The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk NFL Week 10, initial CFP Rankings, and which sleeper teams could make the CFP.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
happy happy Fox Football Saturday fellas Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargano,
is we hang out November? Man, it's gone by fast.
So uh, Monday night at halftime will mark the halfway season,

(00:35):
halfway point of the season, which I don't like.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Jeffrey, Good morning. What do they say the
games November the ones to remember? Yeah, well that's for
college right, NFL is December, I think. But now this
is the stretch, man, This is like the stretch that
we wait for, right, we have all the first it
goes way too fast, of course it does. But but
like this is when it will it starts to matter.

(01:01):
So what it feels like it starts to matter both
in college football because the playoff rankings are out now, right,
so it feels real in college football, and then in
the NFL. Obviously now we're starting to see, like, really
where the teams are stacking up, right, there's not a
lot of surprise. You sort of are what you and
you can get better, right, and some teams do get
worse from now on. But now starts really the push

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for seeding, right, and for divisions and every game. Well, look,
if you start two and seven, you're not making the postseason, right,
So games do matter in the first half of the season,
but they feel very important. You know, we're gonna have
an AFC West battle, not this week but next week
right between Chiefs and Broncos. Like that feels so important, right,

(01:42):
It feels more important now than would have felt four
weeks ago. So these games they all matter for one,
they matter for their one, right, the count is all
counts one. But we know that the teams that tend
to play better this point of the season moving forward
are the ones that play better than the postseason.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, and you're right, teams begin to distinguish it themselves,
all right. So that's kind of what we're seeing in
the NFL. We'll dive into it. Deadline Cowboys, you know,
Jets obviously, I think the Jets had to you know,

(02:23):
you had to make those deals. I mean, it's terrible
for them that yet another rebuild. And somehow these these
franchises they just stay the same, Jeff, I mean, they
can't escape the cycle. It's it's the Jets and the
Browns and the Dolphins, and you look at the quarterbacks

(02:45):
that have gone through there and then left and succeeded
with your Donald's and Mayfields and even down the Flacco
and like you saw you go back. You saw uh
farv go to the Jets after green Bay it was
a disaster, but then he went to Minnesota, had a renaissance,

(03:08):
Rogers doing the same thing. He goes to the Jets, disaster,
goes to Pittsburgh and you know, playing fairly well for
his age.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
He is playing fairly well for his age. Pittsburgh voodoo
was in full effect last week. Man, it was yeah,
it was. It was wild. But this time of year
when you know, if you're a veteran quarterback, like you've
prepared your body and your mind for this time of
the year, right Like, this is what you've spent an
off season doing, is getting yourself in a mental and
physical place to win these games down the stretch. And

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so whether you're Aaron Rodgers or whether you know you're
a young quarterback, this is what you've been sort of
ready for.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Older quarterbacks do it better, right Like, I'm curious to
see Drake May the last half of the season, right
to see what that looks like. It's why Jane Daniels
last year was so impressive because he just got better
throughout the season. Right, A lot of times no quarterbacks
start fast and sort of fade out. That's normal, right,
that makes sense. But he kept getting better and better
and better. So Drake May, now you know, you have

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an opportunity to win the division and to be I
don't think of the one seed. But they went division.
They got a chance with their schedule and you have
big game this week in Tampa Bay. So there's so
many little storylines to pay attention to. And one of
them I think is I mean in two Broncos, Like
what what?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
What are this? What is this team? Man?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
He won the beat the Jets by two, beat the
the CJ roundist Houston Texans by three. They won that
game the other night by three.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, listen, and that raided teams dreadful. They're really Gemo
Smith is horrendous. They're really really bad, horrendous.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I mean, look at the last couple of games that
the Raiders played competent opponents thirty one nothing in Kansas City,
forty to six Colts and then whatever that was on
Thursday Night football, And I mean they're eight and two
this season, went teams have scored twenty or less points.
They're three and forty one non Broncos three and forty one.

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The record three and forty one. The Broncos are three
and oh three and oh it's going less twenty points
this season, which is this imports. It's not sustainable, but
they'd both big enough. Leeann AFC West it might not matter, right,
So there's always little storylines as we approach this weekend,
not just game.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, listen, Knicks does not look right. I mean Nicks
just does. I mean he looks frightened. So it's so funny, man,
there's like this I don't know, Okay, so people who
cover the NFL on the internet. I'm not talking about TV.
I don't watch much of the TV stuff. Can't to

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watch ESPN anyways. Now, so it might be for the
better sometimes.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Is uh, they're they're either too optimistic of my opinion
and be there. They want all these guys to be good,
I think because they want to be nice to everyone,
and I don't need any more friends, buddy, I don't
care if I'm mean about a quarterback, but like bow
Knicks is one of these guys that like the analytics guys.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Love Man, They're like in the film Guys Love. I'm like,
what why what do you why?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
What do you see? Every time I watch him play,
I'm an organ guy. I like Boenicks. He did great
things for us. I'm always left wanting more. I'm like,
he missed that guy again or straight away he missed
a wide open deep shot. And you can tell. And
to me, one thing that's a really good tell is
how does Sean Payton, who we can get a conversations about.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
I think he's overrated.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
We could talk about that another time maybe, But how
does Sean Payton design a game plan for Bonnicks? Is
it a game plan when you just watch you don't
have to know football or to watch this, right, you
can see, okay? Is it a game plan that trusts
his quarterback with aggressiveness?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right? Like?

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Are they are they trying to do things that push
the ball down the field or on third and one
of they running a trick play because they don't trust
a quarterback to get the first down?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Right?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like, the game plan is not set up to trust
their quarterback.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's that simple, and that's and that's the problem. Right,
So it might not be the bow.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
He might play well against the Dallas Cowboys who everyone
plays ball against. But the fact is, like all these
people are so afraid to be like, yeah, you know,
he's okay, he's fine. Then he plays a bad game,
they're like, oh, I'm shocked he put it. No, have
you watched him play?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Why are we so nice?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
We can say that Box is a good person and
but it's not a top fifteen eighteen quarterback in this league?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now, why would we make it in that? And you
can't win anything?

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Now?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Why? I do think see I think what you're reading.
I think part of it's true. I think there is
a kind of a optimism or you know, it's sensitivity
right to especially young quarterbacks. I think there's a sensitivity
towards young quarterbacks. And I think there's people are afraid

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to be wrong that if all of a sudden they
you know, espouse something and then the kid kind of
grows into something, they look like a fool. So I
think you see that. I also think you see the
the climate, right, Like, if you're an NFL insider, you're
you're not going to go out and be too heavy
handed with with your critique, right. I also think they

(08:29):
know their place right like, which is if you're not
grinding film, then you really shouldn't be talking about players fair.
But to your point, he's not good, I mean he's
he misses like when you say it, like he misses
guys constantly.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
And the idea it's like, well he plays be in
the fourth quarter. I mean that that's not good because
the first part of the game is the part that
you've practiced the most, partly scripted as the part that
you should know you know. It's why often see you
know teams come out I'll give you a good example
of this too.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Last night.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Northwestern was off of buy. They played usc last night
and they came out first drive of the game being
bang boom bang boom, next drive of the game, same thing,
right boom boom boo boom. Scored fourteen points first two
drive game off of by not a talented offense, and
they scored three points the rest of the game. Like that,
That's how it sort of works if you're not talented,
right is where you sort of like the early part

(09:26):
of the game is the best stuff you have and
then eventually it runs out. The opposite almost never happens
where you're bad early on and you shouldn't. You shouldn't
be because you practiced at the most and you're better
sort of off script. That's very rare and there's no
real I think I'd rather have you a good on
script and then figure it out later offscript. Right like
the way bo Knicks does it. It means that they

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don't either practice well enough.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
They don't. He doesn't retain the information. He doesn't really
those should be the best place you run all game,
and so I think that's it shows. It kind of
shows you.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
I think a little bit of like as you get
into the mindset of like what's happening there? I tweet
this twice a month. I watched the breakfast play I
did another day. I said, do they practice on offense
at all throughout the week? It doesn't they do that.
Think he's a quarterback problem? Right, So great record eight
and two.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I get it. You might be Kansas City. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I don't know what what Chiefs team's gonna show up.
You might beat them in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't think so. But you're not.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't think I think the Chiefs. I think the
Chiefs are playing teacher in a good spot like that
that loss to Buffalo. Listen, they played a perfect game
to Bills, right, Joey Bosa was reborn right like you
know he was. He had a great game. Cook was

(10:50):
able to run the ball. All that said, Mahomes has
one is one throwaway from tying to game at the end.
I know, I mean, I mean I talked to Bags
because they have a bye week this week, and you
know listen, knowing Andy and those guys like and it's
why we were told to Bags. Yeah, they were upset

(11:11):
they lost, but they almost got have them where they
want them, Like I like, I could totally see it,
like where the rematch happens in the AFC Championship game
and they win.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, well that doesn't mean it's happened four years in
the row now, so that's not a.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Surprise I am.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
But I mean for me, the Chiefs loss, This is
why I think it's important times just to like I
watched the films a wrong way. I haven't watched a
film with this game, but just understanding I think sometimes
how these teams are put together and what they do well.
The Chiefs game plan on offense was atrocious. I don't
know what. It wasn't on purpose. I don't think Andy
Ree was like I'm gonna, I'm gonna not show them

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anything and show them they just had a really weird
game plan.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Then you're trying to run the ball with the Bills,
the defensive line being beat up. The homes didn't find
anyone open. I mean a lot of time, you know,
a lot of the pressures were after three seconds, which
is a long time to hold on the ball. A
very odd game plan. And so I thought defensively, the
Bills did a really good job, as they do or
Tipleican's Kansas say they play them a lot. Joe bradyed
a really good job. Cook has really changed the Bills

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a lot. He's made them a lot different. So I
just was disappointed the Chiefs game plan. It wasn't anything
was very good.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I will, I guess we could
discuss it. I I'm not as I wasn't as kind
of surprised at what I saw. It just felt it
felt a couple of things. It felt like, I mean,
you know, the Bills want that game. It's it's the rhythm,
you know, better than anybody who's a rhythm to the league.

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And it's like, look at Monday Night right like from
you know, I've been talking about this game all week
because the Eagles were on a buy and it's Eagles
Packers Monday Night. No Tucker Craft for green Bay, huge
loss for them, green Bay coming off a terrible loss
to Carolina. The Eagle and you know, everybody fell up,

(13:08):
was like, well, you know, Eagles are they Jalen Phillips
come in the deadline, really good pickup. They fortified their defense,
They're playing much better offensively coming off of bye. So
there's a ton of optimism for the game and I
and there should be, right, I get it, but it's
one of those games right now. I'm a little worried
because this Green Bay team that the Eagles beat twice

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last year, including in the playoffs, and is coming off
of loss to Carolina. It's a tough spot. And the
Bills at home against that team, it just feels it
just felt like a Buffalo day.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, you're going to throw them in day night, don't worry.
I've been on the Packers for weeks. We talked about this. Look,
it was the Bills day. They put a lot into
that game. They do every year, right, they've won that
game five years in a row now in the regular season.
But also thought the Chiefs, well, the way they were playing,
would have played better, you know, like that that was

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that was part of it, right, like you you want
to see that continued to improvement against a better team,
and they just didn't have it. And your credit Buffalo.
They did a really good job that they attacked the
Chiefs tight ends. I mean they checked the Chiefs linebackers
with their tight ends. I'm sorry, and did bring good job.
And so credit Buffalo, right, I mean in those Nope,
me look right down the AFC. I just I think

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you look at in the Colts, it's one game. It
is what it is. Didn't play well guns to Pittsburgh
and that trade the other day, so they traded. If
you've been under a rock, they traded for the Jets
former All Pro corner. But I think Sauso played well
in Indianapolis. Sauce Gardner. They give two first round picks.
And my high school football coach had a sing and

(14:55):
it was great. It's my favorite piece of advice ever.
He said, don't lie to yourself. It's a good, good
sports advice, right, because think about times when, yeah, when
you're working out and when you're you're at practice and
you lie to yourself and you say, oh, I've done enough, right,
or I've I've played harder, I've did it. No, no, right,
don't lie yourself, very simple, don't lie yourself.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
It's my fairy people advice. I try to do it
all the time to myself. Try to check myself, right,
I'm lying to myself on my right.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
The Colts lied to themselves with this trade because they're
committed to the Daniel Jones, and Daniel Jones at his
best will never be a top ten quarterback. And you're
not gonna win anything in the NFL unless you have
the time think about all the all the champions.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
You might pull to Nick Foles and that was an
incredible run, and that's an outlier, but it's a bunch
of Tom Brady's and Patrick Mahomes and Big Ben and
Eli and Drew Brees and Matt Stafford and even if
Matt s effort did when it was Joe Burrow that year,
it's not Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
And they lie to themselves. I understand the trade.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I understand going for it, but the Colts and it's
not about last game, but it is a little bit
about last game because that was against an out outside.
Soon's difference did show up, which I didn't expect, but
they did show up, and Jones looked nothing like himself.
And there's now a much of a schedule the back
half of the season. And man, they committed a lot

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to him because they on the first round picks anymore,
like they're gonna give him a long term contract and
they're gonna be It's the.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Problem of where you're at though, right, Like you're to
get the quarterback you need to be drafting high, right,
there's there's a problem, well to get the top ten
quarterback that you're looking for.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
But I mean Jackson Dart was at the end of
the first round. I mean you can, you could be
creative if you want to be, but you need you
first round picks to do so.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Agreed, It's just it's a lot, you know, it's a
lot more. It's a lot more difficult. And and if
you're sitting there going, well, you know, maybe I've unlocked
something with Daniel Jones. Now you and I both may
disagree with that, notion. But you know they could sit
there and go, well, you know a lot. You know,
maybe we've unlocked it and we have the best running

(17:03):
back in football, right and you know we fort to
fire defense a little bit. Why can't we run and
then play action our way? You know through the playoffs.
It's just you just can't. I mean the thing, I
get it. I'm just giving you the mindset.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Again when you are seven and two and you haven't
been as good as you this is right this they're
starting really well. And you look at the rest of
the AFC Chiefs five and four. Buffalo is sort of
right behind you, right New England right now, it's at
the top of that. You look Pittsburgh and you think,
and the Ravens just aren't as good right as they've
been in the past. And you look around you think

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the way you've played, and like, let's do it. We're
corner away from being good. We can get sauced.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well. Look, I mean, you can't fault them for trying
to get well, that's my point is like I don't
I you know again, you're gonna go for it. I
get it. So how often did they get a chance
to go like that? Since Peyton never right, Yeah, I
mean that's why I go I raise a glass to
them in that sense where it's like I get it, man,

(18:12):
I you know, I look at that conference and I
just think it to two team conference, right, like whatever
whoever is why Dever's not beating Kansas City? I mean
none of these teams. The Wingle's not beating Buffalo like
they're not. Like both of those teams are so much
better than everybody else the conference. So like if you're Indianapolis,

(18:35):
I don't know, like you take a shot, you go
what you know, I'm bad because I think Indianapolis can
beat any of those other teams. Probably. Yeah. It's fascinating
whereas Enna and the NFC start to shape up in
its own right. That Seattle made a great trade, man, Kenny,

(18:57):
Kenny Shaheed was a great I.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Love it, agreed, right, what a move. It's my favorite
trade of the of the trade deadline.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's a great move, man, it really is.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
JSN their best wide receiver has only one thousand yards receiving.
The next highest on their team is Cooper cup who's
always hurt. He has nearly three hundred. There's a seven
hundred yard difference number. One number two receivers. They needed
someone else. I never understood he's he's always open. It's

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Smith and jigba.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Is is always open, no matter who's all the other
side of them. It's it's my bigoing. But the guy
is always open. It's really good. Yeah, you know, it's wild.
I like Wharton too, So with Shaheed and Wharton, I
think that's good.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
You know it ends they got Oh yeah, no, it's Arroyo,
the rookie from Miami.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Arroyo is starting to start to kind of place on
the ball, has drafted really really well. Yeah, he's a
terrific GM man. He really is. We'll take quick to you.
We'll come right back. We'll continue our deep dive of
the week in the NFL. We'll dive into some of
the other trades. I like my squad and the Jalen

(20:19):
Phillips move getting an edge guy. We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about the Cowboys and Quentin Williams and the
redundancy factor happening in the interior of their d line.
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Speaker 2 (21:50):
Be nice to be that athletic, to be able to
jump like that. Yeah, well you got but you know
you got a superpower. You got strength, do you know?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
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Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, but you know, I mean how many how many
off with the wine but have the hops? A lot
of them, A lot of good ones do. Wow. Okay,
but you know you get my point. You know, listen,
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Speaker 3 (22:41):
I see the cover last night. So we're off the good,
A good smart week.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Ah, somebody, I knew that there was something last night
because the way you told me about the game, Like, yeah,
Northwestern came out and executed right after the bid with
about halftime. I didn't stay.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Look, I did be up early today, you know, and
that big Organ game today. So you know you can't
waste all your energy on a Northwestern USC on a
Friday night.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, listen, that's gonna be fun. Oregon at Iowa, that
should be interesting.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
There's some interesting internet rumors flowing around, but Oregon's depth
chart at to Bobato, which is uh, kind of worries
some if it's if some of it is true, so
we'll see. Uh, we'll see to be into some injuries
that h that we got, we'll see. I don't know,
I don't know, you know, Internet, you never know. But uh,
if if true, it's gonna make this game even tougher, I'll.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Tell you that. Whi's the uh which situation.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
The rumors seem to be again rumors Internet not confirmed.
Then our best wide receivers out for the season to
Corey and Moore within a knee injury, and our right
tackles out for this game. Uh not great, Bob and
our time mcke cans and Dick has been beat up
for weeks now, Like when you watch it. He left

(23:57):
the Rutgers game early, and he hasn't been the same player.
He's gonna be a top fifteen pick. He's been a
little beat up. So there's rumors about him being beat up,
which is not surprising considering again the way he's played
last couple of weeks, So that's not that surprising. But
Decory and Moore being out is a huge problem.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Think.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
I mean, he's Jeremiah Smith light, He's a true freshman.
He's incredible. You know, they don't get the ball as
much as Jeremiah Smith because Jeremi Smith's a free show.
But he's that impactful to our offense when he's healthy.
So again, I hope these are not true. You know,
I've been saying for a while comfortable and the injury,
but also too like the timing of it is interesting

(24:35):
because Organ's off of bye and to get two guys
hurt in bye week practice and week two, yeah, it
is like that would be like, really what one guy
being hurt would be a shocker. You would be like
just really really bad luck. So I'm curious if I

(24:56):
go back and pull up the Wisconstant film, if more
finished the game, that would be a big thing. If
you didn't finish the game, maybe it was a knee injury.
Then we realize at the time, but he finished the game.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
But why wouldn't that come out earlier?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, there's no injury reporting college football, so you don't
have you don't have to ever. I mean, if you
heard them was Constant game, well, because it was a
it was a weird rating game and he could have
just not played the last two drives.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
We have no idea, you know, Yeah, I hear you
I just would think if you're covering practice and you
know this week.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Well you know this, like they don't have access to practice, Yeah,
like no one in college football, which I think is silly.
I think I don't know why the NFL could do
it in college. This is one of my biggest one
of my biggest things about college football and biggest things
I talk about. Yeah, you get most upset about, not
upsets to our ward, but thing I think these changed
is the injury reporting. And secondarily that maybe first to

(25:45):
that is, look, if I can watch an entire NFL
preseason practice in training camp right which they're opening the public,
people live tweeting staff. I mean the Eagles fans are
very you know Eagles people cover.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
The I They're stupid.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
They do Jalen's that they do Jalen staffed somb But nonetheless,
the point is you have access to that right and
there's a can say sports network basically live streams like
the entire Chiefs practice every day. So if you can
do in the NFL, why can't I Why can't your
reporters watch practice in college football? And I get the
pushback is going to be, well, transfer portal and if

(26:20):
you give out information about depth chart stuff. I mean,
I guess, but the NFL also has competitions for for
playing time, and that information gets out and everyone survives,
everyone's able to play their season. And so I think
the secret, the secret of nature of college football to
me frustrates me. These coaches have so much power and uh,
they're able to withhold information and I don't think it

(26:43):
should be that way.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but yeah, I think
I think it is. It's always been a fight them,
you know, these these little these It's amazing at these
universities that have I mean, they're all powerful, right, you know,
it's them and the governor and most states.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
And as we discussed the last week, the governor, Yeah,
the governor's hiring these guys. I'm by the way, did
you see speaking on college football quickly? Did you see
the I'll give Josh Pate the coveras college football.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
He kind of threw grenada this week where he mentioned
Lincoln Riley's name when it comes to the coaching search.
He's like, he's like, be be be be alert to
Lincoln Riley. Lincoln Rally's coaching USC right now. This coaching
search this year. The coaching cycle is going to be
out of control, buddy, which you know your boys and
Matt Rule. You know he's staying obviously, but you know, like, yes,
cycle's about to be.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, it's I was talking to a couple other guys
and uh, that would get a couple of NFL guys that,
And I said, why wouldn't you guys? It's funny, So
with a friend of mine, I said, why wouldn't you
go to the to the college? Like, why wouldn't you
look at that? If you're if you're an assistant on

(27:59):
a staff, even a coordinator, why wouldn't you look into it?
And you have a name? I don't know, I would.
I would love to do that. I love I think
college football will be a blay. I know it's a
lot of work. And that was the pushback, Well, you
know it's a ton of work. He's coaching.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
So the thing about about hiring NFL coaches is you
have to hire them after the season, right, They're not
leaving their posts now, and so that really affects recruiting.
And like that's why when I see the like for
Joe Brady to be the Penn State head coach. It's like, well,
is he leaving Buffalo like after Thanksgiving? No, he's not,

(28:44):
So you can't hire him. It's unfair to him and
the States to do both jobs at the same time, right, right,
So that scenario happened one time in the history.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's funny. It's funny this came up. So I'm actually
writing a college football television show, and this is coming
up in my show, and I decided to look it
up to see if it if it was any plausible,
there's any kind of plausibility to it. So it happened

(29:20):
one time in the history of football where an NFL
coach left, resigned and took a job. He resigned in
November and took a job the next month at his
alma mater. It happened in the early two thousands. Can

(29:40):
you name that coach? And this guy was a head coach,
not a coordinator that resigned from He resigned from an
NFL team in November as a head coach, as a
head coach, and took a job the following month at
his alma mater. It wasn't Petrino, was it? No good guess?

Speaker 3 (30:06):
I mean, saving famous left the Dolphins, but not until
the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Correct, right, But I will say this, you're very warm
when you say the Dolphins. I I don't. I think
the college is Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Oh, Wance, that

(30:37):
did it, Yes, Wannie did it. I just don't remember
that obviously. Yeah, I know, I know. Wannie was the
head coach of the Dolphins left Oh season and four,
he resigned. They were one and eight and he resigned.
That's so he basically resigned fire. It was a mutual resigning, okay.

(30:58):
And he resigned and then and took a job at
pit the next month.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
So it feels like a mutual like a mutual decision.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right. It's not like he's he's leaving with you know,
the first place, right, which has never happened. But but
the way the game this is so interesting, because the
way the college game is mimicking the pro game, you
could see where, you know, I think it would be
attractive to a lot of pro guys. At some point,

(31:30):
I'll ask you the question, is it worth a year? Step?
You're already you fired your coach, so you're already not
going to compete for the national championship, right, No matter
what the state of your roster. Is is it worth
getting the pro coach the coach really won who you

(31:50):
believe can fix the program even if he comes late.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
That's a very very tough ask because you're basically.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
You're basically you're basically sacrificing the year. You're sacrificing a year.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah and that but in the big in the big picture, Yeah,
but that that year, that first year is going to
be a rough one, buddy, of course.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
But like you need, you need, you got to have
somebody there. That's that's I just don't know. I just
don't know, like what wait, what program? You have to
do both jobs, but you know.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
What pro coach is so good that you have to
wait for That's my question, like which we don't have
to have an answer now. I'm just like, what, I
guess Joe Brady that good of a future college head
coach and you have to wait for him to join,
you know, to join your team. Like, I just don't
know if there's a coach right now that comes to
my mind that is that that good in the pros

(32:47):
that you must wait to s you know, like you
make sacrifice a year.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, But I mean, I mean the point is, now,
do you have enough qualified candidates in college. No, And
this is why this is going to be so interesting,
because well that's why. That's why.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
There, then then you answered your own question.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
But yeah, but to me, like, but Joe Brady, to me,
is not that much better of an option than the
guys that are in college currently.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I mean, but I mean, I don't know about that.
I mean, you just admitted that there's not enough quality,
quality candidates. Yeah, but you're basically saying that Joe Brady
or anyone I'm using him example, just know he's that
good of a coach that you can skip one full
cycle of buildings. I mean, you know, if you're looking

(33:38):
for a long term fix, that's the that's the question.
I mean, it's a long term fix. I get it,
and you would have to you're going to invest what
so you go, well, I gotta cat, I'm gonna go
hire a subpar guy to come in or just a
guy right, like maybe you hope for him to come

(33:59):
in early. But and even then, you know how it works.
You're a new coach, you're under the gun no matter what.
The portal opens January second. So that's why I think.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
That's why I think it's so hard because like there's
no patience now if you are, if you're allowing a
team that because basically you're saying by if you skip
your one building your roster, that means you probably aren't
gonna be good to year four, like really good till
you're four. I mean, you know, buster's gonna wait. If
you're paying a coach ten million dollars a year to
year four to be good.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Feels like yeah. I mean, I mean, you gotta if
you're that good, you gotta be better and you gotta
make it up at some point before four. It's hard
to know. I mean I think about like, so year four,
I get it right, But like any new coach that
comes in, it's really hard because any established coach is

(34:52):
gonna have an advantage. The portal starts, it opens January second,
I know, so you know they really need to push
that back. That's the biggest issue. Right, we thought I
was lost with that thing. I know we did. It's
for pet peeve of mind. All right, we have to
take quick too. We'll come right back. Fellas hanging out
on a Fox Football Sports radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas,

(35:22):
jeffn Yoyo. I want to get to uh some other
pieces of the trade deadline, and obviously the Cowboys, and
then you know, push aside the tragic events uh that
happened this week, and let's talk about the what they did,

(35:45):
the Quintin Williams situation. I just don't even understand their
line of faking like a very good player, but there's
redundancy inside on that line. And it goes back to,
I mean, no one else what they're doing, right.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
I don't know if you have people in your life
like this. My wife is certainly this way. Like she's
a stable person. I think sometimes she's a job you know,
mother wife, like very busy, and then like she also
wants action in her life like I sometimes I'm like,
you just worked all week and you relaxed on Saturday. No, no,

(36:26):
something right, He's getting yourself into something every weekend. She's
buying something or just getting just something right, some chaos.
Like she just loves she loves action.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I feel like Jerry Jones is the same way. He
can't just be in him still, he just can't, like
he he must have chaos to feel alive, because he
obviously has a stable job. He obviously is a very
busy person, and yet he loves the chaos, whether the
chaos is him doing a press conference and creating headlines

(36:59):
and creating narratives about his team, whether it's trading Michael
Parsons because I clearly they just didn't like him. It's
that simple. They didn't like him. Whether it's making this
trade now, it's always something right. He has to feel
alive by doing stuff. And there's the only way to
explain this trade is just not It doesn't make any

(37:19):
sense for the rossing. Okay, when you trade Michael Parsons.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
All right, you can buy.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
You can buy the idea that the draft picks we
got from Michael Parsons are gonna help us rebuild our team.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Okay, I don't agree, but I buy it. Okay, fair, fair, But.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
When you trade one of them away for Quinn Williams,
all that, all that idea about the future is open
small just you're chasing a bad move by making another
bad move.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
That's what they're doing, right.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
They continue to do that, and this made no sense
for where they're at as a team, for where they're
at in.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
The future, for the team they want to be in
the future. I don't get it man, and it.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Continues a long line of the Cowboys doing things that
don't help but to get better, which is which is
they draft really well though, so it's like it's it's
such a weird thing where they have really good players
because they draft them, but then they don't really manage
their team outside.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Of that very well. Yes, I your management makes no sense,
it really does it. And I agree, I think your
points correct about this needing of chaos. And he was
telling Steve and I he was bragging about the trade.

(38:41):
You remember, well, we got this big trick. You have
to read about it. And it was like he couldn't
wait to brag about that that deal. And it's like, dude,
like that deal again, he quitn't wait his nice player.
But you're that makes no trade is bad, it makes

(39:01):
no sense, Like why would you do it?

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Now?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
They also traded for a linebacker who got benched on
the worst defense in NFL history.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, for the Bengals. I mean what, Logan Wilson, I
gotta tell you, I I if I was if I
was a Cowboy fan, I would be out of my mind,
really be out of my mind. Meanwhile, the Howie Roseman
does it again, got the got the best edge rusher

(39:30):
out there. I like Taylor Phillips there.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
So this one does feel like a little bit of
a risk because of his injury history. But if Fangio
says he's in on it, then I think you're in
on it too.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
It's that simple, right, Yeah, he is in or he
had him down there, and they already know he's a rental,
so you know, I mean he's healthy. Now, I love it.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I mean, look, Eagles continue to be forward thinking, they
continue to take chances, and they continue to use their
assets they have, I think in a really wise manner.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's why they're so good. Yeah, and they already have
their own they gave they trade their own third round
pick to have the Jets as well. All right, fellas
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All right, Jeff, Let's dive into the college football playoff.

(41:21):
All right, son, the rankings are out. I'm curious to
see kind of where you're at. What you think? Obviously
Ohio State one, INDIANDDED two A and M three.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, no surprise there, no, no, no zero surprise. Can
I tell you my my, my, my playoff, my playoff theory,
not my playoff theory, but the one team to watch
out for in all of this Texas Longhorns, Buddy. They
might be the first uh non automatic qualifier with three

(41:58):
losses to make the playoff. It's a very easy path,
by the way for Texas. So they're ten right now, right,
I believe they beat Oklahoma. They put them above Oklahoma. Yeah,
they played Georgia. Next week they're eleven, actually eleven, sorry, Yeah,
they beat Georgia. Okay, they beat Georgia, they will be

(42:19):
top seven, six somewhere there, right, five somewhere like that.
They beat the lose the Texas tex So that'll take
you damn mas correct. But let's think about it, like
Georgia would go down, right, and they would go up,
and BYU would go up, and you know who knows
what happens to Oregon today? Right, they're they're they're ahead
of Texas. They'll be like six, okay, six, seven somewhere

(42:39):
like that, and then they play Texas A and M,
who's most likely undefeated. It'll be eleven to zero in
the final game of the season. Let's say lose to
Texas A and M by three, all right, so close game.
Lose to a twelve to ohero team, are you dropping
Texas out of the top ten? I would say probably
not in their playoff team. So that's how it works.

(43:00):
For those who are like Texas out of this thing. No, no, no, no,
that's what that's what that's what that showed me yesterday
or whatever, Tuesday, whatever it was, that Texas is still
a playoff team in the minds of the committee if
they win the games that they have on their schedule,
even if they don't, they they can split it.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
But they have to win Georgia they can't. Yeah, yeah,
I would. I would agree with that. I would because
if you look at the rest of let's let's look
at the field. So all right after Ohio State, Indiana, Texas, MM,
you got Bama Georgia both at seven and one, you

(43:37):
got all miss at eight one, p yu is seven
and eight. No again, they played Texas Tech today. They're
losing today. Yeah, I agree. Or they're they're eleven point
underdog as a as a top ten team on the
eleven point Oh yes, you know. So then you got
your Ducks at seven and one. How many losses there

(44:03):
are they going to have? Organ? Yeah, hope one, but
well we'll see. I think.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
So a couple of things about about organ and just
a general I thought about how we talk about team schedules.
So obviously organ doesn't have a q unquote quality win
right because of what Penn State has.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Done, right.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
And I think one of the things I think we
get really wrong about this discussion, okay, is that you
have to to treat each week as its own week
without looking at the end result of the season. Because yeah,
because Penn State going into that game was playing was

(44:46):
playing well.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I mean, let's be real, like it was legitimate and
and yes.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
They fell apart, but at the time, right, that was
looked as a huge win for organ and so you
could take the nuance of yeah, they fell apart, but
also like, that's still a quality win, am I.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
But I'll give you another example.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
So Alabama beat Missouri, Okay, on the road, great win,
top fifteen win on the road, Missouri's quarterback is out,
They're probably gonna lose today to A and M, and
they're not gonna be ranked anymore. Is no longer a
big road win for Alabama, of course it is. So
I think that we we do that way too much
when we look at the end result. I've never understood

(45:23):
you lose context. I've never I've never understood when you
when you talk about ranked wins and you only take
the ranked wins at the end of the season. If
you play a team in week two who's not very good,
but they end up being ranked twenty fifth by this season,
that team in the week two is not the same
team you played in week twelve. People do this way
too much. Oh, we beat the ranked team in week two.
That team is not the same team as if they

(45:44):
played in week week twelve, they played that team now, they.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Might not win that game.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
It's a different so they're not the same team. It's
a long season. So I think we do this way
too much in college football, where we we just are
so are so like in the moment of what a
team is now, it's it's not It's not the case
teams Ebben full Wall season.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Right.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
So when Oregon won that game, that was a big
win for organ It was a big win around the country.
It mattered a lot. And yeah, Penn State has struggles,
not one since they're not gonna win today either against Indiana.
But you know, if Oregon beats Iowa today, I will
no longer be raned and now and was I not
a good win anymore? Of course, it's still a good win.
So I think that that the road as well right.

(46:25):
I mean I think people are just are far they're
far too prison of the moment, uh in those discussions.
But nonetheless Organ is ninth. It's fine, you win, you win,
you play USC coming up in Washington, you be Iowa
today you're fired. I'm not really worried about Organ, but
it's just a general discussion about the idea of like
where teams are at and how we look at quality wins.
I think we look at it too much prisoner of

(46:45):
the exact moment you're in and not really overall. And
when they played the actual team that you know that
we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
All right, ten speaking of which is the Irish, right, Yeah,
I mean they lost that opener to Miami. And now
Miami's had a couple of loss that didn't look well,
but they I mean they look great. Earlie right, Maybe
he does this every year? So why we fallding their
name more for this for this loss?

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Like they their name is MIAs, Miami is much better
to beginning of every season, Mark Chris Balls. I think,
now what four and ten in November is the is
the Miami head coach?

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, I mean I have to tell you I love
this A Notre dame team. They're playing great ball right now,
play really good ball. I like water.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
I think that the Irish Chang's one of my favorite
bets of the day. I think they're gonna smoke Navy,
especially after they play last They play kind of a
sluggish game.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
It's BC last week. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I love
huge twenty six and a half or something. I don't. Yeah,
but they'll put up that'll be there's a couple of
those that you could see them covering in halftime one
and a half. It's so high.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
But they're gonna just I mean, Love is gonna have
a billion yards against the Navy, and Navy just you
make one mistake. So when you play good teams, all right,
the reason why we talk unless I do about explosive
place right is because against good teams, it's very hard
to go on ten to twelve play drives in college

(48:21):
football score touchdown.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
These are college kids. It's to execute correctly that right
play in a row. It's so hard.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
And Navy's offense against No Name struggles because they're not
better than their name anywhere. And then you have to
score in twelve plays. You're gonna fumble the ball. You
have a bad block.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
It just it's just not good. And that's what.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
It just takes them too long to score against a
team like the Irish. So that's why they always struggle,
I think against you know, better competition like this. And
uh we buddy of mine, Dan Okay Dan Rumson credit
for this one called he calls those the pick a
ball offense. A pick a ball offense. You're going four
yards at time five years time. You can't be good
teams doing that. It's just impossible. It's why exposive plays
are so important in this sport. So that's why Navy

(49:00):
good against most teams.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Not gonna get a third to Dame. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't like it. Speaking of Miami, so that that
poor kid Syracuse, the backup quarterback, he's rough. My that's
and that's the other one. I think they're covered by

(49:23):
Syracuse today. Yeah yeah, yeah, Syracuse had a rough one
rough on though. So they lost to Carolina last week.
Carolina might be a bowl team. Just watch out there.
Belichick's they're quietly like figuring out a little bit. We've
mocked him a little bit and rightfully so I think
at times. But uh, they win today.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
They got their fourth win into the tougher schedule last
three games, but opportunity to be a bowl team kind
of crazy is considering how they started the season. But yes,
Syracuse is bad, but Miami like they played Stanford Tuisa.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
So I'll ask you the question, is Carolina going to
go to the Duke's Mayo Bowl and is going to
get here and Charlotte? Yeah, Belichick going to get doused
whatever whatever. Jordan's like, can you see that? Close your eyes? No,
no chance, and he gets doused with the mayo.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Whatever his pr you know whatever the head of public
relations North Carolina says to do. Uh, So I would
I would think Jordan, Jordan Jordan, I think he would
say no to that. But maybe the recruits like it
and he would have to do it. Maybe there's assistant
coach who's willing to fill that role, maybe like Freddy,
would she do it?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Would she do it? No chance? You don't think so?
Mean's she she is a she loves the spotlight. I
mean that's a big ask. I feel like I don't know.
I mean, she may volunteer it. She had the high
heels on. Was she Carolina blue?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Is she gonna like put her hair up in like
a protect like a hair, like a hair gonna go
like just raw dog it, right, the mayonnaise all over
the hair.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I can't imagine the maynaise all over the hair something
she's gonna want to do. Yeah, that's true. That squeeze.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Also, like the coaches like go shower, Like she's not
going to locker room the shower with everyone? Is she
after the game? Like to get out of her hair?
Right like that that's part of what you're going to
just sit in like the team bus driving back to
Chapel Hill and just make mayonnaise soaked outfit.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, hard pass. Yeah, Yeah, a good point. Yeah, that's
a good point by you. Yeah, that's not happening. The
pregame stuff on her or of her on the sidelines
with the outfits, it's it's it's really good. It's unbelievable
when you think about it. It's like, I know we're

(51:42):
talking about it. Yeah, we've talked about it a million times.
But when you think about it on its face value
her with the ridiculous outfits or to Bill Belichick's sidelines,
it makes.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
No sense according to what we've seen from Bill Bouche
over the years. Yeah, I mean you would I mean,
you knew them, not really, but yeah, I know, I mean,
but you know as them. Yeah, you're right, people that
played for it. It's such an odd fit that that's
a that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, all right, back to the playoffs. So
you got Notre Dame at ten. You said, Texas eleven,
Oklahoma at twelve for the time being, So now here
here's my question. Who sneaks in, right, because because Byu'

(52:32):
is done, I agree, and then you'll have I mean,
you got Oklahoma. Utah is not good. Oh, I don't
think they're a playoff team. Oh I don't think they
could be. Really, I don't think so. I don't think
they're very good.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
I would love to see them play that stuck again,
I'll tell you that. So there's a chance BYU's gonna
lose twice and Utah's gotta win out and their Utah
should win out with their schedule. But you got to
lose twice for them to get in the playoffs. I mean,
the Utah beat them. The Utah lost the people, I mean,
b why you beat them?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Right? So you Bill, you just gotta lose twice? Was
that the tiebreaker?

Speaker 3 (53:14):
So Bill, you loses today and lose again before the
end of the season, then Utah would have you know, Utah.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Right, But I guess my boys are I guess My
point is you'll you los. That's still the team that
beat I don't think not. Do you think either of
those teams are playoff teams?

Speaker 3 (53:32):
No, but I think I think Utah can Can would
play Texas Tech a lot better.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
At Bigtork. They're not in.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
It's at large. I'm talking about they could beat Textas
Tech and Big Oh okay, yeah, they're not in it
at large. No, no, no, they would be in if
they beat Texas Tech in the in the Confience Championship game.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Yeah, right right, And and Texas Tech one at Utah
thirty four to ten. I don't think they I.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Watched that game, and I remember that if you remember
that game, was like it was like ten to ten
in the third quarter and then.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Texas Tech just like pour it on late. They did,
but they but they were I mean, I like Texas
Tech a lot. You're good. Their defensive line is really good. Yeah. Yeah,
I think they're gonna plunge in BYU today. I do two,
I do too well, you know again, quarterback situation, the
whole thing. Who do you like to sneak in? If

(54:26):
you're looking at the twelve right and if it's no
byu uh is Oklahoma locking in your eyes.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
It's Texas. We talked about this, it'll be Texas. I
don't think there's I don't think there's a sneaky team,
just like hanging out in the mid twenties. I mean,
I guess the team will be usc If they beat
Organ and went out, there'll be ten and two. I
mean that's the team. I think that just with their
name brand, they have a chance. But I don't think
that's happening. Yeah, I'm with you with Texas is a

(54:56):
dark horse. I think Notare the day is my favorite
because I think Notre Dame can win it all. But
I'm just saying to get into the twelve question here, Okay,
ten and two Notre Dame with a loss, with a
close loss to Miami in a and m nine to three,
Texas with a win against ranked Van Dy and Georgia.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Who are you taking? Well, I'm listen. I that Notre
Dame eye test to me. I'll take them all day long.
I think they're I just think they're really good. And
I think they can win it all.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
I don't think so. But I okay, you don't think
they can win it. I don't think they can win
the championship.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
No, I do.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
They didn't win last Are they favored against Whichem's not
as good as they were last season?

Speaker 2 (55:48):
And dude, I gotta tell you I like them. I
do their defense playing better? I don't know about that.
I don't know. I don't know, big shot. I don't know,
mister Warrigonian. I don't think the QUARTERBA they're playing really well.

(56:08):
Last week they're they're playing better. Okay, well, everybody's going
to fall asleep. He still win, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
It's it's it's it's like the jailer hurts thing right.
It's like that he wins every game, even though a
lot of people are like, I don't know if I
like him or not.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
I uh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
I don't think Irish are that good. I think they're
good and they're power waking.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Is is nobody's that good. I think Ohio State Indiana
are pretty good. I again, do I think Ohive State
would be favorite against the noted name?

Speaker 4 (56:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Obviously I would make them six. Yeah, neutral field six yep. Yeah,
it's probably about right. And you know you're a six
point dog. You're not, You're you're less than two to one.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
You mean today I was a six point dog and
they're like, they're they're two to one or to plus
two hundred to win today.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I think you know, it's not an outward at landish upset,
is my point.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
I think it'll be pretty crazy if I would be
surprised to already and beat Ohio State. I would lay
the six with Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
All right, Yeah, I mean I think I think it's
a game. I would take the six, and I think
no Ohio State wins by field goal. Wow, you're really
high on the Irish, I ad, I do. I love them.
I love them Indian listen, I agree with the Indiana.
Indiana is really good Indiana. Man, it's like a buddy.

(57:44):
They just do like as much as before. They don't
do like a ton, but what they do is just
really good.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Man.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Like, they're such a solid team. Nowther without a couple
of guys today. Uh So, I don't think Strat's gonna play.
I don't think Fisher is gonna play. But as goodst
Penn State so heard, No, it doesn't matter any think
today could be another fifty five seventeen game for Indiana.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
They just what they do too. I'm still like throwing away,
you're a boa constrictor they are a bow. It's a
great actually, actually that is a great analogy. I love it.
It's a great description of them that they're a bow.
It's straight. Last week it was I love that.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Last week Maryland scored to start the second half and
make it a ten point game. I think it was
either twenty ten or twenty four fourteen. And then after
that Indiana scored I think five touchdowns in a row.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Yeah, just like he doesn't play yeah go and and
he loves.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Style points and they played the whole game hard, and
so I think today Penn states, I mean, it's a
it's a rough I mean, how many people are going
to be at that game today in Happy Valley twelve o'clock.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Nobody. It's a it's a really tough spot. I think.
I still can't believe how far what I'm what I'm
looking at every Saturday, it's sad who's the coach at
Pen's Who's There's been a lot of like Slowa, the
rumors for the Penn State head coach. So who's the
latest we heard? I think Jeff Brom that people want

(59:18):
Jeff Brom. Yeah, yeah, he's been out there. Joe Brady
I think is a no, no, that's not happening. Yeah,
that's definitely not happening. Yeah. No, it's a weird. It's
very weird. It's very Let me let me throw a
guy at every not for Penn State because I can't
sell for Penn State, but can this guy get a

(59:44):
head job? And he's he's a good friend of mine.
He is the coach of the Saint Louis BattleHawks. Why
not I can't beg get a job right in the cycle? Dude,
there's going to Anthony is a sharp dude. His son, obviously, Rocko,
plays at Ohio State, Iowa State. Yeah, yeah, and go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
I was like, in this cycle, you're going to end
up having so you're gonna end up having like fifteen
jobs just open, and then every time one of those
jobs's filled, another job opens up. He telling me he
can't be a head coach, and especially like a G
five school. Absolutely, that's what I'm faking told. I was

(01:00:31):
talking to him this week, and I go, dude, does
he want to. Yes, Bed, we wants it bad and
I think he'd be great at it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Like, are you telling me that that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Like, let's say Memphis opens up and Silver Phil Leaves
or Tulane opens up, he'd be great for that job.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I agree, I agree. All right, we gotta take quick
t o. We got our our man. Mighty Mark is
barking orders right Mark yelling at us, he said, break
with the fellas hanging right here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Welcome Back Fellas. Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Guargana hanging out on
a Fox Football Saturday morning. Did see, uh you watch
any Carolina Kansas last night? Little college who? I did
not know? I saw the score. Carolina played well, they won.
I did not watch.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
I've watched, not watched much college troop yet so far.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
But then, when will you dive in? What day's the
Super Bowl? Really? Yeah? I mean I I don't. I
mean I don't have time. I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
I don't know when I have mental capacity and start
doing that. I mean, I'll pay. I pay attention, Like
I know the ject during the week. I mean, I'm
not saying, like on Saturday, it's still college football, right,
so I get it. Right, So you saw the NFL abound,
But you know, during the week, you got college basketball,
get a good matchup.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
It's a lot of the Thanksgiving tournaments come up. They're good,
they're good teams. Now I know what's happening in me.
I'm watching every night. I'm not saying watch every night.
But you I'm just saying you haven't. You haven't cracked
it yet. Come on, brow, you're late last night, supposed
to be a sportsman.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
What did I do last night? Instead of watched college basketball?
I think, I what did I do last night? I mean,
I watched college football last night starting at eight o'clock?
But I right, he had the USC Northwestern game, the Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
U UFC game before that eight o'clock. Yeah, all right,
I can't. I can't tell I should any who. I
had a bet.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
I mean, I had a bet on Kansas. I just
didn't watch the game, all right, all right, all right,
I just I just can't. I just mentally like, don't
have it in me yet to start doing that to
start watching college football, so I mean college basketball, it
is not this is not in me yet.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
All right, Well we'll get there, all right, all right, Well,
let's talk about the today slate in college football and
kind of go through some of the games. Top twenty five.
We talked about it earlier. Penn State Indiana Indiana fourteen
and a half, forty nine and a half. I'd be
surprised if Penn State scores more than a field goal.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
I kind of like beyonder in the game. So I
have Indiana in this game as one of my better
bets of the week. So last week, Penn State played
Ohio State close off of by right for a little bit.
Part of that was it forced to fumble in and
you had a short field and eventually got it in
the end zone. And this game, they're going to need

(01:04:01):
more of that to keep this game close. And then
eventually Ohio State wore them down and it has to
end up covering the nineteen whatever it was. And I
think it's sort of the same thing where Indiana just,
you know, over the course of sixty minutes, it's just
too much for for Penn State. And I really do like,
you know, Indiana to cover this game again there I
mentioned earlier, like they're a bow constrictor. Man, they just

(01:04:22):
they just squeeze you and squeeze you and squeeze you.
And once they get the you know, they get around
you and they just don't let you go. And Penn
State right now, look, they're still good players, which is
this is why it makes it so, you know, all
the more shocking what's happening to them right now. It
is rather shocking to see the results of these games.
But the season is dead for them, you know, I mean,

(01:04:42):
there's it's it's the it stinks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
This is where we're at.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Players are probably looking at talking to other schools already
and figuring out their next plans for next year and whatnot.
Like this is what this sport is right now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
And so you know, how do you how do you
Backpenn State in this one? I don't. I don't see. Yeah,
they can't. They can't score. I mean they can't. Their
biggest problem is they eventually you can't. They can't do
anything with the quarterback. Correct, So yeah, I like's why

(01:05:14):
I like you on there. I like you're in the
inside as well. Georgia and Mississippi both dogs on the road,
uh nine and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
So Georgia is itching for a loss at some point.
They're playing a lot of close games. Kirby has said,
it's hard to kill us.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
They came back into fort the last week, they came
back in Tennessee, came back into Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
I know, it's amazing every week they do it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
But you know, this is a great look ahead spot
right because you have you have Texas next week at home. However,
I feel like everyone's on Missisippi State this weekend. I
just don't see it. I think Georgia handld's business. I mean,
they're focused. Misssippi State is just they're a feisty team.
They're over the win total this year. But Mississippi State

(01:05:59):
is like sort of like everyone's favorite, one of their
favorite upsets this public dog never with Fleas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Yeah, I don't. I just don't. I just don't see it.
I don't see it. So I think Georgia wins. It
covers this game we talked about b YU Texas Tech,
which is a terrific game. Cannot wait for that Texas
Tech that lines up to eleven and a half too much.
Thank God, it just keeps going higher and higher and higher.

(01:06:28):
Crazy uh buck Eyes big favorite twenty nine and a
half at Purdue. Yeah past about Jeremies.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Yeah, I'm he by the way, I think if you're
looking for like a heisman, that's that's your heisman.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
He's really good. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Then you got A and M and miss Zoun six
and a half. How do they play? How do they
play without their their quarterback? Like? I don't really I
know a moot.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Hardy's increded the running backs great, and A and M's
weakness on defense is there's their run defense, their run
their run defense.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
How about this?

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
I do a podcast called baar Bets with Chris Flica,
and we've had a coach on or a player on.
I think every week we've done the podcast so far
this season, the coach or player of that team is
now undefeated. In the week we have them on, they've
never lost that game. And this week we had on

(01:07:35):
Mike Alco. So if you're looking to wager or something
that the bare Bets podcast been a winner so far
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
I like you you drove to Alco about Penn State.
I did not drop that in there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
I get fifteen minutes, and I did not spend my
fifteen minutes asking him about another job, believe it or not.
So no, So yeah, you know we're here, talk about
your current team. Tell the me about Penn State.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Oh my god. You know what's so funny the because
I do the Matt Ryl podcast and it's like, are
you gonna ask me about Penn State? I'm like no,
I mean, I mean, if he brings it up to you,
I guess you can mention it. But well, I'm talking
about it on the air, right, like, oh yeah, you know.
The only time I said, you know, only when the

(01:08:23):
rumors were like white hot and and because of special circumstances,
like he's from there, right, like I know Elco went
to pen I like alcohol a lot, But I mean
I only brought up in a cursory hey address the
rumors because you know, I mean, no coach wants to

(01:08:45):
talk about conjecture of another job, like it's the worst thing, boy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
But it's also but there's also a value though just
saying you're not gonna take it though, Like that's also
important though you don't want well, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Why you addressed in the beginning. You get addressed the rumors,
but I'm not gonna go with depth about you know,
Penn State. You know, I mean everybody knows that you
went there and were walking on and you met your
wife there. I mean there's a big, deep story there.
Uh there is. I I By the way, Uh, one
of my best bets for the week is U C.
L A. I'm sorry, don't hate me really? Yeah. Two,

(01:09:20):
you don't believe in the kid in in my main
back up?

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
If if Nebraska, I think, I think he's mobile. I
think part of college football that makes it so unique
in the NFL is the mental side of these games.
And it's not something that I think I ever I
ever talk about when it comes to the NFL. Is
is the psyche of a team. Right, So you have

(01:09:46):
a situation where last weekend was a big game for Nebraska, right,
it was opportunity to beat the top nine team. It
was all things were in front of it, and they
played well man until gets hurt and and now you
have to go on the road with a new quarterback
to play in a stadium I love the Rose Bowl,

(01:10:07):
but there's gonna be twenty five thousand fans there and
you might have all of them. You might have all
the fans, but it's a very tough place to play
after your dreams of your season have been dashed. I've
actually played this game before at UCLA. After in two
thousand and seven we were number two in the country.
We went to Arizona and our quarterback Dynast Dixon tore

(01:10:28):
his ACL in the game against Arizona and we lost.
We went to Ucilia next week and we lost sixteen nothing. Now,
the different circumstances ish, but like the same thing applies
where it's a really tough place to play when your
seasons feels like it's gone down the toilet because of
the energy and the environment. And I just think just
psychologically in this game with your backup quarterback, and if

(01:10:51):
Nebraska's offensive line was really really good, I would be
okay with backing Nebraska. Okn just run the football and
keep it away from well t J latif is a
is a much more mobile guy, Like you're gonna run
more mobile stuff correct with him and Van Dyllan.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
But dud but Nebraska's run run defense, it's not good
in this game. I know, I know, So it's just
it's just a spot general OBVIOUSKA I hate talking about
bad about your your boys team.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
But like that's just like that's the way I look
at this game. It's like I just think it's a
bad Nebraska is better. It's a very bad.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Spot for them. It is. It's it's an awful spot
so much. I mean it was the blackout. I mean
everything went that game. It was right, I know. I
mean that's the killer of it all. It's the killer.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
They were winning that Gamela and and you know, so
I know that it's it's a young quarterback in the situation,
but I really thought that fourth and two when they punted,
it was a big part of that game because you know,
you usual defense is not good and we saw it
last night, like they're they're they're fine, They're they're not good.

(01:12:05):
And when you punted there, I do need a backup quarterback,
Like you couldn't get a yard. Those things sort of matter,
and like I just I you know, I just there
wasn't much trust in the quarterback. You have another week
to prepare, so you should be more trustworthy in the
quarterback this game. But you know, if you don't trust
them in that spot to get you a yard, I
know we just fumbled the stabish, all the things, all
the red flags, I get it are up there, but

(01:12:26):
that's that's my concern. But just the overall, you know,
do you trust your quarterback in a road game like this?
It's hard to play in the road, even even if
it's not very full I I yes, yes, yes, it's
hard to play road.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Yes, it's hard. And so I feel that it's a
it's an awful spot. It's an awful It's so much
when we talk about college football and surviving, it is spot.
So when you lose your quarterback and you lose and
you're coming off that emotional loss. I mean, look what
happened to Penn State. They just fell off the rails

(01:13:01):
and U. C. L A was a big part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Yeah, and you see what, by the way, has gotten
worse every week since, say basically you know went, you know,
just fire their coade, who's just fine. But they're off
of by two. So I think they're off of by
gun embarrassments Indiana, They're gonna come out fast, as you know,
can can they with stand? And the brass better, like
they have better players, but can they with stand? You
can the Bruins with stand? You know, getting out to
a lead and trying to hold on essentially for the

(01:13:24):
rest of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
We'll find out. The Rose Bull is super fun, but
it's it's just a bad it's a bad vibe stadium
for regular season games. It's just no one's that, no
one's there. Just yeah, yeah, all right, I say quick too.
Will come right back. Continue our foray around college football.
The NFL's coming up next. We got the Brain and
at eight o'clock eastern, and we have the Brain coming

(01:13:46):
up and around eight thirty eastern. So look forward to
all that stuff going on. Fellas haggon Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
Do you have Schwart Anthony Gargatto? Hey, uh, where the fellas?
Every week? Is it beach weather down there?

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
No, my wife heres are at the beach because they
had to winterize the condo we have, so like they
had to get ready, they had to turn the heat
on and like there's some fixes we gotta do before.
But the kids have to fish. Anyways, I'll probably go
fishing today. They're like going to the beach. Look, I'm
not gonna complain. Is I get to sit and watch
college football all day by myself. So here's what's gonna happen.
I'm gonna where you get off the show. I'm gonna

(01:14:31):
prepare my food for the day. I'm gonna probably go
to this Asian grocery store because I want to get
some some ingredients. I've decided to learn how to make
a lot of the food that I just order, Like
if I want to order Chinese food or other food,
I've learned how to make it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
So do you make a file? Make the shoe the foe?

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
I mean, I actually thought about making a soup today.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
You can in the press.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
You can do it like quickly in a pressure cooker,
which I have take about an hour to make the
broth and a pressure cooker. I actually have a recipe I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Saved to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
I thought about that maybe like a soup. It's a
little chilly today. Ran a little bit last night. Go
to the grocery store, get my food for today, and
then from twelve until I fall asleep, which is gonna
watch football by myself like organ plaze at three thirty.
It's like, what, it's the greatest thing ever. Gonna wake
up tomorrow, do my show here on Fox Sports Radio
ten o'clock, and then watch football until they show up

(01:15:16):
again and then probably watch more football when they show
up to both.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
When they show up. So where are they? So you're
in Charlotte Beach and we're.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
Basically Myrtle Beach for the it's just the easiest to say.
It's it's like two hours, it's three hours away. It's
very easy. North Cherry Grove.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Okay, perfect, perfect, Yeah, it's dirty Myrtle. No, we're not.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
We're not even actually close to Myrtle Beach. We're like
forty five minutes away. But it uh no, it's a well,
it's a dude. It's it's like it's a five hundred
square foot condo. It's awesome, bro, It's it's like perfect
for what our family needs for the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
It's great. Yeah, it's fantastic. You kidding me? I play
We played in a baseball to Myrtle.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Beach is a huge huge, like a huge like baseball
tournament town, golf town, obviously, but they do a ton
of they built. They have building a giant another giant
like Little League baseball complex off twenty two. I think
it's off twenty two. It's gonna be huge, dude. The
field was unbelievable. I told you this field, I was

(01:16:27):
like blown away. I never seen anything like it. They
had missed dugouts like it was. It was incredible. It
was it was I never seen anything like it. It
was unbelievable. Did these like missing dugouts?

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
And uh, we're out there in the summer obviously, right right,
but I mean I never I never saw anything like it.
It was just gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Yeah, it's a it's a good they uh and you
know because the got cheap hotels there. I mean it's
like really easy to like just go to a tournament there.
I've done it before. I used to coach high school
baseball in the off seasons here in Charlotte, uh at
Formula High School, and we have a tournament there every
year and it was a lot of fun. Were played
in the in the minor league park and we had
a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Yeah. So so we were at Shipyard, which is Mount Pleasant. Okay,
you know where Mount Pleasant is. I mean it's not
that far from Myrtle, Yeah, in that same same a
general area. Yeah. Yeah, it was gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
The fields were unbelievable, and you know, it was all
the manicure. I mean, it was an incredible place. It
was really it was. It was unbelievable. All right, So
you have so so you have all day today tomorrow
and you're gonna go, well, what are you gonna make?
If you decided?

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
So, yeah, so I like, I mean, I'm gonna make
some sort of noodle I'm depending on. I'm hoping they
have fresh noodles. So that's why I'm going there. They
have like the fresh rice noodles, and if they have those,
I'm gonna make this beef chow fun. Probably I've seen
you the recipe if you want to see. It's pretty good,
but I'll probably go to gym first to get a
little workout in to like deserve to eat the noodles
type of thing, you know, right, the one the key though,

(01:18:11):
So I bought all I've been doing this year.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Now I have all the ingredients.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
I have all like the Chinese cooking wine and this
different soy sauces, all this stuff and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
So the like a rice wine type of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Yeah, well it's chaunging wine. It's like it's like a
Chinese like it's like a Chinese cooking wine. I bought
the msg. It makes a big difference food tastes a
lot better with MSG.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
Yeah, it tastes so much better. Just a little sprinkle,
a little sprinkle MS, it's not bad for you in moderation. Yeah,
it tastes so much better with that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
What is it that it's en? Answer?

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Yeah, flavor answer. Yeah, it tastes so much better. Yeah,
they sell it flavorite ancers at the grocery store. But
like I bought like like real MSG. It makes a
big difference. It's a little bit tiny, like a quarter
tea spoon, like a tiny like a little a little
like a boom like a little okay, a little bam
like right like little little little emerald bam like right there,

(01:19:03):
and put on it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
It tastes so much better. Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
We so Sunday, Saturday, Sunday we have our family most
often to watch football and I'll get on the hibachi
grill when when, when the weather's nice, to make dinner
for everybody. And the last time I did it, I
put some MSG in the in the rice and a
couple people were like, the rice taste tastes different this week,
taste better. I was likes, that's not bad square garden, No, no, yeah,

(01:19:32):
so that's I must spend my little Saturday hang out
with the dog.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
He's right down.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
You have right here, Like I'm a heat guy. Do
you make it spice like the hot oil hill. I
put the chili on soups and stuff. Yeah, I don't
really put you like on regulars put out, like on
a bowl of soup like a Ramen or like, yeah,
I'll put some chili on there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
My big bikes soup. I'd make it red, dude. I went.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
I went to go eat the other day in New
York City and said ramen and I asked for ChIL
They were like two dollars. I'm like, how about no,
but we two drops the chili oil there. What do
you mean charge two dollars for that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
I have no chance. I was like, I'll pass. Yeah,
that's a violation. You can't charge for the chili oil.
That's that's a throwing man. That's the condiment. No right
stone violation. I love the chill. There's a there's a
Vietnamese place I go to and they have three different

(01:20:29):
kinds of oil, which is I love? All Right? Big
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(01:21:12):
coming up, and about twenty five minutes, we'll talk to
the Brain to take a look at the picks. Go
through the schedule. Always great, Jeff v. Brain. In the selections,
I won't know who's the toe. Who's up this year?
Between you two.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
It's not me In the NFL, I I NFL's been hard.
I've had a bad year in the NFL, so not
in college football. I'm five hundred, which isn't good. But
I'm better than NFL, which I can't. I'm going to
pick the game right in two weeks, like okay, I

(01:21:48):
had the Chargers last week against the title against the Titans.
Right the Chargers were laying I know nine by the
time our show was over on Saturday. Right the Chargers
scored twenty seven points in offense.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Awesome. The Titans scored six points on offense. Not good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
Titans covered because I scored twice two non offensive touchdowns.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
What what am I supposed to do about that? You
take your you're on the right side. You know, the
brain talks about it all the time where he says,
you know, you could easily be on the right side
and lose. You were on the right side and we
got unlucky, but you candicapped the game correctly. It's been
that way for weeks though. I just I can't. I

(01:22:33):
can't buy away in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
So let's hope. Uh, let's hope it starts better this week.
I'm better uncomfortable, better uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
So yeah, that is what it is. All right. Well,
let's talk about the rest of the college slate, because
we started to go through it, and now let's kind
of talk about it talking about the early games and
then uh, your ducks. We talked about Oregon in Iowa
and you're here. Some injuries. Yeah, there's some injury rumors

(01:23:03):
out there about Oregon.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
Not good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
If they're true, I can still win without them, but
don't like them. And if a number one wide receivers
out not great. I will say this about this game,
so I was really good. They're very physical, they play
a brand of football that I always plays, right, they're
mistake free, they're good on special teams. But they can't

(01:23:27):
pass the football, and that's a problem when you play Orgon.
Organs lost seven games, are Dan landing in five of
those games? The opponent's don't for three hundred yards or more? Like,
we lose the teams that throw the football, and we
can certainly lose this game because our offense doesn't play
as well as it should.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
But the idea that I was not going to score
on us of this game. So the point, right, like,
you got to be able to score against Oregon.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
And I both you know, Scorgans, both of them. The
thing that that I think is fun about this game,
just for Orgon is that you know, they sort of
hurt all week that they're not physical enough to win
this game. And you know this is if you're picking
an upset today, you're picking Iowa.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
To win this game. So I'm looking forward to to
see what we got today.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
This is a this is a man up game, right,
It's like, are you gonna out physical Iowa on the
road We've already play a big road game, right we
played at Penn State that we're prepared for this moment.
It'll be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to.
It's gonna be tough, it's not gonna be easy, and uh,
we'll see, we'll see what we do. I think if
anything in the game is super low scoring, I think
if you're making a wager in this game, you're better

(01:24:30):
in the under. It's gonna be it's bad weather, windy, rainy.
Both teams, I think are gonna play the same sort
of game like play keep away, trying, you know, don't don't,
don't give the other team any any freebies, and just
really hunker down and run the football.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
So I think the under is certainly to play here. Yeah,
the weather. This will be the first weekend where I
think weather is a real issue in.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
The NFL, certainly. I think today in culture Ball, it's
not as bad as tomorrow's. Tomorrow is going to be
colder and like we might he snow tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
I think, yeah, we're getting a web new weather pattern
coming down from the North Pole, and in fact, Lambeau
Monday night's gonna be awesome. Tempts below freezing at game time,
chance for for snow showers, uh win gusts twenty nine

(01:25:24):
mile an hour. He go off. It's a long weather.
When is Jurgons back? Is he back soon? No, he's
not back this week, not back on Monday. No, they're
hoping he plays against the Lions. Okay, he's got a knee,
and they're hoping he plays against Night's gonna be toth again.

(01:25:44):
So they're uh, they're a little you know, you're a
little worried. Tomorrow in Chicago wins uh gusting twenty five
to thirty. Yeah, with snow and rain in Chicago Jets,
there's wins in around ten to fifteen. So there's always

(01:26:06):
there's always wind in met life. I know there's something new. Yeah,
uh for that for that great matchup between the Jets
and Browns. Hey man, someone has to watch. There's just
friends and family only.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
That is a friends and fabily piece. That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Well, that's one of those where you look up in
the crowd and you're just like, you lose those games.
It's really weird when you ever you play them every
now and then. I'm sure you've you've covered a team
that plays these games where like the stadium is so sparse,
you can hear people talking.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
In the crowd, Like it's a very weird, very weird vibe.
It's one of those games where like it's just gonna
be friends and family. Yeah, and that's why, you know,
it's funny. I was talking to Baldy yesterday and we
were talking about sauce. He's like, listen, he's he's not
been the same player. He's gonna be much better than

(01:26:58):
the last two years. And I said the same thing.
I go, yeah, but like when you're on a bad team,
it's hard. It's hard to like Miles Garrett is rare
right like Crosby who is still it's incredible. I don't
think he gets enough credit deserves. Man, he's so good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
He is playing on a bad Yeah, he also plays
every snap I give. I like, I like Max a lot.
Baldy was he like, was he on a beach somewhere
when you talk to him, or was he was he
back in the States?

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Actually no, he was on his way to love it
because he's doing Texas Tech. You b yu today he's
able to I love ball. He just like he spent
his free time like free diving, in the ocean. Oh
my god, he's got the condo in South Beach, and
and and he goes and in summertime he's gallivantan to
Costa Rica and every other island destination. He's he's the best.

(01:27:56):
He's got that house like near me, he's my boy,
He's the great, and uh, he's the ultimate bachelor. Like
it's funny, like I bring the kids over once in
a while, right, And like I could tell he gets
antsy after a while, Like all right, I get enough
of because he's a confirmed bachelor his whole life. So yeah,

(01:28:18):
yeah he uh so, like his existence is the polar
opposite of mine. Right, So well, I'll go watch film
or whatever, and uh he's like yeah, because because he
does his travel, does his games. But you know, when
it's all season, he's just you know, gone, yeah, you know,
I want to go to Italy. I want to go

(01:28:39):
to Spain. I want to go to Korea. I want
to go. I mean, it's like unbelievable. And he's such
he's the most interesting man in the world. That's certainly
he's certainly up there. Yes, yeah, And like our existence
of being dad, you know, kind of boring, right, I'm worried.

(01:29:00):
I like my I like my family. It's okay. Now,
I'm with you, brother, I love my humble existence. Serving
the kids is the best as a taxi driver. Where
are you going today? I got it. As soon as
we're off there, I got a jump. So because we
got an early game. I hate early football games, early baseball, whatever,

(01:29:23):
because we have to play multiple But an early football
game is the worst. So I got to jump and
drive forty minutes to a game. The kids just not
ready to play that early. Mean you know, I'm not
ready to play that early. I mean football should not
nine am. Football is not good. Oh no, that's way

(01:29:46):
too early. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not good. So
we got we drew this early strong. I don't know
why you were playing at nine am. But and I'm
gonna miss half to I'm gonna miss the first half. Yeah,
it's just tough. Anyway. Yeah, we had a we had
a week. We started basketball. So I went from football practice.

(01:30:12):
He got changed in the bathroom at the gym, and
then we had basketball, like we had football from five
forty five to seven thirty. Yeah, I mean basketball from
eight from seven forty five to nine thirty so my
wife is not a sports mom. I think I've played
this before.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
And so when I'm out of town, which i'm right
now Wednesday and Thursday, you know, like I have to
trust her and like, you know, do it. Make sure
the kids are at their older sports. Right, they started
basketball practice, but they also have swim practice too, Like
I would take if it was up to me, I
take my kid to swim for an hour and then
we get changed in the car and go to basketball practice.
But my life doesn't roll like that, So my kids

(01:30:49):
are That's all I would do. I'm with you, like
I would like they have practice swim six sixty seven.
My son has basketball practice. Uh see, me has basketball practice.
I would just I would just go to swim is
twice a week. It's kind of like you pick your
two days, right. So there, mind, I have to actually
have to sign my uh my kip for for basketball

(01:31:09):
my other kid up for basketball because they didn't take
my credit card last time. Good reminder, Thank you, thank
you for reminding me un about that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
So I would do that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
I would do like the multiple practice, but my my
my wife doesn't play that game though, but I it's
you gotta do it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
I mean, you can't miss practice swim though is swim
is twice a week and kind of at your discretion though,
so you can choose, you can and choose, so that
that's actually fair, Like you can you can pick and
choose that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Uh all right, here we go.
Uh does l s U come to play tonight? This
is the question. I gotta believe that this is their
Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
So we've seen this year the teams without their coach
in the first game and played really well, right U
C L A and A and U A B and
Florida last week. But the question I have essentially is
like what so for LSU would be that basically you
didn't like your coach, like you just didn't like Brian Kelly,

(01:32:09):
you know, Lifeter Brian Kelly, and you play much better,
but at some point, like your offense, I don't think
it's gonna get much better. Like I think that you
are what you are on offense, and then so you're
not gonna score a lot. I think it is Alabama
this game. I think Alabama has their way with LSU.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Okay, all right, I guess I was thinking I would
see uh an LSU, you know, this is Hey, this
is it's Bama. It's hey, you know, Kelly's gone, We're
playing Pride. Let's go Tigers. I don't know. I mean

(01:32:46):
that's kind of what I was thinking. It's a lot
of points, man, I'm curious to But.

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
LSU is also I think a public side today too,
So I don't know, are they really I think people
I think people think like you do, where it's like
they have talent. No, Brian Kelly like, we're all in
an LSU. So okay, I'm with you with the public stuff,
but but you should always sad on that, like I like,
I like Indianite. It's the most public side of them all.
I mean, I just like it's that happens is like right,

(01:33:13):
that is what it is. So but yeah, I I
I think they have a handle's business. I'm curious what
I know you laying that price right now. I don't
know if that's the right answer for that. But I
think that they're there. You know, that's that's a side.
What happened, what happens to THEUS meyer So now, I
mean I I was listening to someone, a draft guy,

(01:33:35):
who said, like they think all the quarterbacks come back
basically yeah, season. Yeah, I mean Sellers is probably gone
and some guys have like Carson Becks gone. But I
think most guys come back for next season, So he
should come back. I mean who they hire obviously will
We'll see it Leans maybe you know, like you know,

(01:33:55):
laying or drink it with someone like that, and we'll
see how he plays next year. He might transfer because
you know when you have a new coach and they
won't look at Lane comes in. You know, Chambells will
be their quarterback next season, right, he'll have to find
a new home.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
Yeah, but you know, you always got to go back,
Like like I would always advise a quarterback to go back.
You're going to get paid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Well now now the equation is so much different than
it was, like, you know, before you you got paid.
I mean I think before you got paid, i'd always
say leave right now because you get paid. And we're
seeing we actually don't see a lot of quarterbacks their
stock drop for staying. It used to drop a little
bit for staying. There was one more year for like
bad things to happen. But now a lot of these

(01:34:37):
guys are playing really well staying one more season. So
I think a lot of guys will stay and again,
they're getting paid, they're getting paid mill millions dollars, why not.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Stay exactly exactly? All right? Uh So I look at
that and I go, all right, ell so you like,
you know, you got that. It's weird tonight because not
a lot of great matchups that I mean, I mean
Bam LSU should have been the should have been a
can't miss. Yeah, Virginia Wake and Notre Dames play Navy.

(01:35:12):
I don't think that's a game or smoked Davy. Yeah, yeah,
I kind of see that too. All right, tomorrow, good
match up early from Berlin. Falcons and Colts. Can you
make sense to the Falcons a little bit? No one

(01:35:33):
makes sense to the Falcons?

Speaker 5 (01:35:34):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Falcons are I mean Pijanna Drake London and Pitts. I'll
start that offense every day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
I just don't think Panics is that. I think Pennis
is not as good as we think or want him
to be. Look, the problems he had coming out of
college are the same he has now, where he's very
much throwing it outside of the numbers for the most part.
He's not very accurate over the middle field. And there's
some there's some you know, some footwork and sort of
just like that, there's just it's just not as crisp

(01:36:06):
sometimes as you needed to be. So that I think
that that all plays a role here in what's happening.
Their offenseve lines a little beat up as well, so
they're not as good protecting him, and it just hasn't
been as crisp as it should.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
They got lucky to cover last week, you know. They
it was seventeen to three and New England was driving
down to go up by three scores and they forced
the fullble was they showed him a good good job
by Atlanta. Then they missed the extra point and lost
by one. I know, but India sort of feasted on
these type of teams. Look Indies, Indies, excuse me, Indies
lost last week? Was it was the Steelers Voody? They

(01:36:39):
forced six turnovers? Was it playing a better team all
those things?

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Was sure?

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
But I think that the culture still really good and
this and they basically have taken care of teams like
Atlanta all season, and so I do wonder today if
that happens again, I mean tomorrow, if that happens again
in Berlin.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
I mean the numbers big six and a half. Now
it's crazy, it's watch I honestly, that's why I liked Atlanta. Yeah,
I just don't bet at Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
That suck my things or against them either, or stay
away from Falcons games.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
That's great, that's great. All right. Let me ask you
about the Commanders and the idea of Washington coming in
the way he did. Now, you and I both did
not like Washington as much as we liked Daniels and
everybody everybody called for a regression. But my thing was

(01:37:34):
it was less about last year. And like we understood,
they won some games they probably shouldn't have, like the
Bear Game and that sort of thing. But it was
more they went all in and got old. It was
the worst personnel job I saw, I think of the
entire league. So with Daniels, because of how good he played,

(01:37:58):
they decided like we're going all in.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
And I I get I get I get I get it,
I get it. But obviously, like you just you know,
you've been hurt all season. It just hasn't worked out
for them, and now you're hurt again. And I didn't
mind Dan dan Quinn playing him, by the way, I
know he got hurt and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Gonna have to take I didn't either. I defended Quinn.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Yeah, so do I because look, first of all, I
know this is not gonna happen each week. But Denver
did score thirty three fourth quarter points a month ago
and win a game. And Washing was not winning that game.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
But you think of it from from a from a
psyche perspective, right, Like Washington first came back correct, and
he's absolutely so. First game back, they weren't playing very well.
And I know this sounds it's gonna sound silly, but
I've been the spot before. I'm sure you've seen this before.
Maybe your son's been the spot before, where like, you

(01:38:49):
have a bad game and if you just get like
a little bit of good to end the game, you
feel a lot better about like because you know, look
you have to watch the film and getting beat up
on film for an hour and a half with your
coaches not fun. It's a little bit better if you
end the game but a little bit of positive. And
because you hadn't played a lot last couple of weeks,

(01:39:10):
I mean, they just wanted to end the game on
some positive and it backfired.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Look, it did.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
It backfired, and that happens it's unfortunate. It's also not
common for a quarterback to basically, you know, dislocate an elbow.
Like it's just basically, it's what happened. So it's so
what happened just is bad luck, man, That's all it is.
And that's sometimes sports. He's bad luck and that's what
And so I defend Dan Campbell'll do me Dan quinn on.

(01:39:35):
I know he had to apologize, of course, you know
he's gonna apologize and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
But nah, I was totally I was totally with you.
I defended him too. You know, we have this tendency
to kind of look at things from the outside. Wow,
I'm gonna be playing in the middle of this righteous nation.
And it's exactly it like that. You need, first of all,

(01:39:58):
how many times our quarter in the game. It happens
a lot, like starting on both sides, like it just does.
It happens a lot, like there's a there's a reason
for it, Like you can't be afraid of injury, Like
you're right, you gotta play the game, all right, We
gonna take quick too. We'll come back to Brain will

(01:40:19):
join us and uh Brain v Jeff head to head
coming up next, going through the card right here on
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Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
Good morning, my friend. How you guys doing today.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
We're doing good. We're doing good. My man's my man's
hitching though. He's hitching in the in the NFL. He's
he's not doing well. He saw it's been. It's been.
It's not it's not great.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
I mean, look, when I was joking about this with
like when you when a team new wager on has
twenty seven points on offense, and the opponent they play
has six and you don't cover. I mean, what do
you what are you gonna do? I don't really, I
can't thank you know you're gonna do what.

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
You can do, well, said my friend. You gotta go
on the next one.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Oh, I've been this weekend. This is not gonna go well.
I mean, hope it goes well. The NFL props are going,
props are going fine. Look every week I take the
tight end playing the Dolphins and it just flies over.
So like that's the best ways all the NFL. Right now,
I took it over already. Forty and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
Yeah that's all. It's forty and a half. Yeah, what's
thirty seven half on.

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
York per Rum this year? By the way, interesting side,
don't the entire kate?

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Yeah, I mean they're gonna get They're gonna that's a smash.
Is that a cook piece? What's Cook's total? I haven't cook.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
Yeah, I cook, Yeah, cooked out with a great year
that guy's having. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
I gotta see Cook. I mean, I could see Cook
running for about twenty in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
Would not surprise me.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
It's a great matchup for that defense, you know. Yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:42:53):
The run game flow. They are like a nine point favorite.
You know you will of the times you want to
kick deal overs and rushing yards and the unders for
the opponents on the situation where you know you have
a double cookies run eighty five and a half. Right now,
you have me. I've gone over that every game except
like one or two.

Speaker 2 (01:43:13):
I would be all over to clock over and here
you go, Jeff, I'm yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
I mean I think that's an interesting game. I mean
it's like the least interesting of all games. But like
I Dolphins might just run the ball, but to keep
the ball away from Buffalo. I'm kind of curious about
that because the chieftain do that. It's why the Chiefs didn't.
Don't understand what the Chiefs were doing, but they didn't
do that. But getting to do some games today, the
one obviously I care about Oregon Iowa. I like the
under Man. I think I don't think any team that

(01:43:40):
scores more than twenty points, and I think that's the
way to play this game. I know people are in Iowa.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
I get if you're in Iowa. If you like the
under you probably like Iowa are covering. What are your
thoughts in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
For me, it's i it's the opposite. I can only
look at our Oregon. I you know Iowa. I mean
since amazing, Jeff, that you would think it's actually fascinating
study almost like wish I was an Iowa fan to
understand it. You would think in the last fifty years,
forty years to call it conservatively, that a program that's
been legitimately successful, and no one can say they have

(01:44:15):
not been successful. They have not had one quarterback who
is ending less than more or less really bad in
the last forty years. I don't understand how that's possible
just by accident. You don't have someone who's like pretty good.
And it's the same story every year with that team,
good defense in every game to grind them out like
sixteen and you know, thirteen to seven kind of game.

(01:44:39):
I think Oregon will be good enough to score and
I don't think Iowa will sat simple.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
For me, I hope so fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
I like a nice I would like a nice like
calm victory today would be nice.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
Captain Duck over here, Yeah, you can't wait, b Yu,
Texas Tech. I mean it's now up to eleven and
a half. The thing just keeps higher and higher and higher.

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
I hate it when the people who make the lines
are smart. That annoys me. Look, b y U has
been again. It's obviously it's recognized that they are a
fake lucky team that's undefeated. I mean, look, I'm not
trying to knock them. It sounds like I am, but
they clearly the market is telling you this is a
very obviously average team. But the team again, I think

(01:45:30):
in my power rings there were maybe number twenty nine, okay,
and here they are masquerading people. Oh how the only
number seven in the you know, in the ratings they
should get today is how I is. Again, they've been
a fortunate team. The glass flopper is going to show
up eventually.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
Yeah, it's a look at it spot for Georgia, certainly
with Texas coming in next week. But I think Georgia
is there for a loss. I know all that, but
I still think Georgia is the right side this game.
That's missibs state.

Speaker 2 (01:46:00):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, for me, the same thing
I would I would agree with that. Jeff's range of
this year in Collegetable there's usually there's really no teams.
I'm curious. You have the same take as me, and
I truly have a feeling of like just confidence with it.
I feel like I'm going to get a good performance
when I'm betting on them. I mean that like I
feel any of these teams, I feel like I don't

(01:46:24):
know what I'm going to do. I remember when the
Forrest goes life, there's a bunch of chocolate. You never
know what you're gonna get. I feel like that's college
football this year. I mean, Indiana's been consistent, but I
just feel like it hasn't It's hard to know what
performance I'm going to get from a lot of these teams.
Georgia to me is a definition of that. Like I
I you know, I have not had any sense of confidence,

(01:46:47):
you know, with with what I think they're going to
be or whatnot. But look, well it's gonna be an interesting,
interesting week this week. We'll see, We'll see what happens
quickly here.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
I do this actually one team that is reliable and
that's Indiana Hoosiers. I do think Indiana State today and
just rolls Penn State. That's one of my favorite bets
of the week. I got thirteen and a half on Monday,
I mean it's fourteen a half. Now I think fourteen
a half.

Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
Still, it's fourteen and a half. Yet, you know it's funny,
and it's funny. I of Sony Anthony the other day
Penn State. You know it's funny, Like I actually think
for a team that BMW dead man walking, they've actually
I started against Ohio State, they actually showed a little
bit of for a team that lost final with the
score was but actually watched that game, I thought they

(01:47:33):
were actually pretty respectable in it. They had no look
to me, those look they hadn't quit. And when I
watched the Dolphins against the Bills against the Ravens the
other night, the same kind of thought prus that went
for me. For a team that's dad, it's going to
finish three and fourteen or whatever it is, they actually
if TA wasn't as bad as TOO was, it could
have actually, dare I say, win the game certainly covered it.

(01:47:55):
Penn State. To me, again, I saw a team that
hasn't quit yet for me, believe it or not, JE
would be have sitter path. I don't have the guts
to do it, but I saw enough out of them
where I'm not laying fourteen and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
Hey, Brad, I'm curious about the A and M Miszoo
game and how you how you suss that out?

Speaker 4 (01:48:14):
Yeah, I mean for me and I bet this game,
it's it's all about the quarterback situation for Missouri. And
you know, I think this again, I don't love by
the way, I do not love at all texting M.
I think potentially this is another team that definitely can
be beaten line six and a half. That's I got that.

(01:48:38):
I laid six and a half. I'm gonna dare a
third string quarterback to beat me in this in this
first start.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
So I know this number is terrible. I'm going in
the knowing this, but I think West Virginia is going
to smoke a dead Colorado today. Am I crazy for
believing in that?

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
I know what?

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
It is not good? They upset Houston, get it last week?

Speaker 4 (01:49:00):
Last week?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
It was I took them last week. Yeah, but I
mean Colorado, man, like there. They have a lot of
over one hundred points last two weeks. They switching quarterbacks,
they switched ocs. I think this is a really tough
but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:14):
It's you know, I'm funny. This is where I think,
in my opinion, you, as a former athlete high at
the highest level, can probably glean stuff that others can't.
I'm sure there's times in the season, not that you're
not trying, but I'm sure there's times in a season
where you just know it's whether it's not, you're you're
you're just kind of going through the motions and this

(01:49:35):
just is what it is. It's just the way it
goes sometimes. I kind of feel that way about Colorado
and West Virginia. You know, they have a new coach
and they you know, they showed a little bit of
spunk last week where maybe you know, there their season,
you know, while it's quote unquote over that, they are
still playing, playing for something in the little the excitement.
Well Colorado, I mean, gosh, yeah, I agree with you

(01:49:59):
for a game that's probably not when people are talking
about I like the direction of the Westerneria team, not Colorado.
I think this could be a route.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
How about the LSU Baba We were talking about this,
Jeff and I. Yeah, you know, where do you line up?
It's what nine and a half?

Speaker 4 (01:50:19):
Yeah? Again, you know it's like it's ten and a
half ten and a half. For me, it's it's it's
LSU or pass again the whole Brian Kelly situation. If
this doesn't reinvigorate them, then nothing will. I always and
again I always thought, you know, talent kind of trumps

(01:50:42):
all in these situations, and LSU just hasn't been the case.
They've been a talented team and just for whatever reason
hasn't worked. But Alabama, look, they may be the best team.
I don't know, but to win by that's a that's
a big margin for a team that is a good
pedigree in l s U and you know, I HLS
you were pass a lot of points.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
Another game that might be off people's radar, but I
think it is a national TV game. Tonight is Nebraska
at UCLA. I hate to fade ants team in that rule,
but man, this just feels like a really difficult spot
for them. You're playing a in a home stadium that
is going to be void of any atmosphere. It feels
like you're seeing sort of ended last weekend with the

(01:51:23):
Riola injury in the loss of the USA. You're not
You're not a playoff team anymore. Like it's a late game.
It's a night game at UCLA. I know, those numbers
kind of bounced sort of between two in both directions
after Roola injury. I think the Bruins win and cover
this game. I know it's be gaining a point a
half now, was minus one half yesterday, whatever, But I
think Bruins winn and cover.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
Oh? I again, I absolutely agree with you look again
like them again with Nebraska. Again, I do believe in
the coach, and I don't think that they're going to like,
you know, just roll over because the quarterbacks out. But
to me again, I still do think that's just as
you that's a tough spot. That's a good, that's a
good just psychologically that's again you're not trying, it's just

(01:52:06):
that's just a tough that's a tough spot. That's a
tough spot to be like from motivated. It's a tough,
tough travel, it's tough to everything. Versus the UCLA team
that's now kind of getting their bearings with a new coach.
To me, it's absolutely sailier pass. I would have no
interest at all in Nebraska here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
None. Yeah, it's a tough tough spot. All right, let's
say quick to you, we'll come right back, and then
it's rapid fire Jeff v brain in the NFL. All right,
so we gotta move quick, boys, to get through all
the games that's coming up next, fellas on all right,

(01:52:49):
welcome back fellas, Jeff. Now we got the brain with us.
We're gonna move quick because you want to get Every
week we try to rush through the games, us trying
to get through with it in breath. Here we go,
we start the beer hauls will be popping. Falcons and

(01:53:10):
cults Jeff Cults six and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
I mean, the falcons are nothing, but I don't bet
the falcons, So I pass this one to brand.

Speaker 4 (01:53:19):
On this I do bet the falcons and betting the falcons.
I don't want to stand on this line. To me,
this line is at least two points too high. I
like lamb.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
Falcons. Baby Jeff, well, I don't have anything on the falcons,
all right, he won't go near the falcons. It's I
don't know any I.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
Don't win any wagers betting on the falcons games.

Speaker 2 (01:53:49):
Yeah, Browns and speaking of the bad games, browses, Jets
skip all right, Jaguars and texts obviously, Davis Mills in
for Houston, jag's' slight favorite brain.

Speaker 4 (01:54:08):
You know this is a game I really, really really
would have liked Houston quite a bit if I was playing.
Why wouldn't in my take off the riverband, let's go
after this one aggressively. Can't do it with Davis Mills
the slightest of lean to the Texans and good Jaguars.
I looked about of all things I've been wrong on
this year, I'd say Trevor Lawrence emerging as a frontline

(01:54:28):
quarterback would be at the top of the list. It's
Texans are passed for me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
I think I would look at the under in this game.
But yeah, Jacksonville is just unimpressed every week. And it's
Davis Mills. I mean, you just can't beat Houston right.

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
Now, Miami Buffalo, it's eight and a half, but again
the total is astronomical fifty and a half, and I
link the others the way to go here, boys tell me,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
To me, this is this a gad over and I
would take I would take eight chan over too touchingly.

Speaker 4 (01:55:04):
Nine and a half now free, I'd lean side Waters,
I lean Miami. I've seen Buffalo in this game many times,
played poorly, too many times to count, and I didn't
think Miami quit for me, it's Miami pass.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Nothing on the total from me here, You guys don't
think it's high.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
I made it right where it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Wow, fifty and I half all.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
Right, my numbers made it right right in that area.

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
I did Tampa New England. Uh, Tampa two and a
half over the Bats. Let's start with you, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
I like Tampa lot in this game off of by
healthier in the offensive line, and I think they match
it well with New England, who's sort of I mean
they won't six in a row. They're sort of itching
for I think a little bit of a down game.
So I like, uh, I like Tampa Bay.

Speaker 4 (01:55:54):
Here raight same here. Yeah, listen, sometimes it's not it's
who he played for, and you play them spot wise,
situational wise, great spot here for Campa Bay getting a
little bit healthier. I think by one, just won by
at least touch them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:56:08):
I will.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
Let's make it unanimous. I'm all about Tampa Bay the
Bears four and a half over the Giants. And again
it's gonna be weather involved here, cold wind, maybe some
snow and rain. What do you got brain?

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
Yeah, I just say that that would be monitoring the
weather in this game. See essentially can be exactly all
the stuff that you said, Anthony. You know it's funny.
I thought the line was maybe a little bit low,
just because Bears have been respectable Giants at literally a
one man team. The quarterbacks are amazing, and no one
else can do anything. Pass For me, it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
Would be Giants or nothing. I don't feel terribly strong
about it today, but it would be Giants or nothing
to me. I just the Bears feel very food gazy.
They've won, they won two games by a point, and
they needed this historic comeback against the worst defense NFL
history to wait.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
I think that. I think the Giants can keep with
a number. I'd stay right there. What do you what
do you got? You have Ravens Vikings? Uh yeah, I
be Vikings are nothing in this game. But this number
has gotten too.

Speaker 4 (01:57:16):
Big, I think brand Yeah, see this was one. I
was fortunate enough I got at the open. I thought
the flying should be four and a half. I lead
three to me a current numbers, it's a pass. I
don't think there's any edge. It's actually not three and
a half. Actually I actually still lean Ravens. I'm saying
it was four and a half. I actually still do
Lean Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
All right, Carolina and the New Orleans brain anything here, Carolina, Rico,
I bet the.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
Dog here, I don't. I think there's a good chance
we're not going to get Teed McMillan. This is the
one again the game. I actually think they're in their
weight class, so to speak. I ten narrowly five and
a half points with with Carolina. I just I could,
I could. I could never do that. I took a
chance with New Orleans, and again, I hope it could
be close.

Speaker 3 (01:58:01):
If Ted is out, en Rico Donald's injured and beat
up at all, you got to take New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
All right? Seattle Arizona. Everybody loves Seattle, Brave has loved
them all year. What do you got for Sunday?

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
Yeah, well, it's interesting this game for me. I'll potentially
be looking at past attempts for Jacoby Brissette going over
see the first time they played it was like forty
two passes eight runs. What has changed other than the
fact now you've a non mobile quarterback in Jacoby Brisset
or left mobile, and a quarterback that's actually you can
at least complete passes on them, like Cayler Murray and again,

(01:58:41):
a running game is completely impotent against numb one ranked
Seattle defense. That's all I'm going to attack this game.
It's interesting, Arizona. I think the only team NFL or
AA's not lost the game in morning field goal this year.
To me again, it would be Seattle or pass. But
I told you, I'm looking forward to taking the overs
for percent at least in his attempts. I don't think

(01:59:03):
they're gonna have much sucess running them all.

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
I think you just put Seattle on a teaser in
this one, like this good tease number. I feel like, see,
I just you know, needs to win the game and
put it with something. Yeah, that's that's how I play it,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
Quickly, Lions command.

Speaker 4 (01:59:16):
There's brain again. I could There's no scenario where I
could back Washington right now.

Speaker 2 (01:59:22):
I would take the Lions. Yeah, all right, Rams Niners,
good one, Rams four and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:59:28):
In the rematch, Jack's actually sorry, I don't get this.
I don't get this line. I think this line is
ridiculously inflated. I bet the forty nine ers I know
every sharp and their grandmother are on the Rams. I'm
fighting him on this one. I like San Francisco. I
think it's games at least competitive.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
This is a weird number to me, and I stayed
away from this game. I would I mean divisional game
with the good coach team of the Niners. I would
take them. I just I'm sort of like you. I
kind of don't know why this number is so high.
Kind of makes me worried about you know, like what
what if someone know I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
About this game? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:00:01):
Here, I like them at three and a half I had.
I don't get this line. We'll steel how it plays out, all.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
Right, Steelers Chargers Sunday Night or what do you got brain? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:00:13):
I bet the Steelers getting three. I just sing it again, Andy.
Some games I think they're just fifty to fifty coin flips.
I don't know who's gonna win to this game. Fit's
the definition. I was at that Chargers game last week.
The quarterback is beyond magnificent Herbert. Their offensive line play
is just brutally horrific. They don't much around him. I'm
beyond impressed with him. The rest of the team, and
they it's a fifty fifty game. He mayty three points

(02:00:34):
and thirt team to actually want home to advantage.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Jeff, I will take Pittsburgh. You got Pittsburgh too, Both
guys on Pittsburgh, all right. That'll do it for us, everybody.
I'll take the Eagles Monday Night. Have a great weekend.

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