September 4, 2026 • 38 mins
ESPN Fantasy Football expert Field Yates joins to give out all of his Fantasy advice for the coming season. Stu and the guys welcome Former Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta onto the show to talk about the new season. Taylor delivers the results of this week's polls.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The football season is upon us.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The fantasy football season is upon us. And our buddy
Field Yates joins us. He was a basketball correspondent for
a couple of weeks back when the Knicks were making
a championship run.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's a big-time Celtics fan.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
How do you feel about the Celtics offseason so far, Field?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, so honestly, when I'm debating between B. John Robinson
and Jameer Gibbs for the first pickover all this year
in fantasy drafts, I lean ever so slightly towards B.
John Robinson.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What was the question you asked?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
How do you feel about LeBron, about the Celtics putting
Jalen Brown on the Sixers and making that team so
attractive that LeBron James decided, Hey, you know what?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I want to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So can I tell you why I might've had the
most placid reaction of any Celtics fan to the Jalen
Brown trade? There's one specific reason why the Jalen Brown
trade took place as my wife and was going into
labor with our third child. So our third child is
born the day that the Jalen Brown trade takes place.
I mean, just all kinds of stuff happening on that day, obviously.
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And I think my brain would have processed the trade
probably much more angrily under different circumstances. I'm still disappointed
and frustrated to this point. But I have decided that
I don't get to be a fan in football, right?
You don't get that opportunity now when you work in it.
So for the Celtics, I'm going to put blind faith
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and optimism into this team and hope for the best
and hope that my reaction, my gut reaction, my second reaction,
my third reaction, my 10th reaction to the Jalen Brown.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Trade was just totally wrong.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
And how is little Paul George Yates doing?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
She's doing great.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The irony is that our third is our third daughter
is named Tatum, not related to Jason Tatum. But a
lot of people made the joke after she was born, like,
were you preparing to name her Jalen until several.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Hours before she was born?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And then you pivoted. Jalen was on the long list.
I will be honest on that on that part.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Field, it is so funny with fantasy football season coming
up here. I have the second pick of the draft,
and I know you just addressed it, but that is
the big question. Gibbs or Robinson? Robinson or Gibbs? Mikey
is shaking his head saying it's not a big question.
There's a clear-cut number one.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
No, I was just going to say it's easy for
you because you don't have to make the decision.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
It's going to be made for you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, right. That's correct. I was going to say the
big takeaway is that the best place to pick this
year is number two overall, right? Because Jameer Gibbs and B.
John Robinson is a good argument. You could argue for
either of them as the lawyer in court. probably too
much lawyer talk in sports recently with this Clippers situation,
but I have no issue with, so I personally have
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Bijan ranked one spot ahead of Jameer Gibbs, one and two,
but I had a draft a couple of days ago
where I got the number one pick and I wound
up taking Jameer Gibbs. The rationale for that, just as
a heads up, there were two things. One, I haven't
had the chance to draft Jameer Gibbs at any other
league so far. I wanted to have some Jameer Gibbs
in my portfolio. Two, It's what we call a knockout league,
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which is new at ESPN. People may be familiar with
this format. The lowest scoring team each week gets eliminated
from the league. Their players go back into a free
agency pool. Everybody has $ 1, 000 of a free agent acquisition budget,
and then we do a blind bidding process each week
for those players. So if somebody has... Derrick Henry in
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week one, their team puts up an absolute stinker. Derrick
Henry and everybody else is available. Jameer Gibbs has an
easier early season schedule than over B. John Robinson. So
that was how I leaned towards Gibbs in this knockout league.
But over the past two years, worth noting that Gibbs
has more games with 20-plus fantasy points than Robinson. Excuse me.
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Robinson has more 20-plus games over the past two years
than Jameer Gibbs, and he has fewer under-10-point games. So
he's been a little steadier of a ship over the
past couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Mikey, do you like the knockout league? Do you like
that format?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because you're excited for fantasy football the entire offseason, and
then you're knocked out after a week, and all your
players are available to the good teams.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Is this a safe space? Yeah, it's a safe space.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Can I, can I bare my soul? I'm not only
in one, I'm in one that's 32 teams.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Wow. You're a psycho. So that's a double knockout each week.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I'm assuming, right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Four, four teams get knocked out in the first, in
the first few weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So I would say that the only thing that I
would say about the knockout leagues, I really enjoy them.
It's a different way to play. It's a different strategy, obviously.
I joke that in knockout leagues, if you're not last,
you're first, right? The inverse Ricky Bobby, because no matter
whether you finish 10 out of 12, as long as
you're not 12 out of 12, survive and advance. The
only way in which I do think it impacts my
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brain is people ask me all the time, how am
how many leagues are you playing in this season? And
that number could begin at, you know, 2025. And then
by the halfway point of the season, if seven of
those are knockout leagues, it could be reduced dramatically. So
from an accounting standpoint, I can't decide how many I
should admit playing in at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Phil, what are the two or three questions you are
getting most headed into this fantasy football season?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The first question is, who am I taking number one overall?
Of course. I said my piece there. The second question
is some form of sleeper or bust, which... I think
it sort of depends on who your audience is when
you answer that question. I used to say that, like,
I don't know, maybe a decade or so ago, you
could throw the third receiver for the Ravens out there
as a sleeper and people would be like, oh, wow, man,
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like never heard of that guy. Now you draw like,
you know, the third running back for the Cardinals and
people are like, oh. he went in the eighth round
of my keeper league last week. So you got to
dig a little bit deeper than that, which is a
by-product of how popular fantasy football is in just the NFL.
So sleepers and busts are always a very popular question.
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But the one this year, the player this year that
seems to be generating the most heat is Christian McCaffrey.
Are you in, or are you out on CMC who
last year, you know, we're talking about Jameer Gibbs and B.
John Robinson is the clear cut one and two.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah. CMC.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Was 50 points better than those guys last year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I know I had him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He won me a title. I mean, how about that?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah. I mean, he was the best player in fantasy
football last year. He's been the best player in fantasy
football many times in his career. The question is, can
you trust him to stay healthy for the second straight season?
He had 400 plus touches last year. He's 30 years old,
which for a running back is on the older side,
of course. And I, you know, I tend to think
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that all players are injury risks. It's football. I understand
that CMC has had a longer injury history than guys
like Bijan or Jameer Gibbs. Where I land on it
is this. It depends on like how emotional you are
of a fantasy football player, because if you're the kind
of person, so let's just say, and I don't want
to wish this upon anybody, but if Christian McCaffrey gets
hurt in the fourth week of the season, people that
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drafted him in the first round are going to say,
God damn it, I did it again. I should have
known better, right? Whereas inversely... If Amon Ross St. Brown
gets hurt in the third week of the season or
the fourth week of the season and has to miss
some period of time, four to six games, you're going
to say, I got unlucky, right? Amon Ross rarely, if
ever hurts, he's been so incredibly consistent in his five years. Yes.
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So it just depends on how you sort of view
the world of fantasy football. If you could be a
little more, more robotic and just say a better player
is worth the higher pick and take CMC. Yeah. If
you're going to kick yourself because you're emotional, and I'll
be the first to admit, sometimes I am emotional in
fantasy football. I'm often very emotional. Then you can hedge
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against how pissed off you'd be if CMC gets hurt
by taking Jonathan Taylor or Amon Ross St. Brown or
James Cook somewhere in that same range.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Field where do you have aj brown ranked among fantasy
receivers because the pairing with drake may feels like a
match made in heaven.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah he's wide receiver 10 for me well so you
know none of the surprises inside those first 10 picks
of wide receivers he's kind of going the same territory
as rashi rice drake london malik neighbors george pickens chris
olave those are kind of the receivers surrounding aj brown
and rankings and and where they're being drafted right now
(08:44):
um AJ Brown feels like one of a handful of
guys that is playing with the proverbial chip on his
shoulder more so than most this year. I think Lamar
Jackson might be in that category as well. You could
make an argument that after the playoffs, Josh Allen could
be in that category. But with AJ, like he's still amongst,
if not the best deep receivers in the NFL. Crazy
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that over the past four years, AJ Brown's average receiving
touchdowns was 24.6 yards like the guy is a big
play threat waiting to happen you go back to last
year until you know this from his college days as
well drake may is about as good of a deep
ball thrower as we have in the nfl he's incredibly
incredibly gifted on throws down the field he had a
passer rating of 131 last year that was easily best
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in the nfl and it wasn't like drake through you
know he wasn't in the bottom five of the attempts
where good fortune could explain how, how statistically prolific he was.
He was way up there. He's seventh and pass attempts
on throws 20 plus air yards down the field. So
really talented deep ball thrower with arguably the best deep
ball receiver in the NFL. Once you get past week
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one against Seattle, I think things look really, really promising
for AJ Brown.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I'm gonna be a little selfish here because as i
do all my research i tend to develop man crushes
right uh on on guys later in drafts especially and
i've got my guy this year and i might be
a little too enthusiastic about him so i'm hoping you're
either gonna a confirm it or or or talk me
down or lie yeah jadarian price i'm all over jadarian
(10:20):
price yes am i am i kidding myself am i
looking at the logic yeah no no that's i mean
one of the things i try to remind people that
play fantasy football that aren't.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Novices like if you have a minimum sort of baseline
of football knowledge you're going to be okay and it's
your team like you should follow your logic in your
process uh no team zero zero teams last year gave
the football to the running backs more often as runners
than the Seahawks. They were tied with Atlanta for the
most running back rushing attempts in the NFL. And while
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it's a new offensive coordinator and play caller with Clint
Kubiak in Las Vegas, I don't think Mike McDonald was
going to hire an OC after winning the Super Bowl
to totally reshape the offense. The approach should be the
same for him. And while Zach Charbonnet could fit back
into this backfield at some point, Charbonnet coming off of
an ACL tear late last season, Like, we'll see when
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that happens, A, but B, like, the other running backs
that are currently competing with Jadarian Price for carries, George
Helani and Emmanuel Wilson, who they signed from the Packers
this offseason. So this is not George– excuse me, Jadarian Price–
Competing with, not that I'm anti-Jeremiah Love, but Jeremiah Love,
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the Cardinals gave Tyler Algier a real contract this offseason
before they drafted Jeremiah Love. There might be games where
Algier has 15 carries to Love's 13th. It's not totally implausible.
So Price finds himself in a really good spot. Two
biggest question marks are pretty straightforward for Jadarian Price. One
is he had six catches last year. The question is,
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did Notre Dame not throw him the football because he
was incapable? Or did Notre Dame not throw him the
football because they had Jeremiah Love? I tend to lean
towards that second argument over the first. The other thing
is fumbles were a problem for Price in college. And
you guys all know this. It's amazing. NFL coaches... all
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like a guy could be running for 150 yards and
a half and then he fumbled the ball in the
third quarter and you never see him again that that
so if price can't keep his uh fingers on the
football then he could be a bit more vulnerable but
it's a really rosy opportunity right now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What round do you have dejan love going in.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Dejan love i had him in the third for a
while um you know.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Run routes yes on the beach with his helmet on yes.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah like i feel like he did like he's a
perfect fit for brock purdy like i just think he's
like really crisp and out of breaks for the timing
and rhythm quarterback you need a running a wide receiver
that always hits his landmarks um durable like to my
knowledge he didn't miss a single game last season so
i had him in the third round but i've i've
reached for him in the second round on occasion.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Especially since he cleared all three parts of that waiver.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Field, Carnell Tate finished preseason, zero receptions on six targets.
How concerned are you for Carnell Tate entering the season?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
If I were to make a list of players whose
stock has dropped the most for me in the preseason,
and this is all relative, right? I'm not talking... I
had him as, I think, wide receiver 23. He's not
wide receiver 53 now, right? But I am going to
flip-flop my Titans wide receivers that I want most going
into the season. I think Carl Tate's going to be
an absolute stud in the NFL. I thought he was
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very pro-ready. I just think this offense is going to
take some time. And Wondell Robinson is going to be
awesome for the Titans again. Uh, if he has Craig,
he kind of graduated. I think Wanda Robinson for a
while was viewed as like this gadget slot only receiver.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Uh, you saw him last year. He was awesome. Super
productive for the giants, stepping into a bigger role with
Malik neighbors out. He knows the offense obviously already. There's
no concerns about, you know, kind of being, excuse me,
fully caught up to speed. So I'm going to flip
flop him and Carnell Tate. I've drafted a lot of
Wanda Robinson so far this year, uh, Tate is going
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to be really good, not concerned about the player long-term
at all. I just think this is going to be
a slower roll into the NFL than I had previously forecasted.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Field, as a fantasy football expert and somebody who also
plays fantasy football, How do you balance the fact that
you're giving all this advice on sleepers, knowing that people
in your leagues might be listening to this same advice?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Well, I don't think it matters as much in sort of,
it matters, but not quite as much in standard redrafts
where you're just, it's a snake order and you just
make a pick because I can always sort of like
jump to the head of the, like the front of
the line to pick a player if I really want
that guy. But I was doing what we call salary
cap leagues also does auction leagues recently where, And I
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noticed that the guys that I was targeting or I
would have targeted, and I never, I shouldn't say never,
but I rarely nominate a player for auction that I
actually want. I'm usually nominating somebody that I want other
people to spend money on. But I did notice that
a couple of the guys that I went into the
draft targeting were going for much higher than I expected
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because I think I've just talked too much about them
during the preseason. And some of my buddies in that
league caught wind of it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Three kids, huh?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Three kids. Listen, that's why I got to come back
on the show. I got bills to pay, you know? Yes.
At some point, the royalties will hit my mailbox.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm just trying to tell you to slow down. I mean,
that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We're done.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
We're done.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay. All right. Would you want to rank the kids?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
What criteria are we going with? Today... You know, how
much is it like eating habits?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
P-P-R-A-D-P.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah. Is it sleep habits? Is it eating habits?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I tell you, anybody with multiple children can attest.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
As you know, Taylor.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And I will tell you.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yes. The hour.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It changes by hour, I'm certain.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
100%. You work for the Patriots. You work for Belichick.
You know Bill very, very well.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know Taylor was a walk-on football player at the
University of North Carolina. It begs the question, is Bill
Belichick back?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Tell you what, a lot going on with the program
right now, obviously. That was a nice window over in Dublin.
I know that TCU, whatever, maybe TCU is a middle
of the pack team in the Big 12. But, you know,
I felt personally, and Taylor may disagree, fully agree, offensive
operation looked a whole lot better this year. It just
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felt like a real offense. They're still down players. Like,
as I look at the guys that are eligible for
the upcoming draft right now, I don't know if there's
a guy that's going to go into But it looked
way better offensively to me. Defense I wasn't going to
be as concerned by because, you know, Bill Belichick is
playing a large.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Role in it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But offensively, I felt like the Bobby Petrino hire from
a football standpoint was on the play on Saturday. Not perfect,
but definitely better. Yes.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
When you say a lot's going on, you're talking about
the throwback uniforms they released yesterday, right? Those 1980 uniforms,
they look good.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Those do look awesome. I mean, the color scheme and
the uniform, the entire uniform set is as good as
there is maybe just in sports, like not just college football. It's,
it's elite elite.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Carolina blue, a top tier color.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Where are we spending the Labor Day weekend here? Are
we going to Nantucket, Cape Cobb? What's going on with
the Yateses?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I wish. I wish.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
We'll be home.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We'll be home.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We're powering through some drafts and trying to get kids
to sleep and eat and then continuing to rank them
throughout the weekend. All right, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We appreciate it, as always. We'll talk to you again very,
very soon. I can't have you around here enough. the
great field Yates. He's all over your, your fantasy coverage
on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Be sure to catch live additions of Stu Godson company
live weekdays at 3.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
PM.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Eastern 12.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
PM.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Pacific.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Mikey.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. You will love the phone call. I just had
with Gino Toretta because. Gino was expecting he's so old
school and he's in Northern California right now. And he'll
be attending Stanford Miami tonight because he's a Heisman trophy
winning quarterback for the university of Miami and the Miami legend.
And he also has the Cal USC game. He's calling
it on Saturday night. But I said, Gino, you get
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to go, you get the link. And he was like, Hey,
I was expecting a call from a hard line. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Do they even make those anymore? I still have one
in my house. Yes, they still make them.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So you thought we were supposed to send you the
hotline number. Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Yeah, I just expected a call.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
You know, it's radio.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
I forgot there's video in this thumbnail times of radio.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Gino, how much better is this year's universe or is
it better this year's Miami team as opposed to last
year's Miami team?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You know, I hope they're as good. I would say,
I mean, listen, they, they started off the year. They
had some expectations. I don't think maybe getting to the
championship game, but I think they thought they were getting
the playoffs, you know, and this year, I think they're
thinking playoffs.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
At a minimum when the ACC.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
And, and then you hope you get kind of get
on a run again. I, you know, college football now
it's so long with 16 games, you're gonna win it
all it's similar to nfl how healthy are you when
you make the playoffs i mean georgia was banged up
alabama was banged up you know it's just how do
you once you get there are you healthy enough to
to go on a run and win a few more
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and win a win a title.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Gino as a heisman winning quarterback what do you like
about darian mensah who miami brings in from duke this
year from the transfer portal.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
His accuracy, very similar to Cam Ward.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
I like how he pushes the ball downfield as a
guy who likes to throw it deep.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I think that's kind of what they're looking for.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Obviously, you got Malachi Toney, who's, you know, get him
the ball one yard downfield, behind the line of scrimmage, wherever.
He's going to have tremendous yards after catching great explosive plays.
But I like how Mensah has always pushed the ball downfield,
whether it was at Tulane last year, Duke. pushed it downfield,
and that's big plays.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
He seems like a very even-keeled kid, nice kid. The
times I've met him, watched practice. It should be fun
offensively for him this year.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Gina, what'd you make of Rutgers as a 30-point favorite
losing at home to UMass and then still going forward
with their firework show after the game?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Laughter laughter.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I would say this. Casinos aren't built on winners.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
But you have to pull the plug on fireworks, don't you?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, you just lost to UMass at home as
a 30-point favorite.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
I would say this. Was anybody still there?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean, what are you going to do? What's the
pyrotechnic guys? He's already set up. He can't bring the
stuff back home. You know that.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
So they got to shoot it off. You know, hey,
I would I would say this. The crowd has been
waiting for a show all night. We got to give
them something. It's like you gave them some fireworks.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I mean, the UMass fans in attendance, they got a show.
How about that?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
You know, I think I would also say you get
what you pay for. They are dead last at investing
in the program and Rutgers as their personnel. So, you know,
if you're not paying for... These kids nowadays, they're not
going to come to your school.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I love the idea that Rutgers paid over a million
dollars to lose that game to UMass.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Not going to be the first time, nor will it
be the last time.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, we've been laughing all week.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've been saying it all week that Stanford, there are
sleeping giants in college football and Stanford has the potential
to be one of them because there's money in that
school and The stadium is beautiful, great part of the country,
a decent fan base.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
They're lacking one key ingredient, good players.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yeah, a key ingredient and a hundred of them, really
good players. Yeah, I mean, listen, Andrew Luck is back there.
They were very slow to adopt to the transfer portal,
to the NIL age. I can remember being out here
and I broadcasted USC at Stanford. It was Caleb Williams
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Heisman Trophy season, the start of his season, first game.
Three starters on USC's team were transfers from Stanford. Well,
all their good players were leaving, and they weren't bringing
anybody in. So they started out behind the eight ball.
I'd probably say similar to Clemson, but they weren't at
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that level. Clemson had better players to start with. But
I think that now that Luck's there, they have the resources.
I mean, obviously, you've got Silicon Valley and a lot
of very wealthy alumni, and it's just a matter of...
investing in the program. The recruiting pitches used to be, hey,
come here and get a degree, wherever it was, and
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try to win a championship. The next line out of
all these kids' mouths coming out of high school is, well,
how much are.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You going to pay me? You have to pay them.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Gino, if a quarterback joins you guys in the Heisman
house this year, C.J. Carr, Arch Manning, Dante Moore, which
one do you think is most likely to win the Heisman?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
I really liked Carr last year when he played against Miami,
even being a freshman. They have an easier schedule, and
he has the Notre Dame machine behind him. I think
if they can beat Miami at home, I think he
will have the leg up only because the other schedules
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of the other guys are very much more difficult than
Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Mensah should be in that conversation.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, he will be, he.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Will be the, I would say the thing that maybe
would hold Mensah back is Mario likes to pound the
ball and you got Fletcher who's, you know, really kind
of unstoppable. He won a couple of games on his
own last year and you know, that would limit his,
his attempts. Um, you know, he may share the spotlight
with Malachi Tony a little bit, but, uh, listen, that, that,
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that's the great thing about the Heisman is, is listen,
there's so many great players. The amount of quarterbacks that
are very good experienced this year in college football is,
is tremendous. And I think if one of them gets hot,
you know, they could, they could run away with it
or it's, you know, it's going to be a, a great,
you know, run like last year where nobody really knew
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who was going to win.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Until the end.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Taylor feels like it's only a matter of time before
Deion Sanders is the head coach at Florida State.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Do you agree? Well, they already have a coach there.
Dead man walking.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Taylor said a win's a win, but Florida State's win
was not a win. That's what he said this week. I, well, it.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Was a win.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
I listen, I don't know. I think there's the juror.
I would say the jury's probably still out on Dion.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Is it not?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
You know, I think he was successful at a lower level.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
He was somewhat successful initially with Travis and his son
playing quarterback. Okay, now can he build a team and
are there enough resources at Colorado to do that? So
I would say something that the jury is still out.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know, I'm looking at the Miami hurricane schedule this
season and one game that you probably had penciled as
a win. You might be put on notice now at
North Carolina, that trip to Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick's waiting
for you.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
He played ball in Carolina. Do you know, you know
that I.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Would say this Taylor, I, you know what? It's not
North Carolina. The one that concerns me, it's pit. And
I mean, if you're an ACC guy, Pitt's quarterback is
a stud. He's very talented. I don't know if Narduzzi's
usually got good defenses.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I would be more concerned with that.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
North Carolina, it was a good defensive performance against a
team in TCU with a new quarterback transfer from Harvard.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And they didn't get anything done. And, you know, my
daughter goes to Wisconsin.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
I saw Billy Edwards a few games last year before
he got hurt. And I'm just going to say, no,
that game is not circled that I'm concerned.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
About it right now.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If there's a second team out of the ACC to
make it to the college football playoff, a second team
other than Miami, who do you think that second team
is going to be?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I'll give you the three. I would be.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Oh, you have three SMU Louisville and, and who are
we just talking in Clemson?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Right.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
I think those are the three teams. SMU Louisville beat
Miami last year. So can they win the games that
they're also supposed to? instead of, you know, they beat
Miami and then lose to somebody lesser than I think that,
that those are, those are the teams that are going
to buy for that spot.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Clemson's got Miami at home in October.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
You know, so I think SMU's got Jennings, who's a
dynamic quarterback, who's a stud. You know, I think those
teams are the ones in Brahma's, you know, no matter
what team he puts out there, he puts together a
great game plan and is successful. Those are the three
that I think would buy for the next for the
next spot in the playoff.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I texted you late last night saying Stanford was going
to win tonight's game by 10 points, and the text
you sent back was not very nice. I'm wrong there.
I know I'm wrong. I did it just to get
under your skin, but you think Miami's going to blow
them out tonight, don't you?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
They came out here early on Tuesday, and yes, I
think they want to set the tone in week one.
They got a really kind of odd schedule. They play
three games in 13 days. I think you go Friday, Thursday, Friday,
which is ridiculous. And so, yes, I think Miami is
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going to make a statement here. And you got to realize, Sugat,
I wanted to go to Stanford. I wanted their degree.
I wanted to play there. They said I wasn't good enough.
I was an hour and a half up the road.
And you know what?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I'm still bitter.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You should show up tonight with your Heisman trophy. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I mean, I'll be down there on the field tonight.
I'll wait. I'll wait.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
I'll wait to the, the, the partial sellout of the
four people that they're going to have at the game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Please get the Heisman and wear it around your neck
and wear the two national championship rings.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Just wear it all and say, I wasn't good enough
to play at Stanford.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Exactly exactly I like.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It I like it Gino I was talking to our
buddy Hawk because he is also in Northern California and
I'm looking at you and you look happy and you
talk about how great it is there and it is
great you got to not one, but two quarters today
because it's 67 degrees. And so I ask you this question.
Why do you come back to Miami?
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Well, now that's, I don't know. That's where I went
to school. My wife and I went to school there.
My daughter went to high school. When I come out
and it's clear, now it was raining and 55 and
foggy last night.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
And I'm thinking. That's why I go back to Miami.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
When it's clear and you can see the Golden Gate
from up here on the top of the hill at
Cal Stadium, there's not a better place when it's clear
here to go watch a college football game, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You're on the call for Cal USC, is that correct,
this weekend, Saturday?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
UCLA.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We got an old Pac-12 game after dark, 10.30 Eastern
kick on Touchdown Radio.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
All right, final question on the way out. We appreciate
you doing this. Indiana, football school or a basketball school?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Basketball school.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
They're still pissed that they haven't won the basketball national
championship in a while.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
All right, Gino, enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the nice weather.
And please wear that Heisman Trophy around your neck to
Stanford today.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
I'll be sipping on the red wine out there in
Palo Alto on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
All right, buddy, we'll talk to you soon. See you, guys.
See you, Gino.
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Speaker 1 (31:30):
We'll update the polls here in just a second. Mikey A.,
what's your Saturday going to look like? We're headed into
Labor Day weekend, a full slate of college football. College
game day is on the air. I mean, the big
noon kickoff is on.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It is all happening.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
What is Mikey A.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
's Saturday going to look like?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I'm going to have both College Game Day and Big
Noon kickoff on on the two TVs in the morning.
I'll probably take a little bit of a break in
the midday, and then it's just going to be nonstop
college football.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Special day right up until midnight because I maintain that
the college football season does not start until Hawaii has
a home game at midnight Eastern, and they do this weekend.
They are taking on Dan Mullen and his Elvis impersonator
and the UNLV running Rebels tonight. That is a beauty
because if you're up a lot of money, you double down,
you take Hawaii. If you're down a lot of money,
(32:21):
you double down, you take Hawaii. But you always take Hawaii.
Put it on the poll, Taylor. Do you always take Hawaii?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Small spread in that one. I think it's three.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think it's four, actually.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I think Hawaii's getting four. Getting four points at home.
It's a gift. Let's update the polls here. We wrap
up the week every week.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
By updating the polls here, I actually got 790 on X.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Taylor, what do you have for us?
Speaker 7 (32:47):
When you think of Elvis, which city do you think of?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Memphis.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Easy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's wrong.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
The two choices were Memphis and Las Vegas. 66% of
the audience, Memphis.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
66% of the audience is wrong.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Big one here.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Did Carolina win? Or did TCU lose?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know what? I've been thinking about this all week.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I have.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And I think Carolina went out and won that football game.
I do.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
87% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
All right. Really?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
That's what I voted.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Congratulations, Taylor, on a bye week. How about that?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
We might have lost a bye week, though, if you
saw the reports that.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Lombardi?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
You didn't lose the bye week. You just lost the GM.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
There was a defensive coordinator. There's sex. There's drugs.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Oh, Jesus.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Didn't I say earlier this week that what Pablo Torre
is about to find out is that Bill Belichick always
has the last laugh?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Speaking of that poll, does Bill Belichick always have the
last laugh despite never laughing?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
75% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
This is a big one from Stu. Does Stanford have
all the ingredients to be a great college football program
except for the players?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yep, it'll be on display tonight, full display.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I mean, beautiful stadium, great crowd, beautiful area of the country,
just no players.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Every time you mention Stanford football, you mention Andrew Lux there,
like he's getting under center.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Listen, who knows? He finds the right judge. He might be.
He could now. He could now.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
76% of the audience says yes, Stanford does have all
the ingredients.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I would say Carolina as well.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
They would be in that conversation as the school that
has all the ingredients, except the players.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Carolina would certainly be there, right?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
It's like the sleeping giants conversation. Cause Northwestern probably checks
a lot of those boxes too. Like major city.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
No doubt.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
The donors. Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I told Mikey earlier during studio gots Northwestern. One of
my picks spoiler alert that Northwestern is sneaky. Good team
coming out of the big 10 this year.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Would you want a Harvard quarterback to be your quarter?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hell no. Yeah. My doctor, maybe.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
70% of the audience said no.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Big one here for Mel Kuyper. Are you done with
the sun?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Mel Kuyper said to us this week, we love him,
he's on the Matt Rushmore of guests here, that he
is done with the sun.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I responded, yeah, but the sun looks good on you, man.
Mel looked good. He looked refreshed. What were the results here?
Speaker 7 (35:40):
62% of the audience said yes, they're done with the sun.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Did Jeter have enough room to pull up before diving
into the stands?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yes, this is courtesy of Bob Ryan.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Big for Bob Ryan.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
In his Twitter feed, he just started blasting out random
thoughts 22 hours apart about Derek Jeter's catch where he
leapt into the stands.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
71% of the audience said, yep, Jeter, a little bit theatric.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Big win for Bob.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
This one is courtesy of Charles Huff, the Memphis coach
who joined us this week.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yes, we're supposed to go there.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Call play.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Does everyone love an ice cream truck?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Who doesn't?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Come on. 18% of the audience, because 82% of the
audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, so 18. I mean, get a life.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
A couple more here. If you had $ 3. 9 billion, would
you spend it on the Angels?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
85% of the audience said no.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But why am I presenting it as if all you
had was $ 3. 9 billion and that's it? Because if you
have $ 3. 9 billion, it stands to reason you have a
lot more.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
This one might be the record this week. Do we
all know Stu Gatz is never going back to a gym?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why are you laughing so hard, Taylor? Because we all
know it. Well, I agreed with it.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
97% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
The 3% out there still thinks that these feet.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
And these eyes might see a Jim again.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Two more here.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Do people call Elon University the Harvard of the South?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
No one does that. You said it yesterday. It was ridiculous.
It's a good school. Elon's a good school. It's a
nice private school. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I know someone who's gone there. It's a great place.
It is not Harvard.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
79% of the audience said, nope, nobody calls it that.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Put this on the poll. Would you take an Elon
quarterback as a.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Transfer or a Harvard quarterback as a transfer?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Last one here. And this is a big one.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Should hot seat coaches have to coach from a coffin?
And if they lose, we put the final nail in it.
One of our best ideas yet.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
A coffin game.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
86% of the audience said, yes, sign us up for
those games.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Those are the polls.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
All right, everyone. Have a great Labor Day weekend. Enjoy
the college football.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
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Speaker 4 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The football season is upon us.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The fantasy football season is upon us. And our buddy
Field Yates joins us. He was a basketball correspondent for
a couple of weeks back when the Knicks were making
a championship run.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's a big-time Celtics fan.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
How do you feel about the Celtics offseason so far, Field?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, so honestly, when I'm debating between B. John Robinson
and Jameer Gibbs for the first pickover all this year
in fantasy drafts, I lean ever so slightly towards B.
John Robinson.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What was the question you asked?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
How do you feel about LeBron, about the Celtics putting
Jalen Brown on the Sixers and making that team so
attractive that LeBron James decided, Hey, you know what?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I want to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So can I tell you why I might've had the
most placid reaction of any Celtics fan to the Jalen
Brown trade? There's one specific reason why the Jalen Brown
trade took place as my wife and was going into
labor with our third child. So our third child is
born the day that the Jalen Brown trade takes place.
I mean, just all kinds of stuff happening on that day, obviously.
(01:28):
And I think my brain would have processed the trade
probably much more angrily under different circumstances. I'm still disappointed
and frustrated to this point. But I have decided that
I don't get to be a fan in football, right?
You don't get that opportunity now when you work in it.
So for the Celtics, I'm going to put blind faith
(01:48):
and optimism into this team and hope for the best
and hope that my reaction, my gut reaction, my second reaction,
my third reaction, my 10th reaction to the Jalen Brown.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Trade was just totally wrong.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
And how is little Paul George Yates doing?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
She's doing great.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The irony is that our third is our third daughter
is named Tatum, not related to Jason Tatum. But a
lot of people made the joke after she was born, like,
were you preparing to name her Jalen until several.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Hours before she was born?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And then you pivoted. Jalen was on the long list.
I will be honest on that on that part.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Field, it is so funny with fantasy football season coming
up here. I have the second pick of the draft,
and I know you just addressed it, but that is
the big question. Gibbs or Robinson? Robinson or Gibbs? Mikey
is shaking his head saying it's not a big question.
There's a clear-cut number one.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
No, I was just going to say it's easy for
you because you don't have to make the decision.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
It's going to be made for you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, right. That's correct. I was going to say the
big takeaway is that the best place to pick this
year is number two overall, right? Because Jameer Gibbs and B.
John Robinson is a good argument. You could argue for
either of them as the lawyer in court. probably too
much lawyer talk in sports recently with this Clippers situation,
but I have no issue with, so I personally have
(03:06):
Bijan ranked one spot ahead of Jameer Gibbs, one and two,
but I had a draft a couple of days ago
where I got the number one pick and I wound
up taking Jameer Gibbs. The rationale for that, just as
a heads up, there were two things. One, I haven't
had the chance to draft Jameer Gibbs at any other
league so far. I wanted to have some Jameer Gibbs
in my portfolio. Two, It's what we call a knockout league,
(03:29):
which is new at ESPN. People may be familiar with
this format. The lowest scoring team each week gets eliminated
from the league. Their players go back into a free
agency pool. Everybody has $ 1, 000 of a free agent acquisition budget,
and then we do a blind bidding process each week
for those players. So if somebody has... Derrick Henry in
(03:50):
week one, their team puts up an absolute stinker. Derrick
Henry and everybody else is available. Jameer Gibbs has an
easier early season schedule than over B. John Robinson. So
that was how I leaned towards Gibbs in this knockout league.
But over the past two years, worth noting that Gibbs
has more games with 20-plus fantasy points than Robinson. Excuse me.
(04:11):
Robinson has more 20-plus games over the past two years
than Jameer Gibbs, and he has fewer under-10-point games. So
he's been a little steadier of a ship over the
past couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Mikey, do you like the knockout league? Do you like
that format?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because you're excited for fantasy football the entire offseason, and
then you're knocked out after a week, and all your
players are available to the good teams.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Is this a safe space? Yeah, it's a safe space.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Can I, can I bare my soul? I'm not only
in one, I'm in one that's 32 teams.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Wow. You're a psycho. So that's a double knockout each week.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I'm assuming, right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Four, four teams get knocked out in the first, in
the first few weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So I would say that the only thing that I
would say about the knockout leagues, I really enjoy them.
It's a different way to play. It's a different strategy, obviously.
I joke that in knockout leagues, if you're not last,
you're first, right? The inverse Ricky Bobby, because no matter
whether you finish 10 out of 12, as long as
you're not 12 out of 12, survive and advance. The
only way in which I do think it impacts my
(05:12):
brain is people ask me all the time, how am
how many leagues are you playing in this season? And
that number could begin at, you know, 2025. And then
by the halfway point of the season, if seven of
those are knockout leagues, it could be reduced dramatically. So
from an accounting standpoint, I can't decide how many I
should admit playing in at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Phil, what are the two or three questions you are
getting most headed into this fantasy football season?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The first question is, who am I taking number one overall?
Of course. I said my piece there. The second question
is some form of sleeper or bust, which... I think
it sort of depends on who your audience is when
you answer that question. I used to say that, like,
I don't know, maybe a decade or so ago, you
could throw the third receiver for the Ravens out there
as a sleeper and people would be like, oh, wow, man,
(06:00):
like never heard of that guy. Now you draw like,
you know, the third running back for the Cardinals and
people are like, oh. he went in the eighth round
of my keeper league last week. So you got to
dig a little bit deeper than that, which is a
by-product of how popular fantasy football is in just the NFL.
So sleepers and busts are always a very popular question.
(06:21):
But the one this year, the player this year that
seems to be generating the most heat is Christian McCaffrey.
Are you in, or are you out on CMC who
last year, you know, we're talking about Jameer Gibbs and B.
John Robinson is the clear cut one and two.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah. CMC.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Was 50 points better than those guys last year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I know I had him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He won me a title. I mean, how about that?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah. I mean, he was the best player in fantasy
football last year. He's been the best player in fantasy
football many times in his career. The question is, can
you trust him to stay healthy for the second straight season?
He had 400 plus touches last year. He's 30 years old,
which for a running back is on the older side,
of course. And I, you know, I tend to think
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that all players are injury risks. It's football. I understand
that CMC has had a longer injury history than guys
like Bijan or Jameer Gibbs. Where I land on it
is this. It depends on like how emotional you are
of a fantasy football player, because if you're the kind
of person, so let's just say, and I don't want
to wish this upon anybody, but if Christian McCaffrey gets
hurt in the fourth week of the season, people that
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drafted him in the first round are going to say,
God damn it, I did it again. I should have
known better, right? Whereas inversely... If Amon Ross St. Brown
gets hurt in the third week of the season or
the fourth week of the season and has to miss
some period of time, four to six games, you're going
to say, I got unlucky, right? Amon Ross rarely, if
ever hurts, he's been so incredibly consistent in his five years. Yes.
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So it just depends on how you sort of view
the world of fantasy football. If you could be a
little more, more robotic and just say a better player
is worth the higher pick and take CMC. Yeah. If
you're going to kick yourself because you're emotional, and I'll
be the first to admit, sometimes I am emotional in
fantasy football. I'm often very emotional. Then you can hedge
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against how pissed off you'd be if CMC gets hurt
by taking Jonathan Taylor or Amon Ross St. Brown or
James Cook somewhere in that same range.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Field where do you have aj brown ranked among fantasy
receivers because the pairing with drake may feels like a
match made in heaven.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah he's wide receiver 10 for me well so you
know none of the surprises inside those first 10 picks
of wide receivers he's kind of going the same territory
as rashi rice drake london malik neighbors george pickens chris
olave those are kind of the receivers surrounding aj brown
and rankings and and where they're being drafted right now
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um AJ Brown feels like one of a handful of
guys that is playing with the proverbial chip on his
shoulder more so than most this year. I think Lamar
Jackson might be in that category as well. You could
make an argument that after the playoffs, Josh Allen could
be in that category. But with AJ, like he's still amongst,
if not the best deep receivers in the NFL. Crazy
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that over the past four years, AJ Brown's average receiving
touchdowns was 24.6 yards like the guy is a big
play threat waiting to happen you go back to last
year until you know this from his college days as
well drake may is about as good of a deep
ball thrower as we have in the nfl he's incredibly
incredibly gifted on throws down the field he had a
passer rating of 131 last year that was easily best
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in the nfl and it wasn't like drake through you
know he wasn't in the bottom five of the attempts
where good fortune could explain how, how statistically prolific he was.
He was way up there. He's seventh and pass attempts
on throws 20 plus air yards down the field. So
really talented deep ball thrower with arguably the best deep
ball receiver in the NFL. Once you get past week
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one against Seattle, I think things look really, really promising
for AJ Brown.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I'm gonna be a little selfish here because as i
do all my research i tend to develop man crushes
right uh on on guys later in drafts especially and
i've got my guy this year and i might be
a little too enthusiastic about him so i'm hoping you're
either gonna a confirm it or or or talk me
down or lie yeah jadarian price i'm all over jadarian
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price yes am i am i kidding myself am i
looking at the logic yeah no no that's i mean
one of the things i try to remind people that
play fantasy football that aren't.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Novices like if you have a minimum sort of baseline
of football knowledge you're going to be okay and it's
your team like you should follow your logic in your
process uh no team zero zero teams last year gave
the football to the running backs more often as runners
than the Seahawks. They were tied with Atlanta for the
most running back rushing attempts in the NFL. And while
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it's a new offensive coordinator and play caller with Clint
Kubiak in Las Vegas, I don't think Mike McDonald was
going to hire an OC after winning the Super Bowl
to totally reshape the offense. The approach should be the
same for him. And while Zach Charbonnet could fit back
into this backfield at some point, Charbonnet coming off of
an ACL tear late last season, Like, we'll see when
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that happens, A, but B, like, the other running backs
that are currently competing with Jadarian Price for carries, George
Helani and Emmanuel Wilson, who they signed from the Packers
this offseason. So this is not George– excuse me, Jadarian Price–
Competing with, not that I'm anti-Jeremiah Love, but Jeremiah Love,
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the Cardinals gave Tyler Algier a real contract this offseason
before they drafted Jeremiah Love. There might be games where
Algier has 15 carries to Love's 13th. It's not totally implausible.
So Price finds himself in a really good spot. Two
biggest question marks are pretty straightforward for Jadarian Price. One
is he had six catches last year. The question is,
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did Notre Dame not throw him the football because he
was incapable? Or did Notre Dame not throw him the
football because they had Jeremiah Love? I tend to lean
towards that second argument over the first. The other thing
is fumbles were a problem for Price in college. And
you guys all know this. It's amazing. NFL coaches... all
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like a guy could be running for 150 yards and
a half and then he fumbled the ball in the
third quarter and you never see him again that that
so if price can't keep his uh fingers on the
football then he could be a bit more vulnerable but
it's a really rosy opportunity right now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What round do you have dejan love going in.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Dejan love i had him in the third for a
while um you know.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Run routes yes on the beach with his helmet on yes.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah like i feel like he did like he's a
perfect fit for brock purdy like i just think he's
like really crisp and out of breaks for the timing
and rhythm quarterback you need a running a wide receiver
that always hits his landmarks um durable like to my
knowledge he didn't miss a single game last season so
i had him in the third round but i've i've
reached for him in the second round on occasion.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Especially since he cleared all three parts of that waiver.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Field, Carnell Tate finished preseason, zero receptions on six targets.
How concerned are you for Carnell Tate entering the season?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
If I were to make a list of players whose
stock has dropped the most for me in the preseason,
and this is all relative, right? I'm not talking... I
had him as, I think, wide receiver 23. He's not
wide receiver 53 now, right? But I am going to
flip-flop my Titans wide receivers that I want most going
into the season. I think Carl Tate's going to be
an absolute stud in the NFL. I thought he was
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very pro-ready. I just think this offense is going to
take some time. And Wondell Robinson is going to be
awesome for the Titans again. Uh, if he has Craig,
he kind of graduated. I think Wanda Robinson for a
while was viewed as like this gadget slot only receiver.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Uh, you saw him last year. He was awesome. Super
productive for the giants, stepping into a bigger role with
Malik neighbors out. He knows the offense obviously already. There's
no concerns about, you know, kind of being, excuse me,
fully caught up to speed. So I'm going to flip
flop him and Carnell Tate. I've drafted a lot of
Wanda Robinson so far this year, uh, Tate is going
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to be really good, not concerned about the player long-term
at all. I just think this is going to be
a slower roll into the NFL than I had previously forecasted.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Field, as a fantasy football expert and somebody who also
plays fantasy football, How do you balance the fact that
you're giving all this advice on sleepers, knowing that people
in your leagues might be listening to this same advice?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Well, I don't think it matters as much in sort of,
it matters, but not quite as much in standard redrafts
where you're just, it's a snake order and you just
make a pick because I can always sort of like
jump to the head of the, like the front of
the line to pick a player if I really want
that guy. But I was doing what we call salary
cap leagues also does auction leagues recently where, And I
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noticed that the guys that I was targeting or I
would have targeted, and I never, I shouldn't say never,
but I rarely nominate a player for auction that I
actually want. I'm usually nominating somebody that I want other
people to spend money on. But I did notice that
a couple of the guys that I went into the
draft targeting were going for much higher than I expected
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because I think I've just talked too much about them
during the preseason. And some of my buddies in that
league caught wind of it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Three kids, huh?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Three kids. Listen, that's why I got to come back
on the show. I got bills to pay, you know? Yes.
At some point, the royalties will hit my mailbox.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm just trying to tell you to slow down. I mean,
that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We're done.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
We're done.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay. All right. Would you want to rank the kids?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
What criteria are we going with? Today... You know, how
much is it like eating habits?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
P-P-R-A-D-P.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah. Is it sleep habits? Is it eating habits?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I tell you, anybody with multiple children can attest.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
As you know, Taylor.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And I will tell you.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yes. The hour.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It changes by hour, I'm certain.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
100%. You work for the Patriots. You work for Belichick.
You know Bill very, very well.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know Taylor was a walk-on football player at the
University of North Carolina. It begs the question, is Bill
Belichick back?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Tell you what, a lot going on with the program
right now, obviously. That was a nice window over in Dublin.
I know that TCU, whatever, maybe TCU is a middle
of the pack team in the Big 12. But, you know,
I felt personally, and Taylor may disagree, fully agree, offensive
operation looked a whole lot better this year. It just
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felt like a real offense. They're still down players. Like,
as I look at the guys that are eligible for
the upcoming draft right now, I don't know if there's
a guy that's going to go into But it looked
way better offensively to me. Defense I wasn't going to
be as concerned by because, you know, Bill Belichick is
playing a large.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Role in it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But offensively, I felt like the Bobby Petrino hire from
a football standpoint was on the play on Saturday. Not perfect,
but definitely better. Yes.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
When you say a lot's going on, you're talking about
the throwback uniforms they released yesterday, right? Those 1980 uniforms,
they look good.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Those do look awesome. I mean, the color scheme and
the uniform, the entire uniform set is as good as
there is maybe just in sports, like not just college football. It's,
it's elite elite.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Carolina blue, a top tier color.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Where are we spending the Labor Day weekend here? Are
we going to Nantucket, Cape Cobb? What's going on with
the Yateses?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I wish. I wish.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
We'll be home.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We'll be home.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We're powering through some drafts and trying to get kids
to sleep and eat and then continuing to rank them
throughout the weekend. All right, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We appreciate it, as always. We'll talk to you again very,
very soon. I can't have you around here enough. the
great field Yates. He's all over your, your fantasy coverage
on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Be sure to catch live additions of Stu Godson company
live weekdays at 3.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
PM.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Eastern 12.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
PM.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Pacific.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Mikey.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. You will love the phone call. I just had
with Gino Toretta because. Gino was expecting he's so old
school and he's in Northern California right now. And he'll
be attending Stanford Miami tonight because he's a Heisman trophy
winning quarterback for the university of Miami and the Miami legend.
And he also has the Cal USC game. He's calling
it on Saturday night. But I said, Gino, you get
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to go, you get the link. And he was like, Hey,
I was expecting a call from a hard line. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Do they even make those anymore? I still have one
in my house. Yes, they still make them.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So you thought we were supposed to send you the
hotline number. Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Yeah, I just expected a call.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
You know, it's radio.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
I forgot there's video in this thumbnail times of radio.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Gino, how much better is this year's universe or is
it better this year's Miami team as opposed to last
year's Miami team?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You know, I hope they're as good. I would say,
I mean, listen, they, they started off the year. They
had some expectations. I don't think maybe getting to the
championship game, but I think they thought they were getting
the playoffs, you know, and this year, I think they're
thinking playoffs.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
At a minimum when the ACC.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
And, and then you hope you get kind of get
on a run again. I, you know, college football now
it's so long with 16 games, you're gonna win it
all it's similar to nfl how healthy are you when
you make the playoffs i mean georgia was banged up
alabama was banged up you know it's just how do
you once you get there are you healthy enough to
to go on a run and win a few more
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and win a win a title.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Gino as a heisman winning quarterback what do you like
about darian mensah who miami brings in from duke this
year from the transfer portal.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
His accuracy, very similar to Cam Ward.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
I like how he pushes the ball downfield as a
guy who likes to throw it deep.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I think that's kind of what they're looking for.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Obviously, you got Malachi Toney, who's, you know, get him
the ball one yard downfield, behind the line of scrimmage, wherever.
He's going to have tremendous yards after catching great explosive plays.
But I like how Mensah has always pushed the ball downfield,
whether it was at Tulane last year, Duke. pushed it downfield,
and that's big plays.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
He seems like a very even-keeled kid, nice kid. The
times I've met him, watched practice. It should be fun
offensively for him this year.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Gina, what'd you make of Rutgers as a 30-point favorite
losing at home to UMass and then still going forward
with their firework show after the game?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Laughter laughter.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I would say this. Casinos aren't built on winners.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
But you have to pull the plug on fireworks, don't you?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, you just lost to UMass at home as
a 30-point favorite.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
I would say this. Was anybody still there?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean, what are you going to do? What's the
pyrotechnic guys? He's already set up. He can't bring the
stuff back home. You know that.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
So they got to shoot it off. You know, hey,
I would I would say this. The crowd has been
waiting for a show all night. We got to give
them something. It's like you gave them some fireworks.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I mean, the UMass fans in attendance, they got a show.
How about that?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
You know, I think I would also say you get
what you pay for. They are dead last at investing
in the program and Rutgers as their personnel. So, you know,
if you're not paying for... These kids nowadays, they're not
going to come to your school.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I love the idea that Rutgers paid over a million
dollars to lose that game to UMass.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Not going to be the first time, nor will it
be the last time.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, we've been laughing all week.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've been saying it all week that Stanford, there are
sleeping giants in college football and Stanford has the potential
to be one of them because there's money in that
school and The stadium is beautiful, great part of the country,
a decent fan base.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
They're lacking one key ingredient, good players.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yeah, a key ingredient and a hundred of them, really
good players. Yeah, I mean, listen, Andrew Luck is back there.
They were very slow to adopt to the transfer portal,
to the NIL age. I can remember being out here
and I broadcasted USC at Stanford. It was Caleb Williams
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Heisman Trophy season, the start of his season, first game.
Three starters on USC's team were transfers from Stanford. Well,
all their good players were leaving, and they weren't bringing
anybody in. So they started out behind the eight ball.
I'd probably say similar to Clemson, but they weren't at
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that level. Clemson had better players to start with. But
I think that now that Luck's there, they have the resources.
I mean, obviously, you've got Silicon Valley and a lot
of very wealthy alumni, and it's just a matter of...
investing in the program. The recruiting pitches used to be, hey,
come here and get a degree, wherever it was, and
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try to win a championship. The next line out of
all these kids' mouths coming out of high school is, well,
how much are.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You going to pay me? You have to pay them.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Gino, if a quarterback joins you guys in the Heisman
house this year, C.J. Carr, Arch Manning, Dante Moore, which
one do you think is most likely to win the Heisman?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
I really liked Carr last year when he played against Miami,
even being a freshman. They have an easier schedule, and
he has the Notre Dame machine behind him. I think
if they can beat Miami at home, I think he
will have the leg up only because the other schedules
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of the other guys are very much more difficult than
Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Mensah should be in that conversation.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, he will be, he.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Will be the, I would say the thing that maybe
would hold Mensah back is Mario likes to pound the
ball and you got Fletcher who's, you know, really kind
of unstoppable. He won a couple of games on his
own last year and you know, that would limit his,
his attempts. Um, you know, he may share the spotlight
with Malachi Tony a little bit, but, uh, listen, that, that,
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that's the great thing about the Heisman is, is listen,
there's so many great players. The amount of quarterbacks that
are very good experienced this year in college football is,
is tremendous. And I think if one of them gets hot,
you know, they could, they could run away with it
or it's, you know, it's going to be a, a great,
you know, run like last year where nobody really knew
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who was going to win.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Until the end.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Taylor feels like it's only a matter of time before
Deion Sanders is the head coach at Florida State.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Do you agree? Well, they already have a coach there.
Dead man walking.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Taylor said a win's a win, but Florida State's win
was not a win. That's what he said this week. I, well, it.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Was a win.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
I listen, I don't know. I think there's the juror.
I would say the jury's probably still out on Dion.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Is it not?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
You know, I think he was successful at a lower level.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
He was somewhat successful initially with Travis and his son
playing quarterback. Okay, now can he build a team and
are there enough resources at Colorado to do that? So
I would say something that the jury is still out.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know, I'm looking at the Miami hurricane schedule this
season and one game that you probably had penciled as
a win. You might be put on notice now at
North Carolina, that trip to Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick's waiting
for you.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
He played ball in Carolina. Do you know, you know
that I.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Would say this Taylor, I, you know what? It's not
North Carolina. The one that concerns me, it's pit. And
I mean, if you're an ACC guy, Pitt's quarterback is
a stud. He's very talented. I don't know if Narduzzi's
usually got good defenses.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I would be more concerned with that.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
North Carolina, it was a good defensive performance against a
team in TCU with a new quarterback transfer from Harvard.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And they didn't get anything done. And, you know, my
daughter goes to Wisconsin.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
I saw Billy Edwards a few games last year before
he got hurt. And I'm just going to say, no,
that game is not circled that I'm concerned.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
About it right now.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If there's a second team out of the ACC to
make it to the college football playoff, a second team
other than Miami, who do you think that second team
is going to be?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I'll give you the three. I would be.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Oh, you have three SMU Louisville and, and who are
we just talking in Clemson?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Right.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
I think those are the three teams. SMU Louisville beat
Miami last year. So can they win the games that
they're also supposed to? instead of, you know, they beat
Miami and then lose to somebody lesser than I think that,
that those are, those are the teams that are going
to buy for that spot.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Clemson's got Miami at home in October.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
You know, so I think SMU's got Jennings, who's a
dynamic quarterback, who's a stud. You know, I think those
teams are the ones in Brahma's, you know, no matter
what team he puts out there, he puts together a
great game plan and is successful. Those are the three
that I think would buy for the next for the
next spot in the playoff.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I texted you late last night saying Stanford was going
to win tonight's game by 10 points, and the text
you sent back was not very nice. I'm wrong there.
I know I'm wrong. I did it just to get
under your skin, but you think Miami's going to blow
them out tonight, don't you?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
They came out here early on Tuesday, and yes, I
think they want to set the tone in week one.
They got a really kind of odd schedule. They play
three games in 13 days. I think you go Friday, Thursday, Friday,
which is ridiculous. And so, yes, I think Miami is
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going to make a statement here. And you got to realize, Sugat,
I wanted to go to Stanford. I wanted their degree.
I wanted to play there. They said I wasn't good enough.
I was an hour and a half up the road.
And you know what?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I'm still bitter.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You should show up tonight with your Heisman trophy. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I mean, I'll be down there on the field tonight.
I'll wait. I'll wait.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
I'll wait to the, the, the partial sellout of the
four people that they're going to have at the game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Please get the Heisman and wear it around your neck
and wear the two national championship rings.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Just wear it all and say, I wasn't good enough
to play at Stanford.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Exactly exactly I like.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It I like it Gino I was talking to our
buddy Hawk because he is also in Northern California and
I'm looking at you and you look happy and you
talk about how great it is there and it is
great you got to not one, but two quarters today
because it's 67 degrees. And so I ask you this question.
Why do you come back to Miami?
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Well, now that's, I don't know. That's where I went
to school. My wife and I went to school there.
My daughter went to high school. When I come out
and it's clear, now it was raining and 55 and
foggy last night.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
And I'm thinking. That's why I go back to Miami.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
When it's clear and you can see the Golden Gate
from up here on the top of the hill at
Cal Stadium, there's not a better place when it's clear
here to go watch a college football game, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You're on the call for Cal USC, is that correct,
this weekend, Saturday?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
UCLA.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We got an old Pac-12 game after dark, 10.30 Eastern
kick on Touchdown Radio.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
All right, final question on the way out. We appreciate
you doing this. Indiana, football school or a basketball school?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Basketball school.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
They're still pissed that they haven't won the basketball national
championship in a while.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
All right, Gino, enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the nice weather.
And please wear that Heisman Trophy around your neck to
Stanford today.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
I'll be sipping on the red wine out there in
Palo Alto on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
All right, buddy, we'll talk to you soon. See you, guys.
See you, Gino.
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Speaker 1 (31:30):
We'll update the polls here in just a second. Mikey A.,
what's your Saturday going to look like? We're headed into
Labor Day weekend, a full slate of college football. College
game day is on the air. I mean, the big
noon kickoff is on.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It is all happening.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
What is Mikey A.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
's Saturday going to look like?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I'm going to have both College Game Day and Big
Noon kickoff on on the two TVs in the morning.
I'll probably take a little bit of a break in
the midday, and then it's just going to be nonstop
college football.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Special day right up until midnight because I maintain that
the college football season does not start until Hawaii has
a home game at midnight Eastern, and they do this weekend.
They are taking on Dan Mullen and his Elvis impersonator
and the UNLV running Rebels tonight. That is a beauty
because if you're up a lot of money, you double down,
you take Hawaii. If you're down a lot of money,
(32:21):
you double down, you take Hawaii. But you always take Hawaii.
Put it on the poll, Taylor. Do you always take Hawaii?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Small spread in that one. I think it's three.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think it's four, actually.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I think Hawaii's getting four. Getting four points at home.
It's a gift. Let's update the polls here. We wrap
up the week every week.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
By updating the polls here, I actually got 790 on X.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Taylor, what do you have for us?
Speaker 7 (32:47):
When you think of Elvis, which city do you think of?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Memphis.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Easy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's wrong.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
The two choices were Memphis and Las Vegas. 66% of
the audience, Memphis.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
66% of the audience is wrong.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Big one here.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Did Carolina win? Or did TCU lose?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know what? I've been thinking about this all week.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I have.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And I think Carolina went out and won that football game.
I do.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
87% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
All right. Really?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
That's what I voted.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Congratulations, Taylor, on a bye week. How about that?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
We might have lost a bye week, though, if you
saw the reports that.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Lombardi?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
You didn't lose the bye week. You just lost the GM.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
There was a defensive coordinator. There's sex. There's drugs.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Oh, Jesus.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Didn't I say earlier this week that what Pablo Torre
is about to find out is that Bill Belichick always
has the last laugh?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Speaking of that poll, does Bill Belichick always have the
last laugh despite never laughing?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
75% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
This is a big one from Stu. Does Stanford have
all the ingredients to be a great college football program
except for the players?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yep, it'll be on display tonight, full display.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I mean, beautiful stadium, great crowd, beautiful area of the country,
just no players.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Every time you mention Stanford football, you mention Andrew Lux there,
like he's getting under center.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Listen, who knows? He finds the right judge. He might be.
He could now. He could now.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
76% of the audience says yes, Stanford does have all
the ingredients.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I would say Carolina as well.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
They would be in that conversation as the school that
has all the ingredients, except the players.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Carolina would certainly be there, right?
Speaker 7 (34:53):
It's like the sleeping giants conversation. Cause Northwestern probably checks
a lot of those boxes too. Like major city.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
No doubt.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
The donors. Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I told Mikey earlier during studio gots Northwestern. One of
my picks spoiler alert that Northwestern is sneaky. Good team
coming out of the big 10 this year.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Would you want a Harvard quarterback to be your quarter?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hell no. Yeah. My doctor, maybe.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
70% of the audience said no.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Big one here for Mel Kuyper. Are you done with
the sun?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Mel Kuyper said to us this week, we love him,
he's on the Matt Rushmore of guests here, that he
is done with the sun.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I responded, yeah, but the sun looks good on you, man.
Mel looked good. He looked refreshed. What were the results here?
Speaker 7 (35:40):
62% of the audience said yes, they're done with the sun.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Did Jeter have enough room to pull up before diving
into the stands?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yes, this is courtesy of Bob Ryan.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Big for Bob Ryan.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
In his Twitter feed, he just started blasting out random
thoughts 22 hours apart about Derek Jeter's catch where he
leapt into the stands.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
71% of the audience said, yep, Jeter, a little bit theatric.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Big win for Bob.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
This one is courtesy of Charles Huff, the Memphis coach
who joined us this week.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yes, we're supposed to go there.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Call play.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Does everyone love an ice cream truck?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Who doesn't?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Come on. 18% of the audience, because 82% of the
audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, so 18. I mean, get a life.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
A couple more here. If you had $ 3. 9 billion, would
you spend it on the Angels?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
85% of the audience said no.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But why am I presenting it as if all you
had was $ 3. 9 billion and that's it? Because if you
have $ 3. 9 billion, it stands to reason you have a
lot more.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
This one might be the record this week. Do we
all know Stu Gatz is never going back to a gym?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why are you laughing so hard, Taylor? Because we all
know it. Well, I agreed with it.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
97% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
The 3% out there still thinks that these feet.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
And these eyes might see a Jim again.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Two more here.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Do people call Elon University the Harvard of the South?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
No one does that. You said it yesterday. It was ridiculous.
It's a good school. Elon's a good school. It's a
nice private school. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I know someone who's gone there. It's a great place.
It is not Harvard.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
79% of the audience said, nope, nobody calls it that.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Put this on the poll. Would you take an Elon
quarterback as a.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Transfer or a Harvard quarterback as a transfer?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Last one here. And this is a big one.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Should hot seat coaches have to coach from a coffin?
And if they lose, we put the final nail in it.
One of our best ideas yet.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
A coffin game.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
86% of the audience said, yes, sign us up for
those games.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Those are the polls.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
All right, everyone. Have a great Labor Day weekend. Enjoy
the college football.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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