December 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason & Mike react to the College Football Playoff Opener between Oklahoma and Alabama after the Tide fight back against the Sooners! The guys also take a look around the upcoming college football games this weekend and which college QB has a chance to really set himself apart from all the rest!
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Just under eleven minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma,
after they led this game seventeen nothing, then trailed twenty
seven to seventeen, got back up off the mat with
a big touchdown drive. But they have it right now
deep in their own territory, still trailing Alabama twenty seven
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to twenty four. And I know there's gonna be purists
that are gonna point out things, but I gotta say,
this game, with all its mistakes and momentum swings and
drop passes and crazy penalties and bad coaching decisions, this
is everything you want out of a college football playoff game.
Out You're getting all kinds of drama and stuff you
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can question. You're wondering what the hell is going on
with some of these teams. Coaches are screaming at the officials.
I mean, this is this is everything you want. Man
is f It's not perfect, but it's rock and roll
and that's what this is.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's Andrew Lincoln with the Q cards and he's looking
at Kieran Knightley going to me, you are perfect, right,
because that's the beauty of it, all of the imperfections,
all of the em and flow, the blown lead, the
guy dropping a punt as he's walking towards it and
(02:03):
he picks it up and then eventually he does actually
get it blocked.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But but you have that, you have big plays.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You had the coaching debacle, right, we argued about whether
you should have thrown a flag there. You also had
another play on the sideline ahead of a big Alabama
possession right off a punt where dude's just standing on
the sideline, the returner runs into him and he gets
flagged for fifteen yards.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So you've just had chaos left and right and a
lot of handwringing, and certainly people in Michigan. I'm sure
you're getting texts from all of your extended family.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
What the hell's going on? Man? Are we getting a
coach tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Or what who are we getting? We get? I think
Michigan's gonna be getting a coach over the course of
the next twenty four hours. And it's either gonna be
Caitlin de boor or it could be Brett Vnables if
Olklahoma blows this lead and loses, or it's gonna be
Kenny Billyhan. But they will have a coach this weekend.
This is also odd coach this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, just back to the game.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
On the third down play, Matier just threw a ball
off Lawson's face. Yeah, I want to say, Helm and
Cam of what he saw.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He had to turn his head to because the ball
was the ball was streaming right at him, like Matier, look,
and I'm glad you brought this up. Because look right now,
what we're seeing in a twenty seven to twenty four
game hasn't been a great night for ty Simpson. No,
he's had an okay night. Now. He's been victimized by
a lot of drops. There were There are at least
three or four drops that I can remember off the
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top of my head, where wow, it could have been
a couple more touchdowns on the board for Alabama. But
still Alabama's offense hasn't been great. Matier has not been great.
You know, He's got a couple of touchdowns, but still
some of the passes he's thrown, it's like, wow, you
know he threw a he just threw the pick right now,
as we said that, it wound up getting just hitting
a defensive lineman in the head basically on the goal line.
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We almost saw a replay last night. I was waiting
for Zach Scharbay to come and pick up the football
and just stand in the end zone with it. But
like the thing is is that this is not just
college football playoff weekend, and there are some guys with
a lot of stakes going on, and especially the quarterbacks
who in a year where yes, Bernando Mendoza wins the
(04:08):
Heisman Trophy. Who are the guys at the top of
the draft of quarterback like that's still out, Like that
jury is still out. You're really gonna take Fernando Mendoza
at the top or does he have to prove it
to you over the course of the playoff as well?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
How high are you going to take some of these guys?
And right now, Simpson and Materia are not really winning
a lot. They are just you know, they're playing okay,
But neither of these guys. You're coming out of this
game saying, oh man, hey, yeah, these guys got to
move back up. Right, Simpson was a top five pick
for a while. Now he's he's fallen off me. He's
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the sixth guy on a quarterback board, the guy to
watch out for, and he's got a great matchup this week. Obviously,
I'm not gonna pretend to tell you how good I
think James Madison is. But the guy that's going to
rise the most and who has the best possibility of
moving up and being the number one pick in the
draft is Dante Moore. Okay, Oregon should roll through these
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next couple of games because maybe they're the second best
team in the country. Right, their only loss was to Indiana,
who's the number one team in the country. So maybe
we're kind of sleeping on Oregon a little bit. They'll
get a rematch with Indiana in the Semis. Dante Moore,
I'll tell you this, He'll be my guy that shoots
the top of NFL draft boards because this is now
a time because of what we still the lack of
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huge success we've seen during the regular season from the quarterbacks.
Because look, we're coming out of this where hey, this
crop of quarterbacks is not we think it's gonna be.
And yeah they're gonna be guys taking high in the draft,
but yeah they're not what we think they're gonna be.
We're looking forward to twenty twenty seven more than anything else.
There is room for somebody to get hot in a
playoff and rise up to the top. And Dante Moore
has that chance. He's got got a chance for the
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highlight plays against James Maddis the next couple of games.
He can make any throw, he's athletic, he's smart. Of
all the quarterbacks in college football now who could be
top picks in the NFL, he seems to have the
biggest toolbox that you need and serve. He has the matchups,
he has the narrative, and teams are looking right now, hey,
who's our guy that's going to step up in a
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big way? Right? Trevor Lawrence shot to the top of
everybody's draft board as a freshman because he had a
big game in the National Title game when everybody else
when Clemson was absolutely loaded. And hey, here's Trevor Lawrence
hitting guys in the back of the end zone and
throwing on the run. So the door is opened for
somebody to jump up draft boards and be that number
one quarterback. And look you see Simpson and a teer tonight,
neither guy going crazy with it. Dante Moore is going
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to be that guy that people are going to fall
in love with, and he's going to be someone to
rise up to the top ahead of Fernando Mendoza, and
he'll be the guy at the top everybody's draft chart
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, and the current drive, Simpson made a big thrown
down the sideline. Now they had a contested one where
the receiver comes back through the defender. But we're looking
at a goal to go situation. But certainly you have
the opportunity based on the current board, right, because all
of a sudden, everybody hates every quarterback. Right, this was
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supposed to be a great Now we're looking ahead to
twenty seven. Now the nil world, I think ultimately is
going to give us the gift that because guys can
make money and bounce around and make a lot of money,
guaranteed in that moment, in that year, that we're going
to get better quarterbacking and guys are gonna stick around longer.
So we don't have the handwringing over the handful of starts,
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because I'm wondering if that for Dante More isn't something
that comes into the equation. Now, he's acquitted himself brilliantly,
as you said, eight point seven yard per attempt, seventy
three percent completion rate, can make all the throws, has
the big arm. Some questions about his footwork, We'll get
into that in the full draft evaluation. I'll certainly be
(07:42):
leaning on Coast Sell and we'll make him stay up
late East Coast time to join us as we get
ready for draft prospect processing. But he's only got seventeen
starts under his belt right between his time at UCLA.
That evidently is what made Troy Aikman mad when he left.
I cut a check, I get a thank you. Yeah,
he organ sits damn gamy as the big year this year,
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twenty four touchdowns against five picks. But as we watch
every draft season, whether he goes and he clipses Mendoza,
because right now, Mendoza had about as perfect a season
as you could and I don't mean that just because
of their record. Also, when you look at Pavia and
the buffoonery around the Heisman ceremony or whatever else, this
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is a guy that's you know, hosting toy drives for kids,
talking about his mom, talking about his upbringing, talking about
persevering going to Indiana and having the huge year that
he did. You know, it's one of those guys he
checks every box that you can coming into the league.
When you're looking at all, right, this guy can become
immediately the face of our franchise and we get him
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in the community, all of those things. But we know
the way the draft works is the guy that's the
hot guy now doesn't necessarily always get to get take
that to the post because we will have plenty of evaluation. Certainly,
the playoffs system does that for us to a degree,
But you got months of picking guys apart what they
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do well, what they don't. But what we do know
is NFL teams get desperate, and even if there isn't
a quote crop a ripe crop of five guys, five
guys end up getting drafted. And that is the fundamental
truth of this draft process each and every year.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well that's the best part for a guy like Dante
More or Fernando Mendoza, whoever, Well, Mendoza is coming out obviously,
but look, More would have his chances only seventeen starts.
I get the Troy Aikman, and I understand the whole
philosophy of if you don't have enough starts, you could
wind up not being great. I get that. But I'm
of the philosophy that when the NFL calls for you,
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you go and you run that right now, Dante Moore
or whoever runs a big college football playoff, you'll rise
to the top and you'll get taken high in the
first round. Why because it's not a great year for
co So if the NFL says, hey, you're one of
the top two or three guys, you'll go in the
top seven, top eight Because teams are still gonna take quarterbacks.
(10:08):
Guess what, even with seventeen starts, you kind of have
to go because you don't know what could happen next year.
You're not the shiny new toy. Arch Manning will wind
up coming out. Somebody else can come out and have
a bigger year. Maybe you don't have quite the year
you had this year, and suddenly, hey, you may be
going at the end of the first round or early
in the second round. And if you're early in the
second round, you're not a franchise quarterback. You're not gonna
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get all kinds of chances to succeed. When you come
out and you're drafted seventh overall or fifth overall or
third overall. Guess what, you get two or three years
to make that happen. And you know what, if that
doesn't work, you get chances with other teams to make
it happen because the other teams will think, well, maybe
you just weren't in our system. Because look, guy Baker Mayfield,
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Sam Darnold, all the guys we have seen taken high
in the first round didn't work with their initial teams.
Now are stars with other teams. So you will not
only get the chance to succeed with the team that
drafts you way more you will get a chance with
another team if it doesn't work out. Whereas if you're
just a if you're a second round pick and you
wind up coming out and say, boy, it didn't work
out for me, how long do.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You really have right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, look at a guy like Matt Liner, okay,
who could have come out, would have been the number
one overall pick in the draft, but decides I'm gonna
go back to usc for one more year. What happens
has kind of the same year as he does, you know,
when he wins the Heisman Trophy, but not quite the same.
His pro day was not great. Doesn't go number one,
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he goes number ten. Right now, if you're the number
one overall pick in the draft, guess what, you're getting
the job right away again. All kinds of chances show
that you can do it. But Liner getting drafted number
ten didn't quite get the same amount of time to succeed.
It was a little bit easier for Arizona to turn
the page over to Kurt Warner, who came in a
lot tougher. When you have a number one overall pick
that you are trying to move on from a little
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bit easier when he's the tenth overall pick. So when
the NFL calls, you go, and if this is where
Dante Moore is a big riser, you get, some teams
are gonna say, yeah, we'd like to see you play more.
What does that mean, Oh no, we're still taking you
number two overall. Hey, I'm going to the NFL. Hey,
I'll get all my starts in the NFL. Don't worry
about it, man, I'm good. I mean, this is when
you're at the best chance to succeed and you have
(12:12):
the best chance for prolonged success in the NFL, rather
than by waiting and saying, oh, now I have thirty
starts under my belt and I feel pretty good. Yeah,
but all these guys were better, and and and then
and you got picked early in the second round. Now
now you're on the Jets. Good luck, good luck making
that work. Sorry, Jesus will sideswipe the Jets. But that's why,
you know, it works in a favor for a guy
like More or whoever else wants come out to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I mean you look at and go back to that draft.
I mean that was the draft, I intended, Oh so
it's your fault. Yeah, no, so I go to no,
so I go to that draft lineup. Was the last
guy out of the green room at pick ten. At
pick ten, because they only had a handful of guys.
So the rest of the night was them just doing
trivia questions with a bunch of former Jets and Giants player.
(12:57):
So you want to talk about all the air, meaning
like as soon as the Liner got picked and and
that was a slide, right, a slide to ten, it
became a all right, now what do they do for
the rest of the night because there's nobody else back
there because they didn't want anybody to be embarrassed because
the year before, Aaron Rodgers waited until the backers drafted
him deep into the into the night, right, So it's like, ah, well, nobody,
(13:19):
we don't want anybody to suffer. He was still drafted
in the first round, but it didn't matter, you know,
he was. We don't want anybody to have to go
through that again. So Liner gets drafted tenth, like I'm
just going back through. I mean, he had plenty of
opportunity for several years in Arizona, couldn't stay healthy, the
pieces around him were terrible. Uh, and it ultimately failed.
(13:40):
But fortunately for him, he was still in the the
era of the giant oversized novelty check all.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We got paid that fe yeah, you know, but when
you when you talk about it's a lot easier to Hey,
here's a guy in the first round that, oh, by
the way, not part of the you know, uh, who
is not the preferred quarterback of the head coach. And
I mean really, I mean, he could have wound up
having a better and a different career. He did wind
(14:09):
up being you know, he was there for four years,
but I said, couldn't get on the field. But again,
it's a lot harder to turn the page on a
guy number one overall than is okay, number ten. We tried,
it didn't work. Now, Kurt Warner taking the Cardinals of
the super Bowl, it's a little bit easier to put
But maybe he doesn't get the chance. Maybe or maybe
it's a different team that Matt Liners on and he's
on a he's on a team that is picking him
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at the top of the draft the year before that.
It's a better system for him and he can succeed better.
He stays on the field, like I wonder if that's
something he doesn't ask himself all the time. By I
should I should I shouldn't have stayed, I should have
gone out when win the NFL wanted to me number
one overall, different situation, different team, it could have been
all I could have been still playing in the NFL. Now.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, we all have a lot of things ifs and
buts in our career's, personal lives, etc. That you're like, Yeah,
you know, if I'd taken this, it's sliding doors man,
nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
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swalling down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Commer. Just watch out for Dante More. There's that riser.
Things are getting pretty serious right now. Game one of
the College football Playoff Alabama and Oklahoma. Alabama with a
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touchdown to put that lead back out to ten. They
have the football with just under six minutes left to go.
Oklahoma blew a seventeen to nothing lead. We'll have more
on this game coming up next. Could be talking about
a huge Alabama comeback win and Michigan go blank yourself,
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(15:45):
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the Fox Sports Radio studios. Four twenty four to go
in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma down ten, driving on a
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big third down play mateir hits the receiver just short
of the sticks, and you're thinking, Okay, it's gonna be
a big fourth down play for Oklahoma. Instead, the ball
is popped out. It is ruled a fumble on the field.
Blaylock has it for a split second. Uh, but then
he drops it. Alabama falls on it. The call on
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the field is a fumble and Alabama's football, which pretty
much would end this game. However, they're reviewing it right now,
and I gotta say watching it, it's really.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tough to say that he had the ball.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I have to think this is good. This ball is
gonna go back to Oklahoma and it's gonna be an
incomplete pass.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You see right now, Brett Vnables is running around telling
everbody it's gonna be fourth out.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Gotta play call, it's gonna be fourth out.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I gotta be frantic. Steve Disager in the news at
the news desk, and he is giving me the full
full arm extension like he's got wings for an incompletion.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh. So here we go. It is now the officials
looked at it. Yeah, pretty easy call here. It's an
incomplete pass. So the game in Oklahoma season are riding
on this play, right now again fourth and five. They
had a seventeen to nothing lead over Alabama. Then a
block kick, a pick six, all of a sudden, the
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game is tied. Alabama comes out in the third quarter
like a house of fire. Oklahoma trying to stand up,
but Alabama has just been a little bit too much
everywhere for them. And with Oklahoma chasing ten points with
just a couple of minutes left to go, they need
the touchdown. They need to get the ball back. They
get the big fourth down pass. Gibson catches one in
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the middle of the field. My tier keeps the play alive,
so it's a big first down for Oklahoma, and now
they are inside the Alabama twenty yard or inside the
Alabama thirty yard line again facing a ten point deficit,
but still now things a little bit more tenable for Oklahoma.
Here in the last few minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I'm in course of the game. Thirty two carries just
fifty eight yards on the ground. I had to pull
this back up. I'm like putting my this on, taking
him off from like my seeing the graphic that they're
showing me properly for Matier before that big completion, eighteen
carries eighteen yards. We could have that rushing touchdown early,
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but they've been unable when they had the seventeen point lead,
they were unable to run the ball effectively at all.
And he's scrambling and gets taken down at the line
of scrimmage once again. So final minutes here, absolute tension
and chaos.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Thirty two carries for now thirty three carries for fifty
five yards in a touchdown. I think that was like
Tim high Tower's line with Washington when he had that big,
like half a season run. Is a big fantasy guy
like twelve years ago. Oh but look at Tim Mier's
running for eighty yards a week in a touchdown. Yeah,
twenty eight carries. He's not gonna have to shop much longer.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Hey, man, that's like guys scoring forty points in again,
how many shots he takes?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Sixty?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
John Matteer Now nineteen carries for fifteen yards.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Heye, actually I just got average down.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I was gonna say, hey, eighteen for eighteen Just another
eighty two carries. He's one hundred yard rusher, No ninety
more than that. Night em to run the ball about
one hundred and twenty times to get one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
He's behind the sticks.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now, I tell you nineteen for fifteen and a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
What a wild game though, I mean in fact that
we got fifty eight points. They're moving the ball with
some chunk plays here and material extending, and there have
been moments where both he and Simpson, you're like, all right,
that's everything you thought of, you know, when you start
thinking about pro prospects, and then you've seen some other
decisions Simpson taking some sacks, Materier running around in a
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circle only to get tackled at the line of scrimmage
or three yards behind it as he was out of
his last carry, and you're like, okay, all that goodwill
gets taken out the window.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, this is one. This is one of those cases
where you're like, wow, okay, what to make of all
of this? Man? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It was really sloppy. Sloppy, but we still got thirty
four twenty four. I don't know what big shix. We
got funs, we got interference, we got.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Big grows and big conversions, Cuz they've both been able
to give us some explosive plays on gotta have it moments,
and they're they're gonna settle for the sandel the gros
A winner coming out the big left leg and short pants.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So a field goal would make this a one score
game with just under three minutes left to go.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And woooo, he misses it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He missed it. The gros A winner misses it. He
looked like he shanked it a little bit. It didn't
come off his foot. Well, it was an easy kick.
This wasn't anything that was more than I think it
was a thirty seven yard kick and he just pushed
it off to the left. It looked like it just
hooked through. But watching the replay right now, the ball
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just died and you know, seeing it a second time, O, man,
I only want to see it under the uh under
the post of view on this because it looked like
it might have gone by. But uh oh, that looked
like it was good. Wait a minute, man, that looked
like it was good. Whoa, Okay, they just showed the replay. Wow, yes,
(22:18):
it's I mean, it looked like it was good. But
then again, we're seeing the the camera angle from the
middle of the of the field goal of the crossbar,
so it looked like maybe it was a little bit
more in a little bit more in between the posts.
But man, I'll tell you I'm that on that replay
it looked like it was good, but uh uh you know,
(22:39):
like high yeah wow, And maybe it would look if
you're if if the if we see the camera angle
from just under the the the goal post that it
went over, it would have looked different. But man, it
looked like it snuck in. But maybe we were We
were right in the middle, and that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Tell you what, you know what you know camera angles,
you know like backwards passes on two point conversions and
stuff you just never know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So again, now it looks like this is gonna be
it for Oklahoma, and uh he's on the sideline again.
I'm watching it again, and it looks like the ball
now it looks like it went right over the top.
Now I see this angle that looks like went right
over the top. And now we're seeing the far away
(23:25):
angle and it looks like it's yeah, you know what,
that's one of those well I hate to say this
because Oklahoma fans are gonna hate this, but that's one
of those calls where if they had called it good,
I would say, okay, boy, he barely got it, or
they called it no good. Yeah, it looks like he
missed it like that. That's how I know I found
weird saying that. But like if they called it good
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and say, well, yeah, it looks like you just got
it just like hooked it in. But they could have
called that either way. I really think they could have
called it either way.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
My carbon, I will say this, You went straight Voldemort
right there, spoken like a true politician.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yes, Pa, Yes, I believe you'll be well useful. Uh one,
Here's many things, my love. Whether the truth is among
them is yet to be discovered. But really, I think
they could have called that field goal either way. I
really I if I don't think you, I don't think
you would have had a disagreement either way on it
good or no good.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
See Raybi, we get a renewed In addition to let's
expand the playoffs, we also go to the field goal box,
so we we no longer have the open you know,
open wishbone kind of look to it. No, no, no,
we put it in and you got to kick it
in a box, man.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So we got a lot to break down from this game.
But it looks like it's gonna be Alabama. But I
think Oklahoma's gonna wind up getting the football back. Oklahoma
facing a third and fourteen right now, getting down to
the two minute warning. Uh, they're gonna have to run
the play before the warning. So it's gonna screw Oklahoma
little bit. They're not gonna get that time out, but
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it like they are going to get the football back.
They throw a quick out to Williams. He gains about
six yards. We are at the two minute warning and
they'll be punting it back to Oklahoma, who are gonna
have a ragtag drive down to try to get a
touchdown field goal on sidekick and tie this game.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Can I just go I'm gonna be old man here
on you first? Sure and here Smith. We just chronicled
the Oklahoma rushing attack of their thirty eight carries or
thirty three carries for fifty five yards, Alabama twenty three
for thirty two. Now I've seen, you know, a couple
of runs and some big plays. You know, when he'll
goes into the end zone, I'm thinking of old T TJ.
(25:37):
Yeldon getting in there. I don't know why that that's
deep Yeldon. Yeah, I fixating former Jaguar. I must have
been sorting some cards income across him in an Alabama uniform.
But they've got twenty three carries for thirty two yards
on the game. Yeah, this is not at least both
of these teams. What the hell happened? Embarrassment Street Legacy,
(26:01):
run the damn ball down their droughts.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The total is fifty five carries for eighty seven yards.
That's both of these teams tonight. Fifty five carries for
eighty seven yards.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Fifteen five wasted plays.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Man, I'll tell you look, it's it's a real shock
to see this game go this way after Oklahoma had
the big seventeen to nothing lead again. Steve Desager will
have more on this and what's trending coming up in
a few minutes. We are at the two minute warning,
and unless Oklahoma gets a miracle comeback, Alabama's moving on
and Michigan's gonna have to move on in their head
coaching search. So looking ahead to some of the other
(26:36):
big games this weekend in the NFL, we have a
slew of big games. Last hour, we gave you our
picks for the Chargers and the Cowboys. Also gave you
Jaguars and the Broncos, the Packers and the Bears. Everybody's
favorite game tomorrow. And look, I've been your Chicago whisperer
all year long. Right, I've told you it's the good
(26:57):
times when everybody else is nervous, and I know his
fans waiting for the other shoot to drop. I'm ready
to tell you this. They're gonna win tomorrow. They're gonna
win the NFC North. They're gonna be the number two
seed in the playoffs. Right. That that's what's gonna happen.
That this is how it's gonna go for the Bears.
Everything is lining up for that big win over Cleveland's defense,
(27:17):
right last week, not their offense, big win over their defense.
And what we found out is what we sort of
expected all along in that, Hey, when does the Bears
offense look the best? And it's sometimes it's not about
Caleb Blaiem. It's not about the running attack. And you've
seen this now over the last couple of years. When
Dj Moore gets involved and gets the football, it is
(27:39):
a different offense in Chicago. He didn't get the ball
two weeks ago, one one reception for minus four yards.
You knew they were gonna try to get him the ball.
He's still a great game breaker, and he got the
ball last week, big win. He's gonna be the only
guy him in lovel and the only guy's getting the
ball tomorrow because the dunesa is a lot of injury
bs out. But this is what makes that offense go.
(28:02):
When he gets the ball, the offense revs it up.
It's that silky look at the Bears game production. Green
Bay is still gonna be reeling defensively. You're not worried
about Micah Parsons coming from off the side, you know you.
Bo Callahan's not gotta worry about Vante Matt coming off
the edge. He's gonna be able to play free and
not have to worry about it Tomorrow. Yeah, I'm still
bullish on the Packers overall, but tomorrow, this is the
(28:26):
Bears day. They should have won two weeks ago. They
get the win tomorrow, Big day from DJ Moore. They
know they got to get him the football. Everything is
coming up Bears. They win, They'll win the North, number
two seed in the NFC. Mike Carmon, the good times
are here for you.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Well.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I do like the fact that we did get a
bo Callahan reference in because I tried to feed you
that Chris Paul Halloween.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Story earlier in the week.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
We're only three of his teammates allegedly showed up, and
everybody else more or less said blank this and that guy,
I'm not going. So that's still backdrop if you want
to go back into the chaos that is the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But yeah, when we look at.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
DJ Moore, the over under is four receptions for him
as we look at a depleted receiving court. Look, Caleb
Williams can make every throw. He can also scare you
by trying to make every throw along the way, doesn't
doesn't have the interceptions, but certainly when he misses, nobody's
(29:23):
getting it. So Dj Moore has to be involved here.
You'll see more of Loveland, who's one of your top
tight ends over the last six seven weeks. And the
run game has been fantastic. Remember they traded away their
run stuffer and Michael Parsons is no longer There a
lot of guys on the injury reporters. We talked about
with Jason Cole question of how many of those are
legit and Rob Damofski, who's covered the team forever. He
(29:44):
was on the score in Chicago earlier talking about where
they are, and more of these guys are are more
injured than perhaps you know the gamesmanship of it all.
Jacobs is getting shots to try to have his knee right.
The Whay Watson most likely isn't going to be available,
But you do have Reed, who's picked up ten catches
(30:07):
the last two weeks. But all of that to say,
the opportunistic Bears defense, the run game, what the enemy
and Ben Johnson to put together are too much and
they get a big win at home minus two for
the Bears.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
JO Saturday Night Special.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Bears Bears, Bears, Bears, Everything coming up Bears. Mike Harbon,
You're good, Ben, Everything is Bears Bear.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Look.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I celebrate every one of those wins, There's no question about.
It's a lot of excitement. I know a lot of
family and friends are taking over our favorite pub there
in Chicago. I wish I could be there with him,
because it'll be a glorious celebration of bearsdom, including you know,
the bottle service with the tapwater, because that's just the
way we do things.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So someone who's been called the Ben
Johnson of Fox Sports Radio because when he gets really excited.
He'll take off his shirt and start yelling. It's Steve
this good better best.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
You gotta wait for the cameras to enter the locker room. First.
Of course, we got Alabama winning here.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
For those who saw the first quarter and a half
at this opener of the college football playoff, this is
a shock. We've got just over a minute to goo.
Bama is up thirty four to twenty four, even though
the Sooners led seventeen to nothing early in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Oh, usually just missed again, Sandel just missed it. He
didn't even make it to the goal post. Oh my sorry,
Steve O. I can't he didn't even make it. It didn't
even travel fifty one yards. Oh my goodness. So he
missed the.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Fifty one yarders short of the crossbar. What you referenced earlier,
the missfield goal from thirty six, just missed to the
left of the upright And so yeah, this one's officially over.
It's a ten point Bama lead. They'll get the ball
with just over a minute to go. The yardage advantage
for the Sooners early was one eighty one to twelve.
(31:56):
But it's the other team that's going to be advancing
Alabama will be in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal against number
one Indiana. Boy, what a what a what a blown lead?
Let's put it kindly. Has this ever happened in a
college football playoff game? You ask, Well, actually, only one
team has overcome a deficit of seventeen points to win
(32:17):
a CFP playoff game, and that was Georgia against Oklahoma
in the Rose Bowl after the twenty seventeen season, when
Sooners blew a big lead there and lost in overtime
to the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Is that a note you've already just put aside for
Sunday night? I mean, yeah, if Christy and delivered a plank, yeah, feeling.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
He's probably passing out copies of that right now before
playing from Oklahoma co hosts on Sunday Night. As far
as the yardage that you mentioned, and it's worth mentioning,
my goodness, the rushing totals are microscopic for each team
in college stats, they include the sacks as part of
your rushing total. And there have been nine total sacks
in this game and fifteen tackles for loss totals. So
(33:06):
let's put it this way. Alabama did have one thirty
yard gain. Aside from that, they're gonna win this contest
with twenty four carries and about thirty what thirty two
yards minus the thirty so about two yards rushing aside
from that one cap.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I like that Matthew did the thirty two yards minus
the thirty.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Okay, well, I'm trying to see you if they're gonna
include this last kneel down as part of the because
the I was gonna say, the fans have just rushed,
no wrong stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
The players have just come on.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
The field and silently the fans are exiting in Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
What a crushing end to a season.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The fans tried to rush on the field, they only
got one yard and got stopped, just like it all.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Next question is Alabama gonna get to the Oklahoma logo
at the center and have some fun dancing upon it,
because Oklahoma did win at Alabama about a month ago
twenty three to twenty one, and that was not forgotten
by the Alabama folks. The three other first round games
are on Saturday. That includes number ten Miami at Texas
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A and M and we have in the final NBA
game of the night early fourth quarter and Oklahoma City
lead of eighty seven eighty five at Minnesota. O see
is twenty five and two so far this year. Philadelphia
won at New York won sixteen one oh seven, ending
the next six game winning street victories for Chicago and Boston.
Spurs won their fifth in a row of victory at
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Atlanta one twenty six to ninety eight victor Wiben Yama
twenty six points off the bench.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o uh So.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Alabama headed on in the college football playoffs, so was
Michigan and their coaching search. Coming up next, we'll break
down the two biggest things from this game as we
get set for a huge college football weekend. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:05):
Alabama keeps their coach and Michigan doesn't get him, then
maybe they'll call for venabules. Look at Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
You know I got a Julie song for you that
includes a roll Tide reference.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Wow, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
And then it follows up by saying, if your sister's home,
maybe I'll slide by.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But you know, you know, now that gets a little
that's not really in the Christmas spirit, Mike Harmon, Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It is people getting together.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Find him a little bit of happiness in these holiday
holiday holidays till your sister.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I said, Hi, No, it's not a holidays. Maybe holidays
where you're from. Hey, it's holidays in Chicago. Hey, tell
your sister. I'll be by tonight at like midnight. Yeah,
I'll climb up the fire escape like I normally do,
and then I'll leave in the morning before the bead
gets up and makes call, because that can get a
little awkward.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah. It's from a song called Pantomime. It's got a
great video.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It's kind of in the vein of a Bob Fosse
production kind of thing. But the line is give him
hell roll tide. If your sister's home, maybe I'll stop by.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
So Alabama overcomes a seventeen to nothing deficit to beat
Oklahoma and move on in the College Football Playoff thirty
four to twenty four, and two big things to break
down right now. The next few minutes. We got Pete
Futech coming up in about ten minutes. College football linels
extraordinariy And I'll tell you what, what does Pete futech
(36:37):
always say? College kickers cha cha chaw sandel is the
grows a winner.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Misses two field goals in the final four minutes, won
a gimme from thirty six yards and doesn't even reach
the crossbar on a fifty one yard er.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You know, your heart breaks.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You see him at his parents. I believe he was,
you know, consoling him, hugging him after, you know, like
like Pete few Tex says, college kickers, man, it's not
like the NFL. It's not like where, hey this guy
from fifty one yards. Yeah, we are absolutely rolling through this.
So it really is difficult. But the one thing that
gets me on this mic is that you know the
(37:15):
rule for the kick, like the thirty six yard or
that they could have ruled good or no good. Yeah,
if it's over the crossbar, if it's a high, if
it's higher than the goalpost, it's not reviewable. And I'm like, Okay,
I get that, but I don't know that we need
a review when it's not over the Crossbibably, I think
that's pretty easy to do. Yeah, No, it's not over
the cross I don't think you need a review at
(37:35):
that point. This is where you need the review for.
If it's over the cry. I think that's kind of
where the review.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
So we talk about angles right when you're kicking from
you know, witch hash Mark and lining up here. He's
a lefty, so in terms of the ball and how
it knuckles and whatever. But it's over the top and
it's not reviewable, and I don't know that you're coming
to any conclusive review of it regardless, right, I mean,
how much of the it's like an out of bounds
(38:02):
play or a ball going off a pitch in a
soccer match. Well, it's kind of supposed to be the
whole ball, right, same thing here. Does it have to
be the whole ball is inside or over the crossbar?
If any part of it's out, like what are we doing?
Does it have to be fully out? So that type
of discussion, you know, for the year, just to kind
of give it a little bit of breadth for those
(38:23):
who missed, you know, college kickers twenty three of twenty
four on the year, seven of seven from fifty plus
eight of nine from forty to forty nine.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I realized it. It's an unbelievable you thought, Okay, who
can you rely on the grows of winners going to
get something? But that thirty six yard I mean, that
was just absolutely stunning. Now, the other part of it
is this, and I really I don't know that I've
ever seen this in any football game I've ever watched,
even games in the snow and the mud when no
(38:55):
one can do anything. Alabama and Oklahoma they combined for
fifty eight rushes for eighty three yards on the game.
That's not that's not even one and a half yards.
Pret it's like one and one in the one six
the yards per carry, all right, I don't need to
do the math on it. It's less than one and.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
A half fastye said, I mean remember that you know
astrosk out the nine sacks.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
But yeah, I mean I have.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Never seen anything like that, where fifty eight rushes eighty
three yards. I mean, really, that's it was such a
such a slog watching these teams try to run the
football and you had one. I mean, the longest rush
for Oklahoma was six yards. You had a thirty yard
rush from Daniel Hill. If you take that out, it's
(39:41):
it's like, you know, fifty seven carries for like fifty
five yards. I mean, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah, it's it's pretty insane. Right.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So he finishes with nine carries forty three yards in
a score. Thirty is his long as a team. Twenty
five carries, twenty eight yards and a touchdown. You can
do the math. I mean that's and the sacks it
comes into a negative category.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I mean, I mean, really that that's just that. That's
absolutely insane when you think about that. I've never seen
anything like that before.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Succeed and proceed, Brother.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Alabama succeeds, They proceed, They're on to the next round.
What to make of their victory? What to make of
what's next for Michigan's head coaching? What to make of
the games tomorrow? Pete Futec College football Insider Extraordinaire stops
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Just under eleven minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma,
after they led this game seventeen nothing, then trailed twenty
seven to seventeen, got back up off the mat with
a big touchdown drive. But they have it right now
deep in their own territory, still trailing Alabama twenty seven
(01:11):
to twenty four. And I know there's gonna be purists
that are gonna point out things, but I gotta say,
this game, with all its mistakes and momentum swings and
drop passes and crazy penalties and bad coaching decisions, this
is everything you want out of a college football playoff game.
Out You're getting all kinds of drama and stuff you
(01:32):
can question. You're wondering what the hell is going on
with some of these teams. Coaches are screaming at the officials.
I mean, this is this is everything you want. Man
is f It's not perfect, but it's rock and roll
and that's what this is.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's Andrew Lincoln with the Q cards and he's looking
at Kieran Knightley going to me, you are perfect, right,
because that's the beauty of it, all of the imperfections,
all of the em and flow, the blown lead, the
guy dropping a punt as he's walking towards it and
(02:03):
he picks it up and then eventually he does actually
get it blocked.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But but you have that, you have big plays.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You had the coaching debacle, right, we argued about whether
you should have thrown a flag there. You also had
another play on the sideline ahead of a big Alabama
possession right off a punt where dude's just standing on
the sideline, the returner runs into him and he gets
flagged for fifteen yards.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So you've just had chaos left and right and a
lot of handwringing, and certainly people in Michigan. I'm sure
you're getting texts from all of your extended family.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
What the hell's going on? Man? Are we getting a
coach tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Or what who are we getting? We get? I think
Michigan's gonna be getting a coach over the course of
the next twenty four hours. And it's either gonna be
Caitlin de boor or it could be Brett Vnables if
Olklahoma blows this lead and loses, or it's gonna be
Kenny Billyhan. But they will have a coach this weekend.
This is also odd coach this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, just back to the game.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
On the third down play, Matier just threw a ball
off Lawson's face. Yeah, I want to say, Helm and
Cam of what he saw.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He had to turn his head to because the ball
was the ball was streaming right at him, like Matier, look,
and I'm glad you brought this up. Because look right now,
what we're seeing in a twenty seven to twenty four
game hasn't been a great night for ty Simpson. No,
he's had an okay night. Now. He's been victimized by
a lot of drops. There were There are at least
three or four drops that I can remember off the
(03:25):
top of my head, where wow, it could have been
a couple more touchdowns on the board for Alabama. But
still Alabama's offense hasn't been great. Matier has not been great.
You know, He's got a couple of touchdowns, but still
some of the passes he's thrown, it's like, wow, you
know he threw a he just threw the pick right now,
as we said that, it wound up getting just hitting
a defensive lineman in the head basically on the goal line.
(03:48):
We almost saw a replay last night. I was waiting
for Zach Scharbay to come and pick up the football
and just stand in the end zone with it. But
like the thing is is that this is not just
college football playoff weekend, and there are some guys with
a lot of stakes going on, and especially the quarterbacks
who in a year where yes, Bernando Mendoza wins the
(04:08):
Heisman Trophy. Who are the guys at the top of
the draft of quarterback like that's still out, Like that
jury is still out. You're really gonna take Fernando Mendoza
at the top or does he have to prove it
to you over the course of the playoff as well?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
How high are you going to take some of these guys?
And right now, Simpson and Materia are not really winning
a lot. They are just you know, they're playing okay,
But neither of these guys. You're coming out of this
game saying, oh man, hey, yeah, these guys got to
move back up. Right, Simpson was a top five pick
for a while. Now he's he's fallen off me. He's
(04:42):
the sixth guy on a quarterback board, the guy to
watch out for, and he's got a great matchup this week. Obviously,
I'm not gonna pretend to tell you how good I
think James Madison is. But the guy that's going to
rise the most and who has the best possibility of
moving up and being the number one pick in the
draft is Dante Moore. Okay, Oregon should roll through these
(05:03):
next couple of games because maybe they're the second best
team in the country. Right, their only loss was to Indiana,
who's the number one team in the country. So maybe
we're kind of sleeping on Oregon a little bit. They'll
get a rematch with Indiana in the Semis. Dante Moore,
I'll tell you this, He'll be my guy that shoots
the top of NFL draft boards because this is now
a time because of what we still the lack of
(05:24):
huge success we've seen during the regular season from the quarterbacks.
Because look, we're coming out of this where hey, this
crop of quarterbacks is not we think it's gonna be.
And yeah they're gonna be guys taking high in the draft,
but yeah they're not what we think they're gonna be.
We're looking forward to twenty twenty seven more than anything else.
There is room for somebody to get hot in a
playoff and rise up to the top. And Dante Moore
has that chance. He's got got a chance for the
(05:45):
highlight plays against James Maddis the next couple of games.
He can make any throw, he's athletic, he's smart. Of
all the quarterbacks in college football now who could be
top picks in the NFL, he seems to have the
biggest toolbox that you need and serve. He has the matchups,
he has the narrative, and teams are looking right now, hey,
who's our guy that's going to step up in a
(06:06):
big way? Right? Trevor Lawrence shot to the top of
everybody's draft board as a freshman because he had a
big game in the National Title game when everybody else
when Clemson was absolutely loaded. And hey, here's Trevor Lawrence
hitting guys in the back of the end zone and
throwing on the run. So the door is opened for
somebody to jump up draft boards and be that number
one quarterback. And look you see Simpson and a teer tonight,
neither guy going crazy with it. Dante Moore is going
(06:29):
to be that guy that people are going to fall
in love with, and he's going to be someone to
rise up to the top ahead of Fernando Mendoza, and
he'll be the guy at the top everybody's draft chart
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, and the current drive, Simpson made a big thrown
down the sideline. Now they had a contested one where
the receiver comes back through the defender. But we're looking
at a goal to go situation. But certainly you have
the opportunity based on the current board, right, because all
of a sudden, everybody hates every quarterback. Right, this was
(06:59):
supposed to be a great Now we're looking ahead to
twenty seven. Now the nil world, I think ultimately is
going to give us the gift that because guys can
make money and bounce around and make a lot of money,
guaranteed in that moment, in that year, that we're going
to get better quarterbacking and guys are gonna stick around longer.
So we don't have the handwringing over the handful of starts,
(07:22):
because I'm wondering if that for Dante More isn't something
that comes into the equation. Now, he's acquitted himself brilliantly,
as you said, eight point seven yard per attempt, seventy
three percent completion rate, can make all the throws, has
the big arm. Some questions about his footwork, We'll get
into that in the full draft evaluation. I'll certainly be
(07:42):
leaning on Coast Sell and we'll make him stay up
late East Coast time to join us as we get
ready for draft prospect processing. But he's only got seventeen
starts under his belt right between his time at UCLA.
That evidently is what made Troy Aikman mad when he left.
I cut a check, I get a thank you. Yeah,
he organ sits damn gamy as the big year this year,
(08:05):
twenty four touchdowns against five picks. But as we watch
every draft season, whether he goes and he clipses Mendoza,
because right now, Mendoza had about as perfect a season
as you could and I don't mean that just because
of their record. Also, when you look at Pavia and
the buffoonery around the Heisman ceremony or whatever else, this
(08:26):
is a guy that's you know, hosting toy drives for kids,
talking about his mom, talking about his upbringing, talking about
persevering going to Indiana and having the huge year that
he did. You know, it's one of those guys he
checks every box that you can coming into the league.
When you're looking at all, right, this guy can become
immediately the face of our franchise and we get him
(08:46):
in the community, all of those things. But we know
the way the draft works is the guy that's the
hot guy now doesn't necessarily always get to get take
that to the post because we will have plenty of evaluation. Certainly,
the playoffs system does that for us to a degree,
But you got months of picking guys apart what they
(09:06):
do well, what they don't. But what we do know
is NFL teams get desperate, and even if there isn't
a quote crop a ripe crop of five guys, five
guys end up getting drafted. And that is the fundamental
truth of this draft process each and every year.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well that's the best part for a guy like Dante
More or Fernando Mendoza, whoever, Well, Mendoza is coming out obviously,
but look, More would have his chances only seventeen starts.
I get the Troy Aikman, and I understand the whole
philosophy of if you don't have enough starts, you could
wind up not being great. I get that. But I'm
of the philosophy that when the NFL calls for you,
(09:47):
you go and you run that right now, Dante Moore
or whoever runs a big college football playoff, you'll rise
to the top and you'll get taken high in the
first round. Why because it's not a great year for
co So if the NFL says, hey, you're one of
the top two or three guys, you'll go in the
top seven, top eight Because teams are still gonna take quarterbacks.
(10:08):
Guess what, even with seventeen starts, you kind of have
to go because you don't know what could happen next year.
You're not the shiny new toy. Arch Manning will wind
up coming out. Somebody else can come out and have
a bigger year. Maybe you don't have quite the year
you had this year, and suddenly, hey, you may be
going at the end of the first round or early
in the second round. And if you're early in the
second round, you're not a franchise quarterback. You're not gonna
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get all kinds of chances to succeed. When you come
out and you're drafted seventh overall or fifth overall or
third overall. Guess what, you get two or three years
to make that happen. And you know what, if that
doesn't work, you get chances with other teams to make
it happen because the other teams will think, well, maybe
you just weren't in our system. Because look, guy Baker Mayfield,
(10:49):
Sam Darnold, all the guys we have seen taken high
in the first round didn't work with their initial teams.
Now are stars with other teams. So you will not
only get the chance to succeed with the team that
drafts you way more you will get a chance with
another team if it doesn't work out. Whereas if you're
just a if you're a second round pick and you
wind up coming out and say, boy, it didn't work
out for me, how long do.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You really have right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, look at a guy like Matt Liner, okay,
who could have come out, would have been the number
one overall pick in the draft, but decides I'm gonna
go back to usc for one more year. What happens
has kind of the same year as he does, you know,
when he wins the Heisman Trophy, but not quite the same.
His pro day was not great. Doesn't go number one,
(11:29):
he goes number ten. Right now, if you're the number
one overall pick in the draft, guess what, you're getting
the job right away again. All kinds of chances show
that you can do it. But Liner getting drafted number
ten didn't quite get the same amount of time to succeed.
It was a little bit easier for Arizona to turn
the page over to Kurt Warner, who came in a
lot tougher. When you have a number one overall pick
that you are trying to move on from a little
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bit easier when he's the tenth overall pick. So when
the NFL calls, you go, and if this is where
Dante Moore is a big riser, you get, some teams
are gonna say, yeah, we'd like to see you play more.
What does that mean, Oh no, we're still taking you
number two overall. Hey, I'm going to the NFL. Hey,
I'll get all my starts in the NFL. Don't worry
about it, man, I'm good. I mean, this is when
you're at the best chance to succeed and you have
(12:12):
the best chance for prolonged success in the NFL, rather
than by waiting and saying, oh, now I have thirty
starts under my belt and I feel pretty good. Yeah,
but all these guys were better, and and and then
and you got picked early in the second round. Now
now you're on the Jets. Good luck, good luck making
that work. Sorry, Jesus will sideswipe the Jets. But that's why,
you know, it works in a favor for a guy
like More or whoever else wants come out to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I mean you look at and go back to that draft.
I mean that was the draft, I intended, Oh so
it's your fault. Yeah, no, so I go to no,
so I go to that draft lineup. Was the last
guy out of the green room at pick ten. At
pick ten, because they only had a handful of guys.
So the rest of the night was them just doing
trivia questions with a bunch of former Jets and Giants player.
(12:57):
So you want to talk about all the air, meaning
like as soon as the Liner got picked and and
that was a slide, right, a slide to ten, it
became a all right, now what do they do for
the rest of the night because there's nobody else back
there because they didn't want anybody to be embarrassed because
the year before, Aaron Rodgers waited until the backers drafted
him deep into the into the night, right, So it's like, ah, well, nobody,
(13:19):
we don't want anybody to suffer. He was still drafted
in the first round, but it didn't matter, you know,
he was. We don't want anybody to have to go
through that again. So Liner gets drafted tenth, like I'm
just going back through. I mean, he had plenty of
opportunity for several years in Arizona, couldn't stay healthy, the
pieces around him were terrible. Uh, and it ultimately failed.
(13:40):
But fortunately for him, he was still in the the
era of the giant oversized novelty check all.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We got paid that fe yeah, you know, but when
you when you talk about it's a lot easier to Hey,
here's a guy in the first round that, oh, by
the way, not part of the you know, uh, who
is not the preferred quarterback of the head coach. And
I mean really, I mean, he could have wound up
having a better and a different career. He did wind
(14:09):
up being you know, he was there for four years,
but I said, couldn't get on the field. But again,
it's a lot harder to turn the page on a
guy number one overall than is okay, number ten. We tried,
it didn't work. Now, Kurt Warner taking the Cardinals of
the super Bowl, it's a little bit easier to put
But maybe he doesn't get the chance. Maybe or maybe
it's a different team that Matt Liners on and he's
on a he's on a team that is picking him
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at the top of the draft the year before that.
It's a better system for him and he can succeed better.
He stays on the field, like I wonder if that's
something he doesn't ask himself all the time. By I
should I should I shouldn't have stayed, I should have
gone out when win the NFL wanted to me number
one overall, different situation, different team, it could have been
all I could have been still playing in the NFL. Now.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, we all have a lot of things ifs and
buts in our career's, personal lives, etc. That you're like, Yeah,
you know, if I'd taken this, it's sliding doors man,
nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I'm going very good, very good. Exit albouta Fresca exit
swalling down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Commer. Just watch out for Dante More. There's that riser.
Things are getting pretty serious right now. Game one of
the College football Playoff Alabama and Oklahoma. Alabama with a
(15:23):
touchdown to put that lead back out to ten. They
have the football with just under six minutes left to go.
Oklahoma blew a seventeen to nothing lead. We'll have more
on this game coming up next. Could be talking about
a huge Alabama comeback win and Michigan go blank yourself,
go get your head coach someplace else. We got more
(15:45):
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games in the NFL this weekend. Keep it right here,
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
Fox Sports Radio. A huge call up coming right now
with Oklahoma and Alabama Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. Four twenty four to go
in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma down ten, driving on a
(16:54):
big third down play mateir hits the receiver just short
of the sticks, and you're thinking, Okay, it's gonna be
a big fourth down play for Oklahoma. Instead, the ball
is popped out. It is ruled a fumble on the field.
Blaylock has it for a split second. Uh, but then
he drops it. Alabama falls on it. The call on
(17:16):
the field is a fumble and Alabama's football, which pretty
much would end this game. However, they're reviewing it right now,
and I gotta say watching it, it's really.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tough to say that he had the ball.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I have to think this is good. This ball is
gonna go back to Oklahoma and it's gonna be an
incomplete pass.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You see right now, Brett Vnables is running around telling
everbody it's gonna be fourth out.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Gotta play call, it's gonna be fourth out.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I gotta be frantic. Steve Disager in the news at
the news desk, and he is giving me the full
full arm extension like he's got wings for an incompletion.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh. So here we go. It is now the officials
looked at it. Yeah, pretty easy call here. It's an
incomplete pass. So the game in Oklahoma season are riding
on this play, right now again fourth and five. They
had a seventeen to nothing lead over Alabama. Then a
block kick, a pick six, all of a sudden, the
(18:13):
game is tied. Alabama comes out in the third quarter
like a house of fire. Oklahoma trying to stand up,
but Alabama has just been a little bit too much
everywhere for them. And with Oklahoma chasing ten points with
just a couple of minutes left to go, they need
the touchdown. They need to get the ball back. They
get the big fourth down pass. Gibson catches one in
(18:34):
the middle of the field. My tier keeps the play alive,
so it's a big first down for Oklahoma, and now
they are inside the Alabama twenty yard or inside the
Alabama thirty yard line again facing a ten point deficit,
but still now things a little bit more tenable for Oklahoma.
Here in the last few minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I'm in course of the game. Thirty two carries just
fifty eight yards on the ground. I had to pull
this back up. I'm like putting my this on, taking
him off from like my seeing the graphic that they're
showing me properly for Matier before that big completion, eighteen
carries eighteen yards. We could have that rushing touchdown early,
(19:12):
but they've been unable when they had the seventeen point lead,
they were unable to run the ball effectively at all.
And he's scrambling and gets taken down at the line
of scrimmage once again. So final minutes here, absolute tension
and chaos.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Thirty two carries for now thirty three carries for fifty
five yards in a touchdown. I think that was like
Tim high Tower's line with Washington when he had that big,
like half a season run. Is a big fantasy guy
like twelve years ago. Oh but look at Tim Mier's
running for eighty yards a week in a touchdown. Yeah,
twenty eight carries. He's not gonna have to shop much longer.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Hey, man, that's like guys scoring forty points in again,
how many shots he takes?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Sixty?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
John Matteer Now nineteen carries for fifteen yards.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Heye, actually I just got average down.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I was gonna say, hey, eighteen for eighteen Just another
eighty two carries. He's one hundred yard rusher, No ninety
more than that. Night em to run the ball about
one hundred and twenty times to get one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
He's behind the sticks.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now, I tell you nineteen for fifteen and a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
What a wild game though, I mean in fact that
we got fifty eight points. They're moving the ball with
some chunk plays here and material extending, and there have
been moments where both he and Simpson, you're like, all right,
that's everything you thought of, you know, when you start
thinking about pro prospects, and then you've seen some other
decisions Simpson taking some sacks, Materier running around in a
(20:35):
circle only to get tackled at the line of scrimmage
or three yards behind it as he was out of
his last carry, and you're like, okay, all that goodwill
gets taken out the window.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, this is one. This is one of those cases
where you're like, wow, okay, what to make of all
of this? Man? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It was really sloppy. Sloppy, but we still got thirty
four twenty four. I don't know what big shix. We
got funs, we got interference, we got.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Big grows and big conversions, Cuz they've both been able
to give us some explosive plays on gotta have it moments,
and they're they're gonna settle for the sandel the gros
A winner coming out the big left leg and short pants.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So a field goal would make this a one score
game with just under three minutes left to go.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And woooo, he misses it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He missed it. The gros A winner misses it. He
looked like he shanked it a little bit. It didn't
come off his foot. Well, it was an easy kick.
This wasn't anything that was more than I think it
was a thirty seven yard kick and he just pushed
it off to the left. It looked like it just
hooked through. But watching the replay right now, the ball
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just died and you know, seeing it a second time, O, man,
I only want to see it under the uh under
the post of view on this because it looked like
it might have gone by. But uh oh, that looked
like it was good. Wait a minute, man, that looked
like it was good. Whoa, Okay, they just showed the replay. Wow, yes,
(22:18):
it's I mean, it looked like it was good. But
then again, we're seeing the the camera angle from the
middle of the of the field goal of the crossbar,
so it looked like maybe it was a little bit
more in a little bit more in between the posts.
But man, I'll tell you I'm that on that replay
it looked like it was good, but uh uh you know,
(22:39):
like high yeah wow, And maybe it would look if
you're if if the if we see the camera angle
from just under the the the goal post that it
went over, it would have looked different. But man, it
looked like it snuck in. But maybe we were We
were right in the middle, and that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Tell you what, you know what you know camera angles,
you know like backwards passes on two point conversions and
stuff you just never know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So again, now it looks like this is gonna be
it for Oklahoma, and uh he's on the sideline again.
I'm watching it again, and it looks like the ball
now it looks like it went right over the top.
Now I see this angle that looks like went right
over the top. And now we're seeing the far away
(23:25):
angle and it looks like it's yeah, you know what,
that's one of those well I hate to say this
because Oklahoma fans are gonna hate this, but that's one
of those calls where if they had called it good,
I would say, okay, boy, he barely got it, or
they called it no good. Yeah, it looks like he
missed it like that. That's how I know I found
weird saying that. But like if they called it good
(23:46):
and say, well, yeah, it looks like you just got
it just like hooked it in. But they could have
called that either way. I really think they could have
called it either way.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
My carbon, I will say this, You went straight Voldemort
right there, spoken like a true politician.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yes, Pa, Yes, I believe you'll be well useful. Uh one,
Here's many things, my love. Whether the truth is among
them is yet to be discovered. But really, I think
they could have called that field goal either way. I
really I if I don't think you, I don't think
you would have had a disagreement either way on it
good or no good.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
See Raybi, we get a renewed In addition to let's
expand the playoffs, we also go to the field goal box,
so we we no longer have the open you know,
open wishbone kind of look to it. No, no, no,
we put it in and you got to kick it
in a box, man.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So we got a lot to break down from this game.
But it looks like it's gonna be Alabama. But I
think Oklahoma's gonna wind up getting the football back. Oklahoma
facing a third and fourteen right now, getting down to
the two minute warning. Uh, they're gonna have to run
the play before the warning. So it's gonna screw Oklahoma
little bit. They're not gonna get that time out, but
(24:59):
it like they are going to get the football back.
They throw a quick out to Williams. He gains about
six yards. We are at the two minute warning and
they'll be punting it back to Oklahoma, who are gonna
have a ragtag drive down to try to get a
touchdown field goal on sidekick and tie this game.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Can I just go I'm gonna be old man here
on you first? Sure and here Smith. We just chronicled
the Oklahoma rushing attack of their thirty eight carries or
thirty three carries for fifty five yards, Alabama twenty three
for thirty two. Now I've seen, you know, a couple
of runs and some big plays. You know, when he'll
goes into the end zone, I'm thinking of old T TJ.
(25:37):
Yeldon getting in there. I don't know why that that's
deep Yeldon. Yeah, I fixating former Jaguar. I must have
been sorting some cards income across him in an Alabama uniform.
But they've got twenty three carries for thirty two yards
on the game. Yeah, this is not at least both
of these teams. What the hell happened? Embarrassment Street Legacy,
(26:01):
run the damn ball down their droughts.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The total is fifty five carries for eighty seven yards.
That's both of these teams tonight. Fifty five carries for
eighty seven yards.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Fifteen five wasted plays.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Man, I'll tell you look, it's it's a real shock
to see this game go this way after Oklahoma had
the big seventeen to nothing lead again. Steve Desager will
have more on this and what's trending coming up in
a few minutes. We are at the two minute warning,
and unless Oklahoma gets a miracle comeback, Alabama's moving on
and Michigan's gonna have to move on in their head
coaching search. So looking ahead to some of the other
(26:36):
big games this weekend in the NFL, we have a
slew of big games. Last hour, we gave you our
picks for the Chargers and the Cowboys. Also gave you
Jaguars and the Broncos, the Packers and the Bears. Everybody's
favorite game tomorrow. And look, I've been your Chicago whisperer
all year long. Right, I've told you it's the good
(26:57):
times when everybody else is nervous, and I know his
fans waiting for the other shoot to drop. I'm ready
to tell you this. They're gonna win tomorrow. They're gonna
win the NFC North. They're gonna be the number two
seed in the playoffs. Right. That that's what's gonna happen.
That this is how it's gonna go for the Bears.
Everything is lining up for that big win over Cleveland's defense,
(27:17):
right last week, not their offense, big win over their defense.
And what we found out is what we sort of
expected all along in that, Hey, when does the Bears
offense look the best? And it's sometimes it's not about
Caleb Blaiem. It's not about the running attack. And you've
seen this now over the last couple of years. When
Dj Moore gets involved and gets the football, it is
(27:39):
a different offense in Chicago. He didn't get the ball
two weeks ago, one one reception for minus four yards.
You knew they were gonna try to get him the ball.
He's still a great game breaker, and he got the
ball last week, big win. He's gonna be the only
guy him in lovel and the only guy's getting the
ball tomorrow because the dunesa is a lot of injury
bs out. But this is what makes that offense go.
(28:02):
When he gets the ball, the offense revs it up.
It's that silky look at the Bears game production. Green
Bay is still gonna be reeling defensively. You're not worried
about Micah Parsons coming from off the side, you know you.
Bo Callahan's not gotta worry about Vante Matt coming off
the edge. He's gonna be able to play free and
not have to worry about it Tomorrow. Yeah, I'm still
bullish on the Packers overall, but tomorrow, this is the
(28:26):
Bears day. They should have won two weeks ago. They
get the win tomorrow, Big day from DJ Moore. They
know they got to get him the football. Everything is
coming up Bears. They win, They'll win the North, number
two seed in the NFC. Mike Carmon, the good times
are here for you.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Well.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I do like the fact that we did get a
bo Callahan reference in because I tried to feed you
that Chris Paul Halloween.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Story earlier in the week.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
We're only three of his teammates allegedly showed up, and
everybody else more or less said blank this and that guy,
I'm not going. So that's still backdrop if you want
to go back into the chaos that is the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But yeah, when we look at.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
DJ Moore, the over under is four receptions for him
as we look at a depleted receiving court. Look, Caleb
Williams can make every throw. He can also scare you
by trying to make every throw along the way, doesn't
doesn't have the interceptions, but certainly when he misses, nobody's
(29:23):
getting it. So Dj Moore has to be involved here.
You'll see more of Loveland, who's one of your top
tight ends over the last six seven weeks. And the
run game has been fantastic. Remember they traded away their
run stuffer and Michael Parsons is no longer There a
lot of guys on the injury reporters. We talked about
with Jason Cole question of how many of those are
legit and Rob Damofski, who's covered the team forever. He
(29:44):
was on the score in Chicago earlier talking about where
they are, and more of these guys are are more
injured than perhaps you know the gamesmanship of it all.
Jacobs is getting shots to try to have his knee right.
The Whay Watson most likely isn't going to be available,
But you do have Reed, who's picked up ten catches
(30:07):
the last two weeks. But all of that to say,
the opportunistic Bears defense, the run game, what the enemy
and Ben Johnson to put together are too much and
they get a big win at home minus two for
the Bears.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
JO Saturday Night Special.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Bears Bears, Bears, Bears, Everything coming up Bears. Mike Harbon,
You're good, Ben, Everything is Bears Bear.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Look.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I celebrate every one of those wins, There's no question about.
It's a lot of excitement. I know a lot of
family and friends are taking over our favorite pub there
in Chicago. I wish I could be there with him,
because it'll be a glorious celebration of bearsdom, including you know,
the bottle service with the tapwater, because that's just the
way we do things.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So someone who's been called the Ben
Johnson of Fox Sports Radio because when he gets really excited.
He'll take off his shirt and start yelling. It's Steve
this good better best.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
You gotta wait for the cameras to enter the locker room. First.
Of course, we got Alabama winning here.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
For those who saw the first quarter and a half
at this opener of the college football playoff, this is
a shock. We've got just over a minute to goo.
Bama is up thirty four to twenty four, even though
the Sooners led seventeen to nothing early in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Oh, usually just missed again, Sandel just missed it. He
didn't even make it to the goal post. Oh my sorry,
Steve O. I can't he didn't even make it. It didn't
even travel fifty one yards. Oh my goodness. So he
missed the.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Fifty one yarders short of the crossbar. What you referenced earlier,
the missfield goal from thirty six, just missed to the
left of the upright And so yeah, this one's officially over.
It's a ten point Bama lead. They'll get the ball
with just over a minute to go. The yardage advantage
for the Sooners early was one eighty one to twelve.
(31:56):
But it's the other team that's going to be advancing
Alabama will be in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal against number
one Indiana. Boy, what a what a what a blown lead?
Let's put it kindly. Has this ever happened in a
college football playoff game? You ask, Well, actually, only one
team has overcome a deficit of seventeen points to win
(32:17):
a CFP playoff game, and that was Georgia against Oklahoma
in the Rose Bowl after the twenty seventeen season, when
Sooners blew a big lead there and lost in overtime
to the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Is that a note you've already just put aside for
Sunday night? I mean, yeah, if Christy and delivered a plank, yeah, feeling.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
He's probably passing out copies of that right now before
playing from Oklahoma co hosts on Sunday Night. As far
as the yardage that you mentioned, and it's worth mentioning,
my goodness, the rushing totals are microscopic for each team
in college stats, they include the sacks as part of
your rushing total. And there have been nine total sacks
in this game and fifteen tackles for loss totals. So
(33:06):
let's put it this way. Alabama did have one thirty
yard gain. Aside from that, they're gonna win this contest
with twenty four carries and about thirty what thirty two
yards minus the thirty so about two yards rushing aside
from that one cap.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I like that Matthew did the thirty two yards minus
the thirty.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Okay, well, I'm trying to see you if they're gonna
include this last kneel down as part of the because
the I was gonna say, the fans have just rushed,
no wrong stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
The players have just come on.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
The field and silently the fans are exiting in Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
What a crushing end to a season.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The fans tried to rush on the field, they only
got one yard and got stopped, just like it all.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Next question is Alabama gonna get to the Oklahoma logo
at the center and have some fun dancing upon it,
because Oklahoma did win at Alabama about a month ago
twenty three to twenty one, and that was not forgotten
by the Alabama folks. The three other first round games
are on Saturday. That includes number ten Miami at Texas
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A and M and we have in the final NBA
game of the night early fourth quarter and Oklahoma City
lead of eighty seven eighty five at Minnesota. O see
is twenty five and two so far this year. Philadelphia
won at New York won sixteen one oh seven, ending
the next six game winning street victories for Chicago and Boston.
Spurs won their fifth in a row of victory at
(34:34):
Atlanta one twenty six to ninety eight victor Wiben Yama
twenty six points off the bench.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o uh So.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Alabama headed on in the college football playoffs, so was
Michigan and their coaching search. Coming up next, we'll break
down the two biggest things from this game as we
get set for a huge college football weekend. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Alabama keeps their coach and Michigan doesn't get him, then
maybe they'll call for venabules. Look at Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
You know I got a Julie song for you that
includes a roll Tide reference.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Wow, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
And then it follows up by saying, if your sister's home,
maybe I'll slide by.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But you know, you know, now that gets a little
that's not really in the Christmas spirit, Mike Harmon, Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It is people getting together.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Find him a little bit of happiness in these holiday
holiday holidays till your sister.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I said, Hi, No, it's not a holidays. Maybe holidays
where you're from. Hey, it's holidays in Chicago. Hey, tell
your sister. I'll be by tonight at like midnight. Yeah,
I'll climb up the fire escape like I normally do,
and then I'll leave in the morning before the bead
gets up and makes call, because that can get a
little awkward.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah. It's from a song called Pantomime. It's got a
great video.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It's kind of in the vein of a Bob Fosse
production kind of thing. But the line is give him
hell roll tide. If your sister's home, maybe I'll stop by.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
So Alabama overcomes a seventeen to nothing deficit to beat
Oklahoma and move on in the College Football Playoff thirty
four to twenty four, and two big things to break
down right now. The next few minutes. We got Pete
Futech coming up in about ten minutes. College football linels
extraordinariy And I'll tell you what, what does Pete futech
(36:37):
always say? College kickers cha cha chaw sandel is the
grows a winner.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Misses two field goals in the final four minutes, won
a gimme from thirty six yards and doesn't even reach
the crossbar on a fifty one yard er.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You know, your heart breaks.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You see him at his parents. I believe he was,
you know, consoling him, hugging him after, you know, like
like Pete few Tex says, college kickers, man, it's not
like the NFL. It's not like where, hey this guy
from fifty one yards. Yeah, we are absolutely rolling through this.
So it really is difficult. But the one thing that
gets me on this mic is that you know the
(37:15):
rule for the kick, like the thirty six yard or
that they could have ruled good or no good. Yeah,
if it's over the crossbar, if it's a high, if
it's higher than the goalpost, it's not reviewable. And I'm like, Okay,
I get that, but I don't know that we need
a review when it's not over the Crossbibably, I think
that's pretty easy to do. Yeah, No, it's not over
the cross I don't think you need a review at
(37:35):
that point. This is where you need the review for.
If it's over the cry. I think that's kind of
where the review.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
So we talk about angles right when you're kicking from
you know, witch hash Mark and lining up here. He's
a lefty, so in terms of the ball and how
it knuckles and whatever. But it's over the top and
it's not reviewable, and I don't know that you're coming
to any conclusive review of it regardless, right, I mean,
how much of the it's like an out of bounds
(38:02):
play or a ball going off a pitch in a
soccer match. Well, it's kind of supposed to be the
whole ball, right, same thing here. Does it have to
be the whole ball is inside or over the crossbar?
If any part of it's out, like what are we doing?
Does it have to be fully out? So that type
of discussion, you know, for the year, just to kind
of give it a little bit of breadth for those
(38:23):
who missed, you know, college kickers twenty three of twenty
four on the year, seven of seven from fifty plus
eight of nine from forty to forty nine.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I realized it. It's an unbelievable you thought, Okay, who
can you rely on the grows of winners going to
get something? But that thirty six yard I mean, that
was just absolutely stunning. Now, the other part of it
is this, and I really I don't know that I've
ever seen this in any football game I've ever watched,
even games in the snow and the mud when no
(38:55):
one can do anything. Alabama and Oklahoma they combined for
fifty eight rushes for eighty three yards on the game.
That's not that's not even one and a half yards.
Pret it's like one and one in the one six
the yards per carry, all right, I don't need to
do the math on it. It's less than one and.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
A half fastye said, I mean remember that you know
astrosk out the nine sacks.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
But yeah, I mean I have.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Never seen anything like that, where fifty eight rushes eighty
three yards. I mean, really, that's it was such a
such a slog watching these teams try to run the
football and you had one. I mean, the longest rush
for Oklahoma was six yards. You had a thirty yard
rush from Daniel Hill. If you take that out, it's
(39:41):
it's like, you know, fifty seven carries for like fifty
five yards. I mean, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah, it's it's pretty insane. Right.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So he finishes with nine carries forty three yards in
a score. Thirty is his long as a team. Twenty
five carries, twenty eight yards and a touchdown. You can
do the math. I mean that's and the sacks it
comes into a negative category.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I mean, I mean, really that that's just that. That's
absolutely insane when you think about that. I've never seen
anything like that before.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Succeed and proceed, Brother.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Alabama succeeds, They proceed, They're on to the next round.
What to make of their victory? What to make of
what's next for Michigan's head coaching? What to make of
the games tomorrow? Pete Futec College football Insider Extraordinaire stops
by next We are halfway home on our last show
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