August 27, 2025 • 39 mins
On a Wednesday edition of The Best Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: Doug talks about the Cowboys situation with Micah Parsons not having a contract extension yet and the speculation that he could be traded.
In this installment of The Midway, Doug and the crew discuss the most intriguing storylines to follow in college football this year.
Doug and the crew have some fun with news involving the Indiana Fever. Doug welcomes FOX Sports Betting Analyst Chris Fallica onto the show to handicap the first weekend of college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:26):
good to see you. Welcome in. We got a great
show for you. My man Chris philaka part of that
Bear Bets podcast. Of course, you see him on Big
Noon Kickoff. He'll join us twenty five after the hour,
give you some picks for the upcoming it's like five
day weekend of college football. Plus we'll talk some Tom
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Brady and his role as a broadcaster this year as
he's kind of flexing his muscles, and his partial ownership
of the Las Vegas Raiders. So we got at a
bunch of things to get to, but let's start with this.
Living in Green Bay, Wisconsin, it has been quite the
day quite today. That's because John Coon tweeted out Micah
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Freaking Parsons in that exact way that's how he actually
tweeted out, and everybody has lost their mind. There's even
tracking of a jet that left Milwaukee and went to
Dallas with no real idea on why it went to
Dallas or Micah Parsons is involved. Right, The jet tracking
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thing is usually a college move. But again, when I
say college move, that's like what college fans do when
they're trying to hire a college football coach. Right, we're
a college fan. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's what happens when we're looking at a
college coach. We tracked the Jets, and I just continue.
I understand that there is some chum in the water, right,
(02:02):
there is some reason to believe that the Sharks are
circling and that maybe Jerry Jones would wave the white flag.
And you get to a point where you're like, well,
the Cowboys aren't going to be good anyway, why not
trade him away and then you can start over. But
if you have maybe the best defensive player in football
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or one of the and you were close to an
agreement at one point in time, why isn't this thing done?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why isn't this thing done? And the logical reason is
just about money, right, But I think there's some egos involved,
especially some bruised ones. When you have an agent who
wasn't feels like he wasn't consulted or brought in on
the original contract negotiations. There are clearly other reasons. I'm
not sure how good the reasons are, but there are
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definitely other reasons. And yeah, the more I look at it,
the more where I'm like, h are we getting to
the point of no return where you can't even play
him in Week one? Here's Cowboys head if he does resign,
doesn't have to have to resigning technically he's under contract
with the Cowboys. Here's Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer talking
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about Micah Parsons and whether or not he'd be ready
to even play when they play the Eagles week one
of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
At the end of the day, as soon as he
get out there, that's great, But again, there'll be a
ramp up plan for him and when he lines up
out there to play. Do I think he would play
seventy five plays in every play? Probably not, you know,
I don't think that that's real, But I do think
that he can be very disruptive, like we all know.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He is disruptive, and right now he's disruptive in general,
but he can be disruptive as a football player. This
is the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Unfortunately,
or maybe fortunately for your football players. This is this
is like kind of standard operating procedure, is it?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Is? It?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not like none of this is surprising to anybody who's
followed the NFL. The only thing surprising is the deal's
not done yet. And why isn't the deal done yet?
I don't I don't know. Nobody seems to know. You know,
only that they're not talking. And when you get to
the point if you're not talking and you're this late
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in the game, ooh, that doesn't look good. But if
he signs anywhere in this and you know, shows up
anywhere in this week, he'd make no mistake about it.
He's gonna play well, he play a lot. Maybe not
that that's the destructive nature to it. That's the crazy
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part about this is I understand, I understand that we
operate under this premise that, hey, baseball and basketball have
completely guaranteed contracts, football should as well, and so not
having guaranteed contracts somehow changes who we think has upper
(05:01):
hand and negotiations. But I want you to ask yourself this,
in all honesty, in anyone else's real world, if you
have a year left, you're under contract for a year
and a gigantic rivalry game is the first game of
the season, and it's not like like, let's not act
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like the Cowboys don't want to sign Marcat Parsons. We
can go back and forth all you want over how
much they want to pay him, how long they should
pay him, for the pace by which has been done.
You may be again, I don't know where your perception
comes from. You may be somebody who hates Jerry Jones
and says Jerry Jones screwed this up, and he may
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have You're allowed to have all these opinions. But I
do think it's interesting that this is probably the only
place in business sports life where a guy is under contract.
They play a game in was it two weeks for Monday,
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and the world's not saying like, hey, you're you know
you're supposed to be out there because you're under contract.
All these negotiations are not for this year. Granted, if
he signs an extension, he gets the money up front.
And then it goes the salary becomes live the next year. Okay,
I understand that it's a little complicated, but the reality
is he has a contract for this season. It pays
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him into eight figures, and we're all okay with Like,
you know, he may to make a point, he may
miss miss a game, and it's a huge game against
the defending Super Bowl champions, who happened to be one
of your, if not your biggest rival right now, Like
it's crazy that this is the way that football players
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are allowed to do business. And by just showing up
even though he hasn't done anything, and honestly, he's been
like disruptive at a football game, laying on the trade table.
He not get find we're all okay with this. It's again,
if it was anything outside of the NFL, people be
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like this makes no sense. I'm not sure it makes
much more sense inside the NFL, but people give you
a pass. That's what they do. Like this is sort
of standard operating procedure, believe or not, which makes it
feel even worse, like that this is how football players
react and how they how they do things. Yeah, they do,
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this is what they do. I don't know, so imagine yourself,
you're Brian Schottenheimer. You get a job where people didn't
expect you to get. Did anybody expect them to get
for him to get this job, No, no chance, nobody
expecting them to get this job. And hey, good news
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is you get to be the head coach of the Cowboys.
Bad news is, even if you have Micah Parsons, you
won't have the real Micah Parsons week one because he's
chosen to hold out this long and probably not in
shape when he could easily be working out. And I'm
sure he's working out at the facility, but yeah, I
don't know. Man. It's just such a murky, bad look
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to me when you're not ready to go, and it's
your job to be ready to go.
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a good amount to get to here, we have Dania.
Jeremiah's gonna join us. We'll get his thoughts on the
Browns quarterback situation. We do have the press. We got
a lot of stuff. I think you'll like it. But
one of my favorite things we do all week is
right now, this is the middle of the week. It's
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a Wednesday. And by the way, always I know when
it's Wednesday out. Wednesday's my trash day. I've become that guy.
I've become that guy where getting through a workout. My
guys ran a hill a hill today Beard's Creek Hill
where getting through and I only did it a couple
of times, but you're just like, okay, just make sure
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I can get through and not get hurt. I've got
to that point. I've also gotten to I set my
I know what day of the week it is based
on when I take the trash out. I become that
guy as well. Gorby Yep, that's that's where I am.
I'm just going. But it is a Wednesday, that's the
middle of the week, it's one o'clock on the West.
That's relatively middle of the day, and with our podcast
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that follows the show, it's the middle of the show.
That's why we call this part of the show the midway.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It's not Dad, it's time for stop the middle the midway.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right there, JAYSETU, what's the midway time?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here. I've got
Sam Iowa Sama has never been more outside here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'll take it from here to IOA. Sam has never
been more excited about a midway topic. He's like he
was jumping through the phone to agree with this group
text message today. I want to know from each of
you what is the one storyline? Just one, because I
want to I want to drill down on the one.
No need to be like, yeah, there's like ten or fifteen.
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I'm looking forward. It's just one, the one that you
were looking forward to the most, the college football storyline
this season that you are most looking forward to see
him play out. I will give Iowa Sam the four
only because he was so anxious to talk about about this.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Sam, I mean, it's got to be the AP's preseason
number one team.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It's got to be Texas. Can they do it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think it's the first time that Texas has ever
been number one entering the season in the AP. I
could be wrong, but I swear I heard that somewhere,
and if I'm wrong, we'll take it out of the podcast.
To borrow an old joke from Jonas Knox, like they
listen this, they always they have the money, they have
the boosters, they have the you know, millions of dollars
and invested into their their roster. They got college football
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royalty in arch Manning. And you know, he is a
little experienced. He got to play a little bit last year.
But people have wondered why did he sit so long
and why why is it finally now he's the starter
when someone you know wasn't injured in front of him?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Why is he the starter now?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
But if if all goes to plan, Texas should be
raising that College Football Playoff National Championship trophy.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
If the rankings are what they are now at the
end of the season.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Could we drive down on that one because I think
the obviously the subcategory there, if not the main category,
is Arch Manning as.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
A college football casual.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is how I see it. If college sports or
sports in general, is the ultimate meritocracy, why are we
just seeing him starting in a college football game. And
if we're just now seeing him starting a college football game,
why is he like the consensus number one draft pick?
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If he comes out like that, to me, that that's
a lot of hype for someone who has taken so
long to actually get on a college football field as
a starter.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway, Can I take this one? Oh yeah, okay, do
you remember when? And again I'm not a big Justin
Fields guy, okay, but do you remember when Justin Fields
was at Georgia?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Vaguely?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, Sam, you remember Justin Fields at Georgia?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
I don't. I don't. I only remember I don't either.
I don't really did he play for Georgia at all?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He was the backup?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Okay? Alright?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Like Burrow?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, well Burrow, Burrow up Burrows a backup? Who was
the starter when he was at Ohio State?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Uh it was? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Anybody, Ilo, I mean, I want you to think back
for a second. Okay, So what happened with Joe Burrow
was J T. Barrett was there?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh yeah, right? And you're like J T.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Barrett now j T Barrett in college. Joe Burrows last
year had thirty five touchdowns, nine interceptions, great college quarterback,
and he was It's a lot like the presidency. It's
really hard to beat out an incumbent. It just is,
you know. And so what happens is like you sit
there and you're like, well, he's replaced seeing a guy
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who wasn't a good pro quarterback. Okay, but that has
nothing to do with whether or not they're a good
college quarterback. Literally zero, literally zero. So again, go back,
same period of time, Go back and use Georgia as
your guide, because Georgia's quarterback at the time is a
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guy who I don't think he's stuck on a college
roster's Jake From. Okay, Jake From also thirty touchdowns, six interceptions,
and Jake From is a you know, he's the consummate
college quarterback you know there four years could basically be
governor just not a pro. So Justin Field's transferred and played,
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Joe Burrow transferred and played. In this case, arch Manning
didn't transfer. He sat waited his turn behind a guy
who's a really good, highly recruited college quarterback, and now
he'll get his time. But the biggest thing is it's
hard to beat out and incumbent. And there's been plenty
of these cases where the star quarterback was waiting in
the wings. You're like, if he's so good, why is
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he sitting It's the other guy looks better in practice.
The other guy does, knows the system, seeing everything, and
so you're sitting there as a coach going like, I
could play the young guy who's got more talent, but
I probably lose a game or two just because he
doesn't know what he's doing. Whereas this other guy, this
Jake prom guy, or this JT. Perritt guy, they do
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everything I asked him to do and nothing more, nothing less,
And that's how it works. So anyway, I hope that
answered your question. Jase too. That's my opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That makes sense. I wanted to talk about. Coach Prime
is my most intriguing story yeap. When the new surface
recently that he had been dealing with cancer. I remember
in the speculation leading up to that news that he
was definitely going to take advantage of this situation just
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step down to do something else. The timing with his
moving on to the NFL and all that, it just
made sense because all of us that have grown up
with a youth sports dad, coach, as soon as the
sun is out of the picture, you lose the attention
of the dad. I thought Coach Prime was kind of
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in that ilk. So I'm gonna see how it goes
for him this season, how the team does. If the
report's out of Colorado, or that his focus on the
detail is a little off, maybe he's a little distracted,
and I want to see how things play out like that.
I what do you guys think? Do you think Coach
Prime will be a fully attentive to his team this year?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I have I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I think it's fascinating. What do you guys think? No idea,
no idea.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I mean, you know, should do her. We can get
all the get into all the reasons why he slipped
to the fifth round. But I mean, as far as
I know Dion is he's recruiting great players to Colorado
and he's got great staff members.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
So what they topped out at nine to four last year?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
They who's the great staff members that he is?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well he's got was it Warren stuff?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He does have Warren stap Again, I don't know if
Warren step is a great step. I don't know if
he's a bad one or a good but whatever. I
just know he's a huge name. But he's always been
Patris good.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
When I see NFL guys had Marshall.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Faulton assistant coach running backs.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, so yeah, they got NFL stars And usually I
think those guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They do, but and again a lot of this is
I don't know. I don't know their level of grind.
College coaching is a grinder's job. Coaching football is a
grinder's job.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
And here's another dimension to it.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that Colorado winds up having a
terrific first couple of months of the season and the
Cleveland Browns do not. Now, last year, it wasn't to
this extent, but it was, oh, would the Cowboys hire
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Dion Sanders as their head coach? Well, now you know
they hire Schotteneimer out of the blue, and that wasn't
exactly a marquee higher. But I just wonder, knowing sports
media and especially social media as I do, if the
Browns have a rough couple of months and Colorado has
a great couple of months. I just wonder, That's all
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I'm saying, because I know social media and I know you.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Know what's interesting about that is most franchises, Oh we
go no way, but the Browns yep, and the Cowboys
those are the two. But I just don't think he's
healthy enough to do it anyways. Yeah, yeah, okay. My
most intriguing team is Alabama. Is Alabama. I mean, it's
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a job that you have to take, but you really shouldn't.
Is replacing a legend, you know, is replacing a legends
and Nick Saban is an absolute legend, absolute legend.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
So well, I want to start there.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Though when you say it's a job you absolutely have
to take the line of thinking is you don't want
to be the guy that follows the guy you want
to be right right, But again as a coach, in
your opinion, from your perspective, more as a coach than
as a host.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I just like, are you really going to turn down Alabama? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So Bill self, and I think Bill self, with his health,
who knows this maybe his last year? We have two
more years. It looks like Jock Vaughn is the heir
apparent to get it right. Played there coach in the
played in the NBA, coach in the NBA. That that
seems to fit. Okay, but you know, if Kansas comes open,
you're trying to place Bill Selton, the most successful coach
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over the last twenty years in college basketball, the most successful,
So do you want to replace him?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Woo guy won how many straight Big twelve titles like
fifteen or something, thirteen or something? Crazy, consecutive Big twelve titles? Incredible? Right,
won two national champions multiple final fours, the whole thing.
So somebody calls me is like, do you want to replay?
Do you want to follow Bill self?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Do you want to be head coach of Kansas? Yes,
well you can't do one without the other. Okay, calein
de boor r he's at Washington. They're winning, but you
can't win consistently at Washington. That's generally the thought. Where's
that Alabama? You know, unbelievable job and they've been able
to be unbelievably successful and that name is synonymous with winning.
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Granted most of it tied to Saban. What's the thinking?
I mean, I think there's some ego involved. I also
think there's the you don't get to pick timing of
getting that job. You got to take it when you
get the opportunity. It's so differ diferent than me taking
this job like it was. It was it perfect timing
for my family. No, you know it wasn't. But my
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calculation was, how often am I get to get an
opportunity before I'm fifty years old to take a shot
of being a division head coach and at a place
that needs to be built? Right, Actually part of the calculation.
So my point is that Kleen de Boor, it's year two,
most people have very little patience. I thought he did
a heck of a job last year. It for year
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ones are hard. I frankly thought they should have been
the College Tall Playoff. Obviously the one loss went to
Oklahoma late in the year probably undid them.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
And then they lost their bowl game. They lost their
bowl game to Mission.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
There was the first time they won under ten games,
maybe even under eleven games in a long time, a
long time. I think it, Yeah, saved it so first year.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So and like, let's also be honest, Okay, the days
of teams going underfeat are close to over with the
SEC right, Like it's just it doesn't feel like that
will be something that happens. So this is what I've
said this on Oklahoma radio stations, Like a good year
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for Oklahoma with that schedule might be eight wins. And
yet for Oklahoma, there's never a good year that has
eight wins, So you have to adjust to that, you
have to adjust to not having save it. I think
Alabama is my program that I'm most intrigued by this year.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Well, they have probably the best offensive alignment in all
of college football, Caden Proctor protecting their h what program
man's Simpson drawing a blank on his first.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Name, Bart?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, I was thinking Bart Simpson. But yeah, so they
have They certainly had the guys.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
But the sec what you're saming grindach.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Well, I opened up with Texas, but I also want
to run back real quick though. I am interested in
seeing how Michigan does under Sharon Moore and Bryce Underwood
taking over. He was just named QB one a few
days ago, so they're an interesting thing. Everyone's talking about
Penn State and Ohio State. Michigan though, lurking in the
what I think fourteenth fourteenth? Yeah, and they have Bryce
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Underwood who came in as a highly tied of prospect,
so it should be interesting.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Big ten sec are going to be really interesting and
U you know, yeah, Isaac, what do you got there?
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, first of all, I'd like to publicly.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Cla something UCLA actually not this song USC.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
I would at this time, first of all, like to
publicly thank Fox Sports Radios Doug Gottlieb for taking my
selection of Alabama, which was I was totally gonna go with.
But that being said, I'm going to perhaps not surprisingly
go with North Carolina because as much publicity as there
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has kind of been on a different wavelength, it seems
like no one really knows what to expect from them
this year. Whether they're going to be all of a
sudden world beaters from the very start, or an elite
team from the very start because of you know, Belichick
and his program coming in, or whether it be something
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like a case of on the job retirement the way
that it goes for them during the regular season. So personally,
I really don't know what we're going to get from
North Carolina in twenty twenty five. I suppose it could
be some sort of disaster, or it could be really really,
really good right out of the box. I would personally
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think it would be much closer to trending better than worse.
But I think we're gonna find out right away obviously
on Monday against TCU, which I think is gonna be
a great spectacle. But it just I don't think there's
a ton of height for the actual football yet. I
think it's gonna hit probably on Monday, but I don't know.
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I I just I think it's a huge unknown about
which direction this this thing's gonna go this year.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Eight and four, all right, now, I'll get the job done.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
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Speaker 1 (25:37):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, and
we want to make this a weekly. He's really really busy,
but he's really really good. He's Chris Filica, Fox Sports
Betting analyst, co host of The Bear Bets podcast, and
he joins us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Felik's challenges in being a gambling man
(25:58):
not just early season, but also early season when these
are all relatively new teams. Right like Oklahoma State plays
tomorrow night. I think they have like sixty five new guys,
right North Carolina seventy five new guys. What's the challenge
like in trying to wager when forget about you don't
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know what this team is, what these teams are like,
they don't know what their teams are like.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, it's a massive challenge. And one of the things
that I'd like to do, which is usually something I
would never normally say in past years, is I like
to wait as long as possible in my season prep.
That way, I make sure I'm getting all of the
transfers and such in there, and I'm not forming an
opinion on a team that might not necessarily be the
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team that ultimately takes the field. This was something that
we were talking about on Barbetts before. Though. At the
same time, while it is challenging and there's a lot
of guesswork, it's also challenging and a lot of guests
work for the odds makers, like you look at you
look at a game like Georgia Tech Colorado, where Georgia
Tech is a four point favorite over Colorado, who we
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don't know how they're gonna look this year. I mean,
obviously Dion's health was a big story in the offseason
and thank god he's he's okay and got the got
the cancer taken care of. But on the field, you
lose Sadur, you lose Shalloh, you lose Travis Hunter, Like
we don't know what they have, Like maybe they're okay.
Georgia Tech's a team that we think is gonna be
(27:31):
really good, but that line is stuck right around four.
So so it's like it looks like on paper and
what we saw last year with aains King and everyone
back from Georgia Tech, should that you should be better.
But at the same time, with Salter coming in and
some of the recruiting that Colorado has done, it would
it would have surprised me if they won that game. No,
not at all. So it really it really is a guest.
(27:52):
You just kind of have to trust your numbers, especially
in the early season, and think that you might have
be able to find it edwered some of these games.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, let's get to some of these games. I think
there's some interesting ones. Even tomorrow night, I'll give you
probably the biggest name matchup Nebraska. People have big expectations
for the Huskers in the Big Ten. They travel to
Cincinnati and take on the Bearcats. I'm looking it Nebraska
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being a road favorite six and a half point favorite
and the total being fifty one and a half. What
are your thoughts on the Huskers on the road against
the Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, arrowhead there, it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Be ahead my bet, yep, yep, yeah, all good doors.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I had to do a double take on that. I
not as well when I was going through my my prep.
You would imagine it's going to be massive Nebraska crowd.
But at the same time, I like to again I
have a little bit of a cotrarian look at the
numbers when they come out. Like everyone is very high
on Nebraska this year. They think they could be a
potential sleeper team in the Big Ten, maybe make a
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playoff run. Since he's kind of a middling, kind of
maybe lower third. The Big twelve team last year found
imaginable ways to lose games with special teams breakdowns and
such and there. I think there were one in four
and one score games and really blew a lot of
games that they had chances to win. And I think
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Scott Saderfield feels pretty good about his team this year
in terms of where they are personal personnel wise. I
think he thinks this is the best team he's had
since he's been there. Would that surprise me at all
if it is. But Nebraska is so great and Cincinnati
is so down. Why hasn't this number blasted through seven?
And the books have basically said, Okay, enough, no more
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Nebraska money. Kind of feels like they're they're pretty welcome
to taking hold of the Nebraska money that they can.
And I feel good about a position going into this
game with Cincinnati. It was funny I did a show,
uh the other day, and while I was in the
waiting room on the show and that rule where was
the guest right in front of me, and Matt was
really talking about how some of the perception of his
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team and there they are still a very very young team.
So I think I think he liked his team. And obviously,
with rola quarterback, they probably have the best player on
the field. But at the same time, this is a
Nebraska program, which in itself the when when they've been
a favorite, they've found ways to lose games with turnovers.
(30:25):
In their record in close games over the last however,
many years, hasn't been great. So I feel pretty good.
You can find some sevens out there with the Bearcats
and and I did grat.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Seven with with with you see Chris Flika joining us
Bearbets podcast is Doug Gottlieb show Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
Boise State got to the College Foball playoff last year.
Obviously you lose aston genty. Now they start the year
going going down to Tampa and they take on South Florida. Okay,
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played at Raymond James Stadium in the heat, probably a
little rain, but that's hot for some kids from Boise.
What are your thoughts on this one where Boise's a
five and a half point favorite with a total being
sixty two and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, South Florida has been a team that has given
some team. I remember a couple of years ago they
gave Alabama a ton of trouble there, and I know,
I know their coaching staff really gets amped up for
big game opponents. But at the same time. I think
you just have to trust Boise State, the program that
they've built at ash and genty. Even without a bunch
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of impact players on the defense, they're no longer there.
I just type of culture that that program has. Now
it's this number is down to five and a half.
I think Boise goes on the road wins. It wasn't
necessarily a great week from the Mountain West last week
in weeks Azero with a couple of their teams really
not looking great despite a couple escaping with the win.
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But I will trust Boise to go down to Florida.
This is a team that a program rather than now
He's not the same thing. They've gone to Florida State
in one before. In the state of Florida. I think
they'll be okay in Tampa. I think they're better than
u USF. I like I would lay the points there
with Boise, Bay.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The points with Boise to cover it on the road. Okay,
cup More, Auburn take it on Baylor. That one's on
Fox on Friday. Auburn take it on Baylor. Auburn's a
two and a half point favorite on the road in Waco.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
This is one of the biggest like stay away games
of the week for me, at least in terms of
a pregame bet. I am high on Auburn this year.
The only I have bet Auburn over seven and a
half wins on the year, and I know that the
price on that has gone up dramatically. This was not
a game that I circled in as a win oral off.
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I figured this was kind of a toss up game
that if they wanted was an added bonus, and if
they lost, I still felt they could go over the total.
I think what Auburn has done bringing in Singleton and
world couldn't have whiffed this badly on Jackson Arnold as
a quarterback, with how highly thought of he was coming
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to OU and now he's down an offense at AUBURNE Oh,
they got some fucking things going on in terms of
play calling. And at the same time, at the end
of last year, Baylor was probably the best team to
pick twelve. I know Arizona State was great, but the
White Baylor who played the second half of the year
once they finally settled in at the quarterbacks. This issue
with Sawyer Robertson. They were a tough out ten that
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carryover to this year is Dave r and his team
boys to take the next step. I know this. I
know that there were a lot of people out in
Vegas who hit that three hard and drove down to
two and a half. And I know there was a
limit that had the south point on Baylor plus two
and a half as well, which seems like a lot
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of the sharps, a lot of the professionals, at least
out in Las Vegas do like Baylor in this game
and and laid their money. With the home dog.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Georgia Tech taking on in Colorado another game tomorrow night.
Colton Slater gets the start for CU, but I mean,
just such a different Colorado team without their two stars.
They're a four and a half point dog at home
to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
It seems to me like this is a game that
would have had a bit higher of a point spread,
even with the game being in Boulder at SeeU with
so many unknowns about the Buffaloes, I kind of like,
see you in this game a little bit. There is
a ton of hype surrounding Georgia Tech, and rightfully so.
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They beat Miami last year, They're very easily could have
beaten Georgia and Haines King played the second half of
the season. We were unable to lift his arm because
of a shoulder issue. There are really well coached team.
But at the same that the private route Dion has
done very well in the role of an underdog. And
it was last year when they kind of were expected
(34:58):
to win that they kind of laid some eggs and
gave up a bunch of points and turned the ball
over a bunch. But here as a home dog, I
kind of like Colorado here. Plus the ball wouldn't shock
me at all if they if they won this game
out right.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay, let's get to the big day on Saturday. Let's
start with the Ohio State and Texas played in the
Shoe again. Really fascinating because we don't have a great
book on arch Manning. But you know, there's there's a
lot of questions for each team. Ohio State a new quarterback.
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Ohio State's a one and a half point favorite. That's
you know at home, essentially they're a dog. Forty seven
and a half is the total.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Well, I bet under fifty and a half a couple
of money when this first came out, and the number
obviously is Crip got driven down. Hopefully people picked it
up in the Fox Sports column that I had a
rate and you mentioned the uncertainty about Ohio State. I
almost wonder if that plays to their advantage. But with
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Texas not really knowing what type of defense Matt Ptrusher
is going to run, not really knowing what type of offense,
offensive play caller Brian Hartline will be. Obviously he's got
Ryan Day in his year as well, who's called plays forever,
so that's a massive help. And you have a new
quarterback and Julian saying who is completely different from Will Howard,
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Like he is not a runner, he's a better thrower
and he can spin it, and he's got a great
group of wide receivers. But I wonder if that's going
to keep Kick Kolkowski in that Texas defense off guard
a little bit. I don't know. Archie is one of
the unfortunately one of these like polarizing guys. I think
while we all think he the potential is there for
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him to be good, we really don't know. Like we're
just putting him on this pedestal based on playing some
mop up time last year and playing a couple of games.
When when yours was heard against inferior type opponents. So
I think you're gonna see a lot of quarterback run.
I don't think you're gonna see Tark really expect him
to go out and win the game. I think they're
(37:08):
gonna rely on his ability to run, rely on the backs,
play complimentary football, uh with their defense, help their defense out,
and try and escape Columbus with the win. But my
gut says, by Saturday morning, I am gonna I'm gonna
be liking Ohio State in this game, especially if this
number drifts to pick them and it's essentially UH pick
(37:29):
up on a pick up on a home field.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, Saturday night, Who you're gonna like? LSU A Clemson?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I I kind of I am on my own this
year with Clemson. I'm not on an island. While I
think they potentially can be a really good team, I'm
not sure that they are like number one, number two
type team in the country. Like a lot of people
are power raading and expecting them to be LSU. I
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think a lot of their troubled. A lot of the
the negativity surrounding the thought that they can go to
Clemson and win just deals with Brian Kelly and the
fact that they lost those openers the last couple of years,
whether it's Benning in Florida State or USC and that
they spent that they didn't cover numbers at Notre Dame
in the last three years that he was in South Bend.
But like personal wise, ELI few doesn't take a backseat
(38:19):
to anybody. Arguably they in Miami. I did the most
in the transfer portal this year. So I think there's
a really good chance LS you can go to Clemson
and win. And I think the way maybe to potentially
play this is look at the long term, the big
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picture in this one. Whoever loses, maybe take a look
at their national title odds, take a look at their
price to make the college football playoff, because one loss
doesn't eliminate you. And especially if you're in Clemson. If
you're Clemson in the in the ACC, in a spot
where you still are likely to get to the a
SEC championship game, is a really good CHAMS you can
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still make the playoff. If you're LSU, you've got a
bunch of games in the SEC where you can pick
up some some quality wins as well. Now the margin
bear obviously is less, but I would look at a
buying opportunity on the loser of this game with a
big macro picture there.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Awesome stuff. Chris, you're the best. The Bare Bets podcast
is a can't miss download. Of course you'll see him
on Big Noon Kickoff as well. He's in londonly Chris FeliCa,
good luck this year.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
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(00:26):
good to see you. Welcome in. We got a great
show for you. My man Chris philaka part of that
Bear Bets podcast. Of course, you see him on Big
Noon Kickoff. He'll join us twenty five after the hour,
give you some picks for the upcoming it's like five
day weekend of college football. Plus we'll talk some Tom
(00:48):
Brady and his role as a broadcaster this year as
he's kind of flexing his muscles, and his partial ownership
of the Las Vegas Raiders. So we got at a
bunch of things to get to, but let's start with this.
Living in Green Bay, Wisconsin, it has been quite the
day quite today. That's because John Coon tweeted out Micah
(01:16):
Freaking Parsons in that exact way that's how he actually
tweeted out, and everybody has lost their mind. There's even
tracking of a jet that left Milwaukee and went to
Dallas with no real idea on why it went to
Dallas or Micah Parsons is involved. Right, The jet tracking
(01:36):
thing is usually a college move. But again, when I
say college move, that's like what college fans do when
they're trying to hire a college football coach. Right, we're
a college fan. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's what happens when we're looking at a
college coach. We tracked the Jets, and I just continue.
I understand that there is some chum in the water, right,
(02:02):
there is some reason to believe that the Sharks are
circling and that maybe Jerry Jones would wave the white flag.
And you get to a point where you're like, well,
the Cowboys aren't going to be good anyway, why not
trade him away and then you can start over. But
if you have maybe the best defensive player in football
(02:24):
or one of the and you were close to an
agreement at one point in time, why isn't this thing done?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why isn't this thing done? And the logical reason is
just about money, right, But I think there's some egos involved,
especially some bruised ones. When you have an agent who
wasn't feels like he wasn't consulted or brought in on
the original contract negotiations. There are clearly other reasons. I'm
not sure how good the reasons are, but there are
(02:54):
definitely other reasons. And yeah, the more I look at it,
the more where I'm like, h are we getting to
the point of no return where you can't even play
him in Week one? Here's Cowboys head if he does resign,
doesn't have to have to resigning technically he's under contract
with the Cowboys. Here's Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer talking
(03:15):
about Micah Parsons and whether or not he'd be ready
to even play when they play the Eagles week one
of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
At the end of the day, as soon as he
get out there, that's great, But again, there'll be a
ramp up plan for him and when he lines up
out there to play. Do I think he would play
seventy five plays in every play? Probably not, you know,
I don't think that that's real, But I do think
that he can be very disruptive, like we all know.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He is disruptive, and right now he's disruptive in general,
but he can be disruptive as a football player. This
is the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Unfortunately,
or maybe fortunately for your football players. This is this
is like kind of standard operating procedure, is it?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Is? It?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not like none of this is surprising to anybody who's
followed the NFL. The only thing surprising is the deal's
not done yet. And why isn't the deal done yet?
I don't I don't know. Nobody seems to know. You know,
only that they're not talking. And when you get to
the point if you're not talking and you're this late
(04:19):
in the game, ooh, that doesn't look good. But if
he signs anywhere in this and you know, shows up
anywhere in this week, he'd make no mistake about it.
He's gonna play well, he play a lot. Maybe not
that that's the destructive nature to it. That's the crazy
(04:40):
part about this is I understand, I understand that we
operate under this premise that, hey, baseball and basketball have
completely guaranteed contracts, football should as well, and so not
having guaranteed contracts somehow changes who we think has upper
(05:01):
hand and negotiations. But I want you to ask yourself this,
in all honesty, in anyone else's real world, if you
have a year left, you're under contract for a year
and a gigantic rivalry game is the first game of
the season, and it's not like like, let's not act
(05:23):
like the Cowboys don't want to sign Marcat Parsons. We
can go back and forth all you want over how
much they want to pay him, how long they should
pay him, for the pace by which has been done.
You may be again, I don't know where your perception
comes from. You may be somebody who hates Jerry Jones
and says Jerry Jones screwed this up, and he may
(05:43):
have You're allowed to have all these opinions. But I
do think it's interesting that this is probably the only
place in business sports life where a guy is under contract.
They play a game in was it two weeks for Monday,
(06:05):
and the world's not saying like, hey, you're you know
you're supposed to be out there because you're under contract.
All these negotiations are not for this year. Granted, if
he signs an extension, he gets the money up front.
And then it goes the salary becomes live the next year. Okay,
I understand that it's a little complicated, but the reality
is he has a contract for this season. It pays
(06:27):
him into eight figures, and we're all okay with Like,
you know, he may to make a point, he may
miss miss a game, and it's a huge game against
the defending Super Bowl champions, who happened to be one
of your, if not your biggest rival right now, Like
it's crazy that this is the way that football players
(06:47):
are allowed to do business. And by just showing up
even though he hasn't done anything, and honestly, he's been
like disruptive at a football game, laying on the trade table.
He not get find we're all okay with this. It's again,
if it was anything outside of the NFL, people be
(07:08):
like this makes no sense. I'm not sure it makes
much more sense inside the NFL, but people give you
a pass. That's what they do. Like this is sort
of standard operating procedure, believe or not, which makes it
feel even worse, like that this is how football players
react and how they how they do things. Yeah, they do,
(07:30):
this is what they do. I don't know, so imagine yourself,
you're Brian Schottenheimer. You get a job where people didn't
expect you to get. Did anybody expect them to get
for him to get this job, No, no chance, nobody
expecting them to get this job. And hey, good news
(07:53):
is you get to be the head coach of the Cowboys.
Bad news is, even if you have Micah Parsons, you
won't have the real Micah Parsons week one because he's
chosen to hold out this long and probably not in
shape when he could easily be working out. And I'm
sure he's working out at the facility, but yeah, I
don't know. Man. It's just such a murky, bad look
(08:16):
to me when you're not ready to go, and it's
your job to be ready to go.
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a good amount to get to here, we have Dania.
Jeremiah's gonna join us. We'll get his thoughts on the
Browns quarterback situation. We do have the press. We got
a lot of stuff. I think you'll like it. But
one of my favorite things we do all week is
right now, this is the middle of the week. It's
(09:10):
a Wednesday. And by the way, always I know when
it's Wednesday out. Wednesday's my trash day. I've become that guy.
I've become that guy where getting through a workout. My
guys ran a hill a hill today Beard's Creek Hill
where getting through and I only did it a couple
of times, but you're just like, okay, just make sure
(09:30):
I can get through and not get hurt. I've got
to that point. I've also gotten to I set my
I know what day of the week it is based
on when I take the trash out. I become that
guy as well. Gorby Yep, that's that's where I am.
I'm just going. But it is a Wednesday, that's the
middle of the week, it's one o'clock on the West.
That's relatively middle of the day, and with our podcast
(09:53):
that follows the show, it's the middle of the show.
That's why we call this part of the show the midway.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It's not Dad, it's time for stop the middle the midway.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right there, JAYSETU, what's the midway time?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here. I've got
Sam Iowa Sama has never been more outside here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'll take it from here to IOA. Sam has never
been more excited about a midway topic. He's like he
was jumping through the phone to agree with this group
text message today. I want to know from each of
you what is the one storyline? Just one, because I
want to I want to drill down on the one.
No need to be like, yeah, there's like ten or fifteen.
(10:39):
I'm looking forward. It's just one, the one that you
were looking forward to the most, the college football storyline
this season that you are most looking forward to see
him play out. I will give Iowa Sam the four
only because he was so anxious to talk about about this.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Sam, I mean, it's got to be the AP's preseason
number one team.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It's got to be Texas. Can they do it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think it's the first time that Texas has ever
been number one entering the season in the AP. I
could be wrong, but I swear I heard that somewhere,
and if I'm wrong, we'll take it out of the podcast.
To borrow an old joke from Jonas Knox, like they
listen this, they always they have the money, they have
the boosters, they have the you know, millions of dollars
and invested into their their roster. They got college football
(11:27):
royalty in arch Manning. And you know, he is a
little experienced. He got to play a little bit last year.
But people have wondered why did he sit so long
and why why is it finally now he's the starter
when someone you know wasn't injured in front of him?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Why is he the starter now?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
But if if all goes to plan, Texas should be
raising that College Football Playoff National Championship trophy.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
If the rankings are what they are now at the
end of the season.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Could we drive down on that one because I think
the obviously the subcategory there, if not the main category,
is Arch Manning as.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
A college football casual.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is how I see it. If college sports or
sports in general, is the ultimate meritocracy, why are we
just seeing him starting in a college football game. And
if we're just now seeing him starting a college football game,
why is he like the consensus number one draft pick?
(12:28):
If he comes out like that, to me, that that's
a lot of hype for someone who has taken so
long to actually get on a college football field as
a starter.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway, Can I take this one? Oh yeah, okay, do
you remember when? And again I'm not a big Justin
Fields guy, okay, but do you remember when Justin Fields
was at Georgia?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Vaguely?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay, Sam, you remember Justin Fields at Georgia?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
I don't. I don't. I only remember I don't either.
I don't really did he play for Georgia at all?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He was the backup?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Okay? Alright?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Like Burrow?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, well Burrow, Burrow up Burrows a backup? Who was
the starter when he was at Ohio State?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Uh it was? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Anybody, Ilo, I mean, I want you to think back
for a second. Okay, So what happened with Joe Burrow
was J T. Barrett was there?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh yeah, right? And you're like J T.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Barrett now j T Barrett in college. Joe Burrows last
year had thirty five touchdowns, nine interceptions, great college quarterback,
and he was It's a lot like the presidency. It's
really hard to beat out an incumbent. It just is,
you know. And so what happens is like you sit
there and you're like, well, he's replaced seeing a guy
(14:00):
who wasn't a good pro quarterback. Okay, but that has
nothing to do with whether or not they're a good
college quarterback. Literally zero, literally zero. So again, go back,
same period of time, Go back and use Georgia as
your guide, because Georgia's quarterback at the time is a
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guy who I don't think he's stuck on a college
roster's Jake From. Okay, Jake From also thirty touchdowns, six interceptions,
and Jake From is a you know, he's the consummate
college quarterback you know there four years could basically be
governor just not a pro. So Justin Field's transferred and played,
(14:44):
Joe Burrow transferred and played. In this case, arch Manning
didn't transfer. He sat waited his turn behind a guy
who's a really good, highly recruited college quarterback, and now
he'll get his time. But the biggest thing is it's
hard to beat out and incumbent. And there's been plenty
of these cases where the star quarterback was waiting in
the wings. You're like, if he's so good, why is
(15:06):
he sitting It's the other guy looks better in practice.
The other guy does, knows the system, seeing everything, and
so you're sitting there as a coach going like, I
could play the young guy who's got more talent, but
I probably lose a game or two just because he
doesn't know what he's doing. Whereas this other guy, this
Jake prom guy, or this JT. Perritt guy, they do
(15:27):
everything I asked him to do and nothing more, nothing less,
And that's how it works. So anyway, I hope that
answered your question. Jase too. That's my opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That makes sense. I wanted to talk about. Coach Prime
is my most intriguing story yeap. When the new surface
recently that he had been dealing with cancer. I remember
in the speculation leading up to that news that he
was definitely going to take advantage of this situation just
(15:56):
step down to do something else. The timing with his
moving on to the NFL and all that, it just
made sense because all of us that have grown up
with a youth sports dad, coach, as soon as the
sun is out of the picture, you lose the attention
of the dad. I thought Coach Prime was kind of
(16:16):
in that ilk. So I'm gonna see how it goes
for him this season, how the team does. If the
report's out of Colorado, or that his focus on the
detail is a little off, maybe he's a little distracted,
and I want to see how things play out like that.
I what do you guys think? Do you think Coach
Prime will be a fully attentive to his team this year?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I have I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I think it's fascinating. What do you guys think? No idea,
no idea.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I mean, you know, should do her. We can get
all the get into all the reasons why he slipped
to the fifth round. But I mean, as far as
I know Dion is he's recruiting great players to Colorado
and he's got great staff members.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
So what they topped out at nine to four last year?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
They who's the great staff members that he is?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well he's got was it Warren stuff?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He does have Warren stap Again, I don't know if
Warren step is a great step. I don't know if
he's a bad one or a good but whatever. I
just know he's a huge name. But he's always been
Patris good.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
When I see NFL guys had Marshall.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Faulton assistant coach running backs.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, so yeah, they got NFL stars And usually I
think those guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They do, but and again a lot of this is
I don't know. I don't know their level of grind.
College coaching is a grinder's job. Coaching football is a
grinder's job.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
And here's another dimension to it.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that Colorado winds up having a
terrific first couple of months of the season and the
Cleveland Browns do not. Now, last year, it wasn't to
this extent, but it was, oh, would the Cowboys hire
(18:09):
Dion Sanders as their head coach? Well, now you know
they hire Schotteneimer out of the blue, and that wasn't
exactly a marquee higher. But I just wonder, knowing sports
media and especially social media as I do, if the
Browns have a rough couple of months and Colorado has
a great couple of months. I just wonder, That's all
(18:30):
I'm saying, because I know social media and I know you.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Know what's interesting about that is most franchises, Oh we
go no way, but the Browns yep, and the Cowboys
those are the two. But I just don't think he's
healthy enough to do it anyways. Yeah, yeah, okay. My
most intriguing team is Alabama. Is Alabama. I mean, it's
(18:58):
a job that you have to take, but you really shouldn't.
Is replacing a legend, you know, is replacing a legends
and Nick Saban is an absolute legend, absolute legend.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
So well, I want to start there.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Though when you say it's a job you absolutely have
to take the line of thinking is you don't want
to be the guy that follows the guy you want
to be right right, But again as a coach, in
your opinion, from your perspective, more as a coach than
as a host.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I just like, are you really going to turn down Alabama? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So Bill self, and I think Bill self, with his health,
who knows this maybe his last year? We have two
more years. It looks like Jock Vaughn is the heir
apparent to get it right. Played there coach in the
played in the NBA, coach in the NBA. That that
seems to fit. Okay, but you know, if Kansas comes open,
you're trying to place Bill Selton, the most successful coach
(20:02):
over the last twenty years in college basketball, the most successful,
So do you want to replace him?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Woo guy won how many straight Big twelve titles like
fifteen or something, thirteen or something? Crazy, consecutive Big twelve titles? Incredible? Right,
won two national champions multiple final fours, the whole thing.
So somebody calls me is like, do you want to replay?
Do you want to follow Bill self?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Do you want to be head coach of Kansas? Yes,
well you can't do one without the other. Okay, calein
de boor r he's at Washington. They're winning, but you
can't win consistently at Washington. That's generally the thought. Where's
that Alabama? You know, unbelievable job and they've been able
to be unbelievably successful and that name is synonymous with winning.
(20:47):
Granted most of it tied to Saban. What's the thinking?
I mean, I think there's some ego involved. I also
think there's the you don't get to pick timing of
getting that job. You got to take it when you
get the opportunity. It's so differ diferent than me taking
this job like it was. It was it perfect timing
for my family. No, you know it wasn't. But my
(21:09):
calculation was, how often am I get to get an
opportunity before I'm fifty years old to take a shot
of being a division head coach and at a place
that needs to be built? Right, Actually part of the calculation.
So my point is that Kleen de Boor, it's year two,
most people have very little patience. I thought he did
a heck of a job last year. It for year
(21:30):
ones are hard. I frankly thought they should have been
the College Tall Playoff. Obviously the one loss went to
Oklahoma late in the year probably undid them.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
And then they lost their bowl game. They lost their
bowl game to Mission.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
There was the first time they won under ten games,
maybe even under eleven games in a long time, a
long time. I think it, Yeah, saved it so first year.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So and like, let's also be honest, Okay, the days
of teams going underfeat are close to over with the
SEC right, Like it's just it doesn't feel like that
will be something that happens. So this is what I've
said this on Oklahoma radio stations, Like a good year
(22:13):
for Oklahoma with that schedule might be eight wins. And
yet for Oklahoma, there's never a good year that has
eight wins, So you have to adjust to that, you
have to adjust to not having save it. I think
Alabama is my program that I'm most intrigued by this year.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Well, they have probably the best offensive alignment in all
of college football, Caden Proctor protecting their h what program
man's Simpson drawing a blank on his first.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Name, Bart?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, I was thinking Bart Simpson. But yeah, so they
have They certainly had the guys.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
But the sec what you're saming grindach.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Well, I opened up with Texas, but I also want
to run back real quick though. I am interested in
seeing how Michigan does under Sharon Moore and Bryce Underwood
taking over. He was just named QB one a few
days ago, so they're an interesting thing. Everyone's talking about
Penn State and Ohio State. Michigan though, lurking in the
what I think fourteenth fourteenth? Yeah, and they have Bryce
(23:13):
Underwood who came in as a highly tied of prospect,
so it should be interesting.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Big ten sec are going to be really interesting and
U you know, yeah, Isaac, what do you got there?
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, first of all, I'd like to publicly.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Cla something UCLA actually not this song USC.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
I would at this time, first of all, like to
publicly thank Fox Sports Radios Doug Gottlieb for taking my
selection of Alabama, which was I was totally gonna go with.
But that being said, I'm going to perhaps not surprisingly
go with North Carolina because as much publicity as there
(23:54):
has kind of been on a different wavelength, it seems
like no one really knows what to expect from them
this year. Whether they're going to be all of a
sudden world beaters from the very start, or an elite
team from the very start because of you know, Belichick
and his program coming in, or whether it be something
(24:15):
like a case of on the job retirement the way
that it goes for them during the regular season. So personally,
I really don't know what we're going to get from
North Carolina in twenty twenty five. I suppose it could
be some sort of disaster, or it could be really really,
really good right out of the box. I would personally
(24:37):
think it would be much closer to trending better than worse.
But I think we're gonna find out right away obviously
on Monday against TCU, which I think is gonna be
a great spectacle. But it just I don't think there's
a ton of height for the actual football yet. I
think it's gonna hit probably on Monday, but I don't know.
(24:59):
I I just I think it's a huge unknown about
which direction this this thing's gonna go this year.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Eight and four, all right, now, I'll get the job done.
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Speaker 1 (25:37):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, and
we want to make this a weekly. He's really really busy,
but he's really really good. He's Chris Filica, Fox Sports
Betting analyst, co host of The Bear Bets podcast, and
he joins us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Felik's challenges in being a gambling man
(25:58):
not just early season, but also early season when these
are all relatively new teams. Right like Oklahoma State plays
tomorrow night. I think they have like sixty five new guys,
right North Carolina seventy five new guys. What's the challenge
like in trying to wager when forget about you don't
(26:22):
know what this team is, what these teams are like,
they don't know what their teams are like.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, it's a massive challenge. And one of the things
that I'd like to do, which is usually something I
would never normally say in past years, is I like
to wait as long as possible in my season prep.
That way, I make sure I'm getting all of the
transfers and such in there, and I'm not forming an
opinion on a team that might not necessarily be the
(26:48):
team that ultimately takes the field. This was something that
we were talking about on Barbetts before. Though. At the
same time, while it is challenging and there's a lot
of guesswork, it's also challenging and a lot of guests
work for the odds makers, like you look at you
look at a game like Georgia Tech Colorado, where Georgia
Tech is a four point favorite over Colorado, who we
(27:10):
don't know how they're gonna look this year. I mean,
obviously Dion's health was a big story in the offseason
and thank god he's he's okay and got the got
the cancer taken care of. But on the field, you
lose Sadur, you lose Shalloh, you lose Travis Hunter, Like
we don't know what they have, Like maybe they're okay.
Georgia Tech's a team that we think is gonna be
(27:31):
really good, but that line is stuck right around four.
So so it's like it looks like on paper and
what we saw last year with aains King and everyone
back from Georgia Tech, should that you should be better.
But at the same time, with Salter coming in and
some of the recruiting that Colorado has done, it would
it would have surprised me if they won that game. No,
not at all. So it really it really is a guest.
(27:52):
You just kind of have to trust your numbers, especially
in the early season, and think that you might have
be able to find it edwered some of these games.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, let's get to some of these games. I think
there's some interesting ones. Even tomorrow night, I'll give you
probably the biggest name matchup Nebraska. People have big expectations
for the Huskers in the Big Ten. They travel to
Cincinnati and take on the Bearcats. I'm looking it Nebraska
(28:21):
being a road favorite six and a half point favorite
and the total being fifty one and a half. What
are your thoughts on the Huskers on the road against
the Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, arrowhead there, it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Be ahead my bet, yep, yep, yeah, all good doors.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I had to do a double take on that. I
not as well when I was going through my my prep.
You would imagine it's going to be massive Nebraska crowd.
But at the same time, I like to again I
have a little bit of a cotrarian look at the
numbers when they come out. Like everyone is very high
on Nebraska this year. They think they could be a
potential sleeper team in the Big Ten, maybe make a
(28:58):
playoff run. Since he's kind of a middling, kind of
maybe lower third. The Big twelve team last year found
imaginable ways to lose games with special teams breakdowns and
such and there. I think there were one in four
and one score games and really blew a lot of
games that they had chances to win. And I think
(29:19):
Scott Saderfield feels pretty good about his team this year
in terms of where they are personal personnel wise. I
think he thinks this is the best team he's had
since he's been there. Would that surprise me at all
if it is. But Nebraska is so great and Cincinnati
is so down. Why hasn't this number blasted through seven?
And the books have basically said, Okay, enough, no more
(29:41):
Nebraska money. Kind of feels like they're they're pretty welcome
to taking hold of the Nebraska money that they can.
And I feel good about a position going into this
game with Cincinnati. It was funny I did a show,
uh the other day, and while I was in the
waiting room on the show and that rule where was
the guest right in front of me, and Matt was
really talking about how some of the perception of his
(30:03):
team and there they are still a very very young team.
So I think I think he liked his team. And obviously,
with rola quarterback, they probably have the best player on
the field. But at the same time, this is a
Nebraska program, which in itself the when when they've been
a favorite, they've found ways to lose games with turnovers.
(30:25):
In their record in close games over the last however,
many years, hasn't been great. So I feel pretty good.
You can find some sevens out there with the Bearcats
and and I did grat.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Seven with with with you see Chris Flika joining us
Bearbets podcast is Doug Gottlieb show Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
Boise State got to the College Foball playoff last year.
Obviously you lose aston genty. Now they start the year
going going down to Tampa and they take on South Florida. Okay,
(31:00):
played at Raymond James Stadium in the heat, probably a
little rain, but that's hot for some kids from Boise.
What are your thoughts on this one where Boise's a
five and a half point favorite with a total being
sixty two and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, South Florida has been a team that has given
some team. I remember a couple of years ago they
gave Alabama a ton of trouble there, and I know,
I know their coaching staff really gets amped up for
big game opponents. But at the same time. I think
you just have to trust Boise State, the program that
they've built at ash and genty. Even without a bunch
(31:32):
of impact players on the defense, they're no longer there.
I just type of culture that that program has. Now
it's this number is down to five and a half.
I think Boise goes on the road wins. It wasn't
necessarily a great week from the Mountain West last week
in weeks Azero with a couple of their teams really
not looking great despite a couple escaping with the win.
(31:53):
But I will trust Boise to go down to Florida.
This is a team that a program rather than now
He's not the same thing. They've gone to Florida State
in one before. In the state of Florida. I think
they'll be okay in Tampa. I think they're better than
u USF. I like I would lay the points there
with Boise, Bay.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The points with Boise to cover it on the road. Okay,
cup More, Auburn take it on Baylor. That one's on
Fox on Friday. Auburn take it on Baylor. Auburn's a
two and a half point favorite on the road in Waco.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
This is one of the biggest like stay away games
of the week for me, at least in terms of
a pregame bet. I am high on Auburn this year.
The only I have bet Auburn over seven and a
half wins on the year, and I know that the
price on that has gone up dramatically. This was not
a game that I circled in as a win oral off.
(32:46):
I figured this was kind of a toss up game
that if they wanted was an added bonus, and if
they lost, I still felt they could go over the total.
I think what Auburn has done bringing in Singleton and
world couldn't have whiffed this badly on Jackson Arnold as
a quarterback, with how highly thought of he was coming
(33:07):
to OU and now he's down an offense at AUBURNE Oh,
they got some fucking things going on in terms of
play calling. And at the same time, at the end
of last year, Baylor was probably the best team to
pick twelve. I know Arizona State was great, but the
White Baylor who played the second half of the year
once they finally settled in at the quarterbacks. This issue
with Sawyer Robertson. They were a tough out ten that
(33:30):
carryover to this year is Dave r and his team
boys to take the next step. I know this. I
know that there were a lot of people out in
Vegas who hit that three hard and drove down to
two and a half. And I know there was a
limit that had the south point on Baylor plus two
and a half as well, which seems like a lot
(33:51):
of the sharps, a lot of the professionals, at least
out in Las Vegas do like Baylor in this game
and and laid their money. With the home dog.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Georgia Tech taking on in Colorado another game tomorrow night.
Colton Slater gets the start for CU, but I mean,
just such a different Colorado team without their two stars.
They're a four and a half point dog at home
to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
It seems to me like this is a game that
would have had a bit higher of a point spread,
even with the game being in Boulder at SeeU with
so many unknowns about the Buffaloes, I kind of like,
see you in this game a little bit. There is
a ton of hype surrounding Georgia Tech, and rightfully so.
(34:36):
They beat Miami last year, They're very easily could have
beaten Georgia and Haines King played the second half of
the season. We were unable to lift his arm because
of a shoulder issue. There are really well coached team.
But at the same that the private route Dion has
done very well in the role of an underdog. And
it was last year when they kind of were expected
(34:58):
to win that they kind of laid some eggs and
gave up a bunch of points and turned the ball
over a bunch. But here as a home dog, I
kind of like Colorado here. Plus the ball wouldn't shock
me at all if they if they won this game
out right.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay, let's get to the big day on Saturday. Let's
start with the Ohio State and Texas played in the
Shoe again. Really fascinating because we don't have a great
book on arch Manning. But you know, there's there's a
lot of questions for each team. Ohio State a new quarterback.
(35:34):
Ohio State's a one and a half point favorite. That's
you know at home, essentially they're a dog. Forty seven
and a half is the total.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Well, I bet under fifty and a half a couple
of money when this first came out, and the number
obviously is Crip got driven down. Hopefully people picked it
up in the Fox Sports column that I had a
rate and you mentioned the uncertainty about Ohio State. I
almost wonder if that plays to their advantage. But with
(36:03):
Texas not really knowing what type of defense Matt Ptrusher
is going to run, not really knowing what type of offense,
offensive play caller Brian Hartline will be. Obviously he's got
Ryan Day in his year as well, who's called plays forever,
so that's a massive help. And you have a new
quarterback and Julian saying who is completely different from Will Howard,
(36:25):
Like he is not a runner, he's a better thrower
and he can spin it, and he's got a great
group of wide receivers. But I wonder if that's going
to keep Kick Kolkowski in that Texas defense off guard
a little bit. I don't know. Archie is one of
the unfortunately one of these like polarizing guys. I think
while we all think he the potential is there for
(36:47):
him to be good, we really don't know. Like we're
just putting him on this pedestal based on playing some
mop up time last year and playing a couple of games.
When when yours was heard against inferior type opponents. So
I think you're gonna see a lot of quarterback run.
I don't think you're gonna see Tark really expect him
to go out and win the game. I think they're
(37:08):
gonna rely on his ability to run, rely on the backs,
play complimentary football, uh with their defense, help their defense out,
and try and escape Columbus with the win. But my
gut says, by Saturday morning, I am gonna I'm gonna
be liking Ohio State in this game, especially if this
number drifts to pick them and it's essentially UH pick
(37:29):
up on a pick up on a home field.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, Saturday night, Who you're gonna like? LSU A Clemson?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I I kind of I am on my own this
year with Clemson. I'm not on an island. While I
think they potentially can be a really good team, I'm
not sure that they are like number one, number two
type team in the country. Like a lot of people
are power raading and expecting them to be LSU. I
(37:57):
think a lot of their troubled. A lot of the
the negativity surrounding the thought that they can go to
Clemson and win just deals with Brian Kelly and the
fact that they lost those openers the last couple of years,
whether it's Benning in Florida State or USC and that
they spent that they didn't cover numbers at Notre Dame
in the last three years that he was in South Bend.
But like personal wise, ELI few doesn't take a backseat
(38:19):
to anybody. Arguably they in Miami. I did the most
in the transfer portal this year. So I think there's
a really good chance LS you can go to Clemson
and win. And I think the way maybe to potentially
play this is look at the long term, the big
(38:39):
picture in this one. Whoever loses, maybe take a look
at their national title odds, take a look at their
price to make the college football playoff, because one loss
doesn't eliminate you. And especially if you're in Clemson. If
you're Clemson in the in the ACC, in a spot
where you still are likely to get to the a
SEC championship game, is a really good CHAMS you can
(39:01):
still make the playoff. If you're LSU, you've got a
bunch of games in the SEC where you can pick
up some some quality wins as well. Now the margin
bear obviously is less, but I would look at a
buying opportunity on the loser of this game with a
big macro picture there.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Awesome stuff. Chris, you're the best. The Bare Bets podcast
is a can't miss download. Of course you'll see him
on Big Noon Kickoff as well. He's in londonly Chris FeliCa,
good luck this year.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Talk to you soon, Doug, thanks for talking son,
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