December 3, 2025 • 22 mins
On today’s episode, Jason discusses his biggest takeaways from the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings, specifically why the whole 'Notre Dame vs Miami (FL)' debate isn't much of a debate at all, how Lane Kiffin has helped set up Ole Miss for CFP success even after bolting to LSU, what to make of that whole LeBron James-JJ Redick on-court snafu on Monday night, and why the Pittsburgh Steelers could be making a big mistake by firing head coach Mike Tomlin.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is upre fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, straight bowyer
for Wednesday, December the third, and on a night with
pretty decent college basketball. Seriously, not bad. The biggest story
is college football. Now we will get into oh boy,
(00:31):
JJ Reddick versus lebron The Lakers are fifteen to five.
I need to preface that anytime I mentioned this as
potential drama. But it is fascinating what happened in the
game against the Suns on Monday night that was only
becoming a story on Tuesday wasn't a story of the
night of But we gotta start with college football because
they released the latest college football rankings and there is
(00:54):
some shall we say drama, I don't know. This is
one of those rare opportunities, folks, where there is a
huge disconnect between the gambling markets and we'll toss in
the prediction markets as well, and what the media and
social media are saying. Now, you also know how the
media and social media works, and this is reality. This
(01:16):
is nothing new. If you say inflammatory stuff, if you
pop off conspiracy theories, you're gonna get engagement because people
are like, shut up, that's crazy. What the hell are
you talking about? And all of a sudden that's what
you want. You don't want to, Oh, nice job, that's
just not what works in twenty twenty five. I hate that.
I hate that. It's a thing, but it is a thing.
That's where we are. Okay. Now, I could on this podcast,
(01:39):
come on every day and say absolutely crazy bunker shit,
and you guys should be like, are you kidding me?
Come on at But guess what it would pop off
on social media? Oh my gosh, this idiot said this.
How could he? Oh my god? You know that kind
of deal. I'm not doing that. That's not what I do. Yes,
I'll have strong opinions, but it's backed up and rooted
in fact. Okay, this Miami Notre Dame stuff to me
(02:03):
feels like nonsense. Guys. You know Dan Wilkin obviously college
football writer, college basketball writer. He's been on the pod.
Good guy plays a lot of tennis. He could smoke
me in tennis. I have not played enough lately. Anyways.
Dan Wilkin wrote an interesting column that, based on what
happened at the college football playoff ranking seating thing on
(02:25):
Tuesday night, that there's a trapdoor to drop Notre Dame
and get Miami in. And other people are saying this there,
but it's only the media. No gambling lines have moved none.
As a matter of fact, they've moved a little more
toward Notre Dame getting it. So the folks setting the
lines yes no for the college football playoffs think Notre
(02:48):
Dame is overwhelming, Like, I mean, JF, what do you
mean by overwhelming? As I'm recording this. We're recording this
as I'm watching the end of Duke Florida on Tuesday night.
Draft Kings has Notre Dame minus five hundred yes to
make the playoffs. That means if you want to win
one hundred dollars, you got to bet five hundred dollars, okay,
(03:12):
Miami Yes, No, Yes is a large plus number. No
minus fourteen hundred minus fourteen hundred, that's goofy. Nobody's betting that.
FanDuel has Notre Dame currently minus five twenty yes to
make the playoff. Miami not even listed. They don't want
(03:32):
that action. So then I went to prediction markets. I
remember we did the pod a couple weeks ago with
Ryan Glaspiegel. He's really good and he's up on the
prediction market, so I was texting with him. Boy, I'm
not seeing much on the prediction markets. Of course, he's
really good and gets Calshi much better than I do.
(03:53):
And Notre Dame yes, to make it one hundred dollars,
nets you one hundred and twenty four dollars. Okay, Miami, yes,
to make it one hundred dollars bet and nets you
five hundred and eighty six dollars. Everybody is saying Notre
Dame is in and Miami is a long shot. Of course,
(04:17):
you go online and it's Miami's got the resume, Miami
shuitl get aa, Miami's gotta be in media, Miami's gonna
leap frog Notre Dame. It's very strange. The disconnect is interesting.
That does present itself potentially a gambling opportunity. Well, j Mac,
you think you think Notre Dame is a locko, put
your money where your mouth is A I'm not betting
on that to happen because it's not an actual game.
(04:40):
I don't think there's any edge to be gained, whereas
in some games and matchups you can, you know, break
down the scheme. Injuries, replacements, coaching tendencies. There's so much
stuff out there on this. You're begging on a committee
going into a room. I don't know what those guys
are saying. They clearly don't have their shit together. I mean,
in weird move. So Alabama struggles to beat Auburn in
(05:04):
a good game. Okay, the committee moves Alabama up to
nine and Notre Dame drops to ten. At eleven is BYU.
At twelve is Miami. So Texas Tech is facing BYU
in the Big twelve title game. Texas Tech is a
twelve and a half point favorite. I'm on the Red Raiders.
(05:26):
Not significant, but remember I have money from August on
Texas Tech to make the playoff. I think they're in.
BYU's coach spent half of the last few days essentially
talking to Penn State about the job. He decided on Tuesday, Yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna stay
(05:48):
at BYU. So he's slightly distracted. I'm sure he's gonna
hit the recruiting trail hard. It makes all it makes
all the sense in the world. It would be a
stunner if BYU beat Texas Tech and then you're talking
about two teams from the Big twelve getting and Texas
Tech's getting in. Either way, they're in, okay, and then
BYU would sneak in as well, so somebody would get
(06:09):
shafted there. Okay. But if Texas Tech wins is expected,
then BYU drops. So now you've got Alabama nine, Miami a,
Notre Dame ten, Miami eleven. Okay. So let's say Alabama
(06:30):
beats Georgia, they move up there in Georgia staying in.
If Georgia wins against Alabama and Georgia's favored by two
and a half, how far do you drop Bama in
this scenario? What do you do there? Do you just
move them down from nine to ten? Do you go?
Are they lower than Miami? Now? I don't know, but
(06:51):
either way, note, once BYU loses, Notre Dame will be
next to Miami. And of course one of this goofy
ass committee, saying total nonsense all night last night, comes
out and says, we're not comparing Notre Dame and Miami
side by side. He says it mostly has been Alabama nine,
(07:16):
Notre Dame ten, BYU eleven, Miami twelve, And he goes
on to say so the head to head result is
just one of the factors to play. It doesn't mean
a lot because they're all grouped together. Well, what happens
if they separate themselves? Alabama moves up or down and
then now tourn Notre Dame's side by side with Miami.
Are you kidding me? Do you know how dumb this is?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This is what we're doing in college football? I mean
absolutely asinine. Hey, whoa wait a minute, So BYU loses,
nothing happens to Notre Dame. The only result Notre Dame
can help be helped by is they played Boise State
this season. They beat Boise twenty eight seven. Bois's in
(08:00):
the MWC Conference championship game Friday. They are four point
favorites over UNLV. So let's say Boise wins. Does that
help Notre Dame? Well, hey, they played at conference champion.
Miami has nobody on their schedule playing this weekend. There
is zero way for their resume to get better. On
what planet? Are these goofballs gonna sit in a room
(08:22):
and say why white about it? One hundred days ago,
Miami did beat Notre Dame matt to head. It was
at home. It was in a rain storm? Was there
a rookie quarterbacks first game, a freshman quarterbacks first game?
Are they gonna do that now? Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh yeah? Wait?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We got to make the move based on nothing, based
on air. It just doesn't add up. Now, Listen, college
football goofballs have done dumber things before. Okay, so nothing
would surprise me. But that's when I keep going back
to the gambling market and I'm like, the folks in
Vegas aren't seeting that now. Maybe it's a blind spot.
Maybe the limits are low, so they're not really gonna
(08:56):
take a beating year. I don't know what you can
get down on. Yes, no, to make the college football
play off at this point. But if someone has inside
information in the room, then maybe, you know, maybe all
of a sudden the lines change. I don't know. I
just guys, I don't see it at all. It just
doesn't make sense. I don't understand how all of a
(09:20):
sudden you could be like, oh oh oh, that's right.
Notre Dame lost to Miami one hundred days ago, so
now we've got to make the change, Like, what are
we doing? Just expand the damn thing to sixteen? I
don't know. I get kind of sort of worked up
about this. I am not going to go in on
Lane Kiffin here, despite you know, Lane put out this
(09:41):
big statement. And it's funny because I had defended Lane
for a while. I thought he was a good coach.
I'm not gonna lie. He's a South Bay guy out here.
His ex wife is pretty well known. His kids are
moderately famous locally. Obviously, you know the family's wealthy. I
don't personally know any of them, but Lin Kivid by
(10:02):
all accounts of dads who I know who know him
say it's a nice guy. He's pretty cool, and i'd
see him running from time to time in the summer here.
I don't totally understand why he came out and made
this whole statement. After a lot of prayer, I've made
the difficult decision. Blah blah blah. But where it gets
interesting is my request was denied to be the head coach.
(10:29):
I wanted to coach the team through the playoff and
I want I wanted to coach these guys in while
taking the LSU job. So what happens, of course, that
ole miss players wait a couple of days and they
come out and one of them says that was not
the message you said in the meeting room. Everybody was
(10:49):
there can vouch for this. So he's lying. So was
Lane bullshitting? Maybe laying the liar? Another player his name
is Bryson Sanders in quotes, this guy wrote, despite the
team asking me to keep coaching the player rights, I
(11:11):
think everyone that was in that room would disagree. So
the team didn't want him to coach. He was trying
to leverage the team against old miss man. Listen, college
football is a dirty game, guys, real real dirty. Oh
my gosh, the fact that Lane would try this. So anyways,
now he's hitting the recruited trail hard. And I did
have some guys slider to my DMS to say, Yo, Jay,
(11:32):
come on, what the hell man, you said Penn State
could win sooner than LSU. Penn State doesn't even have
a coach yet, and Penn State whift on the BYU
coach allegedly, well not really allegedly, but Penn State fans
are panicked. They're like, you guys fired James Franklin and
we had no plan. And some Penn State fans are
listing all the guys they whiffed on. This does happen
(11:54):
from time to time, you go in with a plan, Hey,
we're gonna fire our coach and we're gonna get X
y Z, And then next thing you know, you're just
wiping on everyone. Now, there is also a rumor out
there that Jimmy Sexton, a powerful agent, did not really
like what happened to James Franklin at Penn State and
is thus advising his clients not to take the Penn
(12:17):
State job. So now Penn State, you know, maybe they
end up with Brian Dabole or something along those lines.
I do find listen obviously, I like betting college football.
I enjoy the games. The subplots have an NBA field
to them. I mean, if we're being honest, some of
this nonsense is so goofy. I mean, Ole Miss dumping
Lane Lane Kiffin's clothes in the street after he left, Like,
(12:40):
come on, that's pretty fun. That's like scorned wife kind
of stuff.
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All right, let's move on from college football and quickly
to h the Lebron JJ Reddick incident, shall we say,
from Monday night. So Lakers are getting smacked by the
Suns in the third quarter. They're down twenty eighteen twenty.
At the time, Lakers are taking out in front of
their bench, going the distance to the court. JJ Reddick
(13:19):
is on the sideline at the edge of the coach's
box calling Lebron's name because he's trying to run a
play Bron Bron. You can hear it audibly. Lebron is
talking to someone on the Sun's bench. It appears to
be Godwin, the former Laker. I don't know if you know,
there was you know, chatter about Dylan Gabriel. I don't
know what was being said. That's unclear to this point.
(13:41):
But bottom line is Lebron was talking to the Sun's bench.
Lakers inbound the ball. Reddick keeps calling Lebron's name. Lebron's
not answering. Reddick has to burn a time out to
set the play up. And you can and the video
that's out there, I think they started on Reddit. You
can see the look on Reddick's face. He's like looking
(14:04):
at Lebron and then just shakes his head like what
the hell. And again we can argue that, yeah, they're
down eighteen. Come on, this is this game. Listen. That's
not cool, man, That is not cool. And when you
see the bromance going on between Austin Reeves and Luca
and then you see Lebron checked out in a blowout loss,
(14:28):
not listening to his coach, it's like, well, well, what's
going on here? Listen, Lebron, this is the NBA. You've
been around long enough that you know an eighteen point
league can be gone in four minutes. Okay, NBA's crazy
with threes. Now, the Suns they were not gonna blow
that on Monday Night. They were bombs away. But what
I found totally fascinating was the fact that Lakers fans
(14:51):
were angry with Lebron about this. Now, listen, we all
totally get it. You know who hasn't talked to the
opposing bench. It's Lebron. You know it's not This was
at the end of the game. But I don't think
it's a great look for Lebron given his standing with
the team. Obviously, he's the all time greatest player in
the history of the sport. He brought the Lakers a championship.
(15:14):
Lakers love him, but this is Luca's team now, I
think he understands that. And the other thing is Austin
Reeves is starting to play like a bona fide All Star,
and Austin Reeves and Luca are joking around in TV interviews.
I got more dunks than you now, ha ha. I'm
not gonna be your friend. They're joking around, they're having fun,
(15:37):
and there's Lebron talking to the opposing team while his
coach is trying to call a play. I'm not making
a federal case out of it. I'm not blasting Lebron, okay.
I just think if we're being honest with ourselves, this
is a horrible, a rare, horrible look for Lebron. Now.
I'm curious if the Lakers address it. Maybe Lebron steps
(15:59):
up a zomb to do about nothing. I don't know, guys.
I just didn't like what I saw in a blowout
loss from That's just not behavior that Lebron usually offers up.
So overall, I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little disappointed
(16:19):
in Lebron.
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We can wrap up with a couple of minutes on
Mike Tomlin, the suddenly embattled Pittsburgh Steelers coach. I found
this story hard to believe. But Steelers fans, it seems like,
are over the Mike Tomlin experience. He's been there forever.
They haven't won a playoff game, and I think it's
been about nine or ten years despite making the playoffs.
(16:57):
It's a weird situation I don't understand and wanting to
run off a really good coach like Tomlin unless management,
i e. The ownership group is like, Mike, we gotta
dump this defensive strategy. It's it's just not working. We
gotta we gotta change it up. We gotta get a
quarterback in here, we gotta we gotta make a lot
(17:17):
of changes. And Mike Tomlin's like, Nah, I don't want
to do that. Then does he walk away? Does he
go to television? Hell, if Mike Tomlin hits the market,
you're telling me, like a franchise starve for a playoff berth,
like my Jets or the freaking Titans. You're telling me
those neither of those teams would be like, ah, you know,
Aaron Glenn, you're nice, But Mike Tomlin's on the market.
(17:39):
I'm not comparing him to Rabel, I'm not comparing him
to Harbaugh. But undeniably, if Mike Tomlin were fired, he
would one thousand percent be the best coach available on
the market this offseason. Yes, better than Bill Belichick. I'm
sorry the Belichick experience. No, that's just I don't think
that's a thing. I understand Steelers fans are upset, but
(18:03):
I have more questions who built this roster, who keeps
investing in defense, because you know, usually it's not really
the coaches the GM. I mean, I get the reboot attempt. Hey,
let's go get Aaron Rodgers. Yeah yeah, h my Jets
tried that. You know, you saw how that played out,
and the same thing's happening with the Steelers right now.
(18:23):
But who gave up on Pickens? Was that Mike Tomlin
or was that the GM? I mean, we've got unanswered questions.
There's usually a chain of command, a hierarchy in most
of these NFL programs that are very clear. You know,
John Lynch and Shanahan work together to shape the roster,
right Brett Veach obviously excellent in Kansas City, gets a
(18:46):
ton of credit and knows Andy Reid system and knows
the guys that fit. I mean, what's going on in Pittsburgh.
We just we need the Pittsburgh media to shed a
little more light on that because this whole Oh Mike
Tomlin's got to go? Is he really the problem? I
think it's a legitimate question. I mean, this is the
guy who put up with a lot of crap from
a bunch of petulant stars in Pittsburgh over the years.
(19:09):
Antonio Brown leveon Belt. What did those guys do after
leaving Pittsburgh. By the way, I know Antonio Brown won
a title with the Bucks, but come on, he wasn't
like their number one guy. He was good. Tom Brady
got him in line, but I don't know. Remind me
Deontay Deontay Johnson, Remember he had a really good year
in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's like, yeah, we're done with you. And
(19:29):
what happened to him Le'Veon Belt?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Member?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hell, he was like, I'm holding out for all the
money shows up with my jets is total garbage. Like,
let's be realistic here, this is not a fifty to
fifty GM Mike Tomlin split. Okay, Mike Tomlin is an
unbelievable coach, a Hall of Fame Locke. I just of
all the people you want to run off with, Mike Tomlin,
(19:55):
get the guy at quarterback. I mean, he hasn't had
one since Big Ben lost left. Big Ben leaves, and
it's tough to find a quarterback. Remind me, Miami Dolphins fans,
what was it like when Dan Marino retired? That's what
I thought. How about when Jim Kelly left Buffalo? You
know how long it took them to find Josh Allen.
It ain't easy finding franchise quarterbacks. I mean, hell, Troy
(20:17):
Aikman leaves the Cowboys. They haven't been to a conference
championship game in thirty years, and they now have Dak
Prescott leading away like he's fine. But okay, it's hard
to find franchise quarterbacks. So if that's the argument, eight,
we can't find one with Tomlin. Okay, I don't know
why that would be. But you guys like Mason Rudolph,
(20:40):
can he Pickett Duck Hodges? I mean, you got a
lot of bites at the apple and it's not easy.
But blaming Tomlin. I just find that very surprising. And
I'll be honest, Raiders are probably gonna run off Pete Carroll.
I don't think he's I don't think anybody's itching to
get in the Pete Carroll business, do you. I mean,
we're seeing how Belichick's doing in North Carolina. I mean
(21:01):
Pete Carroll seems in over his head. Would the Raiders
go get Mike Tomlin? Brown's fans seem very hell bent
to run Stefanski out of town and give Shittur Sanders
the keys to the franchise. Okay, go for it, guys, Yeah,
Stefanski will get a job this cycle, probably a head
coaching job. I don't understand that Kevin connell nastiness in Minnesota. Well,
(21:24):
he didn't want Darnold, and you know we also had
Daniel Jones and he settled for McCarthy. Okay, so the
GM and O'Connell seem to really like McCarthy. He started
like six games. I get it. You know, we change
quarterbacks like we change our socks. But he's barely played. Guys,
(21:47):
McCarthy has not look good. He's been abysmal, no doubt
about it. He's gonna start next year. He's got you
have to see what else you got, but running off
Kevin O'Connor, running off Mike Tumblin and O'Connell. I don't
has he won a playoff game. I don't think he asked.
I think he's a great coach. I just it's very
perplexing how these fan bases always think firing the coach
(22:08):
is the answer. I mean, sure, you could say, well,
look at the Patriots with Rabel. They got Rabel and
all of a sudden, Girarden Mayo to Vrabel is like
going from Ahndai Sonata to a Ferrari. Okay, Rabel was
an amazing coach. Going from Brandon Staley to Jim Harbaugh
is like going from a bicycle to like a Maserati.
(22:31):
Like let's be realistic here, Okay, if Tomlin hits the market,
he's the number one coaching prospect. All right, that's all
for today. We have a good guest lined up for tomorrow.
It should be a fun interview. We'll talk to you then,
This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is upre fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, straight bowyer
for Wednesday, December the third, and on a night with
pretty decent college basketball. Seriously, not bad. The biggest story
is college football. Now we will get into oh boy,
(00:31):
JJ Reddick versus lebron The Lakers are fifteen to five.
I need to preface that anytime I mentioned this as
potential drama. But it is fascinating what happened in the
game against the Suns on Monday night that was only
becoming a story on Tuesday wasn't a story of the
night of But we gotta start with college football because
they released the latest college football rankings and there is
(00:54):
some shall we say drama, I don't know. This is
one of those rare opportunities, folks, where there is a
huge disconnect between the gambling markets and we'll toss in
the prediction markets as well, and what the media and
social media are saying. Now, you also know how the
media and social media works, and this is reality. This
(01:16):
is nothing new. If you say inflammatory stuff, if you
pop off conspiracy theories, you're gonna get engagement because people
are like, shut up, that's crazy. What the hell are
you talking about? And all of a sudden that's what
you want. You don't want to, Oh, nice job, that's
just not what works in twenty twenty five. I hate that.
I hate that. It's a thing, but it is a thing.
That's where we are. Okay. Now, I could on this podcast,
(01:39):
come on every day and say absolutely crazy bunker shit,
and you guys should be like, are you kidding me?
Come on at But guess what it would pop off
on social media? Oh my gosh, this idiot said this.
How could he? Oh my god? You know that kind
of deal. I'm not doing that. That's not what I do. Yes,
I'll have strong opinions, but it's backed up and rooted
in fact. Okay, this Miami Notre Dame stuff to me
(02:03):
feels like nonsense. Guys. You know Dan Wilkin obviously college
football writer, college basketball writer. He's been on the pod.
Good guy plays a lot of tennis. He could smoke
me in tennis. I have not played enough lately. Anyways.
Dan Wilkin wrote an interesting column that, based on what
happened at the college football playoff ranking seating thing on
(02:25):
Tuesday night, that there's a trapdoor to drop Notre Dame
and get Miami in. And other people are saying this there,
but it's only the media. No gambling lines have moved none.
As a matter of fact, they've moved a little more
toward Notre Dame getting it. So the folks setting the
lines yes no for the college football playoffs think Notre
(02:48):
Dame is overwhelming, Like, I mean, JF, what do you
mean by overwhelming? As I'm recording this. We're recording this
as I'm watching the end of Duke Florida on Tuesday night.
Draft Kings has Notre Dame minus five hundred yes to
make the playoffs. That means if you want to win
one hundred dollars, you got to bet five hundred dollars, okay,
(03:12):
Miami Yes, No, Yes is a large plus number. No
minus fourteen hundred minus fourteen hundred, that's goofy. Nobody's betting that.
FanDuel has Notre Dame currently minus five twenty yes to
make the playoff. Miami not even listed. They don't want
(03:32):
that action. So then I went to prediction markets. I
remember we did the pod a couple weeks ago with
Ryan Glaspiegel. He's really good and he's up on the
prediction market, so I was texting with him. Boy, I'm
not seeing much on the prediction markets. Of course, he's
really good and gets Calshi much better than I do.
(03:53):
And Notre Dame yes, to make it one hundred dollars,
nets you one hundred and twenty four dollars. Okay, Miami, yes,
to make it one hundred dollars bet and nets you
five hundred and eighty six dollars. Everybody is saying Notre
Dame is in and Miami is a long shot. Of course,
(04:17):
you go online and it's Miami's got the resume, Miami
shuitl get aa, Miami's gotta be in media, Miami's gonna
leap frog Notre Dame. It's very strange. The disconnect is interesting.
That does present itself potentially a gambling opportunity. Well, j Mac,
you think you think Notre Dame is a locko, put
your money where your mouth is A I'm not betting
on that to happen because it's not an actual game.
(04:40):
I don't think there's any edge to be gained, whereas
in some games and matchups you can, you know, break
down the scheme. Injuries, replacements, coaching tendencies. There's so much
stuff out there on this. You're begging on a committee
going into a room. I don't know what those guys
are saying. They clearly don't have their shit together. I mean,
in weird move. So Alabama struggles to beat Auburn in
(05:04):
a good game. Okay, the committee moves Alabama up to
nine and Notre Dame drops to ten. At eleven is BYU.
At twelve is Miami. So Texas Tech is facing BYU
in the Big twelve title game. Texas Tech is a
twelve and a half point favorite. I'm on the Red Raiders.
(05:26):
Not significant, but remember I have money from August on
Texas Tech to make the playoff. I think they're in.
BYU's coach spent half of the last few days essentially
talking to Penn State about the job. He decided on Tuesday, Yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna stay
(05:48):
at BYU. So he's slightly distracted. I'm sure he's gonna
hit the recruiting trail hard. It makes all it makes
all the sense in the world. It would be a
stunner if BYU beat Texas Tech and then you're talking
about two teams from the Big twelve getting and Texas
Tech's getting in. Either way, they're in, okay, and then
BYU would sneak in as well, so somebody would get
(06:09):
shafted there. Okay. But if Texas Tech wins is expected,
then BYU drops. So now you've got Alabama nine, Miami a,
Notre Dame ten, Miami eleven. Okay. So let's say Alabama
(06:30):
beats Georgia, they move up there in Georgia staying in.
If Georgia wins against Alabama and Georgia's favored by two
and a half, how far do you drop Bama in
this scenario? What do you do there? Do you just
move them down from nine to ten? Do you go?
Are they lower than Miami? Now? I don't know, but
(06:51):
either way, note, once BYU loses, Notre Dame will be
next to Miami. And of course one of this goofy
ass committee, saying total nonsense all night last night, comes
out and says, we're not comparing Notre Dame and Miami
side by side. He says it mostly has been Alabama nine,
(07:16):
Notre Dame ten, BYU eleven, Miami twelve, And he goes
on to say so the head to head result is
just one of the factors to play. It doesn't mean
a lot because they're all grouped together. Well, what happens
if they separate themselves? Alabama moves up or down and
then now tourn Notre Dame's side by side with Miami.
Are you kidding me? Do you know how dumb this is?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This is what we're doing in college football? I mean
absolutely asinine. Hey, whoa wait a minute, So BYU loses,
nothing happens to Notre Dame. The only result Notre Dame
can help be helped by is they played Boise State
this season. They beat Boise twenty eight seven. Bois's in
(08:00):
the MWC Conference championship game Friday. They are four point
favorites over UNLV. So let's say Boise wins. Does that
help Notre Dame? Well, hey, they played at conference champion.
Miami has nobody on their schedule playing this weekend. There
is zero way for their resume to get better. On
what planet? Are these goofballs gonna sit in a room
(08:22):
and say why white about it? One hundred days ago,
Miami did beat Notre Dame matt to head. It was
at home. It was in a rain storm? Was there
a rookie quarterbacks first game, a freshman quarterbacks first game?
Are they gonna do that now? Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh yeah? Wait?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We got to make the move based on nothing, based
on air. It just doesn't add up. Now, Listen, college
football goofballs have done dumber things before. Okay, so nothing
would surprise me. But that's when I keep going back
to the gambling market and I'm like, the folks in
Vegas aren't seeting that now. Maybe it's a blind spot.
Maybe the limits are low, so they're not really gonna
(08:56):
take a beating year. I don't know what you can
get down on. Yes, no, to make the college football
play off at this point. But if someone has inside
information in the room, then maybe, you know, maybe all
of a sudden the lines change. I don't know. I
just guys, I don't see it at all. It just
doesn't make sense. I don't understand how all of a
(09:20):
sudden you could be like, oh oh oh, that's right.
Notre Dame lost to Miami one hundred days ago, so
now we've got to make the change, Like, what are
we doing? Just expand the damn thing to sixteen? I
don't know. I get kind of sort of worked up
about this. I am not going to go in on
Lane Kiffin here, despite you know, Lane put out this
(09:41):
big statement. And it's funny because I had defended Lane
for a while. I thought he was a good coach.
I'm not gonna lie. He's a South Bay guy out here.
His ex wife is pretty well known. His kids are
moderately famous locally. Obviously, you know the family's wealthy. I
don't personally know any of them, but Lin Kivid by
(10:02):
all accounts of dads who I know who know him
say it's a nice guy. He's pretty cool, and i'd
see him running from time to time in the summer here.
I don't totally understand why he came out and made
this whole statement. After a lot of prayer, I've made
the difficult decision. Blah blah blah. But where it gets
interesting is my request was denied to be the head coach.
(10:29):
I wanted to coach the team through the playoff and
I want I wanted to coach these guys in while
taking the LSU job. So what happens, of course, that
ole miss players wait a couple of days and they
come out and one of them says that was not
the message you said in the meeting room. Everybody was
(10:49):
there can vouch for this. So he's lying. So was
Lane bullshitting? Maybe laying the liar? Another player his name
is Bryson Sanders in quotes, this guy wrote, despite the
team asking me to keep coaching the player rights, I
(11:11):
think everyone that was in that room would disagree. So
the team didn't want him to coach. He was trying
to leverage the team against old miss man. Listen, college
football is a dirty game, guys, real real dirty. Oh
my gosh, the fact that Lane would try this. So anyways,
now he's hitting the recruited trail hard. And I did
have some guys slider to my DMS to say, Yo, Jay,
(11:32):
come on, what the hell man, you said Penn State
could win sooner than LSU. Penn State doesn't even have
a coach yet, and Penn State whift on the BYU
coach allegedly, well not really allegedly, but Penn State fans
are panicked. They're like, you guys fired James Franklin and
we had no plan. And some Penn State fans are
listing all the guys they whiffed on. This does happen
(11:54):
from time to time, you go in with a plan, Hey,
we're gonna fire our coach and we're gonna get X
y Z, And then next thing you know, you're just
wiping on everyone. Now, there is also a rumor out
there that Jimmy Sexton, a powerful agent, did not really
like what happened to James Franklin at Penn State and
is thus advising his clients not to take the Penn
(12:17):
State job. So now Penn State, you know, maybe they
end up with Brian Dabole or something along those lines.
I do find listen obviously, I like betting college football.
I enjoy the games. The subplots have an NBA field
to them. I mean, if we're being honest, some of
this nonsense is so goofy. I mean, Ole Miss dumping
Lane Lane Kiffin's clothes in the street after he left, Like,
(12:40):
come on, that's pretty fun. That's like scorned wife kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
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Speaker 2 (12:56):
All right, let's move on from college football and quickly
to h the Lebron JJ Reddick incident, shall we say,
from Monday night. So Lakers are getting smacked by the
Suns in the third quarter. They're down twenty eighteen twenty.
At the time, Lakers are taking out in front of
their bench, going the distance to the court. JJ Reddick
(13:19):
is on the sideline at the edge of the coach's
box calling Lebron's name because he's trying to run a
play Bron Bron. You can hear it audibly. Lebron is
talking to someone on the Sun's bench. It appears to
be Godwin, the former Laker. I don't know if you know,
there was you know, chatter about Dylan Gabriel. I don't
know what was being said. That's unclear to this point.
(13:41):
But bottom line is Lebron was talking to the Sun's bench.
Lakers inbound the ball. Reddick keeps calling Lebron's name. Lebron's
not answering. Reddick has to burn a time out to
set the play up. And you can and the video
that's out there, I think they started on Reddit. You
can see the look on Reddick's face. He's like looking
(14:04):
at Lebron and then just shakes his head like what
the hell. And again we can argue that, yeah, they're
down eighteen. Come on, this is this game. Listen. That's
not cool, man, That is not cool. And when you
see the bromance going on between Austin Reeves and Luca
and then you see Lebron checked out in a blowout loss,
(14:28):
not listening to his coach, it's like, well, well, what's
going on here? Listen, Lebron, this is the NBA. You've
been around long enough that you know an eighteen point
league can be gone in four minutes. Okay, NBA's crazy
with threes. Now, the Suns they were not gonna blow
that on Monday Night. They were bombs away. But what
I found totally fascinating was the fact that Lakers fans
(14:51):
were angry with Lebron about this. Now, listen, we all
totally get it. You know who hasn't talked to the
opposing bench. It's Lebron. You know it's not This was
at the end of the game. But I don't think
it's a great look for Lebron given his standing with
the team. Obviously, he's the all time greatest player in
the history of the sport. He brought the Lakers a championship.
(15:14):
Lakers love him, but this is Luca's team now, I
think he understands that. And the other thing is Austin
Reeves is starting to play like a bona fide All Star,
and Austin Reeves and Luca are joking around in TV interviews.
I got more dunks than you now, ha ha. I'm
not gonna be your friend. They're joking around, they're having fun,
(15:37):
and there's Lebron talking to the opposing team while his
coach is trying to call a play. I'm not making
a federal case out of it. I'm not blasting Lebron, okay.
I just think if we're being honest with ourselves, this
is a horrible, a rare, horrible look for Lebron. Now.
I'm curious if the Lakers address it. Maybe Lebron steps
(15:59):
up a zomb to do about nothing. I don't know, guys.
I just didn't like what I saw in a blowout
loss from That's just not behavior that Lebron usually offers up.
So overall, I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little disappointed
(16:19):
in Lebron.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
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Speaker 2 (16:33):
We can wrap up with a couple of minutes on
Mike Tomlin, the suddenly embattled Pittsburgh Steelers coach. I found
this story hard to believe. But Steelers fans, it seems like,
are over the Mike Tomlin experience. He's been there forever.
They haven't won a playoff game, and I think it's
been about nine or ten years despite making the playoffs.
(16:57):
It's a weird situation I don't understand and wanting to
run off a really good coach like Tomlin unless management,
i e. The ownership group is like, Mike, we gotta
dump this defensive strategy. It's it's just not working. We
gotta we gotta change it up. We gotta get a
quarterback in here, we gotta we gotta make a lot
(17:17):
of changes. And Mike Tomlin's like, Nah, I don't want
to do that. Then does he walk away? Does he
go to television? Hell, if Mike Tomlin hits the market,
you're telling me, like a franchise starve for a playoff berth,
like my Jets or the freaking Titans. You're telling me
those neither of those teams would be like, ah, you know,
Aaron Glenn, you're nice, But Mike Tomlin's on the market.
(17:39):
I'm not comparing him to Rabel, I'm not comparing him
to Harbaugh. But undeniably, if Mike Tomlin were fired, he
would one thousand percent be the best coach available on
the market this offseason. Yes, better than Bill Belichick. I'm
sorry the Belichick experience. No, that's just I don't think
that's a thing. I understand Steelers fans are upset, but
(18:03):
I have more questions who built this roster, who keeps
investing in defense, because you know, usually it's not really
the coaches the GM. I mean, I get the reboot attempt. Hey,
let's go get Aaron Rodgers. Yeah yeah, h my Jets
tried that. You know, you saw how that played out,
and the same thing's happening with the Steelers right now.
(18:23):
But who gave up on Pickens? Was that Mike Tomlin
or was that the GM? I mean, we've got unanswered questions.
There's usually a chain of command, a hierarchy in most
of these NFL programs that are very clear. You know,
John Lynch and Shanahan work together to shape the roster,
right Brett Veach obviously excellent in Kansas City, gets a
(18:46):
ton of credit and knows Andy Reid system and knows
the guys that fit. I mean, what's going on in Pittsburgh.
We just we need the Pittsburgh media to shed a
little more light on that because this whole Oh Mike
Tomlin's got to go? Is he really the problem? I
think it's a legitimate question. I mean, this is the
guy who put up with a lot of crap from
a bunch of petulant stars in Pittsburgh over the years.
(19:09):
Antonio Brown leveon Belt. What did those guys do after
leaving Pittsburgh. By the way, I know Antonio Brown won
a title with the Bucks, but come on, he wasn't
like their number one guy. He was good. Tom Brady
got him in line, but I don't know. Remind me
Deontay Deontay Johnson, Remember he had a really good year
in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's like, yeah, we're done with you. And
(19:29):
what happened to him Le'Veon Belt?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Member?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hell, he was like, I'm holding out for all the
money shows up with my jets is total garbage. Like,
let's be realistic here, this is not a fifty to
fifty GM Mike Tomlin split. Okay, Mike Tomlin is an
unbelievable coach, a Hall of Fame Locke. I just of
all the people you want to run off with, Mike Tomlin,
(19:55):
get the guy at quarterback. I mean, he hasn't had
one since Big Ben lost left. Big Ben leaves, and
it's tough to find a quarterback. Remind me, Miami Dolphins fans,
what was it like when Dan Marino retired? That's what
I thought. How about when Jim Kelly left Buffalo? You
know how long it took them to find Josh Allen.
It ain't easy finding franchise quarterbacks. I mean, hell, Troy
(20:17):
Aikman leaves the Cowboys. They haven't been to a conference
championship game in thirty years, and they now have Dak
Prescott leading away like he's fine. But okay, it's hard
to find franchise quarterbacks. So if that's the argument, eight,
we can't find one with Tomlin. Okay, I don't know
why that would be. But you guys like Mason Rudolph,
(20:40):
can he Pickett Duck Hodges? I mean, you got a
lot of bites at the apple and it's not easy.
But blaming Tomlin. I just find that very surprising. And
I'll be honest, Raiders are probably gonna run off Pete Carroll.
I don't think he's I don't think anybody's itching to
get in the Pete Carroll business, do you. I mean,
we're seeing how Belichick's doing in North Carolina. I mean
(21:01):
Pete Carroll seems in over his head. Would the Raiders
go get Mike Tomlin? Brown's fans seem very hell bent
to run Stefanski out of town and give Shittur Sanders
the keys to the franchise. Okay, go for it, guys, Yeah,
Stefanski will get a job this cycle, probably a head
coaching job. I don't understand that Kevin connell nastiness in Minnesota. Well,
(21:24):
he didn't want Darnold, and you know we also had
Daniel Jones and he settled for McCarthy. Okay, so the
GM and O'Connell seem to really like McCarthy. He started
like six games. I get it. You know, we change
quarterbacks like we change our socks. But he's barely played. Guys,
(21:47):
McCarthy has not look good. He's been abysmal, no doubt
about it. He's gonna start next year. He's got you
have to see what else you got, but running off
Kevin O'Connor, running off Mike Tumblin and O'Connell. I don't
has he won a playoff game. I don't think he asked.
I think he's a great coach. I just it's very
perplexing how these fan bases always think firing the coach
(22:08):
is the answer. I mean, sure, you could say, well,
look at the Patriots with Rabel. They got Rabel and
all of a sudden, Girarden Mayo to Vrabel is like
going from Ahndai Sonata to a Ferrari. Okay, Rabel was
an amazing coach. Going from Brandon Staley to Jim Harbaugh
is like going from a bicycle to like a Maserati.
(22:31):
Like let's be realistic here, Okay, if Tomlin hits the market,
he's the number one coaching prospect. All right, that's all
for today. We have a good guest lined up for tomorrow.
It should be a fun interview. We'll talk to you then,
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