Buck & Fitz React to Fernando Mendoza's Game-Winning Drive, Hand Out NFL Midseason Awards & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio this weekend.
If there's any one thing that I can't understand in sports,
it's the concept of a trap game in college football.
Only days removed from the College Football Playoff Committee meeting
for the first time and being judged by a group

(00:20):
of people that judge some schools incredibly harshly. The one
thing I can't wrap my brain around is now, in
a moment of opportunity, when the sales pitch to be
motivated is easier than ever, we're seeing trap games absolutely
all over the place in the landscape of the sport.
He's buck rising up, Jason Fitz It's bucking fits on
Fox Sports Radio. Buck. We just heard the Martin Givas

(00:43):
the update as we speak right now, and Vandy is
struggling right now against an Auburn team that is absolutely
just cheeks right like this Auburn team is no good.
Vandy is struggling against them. We'll get to Indiana in
a little bit with the improbable win. But for me,
I just can't wrap my head like I understand the concept.
And even on y'ahoo's Ports Daily this week, I said

(01:04):
it one boints Carolina, I could see Auburn being a
track trap game, But Vandy just came off of a loss.
The committee didn't give them a ton of runway. They
didn't give them a ton of wiggle room. You think, like,
if there's ever been a we're gonna come out with
the thunder of the Gods. The first weekend after the
College Football Playoff Committee arbitrarily ranks teams from one to
twenty five would be the weekend everybody's focused. I don't

(01:26):
understand the lack of lock in that we've seen today.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, they are starting to lock back in, right. This
is It's been a tough road for Vanderbilt in the
first half of this game, and now they're doing what
they tried to do against Texas, except with a less
furious rally.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Right, not twenty one points in the fourth quarter. We're
not in the fourth quarter, just yet.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Twenty to seventeen, as Martin told us at the beginning
of the third, and Vanderbilt has just drawn it within three.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I get what you're saying, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Feel like Auburn is better than they have showed all
year long. They've been on the nasty side or the
wrong side of some nasty officiating calls. I might even
argue officiating scandals where a referee had to be suspended
because of the officiating in a game earlier this year,
they fire Hugh Freeze, they come out with something to prove,
and they have house money here in Nashville, just down

(02:22):
the street from where I'm broadcasting today on West End.
It's an interesting game, for sure, But I for Vandy,
I mean, when have they at any point this season
outright dominated an opponent that is the kind of quality
that anyone would expect a power for conference opponent to be.

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And I understand that Auburn is one in five of
the SEC and that they're four and five overall. In
their offense has been nonexistent until very much just today,
So it's kind of crazy to watch that side of things.
And maybe Hugh Freeze is a worse coach than any
US actually thought. But Vanderbilt is drawing it near. It's
two ninety seven to two eighty six in terms of
total offensive yardage, the passing yardage, it's just about even

(03:07):
one eighty three to one eighty two, and the quarterbacks
are at least starting to look at least Pavia made
a couple of great throws on a three play scoring
drive earlier to get them back into this game, to
give them the kind of juice that they need. So
I don't I don't expect Vandy to dominate anyone FITSI
I don't know if I'm just grading on a curve

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of Vanderbilt that they've since surpassed or what.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, but if you want to make the clean, if
you are one of these schools, it's trying to plant
your flag in the take us seriously field. If you're
trying to come in and say, hey, we are not
what you think we are. We have turned to corner.
We are a different version of whatever the brand of
our school is. You got to win some games that
make it really easy for everybody to back you. And
this isn't just a Vanderbilt conversation. If you look across

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the top twenty five, number twenty three, Washington is struggling
against a bad Wiskens team, right Oregon. I've spent all
week hearing that Oregon doesn't want to take on Iowa
because it was going to hit him in the mouth,
which is just one of the dumbest things that football people's. Oh,
they don't want to be hit. I mean, it's a crosse,
it's a it's a just a wild wild storms there,

(04:17):
So maybe I forgive a little bit about that. But
Oregon doesn't look inspired. A and M doesn't look inspired
against Missouri. Like, if we're being honest, today, we're watching
a bunch a bunch of lame football over and over,
just lame game after lame game, Like, where's the oh,
my god, we belong thunder of the Gods thing other
than what.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
We just saw it in Indiana? What do you mean,
why not Penn State. We're gonna get to that here
in just a little bit. But no, no, no, Thunder of
the Gods is what they just pulled off. Mary was
making a wire references before the show started today.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Omar coming baby, he got there.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
He scored an improbable touchdown and they rallied in the
fourth quarter in the final seconds, Fitzie to be able
to just.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Fun of the gods.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
A good ending is not a good game, my god?
Like that's what do you want?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Because you're you're saying that A and M isn't isn't
doing anything spectacular.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
They're up by three scores against the rank deponent.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Vanderbilt deserves, you know, or is needing to prove themselves
more when in reality, Vanderbilt is sixteenth in the country
seven and two.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
If you're not taking them seriously by now, that's on you.
And they haven't lost this game yet. The second half
just started.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
So I don't know what you got your panties all
in a bunch about today, But there is no college
football so much quality college football, even if it's not
aesthetically pleasing for you, Jason Fitz, there is quality college
football being played all over the country today.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
No no, no, no, no, no no. There's entertaining endings
to college football games happening. That's time we're not watching
inspired college football like this is this, like look this
is this is one of those moments where we can
agree that quality and commercial don't always intersect at the
same time. The Venn diagram of good and entertaining is
not always in the same spot. Like good movies are

(06:05):
rarely the ones that win awards, entertainer rarely the ones
that everybody goes to see. We all see the entertaining ones,
but entertaining ones rarely win awards. Like you mentioned their
number sixteen. I think one of the biggest things that
came out of the College Football Playoff Committee first rankings.
That are important is that Virginia would be a bid
thief right now because they would win the ACC and
they're not in the top twelve right and the top

(06:26):
there is no top twenty five group of five team
at all right now. So for anyone that doesn't know
what happens in that situation, the College Football Playoff Committee
would then finish their top twenty five and then totally
separate from that, they'd go over and put together a
little category of just group of five schools and they
figure out which one ranks the highest, and that school
would then get in. I say that because that means
as we sit right now, plenty of college football left,

(06:47):
but there's two bit thieves out there. So if you
really want to shot, like if you're Vandy and you're
in the once in a lifetime shot where maybe you
have some weird way that you can get into the
College Football Playoff, you might need to get to number
two number ten, and you're coming off a loss. So
if you're gonna have to get all the way from
sixteen to ten over the course of the next three
or four weeks and you're coming off a loss, and

(07:08):
you're taking off on an Auburn team that nobody would
even want to play. If they were playing the college
football video game, you might want to be up in
the second half.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Well, yeah, they're working on it. I mean, the the
second half just started. It's a like, will you allow
them to play the second half of this football game?
I shot that game for Vanderbilt. It's unbelievable at this point.
And also, I think you're doing a disservice to Penn State.
Penn State went out there and fought their asses off
today at home against the number two team in the country.
And yes, Indiana did not necessarily, I mean, they didn't

(07:40):
cover the fifteen and a half. I lost money on
my Hoosiers. It's fine, I'll get over it.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
They won. They remain undefeated.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But like, credit to Auburn and credit to Penn State
for putting up a fight in these games. I don't
think that just because the teams and their records to
date have been bad means that they have played bad
football games. Today again, what you're saying about Oregon and
I was disgusting. And the weather is a huge factor
there and that was going to be a gritty, grimy

(08:06):
gross kind of game anyway. But I think that the
teams that you are, the down trodden among them, are
putting up a fight against these quality opponents today, and
for some reason, you want to take that away from
the lessers.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't want to take anything away from anybody. I
really don't. I just I just want to see. Okay,
that's fair. I want to see.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
And this is a year where I'm flatroy Many people
have said.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Many many people. You know, I'm often called the prince
of darkness. It happens often. Look here, here's what I
here's what I want for people to call you. Well,
it's still princes. So that's royalty. Uh, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Fine, it's a fine. Where are you fine?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I can't be okay, here's it is a sleep at
the whale back there in Los Angeles. Here's no buckets.
Fine for implying that Mary's doing anything other than great work.
Already here you're kissing, asked, thank you? Well, you're right,
that's part of my kissing ass I fine, okay, here's okay.

(09:08):
I don't envy the committee's job right now, because I
do think that once we see the college Fotball Playoff
committee for everyone that says they don't matter, blah blah blah.
It does. And you can read a lot out of
the first rankings, and what we learned in the first rankings,
I think particularly is that this committee cares about the
eye test. And that stuck in my head because they
were flat out. Committee chair was flat out asked by
ESPN if you were lucky enough to have the app

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because that's the only way you can watch it. It
was asked about the fact that the metrics show right
now that Texas A and M should be number one.
The advanced metrics the committee is told to consider show
that Texas A and M should be number one, and
he said, we looked at Ohio State in Indiana, and
we feel like Ohio State's defense is a little better.
And we looked at those two teams, Ohio State Indiana
and we felt like both of them were just a

(09:51):
little bit better than Texas A. And it is particularly
on the defensive side of the ball. So what did
the committee chair tell you in that sentence? He told
you that for all the me and all the analytics
and all the analysis that we do in this job,
they're gonna rely on what they see, so that impacts
today how I watch football because what I'm looking for
is it just wins. I'm looking for what's going to

(10:14):
change a committee's mind. Like if you walked into today
and you thought, oh man, he's about sixteen. Are they
doing anything on the field today that makes you rethink
that if you walk in today and you're looking for
value out of teams like Washington, Like, how should we
value a team like Washington? Struggling against a two and
six Wisconsin team is just not a good look. If

(10:34):
you're Oregon and you felt like you were wildly under
ranked in the rain or not, you're up fifteen to
seven to Iowa. We all know Iowa doesn't have any offense.
I always number twenty by the committee, but you're not
showing everybody that clearly you're a top five team. Like
I think the reason I care about the way it
looks is because the committee told me on Tuesday night
they care so for the next couple of weeks until
this thing normalizes, I care more about how it actually

(10:57):
looks than just the result on the field.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, And I think that's really I think that's the
position that you should and will take based on the
information that you have at hand, and when the committee
gets together and announces their next college Football Playoff rankings
after today concludes, and the things that you thought you
believed in, or you thought the guidelines that you thought
you were following completely get thrown out the window, as

(11:20):
these things tend to do in early November. Then I
look forward to having this conversation again and asking you
what you are looking for again next week in Week
twelve of college football, because I just think that these
things tend to be arbitrary FITSI have. I understand that
the committee is what we have right the BCS is gone,
we have the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, and that

(11:41):
there is going to be some nature of inherent bias,
and there is going to be some nature of analytical
assessment of these teams. There's going to be some things
that don't necessarily pass the almighty sniff test, and there's
going to be some performative nature to all of this,
like them all walking into the room with those white
college football Playoff hats, putting them on a hat rack

(12:02):
and knowing that it doesn't matter whose hat was just
taken off and put on the rack, because they're not
actually going to.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Pick the hats up on a way out the door.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
The whole thing is just nonsense to me, even though
I understand what they are citing in the initial thing
and how that is going to inform the rest of
the conversation around it in the week leading up to
the next rankings. I may disagree with it. I may
think that it's arbitrary, but that's what we have to
work with right now.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, And that's the hardest part is that I think
finding the sense in the personality. Like I've been lucky
enough in my career to do the mock committee process
down at the Galer Texan, and I've sat in the
room and I've been yelled at by other people about
random years of college football. For anyone that doesn't know
the way that works, Like they put a bunch of people,
sometimes it's coaches, writers, it's a mix of everything, and

(12:48):
you sit in the room and you debate a prior
year of the college football playoff and what could have
happened in that year. So they give you the year
and a bunch of film and a bunch of talking points,
and you research that old year of college football. And
I remember the year that I was part of that panel.
We were debating the year of Blake portals down at UCF.
And the funny thing is, like Cole kuberlick loudly was

(13:12):
slamming his fist and a mock and a mock vote.
We were mock voting for who went where Cole was
slamming his fist with the average weight of the offensive
lineman for that team that Blake was on versus the
average weight and size of the defensive line of the
SEC in that year, and why it meant that team
could not have been competitive? Like that was a mock process.
And we turned into days of just vigorous arguing to

(13:34):
get through ours. And I still think we walked out
of the room. Everybody needed a drink, right, So I
think the playoff committee shows when they show their personalities.
I take it so seriously because I've seen how much
dominant personalities can change the way that room views things.
And I haven't seen anything today that I think will
change the mind of some of those voters. That being said,
I did see one thing today, maybe the most spectacular

(13:56):
touchdown I've ever seen at the end of a college
for Paul game. Come on. The catch was absolutely brilliant.
We'll tell you about it next and improbable win for
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Speaker 1 (14:55):
That from the very man who just told me that
I should just celebrate and implied that I am not
a beacon of light in a dark, dark world. He's
Buck Rising. I'm He's the devil on your shoulder. I'm
Jason Fitz. I'm the angel on the other shoulder. Just
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they need to light some fireworks and celebrate right now,
because Indiana football got an improbable win. They were up

(15:41):
against Penn State big twenty to seven, you blink, and
all of a sudden, before you know, at Penn State
and incredibly up twenty four to twenty with two minutes
to go. They pin Indiana back. They get a sack
on the first play of the two minute drill. Indiana,
with no timeouts, then proceeds to just go right down
the field, arts down the field, and then the minute

(16:02):
the throat to the back of the end zone goes
off Ernana Mendoz's hands. I think it's it's just too high,
it's too high, and then all of a sudden, it's
ten high pointed bam. Somehow the wrong foot barely touches
inbounds like it was a beautiful catch, incredible touchdown. Indiana
survives at Penn State twenty seven to twenty four. I
don't know. It was such a wild ending. To the

(16:23):
point I made earlier, Buck, I was not a very
good football game. I thought Indiana was gonna run away
with it, and then all of a sudden it was
an entertaining football game, and that.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That has merit uh quickly before we dive into the
never daunted Hoosiers, apologize to Vanderbilt right now.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
No, I will not apologize. But why you want me
to apologize? Okay, I'm that's fine.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Look at him.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
He's blinded because he doesn't have his little YouTube TV
quad box and football line blind. He's wheeling and dealing
his criticism. He is not impressed by Vanderbilt trailing for
a half of football at home against Auburn, and yet.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Now they have the lead. Fine.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Now, yeah, So let me ask you this. If you
were on the college football playoff committee, has their game
so far today changed the way you feel about Vanderbilt? No,
they're beating a cheeks team. Come on, man, what do
we do that.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's fine. You beat a Cheeks team today. It doesn't
make me feel any different of it. And listen, they
don't need style points that the number two team in
the country, and I don't think because there is no
Ohio State on their schedule this year, there will not
be the opportunity to be decided to have a head
to head decided or decision between these two teams unless
they meet in the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis,

(17:42):
which is entirely possible based on the trajectory. Now Penn
State is zero to six and the Big Ten. To
your point, FITZI, this was but this is the thing
about Vanderbilt, about Indiana even more so. And I can't remember.
I'm talking in too many places, it seems. I can't
remember if I brought this up on the local show,
because obviously I'm based out of Ashville. We talk, We've
talked a great deal about Vanderbilt and a great deal

(18:03):
about college football in the SEC part of the country.
But when Vandy got handled for three and a half
quarters by Texas, to me, that was indicative of the
talent gap between these two programs. Finally catching up to
Vanderbilt because Vanderbilt has no business competing upfront in the

(18:25):
trenches with the Texas defensive line, and they did not.
Pavia got ragdalled until the fourth quarter, and then he's
rattling off twenty one points and he's being praised for
his doggedness and his toughness and all these different things.
But the talent gap, finally between Vanderbilt and Texas, or
between Vanderbilt and anybody, was evident.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
So I have been waiting for the stub yr toe moment.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
For Indiana because Indiana on paper, when you look at
these talent ranking, these recruiting class profiles, these composites that
are compiled as you evaluate the level of talent that
each universe he brings into the college football program on
an annual basis, Indiana is way way way down there,

(19:07):
way less talent talented than even Vanderbilt, and yet they
are the number two team in the country. Penn State
has double digit NFL draft picks on their roster, and
today I felt like the gap was narrowed. And to
Indiana's credit, they get the opportunity with less than a
minute left. As you articulated earlier, they drive down the
field he Mendoza hits a miraculous jump pass with even

(19:30):
a more miraculous reception in the back of the end
zone by just a toe. And by the way, credit
to the officials, not just because Indiana Mi alma.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Mater and I am.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Biased in this particular situation, I wanted Indiana to win.
I'm happy that Indiana survived Penn State. But that would
be a very controversial moment if the official was not
on his stuff and they nailed the call from the
jump so that there was not additional you know, hemming
and haueing about was it a touchdown or was it
not a touchdown? So that to me is what I
felt like I saw today between Indiana and Penn State,

(20:04):
that they just were far closer because they should be
based on the talent that's on both rosters, and Indiana
got the job done on the road in a hostile environment,
even if the opponent by record is far less.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
I think that's a little bit of what I expect
we might see tonight from LSU against Alabama. A talented
football team with the spirited sort of effort I think
is a reasonable expectation. And look, and there's a part
of me that wonders if this was the big Fernando
Mendoza Heisman moment. You know, I it's inevitable. We're always
going to try and figure out who's winning the Heisman,
And just like the NFL MVP race, it seems really
cloudy right now to figure out who the Heisman is

(20:40):
going to be, who the Heisman winner is going to be.
And I think part of that's because we're waiting for
a Heisman moment. Frankly, I'm one of those people that
believes it all postseason award shows. I happen to be
a Blittankoff Award voter for the best wide receiver in
college football? Humbleveright? Uh? I think why why is that
a fund? It was just letting people know clear, Okay,
don't well as I think that all awards to be

(21:01):
given out at the end of the postseason, I don't
think we should do any awards. He's because the postseeds
become so long now. How can we really know how
to write the story of who the best player in
college football is if we don't even know how the
playoffs are going to play out. So that's just part
of my mindset. But I think we haven't necessarily gotten
yet from Ty Simpson, you know, or Julian saying that
same Heisman moment. I think we got that today. Two

(21:23):
minutes to go sacked on the first play and then
you just go down with no timeouts. There was just
a level of I don't know, swagger to all of that.
If you want confirmation bias, if you want to decide
right now today that Fernando Mendoza is going to be
a wild pro quarterback, you're going to use that two
minute warning is like, or that two minute drive is
the reason he's going to be epic instead of looking

(21:44):
at some of the rest of the game. That's the
way we do things. That's the way we do that.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I mean, the the interception that he had today squarely
put them in position to lose the game, and then
it came back and won the game. He and the
wide receiver, and the offense, and and the and the
collective f of the football team, We're able to pull
it off in Mendoz obviously being the most important player.
Ian noted Jets fan on the show, how many Fernando
Mendoza New York Jets Jersey photoshops did you see? After

(22:13):
that final game winning drive today.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Oh, I've already seen like at least three, and it's
a lot easier to do them now because of AI
and stuff. You can kind of just type it in
now and be like, oh, Fernando Mendoza and a Jets jersey,
you'll spit it out. It used to be like a
whole photoshop type deal. So yeah, at least three. To
answer your question, I'm.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Sure nobody has to work for anything anymore. It seems
AI has robbed us all of our creativity and our ingenuity,
even though it makes.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Life infinitely easier in a variety of different ways.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
But to your point, FITSI like it's going to get
It's going to be good for the business of his
draft stocks, certainly because he was tested, he battled back,
he struggled with adversity.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
And he found a way to go out there and win.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I would agree with you that Ohio State has
not really been tested in a way that would require
Julian Saying to have his Heisman trophy. Moman, I know
that the or Heisman moment for his candidacy, that he
obviously deserves to be a candidate and a leading candidate,
and I'm sure Ohio State fans would push back on
the idea that, for example, Gus Johnson said give him

(23:10):
the Heisman today in in the middle of the in
the middle of the call, as he was gasping for
air because it seems Indiana almost stole Gus Johnson's life
in the middle of that broadcast.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of football left to
figure this out. But Mendoz, that gave everybody just a
little twinkling of hope. Mar Mice, give us all the
updates we need so we can figure out what else
we can yell and scream about what's going on right
now on the score.

Speaker 8 (23:32):
Horn, Well, you talk about a twinkling of hope right now,
third down for the Iowa Hawkeys, a twinkling of hope
against the Oregon Ducks, fifteen to ten. This has been
a low scoring, nasty game since kickoff. It's still it
looks like the one that's cleared up a bit. But
that's the thing with these ahdtvs. It's really hard to
tell just how bad it is. But this one was

(23:52):
one you could see. It was like a tornado out there.
It's third and five for the Hawkeys right now, the
twenty three team in the Nation seven thirty left in
the fourth quarter against Oregon. This would be a huge
win for Iowa if they're able to pull it off
and come from behind and win Texas A and m
up twenty four to ten on Missouri with eight minutes
and twenty seconds left in the fourth quarter and second

(24:12):
to nine. There twenty four to ten, the third ranked
team in the nation in the lead. There's Iowa completes
that first down. They're near midfield now, so Iowa that
glimmer getting a little bit brighter.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Miami with they thirty one to three lead over Sheriq.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
So Mario Christobaul and Fran Brown getting into a little
bit of an argument in this game.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
We'll see how that plays out in the post game.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
This one, Auburn's had the lead up until like right now,
as Vanderbilt come from behind. Much to Jason Fitzchagrin, I
heard you earlier. They had you know, they still had
to play the second half. Jason Sucket fits Vanderbilt right now,
out scoring Auburn fourteen to three in the third quarter,
twenty four to twenty three.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
The score.

Speaker 8 (24:50):
Diego Pavia has two touchdowns and at the half, Washington
has a ten to three lead over Wisconsin. Wisconsin announced
earlier this week that Luke Fickle would be back next year.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
He's yet to win a game in the Big Ten
this season.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Earlier today we saw wins for Ohio State Indiana that
you guys just talked about. Big fourth quarter drive for
Fernando Mendoza to get to twenty seven to twenty four win,
Georgia be Mississippi State by twenty and a rank Technics
that gave the Cougars their first loss byu twenty nine
to seven.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Back to you.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Guys, Iowa driving against Oregon. Total chaos everywhere, and look,
Vandy's finally just doing what Bandy's supposed to do. You
know what, you guys are the ones that are out
here still greating. I'm on a curve. I'm holding them
to the same standard we hold any team that's supposed
to be pretty good. If you're a playoff team, playoffs.
If you're a playoff team, go out and win that game,
all right, That's all I'm saying. Go out and dominate Auburn.

(25:41):
Auburn stinks. I cannot stress this enough. This is not
about Bandy. It's the fact that Auburn sucks like you
shouldn't be in this match with Auburn.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
No, they don't suck today.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
That's the point they may have stop on in nine
other opportunities, And frankly, I don't think they have been
as god awful as their record would indicate.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
You want to do eye.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Test fancy, Auburn came out with an actual offense today
that would make you question whether Hugh Freeze was a
bigger problem than we all originally thought, and they've since
fired him. Now they are driving on Vanderbilt. They are
just a yard away from getting into the red zone
as we sit here with just under about two forty

(26:23):
five to forty rather to play in the third quarter,
and Vanderbilt is clinging to a one point lead.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
But I am going to allow for the.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Ability for any one football team, on any one particular
day to pick up their level of competitiveness. That is
what I feel like I'm seeing from the Auburn offense
in particular.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Great So the next time a team loses to the Titans,
that won't be a statement about that team. You'll just
acknowledge it. On that particular day, the Titans happened to
not be a big old ball of suck that's what
we're saying, not like Universe, I'm holding your standard. You're
saying it. I'm just holding you to it.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Oh oh, I will not. I will not because I
know them.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I know them, I know them deeply, I know them intimately.
I know them far more than I care to at
this point in my life. That is, as Kmoor described,
an ass football team, and anybody that loses to them, Arizona.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Cardinals is an indictment of them.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah. I don't actually disagree with that totally. I think, look,
at some point, what makes this season is we've talked
about I think every Saturday, so cool is we don't
really know right now. And you know one thing, Gojo
always is like me too, Like Michael Junior is one
that always tells me, hey, college football takes care of itself.
And we've joked about that for almost a decade, right
And I think part of what that means this year

(27:42):
is that there's going to be so much rise and fall.
I'm not sure we can make any declarative statements about
who's headed to the playoffs because we really don't know.
I mean, we are sitting here and I'm watching right
now as Iowa continues to just move down the field
with ease. They're at the twenty five yard line of
Oregon at this point, down by five, in a game

(28:03):
that with four minutes to go, Iowa might beat Oregon.
And so does that suddenly mean that Iowa is playing
themselves into the college football playoff conversation. I don't know,
and I don't think we're going to know, because the
thing of it is, it's not just about you winning
the games that are in front of you. The old
adage has always just been take care of business and
everything will be fine. Now, I think what we have
to account for is every week there is just going

(28:25):
to be more and more because that parody from number,
let's say five in the country to number twenty five
in the country, there's just not a lot of gap there. So,
you know, I don't know that it's a sweeping indictment
of BYU that they lose to Texas Tech today. I
think it just speaks to the fact that there isn't
a lot of wiggle room between most of these teams
right now.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
And that's I think what is going to make this
more compelling. It's going to make it more argumentative. The
further that we get into these college football playoff rankings
because well, you tell me if you agree with this,
and we did talk about this a bit earlier.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Should Exs A and M be the number one team
in the country?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
And this why I'm glad, This why I'm glad I'm
not on the committee.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Do I stump you?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, Well, here's the thing. I'm a nerd. At my core,
I'm a nerd, and as a nerd, I appreciate the
importance of the advance analytics that they tell us to
factor in. And so the fact that most of those
analytics scream to Texas A and M being number one
makes me feel like Texas A and M deserves number one.
But then I watch Ohio State, I'm like, that's a

(29:31):
great football team. Like Ohio State hasn't done anything to
make me think they don't deserve to be number one.
It's just I'm a I am to beholden to the
metrics that they tell us that we're supposed to study.
And then those metrics say that this team's number one,
and I'm the guy that walks in and pushes my
glasses on. Actually buck it says that there should be
number one. So I realized that I want to beat

(29:52):
myself up. I want to stuff myself in the locker
when you ask me that question.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Speaking of getting stuffed in a locker. Auburn has just
gone up twenty nine into twenty four, pending the extra
point again.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
But it's fine if you ask book, everything's fining any.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Day four Auburn, what is plenty of time? It's still
the third quarter. For God's sakes, you're so dramatic. Texas
A and M is an interesting case study here because
at what point, again, the level of competition that Ohio
State has faced relative to what we have seen Texas

(30:27):
A and M go up against both undefeated. You can
question the caliber of the opponents in the Big Ten
versus the SEC.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
You can say that the SEC is a is and
I've heard this phrase alleged.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Of the SEC this year, that it's just the ACC
with a better PR firm, which I vehemently disagree with,
and not just because I'm in this part of the country,
but I understand that people are wanting to make those
arguments where Tennessee is at twenty five for reasons that
are beyond me, based on the teams that they have beaten.
In the teams that they have lost to at this
point in time. But I think that when you talk

(31:04):
about the kind of opponents that all, we have not
seen Ohio State get tested in a real way. We
have seen Texas A and M get tested in a
real way. We have seen their offense sputter at times
and be somewhat inconsistent. Now they've largely worked their way
out of that, and doing so in the meat of
their schedule. I think gives them bonus points, or should

(31:25):
give them bonus points if we're really doing this thing
by the letter of the law or the letter of
the eye. Test fitsie, because Ohio State just kind of
cruises and that's fine, that's all well and good. That's
excellent for them. They're doing what they are absolutely supposed
to do. But you and I have talked about this before,
when teams get put in a position to be tested
and how they respond. I do think that there is

(31:47):
additional credit that is deserving of that. I do think
that Texas A and M would be favored on a
neutral field against Indiana, and I think it's probably a
closer line. You could probably make the argument one way
or the other. I do think that Texas A and
M would be favored on a neutral field against Ohio
State if the game took place today.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I agree, and I don't want to make Vegas the
arbiter of all things. But they don't build those casinos
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We have got drama right now, Iowa with a third
and goal opportunity to take the lead over Oregon with
two minutes to go in the game. We'll get you
updated on that and all the drama in college football
coming up next. He's buck rising. I'm Jason Fitz. It's
bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox

(32:55):
Sports Radio Radio. Saturdays are undefeated, man. I'll tell Iowa
scores with a minute fifty one left, on a quarterback draw.
They take the one point lead at home in a
torrential downpour against Oregon, Iowa up sixteen to fifteen. We
talked earlier about Heisman moments. Fernando mendoz To, the quarterback

(33:16):
of Indiana, may have had his today with an incredible
two minute warning drive that led Indiana to the comeback
win over Penn State. Now the question is can Dante
more in the rain do the same? And there's consequence
to this because for anyone not paying attention right now,
buck Rising, Oregon is number nine in the country according

(33:37):
to the College Football Playoff I said earlier, ten is
really the cutoff spot to get into the playoff because
as of right now, if the playoffs were to start today,
we have two bid thieves. We have the ACC champion,
which is outside of the top twelve, and we also
have the Group of five, a highest right group of
top five, which is outside the top twenty five all together,
so you have two bid thieves. So if you are
not sitting in the top ten as it stands right now,

(33:59):
you ain't making it the College Football Playoff. There's a
very real world where Oregon loses this game and finds
themselves on the outside looking in of the college football playoff,
which would be an abject disaster compared to what was
expected for this team this year.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Uh yeah, And I mean we've talked about abject disasters
for teams with preseason expectations all year long. Right, Oregon
just took a little longer, or may take a little longer,
to fall victim to the craziness of this college football season.
Also apologized to Vanderbilt again. They're about to take the
lead thirty one to thirty on what.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Are we gonna apologize every time Vandy stops screwing up. Yes,
you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no,
Like this is like at this point, Vandy's like a
crazy x so, like they're just texting you up every
few minutes and you're falling for it. All right, text
me when you're fixed, Fandy, text me at the end
of the game, go ahead when you've healed.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
But I I am, I want to know. So all right,
let's take into account all the context of this game.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oregon is on the road.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
They are playing at Iowa, which is a difficult place
to play under any circumstances, but in this particular circumstance,
the weather is nightmarish like, absolutely untenable, and so how
does that impact should that at all impact the idea
that Oregon traveled across the entire country, Well, maybe not
halfway across the country, I guess, in that particular situation,

(35:25):
went to Iowa, played them close, had a lead for
a bulk of the game, but then fell victim to
Iowa in a torrential downpour. Does the context of the
loss itself do any give Oregon any grace?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
I guess, for lack of a better term, I.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Think I mean again, to some level, yes, this is
where what we think about the Iowa football program does
not mean anything right like, because what this is about
is what did the committee tell us? And neither of
the poles. The ap of the coach had Iow on
the top twenty five. The committee put him at number twenty.
And sometimes what you do have to do in college

(36:05):
football is you have to look at what the committee's
telling you is ahead of certain teams, how the committee
values certain programs at certain conferences. They told us on
Tuesday they value Iowa a hell of a lot more
than most of us do. So what this really is
like if we take the brands off of this. This
is number nine at number twenty in the pouring rain.
Losing a game, Like, if that's the way this goes down,

(36:27):
is that really an epic fault? No, My expectation is
that Oregon will probably fall to thirteen or fourteen. The
question is can they find a way to crawl their
way back into this thing. That's where it gets really interesting,
because you're gonna need a landmark win if you can't
get this one to justify coming back up the ratings,
and that's difficult Oregon. By the way, the game is
not over. There's a buck forty five left in this game,

(36:49):
sixteen to fifteen. The clock is ticking. Oregon with the ball,
all they need to do is get in field goal range.
Although this is not exactly ideal field goal territory.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, I mean, it just feels like a death sentence
for if they do lose, right, I mean in terms
of their playoff hopes, because a two loss Big Ten
team is not getting in this year with the way
that the situation.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Has stacked itself.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Or Ohio State and Indiana rule the roost at the
top of this thing. Oregon is the next highest ranked
team but between there's a huge gap there between number
two Indiana and number nine Oregon.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
So I think if.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
They were to fall to a lesser opponent, a team
that already has two losses on the year, and again,
Iowa deserves credit where credit is due.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
They are battling, they do what they do.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
They make it ugly for everybody in the weather in
this in this circumstances. I don't know if it's an
advantage because it's not really an advantage for either side.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
But they are managing the.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Situation as best they can, and they're putting up a
fight against a better opponent. They two losses for any
of these Big ten teams would keep you out of
the college football playoff.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
We can agree, yes, I would think so. I mean
three losses is the you're dead. You're left for dead forever.
I'm buck I'm dumbfounded by this, Like I am dumbfounded
by Oregon just takeing their time. They ran the ball
a punch. Now they're throwing five six yard passes the
thirty five seconds left in the game. They've gotten themselves

(38:12):
to midfield, but they're not even like I expected some
level of aggressiveness, right, Like they have all their timeouts,
and they're just sort of sitting on it and taking
their time. They're letting the clock run. Thirty two seconds left.
They're almost to midfield, I should say, kind of a
surprising lack of urgency, lack of push down the field.
And then they make me look like an idiot as
I'm saying that, and they complete a wild completion to

(38:34):
get themselves down to about the thirty yard line. Twenty
eight yard lines. So Oregon with the ball, Oregon driving
with the ball. It's gonna be wild. Man, this feels
like the sort of finish they use their for their
first time out. Now, twenty three seconds left. I don't know.
I can't tell you what happens. If Oregon wins, I
don't think they move up. But if they lose, man,

(38:54):
I just think it gets really hard to sneak your
way into the college football playoff.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, it's it's going to be a difficult situation. And again,
the lack of urgency or whatever you were describing before
they completed that pass, I don't know, do you really
fault Dan Lanning for wanting to play it relatively safe
in this situation given the elements?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
No, I mean, but also you got Dante More. I mean,
you do have a superstar quarterback, you have a loaded roster,
you have a chance. I don't want to leave this
thing to a kick. In these conditions. If I can
go out and impress them, I don't want to leave
it to a kick. It should be noted I pulled
their schedule up. I'm want to remind everybody they got
Minnesota next week. But then they have number nineteen USC
number twenty three Washington. If things hold, there are two

(39:37):
more ranked matchups that get them at least in the
conversation of where they want to be. But man, it's
going to be tough if they can't get into the
Big Ten championship game to get the big win that
puts them back in.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, I think that that is going to be This
is the kind of stuff that defines a season. This
is why November football is so much fun, because you
learn who these teams are and whether they or not
they are able to stick to their identity and accomplish
their ultimate goal.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
We'll find out if Oregon is still in the playoff
hunt and we'll update it on you. Coming up next
more bucking fits. Stay tuned to Fox Sports Radio you're
listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Oregon hangs on and
keeps their playoff hopes alive. And this is where you
might say, hey, win or lose, Oregon was going to
be just fine. But here's the problem when you actually

(40:26):
do the math in college football right now, the math
ain't math. And if you think anybody can get in
with two losses, he's buck rising up. Jason Fitzen's a
bucking fits takeover of Fox Sports Radio. We've been talking
about it all day and as we were about to
go to break, we talked about Buck. You mentioned what
would happen to a two loss team. Now Oregon escapes this,

(40:47):
Oregon gets the wins. So at least for now, it
feels like Oregon is going to be just fine.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
But you can lost big ten team just yea up.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
But you you got some texts that we're curious, including
the hey, you know you've lost your mind if you
think of two lost Big ten team, is he going
to get in? I've by paraphrasing, but go ahead, tell
the world what the here. Let's set up the whole
premise here as we get into what's actually happening at
college football.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yes, my dear friend and colleague here in the Nashville
media market, Steve Lyman, who covers things for Channel five
down here in Nashville, Tennessee Steam says he just drove
off the road listening to our last.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Segment, so we hope you're safe.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
In Wilfit, Steve, he says, the Big Ten is dead
with two losses. Is not happening any ten and two
Big Ten team is getting in. It's not a five
team playoff. And Oregon, by the way, as you also mentioned,
plays USC. And he says Oregon, but I assume he
means Washington here, who are both ranked this month. And

(41:48):
I said that would mean you know, as we were
talking about this offline, I brought up the point that
it would mean that teams like USC and Michigan and
now I have well obviously has experienced their third loss,
so that that's not going to make them viable for
this part of the conversation, but that any essentially ten
and two Big Ten team would be a at least

(42:10):
a maybe not a shoe in, but at least have
an argument for the College Football playoff. And Layman went
on to point out requires them winning out, which is
USC over Oregon and Michigan over Ohio State, while all
the teams have ahead of them lose. So I do
think that there's and this is the fun of it, right,
this is the debate that the committee is going to
have in some form or fashion. But I do think

(42:32):
that life or we're dealing in hypotheticals now. Because Oregon
won the game, right, they don't have to sweat this
at for moving forward. USC still has the ability to
in Michigan, as we mentioned, still have the ability to
claw their way back into the picture, depending on how
good they look against the ranked opponents that are still
yet on their schedule.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I just think where a lot of people get lost,
all of its hit loss is we make big statements
about a twelve team playoff, but it's really not. I mean,
it's a twelve team in the sense of twelve teams
get in, but it's not a twelve team in the
sense that there are really twelve bids up for grabs
for most schools. If you look at the math, you
got five automatic qualifiers always, so each of the highest

(43:14):
rated conference champions, each of the four Power four champions
are going to get in, and the highest rated group
of five we've talked about that at nauseum, right, So
that's five spots that are automatically taken out of the gate.
Five spots are gone this year. One thing you just
got to add in is Notre Dame. Like Notre Dame
wins out, Notre Dame is going to get into it.
So now you have six of the twelve teams, there

(43:35):
are slots that are already taken. So when people say
it's a twelve team playoff, my argument to that is
always this, it's really six spots that everybody else is
fighting for. Six spots at best is what everybody else
is fighting for. Because now we're kind of like college
basketball where you can have bid thieves in weird ways.
So like, what is the committee going to do BYU?
Was undefeated BYU lost to Texas Tech. That is their

(43:57):
only loss of the year right now, BYU and Texas
Tech both in the Big Twelve. What's the committee gonna
do with bid? Would BYU? Now that they lost to
Texas Tech, maybe they're gonna drop out of this sure
as possible if that's the only loss they take. What
if they avenge that loss in a Big twelve championship game?
Does that mean suddenly that we're keeping the other side
of that out. We don't know yet Georgia Tech has
one loss. So there's some complicated outliers that most of

(44:19):
us don't believe are as good as the teams we're
talking about in the SEC, in the Big Ten. But
then I'll remind you if today, if the SEC standings
go as we think, if A and M today, who's
number one in the conference? If A and M just
wins the SEC. When you talk about teams as we
stand right now that only have two losses in the SEC, Bama, Georgia, Olmas, Texas, Oklahoma, Vandy.

(44:40):
There are six teams in the SEC alone that as
we sit today, only have two losses. And if all
those teams went out, I know it gets complicated, But
like if you see everybody winning out, that doesn't create
enough open slots for a Big ten that's gonna have
Indiana and Ohio State. They're both in. There's no doubt,
like we all know that whether they're in, the question

(45:01):
is what happens to everybody else. And that's why I
don't think it's as certain as oh, well, I'm a
two loss, Like if Oregon slips up once through the
rest of the season and they end up with two losses.
But they're sitting through all of these other things and
they don't get into the Big Ten championship game to
have an opportunity to play for one more landmark win.
I don't think we can blanket say right now, the
committee had Oregon at nine, and as I've said the

(45:22):
whole show, the cutoff this year right now as we speak,
is ten because slots eleven and twelve are going to
be taken by bid thieves as we got in our
first rankings. So Oregon can only fall fall one spot.
They lose one game, they're going to fall more than
one spot. Like the match just doesn't math.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Of all the SEC teams.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
The A and M result against Missouri just went final,
by the way, so they continue to improve on their
undefeated record.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Alas game.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
By the way, where are we on the Vandy game? Uh? Can't.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Vandy is in the low red zone. They are about
to score to take to take a lead over Auburn
right now.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
There is under nine.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Minutes a big stop in the backfield by the Auburn
defensive tackle. Under eight forty to play right now in
this fourth quarter. But Vanderbilt, you know, provided that there's
not a disaster, which of course is not a safe
thing to say in today's college football. Should be able
to put this in hand fairly easily. Now we do
have Alabama and LSU getting ready to kick off, and

(46:26):
I don't know about forty minutes from now, depending on
where you are, And I am curious, Fitz, because the
SEC has been a bit of a blood bath all
year long. We're now starting to see the separation. I
mean it took till November for us to see the
separation of the SEC. But of the non A and
M teams, Georgia rolled today, Ole misted didn't face anybody

(46:48):
of quality. Vanderbilt is now in for the touchdowns. So
you can apologize to the commodoors again if you would
like to publicly in front of a national audience because you.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Needing this much time to take I mean, barely beating
an Auburn team that I will again remind everybody is cheeks.
I'm just going to keep saying that over and over
and over again.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Two halves of football required to play to complete a game.
Fit Sie, they played one half of football, and you
were ready to send them to the college football gulag
and yet they continue to I guess I got to
make it thirty eight to thirty.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
I guess it's fine then that Washington is losing to
Wisconsin right now, because it's only the end of the
third there's plenty of time left. So I guess we
might as well not say anything about Washington losing this game. God,
in our we are bickering, like you know what we've become.
We have become in the short time of the show together.
We are the two grumpy old men and the muppets
that are sitting in the theater, and we're complaining about
everything we see.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
That's what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm not complaining. You're complaining. I'm telling you that you're
complaining at you. That's different. Yes, you are correct, I
am complaining about you. That is correct. Do you think
there is a scenario in which Alabama slips up at
all to make this any kind of a more interesting conversation,
Because you're right, the SEC should hold serve here right now.
The only scenario in which we could create a little

(48:03):
more wiggle room for one of these two lost Big
ten teams would be if we saw an SEC slip up.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
I want to make tonight's game really interesting. I do
because how much it means to LSU. And go back
to the preseason rankings, which we all can agree now
we're trash and hot garbage, but the preseason rankings are
hot garbage based mostly on what everybody thinks of the talent,
right The level of talent in the room is what
really dictated the way people expected the early portions of

(48:29):
the season to go. That's why, as you smartly said earlier,
hate to give you credit, but as you smartly said earlier,
Penn State giving Indiana a run for their money makes
sense based on the talent on the field, which at
some point you thought was going to have to rear
and said, you get the coaching boost of a firing.
I think Auburt's getting a little of that right now too, right,
so you get the coaching boost whenever you make that change,

(48:50):
that think it sort of energizes teams for a week
or two. I want to think that LSU can come
out and do the shocking thing here. But also I
feel like the number of times this year I've sat
back and thought, this is the week Alabama's going to
look human. It hasn't happened. Like, I really have to
give Alabama a lot of credit and loudly proclayed how
wrong I was at the beginning of the season. I
thought they were just going to turn into one of

(49:12):
those decent, you know, SEC teams that they're in it,
but they're not really dominant. And instead they've actually they've
absolutely made me look like a full Alabama is a
dominant football team, so I think they're going to win
and take care of business today.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Virginia, speaking of college football playoff implications, Virginia just blocked
a punt and is now at the wake Forest twenty
one yard line after completing a pass, So Virginia off
to eight eight and one start. One of the more
improbable stories in college football, and out there fighting for
one of these college football playoff bids at this point
should be an interesting result. Bama's won seven in a row, right,

(49:46):
I mean, Kellen de Boor was left for dead. You've
got people talking about winning the lottery so that they
could pay seventy million dollars to buy out Dabor as
one of their first acts of becoming a billionaire. I
think the jackpot was up to a billion at the time.
Early on college football season, they are undefeated at home
as well this year.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
It has I don't know, there's there.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
I don't want to say that Alabama under Nick Saban
developed a bit of a malaise as far as the
home atmosphere because they are still perpetual national championship contenders
and there was always going to be a little bit
of juice, but I feel like that faded the more
that the score is separated and the more just dominance
that Saban led Alabama teams had, I feel like that

(50:30):
place has real juice, like real juice for the first
time in quite some time, and it's it's absolutely earned.
They are at this point, what five and oh, they're
undefeated in the SEC so far.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
There.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Their scoring average is not, their point differential is not
what Texas A and M's is, and they're living in
way too many third and six pluses at this point
if you look at the advanced metrics.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
But they're surviving them.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
To ty Simpson's credit, as we talked about Fernando Mendoza's
Heisman moment potentially in leading the comeback against Penn State,
lowly Penn State, though they may be, Ty Simpson deserves
as much credit. It's a team sport. It's the ultimate
team sport. But Ty Simpson deserves as much credit as
any individual player in college football this year.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Now, when you have twenty touchdown passes to one interception,
I mean, that's just like I know that we get
bored by the greatness of Alabama, but damn, like I
just it's not boring to me. It's absolutely spectacular. If
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All right, we'll keep you updated on all of the
results happening around the landscape of college football as I
learned to speak. But in the meantime, we're going to
move to some NFL next coming up, it's time to
hand out awards. Buck doesn't like anything, so we'll figure

(51:57):
out if there are guys out there that Buck feels
deserve mid season NFL awards. You'll hear it from it,
Like what what Are you doubted like ever the Sinning Buck?
You go ahead?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
No, do I get to decide? Can I wear a crown?
Can I be the arbiter of what is good and
what is evil in the middle of this? This delights me.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, the Buck will be the arbiter. Buck is the voter,
and then we'll see how he does. So we'll take
on Bucks votes for all of the mid season awards.
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Speaker 3 (52:54):
Buck.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
You want to give, you want to give? You got
anything you want to say about Mandy because right now
show looks like Vandy is tied with all thirty eight
after a touched on her two point conversion. He was it.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
There is nothing more irritating than when he starts to
get on a little bit of a high horse and
his voice.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Yeah, that's my least favorite thing that you do.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Many people have called Auburn football the popcorn kernel in
the teeth of the sec. It is thirty eight thirty eight,
a brilliant one handed reception by the Auburn wide receiver,
and then a two point conversion. A successful two point
conversion to tie the game up.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Vandy is driving.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Eli Stowers has got his bleep rocked over the middle
and is now leaving the game, or at least leaving
the field. He is heading to the sideline. He does
have his helmet off. He's leaving under his own power.
The star tight end arguably the best tight end in
college football, the best draft prospect among tight ends in
college football, which is Diego Pavia's favorite toy so far

(53:57):
this season. We will see how that impacts Vanderbilt on
this third and one with just over five minutes to play.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
We will keep you updated on the score there as
we get more updates to give you and all of
the upsets happening across college football in the moment. But Buck,
we've reached the midpoint of the NFL season, the rough
midpoint when it's a seventeen week season. It's kind of
hard to do, all right, We've reached the midpoint ish
of the NFL season, and you good circuit to be
king of the show. You get to be the king
of all the land. You get to decide who gets

(54:26):
the awards. You get to lay them out for the people,
and then the people will decide if you are right
or wrong. So, knowing what we know only based on
what we've seen today, We're not projecting through the rest
of the season. We're just based on what we see
right now. Who would you say is the MVP of
the NFL season.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
The MVP of the NFL season to me is Josh Allen.
I think Josh Allen has been a monster. He is
successfully got an offense where he does not have to
do all of the heavy lifting. Their rushing attack has
given him and them the kind of balance that they require.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
They have just beaten the Chiefs head to head.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
He is the betting favorite, depending on which sports book
you're looking, I've got him right now at plus one
seventy Josh Allen. But if if the season were to
end today, I would take Josh Allen first.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
I may argue that Drake May should be second.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
FITZI I don't disagree. Look, if we were in a
vacuum here where we had actual control of the awards,
Jonathan Taylor the king of the show, Well, you're the
king of the building to real awards, not our awards.
So I put Jonathan Taylor's the actual MVP. I mean
when you talk about just what he's done, but we
know we're running backs never going to win it. So
quarterback is going to win it. And if it's going

(55:42):
to be a quarterback, I'm wait you, I think Josh Allen,
but Drake May. How that division race plays out this
year is going to be really interesting because what I
love about those two people being competitors for the same
MVP award is that they've paid and played so close
to schedule fourteen of the seventeen games ever year, the
same for every team in a division, So that means you, like,

(56:03):
while you could sit there and say, well, Drake May's
only feasted on soft teams, it's gonna be the same
for the Bills, right. So I like the fact that
you get sort of a comp there that we don't
usually get, and nobody really has stood out so far
above and beyond everybody else usually by now, I feel
like we know who the MVP. I keep expecting this
to be the moment that Mahomes just wills the Chiefs

(56:23):
all the way to the super Bowl and he becomes
the MVP. But also every time we think that's gonna happen,
it doesn't quite look right. So I think you're right.
I think, Josh Allen, So but where are you on
Coach of the Year then, because if you like Drake May,
you might like Mike Vrabel. Yeah, but if that's the case, Like,
I can't get past the fact that Shane Stikeen has
made Daniel Like we haven't seen years of junk from

(56:44):
Daniel from Drake May the way we have Daniel Jones.
So I still think it's Shane Stikeen. Can I talk you,
King Buck into King Buck, that's got to ring to it,
King Buck? Can I talk you into deciding to grant
the award to one Shane Steichen of the Indian out of.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
This Courts tell me something I don't know. King Buck
has a ring to it. It's my entire existence. So if
Jonathan Taylor is the MVP in your mind, he will
not win.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Thank you, Mary. At King's are immune defines.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
You can orchestrate your own no King's protest in the
studio with the end if you like, But for now,
the reign of terror continues, So.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Don't bog my traffic down. I don't care what protein. Okay,
go ahead.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
He really is so annoying.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
I think that if Jonathan Taylor in your mind is
the MVP, then Shane Steike and cannot be the Coach
of the Year because you are then, inherently, by your logic,
at least, Fitzie, you are inherently giving the coach of
the year more credit for Daniel Jones than your MVP.
And Jonathan Taylor, who does deserve a tremendous amount of

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credit for making life easier, infinitely easier.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
On Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
But it would be very difficult to ignore the things
that the Indianapolis Colts have done, and they've been building
to this point.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Right.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
They won eight games last year with Anthony Richardson and
Joe Flacco Vrabel is going to get a lot of love.
He's a very marketable type of person. I think that
if he were to this would be his second Coach
of the Year if he was to win it, and
he is the second betting favorite right now. It's Stichen Vrabel,
Mike McDonald and Seattle and then Kyle Shanahan with much

(58:24):
longer odds at plus seventeen hundred for surviving all the
different all the different injuries that they have currently worked
their way through. I I'll hear you on Steichen. I
will go for Stiken. Mike Vrabel's won it, and we
don't see too many people win multiple times.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
The Coach of the Year. I think it's Shane Steichen's time.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Yeah, I think as impressive as what they're doing for
the Patriots is right now, just when you stack all
of the thing now, I'm torn a little bit on
the Colts, mostly because I predicted it, but mostly because
the Colts sit where. I mean, they were a five
hundred team the last two years with a terrible quarterback situation.

(59:05):
Now they're getting good quarterback play and all of a
sudden they look like an elite team. I don't think
that that's rocket science. I think they finally found the
right guy for their system and have you know, just
some level of competence at the quarterback position. But I
got to give the coach credit for that. Is there
any other one award? Buck Rising King Buck? Is there
one other award that you would like to give out?

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Yes, I would like to give out a Protector of
the Year.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
No, God, what do we do? What do you mean, really,
Protector of the year?

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Oh god?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Okay, is there an offensive lineman that you think deserves
tremendous like? Who votes? No? No, Like, here's here's.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
My discriminating against fat people? Is what you're doing?

Speaker 1 (59:46):
No? No, no, no, no, quite the opposite. I've got
a very trusted group of fat people in my life
that I ask constantly for draft breakdowns. Like I've got
my Committee of Fats that I hit them up all
the time. You know who you are if you're on
this h I got a committee of fats that I
head up, and I'm like, hey, you know, fat boy,
what do you think of this guy? Like, I've got
my Committee of Fats.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Look much more interesting than Protector of the Year. I
would like to establish the Committee of Fats.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
The Committee of FATS are out here, like you know, Look,
I think the problem with the award for best fat
guy is that most of us are not very capable
of understanding the nuance of the position. So if you're
telling me that it's going to be like college football
where the Offensive Line of the Year award is voted
on by former offensive linemen, I'm all in for that.

(01:00:34):
I question whether most voters that are out there would
have the working knowledge to understand what is happening for
interior line play to really be able to vote on
who the best offensive lineman is no discredit. I know
many AP voters that take the job very seriously. I
know very many NFL voters that take the job seriously.
I just don't think most people are equipped with the
knowledge to know what's happening from the fat uglies upfront.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
The Committee of FATS would like to name Quentin Elson
guard for the Indianapolis Colts Protector of the Year.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
I love that. And by the way, if the Committee
of Fats actually gave that award out boy, now we're
talking like if you give me an award. Show with
all of the former offensive linemen who have great personalities
doing this, and they call themselves the Committee of Fats.
While they sit at like the last supper table, and
one of them stands up just gloriously eating in front
of all of us, like I'm in for this, I'm
in for you sit at the head of that table.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
I mean Kelsey probably right, say probably Jason Kelcey, it's
probably is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
But then none of them are fat after they retire,
they're all they're.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Now chicken legs.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
I mean it goes, it goes one of two ways.
It goes like all of a sudden, I am absolutely
uh like fit Joe Thomas a shout out to Joe
Thomas and you know, Kelsey and several others, or goes
to the opposite side of that. I won't shout out
some of the people that I'm friends with that are
on the opposite side of that that you know, maybe
maybe miss those playing days. Wait, but yeah, I got

(01:01:59):
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I'm just saying, it's all the skill guys, it's all
the running backs, it's all the wide receivers. They're all
eating now they don't have to work out anymore. All
the offensive linemen gets skinny, the skill guys get fat.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Yeah, it is a Marvel Martin get us caught up, Martin,
not on the sk the Committee of FATS, but get
us caught up on the actual scores that are happening
out there.

Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
Well, just one second fits, if I may, don't let
the concept of not being necessarily the most intelligent or
the most.

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
You know, you know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
You watched enough football.

Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
Don't let the idea that you may not be chapter
and verse known every single thing about offensive line play,
stopping from voting on something like Protector of the Year.
This is America. You don't have to know much to
be able to vote. You just have to qualify. Okay,
you watched enough football to qualify, my friend famously, that is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Maybe everything that's wrong with so much in the world.
Go ahead, go ahead, Martin.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
I got you right now.

Speaker 8 (01:02:51):
One minute, fifty seconds left, fourth quarter, thirty eight to
thirty eight. Apparently they did play the second half of
this game, Vanderbilt in Auburn, and I'm just joking thrank
the Vanderbilt with storms back in the second half, I
was scoring Auburn twenty eight to eighteen.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
To try to really enforce this win.

Speaker 8 (01:03:08):
Vanderbilt with the ball right now driving they are stopped
short of the line of scrimmage, so that'll bring up
a I can't see this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
This is so small third down.

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
It looks like everybody else having trouble washing this game,
because like you said earlier the ESPN, and you didn't
go to that website for eighth minute left in the
fourth quarter between Washington and Wisconsin. It's it's about time
to start worrying about the Huskies. They haven't scored yet
in the second half. Wisconsin made an announcement to this earlier,
just with that Luke Fickle would be coming back this year.
He's yet to win a game in the Big Ten.

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So if they hang on here, they'll get the win.
Third down for Washington, Demond Williams has sixteen to twenty
seven to one to eighteen in a touchdown six minutes
left in the first quarter. Virginia has a three to
nothing lead over wake Forest, undefeated in the a SEC.
The fourteenth threanc Cavaliers and Louisville and col And quit
the Central HCC.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Match up right there.

Speaker 8 (01:03:59):
One of those is always seen fifteenth ranked Cardinal with
a seven to nothing lead over Cal four thirty left
in the first quarter. Earlier today we saw big wins
for Indy I mean Ohio State, Georgia and Texas Tech.
Indiana scored a late touchdown to survive against Penn State
twenty seven to twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Back to you guys, all right, Buck, how are we feeling?
How we feeling right now? We've got thirty eight to
thirty eight in the Vandy Auburn game, number sixteen, Vandy
coming down to the wire. Buck, twenty three left to
go in this game. How you feeling, buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
I mean, I feel fine.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
I feel validated that Auburn has put up their best
performance of the season by a mile, that they're doing
it on the road, that they are truly testing Vanderbilt
in a big spot here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
I'm delighted by it. I'm enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
The fact that you would dismiss it and chalk it
up to just, oh, Auburn so bad, and they're making
Vanderbilt look mortal and Vandy is driving. They are within
field goal range theoretically at this point in time with
a second and ten situation as Pavia hands off for
a minimal gain, looks like they got about a yard there.
I mean, I think you don't like to leave it

(01:05:07):
on the foot of a college kicker in this particular situation.
But FITZI, I would remind you that Auburn was last
week held to three points, losing to Kentucky. They had
not scored more than seventeen points in five conference games
before today, and they are now in a thirty eight
to thirty eight shootout. That stat courtesy of the great
Teresa Walker of the Associated Press.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
So to recall Teresa Walker, by the way, shout out,
one of the greatest people in this business, by the
way on the national media shout out?

Speaker 7 (01:05:36):
Is she the one who Vrabel would always give the
first question too? I saw that this week was that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yes, that's a long standing tradition which apparently he has
taken with him to New England. And I don't remember
the last name of the reporter, whose name is Karen,
but they have continued that, which is a delightful thing
to see.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Teresa is just a kind soul, like the type of
person you root for in every possible way. All right,
let me say this buck while we're talking about NFL awards.
Will keep you updated on this FANDA game, my promise,
But I just have to give one shout out to
the opposite of great because you've just spent a lot
of time talking about greatness in the NFL Coach of

(01:06:16):
the Year, all these different things. It is still stuck
in my head. You know my fandom. Everybody knows my
head fandom. I'm a Raiders fan. I walked into Thursday
Night Football, I was asked for my official prediction right
for the game, and my official prediction was thirty four
to ten that the Broncos would win. Instead, we watched
one of the ugliest professional football games I've ever watched
in my life. And I keep thinking about one important thing.

(01:06:40):
I don't think bon Nix is the answer, man Like,
I don't like to give up on quarterbacks at all.
I like to wait three years. I wish we always
had that, but I think it takes three years. Season one,
you're ahead of the league. Season two, the league catches
up to you. Season three, how do you adjust? Right?
So seeing adjustment matters to me. We have seen massive
regression from bo Nicks over the course of the season.

(01:07:01):
And in fact, there was a great chart put out
on Twitter before the game that was about yards left
on the field and this would be a wide open
receiver and how many yards but the throw wasn't there.
So how many yards were left on the field because
of inaccurate passes to open receivers. The league averaged so
far for the entire year was about two hundred. Number

(01:07:22):
one in the entire league was bon Nicks with about
eight hundred yards left on the field. For point of reference,
that was about one hundred and fifty more yards left
on the field than cam Ward. Right there is it
is time to have a bow Knicks conversation, dude, because
I don't know how you win a Super Bowl with
the quarterback that's that glaringly inaccurated times and just seems
to be lost on where to go.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
With the football.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Well, he's a radic, right, and I think Fitzpatrick Ryan
Fitzpatrick on the Thursday night Football broadcast pointed out some
of the decisions that he was making that are uncommon
that he is you know that he's got a you know,
fet factor to him, and some of the decisions that
he's making that are presenting a higher degree we have difficulty,
and he's getting away with some and he's not getting
away with others. And that puts Sean Payton in a

(01:08:06):
difficult situation because Sean Payton has had the model of
efficiency for the vast majority of his NFL coaching career,
which is Drew Brees. And to go from Drew Brees
to bon Knicks, or at least peak Drew Brees to
bon Nicks has to be a bit of a jarring adjustment.
But here's the thing, Fitsie. I feel like a lot
of people are in a situation with Denver where they

(01:08:28):
look around and they say, well, they can't keep getting
away with this, but they kind of can because bo
Nicks is tied for the most total touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
He's got twenty one unto himself.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
So while there is a raticism, and while there will
be a moment when it finally uh oh, Vandy just
got stuffed on fourth and one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
We don't like that at all. We don't like that
at all. That's not a good decision.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Clark Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Okay, I am in a position where at some point
the Broncos will will regress to the mean. But if
they're surviving through these games with Bonnicks playing this way,
because the defense is such a cheat code, because they
have stars all over the place, and they may miss
pats Ortan on any given week, but they still have

(01:09:14):
a Nick Benito. They still have a Hufanga, They still
have all of these stud defensive players that are the
cheat code for a quarterback that is erratic because they're
just going to give him more opportunities and he does
eventually cash in. So it's not the most picturesque version
of quarterback play. I'm not overwhelmingly concerned about him.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
I think at some point all of it will have
to normalize to a level where the Broncos are going
to have to ask this question. I believe the Broncos
have one of, if not the best defenses in the NFL.
That's not really a hot take. I believe that the
Broncos have one of, if not definitely one of the
best coaches in the NFL shop bait, and I don't
think that's particularly a hot take. They do not have

(01:09:58):
a quarterback today I believe, over the course of the
next five years, can compete with Josh Allen Patrick Mahomes.
He's not the type of quarterback that can win you
these games over and over and over again. Now, I
don't like to make that declarative statement until we're three
years in. I just don't. But today, as we stand,
the most disturbing part of it is that, if we're

(01:10:19):
being honest, there was about a five week period at
the end of last season that looked really, really good,
and because it looked good, everybody said, oh, yeah, they
got their guy. Are we sure? I'm not sure right now,
So like much like these windows, like I'm sure, we're
all sure. It certainly looks like Drake May Jayden Daniels
were as sure as you can be of them. We're

(01:10:42):
so harsh as a media on Caleb Williams constantly, and
Caleb Williams right now is more dependable than Bo Nicks,
Like we're trashing Caleb Williams constantly, and I feel more
confident about Caleb for the next three to five years
than I do about.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Bo, which is ridiculous that Caleb Williams is getting that
much criticist. Did you know that the Chicago Bears have
the most explosive offense in the NFL this year? The
Bears I've never in my lifetime, I think, said that.
And Caleb Williams is playing fine, like he hasn't been spectacular.
But to your point, I think it's I think it's

(01:11:16):
this is not great for sports talk radio, but it's
just a situation to monitor, like does bow Knicks at
some point come out of this and become a better
version of a quarterback that may not be of the
same caliber. Obviously, will not be of the same caliber
as Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
He may not even become Drake May. Drake May is excellent.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Drake May looks like the best quarterback out of that class.
I know we're only two We're not even two years
in right, We're a year and a half into their
respective careers. But I'm I'm going to reserve the right
to just monitor bow Knicks as we move forward, because
I do still think there is something to the place.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
That he does make, even if he is in.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
A situation where he's leaving plays on the field that
will bite them in the ass at some point in
the postseason. That's the Broncos fan worst nightmare, that you
got it out all the way to the end of
the year, that you win the division because you have
built such an effective lead over the Kansas City Chiefs
who are trying to kickstart it into gear, but just
suffer to set back against the Buffalo Bills. This is

(01:12:20):
a circumstance that is has to be has to be
on every Broncos fan's mind where they're living and dying
with this level of quarterback play, and they just probably
don't trust it yet.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
Yeah, I think the hard part there is no easy
answer for this. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Patrick Mahomes
all look like they're going to be Hall of famers
and they're in the same conference you just mentioned. Drake
May he's better than bow Knicks today. Justin Herbert, I
think is probably better than Britain Drake May or sorry,
better than bow Knicks today. That gets me to that
gets me to be four five quarterbacks in their own conference.

(01:12:53):
So like, can you consistently win the AFC and be
a Super Bowl team with the sixth best quarterback in
your conference at best? And I don't think he's that.
I don't think he's anywhere near that right now. And
then more importantly, can anybody like because if your answer
is I got to be able to compete with them,
then your answer is I need a possible Hall of Fame.
But you got a quick update before we go to break?
Did is there any score up there?

Speaker 6 (01:13:14):
Up?

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
Update that? Do you want to give us on that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Bendigo uh, five seconds left, Auburn has just called or
somebody just called a timeout.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
I'm uh oh, Vanderbilt just called their second timeout. At
this point in time, Auburn technically outside of field goal range,
but they are in a second and ten situation.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
This may not end well in regulation for the commodors.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
We'll let you know if we're headed to overtime plus
the single greatest game show in the history of sports
talk radio? Would you rather coming at your next? Bucking
Fits on Fox Sports Radio? Yeah, he's Buck Rising. I'm
Jason fitzbucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. Vandy Auburn in
overtime right now, so we'll keep you updated on what
that means in the meantime, Buck, You're ready for this?

(01:13:56):
You feel good? We feel like we got it locked in?
Are we ready?

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
I feel like I've got the timing down.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
Okay, it's time for the single greatest game show in
the history of sports talk radio. It's time for would
you rather semi?

Speaker 7 (01:14:14):
I thought we know that just a little bit. Yeah,
I'll give that like a B plus. The first word
was off, but the second two were perfect. So yeah, well, yeah,
what's the second lock in? All right, there were feel good,
feel good?

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
All right? Ian is gonna give us a question. We'll
figure out would we rather one side of the other? Ian?
What you Ian? Very excited about today's Would you rather
so expect greatness? Nothing short of greatness? Ian? You're up
with all the pressure. What do you got for us?
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:14:37):
The wheel is filled with with nothing but bangers today,
so let's go ahead and spin it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Okay, the wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round.

Speaker 7 (01:14:48):
Okay, First one, would you rather stay the way you
are exactly? Or be given one billion dollars? If you're
ever within one thousand feet of Steve Harvey, you die instantly?

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
So?

Speaker 6 (01:15:00):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Billion?

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
A billion dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
That really wrong?

Speaker 7 (01:15:02):
So be be given one billion dollars. But if you're
ever within a thousand feet of Steve Harvey, you die
on the spot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Oh pretty much?

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Would you take that or not? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
I mean it would rob me of my dream of
playing family Feud, I suppose, but for a billion I
would live with it.

Speaker 7 (01:15:20):
Well, the grand prize on Family Feud is like twenty
thousand or something.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
So you're here, what that or something like? Look, I
watched Family Feud for about three hours a night half
the time. So like, look by the way bucket, like
you and I should just like maybe we'll just pretend
we're family and we'll go on family feud together someday. Look,
I'll take the billion dollars to stay away from anybody,
and I'll take my chances, because man, I can do
some damage to a billion dollars by the time you

(01:15:46):
catch me. Like, look, if you told me that that
Steve Harvey was going to get the billion for tracking
me down and it was a race to my death,
I would still take the billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I feel like I would likely expire of my own
demise or of my own means because I have a
billion dollars at my disposal and I would do something
dumb with it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Yeah, Steve Harvey wouldn't have to look very far. You
just have to look for the massive party in the mansion.
That's where you go. A billion dollars later, What do
you got next to you? Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:16:10):
Would you guys rather wear a bib every time you
eat out in a public place or drink from a
sippy cup every time you're at a bar?

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Oh, I enjoy sippy cups, so I'm all in on
drinking for the sippy cup. I'm all in. Look like
you know the you know the Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
No, no, no, no, wait damn it. When is the
last time you have had your mouth around a sippy cup,
like an actual sippy cup?

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
Well like not, okay, the I used one of those
workout bottles, theah Wallas that like has the straw in it.
You put your mouth on it, you sip like it's
a sippy cup. And we're talking like sippy cup, like
children's sippy cup, like.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
The little straw candles on the sides.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Oh god, yeah, give it to me all day. Look
Like every time I go to Starbucks and I get
a drink, they're like, do you want a straw?

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Like I like the lid that comes on that. So yeah, no,
I would enjoy. In fact, if sippy cups were our
only method of drinking drinks, I'd be happier. Wouldn't spill
it on myself? Man, I I love it. I'm all in.
I drink everything out of a straw or out of
a sippy cup if I can, So yeah, I'm all
in on sippy cups.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
I feel like I would have to do the bib.
The shame of the sippy cup is not something that
I can justify, and I probably need to be wearing
a bib when I go out to eat anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
I just want to sit down with Buck at like
the nicest steakhouse in all of Nashville, and then pull
out the sippy cup and unscrew the top of it
because like my mind has a full screw on top,
and then look at the bartender and be like, I
will take you a fines stool fashion, and then just
right there in the sippy cup cut, I'll take Blanton's
neat in the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Sippy cup diesel fuel?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:17:37):
Would you rather never eat your favorite food for the
rest of your life or only eat your favorite food
for the rest of your life?

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Oh, only eat my favorite food for the rest of
my life. I would be filetm and on at st.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Elmo's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
No, it's not a flag, it's the truth. So why
you get to pick whatever you want to pick? Why
why should my choice of dinner be a finable offense?

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
I reject your fine.

Speaker 7 (01:18:03):
No, it's just a fat that it's full a mignon.
It's not just steak. It's it's like it's a file
a minyon.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I want to full a. I don't want to. I
don't want a Denver steak.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Get out of here says everything about a personalities that
like I'm sitting here debating whether it's cake or ice
cream is my favorite food? And yes, I would need
it every day, all meal, all the time if I
possibly could, and be very happy, very very happy. What
we'll get to see and what we got next? Also
touchdown Vanderbilt, touchdown Vanderbilt and overtime.

Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Oh okay, would you rather be handed one hundred thousand
dollars right now on the spot or you have one week,
starting right now to shake Kareem Abdul Jabbar's hand for
one billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
All I gotta do is shake his hand for a
week for a billion dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
Well, you gotta track him down and stuff and then
I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
Oh yeah, I'll find him. I'll find for a billion dollars,
I'll find Kareem. Like I'll have a man hunt for Kareem.
What do you got buck.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Concerning I'll just give me one hundred grand and let
me go on with my day.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Look, one hundred grand is remarkable, that's incredible. But I'll
start offering shares of my billion to get to Kareem
like there's no doubt, Like we'll have a whole thing
going for him. All right, Stay tuned at Fox Sports
Radio all night. Vandy's ahead right now. We'll figure out
if we owe apologies, but we won't have to give
him because we won't be back till next week.

Speaker 6 (01:19:12):
Huh.

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