October 26, 2018 • 32 mins
With Doug off, Dan Beyer and Jonas Knox fill in to tell you why the Texans can't be trusted even after winning their 5th game in a row. FOX Sports' lead college football analyst Joel Klatt joins the show to tell them if Alabama is a lock to make the College Football Playoff. Plus NL MVP candidate Christian Yelich stops by to discuss his stellar season and coming up 1 game short of the World Series.
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l a. Jonas. I've seen a lot of Dodger caps
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the next three hours, we have got you covered for
what will will be a an entertaining week eate the
National Football League season. An interesting weekend in college football
because there aren't a lot of Markis matchups. You've got
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Georgia Florida is one that will have our eye on
for sure. But you've got some of the better teams
in college football not playing this weekend, we mentioned baseball
got the NBA grabbing some headlines early on in this
season as well. Glad to have you with us. Just
because Doug's here doesn't mean that things change. The only
things that really change are the Twitter handles that you
can reach us at. I'm at Dan Buyer on Fox Jonas.
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If they wanted to reach you on Twitter, where could
they do so at? J. S. Ramo. Sero said, John Ramos.
Your Twitter handle to send out to everybody is nie
boy at all? Right? There is was that with two
X is show I'll take my shirt off right now,
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I'll do it. Gosh, geez, why does he do this though?
It's just it's ridiculous. I mean, just that the negativity
and he's and he's been drinking all morning, so take
to pile that on with everything out. We are in
for Doug today and happy to do so. And and
we're just as happy as probably the Houston Texans after
they got a win last night against the Miami Dolphins
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to start off Week eight. Now, the news wasn't great
today when they found out that Will Fuller was lost
for the season with a torn a c l But
when you look at the game as a whole, you've
now got a Houston Texans team that is sitting atop
the a f C South. They are winners of their
last five and right now as we speak, the Jaguars
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we'll be playing in London coming up this weekend. You've
got the Titans who are on a by this weekend,
so they're not gonna play. But as we speak right now,
the Houston Texans have a game and a half lead
over the rest of the competition in the National foot
in the a f C South, in the National Football League.
All that being said, Jonas with the last night's great
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win with a cushion on top with a five game
winning streak, I still have absolutely positively zero confidence in
who the Houston Texans are. Oh, I don't buy him
for a second. This is such a flawed five game
winning streak. Can we go through in effect in find
go through every single game to just name the team
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that they won, and I will find a flaw within
how they won that game and why it was it
took some sort of help from the other team to
make that happen. So the first one of the season
came against it, well, let me let me just say this,
off the heels of their loss to the Giants. Okay,
so that that should say enough as well. Off the
loss of the Giants that dropped them to oh and three,
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the Texans went to Indianapolis to face their division rival
in the Indianapolis Colts. Oh you mean that one game
that Bill O'Brien was trying to tie, but instead one
because Frank Reich thought it was a great idea to
have Andrew Luck throw a groundball on fourth and five
and overtime in his own territory. Oh that one that
their own coach was okay tying because he opted for
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a few old goal and not to win the game
earlier in the overtime on the previous drive. Oh that one,
that's true. On October seven, they returned home for a
Sunday night affair against the Dallas Cowboys Dak Prescott, Ezekiel,
Elliott and Grew rolling into h Town in the Battle
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of the Great State of Texas. You mean that one
game where Jason Garrett decided to play conservative to the
point to where his only defender over the past six
to seven years in an in a subpar to average
coaching career, has been Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones even criticized
him for the poor decision in overtime to not go
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for it on fourth down. Oh, that one that resulted
in another Houston Texans win in overtime. Okay, I got you.
How about the Cowboys? Yeah, I got you, got your
two game win streak. Oh, guess who's coming to the town.
The Buffalo Bills. Then Buffalo Bills, Yes, yeah, in the
Houston on October fourteen. Yeah. Well, let me tell you something.
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It's always really impressive when you can beat a team
on a pick six from Nathan Peterman, especially a team
who in one off season had a wide receiver try
and jump out of a hotel window, had a former
lineman trying to remove his father's head from a funeral home,
and also had a player retire at halftime. But no,
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don't worry about it, everybody. You are all good here.
Oh and let's not mention Lashawn McCoy, who may or
may not have hired somebody to go steal jewelry from
his ax. But never mind that that is a quality
win for the Houston Texas. The Texans to not cover
in that win against the Buffalo Bill Hey, when's it win? Dan?
A win is a win. Let's take this show on
the road to Jacksonville. So well, you know, it's always impressive.
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And let me tell you something. If you're talking about
resume builders, I don't know where Bill O'Brien's going next,
But forget about what he did at Penn State, and
let's forget about the playoff appearances in Houston. What I
want him to put first on his resume is once
beat Blake Bortles and Cody Kesser. Because I'll tell you something, man,
that that that will really get you into the Hall
of Fame. Two that's what they've got. Dude's better than one.
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Dan got it in Jacksonville, that two headed monster at quarterback,
and that brings us in that four game win streak,
brings us to where we were last night. Nice when
the Texans hosted the Miami Adults. Awesome. Yeah, a backup
quarterback on a short week and a defense who looks
like they're playing in reverse. I I don't know if
they somehow got got the rules mixed up, and it's
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maybe they assume that it's you know, if you allow
the most points, uh, they actually get taken away at
the end of the game and it makes you the winner.
But I've never seen more open receivers downfield in my well, no,
that's let me take that back. Uh yeah, Mitch Rabinsky
put up a great performance against the Dolphins out to
show you, show you how good that defense is. I
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just don't buy it, man, I don't. I don't buy
this at all. And I know everyone's excited in Houston
and it's great. Yes, you're getting wins, and they've got
a favorable schedule coming up. But I just see them
as as one of these teams that's probably gonna win
their division. They're probably going to host a playoff game.
Who knows, maybe they'll fluke out of win there as
well too, and everybody's gonna jump on the hype train,
and then they're gonna go play the real deal in
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New England or Pittsburgh or somewhere else and they're gonna
get blasted. I just I don't buy it whatsoever. In Houston.
They've got a schedule that you could look at, and
they're at Denver next week, which I'm not sold on Denver.
I don't think anybody really is either. But the point
is is going to Denver can prove to be difficult,
as we even saw the best team in the National
Football League and the Rams have some trouble against the
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Broncos in the game that the Rams did win. There's
there's more to the question of the Texans and maybe
Jonas it's it's a it's a flashback to last year
because some people would say it's what could have been
for the Houston Texans, what could have been if Deshaun
Watson would have stayed healthy. At the point that Deshaun
Watson injured his knee last year and game against the
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Seahawks and then ended up being lost for the season
soon after that, the Texans were only a three win
team at the at that midway point of the season,
if you will, So what wasn't like they were sitting
there at six and two and lost their starting quarterback.
Was a not even a five team last year, and
now you look at how they won with what they've got.
They still have issues at the offensive line. They've got
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a quarterback that is fragile, that needs to take busses
to road games, and now you've lost a wide receiver
in Will Fuller for this season that was a big
play threat. And some of those big plays last night,
nobody was guarding anyone. And so so the point is
when you when you look at last night's game, taking
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a mind that the Dolphins are twenty seventh in points allowed,
seven in total yards a game and rushing yards, is
that out of six teams and the count CFL teams,
and that I think Edmonton is actually twenty nine. So
they're actually the guys are better in Saskatchewan. Yeah, that's
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good news. That's good news. The Texans five and three
with the division lead and all of that being said,
it's just really tough for me to believe in they
may win the division just because of how the division
plays out. Jonas, but you can't tell me right now
that this team is even close to being in the
same category as the Kansas City Chiefs of the New
England Patriots, not even put. The Chargers have some of
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their deficiencies, but at least if you're if you've got
the Texans being who they are, I at least think
that the Chargers are just a better version of what
the Texans are. And I try, and I'm very critical
of myself and maybe I'm like, maybe I'm just I
can't get the optics out of my mind of the
a f C South being bad, because I honestly don't
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remember a time when the a f C South was good.
I really don't. I'm trying last year the only year. Yeah,
but but still, even those two playoff teams, you look
at them and you go, I mean, who's really taking
them seriously? I mean, Jacksonville was a surprise what they did,
but nobody could rely on Blake Bortles, and you're seeing
that play out again. So I'm aware that I sort
of go into this with a little bit of a
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bias and that I just don't assume that a team
from the a f C South is not going to
be any good. And I'm trying to be honest about it,
and I'm trying to look at it from all angles,
and I just don't see anything about the Houston Texans
that would scare me if I was another a f
C team. And I know that everybody loves Deshaun Watson
and they were hyping him up and talking about, oh man,
what a great player he was. A year ago. He
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had some good performances, um he was also averaging over
an interception a game. Let's slow down on Deshaun on
Deshaun Watson. And I know just because Dabos when he
said he's gonna be the next Michael Jordan's doesn't mean
that he's actually going to be the next Michael Jordan's.
Just I think we need to relax. I'm not buying
into the Texans. The Dolphins are a disaster. Do you
see their defensive coordinator throwing things on the ground and
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having a tan from tantrum in that game? What are
you doing? And what are you doing? I like, is
that just to make it seem like you're fired up
about what's going on with the defense? Gotta embarrass the
national TV? There there there was a point last night
and this will tell you there. There are three outcomes
and feelings you get from trick plays. For example, if
the New England Patriots run a trick play and it succeeds,
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you're like, jeez, now we've got a plan for this
the next week. Now teams have got to look at this.
If you're a bad team and you've hung in there
and now all of a sudden you hit on a
trick play, it's like everything is coming up roses for
this team, it's their day. The Dolphins trick play last
night was this is all we've got, so let's let
Danny Amondola throw a touchdown pass to pull us within
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a touchdown throw. That That's what it was last night
for the Miami Dolphins to show you exactly where they are.
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is where I don't like it from Minnesota's sake is
right now. And whether you have questions about Karl Anthony Towns,
you have questions about Andrew Wiggins, that is still your core.
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You're locked into those guys. Those guys are signed long
term deals to stay in Minnesota. And I know earlier
this week the Tebow's broadcasts, he's been saying, oh, it
sounds like Karl Anthonier. Looks like Karl Anthony Towns was
quitting in this game. Not a good sign for the
guy that she gave over a hundred million dollars to
to stick around in the Twin Cities. But the point
is this is Jonas, I look at those first round
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picks as being six somewhere in that range overall in
the NBA, and we put our intern dom to work today.
We said, look back at the last seven years and
the to thirty range of first round picks, tell me
who the best players were that were taken in those spots.
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So the last seven years you had Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart,
Dijont Murray, Larry Nance Jr. Clint Capella, Rudy Gobert, and
Jimmy Butler. Those were the best players that you got
over the last seven years in that twenty five to
thirty range. And I would think at least for two
of the years ninety one, the Rockets would be in
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that spot, likely because James Harden is still there. I
know that there are other pieces around, but you still
have one of the premier guys in the NBA on
that roster. Plus they wanted to give you Brandon Knight,
who is injured and making a lot of money. Uh.
Marcus Chris was a guy that was involved who was
a topic years ago, but as it lived up to
the potential, I just don't see the huge payoff when
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you have this Minnesota core that probably could win now
that you want to put pieces around and you have
no idea to guess what's gonna happen seven years ahead
for your own team, let alone someone else. To me,
it sounds great on the surface, but in reality, rather
just trading into Miami for Josh Richardson, Josh Richardson and
someone else and added player of that caliber to your
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team than anything else, so you would rather you you
want a player in return. I just think that there's
so much unknown there. There are so many unknowns with
those first rounders, and we don't know the protections around them.
But to to try to project seven years out for
when you have a core that is there right now
that you need to feed, that you need to put around,
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to give Jimmy Butler away for nothing when you have
those two star players and hope that seven years down
the line the Rockets stink. I think it's just too
much of a risk where you could get you could
get something to help that team. Now, be sure to
catch live editions so the Doug gott Leap Show week
days at noon Eastern three pm Pacific. Joining us now,
Fox College football analyst Klatt joins us here on Fox
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Sports Radio. Hey Joel, how you doing today? What's going on?
But we are We're getting ready for for this weekend
where you've got a top ten match up in Jacksonville,
You've got a Notre Dame team that's taking on a
Navy squad in San Diego. I want to start there
with Notre Dame because I saw a tweet that you
sent out in a piece that you did for Fox Sports.
Why is Brian Kelly of Notre Dame your coach of
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the year so far in college football? Yeah? Again, mid
season coach of the year, and there's a lot of
guys that are deserving, but Bryan's done remarkable job. First
of all, he lost two offensive linemen in the first
round in the NFL Draft last year, Gwent Nelson and
Mike mcglenchey. Uh, he loses the running back, he makes
a switch at the quarterback position, and his best offensive
lineman this year has gone down. Then yet they're still undefeated,
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and then the driver's seat to make a college football
playoff Firth. They're undefeated for the first time since two
thousand and twelve, which is the last time they went
to the BCS National Championship. So for all of those reasons,
I think Brian's just done a remarkable job. It takes
a lot of guts as an undefeated team to replace
a quarterback in particular and incumbent, and and he did that.
And now with Ian Book at quarterback, they're averaging over
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thirty eight and a half points per game, uh since
he's been a starting quarterback. So it's really all of
those reasons. The guy has has made some moves, they've
been gutsy, and they've worked, uh. And that's namely why
I put him at the top of that list. Joel
Klatten joining us here on Fox Sports Radio Dan Buyer
Jonas Knox in for Doug Gottlieb. Joel, honorable mention that
you handed out was at oors you're on, And I
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found myself guilty of the as well to where it
was hard for me to take at oars Ron seriously.
And I almost feel like that's a national narrative on
oars Ron. What has he done there at l s
U and how much has he impacted that program when
a lot of people wouldn't have considered him to be
a legit, big time head coach before this season. Well,
he's continued the narrative that they're gonna play great defense
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and they're gonna win with a conservative model. On offense,
and I think you know, he got an honorable mention
because quite frankly, they've just achieved more than everybody else
in the country, at least outside of the undefeated teams.
Uh and and quite frankly, the only reason I gave
the nod to Brian Kelly is because they're undefeated and
LSU has the one loss. UM. But ed Oh is
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a guy that brings in a transfer quarterback, and yet
he still has his team playing great football. They've got
three wins over teams that were in the top ten
at the time of the game. That's more than anybody
else in the country. Um, and they did something that
I don't think anybody gave them a chance to do,
which is knock off Georgia, even if that game was
at home. So granted, I still feel like the other
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shoe will drop and there are a bit of a Cinderella.
I feel like this is the highest they're gonna be in,
particularly because they're gonna have to face an Alabama team
which they're ill equipped to deal with. Um, Alabama, you're
gonna have to score forty your forty five points in
order to keep up with him in that offense with
two attend to buy a law and l s U
is not gonna be able to do that. Not with
Joe Burrow at quarterback. He's been okay, and and they've
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done a nice job and not turning the ball over
outside of their one loss. Ordy threw it h what
two interceptions against Florida, But you know those are the reasons.
And and listen, Ed has done a remarkable job, there's
no doubt. But it hasn't been any magical thing he's
done as much as he's just kept it on the rails.
And he has continued the tradition of what the l
s U is all about. Conservative offense, played great defense.
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Joel Cliden joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. He's
Jonas Stocks. I'm Dan Buyer. Were in for Doug Gottlieb
on the Doug Gottlieb Show. I think we all expect,
even if Alabama would lose this weekend to l s U,
from what we saw last year and how things played out,
I don't think that there's any way that Alabama would
be left out of the four team playoff. I mean,
we're considering them as one of the greatest teams of
all time. Could Clemson get in with a loss, do
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you think we'll see I think that that that the
situation remains to be seen. I actually think that a
loss this year for Alabama might harm them more than
last year. That the reason, well because last year, remember
they were getting compared against a two loss Ohio State team,
so it wasn't necessarily apples to apples and and the
committee ultimately said that the second loss for Ohio State
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is what was deemed for them to be, you know,
not in the in the same neighborhood as Alabama. UM. So,
if Alabama is going to be compared to a one
loss conference champion, I think that the one loss conference
champion would go in this case, let's say it's Oklahoma
or Michigan. If Alabama were to be a non division
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champ and have a loss and not have an SEC
championship in the trophy case, I think that they would
get left at home for another one loss conference champ.
So those distinguished you know, you have to make that
distinguished distinguishability between the two, I guess is the way
to put it. Um. But yeah, I mean for me,
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no one is guaranteed even with a loss, because then
it depends on what everyone else is doing. Alabama is
in if they went out, there's no doubt they're gonna
be favored the rest of their games. But this narrative that, oh,
they could probably lose this game and they'll be fine.
I think it's just false because then their fate is
rest in the hands of several other teams, and in particular,
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you know, teams like Oklahoma, Texas maybe even in that situation,
UM Georgia in that situation, and and more namely UM Michigan. Well,
to take it one step further, we heard Mike Leach's
comments Washington State's good. He's saying, you know, open it
up to teams in this whole conversation. But Mike's crazy,
He's full of it. That's that's that's totally stupid. I'm sorry,
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but it is Mike Leach is gonna say things that
benefit Mike Leach. That's the problem with asking these coaches.
It's such a lazy question to ask college coaches what
they would do with the playoff. Every single one of
them is going to say, expanded it. But why because
then they have access to it. You know, I think
that we are at a point where this sport is
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going to get watered down. If all these people get
their way, growing the playoff is not the answer, not
the answer at all. All we have to do is
require that participants in the playoff win their conference championship.
Then we basically have pseudo quarterfinal games in the conference
championship games as they're played right now, and we place
more importance on things like last year's Iron Bowl, which
would have been a play out game for Alabama and
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they would have never had the ability to come back
in based on some invitation from a thirteen person committee.
To me, that's the fix. Growing it is not the fix.
All you're gonna do is water down the regular season.
Guess what doesn't matter at all. College basketball is a
regular season. We can say it's great. Yeah, March madness
is what matters for college basketball. Why in the world
would we do that to football. Well, that's the college
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basketball coaches have been wanting to expand it for years,
you know, and to do those sort of things. College
football should take a note that, yeah, you're right, it
is what it is. It's it's it's best where it's
at the question that I have and maybe it's an option, Cee,
I was gonna say, is it option a that a
great maybe greatest of all time team Alabama gets left
out or is it another UCF scenario. What is the
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reason that we could see an expansion from this? Where
would that come from? Yeah? I think that the expansion
would come if you see F goes undefeated and if
they were left out, I think that they would start
some sort of legislation that would wind up before Congress candidly,
and that's what the conference commissioners, namely Power five Conference commissioners,
desperately want to avoid. I think that's the only way
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that it grows. And at that point it would probably
have the impetus to grow, but it would have the
impetus via lawmakers rather than it would just the impetus
from within the sport saying that that's what we should do.
I think most of the decision makers in the sport
understand that what makes this sport so great and so interesting,
and so marketable and so value able is the fact
that it's important for three months, not three weeks. That's
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an important, uh distinguished, distinguishing fact between this board and others.
So maintaining the importance of the regular season I think
is always going to be of the utmost of importance,
and that's why candidly I'm really hoping that UCF loses.
There's no reason. First of all, there's no point to
invite UCF into the college football playoffs anyway. There right
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now on the Saturn Ratings rated team of the country
and they play the hundred and twenty seven franc schedule
in the country. The twenty ninth rated team is North
Dkota State from the FCS, who has the hundred ranks
schedule their seven and O. Shall we invite them? Obviously
not uh. UCF does not play the requisite schedule in
particular in their league to to merit the inclusion into
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the four best teams. And the answer is not, well,
let them play for it with an eight team deal,
because quite frankly, you're just penalizing all the Power five
programs that would do the exact same thing with that
schedule by not including them, like Penn State, for example,
think they would be undefeated with uc UCF schedule. So
why in the world would we reward you, see us
and not Penn State. Give me a break. Joe Clatt,
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lead analyst for college football and Fox, joining us here
on Fox Sports Radio. Joel last One for me, we
saw Ohio State a year ago get blown out on
the road at Iowa, then we see him at a
similar point this season get blown out on the road
at Purdue. Is this a more problematic loss this year
than it was a year ago for Ohio State? I
think this year is certainly more problematic, only because last
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year it wasn't the same things that were coming up
to fight them in terms of their weaknesses. This year,
you're having the same things that they need to work
on week in and week out that continued to be
the weakest part of their teams. Namely, they don't convert
once they're in the red zone on the offensive side,
but can't run the football. In fact, in the last
four names that have an average over three and a
half yards per day, and they're given up far too
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many big plays. In fact that that defense has given
up more plays of thirty or more yards than anybody
else in the country safe for Kent State and Yukon.
You can't be in the same category as Kent State
and Yukon if you're the Ohio State. It's a problem
is because it was more a picture of what has
been going on the entire of the season. They haven't
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been able to get it fixed. We'll see if they
can get a fixed in this by game, but yeah,
it's it's certainly caused for concern and one of the
big reasons why I'm leaning more towards Michigan after seeing
them and covering them in a couple of games, I'm
leaning more towards the Wolverines. Is the team that I
think is gonna come out of there at the Big
Ten champ I can't wait for that finale Michigan and
High I've never I haven't looked forward to a college
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football game as much, and I know, Joel, you're gonna
be on the call. I I haven't looked forward to
a college football game as much as that one because
I feel like that's Ohio State season and they're gonna
do whatever it takes to ruin Jim Harbo's stream. No
better start blocking intendidly. They got to get there first.
You know, I think Ohio State they're gonna be vulnerable
against Maryland, they'll be vulnerable against Michigan State. That game
is on the road, so you know, I'm much more
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confident that Michigan can get to that point with just
to loss than I am right now. Ohio State. The
Ohio State defense gets pointed at because of the numbers
at per New and you can look at their offensive
their running game is not the running game of years past,
and it's it's you could look at the numbers, Joel,
and you know you've seen it's almost gotten worse throughout
the season. And you've got two really good tapbacks back there.
They just haven't been getting it done. And it's basically
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upfront with that offensive line. Yeah, that offensive line is
not very good and and sandidly they should be a
lot better because there's some experience up there, There's some
guys or some strength that's been a strength of their team.
It's not just that Haskins is a thrower and not
a runner like Dap Barrett. I think that's the least
of though. Whereas the problem with those five guys up front,
they can't move anybody. I mean, they can't move anybody.
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Reminds me of Texas last year. You know, Texas couldn't
block anybody. Now all of a sudden, Texas is moving people.
What are they doing? They winning football games? You got
back in the Big twelve case states in Oklahoma. What
do we expect in Norman tomorrow afternoon. Probably a closer
game than you would expect, even though K State has
struggled for the most part of this season. The outom
line is Oklahoma's defense is not a great defense. They
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made it switch at the defensive coordinator position. They're playing
a little bit better better for Rubin McNeil, but they
struggle against quality running teams, namely in that game against Army,
they could not get off the field. Well, that's what
they're gonna see. A heavy dose of Alex Barnes, who's
been on fire over six yards in his last two
games and eight touchdowns excuse me, seven touch downs for
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Alex Barnes. They're gonna get a heavy dose to him.
And if they can't stop him on first down, they're
gonna have a hard time getting off the field on
third down. And and we'll see how it goes from there.
The one thing that they've got as they up their sleeve,
that offense is unbelievable with Kyler Murray. So if they
continue to play well offensively, they're gonna beat a lot
of people just because the other people can't keep up.
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And that might be how they have to win tomorrow.
Three thirty Eastern time kick on Fox Wildcats and soon
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Joined now on the program by Brewer's Outfield an n
f n L m VP candidate Christian Yellis, who joins
us on behalf of Team Mobile is the raising money
for Hurricane Really, Hey, Christian, thanks so much for coming
on today. We appreciate it. You got a guys, thanks
for having me. What's so? What's it been like the
last couple of days. If you have you watched any
of the first two games of the World Series after
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you guys came so close to getting there. If you
have you checked out any Dodgers Red Sox, uh parts
of the game. Uh just if I happen to be
around while it's on, I mean I'll watch it, but uh,
you know, I haven't been that day, hasn't been revolving
around that. I guess you could say the least. But
you know, it's two great teams, it's great for baseball,
and obviously you wish you could be playing in it.
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We got real close, but you know, I should be
a heck of series. Did you guys have an issue
with the scheduling of the NLCS the fact that you
had to play a two pm local time game after
going thirteen innings the night before. Uh no, I mean
that's just that's just how it works. Um. You know,
both teams have to do it, and there's no excuses.
You know, you can't use that as an excuse or
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you don't even want that to enter your mind, you know,
especially at that time of the year. It's just, uh,
focus on the business you have to take care of
and you know, go out there and do it. Christian
Yellings of the Brewers joining us during the World Series.
Team Mobile will donate ten thousan dollars per home run
and two dollars for every post on Instagram and Twitter
using the hashtag hashtag HR. For HR retweets count two.
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So take us back to Game seven, fifth inning. You
hit the shot off your bat in golf, they always
say you expect your match play opponent to make his put.
Do you expect Chris Taylor to make that catch? Um?
I don't think you expected to make the catch. But
I think when I hit it, I didn't. I didn't
get it great obviously, if I knew it was I
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knew it was staying in the ballpark and I can
kind of see it tailing back towards him. Um, it
was a great play. Definitely change them amid him in
that game, because you never know what happens after that's
a tie game and this guy's second with two thousands
on coming up, so um, you know, I mean he's
a great player and he made a great play, and
I just didn't go away. You know, when you're playing
in a game seven and it's one game to see
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who goes a little series, anything can happen. And I
just didn't go away. But I think our team can
be proud of what we accomplished this here, and um,
you know it'll give you the hunger. I'll give you
that drive going in the next year. We got this
close and we know what that feeling disappointment pike and
use that as motivation throughout the year to get back
and see if we can take that next step. Now, Christian,
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you're from Thousand Oaks, California, correct, all right, I'm born
and raised there. I still live in Thousand Oaks, California.
So you know Harley's Bowl and Semi Valley, right, You've
been a Harley's Bowl before. It's not the way back
in the day. I can remember being locked in one
time and bowling a two nine. It seemed like no
matter how I threw the ball, and it could have
been like the five or six bud lights I had
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had moments before the game, but no matter how I
threw the ball, it seemed like I was going to
hit a strike. That's the only time I've ever felt
locked in. You were as hot of a hitter towards
the end of the regular season as I've ever seen.
What is that like to be that locked in? And
did it feel like that ball was going out of
the yard every single time you swung the bat and
made contact? Yeah, you know it was. It was a
lot of fun. And I think as a hit or
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you're you're constantly searching for that feeling of you know,
when you just it just feels right. Um, And it
didn't feel right every day in the second half, there
was a lot of days where it did. But um,
I think it was just being really stubborn in your
routine and making sure that you didn't take any day
for granted and really just, um, however the day prior went,
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whether it's good or bad, that you trusted it and
you focused on you know what you had to accomplish
the help the team that day, and what you wanted
to do individually, your approach against the picture, and really
just being disciplined and I think that was one of
the biggest differences. And and just being locked in on
that playoff rune or we had to win so many
important games there down the stretch that um, you couldn't
get lack of data cale as a player, I think
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that was one of the key factors. Build Glove finalist
and an m m VP candidate, Christian Yell It's when
he goes home runs for Hurricane has already raised over
four point six million dollars for Team rubicono military veteran
lead disaster relief organization. Were you surprised at your season
at all for how great it was? Was there any
surprise with what you did this year? Uh? Yes, and no.
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I think I think you know inside what he was
capable of as a player. But to say that you
ever expect to do something like like that or have
a season like that, Uh, you know, I think I
can't think. I think you can't say you expect that.
But to know it's inside of you, I think I
always had that feeling or if I could just put
it together and um, you know, have them have some
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things go right that that you're capable of it. But
it was a special here. It was a lot of fun. Um,
all the winning we did as a team, you've made
it even more fun, and you just try to really
appreciate it and easier to look back on it now,
um and appreciate it. And it was while you're actually
going through it. Like I said, it was just the
next game up, and we played so many important games
on the stretches, you weren't really getting nostalgic about it
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or looking back on it and resting on your laurels.
I guess you could say, before we let you go,
when you win the m v P, where are you
putting the troph Hey, we'll see, come on, man, we'll
see what We'll see what happens. I mean, um, you know,
it's not official till it's official, but it'd be a
huge honor as a player, no doubt. Um, you know,
just to be in that conversation and you can have
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a chance to win something like that. It's truly mind
blowing when you think about it, because I think as
a player, you know, no matter how well or how
good of seasons you have in your career, I don't
think you can ever expect to win an award like that.
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that's right. You got us at John Ramos here for
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l a. Jonas. I've seen a lot of Dodger caps
around the city today getting ready for tonight's Game three.
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Won't see him that much longer. By the way, b
k R is back. All right, Yes we are. For
the next three hours, we have got you covered for
what will will be a an entertaining week eate the
National Football League season. An interesting weekend in college football
because there aren't a lot of Markis matchups. You've got
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Georgia Florida is one that will have our eye on
for sure. But you've got some of the better teams
in college football not playing this weekend, we mentioned baseball
got the NBA grabbing some headlines early on in this
season as well. Glad to have you with us. Just
because Doug's here doesn't mean that things change. The only
things that really change are the Twitter handles that you
can reach us at. I'm at Dan Buyer on Fox Jonas.
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If they wanted to reach you on Twitter, where could
they do so at? J. S. Ramo. Sero said, John Ramos.
Your Twitter handle to send out to everybody is nie
boy at all? Right? There is was that with two
X is show I'll take my shirt off right now,
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I'll do it. Gosh, geez, why does he do this though?
It's just it's ridiculous. I mean, just that the negativity
and he's and he's been drinking all morning, so take
to pile that on with everything out. We are in
for Doug today and happy to do so. And and
we're just as happy as probably the Houston Texans after
they got a win last night against the Miami Dolphins
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to start off Week eight. Now, the news wasn't great
today when they found out that Will Fuller was lost
for the season with a torn a c l But
when you look at the game as a whole, you've
now got a Houston Texans team that is sitting atop
the a f C South. They are winners of their
last five and right now as we speak, the Jaguars
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we'll be playing in London coming up this weekend. You've
got the Titans who are on a by this weekend,
so they're not gonna play. But as we speak right now,
the Houston Texans have a game and a half lead
over the rest of the competition in the National foot
in the a f C South, in the National Football League.
All that being said, Jonas with the last night's great
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win with a cushion on top with a five game
winning streak, I still have absolutely positively zero confidence in
who the Houston Texans are. Oh, I don't buy him
for a second. This is such a flawed five game
winning streak. Can we go through in effect in find
go through every single game to just name the team
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that they won, and I will find a flaw within
how they won that game and why it was it
took some sort of help from the other team to
make that happen. So the first one of the season
came against it, well, let me let me just say this,
off the heels of their loss to the Giants. Okay,
so that that should say enough as well. Off the
loss of the Giants that dropped them to oh and three,
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the Texans went to Indianapolis to face their division rival
in the Indianapolis Colts. Oh you mean that one game
that Bill O'Brien was trying to tie, but instead one
because Frank Reich thought it was a great idea to
have Andrew Luck throw a groundball on fourth and five
and overtime in his own territory. Oh that one that
their own coach was okay tying because he opted for
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a few old goal and not to win the game
earlier in the overtime on the previous drive. Oh that one,
that's true. On October seven, they returned home for a
Sunday night affair against the Dallas Cowboys Dak Prescott, Ezekiel,
Elliott and Grew rolling into h Town in the Battle
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of the Great State of Texas. You mean that one
game where Jason Garrett decided to play conservative to the
point to where his only defender over the past six
to seven years in an in a subpar to average
coaching career, has been Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones even criticized
him for the poor decision in overtime to not go
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for it on fourth down. Oh, that one that resulted
in another Houston Texans win in overtime. Okay, I got you.
How about the Cowboys? Yeah, I got you, got your
two game win streak. Oh, guess who's coming to the town.
The Buffalo Bills. Then Buffalo Bills, Yes, yeah, in the
Houston on October fourteen. Yeah. Well, let me tell you something.
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It's always really impressive when you can beat a team
on a pick six from Nathan Peterman, especially a team
who in one off season had a wide receiver try
and jump out of a hotel window, had a former
lineman trying to remove his father's head from a funeral home,
and also had a player retire at halftime. But no,
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don't worry about it, everybody. You are all good here.
Oh and let's not mention Lashawn McCoy, who may or
may not have hired somebody to go steal jewelry from
his ax. But never mind that that is a quality
win for the Houston Texas. The Texans to not cover
in that win against the Buffalo Bill Hey, when's it win? Dan?
A win is a win. Let's take this show on
the road to Jacksonville. So well, you know, it's always impressive.
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And let me tell you something. If you're talking about
resume builders, I don't know where Bill O'Brien's going next,
But forget about what he did at Penn State, and
let's forget about the playoff appearances in Houston. What I
want him to put first on his resume is once
beat Blake Bortles and Cody Kesser. Because I'll tell you something, man,
that that that will really get you into the Hall
of Fame. Two that's what they've got. Dude's better than one.
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Dan got it in Jacksonville, that two headed monster at quarterback,
and that brings us in that four game win streak,
brings us to where we were last night. Nice when
the Texans hosted the Miami Adults. Awesome. Yeah, a backup
quarterback on a short week and a defense who looks
like they're playing in reverse. I I don't know if
they somehow got got the rules mixed up, and it's
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maybe they assume that it's you know, if you allow
the most points, uh, they actually get taken away at
the end of the game and it makes you the winner.
But I've never seen more open receivers downfield in my well, no,
that's let me take that back. Uh yeah, Mitch Rabinsky
put up a great performance against the Dolphins out to
show you, show you how good that defense is. I
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just don't buy it, man, I don't. I don't buy
this at all. And I know everyone's excited in Houston
and it's great. Yes, you're getting wins, and they've got
a favorable schedule coming up. But I just see them
as as one of these teams that's probably gonna win
their division. They're probably going to host a playoff game.
Who knows, maybe they'll fluke out of win there as
well too, and everybody's gonna jump on the hype train,
and then they're gonna go play the real deal in
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New England or Pittsburgh or somewhere else and they're gonna
get blasted. I just I don't buy it whatsoever. In Houston.
They've got a schedule that you could look at, and
they're at Denver next week, which I'm not sold on Denver.
I don't think anybody really is either. But the point
is is going to Denver can prove to be difficult,
as we even saw the best team in the National
Football League and the Rams have some trouble against the
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Broncos in the game that the Rams did win. There's
there's more to the question of the Texans and maybe
Jonas it's it's a it's a flashback to last year
because some people would say it's what could have been
for the Houston Texans, what could have been if Deshaun
Watson would have stayed healthy. At the point that Deshaun
Watson injured his knee last year and game against the
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Seahawks and then ended up being lost for the season
soon after that, the Texans were only a three win
team at the at that midway point of the season,
if you will, So what wasn't like they were sitting
there at six and two and lost their starting quarterback.
Was a not even a five team last year, and
now you look at how they won with what they've got.
They still have issues at the offensive line. They've got
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a quarterback that is fragile, that needs to take busses
to road games, and now you've lost a wide receiver
in Will Fuller for this season that was a big
play threat. And some of those big plays last night,
nobody was guarding anyone. And so so the point is
when you when you look at last night's game, taking
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a mind that the Dolphins are twenty seventh in points allowed,
seven in total yards a game and rushing yards, is
that out of six teams and the count CFL teams,
and that I think Edmonton is actually twenty nine. So
they're actually the guys are better in Saskatchewan. Yeah, that's
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good news. That's good news. The Texans five and three
with the division lead and all of that being said,
it's just really tough for me to believe in they
may win the division just because of how the division
plays out. Jonas, but you can't tell me right now
that this team is even close to being in the
same category as the Kansas City Chiefs of the New
England Patriots, not even put. The Chargers have some of
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their deficiencies, but at least if you're if you've got
the Texans being who they are, I at least think
that the Chargers are just a better version of what
the Texans are. And I try, and I'm very critical
of myself and maybe I'm like, maybe I'm just I
can't get the optics out of my mind of the
a f C South being bad, because I honestly don't
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remember a time when the a f C South was good.
I really don't. I'm trying last year the only year. Yeah,
but but still, even those two playoff teams, you look
at them and you go, I mean, who's really taking
them seriously? I mean, Jacksonville was a surprise what they did,
but nobody could rely on Blake Bortles, and you're seeing
that play out again. So I'm aware that I sort
of go into this with a little bit of a
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bias and that I just don't assume that a team
from the a f C South is not going to
be any good. And I'm trying to be honest about it,
and I'm trying to look at it from all angles,
and I just don't see anything about the Houston Texans
that would scare me if I was another a f
C team. And I know that everybody loves Deshaun Watson
and they were hyping him up and talking about, oh man,
what a great player he was. A year ago. He
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had some good performances, um he was also averaging over
an interception a game. Let's slow down on Deshaun on
Deshaun Watson. And I know just because Dabos when he
said he's gonna be the next Michael Jordan's doesn't mean
that he's actually going to be the next Michael Jordan's.
Just I think we need to relax. I'm not buying
into the Texans. The Dolphins are a disaster. Do you
see their defensive coordinator throwing things on the ground and
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having a tan from tantrum in that game? What are
you doing? And what are you doing? I like, is
that just to make it seem like you're fired up
about what's going on with the defense? Gotta embarrass the
national TV? There there there was a point last night
and this will tell you there. There are three outcomes
and feelings you get from trick plays. For example, if
the New England Patriots run a trick play and it succeeds,
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you're like, jeez, now we've got a plan for this
the next week. Now teams have got to look at this.
If you're a bad team and you've hung in there
and now all of a sudden you hit on a
trick play, it's like everything is coming up roses for
this team, it's their day. The Dolphins trick play last
night was this is all we've got, so let's let
Danny Amondola throw a touchdown pass to pull us within
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a touchdown throw. That That's what it was last night
for the Miami Dolphins to show you exactly where they are.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Doug Dot
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is where I don't like it from Minnesota's sake is
right now. And whether you have questions about Karl Anthony Towns,
you have questions about Andrew Wiggins, that is still your core.
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You're locked into those guys. Those guys are signed long
term deals to stay in Minnesota. And I know earlier
this week the Tebow's broadcasts, he's been saying, oh, it
sounds like Karl Anthonier. Looks like Karl Anthony Towns was
quitting in this game. Not a good sign for the
guy that she gave over a hundred million dollars to
to stick around in the Twin Cities. But the point
is this is Jonas, I look at those first round
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picks as being six somewhere in that range overall in
the NBA, and we put our intern dom to work today.
We said, look back at the last seven years and
the to thirty range of first round picks, tell me
who the best players were that were taken in those spots.
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So the last seven years you had Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart,
Dijont Murray, Larry Nance Jr. Clint Capella, Rudy Gobert, and
Jimmy Butler. Those were the best players that you got
over the last seven years in that twenty five to
thirty range. And I would think at least for two
of the years ninety one, the Rockets would be in
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that spot, likely because James Harden is still there. I
know that there are other pieces around, but you still
have one of the premier guys in the NBA on
that roster. Plus they wanted to give you Brandon Knight,
who is injured and making a lot of money. Uh.
Marcus Chris was a guy that was involved who was
a topic years ago, but as it lived up to
the potential, I just don't see the huge payoff when
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you have this Minnesota core that probably could win now
that you want to put pieces around and you have
no idea to guess what's gonna happen seven years ahead
for your own team, let alone someone else. To me,
it sounds great on the surface, but in reality, rather
just trading into Miami for Josh Richardson, Josh Richardson and
someone else and added player of that caliber to your
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team than anything else, so you would rather you you
want a player in return. I just think that there's
so much unknown there. There are so many unknowns with
those first rounders, and we don't know the protections around them.
But to to try to project seven years out for
when you have a core that is there right now
that you need to feed, that you need to put around,
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to give Jimmy Butler away for nothing when you have
those two star players and hope that seven years down
the line the Rockets stink. I think it's just too
much of a risk where you could get you could
get something to help that team. Now, be sure to
catch live editions so the Doug gott Leap Show week
days at noon Eastern three pm Pacific. Joining us now,
Fox College football analyst Klatt joins us here on Fox
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Sports Radio. Hey Joel, how you doing today? What's going on?
But we are We're getting ready for for this weekend
where you've got a top ten match up in Jacksonville,
You've got a Notre Dame team that's taking on a
Navy squad in San Diego. I want to start there
with Notre Dame because I saw a tweet that you
sent out in a piece that you did for Fox Sports.
Why is Brian Kelly of Notre Dame your coach of
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the year so far in college football? Yeah? Again, mid
season coach of the year, and there's a lot of
guys that are deserving, but Bryan's done remarkable job. First
of all, he lost two offensive linemen in the first
round in the NFL Draft last year, Gwent Nelson and
Mike mcglenchey. Uh, he loses the running back, he makes
a switch at the quarterback position, and his best offensive
lineman this year has gone down. Then yet they're still undefeated,
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and then the driver's seat to make a college football
playoff Firth. They're undefeated for the first time since two
thousand and twelve, which is the last time they went
to the BCS National Championship. So for all of those reasons,
I think Brian's just done a remarkable job. It takes
a lot of guts as an undefeated team to replace
a quarterback in particular and incumbent, and and he did that.
And now with Ian Book at quarterback, they're averaging over
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thirty eight and a half points per game, uh since
he's been a starting quarterback. So it's really all of
those reasons. The guy has has made some moves, they've
been gutsy, and they've worked, uh. And that's namely why
I put him at the top of that list. Joel
Klatten joining us here on Fox Sports Radio Dan Buyer
Jonas Knox in for Doug Gottlieb. Joel, honorable mention that
you handed out was at oors you're on, And I
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found myself guilty of the as well to where it
was hard for me to take at oars Ron seriously.
And I almost feel like that's a national narrative on
oars Ron. What has he done there at l s
U and how much has he impacted that program when
a lot of people wouldn't have considered him to be
a legit, big time head coach before this season. Well,
he's continued the narrative that they're gonna play great defense
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and they're gonna win with a conservative model. On offense,
and I think you know, he got an honorable mention
because quite frankly, they've just achieved more than everybody else
in the country, at least outside of the undefeated teams.
Uh and and quite frankly, the only reason I gave
the nod to Brian Kelly is because they're undefeated and
LSU has the one loss. UM. But ed Oh is
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a guy that brings in a transfer quarterback, and yet
he still has his team playing great football. They've got
three wins over teams that were in the top ten
at the time of the game. That's more than anybody
else in the country. Um, and they did something that
I don't think anybody gave them a chance to do,
which is knock off Georgia, even if that game was
at home. So granted, I still feel like the other
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shoe will drop and there are a bit of a Cinderella.
I feel like this is the highest they're gonna be in,
particularly because they're gonna have to face an Alabama team
which they're ill equipped to deal with. Um, Alabama, you're
gonna have to score forty your forty five points in
order to keep up with him in that offense with
two attend to buy a law and l s U
is not gonna be able to do that. Not with
Joe Burrow at quarterback. He's been okay, and and they've
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done a nice job and not turning the ball over
outside of their one loss. Ordy threw it h what
two interceptions against Florida, But you know those are the reasons.
And and listen, Ed has done a remarkable job, there's
no doubt. But it hasn't been any magical thing he's
done as much as he's just kept it on the rails.
And he has continued the tradition of what the l
s U is all about. Conservative offense, played great defense.
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Joel Cliden joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. He's
Jonas Stocks. I'm Dan Buyer. Were in for Doug Gottlieb
on the Doug Gottlieb Show. I think we all expect,
even if Alabama would lose this weekend to l s U,
from what we saw last year and how things played out,
I don't think that there's any way that Alabama would
be left out of the four team playoff. I mean,
we're considering them as one of the greatest teams of
all time. Could Clemson get in with a loss, do
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you think we'll see I think that that that the
situation remains to be seen. I actually think that a
loss this year for Alabama might harm them more than
last year. That the reason, well because last year, remember
they were getting compared against a two loss Ohio State team,
so it wasn't necessarily apples to apples and and the
committee ultimately said that the second loss for Ohio State
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is what was deemed for them to be, you know,
not in the in the same neighborhood as Alabama. UM. So,
if Alabama is going to be compared to a one
loss conference champion, I think that the one loss conference
champion would go in this case, let's say it's Oklahoma
or Michigan. If Alabama were to be a non division
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champ and have a loss and not have an SEC
championship in the trophy case, I think that they would
get left at home for another one loss conference champ.
So those distinguished you know, you have to make that
distinguished distinguishability between the two, I guess is the way
to put it. Um. But yeah, I mean for me,
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no one is guaranteed even with a loss, because then
it depends on what everyone else is doing. Alabama is
in if they went out, there's no doubt they're gonna
be favored the rest of their games. But this narrative that, oh,
they could probably lose this game and they'll be fine.
I think it's just false because then their fate is
rest in the hands of several other teams, and in particular,
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you know, teams like Oklahoma, Texas maybe even in that situation,
UM Georgia in that situation, and and more namely UM Michigan. Well,
to take it one step further, we heard Mike Leach's
comments Washington State's good. He's saying, you know, open it
up to teams in this whole conversation. But Mike's crazy,
He's full of it. That's that's that's totally stupid. I'm sorry,
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but it is Mike Leach is gonna say things that
benefit Mike Leach. That's the problem with asking these coaches.
It's such a lazy question to ask college coaches what
they would do with the playoff. Every single one of
them is going to say, expanded it. But why because
then they have access to it. You know, I think
that we are at a point where this sport is
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going to get watered down. If all these people get
their way, growing the playoff is not the answer, not
the answer at all. All we have to do is
require that participants in the playoff win their conference championship.
Then we basically have pseudo quarterfinal games in the conference
championship games as they're played right now, and we place
more importance on things like last year's Iron Bowl, which
would have been a play out game for Alabama and
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they would have never had the ability to come back
in based on some invitation from a thirteen person committee.
To me, that's the fix. Growing it is not the fix.
All you're gonna do is water down the regular season.
Guess what doesn't matter at all. College basketball is a
regular season. We can say it's great. Yeah, March madness
is what matters for college basketball. Why in the world
would we do that to football. Well, that's the college
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basketball coaches have been wanting to expand it for years,
you know, and to do those sort of things. College
football should take a note that, yeah, you're right, it
is what it is. It's it's it's best where it's
at the question that I have and maybe it's an option, Cee,
I was gonna say, is it option a that a
great maybe greatest of all time team Alabama gets left
out or is it another UCF scenario. What is the
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reason that we could see an expansion from this? Where
would that come from? Yeah? I think that the expansion
would come if you see F goes undefeated and if
they were left out, I think that they would start
some sort of legislation that would wind up before Congress candidly,
and that's what the conference commissioners, namely Power five Conference commissioners,
desperately want to avoid. I think that's the only way
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that it grows. And at that point it would probably
have the impetus to grow, but it would have the
impetus via lawmakers rather than it would just the impetus
from within the sport saying that that's what we should do.
I think most of the decision makers in the sport
understand that what makes this sport so great and so interesting,
and so marketable and so value able is the fact
that it's important for three months, not three weeks. That's
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an important, uh distinguished, distinguishing fact between this board and others.
So maintaining the importance of the regular season I think
is always going to be of the utmost of importance,
and that's why candidly I'm really hoping that UCF loses.
There's no reason. First of all, there's no point to
invite UCF into the college football playoffs anyway. There right
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now on the Saturn Ratings rated team of the country
and they play the hundred and twenty seven franc schedule
in the country. The twenty ninth rated team is North
Dkota State from the FCS, who has the hundred ranks
schedule their seven and O. Shall we invite them? Obviously
not uh. UCF does not play the requisite schedule in
particular in their league to to merit the inclusion into
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the four best teams. And the answer is not, well,
let them play for it with an eight team deal,
because quite frankly, you're just penalizing all the Power five
programs that would do the exact same thing with that
schedule by not including them, like Penn State, for example,
think they would be undefeated with uc UCF schedule. So
why in the world would we reward you, see us
and not Penn State. Give me a break. Joe Clatt,
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lead analyst for college football and Fox, joining us here
on Fox Sports Radio. Joel last One for me, we
saw Ohio State a year ago get blown out on
the road at Iowa, then we see him at a
similar point this season get blown out on the road
at Purdue. Is this a more problematic loss this year
than it was a year ago for Ohio State? I
think this year is certainly more problematic, only because last
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year it wasn't the same things that were coming up
to fight them in terms of their weaknesses. This year,
you're having the same things that they need to work
on week in and week out that continued to be
the weakest part of their teams. Namely, they don't convert
once they're in the red zone on the offensive side,
but can't run the football. In fact, in the last
four names that have an average over three and a
half yards per day, and they're given up far too
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many big plays. In fact that that defense has given
up more plays of thirty or more yards than anybody
else in the country safe for Kent State and Yukon.
You can't be in the same category as Kent State
and Yukon if you're the Ohio State. It's a problem
is because it was more a picture of what has
been going on the entire of the season. They haven't
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been able to get it fixed. We'll see if they
can get a fixed in this by game, but yeah,
it's it's certainly caused for concern and one of the
big reasons why I'm leaning more towards Michigan after seeing
them and covering them in a couple of games, I'm
leaning more towards the Wolverines. Is the team that I
think is gonna come out of there at the Big
Ten champ I can't wait for that finale Michigan and
High I've never I haven't looked forward to a college
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football game as much, and I know, Joel, you're gonna
be on the call. I I haven't looked forward to
a college football game as much as that one because
I feel like that's Ohio State season and they're gonna
do whatever it takes to ruin Jim Harbo's stream. No
better start blocking intendidly. They got to get there first.
You know, I think Ohio State they're gonna be vulnerable
against Maryland, they'll be vulnerable against Michigan State. That game
is on the road, so you know, I'm much more
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confident that Michigan can get to that point with just
to loss than I am right now. Ohio State. The
Ohio State defense gets pointed at because of the numbers
at per New and you can look at their offensive
their running game is not the running game of years past,
and it's it's you could look at the numbers, Joel,
and you know you've seen it's almost gotten worse throughout
the season. And you've got two really good tapbacks back there.
They just haven't been getting it done. And it's basically
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upfront with that offensive line. Yeah, that offensive line is
not very good and and sandidly they should be a
lot better because there's some experience up there, There's some
guys or some strength that's been a strength of their team.
It's not just that Haskins is a thrower and not
a runner like Dap Barrett. I think that's the least
of though. Whereas the problem with those five guys up front,
they can't move anybody. I mean, they can't move anybody.
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Reminds me of Texas last year. You know, Texas couldn't
block anybody. Now all of a sudden, Texas is moving people.
What are they doing? They winning football games? You got
back in the Big twelve case states in Oklahoma. What
do we expect in Norman tomorrow afternoon. Probably a closer
game than you would expect, even though K State has
struggled for the most part of this season. The outom
line is Oklahoma's defense is not a great defense. They
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made it switch at the defensive coordinator position. They're playing
a little bit better better for Rubin McNeil, but they
struggle against quality running teams, namely in that game against Army,
they could not get off the field. Well, that's what
they're gonna see. A heavy dose of Alex Barnes, who's
been on fire over six yards in his last two
games and eight touchdowns excuse me, seven touch downs for
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Alex Barnes. They're gonna get a heavy dose to him.
And if they can't stop him on first down, they're
gonna have a hard time getting off the field on
third down. And and we'll see how it goes from there.
The one thing that they've got as they up their sleeve,
that offense is unbelievable with Kyler Murray. So if they
continue to play well offensively, they're gonna beat a lot
of people just because the other people can't keep up.
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And that might be how they have to win tomorrow.
Three thirty Eastern time kick on Fox Wildcats and soon
as Joe Klatt will be on the call. We appreciate it,
Joel and Enjoy Norman. We'll talk to you soon. Al Right, guys,
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Joined now on the program by Brewer's Outfield an n
f n L m VP candidate Christian Yellis, who joins
us on behalf of Team Mobile is the raising money
for Hurricane Really, Hey, Christian, thanks so much for coming
on today. We appreciate it. You got a guys, thanks
for having me. What's so? What's it been like the
last couple of days. If you have you watched any
of the first two games of the World Series after
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you guys came so close to getting there. If you
have you checked out any Dodgers Red Sox, uh parts
of the game. Uh just if I happen to be
around while it's on, I mean I'll watch it, but uh,
you know, I haven't been that day, hasn't been revolving
around that. I guess you could say the least. But
you know, it's two great teams, it's great for baseball,
and obviously you wish you could be playing in it.
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We got real close, but you know, I should be
a heck of series. Did you guys have an issue
with the scheduling of the NLCS the fact that you
had to play a two pm local time game after
going thirteen innings the night before. Uh no, I mean
that's just that's just how it works. Um. You know,
both teams have to do it, and there's no excuses.
You know, you can't use that as an excuse or
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you don't even want that to enter your mind, you know,
especially at that time of the year. It's just, uh,
focus on the business you have to take care of
and you know, go out there and do it. Christian
Yellings of the Brewers joining us during the World Series.
Team Mobile will donate ten thousan dollars per home run
and two dollars for every post on Instagram and Twitter
using the hashtag hashtag HR. For HR retweets count two.
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So take us back to Game seven, fifth inning. You
hit the shot off your bat in golf, they always
say you expect your match play opponent to make his put.
Do you expect Chris Taylor to make that catch? Um?
I don't think you expected to make the catch. But
I think when I hit it, I didn't. I didn't
get it great obviously, if I knew it was I
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knew it was staying in the ballpark and I can
kind of see it tailing back towards him. Um, it
was a great play. Definitely change them amid him in
that game, because you never know what happens after that's
a tie game and this guy's second with two thousands
on coming up, so um, you know, I mean he's
a great player and he made a great play, and
I just didn't go away. You know, when you're playing
in a game seven and it's one game to see
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who goes a little series, anything can happen. And I
just didn't go away. But I think our team can
be proud of what we accomplished this here, and um,
you know it'll give you the hunger. I'll give you
that drive going in the next year. We got this
close and we know what that feeling disappointment pike and
use that as motivation throughout the year to get back
and see if we can take that next step. Now, Christian,
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you're from Thousand Oaks, California, correct, all right, I'm born
and raised there. I still live in Thousand Oaks, California.
So you know Harley's Bowl and Semi Valley, right, You've
been a Harley's Bowl before. It's not the way back
in the day. I can remember being locked in one
time and bowling a two nine. It seemed like no
matter how I threw the ball, and it could have
been like the five or six bud lights I had
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had moments before the game, but no matter how I
threw the ball, it seemed like I was going to
hit a strike. That's the only time I've ever felt
locked in. You were as hot of a hitter towards
the end of the regular season as I've ever seen.
What is that like to be that locked in? And
did it feel like that ball was going out of
the yard every single time you swung the bat and
made contact? Yeah, you know it was. It was a
lot of fun. And I think as a hit or
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you're you're constantly searching for that feeling of you know,
when you just it just feels right. Um, And it
didn't feel right every day in the second half, there
was a lot of days where it did. But um,
I think it was just being really stubborn in your
routine and making sure that you didn't take any day
for granted and really just, um, however the day prior went,
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whether it's good or bad, that you trusted it and
you focused on you know what you had to accomplish
the help the team that day, and what you wanted
to do individually, your approach against the picture, and really
just being disciplined and I think that was one of
the biggest differences. And and just being locked in on
that playoff rune or we had to win so many
important games there down the stretch that um, you couldn't
get lack of data cale as a player, I think
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that was one of the key factors. Build Glove finalist
and an m m VP candidate, Christian Yell It's when
he goes home runs for Hurricane has already raised over
four point six million dollars for Team rubicono military veteran
lead disaster relief organization. Were you surprised at your season
at all for how great it was? Was there any
surprise with what you did this year? Uh? Yes, and no.
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I think I think you know inside what he was
capable of as a player. But to say that you
ever expect to do something like like that or have
a season like that, Uh, you know, I think I
can't think. I think you can't say you expect that.
But to know it's inside of you, I think I
always had that feeling or if I could just put
it together and um, you know, have them have some
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things go right that that you're capable of it. But
it was a special here. It was a lot of fun. Um,
all the winning we did as a team, you've made
it even more fun, and you just try to really
appreciate it and easier to look back on it now,
um and appreciate it. And it was while you're actually
going through it. Like I said, it was just the
next game up, and we played so many important games
on the stretches, you weren't really getting nostalgic about it
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or looking back on it and resting on your laurels.
I guess you could say, before we let you go,
when you win the m v P, where are you
putting the troph Hey, we'll see, come on, man, we'll
see what We'll see what happens. I mean, um, you know,
it's not official till it's official, but it'd be a
huge honor as a player, no doubt. Um, you know,
just to be in that conversation and you can have
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a chance to win something like that. It's truly mind
blowing when you think about it, because I think as
a player, you know, no matter how well or how
good of seasons you have in your career, I don't
think you can ever expect to win an award like that.
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