The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk Week 1 of College Football, NFL Traditions & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well, welcome to the best time of the year.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Good morning, my brother. I would love to say it
was a great night of football last night, but you know,
Mi Alma Mater lost fifty one to three, uh to

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this Elia.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Than I expected. Let's say, I mean, kept kept it close.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
What when I was there, it was it was.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh god, I mean that Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It was just it was great to see football like
well we have Thursday night. Last night, last Saturday, Georgia
Tech with the big upset my brother, but last night
that was familiar to me watching my Alma Mater get
their teeth kicked in. Where have you gone that rule?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
You know what you're sitting there saying watching your alma
mater get their teeth kicked in a because I'm a
beacon of light in the dark, dark world, is saying,
think of the paycheck the Temple just got, you know,
look a look at it. Look at the right side there.
You know, Temple just got themselves a little bit cash
to get that butt kicked. At least at least they
can say they got the payday for I'm just I'm
so happy watching football. I found myself like, I was

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sitting there with some buddies having some dinner, and I
saw Temple on in the background, and my heart broke
a little bit for you, and I was like, you
know what, you know what, as much as it stinks,
this is football, meaningful football. I was sitting there Thursday night, right,
I had some buddies come over. We were playing the
college video game early and then we're all of a sudden,
we're sitting out of the couch and I was like, guys,
there's meaningful, real college football on right now. We were

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sitting there just absolutely captivated by North Dakota State and
Colorado right like, It's just I got the Jey Joy,
Joey Joy down in my heart.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Brother I'm completely with you, completely. This is it, man,
best time of the year. This Thursday is to kickoff
of the NFL. We have a Thursday game, a Friday game,
a big slate Sunday game, one Monday. Like, it's is it, man,
We're here. We finally made all that talk of hey,

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you know, what are we going to do? And it's
finally here. Man, it's it's great. And we got a
big day today man, Notre Dame, Texas A and M
and at noon it's on their way with Georgia.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Wow, we'll get to see Georgia. It's a good game.
It's great. You know, we're just in We're just a
few hours away.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I found myself again last night crow text going off,
where are we watching games tomorrow? And just the thought
that we're planning the sports bars we're gonna hop to
to watch the games. Just something feels right. Fall is
in the air. You know, I'm beginning to Connecticut like
it's almost hoodie weather. Like there's this little crispness coming
in early in the morning, right, like you got all

(03:24):
of these things going on at once to just culminate
to my favorite time of the year. It just feels
so good.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Right, feel good? Yeah, you know what, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
My buddy, I got a buddy of Mike Teoc and
T was like, he was like, dude, you're killing me,
killing me because aught because I was waxing poetically about
the about the night's growing longer and how it's getting
dark earlier that now all of a sudden sunset, they're

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over the trees where the kids play football. It's now
like the sun sets like like seven to third. And
then I'm like, dude, and I start to feel that breeze.
It's a slightly Canadian breeze that cleans the air. And
he's like, dude, aham a summer guy.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I go, but dude, it's football. He goes. He got me.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
There, the slightly Canadian breeze that fills the air. My god.
Sometimes I'm reminded that you were a writer in every
good way. Like that's just like as you said that,
I could just hear Morgan Freeman, you know, for an
astronomical amount of money reading that for us saying, you know,
the slightly, the slightly Canadian breeze fills the air I feel.

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But and you're right, I think one thing that as
much as we are critical at times of college football
and the schedules and the schedules of different teams, They've
also given us a day that is filled with games
that are worth watching, Like there is no doubt that
the fact that you have two of the biggest brands
in college football in a statement game for two different
programs in Georgia and Clemson coming out of the gates

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at noon, just it's a where are they now? Moment
for Georgia that I feel like we're almost we're almost
taking the greatness of Georgia for granted right now, Like
we're not talking about them nationally as much as I
think we usually do for a team that's expected to
be as great as they are, and they're taking on
a Clemson team that we're really looking and saying, is

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Clemson even worth having national conversations at all about? And
it's that's huge.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I was funny, I was thinking about that today or
the other day because I'm going, man, Georgia, Georgia is
going to bury them, Like do that? Does Clemson belong
on the field with them? Like that's who need to
we need to figure that out, And I don't think
they do.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
That.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
It's watching this version of Clemson is going to be
eye opening because I love any coach that has conviction
for what they believe in football programs and how they
should be built, and certainly Dabo has that in the
way that Clemson is building everything. But it's not a
secret to anyone that may not follow college football as much.
Clemson has gone counterculture in the way that they're building

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their program, so they're simply choosing not to participate to
the same levels things like name, image, likeness, the transfer portal.
Dabo is a traditionalist in the way he wants to
build a football program, and this really becomes the science experiment,
the test for everybody on how you build a program,
because Clemson is standing here saying we don't have to
do it that way, and maybe they're right because all

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they have to do, and this is true for everybody,
all you have to do is win your conference and
you're guaranteed a playoff spot. But man, Clemson, a couple
of years ago, the expectation was every year they'd be
playing for national championship. They got it wrong with dj Uyungalula,
a lot of people did. They haven't really been able
to figure out the quarterback position at the highest level.
And I'm not sure now you can figure out the

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quarterback position anymore if you're not backing up a Brakes
truck to give that quarterback cash. So this really becomes
interesting because it's not it's not just hey, George is
great and Clemson is trying to rebuild. That's a very
simple narrative. This is much more Georgia has become Alabama,
like in the fact that they can lose a dozen
players every year and they still simply restock the cupboard

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and they're still simply going to be a national championship contender.
And Clemson has become a you know, upper middle class
program that may occasionally make a run for a deep playoff,
nationally competitive team like That's that's a much different mindset
for Clemson fans than they're used to have it.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I know, I know, I mean, I think if you
go back and here you got you know, Lawrence and
Watson and Dabbo is is just you know, the darling
of the country, and you think, all right, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right, all of a sudden, I got a seat at
the table.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know, there's Alabama, there's Ohio State, there's Georgia, there's
me right, Like you thought that you had the seat
and you look at him and I just don't think
they belong in that in that class. And you're spot
on about like, we don't talk about Carson Beck. By

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the way, Carson Beck is sensational, we don't talk about him.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I think what's stunning is that we didn't give Carson
Beck any grace. The beginning of last season looked a
little clunky, and then all of a sudden became well,
Carson Beck must suck. And if you look back at
his numbers last year, and I just I know that
college football puts some superhuman numbers, but almost seventy three
percent completion percentage for thirty nine hundred yards, twenty four touchdown,

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six picks, and you think about how efficient he became
as this season war on. That means something to me,
you know. And it's funny how in the too.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Point four percent completion percentage.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, that's in the NFL. We watched Jordan Love struggle
the first half of the season, and we apologize for
it now and say, well, that was just him knocking
the rust off. We never gave that grace to Carson Beck.
He was like, no, you got to step in and
be the best we've ever seen. Otherwise you know you're
not going to be any good. Carson Beck is going
to be a really interesting story to me this year
because if he plays this per season the way he

(09:21):
played over the course in the last what six weeks
last year, you're talking about efficiency, talking about smart football.
I go back to that Tennessee game last year. He
was absolutely spectacular in that game. So yeah, I think
Carson Beck as a real This is a real opportunity
for him to remind the world that any conversation that
doesn't include him in the Heisman is probably pretty stupid.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I mean, you know, I don't know what more you
want the kid to do, and the kid you want
to about just smart and he did everything. I mean
you could say, well you wanted that. Well you know
they got an all star team. Yeah, I mean I
look at look at their I'm looking at their game,
his game log, and it's just one after another of

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just incredible games.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah. I think there's a real key when I pulled
up the game long too. And if you look in
November back to back to back at Missouri, Ole miss
and Tennessee, right, you're talking about three substantial matchups and
then Georgia Tech, then Alabama and the SEC championship game,
And when you look back at some of those games, like,
that's a gauntlet for a kid that's supposedly a bad quarterback, right,
Like that's the way they're talking about him right now,

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And it's funny. He didn't really have a game where
you sat there and thought, man, that's regredible. He didn't
throw any touchdown passes against Alabama and they lost that
football game. But because they lost the SEC Championship game
and that, you know, created so much difficulty for them
moving forward. I just think we have to sometimes remind
ourselves that the rest of the season, this was the
Georgia team that absolutely throttled people for the most part.

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So I just I think we've gotten so blase with
great And this said is Russell Westbrooks, and I use
this example all the time. I've used it with you before.
But the first time that Russ got the double double,
we were infatuating or a triple double, and then we
didn't care anymore. The first couple of times that Georgia
was great and went out there and was able to
beat everybody, we were impressed. And now we just take
it for granted. And that's right. Now Georgia is living

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when Alabama lived at the end of Nick Saban's tenure,
which was, you know, we just expected so much that
we don't even appreciate it. And I don't know that
that's the right thing to do, going into an unprecedented
year in college football with this playoff schedule.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, I know it's he's speaking of which the
playoff Dude, every time I say it, like every time
it comes up, because you know, we were watching these
early games and then et all everybody's talking about it's
so perfect, It's so perfect. It's exactly what we wanted

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all forever.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
When I was a kid, I'll never forget having a
conversation with my father about, well, how come the AP
picks the national champion?

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Like they vote on it, like you never understood it.
It was one of those things.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
And then as like sports talk radio grew, it became
like you know that, and like the universal d h
became like the talking points, right, how could you not
be a playoff?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
How could you not be a playoff?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
And the absurdity of it all that they would vote
on it, Well, how crazy is that.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, And the funny thing is you mentioned we finally
got what we wanted, but I still we're going to
use this platform to educate people on the very important
portion of the college football playoff that is the top four,
the Power four. We got to get used to saying
that there's no longer a Power five, it's a Power four.
The Power four champions are each guaranteed a full playoff

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spot with a home game and a automatic first round by.
So the one thing that is going to make people
lose their minds is if Georgia loses the SEC championship
game this year and you've got a four loss, you know,
you've got a four lost Clemson team that somehow wins
the ACC through the course of this year. That Clemson team,
even if they get throttled by fifty today, that Clemson

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team will get a number four seed and a first
round by and a home playoff game, And that Georgia
team is then going to have to fight for a
wildcard spot. So there is still the opportunity for chaos,
which you know I love. I am an agent of chaos,
So I want absolute people losing their minds, dogs and
cats living together, mass mascessteria, like that's what I want
out of all of this. We're still going to get
some of it, but the fact that we're going to run,

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we will of this season with something still to play for.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yes, yes, and you're right until we get what it's
going to be, which is basically the power to basically
the big ten in the NCC and the AFC and
the NFC, which at some point will have to happen
because use the ACC just stay isn't good enough, It's

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just not good enough conference, Like you look at it.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah and let me. And this is one of those
moments where I can't say this loud enough. If the
ACC cannot get to the level they need to get to,
then frankly, I hope the ACC loses their members. I
hope the relevant programs from the ACC go somewhere where
suddenly we're not having to deal with the playoff team

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that doesn't deserve. My whole hope from the playoff from
the outset. And I know this is year one of
the twelve and it's too early to complain, but whole,
my whole hope was that we would simply allow the
twelve best teams. I don't care where they came from.
I don't care what they did the twelve best teams
to make the playoffs. That's not what we did. And
because that's not what we did, I'm frankly rooting for
the ACC to be dismantled if they can't become competitive

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with the SEC and the Big Ten and say I'd
say the same thing to the Big twelve, like I
don't think that. I don't want college football world where
two teams get into the playoff every year simply because
they have the Grace and Gloria being part of a
lesser conference, Like I want mega conferences because I want
the best teams every single year to make.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
The Yeah, I don't know how you do it because
those conferences, you know, are so powerful and you know
have some money grab I don't know how you make
it into the AFC and the NFC.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
But clearly it's what it needs to be. I mean,
you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's that's it's already there. If you have two week
conferences and two of the monster conferences, well they just
have to absorb the rest of them and just and
just do it like that where you have divisions and
you have divisions and conferences and it's so much cleaner
and so much better. And then you can then you

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can actually have some fun with it too, because the
bottom end of it, because there's so many programs, the
bottom end of it, you could do the relegation thing,
have a Tier two playoff right where like Temple would
be the Tier two they get relegated to that nit

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kind of brand, and you have it's so much cleaner
and neaterter that way.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, And what's really going to be interesting to me
is when we hit conference championship weekend, there are going
to be fans. Just like in the NCAA tournament, bid
thiefs were used to but there are you know, sixty
whatever four teams in that tournament. It doesn't matter in
this when you're talking about twelve. What nobody wants like,
go look at the schedule of a team like Iowa.
Go look at one of the guys I work with

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at Yahoo Sports has made the bold prediction that Nebraska
is going to be in the College Football Playoff this year.
Go look at some of the schedules of these mid
level teams. You're going to have a team that because
their schedule is a little softer in the Big Ten
or the SEC they get themselves into that championship game
where it's one v two now it's not into divisions
and they finished with the second best record. If they
pull off a stunning upset, If Iowa gets themselves to

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the Big Ten championship game and they somehow upset somebody again,
people are gonna be losing their minds because that team
suddenly finds themselves into the college football playoff. But they're
still gonna make room for whoever they beat. Right, So
the concept of bid thiefs when they're only twelve spots
available and four of them have to be taken, so
there's only eight wildcards seven because the highest group of

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five goes in, so seven wildcards are available. Man. That
is people that don't even care about particular conferences. They're
going to be watching those games hoping to God that
the favorite wins big so that there's absolutely no drama
and their favorite team can still get in.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I love this injecting in my mains, I Oscars. I
agree with him. Dylan Rayola. I was talking to Maddie
Rule yesterday. Get ready for the first part of their
season is they have all those home games. I mean,
it's very favorable, so they have a pretty easy schedule.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
You never know, you never know.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
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big stories, and also get your step for the NFL. Uh,
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Speaker 2 (19:44):
So I gotta ask you, man, because we're we're gonna
get to all the college gates.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
We're go through it the whole thing today. But I
gotta ask you.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
The NFL starts Thursday.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
We have Chiefs and Ravens.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Friday, we have a game in Brazil, and in fact,
uh they're there, they made sure that they're not gonna
wear they're green because it's a bad color in Brazil.
Eagles are gonna wear this black and the green Bay's
gonna wear the white.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
So the pack where's the white?

Speaker 2 (20:15):
And so nobody's wearing green, So they're okay.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Nobody's wearing like they didn't think of that when they
scheduled two teams with green in their jersey. That means
they didn't know.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
No idea, positive had no idea. They missed out.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Man, you know there is there a company that makes
more big mistakes on just dumb details that gets away
with it every time in the NFL. Like pretty simple
to But you could have put the Chiefs over there.
I don't think the Chiefs have any green in their jersey.
Could have done that, like, there's there's plenty you could
have put the.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Realize about that fan about that fan base, about the
enemy of the soccer, enemy of that town being green.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I don't. I just don't think I sense.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Here's yeah, But here's what I would say. The first
time humble brag that I went to Japan, right and
I was going over with the band that nobody's ever
heard of, but they had this huge all star musician
group with them. And the first thing that happened when
we all booked that when we found out we were
going to Japan, is that we got like an email
and the email was from the embassy that knew because
we were playing in a little city called Kumamoto, Japan,

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And the email that we got were like, here are
the things you need to know about Kumamoto down to
what we couldn't bring in our suitcases, what would be
offensive to people there, how the like, how the community
would react to us going into bars, like all sorts
of like intricate detail on what to know about, how
to travel through Kumamoto to make sure that you weren't
offending anyone and you were respecting their culture. We got

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that out of the gates. That's the music industry and
that was a band nobody ever heard of. If we
can get that, how does the NFL, if they're booking
a game in Brazil not sit down with somebody and
they're like, these are the teams we're considering, and somebody says, hey, Roj, Roj,
maybe not a good I'm just saying, like, no stone
unturned when you're worth the billions that the NFL but
is worth. So like, I love that they're going to

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turn it into Hey, I'm getting a cool alternate jersey
for this because it's the Brazil game, and they'll monetize
the heck out of a mistake because they're capable of
doing that. I'm just saying short sighted on details.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, no, I feel you. I completely feel you. But
we had these games coming up Thursday and Friday and
then full Slate on Sunday, and I'll be honest with you,
there's very little that I feel certain about. I could
make the sweeping statements and say, I mean, obviously, you

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know the Chiefs are of the favorite, and no whole thing.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
I don't know. I mean, I look at it. I
like the Lions in the NFC.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
We you and I fight over the Eagles of the Cowboys,
I don't know. I have a weird feeling that the
Niners aren't going to be as good. I look at
the AFC and I go, well, is which Roger's going
to be? And if he is really good, does that
mean the Jets are the best team in the AFC East? Well,

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Buffalo tries to ground a pound that, And it's just
a weird vibe that I feel like I don't have
a There's not a lot of things I.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Believe in with like utter certainty. You agree with that.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
The funny thing is I was doing a magazine interview
yesterday to promote some of the Yahoo Sports shows coming
out this football season, and the writer asked me. We
were doing fantasy football and college football mostly, so I
didn't expect the question, but the writer asked me who
your Super Bowl pick is? Now, doing what we do
for a living, you're always ready for those sorts of questions.
I get it. But my first answer to him, without hesitation,

(23:50):
was hell if I know? And I told him. He chuckled,
and I said, look, the reality of it is, for
what we do for a living, everybody expects us to
have these great predictions that I would say if I
knew who was going to be in or win the
Super Bowl, I wouldn't be sitting on a mic right now.
I'd be living on an island and you know, off
my Vegas winnings right like. And we'll talk to the
brain later. Because for me, as somebody that you know

(24:14):
likes to likes, I'm past the point of even pretending
that I'm a dabbler with the gambling. Like I'll admit
that I'm closer to a degenerate during football season than
I am a dabbler. At this point. For me, I'm
putting absolutely zero dollars on this weekend. I just I
I need to see something before I can say anything
when it comes to what I think now, Yes, do

(24:35):
there are there teams we think are going to be good. Yeah,
we think the Lions are going to be good. We
think I think, even though we disagree on the very
the level of we both think the Eagles and the
Cowboys are going to be pretty good football teams. I
think the forty nine ers are likely going to be
pretty good. I think the Chiefs are going to be
good like that. But these are not grand, sweeping statements.
They're great.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Because conventional wisdom. Right, it's conventional wisdom going into the season.
But I'm look at it and I go, you know,
there feels like there's more variables. There's more uncertainty this
year than almost ever before.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
I mean, I can't remember a year where I was
this uncertain on not only who's going to the super Bowl,
but who really qualifies for the top tier in the bar?
You know, Like cause you all have heard me say
this million times. I like to separate things by like
if you walked into the bar and you say, give
me your top shelf you know whatever, margarita, then we
know if you order a top shelf margarita, you know

(25:34):
Disney World, it comes with a certain type of alcohol
in it, right, like versus Well, at this point, there
are teams that I think could be really good, but
I don't know that I can look at it and say, ah,
the top shelf are these couple? There are fatal flaws, Yeah,
butts to almost every team in the league right now.
And that's frankly, it's why I'm excited for this season.
But it also makes our job of trying to suddenly

(25:56):
come in and give everybody this big, grandiose statement of
who will in Like, that's such ps at this point
because who the hell knows? And I love it, but
who the hell knows?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, and truth be told. Uh, you know, it's always
been a sham. I mean, listen, you had an idea
before who was good? Like you can look at it
and go all right, well, you know, going to some
years you go into it and you go, look, it's
New England in Indianapolis, right, it's Manning and Brady. It's
staring at you. You kind of know that this is

(26:27):
how it's going to play out. Maybe there's some mertains
uncertainty in the NFC, but Manning and Brady are rurally
AFC now, I mean other than Mahomes and and you know,
as much as I liked, I love what they do
in Kansas City, and I know you know you feel

(26:48):
the same way.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Other than the Raider thing.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
But of course, of course, you know I love I
mean Andy Reid, and you know that I've been with
those guys for a long time. See Spagnola, I mean,
they're They're just great, elite football man. Mahomes is ridiculous
and the whole thing. But you know they took a
hit defensively. You know, I told the Spags. You know,

(27:12):
it's going to take them some time to get right.
They lost two key playmakers on that defense, guys that
he relied on. And that defense is why they won
it last year. As great as Mahomes is with no weapons,
they won last year because of their defense. And that
defense isn't as good as it was last year.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
What's funny to me? And by the way, for all this,
and I'll say this loudly because people forget it all
the time. People think that I'm anti Chiefs, I'm actually
the opposite, because it's much easier. This is like dealing
with how I deal emotionally with the fact that my
favorite team sucks. By Jason Fitz, Number one is admitting
that the team in their division is just spectacular. Like

(27:54):
for me, it's easier to accept that the Raiders are
in mired and mediocrity at best right now, when I
can look around and say, yeah, but you're taking on
Brady and Belichick, so you weren't gonna win the Super
Bowl this year anyway. So you know, I love the
fact that, you know, this version of Andy Reid and
Patrick Mahomes has become as dominant to me as the
era of dominance was for Brady and Belichick. I think

(28:14):
that's actually it's fun to watch somebody be that great,
and it makes it easier for me to understand why
my favorite team isn't in that level of contention. Weirdly,
that being said, you're right, there are things that they
have to do what the Chiefs have done. And the
reason I will bank on this Chiefs team for as
far as the eye can see, for as long as
I can do it is not just Patrick Mahomes. It

(28:36):
is the two names you've given me, Andy Reid and
Steve Spagnola, Like Spags and Reed, are great coaches, not
good coaches. They are great coaches. They are elite coaches.
They are among the best in development, they are among
the best in game plan they are among the best.
So I, as I say to everybody all the time,
I like chopped, you know, I want my coaches to
be able to open up the basket of ingredients and say, man,

(28:58):
I got spam, and I got from and vegetables, and suddenly,
out of that, I'm gonna make crapes that everybody wants
to eat for the rest of their lives, right Like,
I want a gourmet dish made out of absolute junk,
and I believe in Andy Reid and Spags in being
able to do that. I think when you look across
some of the other teams, there are real questions right
now about Sean McDermott. Frankly, I think that are fair
to ask. I'm not saying he should be on the

(29:19):
hot seat. I just think there are fair questions. I
think there are fair questions. I think there are fair
questions about MacArthur, right yeah. But I mean even just
the coaches, I think there are questions of like, can
this guy make chicken salad out of chicken? You know what?
And that's the difference.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, No, I listen, know you're right. Let me ask
you about Kaysas City. Let's get the person out for
a second receiver. Are they good enough at receiver? That
was their problem even somehow they somehow because we talked
about their defense and the greatness of Homes and Andy
and Spags, they somehow want are they competent enough receiver?

(30:02):
With Mark Heath Brown and then the same Hardman Sky Moore,
Racy Rice, it was. It was good last year Smith
shoes there. We've seen that before. Now I like Xavier
Worthy too.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
I think he's Yeah, Xavier Worthy is the difference maker
to me, like I I mean you mentioned receiver, Like,
I think Xavier Worthy has shot, has a shot of
being the offensive.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Rookie of the year. I I agree.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
I think Xavier Worthy is great.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
And Ay'll figure out a way to use them.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
So you know, he'll he'll he'll make him, He'll make
him into something.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
But there was a Texas game last year. I can't
remember which one, forgive me everybody, but there's a Texas
game last year where Xavier Worthy was so open so
often that at one point you just saw him marching
back to the huddle and he was just he was
obviously you know, MF and his quarterback the whole way
and the next drive they came out and they just
fed him the ball and even when the defense new

(30:54):
was coming, they couldn't stop him. Xavier Worthy is somebody
that gets himself open a lot. So I think even
for a receiver that's twenty one years old, like I
think by the end of the year Xavier Worthy is
by the time they get to the playoffs, Xavier Worthy
is going to be I think, very good. And one
thing we have to acknowledge is the playoff portion of
this because to answer your question, are the wide receivers
good enough? No, today they aren't. But what did we

(31:16):
see last year in the playoffs when they knew their
wide receivers weren't good enough. That's when the emergence of
Travis Kelsey happened. And I don't think that that was
an accident. I think they were sort of saving, kind
of like you know, Michael Phelps in a swim meet,
saving everything until they needed it. So it's like, hey,
we'll play back, and you know, we'll figure out a
way to win week in and week out. Now we
got to the playoffs and for the next month, I

(31:37):
need you to press the turbo button. That's what Kelsey
has been able to do. So unless Kelsey hits a wall,
I think all they have to do is get themselves
into that playoff conversation, which Mahomes is going to let
them do barring injury. I think we are going to
be frustrated by the Chiefs until about week ten or eleven,
and then it is it's just gonna hit and it's
start looking prettier, and it's gonna look prettier, and it's
gonna look prettier. And not for nothing. I keep telling people, well,

(32:00):
go draft Isaiah Pacheco in your in your fantasy draft.
I believe that Isaiah Pacheco also has the chance to
really stand out in this offense. I'm not worried about
the Chiefs at all. They're the one team in the
league that I have very little concern.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Let's uh, at some point over the next couple hours,
I do want to go on and take a look
at each roster, each offense and pick two guys running
back in a receiver that we like all right on
each of these teams. So we're going to do that.
We'll go through the college late coming up as well.

(32:34):
I mean, there's just so much to do. Oh my god, Fitzy,
we've made it. I feel like you and I right,
we're at the top of the mountain. Arm in arm
after this just long, arduous climb and we've made it.

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Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Speaker 10 (33:23):
It can help it.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
When you were talking about the mountaintop, I was like,
Oh my god, how cute would that be playing if Barry.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Manilow was just singing in the background, just watching a sunset.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh, that's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I can only picture Anthony Gargano myself walking in the field,
just holding hands while Barry Manilow sings that walking behind us.
Like I don't want I don't want the recorded version.
I want actual Barry walking behind us singing it. Maybe
maybe the band's on like a little trailer with him
and he's doing it and we're just sort of tiptoeing

(33:58):
through the tulips while we philosophically about football coming on.
I need this in my life now.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
H Let's talk Colorado for for a second, the Colorado
Mania and look I understand from the whole you know
Prime stuff, I get it, But has there ever been
a team get this much notoriety who's not good?

Speaker 3 (34:27):
They're not good.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I mean a couple of good players, I mean Travis Hunter, Cobb,
bless them right, and I think Sander's a player, But
they're not a good football team. And it boggles my
mind the amount of oxygen they take up.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
And I don't even And I like Prime.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
I think he's good for the sport and I think
he's good for that team, But our obsession is weird.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, the very reason that we pay attention to Colorado
is because of the coach, Right, Like if if we
put any other logo and any other coach on there,
would people even care? Honest honestly, if Lane Kiffn was
the coach of Colorado. Is anybody really talking about last
night's game? And you're right, there are talented players there.
I take nothing away from that. But the fact that

(35:12):
people are so adamantly just they've taken sides in this
thing and it's become such a charged thing is the
very thing that wears me out about it. Like, what
I don't love about Colorado football isn't whether or not
they win or lose. What I don't love about Colorado
football is that people that don't really have a rooting
interest suddenly have a rooting interest, and it doesn't always
feel like it's for the best reason. So there's just

(35:34):
this moment of I guess the one thing you never
want to be in sports is irrelevant, and Colorado would
be irrelevant. The very reason that we pay attention to
Coach Prime is the very reason that Coach Prime is
worth the money to Colorado. But that's the very reason
that we shouldn't be paying attention to Coach Prime. Like
he doesn't play the gains. So you know, it's just
it's stupid to me that we watched North Kota State,

(35:56):
which is a better football program than a lot of
people realize. I've been there. I went to North Akota
State South Dakota State the year I was traveling with
game Day like, it's it's a fun program, it's a
fun environment. They got kids that can play there that
just haven't gotten the big time chance. I understand all
of that, but the fact is Colorado does not look
like they're going to be a jugger out of a
team in a conference that doesn't really, you know, have

(36:18):
a juggernaut. But when Colorado's four and eight this year,
we still gonna care about him. I think the answer
should be no, but the answer will be yes because
all we're gonna be talking about is was Deon. I'm
gonna stick around after its kids get drafted. Like this
is a never ending conversation and I hate every second
of it.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
And I gotta tell you, like last year, I got it,
like I got the phenomenon. I understood it for a
minute until it became obvious they couldn't stop anybody like
cool became obvious they're not good. Right again, outside you're not.
It's not a basketball team. Like again, I love Travis Hunter.

(36:56):
I think that kid is ridiculous. And he could play
both ways in the NFL. I mean there's situationally he
could do it. He's that talented. He was on the
field for one hundred and fifteen plays. But they're not
good and that's the absurdity. And it's like what and
if I'm neutral, and I really am kind of neutral,

(37:19):
I'm not, you know, the biggest prime guy because he
was a cowboy. We woke in the side. But I mean,
you know, I've always like like, I love his he's charismatic.
You know, I'm probably more pro than Cohn. I'm more negative.
I'm more positive than negative.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
But like, just I don't know. I mean, they're not good,
They're not that good.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
I just don't even understand why we're what are we
taking sides on?

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Well, we're taking sides on. The funny thing is that
people are charging at Dion and saying we shouldn't care,
and then they're angry that we care, which is only
feeding into the very narrative like if you don't like something,
simply don't pay attention to it. Like that's that's the
simplest thing I tell people all the time.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I don't I don't understand why he's he gets to listen,
he's a character.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Well what happened? What's happening? And now is like people
are saying, well, you know, I'm just so tired of
you talking about a bad football team, and we're tired
of having Dion shoved down our throats. So then they're
anti Dion. But that's the whole point. Is like the
minute you became the minute you took a stance on it,
you became part of the problem. If you don't want
to listen to it, Like the easiest way to stop
everybody from talking about Dion is to not pay attention

(38:36):
to it. And you know, full transparency. With my job
covering college football, Yeah, who's sports. It took us three
weeks last year in the season before we saw the numbers,
and every time we put Colorado and Dion in any
of our recap college football videos, the numbers were bigger.
We weren't shoving Colorado down to anyone's throats. We were
giving the audience the Colorado that they obviously cared about

(38:57):
because if you put them in the video, even joked
about it on some of our videos, whereas like mandatory
Colorado clips so that you guys will watch this thing
like it's just that's real, you know. So if you're
sitting here saying it is, I'm so tired of listening
to it, stop paying attention.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
To it, I know.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
But you're right, it's it's this weird, vicious cycle. Like
you're right, like they are extremely relevant. I've seen the
numbers of our All City Network with our Colorado Buffalo show.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Does it does numbers that are ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
And go ahead, It's it's just one of those things
where I don't know which came first, the chicken or
the egg. But the fact is, as long as everybody
pays attention to something, everybody's going to talk about it.
And then people get more fired up in the pro
or anti like, it's not a it's not a black
and white world. It's gray world. And everybody could just
afford to learn that a little bit and just you know,

(39:56):
stop what the Colorado thing. I'm already worn out. We're
only one game in.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
A I know, and I got you and listen. I mean,
there's a couple of good stories again. Shakir's a good story.
Sador is a good story. Uh, Travis Hollerd is a
good story, all right, But I mean we just got started.
Georgia doesn't get that kind of air where the Fellas
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All Right, brother, let's take a gain there and take
a look at today.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
All right. We shall go through each.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
And every game today, taking a look at who's in action,
what are we looking forward to, what we're excited about. Uh,
it's here, my brother, and you'll be at the sports
bar for the big a FLAC kickoff Clemson and Georgia.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
We cannot wait for this in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Uh, and we'll see, we'll see if Clemson and Klebnik
can be anything.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
And by the way, that's the big part of this,
right because Klebnick is somebody that had high expectations last
year they weren't met. Now, Clemson fans will tell you
that maybe we're Carson becking a little bit with Kay Klebnick, Like, hey,
there's still potential there. Let's not give up on the kid.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yet, right.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Tough to have that that prove it matchup come against Georgia,
because Georgia is that good. The problem is Georgia is
that good and in our minds, Clemson is supposed to
be on the same tier as Georgia. They no longer are.
So I do think that there is a little bit
of like, hey, let's compartment lies. Two things can be
true at once. Clemson can get railed today by thirty

(42:04):
or forty points, which I wouldn't be surprised at all.
But that doesn't mean that all hope is lost for Clemson.
Just I'll be consistent. I said last week after Florida
State lost, Hey, all hope is not lost. They're still
expansion in college football payoff. They still have a chance.
I'm not going to give up on Clemson based solely
on how kid looks today. That's a tough undertaking. But
I expect Georgia, you know, I think it's a joke

(42:24):
they call these games neutral. I expect Georgia in front
of a home crowd in Atlanta just just come in
and absolutely dominate and destroy Clemson, and you know, from there,
clembs don't have to figure out how to pick up
the pieces and who they are as a program moving forward.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting, man. I'm looking forward to it.
I hope it's a game. I do hope it's a game.
I like Georgia. The line's twelve, I would I would
lay it. I don't think I don't think they cover.
I like Georgia.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
Yeah, I like Georgia big in this one. And that's
you know again, that's no disrespect to Clemson. That's all
respect to Georgia. I just like Georgia big.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Yeah. My little guy just left for a tournament. Oh
just now we have a base Yes, it's six ten
in the east, uh six oh four to be honest,
right here on the in the East coast. And uh
so we have a baseball tournament later today. So because

(43:28):
we're on the air until nine, Uh, his coach is
picking them up because it's all the way and uh,
it's probably about an hour away, So we get off
the air. I'll then hurry up and get on the
road and I can catch we we played eight and
twelve today.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Nice, that's well, you got a day man, Like you're
gonna bet like what you have the So does the
phone come out and you're just watching on the phone
or you.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Just like I'll watch on the phone, like honestly like it.
We have a baseball tournament today, so we uh it's today.
It's you know, these weekend tournaments. So I'll I'll be luckily,
I'll have I'll have mine. I'll help my phone, Man,
I'll be watching that game. I don't want to invest

(44:17):
Georgia clubs. I think it's funny we're talking about it.
I'm thinking, yeah, that's when the second game of the
day is, right right, it's.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
I don't, I don't. I don't know how dads do
it that work in this business, you know. And one
thing that is is so clear, you know, one of
our both of us, we have a great friendship with
Kevin de Gandhi, and Kevin de Gandhi not only great dude,
but also really invested in great father. And I always
sympathize with Kevin, like most people don't care to sympathize
with anybody that's on TV all the time. But one

(44:51):
thing that is never lost on me, We'll say it
that way, is that, you know, Kevin's the co host
of the six pm Sports Center every day and then
Saturday is on camp all day to do college football
from you know, early in the day until very late
at night. And it's a beautiful thing to get to
sit with Booger every day and watch every weekend and
watch football all day. But man, also you think about

(45:12):
the amount of dad things that sort of conflict with
that it's just it's a part of the job. I
know a lot of people don't sympathize, but I always
sympathize when you talk about wanting to be there with
your kids. And also it's like, hey, it's not even
just a choice. Part of your job is to watch.
He's like, I'm gonna go to the sports bar, but
tonight at ten pm, I will tape a show for
y'all who sports, the new College Football Power Hour. Will
tape a show that reacts to every single game. So

(45:34):
even though I'm out with friends, I'm not drinking. I'll
have you know, notes in front of me, and I'll
be writing things down feverishly all day to prep for
a show tonight. That's at least I don't have kids.
I don't know how you guys with kids do it.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Yeah, no, I know.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
And Kevin's did a friend of both of ours, and
so we and we in fact, he's on my Philly
show every Thursday, and we're always texting during the week
about kids stuff. We have boys, same age and uh,
he's got three two boys we're the same age, and
he's got a daughter and we uh, we're always comparing notes,

(46:10):
right because his kids play baseball and my kids play baseball,
and it's like, all right, you know these tournaments they
got football and all things. And my kids they're just starting.
They just had our football season starts Thursday. So my Anthony,
my oldest, he starts freshman football Thursday.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
The little one.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Is his season starts next week, so they'll be doing
all the stuff, the baseball and the football at the
same time. And uh and it's funny. Now, let me
ask you when you go to the sports bar to
watch these games with your restrictive diet that you're on. Yeah, yeah,
what like what are you jesting? Are you without any yet?

Speaker 3 (46:56):
No?

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Well, and technically i got one cheap meal a month,
but I'm not burning it today now, like I protect
those things. So here's the reality for today is because I,
you know, for anyone that's just new to this, I'm
on a fitness journey. And I you know, I was
not that I was in bad shape, but you know,
since May fifteenth, I'm down almost forty pounds and I've
cut my body fat down to thirteen percent, like twelve

(47:18):
and a half percent. So I'm on this journey. I'm
trying to get apps right. So I'm eating very regimented.
So this morning I got up, I posted this on Instagram.
I got up and I was for some reason, I
had I Am I said by Neil Diamond running through
my head. So I was loudly singing that for Annabelle
while I was making my food for the first half
of the day. So I got it before this morning
so I could make my food for the first half

(47:39):
of the day. When I get to the sports bar,
I will leave myself some calories to have a couple
of non alcoholic beers because those I've learned to like
the taste of those a lot. And during the day
it will be grilled chicken and I just everywhere I
go when they bring out the menu, I just asked, Hey,
can you grill me a chicken breast and make me
some like vegetables that don't have any butter on them,
just to go go play and steam them whatever you

(48:01):
want to do. And I order that wherever I go,
so you know, for each set of games, I'll order
a chicken breast and some vegetables and that will get
me through the day. I'll stay I'll stay clean and
hang out with the boys, and I'll just drink fake
beer and iced tea all day. It's it's you know,
the experience will still be there. I have to praise though.
One thing that has really stunned me in the last month,
when I've been able to add, you know, as long
as I account for the calories, I've added non alcoholic cocktails.

(48:24):
And like, there's a company named Liars that makes a
non alcohol spirit. And if you go to a good
bar that has a cocktail menu on non alcoholic stuff,
it's not just I want a virgin Peni Colada. That's
what I thought it was gonna be. It's not that
at all. Like there are comprehensive, complex cocktails that are
made that use fake spirits in it that still have
that like twinge of you know, you get that little
bitterness from this and you get like the actual taste

(48:46):
of it. So yeah, i'd.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, I mean, I'm for off of, but you know,
vodka's got no taste, and gin I'm a gen guy,
and gin's got a faint taste. But you know, it's
all about the mixer anyway, right, Like you get to
get cocktailed about the mixer.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Liars makes a gin and tonic in a can that
has no alcohol and tastes just like a gin and tonic.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
So yeah, I could imagine.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
It's pretty surprising. And like there's a there's a pizza
place in West Hartford that I love called Savoy, and
Savoy has a cocktail, Like they have an espresso martini
that has what it's not just coffee and you know, sugar.
When you drink it, you really do like there's that
little alcoholic aftertaste. But they use you know, they use
Liar's spirits in it, and that's how they make it.

(49:36):
And it's pretty It's pretty incredible what they've been able
to do now to still give you that sensation. That
isn't just because I get frustrated if I go to
a place and they're like, well, just make you a
virgin margarita and it's like this is sour mix and
fruit juice, like that is that is not exactly what
I had in mind. So you know, a good bartender, though,
goes a long way, so you know, and all of
my buddies are aware of my journey and very supportive

(49:58):
of it, which I think is a huge part. Like
I don't get a lot of temptation from anybody. Everybody's
just like, hey can you eat here is just a
good spot. It's like, yep, thank you. So you know,
you just gotta have the right group around you and
you can stay on track.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah that's good. Good for you, and listen, that'd be great.
You'll be set for noon today and uh that's our
first big game and you'll be enjoying yourself. I mean,
it's it's good. How many well you do there?

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Man?

Speaker 2 (50:24):
I used to be my favorite when I was at
the posts and if I wasn't covering a game I
had a Saturday was off, which was rare, but we
would go to we would go to the bar for
noon and do like a ten hour shift, which is
always the best.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Man.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Yeah, that's the only thing. I feel like. Some of
my my friends are going to be, you know, one
game and done and that's like that's I get it.
I appreciate that so much. But I am sort of
the let's rage you know, it says the guy that's
not drinking. You know, I'm the guy that's like, let's
get to the games at noon and then you know,
like like I said, I take the college Football Power Hour.

(51:01):
We'll probably take tonight at about eleven pm. Because we
react to all of the games while it's fresh. So
like to me, it's like I would if I have
my way, I'd be out from noon until ten fifteen,
hop in the car, get home and while it's all
on my mind just immediately. But I think there's value
to watching with a bunch of buddies that love college
football because you do have this constant conversation, and that

(51:21):
conversation helps you think of what you want to say
and how you want to say.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Oh, it helps your talking points, yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
One hundred percent, like and you know, just hearing people's
reactions to things matters on that stuff too. So I think,
you know, I'm really excited for that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Now, I've always thought that you and I've always told
conversations because I have buddies of mine same fink. They're
big college football guys and we love it. So I
would always take our conversations whatever it is, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Take them to the I do it with us.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Like, you know, we have a conversation that I think
it's interesting, I'll bring it to you. So at noon
after cleps in Georgia, we also have Pens West Virginia,
and I love you know, who gets no love and
Drew a law Drew Aller, who is the quarterback for

(52:10):
Penn State, who's got a monster arm. Alar's got this big,
big arm. And I thought he was good last year.
I think he could take it next up. He had
no receivers either last year. So you remember Penn State
had two really good receivers two years ago who had graduated.
Last year. Alan didn't have that. And I liked him

(52:35):
this year. I actually think that they could be good.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Yeah, and I think Drew is again we talked about
weird expectations because there was so much on Drew from
the outset about Okay, he's gonna be great, He's gonna
be the best Penn State quarterback we've seen, you know,
all of the things that we were saying coming into
last year. The fact that he was just very good
almost felt like it wasn't enough. That to me is
a little stunning. So, you know, this game is a

(53:00):
great opportunity for him to come out and that West
Virginia crowd like, by the way, let's just tip our
cap to Penn State. West Virginia deciding that they were
going to actually start the season with a true game
against you know, a big name opponent, non conference in
a real college football atmosphere. This isn't a neutral site. Well,
we're gonna go to this NFL stadium. This is West Virginia.

(53:22):
And I know a lot of people saw it yesterday.
But when you see that crowd that lined up for McAfee,
they canceled classes on campus yesterday because the entire campus
is just so excited for this game. It's this is
I think one of the most interesting things is how
does Penn State handle what is going to be a
true road environment week one, out of the gates, not Dublin,

(53:43):
not Atlanta, like true road environment. This game is going
to be closer, in my mind than the points.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Sprint says, right now, seven and a half. You think Virginia,
You like that out right?

Speaker 4 (53:56):
I think West Virginia. No, I like West Virginia to cover.
This just feels like a field goal at the end.
You know. Yeah, I have a hard time seeing I
have a hard time seeing two scores being the final score.
So you know that's just that feels like a big
leap to me. So uh yeah, I like I like
West Virginia to cover. Penn State probably still wins, but again,
I'll be very transparent, y'all. I am not putting money

(54:18):
on any college football this weekend because I am I
think we have too much to learn before we know.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Yeah, yeah, I I it's funny, it's smart because week
one you do not need You need to see with
your eyes who's good who's not good. You need to
you really need to judge, to judge. Especially it's so
violent from year to year that what we think is
good you need. You need more than just especially now

(54:47):
with the portal the way it is, like, you don't
know how guys are gonna fit in. Portal's wild, dude,
I mean the whole thing's wow. Like all these quarterbacks,
it's wild. I mean it really is crazy.

Speaker 4 (55:02):
Well, and I love what you just said about the
portal because you know this better than anybody. From the
Eagles standpoint, we have learned to vilify the concept of
super teams. We've learned to vilify the concept of dream teams.
In the NFL, we villify any sort of attempt to
bring in a bunch of personalities at once, and we
immediately stand up and say, this is not the NBA,
this will not work. That is our constant conversation around

(55:25):
the NFL. But it's not our conversation in college football,
and I think maybe it should be because we are
sitting here, you know, one and Done's we talk about
that in college basketball. Can you really put a full
roster of one and duns together? What if they don't? Gel?
Ole miss over here is the true test the way
they have built this year. They just went in and
they plucked every superstar they could. They bought every superstar
they could no discredit to them out of the transfer portal,

(55:47):
and they put themselves in a situation where they have
a super team, they have a dream team. Can it work?
One thing that I think we almost take for granted
as well, look at what they did in the transfer portal,
and I'm looking at it saying, well, if a bunch
of grown ass men at the NFL level have a
hard time jelling together, if they're a super team, why
do we presume that a bunch of kids at the
college football level are going to suddenly figure that out?

(56:07):
So I'm interested, truly to see if there's an adjustment period.
Can the transfer portal simply buy teams like it worked
one year for Meltucker at Michigan State, and he got
him one hundred million dollars. And I'm talking about the football,
not the man. So he got him one hundred million
dollars and then it didn't work after that. So let's
be honest about that as we try and figure out,
you know what, how the right way for a team

(56:29):
to build.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I know, it's funny you said that, because that dream team. Man,
I'll never forget that because everybody was fooled. Everybody was fooled.
And Vince Young, remember the Texas quarterback Vince Young. Oh yeah, idea,
yeah right, Vince Young was the back. He was a

(56:52):
backup quarterback, and he was the one who said it.
And he wasn't saying it in it like and even
not even in a you know, braggadocious manner. He was
just saying it, Yo, dude, we're good, like we're a
dream team. And and you thought they were, and they were.
It just was a flop, major flop. And it's interesting

(57:14):
because that was Howie Roseman's first kind of uh foray
into GMing he and and and Joe Banner.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
It was a horrible story.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Andy Reid had lost his uh, one of his sons, right,
and he gave up personnel and how he and Joe
Banner took over personnel. Joe Bantner became the president of
the Browns, and they had all this cap space and
they went wild. They signed Nomshi I remember him right like?

(57:47):
They signed Yes, Yes, they signed all these guys and
it was all flop. It was all flop and and
and you make a great point like, how does that
work in college if it can't work in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure it will. That's one of the
most interesting things we are sleeping on in this.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Process, I know, are we sleep little Mindy Kiffer, I'm
Mondi Kiffer or Lane Kiffin?

Speaker 12 (58:13):
Uh.

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We're gonna take quick break. We'll come right back, and
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Anthony Argana and we have a big day of college football,
so we're going kind of going through the games. You

(01:00:28):
like West Virginia to keep it close at home, which
makes sense. I'm curious how good Penn State is. They're
ranked eighth going into it, so we'll see. I mean,
clearly it's Ohio State. But this is a big year
for Franklin, right he had the Michigan Ohio State built

(01:00:51):
in excuse. But now there's no shoes. And that's a
lot of these coaches after the top six now it's
like you've got to make the playoffs, like there's no
Now it adds a different sort of pressure to these coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
I think there's also a interesting because you mentioned pressure,
and I've heard on Fox Sports Radio this mentioned several
times that over the course of the last twelve years,
Penn State would have made the playoffs six times. I
think they said if it had been expanded, that's the
way that So the narrative will change on Penn State,
to which I say it better, right Like, I think

(01:01:33):
that actually creates more pressure and Penn State is good.
There's no doubt the Penn State's good. To me, there's
no doubt that as we sit right now, Ohio State
and Oregon are better. So Ohio State and Oregon, in
my mind, are the top two teams in their conference.
Then we get into a little bit of what's gonna happen,
and I don't think, you know, it's unthinkable that Penn
State can finish third in the conference and still make

(01:01:55):
the playoffs. That's not a problem at all. But let's
see what happens in the SEC as well. If you
start to turn around and you look at and say, okay, well,
Georgia we believe is going to be very good. Who
else from that? Texas, Oklahoma? You know you've got them
coming in, They're going to be very good. Obviously, I
think Tennessee has a sneaky shot at the playoffs. This
year too, So you know, all of a sudden, you'll

(01:02:15):
be looking at a lot of teams from the big
ten of the SEC competing and I'm not sure that
you can be just pretty good and still make it. Now,
it'd be a stunning development at Penn State doesn't find
themselves in the playoffs and then all of a sudden,
I think, you know, hell hath no fury. That fan
base is going to be absolutely losing their minds trying
to figure out what the problem is with James Franklin.

(01:02:35):
So it's interesting that expansion creates opportunity for Penn State,
but I do believe it also creates a substantial amount
of pressure.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Ah big time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
And here's the other thing about Franklin is that he's
widely reviewed.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
As a great recruiter, and he is. He knows how
a good talent.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
He gets really good talent, but suspect game day coach,
and that's kind of his m O. And this will
be interesting because here's the other problem. Right, it's one
thing your conditioned now to the Ohio State Michigan thing,
and you're right, Oregon's better, But like that's something that

(01:03:11):
people are going to have little patience for.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
Yeah, patience is going to be such a word. I
think that we use it like make it a power
our shotgame every time we say patients on Saturday mornings
for the rest of the year, just rip one. Because
I do think that expectations are so high for so
many programs right now. Like if you just look across
the board at programs that think that they have the

(01:03:33):
chance to be pretty good, they are not going to
be patient. And they should be patient because this new
evolution of college football playoff now everybody thinks they deserve
a seat at the table. I just think that there's
much more weight and see than anybody wants to hear.
And you're right, like if you're James Franklin and the
level of patients that that Penn State has is going
to be tiny, you know, But if you're Iowa that

(01:03:54):
right now is currently ranked twenty fifth, and again I'll scream.
I think I always got a pretty manageable schedule. A
lot of the ways, like how does that play into
what everybody else gets throughout the course of the year.
You know, if you're Nebraska and you go on a
run because you have a softer schedule, it doesn't necessarily
and I don't mean this in a way that's detrimental
to the program. It's just if your path to get
to the College Football Playoff looks easier, Like if you

(01:04:16):
look at Texas and Oklahoma, their schedules are wildly different,
so their expectations should be different and you should have
a different level of patients. But I don't know how
we teach anybody at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean listen, yeah, that is what
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
So you brought up the You brought up their schedule,
Nebraska schedule real quick, just so we have in Frendia
you tep at home today next Saturday. I can't wait
for this game Nebraska Colorado. No, yeah, dude, I can't

(01:04:52):
wait because, by the way, I don't know how fond
Matt rule is of the I how about how far.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
You many coaches would say that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Yeah, you know, you give those guys, especially those guys
that are like grind their coaches they look at him,
go right, he talk a lot of talk. That's gonna
be interesting because the kid Royola could play.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
That's the big part of this. For anyone that doesn't know.
Royola is the highest ranked recruit that Nebraska has ever
gotten at the quarterback position, right, so you start talking
about what Rayola is going to mean, and he's the legacy.
His dad obviously meant a lot to that program, but
it was a big get when he went there, a
big get and with the big get for a fan
base that's been sitting back, Like I've made the joke

(01:05:45):
for years that they should rename it Nebatska because there's
just no good most of the time. This is that moment,
and I think culture is something we talk a lot about.
Matt Ruhle I learned this, and you know this, known
him as well as you do. But it really stood
out to me when I talked to him a lot
the year I was out with Game Day and we
were Baylor. I talked to Rule a lot, and he
talked about how for him, there's a certain way he

(01:06:06):
wants things to go. There's a certain expectation, but there's
also just a certain communication culture that has to be
created that takes a little bit of patience, takes a
little bit of grace, and it takes a little bit
of understanding. I said when he went to the NFL,
like it can can he get that grace, patience and
understanding at the NFL level, we saw that maybe that
didn't happen at the college level. It just it. It
was gonna take him a second. And I don't think

(01:06:27):
that's a bad thing. But now if you're in Nebraska,
you're looking at it and saying, my god, we've got
a modern coach, We've got a modern quarterback. I want
to see a modern offense that goes out and just
absolutely decimates people like Nebraska fans right now speaking confident.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
He really is a terrific coach, I gotta tell you.
And the NFL thing he took over his first year
was the pandemic. So his first year he could didn't
see He didn't even meet his players until training camp
when they had to be sequestered by position, like they
were never in the same room. It was bizarre because

(01:07:03):
of the COVID situation, and then he can't find a quarterback,
and then you know he's got an impatient owner and
it's over. And when it just got started, it's shape.
I mean, I think the COVID thing and the lack
of patience and some of the stuff thrust on them
kind of killed the NFL experience.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
But he made the mistake. He's a great coach.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Anyway, they got four straight home games to start the season, UTEP, Colorado,
Northern Iowa, Illinois. They go to Purdue, then they're at
home again Rutgers. Then they go to Indiana. Then their
first test, their first tough game, comes October twenty sixth

(01:07:49):
at Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
So they're in Columbus home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Nebraska at USC home, Wisconsin at Iowa.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
So the back half get it's pretty tough.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Yeah, it gets tough, but it gets manageable. I don't
think that that's so tough that they can't handle, you know.
And remembering that now that now that everything is in
that conference is going to be you know, the top
two teams go to the conference championship game. If you
if you look at that schedule and the way you
just read it, and then you you think about, okay,
where are the the definitive this is a loss. Okay,

(01:08:25):
at Ohio State they're probably gonna lose that football game.
Is Nebraska going to be worse than USC at that point?
I don't know, you know, where where's USC? Yeah? And
they got Wisconsin at home, you know, and then they
get Iowa team that you know, if if you could
score points against that Iowa team so far you can
beat them. So if I'm Nebraska, I can make a

(01:08:45):
If I'm a Nebraska fan, I can make a compelling
point to look at this and say we lose one,
maybe two games, which could put you in the conference
championship game, and that that's what's crazy about that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Yeah, no, I that's exactly it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
All right, Speaking of Iowa, you got Iowa today too, buddy,
you got the Hawkeyes. You know what's funny about them?
They were so I mean that defense. I mean, as
if as they were on offense, the defense was still ridiculous,
their defense was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
And doesn't that I mean that speaks to if you
were turning around and you're like, my god, all we
need to do is figure out somebody at the quarterback position.
So you know, they face a one game suspension for
going out and getting Kid McNamara. That, you know, But realistically,
if you're Iowa, you have just been begging for years
to get some level of just competence on the offensive

(01:09:44):
side of the ball, and if you have that, you're
pretty unstoppable. That defense every single year is spectacular. So
you know, I'm not going to count Iowa out of anything.
Even though I don't think they're a great football team.
Can they cause I don't think they're a football team
on the level some of the other teams we're talking about,
let me say it that way. Can they cause absolute chaos?
I think Iowa is a playoff wrecker. They're gonna go

(01:10:06):
out there and they're gonna be ugly, and they're gonna
call some ugly games, and they're gonna be in the
conversation the entire way. And let's remember that it was
even ugly last year in the Big Ten for Iowa
in the Big Ten championship. So I think that they
have a shot at making some noise and making things
just mucky enough that suddenly we're sitting here at the
end of the year saying, God, are we really talking
about Iowa as a playoff team? Yeah? Iowa. Nebraska is

(01:10:28):
sort of the Spider Man meeting. They're pointing at each
other and both believe that they have a real shot.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Agreed, All right, here's some of the other games.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Vanderbelt, va Tech, Phil Valtech's at Vandy, YU Concept, Maryland Water, Yeah, Louisville, Austin, Pe,
Purdue in the United State, pitt and Kent State Oklahoma State,
South Dakota State. South Dakota State is actually not a

(01:10:58):
bad program.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Saw with North Dakota State, you know, and and ESU
took it to Colorado, right, So I think there's a
there's a little level of just you know that lot.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
You know, how much take it get Oakie State?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
I have none.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
So if I said to you, gig throw a number.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Out, uh seven and a half?

Speaker 12 (01:11:21):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
Really? I no, I mean, I'll be honest with you.
I thought you were gonna say twenty one.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Oh no, no, like I it's nine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
And a half.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
I look, South Dakota State just gets this weird. I
was at North Dakota State, South Dakota State that rivalry matchup,
and South Dakota State is you know, they're they're They're
one of those programs that a lot of people respect,
and you know, so I'm not I'm not totally surprised
by it. Also, because it's week one, right, Like if
this game we're in week six or seven, I think
we might have a different mindset. Like, you know, even

(01:11:52):
we started the show kind of joking about Temple getting
their butts kicked, there was a part of me that
was like, will Temple even keep it close for the
first half, like is Oakley Holma ready? These Week one matchups?
I think huge lines sometimes make me really nervous, Like,
you know, I don't think Chattanooga is gonna give Tennessee
any fight. But also, whatever that line is, I'm presuming
that line is in the low forties, like I would

(01:12:15):
be nervous about that just because it's Week one. So yeah,
I think South Dakota State being as good as they're
an Oklahoma State being you know, sort of in the
in the mid tier. Yeah, I'm seven and a half
would have been my guess. Nine and a half makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I guess I thought it would be because it's in
it's at Oklahoma State.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
I thought that number.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Would be closer to fourteen, right, thirteen fourteen, because it's
it's there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
But I agree with that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
I think they're better, like being in Oklahoma State should
have should have lifted that. I didn't really, I didn't
really think of that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Yeah, for sure, Tennessee home Chattanooga.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Uh, what else we got Ohio State taking guess what
that number is Ohio State Akron.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Let's say forty four, forty two, forty.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Four close forty eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Who buck, guys laying forty eight and a half sixty
three to three.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
That's what it feels like it, man, it feels like
that is just happening right there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Yeah, uh okay, we're gonna take quick to you. We'll
come right back. Continue going through the slate of today.
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What's the of the early games? Which is the one

(01:14:18):
you're looking forward to the most?

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Penn State West Virginia out of the slate we've gone through,
like Florida or sorry, Clemson, Georgia, I know is the
one that gets all the recognition, But Penn State West Virginia.
I think the environment's going to be incredible on that.
Just being around, it's going to be incredible, and it
feels like a better game to me by the time
it's all said and done than Georgia Clemson does so
even though Georgia Clemson gets all the name recognition. And

(01:14:42):
then I started to mention it. But I know we
haven't gotten to this yet. But to me, one of
the craziest stories of today is it a game like
Miami at Florida feels lost, Like it just nobody's sitting
there saying, ooh, Miami Florida can't wait for that one
at three point thirty. And I know, honestly we've said this,
but if you look at Florida schedule, I think Florida
could be a good football team that loses a lot

(01:15:03):
of games. They have a brutal stretch this year. But man,
I just remember when Miami Florida the world stopped for
that game and now it's just buried in the afternoon sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
I know, it's bizarre, dude, the Gators caves Gators like
what like it just doesn't even matter. It's bizarre. I
completely with you, but I'm like, wow, how come talk
about the mighty fallen from back in the day. Now
I am I'm curious about Texas right now. They got

(01:15:36):
a bit in the you know, a cupcake against Colorado State.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
They're a thirty four point favorite. But it's a good
tune up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Because Michigan is next week and I'm looking forward to
say in Texas man, I think this is uh, you know,
I think they're really good, the Yewers. It's all lining
up for him. I'm curious to see where this utt team.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Yeah, the viewers part of it is so interesting because
I mean, you think about how we had anointed Arch
is going to be. You know, Arch Manning was going
to be the quarterback of the team by this point,
and for that not to be happening speaks to Quinn.
But also how patient will the entire Texas program be
if there's any level of struggle? And this game could
be interesting because you're right what I think, we get

(01:16:21):
his blowout here, But what becomes interesting is in a
blowout in the second half, does Quinn sit and then
they bring in Arch Manning instead, and all of a sudden,
you end up, you know, just getting a little glimpse
of what the quarterback situation looks like. Texas is stacked
and they're loaded, and you're right. I think this is
a really smart scheduling moment for them because they get
to get some of the you know, ickiness out before
they take on Michigan. And what next week is going

(01:16:43):
to be the game of the week. I mean, everybody's
going to be there. I'm sure everybody's going to be
infatuated with it. I'm sure Big Noon will be there,
Game Day will be there. I'm sure. Like it's just
next week, it is going to be a destination, Oh
my god, Michigan Texas game that everybody's going to have
all eyes on. So it is important to want. I
just want, especially to get a feel for what they
should be looking like next week against the tougher.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
O podum okay, I ask your question, and I and
I love the fact that you know, Fox has big
new kickoff and I generally like it, except dude, I
love like at Texas Michigan. I gotta go prime time. Dude,
I need a Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
See this is my hotach. I like Saturday afternoon games
better than Saturday night games. I do like. I like
the three thirty kickoff, like I loved the SEC on
CBS for years, Like I like that mid afternoon, like this.
I feel like noon is the little advertiser. You're good,
three point thirty is the main dish, and then you know,

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the night game is the dessert. Like that's I'm good
with that, and I want a good dessert. But I
don't have to have dessert, you know, Like I have to.
It's harder to get the guys, the buddies out in
the sports bar watching it's seven thirty Eastern. You know,
they don't want to go out that late watch. We're
all gonna be relegating back to somebody's house by them
for Notre Dame Texas A and M tonight. So you know,
I feel like there's something about the three thirty time

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stot that I sort of cherish. I'm the exception to
that rule. But I do like big noon going straight
into a kickoff of a big game. Oh man, that's
that's electric. When you got the beautiful like the sun's
out and the leaves are turning, that's just it's just
all that comes together for me. I like day games
better than night games.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Now I have to say, I do like.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Three thirty is a great is a great game, Like
I like a Saturday afternoon three thirty game I feel you,
but like, to me, the best in the game at
needs to be at night.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
I love them to say that because of Dad's schedule
and Saturday night's easier for me than that Saturday during today.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
But I mean, and I like Saturday three thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Three thirty is like, you know, that's that's college football, right, Like,
so I'm with you, But man, a Saturday night on
the lights and whether it's a white out at Penn
Stain or LSU, I mean, how Nancy's batt rouge at
night something ominous about that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
You're one hundred percent right. This is a me thing
because I even on Sundays, like, I prefer Sunday one
o'clock if I had the job. Really, my favorite times
I take one o'clock over the Sunday night came all day.
The Sunday night game to me is just like by
that point, you know, when I was when I was
partying with everybody. By that point, I was already partied out,
what you know, doing this for a living. By that point,

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you're like, Okay, I've watched so much football. This game
is gonna be good. I'm gonna watch it. But I
like having three or four games go on at once.
I like the chaos of it. I like, you know,
I like daylight. I like daylight during my football. I'm
not gonna lie. I like daylight my football.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
That's what I'm one o'clock man.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
I'm a one o'clock guy. Yeah, that one o'clock. Oh,
the one o'clock slate hits so clean for me because
like there are so many games going on at once,
and it's electric. Everybody's so excited. Like you get to
Sunday night football, the bar is usually empty on the
East Coast. Nobody's really hanging out. Only two fan bases care,
Like I want I want chaos, my friend. I want
everybody party, and I want everybody to do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Yeah, you enjoy the but as far as quality, like
the quality of game, Like I get why you like
the action, but you know, I like the.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Give me a better game on Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
But yeah, right, like you know, just the football's good,
and that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Like a Michigan you know, Texas is is nighttime.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
This is a great weekend. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
It all begins today full slight. We had a little
appetizer Thursday Friday. Today, two monster games. We've been going
through the schedule. Today Clemson Georgia at noon and then
we'll talk about the night game, which is highlighted by
Notre Dame and Texas A and M, which I cannot
wait for.

Speaker 8 (01:21:52):
The Irish.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
I joke all the time when my little one place
quarterback and so well, I always joke about where he's
going to school.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
I go, dude, you're gonna go play Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (01:22:10):
And he's he wants to play.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
He's like, no, I'm not gonna go play Georgia.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
Had a boy, so he wants to actually win championships
and not.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Just make the playoffs exactly he's not gonna play in Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
I gotta doude. We think Notre Dame ped State.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
He's like, what, I'm blaming Georgia.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
I don't blame him at all. I look, but the
Notre Dame part of this, though, is so interesting because remember,
they can't get a top four seed no matter what
they do. Like, Notre Dame could go undefeated and cannot
get a top four seeds. So because they don't play
in a conference on football, they don't have the opportunity
for a top four seed and a bye. So no

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matter what, Notre Dame is basically playing to get a
wild card every single time in the college football playoff,
which makes some of these games really significant because they
don't have a ton of wiggle room. They don't have
an automatic way to get through if things go wrong.
They don't have Florida State's opportunity, they don't have Clemson's
opportunity to be an okay football team and still get
their way in. They don't have the opportunity to sort of,

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you know, find a backdoor cover to get into the
college football playoffs. So I think this is wildly interesting
for Notre Dame because you know, there are certainly going
to be if they go out and they lose to
A and M, and they lose in any sort of
convincing fashion, then they're gonna be people that want them
eliminated from the college football playoff conversation right now, I
think that pressure is different than anybody else in the

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country faces, which makes you Notre Dame very unique.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
So I'll ask you, let's talk about them for a second.
Because they are an underdog. A and M is a
three point favorite in this game. Rob, I'm cures, I'm
really curious, right, because what's Riley Leonard going to look like?
I mean, I got to think that he's I'm excited

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about it, you know, I think he's gonna look good,
But you know, I'm curious, like what's that going to
be like?

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
For that? How good is there?

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Also, like Riley Leonard's taking on his former head coach,
like Mike Elko is now the head coach of Texas
A and M. So y'all like, who knows Riley That
Riley Leonard better than Elco? Nobody, right? And who knows
Elco better than anybody Riley Leonard?

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
So there is some level of that becomes really interesting.
But Notre Dame's offensive line man like they're replacing a
couple of guys. I just don't know what to make
of that. Texas A and M's defense has some big
boys on it, so you know, I flying for Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Is good for A M. The kids. Scourton is really good.
He's a defensive end.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
This is such a tough matchup because it's Week one too,
so you know, I think Notre dames offensive line could
really struggle here. So Riley's gonna have to use his wheels,
which is more than capable of doing. He's really athletic.
But Riley's gonna have to play a clean football game
to win this. I don't think Notre Dame has to
win it to be in the college football playoff conversation.
But if they lose by two touchdowns, there are gonna

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be people that scream. This is why they can't make
the playoffs.

Speaker 12 (01:25:16):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
So A and M has the advantage here, especially interior
line play, right, They just have an advantage. Can they
capitalize on that?

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Well? And here's the other thing too.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
If you're Notre Dame, it's good and bad, but you're
normally you could never argue their schedule. They normally play
a difficult, nasty schedule, but not this year. I mean,
we talked about today, but then you got home Northern

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Illinois at Purdue home Miami, Ohio home Louisville home, Stanford
at Georgia Tech, at Navy home, Florida State home, Virginia
home Army.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
And then at USC.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
I mean, if they win TODA, if they somehow beat
A and M, they go un defeat.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
It, that's you're so right, you're absolutely I mean, even
if they lose to A and M, they they're one
lost team promised right college football playoff right, like? But yeah, yeah,
if they beat eight A and M, you know, at
College Station, the playoff committee, I can already hear us
in November asking well, what are we doing about the schedule,

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and they're going to say, well, look back at that
Week one matchup. You know, they they scheduled, you know,
a true road game at College Station and they went
in and won. Like I can hear the committee telling
us that over and over and over again already in
my mind. You know, so you're you're a thousand percent right.
The way the rest of the schedule shakes out, it
certainly leaves nothing but opportunity, you know, for for no

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named to make the college football playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
So also tonight now they're not there's no other big
games that we talked about, but Alabama has Western Kentucky, right,
that's their appetizer. They got South Floyd in next week
and then they get tested where they go to Wisconsin
and then of course the big game is September twenty eighth,

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and that's home against Georgia. So that's kind of where Alabama.
What's your outlook on Alabama?

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
Here's the thing, like, so I've gone on record multiple
times saying that I think Alabama's in a bit of
a transition year. I'll go back to culture, you know,
and it's just so different. Kaylen de bor is going
everything about this is going to look different. And I
think Kaitlin's a really good coach. Obviously the rating coach
of the year, of course, he's a really good coach.
But you know, there's an element for me of let's

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look at everything that had to come together last year
Washington for things to go the way they did. They
had a a senior quarterback that somebody that you know
is like eight hundred and thirty two years old that
played a lot of college football that had familiarity with
his system. In Michael Pennock junior at Washington, they had
wide receivers that have been there a minute, that had
familiarity with what he was trying to execute. You know,

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I think a lot of things came together. And this
doesn't take anything away from it. It's just sometimes you
get the right combination of things at the right time
and it helps you win a bunch of football games.
So I think Calein Devor is a very capable coach. Obviously,
I just think we're under selling the adjustment for everybody,
not even just the adjustment and play calling, but also

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you know, I talked to coach last year at the
National Championship Game about the fact that his players were
all raving that he never yells, he never raises his voice,
and he said, you know, that's not true. He raises
his voice sometimes, but he tries to hold emotion in
so that he can preach to his players to control
their emotions during a game. That's so different than Saban
It's like, yes, I know some people will click in that,

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but it's just it's so wildly different. Alabama's lost a
lot of pieces. I think there are three lost football
team this year, four lost football team this year. And
that doesn't mean the sky's falling. But that's how Bama
fans are gonna see it. I just they're not in
the same tier as Georgia or Ohio State or Oregon
to me, like they're They're in a much different tier

(01:29:17):
than them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Yeah, And I do think it's funny. I mean we're
under selling Saban. We are. It's like, okay, well both
he and Harball leave. There has to be huge transition

(01:29:40):
in both those programs. Like I get, you got good
coaches coming back and you know, I mean replacing them,
but they're not Saban and Harball.

Speaker 4 (01:29:50):
God, and when you combine the two of them together,
think about how differently we are covering Michigan right now,
the defending national champion, than we are Alabama right Like
we are sitting here saying, well, Michigan clearly in a
period of transition. You know, let's see what more looks
like long term is a head coach. We're saying all
of these things, We're not saying any of that about Alabama.

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And I think the while Alabama fans hear this and
all they think is that I'm hating Onbama. It's actually
quite the opposite. I think it's pretty fair reasonable to
have expectations of, like, hey, let's see what this is
going to look like this year, and then see how
it builds next year, you know what I mean, that's
just I think that's I'm not trying to downplay Bama.

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I'm trying to be more realistic so that everybody has
sort of the sights on what the short term, long
term goals are for the program.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
But how much how much is the quarterback? You know,
how much you think? You know that comes into play
because I love Melray.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
Jalen is so good. Yeah, he's so he's he is great,
he is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
You know, I mean, you got you got Mikey Keen
versus you know, I mean think about that. I mean,
you know Orgy, right, you got uh, well, David Warren,
I don't know. I mean, I guess you're gonna go Orgy.
I mean, I don't know. I mean that you've got

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Milroe coming back. I mean, I think that's why we
look at Alabaman go all right, well they got a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
That's a really fair point because you're one hundred percent right.
They The quarterback difference is substantial for those programs, you know,
And that's absolutely If you have a quarterback, you can
win in college football. If you don't, you can't. Like
it's that simple, you know. So you're right about that.
Jalen Milroe is not just good. Jalen Milroe is great
and there's no.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
Yeah, And how about I mean to see what.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
I'm excited to see what de bor does with him too,
because like Michael Pennick Junior got the best of him, uh,
you know, And and what what will Jalen Milroe look
like with Kaitlyn de borr out there calling that offense
and letting him do what he can do, and let
what letting him do what he can do with his feet? Also,
it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
What do you think Dylan Gabriel is going to be?

Speaker 12 (01:32:06):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
Look, my early pick, way too early prediction is I'm
taking Oregon to win the National Championship Game this year,
which means Dylan Gabriel wins the Heisman, because that's just
the way it works. I think Dylan Gabriel has played
really good football several times in his career, and now
he's in a situation where he has a ton of talent,
a ton of speed with him, and this is the
thing that this is the hill I'll die on this

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year in college football, I trust for one game, if
I have a choice between a quarterback that's eight months
removed from a proposal or a quarterback that's been in
college football for six years that's seen everything you could
possibly imagine, like some of these guys have, I will
always take experience. So I really like experience and experiences
systems for one playoff game. I don't think Oregon even

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has to win the Big Ten to turn around to
win the national championship game. Because in a one game playoff,
if I can have Dylan Gabriel that's seen some things
and it is closer to being a grown ass man
than he is a kid, I like that at the
quarterback position. Frankly, as much as I don't trust Lane
Kiffin the head coach, I do trust Lane kiffn with
Jackson Dart like those two know each other like the
back of their hands. For a playoff game, I like
that a lot, you know, So I like guys that

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have been in systems, that have been around college football
for a minute, that know what they're looking for that
have seen things that aren't as easily rattled. So I
think Dylan Gabriel is going to have a special year
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
I mean that offense could be ridiculous. I mean absolutely ridiculous. Yeah,
you know it's interesting. I brought this up earlier, but
we never really got to the Lane Kiffin thing. And
I maybe I like him more than you do. I
like I think he could make I think he could

(01:33:45):
make it work. I think he's a brilliant mind.

Speaker 4 (01:33:49):
I think he's a great offensive mind. I'm not sure
he's a great head coach sometimes, yeah, but I do
in a one game, playoff sample where I need a
coach to come up with a quick offensive game plan
that can beat somebody, I think Lane Kiffin is capable
of doing that for sure. How many coaches right now?
You know? You think about that in the NFL all
the time. And we talk about Andy Reid on this

(01:34:09):
show all the time. But think about and Andy's record
off of a bye week for a record for a reason,
right Like he goes out and you give Andy Reid
a little extra time, he will beat you. I think
Lane kiffn is the type that you give him a
couple of days to come up with an offensive game plan.
He will find a way to beat you offensively.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
Yeah, see, I do too.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
I mean, I hear it's a fair point about you know,
what kind of CEO is he? But I think he's
gotten better. He's certainly gotten better than he was. How
much was the Raider thing still in your mind?

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
I think the like, honestly, there's you mentioned he's gotten better.
I have to I have to tell people all the time.
He's forty nine, right, like he's he's not even fifty
years old. Lane Kiffin has been a coach so long
for us, we feel like he's this old guy on
the block. Of course he's getting better. Like I think
he got put in a situation with the Raiders that
he just wasn't ready for. He didn't have the life experience,

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he wasn't ready to be a head coach, you know.
And I'm not going to fault somebody that it's not
his fault that he was hired for a job he
wasn't ready for, you know, And that's just that's just real,
you know. So I look at Lane now, the way
he handled Tennessee and then the way he was at USC,
those are things that I look at and say, Okay,
you got in your own way, sir, like you you
did the wrong thing, the wrong way, and you did

(01:35:30):
it multiple times. There are there are enough pieces there
that you can look at and say, hey, he made
his own demise. But at ole Miss, I think you
started to see kind of the best of Hulane Kivin
can be and the best of who Lane is is
a really good football coach.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
I know, like he's got like he's got XMO down right,
Like he is shy in hand when.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
It comes to that. That's why.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
That's why I look at them and I go, you know,
they got so much talent, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
And I hear you on the dream.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Team thing, and it's the worst thing you could do
is go all right, buy in to dream team and
the X and O coach. Maybe not the you know,
spiritual coach, because when you have a bunch of new guys,
you need more of the spiritual CEO than you do
the X and OH. But it's gonna be interesting to

(01:36:26):
see how that kind of plays out.

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I'm in laying Kiffin fan. I just I love his brain,
so I'm kind of rooting for him.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
And I also think, by the way, you're gonna have
all the talent in the world, you got to have
a coach that knows how to bring the most out
of that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
You're right.

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
Part of that to CEO element. Part of it is
also just I do believe that you give laying great
pieces to coach with, He's gonna find a way to
get those great pieces of the ball. He's gonna find
a way to get guys like there's inventiveness in the offense.
There's motion in the offense that you don't see everywhere else.
There's just there's a calculated effort to the way he
gets people the ball that you don't always see. So

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you know, I trust that portion of it a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
So let's look at them for one second. All right,
let's look at so their schedule. I'm just gonna pull
it up right now because I'm curious to see what
it looks like. Obviously, today you got Furman, so you
get your layup, and then you got where we're at,

(01:37:28):
Middle Tennessee State, at wake Forest Home, Georgia, Southern Home, Kentucky.
By the way, give our man Southside Chuck a big yo,
because he's a big Kentucky wildcare for him at South Carolina,
and then you got to go to October twelfth before

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you have a real tester, and that's at LSU under
the lights in Baton Rouge. Then you got home Oklahoma,
back to back at Arkansas, no gimme, and then that
leads into Home Georgia. So that's a treacherous four games

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at LSU Home Oklahoma at Arkansas Home Georgia.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
The funny thing is that that's gonna give them the
grace from the committee. I think even if they go
two and two through that process. If Ole Miss, yeah,
loses a couple of games, but it's during that four
game stretch they're gonna get grace from the committee. They'll
still make it as a wildcard. And that's that's where
all of this comes from. Like my Yahoo, I think
I'm rooting for pure chaos this year. So when we

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were asked to do our predictions for the National Championship
Game and everybody else went chalk with Ohio State Georgia
sort of thing, I looked at it and said, Nope,
I want absolute chaos. I believe we're gonna have it.
So I took Oregon Ole Miss as my National Championship game,
Oregon wins and for me, offense wins right now. And
you know I want signal callers that know their co
which to another system and no college football. So you

(01:39:02):
know that was my logic behind it. A little bit
of a hot take, I get it, but you know
I can't. I have a hard time sitting here saying
it's gonna be unprecedented chaos at college football and Georgia's
gonna beat Ohio State for the championship. You know they
can't have it both ways.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
You love the chaos, It's hysterical, I do, man.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
I just want people to yell and scream.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Why why do you prefigure? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
I love I love raw emotion, right, and when things
are good, if everybody out there that we think is
going to be good it's just good, then people get bored, right.
I Like when I go to concerts, I want either
somebody that's gonna make me cry or somebody that's gonna
make me jump up and down the entire time. Like
that's what I love the feeling of raw emotion. And
to me, there's nothing better than a Hail Mary that

(01:39:45):
gets completed and you're in a sports bar and you
watch one half of the room absolutely losing their mind.
In the other half of the room, the room absolutely
in tears, ordering beers like that's I love that level
of oh my god. And the only way we get
that in college football is if we get on pre
If we end up with the twelve team playoff that
gives us the same final four as always, that will

(01:40:05):
be an epic fail for the sport this year.

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
I mean, I mean the fact that you're going to
play these games, the fact that there is an actual playoff.
I don't think it could be any I don't think
you can fail. I hear, you may not be sexy.
But the fact that they'll have earned it, Like if
it winds up being Georgia, Ohive State, so be it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
They'll have earned it. They'll have gone through the gauntlet.

Speaker 4 (01:40:33):
Now that that is very fair. I just cant hardy
to hear people, you know, crying about the fact that, well,
this is what makes Collage football boo, you know what
I mean? Like, I just I don't want that, yeah,
of the society that wanted the Giants to beat an
undefeated Patriots team, because we just don't like anything that's
sustainably great. I don't know why, but you know that's

(01:40:54):
just real. So you know sustainably great is not sexy.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
Yeah, I guess you know. I I I lament that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
I also lament the fact that I don't know how
you're not if people profess like I. I work with
people that are huge NFL fans, huge and are like
against not against it, but disinterested in college football.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
I don't know a ton of people like I don't.
I don't give a ton of people that don't like
college football like that love the end. I know people
that cover the draft that are like, I just don't
really like college football. I'm like, you realize you made
your job so much tougher. One of the reasons I
love covering the draft is all I have to do
is observe all fall, and I'll be ready for April.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Dude, I just to bring it up to you. I
got a guy same thing. He's like, he loves the draft,
but he doesn't watch college football because I prepare for
the draft after the season. Well, I go, you can
watch what to take Me Want. But there's something about
watching somebody live and see the instinct and then following

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them that is.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Real you're a thousand percent right about that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
I mean I just as an evaluator.

Speaker 12 (01:42:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
It's why you have couent college scouts. They're not waiting
until January. They all got the tape. You get every
tape you want, but you gotta go see players. You
gotta let you gotta let it wash over you. You gotta
follow along and have context, right because it's not just
about you know they're forty times and how many times
they can press to twenty five. You got to see

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week to week.

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Speaker 13 (01:43:38):
Yea fellas or a Labor Day Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
How bad it, buddy?

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
I just not realized this Labor Day. I don't even
think about that, Like it didn't occur to men till
you just said it's Labor Day. It's like, oh, it's
a holiday weekend, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
Yeah, yeah, Labor Day.

Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
Labor Day is one of those, uh, you know, least
celebrated days holidays if you had yeah, like if you
be could Memorial Day are veterans right? You know you
got a fourth July obviously. The Labor Day is kind
of unceremonial. Unceremonious is the word, right, Like there's no fanfare.

(01:44:28):
It's like back to school now for us. We love
it because it's football. I love Labor Day because it
enters my favorite time of the year. But most it's
the end of summer, so most people hate Labor Day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
It also feels like it's just sort of it's a
three day weekend. But I don't know. For a lot
of places, school started a few weeks ago, you know,
so like, is it great to get a holiday right
after school started, Like you're just trying to get in
a routine. I don't know, it's just it. You're right,
it definitely hits different. I don't think people I don't.
I don't think people necessarily look forward to it the
same way. When I was a kid, school always started

(01:45:01):
the day after Labor Day, so it was sort of
your last day to get ready for everything. But now
you know, now in the modern times, as you know,
as a dad, like school for a lot of plays.
I mean Nashville school started back in August or early
August everywhere, So you know, it's it's just I wonder
it just does it doesn't It doesn't hit some way.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
You're right about that, Well, you started early August in Nashville.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
They started early August. Yeah, that's into school. They're already
a month into school.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Man, that's horrible.

Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
Things I don't even have to worry about since I
don't have kids, but yes, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:45:36):
It's kind of wild. My friends that have kids are
you know, they've been theah kids went back to school
like the first week in August.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Maybe that Wow, dude, that's it. That's a violation.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
First of all, kids should be off Labor Day, Memorial
Day to Labor Day. That's it. That's their summer vacation.
That's what it should be. Why do you start in
school in August. That's terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
Yeah, summer summer vacation just doesn't have the same doesn't
have the same emphasis that you too. It is. It
feels weird to me, and you know this, but we've
talked about this. Like, kids now are still programmed most
of the time. I don't know. When I was a kid,
summer vacation for most people, I was still practicing on
violin eight hours a day because that was life. But like,
but like for the most part, everybody, you know, just

(01:46:24):
hanging out. You're just having a fun summer. And now
it's like, nope, you got this camp and then this camp,
and then the kids go over to this and then
we got to go to do this and it's like, yeah,
my friends and their parents are exhausted by.

Speaker 12 (01:46:33):
The end of it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Yeah, like those days like when we were growing up
where you basically were roamed free.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
You're basically roamed right like when you were a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
We were kids, we would just disappear all day and
I don't know, we just we find all the kids
play ball, you know, roam around, you know, I mean
that's what it was, but now structured.

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
Remember like street lights on Like for so many of
us when we were kids, it's like you could be
outside until the street lights come on, and once the
streetlights come on, or you hear your your mom and
dad whistle, like every mom and dad seemed to have
like a signature whistle that you knew was your mom
and dad. There was like, oh god, I am late.
I mean to get in right now like that you
know that that's that's not so much the world and look.

Speaker 3 (01:47:25):
You could you can hear it and come out the door.
Anthony Lewis.

Speaker 4 (01:47:30):
Middle name coming out. That's when you knew you were
in trouble. Like, I uh, I get the world can't
be the same anymore, like the world has changed. But
there was an innocence to like, you know, call him
when you checked in, when you got to your friend's house.
Sometimes sometimes you didn't. My God, like you just you
know now now like parents check locations everywhere they go,
and it's it's too much different. It's just the whole

(01:47:52):
vibe is different.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
Yeah, different vibe is right, different vibes right, all right, Uh,
let's uh, let's take a look at the NFL a
little bit, all right, because we got the big we
got a huge late.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
First of all, what do you think of Saturday?

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
Saturday? What do you think of Thursday? Chiefs ravens Now
you think? Where are you staying at? With Baltimore?

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
I think Baltimore offensively is going to be one of
the most interesting teams to watch earlier in the year
because Derrick Henry and I interviewed him a couple of
days ago, talked to him about this. But Derek Henry
has had to be the face of the identity, of
the everything for a football team for his entire career,
and now he doesn't have to be any of those things.
And he still has plenty of gas left in the tank.

(01:48:42):
For anyone that says, well, eventually he's going to hit
the wall. I don't know, man, Like I just I've
seen Derek Henry up close and personal. I've been to
practices that he's been a part of with the Titans.
I have a hard time thinking that there's a big
wall about to hit, and we know Baltimore commits to
the run, and now they have a bona fide superstar
that they can commit to the run too, which is
going to create so much opportunity for a guy like

(01:49:02):
Jay Flowers. I've taken Zay in a bunch of my
fantasy football league because I think that there's just real
Everybody's gonna stack the box because they have to, and
Nowaday's gonna get big chunk yardage. And by the way,
I think we're gonna see Lamar run the ball more
too out of all this, because it's just gonna be
hard to figure out who to stop. So offensively, they
get really interesting. Defensively, there's a lot of change, the

(01:49:23):
new defensive coordinator. All of that makes me really nervous,
But I feel like this Ravens team is more capable
than any we've seen in the last several years of
scoring in the upper twenties. If they have to to
consistently win football games. While they get the defensive side
of the ball figured out under their new system. So
I love Baltimore this year as a sneaky top seed
contender in the AFC. I think the demise of Baltimore

(01:49:45):
is being over reported.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
Well, I'll tell you one thing. Thursday night.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
Whenever you do Thursday Night, and you know it's the
it's not exactly a novel thing at the over.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Forty six and a half. That's too low. It's too low.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
I know early season the whole thing that that that's
a that's a fifty five piece right there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
They're they're both both teams are going to score big time.

Speaker 4 (01:50:20):
Let me ask you this, do you have any like
weird NFL opening season traditions, any any anything that you
always do, Like what's Thursday night look like in the
Gargatta household?

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
See, this year is different because the Eagles play on Friday.
So since that's my squad, we have a get to
I have a get together my cousins, so big games,
I always go over my cousins and so Friday night, well,
well we have a big party Friday night at his house.

(01:50:56):
So Thursday night will just be me and if I
can wrangle with my kids like they're just starting to
kind of watch. I don't have to bribe them as
much with food. So even though they play, I'm like,
listen to me, like I beg them listen to me.

(01:51:16):
You guys both play. To really understand the game, you've
got to watch the game in addition to playing it
and learning it. By watching it, you'll learn the game
nuanced stuff like that. But you know, speaking of the difference,
they just don't have the patience to watch games the

(01:51:40):
way we watch games.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
No, you're right, but you're also right that it's a
necessary evil. Like that's one thing that you know, like
you can't if you want to be a musician, you
gotta watch concerts. You got to listen to other people.
You know, it's just part of what has to happen.
You're a thousand percent right. So I haven't done this
in a few years. But my favorite tradition I ever
had on the open weekend of NFL season, especially for

(01:52:03):
the opening Sunday, is I would invite all my friends
to come over. But the only rule was you had
to bring something to eat that you literally got shipped
from a place you've been or a place you've lived.
So like waw like really like yeah, that way we
had like a smorgasbord of food from everywhere else and
so like last year in Nashville that we did it,
one of my buddies had like pizza from Chicago that

(01:52:26):
he got shipped in. One body got like wings from
Anchor Bar. Somebody had like crab stuff from Maryland, and
like so like everybody by. It wasn't just like make it.
It was like find a famous place and you gotta
you gotta get it, you gotta get Somebody had Greater's
ice cream from Cincinnati for dessert. Like I always liked
that because it's just a way of doing it, like

(01:52:47):
and then it created the sort of a story around
it because you know you're a big like my buddy
that's a big Bills fan got into the debate of
like these are actually the best wings and like all
that's like I like doing different stuff like that around
food with the games because I think we all will.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Tell you the accurate bar anonymous, Yeah, like the accurate bar.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
Not how are you gonna handle this year?

Speaker 4 (01:53:08):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:53:08):
This year?

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
Now? This year more low key, like now you know,
I'm hosting the Fantasy Football show right before kickoff for Yahoo,
and then I have to do a Sunday night show.
So this year, I'm just gonna find a local bar
and we're all gonna get together and you know, have
a toast as the as soon as I can get
there afterwards. You know, that's the you know, that's the
best way.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
So your fantasy.

Speaker 4 (01:53:28):
On Thursdays, I'm doing both Thursday and Sunday for Yahoo.
We have a thirty minute Thursday show and a one
hour Sunday show for y'all Who's Sports.

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
It'll be on YouTube and Thursday show looking ahead this
Sunday or is it DFS.

Speaker 4 (01:53:43):
It's mostly Thursday. It's mostly looking ahead to Thursday night
and then some big sweeping stories for Sunday and then Sunday.
You know, we have three experts on that are just
really gonna be like I'm just steering the ship. I'm
just running point guard and letting them be brilliant and
they'll they'll break all the action down. But it's from
twelve to one Eastern, so it ends right as so
like if the Raiders are playing at one, I'll just

(01:54:04):
walk downstairs and like you know, immediately get into game action.
But for this particular, for the first Sunday coming up,
you know, a week from tomorrow. That's the I'll meet
everybody out somewhere and we'll have a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Of a cool I like that. All right, Well, give
me coming up. Why don't you give me some players
that you like. Honestly, we agree, like I love Zay Flowers.
I think that's a great pick. So give me some
of your guys that you're.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
A bullsh on sweet. All right, Where the fella is
hanging out?

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
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Sports Radio.

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Speaker 12 (01:54:53):
Live.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
Fella is from theti iraq dot com studio. Jason Fitz
Anthony Gargano hanging out Labor Day weekend with you guys.
We'll be watching football with you guys a little bit.
All right, let's talk a little fantasy. You know you
are an expert, my man, so I'm curious. Let me

(01:55:16):
pick your brain out of the audience will be interested.
Give me some guys that you like. Let's kind of
go throw it. We'll break it up in the conference
and start at FC. Give me some of the guys
that you are looking at that you like.

Speaker 4 (01:55:31):
I don't think there's a big top secret to this.
The one thing I would say coming into this season
is that I think the running back position is a
lot harder, like I mentioned earlier, like in Jay Flowers,
in part because of Derrick Henry. I think the running
back position is a lot harder for everybody to wrap
their head around this year. And so for that reason,
the one thing that has hit me in all the
drafts is like, there's only a handful of guys that

(01:55:53):
are true difference makers. Right, So if you've got one
of those handful of guys that are true difference makers,
I draft them early. That's a thing I would say
to everybody that stands out as like a general consensus.
I don't know that there's a sleeper that I could
tell everybody that's better than somebody else in that but
what I.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Found out, But who do you like? Give me? Yeah,
I know I feel you.

Speaker 4 (01:56:12):
I mean, the the fantasy running backs in general, it's
all the same. Like I love Saquon, everybody loves Saquon, right,
you think about the position in general, the problem is
there's only let's say five or six that are totally
worth it. And what I found is that people don't
want to draft, they don't want a draft running back
too early. You know. But obviously Christian McCaffrey, Breestat Bejhn

(01:56:34):
like those guys. But when you start to get into
like Devon h Chan, I hear a lot of people say, well,
he's gonna be splitting carries with Raheem Moster, Okay, who
cares like? He still put up epic yards last year,
So I really like him, Eta and somebody that I
really like. I mentioned earliers like Isaiah p Bajeco, somebody
I really like, like, look at the.

Speaker 3 (01:56:53):
The only think about it. I was disappointed last year.

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
With him, Yeah, I was too. I think I was
disappointed with the whole offense last year. I think that
was back a little bit this year. Yeah, one hundred percent.
I mean I was disappointed with Jonathan Taylor from part
of last year too. But you still still look around
and think, man, you know, but what's funny to me
is that what I've seen is guys like Pachecko, nobody
wants to draft him early because they have this mindset

(01:57:18):
of got to take wide receiver, got to take wide receiver. Well,
there's a lot of depth wide receiver right, So like
to me, I'd rather even if it means I'm reaching
a little early to get Pachecko, but I made sure
I got a running back. I would do that ten
times out of ten. So you know, that's the general.
Like Hiram Williams, somebody I like a lot for the rams.
You know, it's just it's harder. There just aren't a
lot of guys once you start to get into that.

(01:57:40):
Kenneth Walker, Josh Jacobs, Rashad White, like, a lot of
those guys are kind of replaceable, you know. So yeah,
it's just tougher to find people at the top level
of that. I do think Josh Jacobs has a chance
to do some nice things for Green Bay sticking into
the NFC, for sure, But I think a lot of
those guys are just kind of replaceable.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Is there any uh, maybe any guys on the quiet
side that you like at running back for late?

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
You know, I means one guy, I got one guy
like and and just look, I'll go back to my
college experience on this sweet baby Ray like tell him
Ray Davis out of Kentucky running back in Buffalo, Like
early in the year, I don't think he's going to
be significant, But late in the year, I think he is.
He's a lot more explosive to people give him credit for.
What I think is funny is that early in the year,

(01:58:28):
like every running back, he's not getting it as much time.
But this Buffalo offense is going to commit more to
running the football. They're going to commit more to play action,
all of these things. So, like I just I could
see by the end of the year, sweet baby Ray
coming out and having himself a nice little run right
when you need him for the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
I agree, they're going to be ground and pounds. I
love it. I mean, and I love their office where
it's going to look. It's it's gonna be just run run.
Now did you see that poll espended the poll of
players and the three most overrated quarterbacks. Josh Allen was

(01:59:04):
number one all overrated.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
I don't buy that at all. And Josh Allen's still
a great fantasy football pickup just because you know he's
gonna he's gonna get yards a bunch of ways. Right
Like modern modern NFL and modern fantasy football, you want
a guy that Kim Russell run for some run for
some points too. So you know, for anyone that doesn't
play a lot of fantasy as much as Dak might
put up MVP like numbers, Josh Allen's a better fantasy

(01:59:31):
football quarterback, right, So you know, it's just the basic
sort of strategy there, says take Josh Allen. I think
Josh Allen's gonna have a big year this year. He's
gonna have to have a big year. Otherwise everybody's getting
fired in Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
I know, I know, but he's I mean, he's a great,
great player. Like I don't understand how you could be overrated.
He said, whatever you want. I mean, all right, so
you have Mahomes. He fell to Mahomes twice, Like, give
me a break. I don't I don't get that exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
They did say Jalen Hurts and Tua were second and
third most overrated according to the players.

Speaker 4 (02:00:13):
Players don't really respect too a lot. I was surprised
to see Jalen Hurts on that list, by the way.
You know, and somebody that I know. We've talked a
lot about the Eagles and some of the issues they
could have this year, but man, you talk about just
somebody that I think could have a big bounce back
here Jalen Hurts is that they're gonna have to figure
out the brotherly shove thing like you know that extended

(02:00:33):
a lot of drives with their ninety three percent conversion
rate last year. They're gonna have to make sure they
can still do that in this new offensive system. But
I still I still really like Jalen Hurts, especially in fantasy.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
Yeah, well I mean fantasy. He'll be great.

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
The whole thing is on his shoulders and it's gonna
be one and it's gonna be one thing. Can he
beat the pressure because teams will pressure him. Where the
fella is hanging out?

Speaker 3 (02:00:54):
Fox Sports Radio?

Speaker 1 (02:00:57):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
Well, it's eight o'clock. That means we're four hours from
kickoff today Georgia Clemson kicks it all off the twenty
twenty four college football season. I know we had some
appetizers over the last couple of days, but it gets

(02:01:21):
real at big noon kickoff today when it's Clemson and Georgia.
Carson Beck against klub Nick. Whoa man, I can't wait.
This is gonna be great stuff. Where the fellas he's
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(02:02:27):
big games. Obviously there's two MegaGames, and it's like we said,
Clemson and Georgia and Fitzy, Notre Dame A and m tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:02:38):
So you got your your day book ended.

Speaker 4 (02:02:42):
I mean, can you think of a better opening and
closing to a Saturday of action to start everything off
then having those brands face each other in such in
games that get everybody fired up and I can't stress
this enough. It's a reminder of how awesome college football
is going to be this year, but how awesome some
of these matchups just feel right like you just it

(02:03:03):
feels different when you have these sort of cross conference
everybody's battling each other, you know, just like at the
beginning of college basketball. They do a beautiful job of
making sure that they get conference battles coming in. I
love the fact that you get something like Notre Dame
and A and M that you don't see Offen, or
Georgia and Clemson that you don't see Offen or Penn
State in West Virginia that you don't see often. Like,

(02:03:24):
these things feel different, they hit different, they they resonate
more because it's not just a standard cupcake matchup or
it's not just a standard game you see every year.
It's the sort of game that if you were sitting
now with your buddies to play the college football video
game and you're just playing one exhibition, I could see
somebody being like, oh, let's do clems in Georgia, Like
that's just yeah, that feels Georgia, yeah, one hundred percent.

(02:03:45):
And by the way, if you're playing that video game
with anybody that takes Georgia, just kindly tell them to
leave your home, all right, because if you're so soft,
you gotta play the video game is the best team.
I have no respect for you, I know, I know,
but take their snacks.

Speaker 2 (02:03:59):
Don't want monsters. And my moswell was Georgia. We played Georgia.
We always did it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:06):
We all like were kicking him out of the house.

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
I know he's always plays Georgia's.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
He's batter and he's always got to have the better team.

Speaker 4 (02:04:18):
I was. I was playing against like, I'm very good
at these games. I acquiesced that and I got a
couple buddies that I've been playing with, a bunch that
you know, are they're they're getting through the process right.
And so a couple of weeks ago when it first
came out, I was playing against my buddy Keene, and
Keene was he was Ohio State. We were at the
Big House and I took Connecticut and uh, I've never
seen like I've just never said, I mean it was.

(02:04:40):
That was a tough matchup. I'm not gonna lie because
I'm Connecticut at Yukon and he's he's Ohio State, and
I beat him with the wildest Hail Mary's type play
you've ever seen with nine seconds left to beat him
at the Big House. And I still give him grief
every time, every time he plays the game, I still
give him grief about the heartbreaking way that I beat him.
As Yukon see that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
That's why.

Speaker 4 (02:04:58):
That's the Oh, it was just meant to be. It
was a you know, it was like a scissor route
and the guy was going up on the outside and
it was really easy just to I just flopped it out.
I haven't thrown a deep ball the whole game. My
guy got behind his coverage and just went It was
like a ninety something. We joked we had nine seconds
and I had to go ninety yards to win the game,
and I got it in one play. It just the

(02:05:19):
defense lost him in the secondary. It was a beautiful moment,
beautiful moment for me.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
Yeah, that's a I retire moment. You lose accurate.

Speaker 4 (02:05:29):
We were playing the other night with the same group
of guys and my buddy Steve was up by I
had a really tragic first half in the game and
I'd thrown four interceptions. I was just like, it was
just wasn't me. I just wasn't playing well. He was
up by seventeen at the half, and I was like,
I acquiess guys, this is the game where you finally
got me. And I ended up beating him in the
fourth court. I ended up scoring twenty one points in

(02:05:49):
the fourth quarter to beat him. So you know, I
love playing this game. It's got me even more fired
up for college football, simply because I could play the
video game version.

Speaker 2 (02:05:59):
YEAHS say that game is outrageous. It's so good, it's
so great, and it does it gets you, It gets
you geeked up. I wonder if that's we were talking
earlier about people that are not the biggest college football fans,
like we love it, and you know, and around the country,

(02:06:20):
especially obviously in the South and Midwest, and people love
college football some of the big cities. Is weird because
in the big cities, they they aren't they're not college there.
They're NFL and their NFL almost exclusively.

Speaker 4 (02:06:43):
I think the the thing of it is so much
of it of fandom on all of this depends on
where you grew up and what you grew up around
and what you love, right like, because you are rare
to me to see somebody that grew up in a
Temple area, you know, like I don't think of Temple
having this resounding college football you know, this resonating I

(02:07:03):
should say college football legacy or history that makes people
fall in love with it. And you know, it was
interesting to me when I moved to the South. I'd
lived everywhere that didn't really love college football to that level,
and then you live a few years in the South,
You're like, God, you just see how much it means.
The video game portion of all of this. Like I mean,
I say this repeatedly, like I wasn't a big soccer fan,

(02:07:25):
and then I started playing FIFA. It's amazing what that
does for you, you know, like it just helps you
fall in love with the game when you start playing
the video game version of it. So maybe it creates
a different level of relationship between college football and fans
in the next few years. I'd be genuinely I'm interested
to see what happens with the college football game next year,
because this year was so hyped. Next year do people

(02:07:46):
even care?

Speaker 3 (02:07:46):
I just don't know, you know, yeah, you're no, I
could see that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
I could totally see that next year is the true
litmus that's because it's fresh.

Speaker 4 (02:07:59):
And new this year. Yeah, it's like everybody's like, I
haven't seen this in forever, and now next year it's
you know, roster updates. But what else, you know, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
Maybe I don't know. Maybe it's the city, like the cities.

Speaker 2 (02:08:12):
Is it more that the big cities like Chicago was
a big Notre Dame country, But I listen, you know,
East Coast is weird, right New York, Philadelphia, DC. You know,
they're not big ball even Boston. I mean you got
Boston College, but that's it. They're not big college football cities.

Speaker 4 (02:08:35):
Which is also funny to me. You know, I'm fifteen
minutes as I sit right now in my house from
University of Connecticut, and I did an event at a
place here a few weeks ago at j TIMS that's
famous for their wings, where the Yukon men's basketball came
out and team came out, and you know, it feels
like it's Aerosmith in the Peak walking into a building

(02:08:55):
when Hurley walks it. It's incredible how much this area
love college basketball. And then you think about the college
football program and the inability to really grow with any traction.
I just I don't know why people don't care at
the same level, but they don't. Like New England does
not care at the same level about college football. And
that's I don't think that's a hot take. Like, it's
just it doesn't. You walk into a Buffalo Wo Wings

(02:09:17):
today in the area ten minutes from ESPN campus, it
is not going to be filled to the brim with
college football fans. You walk into a Buffalo Wow Wings
in the South today, You're gonna barely be able to
get into the door. You walk into a Buffalo Wow
Wings in the Midwest today, gonna barely be able to
get into the door. So, like, it is funny to me,
how you know in this area, this big city area,

(02:09:38):
and then also the New England area, it just does
big city I can say maybe because so many people
move to big cities from so many different places, they
went to school in different places. It doesn't necessarily hit
the said like you grew up in Mississippi, like you
are an Ole miss fan or a Mississippi State fan. Yeah,
you know, if you move to New York, you know
you could be a fan of anything from anywhere.

Speaker 12 (02:09:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
No, it's a good point, you know, I look at
UH when I Philadelphia is you know, predominantly Penn State,
but Penn State's four hours away, so it's you know,
it's closer to Pittsburgh than it is Philadelphia. So most people,

(02:10:22):
unless you went to Penn State, you're not a Penn
State fan, like you're, right, a lot of the geography,
like you know, you grew up, you know you're in uh,
you're LSU. If you're in Louisiana, you're an LSU fan,
right like Texas. That's why college football like Dallas is different,

(02:10:43):
right because you've got so many schools in that part
of the world. Right in Texas, it's a huge college.
Well you know, it's high school, it's college. It's just
a In some ways, high school and college are bigger
than the NFL.

Speaker 4 (02:11:00):
Yeah, I mean, Friday Night Lights come on like that.
By the way, TV show better than the movie Hot Take.
But Friday Night Lights is exists for a reason because
it's real. And you know, that is another thing that
this fall. I'm very lucky that I have Friday nights off,
and I haven't had Friday nights off really in a
long time. And it is funny to me because if

(02:11:21):
I lived in if I was still in the national
area and I have Friday nights off, I'd be going
to a major high school football program every Friday nights
just to watch the games, because the vibe is great
in Connecticut. It's just I don't really know anybody that
flocks to the high school football game, right. So it is.
It's just a cultural thing from eighth grade up that
hits different.

Speaker 3 (02:11:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:11:42):
For me, when I was going to high school in
you know, I finished high school in Maryland PG County,
there weren't people like nobody was suddenly lining up to
go to the Bowie Bulldogs football games. That just didn't exist, right,
So it is. It's wild and one of the crazy
beautiful things about America that you can be in one
country in different parts of the country and what people

(02:12:04):
are into is so vastly different, you know, as opposed
to you know, Europe. It feels like most of Spain
is into one thing and most of France is into
one thing. Right, We're just not like that at all.

Speaker 2 (02:12:15):
Yeah, No, it's uh, You're you're completely spot on. All right,
Let's figure out these games for a second. We have
the brain coming up at the at the bottom of
the hour, we'll talk to the brain for take a
look at it from a betting standpoint. But let's let's

(02:12:36):
analyze these for a second. So Clem's in Georgia. We
talked about it. It's almost as if Georgia is under
under rated. I mean, it sounds weird. It's in the
number one team in the country, but they're under talked about.
They're not you know, I think you know last year's

(02:12:59):
step back, you know, I don't know. I don't know
why missing why Georgia is like not viewed, nobody saw.
It feels like nobody's talking about it, even in its game.
I go, I don't think clefs you could stay on
the field with them.

Speaker 4 (02:13:16):
So I had this moment when I was doing my
show the other day and my co host, who lives
in Nashville still on one of the shows, Caroline, I
said to her, I said, I think we're sleeping on Georgia.
They're not getting enough national attention. And both of the
people on the show with me looked at me like
I was crazy and started to push back on all
of it. It's like all anybody's talking about is Georgia.
And it's funny because I guess I can't speak to

(02:13:38):
this because I haven't been down there. I guess if
you're in sec country, all anybody's talking about is Georgia.
But I think you're right, Like when you just when
you turn on the national shows that are talking about
college football, they're not leading with Georgia, They're not leading
with the number one team in the country. I don't
feel like there's the reverence of respect that usually a
team that's on this level of dominance over a three

(02:13:58):
or four or five year period gets like. It feels
like the story of college football. We're spending more time
talking about a bad Colorado team with Dion than we
are talking about a team that realistically had a very
legitimate chance at winning the national championship last year for
a third year in a row, and is the number
one team in the country right now. I agree with you.
I think the national narrative on Georgia is being slept

(02:14:21):
on and people aren't really thinking about how stinking good
they are, especially when you compare it to the way
that we're talking about Ohio State right now nationally, the
way that I'm talking about Oregon right now nationally. Even
some of the national love to Ole miss It's like
people want something shiny and new.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
Yeah, yeah, no, I think you're right. It's just they're
so good too. They're so good, My god, I just
think they're scary all right. Now, A and M and
Notre Dame, which is another like fascinating game and another

(02:14:58):
debut of of a quarterback that's a veteran like these
quarterbacks today that have been in two and three programs.
It's you know, we talked about earlier about the portal,
about how wild the portal is. Right, so you're come
the Irish and if they could beat Texas A and M,

(02:15:20):
they got a shot at going unbeaten.

Speaker 4 (02:15:24):
I think part of the quarterback conversation two has to
be not just if they played a lot of football,
but what's held them back where they've been before? Because
we just watched dj Ouyongalila for Florida State be I
think exactly who's been his whole career inconsistent? Is a
quarterback they have to please could save him from some
Yeah he's not. And the funny thing is he gets

(02:15:46):
talked about like he's like he's good. But to me,
Riley Leonard, you're talking about somebody that made the most
of everything he had at Duke, he elevated the people
that were around him. So, Riley Leonard, going to more talent,
I'm interested to see, you know, Dylan Gabriel has played
at a high level with the talent that he had
around him, going to more talent with him, I'm interested
to see. Like, I don't want to take this quarterback

(02:16:07):
conversation and suddenly say, well, this guy hasn't been any good,
but now this will be the awakening. I think we
have to be careful on that. But I don't think
we have to be careful or cautious when it comes
to saying, here's a quarterback that's had some success that
now could have a lot of success because they've transferred
into a situation that fits them better. I'll a Bonnicks
like what happened about next transferred to Oregon like it

(02:16:28):
was the awakening for him. So I totally agree with you,
Riley Leonard, having an awakening against Texas A and m
oh World, Well, go nuts for it. I want it.
I want that Disney storybook.

Speaker 2 (02:16:37):
Get I do too, and I and listen. I liked him.
I liked him at Duke. You we talked about him.
He listened, he delivers a terrific ball. He's mobile. I'm
really curious now you brought it up earlier in the show,
and you are spot on.

Speaker 3 (02:16:56):
The whole key to Notre Dame is if that, oh, that.

Speaker 2 (02:17:00):
Offensive line comes together, because if they can protect them,
forget about it, they're gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (02:17:06):
But we're I'm a little suspect on that O line.

Speaker 4 (02:17:10):
Oh I'm a lot suspect on that.

Speaker 12 (02:17:12):
Like.

Speaker 4 (02:17:12):
Look, I think it's fair too, you know, without drinking
hater aide, I think that it's fair to say, hey man,
when you've got between players leaving and injuries and just
a displaced offensive line, I need to see it first.
And yeah, now you've got a quarterback that's gonna be
in that environment like at Texas A and M. That's
a big lift. Now I need that quarterback to not

(02:17:34):
be running for his life. I need that quarterback to
not be seeing ghosts like that's all again, that's just
a big lift that's being asked for. So I don't
think that's unfair. If that offensive line holds up, Notre
Dame wins this game. It's that simple to me. If
that offensive line doesn't hold up, then Notre Dame loses
this game, and it's all about the big uglies in
the middle, and we're gonna have to watch the fat
boy sweat it out and just figure out if they

(02:17:55):
can hold him up, right, because that Texas A and
M D line, I'm telling you, is not good. They're great.
There's a difference at Texas. Texas A and M D.
Line can get after it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:05):
Yeah, yeah, no, and they got better. I mean they
got better in the portal too. So all right, well
let's do this. Let's take a quick to you. We'll
come back. The brain is going to join us to
go through the college place today, will take a look
at the the NFL Thursday Night, NFL Friday Night, which

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the air until Saturday, so after the game. But at
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with you because I'm dying for this, like this is
you know, this is like my Eagles, right, so I
am like excited about that. And then I do I
want to get into, you know, just just the start

(02:18:53):
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From a betting standpoint. We like to call him the Brain.

(02:20:45):
He is our buddy. Brad Feinberg.

Speaker 12 (02:20:48):
Good morning, Brain, Good morning, it's me exciting today.

Speaker 2 (02:20:52):
Oh my god, dude, happy college football brother, happy you.
And right off the bat he let me tell you something.
Fitzie the Brain had a winner. He said, uh, Champion
said Oklahoma first half.

Speaker 12 (02:21:10):
But you know what's interesting we both I know, but
I got to give dual credit me and both said
that is, you know, we've just by following this stuff
from way too many years. We both said, that has
thirty five nothing written all first half. That'll be the
exact score. What was the score? Thirty four nothing in
doccas of little bit, I guess, but point being yeah,

(02:21:31):
I mean that was you know what Sale was saying,
you know, like Dennis Green, temples who we thought they were.

Speaker 3 (02:21:37):
Yeah they stink.

Speaker 4 (02:21:39):
Yeah yeah. But this is I will say before we
get into questions for the brain. One thing that I've
stolen from him over the last year of working with
him so much on these Saturdays is like betting the
first half is like for these big spreads with these
good teams, betting the first half has made a lot
more money. I don't have to worry about second half.
So you know you've you've taught the world, my friend.

Speaker 12 (02:22:00):
Well, no, it's because it's interesting and what always happens
is and it's funny. Like the King of this God.
I can't even tell you how many times I made
money on this. Was Oklahoma and Alabama would literally be
up at halftime in these games forty two nothing, thirty
five nothing, thirty eight nothing, and the final score would
be like forty five to three. And what was the
final score yesterday? They do you remember? Or fifty it was?

(02:22:22):
It was there weren't many points scored in the second
half at all, and it's just.

Speaker 3 (02:22:28):
Fifty one three.

Speaker 12 (02:22:30):
Yeah, So there was what eighteen whatever nineteen points scored
in the second half, thirty four and the second half.
That's just what always happens to the games, because what
happens is the team that's winning. You know, if you're
up by five touchdowns, you know you're not looking to
win by nine touchdowns. Okay, so you know you're just
gonna go run, run, run, run, run, run, run on run.
Which is you know, obviously you've bet under. That's the

(02:22:52):
you know, an under best friend, this team that runs
the ball and h betting the first half. And again,
bookmakers have gotten lot sharp in this over time. It
used to be if the team was a let's call
it a thirty five point favorite, they'd be laying seventeen
and a half and both has no longer now now
they you know, usually in a game like that, it
would be more like laying twenty one of the first half,

(02:23:14):
lang fourteen to the second half. It's still I think
it's usually worth it because of just how crazy different,
uh it is when you have trying your entire first
half and the second half you're just trying to run
out the clock.

Speaker 3 (02:23:25):
Totally totally.

Speaker 12 (02:23:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:23:28):
All right, so let's go through it.

Speaker 2 (02:23:30):
Let's just start off, man, Let's just go games man,
Let's get knots, let's go today. George Clenchon dude, I
don't understand it. I'll be honest with you. I love
Georgia today. I don't think Clets would say one.

Speaker 12 (02:23:45):
Well, you know, listen here the thing that Etn Drebortan
had some issues which you know could hurt them. Their
second leading receiver, Rob Rob Thomas is not on the team.
He got kicked off the we had some a couple
of things which have not been great, you know, whatever
you want to call it. Not ideal for a team

(02:24:08):
trying to come back and win a national championship. That
being said, looking I think we talked about Clemson. Clemson
to me, you know, I think they're a team that
I think the days of Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson
winning national championships. Now you're in k club. Nick Enough said,
I don't think that these are elite teams. I think

(02:24:29):
Dabbo is done in terms of really contending for national titles.
Carson Deck to me, is the truth, the real deal. Yeah,
I mean, this line's actually been beck down. The only
way I can look you is Georgia. Yeah. I do
think Georgia does win this game by double digits, by
two touchdowns. I just say double digits may not and
can do I can think of one by ten, but
I think they win this game by at least two touchdowns.
I really do that the games in Atlanta should be

(02:24:50):
an interest, should be a great crowd. I just think
matchup wise, I just think Georgia is in different class
and I think the fine should be a little over fourteen,
and it's a little less than fourteen. And so I'm
gonna take my chances.

Speaker 4 (02:25:01):
With you age if, as we all believe, that game
is going to be a blowout. On this show, so
far today we've been excited about Penn State West Virginia.
What do you see there?

Speaker 12 (02:25:11):
You know it's interesting. Look I always say, you know,
any game, I will tell you I bet numbers, not teams.
Now I bet West Virginia plus ten. The line's down
at seven and a half. I'm not betting it at
seven and a half because I thought the light line
should have been about eight or so. Look, this is
a I'm not going to see a make or break
year for James Franklin. That's not fair because they've had

(02:25:34):
fun of success with him. But this is a team.
If you look at the Penn State, they're going to
be favored basically in every game this year something one. Okay,
they got to make the playoffs this year. I mean
when I say that, I really need it, like there's
no excuses, there's no anything other than me. Is that
making the playoffs is inexcuse? Well, now I do like

(02:25:54):
Garrett Green for West Virginia. I think he's again I
like in college. I like the guys it can run.
I like him in pro too, but Green can do both.
Look again at current numbers to me guys to pass.
I think it's the right number at seven and a
half slash eight, but if you could you know again,

(02:26:17):
if it blind dips to seven, I would like tenn
State Again, I bet numbers, not teams, and at ten
I liked West Virginia, but I think this is the
right number. But I think this is a really big year.
Ten state.

Speaker 3 (02:26:27):
Yeah, we talked about earlier in the show, like this
is this has to.

Speaker 2 (02:26:31):
Be like if it's one thing that you're resigned without
a playoff to always finishing.

Speaker 3 (02:26:37):
Behind Ohio State, Michigan.

Speaker 2 (02:26:39):
But now, all right, Michigan is down right, you transition.
I know Oregon's good, and obviously Ohigo of state's high state,
but you know, there's no shoes.

Speaker 3 (02:26:50):
Now you got to make a playoff if you're.

Speaker 12 (02:26:52):
Franklin, Anthony. To me, Franklin is in the exact same spot,
and I don't think I'm being unfair. And Jim Harball
was three years ago okay, because Harball was there, I
don't know how any five years they just weren't okay.
And then three years ago they break through and they
you know, Georgia jessps how was at that game, like
killed them in the final four. And then they got

(02:27:13):
to the final four and they got shockingly upset by
TCU and then of course last year they won the
national titles. So loos. Harball got there three straight years
in a four man playoff, which is incredibly hard to do,
but he did it. But similar situation Penn State in Michigan,
amazing blue blood programs that were going through a malaise
of just got eight and four, nine and three kind

(02:27:34):
of years, never really getting to the promised lands. To
me again, can Franklin do what Harball did? We're about
to find out, all.

Speaker 4 (02:27:45):
Right, So give me with a big slate of games today.
Was there a game that you looked at and thought, wow,
that one priced out really wrong, like there's good action here.

Speaker 12 (02:27:52):
Well, well it's funny. My biggest bed of the day, guys,
and it's it's it's not so listen. I like UCLA
against Hawaii. Now, I got it. The lines moved, it's
moved from thirteen to fourteen, but I still like it.
Actually randomly watched Hawaii. They're playing dough or State, who

(02:28:14):
is not a you know, an FTDs team, and Hawaii
was a forty point favorite of that game, and they
were like towards the end of third quarter it was
a tie game and one of Hawaii scores was on
a punt return or kickoff return, which one it was.
And to me, again, obviously coaching change UCLA, there will

(02:28:36):
be some adjustments, but I think UCLA is still at
least a dec team, and I think they will torch
Hawaii and win that game by more than two touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (02:28:46):
I do.

Speaker 12 (02:28:47):
I think again, I think this is going to be
I'm not going to say like the Temple game last night,
but I think this could be like a you know,
let's call it like a fifty two to like, you know,
twenty one kind of u c l A win forty
five twenty one UCLA kind of win. I think they
roll in this one against the Hawai team that I

(02:29:07):
don't think is really good at all. And again, maybe
I'm putting too much stock in that game against Doaware State,
but this I was not like that pick a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:29:17):
Yeah, I like that pick.

Speaker 2 (02:29:18):
How about the how about the Irish Irish any Lean air?

Speaker 12 (02:29:26):
Well, that wasn't what a great matchup, you know, because
look you have Elko who coached Riley Leonard, right, And
it's like, to me, it's just so weird that the
because Duke. It's funny my daughter goes to Duke, so
I followed Duke very closely, not that she cared about
the program, but I actually did follow Duke football, and
they Elco did an amazing job there. I mean they

(02:29:48):
were they were really tough, like they were and I
bet they're season one in wins two straight years and
they kicked me in my teeth and but again they were.
He's a really good coach. I was very impressed with
him and Leonard before he got hurt, to me, was
just a winning kind of player. Now look now he
gets to play at at uh at uh at Notre Dame. Look,

(02:30:09):
you know it's interesting. I still you know, Look, Connor
Wegner is okay at tex A and M. I don't
think he's that great now again, I do think that's
as I will. I think it's a massive, massive I
cannot truss it enough coaching upgrade for text A and M.
I actually tax a M now will finally maybe get
to that you know, promised land that they've been every year.

(02:30:31):
You see tex A and M top five recruiting every year,
Gym books Whicher will go like seven and five and
it was just repeat, repeat, repeat. I have no doubt
that Elco's going to get the mail what happened.

Speaker 4 (02:30:41):
In this game?

Speaker 12 (02:30:43):
Look, I actually mean Notre Dame because I just I'm
gonna trust a quarterback on the first game over the
coach in the first game. That I could be wrong,
and I think I think Notre Dame went just one
out right, all right?

Speaker 4 (02:30:56):
I know obviously Saturday games are big, but USC LSU
sitting our Sunday night, any feel on that one?

Speaker 12 (02:31:02):
Yeah? You know, sorry, I did bet. One of my
bigger bets is USC. I got six and a half.
He's down the four nail. Look, you know it's interesting.
L s U had some defensive line issues which you know,
I don't think are gonna be good. Garrett Nussmeyer should
be good for L s U. I think he'll be fine.

(02:31:25):
Miller Moss obviously replacing the great Cal Williams. I think
he's gonna be decent for what I've seen. Look, it's
interesting just when I looked at this game and I
use my numbers, look in by the way, I wish
it was there. It'd be great to be going to
this game in Vegas. It it'd be like a great,
you know, great atmosphere probably, But I think this is

(02:31:46):
much more of a fifty to fifty game. I don't
know why L s U is really necessarily even favored,
to be honest, Yeah, I don't think L shoes like
all that in the ball wax. I really don't. My
numbers made this too, and so when I got six
and a half it was an automatic bet. And even yeah,

(02:32:06):
I think I'm on the.

Speaker 3 (02:32:08):
Other side that think I like Alision more.

Speaker 12 (02:32:10):
Than you do. Okay, well, listen, I do think Notsmeyer
is going to be decent. I will say that I'd
like him a lot. Yeah, Yeah, I do think he's
going to be decent, But I don't know. I mean,
we'll see again. I have these things more close again. Look,
we'll see how it plays out. I think anything over
a field goal, I think it's more than fifty to

(02:32:31):
fifty kind of game. Will see it plays.

Speaker 3 (02:32:32):
Out all right, quickly while we have you.

Speaker 2 (02:32:38):
The NFL kicks off Thursday, because Thursday, so let's.

Speaker 3 (02:32:43):
Look at it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:44):
Uh, Let's look at both these games Thursday and Friday,
because then we'll have you next Saturday for the as
we get our routine. So let's look at Thursday and Friday. Thursday. First,
I will tell you I love the over in Thursday night.
I know that without Snead, their Chiefs defense is going
to be a work in progress.

Speaker 3 (02:33:06):
I was told that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:07):
I think that there and I think Baltimore's defense is
going to be a work in progress. And we were
talking about it earlier fifteen and I both love worthy
for the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (02:33:21):
I like over in that game.

Speaker 12 (02:33:24):
Yeah, I agree with you. It's sitting around forty six
forty six and a half. I agree with you that, Anthony.
I also I did bet the Chiefs laying two and
a half. You can still find the two and a
half plan, Jers. I think the Chiefs listen it's interesting.
I think the Chiefs are actually going to be a
better team this year. Maybe they were last year, and
especially on the offensive side of the ball. Let's look
what they've done. I mean, they did add Worthy, who's

(02:33:45):
a you know, a real they have a potentially a
real difference maker. And they did add Hollywood Brown, another
potential real receiver to go with Rachie Rice and Travis Kelsey.
I love the check out running back and I agree
with you. Even had some real hits defensively, obviously tragically,
so it was sad to hear the coach just passed
away the defensive coordinator, which obviously was awful news. And

(02:34:11):
to me again, I think both offenses should have success
in this one. I agree with you. I wouldn't be surprised, Anthony.
I agree with you if this game's played into the
mid fifties. I think mid forties the old total is
too low. I do agree with you. And it's funny.
Maybe we've seen it with Kansas City and you've always
told me it and you've been spot on Kansas City.
And it's funny the way it's almost like Spags doesn't

(02:34:33):
on purpose. I know he doesn't, but it's almost like
he starts off slow, like it's like the Belmont Stakes,
Like I don't care about the beginning first order, first hand,
you know, But towards the end, we're going to be great.
And he always is. You say, you want to say.

Speaker 2 (02:34:46):
About it, that's a product of what they give him.
They don't give him anything, and he has to develop them.
He's a great device. He's one of the greatest coaches
that develops twent on that side.

Speaker 3 (02:34:58):
Of the ball.

Speaker 12 (02:35:01):
Yeah, and it's interesting to look again. I would love
to know. He's always one of those guys, you know.
I know he didn't have success the head coach, would
love to know if he got another chance. You know,
sometimes you just get to kitch in the hold of
a certain thing. But to me, you look at the
success he's had in Kansas City, it's been absolutely like staggering.
I mean, it's like I mean, it's it's unbelievable. And

(02:35:22):
I would I would just love for you know, selfish reasons.
I like, I always root for the guy, for him
to getting their chance at up being a head coach
because I have so much respect to the job he's done.
But Anthony, I do agree with your take on that game,
and I also did like I do like Kansas City.
I think, look, they beat them obviously in the playoff
game last year. I just think they're better than Baltimore.
But just way i've bet Baltimore and eleven and a

(02:35:42):
half wins is down at ten and a half. I
didn't bet Kansas City over eleven and a half wins,
but I definitely mean that way. And you can lay
less than a field goal. Again, I think I have
the better team at home. I think they win this
game as well and cover.

Speaker 2 (02:35:56):
Like last thing, because we got to roll Eagles Packers
Friday night Brazil.

Speaker 3 (02:36:03):
How do you handicap that at tough game?

Speaker 12 (02:36:05):
You know, you know it's interesting. Anthony and I we
haven't really talked about this game, but I again, you
talk about the over in the other game. This game,
this total opened at like fifty two. It's been beat
down in like forty eight. But I'm actually lead over.
I think Philadelphia's offense can have success. Again. I think
both teams are gonna score in the mid twenties. It's

(02:36:25):
really that I really do Green Bay. I Jordan love small,
the small sambal sizes, but he carved up the Eagles
when he faced them on that Sunday night a few
years ago. Jordan loved the second half of the year.
Last year was phenomenal. I think they're gonna score points.
I do, and I trust the Eagles offense right now.
I think they can score points. Be interesting what Kellen

(02:36:47):
Moore does there, but I think they're gonna score I
think both teams score twenty four. And if both teams
score twenty four, it's gonna be hard to go under
forty eight.

Speaker 3 (02:36:54):
Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:36:55):
I like it all right, Brain, enjoy it today. I
know you'res geeked up as fifteen. I so this is awesome.
We're finally here, brother, but we're on the mountain celebrating
David Born.

Speaker 12 (02:37:09):
Welcome quarterback from Michigan. All the success in the world.

Speaker 3 (02:37:13):
Yeah, I love it. I love it.

Speaker 2 (02:37:16):
In Michigan, Grant where the fellas. We'll come right back
and wrap it up. We're man, this is awesome. Jason
Fitz Anthony Gargano, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (02:37:29):
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Speaker 2 (02:37:41):
All right, fellas wrapping it up on a Labor Day
Saturday from the tyrack dot Com Studios.

Speaker 3 (02:37:49):
Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargano, You ready, Son? You ready? My brother?
Are you ready? It all begins?

Speaker 4 (02:38:00):
Can anybody? Can anybody really be ready for today? Like
the goosebumps dude, Like I've had goosebumps all morning just
talking about like what today is gonna be like just
knowing that you know, there's between big noon and and
game day and what the experience like this is that
week where everybody's watching everything and we're salivating over all,

(02:38:21):
Like I just yeah, my god, it's just it is
so stunning. And like I said earlier, like Miami Florida
is a buried matchup, but you bet your butt at
three point thirty, everybody's gonna be sitting there just in
the fields watching that one. It's just oh man, he.

Speaker 3 (02:38:39):
Brought up.

Speaker 2 (02:38:41):
He said, you know, could it be that all three
Florida teams look for new coaches? Oh my god, yeah, Florida, Yeah, yeah, Miami,
if you don't do well this year, hot seat and
Florida state hot seat.

Speaker 4 (02:38:57):
Golly man, that would be that would be insane. And
it's weird because I want to believe in Billy Napier
at Florida, I really do. I don't think Billy Napier
is a bad coach. I just think Florida's schedule is
going to give them six losses. I just I can't
find a way not to get them six losses. And
it's just what do you do then? And if you're Florida,

(02:39:18):
if you're a Gators alumni, you got to accept that
your team is suddenly what the tenth best team in
the SEC? My god, Like, that's just not gonna run
for wealth. So I don't know the answer for that.
That's heartbreaking for Billy Napier because I never root for
coaches to get fired, but I think it's inevitable there.

Speaker 3 (02:39:33):
I know, no, I know, I feel you give me
your lay of the land of what you're going to
be doing today.

Speaker 4 (02:39:42):
Yeah, so you know, I'll be meeting some buddies, so
look as soon as we as soon as we disconnect here,
I will run to the gym because I gotta get
my workout in and that's not noncompromisable. So I'll get
my I'll get my pull day in at the gym
because I'm a fitness god. Now and then I will
I think I'm gonna watch opening kickoff. Yeah, I know

(02:40:03):
I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the opening kickoff at home
and just sort of experience that, and then I'm gonna
meet the friends out probably halftime of the noon games
and then start the marathon that will go from halftime
to the new games through the three thirty games. Then
go home or go to my buddy's house he's a
big Notre Dame fan for Notre Dame A and M,
and then charge back to the house to tape the

(02:40:24):
College Football Power Hour, my new college football podcast that
you can check out on wherever you get your podcasting
on YouTube for Y'aho Sports.

Speaker 3 (02:40:32):
So I will be checking out out.

Speaker 4 (02:40:33):
It's a long workday. It's a long workday, but it's me,
Caroline Fenton and Adam Brenneman hanging out. And we did
our first show on Tuesday. It was a blast, so
I really like it. And in that show I get
to I get to play more of an analyst role
instead of a host role, so it's really fun, like.

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
I get to that's fun for us too, by the way,
it is, it is way more fun to put way
more fun and the baseball. So I got a baseball weekend,
but I will have my phone and watch my football.
I'll be back squarely in time tonight for Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (02:41:05):
Am.

Speaker 2 (02:41:06):
I will be unencumbered to watch that game tonight, looking
forward to that. And then uh, and then tomorrow night
we'll have that. I'll have more tournament and then and
then it's NFL baby, and then we got a you know,
Friday night man, I'll be e A G L E
s and all night.

Speaker 3 (02:41:24):
So it's a big deal for us because we get
to Friday night opener.

Speaker 4 (02:41:28):
Yeah, I can't wait for that. I like, I'm gonna
be texting you during that game just to check the
temperature at the garden.

Speaker 2 (02:41:34):
Please, please, my brother, Please, that's gonna do it for us.
Love you, Fitzie. Have a great day. Enjoy everybody. We
love you guys. Thanks for hanging out with us. Have
a great day. We'll see you next week.

Speaker 3 (02:41:45):
Go football,

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