it stays close. Penn State's gonna win,
but Northwestern is gonna cover. Keep this name in mind,
d J. Durkin. Maryland has now won two games on
the road as a double digit underdog so far this year.

(40:38):
They went on the road against Texas one one to
start the season, and they went on the road this
past weekend and one against Minnesota as a double digit underdog.
Now they are around a thirty one point underdog to
Ohio State. I know Ohio State was great this past
weekend against Rutgers and we lost some money there, but

(40:58):
I think that Maryland is gonna be able to stay
within the number even in the shoe. Thirty one points
is a massive line. Give me the Terrapins and d J.
Durk and keeping this close. Arkansas at South Carolina, the
under will must champ defense comes to play and they
control the overall scope and magnitude and basic tempo of

(41:22):
these games. The last four South Carolina games have posted
totals of forty four, thirty six, thirty three, and forty one.
Arkansas is coming to town, and I think South Carolina
will slow down that offensive attack. I believe no idea
what's gonna happen in this game. Arkansas is a small favorite,
but the over under opened at fifty one. I think

(41:44):
it's around forty nine now the under is gonna cash.
Washington State. This is a fascinating game, Washington State at Oregon,
because the line has bumped back and forth a couple
of different times. Right now, I believe it's Washington State
minus two and a half. Oregon is gonna have to
start a walk on quarterback. Washington State is coming off
a huge win over USC there five and oh. I

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think that offense is gonna be able to continue to score.
And I don't believe ultimately that Oregon with a walk
on quarterback is gonna be able to keep up. That's
why I've got the Cougars. Get Wazoo take him on
the road against Oregon. Georgia at Vanderbilt. I think Georgia
is gonna blow out Vanderbilt, and I actually think the

(42:26):
over is gonna hit. Georgia is on a roll. Right now,
Vanderbilt is playing its fourth straight physically draining competition Kansas State, Alabama, Florida,
now Georgia. Vanderbilt is beaten up. I don't believe that
they will have enough horses to match what the Bulldogs
can bring to bear physical beating again coming from Vanderbilt,

(42:47):
coming four Vanderbilt. I've got the over here and I
have got the Georgia Bulldogs l s U At Florida.
And by the way, Georgia is one of my blood
bank guarantees. If you're not familiar with the blood bank guarantee,
you what does that mean? That means that you should
go straight to your blood bank. You should tell them, hey,
I've got platelets to sell for you. You extend your arm.

(43:10):
They start taking your platelets. When you get your money
for the platelets, you take it straight to your book.
You just take it straight to your Vegas casino. You
take it straight to your offshore. You make your deposit
and you get rich on that one. The other blood
bank guarantee, it's a special weekend. We've got a double
blood bank guarantee l s U At Florida. The Gators
are around it. Two and a half or three point favorite,

(43:32):
and I love the under here, but I think L
s U is a bad football team. Coming off a
tough loss Detroit on the road against the Gators, I
believe what's gonna happen here is pretty simple. The Gators
are gonna win by seven or more. That means you
cover double Blood Bank guarantee there. And finally a couple

(43:52):
more good ones. Old Miss at Auburn Auburn minus twenty one.
Last week, Ole Miss lost sixty six to three. Auburn's
offense is starting to roll. It started with Miszoo, it
continued against Mississippi State. I think it continues another week
against Old Miss. Auburn wins by thirty or more. Bama
on the road at Texas A and M. I gave

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this pick out to yet minus twenty two. It's now
out to around minus twenty six and a half. I
just think Bama's too much for anybody to take right now,
even on the road against Texas A and M. Give
me Bama, and I'm gonna tell you we're gonna get
a cover that's tenan o tennano boys and girls, no
doubt at all about what is coming there. I'm gonna

(44:33):
make you rich again. If you miss some of those picks,
you can go check them out at OutKick dot com.
All right, big story of the day, obviously, in addition
to the fact that I just gave you ten picks,
they're gonna win. The Patriots last night on the road
managed to get a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and at least for a moment, kill the argument that
they are not a legitimate contender in the world of

(44:57):
the NFL after going one and two in their last
three at home in Foxboro, they were going on the road.
Jamis Winston and the Tampa Bay Bucks the latest NFC
South Gunslinger to rise up in the young quarterback rankings.
I've told you before, the NFC South has the best
quarterbacks in the NFL right now. And whether you're talking
about Drew Brees, Cam Newton, uh Matt Ryan, or Jamis Winston,

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Jamis Winston trying to go ahead and set his stamp
that he's the next big time quarterback in the league
based out of the NFC South. Instead, he's just okay.
He had some comments to make after the game. I'll
play those four you here again here, momentarily throwing into
the end zone. With two seconds left. I mean, really,
if that pass is complete for a touchdown, everything changes

(45:41):
everything that we're talking about. With the New England Patriots,
they would be two and three and we would be
asking the question, are the Patriots done? I will say this,
I'm starting to think this is Brady's last year. Maybe
maybe that's crazy, Maybe that is crazy, But there's just
something about the way time Brady looks that it seems

(46:02):
a little bit like he's saying goodbye to football. Is
that a crazy position? Maybe? But maybe I'm also factoring
in Giselle coming out and talking about his health. He
says he wants to play until he's forty five years old.
But I certainly would imagine that the only way he
wants to play until he's forty five years old is
if the Patriots are contending for Super Bowls. And I'm

(46:23):
starting to wonder whether the Patriots finally might have had
their window pass? And is that a crazy question to ask?
Let me bring in the crew. Is it crazy for
me to start be watching Brady and thinking, you know what,
this might be his last go around? Jason Martin crazy,
not crazy. Anybody that's forty years old that already has

(46:45):
the resume that he does. If he's playing, he's playing
because he still loves the game, and I think that's
what you want to watch as you watch the rest
of the season. It's just how much fun does Tom
Brady appear to be having playing quarterback in the National
Football League at his age, especially if the Patriots aren't
going to be the football team that everybody suggested. You
gotta remember six eight weeks ago, the talk was whether

(47:06):
or not this team would go undefeated. That was all
the rage up in Boston. We talked to Casey Smith
an now or three. I'm sure you'll ask her this
question about potentially being tom Brady's last year as well.
I don't think it's crazy. I don't think it's his
last year either. I still think he at least plays
next year. But I wouldn't be stunned, I guess if
it were. So, it's certainly not crazy to ask that

(47:27):
about a four year old player with the resume he
already has. You guys, were you guys with me at
all that that's something you've picked up on in any way?
Danny g And, justin watching Tom Brady play this year
the first quarter, did you notice on that play where
they were about to score and instead he gets sacked
and he just gets up And I could see what
you're saying play because Jason hit on it with the

(47:49):
word fun. He didn't look like he was having much
fun on the field. And you're right about everything changing
with that ball being caught in the end zone for Jamis,
But it would be it would be un belief out
of different in this show if they had completed that
pass with two seconds left and you'd been talking about
is Jamis one of the next studs? You know. Here's

(48:09):
the thing with Brady though, if the Paths win it all,
I could see him maybe walking away, but he's not.
He's not going to go out with Els. Yeah, I mean,
the the the challenges. It's so rare that you have
a Peyton Manning or a John Elway right, a quarterback
who finishes his career literally at the absolute apex. And

(48:31):
certainly a lot of people would have hoped or wished
that Jordan, for instance, would have ended his career right
after that step back jumper when he pushed off against
Brian Russell. Right. I mean, most people back in ninety
eight would have liked to have seen Michael Jordan right
off into the sunset with his sixth NBA Championship as
opposed to coming back and playing for the Wizards. And
you know, basically I wouldn't say he's like in any

(48:53):
way really kind of changed his legacy. But there there's
a desire for I think for fans to be able
to have that moment where someone leaves at the absolute
apex of their career. Elway wins back to back Super Bowls,
rides off into the sunset. Now has been a very
successful executive uh at winning championships as well. Uh Peyton

(49:15):
Manning last past I believe of his career was a
I think I'm correcting this was a two point conversion
to to win his second Super Bowl. Those are really
rare circumstances to have a rise where everything basically goes
perfect and you ride off into the sunset. I think
it's unlikely that we're gonna get that moment for Tom Brady.

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But five weeks into the season now we're almost a
third of the way into the season. The Patriots are
three and two. They're not gonna go nineteen and oh,
but they certainly serve notice that it's way too early
to say that they are not still the defending champs.
And like I said, when you look at their schedule,
to me anyway, next two should be wins and then
they should be five and two with the Atlanta foul

(50:00):
is coming to town. Because again the Patriots next couple
they get are very winnable games, and we'll see whether
or not. Look, I mean, if the if the Patriots
come back and lose on the road at the Jets
this weekend, on a long weekend next weekend, I mean,
with the extra time to prepare, the questions will be
right back and uh. And then we get the game
against the Falcons. So we'll see whether or not when

(50:22):
that Super Bowl rematch happens, whether the Patriots looked like
the same team that came back from three deficit against
the Falcons. All Right, We've got my guy Lance Taylor
up next at the Lance Taylor on Twitter can find
him there. We'll talk about the upcoming weekend of football
and more with LT Final Hour. Like we said a
little bit earlier, we'll talk with Casey Smith. She's up
in Boston. We'll see what the vibe is in New

(50:44):
England in the wake of the big Patriots road win
to get them to three and two, all that and more.
Plus we've got some of your voicemails, Clay, all weekend long.
You guys can react to anything that happens in the
world of sports or otherwise that you want to send
towards me. We'll play some of the best of those.
I think we still have angry Tennessee fans who want

(51:06):
Butch Jones fired. We didn't get through all of those
last time. Maybe a few more as well. We'll play
for that for you in the final hour. But up next,
it's Lance Taylor at the Lance Taylor. We're talking college football,
We're talking the NFL. Getting you ready for the weekend.
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(51:28):
He's at the Lance Taylor on Twitter and he has
done in Alabama, powerful radio station there jocks in Birmingham,
And I want to start with this, lt is this
Nick Saban's best team. Uh? You know what's funny, Clay,
because last year we were talking in year ten for
Nick Saban and they just rolled through the regular season

(51:49):
and they were destroying teams. And I think after that
Tennessee debacle and Neilan where they win that game by
thirty nine points, we were saying the exact same thing.
I'm not sure. I think it's the best offense, and
you look at the production in the last couple of
weeks and what they've been able to do against Vanderbilt
mole Miss. I think you can say offensively, he's got
his best skill guys um, but defensively, I'm still not sure.

(52:10):
And I think the SEC. I don't think it's doing
Alabama any favors right now. I think the conference overall
outside of Alabama, Georgia and Auburn is really bad this year,
at least by SEC standards. So it's it's really hard
to get a gage right now. What about Chip Kelly,
are you buying into the idea? I think he's going
to be a college football coach next year. I think

(52:31):
he'll make a lot of money. We talked to Jeff
Shorts on Thursday show and he said he really buys
into the idea that Chip Kelly is going to go
to a Nike school. Tennessee is a Nike School. Uh,
potentially that Chip Kelly could be interested in that job.
Do you think Chip Kelly could come to an SEC
school and really win at a high level or do

(52:52):
you think his offense is not as revolutionary as it
was when he left Oregon? Yeah. I think it's a
big difference now in the last five years in college football.
You know, when he was running eight plus plays every game,
that's something we had never seen in college football. The tempo, um,
the pace. I think it was sexy back then. But
I think everybody's doing it, or at least every other
school is doing it, So I wonder if it's a

(53:13):
little outdated um or at least you know, Chip Kelly
is not the only guy doing that now. I don't know.
We've seen Chip Kelly match up when he had a
dominant team in two thousand and ten against the Auburn
Tigers out in the Fiesta bo for the National Championship,
in their offense did absolutely nothing. I think it would
be a home run as far as winning the Press
Conference hire, I just don't know what Chip Kelly is

(53:34):
gonna be able to do. He seems to run an
incredible program, or at least did it Oregon, Tennessee to me,
is a better overall program or at least has better tradition.
Oregan might be the better program right now. Um, I
think it'd be an interesting higher. I don't think it
would be to me, a guy like Bobby Petrino has
got a proven track record at different conferences. Petrino would

(53:55):
be a safer higher. Um. Chip Kelly might have more upside,
but I still think it's a little bit of a gamble. Okay,
l s U. You mentioned also the line between l
s U and Alabama, and then what the likely you know,
impact would be. I think l s U has almost
no chance of beating Alabama, which is an insult to
l s U people, uh to to how far their
program has fallen to Lincoln not beat this Alabama. Yeah,

(54:20):
I don't feel good about Danny at leading the team
on the road to a big victory there. But I
also think it's crazy that l s U. This is
one I mean, I mean, this is truly one of
the most incompetent things I have ever seen in the
history of college athletics. From a business perspective, is giving
at oseron a twelve million dollar buy out. I mean,

(54:41):
I'm not kidding about this. I think that everybody involved
in that decision should be fired. Can you believe that
at Oseron has a twelve million dollar buyout? Now? You
know when I first read it, it was a couple
of weeks ago, And I agree with you a percent. Um.
Edward Jeron would have taken this job for for anything
you said. I think for some gumbo and some red bull,
which is for I mean, this is his dream job

(55:02):
that you know, last year at this time when he
took over as an interim coach after less Miles aspired
last September in that Aubrey game, I thought there was
no chance. We continue to see Vegas odds on who
the next LSU coach would be in Orgeron was always
in the mix, and I thought it was laughable because
there's no chance you hire your interim coach at Orderon
to be the face of one of the best programs
in college football. So he ultimately gets this job after

(55:23):
basically begging his way. And I think the fan base
they like Orgeron because he's one of their own, but
at the same time they're not really sure that this
is the guy that can get them back to prominence. Um.
You sure as I don't give him a twelve million
dollar buy out, there's zero, zero reason to you don't
give him a million dollar buyout. So yeah, Joel Eva,
one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in athletics.

(55:44):
And this, this is the fireball offense. And I think
ultimately you can't get rid of Orgeron this year because
of the financial crippling it will do to this program.
So more than likely LSU can go six and six
this year, Orgeron will survive. Inevitably. This is gonna be
a butch owns Kevin Summon situation where he's going to
lose his job probably next year. But if you're leaving,
you need to go down with the ship. It's amazing.

(56:07):
It's an unbelievable story. All right, Let's shift gears a
little bit here to uh the NFL. You are a
long suffering Rams fan. Your team has been on fire
three and one. Where does this rank on the most
unexpected starts to a season for you? Well, I will
say this, Clay, it's the three and one might be

(56:28):
masked a little bit by the fact that they haven't
beaten great teams this past week. When you go to Dallas,
And I do think Dallas is a good team. I
don't think great. I think they're gonna come way down
from their thirteen and three last year. That was an
impressive second half. The thing that it cites me as
a Rams fan is I go back over the last
decade and they're in the bottom three and scoring every year.
And it was just a decade ago where they scored

(56:48):
ten points per game. Can you imagine that as an
NFL fan having to sit there on sixteen Sundays and
watch your team average ten points on offense every single Sunday.
They're now leading the NFL and scoring. I love Sean McVeigh,
the players that that they've been hyping the guy up.
He's thirty one years old, He's got a ton of energy. Um,
he's exactly what that city and that organization needed. You

(57:08):
get a guy like Wade Phillips, the salty veteran that
made great adjustments this past Sunday against Dallas in that
second half. They're really utilizing Todd Gurley in the right way,
the way that Jeff Fisher, your boy, uh never utilized
Todd Gurley. So I'm excited as a Rams fan. They
really haven't beaten anybody yet. Um. Again, it was a
nice win Sunday on the road against Dallas. If they're

(57:29):
able to beat Seattle and the Colisseum this weekend, I
think they're gonna be looked at it for and one
is the team to beat in the NFC West. So
at least just a watchable, enjoyable product. Um, it's much
different than we've seen over the last couple of years.
And I love this show. McVeigh kenemy thirty one years old.
That's insane. Cam Newton obviously made a lot of attention,
uh made a lot of news with the way that

(57:49):
he responded to a female reporter. You're in Alabama, Cam
Newton leads Auburn to a national championship. A couple of
questions for you. One, how much are people in the
state of Alabama even let's lead aside Alabama fans but
Auburn people in general. How popular is Cam still in
the state of Alabama with you know fans now who
are following him in the NFL? To how much attention

(58:10):
did you guys pay on your show to these comments?
Was it a big story in the state, Um, I
mean it was more of a story nationally. I just
think we're super sensitive. Look, obviously it's some comments. I'm
sure that he really regrets, Um, but it wasn't a
huge deal it got touched on. I mean, here's the thing.
If these are comments um in an O t A,

(58:33):
if it's off season, I think it would get much
more play. But to be honest with you, our audience
is more interested in is Alabama gonna cover the twenty
six and a half this weekend? Gets Texas A and
m um, you know, and going to cover the twenty
one against against All miss Right. I mean, I do
think that Cam's benefit there is certainly good point because
there's a lot of games going on. You got the

(58:55):
Major League Baseball playoffs, You've got all the NFL college
football off and running a again, like all the games
to talk about. So the amount of attention this thing
is gonna get now compared to like May is drastically different. Yeah,
as far as the Cam question, is he likable? You know,
it's he's such a polarizing guy, and I think that's
coast to coast, But right here in the state of Alabama,

(59:15):
you know, I would say our audience is seventy Alabama
thirty percent Auburn UM. So obviously Alabama fans are gonna
hate Cam Newton. And they remember one of the worst
UM Alabama defeats ever was in two thousand attend in
the Iron Bowl or Alabama UM had that nice, sizeable
lead and Cam Newton comes back and they ultimately win
the game and they go on to win the National Championship.
So I think he is a hated villain like character

(59:35):
in the state of Alabama. And I think he's an
enigma overall. You know, two years ago when he wins
the NFL m v P, I mean he looked unstoppable.
A couple of years before, he was just an average
quarterback in the NFL. He was an average quarterback last year,
first three games of this season, he's an average below quarterback,
and then he bust out against New England this past week.
So Cam Newton's a difficult study. Uh. You watched DeShawn

(59:58):
Watson play a lot of games, as anybody who was
a fan of college football did while he was at Clemson.
He had an incredible performance against the Titans on Sunday.
Are you buying into Deshaun Watson as a big time
difference maker for the Houston Texans. I am, um, they
haven't had a quarterback for years. We know that they've
had a really, really good defense. They seem to just

(01:00:20):
be a career nine and seven team that finds their
way into the postseason because they're in a really bad
division in the a f C South. But I said
before he was drafted, a lot of people said, look,
he can't throw a deep ball consistently. Too many turnovers
to me, and I love Russell Wilson. I thought he
was gonna be a better version of Russell Wilson. Just
his comfort level, the intangible. You know, Russell as good

(01:00:40):
as he was even at NC State from Wisconsin and
playing in that Rose Bowl, never played on the stage
that Deshaun Watson did. I mean, we're talking about a
guy that played in fifteen games back to back years
and played for national championships, ultimately capturing one last year
against Alabama and one of the greatest games we've ever seen.
So he's used to the stage. The comfort level to

(01:01:02):
be a first year starting quarterback in the NFL for
Deshaun Watson is amazing right now. So yeah, I think
borring injury, I think he's gonna get better and better
play I think the teammates love him, the fans love him. Um,
he's just really an infectious guy and I think he's
gonna have a tremendous career. We're talking to Land Taylor,
ninety five jocks down in Birmingham at the Land Taylor
Last question for you, lt. We talked a couple of

(01:01:23):
days ago on the show about these giant pythons. I
think they are in Indonesia. Remember they ate a guy
a while back. I think we had you on one
to go with the eight A guy. So another one
was laying across the road. It is twenty three ft long,
that snake and it's blocking the road and this guy
is trying to get the snake to leave the road

(01:01:45):
and he gets attacked by the twenty three ft python.
Like he survives, but he's got a serious attack. What
would it take for you to be willing to touch
a twenty three ft python? We're talking about if you
stretch this thing out and a bad skidball arena. That's
like from underneath the basket the baseline all the way
to an NBA three point line. That's how long this

(01:02:07):
snake is. Uh, not a chance in hell. Have you
ever been like on a Saturday night, Friday night, you're
driving and you see a checkpoint where they're checking to see, uh,
whether you've had too much to drink under the influence,
and you'll see that that one idiot that that will
do like the three point turn and ye direction, yeah,
and you'll get somebody that will chase him down ultimately
because you know the guy's been drinking. If I see

(01:02:29):
THEE and a conda stretch across road, I don't care.
If I'm heading to my brother's wedding, I'm doing the
three point turn, I'm doing the sobriety check turnaround. I'm
not coming near any kind of snake like that. Because
you mentioned and since the story about eating the villager
that I guess was passed out. I've seen these things.
One of them ate like a small giraffe and then

(01:02:49):
spit it up. I saw one eat like um um,
a crocodile. I mean, these things absolutely will eat anything.
And then after you saw the Bad Movie with John Boyden,
Ice Cuban, j Lo Wave back in the day, Yeah,
I don't trust him, man, I'm staying away anaconda. Indeed,
that is Lance Taylor at the Lance Taylor go follow
him on Twitter. There we'll talk to you next week.
My man, A good play. Come a weekend. Let's bring

(01:03:10):
in my guy, Eddie Garcia. Eddie. How much you have
to be paid to touch a twenty three ft snake?
I would have to be a lot, But I can
tell you this, I wouldn't do the three point turn.
I would run the snake over. As impressive as those
pythons are. I'm gonna take car over snake any day.
Let's check some postseason baseball. We had the opening games
of both the American League Divisional Series, one in Cleveland,

(01:03:31):
one in Houston. First, the Indians shut out the Yankees
for to nothing. Trevor Bauer took a no hit unto
the sixth. Enning finished with six and two thirds shutout
endings a lot of too WIT's eight strikeouts. Jay Bruce
had a two run homer drove in three in the
win for Cleveland. Also game one, a LDS and Houston
Astros down the Red Sox eight to two. Jose help two.
They hit three solo home runs. He's a ninth player
ever to hit three homers in the postseason game. Justin

(01:03:54):
Burlander gets to win. He still has not lost since
coming over in a trade from Detroit. Five and oh
in the regular season, I want to know in the
postseason four Boston starter Chris Tale who had a great
regular season, he was not good five endings, allowed seven
runs on nine hits. That was his first career postseason start.
We five in the NFL got underway thurs the night
in Tampa Patriots hold off the Buccaneers for a nineteen

(01:04:14):
fourteen win. Tom Brady had a TV passing kicker Stephen Gotzkowski,
who died four field goals. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay had a
chance to win in the end passed from Jameis Winston
into the end zone from nineteen yards out as time
expired felt incomplete. A kicker, Nick Foles for the Bucks
was over three in his field goal of Tamps New
England's three and two Tampa Bay House two. It is
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want to forget about college football. The Battle of Top
twenty five teams last night, Remember twenty four NC State
outscored seventeenth rank Louisville to twenty five, the wolf Packer
five and one overall, now three and oh in a
CC play. Yeah, and the interesting question about that one.

(01:04:55):
I mean again, obviously he's a defending Heisman Trophy winner.
It's been hard for any Heisman Trophy winner to to repeat.
But for Lamar Jackson, I mean, I think that they're
Louisville now is just gonna disappear once you get that
second loss and you fall out of the top twenty five.
You know, you look at the rest of Louisville schedule. Um, look,

(01:05:17):
I mean, Boston College should be a win. Florida State,
who knows what's going on with Florida State right now?
Wake Forest, Virginia, Syracuse and then Kentucky to finish the
season off. I feel like Lamar Jackson is just gonna
slide into total obsolescence here. Nobody's gonna talk about Lamar
Jackson at all in any of these games. And now

(01:05:38):
that Louisville's got two losses, they're out of the mix
when it comes to contending. Not that they probably weren't
already because I don't think Clemson is gonna lose anyway.
But once you get that second loss and fall out
of the top twenty five, almost nobody's gonna pay attention
to Louisville. Now they still have a chance to go
ten and two could still be a very good year
for Bobby Petrino in Louisville. But to me, the more

(01:05:59):
interesting story worry about Louisville becomes twofold one. Will Lamar
Jackson go pro? If he goes pro, what kind of
draft stock does he actually project for? Like? What is
what is a legitimate expectation about where Lamar Jackson could
be drafted? It's gonna be something that's gonna be talked
about a ton because you have a lot of typical
prototypical anyway pocket passers. Lamar Jackson to me, Michael vick ESQ.

(01:06:24):
What kind of risk is somebody gonna take? Is it
a risk at all? Where does he go? And secondly,
where does Bobby Petrino go? Now that his athletic director
has gone. Is Bobby Petrino gonna stay committed long term
to Louisville or is there gonna be another job that
tempts him that pulls him away because the buyout is
only four point to five million dollars now. And given
the fact that you can set up that buy out

(01:06:46):
so that you basically have the coach pay for it
and then make the money back over the next several
years with him as your coach, how much interest is
there gonna be in Bobby Petrino elsewhere? Would Petrino go
anywhere else? I think the answer is yes, particularly if
Lamar Jackson is not gonna come back. So really, to me,
the Louisville schedule, they're not gonna get that much attention

(01:07:07):
in that game when they go down to play against
Florida State. And again, we have no idea how good
Florida State is. But if Louisville could win that game, okay,
they have a pretty good shot to be nine and
two going up against Kentucky at the end of the
year to try to get to ten wins. But does
any of that matter? And again remember the criticism of
Lamar Jackson not getting enough attention, Well, this is why

(01:07:30):
every time Louisville plays a decent team they lose. Right,
they lost pretty heavily to Clemson. Okay, that's excuse it
will Clemson in Alabama are different caliber teams. But now
you'll lose to NC State. You pair that with the
way the season finished three straight losses last year than
Lamar Jackson still won the Heisman Trophy. But you'll lose
to Houston, you'll lose to Kentucky, and you'll lose to

(01:07:52):
l s U to finish the season last year, and
now you're sitting at you know, just kind of a
mediocre I would say four in two record. I think
I'm right on that. And you look at the last
what is that the last nine games? In the last
nine games, now Louisville is just five and four. Just
five and four for a Heisman Trophy caliber winning quarterback.

(01:08:13):
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(01:09:04):
was scary, boys and good. I thought he thought I
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I had. This is animal thunder dog. All right, what
have we got? Honestly, I'm still kind of overwhelmed by
the story that we covered the other day about the

(01:09:26):
twenty three ft python that got the guy got into
a fight, nearly died with then they killed the python
and ate him. So at least that is a positive
in that respect. But who wants to go first? Who's
got a good story. There's a couple of interesting ones
out there. One out of Canada, a resident pleaded guilty
to violating wildlife regulations after he was caught trying to

(01:09:48):
smuggle live snakes into the country in his socks. This man,
twenty eight years old, the Chinese national who resides in Ontario,
pleaded guilty to violating the regulations in the US court.
He was stopped on a bridge in Queenstown while trying
to enter Canada from New York. They found he was
hiding three albino Western hog nos snakes in his socks

(01:10:11):
that he planned afterwards to mail to China. Prosecutors also
said earlier the same day he had mailed seven live
ball pythons from Amherst to Shanghai through the US Postal
Service in a package that bore a false name on
the return address and purported to contain belts, candy, and chocolate.
Apparently estimated value of the snakes thirty three dollars. He

(01:10:33):
also had some court situations with snakes back in as well.
Who is it that smuggling snakes in socks, Clay, I
don't know, but this reminds me of this story we remember.
I think it was California where the guy was smuggling
cobras in like pringles chip cans, and I just said,
you got to execute this guy. Like I'm generally anti
death penalty, but when I hear somebody is smuggling cobras

(01:10:55):
and pringles cans, I'm like, just go ahead and chop
his head off. Mean, I'm not gonna try to defend
this guy anymore. But through the socks and everything else,
I just smuggling snakes in general is a pretty spooky
thing to me. I I don't agree or appreciate that
in general. I think it's weird. Just just male snakes
in general in a package like this should be a

(01:11:17):
severe penalty, There's no doubt. Yeah. Another situation is that
bear right there almost died and I need a beverage.
Apparently a twenty three ft python just entered my my
studio here. But a Texas woman And this is just
more bear stories. There's been like bear epidemics. Connecticut's bear
population black bear population is up ten percent this year.

(01:11:38):
They've been already two or three sings in Colorado. I
honestly don't know. I don't know how you know, like
the bear populations up ten percent in Connecticut, Like, how
do they know that? You got me? I'll look that
up during the break. But I mentioned a couple of
trees in Colorado, but also a Texas woman was visiting Colorado.

(01:11:59):
Liddy reed and woke up Monday morning and found a
mama bear and two of her cubs rummaging through her car.
They opened, actually opened the door. It was a trend
where the bears just like are literally able to open cars.
I didn't know when bears got the ability. They've been
going into houses and now they're just opening cars. We
had that story the other day where the bear was

(01:12:20):
in the car and he was just honking the horn
and then he started driving it. Remember that. Yeah, they're
they're literally becoming humans right before our very eyes. There's
also a story and a photo out there of a
bear that was caught in a landfill sitting on a
couch like a human. Just chill, Yeah, just absolutely sitting
with back against the back of the couch, the whole nine.
But this is why the story intrigued me a little bit.

(01:12:40):
Liddy's quote, she didn't make a sound at me, meaning
the mother bear. That baby bear though when I opened
the door, started hissing at me, and I thought, oh, dear,
now I'm in really big trouble. Unquote. So you're telling
me that Liddy Breeden this a little bit older than
middle aged woman. Because the bear had actually closed the door.
The mom had closed the door behind so they could

(01:13:02):
get to the food or whatever. Was in this suv.
She went and opened the door to get the bears out,
just by herself. Who sees three bears in their car
and immediately was like, well, I need to get them out,
So I'm just gonna walk it over and open the
door and hope that they don't eat my face. All. Yeah,
that's a pretty aggressive move by the middle aged woman
to just be like, Hey, my suv is more important
than my life. I've got to go make sure I

(01:13:23):
saved myself. Uh anything from the l A crew, did
you guys find any good animal Thunderdome stories? Now, Clay,
I don't know if you've seen this, but the and
I don't know if you guys played it when when
Robert was here. But the rugby player that got bit
by a lion because he was petting it. No, I
didn't hear anything about this. Yes, it's a twenty nine

(01:13:45):
year old Scott Baldwin. Uh, he is a rugby player
and he took a trip to a South African wildlife reserve.
I guess the employees there's told him to you know
that it was okay to pet the lions through the cage.
It didn't end up well, I actually have audio. Oh,
we need to hear it. We need to hear the audience.
So the guy decide. First of all, if you are

(01:14:07):
at a zoo of some sort and somebody says it's
okay to reach in and pet the lions through the cage,
I think that's probably bad advice. I'm not an expert
in lion behavior, but I think if they're telling you, hey,
you can reach into the cave and pet the lions,
that's probably bad advice. But we have audio of this. Yes,
here and take a listen. Good. Every animal attack sounds

(01:14:57):
pretty much the same. There's nothing happening, there's nothing happening,
there's nothing happening. Everybody's happening, and then suddenly the animal
just attacks. Do you think they set this guy up?
It was weird, like they there's like, let's get them
to the first aid. Like it was just like it
was something that happens that's unbelievable. Well, hopefully you're not

(01:15:18):
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encourage you to go download the podcast. We've had incredible guests,
incredible shows all week long, and we also had an
incredible show last night. We're starting to do something pretty cool,
which is travel around the different parts of the country
and do live OutKick shows, and so last night we
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came out to watch in Nashville. I will be in St.

(01:16:02):
Louis tonight, uh, and then in Birmingham on Monday. So
we're kind of moving around. Chances are that I'll be
coming to a city near you at some point soon.
And I appreciate everybody who came out last night for
our event in Nashville. Really a lot of fun. While
we were starting that event, there were a couple of
games going on that were kind of significant. Uh. First,

(01:16:23):
let's start in the NFL where the New England Patriots
had to go on the road and look, I mean,
let's be honest, they had gone one and two at home.
They were coming off a loss over to the Carolina Panthers,
and a lot of people felt like there was blood
in the water as the Tampa Bay buccaneer, sitting at
home at two and one, had an opportunity to demonstrate
that they were able to contend with the elite of

(01:16:45):
the elite, Jamis Winston with a chance to prove that
he is going to be able to uh to compete
with Tom Brady and get a win against maybe the
greatest quarterback of all time. They couldn't quite pull it off,
and I believe we have audio of Jamie's discussing his
opportunity the there at the end of the game, the
Bucks had driven to the two yard line, notwithstanding the
fact that they missed three field goals over the course

(01:17:06):
of the game. Jamis Winston at the two yard line, sorry,
at the nineteen yard line with two seconds to play,
He's throwing into the end zone with a chance to
change the narrative and really kind of upset the apple
cart of all expectations. But he couldn't quite get it done.
He took the blame on himself for that loss. This
game is behind us. I guess that's a positive. I
wish we could have came up with a win. But

(01:17:27):
you know, when you're playing the best quarter back in
the world and you're playing against a great defense, you
got to be on top of everything, and uh, today
I wasn't. So their quarterback played way better than I did,
so they end up winning a game. Never gave up,
he kept fighting and uh and it just shows you
about how you know, hungry this team is and how

(01:17:49):
much the fans helped us out. You know, being at home,
you did not want to lose the game at homes
battle back, but again, it's two seconds on the club.
Your quarterback has to make a play for you. You
gotta you gotta do something. That's a quarterback, you gotta
make a play. Jameis Winston taken the blame for that loss,
even though his kicker now two of those kicks I

(01:18:11):
believe fifty six yard or and a forty nine yard
or not necessarily insanely high percentages on those which can't
miss a thirty one yard field goal. Who knows how
much different that game might have been if Nick Folk
had just made one of those field goals. He makes
one of those field goals, then, instead of having to
throw in the end zone with two seconds left from
the nineteen yard line. The Bucks are actually in great

(01:18:32):
shape for potentially a chip shot field goal to win,
and the storyline is completely different. Instead of talking about
the Patriots refusing to die, we're talking about whether or not, uh,
whether or not Jamis Winston is able or willing or
soon to be ascending to the upper echelon of quarterbacks
in the NFL. We're talking about the Patriots sitting at
two in three nearly a third of the way through

(01:18:54):
the season, and uh, there's a lot of pressure on
the Patriots. Instead, even without Rob Gronkowski, Tombrey, the Ape
List Wonder goes on the road, turns the ball over twice,
but the Patriots get the win. Other big action that
was going on obviously in college football Top twenty five game,
Louisville gets an opportunity to go up against NC State
and actually get a decent win for a change. Instead

(01:19:16):
Lamar Jackson and company, they lose again. Louisville now and
its last nine games five and four. They finished off
last season with three straight losses. They are now four
and two. I believe my math is correct on that.
I think they are five and four in UH. The
most recent history here of there are they four and
five and or whatever the math is there? Four and five?

(01:19:38):
I guess they've actually lost more games, im right there
on live math. They lost the final three of last season,
and they are four and two so far this season.
So they are four and five in their last nine games,
and the bloom is off the Lamar Jackson rose. I
think the question that will continue to be debated for
weeks and probably months down the stretch here is how

(01:20:00):
does Lamar Jackson project at the next level? And the
answer may well be who knows? Because obviously he's not
a prototypical quarterback, And if I go watch that tape,
he has dominated teams that are not very good, and
teams that are very talented or even just kind of
mediocre talent have had a lot of success stopping Lamar

(01:20:21):
Jackson and not allowing his team to win. Now, maybe
that's a symptomatic of larger Louisville issues, but again, in
their last nine football games, Louisville is now four and five.
And meanwhile, it's the best time of the year. October
is the best sports month in the year. We had
two different uh Major League Baseball playoff series. Beginning we
had the Astros hosting the Red Sox and the Indians

(01:20:44):
hosting the Yankees, and we bring in our resident Major
League Baseball playoff expert Danny g to tell us what
happened there. M Am, I you're you're John Paul did?
Did you get to see him, by the way yesterday
on the MLB Network broadcast? You know what? Yeah? No,
he's great. I mean, he's so smart. I mean John Morosi,
for those of you who who have forgotten or haven't

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been paying attention, comes on with this every single Thursday,
and he's part of the Major League Networks broadcast of
that series going on right now between the Astros and
the Red Sox, and no, he's pretty outstanding. He sat
next to Nolan Ryan and did a pretty cool interview
with him, asking him his thoughts about Verlander, and Verlander

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looked really good for the Astros. The Astros, they just
went crazy on Chris sale Uh and second baseman Jose Altuve,
m VP candidate for the Stros, had three home runs
in all of September. Yesterday alone, he hit three bombs
in that playoff game, only the ninth player in MLB
history to do that, So an amazing performance by Altuve.

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He is a legit candidate for m v P and
the A l Astros all over the Red Sox eight
to two in the early game. Indians dominant at home.
They shut out the Yankees for to nothing in Game
one of that series. Trevor Bauer was the pitching star.
He shut out New York UH for to nothing. Final
they're scary part Bauer is the Indians number three starter.

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Clay So I mean, the Yankees is not looking good
at least at the start of the series for them. Yeah,
you know, there's a lot of intriguing stories. Now when
you look at all these eight different teams who you're
rooting for. I think a lot of people rooted for
the Cubs last year. Now the Cubs of one a
World Series. Is that going to shift back to the Indians.
People would like to see maybe Cleveland win, Certainly with

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what happened with the UH with the hurricane and the
flooding in Houston, a lot of people out there want
Houston to do well. I think I think there's a
lot of people rooting for the fans in that city
as well. It's gonna be a treating to see what happens.
But again, as we talked about earlier this week. Just
from a pure city perspective, major League Baseball can't do
much better than the way they've got it set up

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right now. Now, you guys are out in l A.
Danny g and Justin and we talked about this an
hour one. But you're telling me that l A is
all a gog and excited and thrilled about the Dodgers
having a chance to make a run as well. In fact,
Vito was just in our studio talking Dodgers with us
because he's gonna be there with his dad tonight. So
everybody scrambling looking for seats, so you know, they and

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they're pretty penny to start with. I mean, it's still
more affordable than like an NFL game or an NBA game,
but I mean you could take your girl to a
game for a couple hundred bucks. Not tonight, it's at
least four hundred for two good seats. So uh, there's
gonna be a lot of people watching at home like me.
But the whole city of l A is it's just
this buzz this past season, and you know, it's the

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fifth year in a row that the Dodgers have won
the NL West. But now it's like, okay, World Series
or bus guys, no more of this one and done
or getting to the second round and out like last season.
It's got to happen right now. It just feels like
the window could close and do not want that to happen.
A really cool stat here that end gave us earlier

(01:24:01):
A hundred and sixties six starts in a row where
Clayton Kershaw has been favored in a game, an unbelievable statistics.
The Dodgers have been favored to win a hundred and
sixties six times in a row when when Kershaw you
don't get it out of the second Oh man, I'm
so excited. I'm putting his two names together. H Clayton
Kershaw a hundred and sixty six in a row. That

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is amazing. Has he started to vanquish at all the
off season, you know, like the Peyton Manning of baseball
reputation that he got. I know last year he had
a pretty good postseason. Or is that something that if
the Dodgers were to lose this game that he's starting tonight,
it would come back with a vengeance. I mean, do
you think it's do you think he's slayed that monster
or do you think it's they're just waiting to re emerge. Yeah,

(01:24:44):
he hasn't slayed the monster yet, but last year he
definitely came close. It just seemed like, you remember what
happened last year, he was pitching on not a lot
of rest. Yeah, and so that kind of was his undoing.
But at least he got a little bit of the
monkey off his back. Reminds me of Steve Young when
he finally did the thing where he was taking the

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monkey all the way off his back. That's what it's
gonna take for for Kershaw, though. He's gonna have to
get the team all the way to the series. You
don't have to win the World Series too, because otherwise,
like it'll be a little bit like Peyton Manning. He
can't win the big Game and you define the big game.
This is what I always done. This is what to
me is always unfair about going after guys like this.
The big Game is a moving target, right, Like initially it's, oh,

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he's not very good in the postseason. Well, if they
advanced to the NLCS and then advanced to the World Series,
will be like, yeah, he can get to the World Series,
but he can't win a championship, right, the big game
is only defined as the one he doesn't win. And
so Peyton Manning like, oh, he can't win the Big Game. Well,
you gotta win a lot of games to get into
the playoffs, right, and then maybe when you get to

(01:25:47):
the playoffs, you don't have spectacular results, and then ultimately
you win one World you know, even one Super Bowl,
and people say about Peyton Manning, oh, you know, he's
got one, but he got to go against Rex Grossman then, right,
people always make excuse uses. Even now with Peyton Manning
having won two World Series titles, uh sorry to Super Bowls,
people say, oh, yeah, but the second one in the

(01:26:08):
defense kind of carried him. Well, at some point you
gotta stop moving the ball and just accept that the
guy is pretty good. And I think certainly that's the
case with Kershaw. Yeah, I mean I think the Dodgers
get beat in the World Series. I say, the Indians,
the city of l A could at least live with
that because at least the Dodgers were in the World Series,
and and then the focus here would be like, okay,

(01:26:30):
now let's win that World Series, so they at least
would open our window for another season and there'd be
some positivity. But if we don't get to the Dodgers,
don't get to the World Series this season, there's gonna
be a lot, a lot of upset folks, no doubt
at all. All Right, we're gonna go to Boston, the
city of Boston, where there's not a lot of upset

(01:26:51):
folks right now. Although they did lose, the Red Sox
did in Game one against the Houston Astros. We also
have the big win for the Patriots last night in
the road against the Tampa Bay Bucks. We'll talk with
Casey Smith k Y C. Smith, she's up with us.
Next here on OutKick, we'll find out the vibe of
the Patriots and the vibe of the Red Sox as
both enter into important stretches of the season. That next

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let's start with this. What do you think people were

(01:27:56):
more interested in Boston to watch the Red Sox and
the playoffs or the Patriots against the Box. We actually
have this debate the other night. We put out a
Twitter poll of if you could only watch one game,
would it be the Patriots game, the Red Sox game,
or the Bruins home opener or the Bruins opener last
night as well, and of course people were like stupid
and we're pistol, like, well, why do we only have

(01:28:17):
to watch one? Why can't we watch all of them?
Like listen, just hypothetically if you had to watch and
actually the Patriots game. I got about fifty of that
because I think football in New England is just insane,
But I think more people were upset about the Red
Sox wash just because it's playoff baseball. But then there
were still like the ten percent of hardcore hockey fans
that refused to admit they watch anything but the Bruins.

(01:28:39):
So yesterday was a big day in Boston. But at
the end of the day, I think football wins, even
if the baseball fan takes to admit that, how much
different is your show if the Jamis Winston passed with
two seconds left is completed, Oh, it would have been
completely different because you're looking at a time where the
Patriots go two and three and they're under five hundred
for of the first times in the Bill Belichick era,

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especially with a team that a lot of people, not
including me, thought that this team could go nineteen and oh.
So that team was just brutal. Though not just from
the Patriots standpoint, but Thursday night football in general is
just such a different entertainment level. So the entire game,
you're sitting there, like, if the Patriots do lose this game,
only do they lose it, but it was just an
ugly loss and Nick Folk missing those three field goals

(01:29:24):
I mean, that's a big storyline two as well. So
just in general, this Patriots team is completely different, especially
five weeks and then a lot of people anticipated, but
it all comes down to even if you have the
best quarterback in the world and maybe the greatest of
all time, that's not enough a lot of the times
in the NFL and this defense. They looked a little
bit better last night, but they've been garbage throughout the
first quarter of the season. So a lot of people

(01:29:46):
in New England a little bit concerned about what this
team can do down the stretch. But then of course
there's a Tom Brady apologist. No matter what he does,
it's always gonna be well. He doesn't have to help
around him, and some people still think they're gonna win
the Super Bowl. So kind of a different mix here
in Boston. You're from Texas, and you've obviously got a
Boston connection because that's where you're working right now. But
Houston is playing against Boston. Now, you're from Dallas, and

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Dallas and Houston people don't really like each other. But
do you find yourself rooting for the Astros at all?
Because of what happened with the flooding and the hurricane
and everything else. Or is your Dallas anti Houston bias
still carrying through in conjunction obviously with the fact that
you're living in Boston. Now, who are you rooting for? Well,
when you put it that way, I mean I can't
go against the Harvey stuff. I mean I can't be like, oh,

(01:30:30):
I don't want to. I mean that is an underrated feud, right,
I mean, like people who live in certain states, like
I live in Tennessee, in Nashville and Memphis, people like
there was an underrated feud there between Nashville, like pretty
much every city if you have a couple of decent
size I mean every state, if you have a couple
of decent sized cities, like the residents of two different

(01:30:51):
places can start to dislike each other. And if you
don't live in Texas, you might not necessarily know about
the Cold War between Dallas and Houston. Oh, that's perfectly
to put it, is the Cold War. Like I'm from Dallas.
I love Dallas teams, And not only do I not
want Houston teams to win, I don't want any of
my friends who root for Houston teams to have something
to brag about, like they're just absolutely just asinine when

(01:31:13):
it comes to Houston teams, like they've actually done anything
worthy of bragging about. Yes so yesterday, so yesterday. I'm
getting all these snapchats from minute made in Houston, like, oh,
I'm gonna kill your Red Sox. I'm like, hold on, guys,
I cover Boston sports, but I'm a Dallas fan. You're
not playing the Rangers. They suck, so we already know that.
But like, let's not, you know, make this anything else.

(01:31:34):
So it is one of those things. It's completely stupid
for the cities to hate each other as the sports teams.
I mean, that's just one of those things that doesn't
make any sense unless you're in the feud. But you know,
there is a storyline with the hurricane, and obviously that
would be great for the city. But when it comes
to professional baseball, I'm gonna be honest, I don't have
the emotions like I do connected to college football or
the NFL. So if my Houston friends do get this one,

(01:31:56):
I won't have to like cover my ears and swear
at them as much as I would if the Texans
were in that position. So uh, you know, being from Texas,
people like I can't believe you would go against eat
and it's like, come on, I'm from Dallas. It's gonna
be Dallas RD or die. So I'm gonna stick with that.
No matter what. Are you going to get to go
to Finway and see any of the playoff games in Finway? Yes,

(01:32:17):
on the weekends, I'll be able to. So you know this,
when you're in studio, it's like you're shiled away from everything.
So we're in the studio Monday through Friday night. But
on the weekends, yes, I'll get to go. And I'm
really excited about I've only gotten to go to a
couple of games at Finway this year, but I think
playoff Baseball will be barn done at Finway. How scared
are you about the winter in Boston? Oh my god,
I'm terrified. I'm absolutely terrified because Texas people, like Southern people,

(01:32:40):
go to cold weather and we don't do well. And
you're not even just Southern, You're like South Texas basically, right,
So I mean this is like a big move. I
know you moved up there during the tell end of
the winter last year, if I remember correctly, but now
you're hitting it head on like that has to be
a little bit nerve wracking. Yeah. I moved up here
at the end of February early March, and there was
one snowstorm left and they were calling it a blizzard

(01:33:03):
like the days leading up to it, So you know,
I like packed my house full of like you know,
wine and suit like thinking it was just gonna be
the absolute end of my life. And we we didn't
have to go to work that day because they thought
it was gonna be that bad and then only ended
up being about I don't know six inches of snow,
which to me, I thought was crazy. I was like,
oh my god, like, how does anybody even like live

(01:33:23):
throughout this? And I get to work the next day
and like, oh you think that was something like no
way you're going to survive. So I've already just realized
that I'm probably going to drive like the worst person
on this planet. There's no way I'm gonna be able
to drive well. And I'm not ever gonna want to leave,
Like I'm probably gonna gain a hundred towns just because
I don't want to go outside. So it's not gonna
be pretty for me. I'm gonna I'm gonna get a

(01:33:43):
lot fatter than I am and I'm probably gonna cause
a lot of people stress on the roads because I'm
not going to be good at either saying all right,
speaking of stressful and not good for you. You're a
Texas A and M graduate. Alabama is going to College
station on Saturday. Alabama's are almost duck up to a
four touchdown favorite. So it seems as if everybody has
written off this game. Do you have any optimism at

(01:34:06):
all as an aggie that this can be a respectable performance? No,
I mean no, not at all. And this is one
of those games that and it's just you look at it.
I mean, look, crazier things have happened when you look
back at two thousand and twelve when this matchup was
going to happen, and everyone's like, oh, you know, Johnny
Manzel is gonna go into Tuscaloosa. Like even then, I

(01:34:26):
was like, come on, guys, it's Nick Saban, it's Alabama.
But at least you had Johnny Manzel at that point.
Like you look back at at the U c l
A game, like that's the A and M team, Um,
that is the true team. Like yes, they've won some games,
you know, in between, but you're talking about Arkansas and
South Carolina. I think this is gonna be a blood bath.
I am actually kind of glad I'm not in college station.
I am going to give AMM a one percent chance

(01:34:48):
just because it's in college station and it's the Aggies.
But i mean, let's be honest, if you Alabama is
on a different tier than anybody else in the college
football right now, and am M is just not. So
I'm not looking for and I'm gonna be completely honest.
We're talking to Casey Smith. Go follow her on Twitter
k A y C. E. Smith. You can find her there.
You also, we were talking about this earlier. You grew

(01:35:08):
up in Dallas. You're a Cowboys fan. Uh, the Rams
came into town and got a huge win on the
road at Jerry World. What was your reaction to that
performance by the Cowboys? How nervous are you about what
you've seen through the first four weeks after the game.
My actual first reaction was not necessarily in reaction to
the Cowboys. It's more about the Rams and just how

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this team looks completely different than a lot of people
thought they would going into this season, and what Sean
McVeigh has been able to do so like part of
me was like, Okay, like, the Cowboys have their problems,
but you know what are we watching here with this team.
But at the same time, I mean, Dak Prescott I
still think is one of the best young quarterbacks. I
think he continues to show that there's obviously a lot
of room for improvement. But yeah, I mean going into

(01:35:53):
the season, I really anticipated at Patriots Cowboys super Bowl
and I don't know if that's even going to be
close to the case at this point, um, But I'm
not gonna get super nervous about it. It is early.
You know, Zekiel Elliott being on the field right now
obviously helped the Cowboys. Um. But as a fan, it's
hard to watch because you're just like, really, this team
was supposed to be a super Bowl favorite. But I

(01:36:14):
like Dak Prescott so much. I have complete faith in
his talent level. And when you look across the board
at the young quarterbacks, and I know we talked about
this last week, but I do put him up there
at the top tier, especially now with Derek Carr being
hurt and a lot of people use Jamis Winson as
an example, and you saw last night against the Patriots
that that's not necessarily the case Marcus Mariot to being
one of those. So Dak Prescott I'm still high on.

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So I'm gonna keep that faith when you look around
kind of the universe of the NFL. You talked about
earlier the fact that coming into the season, a lot
of Patriots fans were not just talking about being Super
Bowl contenders or Super Bowl champs. They were talking about
going nineteen and oh. You just mentioned the fact that
the Rams have started off three and one, Patriots have
started off two into the Cowboys have started off two

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and two. When you look at the Patriots in particular
their next couple of games, I mean, they should beat
the Jets and then they've got it theoretically a rematch
against the Falcons. What are you looking for? Like, I mean,
Brady I think is still Brady. But the defense on
the Patriots has not been at a very high caliber.
And even last night, if Nick Folk can make a
couple of fifth field goals, that game may feel entirely different.

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At the end. We're not throwing Jamis Winston needing a
touchdown at the end. There, what's a reasonable expectation now?
So the Patriots are through four games, there two and two.
There twelve games the left. What do you think it's
a reasonable goal for the Patriots in the final twelve?
Is it to go ten and two, get to twelve
and four? That would be an incredible performance? Is like,
what do you think Patriot fans feel like his reasonable expectations?

(01:37:43):
I think twelve and four it's probably pretty reasonable at
this point. I mean, I think a lot of Patriots
fans would admit that they'd be okay with that. But,
like you mentioned, this defense has just been so bad.
And even last night there were some improvements, especially in
the secondary, but you're paying Stefond Gilmore at the cornerback
at sixty five million dollars. Being adequate in the second
area is not going to be okay. And Jamis Winston

(01:38:04):
has his problems, you know, with accuracy, and he turns
them all over a lot. But when you look at
the four games before that, and you look at the
quarterbacks that the Patriots played, and you've got Alex Smith,
Drew Brees, Cam Newton, and DeShawn Watson, you've got four
different types of quarterbacks and they all torched that defense.
So the fact is that you're gonna see a lot
of different quarterbacks throughout the season. Um that could potentially

(01:38:27):
do the same thing. So if this defense doesn't improve,
which is still kind of yet to be seen, even
though it is a Bill Belichick team, then going twelve
and four might even be difficult. Uh, the defense is
just so bad that it doesn't matter who you have
at quarterback, and then all the injuries mounting up on offense.
But as long as you have Tom Brady, you have
to kind of have some sort of faith that this
team is going to be really good. But at the

(01:38:48):
same time, like the discipline of this team doesn't look great,
all the penalties they've been getting, so a lot of
people in New England kind of wondering if twelve and
four is even too high. But again it's it's just
waiting to see what this Bill Belichick team look like
improving and having the greatest of all time at quarterback.
We're talking to Casey Smith k Y C. Smith on
Twitter Go follower. There obviously a lot of attention to

(01:39:08):
what Cam Newton said, and we talked about this yesterday.
We had a couple of female reporters on to talk
about their experience. You've been in a lot of press
conferences you've been on the sideline, You've been in a
lot of locker rooms over that course of your career
so far. What did you think when you watched that
video and or heard that audio. My first instinct when
I watched it, because I mean everybody around me who

(01:39:30):
had seen it already was expecting me to like be
really upset about it. My thing was is like, why
are we surprised Kim Newton is saying something stupid? I
mean my first you know, like I don't know, I
just am not I'm not like really on the same page.
It's like, oh my god, I can't believe he said that,
Like I mean, do I need to remind people of
the way he acted after they lost the Super Bowl?
Like this is somebody who has not made good decisions

(01:39:51):
in press conferences before, Like, of course, being a woman
in the industry, like you feel the need to have
to defend your knowledge. But I've gotten to the point
now where it's like, are we really surprised? It's a
that Cam Newton said something dumb and be that guys
don't think that women know football or know about routes.
Like I understand being upset about it. I understand the
reporter being offended. I personally was not offended by it.

(01:40:12):
I was just like, look like, I'm giving somebody credit
where credit is not do. It's Cam Newton. He's a
tool a lot of the time. So I don't understand
why we're being you know, the outrage, I guess to
me was so over the top, but at the end
of the day, it's just a narrative. It shows like
people don't think women know football. It's not going to
change today, it's not going to change tomorrow. It's disappointing
to see an NFL quarterback do it to a reporter

(01:40:34):
who's covering the team. But I'm not gonna sit and
just be, you know, carrying a torch for the rest
of my life. Because Cam Newton laughed at a girl
knowing routes. I mean, that's the end of the day.
That's kind of a normal thing. And again it's Cam Newton.
So uh, while I understand being offended in some former fashion,
it didn't really make me want to go punch somebody yesterday.
And maybe I'm in the minority with that, but like,
let's all move on from it. It's not that big

(01:40:55):
of a deal. One thing I thought was interesting was
he doesn't know any of the reporter's names. And I
came on just kind of as a as a bit
of advice, I said. I was used as an example
when I started working at Fox Sports and we suddenly
had like a hundred pas. And for people out there
who don't know, p A s are production assistance a
lot of times twenty three, twenty four, twenty five year
old guys and girls young recently out of college, and

(01:41:18):
there's a lot of people moving around. And anytime you
do television, Casey, you know this, there's a lot of
different people involved in the overall production. And initially specifically
for somebody like me who's just coming out for Thursdays
and Fridays and Saturdays, it's hard to keep tabs on
everybody's name, right, I mean, that's kind of a challenging detail.
So I memorized the list. I had like a like
a Facebook almost of everybody like that, and I flipped

(01:41:40):
through memorized everybody's name. I mentioned that because recently there
was a report that Kirk Cousins was doing the same
for reporters who covered the Redskins, so that he knew
everybody that he was talking to on a regular basis.
My advice has been and you probably would agree with this,
if you're an athlete or you're a coach, if you
can call the people who are asking you quite by

(01:42:00):
their name, it almost disarms them from the get go, right,
because everybody's human, and if somebody is acknowledging that they
know who you are and that they are treating you
as an individual worthy of respect there, then I think
it dials down the intensity level of the interaction you
buy into that you've been in the locker room stuff
like that. When the players or the coaches know who

(01:42:21):
you are, I think it makes it a better conversation.
Oh absolutely. I mean when you look at this Cam
Newton story, that was you know, equally as disrespectful to
me as the original comments that he made was not
knowing who she was when she is the beat reporter
and she's been covering him for a year, right like
she I understand she's not been there for ten years,
but she's been in your locker room covering your team

(01:42:44):
for a year. So yeah, I mean that's again it
goes back to you know who the subject is with this,
and look, Cam Newton is an incredible athlete and I'm
not trying to disrespect him, but if this was a
Russell Wilson or Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers or someone
like that and who just has, you know, really high
pinnacle of the way they handled media and the way

(01:43:04):
that they treat media members presumably around them, then I
think it would be a lot more alarming, like, oh
my god, you know what happened to Russell Wilson, Like
why did he act like this? It's Cam Newton, So
it's just that it didn't surprise me. But you're absolutely right,
take the time to get to know the people around
you and don't be a sexist. It's not hard to
not be a sexist. In two thousand and seventeen, I
thought his apology was pretty good in comparison to a

(01:43:27):
lot of athletes apologies. I thought the video was pretty good,
whether it was contrived or not. But this is just
kind of a lesson for anybody, like, just get to
know who you're talking to, and don't be disrespectful for
the sake of being disrespectful, even if you think it's funny,
because nine times out it's in, it's not going to
be funny, and you're gonna get to be a part
of the social media mob, whether you deserve that much
outrage or not. But yeah, it's not hard to do.

(01:43:49):
But again, it's Cam Newton. So I'm just not surprised
by this last question for you, Casey. We were talking
about last a couple of days ago. There there's this
place in Indonesia where they have these giant pythons and
I'm talking about like twenty three ft snakes, And to
put in perspective for everybody out there listening, that's a

(01:44:10):
snake that would go from the baseline underneath the basket
at an NBA arena all the way to the three
point line. It's an NBA three point line. So this
guy is trying to drive on the street and there's
a snake that crosses the entire road. He goes to
try to get the snake out of the road so
he can continue to drive by, and the snake attacks

(01:44:30):
him and they like have a fight to the death
and he kills the snake. All right, how much would
I have to pay you in a public setting in
Indonesia if there were a snake in the road to
walk up and try to get the snake out of
the road. I'm sitting here cringing so badly right now
that I don't even think that there's a dollar amount,

(01:44:50):
Like I'd love to be like, oh, maybe ten million
dollars just because it's ten million dollars. Like I think
that I would rather die than have to do that.
Like that is you're not a snake, see, I admit
readily I'm a snake. Is Like I think if all
snakes are dead, I understand by all it just out
there like, oh, that would change everything. I'll take that risk.
I would be fine if there were no snakes on
the planet. Oh, I'm exactly with you. Like I know

(01:45:11):
at some point you asked me, like how many snakes
somebody would have to have? Like yeah, that was that
was our theory. Yeah, that was our theory, like we had. Ah,
my theory was there's not a single girl in America
today who is eleven snakes hot. That is. I don't
remember when that conversation came up. I think it was
the woman who got bit by the snake in the face.
I was like, if I was showing up to data

(01:45:31):
girl and I walked into her place and there were
there was a cage with eleven snakes inside of it right,
like eleven different snakes. I would just open the door,
turn around, and walk right back out and be like,
I don't care how good looking the girl was. There's
not a girl who's eleven snakes hot. I wouldn't date her, absolutely,
And I think at that point I said, I don't
think that there's a man on this planet or a

(01:45:54):
guy on this planet that's a one pet snake hot.
Like if I walked in and a guy has a
pet snake in his living room and he has to
feed it like live rats or mice or whatever you
have to do, Like I'm out, like I can go
find somebody who's a lot more normal, maybe even not
as good looking, but like I'm not near as worried
for my life, Like I just do not understand snakes,
so as far as moving that big snake out of
the way, Like I honestly can't think of a number

(01:46:16):
right now, I'm sure I could come up with one
if I had time to think about it after I'm
getting over my original state of just fear just being
in Boston worrying about Indonesia right now. So I'm gonna
go with like maybe a billion. I'll take a billion
with a billion dollars. You'll you'll handle it, Casey, thanks
for getting up early with us. Good luck this weekend
with the Aggie's taken on the Crimson Tide and were

(01:46:38):
that's Casey Smith, k Y C. Smith. Let me bring
in my guy, Eddie Garcia, Eddie what you got for us?
But man, well, postseason baseball, we had both the openers
in the American League Division Series will start in Houston
where the Astros beat the Red Sox eight and two.
Jose out to hit three solo home runs. He's a
ninth player. Every Toy hit three home runs in a
postseason game, justin Verlander gets the way. He pitched well.

(01:47:00):
He has not lost since joining Houston in a trade
from Detroit. He was five and over the regular season,
no one to oh in the postseason, and Chris Sale
started for Boston. He was there a Saul season long.
This was his first career post season started. Didn't go well,
five innings, seven runs on nine hits. The other game
had the Yankees in Cleveland to take on the Indians
and the Tribe get the four nothing win by and
Trevor Bauer. They're starting pitcher. He took a no hitter

(01:47:21):
into the sixth inning, finished with six and two thirds
shoutout endings allowed just too It's eight strikeouts and Jay
Bruce drove in three runs. He had a two run
homer in the mix. Week five in the NFL got
it away on Thursday night in Tampa with the Patriots
holding off the Buccaneers nineteen to fourteen. Jameis Winston had
a pass from the nineteam yard line go into the
end zone as time expired to try and win it,
but it fell in complete. Nick Folk, the kicker for

(01:47:43):
Tampa Bay, was over for three on field goal attempts
for New England and the win. Tom Brady had a
touchdown pass and their kicker, Stephen Gotzkowski, was four for
four on field goals. Patriots are three and two, Buccaneers
dropped the two in two. And Clay College football, we
had a battle of top twenty five teams Number twenty four.
NC State knocked off seventeen rank Louisville thirty twenty five
wolf Pack or five and went over all three and

(01:48:04):
oh in the a sec And amazingly that now means
that the Louisville Cardinal and their Heisman Trophy winning quarterback
are now four and five in their last nine games.
That as they have played nine games and lost five
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(01:48:27):
which way is easier. Final segment of the show up next.
We haven't talked a ton about it, but Butch Jones
has still got Tennessee fans crazy mad, and we've got
some incredible voicemail calls that we did not get to
earlier this week. You want to hear what angry, drunk,
redneck Tennessee fans sound like after their team loses forty
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Get in the zone Auto Zone. Final segment of the
week means a lot of times we go to your voicemails.
Eight five five Clay. Is that phone number, eight five
hundred Clay. You can dial at any time, day or night.
We'll play the best ones, usually on Friday, although sometimes

(01:49:33):
on Monday as well. If there's great reactions to games.
And some of these are still left over from the
forty one nothing beat down that Tennessee took and Jason Martin,
you have collated these. How would you describe them? I
think they might as a whole be better than the
ones we played earlier in the week, although our walk
off shot makes a return appearance because it was that good. Alright,

(01:49:54):
So here are Tennessee fans again. The phone number you
can call if your team loses, or if you're angry
at me for some reason, or if you just have
an opinion try to be entertaining on at eight five Clay.
You can program it into your phone. You can also
follow me on Twitter. A lot of times I'll remind
people after crazy endings to football games. Here we go, boys,
and girls. Here are the voicemails for the I hate

(01:50:18):
your Clay Travis line, which frequently turned into I hate
other people even more than you, Clay. Yeah, I just
want to said, I'd rather have eight than have Joan.
Love my coach, Rocky Top. You'll always be to me,
good old Rocky Top, Rocky Top. Tanna see damn large

(01:50:40):
larger up here in jou C, Tennesse. And I'm telling
you always in America. Can you suck at your job
and make nine and a half million dollars when you
get fired? It's just a damn crime shame. And I'm
telling you right now they meet the firing. How in
the absolute do we lose enough fill at Neelyn Stadium

(01:51:04):
forty one zero? Forty one zero? Is that a joke?
That must be a joke, It must be able. Oh wait,
it's not, because we did. We lost forty one zero
in Nelyn in our home and enough filled trash, but
so trash, Larry Scott, trash, Bob Soup, trash. Damn it.

(01:51:31):
I came here, I'm a freshman. I just wanted to
give football team, which Jones hated him since wanted him fired.
After Florida, people said I was ridiculous. It was only
years three. Two years later, Georgia at home checker game,
basically a sellout. Forty one is zero, can't even score

(01:51:52):
a point, get his haircut, Walmart ridiculous, impressed. All the
other students are depressed. It's probably gonna be mass suicide
on campus this week. This is my suicide. Note the
Vall fans still kneeling to capacity after what he did
to Florida. Fire his ass. I'm done, you know, I agree,

(01:52:12):
but Jones should gets fired. But why is Clay putting
Tennessee on a pedestal like it's a top ten program?
I mean, Tennessee hasn't been relevant since Peyton Manning left.
And yeah, I know they won the title after you left,
but you know, no one wants to play for Tennessee.
The only people are like your people from Tennessee. Hey,
I'll tell you right now. M not warning Orange until

(01:52:32):
Butch Jones inspired from Knoxville. If anybody wants to Boston,
South Carolina tickets for twenty dollars a piece with a
parking pass. But they know Clay. I like to personally
thank that pos Butch Jones for not scoring a damn
point Clay and will tell you what, Son, this was
one of the best damn performances from a Tennessee athletic
performance standpoint that I've ever damned seen. Butch Jones needs

(01:52:54):
to get his ass on an airplane and plus somewhere
that ain't here, and I'll tell you what, I don't
even give. Put a dump prop pull of money and
get John Gruden into the damn program for I get
all drunk and praise the Lord and the Lulay. Hey, Clay,
I've never watched a Tennessee football game my entire life,
but you gotta fire that. You know. I just want

(01:53:16):
to said, I'd rather have eight than have Joan my coach.
Oh what an amazing response. You know. I think this
thing's gonna get really interesting, maybe even as early as
this weekend in terms of what's going to happen at Tennessee,
because I think there are three guys out there that

(01:53:37):
are not currently coaching that would be home run hires
for the University of Tennessee or any other program that
fires their coach early. Chip Kelly obviously Bob Stoops if
you could get him to come out of retirement, and
I think it might be time for John Gruden to

(01:53:59):
leave them the Night Football Booth. All three of those
guys you could hire in November, right late October, mid October.
They could take the job now. They wouldn't start coaching games,
but they could start recruiting almost immediately, and that could
be pretty phenomenal. So I think things could get interesting

(01:54:20):
as early as this weekend up in Knoxville. And certainly
I think Butch Jones is gonna be out after they
lose about seventy five nothing to Alabama in a couple
of weekends. Um, and we'll see exactly how that shakes out.
I gave you all the gambling picks. I'd encourage you
to go check out OutKick, go download the podcast. You
guys have been blowing it up, millions of you downloading
the podcast in the last month of September. Uh. It's

(01:54:43):
been an incredible week for OutKick. I said before, I'm
not sure if anybody's ever done this. We had over
a million podcast downloads, We had over a million viewers
on our Facebook and pair Periscope pages. We had over
a million unique viewers and readers on articles on OutKick.
We had million to people watching television interviews on Fox
News and on CNN, and we also had million of

(01:55:07):
your more listening on the radio show all over the country,
all fifty states satellite radio. I'm hoping is going to
be resolved by Monday, but at this point in time,
the lawyers are driving me in Saints way above my
pay grade. But I thank all of you for streaming,
for listening, for whatever you're doing. Hope you have a
fantastic weekend. We're going tennano on the picks for Danny

(01:55:27):
g for Justin, for Jason Martin. This has been a
fun week for us. We'll be back on Monday hanging
with you guys. Can't wait to get there and be rolling.
I am Clay Travis. Thanks for everybody who came out
for our event last night in Nashville. Off to St.
Louis now without Kick the coverage

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