September 1, 2025 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Notre Dame’s loss against the Hurricanes, Arch Manning’s underwhelming debut, how much time do we have to give Arch before he really is declared a bust & a new editions of Maller to the Third Degree + Insta Advice Line!
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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 old days it was
Catholics versus convicts, but they don't say that anymore. Well
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some people do, but there you had the old school batch.
I don't know if you're watching this or not. I
had it on the background. I was not fully engaged
in it, but 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 to tie the game, and then
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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? Now they did not Carson Beck,
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the old Georgia quarterback, Carson Beck two hundred 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? They do that for TV.
But anyway, Carson Beck ti fis Miami came into the
year ranked tenth, and so they knock off Notre Dame
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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 maintained that position. The better story is in the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question. Did
coach Marcus Freeman's 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 didn't 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 gripe if
you're looking objectively about Notre Dame, is that they 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,
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but your big bad Notre Dame, and it was like
the sleepy fighting Irish. There were the sleepy Irish there.
Beginning of the game. Took him 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 Name 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 and some people go
he was great Okay, made 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
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interception 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
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scoring plays 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
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kind of thing. Anyway, the new Notre Dame quarterback Okay,
not not horrific, not terrible, any like that, but now
the Golden domers. So you can 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
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this particular point. You start out zero to 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, now,
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 going to be wonderful. I
was not impressed. I was not impressed. Well, you know
to name out a change toward 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 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
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Rock Stadium, and by college football standards, 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,
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this is based on the scouting report on the fighting
irish here the offensive line which 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
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now you put Notre Dame. I have them down on
my scorecard as overhyped, over ranked, did not 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 at this particular point is one game.
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And they've got the biggest brand in all of college football.
You know it, I know it, every man, 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
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got all you know, he's been to the Tony Robbins
Seminar's got all the buzzwords, all the terms, he 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, little condition is not the greatest, but that's
what you expect South Florida this time of the year.
And they they bent and eventually broke because they lost
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the game. And now they 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 six ranked team according
to the preseason ranking, 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?
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And where was that close out punch? They did come back, right,
they came 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 are they back? Are they an apex predator?
Now in college football? The Hurricanes have returned, So the
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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 Cristibaal, the
coach who was supposed to fix everything, hasn't fixed everything yet.
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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.
So anyway, the coaching staff there, Mario crystaball in Miami,
they're all excited they won the game. He but I
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would hold off on the parade down Biscayne Boulevard there yet,
so we can crank up the old. Pump on the brakes,
can pump the brakes right there, pump the brakes on
this and again. He said, well, it's unfair, you're saying
you're ripping Notre Dame. And I haven't taken some shots
at Notre Dame because they had higher expectations than Miami,
even though Miami was a top ten team. You just look,
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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 Vinnie Testa Verdi or Dick and Dayton's
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favorite quarterback Bernie Kozar, not the reincarnation of either one
of those guys. And the Kings 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 quarterback last year and put up some nice
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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 ten years or so, there have been
some teases. There's been some molments here where they've come
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out of the gates and they've gotten a nice win
and then they have the flashy opener the Rasmataz. It
was all excited, all right, there you go, Miami, get
old 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
and they'll lose, right And you have the defense that was,
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I guess supposed to be a 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
gave up seventeen points in the fourth quarter. And so
that's your statement win early for the Miami Hurricanes. It's
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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
on to a to a screen door, just trying to
hold on. And I was like, oh man, anyway, it
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start with this the horseshoe. There was the game, the
game of the weekend in college football as number one
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Texas traveling to the Buck Guy State to match up
with the reigning champions, although there is no carryover rosters change,
coaching staff change, but there they were number three Ohio
State playing hosts to Texas and the much ballyhooed matchup.
Were you watching? You were? Not? Of course you were.
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It was a day to forget for the Longhorns. All
the build up, all the anticipation, and they went out
there and what was that? Could not really do much
of anything on offense for the entire game, only seven points,
the Buck Guys defense ruling the roost a fourteen to
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seven slobber knocker of a win in Columbus for the
Buck Guys of Ohio State. Your subplot, though, that is
where the story is. Let's not kid ourselves. Well, do
you talk just about Ohio State. That's not where the
good story is. The good story. You know where the
good story is arch Manning. And I'm glad I got
those monologues in the last couple of weeks about arch Manning.
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Holy crap, that guy sucks man. What a turd arch Manning.
Let's call it like it is. Here's that's the guy.
Everyone's in hyping up arch Manning? Are you kidding me? Wow?
So arch Manning he was the consensus Heisman Trophy favorite,
which tells you nobody knows anything. Dumb du dumb, dumb dumb.
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There he was all the hype and got out there
Arch Manning, and it was his world. And how did
he do? Like a house of cards, came tumbling down, down, down,
down down. He crumbled under the weight of the immense pressure. Now,
if you add up all of the yards, he ended
up with two hundred and eight total yards, although the
numbers are even misleading. Even the final numbers are misleading.
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Arch Manning ending up with one hundred and seventy yards,
ten rushing attempts for thirty eight yards, and a loss.
To begin as a starter in Austin his first job
as the starter. He started a couple of games last year,
but he was not them man. Now he's the man,
and now he is a loser to begin his time
with Texas. So question, as we discussed the question, did
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arch Manning get exposed by Ohio State or was this
just a masterclass by the buck guys defense in this
particular game. So I've got commandeered biblical and crayon, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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So number one, I said number on Arch Manning, let's
call it like it is. Everyone was watching. He was
the story and it was like junior high school. And
he got pantsed. He got panted. All of college football
going wild and all my good. Manning's debut it went
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over about us.
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Well.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
His debut was a full time starter for the Texas Longhorns.
Was about as successful as when Google put out Google Glass.
Do you remember that a few years back? Google Glass?
Nobody really wanted it, It didn't. It was terrible. You
want to go old school Coca Cola. Back in the
day they said we're going to change Coca Cola new Coke.
And that was a nightmare. That was a disaster and horrific, horrific.
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That's what it felt like. All the hype, all the sizzle,
all the build up everything, and then the curtain went
up and the flag is up, let's start the race,
and turns out the car did not leave the starting gate. Man,
you waited for that whole maning kid thing to take
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off right the next in the lineage or the Manning family.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was supposed to walk on water. He's a Manning.
That's what Mannings do. They walk on water. Instead, Arch
Manning went out there and he sank like a if
you drop a safe in the East River in New York,
right to the bottom, right to the bottom. How bad
was it? So Maning commandeered the vomit comet. He was
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right there. He was in the front of the comet,
right there, flying the vomit comet. Now, because the final
numbers are very misleading, because you got to look at
the context of the game for the first seventy five
percent of the if you saw it, you know what
I'm about to say. So the first three cores of
the game, Arch Manning completed nine of fifteen passes for
thirty eight yards thirty eight yards passing going to the
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fourth quarter against Matt Patricia, the Lion trash, Matt Patricia,
the old rocket scientists from the Patriots, Matt Patricia's Buckeye's
defense which came out like a boa constrictor. Did they
play well? Yes they did, But how much of that
is on Arch Manning? And how much of that is
that This is just a good defense. Listen. You're supposed
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to rise to the challenge. Isn't that what all this
is about, right, athletic competition, rising to the challenge in
the moment, getting it done. And what is Arch May twenty?
I think he's twenty one. I believe I've been around
a couple of years. There. You drop him in there,
whatever it is, you drop him in there, and he's
got the last name Manning, he's got the pedigree, and
you dangle him. It's like dangling a raw stake in
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front of a pit bull for that buck guy's defense.
And they were not just playing Arch though Ohio State.
It was not just a matchup against Arch Manning. They
were playing the mythology of the Manning family and all
that had been out there, the mythologies. He said, well,
it's not helping Arch Manning. At this point, they he
did not play well. Texas lost the game, always scored
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seven points. You have to step up on the big stage.
He did not step up on the big stage. You
think of this like a pipe, right, pipes out there
and they often will burst from pressure. So I guess
Arch Manning is a US steel pipe that got a
lot of pressure and just burst and that's it. Cere
he was drowning from flop sweat in this game. And
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the excuse makers are out there, they're like, well, it's
not his fault, just guy's fault, that guy's fault, blah
blah blah blah blah. And the Manning name at page
two here, I've seen some of the Manning name conversation. Well,
he's wearing a giant bullseye. It's not fair to him,
and everyone wants to be the guy who exposes are
arch Manning in Ohio State's already done that, exposing him
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as overrated, over rad Well, so do you feel bad?
Here's the question. Do you feel bad for arch Manning
having the immense pressure for the Texas Longhorns and not
living up to the immense pressure. So I'll go first here,
absolutely not, absolutely not. And it is a privilege to
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be in that situation, to have the keys to a
big time college football program. Granted a rather spotty resume
for Texas for many, many years, but still you're in
there and this is your opportunity. You're giving the keys
to ride the very expensive automobile, and that's life in
the big city and in many ways, this is a
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biblical story as old as time. Right, You've got the
Manning family, Gibbeth and the Manning family take it away.
So how am I supposed to sit here and feel
bad for Arch Manning, the Golden Arch. Not the Golden Arches,
that's something else, that's a fast food restaurant. But the
golden arch Arch Manning, who I believe. The number I
saw was he makes six point eight million dollars in
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nil money, six point eight million for Arch Manning without
having to earn any of it. He didn't get the
money after he showed that he could play. He got
the money based on what he got, the money based
on DNA. And he's not even the son of Peyton
or Eli. People sometimes confuse that, no, no, no, he's
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the other Manning brothers kid, and he played like the
other Manning brother kid in this game. But think about that.
You're in your early twenties, you're Arch Manning. You're making
roughly one hundred and twenty three times what the average
American salary is to go out and play college football
at Texas, And how's the return on investment? The ROI
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going for the Texas Longhorns and the money the Boosters
are paying because it's coming out of Boosters payroll. Imagine
like you're sitting in the front row, you're at the
Rolling Stones back in the day. You're at the Rolling
Stones there and and Mick Jagger says, you know what
I'm gonna I'm gonna send out my I'm gonna send
out my roady to sing satisfaction. I'm just gonna send
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them out and see what we can do. You'll be like, well, no,
I paid I paid for your old Wrinkley ass to sing.
I didn't pay for your your roady to sing. Well, no,
I mean that's what happened. Not much bang for your buck.
Not a lot of bang for your buck. As arch
Manning goes down the comet, the vomit comet on fire,
down down, down, down now now final point. So I
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saw this quote by Steve Sarkisian. Sark Now, I have
a bit of a history of Sarkisan going back many
many years. I will not get into that here. I
will not bore you with the past. But the quote
from Steve Sarkisian, the former drunk USC coach. He said
the expectations were out of control on the outside Sarkisian
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and said, but I'd say let's finish the book before
we judge it. He said of arch Manning, quote continues,
this is one chapter and we've got a long season
to play to go play, said Steve sarkeizan close quote. Okay,
so he's like, hey, you know, it's one chapter, it's
early on, and let's hold off on that. So should
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we wait? Should we wait until the end of the
season to judge arch Manning said unfair to dog pile
on top of arch Manning at this particular point. So
my response is, what is this the is Oprah back
with her book club? Like, what do is we have
to wait to the end of this That's not exactly
how any of this works. We're not waiting for the
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book to be in bookstores. We're not doing that. We judge.
The great thing about this job is we judge every
chapter of the book. After every chapter of the book,
every paragraph of the book. We're there, every typo, everything,
everything in the footnotes. We're examining all of that. And
that's the gig. That's the job description here, that's how
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it goes. You don't drop a maning name into the
sec frying pan right, and then ask for a grace period,
like you're actually a cooking some kind of croc pot
recipe or something like that. That's not how it goes.
Arch Manning the debut chapter as a starter forget about
last year, and they played a couple of games and
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started a couple games last year as a starter. Arch
manning debut chapter was read like it was written in crayon,
like by a four year old in crayon. And you
want to wait till the season's over, right, Well, we'll
wait till the season's over, That's what Sarkisian says. Oh, well,
wait till the season's over. But first, the problem is
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we have a talk show to do every single day,
every day. Right. We're not librarians. We're not waiting for
the book to get out there. No, no, no, We
are lunatics with microphones, is what we are. And so
that's our worst And the hype was a hot air
balloon for arch man Was I guilty of it? Yes,
I love a good story. I'm I'm all about the story,
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and I bought into it. And he made me look
like a donkey, a total jackwagon the way arch Manning
went out out there and played, but it's a hot
air balloon and then all of a sudden there's a problem.
The thing catches on fire. It was a noseedied right
into a cactus patch. Is what arch Manning did in
that first game in Columbus. And you can sell me,
you know, the de Maning nonsense and all this stuff,
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but you got to read the fine print, and I
guess it was written in invisible ink. Now is there
a redemption arc for arch Manning or is this the
beginning of a bust narrative that will not end? So
it is obviously a bust narrative at this particular point.
There's no if sands or butt's about it. It's a
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bust nerve and it's up to arch at this point
how this is going to go. If it's a comeback story,
you gotta do it against better opponents that you played
Ohio State. That is a measuring stick game, and you
went out there and you didn't measure up. Texas scored
seven points. So if you go out there, if your
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arch Manning and light it up against nowhere, you and
some of these other crappy teams that are on the schedule. Okay, fine,
and then you're gonna get into the Southeastern Conference, and
what's gonna happen the manage You've been telling me for years,
this is royalty, this is football royalty. And royalty gets
knocked down, and the kingdom it doesn't obviously crumble overnight
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when royalty gets knocked down. It's the Shakespearean set up.
Some are predicting that you'll have the fall, the humiliation,
and then the redemption and you rise back up, or
you don't have that and you have bust with a
capital B. And that opening performance. That opening performance was
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a was space shuttle like one of the most traumatic
events of my childhood when we all rallied around the
television to watch the Challenger take off and then they
had this thing called the o ring. I didn't know
what an old ring was. I was a kid at
the time, but I learned what an old ring was.
And the old ring causes your shut all the old kaboom. Yeah, yeah,
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it's a small crack, big explosion, small crack, big explosions.
So the other thing is did arch Manning? Did arch
Manning play himself out of the Heisman race after one game?
So I would say Heisman forget about it? We do
the show today, and today you'd have to say there's
no chance cancel Christmas, no gifts for arch Manning. That
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dream dead. Today's labor Day. As we're doing the show
in real time, Dad, Dad, Dad did. The Heisman voters,
they're gonna remember this. This was a big game, and
you're gonna have to win two big games to make
up for this. If you're arch Manning, you're gonna have
to outperform two of the better opponents Texas has down
the line in order to make up for this performance,
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and you're gonna have to be relatively great the rest
of the season. But the Heisman voters are not gonna
sit around and say, oh, I remember that time that
arched through for one hundred and seventy yards and had
almost nothing through three quarters against Ohio State. Let me
give him the hardware anyway, let me give him the trumpe. No,
that's not that's not gonna happen, So forget about that.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If he rattles off a ten game heater and arch
Manning is cooking and throwing three four five touchdowns a
game and he comes back swinging, we can revisit this conversation.
But we're doing the conversation today, and if he does
end up turning things around, you said about baptism by
fire all that stuff, But what I saw I was like, oh, man,
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I remember like some of the college quarterbacks who got
a lot of hype and didn't really live up to
the hype. And that I thought some other guys in
the NFL. I know, this college is not the NFL,
but one of them relate to the Manning family connected
at the hip and that was when Peyton Manning. There
was a great debate should Peyton Manning or this guy
named Ryan Leaf be the top pick of the draft
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years ago? And well we know what happened. Saw a
lot of Ryan Leaf two point zero in Arch Manning.
He had the Manning nameplate, he had that going for him,
but the rest of it not so much. Now either way,
we are going to find out fast. In fact, someone
said we've already found out, but we'll find out fast.
If Arch Manning is the heir to the throne. Didn't
look like it at all against Ohio State, or if
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this is just some kid that showed up to the
coronation and you know we're in the crown and then
tripped on the red carpet, got a bloody nose, and
it's just a hot mess because it looked like a
real hot mess, real, real, real, just disgusting. And did
get some good names out of it, which was good.
Had some good jokes at the expense of arch manning,
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No, he's cooked, he's done. He was terrible with the
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that Aaron Rodgers was voted the most annoying player in
the NFL. Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes rounded out the
top three. Ben, do you agree with the results from
this poll?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, that's that's there. I don't do as you know,
I don't do polls. Lorena, I do I know this.
I called you? He does that job by you? Yeah,
I know, listen, I don't. I don't pay attention to
all that stuff. My my issue here my at the
very top of the people that annoyed me, Kyler Murray
right there at the very top. Deshaun Watson is high
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up there. You know, I don't get right of that.
Mahomes and Kelsey and all that, those are the ones
that annoyed me. Uh So I don't. I don't care
about those results.
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Next massage, Watson should have been number one. Okay, it
was report that ESTN block Jason Kelcey from contributed to
the YouTube inaugural stream of the Chiefs versus the Chargers
in Brazil.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Ben, is this like a big deal. Well, it's good
because it's good for us. We don't have to see
a Kelsey for another three hours on television, so that's
to me, that's a good thing. But I don't understand
why TV networks do this. Like, if you're ESPN, wouldn't
you want your guy who works for you to be
exposed to that audience that's gonna be watching that game
the Chiefs and the Chargers in Brazil. He's made a
(35:28):
big audience on YouTube. I don't understand why you would
not want that. It doesn't make a lot of sense
to me the logic behind that, But hey, that's why
these executives get paid all the big money. There. It
is Mallard of the third degree. Bre you fail, No, no, no,
you fail. Get out of here. Bre You're done, Brie,
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It's all over.
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Speaker 1 (35:55):
Were you talking to so here? Some intertant advice? Hold
that on. No one's paid attention to me for ten
whole second. And if you don't like it, in no
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Who needs our advice? In the world of sports? Well
given the favorite status for the Heisman Trophy, the number
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one overall the rankings, the Texas Longhorns. Advice to Arch Manning,
who went out there and rode the vomit comet against
Ohio State, the next to the Maning Royal Family. You're
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Let's go to your line too. You're on the air
advice to arch Manning. Line two, Morning time.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's a Nike efat couple jumping the pool. Is that
considered skinny dippings?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's good point? Probably not. Let's go to you online. Three.
You're on the air. It's the incident this time we're
giving advice to arch Manning after he wrote the vomit
comment against Ohio State. Hello, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Man, we can solve this difficulty by declaring Dravis Kelsey
the greatest podcaster. Oh my god, please pathetic. You're on
a line for Hello. Line four, you're on the airline
for are giving advice to arch Manning. Line four, you
got a clear plane like his son, like his old dad.
Archie Manning is a grandfather. I think you meant to
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say a line five. You're on the airline five. Hello,
become a stripper.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
I'd give you twenty bucks for a laftdance. Best.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I'm good. On that line six, Hello, Line six, you're
on the airline State. That was for a dog. Line
six Hello. If that's how her promo, just reference the
door Sanders of the sawn at Barry. I don't know.
I don't listen to the promos. Hello, Line one, you're
on the airline one. Hello next time, I don't know
sean hood guy but calls back and let us know.
Line too, you're on the airline too. Hello, David say,
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looks like worn out tune. Okay, thank you for that.
That's lucky Tony in the bay. Line three, you're next.
It's the instant of ice line for arch Manning. Hello,
Line three, five hundred quarterback. We'll do one more, only
one more of it's good. I'll take credit. If not,
i'll blame Brie. Go ahead, Brie, pick the final number. Five.
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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 old days it was
Catholics versus convicts, but they don't say that anymore. Well
(02:00):
some people do, but there you had the old school batch.
I don't know if you're watching this or not. I
had it on the background. I was not fully engaged
in it, but 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 to tie the game, and then
(02:21):
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? Now they did not Carson Beck,
(02:43):
the old Georgia quarterback, Carson Beck two hundred 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? They do that for TV.
But anyway, Carson Beck ti fis Miami came into the
year ranked tenth, and so they knock off Notre Dame
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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 maintained that position. The better story is in the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question. Did
coach Marcus Freeman's Notre Dame squad get out coached, out played,
(03:24):
or out prepared, because for much of this game they
were doing next enough. Now they didn't 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 gripe if
you're looking objectively about Notre Dame, is that they 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,
(04:07):
but your big bad Notre Dame, and it was like
the sleepy fighting Irish. There were the sleepy Irish there.
Beginning of the game. Took him 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
(04:28):
to do that. It doesn't vote well for winning. And
a Notre Name 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
(04:49):
who CJ. Carr who was spotty and some people go
he was great Okay, made 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
(05:09):
interception 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
(05:29):
scoring plays 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
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kind of thing. Anyway, the new Notre Dame quarterback Okay,
not not horrific, not terrible, any like that, but now
the Golden domers. So you can 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
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this particular point. You start out zero to 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, now,
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 going to be wonderful. I
was not impressed. I was not impressed. Well, you know
to name out a change toward 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.
(07:16):
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,
(07:37):
who some people think is going to be wonderful playing
the NFL. And 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
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Rock Stadium, and by college football standards, 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,
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this is based on the scouting report on the fighting
irish here the offensive line which 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
(08:40):
now you put Notre Dame. I have them down on
my scorecard as overhyped, over ranked, did not 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 at this particular point is one game.
(09:03):
And they've got the biggest brand in all of college football.
You know it, I know it, every man, 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
(09:26):
got all you know, he's been to the Tony Robbins
Seminar's got all the buzzwords, all the terms, he 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, little condition is not the greatest, but that's
what you expect South Florida this time of the year.
And they they bent and eventually broke because they lost
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the game. And now they 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 six ranked team according
to the preseason ranking, 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?
(10:10):
And where was that close out punch? They did come back, right,
they came 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
(10:31):
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 are they back? Are they an apex predator?
Now in college football? The Hurricanes have returned, So the
(10:53):
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 Cristibaal, the
coach who was supposed to fix everything, hasn't fixed everything yet.
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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.
So anyway, the coaching staff there, Mario crystaball in Miami,
they're all excited they won the game. He but I
(11:37):
would hold off on the parade down Biscayne Boulevard there yet,
so we can crank up the old. Pump on the brakes,
can pump the brakes right there, pump the brakes on
this and again. He said, well, it's unfair, you're saying
you're ripping Notre Dame. And I haven't taken some shots
at Notre Dame because they had higher expectations than Miami,
even though Miami was a top ten team. You just look,
(12:00):
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 Vinnie Testa Verdi or Dick and Dayton's
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favorite quarterback Bernie Kozar, not the reincarnation of either one
of those guys. And the Kings 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 quarterback last year and put up some nice
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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 ten years or so, there have been
some teases. There's been some molments here where they've come
(13:04):
out of the gates and they've gotten a nice win
and then they have the flashy opener the Rasmataz. It
was all excited, all right, there you go, Miami, get
old 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
and they'll lose, right And you have the defense that was,
(13:28):
I guess supposed to be a 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
gave up seventeen points in the fourth quarter. And so
that's your statement win early for the Miami Hurricanes. It's
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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
on to a to a screen door, just trying to
hold on. And I was like, oh man, anyway, it
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start with this the horseshoe. There was the game, the
game of the weekend in college football as number one
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Texas traveling to the Buck Guy State to match up
with the reigning champions, although there is no carryover rosters change,
coaching staff change, but there they were number three Ohio
State playing hosts to Texas and the much ballyhooed matchup.
Were you watching? You were? Not? Of course you were.
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It was a day to forget for the Longhorns. All
the build up, all the anticipation, and they went out
there and what was that? Could not really do much
of anything on offense for the entire game, only seven points,
the Buck Guys defense ruling the roost a fourteen to
(17:29):
seven slobber knocker of a win in Columbus for the
Buck Guys of Ohio State. Your subplot, though, that is
where the story is. Let's not kid ourselves. Well, do
you talk just about Ohio State. That's not where the
good story is. The good story. You know where the
good story is arch Manning. And I'm glad I got
those monologues in the last couple of weeks about arch Manning.
(17:52):
Holy crap, that guy sucks man. What a turd arch Manning.
Let's call it like it is. Here's that's the guy.
Everyone's in hyping up arch Manning? Are you kidding me? Wow?
So arch Manning he was the consensus Heisman Trophy favorite,
which tells you nobody knows anything. Dumb du dumb, dumb dumb.
(18:12):
There he was all the hype and got out there
Arch Manning, and it was his world. And how did
he do? Like a house of cards, came tumbling down, down, down,
down down. He crumbled under the weight of the immense pressure. Now,
if you add up all of the yards, he ended
up with two hundred and eight total yards, although the
numbers are even misleading. Even the final numbers are misleading.
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Arch Manning ending up with one hundred and seventy yards,
ten rushing attempts for thirty eight yards, and a loss.
To begin as a starter in Austin his first job
as the starter. He started a couple of games last year,
but he was not them man. Now he's the man,
and now he is a loser to begin his time
with Texas. So question, as we discussed the question, did
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arch Manning get exposed by Ohio State or was this
just a masterclass by the buck guys defense in this
particular game. So I've got commandeered biblical and crayon, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make your babushkas favorite favorite chocolate, favorite chocolate.
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So number one, I said number on Arch Manning, let's
call it like it is. Everyone was watching. He was
the story and it was like junior high school. And
he got pantsed. He got panted. All of college football
going wild and all my good. Manning's debut it went
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over about us.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
His debut was a full time starter for the Texas Longhorns.
Was about as successful as when Google put out Google Glass.
Do you remember that a few years back? Google Glass?
Nobody really wanted it, It didn't. It was terrible. You
want to go old school Coca Cola. Back in the
day they said we're going to change Coca Cola new Coke.
And that was a nightmare. That was a disaster and horrific, horrific.
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That's what it felt like. All the hype, all the sizzle,
all the build up everything, and then the curtain went
up and the flag is up, let's start the race,
and turns out the car did not leave the starting gate. Man,
you waited for that whole maning kid thing to take
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off right the next in the lineage or the Manning family.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He was supposed to walk on water. He's a Manning.
That's what Mannings do. They walk on water. Instead, Arch
Manning went out there and he sank like a if
you drop a safe in the East River in New York,
right to the bottom, right to the bottom. How bad
was it? So Maning commandeered the vomit comet. He was
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right there. He was in the front of the comet,
right there, flying the vomit comet. Now, because the final
numbers are very misleading, because you got to look at
the context of the game for the first seventy five
percent of the if you saw it, you know what
I'm about to say. So the first three cores of
the game, Arch Manning completed nine of fifteen passes for
thirty eight yards thirty eight yards passing going to the
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fourth quarter against Matt Patricia, the Lion trash, Matt Patricia,
the old rocket scientists from the Patriots, Matt Patricia's Buckeye's
defense which came out like a boa constrictor. Did they
play well? Yes they did, But how much of that
is on Arch Manning? And how much of that is
that This is just a good defense. Listen. You're supposed
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to rise to the challenge. Isn't that what all this
is about, right, athletic competition, rising to the challenge in
the moment, getting it done. And what is Arch May twenty?
I think he's twenty one. I believe I've been around
a couple of years. There. You drop him in there,
whatever it is, you drop him in there, and he's
got the last name Manning, he's got the pedigree, and
you dangle him. It's like dangling a raw stake in
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front of a pit bull for that buck guy's defense.
And they were not just playing Arch though Ohio State.
It was not just a matchup against Arch Manning. They
were playing the mythology of the Manning family and all
that had been out there, the mythologies. He said, well,
it's not helping Arch Manning. At this point, they he
did not play well. Texas lost the game, always scored
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seven points. You have to step up on the big stage.
He did not step up on the big stage. You
think of this like a pipe, right, pipes out there
and they often will burst from pressure. So I guess
Arch Manning is a US steel pipe that got a
lot of pressure and just burst and that's it. Cere
he was drowning from flop sweat in this game. And
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the excuse makers are out there, they're like, well, it's
not his fault, just guy's fault, that guy's fault, blah
blah blah blah blah. And the Manning name at page
two here, I've seen some of the Manning name conversation. Well,
he's wearing a giant bullseye. It's not fair to him,
and everyone wants to be the guy who exposes are
arch Manning in Ohio State's already done that, exposing him
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as overrated, over rad Well, so do you feel bad?
Here's the question. Do you feel bad for arch Manning
having the immense pressure for the Texas Longhorns and not
living up to the immense pressure. So I'll go first here,
absolutely not, absolutely not. And it is a privilege to
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be in that situation, to have the keys to a
big time college football program. Granted a rather spotty resume
for Texas for many, many years, but still you're in
there and this is your opportunity. You're giving the keys
to ride the very expensive automobile, and that's life in
the big city and in many ways, this is a
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biblical story as old as time. Right, You've got the
Manning family, Gibbeth and the Manning family take it away.
So how am I supposed to sit here and feel
bad for Arch Manning, the Golden Arch. Not the Golden Arches,
that's something else, that's a fast food restaurant. But the
golden arch Arch Manning, who I believe. The number I
saw was he makes six point eight million dollars in
(24:09):
nil money, six point eight million for Arch Manning without
having to earn any of it. He didn't get the
money after he showed that he could play. He got
the money based on what he got, the money based
on DNA. And he's not even the son of Peyton
or Eli. People sometimes confuse that, no, no, no, he's
(24:31):
the other Manning brothers kid, and he played like the
other Manning brother kid in this game. But think about that.
You're in your early twenties, you're Arch Manning. You're making
roughly one hundred and twenty three times what the average
American salary is to go out and play college football
at Texas, And how's the return on investment? The ROI
(24:54):
going for the Texas Longhorns and the money the Boosters
are paying because it's coming out of Boosters payroll. Imagine
like you're sitting in the front row, you're at the
Rolling Stones back in the day. You're at the Rolling
Stones there and and Mick Jagger says, you know what
I'm gonna I'm gonna send out my I'm gonna send
out my roady to sing satisfaction. I'm just gonna send
(25:16):
them out and see what we can do. You'll be like, well, no,
I paid I paid for your old Wrinkley ass to sing.
I didn't pay for your your roady to sing. Well, no,
I mean that's what happened. Not much bang for your buck.
Not a lot of bang for your buck. As arch
Manning goes down the comet, the vomit comet on fire,
down down, down, down now now final point. So I
(25:38):
saw this quote by Steve Sarkisian. Sark Now, I have
a bit of a history of Sarkisan going back many
many years. I will not get into that here. I
will not bore you with the past. But the quote
from Steve Sarkisian, the former drunk USC coach. He said
the expectations were out of control on the outside Sarkisian
(26:00):
and said, but I'd say let's finish the book before
we judge it. He said of arch Manning, quote continues,
this is one chapter and we've got a long season
to play to go play, said Steve sarkeizan close quote. Okay,
so he's like, hey, you know, it's one chapter, it's
early on, and let's hold off on that. So should
(26:24):
we wait? Should we wait until the end of the
season to judge arch Manning said unfair to dog pile
on top of arch Manning at this particular point. So
my response is, what is this the is Oprah back
with her book club? Like, what do is we have
to wait to the end of this That's not exactly
how any of this works. We're not waiting for the
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book to be in bookstores. We're not doing that. We judge.
The great thing about this job is we judge every
chapter of the book. After every chapter of the book,
every paragraph of the book. We're there, every typo, everything,
everything in the footnotes. We're examining all of that. And
that's the gig. That's the job description here, that's how
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it goes. You don't drop a maning name into the
sec frying pan right, and then ask for a grace period,
like you're actually a cooking some kind of croc pot
recipe or something like that. That's not how it goes.
Arch Manning the debut chapter as a starter forget about
last year, and they played a couple of games and
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started a couple games last year as a starter. Arch
manning debut chapter was read like it was written in crayon,
like by a four year old in crayon. And you
want to wait till the season's over, right, Well, we'll
wait till the season's over, That's what Sarkisian says. Oh, well,
wait till the season's over. But first, the problem is
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we have a talk show to do every single day,
every day. Right. We're not librarians. We're not waiting for
the book to get out there. No, no, no, We
are lunatics with microphones, is what we are. And so
that's our worst And the hype was a hot air
balloon for arch man Was I guilty of it? Yes,
I love a good story. I'm I'm all about the story,
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and I bought into it. And he made me look
like a donkey, a total jackwagon the way arch Manning
went out out there and played, but it's a hot
air balloon and then all of a sudden there's a problem.
The thing catches on fire. It was a noseedied right
into a cactus patch. Is what arch Manning did in
that first game in Columbus. And you can sell me,
you know, the de Maning nonsense and all this stuff,
(28:34):
but you got to read the fine print, and I
guess it was written in invisible ink. Now is there
a redemption arc for arch Manning or is this the
beginning of a bust narrative that will not end? So
it is obviously a bust narrative at this particular point.
There's no if sands or butt's about it. It's a
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bust nerve and it's up to arch at this point
how this is going to go. If it's a comeback story,
you gotta do it against better opponents that you played
Ohio State. That is a measuring stick game, and you
went out there and you didn't measure up. Texas scored
seven points. So if you go out there, if your
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arch Manning and light it up against nowhere, you and
some of these other crappy teams that are on the schedule. Okay, fine,
and then you're gonna get into the Southeastern Conference, and
what's gonna happen the manage You've been telling me for years,
this is royalty, this is football royalty. And royalty gets
knocked down, and the kingdom it doesn't obviously crumble overnight
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when royalty gets knocked down. It's the Shakespearean set up.
Some are predicting that you'll have the fall, the humiliation,
and then the redemption and you rise back up, or
you don't have that and you have bust with a
capital B. And that opening performance. That opening performance was
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a was space shuttle like one of the most traumatic
events of my childhood when we all rallied around the
television to watch the Challenger take off and then they
had this thing called the o ring. I didn't know
what an old ring was. I was a kid at
the time, but I learned what an old ring was.
And the old ring causes your shut all the old kaboom. Yeah, yeah,
(30:17):
it's a small crack, big explosion, small crack, big explosions.
So the other thing is did arch Manning? Did arch
Manning play himself out of the Heisman race after one game?
So I would say Heisman forget about it? We do
the show today, and today you'd have to say there's
no chance cancel Christmas, no gifts for arch Manning. That
(30:42):
dream dead. Today's labor Day. As we're doing the show
in real time, Dad, Dad, Dad did. The Heisman voters,
they're gonna remember this. This was a big game, and
you're gonna have to win two big games to make
up for this. If you're arch Manning, you're gonna have
to outperform two of the better opponents Texas has down
the line in order to make up for this performance,
(31:05):
and you're gonna have to be relatively great the rest
of the season. But the Heisman voters are not gonna
sit around and say, oh, I remember that time that
arched through for one hundred and seventy yards and had
almost nothing through three quarters against Ohio State. Let me
give him the hardware anyway, let me give him the trumpe. No,
that's not that's not gonna happen, So forget about that.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If he rattles off a ten game heater and arch
Manning is cooking and throwing three four five touchdowns a
game and he comes back swinging, we can revisit this conversation.
But we're doing the conversation today, and if he does
end up turning things around, you said about baptism by
fire all that stuff, But what I saw I was like, oh, man,
(31:48):
I remember like some of the college quarterbacks who got
a lot of hype and didn't really live up to
the hype. And that I thought some other guys in
the NFL. I know, this college is not the NFL,
but one of them relate to the Manning family connected
at the hip and that was when Peyton Manning. There
was a great debate should Peyton Manning or this guy
named Ryan Leaf be the top pick of the draft
(32:08):
years ago? And well we know what happened. Saw a
lot of Ryan Leaf two point zero in Arch Manning.
He had the Manning nameplate, he had that going for him,
but the rest of it not so much. Now either way,
we are going to find out fast. In fact, someone
said we've already found out, but we'll find out fast.
If Arch Manning is the heir to the throne. Didn't
look like it at all against Ohio State, or if
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this is just some kid that showed up to the
coronation and you know we're in the crown and then
tripped on the red carpet, got a bloody nose, and
it's just a hot mess because it looked like a
real hot mess, real, real, real, just disgusting. And did
get some good names out of it, which was good.
Had some good jokes at the expense of arch manning,
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some of them. I enjoyed quite a bit. We'll take
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Mallard of the third degree as well. We'll get to
all of that and straight ahead the slow walk and
we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
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Speaker 3 (33:40):
Ben, Okay, so less than forty eight hours after being
released by the Red Sox, Walker Bueller and the Phillies
reached an agreement and Bueller will be implemented in their
starting rotation. Ben, did the Dodgers miss an opportunity at
a reunion with Bueler?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No, he's cooked, he's done. He was terrible with the
Red Sox all season, and I wish him well with
the Philly But that's a The Phillies needed somebody because
Wheeler's out for the year. Zach Wheeler's out for the year,
and so there was nobody else available. They can't trade
for anybody of the deadlines pass, so they're taking a
flyer on Walker Buehler, and he looks absolutely cooked. The
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Dodgers have their own issues. They got they got problems everywhere.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Next, an online poll conducted by the Action Network show
that Aaron Rodgers was voted the most annoying player in
the NFL. Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes rounded out the
top three. Ben, do you agree with the results from
this poll?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, that's that's there. I don't do as you know,
I don't do polls. Lorena, I do I know this.
I called you? He does that job by you? Yeah,
I know, listen, I don't. I don't pay attention to
all that stuff. My my issue here my at the
very top of the people that annoyed me, Kyler Murray
right there at the very top. Deshaun Watson is high
(34:49):
up there. You know, I don't get right of that.
Mahomes and Kelsey and all that, those are the ones
that annoyed me. Uh So I don't. I don't care
about those results.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Next massage, Watson should have been number one. Okay, it
was report that ESTN block Jason Kelcey from contributed to
the YouTube inaugural stream of the Chiefs versus the Chargers
in Brazil.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Ben, is this like a big deal. Well, it's good
because it's good for us. We don't have to see
a Kelsey for another three hours on television, so that's
to me, that's a good thing. But I don't understand
why TV networks do this. Like, if you're ESPN, wouldn't
you want your guy who works for you to be
exposed to that audience that's gonna be watching that game
the Chiefs and the Chargers in Brazil. He's made a
(35:28):
big audience on YouTube. I don't understand why you would
not want that. It doesn't make a lot of sense
to me the logic behind that, But hey, that's why
these executives get paid all the big money. There. It
is Mallard of the third degree. Bre you fail, No, no, no,
you fail. Get out of here. Bre You're done, Brie,
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It's all over.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Now, come on, hey, you sports figure guy or girl?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Were you talking to so here? Some intertant advice? Hold
that on. No one's paid attention to me for ten
whole second. And if you don't like it, in no
way we go. It's the insant advice line on screen radio.
Who needs our advice? In the world of sports? Well
given the favorite status for the Heisman Trophy, the number
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one overall the rankings, the Texas Longhorns. Advice to Arch Manning,
who went out there and rode the vomit comet against
Ohio State, the next to the Maning Royal Family. You're
alive on the air when you hear my voice at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Advice to Arch Manning, Hello,
line one, you're on the Airline one. Go yeah, show
(36:41):
up to the twenty twenty six Malar Meet and greet
in Vegas. There you go that sounds like slug in Vegas.
Let's go to your line too. You're on the air
advice to arch Manning. Line two, Morning time.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's a Nike efat couple jumping the pool. Is that
considered skinny dippings?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's good point? Probably not. Let's go to you online. Three.
You're on the air. It's the incident this time we're
giving advice to arch Manning after he wrote the vomit
comment against Ohio State. Hello, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Man, we can solve this difficulty by declaring Dravis Kelsey
the greatest podcaster. Oh my god, please pathetic. You're on
a line for Hello. Line four, you're on the airline
for are giving advice to arch Manning. Line four, you
got a clear plane like his son, like his old dad.
Archie Manning is a grandfather. I think you meant to
(37:28):
say a line five. You're on the airline five. Hello,
become a stripper.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
I'd give you twenty bucks for a laftdance. Best.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I'm good. On that line six, Hello, Line six, you're
on the airline State. That was for a dog. Line
six Hello. If that's how her promo, just reference the
door Sanders of the sawn at Barry. I don't know.
I don't listen to the promos. Hello, Line one, you're
on the airline one. Hello next time, I don't know
sean hood guy but calls back and let us know.
Line too, you're on the airline too. Hello, David say,
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looks like worn out tune. Okay, thank you for that.
That's lucky Tony in the bay. Line three, you're next.
It's the instant of ice line for arch Manning. Hello,
Line three, five hundred quarterback. We'll do one more, only
one more of it's good. I'll take credit. If not,
i'll blame Brie. Go ahead, Brie, pick the final number. Five.
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You're on the airline five. Go You weren't fast enough.
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