January 20, 2026 • 36 mins
Stugotz & Company welcome college football expert Chris Fallica to break down the national championship game resulting in Indiana winning their first title. Mike Golic Sr joins the guys to talk about the big game some headlines around the NFL. Stugotz & Company talk about the fallout from Indiana winning the title.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We will start today's show with a very said bear.
Chris Filica, who was back from Miami went to the
game last night, sent me a very sad text earlier
this morning, simply saying, we let one get away.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello Bear, Hello, Yeah we did. Yeah we did. And
that's not to say Indiana didn't deserve to win, but
every opportunity was there for me. It was a microcosm
of Indiana's season. Every high leverage before the day, in
the game, whether it with two fourth down conversions, the
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blocked punt which was just completely unforgivable, the Charlie Becker
third down back to shoulder throws, every single big play
seemed to go Indiana's way, and if one of them,
one of them don't, Miami could be could be a
sitting here as national champ today. And it felt like
the type of game that they played ten times. They're
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both gonna win five, right, and they wore the two
best teams in the country, and Indiana is a rightful
and deserving national title but wow, it was right there
for the Canes last night to take.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Can you give us like the saddest point for you,
Like the saddest moment was it right after the loss?
Was it the interception? Was it the you know, the
drive to the airport this morning? What was the saddest
part for you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
This the interception was just like, yeah, like the finality
of the season being over, the saddest in the world
when I got when I got on the shuttle bus
back to the hotel, I had recorded a little video
thing for for my Very Bet show. I'm just sitting
there and just kind of reliving the entire path and
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the journey in the night and you're just like, damn,
it's over now. It was You're so close. H You're
gonna be number two. It's great to say we're gonna
your Miami's gonna have more opportunities to be in these
types of games, but there's no guarantee that you're gonna
get back. So yeah, that was sad. And I kind
of got to the room and packed my bag and
then the anger. It was anger this morning when when
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you wake up. That was like the stage you're angry
at uh a block partty, You're you're angry at a penalty,
You're angry at this and then you and then like
we we like we do on on Fridays with with
you and Mikey. We talk it out right my Miami
my Miami Groupe text chat. We were kind of like,
you know what, subsett came up. We're playing, We're we're
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we're we're we're complaining, not complaining, but we're angry, we're
bitter or upset, we're disappointed because we played for the
national championship and lost. It's like, you know what, a
million teams out there would have would have traded spot.
So it was a good group think friends were there
for each other this morning and it was needed.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Bear Miami's relationship with Carson Beck has felt almost like
a toxic X where it's like, Oh, she's gonna change,
she's gonna change, she's gonna change, and then he throws
that interception. You're like, there's the Carson that guy I
knew and I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It was here, here's what and I and initially from
where I was sitting in the press box, that was
right in front of me, like I was in that
end zone and and that happened there, and I immediately
bought the same thing. Of course, the three games Miami
loses this year were all interceptions on the final drive.
And then I don't know if you saw kill and
Marion walked receiver came out and said, now that was
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on me. Miscommunication, I ran the wrong route. Something happened,
because it's so easy and obvious to just always assume
the interception is on the quarterback. But Marion took full
blame for that. He's like, that was on me, And major,
major props to him for taking ownership of that, because
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I think he knows kind of what what Carson has
gone through. And I also wouldn't be surprised if Carson
might have gotten a little dinged up on that Arsenal
found late hit on that final drive. But yeah, yeah,
that was That was certainly a play call that I
think a lot of if we were one if our
Miami buddies here, if we were upset about like why
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did you take a shot there? The ball's at the
forty yard line, you got fifty two seconds or whatever
it was, right, you're moving the ball underneath Todd clock
stops for a first down. He didn't need the shot there,
and hey, they felt it was there, and maybe if
the the communication was right, it would have been a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
But you're so right about that, Bear, because even if
they score in that spot, you're leaving time for Mendoza.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, which they did against all miss and and all
on miss and when he came back and won the game.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Bear, that sounds like a receiver maybe trying to protect
his quarterback a little bit, because I'd rather just say
Carson Beck was dinged up and was you know, hearing bells.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, but that is he That happens all the Chris
Simms tells us every week that stuff happens all the time.
We just blame the quarterback because we don't.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Know the route.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But I saw where those two defenders were. I saw
where Carson Beck threw the ball, and if they did
not seem an opportunity where if the maybe if the
receiver was in a different spot it was, it looked
like it was going to be an interception. So you
want to tell me specifically what that receiver didn't do
correct and where that ball was going to be. But
if I'm the quarterback in that spot, I'm not just
guessing like, I've got to see.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
It, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So to me that that's that's not really an excuse.
It feels like in the receiver just protecting his guy.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Thanks you.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
He's not.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
He's not invited.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, he's an Indiana fan, he is.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Verify how about that last night with those those fourth
down plays that that was just that that play will
be immortalized in Indiana football history. Just just an incredible
job by Kurtzignetti. I think he felt in the second half,
I'm guessing like those two fourth down conversions that they had,
Like I think the way the game was going in
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the second half, Miami finally started getting some things going
off offensively, and he's like, you know what, I'd rather
win this game or lose it with my offense on
the field right now. And those two fourth down conversions
were just absolutely massive.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Beart, you're a historian of college football, like you love
this sport more than any person I know. You know
more about the sport than any person I know. Can
you explain to the audience how unlikely it is that
Indiana finished sixteen to zero and Bloomington is the center
of the college football world.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's completely unfathomable. And if you were to tell Indiana
fans that I think it was five hundred and something
days ago when they hired Churt Signetti that oh yeah,
you got you and to win the national title in
two years, they would have just laughed you off the
face of the earth. Had town it was the losingest program,
losingest program ever amongst teams that are in powerful conferences,
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and they won a national title two years after hiring Chritsie.
Like I make a college football equivalent, like Kansas State
was kind of the same thing, but Kansas State never
played for a national championship. Kansas State won a Big
twelve title, but it took a while like State almost overnight.
And the closest thing that that it comes to my mind,
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and I'm sure Taylor will probably appreciate this and understand
what I'm getting at the In the EPL, the English
Premier League, a couple of years ago, Leicester City one
of the lowest possible teams in the prem like zero revenue,
zero history really what they won the prem You beat
giants like Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea. It
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was Lester City, who I think they were like a
two thousand to one to win the title at the
start of the year. So it's that type of historical
anomaly that that it was. And we'll we'll see if
this is a if this is a thing, or if
it's a one off. Now with roster construction and the
portal and being able to player is suing to get
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an extra year of ILGI ability outside of the normal
five these teams with old rosters. It kind of been
together for a while. Uh that that that worked well
this year for.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
A Uh the Foxes Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean yes?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
And you thought Taylor was to a guy on soccer?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Who who was Lester's leading goal scorer that year?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Uh? Man gim what was his name starts with an M?
I think right?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well, where riad Mare has was a midfielder on the team,
Yes he is there, But Jimmy Vardy is a leading goal.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well you didn't give me time. JV is what I
call him, right. I had to think about it for
a second.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I'm in football I'm in football mode, not football mode.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Okay, can I give you by the way we're about
to start here, you have a bet on it?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, I I you You're the first person I really,
like openly, like discussed my heartbreak with and like I
didn't listen to anything on the way in today. I
had no no, no heart to like to listen stuff
sports talk or anything today because I just didn't want
to deal with it. But I'm amongst stuttson company. Yeah,
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there and my whalehouse.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I would say, I would say the American comp to me,
feels like the Golden State Warriors going like, now, they
won something in nineteen seventy five, but it was four
or full decades of nothing, and then they just pop
up out of nowhere and become seventy three and nine.
That's probably the closest thing I could think of over here.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that would that would be a good one. I mean,
the Braves kind of stunk forever and then they had
that great run in what was in nineteen ninety one
where they wind up winning the division and getting to
the World here that that would probably be one as well.
But yeah, it's it's amazing, Like years two years ago,
I mean even before the year, they were like, okay,
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you lose, you lose all these players if they had
last year, and yeah, they'll they'll have blown out by
Indiana and Ohio State last year. They they can't win
these caliber game games as speed, like one hundred to
one or so to win the title entering this year,
which is a ridiculous long So hey, it was a
we said last week, regardless of who won, it was
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going to be a story for the ages and you.
This is the story that we got for college football neutrals.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There there was probably no better national champ this year
than what we got last night.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The good news is, if you're Miami, you just have
to replace three potential top twenty picks on your offensive
defensive lines to get back to the same.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I have the money to do it, though they do.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I mean, well that's what That's what worries me the
most biggest. Ruben bain anake Messidor are dogs. They are
game wreckers.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Were you were you embarrassed by all the Indiana fans there?
I mean you had to be.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I'm behalfy of what it's Yeah, the game was played
on Miami's home field. What's run by the college wall play?
I mean it was a I thought Indiana had a
slight advantage. It was I would say it was probably
around sixty forty or so. It's to be expected. Potentially
could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for Indiana fans,
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and they and they made the most of it, and
I'm they I'm happy for them that their trip and
the resource persons and the time and effort that they
made and getting down there to see that that it
worked out. What I would like to have seen a
different result. Yeah, but uh, it does make me feel
good that they're they're happy today.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Now you sound clean as a whistle. I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well, let's stay out. Let's stay then.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, I will said, were you surprised that Signetti decided
to kick a field goal in that spot and not
try to end the game.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, No, I wasn't. And people brought this up that, oh,
you'll go for it and you can end the game. Yeah,
but if you go for it and don't get it
and fourth and four or whatever it was, I think
that's not a gimme by any needs. You can kick
the field goal, you force Miami to go the length
of the field and score a touchdown with no timeouts,
and maybe things are different if they go for it
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and don't get it and Miami only needs a he's
a field goal, So I was not surprised at that
people brought that up. I'm like, nah, at that point
where you are in the field, you got to take
the points there easily. One other, especially in addition to
the block punt that ultimately was I think the biggest
swing play of the game. If you go back and
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watch the game, another special teams play which was massive
was the punt where Malachi Tony fielded the ball on
his five yard line and I'm looking and like, what
the hell is he doing? And then I'm seeing from
I was in the same AI zone and you could
see Bryce Fitzgerald like on the far outside the hash.
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It looked like they had something planned where Tony was
gonna have a little bit of a throwback and get
Fitzgerald the ball out there on the other side, because
maybe they thought they had a favorable matchup or at
that point in the field, Indiana would not been expecting
that they still hadn't fully gotten their offense, going yeah,
so what was he? What was he doing? Field? And
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then you look go back and watch the tape. I
Miami fans won't want to, but for for Neutrals and
Indiana fans. I think there was something planned, and I
think Indiana's punk coverage and the punt was so good
that it really didn't allow for that trick play. It happened.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So you had a big ticket on the Canes to
win the national championship, and you with Indiana, and now
all you need is Center to win the Australian Open.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Exactly, now, all now, all any Now, all you need
is Janick Center to win the Australian Open. Yeah, one
hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty to one. Ticket gone, goodbye,
dreams of UH cruises in South America and wherever else dashed. Yes,
thanks to take you go go fund me, backslash, help
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the bear out.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I know you wanted some soothing out of us.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You're not gonna get it, Okay, go to Mike Ryan,
go to your Canes crew and let them suthe you.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Okay, Mike, Mike Ryan. Mike Bryan is online.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
By the way, Yes, Mike, Mike Ryan and UH and
Uncle Luke are kind of going at it there. Check
out the old Twitter machine.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
He's having a good one, all right, buddy, enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We appreciate it. As Owe's and We're sorry about your kids. Bear,
we are, we love you, We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm proud, awesome year. Yes after the SB game, imagine that.
So yeah, super proud, disappointed, be proud.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And shame on you for not congratulating Israel Goody Era
as the biggest Hoo's your fan of all time.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I called the game.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Exactly Bloomington via Miami. Yes, where we've heard that before.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
All right, beer, we appreciate it, but us okay here, guys, all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Right, be sure to catch live editions of Stuve Gotson
Company live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Gino tretta former Heisman Trophy winner for the University of
Miami two time national champion, will join us at four o'clock,
and Mike Golic Senior good friend, good to join us
right now. Let's get to Golick here, Mike, did you
ever think we would arrive? This is crazy that we
would arrive at the day where the college football capital
of the world is Bloomington, Indiana.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
It is It is amazing.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I mean, it's obviously the side of the times, of
the transfer portal of paying players and good old fashioned coaching, right,
I mean Kurt Signetti and his staff what they're doing,
and the players buying in. It all just came together
to one of the greatest turnarounds. What since nineteen forty
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five until last year, Indiana had never won more than
eight games. They were the losing his program with over
seven hundred losses, only to be overtaken by Northwestern in
the last two years.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It is.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
It's stunning, and it's going to it's going to show
other athletic departments and presidents, presidents of colleges how quickly
you can turn things around with the right mixture right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And if you have a guy like Mark Cuban who
wants the football program to be good, that's how you
do it right.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
That's it.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
That's college football in twenty twenty six. Whether it be money,
money makes the world go round. Now again, money's part
of it. You have the money to bring in the players.
You got to bring in the right players, and you
got to be able to coach the right players. So
while money is obviously huge and it always has been,
it's still part of the process.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I know he's an I you guy, but it's still
jarring to watch a football game and then see Mark
Cuban on your screen, like.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I'll set like that. Seas the basketball guy like it.
It just looked weird to be. I don't know what.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Well, it's amazing.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
What what championship games, whether it be college or or
professional sports, brings out the the stars, like well, Mike
and I on our show, we're talking to Devin mccordy
the other day won three titles with the Patriots, and
he said before the Super Bowl going on and warming up,
he said, it was amazing. You look around and you
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just see celebrities everywhere, and you're like, wow, they're all
here to watch us.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
It's it's wild. Now in college it's different.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
It's mostly a lumb of the of the schools, and
god knows, Miami had a bunch of former players there,
but it does get pretty wild.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
It's seeing the celebrities there, Mike, even though.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
They lost, how much money do you think Rubyin Bain
and Mesidor made last night because they were really disruptive.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Well, Bain was already going to be a highest selection
without a question. He was He's going to go in
the top ten, depending on the need of the team.
But Moten was fantastic, Mesador was these guys. I mean
at two eighty two, seventy five, three twenty five, this
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is a man's man's defensive line. So Bain was already
going to be a high draft pick you already, Yeah, exactly,
He's especially now that that Dante or dropped out.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, Bain may end up being the number two pick.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Now, Mike, were you surprised that Signetti Because everything he
did leading up to that play, that decision suggests to
me that he was going to try to end the
game and not kick a field goal to go up six.
He ended up kicking the field goal. I thought he
should have went for it. Were you surprised by Signetti
doing that?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Listen, I'm more of the conservative nature.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I'm not as into the today's game of going for
it all the time.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I would have kicked the field goal. I would have
gone up six.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Now, as Mike and I kind of discussed, if you're
up three, there's now you feel like you only have
to go and kick a field goal to tie. Do
you really go for a touchdown? You're kind of caught
betwixt between. If you're down six, you know you have
to do everything in your power to get a touchdown.
On Miami has the ability to do a big play.
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So while I understand both sides of it, I would
have kicked the field goal and forced Miami to go
all the way to the end zone.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Is taking the three the new punk rock? Is that
like the new, like weird thing to do, just taking
just taking?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yeah, well, I mean it doesn't it.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
It seems like still going for it on fourth down?
Is is what's in everybody's head. If you always see
that that analytical graphic pop up of whether it to
go for or not, normally it's go for it. It's
almost seems like every freaking situation is go for it,
And it seems like coaches today are going for it
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when sometimes you know, sometimes three points will we'll do
you right?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
And uh in this case it turned out to be enough.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mikey is right though, taking the three points is the
new going for it?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yeah, but Mike is Mike's had such a young face,
but he makes such old references.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
So when you say it's taking the three the new
punk rock?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I think even Golick was confused.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I was, I'm not gonna lie, I was, I was.
I didn't know where you were.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Going, right, Just so you don't feel alone.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mike, were you surprised going to the NFL here just
for a few minutes, were you surprised?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I thought he deserved it, But by the Bills decision
to part ways with Sean McDermott.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
I mean, listen, this is the year right between John
Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin Sean McDermott. Now, Harbaugh and Tomlin
both have Super Bowl trophies in their pocket, but they're
going nineteen and eighteen years and with rosters, especially Baltimore
that figured should have won, haven't. And Sean McDermott certainly
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with a roster that has basically been stopped mostly by
Kansas City, one time by Cincinnati, but mostly by Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
You know what's doing. I'm kind of both ways on it.
It's like who you mean to get? How do you
know what's going to be different?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right?
Speaker 10 (20:54):
But you've been over a time and time again that
you're like, okay, we need changed the cycle. It was
like Andy Reid in Philadelphia, right, winning NFC championships or
getting the NFC championship games, going to one Super Bowl, losing,
losing in the other NFC championship games.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
They got rid of him.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
They've been through a cycle of a few coaches since,
but they have been to a couple of Super Bowls.
So and I always go back to the late great
Marty Schottenheimer who has said, ten to twelve years in
a locker room, players start to look past you.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
You know, you kind of lose that that kind of
grip on the locker room.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
And so it's all the nice because after especially this year,
with all the new head coaches, and some will be
first time head coaches, some have been head coaches though
Jeff Haffley was a coach in college. We're gonna be
We're gonna say, let's grade the head coaches. And every
year I say, you can't. You have no idea, especially
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a first time head coach, what they're gonna do if
they were a coordinator all their life, now they're a coach,
what are they gonna do as a head coach when
they sit in that CEO chair as a head coach,
I have no idea what decisions they're gonna make. We'll
look at one of the greatest dynasties of New England
Patriots when those coordinators of Josh McDaniels, of Matt Patricia
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you know, went out to be head coaches, they were awful,
and they're not going to be head coaches anymore. So
you absolutely don't know what the difference is going to.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Be, right, Mike, So with the Dolphins hire and Jeff Hafley,
the Green Bay DC defensive coordinator, you don't know anything
about him.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You don't know what he's going to be.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
But I'm curious what you think of this being in
terms of being beneficial for a franchise when they brought
in the previous or Mike McDaniel, you have to be
okay with two Okay, that's something you have to concede.
Or a previous coach you have to be okay with
Chris Greer, that's something you have to concede. This GM
is bringing in a coach he's familiar with and they
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have no necessary ties to a quarter back. It's actually
a clean slate for these guys and they have a relationship,
the GM and the head coach. I'm curious how much
that benefits a team where you don't have to be like, Okay,
I'll take this job, but I've got this sort of
ball and chain around my ankle that I have to
take with me.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Well, I mean is who are going to be there?
I mean it's two are not going to be there.
If who is there?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Locally, we all sort of realized they're going to try
to find a way to get around it, even if
they have.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
To take a hit in terms of the salary cap.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Yeah, well we've seen Denver take a monster dead cap
hit with Russell Wilson and look they're They're in the
AFC Championship Game a couple of years later, how about it.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
But so I'm I'm kind.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Of all for a clean slate, and it's not odd
to have an offensive former head coach and then the
next head coach be a defensive guy. We see that
kind of quite a bit actually, and Halfley being a
defensive guy. Now, the issue that you have when you
have a defensive coordinator. A lot of times that head
coach can call defenses. We don't know if Halfley's going
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to do that or not, or led a decordinator, but
their most important.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Higher than is who's going to run the offense.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
And if you get a hell of an offensive coordinator
in two years, that offensive coordinator may be looking at
a head coaching job and you may lose him and
have to replace him, And I'm kind of like what
Dan Campbell had to do in Detroit, What maybe, what
maybe Mike McDonald will have to do in Seattle with
Klint Kubiak if he gets a job.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We'll see Mike, Thank you and enjoy enjoying the football weekend.
College football is over and Signetti has.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
One more championship, the Marcus Freedom.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
God bless the rest of the football season.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
God bless you, Mike Gullick.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Thank Mike. All right, guys, you.
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Speaker 8 (25:29):
Ready to take the staff, He takes and he looks.
He looks, he throws the football and runs, he runs it.
Can he ties for the heads up?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Does he get it?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
In?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Touchstone? Mendoza runs the football at score It's twelve yard play.
Bernando Mendoza tremendous fake and then he runs it in.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I think Don almost had that as a throw.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
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You never ever thought he'd be calling a national championship
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Speaker 3 (26:27):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Thank you to Mike Golick for joining us. Gino Toretta
Heisman Trophy winner, former Heisman Trophy win, her two time
national champion, is going to join us coming up in
about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I don't know who is making that.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Sound and what is going on, But could someone stop
and just turn it off before I start yelling at
this entire organization. I mean, my god, it's hard enough
to do a live radio show. Then they have to
deal with this and tell me it's not mikey a.
It better not be Mikeya Rupert Murdoch on the phone.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I mean, what is happening here? Unbelieved?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I didn't say it was you. You said I thought
it was you. But can someone stop? Jesus, I'm about
to curse. I am so close.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Taylor knows me, and he knows I am about to curse. Like, hey, everyone,
we're here trying to do a show. I appreciate all
of you. I appreciate all of your help. Let's get
it the bleep together.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Holy Hell.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Let's Indiana hoosier this thing.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Jesus, I feel like Heny Goldberg right now? Did you
get the podcast promo in Who's Your Yeah? So listen?
Is he is a big Mendoza fan.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And Mendoza showed me some toughness last night, and he
showed me some guts, and he showed me some guile,
and he showed me the ability to turn this thing
into kind of like a circus a wrestling match with
his comments after the game that we'll get to in
just a second. But you had to be so impressed
with Mendoza last night, that run in particular, and his toughness,
because there were probably three unsportsman like penalties that should
(28:17):
have been called on Mendoza and that's why his chin
was bleeding and his lip was bleeding. But Mendoza, that's
the most impressive I've watched a ton of him this year,
is he I walked away from last night's game, the
National Championship game, the biggest of moments, more impressed with
him than I've ever been the entire season.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I feel like saying I'm a big Mendoza guy now
kind of undercuts the whole idea. That was a big
Mendoza guy well before everybody else was saying Mendoza for Heisman. However,
I remember the Penn State game, you know, the drive
down the field, game winning drive where I sent you
screencaps of that final throw. Yeah, where he was pressured,
(28:58):
where he was getting hit, where he was turned into
a folding table as he's making the best throw at
the time, the most important.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Throw of his life, and it was a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
You know, watching him a couple play more since then,
obviously you can just tell there's a toughness there. And
you know in the National Championship game in his hometown
that it didn't matter what was going to happen to him,
he was going to focus and be at his best.
And he knew that Miami Hurricanes defensive line was going
to be probably the best one he faced all season.
(29:33):
And that's why I love that they went after him
because when he had the bloody lip, like I just
thought of, I don't know, Dwyane Wade bloody lip against
the Knicks one year where he went off for like fifty.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
That just sets people off sometimes, and that was another
reminder that he needed.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
But you knew he was motivated. And I think Taylor's
about to tell you why if.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You were doing a storybook on this, you couldn't script
it better. That the person that takes out Miami is
one of their own. And Fernando Mendoza made sure to
get that jab in after he won the National Championship
because he called Miami out and was like, these guys
denied me from a walk on spot and then he
commits elsewhere, he wins the Heisman. He beats Miami in
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their home stadium in the National Championship, Like that is
the best scriptwriters in Hollywood. Yes, couldn't tell that story.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right, It's a great story. It's revenge. It's hey, you
passed up on me, and now it's full circle. Here
I am in your stadium beating your team and you
didn't want me.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Question last year Bernando Mendoza when he was a Cal Bear, Yeah,
he lost to the Hurricanes in a very close game,
was thirty nine, thirty eight. He didn't have the greatest game.
That was probably a targeting call or a late hit
call that should have gone Cal's way and didn't. But
they lost that game. If go back to last year,
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they find a way to pull that game off. Cal
Fernando still have that same beef with Miami or do
you think that maybe he does have that same fire
in his belly to try to beat Miami, not say
you know that's he probably still would have transferred, still
probably would have gotten too IU or what have you
still got that same revenge factor?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Or do you think if he beat him last year?
Because I think last year's game added to it.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, I think he would have still had that same
revenge factor for the national champion. Yeah, just because of
that denying him a walk on spot, like I wanted
to pay tuition to go here and play on your
football team, most likely be on your scout team for
years before maybe even getting a chance when he's getting
offers by like Fiu. The fact that Miami is the one,
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like they showed the pictures of him in the crowd
with like the green face paint, the range face paint.
The fact that Miami told him, Hey, you're not even
good enough to pay tuition here, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes, it's insulting, and he got he got his revenge
last night a little bit too much with panning over
to the parents every time n Doza made a play,
I mean, do I need to see the whole family?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
And every time he makes a play talking.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
About the script. Right, you couldn't script any better. His
mother has ms, his father is sitting there celebrating with her,
not standing up so that he can. You know, they
can both fully appreciate.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
No, no, don't put me into a bad spot here, Okay, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm just saying I realized the family dynamic and the
situation and what everyone's doing, and it's heartwarming and it's fantastic.
But again I'll ask the question, do we need to
go to the Mendoza family every time he makes a play?
I mean, his brother looks just like his brother's no
longer with Indiana, you're talking about the younger brother. Yes,
(32:32):
did that go viral when they were celebrating when that
kid came over and went Mendoza start recruiting that kid?
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Now, seriously, I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I do wonder if Mendoza's game will translate to the NFL.
He's going to be the number one overall pick. But man,
this would not be the year I would want to
be the Raiders and have the number one overall pick
simply because I don't He's not a slam dunk and
I'm not certain he's going to be great.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
And when you take a number one, you want him
to be great, not good. He's got to be great.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
If I'm the Raiders, I've never felt more comfortable in
the history of American football picking a quarterback with my
top pick, because you know who's giving me all the information,
all the insight, and all the opinion that I need.
Tom Brady, right, Like if Tom and he was on
the ground there watching Fernando play, If Tom Brady tells
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me that guy kind of reminds me of me. I
want him to be a quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders. Yeah,
he's going to be that, and he's probably gonna be
pretty good. Brady had boots on the ground. Is that
what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yeah, yep, Brady was a six round pick. I'll remind
you right, there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
For that, right, But in Brady's mind, he should have
been the number one pick and Fernando should be the
number one.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I have to follow this face because he's making faces
and I know when he has something to say.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Mikeyyey has something on this.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
What he got.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Tom Brady being involved doesn't help at all. Greatness doesn't
know how to explain greatness to other people.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
Him being there, he can't tell you, like, oh, this
could just throw it the way I do, Like, it
doesn't work that way. I would say that Mendoza has
such a high floor and a low ceiling, He's gonna
be fine in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
He's not going to be great, though.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I would say Brady's not doing him any favors. By
comparing Mendoza to Brady, he's making it more difficult.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Yeah, I just want to remind you we're live on
Fox Sports Radio, and Fox is paying Tom Brady to
explain a lot of football to everybody, and so I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Can they explain the technical parts of a radio show though?
I mean, Tom, can Tom explain that?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
I think, Look, I'm comfortable with Tom, Mikey. I'm comfortable
with Tom assessing a quarterback and say because he knows
more than a GM's going to tell you, Like, he
might not tell you the physical parts of it, but
that's not what makes a great quarterback. What makes a
great quarterback is between the ears and being able to
see the field and process everything quickly. If I'm looking
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at Tom, if I'm looking for a quarterback, I'm asking
Tom those safe questions, What do you see in this
person's ability to process?
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Et cetera.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
That's why none of the great ones are ever great coaches.
They're not great gms. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I mean, he's kind of right about that. It's like
Tom Brady can't explain.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He would have a hard time explaining to you in
a way that you would understand really what makes Tom
Brady great? He would He would have a hard time
articulating that to you, what makes me so great? Because
some of the stuff that he does, you're not certain
Mendoza is gonna be able to do or wants to
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do the same. The film work, the gods, the ability
to be calm in very stressful situations. Brady can't just
look at a guy. I know he's the greatest of
all time, but he can't just look at a guy
and say, yeah, that guy's me because Brady doesn't.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Even know what makes him him. That's that's the larger point.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, why don't you get him an offensive line and
some receivers?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
I think Brady knows what makes him great, and I
think he could explain it to some. I'm not saying
he'd coach that person, but I think he knows what
makes him great. And I think having watched Fernando Mendoza
do all the things that you just said, be calm
in a big.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
Spot and make all the throws, I think it's good.
I think it's easy to assess.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, but you don't agree with Mikey's overall assessment of
It's very hard because I do. It's very hard for
the great ones to value.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
I haven't seen too many of them, be GM, maybe
John Elling.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, all right, Gino to rine it next.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We will start today's show with a very said bear.
Chris Filica, who was back from Miami went to the
game last night, sent me a very sad text earlier
this morning, simply saying, we let one get away.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello Bear, Hello, Yeah we did. Yeah we did. And
that's not to say Indiana didn't deserve to win, but
every opportunity was there for me. It was a microcosm
of Indiana's season. Every high leverage before the day, in
the game, whether it with two fourth down conversions, the
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blocked punt which was just completely unforgivable, the Charlie Becker
third down back to shoulder throws, every single big play
seemed to go Indiana's way, and if one of them,
one of them don't, Miami could be could be a
sitting here as national champ today. And it felt like
the type of game that they played ten times. They're
(01:07):
both gonna win five, right, and they wore the two
best teams in the country, and Indiana is a rightful
and deserving national title but wow, it was right there
for the Canes last night to take.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Can you give us like the saddest point for you,
Like the saddest moment was it right after the loss?
Was it the interception? Was it the you know, the
drive to the airport this morning? What was the saddest
part for you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
This the interception was just like, yeah, like the finality
of the season being over, the saddest in the world
when I got when I got on the shuttle bus
back to the hotel, I had recorded a little video
thing for for my Very Bet show. I'm just sitting
there and just kind of reliving the entire path and
(01:50):
the journey in the night and you're just like, damn,
it's over now. It was You're so close. H You're
gonna be number two. It's great to say we're gonna
your Miami's gonna have more opportunities to be in these
types of games, but there's no guarantee that you're gonna
get back. So yeah, that was sad. And I kind
of got to the room and packed my bag and
then the anger. It was anger this morning when when
(02:13):
you wake up. That was like the stage you're angry
at uh a block partty, You're you're angry at a penalty,
You're angry at this and then you and then like
we we like we do on on Fridays with with
you and Mikey. We talk it out right my Miami
my Miami Groupe text chat. We were kind of like,
you know what, subsett came up. We're playing, We're we're
(02:35):
we're we're we're complaining, not complaining, but we're angry, we're
bitter or upset, we're disappointed because we played for the
national championship and lost. It's like, you know what, a
million teams out there would have would have traded spot.
So it was a good group think friends were there
for each other this morning and it was needed.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Bear Miami's relationship with Carson Beck has felt almost like
a toxic X where it's like, Oh, she's gonna change,
she's gonna change, she's gonna change, and then he throws
that interception. You're like, there's the Carson that guy I
knew and I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It was here, here's what and I and initially from
where I was sitting in the press box, that was
right in front of me, like I was in that
end zone and and that happened there, and I immediately
bought the same thing. Of course, the three games Miami
loses this year were all interceptions on the final drive.
And then I don't know if you saw kill and
Marion walked receiver came out and said, now that was
(03:30):
on me. Miscommunication, I ran the wrong route. Something happened,
because it's so easy and obvious to just always assume
the interception is on the quarterback. But Marion took full
blame for that. He's like, that was on me, And major,
major props to him for taking ownership of that, because
(03:50):
I think he knows kind of what what Carson has
gone through. And I also wouldn't be surprised if Carson
might have gotten a little dinged up on that Arsenal
found late hit on that final drive. But yeah, yeah,
that was That was certainly a play call that I
think a lot of if we were one if our
Miami buddies here, if we were upset about like why
(04:13):
did you take a shot there? The ball's at the
forty yard line, you got fifty two seconds or whatever
it was, right, you're moving the ball underneath Todd clock
stops for a first down. He didn't need the shot there,
and hey, they felt it was there, and maybe if
the the communication was right, it would have been a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
But you're so right about that, Bear, because even if
they score in that spot, you're leaving time for Mendoza.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, which they did against all miss and and all
on miss and when he came back and won the game.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Bear, that sounds like a receiver maybe trying to protect
his quarterback a little bit, because I'd rather just say
Carson Beck was dinged up and was you know, hearing bells.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, but that is he That happens all the Chris
Simms tells us every week that stuff happens all the time.
We just blame the quarterback because we don't.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Know the route.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But I saw where those two defenders were. I saw
where Carson Beck threw the ball, and if they did
not seem an opportunity where if the maybe if the
receiver was in a different spot it was, it looked
like it was going to be an interception. So you
want to tell me specifically what that receiver didn't do
correct and where that ball was going to be. But
if I'm the quarterback in that spot, I'm not just
guessing like, I've got to see.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
It, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So to me that that's that's not really an excuse.
It feels like in the receiver just protecting his guy.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Thanks you.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
He's not.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
He's not invited.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, he's an Indiana fan, he is.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Verify how about that last night with those those fourth
down plays that that was just that that play will
be immortalized in Indiana football history. Just just an incredible
job by Kurtzignetti. I think he felt in the second half,
I'm guessing like those two fourth down conversions that they had,
Like I think the way the game was going in
(05:55):
the second half, Miami finally started getting some things going
off offensively, and he's like, you know what, I'd rather
win this game or lose it with my offense on
the field right now. And those two fourth down conversions
were just absolutely massive.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Beart, you're a historian of college football, like you love
this sport more than any person I know. You know
more about the sport than any person I know. Can
you explain to the audience how unlikely it is that
Indiana finished sixteen to zero and Bloomington is the center
of the college football world.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's completely unfathomable. And if you were to tell Indiana
fans that I think it was five hundred and something
days ago when they hired Churt Signetti that oh yeah,
you got you and to win the national title in
two years, they would have just laughed you off the
face of the earth. Had town it was the losingest program,
losingest program ever amongst teams that are in powerful conferences,
(06:53):
and they won a national title two years after hiring Chritsie.
Like I make a college football equivalent, like Kansas State
was kind of the same thing, but Kansas State never
played for a national championship. Kansas State won a Big
twelve title, but it took a while like State almost overnight.
And the closest thing that that it comes to my mind,
(07:16):
and I'm sure Taylor will probably appreciate this and understand
what I'm getting at the In the EPL, the English
Premier League, a couple of years ago, Leicester City one
of the lowest possible teams in the prem like zero revenue,
zero history really what they won the prem You beat
giants like Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea. It
(07:38):
was Lester City, who I think they were like a
two thousand to one to win the title at the
start of the year. So it's that type of historical
anomaly that that it was. And we'll we'll see if
this is a if this is a thing, or if
it's a one off. Now with roster construction and the
portal and being able to player is suing to get
(07:58):
an extra year of ILGI ability outside of the normal
five these teams with old rosters. It kind of been
together for a while. Uh that that that worked well
this year for.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
A Uh the Foxes Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean yes?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
And you thought Taylor was to a guy on soccer?
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Who who was Lester's leading goal scorer that year?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Uh? Man gim what was his name starts with an M?
I think right?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well, where riad Mare has was a midfielder on the team,
Yes he is there, But Jimmy Vardy is a leading goal.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well you didn't give me time. JV is what I
call him, right. I had to think about it for
a second.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I'm in football I'm in football mode, not football mode.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Okay, can I give you by the way we're about
to start here, you have a bet on it?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, I I you You're the first person I really,
like openly, like discussed my heartbreak with and like I
didn't listen to anything on the way in today. I
had no no, no heart to like to listen stuff
sports talk or anything today because I just didn't want
to deal with it. But I'm amongst stuttson company. Yeah,
(09:07):
there and my whalehouse.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I would say, I would say the American comp to me,
feels like the Golden State Warriors going like, now, they
won something in nineteen seventy five, but it was four
or full decades of nothing, and then they just pop
up out of nowhere and become seventy three and nine.
That's probably the closest thing I could think of over here.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that would that would be a good one. I mean,
the Braves kind of stunk forever and then they had
that great run in what was in nineteen ninety one
where they wind up winning the division and getting to
the World here that that would probably be one as well.
But yeah, it's it's amazing, Like years two years ago,
I mean even before the year, they were like, okay,
(09:45):
you lose, you lose all these players if they had
last year, and yeah, they'll they'll have blown out by
Indiana and Ohio State last year. They they can't win
these caliber game games as speed, like one hundred to
one or so to win the title entering this year,
which is a ridiculous long So hey, it was a
we said last week, regardless of who won, it was
(10:06):
going to be a story for the ages and you.
This is the story that we got for college football neutrals.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There there was probably no better national champ this year
than what we got last night.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The good news is, if you're Miami, you just have
to replace three potential top twenty picks on your offensive
defensive lines to get back to the same.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I have the money to do it, though they do.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I mean, well that's what That's what worries me the
most biggest. Ruben bain anake Messidor are dogs. They are
game wreckers.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Were you were you embarrassed by all the Indiana fans there?
I mean you had to be.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I'm behalfy of what it's Yeah, the game was played
on Miami's home field. What's run by the college wall play?
I mean it was a I thought Indiana had a
slight advantage. It was I would say it was probably
around sixty forty or so. It's to be expected. Potentially
could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for Indiana fans,
(11:03):
and they and they made the most of it, and
I'm they I'm happy for them that their trip and
the resource persons and the time and effort that they
made and getting down there to see that that it
worked out. What I would like to have seen a
different result. Yeah, but uh, it does make me feel
good that they're they're happy today.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Now you sound clean as a whistle. I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well, let's stay out. Let's stay then.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, I will said, were you surprised that Signetti decided
to kick a field goal in that spot and not
try to end the game.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, No, I wasn't. And people brought this up that, oh,
you'll go for it and you can end the game. Yeah,
but if you go for it and don't get it
and fourth and four or whatever it was, I think
that's not a gimme by any needs. You can kick
the field goal, you force Miami to go the length
of the field and score a touchdown with no timeouts,
and maybe things are different if they go for it
(11:57):
and don't get it and Miami only needs a he's
a field goal, So I was not surprised at that
people brought that up. I'm like, nah, at that point
where you are in the field, you got to take
the points there easily. One other, especially in addition to
the block punt that ultimately was I think the biggest
swing play of the game. If you go back and
(12:20):
watch the game, another special teams play which was massive
was the punt where Malachi Tony fielded the ball on
his five yard line and I'm looking and like, what
the hell is he doing? And then I'm seeing from
I was in the same AI zone and you could
see Bryce Fitzgerald like on the far outside the hash.
(12:42):
It looked like they had something planned where Tony was
gonna have a little bit of a throwback and get
Fitzgerald the ball out there on the other side, because
maybe they thought they had a favorable matchup or at
that point in the field, Indiana would not been expecting
that they still hadn't fully gotten their offense, going yeah,
so what was he? What was he doing? Field? And
(13:03):
then you look go back and watch the tape. I
Miami fans won't want to, but for for Neutrals and
Indiana fans. I think there was something planned, and I
think Indiana's punk coverage and the punt was so good
that it really didn't allow for that trick play. It happened.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So you had a big ticket on the Canes to
win the national championship, and you with Indiana, and now
all you need is Center to win the Australian Open.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Exactly, now, all now, all any Now, all you need
is Janick Center to win the Australian Open. Yeah, one
hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty to one. Ticket gone, goodbye,
dreams of UH cruises in South America and wherever else dashed. Yes,
thanks to take you go go fund me, backslash, help
(13:46):
the bear out.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I know you wanted some soothing out of us.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You're not gonna get it, Okay, go to Mike Ryan,
go to your Canes crew and let them suthe you.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Okay, Mike, Mike Ryan. Mike Bryan is online.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
By the way, Yes, Mike, Mike Ryan and UH and
Uncle Luke are kind of going at it there. Check
out the old Twitter machine.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
He's having a good one, all right, buddy, enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We appreciate it. As Owe's and We're sorry about your kids. Bear,
we are, we love you, We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm proud, awesome year. Yes after the SB game, imagine that.
So yeah, super proud, disappointed, be proud.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And shame on you for not congratulating Israel Goody Era
as the biggest Hoo's your fan of all time.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I called the game.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Exactly Bloomington via Miami. Yes, where we've heard that before.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
All right, beer, we appreciate it, but us okay here, guys, all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Right, be sure to catch live editions of Stuve Gotson
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Gino tretta former Heisman Trophy winner for the University of
Miami two time national champion, will join us at four o'clock,
and Mike Golic Senior good friend, good to join us
right now. Let's get to Golick here, Mike, did you
ever think we would arrive? This is crazy that we
would arrive at the day where the college football capital
of the world is Bloomington, Indiana.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
It is It is amazing.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I mean, it's obviously the side of the times, of
the transfer portal of paying players and good old fashioned coaching, right,
I mean Kurt Signetti and his staff what they're doing,
and the players buying in. It all just came together
to one of the greatest turnarounds. What since nineteen forty
(15:33):
five until last year, Indiana had never won more than
eight games. They were the losing his program with over
seven hundred losses, only to be overtaken by Northwestern in
the last two years.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It is.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
It's stunning, and it's going to it's going to show
other athletic departments and presidents, presidents of colleges how quickly
you can turn things around with the right mixture right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And if you have a guy like Mark Cuban who
wants the football program to be good, that's how you
do it right.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
That's it.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
That's college football in twenty twenty six. Whether it be money,
money makes the world go round. Now again, money's part
of it. You have the money to bring in the players.
You got to bring in the right players, and you
got to be able to coach the right players. So
while money is obviously huge and it always has been,
it's still part of the process.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I know he's an I you guy, but it's still
jarring to watch a football game and then see Mark
Cuban on your screen, like.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I'll set like that. Seas the basketball guy like it.
It just looked weird to be. I don't know what.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Well, it's amazing.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
What what championship games, whether it be college or or
professional sports, brings out the the stars, like well, Mike
and I on our show, we're talking to Devin mccordy
the other day won three titles with the Patriots, and
he said before the Super Bowl going on and warming up,
he said, it was amazing. You look around and you
(17:00):
just see celebrities everywhere, and you're like, wow, they're all
here to watch us.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
It's it's wild. Now in college it's different.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
It's mostly a lumb of the of the schools, and
god knows, Miami had a bunch of former players there,
but it does get pretty wild.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
It's seeing the celebrities there, Mike, even though.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
They lost, how much money do you think Rubyin Bain
and Mesidor made last night because they were really disruptive.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Well, Bain was already going to be a highest selection
without a question. He was He's going to go in
the top ten, depending on the need of the team.
But Moten was fantastic, Mesador was these guys. I mean
at two eighty two, seventy five, three twenty five, this
(17:47):
is a man's man's defensive line. So Bain was already
going to be a high draft pick you already, Yeah, exactly,
He's especially now that that Dante or dropped out.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, Bain may end up being the number two pick.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Now, Mike, were you surprised that Signetti Because everything he
did leading up to that play, that decision suggests to
me that he was going to try to end the
game and not kick a field goal to go up six.
He ended up kicking the field goal. I thought he
should have went for it. Were you surprised by Signetti
doing that?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Listen, I'm more of the conservative nature.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I'm not as into the today's game of going for
it all the time.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I would have kicked the field goal. I would have
gone up six.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Now, as Mike and I kind of discussed, if you're
up three, there's now you feel like you only have
to go and kick a field goal to tie. Do
you really go for a touchdown? You're kind of caught
betwixt between. If you're down six, you know you have
to do everything in your power to get a touchdown.
On Miami has the ability to do a big play.
(18:52):
So while I understand both sides of it, I would
have kicked the field goal and forced Miami to go
all the way to the end zone.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Is taking the three the new punk rock? Is that
like the new, like weird thing to do, just taking
just taking?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yeah, well, I mean it doesn't it.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
It seems like still going for it on fourth down?
Is is what's in everybody's head. If you always see
that that analytical graphic pop up of whether it to
go for or not, normally it's go for it. It's
almost seems like every freaking situation is go for it,
And it seems like coaches today are going for it
(19:34):
when sometimes you know, sometimes three points will we'll do
you right?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
And uh in this case it turned out to be enough.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mikey is right though, taking the three points is the
new going for it?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yeah, but Mike is Mike's had such a young face,
but he makes such old references.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
So when you say it's taking the three the new
punk rock?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I think even Golick was confused.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I was, I'm not gonna lie, I was, I was.
I didn't know where you were.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Going, right, Just so you don't feel alone.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mike, were you surprised going to the NFL here just
for a few minutes, were you surprised?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I thought he deserved it, But by the Bills decision
to part ways with Sean McDermott.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
I mean, listen, this is the year right between John
Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin Sean McDermott. Now, Harbaugh and Tomlin
both have Super Bowl trophies in their pocket, but they're
going nineteen and eighteen years and with rosters, especially Baltimore
that figured should have won, haven't. And Sean McDermott certainly
(20:38):
with a roster that has basically been stopped mostly by
Kansas City, one time by Cincinnati, but mostly by Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
You know what's doing. I'm kind of both ways on it.
It's like who you mean to get? How do you
know what's going to be different?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right?
Speaker 10 (20:54):
But you've been over a time and time again that
you're like, okay, we need changed the cycle. It was
like Andy Reid in Philadelphia, right, winning NFC championships or
getting the NFC championship games, going to one Super Bowl, losing,
losing in the other NFC championship games.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
They got rid of him.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
They've been through a cycle of a few coaches since,
but they have been to a couple of Super Bowls.
So and I always go back to the late great
Marty Schottenheimer who has said, ten to twelve years in
a locker room, players start to look past you.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
You know, you kind of lose that that kind of
grip on the locker room.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
And so it's all the nice because after especially this year,
with all the new head coaches, and some will be
first time head coaches, some have been head coaches though
Jeff Haffley was a coach in college. We're gonna be
We're gonna say, let's grade the head coaches. And every
year I say, you can't. You have no idea, especially
(21:54):
a first time head coach, what they're gonna do if
they were a coordinator all their life, now they're a coach,
what are they gonna do as a head coach when
they sit in that CEO chair as a head coach,
I have no idea what decisions they're gonna make. We'll
look at one of the greatest dynasties of New England
Patriots when those coordinators of Josh McDaniels, of Matt Patricia
(22:16):
you know, went out to be head coaches, they were awful,
and they're not going to be head coaches anymore. So
you absolutely don't know what the difference is going to.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Be, right, Mike, So with the Dolphins hire and Jeff Hafley,
the Green Bay DC defensive coordinator, you don't know anything
about him.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You don't know what he's going to be.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
But I'm curious what you think of this being in
terms of being beneficial for a franchise when they brought
in the previous or Mike McDaniel, you have to be
okay with two Okay, that's something you have to concede.
Or a previous coach you have to be okay with
Chris Greer, that's something you have to concede. This GM
is bringing in a coach he's familiar with and they
(22:57):
have no necessary ties to a quarter back. It's actually
a clean slate for these guys and they have a relationship,
the GM and the head coach. I'm curious how much
that benefits a team where you don't have to be like, Okay,
I'll take this job, but I've got this sort of
ball and chain around my ankle that I have to
take with me.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Well, I mean is who are going to be there?
I mean it's two are not going to be there.
If who is there?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Locally, we all sort of realized they're going to try
to find a way to get around it, even if
they have.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
To take a hit in terms of the salary cap.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Yeah, well we've seen Denver take a monster dead cap
hit with Russell Wilson and look they're They're in the
AFC Championship Game a couple of years later, how about it.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
But so I'm I'm kind.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Of all for a clean slate, and it's not odd
to have an offensive former head coach and then the
next head coach be a defensive guy. We see that
kind of quite a bit actually, and Halfley being a
defensive guy. Now, the issue that you have when you
have a defensive coordinator. A lot of times that head
coach can call defenses. We don't know if Halfley's going
(24:08):
to do that or not, or led a decordinator, but
their most important.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Higher than is who's going to run the offense.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
And if you get a hell of an offensive coordinator
in two years, that offensive coordinator may be looking at
a head coaching job and you may lose him and
have to replace him, And I'm kind of like what
Dan Campbell had to do in Detroit, What maybe, what
maybe Mike McDonald will have to do in Seattle with
Klint Kubiak if he gets a job.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We'll see Mike, Thank you and enjoy enjoying the football weekend.
College football is over and Signetti has.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
One more championship, the Marcus Freedom.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
God bless the rest of the football season.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
God bless you, Mike Gullick.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Thank Mike. All right, guys, you.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
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Speaker 8 (25:29):
Ready to take the staff, He takes and he looks.
He looks, he throws the football and runs, he runs it.
Can he ties for the heads up?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Does he get it?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
In?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Touchstone? Mendoza runs the football at score It's twelve yard play.
Bernando Mendoza tremendous fake and then he runs it in.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I think Don almost had that as a throw.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
By the way, yes, Don Fisher is a legendary voice.
You never ever thought he'd be calling a national championship
football game.
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Speaker 3 (26:27):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Thank you to Mike Golick for joining us. Gino Toretta
Heisman Trophy winner, former Heisman Trophy win, her two time
national champion, is going to join us coming up in
about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I don't know who is making that.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Sound and what is going on, But could someone stop
and just turn it off before I start yelling at
this entire organization. I mean, my god, it's hard enough
to do a live radio show. Then they have to
deal with this and tell me it's not mikey a.
It better not be Mikeya Rupert Murdoch on the phone.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I mean, what is happening here? Unbelieved?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I didn't say it was you. You said I thought
it was you. But can someone stop? Jesus, I'm about
to curse. I am so close.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Taylor knows me, and he knows I am about to curse. Like, hey, everyone,
we're here trying to do a show. I appreciate all
of you. I appreciate all of your help. Let's get
it the bleep together.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Holy Hell.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Let's Indiana hoosier this thing.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Jesus, I feel like Heny Goldberg right now? Did you
get the podcast promo in Who's Your Yeah? So listen?
Is he is a big Mendoza fan.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And Mendoza showed me some toughness last night, and he
showed me some guts, and he showed me some guile,
and he showed me the ability to turn this thing
into kind of like a circus a wrestling match with
his comments after the game that we'll get to in
just a second. But you had to be so impressed
with Mendoza last night, that run in particular, and his toughness,
because there were probably three unsportsman like penalties that should
(28:17):
have been called on Mendoza and that's why his chin
was bleeding and his lip was bleeding. But Mendoza, that's
the most impressive I've watched a ton of him this year,
is he I walked away from last night's game, the
National Championship game, the biggest of moments, more impressed with
him than I've ever been the entire season.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I feel like saying I'm a big Mendoza guy now
kind of undercuts the whole idea. That was a big
Mendoza guy well before everybody else was saying Mendoza for Heisman. However,
I remember the Penn State game, you know, the drive
down the field, game winning drive where I sent you
screencaps of that final throw. Yeah, where he was pressured,
(28:58):
where he was getting hit, where he was turned into
a folding table as he's making the best throw at
the time, the most important.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Throw of his life, and it was a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
You know, watching him a couple play more since then,
obviously you can just tell there's a toughness there. And
you know in the National Championship game in his hometown
that it didn't matter what was going to happen to him,
he was going to focus and be at his best.
And he knew that Miami Hurricanes defensive line was going
to be probably the best one he faced all season.
(29:33):
And that's why I love that they went after him
because when he had the bloody lip, like I just
thought of, I don't know, Dwyane Wade bloody lip against
the Knicks one year where he went off for like fifty.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
That just sets people off sometimes, and that was another
reminder that he needed.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
But you knew he was motivated. And I think Taylor's
about to tell you why if.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You were doing a storybook on this, you couldn't script
it better. That the person that takes out Miami is
one of their own. And Fernando Mendoza made sure to
get that jab in after he won the National Championship
because he called Miami out and was like, these guys
denied me from a walk on spot and then he
commits elsewhere, he wins the Heisman. He beats Miami in
(30:15):
their home stadium in the National Championship, Like that is
the best scriptwriters in Hollywood. Yes, couldn't tell that story.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right, It's a great story. It's revenge. It's hey, you
passed up on me, and now it's full circle. Here
I am in your stadium beating your team and you
didn't want me.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Question last year Bernando Mendoza when he was a Cal Bear, Yeah,
he lost to the Hurricanes in a very close game,
was thirty nine, thirty eight. He didn't have the greatest game.
That was probably a targeting call or a late hit
call that should have gone Cal's way and didn't. But
they lost that game. If go back to last year,
(30:53):
they find a way to pull that game off. Cal
Fernando still have that same beef with Miami or do
you think that maybe he does have that same fire
in his belly to try to beat Miami, not say
you know that's he probably still would have transferred, still
probably would have gotten too IU or what have you
still got that same revenge factor?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Or do you think if he beat him last year?
Because I think last year's game added to it.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, I think he would have still had that same
revenge factor for the national champion. Yeah, just because of
that denying him a walk on spot, like I wanted
to pay tuition to go here and play on your
football team, most likely be on your scout team for
years before maybe even getting a chance when he's getting
offers by like Fiu. The fact that Miami is the one,
(31:36):
like they showed the pictures of him in the crowd
with like the green face paint, the range face paint.
The fact that Miami told him, Hey, you're not even
good enough to pay tuition here, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes, it's insulting, and he got he got his revenge
last night a little bit too much with panning over
to the parents every time n Doza made a play,
I mean, do I need to see the whole family?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
And every time he makes a play talking.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
About the script. Right, you couldn't script any better. His
mother has ms, his father is sitting there celebrating with her,
not standing up so that he can. You know, they
can both fully appreciate.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
No, no, don't put me into a bad spot here, Okay, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm just saying I realized the family dynamic and the
situation and what everyone's doing, and it's heartwarming and it's fantastic.
But again I'll ask the question, do we need to
go to the Mendoza family every time he makes a play?
I mean, his brother looks just like his brother's no
longer with Indiana, you're talking about the younger brother. Yes,
(32:32):
did that go viral when they were celebrating when that
kid came over and went Mendoza start recruiting that kid?
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Now, seriously, I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I do wonder if Mendoza's game will translate to the NFL.
He's going to be the number one overall pick. But man,
this would not be the year I would want to
be the Raiders and have the number one overall pick
simply because I don't He's not a slam dunk and
I'm not certain he's going to be great.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
And when you take a number one, you want him
to be great, not good. He's got to be great.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
If I'm the Raiders, I've never felt more comfortable in
the history of American football picking a quarterback with my
top pick, because you know who's giving me all the information,
all the insight, and all the opinion that I need.
Tom Brady, right, Like if Tom and he was on
the ground there watching Fernando play, If Tom Brady tells
(33:26):
me that guy kind of reminds me of me. I
want him to be a quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders. Yeah,
he's going to be that, and he's probably gonna be
pretty good. Brady had boots on the ground. Is that
what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yeah, yep, Brady was a six round pick. I'll remind
you right, there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
For that, right, But in Brady's mind, he should have
been the number one pick and Fernando should be the
number one.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I have to follow this face because he's making faces
and I know when he has something to say.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Mikeyyey has something on this.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
What he got.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Tom Brady being involved doesn't help at all. Greatness doesn't
know how to explain greatness to other people.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
Him being there, he can't tell you, like, oh, this
could just throw it the way I do, Like, it
doesn't work that way. I would say that Mendoza has
such a high floor and a low ceiling, He's gonna
be fine in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
He's not going to be great, though.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I would say Brady's not doing him any favors. By
comparing Mendoza to Brady, he's making it more difficult.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Yeah, I just want to remind you we're live on
Fox Sports Radio, and Fox is paying Tom Brady to
explain a lot of football to everybody, and so I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Can they explain the technical parts of a radio show though?
I mean, Tom, can Tom explain that?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
I think, Look, I'm comfortable with Tom, Mikey. I'm comfortable
with Tom assessing a quarterback and say because he knows
more than a GM's going to tell you, Like, he
might not tell you the physical parts of it, but
that's not what makes a great quarterback. What makes a
great quarterback is between the ears and being able to
see the field and process everything quickly. If I'm looking
(34:57):
at Tom, if I'm looking for a quarterback, I'm asking
Tom those safe questions, What do you see in this
person's ability to process?
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Et cetera.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
That's why none of the great ones are ever great coaches.
They're not great gms. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I mean, he's kind of right about that. It's like
Tom Brady can't explain.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
He would have a hard time explaining to you in
a way that you would understand really what makes Tom
Brady great? He would He would have a hard time
articulating that to you, what makes me so great? Because
some of the stuff that he does, you're not certain
Mendoza is gonna be able to do or wants to
(35:35):
do the same. The film work, the gods, the ability
to be calm in very stressful situations. Brady can't just
look at a guy. I know he's the greatest of
all time, but he can't just look at a guy
and say, yeah, that guy's me because Brady doesn't.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Even know what makes him him. That's that's the larger point.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, why don't you get him an offensive line and
some receivers?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
I think Brady knows what makes him great, and I
think he could explain it to some. I'm not saying
he'd coach that person, but I think he knows what
makes him great. And I think having watched Fernando Mendoza
do all the things that you just said, be calm
in a big.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
Spot and make all the throws, I think it's good.
I think it's easy to assess.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, but you don't agree with Mikey's overall assessment of
It's very hard because I do. It's very hard for
the great ones to value.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
I haven't seen too many of them, be GM, maybe
John Elling.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, all right, Gino to rine it next.
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Two Guys (Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers). Five Rings (you know, from the Olympics logo). One essential podcast for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) and Matt Rogers (Palm Royale, No Good Deed) of Las Culturistas are back for a second season of Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with NBC Sports and iHeartRadio. In this 15-episode event, Bowen and Matt discuss the top storylines, obsess over Italian culture, and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village.
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Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina are here and have everyone talking. iHeartPodcasts is buzzing with content in honor of the XXV Winter Olympics We’re bringing you episodes from a variety of iHeartPodcast shows to help you keep up with the action. Follow Milan Cortina Winter Olympics so you don’t miss any coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics, and if you like what you hear, be sure to follow each Podcast in the feed for more great content from iHeartPodcasts.