November 29, 2025 • 40 mins
TJ Houshmandzadeh and Plaxico Burress discuss whether or not Texas has a case to make the College Football Playoff, Lane Kiffin's future as he mulls staying at Ole Miss or going to LSU, the Bears massive Black Friday win over the Eagles, what's going on with the Chiefs, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome into the show. I'm TJ. Houshman's out. I'm joined
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Plexico Bursts, also at Fox Sports Radio. Man, we we
we have a great show planned for y'all, a Plexica
Cup before we get going, before I ask you, you
know how you're doing out there? Yeah, man, check it out, pleax.
So last night, right last night, you know, I'm coaching
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high school football CIF Division one championship game. Man, we
smacked them boys forty two seven, smacked him forty two
to seven, two to seven, forty two to seven in
a championship. Our receiver age So are y'all champions were
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the champions. Now we played for the state championship in
two weeks. Our receiver had over three hundred yards of offense.
He had like two bro he had like two sixty
receiving and ran for like now he had like two
eighty receiving and rush for like twenty seven yards.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Bro, Wow, what was it? A junior? Senior? He a senior.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We played this team earlier in the season, we beat
him in overtime. He missed that game. He had a
broken man. He missed it. The we lost two games
three games this year, and the games that we lost
he missed all of them.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Man, Listen, I've had a couple two hundred y'all games
in my career. I've never had the experience to two
experience a three hundred y'all game. But those two hundred
y'all games when for those for those moments, so you
just really feel like you out there by yourself. Hey,
nobody can stop you doing anything with you. So I
can't imagine three hundred yard days he had.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
He had an eighty eight yarder in a.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, so shout out shout out Santa Margarita, the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Corona Centennial.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They have a great team also, man, so shout out
to both teams for the for the most part, uh,
both teams. All the players came out healthy, and I
think that's the most important thing. But yeah, we got
to give a shout out to Santa Margarita for winning
that thing. But we're gonna get onto this college football
and shout out to Texas Longhorns for me in Texas
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and them Maggie's you did you text me that?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You you did text me that?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now it's a huge day of college for for Wait wait, wait, planks.
How's that weather out there for y'all? How's that weather?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We got clips, we got cliffs, guys in sunshine. But
it's a little chrispy, man. I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm in
Pittsburgh right now. Man down here, you know, obviously visiting
the family for the holidays, but man, it is a
little crispy out here. And I feel for them boys
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coming up from Miami day because they play that pit
and it can't be over thirty degree. So but yeah, man,
other than that, man, it's a great day for football
and a lot of great games today, man, a lot
of great games.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or yeah, we're good out here. Claire Scott's palm trees.
It's about seventy three right now, so we were good
out here. But Michigan, Ohio State today a lot of right,
it's a slated games just this weekend right, let's talk
Ohio State Michigan. We know Ohio State's in a college
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football playoffs. We know that if Michigan is to beat
Ohio State, are they in? And does Texas also happy
an argument because they have three losses which yet to
be three lost team in a college football playoff? But
let's kind of unpack that in Michigan, in Texas, do
they have college football case if Michigan wins.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Man, I've been looking at this thing up and down
man for the last forty eight hours about the possibility
of the what ifs if this team loves on that
team loses, and I'm sitting there, I don't believe Texas
has an end for the college football playoffs just because
of the mere fact that they've lost three football games.
I don't know how you can put a team in
the top one of the top twelve teams in the
country if they.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Have three losses.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I just really don't believe that, because there are a
lot of good two wing team, two win teams as
of today, Oklahoma, No, the Dame in Alabama. But what
I'm saying to myself is that that's why this Oregon
at Washington game is so pivotal to me because now
that we all know that Organ is in a Big ten,
what happens if Washington beats Oregon and Michigan beats Ohio State.
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Now Michigan has a better conference record then the Oregon
Ducks and they have the same exact record overall. So
I'm saying to myself, even though everybody knows I'm biased Michigan,
but if they beat Ohio State and the Organ Ducks
are the number sixteam in the country, and now they
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at Michigan has a better conference record than the Organ Ducks,
how can you not put them in? That's what That's
what I'm sitting here saying to myself because they have
the same exact record. But I believe Michigan does have
a case. As sad as I do sound right now,
because you know I'm a sparty green and White, But
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when you're sitting here and you're looking at it, if
they beat Ohio State, I think that you I think
that they're going to make it in. I really do,
because they're gonna have the same exact record as Organ,
same overall record, and Michigan will have a better conference record.
So I think Michigan will begin if they win in
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Oregon loses. But I don't believe even though Texas be
undefeated Texas and them team last night, I don't believe
that that gives them the passage into the college football
playoffs because they are a three lost team. TJ, You're
still there. Well, I'm gonna just keep going on to
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to all these all of these good games today that
have so many great uh that they're gonna have an
impact on the college football playoffs moving forward. And a
lot of these teams are playing the spoiler Oregon at Washington,
which I just spoke about. Texas Tech going to West Virginia.
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Morgantown is a tough place to win. I mean, it
really is. I don't just think that Texas Tech is
going to go into Morgantown against West Virginia football team
and just rolled up West Virginia. I just don't see
that happening. So Miami yet, Pitt. I believe Pitt is
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a good football team, even though Notre Dame came up
here and ran ran up and down the football field
a couple of weeks ago. I was here for that game.
But Miami doesn't have the defense that Notre Dame team
has on the front, defensive line and in the secondary.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm sorry, can I just jump in for a second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I just want to update you.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
We have a tweet from Lane Kiffin in which he
doesn't make an announcement. By him tweeting, anything is news
right now. So remember how the benches cleared yesterday at
the egg Gil between Almost and Mississippi State. So Lane
Kiffin six minutes ago tweeted the video of that, and
then he posted on team players stay on the sidelines
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as rules, State one doesn't shocker. So it was a
dig at Mississippi State. Now here's the thing in this situation.
Everyone's going to read something into that tweet. So what
do you read in that tweet by Lane Kiffin six
minutes ago. The guy's supposed to be deciding, yet he's
basically tweeting something that can be read as very very
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supportive of Old Miss, which leads people to believe he's staying.
By the way, there's already one hundred and sixteen comments
on that tweet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Uh, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think me and me and TJ we had this
com we had this conversation last week, and you know,
going to a program like an Old Miss everybody. Everybody
knows the history of what LSU is and what they've
been being able to accomplish over the last two decades.
They've been a stellar football program, if not one of
the top, you know, five programs in the country. But
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you look at Lane killing It and Clint Lane Kiffin
and what he's been able to do over the last
four years, ten plus ten plus one in each of
those four seasons. And now I really believe that he
doesn't have to go to LSU to compete for a
national championship. I believe that he's a good enough coach
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that the players understand, they respect him enough to believe
that he can lead Old miss to a national championship.
And when you get to deciding where you want to
go as a player, right now, it's much less to
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do with the school than who you're going to be
coached by. So if I'm a player, I'm looking at
the coach, his staff, what kind of offense they're running,
what the scheme is. Defensively, if I'm a middle linebacker
or free safety or corner, those are the things that
I'm looking at. And you look at just what happened
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with James Franklin. He got fired from Penston eight, and
now for those recruits that were going to Penn State,
they're now committed to going to Virginia Tech. So that's
why I believe that he doesn't have to go to
LSU to get players. He can stay right where he
is right now at Old Miss, because I believe that
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the players are choosing now to go play for the
coach that they want to play for, much less than
the sticker that's on the side of the helmet at
these universities.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I disagree.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I disagree, like, of course you do, no, no, no,
What Lane Kiffin has done at Old Mess, it's spectacular.
If he wants to win at the highest level, he
has to leave that. I mean, it's just nowhere. How
you're not winning house playing.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That Howard is playing at Old Miss not winning at
the highest level. When they're in the same conference and
he can get the same players to go to LSU
that from the LSU to go to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Old They're not They're not going to Old Miss. They're
not gonna Lane Miss is just a better coach than
what LSU had. So that's why Old Miss is winning
and LSU isn't. That's why Old Miss is winning and
a lot of teams in the SEC earned Lane Kiffin
is just that good of a coach Offensively, he knows
what he's doing. He's recruiting the right players for his system.
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A lot of these coaches going for stars. You look
at their running back. He was at Missouri last year,
didn't play. He looked like he one of the best
backs in college football. He didn't play Missouri last year,
but Lane Kiffin knew he could play, brought in the
Old miss and so he understands talent. You're not winning
the national championship at all miss this is their season.
So you approve of my point.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Lacey could go to Lacy could go to LSU, and
Lane Kiffin can be the coach.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
He's still going to have the same exact results.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Why he didn't have the same exact results when he
was at Missouri because they don't have Lane Kiffin exactly.
That's my point. You're not getting those type of Lacy
went to Missouri because he felt, Oh, they're gonna be
be a better team than Old Miss, better players around
me than Old Miss. You want to win, and I
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get it. As a coach, you preach to your players
all season, oh we gotta lock in, y'all gotta we
gotta be with each other. But and I've always talked
about this in a bad way. Also, coaches can just
come and go as they please. But if you want
to do what's best for yourself in your career, in
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your Lane Kiffing, whether you go to LSU or Florida,
you got it, it's a must you leave or you're
not winning it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
He will not.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We won't see Old Miss Rebels win the national championship
in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You and I won't see Wow, we won't see that.
That's not gonna that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You compete with everybody right now.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They're not competing with everybody right now because they're not
very good. They're not very good. What you're doing is
actually supporting what I'm saying. If if if Lane Kiffer
was a stad Old Miss, I can guarantee you right now,
based off of his presence alone, they will have a
better recruiting class Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Than LSU will. No, they don't, they don't. LSU was not.
They're not who they used to be.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Teachers, these kids, I know your little boys, your kids
go there.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I get it, I understand.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But even if you're going to play for the coach,
this is not twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, you know who you're going to play for. Who
you know you're going to play for? Who you do
for them? Benjamins, that's what you're going to play for.
You're going to play for the Benjamins some cash. Old
Mess ain't giving up the cash unless you're giving up point.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
They don't have to. They not. And that's why that's
a different story. Team.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Now, if both teams at both schools gave out the
same exact contract and offered the Lane Kiffin, what decisions
do you think he will make?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Uh, he's probably will say it old miss and thank you. Okay,
but listen, it's about the money. If old Mess was
offering the same contract, we wouldn't be having this discussion
because you got to pay Lane Kiffin and you also
got to give him guarantees. Okay, we're gonna give you
X amount of money each year to build your roster
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these kids, and rightfully so, and I'm so happy that
they can benefit from this. Now they are going to
get paid in LSU and Florida and the bigger universities
have more money, and that's just what it is. The
top players, they not going for the school, They not
going for the coach. They going for the Benjamins. Now
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there's a rare case where some of the players will say, Okay,
I'll take a little less to go play with him
because he's my coach. But for the most part, they
are going to the money. Lane Kiffing, if you listening,
you better get up out of Oxford. If you know
what's good for you, what I do, you you got
to go. But from what I've been told, from what
I've been told, he gonna be in bad ruge when
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he made this announcement.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That's what I've been told. He already gonna be on
the ground. You can say that you know these top
programs LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia. I can agree with you
to the fact that when you say they don't have
the money to give a coach like Lane Kiffin, because
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obviously those guys are some of the top four or
five programs in all the football. But if I'm old
miss and you want to continue to have the success
that you've been having over the last four years under
his tenure, I don't understand why you wouldn't find a
way to make it an even playing field for lane
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Kiffin to make the decision, not because of you. You
don't want to pay him, because of you want to
continue to put a good college football program together moving forward.
Money shouldn't be the reason why Lane Kiffin leaves to
go play against one of your rivals in the same conference.
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Find a way, if he really wants to be an
old miss, to get him the same exact money that
a Florida or a l s U would offer him,
and you have a better chance of him staying and
other than oh man, he just he's just he's just leaving.
He's not even going to think about us because we
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don't have the money. I don't want to be in that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And you see an old mess beating and Ohio State
and the college football playoffs with with with Lane Kiffin,
absolutely I can. Ever, I don't see that ever happening.
Come on that you don't agree with that? Man, I
don't say ever. Don't give Kiffin. I had an opportunity
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to be any team in the Come on the team
that he had. We all have opportunity. That don't mean
we're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
If he played he has times in the college football
in the top twelve.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
On any given day they play Ohio stage.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's too touchdown, too touchdown, two touchdowns, and it's a talent.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That they might not even make it out of Michigan today.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Man, they gonna beat Michigan so bad. Man, I hope
they do. Hey, flat live Michigan.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
They got into the fight last year after the game, Man,
I wish I had to play one of these football games.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, we got a lot to get to. What's going
wrong or what is happened to the Meagles? Can can
they get right on the track and figured this out?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The Bears they look like they might be for real.
And we gonna stay on this lane, Kiffin subject we
all get back to the college football. We got our
dog Cuffs. We're gonna ask Cuffs about this too, because
I know Cuffs. Is he not just a basketball guy, man,
Cuffs is a sports guy. So we got a lot
to get to. Man, appreciate you guys locking in with us.
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mister Isaac loein crime.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
What you got boys?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Well, First of all, Lane Kiffin has still not decided
yet I am hitting refresh and yes, he still has
not decided yet. So on we go to the one
and twenty first all time meeting between Ohio State and Michigan,
and the fifteenth ranked Wolverines have a three to nothing
lead over the top ranked Buckeyes just two and a
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half minutes into the game, and it looks like they're
threatening to add to it because they just intercepted an
Ohio State pass. So Michigan has it back going in
first down and ten at the Ohio State thirty eight
yard line, already leading it three to nothing. Elsewhere, fifth
ranked Texas Tech on the board at West Virginia on KTTU.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Snap back to him fakes then oh, he's gonna run
it in again. Jacob Rodriguez has got his second offensive
touchdown in as many weeks.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And that's given the Red Raiders a seven to nothing
lead at West Virginia six minutes and thirty six seconds
left to play in the first quarter. Twelfth ranked Miami
and number twenty two pit our score list with just
over five minutes left to play in the first quarter.
We also have some fresh NFL news on this Saturday.
Detroit Lions, four time pro Bowls. Frank Ragnow came out
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of retirement earlier this week on Wednesday, but today the
Lions announced that he has failed a physical because of
a Grade three hamstring strain. So that means that Ragnow
will not be rejoining the Lions after all. The Indianapolis
Colts today added their excellent rookie tight end Tyler Warren
to their injury report due to illness. They've got him
listed now as questionable for Sunday's game against the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Guys, back to you, hey, man, that's crazy how you
feel a physical and you've been sitting on the couch
all year, Like, I'm sure you've been working out. You
ain't tell him a I heard my hamstring a couple
weeks ago. But I'll be like, what why even go
down at home?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
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Speaker 3 (22:05):
Buy you some man, I was I'm not gonna lie.
I thought the.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Bears had a chance to beat the Eagles, but I
didn't really think.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I didn't think they can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I felt like the Eagles defense would give Caleb Williams
a lot of problems, the Bears defense spending the hit
or miss, but they were getting Jalen Johnson back, so
I felt like they'd be a little more competitive. But
what happened, I did not expect that. I'm not sure
anybody expected that they ran the ball at will, which
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was the difference.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Two things. Can Philly figure this out? Can the Philly
deaf Eagles? Because the way they look and are the
Bears for real?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I can't really say that for real right now? I
honestly believe that everybody's a little surprised because nobody saw
a first year head coach and Ben Johnson had just
left Detroit. We knew, you know, the success that he
had offensively, you know, playing with Jared Goff and that offense,
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and you know, you were saying that, you know, it's
the players, not so much Ben Johnson, But now you
look at what how he's commanding his offense in this
first year in Chicago under Kayleb Williams, and it just
seems like they can throw it if they want to
throw it. And they put on a rushing attack yesterday
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against a very stout defensive defensive line which everybody you
can say that they are one of the top three
defensive lines on paper in the NFL, and Deonday Swift
in this offensive line, they ran in between the tackles
like it was a high school football game. And I
think that's the most alarming thing about the game yesterday,
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not that the Philadelphia Eagles lost the football game, but
in the fashion that they did defensively against a team
that you know they've been up and down, up and down.
You can't really say who Chicago Bears are right now,
even though you know it's ten eleven weeks into the season.
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But defensively for the Philadelphia Eagles, I mean, where do
you go from here? Because the defense is basically supposed
to be the calling card of your football team, especially
upfront with you know, Jalen Carter and and some of
these additions that you have defensively, I never thought that
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I would see your Philadelphia defense get ran through. And
it's almost kind of like Ben Johnson and this team
and this offense made a collective decision to run the
football with the Andre Swift, who was a member of
the Philaelphia football team two years ago, and to really
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kind of prove a point. And they flat out went
out there yesterday and shoved the football down their throat.
And if you on that defense right now, you're sitting
in that meeting and you're looking at how they basically
did whatever they wanted to, you got to check your
pride to the door after yesterday. I think offensively, you
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know they can get better. Aj Brown had ten catches,
a couple of touchdown, but they just didn't look like
did the Philadelphia team that we thought that was ascending
on the way up. Obviously, they lost the game last
week to Dallas, and now you have a short weekend.
It's two back to back losses for Philly. I still
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believe that they win the division going down a stretch,
but they gotta find a way to fix this defense.
I mean, it's just totally uncalled for the way the
Chicago Bears went in there and manhandled on the other
side of the football and grown men at will, and
they did it whenever they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'll say this, the Eagles defense has carried them pretty
much all year, you're gonna have some games in the
National Football League.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's very rare, and you can attest it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It's very rare that offense or defense, you have your
A game every single game for the season. It's virtually
impossible to be on your A game every single game
of the season. Offensively, you're not gonna have seventeen really
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good games. Offense, you may have two or three when
you're like, who, I'm glad the defense saved us. Defensively,
you're gonna have two or three games. Woof, I'm glad
the offense saved us. What happened yesterday was the Eagles
offense can't save the Eagles defense. And so the game
that the Eagles defense decided, you know, we just weren't
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gonna have a good showing the offense couldn't save them.
And to me, that is the bigger concern because it
just looks glaring that, now, oh man, what is going
on with the Eagles defense. They had a bad game,
But if their offense had brought anything to the table,
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that would have made the game more competitive, and it
would have put it would have put pressure on the
Bears to be just just to do more and so
this happens all the time, but the.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Offense pick doesn't. It doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I'm talking it happens all the time in the NFL.
Not with where one side plays bad the other side
picks them up offensively.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No no, no, no, no no, no no. I don't think the
Eagles defensive played bad. Listen, when you sit.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And you say, when you sit there and say that
you're not going to play your a game every single weekend'sible.
I personally feel that it relates to or we busted
the coverage, oh the passing game, or we missed a
hot read, or we missed a block, or whatever the
case may be. You make mistakes schematically, we're talking about
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mono mono man in front of man, and the Chicago
Bears were tougher than the Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Eagles up front.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's not a bad football game. You got dominated man
on man. So don't tell me you played a bad
football game.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
When you get dominated, that is a bad football game
because nobody else, nobody else is doing that to him.
Nobody else is doing that to the Eagles. Random dude.
The Chicago Bears had two players rush over one hundred
and twenty yards one hundred and twenty five. Swift had
one hundred and twenty five carries basically average seven yards
of carry. Montagay had one hundred and thirty yards average
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six yards of carry. That doesn't happen to the Philadelphia
Caleb Williams completed less than fifty percent of his passes.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So how can you say it's a bad game.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a bad game for the Eagles defensively stopping to run.
They gave up almost three hundred rush, two hundred and
eighty yards rushing. That doesn't happen when when it's a blip,
when it's an anomaly, that's a bad game. Because that's
not saysn't often. This has never happened to me. But
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if I would never step into in front of a
podium and say that I played a bad football game,
knowing that, knowing that the man across with.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Me kicked my ass.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So you saying I'm never going to say a bad game,
almost get up there and say, you know what, man,
that man was better than me today, mercy before we
see what's better than you? But when have we seen
the Eagles? If this happened four or five times a year.
What you're saying, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
When have we seen the Eagles all season an offense
do this to their defense whin have a penis even
in the games that you have a different they haven't.
They haven't been manhandled like this before. Like they got
like you said, they got the lunch, They got their lunch.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Took give me your lunch.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They did, they did, matter of fact, give me your
lunch and your lunch money, and I want it all.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
William complete fifty percent of his passes less, and they're like,
you know what, man, we ain't even got to throw it.
They can't stop running, so let's let's just let's he
continue to run the football in between the tackles where
we want, whenever we want, for two hundred plus rushing yards.
You consider that having a bad game. So you think
the Bears are the Bears for real?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I don't think that's for real. Oh so you think
they fools? Go there?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You would say, I mean, you can't just, you know,
walk into the building and say they're the Chicago Bears
from three or four years ago, because you can clearly
see that. You know Ryan Poles and you know Ben
Johnson first year head coach. They are taking strides in
an NFC North Division, which last year we all agreed
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that was the most competitive division all football. That's not
the That's not the same for this year. So I
would say that it's still competitive. It's just the Viking
aren't at the top this year. I'm still gonna say
that when it comes down to it. Uh, when it
comes to Detroit and Chicago, I believe that the Detroit
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line still have a hand up because of the experience,
and I just think that I don't think that Chicago
Bears are just for real contenders right now. I need
to see more before I get on here and say, oh,
Chicago Bears are the real deal.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The Eagles offense needs to They just need to play better.
They got to be able to run the ball and
pass the ball effectively in the same game.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Aj Brown had ten catches, but you're not running the
ball effectively, and so they got to be able to
marry those two at the same time.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Just more.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
He is getting put on Kevin Patulo as each week
goes by. Offensively, he has to be better calling plays.
He has to be better at getting his best players
involved early and often. Like I just haven't seen a
team that has this type of talent struggle so much
on the offensive end. But one team that is not
struggling on offensive and one team that I didn't think
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they would do anything at the start of this season
and they have impressed me.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Plexico brous What do you make of that victory that
they had over the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Oh man, it's impressive.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I mean, you cannot sit here and say that they
did not go out and beat one of the best
defensive minds that we've seen in the past decade and
Steve Spagnovia. And you know what, George Pickens right now,
I believe that he's making his mark after being traded
away from Pittsburgh and where he is now. I think
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he's a great, great compliment to Cee Lamb and his
offense and now everybody's beginning to see just how special
that this young man can be. But on the flip
side of that, uh, they're they're they able to stop
the run and being able to contain Patrick Mahomes in
that offense and that and that Andy Reid play calling.
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So you have to, you know, say kudos to the
Cowboys because they are playing well is going to be
enough for them to win the division down the road.
I don't know, But just just like we had the
conversation in a few minutes a few seconds ago about
the Chicago Bears, all the Dallas Cowboys for real, I
still need to see more if they can continue to
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be consistent offensively in defense, because Dallas has known to,
you know, win two or three games in a row,
and they have that loll where they lose one or
two games that they're not supposed to lose, which keeps
them from being one of those elite and FC football teams.
So I think moving forward, I think shot is doing
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I think Shoty's doing a good job. Obviously they have
the tie on the end of their current record, but
I think right now, when you look at the Dallas Cowboys,
you can say that they are one of the top
five teams in the NFC. So you have to take
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them seriously because if the Philadelphia Eagles don't get this
thing together, we may be looking at a new NFC
East Division champion.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The way the Cowboys started the season trade Michael Parsons,
they get Kenny Clark, then they get Quinn Williams, so.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I'm like, oh, they lost that trade.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I really really like what I've seen out the Cowboys,
that offense and the way that hey, Dax Prescott stand up,
patch yourself on the back a baller, a baller when
you got those type of receivers, and he's getting the
ball to both guys. It ain't just one guy eating.
He's getting the ball to both guys and they are
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going up and down the field at will. Nobody can
stop them. And that's what I'm saying. He's getting the
ball to Ferguson. They even running the ball when they
need to effectively. I really like what I see out
the Cowboys. Shout out to Schottenheimer because I didn't think
he could be ahead coach and galvanize a team because
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when I've seen him as a coordinator, especially when he
was in Seattle, and again he may have been handcuffed
with Pete Curroll being the coach and kind of forcing
what he wants him to do. But I'm a big
fan of what I've seen out the Cowboys. The way
they beat the Chiefs, that was a shocker. We didn't
even get into this, and we don't need to get
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into this, but I'm not so sure the Kansas City
Chiefs make the playoffs now moving forward, and that's something
that going into the season I said they would not
win the division, as you recall, I didn't think they
wouldn't make the playoffs though, Like what.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
The Chiefs may not make the playoffs. But yeah, kudos
to the Cowboys, Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Jerry Jones for you really without a limb trading Michael
Parsons and this could have really been ugly. But what
they have on defense and these picks, if they can
find a way to keep George Pickens, which they can
find a way and just draft some killers on defense,
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the Cowboys are about to be a problem for years
to come. And who would have thought at the beginning
of the season that this would be the case. But yeah,
the Cowboys are for real. And the Chiefs they've been
the team of the last decade and they may not
even make man the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Man, We've been around this business long enough to no
one understand because it happens almost every year. It's not
about how you start, baby, it's about how you finish.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And it's how you're starting, how you're doing the middle,
and how you finish up.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's how you're doing the middle.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Some of these teams, you know, they they get connected,
you know, midway through the season, and that confidence starts
to set into each individual on that team, man, and
you start believing like, oh man, you know what, we
can win some football games. It goes and winning some
football games, or we can win the division, and then
all you want to do is get in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Man. I've been a.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Part of it, and it's always those one or two
teams that just come out of nowhere because everybody had
already put them on a back burner because of the
way season started. I just you just never know how
it's going in So we're gonna see moving forward, Man,
who are these one or two teams that's will come
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out of nowhere? And they could surprise everybody. And right now, man,
the Cowboys on the rise.
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for your lane, You're gonna head on the baton rouge.
Ken Ohio State. Can they finish in the regular season
undefeated and beat Michigan? They struggling a little bit rough?
Can they do it? The Bears? We like what we see.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome into the show. I'm TJ. Houshman's out. I'm joined
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Plexico Bursts, also at Fox Sports Radio. Man, we we
we have a great show planned for y'all, a Plexica
Cup before we get going, before I ask you, you
know how you're doing out there? Yeah, man, check it out, pleax.
So last night, right last night, you know, I'm coaching
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high school football CIF Division one championship game. Man, we
smacked them boys forty two seven, smacked him forty two
to seven, two to seven, forty two to seven in
a championship. Our receiver age So are y'all champions were
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the champions. Now we played for the state championship in
two weeks. Our receiver had over three hundred yards of offense.
He had like two bro he had like two sixty
receiving and ran for like now he had like two
eighty receiving and rush for like twenty seven yards.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Bro, Wow, what was it? A junior? Senior? He a senior.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We played this team earlier in the season, we beat
him in overtime. He missed that game. He had a
broken man. He missed it. The we lost two games
three games this year, and the games that we lost
he missed all of them.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Man, Listen, I've had a couple two hundred y'all games
in my career. I've never had the experience to two
experience a three hundred y'all game. But those two hundred
y'all games when for those for those moments, so you
just really feel like you out there by yourself. Hey,
nobody can stop you doing anything with you. So I
can't imagine three hundred yard days he had.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
He had an eighty eight yarder in a.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, so shout out shout out Santa Margarita, the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Corona Centennial.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They have a great team also, man, so shout out
to both teams for the for the most part, uh,
both teams. All the players came out healthy, and I
think that's the most important thing. But yeah, we got
to give a shout out to Santa Margarita for winning
that thing. But we're gonna get onto this college football
and shout out to Texas Longhorns for me in Texas
(02:40):
and them Maggie's you did you text me that?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You you did text me that?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now it's a huge day of college for for Wait wait, wait, planks.
How's that weather out there for y'all? How's that weather?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We got clips, we got cliffs, guys in sunshine. But
it's a little chrispy, man. I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm in
Pittsburgh right now. Man down here, you know, obviously visiting
the family for the holidays, but man, it is a
little crispy out here. And I feel for them boys
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coming up from Miami day because they play that pit
and it can't be over thirty degree. So but yeah, man,
other than that, man, it's a great day for football
and a lot of great games today, man, a lot
of great games.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or yeah, we're good out here. Claire Scott's palm trees.
It's about seventy three right now, so we were good
out here. But Michigan, Ohio State today a lot of right,
it's a slated games just this weekend right, let's talk
Ohio State Michigan. We know Ohio State's in a college
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football playoffs. We know that if Michigan is to beat
Ohio State, are they in? And does Texas also happy
an argument because they have three losses which yet to
be three lost team in a college football playoff? But
let's kind of unpack that in Michigan, in Texas, do
they have college football case if Michigan wins.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Man, I've been looking at this thing up and down
man for the last forty eight hours about the possibility
of the what ifs if this team loves on that
team loses, and I'm sitting there, I don't believe Texas
has an end for the college football playoffs just because
of the mere fact that they've lost three football games.
I don't know how you can put a team in
the top one of the top twelve teams in the
country if they.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Have three losses.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I just really don't believe that, because there are a
lot of good two wing team, two win teams as
of today, Oklahoma, No, the Dame in Alabama. But what
I'm saying to myself is that that's why this Oregon
at Washington game is so pivotal to me because now
that we all know that Organ is in a Big ten,
what happens if Washington beats Oregon and Michigan beats Ohio State.
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Now Michigan has a better conference record then the Oregon
Ducks and they have the same exact record overall. So
I'm saying to myself, even though everybody knows I'm biased Michigan,
but if they beat Ohio State and the Organ Ducks
are the number sixteam in the country, and now they
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at Michigan has a better conference record than the Organ Ducks,
how can you not put them in? That's what That's
what I'm sitting here saying to myself because they have
the same exact record. But I believe Michigan does have
a case. As sad as I do sound right now,
because you know I'm a sparty green and White, But
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when you're sitting here and you're looking at it, if
they beat Ohio State, I think that you I think
that they're going to make it in. I really do,
because they're gonna have the same exact record as Organ,
same overall record, and Michigan will have a better conference record.
So I think Michigan will begin if they win in
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Oregon loses. But I don't believe even though Texas be
undefeated Texas and them team last night, I don't believe
that that gives them the passage into the college football
playoffs because they are a three lost team. TJ, You're
still there. Well, I'm gonna just keep going on to
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to all these all of these good games today that
have so many great uh that they're gonna have an
impact on the college football playoffs moving forward. And a
lot of these teams are playing the spoiler Oregon at Washington,
which I just spoke about. Texas Tech going to West Virginia.
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Morgantown is a tough place to win. I mean, it
really is. I don't just think that Texas Tech is
going to go into Morgantown against West Virginia football team
and just rolled up West Virginia. I just don't see
that happening. So Miami yet, Pitt. I believe Pitt is
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a good football team, even though Notre Dame came up
here and ran ran up and down the football field
a couple of weeks ago. I was here for that game.
But Miami doesn't have the defense that Notre Dame team
has on the front, defensive line and in the secondary.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm sorry, can I just jump in for a second.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I just want to update you.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
We have a tweet from Lane Kiffin in which he
doesn't make an announcement. By him tweeting, anything is news
right now. So remember how the benches cleared yesterday at
the egg Gil between Almost and Mississippi State. So Lane
Kiffin six minutes ago tweeted the video of that, and
then he posted on team players stay on the sidelines
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as rules, State one doesn't shocker. So it was a
dig at Mississippi State. Now here's the thing in this situation.
Everyone's going to read something into that tweet. So what
do you read in that tweet by Lane Kiffin six
minutes ago. The guy's supposed to be deciding, yet he's
basically tweeting something that can be read as very very
(08:19):
supportive of Old Miss, which leads people to believe he's staying.
By the way, there's already one hundred and sixteen comments
on that tweet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Uh, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think me and me and TJ we had this
com we had this conversation last week, and you know,
going to a program like an Old Miss everybody. Everybody
knows the history of what LSU is and what they've
been being able to accomplish over the last two decades.
They've been a stellar football program, if not one of
the top, you know, five programs in the country. But
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you look at Lane killing It and Clint Lane Kiffin
and what he's been able to do over the last
four years, ten plus ten plus one in each of
those four seasons. And now I really believe that he
doesn't have to go to LSU to compete for a
national championship. I believe that he's a good enough coach
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that the players understand, they respect him enough to believe
that he can lead Old miss to a national championship.
And when you get to deciding where you want to
go as a player, right now, it's much less to
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do with the school than who you're going to be
coached by. So if I'm a player, I'm looking at
the coach, his staff, what kind of offense they're running,
what the scheme is. Defensively, if I'm a middle linebacker
or free safety or corner, those are the things that
I'm looking at. And you look at just what happened
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with James Franklin. He got fired from Penston eight, and
now for those recruits that were going to Penn State,
they're now committed to going to Virginia Tech. So that's
why I believe that he doesn't have to go to
LSU to get players. He can stay right where he
is right now at Old Miss, because I believe that
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the players are choosing now to go play for the
coach that they want to play for, much less than
the sticker that's on the side of the helmet at
these universities.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I disagree.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I disagree, like, of course you do, no, no, no,
What Lane Kiffin has done at Old Mess, it's spectacular.
If he wants to win at the highest level, he
has to leave that. I mean, it's just nowhere. How
you're not winning house playing.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That Howard is playing at Old Miss not winning at
the highest level. When they're in the same conference and
he can get the same players to go to LSU
that from the LSU to go to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Old They're not They're not going to Old Miss. They're
not gonna Lane Miss is just a better coach than
what LSU had. So that's why Old Miss is winning
and LSU isn't. That's why Old Miss is winning and
a lot of teams in the SEC earned Lane Kiffin
is just that good of a coach Offensively, he knows
what he's doing. He's recruiting the right players for his system.
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A lot of these coaches going for stars. You look
at their running back. He was at Missouri last year,
didn't play. He looked like he one of the best
backs in college football. He didn't play Missouri last year,
but Lane Kiffin knew he could play, brought in the
Old miss and so he understands talent. You're not winning
the national championship at all miss this is their season.
So you approve of my point.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Lacey could go to Lacy could go to LSU, and
Lane Kiffin can be the coach.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
He's still going to have the same exact results.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Why he didn't have the same exact results when he
was at Missouri because they don't have Lane Kiffin exactly.
That's my point. You're not getting those type of Lacy
went to Missouri because he felt, Oh, they're gonna be
be a better team than Old Miss, better players around
me than Old Miss. You want to win, and I
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get it. As a coach, you preach to your players
all season, oh we gotta lock in, y'all gotta we
gotta be with each other. But and I've always talked
about this in a bad way. Also, coaches can just
come and go as they please. But if you want
to do what's best for yourself in your career, in
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your Lane Kiffing, whether you go to LSU or Florida,
you got it, it's a must you leave or you're
not winning it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
He will not.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We won't see Old Miss Rebels win the national championship
in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You and I won't see Wow, we won't see that.
That's not gonna that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You compete with everybody right now.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They're not competing with everybody right now because they're not
very good. They're not very good. What you're doing is
actually supporting what I'm saying. If if if Lane Kiffer
was a stad Old Miss, I can guarantee you right now,
based off of his presence alone, they will have a
better recruiting class Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Than LSU will. No, they don't, they don't. LSU was not.
They're not who they used to be.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Teachers, these kids, I know your little boys, your kids
go there.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I get it, I understand.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But even if you're going to play for the coach,
this is not twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, you know who you're going to play for. Who
you know you're going to play for? Who you do
for them? Benjamins, that's what you're going to play for.
You're going to play for the Benjamins some cash. Old
Mess ain't giving up the cash unless you're giving up point.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
They don't have to. They not. And that's why that's
a different story. Team.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Now, if both teams at both schools gave out the
same exact contract and offered the Lane Kiffin, what decisions
do you think he will make?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Uh, he's probably will say it old miss and thank you. Okay,
but listen, it's about the money. If old Mess was
offering the same contract, we wouldn't be having this discussion
because you got to pay Lane Kiffin and you also
got to give him guarantees. Okay, we're gonna give you
X amount of money each year to build your roster
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these kids, and rightfully so, and I'm so happy that
they can benefit from this. Now they are going to
get paid in LSU and Florida and the bigger universities
have more money, and that's just what it is. The
top players, they not going for the school, They not
going for the coach. They going for the Benjamins. Now
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there's a rare case where some of the players will say, Okay,
I'll take a little less to go play with him
because he's my coach. But for the most part, they
are going to the money. Lane Kiffing, if you listening,
you better get up out of Oxford. If you know
what's good for you, what I do, you you got
to go. But from what I've been told, from what
I've been told, he gonna be in bad ruge when
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he made this announcement.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That's what I've been told. He already gonna be on
the ground. You can say that you know these top
programs LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia. I can agree with you
to the fact that when you say they don't have
the money to give a coach like Lane Kiffin, because
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obviously those guys are some of the top four or
five programs in all the football. But if I'm old
miss and you want to continue to have the success
that you've been having over the last four years under
his tenure, I don't understand why you wouldn't find a
way to make it an even playing field for lane
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Kiffin to make the decision, not because of you. You
don't want to pay him, because of you want to
continue to put a good college football program together moving forward.
Money shouldn't be the reason why Lane Kiffin leaves to
go play against one of your rivals in the same conference.
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Find a way, if he really wants to be an
old miss, to get him the same exact money that
a Florida or a l s U would offer him,
and you have a better chance of him staying and
other than oh man, he just he's just he's just leaving.
He's not even going to think about us because we
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don't have the money. I don't want to be in that.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And you see an old mess beating and Ohio State
and the college football playoffs with with with Lane Kiffin,
absolutely I can. Ever, I don't see that ever happening.
Come on that you don't agree with that? Man, I
don't say ever. Don't give Kiffin. I had an opportunity
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to be any team in the Come on the team
that he had. We all have opportunity. That don't mean
we're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
If he played he has times in the college football
in the top twelve.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
On any given day they play Ohio stage.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's too touchdown, too touchdown, two touchdowns, and it's a talent.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That they might not even make it out of Michigan today.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Man, they gonna beat Michigan so bad. Man, I hope
they do. Hey, flat live Michigan.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
They got into the fight last year after the game, Man,
I wish I had to play one of these football games.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, we got a lot to get to. What's going
wrong or what is happened to the Meagles? Can can
they get right on the track and figured this out?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The Bears they look like they might be for real.
And we gonna stay on this lane, Kiffin subject we
all get back to the college football. We got our
dog Cuffs. We're gonna ask Cuffs about this too, because
I know Cuffs. Is he not just a basketball guy, man,
Cuffs is a sports guy. So we got a lot
to get to. Man, appreciate you guys locking in with us.
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Speaker 2 (19:05):
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get going, we're gonna go ahead and get to these updates,
mister Isaac loein crime.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
What you got boys?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Well, First of all, Lane Kiffin has still not decided
yet I am hitting refresh and yes, he still has
not decided yet. So on we go to the one
and twenty first all time meeting between Ohio State and Michigan,
and the fifteenth ranked Wolverines have a three to nothing
lead over the top ranked Buckeyes just two and a
(20:07):
half minutes into the game, and it looks like they're
threatening to add to it because they just intercepted an
Ohio State pass. So Michigan has it back going in
first down and ten at the Ohio State thirty eight
yard line, already leading it three to nothing. Elsewhere, fifth
ranked Texas Tech on the board at West Virginia on KTTU.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Snap back to him fakes then oh, he's gonna run
it in again. Jacob Rodriguez has got his second offensive
touchdown in as many weeks.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And that's given the Red Raiders a seven to nothing
lead at West Virginia six minutes and thirty six seconds
left to play in the first quarter. Twelfth ranked Miami
and number twenty two pit our score list with just
over five minutes left to play in the first quarter.
We also have some fresh NFL news on this Saturday.
Detroit Lions, four time pro Bowls. Frank Ragnow came out
(21:02):
of retirement earlier this week on Wednesday, but today the
Lions announced that he has failed a physical because of
a Grade three hamstring strain. So that means that Ragnow
will not be rejoining the Lions after all. The Indianapolis
Colts today added their excellent rookie tight end Tyler Warren
to their injury report due to illness. They've got him
listed now as questionable for Sunday's game against the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Guys, back to you, hey, man, that's crazy how you
feel a physical and you've been sitting on the couch
all year, Like, I'm sure you've been working out. You
ain't tell him a I heard my hamstring a couple
weeks ago. But I'll be like, what why even go
down at home?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
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Speaker 3 (22:05):
Buy you some man, I was I'm not gonna lie.
I thought the.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Bears had a chance to beat the Eagles, but I
didn't really think.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I didn't think they can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I felt like the Eagles defense would give Caleb Williams
a lot of problems, the Bears defense spending the hit
or miss, but they were getting Jalen Johnson back, so
I felt like they'd be a little more competitive. But
what happened, I did not expect that. I'm not sure
anybody expected that they ran the ball at will, which
(22:39):
was the difference.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Two things. Can Philly figure this out? Can the Philly
deaf Eagles? Because the way they look and are the
Bears for real?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I can't really say that for real right now? I
honestly believe that everybody's a little surprised because nobody saw
a first year head coach and Ben Johnson had just
left Detroit. We knew, you know, the success that he
had offensively, you know, playing with Jared Goff and that offense,
(23:21):
and you know, you were saying that, you know, it's
the players, not so much Ben Johnson, But now you
look at what how he's commanding his offense in this
first year in Chicago under Kayleb Williams, and it just
seems like they can throw it if they want to
throw it. And they put on a rushing attack yesterday
(23:41):
against a very stout defensive defensive line which everybody you
can say that they are one of the top three
defensive lines on paper in the NFL, and Deonday Swift
in this offensive line, they ran in between the tackles
like it was a high school football game. And I
think that's the most alarming thing about the game yesterday,
(24:03):
not that the Philadelphia Eagles lost the football game, but
in the fashion that they did defensively against a team
that you know they've been up and down, up and down.
You can't really say who Chicago Bears are right now,
even though you know it's ten eleven weeks into the season.
(24:24):
But defensively for the Philadelphia Eagles, I mean, where do
you go from here? Because the defense is basically supposed
to be the calling card of your football team, especially
upfront with you know, Jalen Carter and and some of
these additions that you have defensively, I never thought that
(24:46):
I would see your Philadelphia defense get ran through. And
it's almost kind of like Ben Johnson and this team
and this offense made a collective decision to run the
football with the Andre Swift, who was a member of
the Philaelphia football team two years ago, and to really
(25:07):
kind of prove a point. And they flat out went
out there yesterday and shoved the football down their throat.
And if you on that defense right now, you're sitting
in that meeting and you're looking at how they basically
did whatever they wanted to, you got to check your
pride to the door after yesterday. I think offensively, you
(25:30):
know they can get better. Aj Brown had ten catches,
a couple of touchdown, but they just didn't look like
did the Philadelphia team that we thought that was ascending
on the way up. Obviously, they lost the game last
week to Dallas, and now you have a short weekend.
It's two back to back losses for Philly. I still
(25:52):
believe that they win the division going down a stretch,
but they gotta find a way to fix this defense.
I mean, it's just totally uncalled for the way the
Chicago Bears went in there and manhandled on the other
side of the football and grown men at will, and
they did it whenever they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'll say this, the Eagles defense has carried them pretty
much all year, you're gonna have some games in the
National Football League.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's very rare, and you can attest it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It's very rare that offense or defense, you have your
A game every single game for the season. It's virtually
impossible to be on your A game every single game
of the season. Offensively, you're not gonna have seventeen really
(26:47):
good games. Offense, you may have two or three when
you're like, who, I'm glad the defense saved us. Defensively,
you're gonna have two or three games. Woof, I'm glad
the offense saved us. What happened yesterday was the Eagles
offense can't save the Eagles defense. And so the game
that the Eagles defense decided, you know, we just weren't
(27:09):
gonna have a good showing the offense couldn't save them.
And to me, that is the bigger concern because it
just looks glaring that, now, oh man, what is going
on with the Eagles defense. They had a bad game,
But if their offense had brought anything to the table,
(27:32):
that would have made the game more competitive, and it
would have put it would have put pressure on the
Bears to be just just to do more and so
this happens all the time, but the.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Offense pick doesn't. It doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I'm talking it happens all the time in the NFL.
Not with where one side plays bad the other side
picks them up offensively.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No no, no, no, no no, no no. I don't think the
Eagles defensive played bad. Listen, when you sit.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And you say, when you sit there and say that
you're not going to play your a game every single weekend'sible.
I personally feel that it relates to or we busted
the coverage, oh the passing game, or we missed a
hot read, or we missed a block, or whatever the
case may be. You make mistakes schematically, we're talking about
(28:25):
mono mono man in front of man, and the Chicago
Bears were tougher than the Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Eagles up front.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's not a bad football game. You got dominated man
on man. So don't tell me you played a bad
football game.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
When you get dominated, that is a bad football game
because nobody else, nobody else is doing that to him.
Nobody else is doing that to the Eagles. Random dude.
The Chicago Bears had two players rush over one hundred
and twenty yards one hundred and twenty five. Swift had
one hundred and twenty five carries basically average seven yards
of carry. Montagay had one hundred and thirty yards average
(29:10):
six yards of carry. That doesn't happen to the Philadelphia
Caleb Williams completed less than fifty percent of his passes.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So how can you say it's a bad game.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a bad game for the Eagles defensively stopping to run.
They gave up almost three hundred rush, two hundred and
eighty yards rushing. That doesn't happen when when it's a blip,
when it's an anomaly, that's a bad game. Because that's
not saysn't often. This has never happened to me. But
(29:40):
if I would never step into in front of a
podium and say that I played a bad football game,
knowing that, knowing that the man across with.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Me kicked my ass.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
So you saying I'm never going to say a bad game,
almost get up there and say, you know what, man,
that man was better than me today, mercy before we
see what's better than you? But when have we seen
the Eagles? If this happened four or five times a year.
What you're saying, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
When have we seen the Eagles all season an offense
do this to their defense whin have a penis even
in the games that you have a different they haven't.
They haven't been manhandled like this before. Like they got
like you said, they got the lunch, They got their lunch.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Took give me your lunch.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They did, they did, matter of fact, give me your
lunch and your lunch money, and I want it all.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
William complete fifty percent of his passes less, and they're like,
you know what, man, we ain't even got to throw it.
They can't stop running, so let's let's just let's he
continue to run the football in between the tackles where
we want, whenever we want, for two hundred plus rushing yards.
You consider that having a bad game. So you think
the Bears are the Bears for real?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I don't think that's for real. Oh so you think
they fools? Go there?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You would say, I mean, you can't just, you know,
walk into the building and say they're the Chicago Bears
from three or four years ago, because you can clearly
see that. You know Ryan Poles and you know Ben
Johnson first year head coach. They are taking strides in
an NFC North Division, which last year we all agreed
(31:21):
that was the most competitive division all football. That's not
the That's not the same for this year. So I
would say that it's still competitive. It's just the Viking
aren't at the top this year. I'm still gonna say
that when it comes down to it. Uh, when it
comes to Detroit and Chicago, I believe that the Detroit
(31:43):
line still have a hand up because of the experience,
and I just think that I don't think that Chicago
Bears are just for real contenders right now. I need
to see more before I get on here and say, oh,
Chicago Bears are the real deal.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The Eagles offense needs to They just need to play better.
They got to be able to run the ball and
pass the ball effectively in the same game.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Aj Brown had ten catches, but you're not running the
ball effectively, and so they got to be able to
marry those two at the same time.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Just more.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
He is getting put on Kevin Patulo as each week
goes by. Offensively, he has to be better calling plays.
He has to be better at getting his best players
involved early and often. Like I just haven't seen a
team that has this type of talent struggle so much
on the offensive end. But one team that is not
struggling on offensive and one team that I didn't think
(32:40):
they would do anything at the start of this season
and they have impressed me.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Plexico brous What do you make of that victory that
they had over the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Oh man, it's impressive.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I mean, you cannot sit here and say that they
did not go out and beat one of the best
defensive minds that we've seen in the past decade and
Steve Spagnovia. And you know what, George Pickens right now,
I believe that he's making his mark after being traded
away from Pittsburgh and where he is now. I think
(33:20):
he's a great, great compliment to Cee Lamb and his
offense and now everybody's beginning to see just how special
that this young man can be. But on the flip
side of that, uh, they're they're they able to stop
the run and being able to contain Patrick Mahomes in
that offense and that and that Andy Reid play calling.
(33:41):
So you have to, you know, say kudos to the
Cowboys because they are playing well is going to be
enough for them to win the division down the road.
I don't know, But just just like we had the
conversation in a few minutes a few seconds ago about
the Chicago Bears, all the Dallas Cowboys for real, I
still need to see more if they can continue to
(34:02):
be consistent offensively in defense, because Dallas has known to,
you know, win two or three games in a row,
and they have that loll where they lose one or
two games that they're not supposed to lose, which keeps
them from being one of those elite and FC football teams.
So I think moving forward, I think shot is doing
(34:23):
I think Shoty's doing a good job. Obviously they have
the tie on the end of their current record, but
I think right now, when you look at the Dallas Cowboys,
you can say that they are one of the top
five teams in the NFC. So you have to take
(34:44):
them seriously because if the Philadelphia Eagles don't get this
thing together, we may be looking at a new NFC
East Division champion.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The way the Cowboys started the season trade Michael Parsons,
they get Kenny Clark, then they get Quinn Williams, so.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I'm like, oh, they lost that trade.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I really really like what I've seen out the Cowboys,
that offense and the way that hey, Dax Prescott stand up,
patch yourself on the back a baller, a baller when
you got those type of receivers, and he's getting the
ball to both guys. It ain't just one guy eating.
He's getting the ball to both guys and they are
(35:29):
going up and down the field at will. Nobody can
stop them. And that's what I'm saying. He's getting the
ball to Ferguson. They even running the ball when they
need to effectively. I really like what I see out
the Cowboys. Shout out to Schottenheimer because I didn't think
he could be ahead coach and galvanize a team because
(35:52):
when I've seen him as a coordinator, especially when he
was in Seattle, and again he may have been handcuffed
with Pete Curroll being the coach and kind of forcing
what he wants him to do. But I'm a big
fan of what I've seen out the Cowboys. The way
they beat the Chiefs, that was a shocker. We didn't
even get into this, and we don't need to get
(36:13):
into this, but I'm not so sure the Kansas City
Chiefs make the playoffs now moving forward, and that's something
that going into the season I said they would not
win the division, as you recall, I didn't think they
wouldn't make the playoffs though, Like what.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
The Chiefs may not make the playoffs. But yeah, kudos
to the Cowboys, Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Jerry Jones for you really without a limb trading Michael
Parsons and this could have really been ugly. But what
they have on defense and these picks, if they can
find a way to keep George Pickens, which they can
find a way and just draft some killers on defense,
(36:57):
the Cowboys are about to be a problem for years
to come. And who would have thought at the beginning
of the season that this would be the case. But yeah,
the Cowboys are for real. And the Chiefs they've been
the team of the last decade and they may not
even make man the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Man, We've been around this business long enough to no
one understand because it happens almost every year. It's not
about how you start, baby, it's about how you finish.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And it's how you're starting, how you're doing the middle,
and how you finish up.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's how you're doing the middle.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Some of these teams, you know, they they get connected,
you know, midway through the season, and that confidence starts
to set into each individual on that team, man, and
you start believing like, oh man, you know what, we
can win some football games. It goes and winning some
football games, or we can win the division, and then
all you want to do is get in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Man. I've been a.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Part of it, and it's always those one or two
teams that just come out of nowhere because everybody had
already put them on a back burner because of the
way season started. I just you just never know how
it's going in So we're gonna see moving forward, Man,
who are these one or two teams that's will come
(38:18):
out of nowhere? And they could surprise everybody. And right now, man,
the Cowboys on the rise.
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you're going to baton rouge. If you know what's good
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for your lane, You're gonna head on the baton rouge.
Ken Ohio State. Can they finish in the regular season
undefeated and beat Michigan? They struggling a little bit rough?
Can they do it? The Bears? We like what we see.
But coming up in the second hour, we got cuffs
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