The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz preview Championship Weekend, talk NFL Week 15 & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, go morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good morning, happy happy Fox Championship Saturday. College Football Championship
Saturday has arrived. We saw a couple of games last night,
right tlain able to beat North Texas and uh jmu wins,

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uh Boise wins, and of course, all eyes on the
playoff and everything that's gonna happen, the anarchy that's underway.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
That man right there, Yes, our buddy Jeff.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Schwartz, I'm Anthony gar I got it together the fellas
every Saturday right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good morning, Jeffrey, Good morning, sir. How are you doing
this morning? It is a wonderful weekend for more football,
on the final weekend of college football. So I love
to get.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
To yeah, I you know, the today could enter chaos, right,
we talk about enter chaos, and it's a strong possibility
that things that get turned upside down.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It is, and it started with last night. And the
chaos of last night was that James Max is gonna
be a playoff team. And look, I'm man I thengratulations
on their season, great season, right twelve and one after
that championship you win last night, but yikes, man, we
I we can't we The system is a playoff system,

(01:42):
right with twelve teams should be a playoff that has
participants that can win a championship. Right now, of course
that's not gonna be all the participants. It's not, you know,
it's just the way it is. But we should strive
for twelve teams that can win a playoff because guess
what is set up to try to win a championship, right,

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that's the point of the playoff, and it's not set
up that way with automatic qualifiers for g five teams.
I'm sorry, and I don't want to come here and
belittle the little guys, right, but that's this is the
sport has never been that. I don't know why we
pretend all of a sudden that the sport needs to
be that it's not basketball, I understand, but also to like,

(02:27):
those teams don't typically lose, right, there's upsets every now
and then, obviously right as we know, but most of
the final fours, most of the lead eights are the
best eight teams, Like, you know, it's just kind of
like the way it ends up being. But also too
is like is this should be again tried to find
a champion, not trying to be our participation tournament. And

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even when I went to Oregon, okay, well, so the
idea that everyone should be involved with everyone has a
chance to win to me, which people do argue like
that's that's the reason we have all the MAC qualifiers.
There could be upset. Everyone deserves to have a chance
to win. Well, not really. I mean I went to
Orgon in two thousand and four. Okay, it's before Organ.
You know, it had some success, but not national changing

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with aspirations, and I didn't go to Organ think I
was winning a championship, not one time. Not by two
thousand and seven, I thought we had a chance. But
I didn't go to Organ think we had a championship.
And no one goes to JMU being like we're going
go me be a playoff team. I'm going to be
a player. No, no, it's not why it's it's not
that case for ninety percent of kids playing at their schools,

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and to pretend otherwise to me is kind of devalues
the whole process. And if Duke wins today as a
seven and five ACC team, JMU is probably going to
Eugene Organ to play around one game against or right.
It's stupid. It's stupid, and it drives me nuts.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
And the fact that we're talking about whether or not
Notre Dame is going to get be put on the outs,
so JM, you could be in, get the hell out
of here.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
And when I tell you it's not basketball, basketball, there's
more of a chance basketball.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Every once in a while.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
You'll have a small school get in and there is
a Cinderel story, and there's been more Cinderel stories lately.
Football no is ridiculous. It's you can't be a small
school and compete. Just from an on line perspective.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
O line, D line. You know it's interesting is people
will point to like UCF being all burned that one
bowl game, and guys, there is a long history of
the loser of a conference championship game losing their bowl game.
Like it's not the same thing as a playoff game.
As a I'm telling you they would JAMU would go

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to Oregon and be a twenty four and a half
point favorite and organ would win four, five to ten. Yeah,
no one really wants to see that. So No Dame
Miami thing is obviously the most fascinating thing. So look,
it's very simple. Okay, I think No Name is better. Now.

(05:15):
The problem is they played an actual game. Guys, I
don't even know. I don't think we were working together
that week. We don't even start working. They put a
real game. It happened. We all watched it happen, and
No Dame lost that game. Now there's reasons for that, dude,
but I can't. I can't. If you, it would not

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matter as much if the teams that do not have
the same record they have the same record, they're starting
to group them right next to each other. The problem
is if you do not include that head to head
result as the last point of this discussion, then what's
the point of playing the games. There's no point of
playing the games you have. If your son was about

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to play a playoff game or a playoff seating and
you're the same record as someone else and you'd beatn
that team, and they put the other team in front
of your son's team, you come on here complaining that
they that that you guys got got jobbed like that,
and that that's the way they played the game. I agree.
I've been a note name today, even though I think
Miami has actually played good football last month. I would

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better not name today to win that game against against
Miami if they played. The best solution is for Texas
Tech to win today and then and and Georgia It
to win today and both those teams make the postseason,
which is certainly completely possible. But you know, I just
don't can invalidate the whole, the whole structure of sport
and winning and losing by putting in when both teams

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are about the.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Second I hear, I hear you, I I I get listen,
I get you. I mean it's, you know, more than fair.
I get it. The problem is is that it takes
place so early, and we like the the whole team.
The whole idea of sports and seasons is that they
aren't decided, you know, in the beginning of them, right

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Like teams need a chance to do gel and to
come together, and the idea is to build something, especially
in college football where you're so heavy in the portal
and it's going to take a minute for kids to
come together and to build a team, and it should
become like how you're playing. That's why that's why we

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have playoffs.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't just I don't see the thing is, I
don't disagree that what you're saying. It's just hard. It's
hard for me to like have, like just to say
anything other than the game, because fundamentally, if you don't
let that game matter, then why would these games ever
be played? And we're gonna we're gonna, I know, I know,
I struggle with it. I get it. We're gonna end

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up having, you know, these schedules that are just atrocious
because no one's going to no one's gonna do anything
because so that's.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Right, So you know, you know what the answer is,
expand the field, right like, you know that I agree
with you. No automatic pigs, like you know, what really
should happen? I mean, what really should happen is the
there needs to be two conferences, right, the ACE, the
SEC and the Big ten need to gobble up with

(08:27):
everybody else. Right, There needs to be divisions, and there
needs to be a line of demarcation right like, which
means there needs to be X amount of teams in
the Tier one playoff, right that is your elites of
the elites. And I don't know how many teams are
in there, eight you know, sixty right or eighty right?

(08:49):
Like whatever? It is like you split them up in
the divisions. You have like an AFC NFC model, and
then everybody else there's a second tier, and then you
could do the soccer up or down. You know, you
can even play like, hey, they won the league, so
they got an automatic birth into the other field. That's

(09:10):
gonna happen because you can't have JMU being in playoffs.
It's just not right.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's probably the other other thing is Boise. You might
get it after the win last night over Jam. They
don't deserve to be in. I think they're too far
away from the postseason. Look as organ fan matter, Yeah,
some of I get JMU in the playoff game at home,
and maybe you don't want that. Sign me up for
you give me. Look we got we got a bunch

(09:38):
of guys cheap. That's cheap. When they're all going to
come back. They're all going to come back and we'll
have a nice little scrimmage game. Get warmed up a
little bit, get grease sed up. Well, no name in
Oklahoma battle out in in a playoff game. It's so terrible.
I mean, hey man, look, we don't get a lot
of breaks like this. I'll I'll take a break I'll
take I'll take like a little bit of like a

(09:59):
game like this, So you ce Ceo dumb it is
like I you shouldn't be in a playoff and be
grateful that you're playing a G five team, right, So, look,
Tulane is in. Obviously, we know last year people put
to Boise being in. Boise was a top fifteen team
nearly all season, like they were. Legitimately, you know, we're
raking Tulane and JMU, you know, because it's the end

(10:24):
of the season and teams have fallen out. Boise State
was was ranked to start the season last team, and
I know they were not, but they had They were
actually raked in the top fifteen for most of the season.
Like it made a little bit more sense than a
generational player running back. It made a little more sense
than than it does now. And so like that, that's
my argument for Boisse and State last season. There's been

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no G five team this year that even we're really
close to Bois to State line boys would made all
those teams, And so that makes it, you know, very
difficult to make even argument that anything should be different.
But the chaos agent today, number one kass agent is
b Yu they're number one chaos agent. B Yu. Winning
gets Texas Tech today causes a huge headache for the

(11:09):
for the committee, not actually, you know what, I'm not
sure even choose a headache. It just makes it very
simple for them to leave teams out, and they're gonna
have to leave a lot of teams out and then
we're really gonna get into Miami ner Dame debate. Yeah, yeah,
it'll be interesting for sure. I don't think b Yu
can beat them. I don't think so either, So the

(11:29):
committee will will be spared for to make that, for
having to figure that out. But they're the Texas Texas
unbelievable man. If b Yu gets it at b Yu
winn't today, they have to be in. TeX's gonna have
to be in obviously, and then you know, you have
to and then I don't know, you have to figure
it out after that. But uh, that probably kicks kicks
a couple teams out out of the postseason. So nowaday

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Miami today. They're big Texas Tech fans.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah yeah, and and and I listen, Texas Tech is
that good? And like b Yu doesn't deserve to get in.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, you know, b Yu fans very passionate about them,
but they don't. They don't deserve to get in. I
don't think they do either. You know, they'll point to
some numbers obviously and and whatnot, but the fact is
they have not had a great schedule, just life in
the in the Big twelve, and they you know, but look,
if they beat Tensis Tech, they're going to be in.

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I don't think they're gonna do it, but that's certainly possible.
I love by the way that this week people seem
to find out that BYU has money, which I don't
think people gave them credit for before this week because
of the coaching shirt situation with with Campbell whatnot. I mean,
Talkeey like the b Y, you guys is easy, good

(12:47):
coach with cash. They have huge money. Man paid the
number one recruit in the country basketball b YU. They
have money, and they have a ton of support. And
now with you know, with Sataki staying, I think you
have a little more support. So you know, the future
of that program is pretty especially with the freshman quarterback.

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But this is this is a tough spot for them
again to play Tech uh Texas Tech is is you know,
I have some concerns about some of the parts of
their offense. But this defense is so good. I don't
know why it's any different than the first time they
played it. Probably a little closer I would have matches
because it's the second time. In a rematch, you tend
to give a little bit, I at least to the
team that lost. Even though I will tell you this,

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people will look at these games in rematches and think
to themselves, well, in a rematch of favor is a
team that loses and that team should win. And that's
not That's not the case in the PAC twelve. I
think in all the rematches, the hacks used to be divisions, right,
I think. I think that the team that lost the
first game won the second game, like one out of
eight years. A lot of times that the team won

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the first game is just much better, and that's why
they win the second game too, right right? Yeah? I
mean I think Texas Tech role today. I do. I
just do you're that good? Cover the twelve? Is Brain
coming on today? Yeah? Brain's coming on today. Cover the twelve.
That's a big that's physical, a big number. But I
get it. I like them. I like them to cover Yeah,

(14:12):
I like them. I mean that would be good for
that would be good for the Committee if they were
to cover Look, the culture will playoff obviously, it's a
lot of our discussion. And the one thing that I
think is so interesting is how people think it's committee's fault,
right because they come out and they talk to us
and they tell us what the what's on their mind is. Like, guys,
the Committee has no core values. Okay, we try every

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week to piece together what matters, and the fact is
that none of it matters. Okay, they're twelve or to
eleven now, because I didn't have some people out like
they're twelve humans who have their own idea of what
matters and what doesn't matter. They try to claim that
eye test matters, and your worst loss matters, and your
best way. They just make it up as they go,
so trying to come on every week and think I

(14:58):
know what they're thinking about. We don't know. We have
no idea, and every week we try to figure out, oh,
this week this matters, and that we just they know
what they're doing. But but in the end, though every
single season we do typically have the right teams the playoff, right,
I mean, this is the year where they might really
test that with No Name Miami thing. But for the
most part, the right teams do end up getting in.

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But every week they started making up as they go
they like.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Like last I will say, though, if Notre Dame is
not in, then it's completely a flawed system.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I have them as my second my ranks my second
ranked team. Yeah yeah, power ranks a lot of people's
power rankings. They're up at the top. I'll disagree, bad,
I don't disagree. But what what was No Name's best win? Miami?
Miami has a better win. Obviously they beat Notre Dame
like it's that's it's you know what, I No Name

(15:53):
joined the conference. This won't be a problem. You know,
they just playing the next championship game they win and
get in. Yeah, this might force them the conference. Maybe
eventually we'll find out. But in the end, we typically
get the right teams in, even though it doesn't make sense.
You know why to Bama will go up to spots
and Vanderbilt go down a spot. None of it makes sense.

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But again, the chaos agent today's by U by U wins.
This is a mess. I know, it's wild, It's completely wild.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
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Speaker 3 (17:26):
Ah, welcome back fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Gargano as uh.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
We kick off December and style All right, my man,
we got championship Saturday. And I gotta tell you, I
get a little sad because this is like, this is
it now?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Right?

Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's the last Saturday of games before you know, bold
season and the playoffs, Like I you know, I get
a little melancholi.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I understand at least we have the playoffs to look
forward to, right when we just had both season it
was a little bit different, right, I mean we colletorable
goes to mid January now, right, Yeah, a long season
still ahead of us. But I get that the NFL too,
the playoffs like sweet, yeah, it does feel sad as
we get to the end of a of a season
that was you know interesting, right. It was a year

(18:28):
that did you know we had Ohio State obviously do
their thing in Indiana, but you know, a year where
I think a lot of people feel like there was
a lot of parody this year, right, A lot of
happened on any given Saturday type of situation. So that's
I'm looking forward to some of these games today because
we have, you know, an Indian Ohio State game that
feels like, you know, it's I it will be close,

(18:50):
I think. So I do like a sigh in that one.
I do think the team is better than the other team.
But you know, one of these teams is probably making
a championship game. I mean, they're good to do that,
and I think Indiana is goo enough to win, which
I think that most people have not given them credit for.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well let's start. Let's go through it.
First game we touched on a little bit. And then
again it's b YU Texas Tech. That's at noon Eastern,
which would be a lot of fun. And again it's
the rematch, and we saw it earlier in the year.
Texas Tech won that game pretty handily, twenty nine to seven.

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BYU could do very little offensively that game.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, that game, that game very easily could have been
forty five to seven. Texas Tech had a lot of
red zone possessions that ended up in three or zero,
and the red zone offense is a concern. That's something
they have to you know, we have to pay txttion
duws ahead to the postseason. But the fact is, like
that game should have should could have easily been a
much different score. And I don't know what BYU does

(19:56):
differently in this one, other than having the knowledge that
look in a rematch. Well, I said earlier that in
these rematches the team that was the first time Timy
was a second time. That doesn't negate. What I'm about
to say is that a lot of times in the rematches, right,
the loser has a little bit of a schematic advantage
because they can you know, they saw what worked the

(20:18):
first time against them, they have an opportunity to fix that, right,
But the problem is you have to be good enough
to fix it, and I don't know if BYU is
is good enough to fix what ailed them pass protection
right right? Yeah, football against this Tech Tech defense right
like that. That's the problem is that you can say, okay,

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well we know what got us the first time, but
can we fix it the second time? I'm not sure
they can. So that's why I think that Texas Tech
is going to be, you know, the team here to back.
Look do they cover? I think probably, But I think
everyone's betting on them to cover, so i'd stay away
from that. I'm I don't even play this game that
I love, So it makes sense that Texas Tech would
win this game sort of in the same mander they

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won the first game.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, that's something that's almost like an immovable object, right,
like their defense.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
You can't scheme right, the defense. That defense is real
and it's just such a distinct advantage over the BYU offense.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
So I'm with you. I like Texas Tech. I actually
like them enough that I think they cover.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I'm just not playing that game because everyone's playing
that game and and they're playing I'll take you in
Texas Tech. I think you're probably right, and maybe there's
an opportunity to look at this game, you know, live
if it can starts a little bit slow, to take
a better number of Tech. But I think that in
the end of it, if they were by two touchdowns,
that just wouldn't surprise me. Once I don't surprise anybody.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, the Mac Championship game is also at noon.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
That's Western Michigan Miami. Oh yeah, I got nothing for
you there, buddy. I'm sorry, no Maxine for you. I
mean I'll watch it, but I don't have a bat
for I don't have a bet for you there. Right, Well,
the Western Michigan is like favorite and the total is
very tiny forty three and a half. Yeah, this game

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is always played in Detroit. It's always at noon today,
So I mean, look, I'll have it on. I'm not
gonna deny that I'm not gonna watch it. I won't
have a play for it.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Sounds good, all right, And then we move on to
the SCC four o'clock spot always a great one. Alabama
and Georgia. Georgia is one and a half forty eight
and a half.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, what a what a fun game here obviously a
rematch from earlier season. You know, Georgia sort of a
Kirby Smartt sort of has Alabama problem. He's not been
able to beat this group very often. But Alabama, man,
they're just they're so shaky ever being out one of
the bands of the country. I just sort of trust

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the way that that they're gonna Bama's gonna gonna play. Uh,
Georgia is gonna play. We know what Georgia is, and
I think that that does matter in this game, right, Like,
I don't know how much last week, if you're Georgia
Ravo game is Georgia Tech, maybe you're already looking forward

(23:21):
to maybe playing this game. I know Georgia doesn't want
to really be I don't think he wants to be here,
is the right word to put it. But like they
just kind of don't like there's like there's no like
reason for them to be here type of thing, right.
I mean, they they they're gonna be a playoff team
no matter what. But still they're gonna want to play
in this game. They're just they're doing this better than
that than Alabama right now, Like I think they're better
than Alabama right Alabama is in trouble up front the

(23:43):
offensive line. Their defense gives up exposive plays too often.
You know that that Oklahoma game, I think we saw
like all the flaws that have in their team showed
up all at once. And if that doesn't happen in
this game, then they could certainly win that game. But
I have concerns about Alabama in this game. You know,
it's wild and I'm just looking at the first game.

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It's coming back to me trying to play really well
in the second half of that game on defense they did.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
It was you know, Alabama got out to the hot start,
and it's funny, Baba was up in halftime twenty four
to fourteen. They take the opening kickoff, they go ten plays,
they take five and a half minutes off the clock,
they miss a field goal. Georgia comes down, they score

(24:34):
to make it twenty four to twenty one. This is
like midway through the third quarter, and that's how it stays.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, So Georgia's defense sort of since then has actually
resembled more of their defensive had in the pass. The
problem is is that and this is something that actually
was fairly interesting over the years with Georgia, like they've
not their defense has not been a team that actually
stacks the quarterback all that often, but they do have
a high pressure rate. And this year they're not stacking

(25:04):
the quarterback and they're not really pressuring the quarterback quite
quite the same. I mean, look, you've had so many
years where you just had a brain drain of talent
drain of you know, so many good players for so
many years just don't have those same guys. But they
have gotten better throughout the season to where they played
WILLI Wellkins Georgia Tech last week and I don't know
what look the best policy to me in college football

(25:26):
is throw out your best game and throw out your
worst game. And last week was Georgia's worst game offensively.
I don't think that's gonna be them today, right, they
still play They played better on defense, they've been playing
better on defense, But can they take advantage of Alabama's
offensive line because they don't really pressure the quarterback? How's
that matchup gonna go? Is there a mental block just
against Alabama, Like, can you beat Alabama? I don't know.

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So the events has been better though, right they played
Old miss after that game, Remember they played well in
the fourth quarter of that game, the Little Florida to
twenty Missippi State Texas only ten points in the obviously
tech last week nine points. So defense after that buys
has played up to Georgia standards. They just don't do
the same things that we've seen other Georgia teams do.

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And also offensively, to be fair, their offense, it's way
more multiple than it's been the past. They do a
lot of fun things offensively, motion shifts, They have a
ton of players. They have a big playbook, does Georgia.
So I'm looking forward to this one absolutely, Yeah, I too.
You know. It was interesting though that second half Babis
still moved the ball. They didn't score. They only had

(26:32):
one three and out in that second half. Even the
last drive to end the game, they held the ball
for eight plays and ended the game. They took the
final three and a half minutes off the clock.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
The drive before that, which resulted in a punt, they
went nine plays forty nine yards, took five and a
half minutes off the clock, so they were still able
to have success even I even score.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Uh yeah, I know they did, but I think Georgia
would take maybe some long drives. You're able to avoid
the points right now. My, so you've heard my, my,
my picklepball theory right on college football offense totally the
pickupb I don't know the pickleball. I'm scared, So I'm
gonna give this credit to Dan Ruberstein's buddy of mine,

(27:24):
the Soliverbal podcast. He brought this up. It's very true
college football. If you have a pick up all offense
where you go three yards, four yards, five yards, two yards,
six yards, you know, three yards like I pick up
all offense. If you take ten twelve plays to score
all the time, that's not an efficient offense of college
football because the more plays takes the college football, the

(27:45):
more chance for mistakes you have, which is totally true, right.
The more plays of a drive that's the more chance
that's too, the more chance you have for holding. For Yeah,
it's a little different in the NFL because it's just you're
not exposed to play rates is not as high to
but in college football, you have to score explosively to
be good, to.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Start to talk to the Eagles. I was having the
same conversation with Kurt Warner this week.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
And and the pickup ball offense. So like, I think
you take Alabama taking eight, ten, twelve plays to get
down the field because they're just not gonna scores. Often
when that happens, you try to limit the explosive pass
plays or exposed to run plays in this in you know,
in their game. And so Georgia can make them work
to earn their points today. I think they're gonna feel
prety good about the chance to win this game. Why

(28:30):
do you call it the pickle ball offense? Well, it's
like it's like pickle ball. It's like a little it's
like a little you know, like a little like a
big book, a big big like a look a little
pickle ball, like you hit the ball like short. Right,
It's like a little offense, just pick up ball down
the field.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Okay, all right, I'm not the pick up the I
don't play by the pickle ball, man.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I'm too fat for that. My knees are too bad.
I ain't playing pick a ball on a hard surface.
Get out of here. Yeah, like a nice like a
nice grass surface. Maybe I'm I'm I'm all in like
a little cookie grass, look like a backyard, thick plush
grass I have in my backyard. Maybe maybe I play
a little pickle ball, but I can't play in the heart,
the heart of the hardcourt. Come on, guys, he can't

(29:10):
do that. Yeah, I got you, buddy. I don't know.
I don't have any time. I felt like me and
you are not pickle ball. I thought we're not using
our free time for it to go to the pickle ball.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I got friends that man pick up ball every week,
so so I do too. I I don't. I mean
it got between golf, but I just don't have time.
I don't know if you got kids golf like at
our age, it's hard man. You got who has time
to to golf either? No time. I just don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
I wish I did, you know, but you know, when
you when you got work and kids, it's it's hard
to find it.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
In that game, Baba, twenty five first downs, they two
hundred and eighty yards of the air, compared to one
thirty for Georgia. Georgia obviously didn't stavage on the ground
with two hundred and twenty seven yards. I'm trying to
figure out this game and where George's offenses.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Again, I think you threw out last week because you know,
throw out the worst game. But dude, Georgie's offense, man,
their offensive line is playing much better and they just
this year they just do more things. Now. Maybe that's
because they're personnel is not as good as been the
year's past and they have to do a little bit
more to make it work offensively, but this is an

(30:26):
offense that sort of incorporates all the college football things, right,
the motions, the shifts, the under formations. They do a
lot of different things offensively, so they're not really what
we've seen I think of years past where they just
sort of rely on run the football plays and stuff
like that. And so we'll see what they do against Bama.
But it's a very creative offense. And I think last

(30:48):
week again you know it's a rivalry game. Nah, yeah,
it was sleepy. I'm with you. It was a weird
Georgia Tech giving that game up for a home game
to playing the Georgia Dome. To me, I felt bad
for them to do that, But because that's just the
you know, think about about sports now, right, I gotta
make that money, you know. I mean that's part of
the landscape, right, that's what that's what it is. Look,

(31:11):
all those coaches that I you know, depend State. Let
me talk about that in a second. It is the
money giving out these coaches. Man, there's a lot of money.
Did you see the total which is nuts? We got
that your deal right?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
No, no, no, not just about Matt Campbell, but the
total that Penn State got existing coaches raises.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh, it's three d and forty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, from Rule to Signetti to Satakey and b
y U.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean we're on my new deal, right. They all
like like, are we kind of even like a Brett Key,
like yeah, yeah, yeah. They got everyone paid. In the end,
ended up actually with a really good coach and probably
you know the report it is that they tried to
They tried to. They tried to contact Matt Campbell early
in the process, but like didn't have the right contact

(32:08):
information and it never got to him that they were
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. How competent do you have to
be to not make sure Matt Campbell knew you were interested? Dude?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I don't know, man, it's crazy, that's crazy. I could
I could I could take clear. Here, here's the Anthony
Beck's number. All right, of course Anthony is a former
tight end in the NFL and great guy.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's on. Rocko is the quarterback at Iowa State. You
know I was taking these obvious well, actually assume I
was to hire their coach immediately. They were, They were prepared,
They were well of the faster schools to be ready.
They knew Campbell was leaving. It sounded like because they
had they had their option. They announced they announced Matt
Campbell's replacement before Penn State officially announced that that they
hired Matt Campbell. Seriously, and the best part too, about

(32:57):
the Matt Campbell announcement, Pence. They put it out there
and then they said they need board approval on Monday.
So he's not even actually like officially in yet because
the board needs to approve. Obviously they will, but like
they can't, like they can't approve on a Friday night,
no one's around their computer. They can't do like a
little bit of a zoom call, like like hey he's in.
Let them know this time you're in. College football is

(33:20):
so unique, man, where we had we had coaches last night,
we had three coaches last night they were coaching conference
championship games that are that are committed obviously to other schools.
And it's such a weird time, man, where some Roll
Morris and then Chesney right last night, interesting time where
like you are, you know, you're you're at your current school,

(33:40):
You're excited about where you're at. You're fighting for a
playoff berth a Conforence championship game. Well, also, i'd imagine
after the game, your first text message are to recruits.
You know, hey, hey, Florida recruit, you see me. I
won my game last night, Like you, how how old
is that? Man? Like you don't even if you're John
sum Roll last night, tou Lane's coach. You're celebrating your

(34:00):
win obviously, but your first thought is probably haunts helped
Florida when you're right right, right now, it's wild man.
All right, let's say quick to you.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
We'll talk about if we're gonna get a pick on
Baba Georgia, and then we gotta get Ohio State Indiana.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Lots to do today, the NFL stuff, lots and good
NFL stuff going on. I'm still worried about my squad.
All kinds of.

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Speaker 2 (35:12):
It sounds like you like Georgia in the game. I
do like Georgia.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah, huh, I like to. I think it's going to
be a higher scoring game. I think I think both
offenses are going to move the ball to score.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
You know, it wouldn't surprise me, but I lean, I lean.
The question is is this for you? Is uh? What uh?
What do you do if Bamba loses? You're the committee,
you know it's a good question, buddy, Okay, I'll tell

(35:50):
you what what what?

Speaker 6 (35:51):
What?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I what I that they have to do? You're tending through.
What don't they have to keep? They have to keep
in the playoffs?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Oh yeah, that's what kind of like threw me off
a bit, because there's no way in the world I'm
gonna penalize Bama for playing in the in the championship game. Correct, Yeah,
you can't do it. Like That's why I kind of paused,
because I'm like, what do you mean where you gonna do? Like,

(36:21):
you know, they're not going anywhere and they shouldn't be
penalized otherwise you don't play the game if.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
They win, or do they go all the way up
to number four and get a buye? You know, it
all depends.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
It all depends on what happens, Like does ahime State
blow out in the Anna?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
So I think that it's a hard sell to not
have the SEC champion to have a buy in a
twelve team playoff. So I think I'll be will jumped
all the way to four. Yeah, but let me ask
you a question. When happens to a hive state Indiana,
I think both have a buy no matter what happens today.

(37:08):
All right, I agree with that, I know, and I
don't think the game is going to be that out
of that at a hand, where like it's oh, is
not gonna win thirty five to ten, So I know
I agree with that, all right, So both teams have
a buye and then Texas deck will have a buye
and then Winn that's the Championshame will have a buye.
All right. Of course, do you move Georgia to five

(37:30):
or or six? Like that's what happens. If Virginia rolls Duke, Well,
Virginia's in their eleven seed. They have to be in.
But if they roll them, dude, they're still they're still in. Well,
I know they're in where you haven't seen it eleven
you haven't been eleven. Yeah, because they're not gonna be

(37:50):
They're not gonna be ranked higher than anyone than any
of the other teams that are gonna be in there
not moving. They're not moving be a seven to five
duke team. No, uh, I'm looking looking looking, yeah, Yeah,
So they'll be there'll be the eleven seed. They'll go
to to go to either Eugene or they'll go to Georgia,
or they'll go to you know, Old Miss They'll go

(38:11):
somewhere depending on how the results of today.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Go Yeah, uh Indiana Georgia High States, Indiana, Georgia in
the Ohio State, Ohio States three and a half.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Man, I can't.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Wait for this game, dude, because I think it's gonna
be different than last year.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Well, yeah, it's gonna be different than last year. No, No,
I mean like starkly different. Yeah, for for many reasons.
I think it's gonna be different. So the thing about
both these teams, I feel like they sort of want
to play the same way where they want to sort
of they in them sort of like they're bulla constrictors,
right where they sort of just slowly work and work

(38:56):
for their food and they get their food in their mouth,
in their belly. They just like they just like they
just like they just like they make it so tough
to get out right, And they both play that way
Indian Analanto State do because their defense, because their physicality,
and I'm so fancatd to see which one can sort

(39:18):
of either strike first, get out of the get out
of the of the construction, you know, which defense can
force some mistakes. And there's just a lot more I
think storylines and ways this game can go that maybe
the other games that we're seeing. So I'm I'm super

(39:38):
pumped for this one. It's one that later at eight o'clock. Yeah, yeah,
well we're running out of time. Otherwise I was gonna
have a lot. I have tons of more to say
about this game, which obviously we we can do it
in a few minutes. Yeah. You like in Duke Virginia,

(39:59):
Private Virginia, you be watching the big that championship game.
I mean we all well, I'm just gotta go.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, I mean you know the fact that that's an
eight o'clock start opposite the Big ten? Are you kidding me?
All right, we gotta take a quick t We'll come
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(40:57):
of your presets. In the ir apt boom pops up
at the top of your screen. Right there, Uh snowing
here in uh Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
We are, we are snow one. I still like the look.
I love the way it looks man, I still do.
I like snow when it's falling, and then I'd be
happy if it just disappeared immediately. So yeah, I don't.

(41:29):
I don't imagine you a snow guy. No, I'd be
like yesterday, it was so cold yesterday here. It was
like it was like we were playing basketball in the
driveway last night, like after school, and it was thirty
two degrees outside. And I was like, oh, the kids.
The kids just don't care about cold, Like they just
do not care whatsoever you have. It just doesn't phaze
them at all. Right, Like my kids went to school yesterday.

(41:49):
We had freezing rain in the morning, which is is
kind of super early to be this cold. And Charlotte
and they went to school yesterday both in shorts. Yeah.
My daughter, I was like, honey, you know it's raining
outside and you put your crocs on. She goes dad,
she calls me brother she says, brother like Hogan, and
so he was brother, brother, Brother, these are water shoes. Okay,

(42:13):
it's like whatever, whatever, whatever, Emmy just go to school. Brother,
she was brother like dark like like yeah, yeah, it's
the best. Yeah, brother, you know, do you know what
Hogan is? And so yeah, they went to a shorts
on yesterday. My son has to wear like essentially a

(42:33):
they have a dress code at his school, Like he's
got to wear a you know, a collared shirt which
ends up being just a dry fit polo. Then you know,
like golf shorts something like that, right shorts with a
belt loop. And so he doesn't want to wear like
long pants, like if we go to we might go
to to temple this morning, like you have to put
on long pants. And now I think even has that fits.
So yeah, they both wore shorts yesterday. And it's thirty

(42:54):
two degrees outside and so yeah, the probably snow you're
in Charlotte is if it snows, it's typically just bad
snow and and then you school is like off for
a week, which is kind of brutal because they have
to make sure that the buses can get to the
district so big that if one or two roads are
like icy. They just shut the whole school district down

(43:16):
because they can't get the buses though to that one
part of town.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, I mean kid deny kids. Snow day.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
No, no, it's not snow day. It's snow days like
multiple days. Okay, it doesn't when it's like four. And
they also will will will we'll close school if it
might snow really yeah, if the snows of the forecast,
they'll just call school. And what they do is they
claim that because they're much better at online you know,

(43:45):
online class essentially right, that they will cancel school and
they'll count as a school day, but they don't actually
give the kids any work. They just claim that it's
like an online school day, and all the teachers are like, yeah,
we're not. We're just not doing it. So the kid
just to have the day off, which look, I mean,
it is what it is. But there was I don't
know eight years ago in Atlanta, once you know, they called,
they had a regular day of school and work and

(44:07):
then it snowed at noon like eight inches, and the
freeways and everything was gridlock. And so to avoid any
of that now, they just cancel school in the South
as soon as it might snow, all right, you know,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
We're we're not We're not like Connecticut or Boston, so
but we're not that.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
So yeah, we're in between. But then the problem is
it's just the snow then just like stays like it's
all gross eye road, it's all grosser. Gets on gross
on the side of the road. Stop I'm I'm I'm
on crime. Say it gets gross on the side of
the road. Ah, you you love that if you love

(44:50):
I love I love the I love the black, dirty,
the dirty black snow on the side of the road.
That living in your region, the dirty gross snow won't
go away. So hey, I love living here because dirty
gross snow from December to March on the side of
the road. I mean it's part of doing business. Man

(45:10):
Like when we went to Utah last year to ski, well,
I to ski is loose turnabotive for what I did.
I didn't ski at all, but for my family, right
went to Utah, Like that was fun. We were there
for five days and you know, there was it snowed
a little bit, and like the kids had a blast,
and I got to leave the snow and and move
on with my life. So I like what now I

(45:32):
like watching football and snow. I played in one terrible
weather game. It was a ton of fun as offensive lineman.
It was the same weekend you remember Philly Detroit in
the that game in the snow. I remember that I
was at the game. So we played. We played the
Commanders the Redskins the same weekend in Washington. We didn't
get the same amount of snow. We got more sleet,

(45:54):
which is like the worst type of weather to play in,
but it snowed for a little bit of the first half.
It was so we also won that game, you know,
like forty five to tame. It's awesome, but that was
so much kind of forty kid, I didn't we didn't
do snow. So that was a ton of fun because
it does snow enough an organ to really ever have
snow games either, So right, it was it was It

(46:17):
was so much fun. But then I you know, but
then I left and didn't have to work with the snow.
You know, was wild was that day.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
It was like a sneak storm, so nobody knew.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
The forecast was not what it was like. They were like,
oh yeah, it would just be some light kind of
a light coating, nothing serious and it just was like
a blizzard that dumped it and it started like noon, right,
so for us there, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I mean

(46:51):
it was wild, like the stadium like all of a sudden,
We're like, oh my god, what's going on? Sowhat So
that the Eagles had to I remember totally Shady into
the game because he switched cleats at halftime and they
they were the Eagles at the advantage because so, yeah,

(47:13):
we we whose game I played in Minnesota one year.
Now we played obviously in a dome, but I came
out and they were like, there's like a foot of snow,
like that would have been fun to play in, but
we were Yeah, but I came out to the parking
lot and there was a lot of snow. You want
a dome, like I hated. I am pro I am
pro football outside on grass. That's that's my take. Like

(47:39):
the Browns building a brand new stadium that is a
dome stadium. I think it's just the worst thing for football.
I know. No, now that's the player. As a fan.
Do I want to sit in terrible weather? Probably not.
But I went to the Bills Chiefs playoff game a
couple of years going Buffalo it was cold. It didn't
stow that day. It was like ten degrees. I mean
you just you just zero winds show zero. I don't

(48:02):
know something like that. You just you just put on
clothes and you go watch your You had a face
mask on. I don't got a bank robber. But I
was warm, and you know, put on many layers and
you go out and you you breathe the I bought
a snowsuit for that day, and that was very warm
that day. Yeah, I love Long John's. I bought this
all the stuff I'm never going to use ever again.
I have like Long John's. I have a snow a snowsuit.

(48:25):
Now that you know, I have my jacket. I had
to have played for the Vikings, but like, just you
suck it up.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
So I was thinking about that the other night because
in Detroit it was outside the dome it was twelve
degrees and I'm thinking of myself, could you imagine what
was what if you played in Detroit without a dome.
I mean they've had a dome forever, going back to
Pontiac Silver Dome.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
But I mean it'd be cold, right, but doesn't right? Cleveland, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh Commanders. You guys.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
It can be done, but not for long, by the way,
for us, there's gonna be a new stadium, uh in
Philadelphia they're already talking about.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It still or somewhere else. Yeah, no, the same spot.
And if you're talking about a dome. So the reason
why these is to super Bowl obviously and then get
like concerts and stuff. Right, they want, like the to
be able to have put put Terror Swift in there
in their football stadium anytime of year. I don't. I

(49:41):
just don't like it. I just don't. But that's where
we're heading. Everyone's gonna have a dome before before long,
I think. Uh. But you know, like think about how
how much the weather, if you're a good football team
in pacts your ability to win playoff games. You know,
like how many times are the Chiefs hosted a playoff
game and a bitter cold and it's really affected that,
you know the yeah, yeah, And that is something that

(50:03):
that really to me matters. And if you get rid
of that to put a dome in, I think you
lose a little bit of the home field advantage. Of course,
look a week eight game in bad weather, would you
rather play in a dome? Potentially? Right? I mean it
might feel better, but I just in football. I mean
number one, football should be on grass. So whatever you look,
if you if you know Arizona has grass even though

(50:23):
they're in a dome. Vegas has grass even though they're
in a dome. Like to me, the grass is the
most important thing. I play football and gras if the
Packers can have grass, Chiefs can have grass. You can
have grass anywhere, right, like come on. The idea that
you can't grow grass and cold weather is bs. I
think too much of football is played on turf and
I would love more than anything else for these these
places to have grass like that. That to me is

(50:45):
the number one thing that these plays have to do.
And it's so much better on our bodies to play
on grass than it is to play on turf. And
no matter what there's I know that data says otherwise.
You ask any player, right like it matters how we
feel on this situation. And I got hurt one time.
I think specifics I played on turf field when I

(51:06):
when I when I just located my toe and it
would have happened if on grass because the fields is
not as hard and I might toe pop when it
hit when it hit the met Life turf, and I
just I just vietnamly believe that NFL should be played
on grass. Yeah, dude, I'm with you. I'm with you.

(51:27):
You know I feel the same way. And we're gonna
We're gonna give a dome. It's there's something about I
also think billionaire should pay for their own stadiums. That's
a take of mine. Yeah, well it's a good take.
Uh but like like like, like in the city of
Philly should not have to foot the bill for a
new Equals stadium.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
No, I'm completely with you. But but here's the thing.
There's something antiseptic about a dome.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Right. Let's it's it's it's not hill. You cannot the hole.
So the best home foot I mimospheres. The NFL, the
ones that have the domes are like the Saints that
have an old dome that's kind of decrepit. It's actually
not decrepit. It's actually very nice, but like it looks
it looks old. It looks old, right like when you
watch it Saints game, the multi colored seats in the dome,

(52:16):
it looks like an old dome. That place is loud.
The place is crazy loud. When you know what, These
new domes are too big. They're too big, they're too spacious.
You're not getting a homeful atmosphere you get at other places.
It's just it's impossible to have.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Now Minnesota, I think that works. I mean, you get
it gets loud, and yeah the horn, you blow the
horn like that, that can get loud.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
But I don't know. I much prefer the open air stadium.
I much prefer I'm with you. I'm also a lineman
that like the bad weather favors me, so I would
loudly show sure as much as possible, and it's obviously
tough to pass the ball sometimes, but certainly favors my
footing over the defensive lignment's footing. It plust. Look again,

(53:08):
I'm selling. I'm a still a California kids man. I
never got to play in bad weather and wean rain
every now and then in high school. But the coolness
factor of having to playing a game of the snow
at the game last weekend between Illinois Northwestern and Champagne,
where like there was a ton of snowmen. It looks
so cool. I was like, I would have loved to
play a game like that. There were any fans there
I'm not even sure fans allowed to drive. It was

(53:29):
like the same was empty. But it looks so much fun. Man.
Oh yeah, my man scoffing right now, Mighty Mark, because
Mighty Mark's from Chicago and he likes the dirty snow
at Chicago. I don't know, I prefer the beach, but well, nah,
of course. But listen, you're in Chicago. That snow was

(53:51):
on the ground from November to March, really the beginning
of April. Yeah, it's yeah, it's bad, dude. How about this.
So I'm a snow in novice obviously. Right when I
lived in Minnesota, I was an apartment for the season.
In Kansas City, I did a town home. I was
not responsible for any snow related plus in Kansas City. Actually,
it really hadn't snowed very much before I left after

(54:15):
the season to go back home. But I lived in Premus,
New Jersey when I was playing for the Giants, and
I had a house and I was in a neighborhood. All
that stuff I knew nothing about, like snow. So I
also left in December because I broke my leg and
so I was gone. So I just I just left
my house, and you know, moved back to Charlotte. So
I had to come up to New York to for
like a medical appointment in maybe I don't know, early January,

(54:38):
February somewhere like that. So I show up at my
house and there is over a foot of snow like
in the driveway. A wow, and I and I was
only one, the only person that did not have anything plowed.
I had no idea, like you had to hire a
company like I do. I just not this. I wasn't
even in town. I was in town for two months,
no idea, couldn't even get into my house. I had,

(55:00):
like I panic, called our equipment manager with the Giants.
I was like, hey, like, what do I do here?
He's like, oh, I actually know someone who's got a company.
I'll have him come out. Guy came out within an
hour plowed my driveway. I'm surprised I didn't get I
didn't get fine. You can get fine for not doing
youray and doing the sidewalk. And I felt like then
I hired this company obviously, and they did it for
the rest of the next two years. I didn't I

(55:22):
didn't know any better. I had no idea. I wasn't
inten why would with snow, and I got back. My
poorhouse was the only one that was not plowed and
the sidewalk was completely full of snow. I'm sure people
were pissed at me. Yeah, well, I mean, you know,
I didn't know any better, but yeah, it was a
point experience.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
All right, let's dive into this, all right, little NFL.
We'll get back to college coming up, but let's dive
into the NFL, and let's dive into Thursday night a lot.
It's a shame, man, Brian Branch torn Achilles. They just
can't get a break, dude. It's terrible which happened to
the Lions the last two years with injuries.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
It's just awful. A lot of the success of your
team in the National Football League comes down to whether
or not you're healthy at the end of the season.
It's that simple, right, And it's unfortunate that that's what
it comes down to. But that really does, right, is
if you can make it to the finish line with
enough healthy players, you have a chance. If if you don't,

(56:24):
you just just don't have a chance. And that's it's
It's just to me, it's just luck. It's plain luck. Though,
you know, if your team that's hurt year over year.
Maybe it's the way you you lift and you train
and your rehab and what your training staff is. But
a lot of times when these injuries happen in the game, right,
just it's just bad luck. The Lions have dealt with

(56:46):
bad luck now for two years in a row on defense.
Maybe they decide that the way they practice is like
you know, practice habits can certally play a role in that.
But I think Dan Campbell, the physicality of practice is
actually I think a benefit to stay healthy. Believer. I
agree you gotta hit in practice to be able to
play on Sundays, and you have to. Your body's got
to call us up a little bit. I from getting
hit a lot right in practice, and I think that

(57:07):
does help you maintain health during the season. But the Lions,
it's just bad luck. Man. It's I hate saying that
because it feels like non excuse, but I think people
want actual answer, but there's no answer to be had.
It's just bad luck. And I feel bad for the
Lions because, look, I don't think to win a super
Bowl this season, but they don't even get an opportunity

(57:29):
really to get going because their defense is what it is.
And look, that was a big win for them. They
need that win just in a wild card head to
head against the Cowboys and maybe to win the division
the Cowboys. Now for two weeks we're like, oh, maybe
maybe they can do it. No, they're not a playoff team.
And it's very clear after Yesterday, after Thursday. The one

(57:49):
thing I hate to hear, by the way, I push
back on this a lot Thursday, as I was previous
this game, the Cowboys defense is better after that, Quinn Williams,
trade guys, one defensive tackle, change your entire defense. The
defense was still thirty first efficiency.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Wait a second, they also got overshown back like they're
run defense, it's better, and.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Then they look terrible on Thursday. It's like they're like
they're not. It's not good defense still, and it show
the problem with the Cowboys defense is in the back end.
The back end, they can't cover, They can't cover, their
middle linebacker can't tackle anybody. I mean, they they got
some issues.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
So yeah, I think mostly start to the back end.
I'd answer their biggest problem. Now we can stop talking
about the Cowboys as the playoff team.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Well's that's music. That's music. To my ears.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
All right, although although people say, like, here's the problem.
If the Eagles go two and three and the Cowboys
run the table, they can still make the playoffs. Cowboys
can Yeah, if the Eagles go two and three, well
they Dallas would win the division.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
You should win this weekend? Should I mean that? You know,
you should win that? That will help obviously. And I
know if the Eagles win Monday night against the Chargers,
it's a lot. They have the Raiders next week, so
and then you got Washington twice. Yeah, it's interesting because

(59:18):
Daniels is back and then it'll be a little fired up.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
But if they do right, But I'm thinking you splained like, well,
let's take a quick break. We'll take a look at
the playoffs and dive into that stuff. We're the Fellas
and Jeff with you guys right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
There is screenwave last night, the big pick six. That's
right courtesy a lear Field on the call. Uh my man,
let's kind of dive into the NFL a little bit more,
all right, let's do it and kind kind of look
at where everyone is at the state of the league,

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and let's go because the AFC.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Let's start the AFC. It's completely wide open.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
It's it's wild when you think about the AFC right now,
it's upside down in every which way. I mean, I like,
I still don't understand the Colts in Jacksonville, like that
whole division.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
I don't get. I don't even get the NFC in
the AFC North, well, which one you want to start with.
Let's go with the South Well, quite simply, the Colts
have a quarterback right now, who's playing with a broken
foot octually a broken leg, which is ludicrous. So they're
just not gonna be as good. Right, It's impossible to

(01:01:34):
be as good without a quarter wheel. When the quarterbacks
hurts as he is. Teams have figured it out. We
stop Jonathan Taylor. The offense can't run through Daniel Jones.
The teams are just stopping Jonathan Taylor, and they're saying,
all right, Daniel Jones beat us, and he can't. The
Colts defense has never really been good this season, so

(01:01:55):
they're not good enough to overcome that. And that's what's
happening right now with the Colts. They're gonna lose tomorrow
against Jacksonville, they're gonna be out of first place, they
might not make the playoffs, and their schedule is brutal
down the stretch, and we all sort of said, like,
let's just sort of see what happens to the Colts,
you know, when you know how how their schedule, like
their schedule is tougher, like, let's just sort of see

(01:02:16):
what happens. And we're we're seeing what happens. They're not
as good as as and that's fine like that that happens, right,
they're just they're just not as good and they might
be out. Dude, they might be out of the playoffs.
I mean, listen, the Texas is to be in the
best team in that division probably right now, yes, but

(01:02:37):
they might not even get the opportunity to get up
there to the very top if Jacksonville keeps winning. If
Jacksonville wins this weekend and the obviously the Texans lose,
that they're probably out of it. And I think the
Texans beat the Chiefs this weekend, so that that fixes
that problem. I mean, you're a game behind Jacksonville right now.
There'd be two back obviously, if Jacksonville were to win

(01:02:57):
and they were to lose this weekend, and I think
Jacksonville does win again, I think the Texans have a
great chance to win this weekend. Jacksonville down the stretch though,
plays the Jets, the Colts, and the Titans. Still, you
know that that's a pretty cushy schedule down you know,
down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Here, like That's also have to go at Denver and
they got Colts, Jets at Denver, at Houston's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
If Houston wins this weekend, then they get Cardinals, Raiders, Chargers, Colts. Like,
so Houston's it's a big beginning for them this weekend.
They got to win this one of Kansas City. Yeah,
it screwed me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
I like the way Stroud's playing, Like if you protect
Strown with those receivers, Higgins's come on the rookie, I like.
I like the way they're playing man and their defense
is just great, Like you can't run on them and
they just attack it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Now, I'm curious to see with that Kansas City O
line with how they're gonna be able to handle him there.
This is miss This is gonna be a brutal game
for the Chiefs this weekend. So Josh Shimmans gets hurt
because they're they're running back, chipped his pass rusher when
he have to and broke simmons wrist. So he's out.

(01:04:18):
Left tackle. Then the right tackle I believe is out
this weekend, Joan Taylor, and the right guard is out
in Tray Smith. You're playing a team in the Texans
that rush the passer better than anyone the National Football League.
Right they have they have two guys and Anderson Hunter

(01:04:39):
that have double ten sacks already. Like it is, it's
a very very good pass rush. And now the Chiefs
have one decent backup tackle, right jaylen More, who's actually
can start at the end. He's he's a starter, he's good.
The other ones, Jania Morris, is not. And so that's

(01:05:00):
that's a it's a big problem. It's a big problem.
Offense that doesn't really you know, I like all these
advanced numbers, the d v o A, the e p A, like,
I know what it says about their offense, but I
don't watch them. I don't buy the numbers. It's just
it's hard for me to square the numbers with what
I actually see every game. And I know their offense

(01:05:22):
is efficient, but I don't see that. I just don't
see that. And now you have a situation where you're
playing this Texas defense with an offense that can't win
against the man coverage, that doesn't really want to run
the ball from under center, that doesn't really want to
play at pass routinely from under center, like all things
have sort of work the easy offense. They don't do
the easy offense. Dude, I think the Chiefs lose this weekend.

(01:05:43):
I know the point favorites. They keep making them three
that point favorites against everybody, what why why are you
point over what? What? I don't think they can overcome
the line. I agree with you when it comes to
the front and their offense, like and he's created, scheming
and helping his line, but he just can't. They can't

(01:06:05):
move the ball like.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I you remember in this when when Andy when they
Chiefs loves both tackles in the Super Bowl. I mean
you show what happened, like, yeah, if you can't project
even last year, they could project Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Look, Mahomes is playing really well. I know people don't
want to admit that, but he is. And there's the
offensive problems this season are not going to be fixed
this week, right, It's going to take an off season
for this offense to really digest what happened this year
and make the change necessary. The number one problem with

(01:06:41):
the Chiefs offense is that they do nothing that's easy
in the NFL anymore. Yeah, like the like the off
the NFL has changed, right, running the football. Now teams
running football, they move the pocket, they you know, they
they they find different ways to play, acture pass. The
Chiefs don't do these things that routinely help offenses get

(01:07:05):
easy yards. Every yard the Chiefs get feels very difficult
and hard earned, and they until they get back to
finding easy offense, they are not gonna be good. And
to me, it's not a foot the switch that they're
not gonna flip the switch this weekend and make it happen.
They're not gonna like it's just and I said this,
I said for two weeks now. I don't think Chiefs

(01:07:27):
are a playoff team. It's gonna maybe take the Chiefs
not making the playoffs to make these changes fundamentally an offense.
I think Andy Reid is a Hall of Fame coach,
but he could use some new voices in that building.
I don't know what he does his off season to
make that happen, but just having different voices. Hey, man,
Like here's the way. My brother suggested this on a podcast.

(01:07:47):
And my brother played for the Chiefs for five years
and one to suer row there, four time All Pro.
He it's not gonna happen as Miche mcdania's gonna stay,
but he's he thinks that like if Mike McDaniel was
the OC. Like that's what the Chiefs need. They need
just to an overhaul of how they think about football
and having one of those Shanahan guys in the building,
which is not with not the Chiefs offense obviously, but

(01:08:09):
having just different views, different opinions because Shanahan offenses, man,
they find easy yards. Like that's one of the great
things they do is they find just easy yards for
the offense. There's no way in the world that Amy's
gonna bring in McDaniels. No, but it's more the idea that,
like a different voice that isn't part of of this
West Coast offensive system is something the Chiefs need this offseason.

(01:08:31):
It wasn't the McDaniel obviously going to bring him in
one for one, but they just need someone to help
find easy yards's offense, which used to be a staple
of the Chiefs. I get you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
I just don't see Andy like that's his baby. Offense
is his baby now. He may he may more feel
a little bit, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
When I was there in twenty thirteen, it was his
first year as the Chiefs coach. Obviously he had a
spec show assistant, Chris Alt who's the bad head coach
or was the bad head coach? Like he's the quarterback guy.
He's had different voices like in the room many times
in his career, and now the voices in that room

(01:09:16):
are all his guys. I just think he needs to
find someone else next year to add to the staff
that gives a little different voice, a different opinion who football.
I'm not saying you have to change your entire offense,
but he needs to Yeah, the offense again, Chris. But dude,
who did he ever in Philadelphia? That wasn't his guy? Well,
he was there for thirteen years. I was there with him.

(01:09:38):
I'm seeing I don't know. It was his people, right,
I'm saying now it's a little stale, it'd be I
think it'd be imperative this officing. Just find a voice,
not all the voices, to bring in someone who's just
not an Andy Reid guy and hear some new things
about offense in the NFL now the offense is just
not is not built right now to get easy yards.

(01:09:59):
It's just it seems like in Eastern overhaul.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
If they're protecting, let me ask you this, if they're protecting,
do you see a problem with their offense?

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
They can't win against the man coverage? The problem? You
think the numbers show it, they show it, They don't.
They can't protect it. The offensive line when healthy is fine,
it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
Come on, man, I mean they haven't protected a whole year,
don't have They haven't had time. Yeah, other than a
couple of weeks. They they they've had plenty of time.
They had their offensive line has two all pros on it.
They've been plenty of time. They have plenty of time.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
They can't. No one's open The numbers show it, no
one's openings. The man coverage they play, throw the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
How come if you look at when Rice comes back
and they haven't had the perfect storm where they've been
healthy on their line when Rice was there, they had
the receivers together. They started the whole first six weeks
without without without Rice, they didn't even have Rice and
Worthy at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
It took and then their offensive line got dinged. Dude,
they're not good enough on offense. They don't they need
They can't get easy yards. They don't do anything that.
I also think they need some something. Run overrail, all
the run games under center, which they refuse to do
because their numbers to the NFL in successful runs and

(01:11:26):
from under center, and they do it like three times
a game, Like they don't. They just don't do easy
things anymore. Man, They used to do easy things. They
don't do easy things on offense anymore. And there's nothing
to do with protection, and they do.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
But you can't deny that they haven't been healthy between
the receivers in their line. That that hasn't been healthy
all year together? Are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
They having Worthy, Rice and a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
How and an offensive line together hasn't happened all year?
The offensive started, They started with the receivers because Rice
missed the first six games.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
The Rafts line has been plenty good enough for them
to have successful offense this season.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Okay, but my only point to you is when Rice
came into the fold, it would look different for the
one week when he came in and the old line.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Was there, against which the Lions backup secondary. They played
that that game like they again.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Having right Rice and Worthy and an old line changes
the dynamic a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
No, it does, but all the things I said are
still true. They can't win against the man covered. You
don't run the ball, phone or center. They don't create
easy offense like those things are not. That doesn't change.
It's a it's a structure problem Offensively. Structurally, they're not
They're not getting easy yards. They're just they're not set
up to do that. Right now, Where's do they have
any intermediate pass game? Do they just throw like a

(01:12:45):
slant anyone like a three by one? They the one
wide receiver? They just I see I watched Campus all
the time, Like I've seen Andy have that. I don't
know that it's it's not right now. I've Andy run
that stuff. I've seen him. I've seen it, right, We've
all we don't. I don't disagree that now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
My only my only issue with you is that they
is that I think you think they need to change
their entire offensive philosophy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Like I know Andy's not going to do that. They don't,
they don't have to, but what they do is outdated
right now in the NFL. It's not it's not what
it's not what's look at the best offenses in the NFL.
I'm not saying that ay Reid has to be a
Shanahan McVeigh clone like the rest of the NFL, But
those offenses, man, they find easy yards, buddy, and the
Chiefs offense find zero easy yards. Yeah, I just think

(01:13:40):
there are other factors, But I I agree with your
your your statement. I just think there are other factors
too involved. I know, and he's your guy. I'm not
saying I'm not with these fire Andy Reid people. They
just he needs to spend this off season I think
evaluating where the offense can just be easier on everybody.
And I'm curious to see what that entails. So I

(01:14:01):
and I think it's not gonna happen tomorrow. Tomorrow is
gonna be a pretty rough day for them.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Yeah, well that I that you and I agree on.
We got to take quick break, we'll come right back.
Oh man, it's times going by fast. We got a
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got delivered like the week but maybe before Thanksgiving even
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I think it's thirteen feet. It's just easier just to

(01:15:00):
get it like delivered than it is to go to
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that's cool.

Speaker 6 (01:15:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
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Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
It's It and Jeff with you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
So it's wild, right, like what happens in the North,
Like you got Pittsburgh Baltimore, and both teams are flawed,
like severely flawed.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Yeah, uh so, I think what happens is is the
least flawed team is probably Baltimore. I mean, if Jackson
gets a little bit healthier, Yeah, Baltimore is better than Pittsburgh's. Look, man,
the Knights are out for Tomblin, I know, and it's
deservedly so. Buffalo the other the other day ran the

(01:15:56):
same play on the same formation to me. The same
two run place from the same formation thirty one times
against Pittsburgh for about two hundred yards. That's not acceptable, right,
not acceptable. You know, it's just you know, Tomlin's supposed
to be this defensive guy, Like the defense is not good,

(01:16:17):
and then offensively with Rogers not working, you know, Rogers is,
I think, rightfully, a little upset about the way it's going.
He mentioned the other day, like he's like, I call,
you know, I checked to play and they just didn't
do what I well, we checked to Like it's ah,
it's it's not good right now in Pittsburgh, and it's
not a very talented team, and they're going to continue

(01:16:39):
to struggle in my opinion, the rest of the season.
And I don't think that they have. They might win
tomorrow because it's Pittsburgh and they're they're weird about you know,
it's just sort of the Pittsburgh videos sometimes. But it's
a team that I don't think is going to postseason.
They might get to that the magic threshold of winning
nine games to keep that streak alive, but the Tomlin message,

(01:16:59):
whenever it is in the building, is no longer working.
And that happens it happens over years, you eventually just
it's just time. It's time, and it feels very much
like time is there in Pittsburgh. And maybe you can
blame the GM, I guess for the roster, but I
do think that I mean the roster, you're it, you're right,
but the roster is horrible, right? But so who there's

(01:17:19):
no weapons? So who's the question is? This is like
from Mike Tom has been there forever? Does he have
no say in the quarterback? I just who they just
pick whoever the GM wants if if it does, does
Mike Tom have no saying where they keep pickings or not?
I think these decisions are hand in hand. I think
Tom has a big say in what happens on the roster.

(01:17:40):
And the roster is not good enough, and it falls
on maybe everyone, not just Tomlin there, but also not
coach very well. Again, the Bills line up in the
same formation thirty one times and rushing two hundred yards
on like thirty one rushes like that, that's not acceptible,
not acceptable. They can't lost the passer. Look, Cam Hayward's
out here like talking about Josh Allen like he he

(01:18:02):
needed me, Like what are we doing? What what what?
It's just like we weird vibes for that team this year.
We got we got former players like calling out, you know,
not calling out, but just saying like I don't think
Tom is good as the coaches as we give him
credit for it. It feels like a bad situation there,
and it just sort of time I think to look
at just being different next season. Yeah, no, listen, after

(01:18:26):
all these years, You're right, I would agree with it.
I'm just the roster.

Speaker 8 (01:18:31):
The roster is is just like offensively, look how bad
that roster is, Like they have no chance at at scoring?

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Like look at him, like me, they're horrible. You got
you got DK, that's it, and he's you know, look,
I've said this before. I think DK is a family
overrated and I don't know if it's proving at my
point this year, but he just has never been as
good as you want him to be. He's very talented, obviously,

(01:19:03):
and he's with a quarterback that I think Rogers can
still play, but clearly limited. I mean, you look like
a really like an old man getting his nose broken
last week, Like is that gonna happen again this week?
I just it's my situation it's just not good at
Pittsburgh right now, and I don't know if it changes
very much in Baltimore. They need to win the worst
way against a good team. They're not playing their best
ball either, But I trust them to figure out more

(01:19:24):
than I do this Pittsburgh team.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I hear you. All right, that's
the North and then you got the West. Right so
after Denver, which give Denver the division?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
How good are the Chargers, because you're gonna have to
talk about that, how good are they right now? I mean,
you're a quarterback just on surgery on a broken hand,
I know, and you know Egan's got to win that
game Monday night. Man. There's just they gotta win that game.
They got to rally and make it happen against the

(01:19:59):
Chargers team. They can't pat after quarterback or quarterbacks hurt.
It's time for the Eagles to win, to win a
game like that. Yeah yeah, all right, big hour next,
don't go anywhere.

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(01:21:20):
in okay see is yeah, could be the greatest like
feat ever.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
I have them twenty three to one to break the
wins record. It's down down town thing six to one.
So I am everyone they have is uh is awesome
for me. I love it. I love it. Keep winning, okay,
see keep doing it. Wow, twenty three to one. I
use a boost on it. Yeah, I mean they limited
me when I could, when I could wager. You know

(01:21:46):
these sportsbooks, they know it's so funny when they limit
me on a wager like day of I always lose
that bet and they end up loot costs themselves more money,
which is so funny to me. But the futures market,
when I get limited, I tend to do decently well
on those. I have a cartoon sweatz Enger forty to
one to win Defensive Rookie of the Year. They limited
me to forty seven dollars on that one, which is unfortunate.

(01:22:08):
But yeah, they limited me on on the OKAC one.
But uh yeah, twenty three I used to boost twenty
three to one, So that's awesome. Well, yeah, it's great.
So I'm I'm I'm pumped about where I stand there.
So and they're incredible. The other night they were losing
by sixteen and the first quarter. I think it was
at Utah maybe a week ago, and I took them
minus seven after the first quarter and they won by

(01:22:31):
thirty five. Yeah I remember that. You remember the game. Yeah.
I was like, I was like, oh, you need seven seven, Okay,
I'll take it. Yeah, how about that? They It was
that was yeah. So, you know, I look for spots
like that with okay se where they start a little
bit slow sometimes and pounds but they you know, they

(01:22:52):
just they're just good. I can't wait for a Deniver
OKC was the conference finals.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
You know what's wild is that they're second team I
think is a playoff team by itself.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Probably you know there's a second teams that good. It's crazy.
And I think Denver reverse them in the playoff will
be a seven game, maybe be a fun serious probably games. Again,
I can't figure out if my Lakers are actually good
or not. I feel like this is a fugazy like
it's fun, but like I don't really know now last
night that no one was playing last night. So but

(01:23:29):
I also I like Lebron James. I've always been Lebron
James fan. But the fact that he got like this
enormous praise for passing the ball at end of the
game to not have a streak continue. What's he supposed
to do, like take a terrible shot. That's not what
Lebron ever does for a streak to continue. He took
He did what he's supposed to do. He passed the
ball the wide open guy to win the game. Like
he's not gonna They made it out to be like

(01:23:50):
he's this like Satan savior for trying to win the
game instead of continuing his streak, which he doesn't. That's
not a thing that he has never like gone out
there to score on the final play of the game
for a street to continue to go. He's always passed
the ball situation. He passed the ball like you should
have right, right, No, incredible streak, don't ever do it again.
But the fact is like that that's a thing that,

(01:24:13):
out of all things to get praised for, it's a
funny kind of funny.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know it's ridiculous. All right,
let's get back to football. So today Championships Saturday, your
line up BYU Texas Tech. That of course is the
game that will have all the ramifications, right because if
BYU could stun Texas Tech, it could have an adverse

(01:24:39):
effect on the Irish. Now, will you do your power rankings?
I have notre name at two on mind? Where do
you have Notre dame for yours? I love that you
think I have power rankings.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
I have. I have rankings in my head. They're not power. No,
I don't have a lot of like like I know
the brain does. Yeah, I'm not a lot of a
lot of those sharp guys. And you're one for that no.
I I think they're in the top seven. I mean
they're they're up there. I think they would beat Miami

(01:25:12):
if they played again. But no, I don't have a power.
It's yeah, it's rather a remarkable I have no power.
I just I wager on games based on like football
and numbers and what I see. I was, by the way,
I did the the Collefortable Contest this year in Las Vegas,
and uh there were eleven hundred entries. I finished tied
for thirty ninth. How about that? Ah, that's awesome. Yeah,

(01:25:32):
fifty five forty one. Did you did you win money
off of the only top ten?

Speaker 8 (01:25:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
But top fifty, I would think, yeah about that, tie
for thirty ninth. So my power rankings and free my
head work, they work. Whatever they are, you know, it's good.
I mean I was six. I had six and one
last week, which was certainly helpful to that because I
in USC just didn't cover. They only won by the nineteen.
They were favored by twenty one and a half. So yeah,

(01:25:59):
they got a to a slow start, you remember, and
they're down I think ten seven half time, so I uh, yeah,
I my power rankings in my head. Tell me Miami
would uh would lose their name they played, but look,
Miami is playing better better late of late. But I
was look, look, this is not the playoff again, is
not really about like who the best teams are, right,

(01:26:21):
if that was the case, then we'd have the best
teams in the playoffs. It's more about just sort of
win your conference, right, like the things that we agree.
It might not be the best reason teams are in
the playoffs, but that's the way that's constructed. And no name,
unfortunately might get left out because I lost to Miami

(01:26:41):
and because they're not in a conference. Look, if they
were in a conference, it would solve all this. They
played acy championship game this weekend and then win the
championship game, and they'd be in the playoffs. And I
wonder if this is a way the committee is not
gonna think like this, but I wonder if this is
a way for them to go to a conference and
you're in the playoff yea, and they're again they might

(01:27:01):
not want to do it, but that would solve this problem. Right,
if you played Virginia today in Charlotte here, you'd win
the game and you'd be in the playoff. You actually
you would have a buye if you win. But they're
not at a conference, and their schedule this year was
met outside the first couple of games, which they lost,
by the way, And I know they're different team now,
I'm not I'm not arguing against that. But their best

(01:27:22):
win right now is an ok USC team. Right, that's
their best win right now. That did be Boise State.
I believe, you know, Boston College was look mad, but
that that's college Football're gonna have some down games. It's okay,
but they just don't have a great win and they
lost the two best teams they played. Yeah, just when
and how? Right? Like through all those all those things

(01:27:46):
matter in my mind. Hey, I got a question for
you off the subject, right, Yeah, So I heard something.
I can't get it confirmed, But there was this talk
about Vanderbilt in Texas because of this, uh like this
rule that was kind of outdated. Nobody they kind of

(01:28:08):
they looked at him, pretty obscure that you could play
a game in Alaska Hawaii, Right, Well, I'd schedule it yourselves. Well,
it was reported that Vanderbilt was looking to schedule a
thirteenth game this week. Right, I don't know who that
opponent was gonna be. But look here here's my pushback
on this. Okay, if you need a thirteenth game to

(01:28:31):
prove your playoff team, you're not a playoff team, Like
you're not if you need if you can't prove in
twelve games with the rest of the of the of
what the rest of the sport can prove, you're not,
you're not a playoff team. Like what what? So you're
gonna play someone and you win that game and now
you're a playoff team. Also, like, why would the committee

(01:28:52):
take that in consideration? What what you get to play
the next game but no one else does? Like, how
does that prove your playoff team? You have twelve games
to do that, and you had an opportunity and it
looked Vanderbilt might be the tenth best team in the country.
I'm not arguing against that, But why am I moved
because they scheduled an extra game? I think that's silly.
You have twelve games to prove it. The commedia doesn't

(01:29:15):
think you're good enough, You're not. You're not winning a championship,
So I don't really I'm unmoved by I would have
watched it be wrong. I would have watched it, But
I'm unmoved by thinking that you need to add an
extra game to be a playoff? Do Like, can you
imagine any other sport? Now, I know it's different because
they play more games, but an NBA team being like
I need I need one more game to show every

(01:29:35):
when I'm in Like, right, come on, we laugh at that, right,
but I guess we were.

Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
I guess they were talking about Texas too, like the
Texas would play.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Well, yeah, the report was like that Miami might be involved,
Like why would Miami play another game? They did nothing
to prove anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
The fact is like if you you add to what
you do is you're the formula, right, so you're beating
another top team whoever, whoever wins would have its a
distinct advantage because of who you just meet.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
But also would it also just wouldn't count, Like what what?
It doesn't count. It's not a it's not a like
a station game. It's not gonna tell you know what
I mean? Like what right?

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Because of that that obscure role that you were allowed
to schedule it and then it would factor in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
I don't think the company would take it seriously. You
don't fix I mean the rule says that it would count.
So I don't know, but it would be interesting, right
because like what if you would add like it would
just maybe eleven and two. Now, I mean, sure it
would count, but it would at your resume. Like, so me,
let's play that for a second. Go with me. I
know it's ludicrous, it's not happening, right, but go be

(01:30:44):
one second.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
So if Vanderbilt schedules Texas and beats Texas, now how
much better is their resume?

Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
So? Okay, who's the question? Who are they jumping in
the playoffs if they beat Texas? Well, let me sit here.
So if you beat Texas, so you're you're gonna go
from right now, we're they sixteen right now, you're going
to ten. You go to ten to get Okay, so

(01:31:15):
you be you're you're going to jump Oklahoma. No, you
think they would jump Oklahoma? I mean, if you beat Texas, Okay,
I don't I don't think they would jump Oklahoma. But
what what if the argument is you beat you beat
Texas and now Oklahoma doesn't have a chance to play
a thirteenth game? What if Olahoma game? You know, listen again,

(01:31:37):
it's crazy, No, I know, Yeah, there's a there was
a report that they were gonna play, So that's the
only I just found it interesting as a talking point
to add to your resume. If you beat Texas, you go, well, look,
I just beat Texas. Absolutely, I don't disagree that that
would make sense. But why would you punisch Oklahoma in

(01:32:00):
this scenario They didn't play an extra game, like they
didn't think they need an extra game. Why would they
be punished? Because the Vanderbilts cuts are extraly, you know
what I mean, Like, it's just it's absolutely silly discussion
to have because it's just never gonna happen. Yeah, and
if you need one more game to play, then you're
probably not good enough to make the playoff. And that
it means it means wild though, I mean was asking

(01:32:21):
the president to like get them, like to get him
in the playoffs. Like, like, it's just I make this
point a lot. You can have a good season, which
Vanner had without making the playoffs. It's not like it's
just this sport has never been defined for ninety percent
of schools by being a playoff team. Right, It's always
been defined by a for some schools making a bowl,

(01:32:44):
it's huge, right, for some schools, winning ten games a
sort of the goal, you know, hard is to win
ten games. You mean teams don't win ten games like
we we think when in ten games is easy. It's
not easy. A lot of teams don't win ten games.
It's hard to win ten games. And that used to
be defined as a huge successful season. Good wins ten
games and plays in the outback ball, right like for
Vanderbilt for the last one hundred and fifty years of sport,

(01:33:07):
that would have been the best season could ever imagine.
So that's still a great season without making the playoff, Like,
you don't have to make the playoff. In my mind,
the only reason your your team is good or not.
And I think that's the problem with the sport is
that we define it too much now by playoff success
or lack thereof, when it's not that case. For Vanna,
this is an incredible season for Vanderbilt. They should be

(01:33:28):
very happy with with with what they do. They're not
winning a championship as much as I think they are,
They're not winning championship. And just you went ten to
to in the SEC, man, Like, what a great season
and you have the number one kid in the class I.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Was gonna say recruiting, you got you got a kid, Like,
think about this success. You got a kid in Georgia
that you stole from Georgia. It's unbelievable and organ because
Oregon was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Organ and Georgia were down. It was them two for Georgia.
And now he decommitted, went and went to Vandy. So uh,
this is why, by the way, like this, NIL think
is great because it allows so many other schools opportunity
to have a Curtis like this is what never would
have happened in obviously other seasons. And so you know

(01:34:16):
the success of Pavia obviously played a big role in this. Also,
I mean Pavia is winning the Heisman. I think like
like like you have you had a great season? Man,
great season? Yeah. I By the way, for the I
would if you're uh have so euxtra money laying around
and looking to put it somewhere. I think Pavia wins
the Heisman if that's something that you like to dabble in.

(01:34:39):
All right, all right, So I think he's got a
good chat. I do. Here's why I think he's gonna
win the Heisman. So today Ohio State Indiana play Julian's
saying to me, he's just not winning the Heisman. I
just don't see it. Mendoza can. But you have to
think about how they vote in this, right, all the
regions that vote, the entire South is vote for Pavia. Right,

(01:35:01):
So you have the entire voting block voting for one player,
and then the other side you have the Midwest is
gonna split their vote between Pavia, saying and Julia Love
And I just think that by the end of the
by the end of this thing, the entire South is
voting for Pavia like he's gonna have enough votes to
win the Jeremiah Love points right like that, because he's
gonna get votes and it'll get split. Yeah, and so

(01:35:26):
so South vote for Pavia. Man, Yeah, that's that's a
great way to look at it. Smart, very smart. Who
said you weren't smart? What are you talking about? Man?
I have power rankings in my head. I can't I
can't wait. So you actually make put your own power
rankings every week? Yeah? I do it?

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
Yeah, I mean it's part of the I don't know,
it's a way to kind of be up to date
on every team, and you know, do it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
I did it because I've been doing it for years.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
I'd read I guess a lot of get like the
sharp gamblers do it, yes, correct to their own you know,
because the time.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
To make their make the lines. Yes, I do it
just you know, for you know, I've been doing these
shows forever, so it keeps you, you know, educated. So
that's kind of how I've I've done it. I love
it and I'm a geek. I use like, I use
sp plus a lot for like my like real about
I mean, I have numbers that I have access to.

(01:36:22):
I just don't like about Empire Rakings. I got you. Indiana,
Ohio State is fascinating.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
What's the future of Championship Saturday because of this game? Right,
this game, more than any kind of bleeds into the
future as to the purpose of it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
The future of these games will be playing games, specifically
playing games. So you'll have either three verse four, four
verse five you know you have, That's what it would be.
So I the thing that the Big Tennis pushing with
expanded playoff format is that they want the conferences to
choose their teams, not the committee. So in the expanded

(01:37:04):
playoff format, you'd have four auto bids for the SEC
and the Big you know, in the Big Ten and
essentially in that in that situation, right, the you would
basically play the conference championship game would be for the
fourth spot, right, so you would you know, one, two,
and three would right now be Oregon, Ohio State in Indiana.

(01:37:27):
I think fourth is like USC Michigan. So they would
play each other this weekend. The winner of that game
would be a playoff team. That that's that's how I
think it's gonna end up going. And simply the committee
choose your top four teams, the conference will choose, and
it takes a lot of the work away from the committee,
and the committee might just choose a couple at largest

(01:37:47):
in the end, and therefore you just got you would
end up getting more results based off of how you
actually play on the field versus now the committee deciding
a lot of the results. And you know you look, Ohios, Indiana.
Today's a great game, don't get me wrong, But it
doesn't mean anything Like the winner will have the one seed,
the loser will have at worse the three seed. Like
they're both have buys. So I think that the future

(01:38:11):
of this game will be just that it'll be a
four verse five in both conferences and I sign me up.
I love that game. Let'd be fantastic. What usc Michigan again?
Obviously they played early this season, but like again for
a chance to go to the playoff. Man, imagine that.
I'd be awesome, be a ton of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Because you got something on the line, right, That's what
that's what's missing, is that you need something on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Georgia Alabama has a little something on the line because
I think Alabama might be out if they lose, and
they might you know, or they get a buye if
they win. Like there's something on the line there, and
Georgia had some revenge in this game. Indiana, Ohio State
means nothing. And this is why I'm kind of curious
about this game because I lean Ohio State here, but
they really have no motivation for this game. Like you
just beat Michigan and you won the championship last year,

(01:38:58):
like this game as a matter you at all? Indiana,
this is this is the biggest game in school history exactly.
It's why I love Indi out of today. I love
My favorite wager for this game is the first half
under twenty three and a half. But it would not
surprise me if Indiana won the game. But Ohio State men,
Indiana's just they're just not better really anywhere. Maybe quarterback

(01:39:24):
I Ohio State can just suffocate them, I think. So
I'm curious to see how this game. I think the
first I think this game is super low scoring to start. Indiana,
I think we'll be a little bit nervous. It's just
to makes sense, right, they haven't been this spot before.
Ohio State obviously off that big way, and Ohiose tend
to start a little bit slow on offense this season.
This is the best team either of these teams have

(01:39:44):
played all season two, which is you know, like look
at Ohio State's schedule. They played Texas, but that was
week one. Michigan's fine but not great. Indiana did play Oregon,
but it's been so long. So both teams playing the
best team they played and they went out there that WASPS.
So I I think this is a very slow starting game,
and I'm curious to see which team makes the adjustments

(01:40:05):
and which team is able to find some offense later
in the game. Indiana most definitely has to scale up
offensive and I think they played two good defenses this season.
Did Indiana? Oregon in Iowa today threw for two fifteen,
I think like two twenty, and the two twenty against
Iowa was a late touchdown, right that sixty yard touchdown,

(01:40:28):
Man Dooz. I cannot throw for two hundred yards today
and win this game. So there's just a lot of
a lot of fun storylines to this one.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Yeah, all right, sit tight, We're gonna have the brain
come in and we'll take a look at the weekend's
card from a betting standpoint. That's coming up next to
the fellas with Jeff Schwartz, Ormanthony Gargana right here on
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Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargato, and now the Brain. That's right,
let's welcome the Brain to the program. So we're gonna
look at this, uh, look at all this great weekend.
Good morning, Brain, how are you, buddy?

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Good my friend?

Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
Did you get to watch any of the two lane
game last night?

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
I did.

Speaker 6 (01:41:27):
I watched yea, yep, yep, So I was excited to
see it was good. You know, it's just I liked
seeing a game that was so important for both programs,
Like I just like the that aspect of just the
importance of it for two teams that have never had
a game like that, and you know, literally in the
history of the schools.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
So I enjoyed it. Yeah, rets laugh. Yeah it was fun.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
Yeah it was fun. But uh, interesting game. But again,
obviously big weekend this weekend, But it's interesting, Anthony. One
reason why I liked yesterday's games so much was that
game meant a ton a lot of these games today.
You know, you say, I still love Watchmen, don't get
me wrong, but you know, may not mean everything to

(01:42:11):
some of these teams. Some of them they will, some
of them they won't. But like this, Texas Tech really
need the game? Does Georgia need the game? You know
what I'm saying. I wish it was a little bit
like it used to be in that aspect. But I'll
get over that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Go ahead, my boy, because I know just ready to
go there. I just the thing I took away from
last night is like, what are we making too Lane
at Oregon? What are we making jam you at Oregon?
I I just I get, I get the point of
this like you want everyone to feel like they belong.
But I'm watching jam you last night and the quarterback

(01:42:46):
looked miserable and the cold. But what are you gonna
do in three weeks in Eugene, Orgon. I just it
was great that they're playing for something. But I was
watching with the I towards the postseason, and I get
it like.

Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
I do, but it's gonna be over over two touchdowns
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
I don't love it about the sport, but look at
the games today. Look I think you talk about motivation.
I don't know how much innovation Ohio State has for
this game against Indiana, but I do think it's a
low scoring game. I love the first half under in
this game. I love your thoughts on Indiana and Ohio State.

Speaker 6 (01:43:19):
Yeah, listen, Jeff, I actually agree with you. I do
think there's definitely to be a lower scoring game. We know,
I mean as I always say, and these teams tell
us who they are. And with Ohio State, we've seen
the team all year that defensively has been just absolutely
like beyond phenomenal, absolutely beyond phenomenal, and it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
Is good as.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
Indiana has been, as good as Mendoza has been you
have seen them when they've stepped up the pass a
little bit where they don't score like fifty a game.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:43:49):
I actually agree with you on that, Jeff. I actually
do think this is going to be a lower scoring game,
and I think it's going to be harder for Indiana
to get much above twenty points. Personally, I don't even
think I don't or even going to hit twenty. That's
how good I think this Ohio State defense is.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
How do you view Alabama Georgia?

Speaker 6 (01:44:08):
You know it's funny. I don't love either team. I
really don't. Georgia is a team. Again, the more I
watch them, I just the more I'm not impressed with them.
I know that this is a quote unquote revenge spot.
I understand that. Look, obviously George is gonna have the
home field advantage here. I'll bam again. Another team that,

(01:44:32):
again i'd like the quarterback, but another team that's been
kind of somewhat inconsistent. I don't love either of these teams.
Alabama obviously needs the game a lot more than Georgia does.
Not a game I'm betting. I thought George would be
a small, tiny favorite, just not a game that's going
to be on my card. I'll maybe lieve bett it

(01:44:52):
if I see something that comes up where I see
one teams controlling the line, a scrimmed or something like that.
But I thought the line should have been, you know,
Georgia by like one and a half two two and
a half in that area, and that's kind of what
it came in at.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
I don't know why Texas Tech by you would be
any different than what we saw money In fact, Texas Tech.
You know, they had like six trips aside the thirty
and like didn't score and three of them, Like, I
think that if text tex just is better on in
the red zone, which there's been a problem for them
all season. I haven't late the twelve and a half.
I feel like that's a very public side, but it
is what it is. Sometimes what I agree with you,

(01:45:27):
I just don't know what's different about this game than
the first time they played.

Speaker 6 (01:45:30):
It's one of my favorite things shift. I love how
you just talked about that. I always say to myself,
it's something fundamentally changed, right, if you're going to bet
something or maybe change sides or keep the same side,
did something fundamentally changed in that that can make you
want to switch sides or stay in the same side,
or go the other way. And I agree with you,
like what is fundamentally changed here to make me think
that maybe by you can stick with this Texas Tech team.

(01:45:53):
The answer to me is absolutely nothing. This is to
me one of those games and Anthony talk about all
the time where I feel like I go out if
I it's not that I'm taking any runs, but if
I took a job for like twenty minutes and came back,
I'm gonna see twenty one to nothing with like four
eleven left in the first quarter, and I just I
don't really see many pass for BYU did not only

(01:46:15):
forget winning the game, but even keeping the game close.
I think this BYU team, I don't want to say
stinks out outs to be very disingenuous, but I don't
think they're a playoff team. Okay, that's a big difference
between you know and I just I think they're I don't.
I don't even have them in my top twenty five
in my rankings personally, So for me, it's Texas techra.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
Pass All right, let's move over to the NFL because
we want to run through and make sure that we
get to all the games. As always, I'll moderate, I'll
throw the games by you guys. You tell me what
you like in it, whether it's the side total or props. Okay, okay,
all right, let's start off. Jets and Dolphin's Miami two

(01:46:57):
and a half forty one and a half brain, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:47:02):
These are two teams that have actually played reasonably better
as of late. At three, which would be shot, but
I lean Jet at two and a half at the pass.
For me, that's how I look at this game.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
Yeah, a Jets plus three. I will take the Jets
of plus three in this game. Another coal of the
game from Miami. They've proven over the years has not
been their spot plus. There's a little too much like, well,
Miami might be good. I mean, so plus three all right.
Pittsburgh Baltimore always a great one. Although this is a

(01:47:35):
different iteration of these two teams. Ravens six and the
tottle's pretty low.

Speaker 6 (01:47:41):
Forty two and a half, yeah, Anthony, For me, this
is these are two teams actually want to bet against
the rest of the season, especially Pittsburgh. I mean the
Pittsburgh is uh masker. I think that trick's going to end.
I made a very large bet by the way, Jeff
this week on the Steelers under eight and a half
season wins, one of my bigger bets of the year.
I don't think this team is going to go three
into it left five. I think the Ravens do find

(01:48:02):
a way to win this one. But again, this Ravens team,
to me, is not I think what people think they are.
I think they're okay team, but Lamar something's just not right.
But I think they'll be good enough to get care
of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
So for so many years now, this was the best
spot to bet Pittsburgh, right, like no one believes in them.
They're they're in, but they stink like they're just right.
The only the only reason you take Pittsburgh here is
because you think they're going to turn the clock back
to like whatever team and organzation they've been for the
last fifteen years, when this has always been a three

(01:48:34):
point game, right for years, this team was three points.
But it's not they're not good anymore. There's they're just
not now, Baltimore. You know, if Lamar Jackson is a
little bit healthier, which doesn't feel like he is right now,
that changes the offense. But I don't know why why
Derek Henri doesn't have thirty carries for one fifty five
in this game. You know, yeah, like that's that's my thing.
So I just I'm staying away. Maybe a Henry prop

(01:48:56):
at some point, but I'd stay away, Yeah, especially if
they're we saw Klok do to him last week. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
The Saints Buccaneers Tampa obviously a big favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Anything there, brain I.

Speaker 6 (01:49:10):
Did, Anthony, you can't taste something real quick. I remember, Anthony.
I told Ante the other day that I thought James
Cook at one hundred and one, who went off into
Player of the Year, was a very good bet because
to me, at the same exact fact as Terror. It's interesting, Anthony.
The other guy was looking at was Gibbs was seventy
five to one after his game against Dallas, who went
down with sixth to one. I just thought that was interesting. Wow, yeah,
I have one from seventy five to six. That's the leaning.

(01:49:31):
How these things can change. I'm sure what were we
talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
I apologies? Tampa, Tampa New Orleans.

Speaker 6 (01:49:36):
Tampa New Orleans. Again. Only thing I would look at
this game would be Tampa and Teasers. No other way
I'd be looking at it. No interest in backing Tampa
Bay ling those kind of points, but I would lay
minus two in a teaser.

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
Yeah, we can skip this one. I'm not going to
play this game, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
How about Colts and Jaguars. Uh, this is an interesting
one where you.

Speaker 6 (01:49:56):
Lie, uh brain, Well he on the Indianapolis guys. With
Jones losing his mobility, that's just a horrible loss for Indy. Look,
I to me, I thought the total was a little high.
It's forty seven and a half. I thought that was
maybe a tip too high for defense. It's played well
in Jacksonville all year, and I think the Colts have

(01:50:17):
shown these last four or five games are not the
offensive team they were the first seven weeks of the
season or whatnot. Lean here, Jags, lean here under.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
I like Jacksonville gives me hives even thinking about better
than then, But I will I will bet then because
I think the Colts are a little dead right now.
And Jacksonville look for whatever, you know, they've played well
for three weeks. Man, they played Look, they won a
game minus four in turnovers on the road, and they
played well gains the Chargers. They played well last week.
They're playing better football all back Jacksonville here, all right?

(01:50:51):
How about Titans and the Browns? Right?

Speaker 6 (01:50:56):
Yeah, I mean if you think I'm gonna lay four
points with Cleveland, you guys that there's some kind of
institution I'll be checked into. I certainly can't do that
to me. It's not a game. I'm not being said,
I'm not taking the time.

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
This is just I did that.

Speaker 6 (01:51:09):
Actually a problemised him.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
I did that. The running back got him spank on
his oo state.

Speaker 6 (01:51:16):
J quin Quenton. I bet him over nineteen and a
half attempts. I think this will be a game where
they feed him the ball a lot and Gas actually
are favored him. See no reason he won't get twenty
plus carries and plus that you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Know they they do a wildcat now a little bit,
so they're you know, they're using him in that in
that role. I'm trying to pull up the sports book
right now. I mean, any sort of Miles Garrett sack
prop I'd be interested in backing. And I'm curious what
the number is actually, So one sack, Oh my huge,
I'm gonna make you guess what what what's what? De

(01:51:49):
milescare to have one sack? What do you think it is?

Speaker 6 (01:51:52):
Minus three seventy.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Five minus four ninety eight.

Speaker 6 (01:51:57):
Yeah, okay, that's wild pass I never liked that from
onemost think if that just shows you how dominant he's been.
And they're they're telling you if you're gonna bet this,
ye're gonna get taxed at the highest tax level.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
I mean, two sacks is even money. Yeah, that's insane,
that's crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:52:14):
Well, I'm white numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
I was looking at Gibbs his TV numbers. Do you
know he was to score Yeah on Thursday night, he's
one touchdown away from breaking like the record for most
touchdowns in like the first five years of his career
or something like that. Yeah, it's wild. It's wild. So
last week to score three, which he had three, he
was only seven to one. Yeah, it was plenty seven

(01:52:39):
three touchdowns like what.

Speaker 6 (01:52:41):
Like that's but it's funny. Jeffon Loge Anthony is he's
talked about JAMR. Gibbs since his rookie year. He thought
this guy was the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
The guy.

Speaker 6 (01:52:50):
I mean, he's he really is. I think, quite frankly,
when I watched the games forgetting quarterbacks, I think he's
the best non quarterback player in the entire league.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
I don't know if you are. I think I think
rank him one Offensive Player of the Year. He's the
he should win the awards. I don't think he's going
to because the line narrative matters a little bit here,
I think. But he he's his explosiveness is it's off
the chart. He's so good that play where he juked

(01:53:18):
a Cowboys defender on third down, he caught the ball
in the flat and the guy just went like it
was He's so good, man. He's such a great reason.

Speaker 6 (01:53:27):
He's one of the best players I've ever seen that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Actually, all right, we have to take quick to you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
We'll come right back and finish the Sunday Monday card.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
Fellas on five, All right, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
Fellas, Jeff and the Brain hanging out with you guys all,
let's waste no time going through the rest of the card.
Washington and Minnesota. Washington. It's flipped now that Jay Daniels
has been the starter. I told you I liked Washington

(01:54:05):
on Thursday. Brain, where are you at with it?

Speaker 6 (01:54:08):
I actually bet I was. The information I had was
Jayden was not going to play it with outset incorrect
in this case. I bet Minnesota pluff two anas running
I appreciate you that they had that show with you.
You mentioned the media. He had a lot of the
full practice. I get out of my bed and I
took They actually took Washington getting nice odds and they

(01:54:31):
put the favorite Triactually, I'm gonna make a little bit
money regards to which I with Jayden playing, it's ad
no opinions me. If he had been out, I would
have liked Minnesota. I no opinion on this game.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
I like Washington a lot in this game because I
think that Daniel's coming back gives them a huge mental boost.
Right your quarterback's backed, and it gives them a chance
in this game against who's playing quarterback form Minnesota in
this game doesn't matter. I mean, they just are not
a good team right now, and at least Washington. I
just think the mental part of Daniell's coming back just

(01:55:04):
will be a big boost for Washington's I'll take the
commander desperately. Agreed. Agreed. And also you know that dan
Quinn wants to get some momentum going in for next year.
Correct for sure? Yeah, so Washington, Yeah I did too.

Speaker 3 (01:55:19):
Seattle and Atlanta. Seattle laying six and a half on
the road, Brain.

Speaker 6 (01:55:25):
You know, for me it would be it would be
Seattle a pass. I keep saying this to Anthony and Jeff.
I think Seattle has been the best team all year.
They dominated the Rams, got a crazy f luke loss
despite killing them. I think they're the best team. I'll
there's just I still don't think they're getting respect me
because of Donald. I get it to a certain extent,
but I don't even know. They just need him not

(01:55:47):
to be the worst quarterback almost to win with that defense.
But for me, it's Seattle or pass.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Yeah, Seattle or nothing. I just don't trust Sam Donald
in a playoff game.

Speaker 6 (01:55:55):
This is kind of yeah, I get there until you know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:59):
That's what I would say, right there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Uh, Bills and Bengals. So you know what six you
got weather? The total is three, and that's the weather
going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:56:16):
Well, it's potentially potentially some snow.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
Because it supposed to be windy at all, or just snow.

Speaker 6 (01:56:21):
Just that I think it's just snow, which obviously is a.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
Big deal for the total. But yeah, fifty three though
so high, Like if you get if you get one
fourth down stop in like two punts, you're just going
it's going under exactly what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:56:38):
It isn't total, it certainly is. You know, look, this
is an interesting game. I Jeff, you've been this years
where like, obviously everything's going against Cincinnati. Year they lose
the quarterback. They've lost some weird, tough games. But you know,
it's funny. They have three easy games and they have
the two tough games this week and that's wee against
the Ravens. But you know what if they I mean,

(01:57:00):
is there any path you could see they maybe somehow
win this division or like ten to one?

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
To me, this would be hey, hey, guys, real quick.
The wins in Buffalo twenty to twenty two mile an
hour with gusts up to thirty three. Yeah, that's rich. Now.
I like the under man. I think that that's an
under that looks an under to be. I think the
Bengals defense is so bad that I can't bet on
them to win to win the divisions.

Speaker 3 (01:57:27):
All right, we're gonna move quickly. I love one game.
My favorite game Sunday is Green Bay. I love the Packers.
I think they roll that they win by double digits
against Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
Where are you at with that? Brain? Well?

Speaker 6 (01:57:43):
My biggest bed of the week is the thirteen total under.
Talking about the Bears, I've been under twenty and a
half quite large. I added to it yesterday. I don't
think the Bears are going to I mean, you tell
me something right now, I'll make this prediction. The next
week Bear square single digits this game and they final
get their come up in.

Speaker 2 (01:58:01):
Jeff, I keep thinking they're gonna have their come up,
and so they just never have it. So I don't
have anything much for this game. I don't trust the Packers.
And who knows the Bears? What team shows up? Who knows? Yeah,
I love Green Bayman's game. I mean that's up great
for them. Arizona and the Rams Arizona eight, I mean
the Rams eight and a half on the road.

Speaker 6 (01:58:21):
Brain, you know I got to me would be Rams
and a teaser or pass. I think Kieran Williams is
not getting as much playing time when I understand also
I did in his under and Corns overs.

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
Are we gonna go? Jeff pass Texans chiefs.

Speaker 6 (01:58:37):
Brain ud look at three and a half the long
away to look at it would be the Texans Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
To me or a sneaky team all right, Jeff, Texans
to cover Texans win, Eagles, Chargers brain, Eagles. There it is,
and everybody have a great day. We love you, see
you next week. All right, bye, guys, have a good one.

(01:59:09):
Well what's going on? Oh oh, I think we have
we have like forty five? We have like forty somebody
with Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:59:20):
Wait, weren't you counting me down with my nuts? Okay,
all right, poor Mark, he was counting me down, and
and I thought we were over rushing to Brian, I.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Like I like the Chief. I like the Texans to win.
I like the Eagles. You're your Eagles. We don't talk
about the Eagles a little bit here. We have thirty
seconds left. I think Eagles play their one of the
best game of seasons and win. Why would you say that?
What leads you to believe that that they're gonna be
able to do that? I back against the wall type
of mentality in this game. All right, well, now we're done.

(01:59:56):
I have a great day. Hey, everybody, we love you.

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