December 6, 2024 • 27 mins
Colin reacts to the Lions thrilling win over the Packers and has some serious questions about Dan Campbell's decision to go for it on 4th down. He gives his best NFL bets for week 14 including Falcons @ Vikings and Jets @ Dolphins. Plus, Fox Sports college football analyst Urban Meyer joins the show to address rumors about his return to Ohio State to replace head coach Ryan Day following their shocking loss to unranked Michigan
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
All Right, it is a Friday. What a game last night,
Lions and Packers. This is the Herd wherever you may
be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making
us part of your day. Blazing five. I think this
is actually one of the better weeks for numbers. Blazing
five one hour from now, Jmac, what'd you make it
last night?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dan Campbell?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Things broke his way prey fortunate on foot down almost
every freaking time.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I think the lesson last night. I don't care
if you're a football coach, a CEO, or a parent,
operating in absolutes usually does not end well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just think about that.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Operating in absolutes Dan Campbell now coaches like we always
go for it on fourth down, and this morning, Lion fans. Oh,
they feel great, and it is great when you're three,
thirteen and one. But do you know the team since
Dan Campbell arrived in the NFL that don't go for
it on fourth down? Do you know who they are?
The Chiefs, the Bills, and the Niners. They protect leads.
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You're no longer the hunter, you're the hunted. You're now IBM.
You're not a startup company. Dan Campbell can no longer
be a pro wrestler living up to the gimmick. They
lead the NFL in fourth down attempts and fourth down conversions,
and you feel great this morning, But that's not who
you are anymore. It's like when you're young, put your
money in bitcoin, when you're old, put it in bonds.
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It's a different life. The runway. Now your players are
now in their prom They're gonna get very, very expensive.
You're going to have to move off them. You're playing
consistently with leads. In my lifetime, I don't ever remember
a team winning the Super Bowl that had the all
season label of man, they are risky. New England wasn't.
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Kansas City isn't. Buffalo isn't. That's not what wins championships.
Last year against Dallas by the way two point conversions
Week seventeen. Remember we kept going for those. It cost
you the game, and it cost you the playoff tiebreaker.
So this eventually won't win. Kansas City, Buffalo, and San Francisco.
Since Dan Campbell came in the league, the three winningest
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teams don't go for it. They're protecting leads, protecting assets,
Like right now, Detroit should be buying insurance for this
mansion they've built, for all these beautiful assets they have.
But they're just used to losing. The Tigers lose, the
Pistons lose, the Lions lose. It's Loserville and they've never
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been in this spot. But you are no longer the
looking up hill at everybody else. You're looking down at everybody.
You're leading these games. You need to ensure wins. Reckless
is not going to I mean, like that play when
there's forty three seconds left and you go for it,
kick the field goal. Even analytics said, kick the field goal.
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Good God, just take the lead. Green Bay's got forty
three seconds and no timeouts left, and they just stopped
on third and one. They couldn't do it on fourth
and one. This thing Jared Goff fell out. It was
almost a disaster. Just take the lead again. When companies grow,
when you're a startup company, you can take swings at
stuff because you have nothing to lose. Detroit now has
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stuff to lose. Super Bowls, not games, home field advantage.
Here comes Philadelphia super Bowls. Minnesota is on your heels.
You have a lot more to lose now. I don't
believe in playing it safe. Playing it safe is Michigan
against Penn State second half, never throwing the ball, not
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going for it when you can for forty three seconds
left take the lead. Is noting it safe. It's playing
it reasonable. And everybody in life has to pivot again.
Stuff I did at twenties i'm not doing once I
have kids. Stuff I invested in when I was twenty
I'm not doing now. I don't have the runway to
make that kind of money. Detroit's different now. They're looking down,
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they're not looking up. You gotta pivot. And they're a
very good team, but they're so beat up defensively. Now
the margins are getting tight. The margins are getting very
small in these games. They don't look like that in October,
and that means situational football will be king. That's why
Andy Reid is winning super Bowls. It's why Sean Payton
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has turned around the Broncos in year two with a
rookie quarterback. He's winning those situational moments. And sometimes the
winning isn't going for it. It's field position, it's punting,
it's not beating yourself. So this morning, everybody feels good,
but I just to me, forty three seconds left, going
for it, golf almost falls. What if there's a fumble
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and then, I mean seriously, when he fell, I'm thinking,
oh my god, this reminds me of Joe Pisarcik the
Giants and the Eagles thirty years ago in the NFL.
You guys don't remember that if you're in your twenties
and thirties. That was almost a disaster of epic proportions.
The other it's like, oh my god, here's Dan Campbell.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
After I just felt like we needed to end it
on offense, you know, and I did not want to
give that ball back, and I believe we could get that.
I believe we can convert into a hell of a
call by Ben.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You know it just.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I knew how I wanted to play this game. The
team knew it, and and everything in me told me
that let's finish this, and so we did.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I loved Campbell's ethos and the way he built this startup.
But they're not a startup, you know. They're not first
year after Blockbuster Netflix. They're like the king of streaming,
Like this is the best roster probably in football. They're
setting records. I mean, last night it is a prime
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example of what playoff football looks like. Detroit couldn't run
the ball. They couldn't run the ball. They got into
a tight game at home. That's a playoff game. And again,
I just think this city has had so many losing
teams that they don't realize. Now they're no longer the hunter.
They are the hunted. And when they go to the playoffs,
the pressure now mounts. You'll be a number one seed.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It mounts.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Teams are tight, your defense isn't as good, you're beat up.
No reason to be reckless, no reason to be There's
a big difference between taking smart, reasonable risk and reckless.
But this morning, everybody feels great. Let's talk Green Bay.
So I've said this a few times. The Packers are
the Lions last year. They're one year away. They're really
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really close. Green Bay is excellent head coach, excellent quarterback, excellent,
skill people, excellent. Jordan Love is he just needs more seasoning.
When he came out of Utah State, he was a project.
Well he's not a project anymore, but he's not quite there.
You saw in the first half he only had three
completions the last two years he started off and he
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has to literally go into the Matt Lafleur School of quarterbacking.
So he's only started thirty games. And to give you
some idea of how few that is, Mac Jones has
forty five starts. Okay, he's got like fifty percent more starts.
So I mean, I mean, Jayden Reid almost got no
looks last night. So Jordan Love is really really good.
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So is the coach, So is the running back. So
are the skilled people really good? But I feel like
there's there's steps in everything. You really see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Giannis was good, that he was great, that he was dominant,
there's a title. Then he gets older, then he gets aging,
then he gets hurt. Like there's steps to all this stuff.
San Francisco is a great example. Last five years, they
felt like Detroit, that's the best roster probably in the NFL,
and then all of a sudden it gets expensive and brittled,
and all of a sudden it falls. So right now
green Bay is a stock and it is just going up, up, up,
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and I think gets.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
One year away.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Maybe they shocked the world. But green Bay is nine
and four. So they've lost to the Lions twice, the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
They're nine to zero against everybody else. So they're losing
to the right teams. And last night I thought, I'll
be honest with you, when they got the interception, so
they start the second half of the ball, they gotta
touch down, they get an interception and getting Nerd touchdown,
I thought it was green Bay's night. And we'll talk
more about that. But they're close, They're really really close.
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There's there's not much about green Bay I don't like.
And here's their coach after.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, their team. We're going to have to earn the
right to potentially come back here, and it's not going
to be easy, and we got to put in the work.
But I'm confident in the resiliency of our group and
that they're going to continue to fight and push each
other to get better and stay connected, because I do
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think we have a pretty good football team.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'm watching those two teams last night with my wife Anne,
and she's from Detroit, and I'm like, what you're watching
are two really really good football teams, top five teams.
Those are two top five teams in the league. And
Detroit maybe number one and green Baby number five whatever,
those are two top five teams. And I kept thinking,
poor Chicago, Poor Chicago Bears. I mean, you better get
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the right coach because Green Bay is not. They don't
have players in their prime yet. Jordan Love's not in
his prime yet, all those receivers, tight ends, they're not
in their prime yet. Detroit's players are just Pinay Sewell
are just entering their prime. So Detroit it's a year
ahead in my opinion of what Green Bay is. But
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I kept thinking, boy, Chicago, you could have had a hardball.
You whiffed on that. You better get a rock star
at coach because green Bay for the next five years
is Super Bowl category starting to meet next year and
Detroit's there.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That was that was a really good product. Last night,
j Mac.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
People complained about officiating, get to that later, but that
was that was really good coaching, quarterback play, intensity, there
was drama, there's great skill. I thought green Bay's defense,
you know, like really slowing down the Detroit running train
with something not many people have done that.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Who do you come out looking better in this game?
Like going forward this season? I know you mentioned next time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think Detroit's I think to win a Super Bowl
you generally have to have six or seven really elite
players in their prime, and I think green Bay maybe
has want JayR Alexanderish maybe one, and then they have
about five guys like Jordan Love. Next year by Thanksgiving,
he's in the prime. I don't think they're I think
all these gall their skilled players feel like Thanksgiving next year,
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they're all moving into they played twenty games, twenty five games,
they're moving into their prime.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
I just look at that Packers thirty one points. Jaden
Reid did nothing. He had one target, zero catches. Jaden
Reid is super dynamic. They scored I believe four straight
times when they had the ball in the second half. Yeah,
I come away from this like you don't want to
see the Packers in January.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
This team look to me really good defense, wasn't healthy.
I I well, by the way, I sign on the
Packers for me.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
By the way, oh yeah, going forward. Defenses statistically get
hurt more than offenses. Both those defenses last night beat up. Yeah,
offense is healthy. Defenses beat up. So of the many
reasons offense has taken over this league, the Niners great
defense couldn't stop Homes in the Super Bowl, right like
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we see Kansas City's great defense, you know, struggle and
Super bowls to stop Philadelphia. What you're finding is, as
the league has become more offensive and quarterback centric, the
other reality, the other truth statistically is defensive players get
hurt more than offensive players. And last night there's like
seven different defensive starters out and the offenses are humming.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
How about the Packers, by the way, defensively taking away
the big gigantic play from the Lions. Remember Monday Night Football,
there was all these seventy eighty yard plays. None of
that for the Lions. I think their longest play was
twenty eight yards. They're keeping everything in front of them
with the too high and I just come away like
Detroit look good. But that Green Bay team four or
five in the red zone, they looked awesome to me
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last night on the road, hostile environment. I think Packers
could make the NFC Championship. Would not surprise me at all.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
No, wouldn't me either.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
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Speaker 3 (12:48):
Here we go are blazing five.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Less, blaze it up, fired up. It's Collins blazing five
falcons and fight games.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm gonna take Minnesota at home, lay the five and
a half points. They're a great home team for their
wins have come by over six points. Top ten in
scoring offense and scoring defense number.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Five this year. Here's the issue. They are aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
They are second in the league in takeaways, fourth in sacks,
and Kirk Cousins for Atlanta is reeling. He looks old.
They'll come after him. In his last three games zero
tds and six picks and a passer rating in the fifties.
I think the Vikings playing for more and have more
momentum thirty three, twenty four. I like the Vikings to
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cover Jets, aid Dolphins, so I get an offensive coach
and a better quarterback with extra rest. Forget the Packer game.
It's cold weather at home to above sixty degrees has
a one zero four passer rating. He's thirty two to
ten in games with warm Weather and fifteen and five
at home under Mike McDaniel and the Jets. Aaron Rodgers,
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like Cousins, looks tired in the second half shut out
against the Seahawks in the second half.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
This is a bit of a quarterback mismatch.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Warm Weather too at home against aged Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets, by the way, are a bad road team,
a bad second half offense. And I think again, the
Dolphins playing for more in this spot right like I
mean they are like Minnesota is looking at it thinking
could we be a number one seed? Miami has to
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win just to get into the playoffs. I like the
Dolphins to win and cover twenty seven to seventeen.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Browns at Steelers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I like Cleveland plus six and a half. That's way
too many points. First of all, they have the number
one offense in the NFL since Jamis Winston became starter.
They will score. Pittsburgh's coming off a hard font road
winning division five straight games decided by one score. And
by the way, the Steelers are two and three when
they allowed twenty plus points and Jamis Winston is a starter.
Cleveland scores points. Okay, so I like the Steelers to win.
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But you watch that Denver defense that had been fantastic
all year. They got lit up by Cleveland. Cleveland's offensive
personnel and coaching and Jamis he can be crazy, and
the pick sixes. They almost won that game with two
pick sixes. I think the Browns cover. I think the
Steelers win twenty four to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Bills.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It rare, boy do I like the Bills this week
minus three and a half fifteen straight regular season wins
in December or January. They are built, they are deep,
They're getting healthier. They lead the NFL in second half
point differential. And you cannot get to Jared josh Allen
can't get to him. And the way the Rams can
disrupt teams is getting to the quarterback. Well, josh Allen
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didn't get sacked, and by the way Keon Coleman and
Dalton kin Kaid could return, the Rams have a bigger
issue right now. Matt Stafford's beat up. Not he's playing well,
but he's beat up. He's struggling on third down and
Stafford has the lowest passer rating in the league went
under pressure, two touchdown and five picks. He's got a
bad ankle, So I love Josh Allen and the Bills
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in this spot. By the way, he's played them twice
and has completed almost eighty percent of his throws against
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I like the Bills to win.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The crowd will be more than fifty percent Buffalo fans
twenty eight to twenty Bills Chargers at Chiefs. Bad spot
for the Chargers. I'm gonna lay the four points and
take Kansas City. They're six and zero at home this year,
and by the way, in December, January, and February in
the Mahomes era, they're twenty three and six at home.
Good home team. Mahomes over the last five games is
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starting to heat up. One hundred passer rating, sixty eight
percent completion percentage. The Chargers offense wasn't good to start
now JK. Dobbins out Lad McConkie not practicing. This was
a reasonably anemic offense. It could be worse. Maybe they'll
hang around for the first half, but they're one in
three against teams with winning records.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Anyway, They're very good.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They win the games they should win, but they don't
have the ability to beat excellent teams. And I like
the Chiefs. I'll lay the points to win twenty seven
to seventeen. I think it is a It could be
a rough, rough late afternoon for Justin Herbert without Lad mcconkee.
So I like a lot of favorites. I like the
Vikings at home Vikings right now, think they have a
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shot to be a number one seed. Dolphins with extra arrest.
I think Cleveland's offense will keep this close. Buffalo is
a great December January team. We've seen that, and Kansas
City with a little extra arrest. Andy Reid off of
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buy Andy Reid with extra time is money and the Chargers.
The Chargers defense won that game against the Falcons. It
was not their offense.
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
One of the great college football coaches of all time,
Urban Meyer, three national championships, two at Florida along with
the Buckeyes. I'm now part of the big noon kickoff,
all right, So let's go back and address the Ohio
state stuff. So there's two schools of thought. First of all,
when you come in as a heavy favorite, you can
be a little cautious, perhaps as a coach. Maybe that
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was Ryan Day. There's the other argument that Will Howard
was not on his game and he looked at that
Michigan offense and said, you know what, we're gonna win
this thing seventeen to ten. It's just we're gonna get
out of this thing. We don't want to we don't
want to play around here. You tell me, when you
watch it, do you think Will Howard? And Will Howard's
been a bit hot and cold for my taste, but
he's talented kid. It was part of this Ryan Day
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changing a game plan in game when he wasn't real
confident in his quarterback after early mistakes.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You know, I watched this thing a couple of times
because I'm on the Big Ten Network on Sundays, and
I was there and I really couldn't believe what I
watched in person. And I spoke to Ryan Day this week,
and you know, I it's we've all been there. As
a coach. You're there on the sideline, your defense is
playing phenomenal, the opponent is really struggling. You throw a
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turnover early in the game and give them a freebie,
you know, and you maybe lose a little confidence in
your quarterback. Was a little bit of blustering wind out there. Yeah,
you know, I could come up with all kinds of
different reasons, but we've all been there, and I'm sure
if coach Day and then Chip Kelly had another opportunity,
they probably may do a little thing, a bunch of
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a few things differently.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
When you had a devastating loss in your career, it's agonizing.
How do you attack it as a coach?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, I'm the poster shout on how not to handle it.
I'd lose. Shoot, I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, con't for
months after that. Here's the problem when you lose that
game to the Wolf Raines, you know in the old
day as you want to bad bowl game, and you
got pissed off and you just started working again for
next year. Ohio State's in the in the hunt. They're
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still one of the top teams. It's not the most
talented team in the country. They've got playoffs. They got
this going. So you got to rinse and repeat. Man,
you got to go. You got to not worry about it.
I talked to coach Day about it and he said absolutely.
And players are more resilient than coaches. Players know, you
go out and practice a couple of times. You know,
they got their careers to think about, they got their
performance to and they got the reality of playoff team
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coming up. So you just got to move on. You know.
It's a much different era with this playoff than it
was in the old day when you lost the game
like that because you had to you know, you had
to eat that thing for a whole year. You don't,
it's over, move on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah. I still think the three best teams I've seen
are Ohio State, Texas, and Oregon. Oregon plays this week
tomorrow against Penn State. When I see Oregon, I don't
quite see Texas all Iowa State athletes close. What I
see is speed and coaching. How would you I mean,
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it's they spread you out. They got California speed everywhere.
When you look at Oregon, what would terrify you as
a defensive coach or a coaching staff facing Oregon? If
you're Penn State this.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Week, I think they're the fastest team in the country.
And I don't talk about forty yard times. I talk
about the way they play and defensively, they had ten
sacks last week against Washington and tash to the pois
of the Decordinator's phenomenal. He used to be on my staff.
I love that dude's and they play like him. He's
a nut, you know, He's intense, He's just everything's full speed.
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They play like that on defense, on offense. I mean,
they're legit, legit, you know. And I didn't know that.
I went out and saw them in spring practice and
I thought probably a lot like you did. I don't
exactly see Ohio State or Georgia or Texas, but I'm
watching them now and they are the right. They are
the one team in the country. They play faster than
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anyone else in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, they're really fun to watch. I've been so lucky
through the years to get a cover of their so
much fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I've always said this, there's three glamour programs in college football,
Miami and Coral Gables, USC and Texas, and it offers
their own challenges. Now when they win, the media goes
gaga and it's you turn on any sports network, it's
all we're talking about. But there's a lot of distractions
in La Coral Gables in Austin, And I always feel
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like even with the good Texas teams and SC teams,
you know, they're they're got a lot of things to
do on a Thursday night. Do you worry about that
with Texas? You know, in Columbus once the weather turns,
I mean, kids can get in trouble. But you know
what I mean, Austin at seventy two degrees, go down
to sixth Street. Is Texas different this year? Are they focused?
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Do they have a northern ideology, a tough physical ideology,
pay attention and don't get loose?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think so I picked them last year. You know,
I coached Sark. We did a game and he invited
us to watch them practice, and that was the closest
thing I've ever seen to our two thousand and eight
Florida team. You know, the big, thick defensive alignment and
then elongated skill guys and NFL draft picks all over
the field. We watched them practice. Excellent coaching staff, very disciplined.
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So I actually picked them last year, and I'm you know,
I think they're going to be right there this year.
They got they got a reprieve. Man. They got a
lifeline when they got their butts kicked by Georgia, and
they've been playing great ever since. You know, I know
Quen your has got all injury or deal with now,
but I think they're locked and loaded. Here here's what
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about Georgia Dot Morey. All due respect to Georgia, I've
never what they're getting. Ready to walk into a Mercedes
Benz Stadium. And I coached in a couple of three
SEC championship games, and I think it's bigger than the
national championship. When I was there, whoever won that SEC
championship was going to win the national title. That's how
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good the conference was. In the atmosphere, Georgia is going
to be like a home field advantage. I know Texas
they I've heard they gave back a lot of the tickets.
This is going to be an inferno that Texas walks into.
And if Texas can, the key is And I'm just
if I'm giving a pregame speech, get first downs, that's it.
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Don't worry about winning the game. Get first downs and
calm the environment down. That's how you call them it. Now,
do not turn the ball over, No sacks. But that
all due respect to Texas has been in some big games.
I'm not sure they've been in one like this one.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, SEC is different by the way. You know, all
the recruiting. So you were at Bowling Green recruiting two
and three star guys, and you go to Utah get
a little better player. Then you go to Florida and
you get in Ohio State. How does Ashton genty? How
does he end up at Boise State that's where you are.
How in the world, old does that kid get missed
by all the buck guys and Wolverines and Notre Dame
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and USC's.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Well, I go back to like Joe Burrow was fairly unrecruited.
So a lot of these cats are just underdeveloped when
we're coming out of high school. What's even more amazing
is Asyingent he stuck with his team last year. I'm
sure he could have made seven figures or more at
some of the school and he is legit. His lower
body is powerful. I can't wait. I can't wait to
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see him play. And I was one of those naysayers
because I'm like, Okay, he's playing in a conference, you
know that, you know, could he do that? Against the
big boys, and he certainly did against Oregon. He almost
had two hundred yards rushing. So this kid is legit.
I can't wait to see him tonight we're here. I
can't wait to see him.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, finally, you know Belichick, I said earlier, Belichick groveling
to eighteen year olds, give me a break. I'm like,
this isn't gonna he does it. He's not a college coach, right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I got to know him so well as of Florida
and we became very good friends. And I'm like you,
I'm like, I just don't know. I mean for coach
Belichick to be sitting in his office in an eight
and this is what's going on now, because I have
many friends obviously in the business, and an agent shows
up at your office and or high school recruit and
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they start demanding money from you, and I I'm just
I've known Coach Belichick a long time. I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do that. I'd have to say, get out,
get out of the office. You know, let's get better grades.
Let's you know, take care of yourself a little better
and perform a little better, and let's have a chat.
So God bless him. He's seventy. I think he's seventy
(26:42):
years old or something, and he still wants to keep going,
So God bless him. Man, if he wants to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Are you ever going to coach again? You could coach.
You have good energy.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I love what I'm doing, though I don't. I don't
see me coaching again. I got a life to live.
I didn't know this life was out there.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Pretty good, Colin, Yeah, tell me about it. I'm on
the air every day. I don't get these look at you.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Look how healthy you look. Coaches don't look like you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know what it's called. It's called makeup and the
hair people. That's why I look like this. You get
me out of here and you put a Gin and
Tonic in front of me.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm a nightmare. Five minutes after the shows, something all right?
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
All Right, it is a Friday. What a game last night,
Lions and Packers. This is the Herd wherever you may
be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making
us part of your day. Blazing five. I think this
is actually one of the better weeks for numbers. Blazing
five one hour from now, Jmac, what'd you make it
last night?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dan Campbell?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Things broke his way prey fortunate on foot down almost
every freaking time.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I think the lesson last night. I don't care
if you're a football coach, a CEO, or a parent,
operating in absolutes usually does not end well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just think about that.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Operating in absolutes Dan Campbell now coaches like we always
go for it on fourth down, and this morning, Lion fans. Oh,
they feel great, and it is great when you're three,
thirteen and one. But do you know the team since
Dan Campbell arrived in the NFL that don't go for
it on fourth down? Do you know who they are?
The Chiefs, the Bills, and the Niners. They protect leads.
(01:33):
You're no longer the hunter, you're the hunted. You're now IBM.
You're not a startup company. Dan Campbell can no longer
be a pro wrestler living up to the gimmick. They
lead the NFL in fourth down attempts and fourth down conversions,
and you feel great this morning, But that's not who
you are anymore. It's like when you're young, put your
money in bitcoin, when you're old, put it in bonds.
(01:55):
It's a different life. The runway. Now your players are
now in their prom They're gonna get very, very expensive.
You're going to have to move off them. You're playing
consistently with leads. In my lifetime, I don't ever remember
a team winning the Super Bowl that had the all
season label of man, they are risky. New England wasn't.
(02:16):
Kansas City isn't. Buffalo isn't. That's not what wins championships.
Last year against Dallas by the way two point conversions
Week seventeen. Remember we kept going for those. It cost
you the game, and it cost you the playoff tiebreaker.
So this eventually won't win. Kansas City, Buffalo, and San Francisco.
Since Dan Campbell came in the league, the three winningest
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teams don't go for it. They're protecting leads, protecting assets,
Like right now, Detroit should be buying insurance for this
mansion they've built, for all these beautiful assets they have.
But they're just used to losing. The Tigers lose, the
Pistons lose, the Lions lose. It's Loserville and they've never
(03:00):
been in this spot. But you are no longer the
looking up hill at everybody else. You're looking down at everybody.
You're leading these games. You need to ensure wins. Reckless
is not going to I mean, like that play when
there's forty three seconds left and you go for it,
kick the field goal. Even analytics said, kick the field goal.
(03:23):
Good God, just take the lead. Green Bay's got forty
three seconds and no timeouts left, and they just stopped
on third and one. They couldn't do it on fourth
and one. This thing Jared Goff fell out. It was
almost a disaster. Just take the lead again. When companies grow,
when you're a startup company, you can take swings at
stuff because you have nothing to lose. Detroit now has
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stuff to lose. Super Bowls, not games, home field advantage.
Here comes Philadelphia super Bowls. Minnesota is on your heels.
You have a lot more to lose now. I don't
believe in playing it safe. Playing it safe is Michigan
against Penn State second half, never throwing the ball, not
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going for it when you can for forty three seconds
left take the lead. Is noting it safe. It's playing
it reasonable. And everybody in life has to pivot again.
Stuff I did at twenties i'm not doing once I
have kids. Stuff I invested in when I was twenty
I'm not doing now. I don't have the runway to
make that kind of money. Detroit's different now. They're looking down,
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they're not looking up. You gotta pivot. And they're a
very good team, but they're so beat up defensively. Now
the margins are getting tight. The margins are getting very
small in these games. They don't look like that in October,
and that means situational football will be king. That's why
Andy Reid is winning super Bowls. It's why Sean Payton
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has turned around the Broncos in year two with a
rookie quarterback. He's winning those situational moments. And sometimes the
winning isn't going for it. It's field position, it's punting,
it's not beating yourself. So this morning, everybody feels good,
but I just to me, forty three seconds left, going
for it, golf almost falls. What if there's a fumble
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and then, I mean seriously, when he fell, I'm thinking,
oh my god, this reminds me of Joe Pisarcik the
Giants and the Eagles thirty years ago in the NFL.
You guys don't remember that if you're in your twenties
and thirties. That was almost a disaster of epic proportions.
The other it's like, oh my god, here's Dan Campbell.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
After I just felt like we needed to end it
on offense, you know, and I did not want to
give that ball back, and I believe we could get that.
I believe we can convert into a hell of a
call by Ben.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You know it just.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I knew how I wanted to play this game. The
team knew it, and and everything in me told me
that let's finish this, and so we did.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I loved Campbell's ethos and the way he built this startup.
But they're not a startup, you know. They're not first
year after Blockbuster Netflix. They're like the king of streaming,
Like this is the best roster probably in football. They're
setting records. I mean, last night it is a prime
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example of what playoff football looks like. Detroit couldn't run
the ball. They couldn't run the ball. They got into
a tight game at home. That's a playoff game. And again,
I just think this city has had so many losing
teams that they don't realize. Now they're no longer the hunter.
They are the hunted. And when they go to the playoffs,
the pressure now mounts. You'll be a number one seed.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It mounts.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Teams are tight, your defense isn't as good, you're beat up.
No reason to be reckless, no reason to be There's
a big difference between taking smart, reasonable risk and reckless.
But this morning, everybody feels great. Let's talk Green Bay.
So I've said this a few times. The Packers are
the Lions last year. They're one year away. They're really
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really close. Green Bay is excellent head coach, excellent quarterback, excellent,
skill people, excellent. Jordan Love is he just needs more seasoning.
When he came out of Utah State, he was a project.
Well he's not a project anymore, but he's not quite there.
You saw in the first half he only had three
completions the last two years he started off and he
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has to literally go into the Matt Lafleur School of quarterbacking.
So he's only started thirty games. And to give you
some idea of how few that is, Mac Jones has
forty five starts. Okay, he's got like fifty percent more starts.
So I mean, I mean, Jayden Reid almost got no
looks last night. So Jordan Love is really really good.
(07:51):
So is the coach, So is the running back. So
are the skilled people really good? But I feel like
there's there's steps in everything. You really see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Giannis was good, that he was great, that he was dominant,
there's a title. Then he gets older, then he gets aging,
then he gets hurt. Like there's steps to all this stuff.
San Francisco is a great example. Last five years, they
felt like Detroit, that's the best roster probably in the NFL,
and then all of a sudden it gets expensive and brittled,
and all of a sudden it falls. So right now
green Bay is a stock and it is just going up, up, up,
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and I think gets.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
One year away.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Maybe they shocked the world. But green Bay is nine
and four. So they've lost to the Lions twice, the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
They're nine to zero against everybody else. So they're losing
to the right teams. And last night I thought, I'll
be honest with you, when they got the interception, so
they start the second half of the ball, they gotta
touch down, they get an interception and getting Nerd touchdown,
I thought it was green Bay's night. And we'll talk
more about that. But they're close, They're really really close.
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There's there's not much about green Bay I don't like.
And here's their coach after.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, their team. We're going to have to earn the
right to potentially come back here, and it's not going
to be easy, and we got to put in the work.
But I'm confident in the resiliency of our group and
that they're going to continue to fight and push each
other to get better and stay connected, because I do
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think we have a pretty good football team.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'm watching those two teams last night with my wife Anne,
and she's from Detroit, and I'm like, what you're watching
are two really really good football teams, top five teams.
Those are two top five teams in the league. And
Detroit maybe number one and green Baby number five whatever,
those are two top five teams. And I kept thinking,
poor Chicago, Poor Chicago Bears. I mean, you better get
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the right coach because Green Bay is not. They don't
have players in their prime yet. Jordan Love's not in
his prime yet, all those receivers, tight ends, they're not
in their prime yet. Detroit's players are just Pinay Sewell
are just entering their prime. So Detroit it's a year
ahead in my opinion of what Green Bay is. But
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I kept thinking, boy, Chicago, you could have had a hardball.
You whiffed on that. You better get a rock star
at coach because green Bay for the next five years
is Super Bowl category starting to meet next year and
Detroit's there.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That was that was a really good product. Last night,
j Mac.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
People complained about officiating, get to that later, but that
was that was really good coaching, quarterback play, intensity, there
was drama, there's great skill. I thought green Bay's defense,
you know, like really slowing down the Detroit running train
with something not many people have done that.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Who do you come out looking better in this game?
Like going forward this season? I know you mentioned next time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think Detroit's I think to win a Super Bowl
you generally have to have six or seven really elite
players in their prime, and I think green Bay maybe
has want JayR Alexanderish maybe one, and then they have
about five guys like Jordan Love. Next year by Thanksgiving,
he's in the prime. I don't think they're I think
all these gall their skilled players feel like Thanksgiving next year,
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they're all moving into they played twenty games, twenty five games,
they're moving into their prime.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
I just look at that Packers thirty one points. Jaden
Reid did nothing. He had one target, zero catches. Jaden
Reid is super dynamic. They scored I believe four straight
times when they had the ball in the second half. Yeah,
I come away from this like you don't want to
see the Packers in January.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
This team look to me really good defense, wasn't healthy.
I I well, by the way, I sign on the
Packers for me.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
By the way, oh yeah, going forward. Defenses statistically get
hurt more than offenses. Both those defenses last night beat up. Yeah,
offense is healthy. Defenses beat up. So of the many
reasons offense has taken over this league, the Niners great
defense couldn't stop Homes in the Super Bowl, right like
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we see Kansas City's great defense, you know, struggle and
Super bowls to stop Philadelphia. What you're finding is, as
the league has become more offensive and quarterback centric, the
other reality, the other truth statistically is defensive players get
hurt more than offensive players. And last night there's like
seven different defensive starters out and the offenses are humming.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
How about the Packers, by the way, defensively taking away
the big gigantic play from the Lions. Remember Monday Night Football,
there was all these seventy eighty yard plays. None of
that for the Lions. I think their longest play was
twenty eight yards. They're keeping everything in front of them
with the too high and I just come away like
Detroit look good. But that Green Bay team four or
five in the red zone, they looked awesome to me
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last night on the road, hostile environment. I think Packers
could make the NFC Championship. Would not surprise me at all.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
No, wouldn't me either.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
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Speaker 3 (12:48):
Here we go are blazing five.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Less, blaze it up, fired up. It's Collins blazing five
falcons and fight games.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm gonna take Minnesota at home, lay the five and
a half points. They're a great home team for their
wins have come by over six points. Top ten in
scoring offense and scoring defense number.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Five this year. Here's the issue. They are aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
They are second in the league in takeaways, fourth in sacks,
and Kirk Cousins for Atlanta is reeling. He looks old.
They'll come after him. In his last three games zero
tds and six picks and a passer rating in the fifties.
I think the Vikings playing for more and have more
momentum thirty three, twenty four. I like the Vikings to
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cover Jets, aid Dolphins, so I get an offensive coach
and a better quarterback with extra rest. Forget the Packer game.
It's cold weather at home to above sixty degrees has
a one zero four passer rating. He's thirty two to
ten in games with warm Weather and fifteen and five
at home under Mike McDaniel and the Jets. Aaron Rodgers,
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like Cousins, looks tired in the second half shut out
against the Seahawks in the second half.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
This is a bit of a quarterback mismatch.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Warm Weather too at home against aged Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets, by the way, are a bad road team,
a bad second half offense. And I think again, the
Dolphins playing for more in this spot right like I
mean they are like Minnesota is looking at it thinking
could we be a number one seed? Miami has to
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win just to get into the playoffs. I like the
Dolphins to win and cover twenty seven to seventeen.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Browns at Steelers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I like Cleveland plus six and a half. That's way
too many points. First of all, they have the number
one offense in the NFL since Jamis Winston became starter.
They will score. Pittsburgh's coming off a hard font road
winning division five straight games decided by one score. And
by the way, the Steelers are two and three when
they allowed twenty plus points and Jamis Winston is a starter.
Cleveland scores points. Okay, so I like the Steelers to win.
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But you watch that Denver defense that had been fantastic
all year. They got lit up by Cleveland. Cleveland's offensive
personnel and coaching and Jamis he can be crazy, and
the pick sixes. They almost won that game with two
pick sixes. I think the Browns cover. I think the
Steelers win twenty four to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Bills.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It rare, boy do I like the Bills this week
minus three and a half fifteen straight regular season wins
in December or January. They are built, they are deep,
They're getting healthier. They lead the NFL in second half
point differential. And you cannot get to Jared josh Allen
can't get to him. And the way the Rams can
disrupt teams is getting to the quarterback. Well, josh Allen
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didn't get sacked, and by the way Keon Coleman and
Dalton kin Kaid could return, the Rams have a bigger
issue right now. Matt Stafford's beat up. Not he's playing well,
but he's beat up. He's struggling on third down and
Stafford has the lowest passer rating in the league went
under pressure, two touchdown and five picks. He's got a
bad ankle, So I love Josh Allen and the Bills
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in this spot. By the way, he's played them twice
and has completed almost eighty percent of his throws against
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I like the Bills to win.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The crowd will be more than fifty percent Buffalo fans
twenty eight to twenty Bills Chargers at Chiefs. Bad spot
for the Chargers. I'm gonna lay the four points and
take Kansas City. They're six and zero at home this year,
and by the way, in December, January, and February in
the Mahomes era, they're twenty three and six at home.
Good home team. Mahomes over the last five games is
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starting to heat up. One hundred passer rating, sixty eight
percent completion percentage. The Chargers offense wasn't good to start
now JK. Dobbins out Lad McConkie not practicing. This was
a reasonably anemic offense. It could be worse. Maybe they'll
hang around for the first half, but they're one in
three against teams with winning records.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Anyway, They're very good.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They win the games they should win, but they don't
have the ability to beat excellent teams. And I like
the Chiefs. I'll lay the points to win twenty seven
to seventeen. I think it is a It could be
a rough, rough late afternoon for Justin Herbert without Lad mcconkee.
So I like a lot of favorites. I like the
Vikings at home Vikings right now, think they have a
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shot to be a number one seed. Dolphins with extra arrest.
I think Cleveland's offense will keep this close. Buffalo is
a great December January team. We've seen that, and Kansas
City with a little extra arrest. Andy Reid off of
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buy Andy Reid with extra time is money and the Chargers.
The Chargers defense won that game against the Falcons. It
was not their offense.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
One of the great college football coaches of all time,
Urban Meyer, three national championships, two at Florida along with
the Buckeyes. I'm now part of the big noon kickoff,
all right, So let's go back and address the Ohio
state stuff. So there's two schools of thought. First of all,
when you come in as a heavy favorite, you can
be a little cautious, perhaps as a coach. Maybe that
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was Ryan Day. There's the other argument that Will Howard
was not on his game and he looked at that
Michigan offense and said, you know what, we're gonna win
this thing seventeen to ten. It's just we're gonna get
out of this thing. We don't want to we don't
want to play around here. You tell me, when you
watch it, do you think Will Howard? And Will Howard's
been a bit hot and cold for my taste, but
he's talented kid. It was part of this Ryan Day
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changing a game plan in game when he wasn't real
confident in his quarterback after early mistakes.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You know, I watched this thing a couple of times
because I'm on the Big Ten Network on Sundays, and
I was there and I really couldn't believe what I
watched in person. And I spoke to Ryan Day this week,
and you know, I it's we've all been there. As
a coach. You're there on the sideline, your defense is
playing phenomenal, the opponent is really struggling. You throw a
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turnover early in the game and give them a freebie,
you know, and you maybe lose a little confidence in
your quarterback. Was a little bit of blustering wind out there. Yeah,
you know, I could come up with all kinds of
different reasons, but we've all been there, and I'm sure
if coach Day and then Chip Kelly had another opportunity,
they probably may do a little thing, a bunch of
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a few things differently.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
When you had a devastating loss in your career, it's agonizing.
How do you attack it as a coach?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Well, I'm the poster shout on how not to handle it.
I'd lose. Shoot, I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, con't for
months after that. Here's the problem when you lose that
game to the Wolf Raines, you know in the old
day as you want to bad bowl game, and you
got pissed off and you just started working again for
next year. Ohio State's in the in the hunt. They're
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still one of the top teams. It's not the most
talented team in the country. They've got playoffs. They got
this going. So you got to rinse and repeat. Man,
you got to go. You got to not worry about it.
I talked to coach Day about it and he said absolutely.
And players are more resilient than coaches. Players know, you
go out and practice a couple of times. You know,
they got their careers to think about, they got their
performance to and they got the reality of playoff team
(20:30):
coming up. So you just got to move on. You know.
It's a much different era with this playoff than it
was in the old day when you lost the game
like that because you had to you know, you had
to eat that thing for a whole year. You don't,
it's over, move on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah. I still think the three best teams I've seen
are Ohio State, Texas, and Oregon. Oregon plays this week
tomorrow against Penn State. When I see Oregon, I don't
quite see Texas all Iowa State athletes close. What I
see is speed and coaching. How would you I mean,
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it's they spread you out. They got California speed everywhere.
When you look at Oregon, what would terrify you as
a defensive coach or a coaching staff facing Oregon? If
you're Penn State this.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Week, I think they're the fastest team in the country.
And I don't talk about forty yard times. I talk
about the way they play and defensively, they had ten
sacks last week against Washington and tash to the pois
of the Decordinator's phenomenal. He used to be on my staff.
I love that dude's and they play like him. He's
a nut, you know, He's intense, He's just everything's full speed.
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They play like that on defense, on offense. I mean,
they're legit, legit, you know. And I didn't know that.
I went out and saw them in spring practice and
I thought probably a lot like you did. I don't
exactly see Ohio State or Georgia or Texas, but I'm
watching them now and they are the right. They are
the one team in the country. They play faster than
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anyone else in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, they're really fun to watch. I've been so lucky
through the years to get a cover of their so
much fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I've always said this, there's three glamour programs in college football,
Miami and Coral Gables, USC and Texas, and it offers
their own challenges. Now when they win, the media goes
gaga and it's you turn on any sports network, it's
all we're talking about. But there's a lot of distractions
in La Coral Gables in Austin, And I always feel
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like even with the good Texas teams and SC teams,
you know, they're they're got a lot of things to
do on a Thursday night. Do you worry about that
with Texas? You know, in Columbus once the weather turns,
I mean, kids can get in trouble. But you know
what I mean, Austin at seventy two degrees, go down
to sixth Street. Is Texas different this year? Are they focused?
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Do they have a northern ideology, a tough physical ideology,
pay attention and don't get loose?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think so I picked them last year. You know,
I coached Sark. We did a game and he invited
us to watch them practice, and that was the closest
thing I've ever seen to our two thousand and eight
Florida team. You know, the big, thick defensive alignment and
then elongated skill guys and NFL draft picks all over
the field. We watched them practice. Excellent coaching staff, very disciplined.
(23:26):
So I actually picked them last year, and I'm you know,
I think they're going to be right there this year.
They got they got a reprieve. Man. They got a
lifeline when they got their butts kicked by Georgia, and
they've been playing great ever since. You know, I know
Quen your has got all injury or deal with now,
but I think they're locked and loaded. Here here's what
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about Georgia Dot Morey. All due respect to Georgia, I've
never what they're getting. Ready to walk into a Mercedes
Benz Stadium. And I coached in a couple of three
SEC championship games, and I think it's bigger than the
national championship. When I was there, whoever won that SEC
championship was going to win the national title. That's how
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good the conference was. In the atmosphere, Georgia is going
to be like a home field advantage. I know Texas
they I've heard they gave back a lot of the tickets.
This is going to be an inferno that Texas walks into.
And if Texas can, the key is And I'm just
if I'm giving a pregame speech, get first downs, that's it.
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Don't worry about winning the game. Get first downs and
calm the environment down. That's how you call them it. Now,
do not turn the ball over, No sacks. But that
all due respect to Texas has been in some big games.
I'm not sure they've been in one like this one.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, SEC is different by the way. You know, all
the recruiting. So you were at Bowling Green recruiting two
and three star guys, and you go to Utah get
a little better player. Then you go to Florida and
you get in Ohio State. How does Ashton genty? How
does he end up at Boise State that's where you are.
How in the world, old does that kid get missed
by all the buck guys and Wolverines and Notre Dame
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and USC's.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Well, I go back to like Joe Burrow was fairly unrecruited.
So a lot of these cats are just underdeveloped when
we're coming out of high school. What's even more amazing
is Asyingent he stuck with his team last year. I'm
sure he could have made seven figures or more at
some of the school and he is legit. His lower
body is powerful. I can't wait. I can't wait to
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see him play. And I was one of those naysayers
because I'm like, Okay, he's playing in a conference, you
know that, you know, could he do that? Against the
big boys, and he certainly did against Oregon. He almost
had two hundred yards rushing. So this kid is legit.
I can't wait to see him tonight we're here. I
can't wait to see him.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, finally, you know Belichick, I said earlier, Belichick groveling
to eighteen year olds, give me a break. I'm like,
this isn't gonna he does it. He's not a college coach, right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I got to know him so well as of Florida
and we became very good friends. And I'm like you,
I'm like, I just don't know. I mean for coach
Belichick to be sitting in his office in an eight
and this is what's going on now, because I have
many friends obviously in the business, and an agent shows
up at your office and or high school recruit and
(26:21):
they start demanding money from you, and I I'm just
I've known Coach Belichick a long time. I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do that. I'd have to say, get out,
get out of the office. You know, let's get better grades.
Let's you know, take care of yourself a little better
and perform a little better, and let's have a chat.
So God bless him. He's seventy. I think he's seventy
(26:42):
years old or something, and he still wants to keep going,
So God bless him. Man, if he wants to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Are you ever going to coach again? You could coach.
You have good energy.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I love what I'm doing, though I don't. I don't
see me coaching again. I got a life to live.
I didn't know this life was out there.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Pretty good, Colin, Yeah, tell me about it. I'm on
the air every day. I don't get these look at you.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Look how healthy you look. Coaches don't look like you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know what it's called. It's called makeup and the
hair people. That's why I look like this. You get
me out of here and you put a Gin and
Tonic in front of me.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm a nightmare. Five minutes after the shows, something all right?
Great seeing your coach
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