September 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Notre Dame coming up short against Miami and if the Fighting Irish were out-coached, the abysmal debut by Bill Belichick's North Carolina Tar Heels, Maller's Mountain of Money: Barry Gibb Edition, and more!
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This hour is from college football from rainy South, Florida,
and there it was the Island game in college football
on Sunday Sunday Night, made for TV extravaganza. You have
the national following good versus Evil. Well, back in the
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old days it was Catholics versus convicts, but they don't
say that anymore. Well some people do. But there you
had the old school match. I don't know if you're
watching this or not. I had it on the background.
I was not fully engaged in they put I had
it on the background. I was observing consuming the product.
So if you didn't see this. It came down to
a dramatic finish as the fighting Irish should rally back
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to tie the game, and then the Hurricanes and their
idiot kicker, somebody named Carter Davis, which sounds like he's
on the PGA tour somewhere. But Carter Davis hit a
forty seven yard field goal with a little over a
minute to go on the clock, the go ahead score,
and did Notre Dame come back and win the game?
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Now they did not Carson Beck, the old Georgia quarterback,
Carson Beck two hundred and five yards, a couple of
touchdowns in his Miami debut, and the Hurricanes who came in.
Is there anything more useless than a preseason ranking in
college football? He do that for team. But anyway, Carson
Beck two hundred five yards. Miami came into the year
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ranked tenth, and so they knock off Notre Dame that
was ranked six twenty seven to twenty four of the
final in favor of the fellas from South Florida. So
the better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
We maintain that position. The better story is in the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question did
coach Marcus Freemans Notre Dame squad get out coached, out played,
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or out prepared, because for much of this game they
were doing next enough. Now they did come back and
tie the game. Light But I've got daily double zombies
and maraj and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make cotton candy, which
is kind of what that Notre Dame defense was like.
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For stretches in this game, they were like cotton candy.
So a the biggest gripe. And I have no skin
in the game on this, but my biggest if you're
looking objectively about Notre Dame, is that they came out
they were not ready for the beginning of the game
here and there's no exhibition games in college football. This
is how it goes. We've seen this a lot, but
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your big bad Notre Dame, and it was like the
sleepy fighting Irish. There were the sleepy Irish there. Beginning
of the game. Took them about, by my malor estimate,
about seventy five percent of the game roughly to figure
things out. And so generally speaking, they don't tell you
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to do that. It doesn't vote well for winning and
a Notre Dame was down by not one but two
touchdowns twenty one to seven going to the fourth quarter,
at seven points over the first three quarters of the game,
and so it was an uphill battle. They have a
new quarterback now in South Bend, the great CJ. Carr
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who CJ. Carr, who was spotty as some people go,
he was great. It's some plays late. Overall, the numbers
do not look all that bad if you're a casual
observer of college football. He finished with two hundred and
twenty something yards passing, and he had nineteen completions and
all that a couple of touchdown. Did have an interception
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which bounced all over the place, and a rushing score
with three twenty one to go in the game. That
was what tied the game up. However, he was missing
and when I was watching and I had it on
the background, he was missing what looked to be open receivers.
I saw multiple miss throws there that could have should
have would have been either big plays or scoring plays
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or whatnot. So there was that, and you also have
the fact that he's got the build up, which they
mentioned to Timer to the grandson of an old Michigan coach,
Lloyd Carr. Although you could say, you know, you can
go down the list of anybody else name car David Carr,
big big moment, not getting it done, that kind of thing. Anyway,
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the new Notre Dame quarterback, Okay, not not horrific, not terrible,
anything like that. But now the Golden Omers, so you'll
get the schedule, they're behind the eight balls. Well that's
one game. There's now a bunch of teams getting the playoffs,
so it's not the end of the world and all that,
but you are behind the eight ball if your Notre
Dame at this particular point. You start out zero to
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one and then suddenly everything snowballs and everything comes a referendum.
You start losing. You lose another game that you're like, well,
that's the game we should have won. We lost that
when we lost the first game. Then start stacking up
and up next. The Irish have a little bit of
a break, and then they will play Texas A and
M and Purdue. I'm sick and tired of losing to Purdue.
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They'll play those games in south Man and then they
go on the road after that and play a second
division SEC team in Arkansas after that. All right, So
the other part about this, when you break the game down,
what happened to the fighting Irish defense and the offensive line.
When I was looking at the different matchups in college
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football and I was observing the breathless blow by blow
reporting on what the teams are going to be like
this year, there was a lot of chatter about how
great the offensive line was going to be for Notre
Dame and how their defense was gonna be wonderful. I
was not impressed. I was not impressed. Well, you know,
to dame out a change to win the game. Well,
you being such a hater, All right, let me explain.
So the defense supposed to be elite. I didn't see elite.
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Did you see elite? Maybe maybe I missed it. Maybe
I had to come out on the background, So maybe
I missed the elite defense because I didn't see that.
I was told this is a nasty defense. I didn't
really see that. And this is going to be the
thing that pushes them because they have a first time
starting quarterback CJ Carr, so this defense was going to
lead them there and all that. And now Carson Beck,
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who some people think is going to be wonderful playing
the NFL, and a Carson Beck I believe he tried
to go to the NFL and the NFL said, you're
not really really ready. I remember reading about that, hearing
about that. Anyway, Beck took the NIL bag. He goes
down to Miami and he had surgery on his elbow
between the end of last season and this season. He
walks into hard Rock stadium and by college football standards,
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he carved up what was supposed to be a great
Miami defense for again about three quarters of the game,
like it was a Thanksgiving turkey, and so he had
that and then the numbers were there and he got
the big check and all that good for him. Congratulations.
The offensive line, though, which is supposed to be the
meat and potatoes. Again, this is based on the scouting
report on the fighting irish here the offensive line which
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Freeman's talked up. The head coach there, you look at him,
and they were like manhandled at times by the University
of Miami defense in the trench warfare, which did not
go for much of this game in favor of Notre Dame.
And for now you put Notre Dame. I have them
down on my scorecard as overhyped, over ranked, did not
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look like the six team in the country for the
first three quarters of that game. And the fact that
they lost the game, you say, you say under delivering
in that first game, and he said, well, it's not fair.
It's only one game. Oh okay, this is all we
have to judge them on at this particular point is
one game. And they've got the biggest brand in all
of college football. You know it, I know it, every man,
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woman and child knows it. Notre Dame and that's it, right.
They are bigger than college football. They represent an entire religion.
And they went out there and played like zombies. They
played like zombies for a good stretch of that night
in prime time, in prime time. And Marcus Freeman, he's
got all you know, he's been to the Tony Robbins seminar.
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He's got all the buzzwords, all the terms, you got
everything on culture, grit, we've got all that, Notre Dame football, physicality,
all that. Yeah, okay, and the lights went on there,
little rainy condition is not the greatest, but that's what
you expect South Florida this time of the year. And
they bent and eventually broke because they lost the game,
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and now can play the blame game, which is always
a fun game to play the blame game. Who do
you blame? Who you're gonna blame? All right, So you're
supposed to be the sixth ranked team according to the
preseason rankings, and these early season made for TV games
measuring early measuring stick, right, early measuring stick. You don't
get any kind of mulligan in college football, and where
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was that that close out punch? They did come back, right,
they can't a magic fourth quarter magic, But you don't
get credit for fourth quarter magic when you lose the game.
When you lose the game, you don't get credit for
coming back and tying the game because you lost it
on a field goal late, So you don't get credit
for that. That's generally how that works. Close, But no
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victory cigar for the fighting average. Now on the other side,
the last word here are you buying? The Miami Hurricanes
are back Miami football? If you're old, you remember when
Miami dominated college football million years ago, back in the
Stone Age? And then are they back? Are they an
apex predator?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
In college football? The Hurricanes have returned, So the U
is back. No, I'm not there yet either. I'm not listen.
There were some good things there for the Hurricanes, and
you look at the big picture. They've been teasing you
for several years there in Miami. Mario Christiball, the coach
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who was supposed to fix everything, hasn't fixed everything yet.
Does this count as a signature win for you? Beat
Notre Dame? And I saw the stat that Notre Dame
hasn't beaten Miami in Miami since nineteen seventy seven. Of course,
they don't play all the time. They don't play every year.
They did for a stretch, but they don't play every year.
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So anyway, the coaching staff there, Mario cristaball Miami, they're
all excited they won the game. But I would hold
off on the parade down Biscayne Boulevard there yet, so
we can crank up the old. Pump on the brakes.
You can pump the brakes right there, pump the brakes
on this. And again he said, well, it's unfair. You're
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saying you're ripping Notre Dame and I amn't taking the
shots to Notre Dame. Uh, because they had higher expectations
than Miami, even though Miami was a top ten team.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
He just looked at this and he's like, is this
I'm not gonna say I'm in on this again. The
quarterback look good. I thought that Carson beck Beck for
stretches looked good. He was relatively solid, didn't throw up
in his cleats, which is always a step in the
right through the bar is very low. You did not
puke in your cleats and not the second coming of
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Vinny Testa Verdi or Dick and Dayton's favorite quarterback Bernie Kozar,
not the reincarnation of either one of those guys. And
then the kids had that player last year who was
the number one overall pick the entire draft and he's
now playing toiling with the Tennessee Titans. It didn't really
matter that they by NFL standards, they had a top
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quarterback last year and put up some nice numbers in
Miami didn't at the end was not standing there smiling
and flexing and all that stuff. So the other part
of this being a little gun shy with the Miami
Hurricanes is that they've I feel like they've done this
kind of thing. They don't do it every year, but
the last like ten years or so, there have been
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some teases. There's been some molmons here where they've come
out of the gates and they've gotten a nice win
and then they have the flashy opener, the Razmataz. It
was all excited, all right, there you go, Miami get
ald national attention going there, and then by week number
six they're losing to They play Louisville in weeks they
lose to Louisville. There'll be seven people watching that game
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and they'll lose, right, And you have the defense that was,
I guess supposed to be Miami defense. You know, we
didn't know what to expect. We thought they'd be okay,
and they were good for a good stretch of the game.
But late in the game, Notre Dame was able to
get back and tie the game. And there was some
mistakes for the defense there late in the game and
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gave up seventeen points in the fourth quarter. And so
that's that's your statement. Win early for the Miami Hurricanes.
It's also a warning sign. It's a bit of a
warning sign in there that you're supposed to close the
game out and not have to depend on your idiot
kicker there to win the game late and they were clinging.
They were holding on like a cart a cat hanging
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on to a screen door, just trying to hold on,
and I was like.
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So our lead, this hour, the Hour of Belichick, The
Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god, not
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worth about more than sixty seconds after what we witnessed.
But that's where we're gonna start, and we'll see where
we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead is
from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,
much talked about coaching debut at the college level. All
those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a
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random Labor day in twenty twenty five. Out there all
the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,
all the season tickets, sold them out the power of hyperbolee.
So they sold them all out. They raised the prices
of the tickets and single game seats for the season.
Everything was up up and they sold them all. They
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all had their Carolina blue on and ready to celebrate.
And don't if you watch the game or not, it
got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We
watched so you would not have to. We're happy to
report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss
any of you did not watch. You did not miss
a damn thing. Let me explain Holy smokers. Bill Belichick.
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His first run as a college coach at North Carolina
started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,
only to end up in an epic blowout. After scoring
on the first drive, North Carolina's football team, the Tar Hills,
watched the horn Frogs scored forty one answered unanswered points
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in one stretch. Forty one unanswered points in one stretch,
forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.
It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as
TCU was driving the ball down the field with a
few seconds to go in the game, and then they
started taking knees there. Otherwise it would have been double nickels.
But forty eight to fourteen the final by the TCU
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had scored multiple defensive touchdowns, They had a special team's
touchdown in this game, and North Carolina Tarhill fans acting
like they were at Dodgers Stadium as they left early.
They left in the third quarter, some leaving even before that.
That stadium was mostly empty by the time we got
to the fourth quarter. How bad was it? It was
so bad Kirk Kerbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game.
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Herbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game because the
game was for the Dogs. It was covered in fleas
extended Garbige's time. But let us discuss the question with
that as the backdrop. What are your takeaways from Bill
Belichick's maiden voyage his college football debut at North Carolina.
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So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make some delicious deep fried cheese curds,
is what we're gonna make, because that would have been
better just eating cheese curds would have been better than
watching this holy crap. At least they got paid for it,
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plausibly pay me to watch this crap, so I can
come in here and tell you about the crap that
I watched. So hey, let's start with this North Carolina.
North Carolina football pulled off what I call and they
call this in Hollywood too, they fake out opening. Now,
back in the day, there used to be these things
called movies. People would actually pay money to go to
a movie theater, believe it or not, back in the
Stone Age, and they'd buy like popcorn and snacks, and
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they'd go watch the movies, right, ah, man, it was
a big thing back back in the old days. But
humanity's evolved since then nobody goes to the movies anymore.
But imagine if you will go into the movies back
in the old Stone Age when people used back in
the day, they had payphones and horse and buggy. So
you go down to the movie theater and there's a
lot of hype for the movie, and the first five
minutes you're hooked, right, you are in. You're like, yes,
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it lived up to the hype, and your big card chase,
huge explode. Within the first five minutes. You're like, this
is gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You're sitting there thinking, oh baby, buckle up, man, finally
Hollywood made a good movie. Right, this is gonna be awesome, awesome,
And then for the rest of the movie, you know,
another hour and twenty five minutes or more, there's two
people just mumbling in some coffee shop about their feelings
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for the next hour and twenty five minutes, just like,
come on, I want a car crash. Well we got
a car crash, but it was supposed to be excitement,
huge explosions and all that stuff. Total bait and switch,
total bait and switch for North Carolina. And that's what
Bill Belichick in North Carolina pulled off that openly drive,
seven plays, eighty three yards, touchdown, tar Heels, ow Man
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and the tar Heels. They were fast and furious right there.
Slicing up the opening credits, there was like Vin Diesel.
The whole package, however, turned out to be a mirage.
It was just an hallucination. A desert oasis is what
it turned out to be. The real movie for North Carolina.
That was a low budget, I mean real low budget
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horror flick. And Bill Belichick, he starred as the clueless
babysitter that had no idea as the horn Frogs appropriate
a guy who's Belichick very horny, would lose to a
team called the horn Frogs. Now the first drive, the
first drive, that was the trailer. That was the trailer
to the movie. The real product. What followed was not
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so much football. It was biblical in nature. It's a
biblical flood, is what happened. Again, we mentioned forty one
point avalanche, a forty one point avalanche before the tar
Hills would score again, and you cut to Belichick and
staring blankly with his cutoff sleeves there on the hoodie.
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And that's the look there. As TCU's another touchdown, and
another and another and another and another and another touchdown.
We're talking about an emasculation situation to the highest order,
fifth ring of hell Dante's Inferno type stuff. For North Carolina.
TCU rolled into town. They were the uninvited house guests.
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They were the interlopers. They raided the fridge, they ripped
the flat screen TV off the wall, and they set
the place on fire with arson, is what they did.
So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick and his debut in
collegiate football into a straight to DVD production, and they
don't even really make dvs anymore. All right now, Page two,
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So how would you describe the overall coaching job by
Bill Belichick and his staff in the Belichick debut at
North Carolina. He might know that he has his nepo
baby as the defensive coordinator for the Tarios. The Brownie
James of defensive coordinators their Belichick's son. So there's really
no sugarcoating this. I have two words to describe, two
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words to describe Bill Belichick and the job that his
coaching staff did for North Carolina coaching malpractice. Those are
the two words. That was malfeasance is what that was.
If you want a third word, pure and uncut. Pure
and uncut. Forget the raw talent and all that. Oh
my god, forget about all that. It's not about that.
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It's about the essential components of football, the building blocks.
So you know Bellichick, you said, well, in the NFL
all those years, he had teams that were not that talented,
but he always had Tom Brady for the Patriot run
until the last couple of years. And so you look
at that and said, well, that's the great equalizer and
all that. And in Cleveland he did actually have some
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teams that overachieved when he was coaching the Cleveland Rounds
way back thirty something years ago, back back in the day.
But the basics for North Carolina, which is it doesn't
matter how much talent you have, it's simple blocking and tackling.
If you block and tackle the fundamentals, the bedrock of football,
you don't get smashed the way North Carolina got smashed.
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And the line, which I believe in is you're either
coaching it. You're either coaching it or you're allowing it.
To happen if you're the Belichick coaching staff, and either way,
it's on you. It's on Bill Belichick here and Belichick's
boys looked like lambs being led to the slaughter after
that opening drive there, and it was like watching as
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the team was thirsty. North Carolina was thirsty. So they
got in front of the fire hydrant and the fire
hydrant was spraying at full blast and North Carolina's football
players were trying to get a drink, but they had
they were trying to sip. They had a little one
of those little bendy straws and they were trying to
drink from the bendy straw. You can't. You cannot drink
out of a fire hydrant with a bendy straw. Just
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the math on that does not does not work. Impossible.
But this was it was a bugs life. It was
a bugs life for the coaching staff in North Carolina because,
as we know, sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're
the bug. Splat. Yeah, they were splattered. They were splattered.
And now it is a full on BELLICHICKI and dog pile,
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dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right, he's being mocked teased, humiliated,
all of that. The hoodie who once tortured, absolutely tortured
rookie quarterbacks, and when he had extra time to prepare,
you never wanted to bet against ever ever, Bill Belichick,
and he punked out all of these quarterbacks and all
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these coaches for a generation. And now he is being
emotionally waterboarded on national TV, on social media, the matrix,
all that stuff they're just unloading on Bill Belichick. I
don't feel bad for Belichick per se. I don't know
that it's completely justified for Bill Belichick because when I
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listened to Tom Brady talk, I hear a lot of
the crap that Belichick' said, Like Belichick influenced what Tom
Brady became. Now, you could argue that Brady did it better. Fine,
I think that's been proven since they went their separate ways.
But it's not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI
in lines when he discusses his outlook on football. Those
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are things he learned from Bill Belichick, and he's just
repeating the dogma of Bill Belichick. So I think that's
important to note here for all the people's see, it
was all Tom Brady. Okay, okay, fine, but he's using
a lot of the material he learned from Bill Belichick.
And so the hoodie gets tortured there and waterboarded and
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all that stuff. And the lesson is sometimes you're the
maestro and sometimes you're the kazoo player. And in this scene,
in this scene of the show, Bill Belichick is stuck
playing the kazoo while TC how do you do? The
march band blasts him off the field. Get out of here, Belichick.
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Here a bum. The guy's a bomm. Now it's not
all bad. So I determined I had an epiphany. As
I was driving in making the long drive in from
the north Woods here to the mothership, I had an epiphany.
And the epiphany was that Bill Belichick will be getting
a call from Madison Avenue first thing in the morning
here as the people on Madison Ave say hey, Bill, Well,
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I guess they'll call this little floozy girlfriend there and
she's like the business person. So if you'll call, they'll
call him her and say, hey, we want Bill to
do a commercial. So what's the commercial for Wells? It's
an airline? What airline is it? Delta is No, it's
not America. It's not Delta. What airline is it, Well,
it's Southwest. We want to do a new commercial. They
want to get away? Fair because that was a want
to get away situation and most North Carolina fans got away.
(28:47):
They got out of there. I'm not standing at the
end of his crap, No way, all right, last word,
we have some post game Bill Belichick. Belichick post games
sound always good to play. Bill Belichick post game sound. Uh,
let's get a little taste then we'll react. Here's Belichick
commenting about this scene, the aura, the vibrations there in
(29:08):
Chappa Hill. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Oh well, it was a great uh, you know, great
atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
tremendous injury energy walk and you know we played competitively,
but then just couldn't sustain it. Obviously, we have a
lot of work to do. You know, we did do
a better job all the way around, coaching, playing all
three phases of the game. Just wasn't up to what
(29:32):
it needs to be. And I know we're a lot
better than that. So we'll need to, you know, need
to work on those things and show it on Saturday
and quick turnaround. But you know, get TCU credit that
came in did a good job, and they were clearly
the better team tonight. You know, they deserved to win
and they did it decisively.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right. So those just some opening comments by Bill
Belichick there. I liked that how he had said, hey,
we just couldn't keep it up, that there was one drive,
North Carolla, I look good like one drive, one drive,
and that's it, all right. So what do you make
of Bill Belichick and the tone the postgame comments of
Bill Belichick? To me, the quote that stood out is,
(30:13):
I know we're a lot better than that. To me,
that's the money quote. So I felt like all of
this was watered down. I watched it. It was about
thirteen minutes or so. I saw the news. Comings was
it was watered down. It was, And behold, numb little bug,
a numb little bug by Bill Belichick. Just numb, just
(30:34):
felt numb, like he's a little tired of everything. Belichick.
You know, he knew he had to do it. He's
done this a million times after losses, and he's like
he's kind of hanging by a thread there, Belichick, and
you got to survive it. And he did. And and
some of that sounded similarly to some of the undertones
he had when he was coaching the Patriots back in
(30:54):
the day. Some of the commentary there not quite as sharp.
I thought, the I know we're a lot better than that.
That's a bit of a stepping stone, a bit of
a stepping stone. I don't recall him saying that very
often coaching the Patriots. Course he didn't have to. They
won most of the games. They certainly won most of
the big games with the Patriots, So I don't recall
him saying that bright side bill by Bella check standards,
(31:17):
that's bright side bill. And just the statistical domination. The
Eyeball test said this was ridiculous. The numbers back it up.
North Carolina had ten first downs, most of those in
garbage time. They went a couple hours without completing a
forward pass, and TCU had twenty nine first downs. They
had nineteen more first downs TCU. Rushing yards. TCU had
(31:42):
two hundred and eight more rushing yards than North Carolina.
Two hundred and eight more rushing yards. And but wait,
there's more. Overall yardage. The TCU horned frogs got real horny.
They had five hundred and forty two yards. The tar
Hills had two hundred and twenty two. My computer like
brain tells me that is a minus three hundred and
(32:03):
twenty for North Carolina plus three twenty for TCUs. So
it was bad. So the question also is will it
get any better? Is this going to be how it
goes all season for Bill Belichick? Is this going to
be a one and done situation? Will he run out
of coaching and that's it and see you later? And
that guy Mike Lombardi will go back and do bad
(32:23):
podcasts and these guys will run off as carpetbaggers and
go somewhere else. You don't want to overreact. It's one
stinking game, right, And but the problem is it's how
you make that first impression. People are gonna remember that
first impression. And this is the first impression for Bill
Belichick as a college coach, and people are not gonna
be paying that close attention. And they're gonna be on
(32:46):
TV a lot because of Belichick, but most of the
games are not going to get the attention. This was
an island game on a holiday, there was no NFL.
It was his college debut, and they allowed his team
forty eight points, the most he's ever allowed as a
head coach, that is l Stinko.
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A slot guy not Julian Edelman, but prior to Edelman,
Freddy much no slot receiver okay.
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Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.
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This hour is from college football from rainy South, Florida,
and there it was the Island game in college football
on Sunday Sunday Night, made for TV extravaganza. You have
the national following good versus Evil. Well, back in the
(01:57):
old days it was Catholics versus convicts, but they don't
say that anymore. Well some people do. But there you
had the old school match. I don't know if you're
watching this or not. I had it on the background.
I was not fully engaged in they put I had
it on the background. I was observing consuming the product.
So if you didn't see this. It came down to
a dramatic finish as the fighting Irish should rally back
(02:20):
to tie the game, and then the Hurricanes and their
idiot kicker, somebody named Carter Davis, which sounds like he's
on the PGA tour somewhere. But Carter Davis hit a
forty seven yard field goal with a little over a
minute to go on the clock, the go ahead score,
and did Notre Dame come back and win the game?
(02:41):
Now they did not Carson Beck, the old Georgia quarterback,
Carson Beck two hundred and five yards, a couple of
touchdowns in his Miami debut, and the Hurricanes who came in.
Is there anything more useless than a preseason ranking in
college football? He do that for team. But anyway, Carson
Beck two hundred five yards. Miami came into the year
(03:03):
ranked tenth, and so they knock off Notre Dame that
was ranked six twenty seven to twenty four of the
final in favor of the fellas from South Florida. So
the better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
We maintain that position. The better story is in the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question did
coach Marcus Freemans Notre Dame squad get out coached, out played,
(03:29):
or out prepared, because for much of this game they
were doing next enough. Now they did come back and
tie the game. Light But I've got daily double zombies
and maraj and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make cotton candy, which
is kind of what that Notre Dame defense was like.
(03:50):
For stretches in this game, they were like cotton candy.
So a the biggest gripe. And I have no skin
in the game on this, but my biggest if you're
looking objectively about Notre Dame, is that they came out
they were not ready for the beginning of the game
here and there's no exhibition games in college football. This
is how it goes. We've seen this a lot, but
(04:12):
your big bad Notre Dame, and it was like the
sleepy fighting Irish. There were the sleepy Irish there. Beginning
of the game. Took them about, by my malor estimate,
about seventy five percent of the game roughly to figure
things out. And so generally speaking, they don't tell you
(04:32):
to do that. It doesn't vote well for winning and
a Notre Dame was down by not one but two
touchdowns twenty one to seven going to the fourth quarter,
at seven points over the first three quarters of the game,
and so it was an uphill battle. They have a
new quarterback now in South Bend, the great CJ. Carr
(04:53):
who CJ. Carr, who was spotty as some people go,
he was great. It's some plays late. Overall, the numbers
do not look all that bad if you're a casual
observer of college football. He finished with two hundred and
twenty something yards passing, and he had nineteen completions and
all that a couple of touchdown. Did have an interception
(05:15):
which bounced all over the place, and a rushing score
with three twenty one to go in the game. That
was what tied the game up. However, he was missing
and when I was watching and I had it on
the background, he was missing what looked to be open receivers.
I saw multiple miss throws there that could have should
have would have been either big plays or scoring plays
(05:36):
or whatnot. So there was that, and you also have
the fact that he's got the build up, which they
mentioned to Timer to the grandson of an old Michigan coach,
Lloyd Carr. Although you could say, you know, you can
go down the list of anybody else name car David Carr,
big big moment, not getting it done, that kind of thing. Anyway,
(05:58):
the new Notre Dame quarterback, Okay, not not horrific, not terrible,
anything like that. But now the Golden Omers, so you'll
get the schedule, they're behind the eight balls. Well that's
one game. There's now a bunch of teams getting the playoffs,
so it's not the end of the world and all that,
but you are behind the eight ball if your Notre
Dame at this particular point. You start out zero to
(06:20):
one and then suddenly everything snowballs and everything comes a referendum.
You start losing. You lose another game that you're like, well,
that's the game we should have won. We lost that
when we lost the first game. Then start stacking up
and up next. The Irish have a little bit of
a break, and then they will play Texas A and
M and Purdue. I'm sick and tired of losing to Purdue.
(06:41):
They'll play those games in south Man and then they
go on the road after that and play a second
division SEC team in Arkansas after that. All right, So
the other part about this, when you break the game down,
what happened to the fighting Irish defense and the offensive line.
When I was looking at the different matchups in college
(07:01):
football and I was observing the breathless blow by blow
reporting on what the teams are going to be like
this year, there was a lot of chatter about how
great the offensive line was going to be for Notre
Dame and how their defense was gonna be wonderful. I
was not impressed. I was not impressed. Well, you know,
to dame out a change to win the game. Well,
you being such a hater, All right, let me explain.
So the defense supposed to be elite. I didn't see elite.
(07:24):
Did you see elite? Maybe maybe I missed it. Maybe
I had to come out on the background, So maybe
I missed the elite defense because I didn't see that.
I was told this is a nasty defense. I didn't
really see that. And this is going to be the
thing that pushes them because they have a first time
starting quarterback CJ Carr, so this defense was going to
lead them there and all that. And now Carson Beck,
(07:45):
who some people think is going to be wonderful playing
the NFL, and a Carson Beck I believe he tried
to go to the NFL and the NFL said, you're
not really really ready. I remember reading about that, hearing
about that. Anyway, Beck took the NIL bag. He goes
down to Miami and he had surgery on his elbow
between the end of last season and this season. He
walks into hard Rock stadium and by college football standards,
(08:09):
he carved up what was supposed to be a great
Miami defense for again about three quarters of the game,
like it was a Thanksgiving turkey, and so he had
that and then the numbers were there and he got
the big check and all that good for him. Congratulations.
The offensive line, though, which is supposed to be the
meat and potatoes. Again, this is based on the scouting
report on the fighting irish here the offensive line which
(08:32):
Freeman's talked up. The head coach there, you look at him,
and they were like manhandled at times by the University
of Miami defense in the trench warfare, which did not
go for much of this game in favor of Notre Dame.
And for now you put Notre Dame. I have them
down on my scorecard as overhyped, over ranked, did not
(08:55):
look like the six team in the country for the
first three quarters of that game. And the fact that
they lost the game, you say, you say under delivering
in that first game, and he said, well, it's not fair.
It's only one game. Oh okay, this is all we
have to judge them on at this particular point is
one game. And they've got the biggest brand in all
of college football. You know it, I know it, every man,
(09:18):
woman and child knows it. Notre Dame and that's it, right.
They are bigger than college football. They represent an entire religion.
And they went out there and played like zombies. They
played like zombies for a good stretch of that night
in prime time, in prime time. And Marcus Freeman, he's
got all you know, he's been to the Tony Robbins seminar.
(09:38):
He's got all the buzzwords, all the terms, you got
everything on culture, grit, we've got all that, Notre Dame football, physicality,
all that. Yeah, okay, and the lights went on there,
little rainy condition is not the greatest, but that's what
you expect South Florida this time of the year. And
they bent and eventually broke because they lost the game,
(09:59):
and now can play the blame game, which is always
a fun game to play the blame game. Who do
you blame? Who you're gonna blame? All right, So you're
supposed to be the sixth ranked team according to the
preseason rankings, and these early season made for TV games
measuring early measuring stick, right, early measuring stick. You don't
get any kind of mulligan in college football, and where
(10:22):
was that that close out punch? They did come back, right,
they can't a magic fourth quarter magic, But you don't
get credit for fourth quarter magic when you lose the game.
When you lose the game, you don't get credit for
coming back and tying the game because you lost it
on a field goal late, So you don't get credit
for that. That's generally how that works. Close, But no
(10:43):
victory cigar for the fighting average. Now on the other side,
the last word here are you buying? The Miami Hurricanes
are back Miami football? If you're old, you remember when
Miami dominated college football million years ago, back in the
Stone Age? And then are they back? Are they an
apex predator?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
In college football? The Hurricanes have returned, So the U
is back. No, I'm not there yet either. I'm not listen.
There were some good things there for the Hurricanes, and
you look at the big picture. They've been teasing you
for several years there in Miami. Mario Christiball, the coach
(11:26):
who was supposed to fix everything, hasn't fixed everything yet.
Does this count as a signature win for you? Beat
Notre Dame? And I saw the stat that Notre Dame
hasn't beaten Miami in Miami since nineteen seventy seven. Of course,
they don't play all the time. They don't play every year.
They did for a stretch, but they don't play every year.
(11:47):
So anyway, the coaching staff there, Mario cristaball Miami, they're
all excited they won the game. But I would hold
off on the parade down Biscayne Boulevard there yet, so
we can crank up the old. Pump on the brakes.
You can pump the brakes right there, pump the brakes
on this. And again he said, well, it's unfair. You're
(12:08):
saying you're ripping Notre Dame and I amn't taking the
shots to Notre Dame. Uh, because they had higher expectations
than Miami, even though Miami was a top ten team.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
He just looked at this and he's like, is this
I'm not gonna say I'm in on this again. The
quarterback look good. I thought that Carson beck Beck for
stretches looked good. He was relatively solid, didn't throw up
in his cleats, which is always a step in the
right through the bar is very low. You did not
puke in your cleats and not the second coming of
(12:37):
Vinny Testa Verdi or Dick and Dayton's favorite quarterback Bernie Kozar,
not the reincarnation of either one of those guys. And
then the kids had that player last year who was
the number one overall pick the entire draft and he's
now playing toiling with the Tennessee Titans. It didn't really
matter that they by NFL standards, they had a top
(12:58):
quarterback last year and put up some nice numbers in
Miami didn't at the end was not standing there smiling
and flexing and all that stuff. So the other part
of this being a little gun shy with the Miami
Hurricanes is that they've I feel like they've done this
kind of thing. They don't do it every year, but
the last like ten years or so, there have been
(13:19):
some teases. There's been some molmons here where they've come
out of the gates and they've gotten a nice win
and then they have the flashy opener, the Razmataz. It
was all excited, all right, there you go, Miami get
ald national attention going there, and then by week number
six they're losing to They play Louisville in weeks they
lose to Louisville. There'll be seven people watching that game
(13:42):
and they'll lose, right, And you have the defense that was,
I guess supposed to be Miami defense. You know, we
didn't know what to expect. We thought they'd be okay,
and they were good for a good stretch of the game.
But late in the game, Notre Dame was able to
get back and tie the game. And there was some
mistakes for the defense there late in the game and
(14:02):
gave up seventeen points in the fourth quarter. And so
that's that's your statement. Win early for the Miami Hurricanes.
It's also a warning sign. It's a bit of a
warning sign in there that you're supposed to close the
game out and not have to depend on your idiot
kicker there to win the game late and they were clinging.
They were holding on like a cart a cat hanging
(14:23):
on to a screen door, just trying to hold on,
and I was like.
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So our lead, this hour, the Hour of Belichick, The
Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god, not
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worth about more than sixty seconds after what we witnessed.
But that's where we're gonna start, and we'll see where
we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead is
from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,
much talked about coaching debut at the college level. All
those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a
(17:29):
random Labor day in twenty twenty five. Out there all
the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,
all the season tickets, sold them out the power of hyperbolee.
So they sold them all out. They raised the prices
of the tickets and single game seats for the season.
Everything was up up and they sold them all. They
(17:51):
all had their Carolina blue on and ready to celebrate.
And don't if you watch the game or not, it
got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We
watched so you would not have to. We're happy to
report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss
any of you did not watch. You did not miss
a damn thing. Let me explain Holy smokers. Bill Belichick.
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His first run as a college coach at North Carolina
started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,
only to end up in an epic blowout. After scoring
on the first drive, North Carolina's football team, the Tar Hills,
watched the horn Frogs scored forty one answered unanswered points
(18:37):
in one stretch. Forty one unanswered points in one stretch,
forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.
It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as
TCU was driving the ball down the field with a
few seconds to go in the game, and then they
started taking knees there. Otherwise it would have been double nickels.
But forty eight to fourteen the final by the TCU
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had scored multiple defensive touchdowns, They had a special team's
touchdown in this game, and North Carolina Tarhill fans acting
like they were at Dodgers Stadium as they left early.
They left in the third quarter, some leaving even before that.
That stadium was mostly empty by the time we got
to the fourth quarter. How bad was it? It was
so bad Kirk Kerbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game.
(19:26):
Herbstreet allowed his dog to broadcast the game because the
game was for the Dogs. It was covered in fleas
extended Garbige's time. But let us discuss the question with
that as the backdrop. What are your takeaways from Bill
Belichick's maiden voyage his college football debut at North Carolina.
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So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,
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we are going to make some delicious deep fried cheese curds,
is what we're gonna make, because that would have been
better just eating cheese curds would have been better than
watching this holy crap. At least they got paid for it,
(20:10):
plausibly pay me to watch this crap, so I can
come in here and tell you about the crap that
I watched. So hey, let's start with this North Carolina.
North Carolina football pulled off what I call and they
call this in Hollywood too, they fake out opening. Now,
back in the day, there used to be these things
called movies. People would actually pay money to go to
a movie theater, believe it or not, back in the
Stone Age, and they'd buy like popcorn and snacks, and
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they'd go watch the movies, right, ah, man, it was
a big thing back back in the old days. But
humanity's evolved since then nobody goes to the movies anymore.
But imagine if you will go into the movies back
in the old Stone Age when people used back in
the day, they had payphones and horse and buggy. So
you go down to the movie theater and there's a
lot of hype for the movie, and the first five
minutes you're hooked, right, you are in. You're like, yes,
(20:55):
it lived up to the hype, and your big card chase,
huge explode. Within the first five minutes. You're like, this
is gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You're sitting there thinking, oh baby, buckle up, man, finally
Hollywood made a good movie. Right, this is gonna be awesome, awesome,
And then for the rest of the movie, you know,
another hour and twenty five minutes or more, there's two
people just mumbling in some coffee shop about their feelings
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for the next hour and twenty five minutes, just like,
come on, I want a car crash. Well we got
a car crash, but it was supposed to be excitement,
huge explosions and all that stuff. Total bait and switch,
total bait and switch for North Carolina. And that's what
Bill Belichick in North Carolina pulled off that openly drive,
seven plays, eighty three yards, touchdown, tar Heels, ow Man
(21:52):
and the tar Heels. They were fast and furious right there.
Slicing up the opening credits, there was like Vin Diesel.
The whole package, however, turned out to be a mirage.
It was just an hallucination. A desert oasis is what
it turned out to be. The real movie for North Carolina.
That was a low budget, I mean real low budget
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horror flick. And Bill Belichick, he starred as the clueless
babysitter that had no idea as the horn Frogs appropriate
a guy who's Belichick very horny, would lose to a
team called the horn Frogs. Now the first drive, the
first drive, that was the trailer. That was the trailer
to the movie. The real product. What followed was not
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so much football. It was biblical in nature. It's a
biblical flood, is what happened. Again, we mentioned forty one
point avalanche, a forty one point avalanche before the tar
Hills would score again, and you cut to Belichick and
staring blankly with his cutoff sleeves there on the hoodie.
(22:57):
And that's the look there. As TCU's another touchdown, and
another and another and another and another and another touchdown.
We're talking about an emasculation situation to the highest order,
fifth ring of hell Dante's Inferno type stuff. For North Carolina.
TCU rolled into town. They were the uninvited house guests.
(23:19):
They were the interlopers. They raided the fridge, they ripped
the flat screen TV off the wall, and they set
the place on fire with arson, is what they did.
So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick and his debut in
collegiate football into a straight to DVD production, and they
don't even really make dvs anymore. All right now, Page two,
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So how would you describe the overall coaching job by
Bill Belichick and his staff in the Belichick debut at
North Carolina. He might know that he has his nepo
baby as the defensive coordinator for the Tarios. The Brownie
James of defensive coordinators their Belichick's son. So there's really
no sugarcoating this. I have two words to describe, two
(24:04):
words to describe Bill Belichick and the job that his
coaching staff did for North Carolina coaching malpractice. Those are
the two words. That was malfeasance is what that was.
If you want a third word, pure and uncut. Pure
and uncut. Forget the raw talent and all that. Oh
my god, forget about all that. It's not about that.
(24:24):
It's about the essential components of football, the building blocks.
So you know Bellichick, you said, well, in the NFL
all those years, he had teams that were not that talented,
but he always had Tom Brady for the Patriot run
until the last couple of years. And so you look
at that and said, well, that's the great equalizer and
all that. And in Cleveland he did actually have some
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teams that overachieved when he was coaching the Cleveland Rounds
way back thirty something years ago, back back in the day.
But the basics for North Carolina, which is it doesn't
matter how much talent you have, it's simple blocking and tackling.
If you block and tackle the fundamentals, the bedrock of football,
you don't get smashed the way North Carolina got smashed.
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And the line, which I believe in is you're either
coaching it. You're either coaching it or you're allowing it.
To happen if you're the Belichick coaching staff, and either way,
it's on you. It's on Bill Belichick here and Belichick's
boys looked like lambs being led to the slaughter after
that opening drive there, and it was like watching as
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the team was thirsty. North Carolina was thirsty. So they
got in front of the fire hydrant and the fire
hydrant was spraying at full blast and North Carolina's football
players were trying to get a drink, but they had
they were trying to sip. They had a little one
of those little bendy straws and they were trying to
drink from the bendy straw. You can't. You cannot drink
out of a fire hydrant with a bendy straw. Just
(25:50):
the math on that does not does not work. Impossible.
But this was it was a bugs life. It was
a bugs life for the coaching staff in North Carolina because,
as we know, sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're
the bug. Splat. Yeah, they were splattered. They were splattered.
And now it is a full on BELLICHICKI and dog pile,
(26:12):
dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right, he's being mocked teased, humiliated,
all of that. The hoodie who once tortured, absolutely tortured
rookie quarterbacks, and when he had extra time to prepare,
you never wanted to bet against ever ever, Bill Belichick,
and he punked out all of these quarterbacks and all
(26:34):
these coaches for a generation. And now he is being
emotionally waterboarded on national TV, on social media, the matrix,
all that stuff they're just unloading on Bill Belichick. I
don't feel bad for Belichick per se. I don't know
that it's completely justified for Bill Belichick because when I
(26:55):
listened to Tom Brady talk, I hear a lot of
the crap that Belichick' said, Like Belichick influenced what Tom
Brady became. Now, you could argue that Brady did it better. Fine,
I think that's been proven since they went their separate ways.
But it's not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI
in lines when he discusses his outlook on football. Those
(27:16):
are things he learned from Bill Belichick, and he's just
repeating the dogma of Bill Belichick. So I think that's
important to note here for all the people's see, it
was all Tom Brady. Okay, okay, fine, but he's using
a lot of the material he learned from Bill Belichick.
And so the hoodie gets tortured there and waterboarded and
(27:39):
all that stuff. And the lesson is sometimes you're the
maestro and sometimes you're the kazoo player. And in this scene,
in this scene of the show, Bill Belichick is stuck
playing the kazoo while TC how do you do? The
march band blasts him off the field. Get out of here, Belichick.
(28:03):
Here a bum. The guy's a bomm. Now it's not
all bad. So I determined I had an epiphany. As
I was driving in making the long drive in from
the north Woods here to the mothership, I had an epiphany.
And the epiphany was that Bill Belichick will be getting
a call from Madison Avenue first thing in the morning
here as the people on Madison Ave say hey, Bill, Well,
(28:24):
I guess they'll call this little floozy girlfriend there and
she's like the business person. So if you'll call, they'll
call him her and say, hey, we want Bill to
do a commercial. So what's the commercial for Wells? It's
an airline? What airline is it? Delta is No, it's
not America. It's not Delta. What airline is it, Well,
it's Southwest. We want to do a new commercial. They
want to get away? Fair because that was a want
to get away situation and most North Carolina fans got away.
(28:47):
They got out of there. I'm not standing at the
end of his crap, No way, all right, last word,
we have some post game Bill Belichick. Belichick post games
sound always good to play. Bill Belichick post game sound. Uh,
let's get a little taste then we'll react. Here's Belichick
commenting about this scene, the aura, the vibrations there in
(29:08):
Chappa Hill. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Oh well, it was a great uh, you know, great
atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
tremendous injury energy walk and you know we played competitively,
but then just couldn't sustain it. Obviously, we have a
lot of work to do. You know, we did do
a better job all the way around, coaching, playing all
three phases of the game. Just wasn't up to what
(29:32):
it needs to be. And I know we're a lot
better than that. So we'll need to, you know, need
to work on those things and show it on Saturday
and quick turnaround. But you know, get TCU credit that
came in did a good job, and they were clearly
the better team tonight. You know, they deserved to win
and they did it decisively.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right. So those just some opening comments by Bill
Belichick there. I liked that how he had said, hey,
we just couldn't keep it up, that there was one drive,
North Carolla, I look good like one drive, one drive,
and that's it, all right. So what do you make
of Bill Belichick and the tone the postgame comments of
Bill Belichick? To me, the quote that stood out is,
(30:13):
I know we're a lot better than that. To me,
that's the money quote. So I felt like all of
this was watered down. I watched it. It was about
thirteen minutes or so. I saw the news. Comings was
it was watered down. It was, And behold, numb little bug,
a numb little bug by Bill Belichick. Just numb, just
(30:34):
felt numb, like he's a little tired of everything. Belichick.
You know, he knew he had to do it. He's
done this a million times after losses, and he's like
he's kind of hanging by a thread there, Belichick, and
you got to survive it. And he did. And and
some of that sounded similarly to some of the undertones
he had when he was coaching the Patriots back in
(30:54):
the day. Some of the commentary there not quite as sharp.
I thought, the I know we're a lot better than that.
That's a bit of a stepping stone, a bit of
a stepping stone. I don't recall him saying that very
often coaching the Patriots. Course he didn't have to. They
won most of the games. They certainly won most of
the big games with the Patriots, So I don't recall
him saying that bright side bill by Bella check standards,
(31:17):
that's bright side bill. And just the statistical domination. The
Eyeball test said this was ridiculous. The numbers back it up.
North Carolina had ten first downs, most of those in
garbage time. They went a couple hours without completing a
forward pass, and TCU had twenty nine first downs. They
had nineteen more first downs TCU. Rushing yards. TCU had
(31:42):
two hundred and eight more rushing yards than North Carolina.
Two hundred and eight more rushing yards. And but wait,
there's more. Overall yardage. The TCU horned frogs got real horny.
They had five hundred and forty two yards. The tar
Hills had two hundred and twenty two. My computer like
brain tells me that is a minus three hundred and
(32:03):
twenty for North Carolina plus three twenty for TCUs. So
it was bad. So the question also is will it
get any better? Is this going to be how it
goes all season for Bill Belichick? Is this going to
be a one and done situation? Will he run out
of coaching and that's it and see you later? And
that guy Mike Lombardi will go back and do bad
(32:23):
podcasts and these guys will run off as carpetbaggers and
go somewhere else. You don't want to overreact. It's one
stinking game, right, And but the problem is it's how
you make that first impression. People are gonna remember that
first impression. And this is the first impression for Bill
Belichick as a college coach, and people are not gonna
be paying that close attention. And they're gonna be on
(32:46):
TV a lot because of Belichick, but most of the
games are not going to get the attention. This was
an island game on a holiday, there was no NFL.
It was his college debut, and they allowed his team
forty eight points, the most he's ever allowed as a
head coach, that is l Stinko.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
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We're in it. Don't hang up. Don't hang up. And
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You're with Coop? Okay, sounds good, Good luck Coop, God speed.
We will have mouth How that works? Mallards amount of
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
Alright to right to Aiden and Andrew Kopa categories quickly quickly,
the very GiB edition he turns seventy nine on Monday.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Category is our first of May night fever staying alive
and you win again, Aid, In which category do you like?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I'll do the first one, first.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Of May Maykay? All right, Andrew, how about you staying alive?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
All right? Okay, very good. These athletes were all born
on May first, Aiden, May first? You ready? Jesus was
not born on May first. All right, here we go.
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name. We're on our way. Go.
A center for Oklahoma City. He looks like a skeleton
for Oklahoma City in the NBA. All right. Running back
(34:56):
for the Patriots and the Jets in the nineties and
the two thousands. Hall of Fame running back with a
generic name, no idea okay, A wide receiver for the Patriots.
A slot guy not Julian Edelman, but prior to Edelman,
Freddy much no slot receiver okay.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.
Played was an All Star with Toronto starting pitcher right hander,
African American starting pitcher you do you watch sports, Aidan
or like you birthdays?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I got no idea.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Who cares about that? Bay?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
All right?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
All right, good job, Ben, good job, great clues. All right, Andrew, Andrew.
Our category is staying alive. These athletes all had near
death experiences.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Andrew, are you ready category America? All right? Andrew forty
five seconds s begin.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
His nickname was the Truth for the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Uh. This guy was Big Poppy for the Red Sox.
That's right, let's go. This guy almost died in a whorehouse.
He was on the Lakers. Who has Yes. This guy
was a Tennessee Titan. He ran for two thousand yards,
not Derrick Henry but before him, said George, no after him?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right? Uh.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
This guy almost died on the field of Buffalo Bill's safety.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I don't have that path.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
All right.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
This guy is a talking ahead right now. He was
a Pittsburgh Steeler. He had sickle cell.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
What was this? Two minutes here? What are we doing here?
Unlimited time? All right? My god, lad I hurry up, Aiden,
what do you want? What do you want here? Night fever?
Or you win again? All right? Guard for the Rockets
in the eighties, nickname mad blank, let's tell me. Wait, ANDROI, Godrew,
(36:56):
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