January 2, 2026 • 37 mins
Dan and Monse discuss Indiana's run to the national semi-finals and Dan admits he was wrong. Dan and Monse welcome FSR college football insider RJ Young on to talk about all of the headlines around college football. Plus, is Mike McDaniel a wanted man?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
The only thing worse than not being in on the
joke is not being in on the fun, right, Yeah,
I think that's right. Like when you hear everybody got
together it was a great time, and you're like, oh,
I wasn't there. Still it was a great time. Like,
you don't want to miss out on the fun When
I miss work, I don't want there to be as
much fun as when I'm there. We covered that earlier.
(00:30):
I feel like I'm missing out on the fun of Indiana. Yeah,
And I could not have been I could not have
been more wrong than I was about what is transpired
in the college football playoff. We'll tell you why, but
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Who's yours story?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I absolutely have been all about it all season.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And this is coming from someone who's never really had
a college football team.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I have vacation in that world.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Saying, oh, yes, just take twelve weeks in the in
the fall. Yeah, maybe maybe into January.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I don't have any real estate, you know what I'm saying, Like,
I just vacation there.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yes, I have a grand time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think Jason Stewart you're kind of in that same boat.
I know that you're like, you'll pull for the Syracuse
Orange when there's reason too. But I don't want to
say that you're a college football free agent. But you
even said earlier that you're a college football casual. So
you've been taking in the Indiana run.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
No doubt, and adopted old miss for these playoffs. And
but Indiana's fun to watch. Everyone pulls for this team,
I think. And Kurt Signetti said something yesterday that I'd
like to get to before the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, well let's let's hear it. Yeah, let's see it
right now. We'll get to it right now. Jason Stewart, Well,
this is what happened. This is what happened. I submitted
sound yesterday. No, I won't get into that anyways. Rhys
Davis caught up with Kurt Signetti after the game last
night and he first asked him, how would you describe
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the turnaround and what you have been able to build?
And Kurt Signetti said, and this feeds into my pet peeve.
It would be one hell of a movie. And then
then the fall was this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Who would stars Kurt Signetti in the movie?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I don't know about that one, but there'd be a lot.
There'd be a big cast of characters. Because it's all
about people. You gotta have the right people and your staff,
the right guys in the locker room. And we've been
very fortunate, and these guys buy in. They all think alike,
they play like we wanted to play. There's been a
lot of first It is kind of surreal.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I understand why there's been a lot of skeptics.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But I only have one thing to say. Poo poojah.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
And perfect place said Park Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Now, good, good for him, good for Signetti, and I
love the story. But I'm gonna disagree with this one.
Would it be a hell of a movie just for
like a traditionally basketball program to win a national title
in football? I don't think it would be a very
interesting movie. There doesn't seem a lot of drama.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Or a character arc there, No, And they couldn't call
it Hoosiers, like so like that's off the board, right,
so you wouldn't be able to even call it Hoosiers.
That there's a there's a whole basketball movie about the
you know, about the oh shucks, small town team and
going and reaching the highest heights, and it's called Hoosiers.
I do think, and I love Reese Davis. I think
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that Reeese Davis is as good at his job as
anybody else that does that job in sports media. That
was an awful follow up question. And good on Signetti
for taking the wheel and bringing it back, because I'm
sure he was caught off guard by the whole movie.
But it's Pasadena, it's Hollywood, it's la it's the whole deal,
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and so you're playing into that by Signetti saying what
he did, and then to ask him who would play
him in that role just completely derailed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was an.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Eighteen car trail train derailment with that question, but Signetti
brought it back on track.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I mean it's under the umbrella of the thing that
I really can't stand, which is the old cliche that
writers go to and that reporters go to, and you'll
hear athletes say it that Hollywood would never be able
to write this story. You always hear that as an
exaggeration of just written a routine sports story. And I'll
always say this, and I'll put a button on this
portion of this. They made a movie about a snail
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that won the ND five hundred. It's called Turbo. You
could watch it. Maybe it was a good movie. But
once you've made that movie, I don't think any athlete
or sports announcer could ever say that Hollywood writers would.
They would kick you out of the room if you proposed.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This, right Yeah, No, Nowadays, with the movies and shows
that come out, anything is possible. Right now, I understand
that there is no real stakes if you were to
make a movie about Indiana, but I do think it
can be done.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And Brad Pitt would play Kurt Signetti. There we go.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You got Pitt.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I just think that he is maybe a smidge young,
but you know, with the little makeup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I wish they were on the same age. Actually, I
wish he would have said, Sidney Sweeney. I wish that
would have been his answer. That would have shown so good,
that would have been how dumb is this question?
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Was?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, that would have been.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But I think like there's just such bad movies and
television out there that it may be better than you
think a story about Well.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Never there's never like Hollywood's never made like an underdog story,
never like never like never is one.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But this isn't an underdog according to my people. They're
not an underdog, or they spent a lot of money,
they should be here.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, but you also do have the right people. There
are people who spend a lot of money are the
right people, and it doesn't work, And like this is
this is the portion. I'm glad that you said that,
because this is the portion where I feel like I'm
an idiot and I feel like I'm an outsider. As
someone who is admittingly an Ohio State football fan, I
cannot jump on the Indiana bandwigon. But it took what
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happened yesterday and really what happened on New Year's Eve
night with Ohio State losing. For me to realize why
I was an idiot on New Year's Eve afternoon when
I said it would be a failure and it would
be an awful situation for college football if you had Indiana, Miami, Ole,
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miss In Texas Tech winning games. Three of those four
things happened, and now as we sit here on January twenty,
January second of twenty twenty six, Honestly, Monci, I feel
embarrassed for myself because I feel it was an elitist take.
I feel it was one coming from a spot that
did not see other places. And I know, in this
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world of hot take and people want you to argue
and disagree the whole time. I am here admitting my
wrongs that this bracket probably couldn't have gotten any better
from what transpired yesterday and what transpired on New Year's
Eve night. Sure, you love the brands, and maybe that's
the problem with college football is that there are too
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many big brands. We talk about the blue bloods, we
talk about all the jobs there are, you know, six
or seven jobs you can't turn down in college football.
Maybe that's the problem with it. Maybe that's the problem
that we're all so sick of Alabama. As an Ohio
State fan, I knew ninety percent of the country was
rooting for Miami on New Year's Eve night and the
ten percent were We're Ohio State fans, Like that's that's
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the reality of it. Maybe we were sick of Clemson
in the runs that they made, like we needed something
new and we needed something different, and that was a
blind spot for me. And now in seeing how things transpired,
seeing lank Kiffin leeve Ole Miss and things that they
didn't have a shot against Georgia because I just thought
Georgia was the better team, Georgia had the better players.
(08:14):
That wasn't the case. And I feel that's why I'm
an idiot. So my wife doesn't have to still be
on hold for an hour. Like I fully admit that
I was an idiot because I felt my view was
so narrowed. I can't jump on the Indiana bandwagon. There's
no way that that's happening. I don't care who now
wins the college football Playoff championship. But I can recognize
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and it really took ahle Miss to do it, But
I can recognize how these stories have given new life
to college football.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You know, I think Dan, a lot of people actually
probably saw the situation like you did. Not that they
were Ohio State fans, but maybe they were the Georgia fans,
the Alabama fans, the Oregon fans.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I think they saw it the way you did it
that you did as well. And it's people like me
and Jason from the outside that have not looked at it,
not looked at it with blinders because we don't have
a team, so we're kind of just kind of for
the fun ride. We hear this story, we see this game,
we watch this person, this player, this coach, and we're like,
of course, I just think we see it from a
(09:18):
different perspective. And then now with NIL, basically like if
you can spend money, which we see some more teams
that are doing that, it's even in the playing field.
Maybe spending money has made it okay now in college football,
right because now there aren't these teams that are just
so dominant that it's clear as day that you are
going to move on to the next round.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Like, I think that's actually.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A really good thing for college football because when NIL
first opened up, I was like, oh, this is bad idea.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
This is gonna go back.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And I know there's still some parts of it that
I think need to be fixed and whatnot. But clearly
the playing field has even out for the teams that
can spend money, for the schools that can spend money
and can actually do this. But I think a lot
of people actually felt like you did, Like real college
football fans that have been around for years.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And years, I feel like they looked.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
At it the way you did. I want to get
to I know Jason wants in on this. I do
want to say. One thing is I also thought that
last year's semi final, where you had these established programs
of Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, that that's
what that's what you wanted in college football. You wanted
those four teams. And I thought last year's playoff was
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good like Texas Ohio State. Maybe wasn't a great played game,
but it was dramatic. Penn State and Notre Dame was
a low scoring affair, and Notre Dame had a heck
of a comeback against Ohio State in the National Championship game,
just couldn't complete the deal in Ohio State ends up winning,
but you had those four big brands, and I thought, wow,
that's what the committee, that's what the fans would want
to pick if we could pick it. And I couldn't
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have been more wrong. Jason.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I just think what Monsia said is so true. Like
I think for us kind of casual fans, I follow
college football just because I'm in the industry, just because
I need to. But like, there are so many people
and you have to think about it. This is like
a symptom of our industry. There are so many people
with takes, and they make their predictions, and when the
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predictions don't come right, they're like really bitter about things.
I just felt in the last forty eight hours a
lot of those people that make predictions, that think they
know college football so well, and they were making these
absolute takes after the playoff seating all this stuff. They
were just kind of groveling the last couple of days.
It was kind of fun to watch, and then most
of us I think that and this is good for
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college football. By the way, The people that are just
kind of tuning in now are like, this is fun. Yeah,
Like that was really fun.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I think Ole miss put a lot, you know,
a lot of fun into it last night. The Indiana story.
The thing that I can't get over with Indiana is
it just gets better and better.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So like last year, like them making the playoff as
it was, and then they lose to Notre Dame. That
could have been the high point. That could have been
the high point of Kurt Signetti's time in Bloomington, and
we would have said, remember when he took them to
the college playoff, like Indiana a top ten team, imagine that.
So then they're run this year of being undefeated, of
winning at Oregon, A, beating Ohio State in the Big
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Dent title game, and then going to the Rose Bowl.
So just to see Indiana's name in the Rose Bowl
as something end zone that we hadn't seen, to see
not only them beat in Alabama, but dismantled Alabama, and
I thought that Alabama is not the same as it
once was. And I think that it was evidence last night,
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but to see how they took that Alabama team apart
and we're just better than they are, Like it just
it keeps on getting better for Indiana. And now I'm
like sitting then, like it, when when does it? When
does the bottom fall out because it does for every
college football program except one, and now that may be
the one where it never does.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
And we haven't even mentioned Fernanda Mendoza, the Heisman winner,
and what he's doing and his interviews and how fun
he is and goofy and like how he is winning
over people.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I feel like just by how he comes across.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Like there's nothing negative to be said about Fernando Mendoza,
churs Signetti.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You are you could argue if you.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wanted to, or Francisco Mendoza. I think Jason would agree.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, Iowa Sam, I am curious from your perspective. I'm
also curious from Isaac's perspective as well. I feel Isaac
very neutral despite the USC UCLA roots that run through
his house. I want to start with you, Iowa Sam,
though as an Iowa fan, being familiar with Indiana, how
not just Indiana, but even this final four? Do you
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enjoy this final four? Do you like these matchups? How
have you taken this all in?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
I'm blown away by like, I just I don't know.
Kurtz Signetti has this magic potion for just turning in
the program into exactly what he wants in the last
two years. So that's been unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Are you wrapped up in it? Like, do you want
Indiana to win it all?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
I'm like it went from Indiana when Kurt Signetti started.
I looked at like their jerseys, their colors, their emblem.
I'm like, it's Indiana. Now, I'm like, I look at it.
I look at them differently, I really do. I'm like,
they're like a power and it's because of Kurt Signetti
because I really don't know much about their players. I
know he got a lot of he took a lot
of players with him from James Madison. But I'm like,
even those guys, how are they this good? They're supposed
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that that was a James Madison was an FCS team
up until a few years ago, and they've been in
the FBS and then you know, they made the playoff
and there must be something magical about James Madison. But
to like watch Indiana for years and years be occasionally
get to a bowl game, you know, and win a
bowl game, maybe go like eight and five or nine
and four, is like a really really good year for
them for them to just like they've I mean, there's
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for them to go to do even better than last year.
It's just even more mindful.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, Indiana has something that not every college team has,
and that's dudes. Like they have got guys like there's you.
You can look at a college roster and be like,
they got great kids, and you can look at a
college roster and be like they got great guys, and
they're different because these are these are men, These are big,
big guys like Charlie Becker just posting someone up in
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the end zone on a post route like that, they've
got there. The physical nature of their players has such
an effect as well that matches the top programs in
the country. Isaac kind of from a Switzerland neutral point
of view, I'm not sure if he's got any interest,
but uh, actually he's tied up. But I think that
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the neutral people, the neutral people are sitting there saying, yeah,
I'm I'm along for the ride, whether it be Ole, miss,
whether it be Indiana in those scenarios.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Whether it be Miami. I think unless you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Were yes, this is my point about yesterday, is so Miami.
Of when Miami beats Ohio State, Miami, it's not like
Miami's a likable program like Michael Irvin was not disliked
during his playing career, Like who likes the right? Then
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he's winning, and then he's dancing in your face. Now
he's he's doing his dances. He's wearing that same long
sleeved you know, University of Miami Hurricane shirt.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He's doing his belt.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, yeah, he did that just to show his abs.
Did you see his abs? Of course that's why he
did that. That was I was like, oh, that's why
you're taking your shirt off. Got it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But it's also why I think and I think that
Ohio State's probably the most disliked brand in college football
right now. Alabama was probably up there. I think Notre
Dame is up there. But it's why people could rally
behind Miami and and a a strutting Michael Irvin. Ray
Lewis was the subdued one on the sidelines, Like when
does that ever happen? But that's what happens when you
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get Michael Irvin on the sidelines of the you and
it's an upset Carson Beck, let's be real, probably not
one of the most likable quarterbacks. That's something that you're
warming up toes like and here he comes in and
he's bulldozing Ohio State safety. He's trying to get first
downs like people are warming up to that because they
all also beat the defending national champions and so all
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of that taken into account, I think has made it very,
very good for college football.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I don't know what's happening on those sidelines, but I
feel like they hate just so you know, they hate
from like Ohio State, and like those schools that have dominated.
It's more of a hate because of the domination with
like Miami.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's it's like.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
The other stuff as to why people are annoyed by them,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, so it's very different. It's very different.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think that I think people hate Ohio State's fan
base more than they actually hate Ohio State. I think
people probably don't like Michael Irvin doing that stuff on
most days and being cocky and being show voting, because
that's all Miami was. They were the you, they were
the outlaws, all of that stuff. They were the team
that you wanted to be but couldn't be. I think
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all of that plays into why you would dislike a team.
Do you think that the fan base, though, of Ohio
State makes people go to the other side, and I
felt that when I saw social media on how many
people were excited about what happened with Miami beating Ohio
State on New Year's Eve, and there were just as
many people happy for Indiana to beat Alabama and happy
for Ole miss to beat Georgia.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's what I got the sense of absolutely.
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Speaker 2 (18:44):
I have not checked the standings, not because of time,
but because I don't want to see how I'm doing
in the Fox Sports Radio College Football Playoff Bracket Challenge.
But someone in the studio has their national championship games
still in place. I do, and it is and it
is Mancy Belanos. Let's ask our next guest, RJ.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Young.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I don't know if you filled out the bracket prior
to the college football playoff. RJ, of course, host of
the Number One Show podcast for Fox Sports and college
football analyst for Fox.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
RJ. Do you still have your national championship game intact?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
No, I certainly do not. I got one side in
the bracket, one size. I'm gonna get myself kudos for that.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, good for you, because that was better than what
I did. I went a good one for four in
yesterday's quarterfinal. I won't even let you guess which game
I got right, but I was a one for four,
a nice two point fifty from the quarterfinals. What outcome
of yesterday on New Year's Day, and let's just even
take New Year's Eve with the Miami Ohio State game,
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what was the most surprising one to you?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I think it's gotta be bonus. Storming back on the
arm and Homrian heroics of Trinidad Chambliss to defeat Georgia
and the Sugar Bowl. A couple of things that I
think are really interesting about that comeback. Number one, Gunner
Stockton was the last quarterback to complete twelve straight consecutive
passes in what Happened football against an AP Top five
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opponents when they beat All Miss last year. This season
we got to the postseason. We got to see Trinidad
Chamblas complete thirteen consecutive passes against an AP Top five
opponent in the College Football Playoff. The storm all the
way back. When I think, when I really put this
in perspective, Dan, you know I live in Oklahoma. You
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know how much I leve Olklahoma. I also got to
see Fair States destroy Central Oklahoma, and I was going
that guy played Division two football. I still very good
about that, right, I feel really great about it because
I was looking at that one how help, but that
was that was my really outstanding matchup for this college
football Playoff Again.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Do you think Trinidad Chambliss has a real shot at
playing well in the NFL?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
Yeah? I don't see why not. He's got the tool.
Being short is being short as a dude that's five
to five. I'm just really not gonna let that get
in the way of what I want to get done
and as the seat. He slung it, and he didn't
just sling it. Slung it against one of the best
defenses in college football and against Kirby Smart. All he
does is fill out the Philadelphia Eagles for Super Bowl
winning defenders. So I think he's playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I one more on this. I have a theory that
can never be proven, but I think All miss wins
last night because Lane Kiffin's not there. Do you buy
into any of that being a factor in the outcome
from last night?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, not particularly. I mean I get being motivated, and
far be it for me to say that. You know,
seventeen to twenty three year olds don't get motivated. Someone
quite literally leaves them for a better looking job when
they're in the cusp of winning the national championship. But
I'll tell you this man, having Charlie White in that
box did not hurt Old missus chances of making that comeback.
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Soon as somebody got through to Himp Gold said hey, hey,
stop taking the ball out of Tamberi's hands. Let and
go win it or Lud's game, they started to look
really good. But I can understand the revenge factors for
the rest of us. I genuinely think that when you
get hit in the face like Chamblet's and like Gunner
Stockton were last night, the last thing you're thinking about
is some guy in bat louse who rescued for a
little bit more money.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Do you think Ohio State underestimated Miami or is Miami
better than people think they are.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I don't think that Ohio State underestimated Miami at all.
I think Miami's defensive line has been an NFC South
defensive line all year off, and they got an opportunity
to prove that against the weakest part of an otherwise
really great Ohio State football team. It's offensive line. We
started to do guys at right guard in gay Van Stickle,
and it showed. Rubin Bain was absolutely that dude from
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the Dark Knight rises all over Julian Sand in that game.
And you know, Frankly, what's your got to show? He
can do this against the deep this in all the
college football I think they're better than people give them
credit for because of the loss is and U and Voisle,
But all that's don't have to do it. They just
keep the number two team in the country.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
R Jay Young joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
I got another one on the Buck Eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I feel that.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They're at this this interesting spot with Brian Hartline now
going to South Florida, and it's the issue that popped
up against Miami that you pointed out. I also think
that you know, Ohio State's defensive line didn't get after
Carson beck Is as much as they they should have
or or could have. I feel that there is It's
not a tipping point, but for a school that has
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brought in we know the wide receivers, Chris Henry Junior
is on his way, Jeremiah Smith, Marvin Harrison Junior, a
Mecca Abuca, Garrett Wilson, Chris like, we can go down
the list. We know the wide receivers Jackson, Smith and Jigba.
But Ohio State hasn't been as good upfront with Ryan
Day as they were with Urban Meyer. Do you think
that changes with Heartline leaving with how this loss came about,
(24:01):
with how their losses to Michigan came about. Do you
think there's any adjustment with what Ryan Day does with
the Buckeyes.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I don't know that there's any adjustment with what he
does with the buck guys. To the offensive line question,
though I would argue Justin Flyde did the best coaching
job nobody talked about last year they left. They lost
the entire left side of their offensive line. They need
the left guard out to tackle. They won the national championship.
That ain't how it's supposed to go. That they were
in a similar position with a first year offensive line
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coach and Tyler Bowen. That I think is what you
want to address. You got to recruit, you think a
little bit better on the offensive line that sense. Parris
Johnson's been through there, Wyatt Davis has been through there.
They've had d that come through and can play at
the National Football League level. For whatever reason, when they're
trying to force the run game, it just hasn't been there.
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And that's with Bryan Hartline called in the place, or
Ryan Day call in the place. If they weren't throwing
the football to Cornel Tate and Jeremiah Smith, they didn't
look like they were going to score any points. And
on off of that, you're trying to be more efficient,
which means you're trying to play the least amount of
football possible to get to the spot that you were
in last night. So that arcuse two nights ago so
that you can go full throttle, and they didn't have
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it to go full throttle on a three weeks layoffs
that I will put on Ryan Day.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Does Indiana have a weak spot?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, they got to. They absolutely got a week's
plot and it's inexperienced. But it doesn't seem to matter
right At some point, they keep thinking, uh, what does
the white folks say over their skives? I don't know
stand so I'm just going to use that one like
you might tumble and slip over and fall. I keep
feeling like that's gonna happen with this team, and all
they keep doing is going, no, no, no, We're going to
(25:43):
play now. I'm on a fundamental football. What's really impressed
about them is that they aren't doing anything that we
haven't seen in football. They play two high safetyes, they
come downstield, they tackle, their offensive lines does not miss blocks.
They execute their blocking scheams. You wou's safe to perfection,
but they execute it. So I keep thinking they get
deeper and deeper into the deep water that they're gonna
(26:05):
additionally just find out a cord and they're like, nah, cool.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm the same way. It's just gotten every time that
I think, all right, it can't be as good as
this or get as good as this for Indiana, it
just keeps on getting better, and then includes yesterday's Rose
Bowl domination of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Uh flashed one for me. R J.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Young joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, of course,
the host of the Number one Show podcast for Fox
Sports and college football analyst. It's the Texas Tech question,
and maybe it's a Big twelve question. Does an outcome
like yesterday effect on how we're gonna see a new format?
Does it come into play? I know that your Mark
was bullish on his his conference during the Big twelve
(26:46):
media days. He says, don't look at last year, good
things are coming ahead. I thought he was talking about
Texas Tech, and I thought he was talking about the
money within that program. But does them getting blanked by
Oregon in that Orange Bowl game? Could that have any
effect on what the committee looks at and trying to
decide who gets in how many get in in the
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future format.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
I think all these results have to matter. Now Again,
we're pointing in Indiana at the outlier here, but everybody
else who is coming out first round by the last
two years is taking a loss. We can take that
as an aberration, or we can take that as a
flaw in the system. I think many people would like
to take that as a flaw in the system, because
it feels like we're disadvantaging the teams that have earned
the one two more spots, and quite frankly, I think
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they should be getting a home game. I think I
get the Rose Bowl, I get the Cotton Bowl, but
I want to see that game on Lovick on at
Jones Stadium in love it text, right, Is it a
different outcome? I think so. Their fans would certainly change that.
I also think that we're at a place where you
have to change the formats now or later, and they
have this on the table. They got to get something
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decided by January twenty sixth. My hope is that they
extend this thing and they extend the twenty four teams. Now,
I think we're going to get the sixteams quicker than
we're going to get to twenty four. But that would
eliminating this first round. By the thumbs are inheriting that
they gotta go play three weeks later. I think that
point right where we take that week off, we were
Armie Davy and then we don't start playing football again
(28:13):
until the following week. That's got to go. And I
realized that the NFL is the NFL. But at some
point it's got to be like pet high school football,
where we start playing playoff games in November and we
don't finish till January. And at fine, it's okay. Meanwhile,
I'll put this one. You dance one of the folks
that were saying, hey, kids got to go to class's
too many games? Yeah, that was a games when your
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teams getting beatet in the first round or aft you
buy sure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Sure a lot of us change with that argument too.
Are jay just because of COVID, because of remote class
work and that whole deal, Like there's yeah, I'll tell
you what. Though, to have the National Championship Game at
the Rose Bowl on January first, which is I think
some people are pushing for. I don't know if that's
ultimately realistic, but it is a better situation here. For
(28:58):
as great as the games were, in as great the
stories were, I do think that the layoff, I mean,
when you go seven of eight, I know, like it's
just I don't think like there's something with that. I
agree that it's got to continue as well. I thought
I like the home sites for the quarterfinals. I thought
the Sugar Bowl was a great scene last night. But
in less every year you're gonna have two SEC schools
playing and you know, in that sort of building, in
(29:20):
that format, and they rotate bowls anyway, so you don't
always get it. Yeah, it's just it's too random. I
think that there are better ways to do it, a
lot to fix, and I don't have any faith that
they'll actually fix it, so but let's keep our fingers crossed.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
I'm with that, and I think that the Fallox Football
plaoff boarder managers have a lot to actually go and
fix right now that namely, hey, how are we filled
out Notre Dame getting in with a number twelve ranking
next year? Because it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Sure, sure, I you know what, And it's not because
I'm a Big ten guy. I've liked the Big Ten's
proposal more of the four and the four and it's
almost using the conferences as sort of like a feeder.
Cis them, and I feel that there's just gotta be
some recognition from the ACC and it probably won't happen
because Miami's now in the semi finals or from the
(30:09):
Big twelve that they're they're just not like the other
two and it's not all bad.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I'm just surprised that, like certain schools would back the
five plus eleven if you will. I was more of
the you know, the four four two two whatever it was,
the Big ten ad. But I don't think that a
lot of people are on that. I just think it
would provide a better feeder system and in determining who
is really good in college football, because I don't think
that we know. I like, I don't think that the
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SEC is as good as we thought that the SEC is,
and I feel that that's been the way for the
third straight season.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So I don't know, just my thoughts.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I'm enjoying it, Yeah, I really am. I'm enjoying it.
Why why are we enjoying that?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Like?
Speaker 8 (30:51):
We got three teams in the semifinals that haven't won
a national championship in the modern era?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Is that not what we were asking for? I was
asking for that. I wanted to see the pot, the
pool get a little bit larger than it has now.
You've got teams like Indiana, everybody else contin with and
we're all playing catch up even on the first day
that transport portal is open. I'm with either way as
long as we're continue to play football and we'll continue
to get many teams in with an opportunity to get
the same but kicking by Indiana.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I tell you, I told Monci and she's right. She's
from the new school. I'm an old head. I said,
my old head ways didn't think that this would be
a good semi final, and I think it's probably the
best that we could have gotten.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
RJ.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Happy New Year, Love talking to you. Can't wait to
talk to you again. Maybe after the summer semi finals.
We'll talk to you again soon though, count on that.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Appreciate it, Dan Monty, thanks so much, you guys have
a happy union.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
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It happens every now and there.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Let it out. You need to let it out.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I get it. A lot. A lot can change if
it was up to me.
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Monday's coming up for the NFL head coaches. Some will
lose their jobs. Some will lose their jobs on Sunday night.
It just happens. It's the way it goes, it's the
way the World's the end of the regular season. But
there are a couple of things that have happened and
are happening in the NFL that make you wonder if
there are changes that could happen in spots that we
didn't expect. Some people wonder if Kevin Stefansi is going
to stay in Cleveland. Now, this wouldn't be a tray,
(32:50):
this wouldn't be a swap. But if Kevin Stefanski were
to be dismissed by the Browns, there are reports that
the New York Giants would be very interest in having
Kevin Stefanski be their head coach, which is I find
the whole Stefanski thing fascinating because yeah, he helped turn
the Browns around to go to the playoffs, but then
(33:13):
completely disregarded.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Baker.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Mayfield was wrong on that the Shdor Sanders escapades this
season haven't done great for his resume, but yet Stefanski
is still a guy that is sought after in the NFL.
That could be one domino to fall that Kevin Stefanski
could be out in Cleveland, and if he would be,
the Giants would be very interested in him.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
It seems as though I think the coach of the year, right,
how far removed a Coach of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Gosh, yeah, I don't know, two years, there's three.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Years, but coach of the year, so obviously that comes
with something. And I feel like the Giants honestly would
not be the only team interested in Kevin Stefanski because
the Browns have been such a you know, a bleep
show the last couple of seasons that, like other teams
can imagine, like, so, if we put him in a
situation that is not this, how good can he be?
(34:04):
So I feel like the Giants are just one team
that maybe would have their eye on if Kevin Stefanski is.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
On the move. I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Jeremy follower of ESPN is the one that reported that
he would be a leading candidate for the Giants. The
crazy thing with the Browns is the one good thing
on their team is their defense, and Kevin Stefanski's thought
to be the offensive mind. So again that like flies
in the face of everything. But if something were to
happen in Cleveland and a change was made with the
head coach, there may be a reason Mike McDaniel has
(34:31):
been linked as a possibility to go to Cleveland. If
he were to be let go by the Dolphins and
Stefanski were to be let go by the Browns, then
Mike McDaniel would land on his feet to coach Shoud
or Sanders in the Cleveland Browns. How do you think
that matchup would work in Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Let me tell you what's not going to work is
McDaniel not being able to wear his pedal pushers, his
little knicker knockers.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's not going to work for him. I heard that.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I was like, who's pushing the story the Dolphins just
so people think somebody wants him.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
That's what I thought was curious because now they're bringing
in Troy Aikman as a consultant. It was just a
couple of weeks ago was pointed out that Troy Aikman
was ripping on Mike McDaniel and the clock management that
the team had in that game. McDaniel was asked if
he had spoken to Akman about it or if it
bothered him, and he said it would be weird if
it did bother me, Like, no, it doesn't. No, they
(35:27):
haven't spoken. But now you're starting to connect some of
these dots. And I thought Mike McDaniel was safe considering
how the Dolphins had handled the season. Yeah, especially when
Chris Greer, their general manager, was fired. But again, then
you're bringing in a general manager that isn't Mike McDaniel's
guy unless he's going to be a part of the conversation.
Curious to see how they fare against the Patriots coming
(35:48):
up in this final week, but they were able to
be successful last week against the Buccaneers and win a
game with quinn Ewers as as their quarterback. I didn't
love how they poured things on Toua, but I've been
a Mike McDaniel fan, and I think that he is
a great offensive mind. So I could understand why Cleveland
is saying, well, if they took TUA and were able
to make the playoffs, maybe let's see what he could
(36:10):
do with Shoudoor Sanders and maybe in a way McDaniel
can resonate more with Sanders than Kevin Stefanski has.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yeah, that is the selling point here of the whole
thing if he does end up in Cleveland. Joking aside
from the weather and Miami versus Cleveland. But when I
saw this, I really was like, is this Miami pushing
this idea that someone is interested in McDaniel just so
that they can get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I think it's more of a Shadoor story, to be
honest with you.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
He think so.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think that if that happens, if the Browns could
choose Stefanski or Mike McDaniel, I think they would choose
Mike McDaniel. But they don't know if Mike McDaniel's available,
which I think is the Shadure story, then on what
guy would you want to lead your quarterback or lead
your team, which would then tell me that Shadoor is
probably their quarterback for twenty twenty six. And honestly enough,
(36:58):
he's shown enough. I have no idea how good Deshaun
Watson is going to look after his Achilles situations.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
There's no way.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
So it actually does make sense on the Cleveland side
of things, if you were to if you were to
go forward with Chador as.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Your quarterback, they should go forward with Shador as their quarterback.
I don't know what other options you have, to be
honest with you, but that's interesting. Maybe they're the ones
pushing it to get to see just get the fields out,
get the fields out.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
That's the sense that I got.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, the fields have been out for the Indiana football
program in college football. We talked about a next on
Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
The only thing worse than not being in on the
joke is not being in on the fun, right, Yeah,
I think that's right. Like when you hear everybody got
together it was a great time, and you're like, oh,
I wasn't there. Still it was a great time. Like,
you don't want to miss out on the fun When
I miss work, I don't want there to be as
much fun as when I'm there. We covered that earlier.
(00:30):
I feel like I'm missing out on the fun of Indiana. Yeah,
And I could not have been I could not have
been more wrong than I was about what is transpired
in the college football playoff. We'll tell you why, but
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you caught up in the Fernando Mendoza, Kurt Signetti Indiana,
Who's yours story?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I absolutely have been all about it all season.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And this is coming from someone who's never really had
a college football team.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I have vacation in that world.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Saying, oh, yes, just take twelve weeks in the in
the fall. Yeah, maybe maybe into January.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I don't have any real estate, you know what I'm saying, Like,
I just vacation there.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yes, I have a grand time.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think Jason Stewart you're kind of in that same boat.
I know that you're like, you'll pull for the Syracuse
Orange when there's reason too. But I don't want to
say that you're a college football free agent. But you
even said earlier that you're a college football casual. So
you've been taking in the Indiana run.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
No doubt, and adopted old miss for these playoffs. And
but Indiana's fun to watch. Everyone pulls for this team,
I think. And Kurt Signetti said something yesterday that I'd
like to get to before the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, well let's let's hear it. Yeah, let's see it
right now. We'll get to it right now. Jason Stewart, Well,
this is what happened. This is what happened. I submitted
sound yesterday. No, I won't get into that anyways. Rhys
Davis caught up with Kurt Signetti after the game last
night and he first asked him, how would you describe
(02:17):
the turnaround and what you have been able to build?
And Kurt Signetti said, and this feeds into my pet peeve.
It would be one hell of a movie. And then
then the fall was this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Who would stars Kurt Signetti in the movie?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I don't know about that one, but there'd be a lot.
There'd be a big cast of characters. Because it's all
about people. You gotta have the right people and your staff,
the right guys in the locker room. And we've been
very fortunate, and these guys buy in. They all think alike,
they play like we wanted to play. There's been a
lot of first It is kind of surreal.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I understand why there's been a lot of skeptics.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But I only have one thing to say. Poo poojah.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
And perfect place said Park Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Now, good, good for him, good for Signetti, and I
love the story. But I'm gonna disagree with this one.
Would it be a hell of a movie just for
like a traditionally basketball program to win a national title
in football? I don't think it would be a very
interesting movie. There doesn't seem a lot of drama.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Or a character arc there, No, And they couldn't call
it Hoosiers, like so like that's off the board, right,
so you wouldn't be able to even call it Hoosiers.
That there's a there's a whole basketball movie about the
you know, about the oh shucks, small town team and
going and reaching the highest heights, and it's called Hoosiers.
I do think, and I love Reese Davis. I think
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that Reeese Davis is as good at his job as
anybody else that does that job in sports media. That
was an awful follow up question. And good on Signetti
for taking the wheel and bringing it back, because I'm
sure he was caught off guard by the whole movie.
But it's Pasadena, it's Hollywood, it's la it's the whole deal,
(04:09):
and so you're playing into that by Signetti saying what
he did, and then to ask him who would play
him in that role just completely derailed.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was an.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Eighteen car trail train derailment with that question, but Signetti
brought it back on track.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I mean it's under the umbrella of the thing that
I really can't stand, which is the old cliche that
writers go to and that reporters go to, and you'll
hear athletes say it that Hollywood would never be able
to write this story. You always hear that as an
exaggeration of just written a routine sports story. And I'll
always say this, and I'll put a button on this
portion of this. They made a movie about a snail
(04:48):
that won the ND five hundred. It's called Turbo. You
could watch it. Maybe it was a good movie. But
once you've made that movie, I don't think any athlete
or sports announcer could ever say that Hollywood writers would.
They would kick you out of the room if you proposed.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This, right Yeah, No, Nowadays, with the movies and shows
that come out, anything is possible. Right now, I understand
that there is no real stakes if you were to
make a movie about Indiana, but I do think it
can be done.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And Brad Pitt would play Kurt Signetti. There we go.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You got Pitt.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I just think that he is maybe a smidge young,
but you know, with the little makeup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I wish they were on the same age. Actually, I
wish he would have said, Sidney Sweeney. I wish that
would have been his answer. That would have shown so good,
that would have been how dumb is this question?
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Was?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, that would have been.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But I think like there's just such bad movies and
television out there that it may be better than you
think a story about Well.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Never there's never like Hollywood's never made like an underdog story,
never like never like never is one.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But this isn't an underdog according to my people. They're
not an underdog, or they spent a lot of money,
they should be here.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, but you also do have the right people. There
are people who spend a lot of money are the
right people, and it doesn't work, And like this is
this is the portion. I'm glad that you said that,
because this is the portion where I feel like I'm
an idiot and I feel like I'm an outsider. As
someone who is admittingly an Ohio State football fan, I
cannot jump on the Indiana bandwigon. But it took what
(06:27):
happened yesterday and really what happened on New Year's Eve
night with Ohio State losing. For me to realize why
I was an idiot on New Year's Eve afternoon when
I said it would be a failure and it would
be an awful situation for college football if you had Indiana, Miami, Ole,
(06:48):
miss In Texas Tech winning games. Three of those four
things happened, and now as we sit here on January twenty,
January second of twenty twenty six, Honestly, Monci, I feel
embarrassed for myself because I feel it was an elitist take.
I feel it was one coming from a spot that
did not see other places. And I know, in this
(07:09):
world of hot take and people want you to argue
and disagree the whole time. I am here admitting my
wrongs that this bracket probably couldn't have gotten any better
from what transpired yesterday and what transpired on New Year's
Eve night. Sure, you love the brands, and maybe that's
the problem with college football is that there are too
(07:29):
many big brands. We talk about the blue bloods, we
talk about all the jobs there are, you know, six
or seven jobs you can't turn down in college football.
Maybe that's the problem with it. Maybe that's the problem
that we're all so sick of Alabama. As an Ohio
State fan, I knew ninety percent of the country was
rooting for Miami on New Year's Eve night and the
ten percent were We're Ohio State fans, Like that's that's
(07:52):
the reality of it. Maybe we were sick of Clemson
in the runs that they made, like we needed something
new and we needed something different, and that was a
blind spot for me. And now in seeing how things transpired,
seeing lank Kiffin leeve Ole Miss and things that they
didn't have a shot against Georgia because I just thought
Georgia was the better team, Georgia had the better players.
(08:14):
That wasn't the case. And I feel that's why I'm
an idiot. So my wife doesn't have to still be
on hold for an hour. Like I fully admit that
I was an idiot because I felt my view was
so narrowed. I can't jump on the Indiana bandwagon. There's
no way that that's happening. I don't care who now
wins the college football Playoff championship. But I can recognize
(08:36):
and it really took ahle Miss to do it, But
I can recognize how these stories have given new life
to college football.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You know, I think Dan, a lot of people actually
probably saw the situation like you did. Not that they
were Ohio State fans, but maybe they were the Georgia fans,
the Alabama fans, the Oregon fans.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I think they saw it the way you did it
that you did as well. And it's people like me
and Jason from the outside that have not looked at it,
not looked at it with blinders because we don't have
a team, so we're kind of just kind of for
the fun ride. We hear this story, we see this game,
we watch this person, this player, this coach, and we're like,
of course, I just think we see it from a
(09:18):
different perspective. And then now with NIL, basically like if
you can spend money, which we see some more teams
that are doing that, it's even in the playing field.
Maybe spending money has made it okay now in college football,
right because now there aren't these teams that are just
so dominant that it's clear as day that you are
going to move on to the next round.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Like, I think that's actually.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A really good thing for college football because when NIL
first opened up, I was like, oh, this is bad idea.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
This is gonna go back.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And I know there's still some parts of it that
I think need to be fixed and whatnot. But clearly
the playing field has even out for the teams that
can spend money, for the schools that can spend money
and can actually do this. But I think a lot
of people actually felt like you did, Like real college
football fans that have been around for years.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And years, I feel like they looked.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
At it the way you did. I want to get
to I know Jason wants in on this. I do
want to say. One thing is I also thought that
last year's semi final, where you had these established programs
of Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, that that's
what that's what you wanted in college football. You wanted
those four teams. And I thought last year's playoff was
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good like Texas Ohio State. Maybe wasn't a great played game,
but it was dramatic. Penn State and Notre Dame was
a low scoring affair, and Notre Dame had a heck
of a comeback against Ohio State in the National Championship game,
just couldn't complete the deal in Ohio State ends up winning,
but you had those four big brands, and I thought, wow,
that's what the committee, that's what the fans would want
to pick if we could pick it. And I couldn't
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have been more wrong. Jason.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I just think what Monsia said is so true. Like
I think for us kind of casual fans, I follow
college football just because I'm in the industry, just because
I need to. But like, there are so many people
and you have to think about it. This is like
a symptom of our industry. There are so many people
with takes, and they make their predictions, and when the
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predictions don't come right, they're like really bitter about things.
I just felt in the last forty eight hours a
lot of those people that make predictions, that think they
know college football so well, and they were making these
absolute takes after the playoff seating all this stuff. They
were just kind of groveling the last couple of days.
It was kind of fun to watch, and then most
of us I think that and this is good for
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college football. By the way, The people that are just
kind of tuning in now are like, this is fun. Yeah,
Like that was really fun.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I think Ole miss put a lot, you know,
a lot of fun into it last night. The Indiana story.
The thing that I can't get over with Indiana is
it just gets better and better.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So like last year, like them making the playoff as
it was, and then they lose to Notre Dame. That
could have been the high point. That could have been
the high point of Kurt Signetti's time in Bloomington, and
we would have said, remember when he took them to
the college playoff, like Indiana a top ten team, imagine that.
So then they're run this year of being undefeated, of
winning at Oregon, A, beating Ohio State in the Big
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Dent title game, and then going to the Rose Bowl.
So just to see Indiana's name in the Rose Bowl
as something end zone that we hadn't seen, to see
not only them beat in Alabama, but dismantled Alabama, and
I thought that Alabama is not the same as it
once was. And I think that it was evidence last night,
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but to see how they took that Alabama team apart
and we're just better than they are, Like it just
it keeps on getting better for Indiana. And now I'm
like sitting then, like it, when when does it? When
does the bottom fall out because it does for every
college football program except one, and now that may be
the one where it never does.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
And we haven't even mentioned Fernanda Mendoza, the Heisman winner,
and what he's doing and his interviews and how fun
he is and goofy and like how he is winning
over people.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I feel like just by how he comes across.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Like there's nothing negative to be said about Fernando Mendoza,
churs Signetti.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You are you could argue if you.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wanted to, or Francisco Mendoza. I think Jason would agree.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, Iowa Sam, I am curious from your perspective. I'm
also curious from Isaac's perspective as well. I feel Isaac
very neutral despite the USC UCLA roots that run through
his house. I want to start with you, Iowa Sam,
though as an Iowa fan, being familiar with Indiana, how
not just Indiana, but even this final four? Do you
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enjoy this final four? Do you like these matchups? How
have you taken this all in?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
I'm blown away by like, I just I don't know.
Kurtz Signetti has this magic potion for just turning in
the program into exactly what he wants in the last
two years. So that's been unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Are you wrapped up in it? Like, do you want
Indiana to win it all?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
I'm like it went from Indiana when Kurt Signetti started.
I looked at like their jerseys, their colors, their emblem.
I'm like, it's Indiana. Now, I'm like, I look at it.
I look at them differently, I really do. I'm like,
they're like a power and it's because of Kurt Signetti
because I really don't know much about their players. I
know he got a lot of he took a lot
of players with him from James Madison. But I'm like,
even those guys, how are they this good? They're supposed
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that that was a James Madison was an FCS team
up until a few years ago, and they've been in
the FBS and then you know, they made the playoff
and there must be something magical about James Madison. But
to like watch Indiana for years and years be occasionally
get to a bowl game, you know, and win a
bowl game, maybe go like eight and five or nine
and four, is like a really really good year for
them for them to just like they've I mean, there's
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for them to go to do even better than last year.
It's just even more mindful.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, Indiana has something that not every college team has,
and that's dudes. Like they have got guys like there's you.
You can look at a college roster and be like,
they got great kids, and you can look at a
college roster and be like they got great guys, and
they're different because these are these are men, These are big,
big guys like Charlie Becker just posting someone up in
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the end zone on a post route like that, they've
got there. The physical nature of their players has such
an effect as well that matches the top programs in
the country. Isaac kind of from a Switzerland neutral point
of view, I'm not sure if he's got any interest,
but uh, actually he's tied up. But I think that
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the neutral people, the neutral people are sitting there saying, yeah,
I'm I'm along for the ride, whether it be Ole, miss,
whether it be Indiana in those scenarios.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Whether it be Miami. I think unless you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Were yes, this is my point about yesterday, is so Miami.
Of when Miami beats Ohio State, Miami, it's not like
Miami's a likable program like Michael Irvin was not disliked
during his playing career, Like who likes the right? Then
(16:01):
he's winning, and then he's dancing in your face. Now
he's he's doing his dances. He's wearing that same long
sleeved you know, University of Miami Hurricane shirt.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He's doing his belt.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, yeah, he did that just to show his abs.
Did you see his abs? Of course that's why he
did that. That was I was like, oh, that's why
you're taking your shirt off. Got it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But it's also why I think and I think that
Ohio State's probably the most disliked brand in college football
right now. Alabama was probably up there. I think Notre
Dame is up there. But it's why people could rally
behind Miami and and a a strutting Michael Irvin. Ray
Lewis was the subdued one on the sidelines, Like when
does that ever happen? But that's what happens when you
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get Michael Irvin on the sidelines of the you and
it's an upset Carson Beck, let's be real, probably not
one of the most likable quarterbacks. That's something that you're
warming up toes like and here he comes in and
he's bulldozing Ohio State safety. He's trying to get first
downs like people are warming up to that because they
all also beat the defending national champions and so all
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of that taken into account, I think has made it very,
very good for college football.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I don't know what's happening on those sidelines, but I
feel like they hate just so you know, they hate
from like Ohio State, and like those schools that have dominated.
It's more of a hate because of the domination with
like Miami.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's it's like.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
The other stuff as to why people are annoyed by them,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, so it's very different. It's very different.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think that I think people hate Ohio State's fan
base more than they actually hate Ohio State. I think
people probably don't like Michael Irvin doing that stuff on
most days and being cocky and being show voting, because
that's all Miami was. They were the you, they were
the outlaws, all of that stuff. They were the team
that you wanted to be but couldn't be. I think
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all of that plays into why you would dislike a team.
Do you think that the fan base, though, of Ohio
State makes people go to the other side, and I
felt that when I saw social media on how many
people were excited about what happened with Miami beating Ohio
State on New Year's Eve, and there were just as
many people happy for Indiana to beat Alabama and happy
for Ole miss to beat Georgia.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's what I got the sense of absolutely.
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Speaker 2 (18:44):
I have not checked the standings, not because of time,
but because I don't want to see how I'm doing
in the Fox Sports Radio College Football Playoff Bracket Challenge.
But someone in the studio has their national championship games
still in place. I do, and it is and it
is Mancy Belanos. Let's ask our next guest, RJ.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Young.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I don't know if you filled out the bracket prior
to the college football playoff. RJ, of course, host of
the Number One Show podcast for Fox Sports and college
football analyst for Fox.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
RJ. Do you still have your national championship game intact?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
No, I certainly do not. I got one side in
the bracket, one size. I'm gonna get myself kudos for that.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, good for you, because that was better than what
I did. I went a good one for four in
yesterday's quarterfinal. I won't even let you guess which game
I got right, but I was a one for four,
a nice two point fifty from the quarterfinals. What outcome
of yesterday on New Year's Day, and let's just even
take New Year's Eve with the Miami Ohio State game,
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what was the most surprising one to you?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I think it's gotta be bonus. Storming back on the
arm and Homrian heroics of Trinidad Chambliss to defeat Georgia
and the Sugar Bowl. A couple of things that I
think are really interesting about that comeback. Number one, Gunner
Stockton was the last quarterback to complete twelve straight consecutive
passes in what Happened football against an AP Top five
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opponents when they beat All Miss last year. This season
we got to the postseason. We got to see Trinidad
Chamblas complete thirteen consecutive passes against an AP Top five
opponent in the College Football Playoff. The storm all the
way back. When I think, when I really put this
in perspective, Dan, you know I live in Oklahoma. You
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know how much I leve Olklahoma. I also got to
see Fair States destroy Central Oklahoma, and I was going
that guy played Division two football. I still very good
about that, right, I feel really great about it because
I was looking at that one how help, but that
was that was my really outstanding matchup for this college
football Playoff Again.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Do you think Trinidad Chambliss has a real shot at
playing well in the NFL?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
Yeah? I don't see why not. He's got the tool.
Being short is being short as a dude that's five
to five. I'm just really not gonna let that get
in the way of what I want to get done
and as the seat. He slung it, and he didn't
just sling it. Slung it against one of the best
defenses in college football and against Kirby Smart. All he
does is fill out the Philadelphia Eagles for Super Bowl
winning defenders. So I think he's playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I one more on this. I have a theory that
can never be proven, but I think All miss wins
last night because Lane Kiffin's not there. Do you buy
into any of that being a factor in the outcome
from last night?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, not particularly. I mean I get being motivated, and
far be it for me to say that. You know,
seventeen to twenty three year olds don't get motivated. Someone
quite literally leaves them for a better looking job when
they're in the cusp of winning the national championship. But
I'll tell you this man, having Charlie White in that
box did not hurt Old missus chances of making that comeback.
(22:00):
Soon as somebody got through to Himp Gold said hey, hey,
stop taking the ball out of Tamberi's hands. Let and
go win it or Lud's game, they started to look
really good. But I can understand the revenge factors for
the rest of us. I genuinely think that when you
get hit in the face like Chamblet's and like Gunner
Stockton were last night, the last thing you're thinking about
is some guy in bat louse who rescued for a
little bit more money.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Do you think Ohio State underestimated Miami or is Miami
better than people think they are.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I don't think that Ohio State underestimated Miami at all.
I think Miami's defensive line has been an NFC South
defensive line all year off, and they got an opportunity
to prove that against the weakest part of an otherwise
really great Ohio State football team. It's offensive line. We
started to do guys at right guard in gay Van Stickle,
and it showed. Rubin Bain was absolutely that dude from
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the Dark Knight rises all over Julian Sand in that game.
And you know, Frankly, what's your got to show? He
can do this against the deep this in all the
college football I think they're better than people give them
credit for because of the loss is and U and Voisle,
But all that's don't have to do it. They just
keep the number two team in the country.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
R Jay Young joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
I got another one on the Buck Eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I feel that.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They're at this this interesting spot with Brian Hartline now
going to South Florida, and it's the issue that popped
up against Miami that you pointed out. I also think
that you know, Ohio State's defensive line didn't get after
Carson beck Is as much as they they should have
or or could have. I feel that there is It's
not a tipping point, but for a school that has
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brought in we know the wide receivers, Chris Henry Junior
is on his way, Jeremiah Smith, Marvin Harrison Junior, a
Mecca Abuca, Garrett Wilson, Chris like, we can go down
the list. We know the wide receivers Jackson, Smith and Jigba.
But Ohio State hasn't been as good upfront with Ryan
Day as they were with Urban Meyer. Do you think
that changes with Heartline leaving with how this loss came about,
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with how their losses to Michigan came about. Do you
think there's any adjustment with what Ryan Day does with
the Buckeyes.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I don't know that there's any adjustment with what he
does with the buck guys. To the offensive line question,
though I would argue Justin Flyde did the best coaching
job nobody talked about last year they left. They lost
the entire left side of their offensive line. They need
the left guard out to tackle. They won the national championship.
That ain't how it's supposed to go. That they were
in a similar position with a first year offensive line
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coach and Tyler Bowen. That I think is what you
want to address. You got to recruit, you think a
little bit better on the offensive line that sense. Parris
Johnson's been through there, Wyatt Davis has been through there.
They've had d that come through and can play at
the National Football League level. For whatever reason, when they're
trying to force the run game, it just hasn't been there.
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And that's with Bryan Hartline called in the place, or
Ryan Day call in the place. If they weren't throwing
the football to Cornel Tate and Jeremiah Smith, they didn't
look like they were going to score any points. And
on off of that, you're trying to be more efficient,
which means you're trying to play the least amount of
football possible to get to the spot that you were
in last night. So that arcuse two nights ago so
that you can go full throttle, and they didn't have
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it to go full throttle on a three weeks layoffs
that I will put on Ryan Day.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Does Indiana have a weak spot?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, they got to. They absolutely got a week's
plot and it's inexperienced. But it doesn't seem to matter
right At some point, they keep thinking, uh, what does
the white folks say over their skives? I don't know
stand so I'm just going to use that one like
you might tumble and slip over and fall. I keep
feeling like that's gonna happen with this team, and all
they keep doing is going, no, no, no, We're going to
(25:43):
play now. I'm on a fundamental football. What's really impressed
about them is that they aren't doing anything that we
haven't seen in football. They play two high safetyes, they
come downstield, they tackle, their offensive lines does not miss blocks.
They execute their blocking scheams. You wou's safe to perfection,
but they execute it. So I keep thinking they get
deeper and deeper into the deep water that they're gonna
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additionally just find out a cord and they're like, nah, cool.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm the same way. It's just gotten every time that
I think, all right, it can't be as good as
this or get as good as this for Indiana, it
just keeps on getting better, and then includes yesterday's Rose
Bowl domination of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Uh flashed one for me. R J.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Young joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, of course,
the host of the Number one Show podcast for Fox
Sports and college football analyst. It's the Texas Tech question,
and maybe it's a Big twelve question. Does an outcome
like yesterday effect on how we're gonna see a new format?
Does it come into play? I know that your Mark
was bullish on his his conference during the Big twelve
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media days. He says, don't look at last year, good
things are coming ahead. I thought he was talking about
Texas Tech, and I thought he was talking about the
money within that program. But does them getting blanked by
Oregon in that Orange Bowl game? Could that have any
effect on what the committee looks at and trying to
decide who gets in how many get in in the
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future format.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
I think all these results have to matter. Now Again,
we're pointing in Indiana at the outlier here, but everybody
else who is coming out first round by the last
two years is taking a loss. We can take that
as an aberration, or we can take that as a
flaw in the system. I think many people would like
to take that as a flaw in the system, because
it feels like we're disadvantaging the teams that have earned
the one two more spots, and quite frankly, I think
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they should be getting a home game. I think I
get the Rose Bowl, I get the Cotton Bowl, but
I want to see that game on Lovick on at
Jones Stadium in love it text, right, Is it a
different outcome? I think so. Their fans would certainly change that.
I also think that we're at a place where you
have to change the formats now or later, and they
have this on the table. They got to get something
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decided by January twenty sixth. My hope is that they
extend this thing and they extend the twenty four teams. Now,
I think we're going to get the sixteams quicker than
we're going to get to twenty four. But that would
eliminating this first round. By the thumbs are inheriting that
they gotta go play three weeks later. I think that
point right where we take that week off, we were
Armie Davy and then we don't start playing football again
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until the following week. That's got to go. And I
realized that the NFL is the NFL. But at some
point it's got to be like pet high school football,
where we start playing playoff games in November and we
don't finish till January. And at fine, it's okay. Meanwhile,
I'll put this one. You dance one of the folks
that were saying, hey, kids got to go to class's
too many games? Yeah, that was a games when your
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teams getting beatet in the first round or aft you
buy sure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Sure a lot of us change with that argument too.
Are jay just because of COVID, because of remote class
work and that whole deal, Like there's yeah, I'll tell
you what. Though, to have the National Championship Game at
the Rose Bowl on January first, which is I think
some people are pushing for. I don't know if that's
ultimately realistic, but it is a better situation here. For
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as great as the games were, in as great the
stories were, I do think that the layoff, I mean,
when you go seven of eight, I know, like it's
just I don't think like there's something with that. I
agree that it's got to continue as well. I thought
I like the home sites for the quarterfinals. I thought
the Sugar Bowl was a great scene last night. But
in less every year you're gonna have two SEC schools
playing and you know, in that sort of building, in
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that format, and they rotate bowls anyway, so you don't
always get it. Yeah, it's just it's too random. I
think that there are better ways to do it, a
lot to fix, and I don't have any faith that
they'll actually fix it, so but let's keep our fingers crossed.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
I'm with that, and I think that the Fallox Football
plaoff boarder managers have a lot to actually go and
fix right now that namely, hey, how are we filled
out Notre Dame getting in with a number twelve ranking
next year? Because it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Sure, sure, I you know what, And it's not because
I'm a Big ten guy. I've liked the Big Ten's
proposal more of the four and the four and it's
almost using the conferences as sort of like a feeder.
Cis them, and I feel that there's just gotta be
some recognition from the ACC and it probably won't happen
because Miami's now in the semi finals or from the
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Big twelve that they're they're just not like the other
two and it's not all bad.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I'm just surprised that, like certain schools would back the
five plus eleven if you will. I was more of
the you know, the four four two two whatever it was,
the Big ten ad. But I don't think that a
lot of people are on that. I just think it
would provide a better feeder system and in determining who
is really good in college football, because I don't think
that we know. I like, I don't think that the
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SEC is as good as we thought that the SEC is,
and I feel that that's been the way for the
third straight season.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So I don't know, just my thoughts.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I'm enjoying it, Yeah, I really am. I'm enjoying it.
Why why are we enjoying that?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Like?
Speaker 8 (30:51):
We got three teams in the semifinals that haven't won
a national championship in the modern era?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Is that not what we were asking for? I was
asking for that. I wanted to see the pot, the
pool get a little bit larger than it has now.
You've got teams like Indiana, everybody else contin with and
we're all playing catch up even on the first day
that transport portal is open. I'm with either way as
long as we're continue to play football and we'll continue
to get many teams in with an opportunity to get
the same but kicking by Indiana.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I tell you, I told Monci and she's right. She's
from the new school. I'm an old head. I said,
my old head ways didn't think that this would be
a good semi final, and I think it's probably the
best that we could have gotten.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
RJ.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Happy New Year, Love talking to you. Can't wait to
talk to you again. Maybe after the summer semi finals.
We'll talk to you again soon though, count on that.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Appreciate it, Dan Monty, thanks so much, you guys have
a happy union.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
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host of the Number One Show podcast. Isaac Glowing crowns
at the news desk giving us the latest. Sorry Monts,
he just kind of went on my college football rant.
It happens every now and there.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Let it out. You need to let it out.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I get it. A lot. A lot can change if
it was up to me.
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Monday's coming up for the NFL head coaches. Some will
lose their jobs. Some will lose their jobs on Sunday night.
It just happens. It's the way it goes, it's the
way the World's the end of the regular season. But
there are a couple of things that have happened and
are happening in the NFL that make you wonder if
there are changes that could happen in spots that we
didn't expect. Some people wonder if Kevin Stefansi is going
to stay in Cleveland. Now, this wouldn't be a tray,
(32:50):
this wouldn't be a swap. But if Kevin Stefanski were
to be dismissed by the Browns, there are reports that
the New York Giants would be very interest in having
Kevin Stefanski be their head coach, which is I find
the whole Stefanski thing fascinating because yeah, he helped turn
the Browns around to go to the playoffs, but then
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completely disregarded.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Baker.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Mayfield was wrong on that the Shdor Sanders escapades this
season haven't done great for his resume, but yet Stefanski
is still a guy that is sought after in the NFL.
That could be one domino to fall that Kevin Stefanski
could be out in Cleveland, and if he would be,
the Giants would be very interested in him.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
It seems as though I think the coach of the year, right,
how far removed a Coach of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Gosh, yeah, I don't know, two years, there's three.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Years, but coach of the year, so obviously that comes
with something. And I feel like the Giants honestly would
not be the only team interested in Kevin Stefanski because
the Browns have been such a you know, a bleep
show the last couple of seasons that, like other teams
can imagine, like, so, if we put him in a
situation that is not this, how good can he be?
(34:04):
So I feel like the Giants are just one team
that maybe would have their eye on if Kevin Stefanski is.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
On the move. I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Jeremy follower of ESPN is the one that reported that
he would be a leading candidate for the Giants. The
crazy thing with the Browns is the one good thing
on their team is their defense, and Kevin Stefanski's thought
to be the offensive mind. So again that like flies
in the face of everything. But if something were to
happen in Cleveland and a change was made with the
head coach, there may be a reason Mike McDaniel has
(34:31):
been linked as a possibility to go to Cleveland. If
he were to be let go by the Dolphins and
Stefanski were to be let go by the Browns, then
Mike McDaniel would land on his feet to coach Shoud
or Sanders in the Cleveland Browns. How do you think
that matchup would work in Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Let me tell you what's not going to work is
McDaniel not being able to wear his pedal pushers, his
little knicker knockers.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's not going to work for him. I heard that.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I was like, who's pushing the story the Dolphins just
so people think somebody wants him.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
That's what I thought was curious because now they're bringing
in Troy Aikman as a consultant. It was just a
couple of weeks ago was pointed out that Troy Aikman
was ripping on Mike McDaniel and the clock management that
the team had in that game. McDaniel was asked if
he had spoken to Akman about it or if it
bothered him, and he said it would be weird if
it did bother me, Like, no, it doesn't. No, they
(35:27):
haven't spoken. But now you're starting to connect some of
these dots. And I thought Mike McDaniel was safe considering
how the Dolphins had handled the season. Yeah, especially when
Chris Greer, their general manager, was fired. But again, then
you're bringing in a general manager that isn't Mike McDaniel's
guy unless he's going to be a part of the conversation.
Curious to see how they fare against the Patriots coming
(35:48):
up in this final week, but they were able to
be successful last week against the Buccaneers and win a
game with quinn Ewers as as their quarterback. I didn't
love how they poured things on Toua, but I've been
a Mike McDaniel fan, and I think that he is
a great offensive mind. So I could understand why Cleveland
is saying, well, if they took TUA and were able
to make the playoffs, maybe let's see what he could
(36:10):
do with Shoudoor Sanders and maybe in a way McDaniel
can resonate more with Sanders than Kevin Stefanski has.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yeah, that is the selling point here of the whole
thing if he does end up in Cleveland. Joking aside
from the weather and Miami versus Cleveland. But when I
saw this, I really was like, is this Miami pushing
this idea that someone is interested in McDaniel just so
that they can get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I think it's more of a Shadoor story, to be
honest with you.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
He think so.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think that if that happens, if the Browns could
choose Stefanski or Mike McDaniel, I think they would choose
Mike McDaniel. But they don't know if Mike McDaniel's available,
which I think is the Shadure story, then on what
guy would you want to lead your quarterback or lead
your team, which would then tell me that Shadoor is
probably their quarterback for twenty twenty six. And honestly enough,
(36:58):
he's shown enough. I have no idea how good Deshaun
Watson is going to look after his Achilles situations.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
There's no way.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
So it actually does make sense on the Cleveland side
of things, if you were to if you were to
go forward with Chador as.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Your quarterback, they should go forward with Shador as their quarterback.
I don't know what other options you have, to be
honest with you, but that's interesting. Maybe they're the ones
pushing it to get to see just get the fields out,
get the fields out.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
That's the sense that I got.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, the fields have been out for the Indiana football
program in college football. We talked about a next on
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