Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update the first College Football Playoff game between Indiana and Notre Dame. The guys hit you with some Bold Predictions/Upset Specials. The knuckleheads welcome in friend of the show Pete Fiutak in to talk all things CFB Playoff, NotreDame, Ohio State and so much more. And the guys chop Notre Dame Captain Jack Kiser to show right after the Irish big win against Indiana in the College Football Playoff opener!

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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(00:55):
right in tonight because Game one of the college football
playoff is just kicked off the second half and Notre
Dame a little bit of razzle dazzle has started off.
They run a reverse on the kickoff and the Indiana
gunner and this is me, you know, because you know
how good of a gunner I wasn't in high school.
So you've told yeah, no, dude, I've got video evidence

(01:15):
of me being a good gunner. Man, you're kidding. They
run the reverse and the Indiana gunner has him dead
to rights but lets him cut outside, doesn't keep the
edge because you got us at the edge, and he
cuts outside, and No tre Dame gets it all the
way inside the Indiana forty five yard line. So now
here's No tre Dame up seventeen to three over Indiana,

(01:40):
and they are already in position to potentially get another
score here. That would probably be lights out for the
Hoosiers because you know, Mike, I don't like to say
I told you so, right, you know, don't mean I
don't like to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm not that guy. In all these years we've done
the show. It might be actually be the first time
that you do that.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But I feel the need to. I feel the need
to because I told you last night, Hey, we don't
know how good Indiana is. And they have more on
that coming up in a minute, but Notre Dame is
just at a different level. And what did I say?
They were going to run over Indiana and so far
in the first half, one hundred and fifty six yards rushing.
You had a ninety eight yard touchdown run. It has

(02:19):
been everything I thought this game was going to be.
Indiana looks a little bit outclassed throughout most of the
first half. They never really got their setting, and by
the time they get their setting, it might be over.
Like this, this is like end of your season time
for Indiana with Notre Dame up by fourteen and with
the ball in their territory.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, I mean, you look at the way the first
half plays out. You have a number of possessions both sides,
you know, feeling things out, they matched interceptions, and you
get the ninety eight yard jail break touchdown run. Otherwise,
a lot of the metrics run the same. There's nothing exciting.
But Indiana's shown absolutely zero explosiveness, right, zero of what
made them special during the regular SIS season. And Notre

(03:01):
Dame has contained all of that signetti for all of
his bravado, which is really fun. Kind of got sunned
a little bit by Nick Saban before in all the
pregame hype and excited Alabama Indiana Saban or Alabama Saban
or whatever we want to do there. But yeah, I mean,

(03:23):
it'll be curious to see as they get their first
possession of the second half, does Rourke come out firing.
Can they stretch the field and find a little bit
of a spark because it was a pretty listless, lifeless, cold, distant,
well lonely kind of first half, even though all the
metrics kind of match up in terms of time of
possessions and plays and whatever else. But you give up

(03:45):
one hundred and fifty six yards of rushing and what
do we always say, eventually you're gonna get run over.
I don't know. We might have talked about that a
little bit last night. Yeah, Gus Edwards isn't running for
six seven yards of carry, but guess what, bam he
punched in the face since sprinted forty three yards to
break your back, you know, after you were a dope
at the end of the first half, which I think

(04:06):
we're still the only show to actually acknowledge that, because
otherwise you have to go and pray to the altar
of Sean Payton.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
So Notre Dame leads seventeen to three, and this is Indiana,
this is it now. Curtis Rourke has had a really
difficult first half. Like I never really look at a game,
and I think, boy, this team looks cold, but I
be Indiana looks really cool.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
You know, all the Notre Dame guys were running around
pre game with no shirts on. Oh sure, who cares.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I can't imagine in the stand like this is because
I never think, like, how many games have I seen
in the cold one?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Like millions of them?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Right? But yeah, very very rarely do I go, oh, boy,
I bet it's cold. And I don't know. Maybe I
was thinking about that because Todd Furman, our you know,
our our Vegas insider who comes on the show with
us every week, is at the game tonight and I
was like, dude, you're from Vegas. It's gonna be cold.
He I don't know, did he.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
None of him, but just kind of the crowd with
all their gortex and everything that was like, game time cold,
You're not right.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It looks cold. I feel cold for the fans, but
I feel really cold for Indiana because this looks right.
The first half looked like a hey, uh uh, we
if we just play this game like and finish at
some point like this can this not count? Like can
this can we just play and like just you know,
just make this game not count like play during the
day when it's warmer, Like, I really feel like it's
affecting Indiana.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, yeah, it's it's one of those feel out kind
of propositions, right, I don't I don't know how much
it's affecting them in in terms of you know, Miami
Dolphins like things. You know, they do actually play in Indiana,
So in theory they've practiced in.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
They don't play this, Like, come on, they never go
to bowl games. There are seasons done middle of October?
What a hell would you know about a bowl game?
Pitch stripe Bowl? Every damn year, holiday holiday, holiday, holiday,
playing that game Holiday Bowl that's gonna get canceled.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Watch us lose? Watch what are your favored about?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh? By the way at this point, Oh, oh by
the way, how about the story today? Kyle McCord and
Syriki maybe getting a fifty year of eligibility. I'm thinking
playoff next year. Man, if Kyle McCord comes with three
for one more year, they are sudden.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Who's a benefactor that guaranteed him seven figures to stick around?

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Brent Musburger, Wow, and Bob Costas you.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Know, Musburger is also a Northwestern alum. But anyway, well you.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Can claim as well, you can't claim as well. Now look,
now here's the thing. This is, this is the pithy,
the meat of the discussion to get into with this
game tonight. Right, Indiana has not looked good and Notre
Dame has outclassed them, and this is going to be
something that is an unintended consequence of realignment in college football,
because really, Indiana is a great story, right, how much

(06:46):
fun is it to see them? Indiana has not been
good in a long time, and you're thinking back video
of Antoine Randall l and Anthony Thompson. But we don't
know because look, Indiana's best wins. Okay, they beat Michigan,
they beat Washington. This is not beating Miss Washington in
twenty twenty three when these two teams are playing for
the national title. The one game they played against the
top twenty five ranked team, Ohio State, they lost by

(07:08):
three touchdowns. But here they go through a big conference,
the Big Ten, and they're eleven and one. So yeah,
of course we're gonna take you for the playoff. But
this is this is what this is what's gonna be
one of the big things that's gonna be looked at
at the end of this playoff and examined about how
we see how this playoff goes. Are these eleven and

(07:29):
one the second teams you're taking from conferences? Are they
really good or did they just play an advantageous schedule?
Because now the SEC and the Big Ten, they got
twenty twenty teams in there. They're gonna wind up with
each twenty teams right now they're sixteen eighteen, and you're
gonna have seasons where you don't play really good teams,
right like Indiana avoided Penn State and Ore. You avoid

(07:50):
the best two teams in the conference, two of the
best three teams in the conference this year. When you
don't have to play the best teams, yeah, and you're
an okay to you're a good team. Hey, you can
roll up against those lesser rent the also rans and
put up a big record, right like Syracuse avoided almost
everybody this year. They lost three. We lost to Stanford
and and it was ridiculous in Boston College and pitt

(08:13):
but we avoided like Clemson. With the one big game
against Miami we won. Okay, that's great, but we're nine
to three and feeling good. Because well, we had a
pretty advantageous schedule. We didn't play that, we didn't play SMU, right,
we didn't play Clemson. So that's gonna be something that
I guarantee you the College Football and the Playoff Committee
is going to look at. Is that, Okay, are these
teams we're letting in that are the second ranked teams

(08:35):
in the conference that aren't going to the conference championship games?
Are they really that good? Because if we don't have
wins that we can say this is their proving ground. Okay,
we see it in the playoff. And if these teams,
if the Indiana's of the world and the guy they
wind up getting boat race, it's gonna be Okay, maybe
they really weren't that good. And now the scheduling is

(08:55):
going to take a really it's gonna be a much
bigger piece of the pie next year. And maybe a
team like Alabama, well yeah Alabama lost three games, but
look they beat three top twenty five teams. Indiana didn't
beat any. Maybe next year a team like Alabama gets
in over Indiana because if Indiana it sits here and
this is a thirty eighth what I said, what thirty
eight thirt team was gonna be the final. This is

(09:16):
one of those kinds of games. Yeah, okay, who are
the teams we let in that we weren't sure that that. Hey,
they won, but are they really good? We don't know
the schedule. Yeah, that's who we got to look at
for next year, and there will be an over correction
for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah. I don't know how that it's that quick a
knee jerk reaction, but I agree. I mean, you gotta
see how this plays out. First iteration. We already know
what's gonna expand, right, the money and the whininess of
everybody gets us there. It's like, all right, all right, sec,
we'll add another team. Shut up, so you'll have that,

(09:49):
no question. But in terms of scheduling, yeah, that's gonna
be the multi billion dollar question all this, right, how
much do those early season games matter?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Notre Dame is still here. They lost in Northern Illinois.
Pretty good team, but not one that you consider anywhere
near a powerhouse. Right, Whereas we look at the Alabama
case you lost to and Andy you lost, you lost
three times, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It was your only game, right, and you also beat
four top twenty five team and.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You lost early, which is, you know, the old measure
of matters. No, but it's true because you got a
whole new program, a whole new set of kids coming in.
And then in theory, you gel and get better as
you go. So if you drop one early, you know,
whatever that equation is, it shouldn't count the same as

(10:46):
something the second to last week of November, you know,
after you've played Mercer or a powerhouse like that in
your tune up game. But all of that going into
the Indiana discussion of great story head coach gives you
a lot of headlines, gives you a lot of ammunition,
and then you start to look at how do you
rate the conference properly?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well, you have the top heavy side of it when
you look at Oregon, when you look at Ohio State
and what they've been in Penn State in their their
work this year, But what do you how do you
evaluate the cannibalism that goes on?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
How hard it is to win on the road in
some of these conferences. Even if a team's not a
powerhouse and finishes whatever four and seven, the metrics may
may tell a different tale than something else than another
team in another conference. So it's you know, what's that
algorithm rhythm look like? And until they give me the

(11:44):
Professor Frank really deep dive on that, we're gonna be
left kind of wishing and wondering and then just keeping
our eyes on that committee and see who falls asleep.
You don't get to vote on that team when it
comes time to vote for where they go into the
into the seating. But for Indiana, yem, they are a

(12:05):
true test case of the new system, not only with
how this roster was constructed, but yes, their schedule and
what it means going.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Forward, the Irish and the Hoosiers and the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's tough for me, right because you know, I like Bravado,
so there's something about Signetti I like. There's also a
all right, shut up, you haven't done anything yet.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
And then there's being from the South side of Chicago.
All the adoptions of Notre Dame through the years with
people that had no affiliation with the school. Somehow that
still bugs me. It shouldn't, It doesn't. You know, if
I didn't get your blood, sweat teams and tuition dollars,
that bugs me.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, no, it does, and it doesn't bother me as
much as it does when they do it, and they
talk a lot of smack. I'm like, you just picked
the team to root for. Come on, you have no
connection to this team. You're not even from the town
there from. You don't go to the games. You never
got I don't go to the games. You don't go
to the games with anything. You don't talk smack. Root
for them, that's fine, but don't sit here tell me
team that I've blown up and and and and put

(13:08):
all kinds of blood sweat and tears on my couch
and my pillow for and all the emotional energy that
I've waited.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Don't tell me that's the same thing. No, I'm with
you on that. Tell me when you said blood sweat
and tears, you didn't have spinning wheels.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Started exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Domes. Just understand,
Indiana gets boat raced. Trust me that if this is
becoming gonna be a thing, you're gonna see the committee
go Okay, we have to pay much more attention to
schedules next year, and and the avoiding of the big
teams in the conference is gonna be something that's gonna
hurt those teams.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Jason call me when there's a fair catch free kick.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay, dude, we talked about that so often last night, man,
that was that was so much fun. Yeah, that was
last night. That's true. You know, I gotta say Frostburg
that play and the and the play at the end
when Harbaugh decided to hey, kill the last play by
goo by going and I'm throwing it as high in
as far as I can. Like, that's such a school

(14:03):
yard play. That was so much fun football. Those are
like my two favorite plays of the year in the NFL.
The you know, the free kick field going, I'm just
gonna throw it up high and let the clock tick
off of the go.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
Well, there's obviously no Jets highlights there.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
So no, no, there's there's there. Let's see, wait a minute,
I don't know. Firing solo was a highlight. Firing doublet
get to watch that finding out we make decisions because
of Madden ratings. That's a highlight.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah, but again we're like, we're not in the room
where that happens. Yeah, we got to watch it unfold
as a national audience, arm in arm as football fans.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
So right now, Notre Dame with the ball. They are
driving their first possession of the second half, which they
started in Indiana territory. They were forced to punt. However,
Indiana had an offensive possession where they just went backwards
the punch of Notre Dame. They got it at midfield
and already they have a first down. They are at
the Indiana thirty three yard line with a first and

(14:58):
ten of seventeen to three, just under ten minutes to
go in the third quarter.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, the last point on this before we watch the
continuation to this point. This game outside the ninety eight
yard run stinks. Well, it's like I said, when you
play in the cold like this, hit these guys.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hey, it's really really cold. Whatever really cold.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Sack up, let's go.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
So coming up next, we'll have more on Notre Dame
Indiana as it merits throughout the night tonight. But what's
the big upset that we see on the schedule tomorrow
on the college football playoff, Plus we'll preview the game
of the Week and the NFL all that more coming
up next. It is a big football Friday. Keep it

(15:37):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
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happening right now with Notre Dame in Indiana. Notre Dame

(16:22):
driving looked like they were going to wind up having
to kick a field goal to go up twenty to three. However,
Riley Leonard scrambling on third down, is out of bounds
and a late hit. He gets hit in the white
part of the sideline, so yeah, that's a penalty. Gives
the Irish a first down, fresh new set of downs.
They get inside the ten, but they can't go anywhere

(16:44):
from there, so they come out for a field goal.
That's gonna make it twenty to three. However, lining up
for the field goal, then Notre Dame scatters, they move
the kicker out and they run a fake play and
it's fourth and eight and they run a running play
and Notre Dame gets stopped two yards short of the
first down. However, Kurt Signetti called time out before the snap,

(17:08):
so there was no play.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
You can see on the replay. Indiana doesn't know what
to do.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Is Notre Dame is all over the place and he's
running down the field yelling time out, time out. The
worst part for Indiana is that they had stopped Notre
Dame on the play, they would have had the football.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
But he's the smartest guy alive.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oo.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
But because of the timeout, they wind up getting to rekick.
Notre Dame's field goal is good. Make it twenty to three.
Now Notre Dame over Indiana midway through the third quarter.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Very odd sequence of plays. And if you look at
it from the play by play perspective, here's a loss
of four. Here's a runout of bounds. Oh there's a penalty,
all right, now we got a fall start. Wait now
it's updating to show the timeout. Now we got all
this stuff. So it's it's chaotic. It's everything you want
for a playoff game in Indiana.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
And here's and here's what I don't get is that
the fake play that nore Dame ran.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
They were on the left side of the field.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
They ran. They direct snapped it to a tight end.
Who it's fourth and eight, Like, this is not like
fourth and one. They direct snap it to a tight
end who's like eight yards behind the line of scrimmage,
and they think and they're running to the short side
of the field. They think that was gonna get the
first down. Like wait, wait, what? Like what Marcus? What
are you? And he's clapping and smiling as everybody's coming

(18:24):
off the field, maybe because he realizes, oh, Signetti called
a time out. I'm good, hey, man, because that boy,
that would have looked really bad. I don't know, man,
fourth and eight, we're gonna snap it to a tight
end eight yards back of the line of scrimmage on
the short side of the field.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I could think of better fourth than eight plays.
You want to fake the field?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
I think it's two things. One he realized Signetti had
called the time out. The second was I just signed
a contract extension. What the hell are they gonna do
to me? Yeah, let's go, let's get creative, Hello alumni,
Let's get wild out here.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's why he held the fourth four more. I got
four more years, four more years.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
He re elected me. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
You didn't like me, so twenty to three, Notre Dame.
They'll be kicking off, coming up back out of commercial. Now.
You want an upset for tomorrow, I have an upset
for you in the first round of the college one upset.
I have an upset. And it's why it's really gonna
upset one of my best friends because he went to
Texas and we talk about Texas all the time. Oop

(19:19):
cats out of the bag. Texas looks like they might
be out of gas. They've not looked like the same
team over the last few weeks. Now. They've been winning,
you know, up until they lost their second game of
the year to Georgia, but they have not been scoring.
You know, you look at their offense the last month. Hey,
after they blew out Florida, that might have been their peak.

(19:40):
Because then you have trouble with Arkansas. You only score
twenty points against them. You know, Kentucky is one of
the worst teams in college football. You beat them by
two touchdowns. Yes, you beat Texas A and M and
A and m's a good team, but seventeen to seven
you lose to Georgia twenty two to nineteen. The offense
has not been firing. It's just not been the same,
whether it's it's it's any sort of indecision at quarterback

(20:06):
with Youers and Manning, but they're just not the same team.
And Clemson is coming on strong. They're coming off a
big emotional game in the ACC Championship game.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Kate Klubnick has been really good.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
He might be the most underrated quarterback in college football
because he was highly touted out of high school and
you had that big game against yours in high school
where he won.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
But Clubnick so far and Clemson has been Yeah, he's
been all right.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Ye you know you're expecting Trevor Lawrence or DeShawn Watson
has it, but this year he's been really real.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
But you also lost those games early, so we stopped
paying attention to that.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
And Dabbo when Dabo's complaining about the portal and and
I can't do this anymore and I can't recruit. Oh,
poor me, poor me. Oh here they are in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Did the money today?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean you got to get
somebody at least. I mean, maybe Dabbo was Bry his
phone when they called, I got one. But Clemson is
playing really well. And I'll tell you what. Clemson's gonna
air it out because Texas run run defense is really good. Right,
You're not gonna run on them because nobody runs on Texas.
But Clemson's gonna air it out. Club Nick's gonna have

(21:10):
a big day, and you're gonna see Texas and Ewers
turn it over a few times. Don't be surprised if
this game goes the way and yours is not playing
well that he gets yanked and Manning goes in like
this is one of those games where they have not
been They have not been elite for at least the
last month. And I don't think you get well against

(21:31):
on the against one of the hottest teams in college
football that can put a lot of points on the board.
So give me Clemson and the upset. I don't need
the points. I mean, I'll take them, but I don't
need him because on the field, club Nick has a
big day, he goes for three hundred, and Clemson has
the big upset.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Tomorrow, and by the way, you're gonna take the thirteen
and a half. I mean, on the field, I'll.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Take the points, but I'm not gonna need him. I
didn't say I'm I'm not gonna need the points and
I'm not gonna take them. I said, I'm not gonna
need the points. I'll take them, but I'm going Clemson
on the field.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
I do dig that. The one that's curious to me,
and this is the the pucker up and everybody doing
their best defense of oh it was unfair, and the
expectations and all like, shut up. You spent a lot
of money. You have a twenty five million dollar roster.
You bring in chip Kelly. You're supposed to be a wizard.
So for Ryan Day, Yeah, it is put up and

(22:21):
put up or shut up. Their seven point favorites at
home forty six. My fear is that Tennessee is not
going to be able to travel well right, neutral field whatever,
Yeah great here, No that perhaps there's a bit of
an issue. But they're getting seven and looking at perhaps
with the pressure on them, that the offense sputters a

(22:41):
bit right. They take a couple of chances early get
out of sorts, opening the door for Tennessee to come
in and take it. Tenned two second in the sec
good balance in terms of what their offense was over
the course of the year, a lot of key component
parts to both right, the running game had multiple A
lot of guys carried the ball for them successfully this year,

(23:05):
to the tune of over five yards per carry, averaging
about twelve yards per reception. So move the chains, take
care of business. Tennessee goes in and takes down Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh look at you. Oh my good. You just said that.
Every Ohio State fan just said. Yeah, but it doesn't
matter because I don't care because we lost to Michigan.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if we I don't
really care about this game. We lost to Michigan. Seats
over doesn't matter, making no difference.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
It's just a question of since that loss. You'd love
to have one of these documentaries that we keep seeing
all over the place.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Shoe chill, Let's get.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Behind the scenes of this team, that team. Here's a
day in the life of some NFL legend. Let's go
back and look at the life and career of Olway
or whomever else this is like. Let me get a
helmet cam and watch this thing unfold over these last
couple of weeks, because I gotta imagine it is not
a comfortable environment. No, no, I.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Belive the best thing for Ohio State. I firly believe
this is that they need this game. They need go
get this game. More detail coming up in a bit,
but they need a game, right like, they need to
play a game. They need to not sit back and
listen to what everybody is saying and hear fire right
to keep Ryan Day, have the ad talking about Ryan
Day's status and all. They need to play a game

(24:21):
because this is the most talented. The reason it's one
hundred million dollar roster. What do they say, one hundred
million dollar roster for a reason. They're a great team.
And beginning of the year, I said, if Ohio State's
not playing for the national championship, something is wrong. They
can right all their wrongs in this playoff, but they
need a game now. There is no team then more
desperate need of playing than Ohio State. Because they need

(24:41):
to flip that narrative from hey, we lost to Michigan,
it was a bad end of the season. How did
we do this again? The flag planting stuff, the pepper
spray with the players. They need to play and a
w and suddenly that good feeling comes back and things
will be great for Ohio State. They gotta play.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Can they protect? That is the ash in Tennessee twenty
nine sacks on the season. Offensive line has been a
little leaky for Ohio State. Did they short up? Were
they able to find the buttress? Buttress for the playoff game?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Now?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Butcher's one of my favorite I like buttress, good word.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Butcher's is a good word. I like, but I would
like to use that more. But I I, you know,
I feel weird that people would go oh oh, like like,
instead of being a funny word, some people would think
it was a really bad word and get offended, which
is I'm like.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, oh, just because you're butt, just because you're an idiot,
and you get offended. Yeah, definitely not wrong, I said,
but I'm not saying, Jason oh, I was talking to
the people that would be offended by uh.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
I take it back.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Then, how much is Frostburg still? I think Frostburg's drunk
from that Charger game last night. He kept me with
a with a big bottle with a big forty eight
corps like going ready.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Well show your catch, free kick your face, dicker the kicker.
We got more coming up in ninety seconds.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
But First, let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sportswomen. Who wore a black protective mask to
work tonight to protect his face from an injury. As
he is returning to the lineup here at Fox Sports Radio,
it's Steve the Sager.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, that is a veiled Joel Embiid reference. I can't
see through that much of it. Okay, by the way,
after the sinus fracture, he did return wearing a mask,
and Philly wanted home again. Charlotte one eight ninety eight
is Embiad had thirty four points, nine assists. There were
only three NBA games tonight, Cleveland's twenty four and four
after ripping Milwaukee the one twenty four to.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
One oh one.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
You know, it wasn't that long ago. I saw the
Bucks win the NBA Cup. I thought all was settled
on how great this season was gonna be. And now
tonight they lose by over twenty.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
What's you celebrate the Cup?

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah, like I do most Milwaukee Bucks victories.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Pause, did nause nothing?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, well, clearly, Steve, they peaked with the cup and
now it's all down.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's right, it's all downhill. I mean, did the Lakers
win a title.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Did they follow up?

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Maybe a revisionist history there.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know they've they had Darvin Ham. Maybe Darvin Ham
there coaches right for the Bucks. Maybe he wasn't there.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
He is fourteen to oh after all in Cup play
thunder one oh four ninety seven winners at Miami. Jimmy
Butler left the game due to illness. Luca don Sich
of the MAVs will be out again Saturday with the
bruise heal. And yes, there is a college football playoff
opener going on.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Not much going on in it, quite frankly, but late
third quarter.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Notre Dame is dominating Indiana twenty to three in the cold.
Indiana's quarterback Curtis Rourke was just eighty five yards passing
and the early interception at the two yard line next
play for Notre Dame, and they engineered a ninety eight
yard touchdown run Jeremiah Love. In fact, five carries ninety
two yards in the game, including the ninety eight yard run.

(27:55):
Notre Dame twenty to three late third quarter. By the way,
Number two Georgia off until it's Sugar Bowl quarterfinal New
Year's Night against apparently Notre Dame. The Baltimore Ravens cut
wide receiver Deontae Johnson and wide receiver Nelson Agalore with
a concussion, is out for the Saturday game against the Steelers. Yes,
there are two NFL games tomorrow, including Pittsburgh at Baltimore

(28:16):
on Fox TV four to thirty pm Eastern Time. First
baseman Christian Walker is going to Houston on a reported
three year deal. Among the seven NHL games tonight, Rangers
lead latent regulation at Dallas two to one. Already wins
for Washington and Toronto. And huge news this morning in
Sports TV securing the exclusive broadcast rights in the US

(28:38):
for the next two editions of the Women's World Cup Netflix.
They're not only going to have a couple of Christmas
games in the NFL. By twenty twenty seven, when the
tournament's in Brazil, it'll be only on Netflix. And then
the twenty thirty one tournament, which could have some games
in the US. There might be a US Mexico joint
bid for that one up against England. We'll see, but

(28:59):
Hugh ch news there. I can only hope as a
fan of the US team that they will farm out
US games, at least in group play to a regular channel.
We'll see back to you.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Hi, it's this this Netflix. Yeah. Hi, I was watching
Stranger Things season five, and uh, all of a sudden,
a soccer game came in. I don't want to watch it,
but it keeps saying I can't turn it off. Can
you can you help me out with that? I to
reset my my box or something. It tells me I
have to watch this game. We'd like to watch something else. Okay,
that's great.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
See the promos are already said, running up that hill.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, look, this is look what what what do we
tell you? Right? This goes to something we talked about
for the last three years. Streaming is the future of
sports rights in the United States, and we spend a
lot of time talking about obviously football, baseball, basketball, those
are the big rights.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
But there's still a streaming playoff game for NFL, I
mean streaming only.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah. But what you're you're seeing slowly all of these
different entities and Netflix is Amazon's the ones that we
know are going to be around because some of them,
what what you.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Just wait for the Jets to go back to AOL.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, we're on dial up. We're not even the problem
for forty years. But you see that that not only
are the big streaming giants making inroads with the NFL
a little bit with Major League Baseball, right, Apple Plus
had the big stuff NBA, but now you're seeing like
huge events just just glombed up, Like, oh, Women's World

(30:25):
Cup is a big deal. Yeah, we can bid, we
can have that, We can have that. But I'm telling you,
by the time we get to twenty thirty, twenty thirty two,
all of the I mean, I'll be we'll be lucky
if any stuff is over the air, Like we'll get
the odd over the air games once in a while,
but like you know, for during the week, Like, hey,
ESPN is still gonna have their two basketball games a week,
but yeah, are we gonna get games on NBA TV?

(30:47):
Or is everything gonna be streaming? Like they're making so
much money and the networks are not. And when these
rights come up, it's gonna be Yeah, we we got
the money, we can just bid on this.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
We can just buy.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
We buy whatever we want. And if they get real
chesty about it, we'll just buy that channel. Oh oh, CBS,
you don't want to give to the NFL, We're gonna
buy you. Yeah, we're gonna buy you and that that's it.
We're folding you in down on Netflix like in the
next ten years, like everything's gonna be streaming. We'll get
a little bit of stuff over the air enough to
keep everybody happy, to keep football and different sports on
our TV. But these big rights men, they're all going

(31:18):
to go streaming, every single one.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
See what I had witnessed this and was part of
it from the cable television side when I was some
part of something called the Football Network fledgling operation out
of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, me and Jerry Glanville and Danny Sheridan,
and I forget who the host was the Football Network.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
This is not related two years ago when we had
the Baseball Network, which was fifteen games where you just
saw your own team anyway, but with different announcements.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
No, no, this goes back to you had show that
we were going to be one of the first right
so fantasy and football and whatever, some gambling picks, and
then the idea was they were gonna buy the rights
to NFL films. They were in negotiations for some of
that and for second tier, third tier college football games.

(32:09):
But then everybody realized, wait, there's a bigger market for
all of this stuff. Oh, in the NFL announced NFL Network.
Guess guess what we didn't finish this season?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
No, I remember in fact, well, this is just gonna
be a bad story. So I'm gonna sit on it.
I'm just gonna sit on it. It would be a
bad story for you, So I'm just gonna sit on it.
That story for me, Yeah, yeah, bad story for you.
Nothing bad, nothing effected you. Just a bad story. You're like, yeah,
there you go. That's Football Network. So I'll just sit
on it. I'll just sit on But coming up next,

(32:41):
we're gonna preview the biggest game of the week in
the NFL, and Justin Frossberg has some special audio for
us coming from last night's Charger game. We're gonna hear
that's everybody's fine, everybody's fine. Wow. Now Frost was gonna
beat you up now on the.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Street for the free kick.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's yeah, it's gonna up next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio My foot to your Face Stup.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live
from the tire rack dot Com Studios. A game that
is slowly making its way to its conclusion. Notre Dame
leads Indiana twenty to three. Twelve minutes ago in the
fourth quarter, would have been a three point lead. Further
for Notre Dame, however, Indiana blocks their field goals, so
they take over down seventeen with twelve and a half

(33:37):
minutes left to go in the fourth Love more on
this game and more college football coming up in a bit,
but we're going to preview the biggest game in the
NFL in a couple of minutes. But first, Justin Frostburg
has some very special audio for us today. You know,
we talked a lot last night about the two big
plays in the Charger win over the Broncos, the free
kickfield goal and then the final player regulation where Harbaugh

(34:00):
just tells Justin Herbert, hey just run around back back
there and then throw it up as high as you
can out of bounds on the last play to let
the clock run out. Great street ball play. Phenomenal play. Uh.
We have special audio, Mike Carmen that Justin Frostburg has
obtained for us. This is Herbert into the huddle before
the final play. That before that final play of the game,

(34:20):
four seconds left. They gotta find a way to kill
the rest of the clock. This is Herbert in the
huddle for the final play. Let's hear its first team
off state. I can put the ball wherever I want to.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
I'm go to rain out here, all right.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Guys, bring it in.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
I can put the ball wherever I want to, Well,
where you want.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Where you want me to throw it, I'll throw it.
I'll throw it just out of bounds so it lands
in the white part of the out of bounds right
off the field. I can do that. I'll throw it
over mountain. Whatever needs to happen. Coach put me in
the fourth quarter we to one state.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
I'm telling you, I'm gonna throw it straight through these
center and the eye of the video board in midfield.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
The only thing that could have been better on that throw, Jason, Yeah,
as if it hit Sean Payton on its way down.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Look out, Coach couch Couch.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
See you keep telling me I'm I'm the problem, Coach
couch Couch that I'm some of it. But come on now,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Think see the thing is. I don't think that. I
think everybody in the stadium was watching that ball go wow,
that's so high. Wow, where's it gonna come down? Everybody. Oh,
it's gonna come down right now. I'm not watching, not watching,
not watching. I think everybody saw.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
What is kind of laughable, though, is show me you've
watched no Charger games without telling me you've you know,
watched no Charger games all season before last night, because
all of a sudden, it's see Justin Herbert's really good.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah. I think people thought maybe he wasn't as good
because he wasn't as big a part of the offense.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
But I mean clearly you see, Hey, they need to
really rely on him more. You do what you're ass
to do. And in a game like this where the
defense fell down early, just like they did on Sunday,
yeah he rose up.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I I kind of I kind of backed into
that prediction, getting that prediction right last night because it's
gonna be a low scoring game, they're gonna win.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
No, no, no, no, it's not exactly went at all
of it.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Defense didn't look good. The offense bailed them out in
the second half. But it doesn't matter and win's a win, right,
Win's a win.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, and Peyton bailed them out by you know, calling
passing plays in that final possession of the first half.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Now, speaking of coaches game of the week this week,
really there's two of them. There's one in the AFC,
one in the NFC. But the Steelers and the Ravens.
The Ravens absolutely need this game if they're gonna have
any hope of winning the AFC North. And I'll tell
you what if I if I have said this week,

(36:51):
I'm I'm just not in on Pittsburgh. I'm not in
on them. I don't think they're that good. They're limited.
They're winning, but they're really just wait, I'm waiting for
the balloon to pop on them a little bit, and
it sort of is. But they're still winning games. You know,
there's still but Russell Wilson's not an incredible quarterback. Russell
Wilson's been playing Okay, it's been a lot of yak
for the most part. This has not been Oh, he

(37:13):
has rediscovered an unbelievable form. No, he's been a little
bit better than expected. And they're getting by with a
great defense. But they're dinged up and if I'm not
in on Pittsburgh. I sure as hell I'm not in
on this game at Baltimore. All Right, Lamar Jackson has
to take this week, and I'm sure he will. He's
got to take this personal, right, He's got to have
the Jordan iPad. I'm taking this personal, my failure against

(37:36):
the Steelers. I am taking this personal. For all the
questions of not finishing that the Ravens have. Baltimore is
gonna start to peak right now, at the absolute right time.
Right they made the big move today.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
We didn't know what they were gonna do with Deontay Johnson.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
They waived him. Yes, they're struggling at receiver this.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Week, but he's non factor. He's been a distraction for
the media.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
But Agalare is sitting to and Bateman is dinged up.
He was in a walking boot, and so they're keeping it.
They're doing a lot of gamesmanship, but it really doesn't matter.
This is a Lamar Jackson week and he this is
a week where he makes the MVP race interesting. Like
everyon wants to give it to Josh Allen's Oh look
at what he's like, But Lamar Jackson might start to
make it interesting. The rest of the way, because I'll

(38:24):
tell you what, they win this game on Sunday, they
roll the rest of the year, and they win the
AFC North. I'm in on Baltimore on Sunday. I'm in
on them the rest of the regular season.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Five touchdowns against eight picks in his career against the
Steelers make it two and six as the pic total rises.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Look at you, you you're just your your anti John Harbaugh.
Why I don't know, because if it's anti John Harbaugh,
brothers a Jim Harbaugh, Frostburg will get mad. You.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
No, I do radio in Baltimore every week. Why would
I want to mat doesn't matter what you can like
other people too, doesn't one guy? Look in the end,
you've got a history and a track record that speaks
for itself. Now, obviously you have a difference maker potentially
and Derrick Henry, and maybe you can get something going
in the ground game, But I just don't trust the

(39:12):
passing game right now. Just don't trust what I've got there.
And you know you can talk about YAK and yards
after contact and all that stuff on the Steeler side,
it's how you win football games. Throw the guy into space,
let him go and get it now. Missing George Pickens
for another week. I mean, you don't have to deal
with him crying that he's not getting the football, but
he's not out there at least making the safety be honest.

(39:35):
So yeah, there's a bit of a problem there. But
looking for the Steelers to take advantage of what has
been a suspect Baltimore defense all year long. A couple
of those moon balls land and let's let's go to
the kicking game. I'll take anybody right now over Justin Tucker.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Wow, anybody, No, this is this is this is Lamar Jackson.
He is the best player on the field. He reminds
everybody of that. He reminds everybody how good he is.
This is Lamar. This is Lamar taking some MVP consideration
away from your guy, Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Well, he'll throw for better than forty eight point five
percent of his completion rate. Maybe coming up.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Next more from the Big Day of college football going
on tonight and tomorrow. Fox.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Fox Sports Radio, Oh a Christmas song for all of us?

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Who is Jason Creator Nickelback?

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Is this? No?

Speaker 3 (40:44):
No, I think it's Creed, No, it's not Creed.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Spice girls, oh spy, Oh yeah, yeah, I could tell
you know, that was Ginger Spice singing. You're right, you're right,
it was Ginger spicy.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Well spicy, right, Uh, very very spicy Ginger spice.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah, she was very spicy.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
She was my favorite of all the spice girls.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Spiceys did you buy?

Speaker 1 (41:04):
I like, as far as you know, I haven't bought
any of them. No, Ginger Spice and Baby Spice. They
are my two favorites I had. Like Posha, I was like, yeah,
everybody loved Pasha. I'm like, no, I like Ginger and
Baby better than I just did. Yeah, it was as soon.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
As you dialed up the baby, just keep it a
ginger like you were going to be left let off
the hook, and then and then you went too far.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
She was that was posh.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Oh yeah, she's she's yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
I remember. I remember when they brought in sweaty spice.
That was really that was a big one. Yeah, Sweaty
Spice was it was very difficult. Uh where do we
sit right now? Well? Indiana. I got good I got
double good news for Indiana. I mean, it's not gonna matter,
but I have double good news for Indiana. Indiana on

(42:00):
a last gas drive gets in the end zone for
a touchdown. They got the two point conversion. It is
a two score game. Twenty seven to eleven on sidekick
for Indiana is recovered by Indiana. A really awful effort
by Notre Dame on the on sidekick, like they were

(42:22):
waiting for the ball to come to them, and Indiana
went up and got it. So now the Hoosiers have
the ball again. It's a two score game and two
to two point conversions. There's a minute thirteen left and
Indiana has the football facing a second and twelve, So
we're gonna have to play this thing out a little
bit more to the end, but in the end, Notre
Dame is gonna wind up winning this game again. It's

(42:43):
a twenty seven to eleven lead, second and twelve for Indiana.
They're at their own forty eight yard line with event
one thirteen left to go in the game.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
They gotta have a little bit of a chaos factor
to things. It was the straight lines, like, hey, get
the viewers to come back, Hey.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Boy, if they at the on side kick, hey, call back,
come back. Eventually we're there's gonna be for your phone,
Like you're like, there's gonna be some sort of AI
where you're gonna get like a phone call from an
automated type thing going hello, Jason, tune back into Notre
Dame in Indiana. The Indiana Hoosiers just executed and on

(43:20):
side kick and have the football now back with a
minute thirteen left to go, go turn the game back on.
Like eventually that's gonna happen, Like it's gonna be able
to come right to your phone in a text or
a phone call.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
We already get the updates. We're gonna have a text.
I mean you can set up alerts so change of possessions,
big plays whatever. You're gonna get.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Phone calls and you're gonna get phone calls and personalized
stuff like from hey, you know what, want to call
me with updates? I want Chris Berman to call me.
So you're gonna get AI Chris Berman to call and
go and turn on your television so you could see
who's your daddy's right now with the football against the
fighting Irish spring in their step Okay, I know, turn

(43:57):
the game out, Okay, click and you're gonna We're gonna
get that eventually.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Is you have to pay by the minute for a service,
because Berman with the nicknames could really drag that. Damn.
That call was nine minutes.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
And it's the life of Riley Leonard to Okay, click okay,
click click click uh. Joining us now on the hotline
for the end of this game is take a look
at what would be next for Notre Dame and what
we're going to see tomorrow. The owner, editor, proprietor of
College Footballnews dot com, You're one stop shopping for everything
college football, all the picks, all the analysis, all the prognostications.

(44:34):
It is pete futech pete. What's happening?

Speaker 7 (44:36):
Bud Well, Indiana is making this interesting for those who,
you know, maybe got a wacky number when the mine
first came out. But but but you know, and that's
what it's all about, right and that's what But no,
I'm doing all right, how you guys been?

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Uh? Look what you know, I feel like I'm warmer
than everybody at this game, Like I feel by just
look at this game. I go everybody's just cold and
can't wait for it to end.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
They just I'm sorry, it's just I live here. I
live here. It's a stupid place to live. It just is.
It's just the home Midwest. I'm in puning a section
of the country.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
It's just dumb.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
It just everybody should live in San Diego or you know,
Miami Beach or someplace warm where it's nice. You have
to deal with this, But no, you know, we are
lucky because what I don't want and I like, you know,
I grew up here and all that. I kind of
dig the whole optics of you know, when it's snowing
and you know people it's like, but you don't want
these games to be decided by teams that don't have footing.

(45:33):
You know, you don't want you don't want something quirky
or fluky that happens. You don't want to see them
playing a dome. So this is about, right, This is
about you know, it's the cold weather game. There are
elements to deal with here, but not enough to really matter.
So this is about its ideal as it gets. You
don't want to play this thing in a you know,
driving snowstorm or something like that. So that turned out

(45:54):
to be right, and then look, you know, it's hilarious
about this one game is all of a sudd Now
the Big ten is awful. They're gonna lose all their games.
In Indiana, who was overseeded by like two spots, played
a Notre name TEENA was underseated by two spots, And look,
we just saw what happens when you get three weeks
off to rest and fully focus and prepare on one

(46:17):
team who's got a lot less talent than you do.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Pete, you believe it in Notre Dame anymore after this
game or is it still you know, maybe I still
little need to show a little bit more.

Speaker 7 (46:28):
I don't believe that they can get away with this.
Riley Leonard his stats are going to be fine. He's
got to be sharp against Georgia. And I kind of
I've said this to you guys all along in this season.
I kind of think that you put Georgia and Ohio
State in the same bucket, even if Carson Beck isn't
going for the dogs where they are those that NBA

(46:48):
team that the NBA teams that just were like, I
don't care give us the sixth seed in the NBA playoffs, Well,
then will be little warriors. Just get us in there
and we'll then turn it up a notch. And then
I just say, he can't have a mediocre downfield passing
game against Georgia. You're gonna have to be able to
open up because you're not gonna be able to outphysical

(47:09):
to dogs and run like nor Dame's been doing over
pretty much the most of the season, including tonight against
the Hoosiers.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Now, even if the Hoosiers were overmatch, right, you reference
the points bread seven was the was the line as
it rolled up. I was surprised we didn't get more
creativity from from Signetty, you know, and that punt and
all that stuff, like all of it says, you know,
you were the got brash talking guy, Pete, and then
when it came time to play you weren't they.

Speaker 7 (47:35):
Blew it on the punt. I mean, you gotta you're
the all time playing with house money team. I mean,
no one's thinking you're gonna do it, and no one's
dogging you if you don't, you know, make it from
midfield and fourth and ten. But but don't kick it,
don't don't play field position, Especially when nor Dame's been
draining the clock on you all night. What they needed
to do is and they went against type. It was

(47:57):
kind of odd. It was an odd game plan because
they weren't ever going to run on Nordy. But I
guess that they were trying to mix it up and
they're trying to soften them up, and they were setting
things up by doing all those back shoulder fades on
the outside, so they get the plays going on the inside.
We got it. But all year, what was Indiana really
good at? It said getting the ball out of Rourke's
hands fast, just boom boom, boom, boom boom, just up temple,

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go go. And it didn't work on the first drive,
and then they just gave up on it and they
kept trying these long plays where you know, he just
didn't get a time against the Irish defensive front, and
you know that that sort of works. So let's see now,
I mean, they get a couple of weeks to rest,
they're not going to have Carson Beckett Georgia and they're
going to try running about Georgia has been ify all

(48:41):
year in a lot of different ways, and so yeah,
I'm not I'm not just going to automatically assume that
Nordian doesn't have a you know, a forty seven percent
shot of pulling this off.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Pete you tech our guess. College Footballnews dot Com Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the Tirech dot com studios. All right,
so now away from this game, we get to the
full the full slate of games tomorrow. And if I'm
looking for an upset somewhere, I keep looking at Clemson
in Texas because I go, man, Texas might be running
out of gas. The offense has not been what it is.

(49:13):
Clemson is hot club. They're gonna throw it because you
can't run on Texas. And I can see yours with
a couple of turnovers, arch manning and desperation, and you know,
Dabbo complaining about how college football is and he's waltzing
into the next round of the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (49:28):
What I can't see, and this is what scares me.
I can't see that at all. And I really well,
because remember last year I could not at all, in
any way, in any scenario see Washington beating Texas in
the college football playoffs, and I find it. But yet
Texas somehow managed to do it where they biffed it
that badly by forgetting that Oh yeah, maybe we should.

(49:52):
You know, let Quinn you were cook a little, let
him throw and you know, just get him going. And
they didn't do it until it was way too late.
It's they're gonna blow it at some point. It's either
gonna be tomorrow, or it's gonna be you know, in
the next round, or I think they get out. This
is the one game I'm pretty sure of here, Like
I could, I could see SMU getting some quirky hot thing,

(50:14):
But then I do think tonight's kind of a foreshadow
of what we're about to see where the Penn State
talent just comes up big and just says, you know what,
we're Penn State, you're not, and you King Kong thunder
on them a little bit here. I don't Clemson just
isn't that great. So it's gonna have to take Texas
biffing it, which they are not above doing, to blow

(50:37):
this game. Because this game I see is probably being
the worst of the three.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Well, how about the nightcap. We've got Tennessee about a
touchdown underdog at Ohio State Ryan Day. All the swirling
rumor conjecture speculation of who would look good in a
good Ohio State sweatshirt or sweater. If you were to
lose this one, you look great.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
And is Marcus Freeman if they they already side, I
mean that they figured that. I think it seemed like
some agent talked to Nordam and figured this one out
and said, you know what, if if right they were
to lose this, Marcus Freeman former Ohiose State Buckey would
probably be a good option there. So let's get this,
give this lock him up a little, let's just give

(51:21):
him a little more money to make him happy. So
uh yeah, you know that's the big one. I mean,
that's it is kind of weird because that game seems
like an announce like wait a minute, Okay, you know
that SMU and tenn State's cute, and whoever gets there
is on a state next is fine, and Boise State's fine.
But this is Tennessee and Ohio State. This is literally
adults table, you know, this is this is kind of

(51:43):
it shouldn't It should not be happening in the first round, right.
This just seems like it should be a you know,
a second round game or that we should be getting
later on. But let's see what Tennessee can do. I
will not the one shocker would be is if these
two started, you know, going hag with Herns eighty five
in this and just started training big off getting shots
at each other. I think it's gonna be low scoring.

(52:05):
Both these defenses are going to take over. And I
do think that again, three weeks off the Michigan game
in the rearview mirror, I've been waiting for this Ohio
State team to show up and do what they're supposed
to do. I think this might be it.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
You know, And the thing is, Bet you talked about, hey,
this is a game at the adults table. Is it's
not a big adults table, you know, Like it's not
like there's a lot of teams where you say, hey, okay,
after this week, here's all the heavyweights, because you know, look,
Boise State is seated third, Georgia is not going to
have their quarterback, and so anything can happen there as
good as Oregon is being undefeated. I know we've talked about,
yeahs Oregon really that good. So I don't know that

(52:42):
there's a big there's a big adults table in Ohio.
State can still easily make this a situation where they're
right where we thought they were at the beginning of
the season where if they're not playing for the national championship,
something's wrong.

Speaker 7 (52:54):
Oh, I'm un changed from January of you know, almost
ten months, eleven months ago. I'm still sticking with my
Ohio State versus Georgia for the national title. No reason
change that from there. But you'd say that, But as
we speak, somewhere out there, if you listen really quietly,
someone just popped the bubble bottle of the really good

(53:14):
stuff that it's Notre Dame Georgia over there in the
ESPN executive studios as opposed to Indiana Georgia, because this
would have been, you know, if Indiana had pulled this off,
this would have been the NCAA tournament situation where we
have Central Directional State beating Duke in the second round
and I'll show you a ninety five thirty you know
score coming up next, or TCU Georgia from a couple

(53:36):
of years ago. I think now nor name Georgia is
a thing. All of a sudden, the ratings goes through
the roof Indiana Georgia. You'd see after about two drives,
it's like, yeah, no, that's not happening.

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Speaker 7 (54:01):
Man, we'll talk to you absolutely. Yeah, guys, have a
great weekend.

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Speaker 1 (54:13):
Joining us now on the hotline after a victorious twenty
seven to seventeen win, notere to name linebacker Jack Kaiser, Jack,
congratulations on the win.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Can you guys hear me?

Speaker 3 (54:24):
You got Jack?

Speaker 1 (54:25):
And here you fine? You got us? Okay?

Speaker 5 (54:28):
What what'd you say?

Speaker 1 (54:29):
You got us?

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Okay, yep, I got you awesome. Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Welcome man, God ADMT.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Is there like a big Is there like a big
party in the locker room now? Like after winning? Like
is that why you have trouble hearing?

Speaker 6 (54:39):
Like?

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Is there all chaos behind you?

Speaker 7 (54:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (54:42):
It's you know, guys are having good time. So it's
a big win, big win for the program, and we're
certainly excited.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Where we going to go, well, you get to win
the battle for the state of Indiana. But a dominant performance.
You guys really limited a squad. A lot of squawking
coming into this one, Jack.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
Yeah, yeah, but you know, we were focused on ourselves,
focused on process of preparation and knew that that would
you know, be the key to the game.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
How much did you want to play this game? You
were missed? You were Indiana, mister football, Like, how bad
did you want to play Indiana in the playoff?

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (55:15):
I mean being an Indiana guy getting to play pretty
early in the season and then you know, having a
chance to play Indiana Hoosiers in the postseason, Like, that's
a it's a you know, huge honor and you know
a big deal for me and for my family and
then to you know, get wins in both games and
kind of, I guess claim the state championships. You could say,
pretty awesome. Yeah, it's pretty awesome experience.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Hey, you take it. You took it both down. So
there you go to represented.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Yeah, like Indiana State Champs twenty twenty four. I can
wear that T shirt.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Every day, right exactly.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, Well, there's still plenty of business to attend you
but on this night. Were expecting more gadgetry or explosiveness,
Like you guys controlled things pretty early on the exception
of that laid flurry.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
Yeah, I think, you know, we were able to control
the run game for the most part, and you know,
really force them to take the shots downfield, and we
trust our guys in the back end, you know, to
be able to go up and get those fifty fifty
balls and make plays. And so that's certainly what happened.
You know, we got them behind the sticks early and
I think that helped us a lot. But yeah, certainly
wish to we finished the game better. But you know,

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we played really well.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Well at what point did you know, hey, we have
this game under control defensively?

Speaker 5 (56:31):
I mean, I think you know, from the very first possession,
you know, we got the interception early on, and our
offense was able to you know, score really quick and
and you kind of knew. You kind of had that
feeling like, all right, you know, we know exactly what
they're doing, we know where we need to be. You know,
our preparation really kicked in, and I think you know.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
We had a lot of confident now Jack, watching this
thing unfold, and you know, I'm a I'm a native
Chicago and a lot of Notre Dame fans and been
around that that stadium a few times. What was the
environment like compared to a normal, you know, home game.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
For you you could tell that, you know, Notre Dame
nation really wanted this one. The rally tweles and just
the support the player walk coming into the stadium was
this unbelievable. And then you know, before there was even
a snap taken, you know, it was the stadium was rocking.
And so just to have an environment like that and
to see how much this means the Nere Dame faithful,

(57:29):
it was a big deal and hopefully that becomes the standard, right,
that becomes the norm. But it was a very surreal environment.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Now, you said after the game, hey, I've spent a
quarter of my life here at Notre Dame and you
hold the record. No one's played in more games in
the history of the school than you did. Anything special
walking off that field, you know, for the last time
and anything. What went through your head thoughts you had
at that moment.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
Yeah, I mean, if you know, you know Notre Dame
home games, we've seen the alma mater and the student
section end zone, and so you know we're seeing the
I'm a monitor. I'm just taking the moment in looking
up at the students, looking up at the fans, just
understand how much you know, one, you know, a game
like this means them, but also you know what Notre
Dames meant to me, and like you know, I've been
here six years, a quarter of my life, and just

(58:13):
everything Notre Dame is going to do for me in
the future. And then walking up though, you know the
famous Notre Dame tunnel, back to the staircase and kind
of turn around, getting one last glimpse in the field.
That was pretty special and uh so, yeah, that's something
I I'll remember forever. And yeah, it's tough understanding that
this is the last game in such a historic stadium,
but uh it was certainly a great run.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Well, Jack, congratulations on the wind. When do you start
prepping for Georgia?

Speaker 7 (58:41):
Oh right away.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
No, we'll celebrate this one tonight and then you know
tomorrow is straight onto business. So we're certainly excited for
the opportunity.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
All right, Well, congrats on the win. We'll see on
New Year's Day on the field. I have a great one.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
Appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
All right, there goes Notre Dame Captain Jack. I mean,
think about it. No one has played more games in
the history of Notre Dame football than Jack Kaiser from
Indiana gets to go out this way.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
This is this is like story bug, but this has
just got a little bit of everything to it, right.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Yeah, I mean it's amazing thinking being an Indiana guy,
being mister Indiana football. And then I get to go
to Notre Dame and play and not only do I play,
I play in the more games than anybody in the
history of the school. We've been playing football since sixteen
hundred and I play in more games than anybody in
the history of the school. And I'm a captain, and
we get to win this game, and I get to
walk off, and we get to beat Indiana in the

(59:36):
last game that I'm gonna play here and be and
and and go on to the playoff. Like that's like
I mean, man, I mean, I know you have the
play more of the playoff coming up here, but individually,
that stuff I think about every day for the rest
of my life.