December 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon think you’re crazy if college football will do away with Conference Championships but they tell you what college football will change due to Notre Dame outrage. And the Chargers beat the Eagles in spectacular fashion in OT on MNF.
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a tie game in Los Angeles after yet another turnover.
It is the thirty sixth turnover of the game.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Tonight, the Chargers tie it up with.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The Eagles sixteen a piece. Cameron Dickers field goal gives
us an even game. Now midway through the fourth quarter,
charters getting the football back again. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but hey,
it's been sloppy. The quarterbacks begetting hit. There' been a
lot of tip balls interceptions. But it's close on a
Monday night. That's it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's holiday season here for everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Tie game final six minutes, it's an absolute gift to
us and Justin Herbert six sacks. Jalen Hurts with more
interceptions tonight than he had all season combined coming into
this game.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
There has been.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I would say, overall before you get back into the
college wall playoffs and overall last week regular season in
fantasy playoffs, anybody who started out side of Barkley or
maybe a little bit of a mari and Hampton right,
because he does have the touchdown, and there's lots of
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guys that got started this week in fantasy on both
of these teams. You are unbleep and happy with what
you've seen so far tonight because nobody is having.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
A big night.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Everybody's got guys going Tonight's gonna lose. Everybody's gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, unless you add Barkley might have gotten into survival
or the kickers. Okay, be one of the biggest scores
of the week, so you know, take that for it.
He was it worth what twenty five twenty six points
in most leagues.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So again, we'll have more in this game coming up
in a few minutes. But the reaction to the college
football Playoff the last twenty four hours has been all
over the map. And you've heard all the different arguments.
You've heard everything. So what we like to do is
to give you something new. Yes, Notre Dame has left out.
Why Notre Dame Miami weren't flipped before this week?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Stuff running?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why teams like James Madison and Tulane get in stunning
You can't tell me you have the best twelve teams.
It is a really faulty process, and everything was laid
bare with the unveiling of the college football Playoff a
day ago. And the first thing I want to say
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is this is that this was inevitable and predictable because
college football has no rules. They have no rules. There's
no one running the ship. There's not even someone who
I can say is corrupt and they're taking money. No,
there's no one running college football. It's the conferences are
out for themselves, the big teams out for themselves. College
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football has no rules. It's how we got to the
nil era. It's how we got to the transfer era.
It's why we are where we are. There are no
rules in college football. So if there's no rules, how
do you expect the playoff to go any different than
it did? That looks like an absolute mess and people
trying to defend picks and positions and why a team
moved ahead of another team when neither of them played
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last week. Of course there was gonna be this messy.
Of course it's gonna be like this because when you
have no rules, this is how it goes. So this
should have been absolutely predictable. And anybody who thought it
wasn't gonna be this way, well, you guys have been
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, so long as you have a system in place.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And look a lot more vocal proponents of get it
back to the computers, like you all hated the computers,
but I like the computers.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
But you know, I joked before, I love the high ones.
I like the high exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The mean girl's reference or when you're going for, say
a nomination at any level of government, even down to
your local school board to prop yourself up. By by
way of comparison, you're tearing other people down. In this case,
you've got folks that have their vested interest in their conference,
in their schools to go in and lobby as hard
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as they can. Why because they get more of the gold,
they get more of the control.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And that's what you have in there. You got very
few actual football.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
People, people that are speaking on behalf of teams and
doing stump speeches like they're at the foot of you know,
the of Congress. I mean, that's where we're at. So
long as that is the system, it's going to be flawed.
It becomes the hey, i'll convention to my side. What
the numbers doesn't matter. Like the Notre Dame Miami thing
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was the all right, we'll wait until we actually have
to use this head to head and side by side.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That's what they said.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
After the fact. We never did him side by side.
You're glad, we don't believe you. But you didn't activate
it because you didn't need to. Because it made for
a better TV show. Because every year, every week, as
Notre Dame got better and better, towards the end of
the season, it became a aren't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They the better team?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Because I think I were eight or nine to one
before the playoff bracket got released. And by the way,
there was actually a leak from fan duel oh yeah
before it came out, and it had Notre Dame in
that ten slot.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And then all of a sudden, I like.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Wha wait, wait you mean oh you mean division, you
mean conference champion? And oh wait, delete delete delete delete.
You know you know how I feel about this, and
I feel weird about this. But do you ever have
have a friend who you're really good friends with, but
one thing they're not They don't do the right they
don't act the right way. For like, maybe they're in
(06:16):
a relationship with somebody and they don't treat that person right.
And you're like, you know, we're friends. I know you're
a good guy. You got you gotta you gotta get
you gotta treat the other person better. Yeah, And then
something embarrassing happens and your friend gets embarrassed and you
feel bad for them, but at the same time you're like, good,
I hope you learned your bleeping lesson.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's kind of how I.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Feel right now about college football. I love God of
course college football. Of course, how much we talk about
how much I love college football my whole life. But
right now I'm like, good, I'm glad you own this
absolute tire fire of a playoff of what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Good. I good.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I feel like a good I told you so kind
of way.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I want.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You know, we were friends, We're really close, and I
love you. But man, I'm glad you're getting your come
up and right now because you need come up, and
because this is stupid, but.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
This is that as soon as Bovaka was on with
Dan Patrick, it was no longer Alabama slipped.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Out the back door.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Nobody cares about Alabama anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Hey, you guys paying They got in and for about
I don't know, three or four hours, there's a big
deal and then no bowl game, and you started seeing
some of the missives back and forth, and eventually you
get Bvakua on with Dan Patrick this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He's like, that's it, Alabama's.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Entry into all this.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Nobody cares about that anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Why did you string us along with having us flipped
with Miami this whole time?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Why did you do this and all of these decisions
along the way.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But yeah, I mean, you make all these decisions as
a school, right, Notre Dame, they've got to live. And
it's pretty nice when you've got this NBC deal and
the schedule, and I know it's made years in advance,
and you have an ebb and flow as to who's good,
bad coaches leaving administrators, leaving all of that stuff that
you don't know years in advance. I understand that, the
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fluidity of all of that, but it's still to the
point of we want benefits on some parts of being
in the conference.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But then you need to genuflect.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now, you need to genuflict us when we're in respect
exactly when we're when we're talking about this process that
we're all important because we do move the move the
needle and bring the eyeballs or whatever. Like playoff games,
people are gonna watch. They may tune out, they may
have it on as a second screen experience, but they're
gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It is Notre Dame more captivating. Absolutely, you saw the
numbers last year.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It brings up people to the yard of positively negatively right.
I mean Notre Name is one of those polarizing schools
in that regard because they've been thrust in front of
you low these many years, but it's it's just laughable.
We get to this point and it's like, well, here's
all the problems, Like all these problems have been sitting there,
and every iteration of the process, and especially now because
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you've now got the considerations. Not only have coaches leaving
and what do you do with teams or whatever, but
all the players are like, yeah, I don't know that
they're actually gonna want to play in any of this
stuff because they're leaving for another school or they're getting
replaced because they're bringing in another guy. So it just
makes this whole month leading up into that process that
much messier.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And look, and if you think this is now going
to be the death of the bowl system, the death
of conference championship games, the death of the weekly college
football polls, you're an idiot, none of those things.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I thought it was funny that the folks that have
been they had a bunch of their their hosts just
like they were crying for Lane Kiffin. Let them coach
it out. It's like, we got to get rid of
these shows, like are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
This is not a Red Leader day. This is not
gonna be again College football has no rules. The shows
are fun, right, The conference championshi games make money. Right,
All of this, All of this is happening. This is
simply going to be a big story in the NIL
era of college football timeline. We'll look back at this
poll and say, wow, this will we knew college football
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was really off the rails.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But no changes are coming.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
They're not gonna ge get rid of con You're stupid
if you think they're getting rid of conference championship games.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They're not gonna suddenly be Hey, we got somebody in
charge of college football. No, that's not happening either. Everything's
gonna be the same. There's gonna be changes. I'm not
saying they're not gonna be changes. But as far as
as far as all those things, it's the death of this.
It's the end of it. No, all of those things
are still happening. Man, I don't know what to tell
you again, pay more attention.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, the accal changes tiebreaker rules.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I think we can get I will say this, what
do we say last week?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's the ACC's fault from making the stupid tie breaker again.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We talked about it last hour.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The ACC needs to be more of a forward thinking
conference and understand you are in it as cutthroat as
the Big Ten and the SEC are and when it
came to well, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Just gonna have it, no, have some kind of vision
that whoaahoa, what if.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The teams that have we're all the way down to
here as a team that's not gonna get into the
playoff and that's it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Two highest ranked teams. There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
If there's a tie, the two highest ranked teams play
and that's who gets in. The winner gets in the playoff.
Like I don't understand that. That wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's the That's the with all of this.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Even going back to folks that think of the good
old days of college football, it's always been corrupt and
power driven by the conferences to get as much as
they can, as fast as they can. To claim positions
about why does Notre Dame have a deal with NBC
because they could and they can do the cash. Why
haven't they joined a conference in football because they don't
have to because the money flows Now unfortunately this year,
(11:23):
you know, you can.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Talk about a screw job possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
In all this, but when we get down to it,
it's the you gotta be forward thinking, especially if you're
not anywhere near the sec or big ten of how
can we get screwed? And let's look at our constitutions,
by laws and processes to make sure that the hurt
is gonna be a little bit less, because we're gonna
get screwed, right, We're gonna get robbed wherever.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
They possibly can and minimized. How do we.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Protect ourselves so we have some level here? Now, do
we take some of these conference championship games to where
they become a play in for the backspots? Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
To some of the bowl games maybe go away. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We got to look at the financials or what it
does for tourism, ticket sales, buy ins, because you did
have ten teams tell you to beat it when it
came down just filling out the rest of these bulls
led by Notre Dame most vociferously, but all of it.
That's the part of the equation that maybe changes a
little bit in the NIL era. Not because of what
happened to Notre Dame and at Alabama gain again, No,
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but just the reality of as you transition coaches, as
you transition so many players in and out of your
roster on a year to year basis that the games
that once seemed to be so obvious of that extra
month of practice aren't necessarily there anymore, and might those
resources coaching hours be better spent recruiting and trying to
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retain getting back into the homes of the people that
you know, we're going to get an offer from a
big TAN or SEC school to keep them there.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Look, I mean it's they're going to be changes right
every year, because every year, right, if you don't like
college football, wait five minutes, right, like the weather of Florida.
But there's not they're not gonna and they're not I know,
it's Oh, it's doing How can you have these books?
Teams keep opting out of balls? Guess what they'll find
teams to go playing balls. If nod Dan doesn't want
to play, they'll find somebody. Many teams out there find
somebody else. Essentially, if Steve Angelly was healthy, they would
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take Syracuse in a bowl game. Right, Hey, you're good
with ANGELI, let's go back to the book. They'll ploy
the bowl games. They will have the bowl games.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They will have.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
None of this is going away, which not I mean,
I understand, Oh, it's the end of college foe. This
is exactly something where college football can take a big
negative and turn it into a positive, where it's attention
on the sport. It's controversy, but are people not going
to watch, People gonna tune out, of people.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Gonna say, oh, I'm not watching this anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, it's not happening. Yes, there will be changes, I'm
not gonna say there is it. We'll get to those
changes coming up in the next in the next few minutes.
But as far as the future of the game, nothing
happened that was ending the sport. Like it's a bit,
it's a big story, but it's a big story that
is defining. It's part of the story of college football.
It's a big red. It's a big day.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
In the era of the nil era of college football.
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But we're still gonna have conferences, tournaments, We're still gonna
have bowls, We're still gonna have weekly shows and rankings.
Next year, that's not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Get rid of the preseason top twenty five. You're kidding, right, yeah, right,
you're kidding. During the year, we're not gonna do it.
Because what Week three, they were number eleven and then
they fell out, so you're claiming, Hey, people can use
the argument that team was no good. I mean LSU
fired their coach, Penn State fired their coach. Like all
of those things happened in the course of a season.
(14:34):
People are just pissed now, and I get it. But
in a couple of days, it's gonna be okay, all right,
win of the game starts. All right, people are pissed now,
I get it, and again, changes will come, but you're
not gonna see any crazy ass stuff. But the Notre
Dame Miami thing was the only thing that mattered during
any of those ranking shows until Lane Kiffin was leaving
Old miss at me kam. Will they get will they
get bounced?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No they didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Non story. So here he'll turn on the of the
release and everybody can be outraged for a minute. Look,
change is coming, Change is inevitable, Change is hard.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But that's where we're at with college football.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You still love it for the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry,
and it really always comes back to one very fundamental
truth in our sporting universe.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And in life. Never get in front of the judges.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, don't have to go to court don't have to,
you know, with two losses, Baker have to make a
case that hey, please take me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I think unfortunately everybody's in front of the judges in
this I mean only only team not in front of
the judges Indiana, Hey and all me. Okay, But if
you got one loss, you're pretty comfortably in unless you're
in one of those conferences nobody cares about. But you're
in front of the judges and it's like how far
do we But you're still in.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You're still in the field.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And then you just you know, backslapping and having a
drink and trying to get it.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
As Yeah, to stay out of court today. That's second loss.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Now, all of a sudden, you're fighting for your life.
Wait wait, you made that a felony?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What the hell exit out about of Frasca exit Swalling Dome.
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So understand, that's where cut. That's what happened in the
last twenty four forty eight hours. We'll have more on
this story coming up next. We'll have more on the
Monday night football game as well. We are at the
two minute warning. The Eagles field goal is giving them
(16:19):
a nineteen to sixteen lead. The Chargers facing a third
and ten if they're gonna try to continue to keep
this drive going, Lad McConkie nearly comes down with a
circus catch at midfield, but incomplete two minute warning, three
point lead by the Eagles. We'll have more on this
as well. As we talked about what changes you're gonna see.
(16:42):
Nothing's gonna end, but what changes will you see? I
can guarantee you one incredibly large change coming up next year,
and it's gonna make everybody happy.
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right now?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
In La?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's a three point lead for the Eagles, fifteen seconds
left to go. The Chargers are well within Cameron Dicker's
field goal range, and I maybe coming out to try
to tie this game now. A very weak pass interference
call on the Eagles gave the Charges a first down
on a third and seven play, and Justin Herbert scrambles
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for a first down on a big third and four,
and then the following play a fake handoff. The entire
world goes into the middle of the field and Herbert's
able to scramble for about twenty yards. So an if
he field goal for Cameron Dicker is turning into what
is for him a gimme. It is a forty six
yard attempt for Dicker, who coming into this kick for
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his career, he is ninety nine out of one hundred
and one kicks inside of fifty yards. Think about that
inside of fifty In four years now in the NFL,
ninety nine out of a hundred and one, he has
missed two kicks from inside of fifty yards and this
one is no different. It splits the uprights. Nineteen nineteen
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eight seconds left to go. I assume we're going to
see a kickoff and the Eagles kneel on the football
and we'll be going overtime in LA. The fourth field
goal of the night from Cameron Dicker.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
On that possession, you had the pass interference patalty again,
a little bit of contact, nothing great, didn't swivel the hips,
nothing but gets called. You had Videll who had an
eight yard run. Otherwise it was nothing but Justin Herbert
runs to set up that field goal. He is currently
the leading rusher on the night for your Los Angeles Chargers.
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Eight carries, fifty three yards.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
This is something that we didn't see.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Coming despite playing with a broken hand and being flatten
on his ass.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Listen, listen, you would have an appreciation moment because Justin
Herbert has been absolutely getting tacktoo he's a bad man
throughout the game. Man, there's certain nights, like there's certain
games I've seen him player where I go wow, Justin Herbert.
I don't know about role models, but your mind. Tonight
is one of those games. The Eagles are just teeing
off on him. He's trying to keep plays alive, scrambling,
he's getting hit on every single play. And here we are,
(20:16):
nineteen nineteen, about to go to overtime. Jalen Hurts is out,
three seconds left to go, the kickoff is tie, is
stopped the thirty yard line. I assume we're getting a
kneel down and we're going to get to go to overtime.
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a bit. But man, that Cameron Dicker one hundred out
of one oh two in his career, say inside fifty yards.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
If there's this. I know there's a kicking stat. You
can be more impressed with than that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Now at this point, no, I mean, we've had some
odd ball games, right the six to seven field goal
kind of scenarios. The guys that had been super toe
go all the way back to Sebastian Janikowski Once upon
a time, Hey, we're near the fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What the hell, we're not going to score? Throw him out.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
There, and you would, and occasionally you'd get the I mean,
we're seeing Aubrey with the Cowboys and so many others
where you sixty yard attempts are actually becoming part of
the norm. It's a very different way of playing offense
and setting up your play calling sequences anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So we'll have more on this game again.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
End of regulation, going to overtime, nineteen nineteen eight and
four Eagles eight and four Chargers. Now, let's get back
to the big story that we've spent a lot of time.
It's going to spend a time because look, the college
football playoff. You can't get enough of this.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
That's glorious.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The ridiculousness of the way the rankings were put out there,
the leaving out of Notre Dame, all of it is
just such an absolute mess. Right, You've seen all about
this for the past couple of days. But again here
we are wanted to push it forward, give you something
a little bit different. What do I always say in
the NFL, Major League Baseball when something happens involving the Saints.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That's a big deal. We don't get change.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
When something happens with all the Cowboys, we get change,
all right? Major League base something happens with the Reds,
do we get change? Good luck att in college Wober. No,
when something happens evolving the Yankees, do we get change? Yeah,
there is no doubt in my mind. No tre Dame
getting left out this year.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We are going to a sixteen team playoff for next year.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Magically, all the people that couldn't come together on a
sixteen team playoff this year for whatever stupid reason they couldn't.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh, we can't make the money work. We can't do this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Watch how fast everybody gets on board with sixteen teams
next year, more playoff games, more money.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Teams are getting in.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We're gonna see one hundred and fifty percent they'll be
I can't believe they didn't vote today. Sixteen teams next year.
They can't keep it at twelve, as you have seen.
If you're gonna let in the smaller mid major teams,
and that's a big deal because you can let in
one sixth of a playoff field can be mid major
teams when you have sixty eight teams, right, we're talking
(22:58):
about teams getting left out that don't have strong resumes.
You can't have one sixth of a playoff field be
mid majors when you only have twelve, right, because you
wind up leave it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You're not letting it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
There's no way anybody can say James Madison and Tulane
are as good as any other ten teams that are anything,
but you're letting them in. So, okay, I understand that
you want to let them in. It's good, it's good.
It's inclusion for those teams in college football.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
They get a chance to prove they belong or don't
they belong. But you need more teams in there if
you're gonna allow this to happen, So you're gonna wind
up adding four more spots in so situations like this
don't happen again. Yes, when you get to sixteen, are
other teams gonna say we should get in. Sure, But
it's a lot easier for me to say, hey, Duke,
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I'm sorry, but guys, you lost five games. I know
you want. You lost five games. I'm sorry about that.
It's a lot harder to say, well, Notre Dame, you
lost twice Miami had three losses, they beat you. I
know Alabama had three and they got boat race, but
they're getting in. It's a lot harder to make that argument.
Especially again, if you're the more teams you get in,
the less of an argument, you're gonna be for teams
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getting snubbed. Right, that's just how it goes. You just
gonna get biggers say no, you're always gonna get suck.
You could let in one hundred teams and teams. What
the team at one on one are going? Why didn't
we we beat the team ranked seventy fifth, seventy eight
to ninety second.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
How do you not let us in?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But next year sixteen teams one hundred percent happening? Because
a college football still doesn't want this to happen again.
You don't want to leave notre name out of the playoff.
You want to be able to put in more heritage
teams that more people are gonna watch on television. Right,
you brought it up a few minutes ago. People still
gonna watch the games. Yeah, but at the.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Holiday sit it's the holiday sits.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
At the holiday season. Do you have to get to
the TV to watch James Madison? Do you have to
get the TV to watch Tulane, Texas Tech. Somebody say,
you don't right, you want to get there when Oklahoma,
Ohio State, Indiana, but you want to make sure, hey,
we let in as many TV friendly teams because remember,
the College Football Playoff is a television show. So you're
and you're making these changes now, and the four teams
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you're gonna let in next next year are gonna be
these big teams are gonna be these teams. People are gonnatch,
people gonna watch Notre Dame on television, right, people, That's
how it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So yeah, without a doubt, next.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Year, sixteen teams are in because Notre Dame was done
wrong and it's a bigger deal if Iowa State was
done wrong, or Wisconsin was done wrong, or Wake Forest
was done wrong. Hey, you know what, Sorry, guys, you're
not movers and shakers. But if it's Michigan, if it's
Ohio State, if it's Notre Dame, and there's no more
shindy example of a team getting left out than Notre
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Dame getting left out of the playoff, we're going to
sixteen teams.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, I mean, look, they've already uh Bavocua let the
cat out of the bag that they've already got their
guarantee based on schedule going forward right top twelve, you're in.
But in terms of the expansion, I think it makes
it a little more modeled because you'll have more two
and three loss teams. But that's what we'll be great
because that TV show that all these folks, even on
their own network, and the complaining about it becomes that
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much more musty TV, right because we're not just arguing
about the same two teams repeat or occasionally bringing the
Alabama into the mix. And this is where you can
go back to the larger argument for Tulane and James
Madison as a whole of in out separation. You know,
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do we start creating separate playoff systems or whatever, which
I'm sure he'll be bandied about. Curiosity of the ratings
of these James Madison at Oregon to Lane Ole miss
those run opposite the Bears and Packers.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
On that Saturday night, So that'll be interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
To watch as well as the NFC North good game
this week, Bears narrowly well failed in the final moments
running that same play that worked against the Eagles, didn't
see Cole.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Comet, which might have been able to tie. But push
that aside.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The expansion of the playoffs right this, where you get
into the bowl season, you can maybe grab a couple
of those in as well, in nice lowcals that become
great destinations for the holiday holiday holiday. But where you're
looking at the expansion is when you've got teams like
Michigan circling like you have a situation like you had
with Notre Dame, some of the heritage squads. You always
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want to envelop as many of those as you can.
And let's face it, as much as we love the
rest of the conferences and the college football product as
a whole, the SEC and Big Ten are the big
bullies on the block. Right they want their fourthteen, they
want their fifteen. That's all finding good expand the playoffs
they get what they need and everybody else gets whatever
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sliver of a.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Much larger pie.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Look, it's amazing they haven't been able to figure it out.
But look, it's one of the biggest mysteries last twenty years.
Hower was so reticent to go to a playoff and
then to make it a small playoff and then keep
it small and then okay, we'll expand it by two teams. Now, like,
I don't understand how it's all of this money, all
these things happening.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, you can easily make that.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
No, it's the same rule now, man, somehow we're not
gonna find a way to do that. Oh, all the
other sports are doing it, and they seem to be
doing really well, and they want to talk about adding
teams to the NFL playoffs, the Major League Baseball and
the NBA. Now they got to play in round college football? No, no, no,
I want to keep it small.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Why would you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Now, I'll take you back, and I'll give you the
first couple chapters of my book from my professional career
through Yahoo and some of what I know to be
true behind the scenes. People may be really smart, but
don't always do what they should. Likewise, here you gotta
as we've talked about a lot of politicking, a lot
of territory protecting and expansion of your own interests as
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opposed to how it benefits everybody else. Right, I'll take
it just tax I don't like paying taxes either, but
on the grand scale, the more taxes I pay means
I probably had a pretty good year.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Right, same thing. If it's a bigger pie, everybody wins.
Maybe maybe get a little.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Less, but that the in terms of a percentage, but
the pie is a lot bigger, so you actually end
up with more money.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
But if the percentage is what you're fixating on, you
lose because now you have those internal fights like how
do we give up that percentage? Like we actually made
it at you one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't care. We gave up a percentage to him
him him.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
We lost, like not really, you can still win even
if you take the other approach and look at it
through a different lens and see a loss. That's fine.
But for the college football playoff, it's inevitable. Coming out
of here. There's so much.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Handwringing and anger.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And again Alabama in this process got to slip in
out the back door.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You guys keep arguing about yourself. We're gonna go get
ready for Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna It's like, what's the movie where
where the three of them are arguing over the money.
I see the three bad guys that are kind of
the anti heroes are arguing over the money, and the
two people argue with a big time, and by the
time they look up and look around, the third person's
left for the money, Like, where do you go? Them
all like I see them in a house and they're
all arguing for the money and they're like.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's mine, it's my. They go, wait, where did it go?
Where's the money? Just slipped right out? That's in Alabama.
We're just heading out. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Look, it happened to Notre Dame. If it happened Alabama,
we'd get changed too, right, Sure, the big teams, it happens, right,
but Notre Dame is the biggest of the big teams.
Magically will be at sixteen teams, all the all the differences,
it'll be, it'll be thrown to the wayside and they'll
magically come to an agreement.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It's too bad because, you know, because they have to
deal with NBC and not ABC, ESPN, Disney, because then
you could have had Selanna Gomez or someone wave the
wand with the mouse hears to say, hey, we're the
sixteen teams or Wizards.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You could have had her with Martin Short and Steve
Martin on investigating the murder of the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh now Sea.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, only, I think we should focus on only teams
getting left out of the playoffs in the building, let's
just focus on that. Uh time out to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We got a score on the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Board in overtime in La Chris Purfetts got more on
this CP.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
That's right, Chargers got the ball to start overtime, Cameron
Dicker a fifty four yard field goal after the Chargers
drive petered out just to cross us midfield or so.
But they take the lead here, Eagles about to get
the ball, as you were saying. The leading rusher for
the Chargers is Justin Herbert's ten carries sixty six yards
(31:10):
so far.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Not bad, not bad at all. What can you say?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
The main touchdown for the Charges, of course, coming early
in this game from an Amari and Hampton receiving touchdown
where just coming off I ar today. And the Eagles
answered early on with another touchdown from Saquon Barkley. And
that's how we are here in overtime with a lot
of field goals tacked on on top of that.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
News around the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
According to Adam Schefter Tuesday, we're going to see a
practice for Philip Rivers Old marble ARD's back.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Not a game, not a game game, but practice. We're
talking about practice.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Do you think do you think this is to get
away from the fifteen kids or is this like going
to be like just how much that contract might be
going back to making sure they've got daycare.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah. Yeah, let's let's see. Let's see how this actually
goes before we sign.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I mean that last year he still had some zip
on the ball, but that was five years ago. That
was like we were talking about the pandemic at that point.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And happy birthday, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
That's right, happy birthday either way, though, the only other
option for the Colts right now on that roster is
practice squad quarterback Brett Rippian. There you go, and I'm
trying to remember where he even went to college and
I'm failing. Speaking of college Heisman finalists. So we've got
Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayan, who had a seventy eight
point four percent completion percentage with the Buckeyes this year.
We've got Vanderbilts Diego Pavia, who hit almost thirty two
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hundred passing yards twenty seven touchdowns, running back from Notre Dame,
Jeremiah Love with twenty one all purpose touchdowns and rounding
that out Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, who led the Hoosiers
to their first ever undefeated season and their first Big
Ten titles since I believe the sixties, it's been a minute.
On Monday, the tam Bay Buccaneers hosted veteran linebacker Jason
(33:01):
Pierre Paul for a tryout. Afterwards, he's on the practice squad.
Could get some reinforcement there as well. NBA Scoreboard all
those games final here, Spurs take down the Pelicans one
thirty five, one thirty two, Pacers take down the Kings
one sixteen to one oh five, and the Suns defeat
the Timberwolves one o eight to one oh five. Jason
and Mike back to you as this gets spicy here.
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well five and a half to go in overtime. Still,
the Chargers have the three point lead. Eagles have the football.
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Jalen Hurts scrambles for about twenty five yards in a
first down, but a holding penalty is gonna bring it back.
Make it third and long for the Eagles coming up next.
Are we talking about a big Eagle win? Well, the
Charger assaulted a way. No matter what, We'll be talking
about a play from this game that none of us
(34:08):
have ever seen in the history of football.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh, that's not it.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
A play earlier in this game none of us have
ever seen in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
What is it? No, it's not it's not that either.
It's not we dad the anniversary of it's over. It's
not the fail Mary pick six. It's a play that
none of us have ever seen in NFL history. That's exit.
All right, that's out of embarrassing. What else do I have?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I just excited?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
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Speaker 3 (34:53):
Fox Sports Radio. Woo, all right, we will get into
the ah.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
None of us have seen in the history of the
NFL coming up in a few minutes. Jalen Hurts of
the Eagles had two turnovers on one play earlier in
this game. However, you're gonna have to make it another one.
In a game that has been defined by mistakes, a
final one puts the w on the board for the Chargers.
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Charges facing a fourth and four, it would have been
a sixty yard field goal for the Eagles. Eagles decide
to go for it fourth and four and the Chargers
jump off side. They get a way to come offside,
Dallas Goddard just turns to go in motion and oh
Way leaps across the line, So first down for the Eagles. Okay,
(35:49):
Eagles start moving the football more. Goddard catches the ball
inside the twenty yard line. There's about three minutes left
to go. The Chargers lead it by a field goal.
You know, the Eagle are going for the score. They're
going for the touchdown because they eschewed the field goal
that could have tied the game. And Jalen Hurts throws
an interception on a tipped ball that Jefferson comes down
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with at the goal line, and the Chargers escape with
a twenty two to nineteen win over the Eagles. It
was an ill advised pass. Uh, not quite a heat
check pass, but wow, I'll tell you man, I don't
know what hurts saw. He's looking for Dotson and there's
two players around him, and Heart tips it.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
He reaches ball.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
He does a good job to leave god her Yeah,
and Heart tips the ball.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The ball.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
He's run past the ball, but not too far. He
just reaches out his arm tips the ball up. Jefferson
grabs it at the three yard line. His teammates all say,
go just get down. We've seen two turnovers on the
same play. Here, go down, go down, go down. Jefferson
slides down. The Chargers are celebrating. Justin Herbert somehow is
able to do an interview after getting hit approximately seventy
(37:05):
six times during the game. Tonight, Chargers win at twenty
two to nineteen. The Eagles go home a game dotted
by turnovers, decided on a turnover.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Fourth interception of the night. Yeah, just playing it out.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
You got Goddard short on the right sideline, goes for
Johan Dodson, thinking he could pass zip it past Heart
and he gets a hand on it for the deflection
and a game sealer for the Chargers ugly game. To
your point, Herbert played ridiculously well despite being bludgeoned over
the course of the night, his best work coming via
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the run because we saw him in the passing game.
We saw a good job from dejene on mconkey all
night long. Finishes with one hundred and thirty nine passing
yard sixty six on the ground, but the tail of
the tape is coming into the game. Jalen Hurts just
two interceptions all year long. That tip ball was his
fourth night.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Jalen Hurts tonight twenty one out of forty two hundred
and forty yards, no touchdowns, four interceptions the other that's
his stats. Those are his stats tonight. I think that's
just about well. He did have eight yards rushing, but
that's let's say so eight. That's about a zero in fantasy.
It's about a zero.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, whether you get dinged for that sack or not,
we'll decide it. But that's the other stat right sakuon
Barkley twenty garys one hundred and twenty two yards. They
go away from him and they're going for the jugular
in the passing game. Now, they had a couple of
big passes. You had the other big conversion on a
long pass to Smith across the middle. He was quiet
(38:41):
on the night, just four for thirty seven, like thirty
of them came on. That pass gets the completion to Goddard.
But instead of tucking the ball back into the gut
of Saquon Barkley and grinding down knowing you got the
field goal in your back pocket, they get aggressive and
they it cost him dearly.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So how did it sound? Here's the final play of overtime.
The Chargers get the pick and they win twenty two
to nineteen.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Perks and the shotgun. A touchdown would win it for
the Eagles. Kurtz pulls it, throws.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Intercepted game over, intercepted game over day on Henley game over.
The fourth interception Tony Jefferson unbelievable, uncedes.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
It Matt Money Smith and five to seventy justin Frossberg
producing that broadcast right there are Chargers Radio network. Uh,
that's twenty two to nineteen. The Chargers improved to nine
and four and the Eagles have a lot of questions
at eight and five. However, because we are a show
about positivity and looking forward about that great game tonight,
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not a great played game. Great game tonight. I have
the solving of the problems for both of these teams
as they go forward in their quest to win the
Super Bowl. More so, I can solve the Eagles problems,
but look the US Carter is one tonight. But more
so so, I can solve the problems of the defending champions,
and I can do it. Coming up next, you can
solve their problem, solve I was thinking a suit of
(40:07):
armor might help.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Justin Herbert, I can say, well, okay, there is that.
There is that. He comes in looking like Lancelot holding
on tak got. He's got a mazed I don't know.
I don't think you could use that.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
But the champs are now eight and five. The Cowboys
could win the NFC East. But I can solve their problems.
That's coming up next. Right here, we break down a
big Monday night game.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
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e O n Assist dot com. Fourth quarter, we have
a tie game in Los Angeles after yet another turnover.
It is the thirty sixth turnover of the game.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Tonight, the Chargers tie it up with.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The Eagles sixteen a piece. Cameron Dickers field goal gives
us an even game. Now midway through the fourth quarter,
charters getting the football back again. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but hey,
it's been sloppy. The quarterbacks begetting hit. There' been a
lot of tip balls interceptions. But it's close on a
Monday night. That's it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's holiday season here for everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Tie game final six minutes, it's an absolute gift to
us and Justin Herbert six sacks. Jalen Hurts with more
interceptions tonight than he had all season combined coming into
this game.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
There has been.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I would say, overall before you get back into the
college wall playoffs and overall last week regular season in
fantasy playoffs, anybody who started out side of Barkley or
maybe a little bit of a mari and Hampton right,
because he does have the touchdown, and there's lots of
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guys that got started this week in fantasy on both
of these teams. You are unbleep and happy with what
you've seen so far tonight because nobody is having.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
A big night.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Everybody's got guys going Tonight's gonna lose. Everybody's gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, unless you add Barkley might have gotten into survival
or the kickers. Okay, be one of the biggest scores
of the week, so you know, take that for it.
He was it worth what twenty five twenty six points
in most leagues.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So again, we'll have more in this game coming up
in a few minutes. But the reaction to the college
football Playoff the last twenty four hours has been all
over the map. And you've heard all the different arguments.
You've heard everything. So what we like to do is
to give you something new. Yes, Notre Dame has left out.
Why Notre Dame Miami weren't flipped before this week?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Stuff running?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why teams like James Madison and Tulane get in stunning
You can't tell me you have the best twelve teams.
It is a really faulty process, and everything was laid
bare with the unveiling of the college football Playoff a
day ago. And the first thing I want to say
(03:21):
is this is that this was inevitable and predictable because
college football has no rules. They have no rules. There's
no one running the ship. There's not even someone who
I can say is corrupt and they're taking money. No,
there's no one running college football. It's the conferences are
out for themselves, the big teams out for themselves. College
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football has no rules. It's how we got to the
nil era. It's how we got to the transfer era.
It's why we are where we are. There are no
rules in college football. So if there's no rules, how
do you expect the playoff to go any different than
it did? That looks like an absolute mess and people
trying to defend picks and positions and why a team
moved ahead of another team when neither of them played
(04:05):
last week. Of course there was gonna be this messy.
Of course it's gonna be like this because when you
have no rules, this is how it goes. So this
should have been absolutely predictable. And anybody who thought it
wasn't gonna be this way, well, you guys have been
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, so long as you have a system in place.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And look a lot more vocal proponents of get it
back to the computers, like you all hated the computers,
but I like the computers.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
But you know, I joked before, I love the high ones.
I like the high exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The mean girl's reference or when you're going for, say
a nomination at any level of government, even down to
your local school board to prop yourself up. By by
way of comparison, you're tearing other people down. In this case,
you've got folks that have their vested interest in their conference,
in their schools to go in and lobby as hard
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as they can. Why because they get more of the gold,
they get more of the control.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And that's what you have in there. You got very
few actual football.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
People, people that are speaking on behalf of teams and
doing stump speeches like they're at the foot of you know,
the of Congress. I mean, that's where we're at. So
long as that is the system, it's going to be flawed.
It becomes the hey, i'll convention to my side. What
the numbers doesn't matter. Like the Notre Dame Miami thing
(05:21):
was the all right, we'll wait until we actually have
to use this head to head and side by side.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That's what they said.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
After the fact. We never did him side by side.
You're glad, we don't believe you. But you didn't activate
it because you didn't need to. Because it made for
a better TV show. Because every year, every week, as
Notre Dame got better and better, towards the end of
the season, it became a aren't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They the better team?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Because I think I were eight or nine to one
before the playoff bracket got released. And by the way,
there was actually a leak from fan duel oh yeah
before it came out, and it had Notre Dame in
that ten slot.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And then all of a sudden, I like.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Wha wait, wait you mean oh you mean division, you
mean conference champion? And oh wait, delete delete delete delete.
You know you know how I feel about this, and
I feel weird about this. But do you ever have
have a friend who you're really good friends with, but
one thing they're not They don't do the right they
don't act the right way. For like, maybe they're in
(06:16):
a relationship with somebody and they don't treat that person right.
And you're like, you know, we're friends. I know you're
a good guy. You got you gotta you gotta get
you gotta treat the other person better. Yeah, And then
something embarrassing happens and your friend gets embarrassed and you
feel bad for them, but at the same time you're like, good,
I hope you learned your bleeping lesson.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's kind of how I.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Feel right now about college football. I love God of
course college football. Of course, how much we talk about
how much I love college football my whole life. But
right now I'm like, good, I'm glad you own this
absolute tire fire of a playoff of what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Good. I good.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I feel like a good I told you so kind
of way.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I want.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You know, we were friends, We're really close, and I
love you. But man, I'm glad you're getting your come
up and right now because you need come up, and
because this is stupid, but.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
This is that as soon as Bovaka was on with
Dan Patrick, it was no longer Alabama slipped.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Out the back door.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Nobody cares about Alabama anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Hey, you guys paying They got in and for about
I don't know, three or four hours, there's a big
deal and then no bowl game, and you started seeing
some of the missives back and forth, and eventually you
get Bvakua on with Dan Patrick this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He's like, that's it, Alabama's.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Entry into all this.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Nobody cares about that anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Why did you string us along with having us flipped
with Miami this whole time?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Why did you do this and all of these decisions
along the way.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But yeah, I mean, you make all these decisions as
a school, right, Notre Dame, they've got to live. And
it's pretty nice when you've got this NBC deal and
the schedule, and I know it's made years in advance,
and you have an ebb and flow as to who's good,
bad coaches leaving administrators, leaving all of that stuff that
you don't know years in advance. I understand that, the
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fluidity of all of that, but it's still to the
point of we want benefits on some parts of being
in the conference.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But then you need to genuflect.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now, you need to genuflict us when we're in respect
exactly when we're when we're talking about this process that
we're all important because we do move the move the
needle and bring the eyeballs or whatever. Like playoff games,
people are gonna watch. They may tune out, they may
have it on as a second screen experience, but they're
gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It is Notre Dame more captivating. Absolutely, you saw the
numbers last year.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It brings up people to the yard of positively negatively right.
I mean Notre Name is one of those polarizing schools
in that regard because they've been thrust in front of
you low these many years, but it's it's just laughable.
We get to this point and it's like, well, here's
all the problems, Like all these problems have been sitting there,
and every iteration of the process, and especially now because
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you've now got the considerations. Not only have coaches leaving
and what do you do with teams or whatever, but
all the players are like, yeah, I don't know that
they're actually gonna want to play in any of this
stuff because they're leaving for another school or they're getting
replaced because they're bringing in another guy. So it just
makes this whole month leading up into that process that
much messier.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And look, and if you think this is now going
to be the death of the bowl system, the death
of conference championship games, the death of the weekly college
football polls, you're an idiot, none of those things.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I thought it was funny that the folks that have
been they had a bunch of their their hosts just
like they were crying for Lane Kiffin. Let them coach
it out. It's like, we got to get rid of
these shows, like are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
This is not a Red Leader day. This is not
gonna be again College football has no rules. The shows
are fun, right, The conference championshi games make money. Right,
All of this, All of this is happening. This is
simply going to be a big story in the NIL
era of college football timeline. We'll look back at this
poll and say, wow, this will we knew college football
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was really off the rails.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But no changes are coming.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
They're not gonna ge get rid of con You're stupid
if you think they're getting rid of conference championship games.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They're not gonna suddenly be Hey, we got somebody in
charge of college football. No, that's not happening either. Everything's
gonna be the same. There's gonna be changes. I'm not
saying they're not gonna be changes. But as far as
as far as all those things, it's the death of this.
It's the end of it. No, all of those things
are still happening. Man, I don't know what to tell
you again, pay more attention.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, the accal changes tiebreaker rules.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I think we can get I will say this, what
do we say last week?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's the ACC's fault from making the stupid tie breaker again.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We talked about it last hour.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The ACC needs to be more of a forward thinking
conference and understand you are in it as cutthroat as
the Big Ten and the SEC are and when it
came to well, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Just gonna have it, no, have some kind of vision
that whoaahoa, what if.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The teams that have we're all the way down to
here as a team that's not gonna get into the
playoff and that's it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Two highest ranked teams. There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
If there's a tie, the two highest ranked teams play
and that's who gets in. The winner gets in the playoff.
Like I don't understand that. That wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's the That's the with all of this.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Even going back to folks that think of the good
old days of college football, it's always been corrupt and
power driven by the conferences to get as much as
they can, as fast as they can. To claim positions
about why does Notre Dame have a deal with NBC
because they could and they can do the cash. Why
haven't they joined a conference in football because they don't
have to because the money flows Now unfortunately this year,
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you know, you can.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Talk about a screw job possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
In all this, but when we get down to it,
it's the you gotta be forward thinking, especially if you're
not anywhere near the sec or big ten of how
can we get screwed? And let's look at our constitutions,
by laws and processes to make sure that the hurt
is gonna be a little bit less, because we're gonna
get screwed, right, We're gonna get robbed wherever.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
They possibly can and minimized. How do we.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Protect ourselves so we have some level here? Now, do
we take some of these conference championship games to where
they become a play in for the backspots? Sure?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
To some of the bowl games maybe go away. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We got to look at the financials or what it
does for tourism, ticket sales, buy ins, because you did
have ten teams tell you to beat it when it
came down just filling out the rest of these bulls
led by Notre Dame most vociferously, but all of it.
That's the part of the equation that maybe changes a
little bit in the NIL era. Not because of what
happened to Notre Dame and at Alabama gain again, No,
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but just the reality of as you transition coaches, as
you transition so many players in and out of your
roster on a year to year basis that the games
that once seemed to be so obvious of that extra
month of practice aren't necessarily there anymore, and might those
resources coaching hours be better spent recruiting and trying to
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retain getting back into the homes of the people that
you know, we're going to get an offer from a
big TAN or SEC school to keep them there.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Look, I mean it's they're going to be changes right
every year, because every year, right, if you don't like
college football, wait five minutes, right, like the weather of Florida.
But there's not they're not gonna and they're not I know,
it's Oh, it's doing How can you have these books?
Teams keep opting out of balls? Guess what they'll find
teams to go playing balls. If nod Dan doesn't want
to play, they'll find somebody. Many teams out there find
somebody else. Essentially, if Steve Angelly was healthy, they would
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take Syracuse in a bowl game. Right, Hey, you're good
with ANGELI, let's go back to the book. They'll ploy
the bowl games. They will have the bowl games.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They will have.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
None of this is going away, which not I mean,
I understand, Oh, it's the end of college foe. This
is exactly something where college football can take a big
negative and turn it into a positive, where it's attention
on the sport. It's controversy, but are people not going
to watch, People gonna tune out, of people.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Gonna say, oh, I'm not watching this anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, it's not happening. Yes, there will be changes, I'm
not gonna say there is it. We'll get to those
changes coming up in the next in the next few minutes.
But as far as the future of the game, nothing
happened that was ending the sport. Like it's a bit,
it's a big story, but it's a big story that
is defining. It's part of the story of college football.
It's a big red. It's a big day.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
In the era of the nil era of college football.
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But we're still gonna have conferences, tournaments, We're still gonna
have bowls, We're still gonna have weekly shows and rankings.
Next year, that's not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Get rid of the preseason top twenty five. You're kidding, right, yeah, right,
you're kidding. During the year, we're not gonna do it.
Because what Week three, they were number eleven and then
they fell out, so you're claiming, Hey, people can use
the argument that team was no good. I mean LSU
fired their coach, Penn State fired their coach. Like all
of those things happened in the course of a season.
(14:34):
People are just pissed now, and I get it. But
in a couple of days, it's gonna be okay, all right,
win of the game starts. All right, people are pissed now,
I get it, and again, changes will come, but you're
not gonna see any crazy ass stuff. But the Notre
Dame Miami thing was the only thing that mattered during
any of those ranking shows until Lane Kiffin was leaving
Old miss at me kam. Will they get will they
get bounced?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No they didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Non story. So here he'll turn on the of the
release and everybody can be outraged for a minute. Look,
change is coming, Change is inevitable, Change is hard.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But that's where we're at with college football.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You still love it for the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry,
and it really always comes back to one very fundamental
truth in our sporting universe.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
And in life. Never get in front of the judges.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, don't have to go to court don't have to,
you know, with two losses, Baker have to make a
case that hey, please take me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I think unfortunately everybody's in front of the judges in
this I mean only only team not in front of
the judges Indiana, Hey and all me. Okay, But if
you got one loss, you're pretty comfortably in unless you're
in one of those conferences nobody cares about. But you're
in front of the judges and it's like how far
do we But you're still in.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You're still in the field.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And then you just you know, backslapping and having a
drink and trying to get it.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
As Yeah, to stay out of court today. That's second loss.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Now, all of a sudden, you're fighting for your life.
Wait wait, you made that a felony?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What the hell exit out about of Frasca exit Swalling Dome.
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last twenty four forty eight hours. We'll have more on
this story coming up next. We'll have more on the
Monday night football game as well. We are at the
two minute warning. The Eagles field goal is giving them
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a nineteen to sixteen lead. The Chargers facing a third
and ten if they're gonna try to continue to keep
this drive going, Lad McConkie nearly comes down with a
circus catch at midfield, but incomplete two minute warning, three
point lead by the Eagles. We'll have more on this
as well. As we talked about what changes you're gonna see.
(16:42):
Nothing's gonna end, but what changes will you see? I
can guarantee you one incredibly large change coming up next year,
and it's gonna make everybody happy.
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Speaker 4 (17:46):
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Speaker 1 (17:51):
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strong in this and do we have some drama happening
right now?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
In La?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's a three point lead for the Eagles, fifteen seconds
left to go. The Chargers are well within Cameron Dicker's
field goal range, and I maybe coming out to try
to tie this game now. A very weak pass interference
call on the Eagles gave the Charges a first down
on a third and seven play, and Justin Herbert scrambles
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for a first down on a big third and four,
and then the following play a fake handoff. The entire
world goes into the middle of the field and Herbert's
able to scramble for about twenty yards. So an if
he field goal for Cameron Dicker is turning into what
is for him a gimme. It is a forty six
yard attempt for Dicker, who coming into this kick for
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his career, he is ninety nine out of one hundred
and one kicks inside of fifty yards. Think about that
inside of fifty In four years now in the NFL,
ninety nine out of a hundred and one, he has
missed two kicks from inside of fifty yards and this
one is no different. It splits the uprights. Nineteen nineteen
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eight seconds left to go. I assume we're going to
see a kickoff and the Eagles kneel on the football
and we'll be going overtime in LA. The fourth field
goal of the night from Cameron Dicker.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
On that possession, you had the pass interference patalty again,
a little bit of contact, nothing great, didn't swivel the hips,
nothing but gets called. You had Videll who had an
eight yard run. Otherwise it was nothing but Justin Herbert
runs to set up that field goal. He is currently
the leading rusher on the night for your Los Angeles Chargers.
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Eight carries, fifty three yards.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
This is something that we didn't see.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Coming despite playing with a broken hand and being flatten
on his ass.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Listen, listen, you would have an appreciation moment because Justin
Herbert has been absolutely getting tacktoo he's a bad man
throughout the game. Man, there's certain nights, like there's certain
games I've seen him player where I go wow, Justin Herbert.
I don't know about role models, but your mind. Tonight
is one of those games. The Eagles are just teeing
off on him. He's trying to keep plays alive, scrambling,
he's getting hit on every single play. And here we are,
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nineteen nineteen, about to go to overtime. Jalen Hurts is out,
three seconds left to go, the kickoff is tie, is
stopped the thirty yard line. I assume we're getting a
kneel down and we're going to get to go to overtime.
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a bit. But man, that Cameron Dicker one hundred out
of one oh two in his career, say inside fifty yards.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
If there's this. I know there's a kicking stat. You
can be more impressed with than that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Now at this point, no, I mean, we've had some
odd ball games, right the six to seven field goal
kind of scenarios. The guys that had been super toe
go all the way back to Sebastian Janikowski Once upon
a time, Hey, we're near the fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What the hell, we're not going to score? Throw him out.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
There, and you would, and occasionally you'd get the I mean,
we're seeing Aubrey with the Cowboys and so many others
where you sixty yard attempts are actually becoming part of
the norm. It's a very different way of playing offense
and setting up your play calling sequences anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
So we'll have more on this game again.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
End of regulation, going to overtime, nineteen nineteen eight and
four Eagles eight and four Chargers. Now, let's get back
to the big story that we've spent a lot of time.
It's going to spend a time because look, the college
football playoff. You can't get enough of this.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
That's glorious.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The ridiculousness of the way the rankings were put out there,
the leaving out of Notre Dame, all of it is
just such an absolute mess. Right, You've seen all about
this for the past couple of days. But again here
we are wanted to push it forward, give you something
a little bit different. What do I always say in
the NFL, Major League Baseball when something happens involving the Saints.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That's a big deal. We don't get change.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
When something happens with all the Cowboys, we get change,
all right? Major League base something happens with the Reds,
do we get change? Good luck att in college Wober. No,
when something happens evolving the Yankees, do we get change? Yeah,
there is no doubt in my mind. No tre Dame
getting left out this year.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We are going to a sixteen team playoff for next year.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Magically, all the people that couldn't come together on a
sixteen team playoff this year for whatever stupid reason they couldn't.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh, we can't make the money work. We can't do this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Watch how fast everybody gets on board with sixteen teams
next year, more playoff games, more money.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Teams are getting in.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We're gonna see one hundred and fifty percent they'll be
I can't believe they didn't vote today. Sixteen teams next year.
They can't keep it at twelve, as you have seen.
If you're gonna let in the smaller mid major teams,
and that's a big deal because you can let in
one sixth of a playoff field can be mid major
teams when you have sixty eight teams, right, we're talking
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about teams getting left out that don't have strong resumes.
You can't have one sixth of a playoff field be
mid majors when you only have twelve, right, because you
wind up leave it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You're not letting it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
There's no way anybody can say James Madison and Tulane
are as good as any other ten teams that are anything,
but you're letting them in. So, okay, I understand that
you want to let them in. It's good, it's good.
It's inclusion for those teams in college football.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
They get a chance to prove they belong or don't
they belong. But you need more teams in there if
you're gonna allow this to happen, So you're gonna wind
up adding four more spots in so situations like this
don't happen again. Yes, when you get to sixteen, are
other teams gonna say we should get in. Sure, But
it's a lot easier for me to say, hey, Duke,
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I'm sorry, but guys, you lost five games. I know
you want. You lost five games. I'm sorry about that.
It's a lot harder to say, well, Notre Dame, you
lost twice Miami had three losses, they beat you. I
know Alabama had three and they got boat race, but
they're getting in. It's a lot harder to make that argument.
Especially again, if you're the more teams you get in,
the less of an argument, you're gonna be for teams
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getting snubbed. Right, that's just how it goes. You just
gonna get biggers say no, you're always gonna get suck.
You could let in one hundred teams and teams. What
the team at one on one are going? Why didn't
we we beat the team ranked seventy fifth, seventy eight
to ninety second.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
How do you not let us in?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But next year sixteen teams one hundred percent happening? Because
a college football still doesn't want this to happen again.
You don't want to leave notre name out of the playoff.
You want to be able to put in more heritage
teams that more people are gonna watch on television. Right,
you brought it up a few minutes ago. People still
gonna watch the games. Yeah, but at the.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Holiday sit it's the holiday sits.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
At the holiday season. Do you have to get to
the TV to watch James Madison? Do you have to
get the TV to watch Tulane, Texas Tech. Somebody say,
you don't right, you want to get there when Oklahoma,
Ohio State, Indiana, but you want to make sure, hey,
we let in as many TV friendly teams because remember,
the College Football Playoff is a television show. So you're
and you're making these changes now, and the four teams
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you're gonna let in next next year are gonna be
these big teams are gonna be these teams. People are gonnatch,
people gonna watch Notre Dame on television, right, people, That's
how it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So yeah, without a doubt, next.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Year, sixteen teams are in because Notre Dame was done
wrong and it's a bigger deal if Iowa State was
done wrong, or Wisconsin was done wrong, or Wake Forest
was done wrong. Hey, you know what, Sorry, guys, you're
not movers and shakers. But if it's Michigan, if it's
Ohio State, if it's Notre Dame, and there's no more
shindy example of a team getting left out than Notre
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Dame getting left out of the playoff, we're going to
sixteen teams.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, I mean, look, they've already uh Bavocua let the
cat out of the bag that they've already got their
guarantee based on schedule going forward right top twelve, you're in.
But in terms of the expansion, I think it makes
it a little more modeled because you'll have more two
and three loss teams. But that's what we'll be great
because that TV show that all these folks, even on
their own network, and the complaining about it becomes that
(25:54):
much more musty TV, right because we're not just arguing
about the same two teams repeat or occasionally bringing the
Alabama into the mix. And this is where you can
go back to the larger argument for Tulane and James
Madison as a whole of in out separation. You know,
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do we start creating separate playoff systems or whatever, which
I'm sure he'll be bandied about. Curiosity of the ratings
of these James Madison at Oregon to Lane Ole miss
those run opposite the Bears and Packers.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
On that Saturday night, So that'll be interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
To watch as well as the NFC North good game
this week, Bears narrowly well failed in the final moments
running that same play that worked against the Eagles, didn't
see Cole.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Comet, which might have been able to tie. But push
that aside.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The expansion of the playoffs right this, where you get
into the bowl season, you can maybe grab a couple
of those in as well, in nice lowcals that become
great destinations for the holiday holiday holiday. But where you're
looking at the expansion is when you've got teams like
Michigan circling like you have a situation like you had
with Notre Dame, some of the heritage squads. You always
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want to envelop as many of those as you can.
And let's face it, as much as we love the
rest of the conferences and the college football product as
a whole, the SEC and Big Ten are the big
bullies on the block. Right they want their fourthteen, they
want their fifteen. That's all finding good expand the playoffs
they get what they need and everybody else gets whatever
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sliver of a.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Much larger pie.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Look, it's amazing they haven't been able to figure it out.
But look, it's one of the biggest mysteries last twenty years.
Hower was so reticent to go to a playoff and
then to make it a small playoff and then keep
it small and then okay, we'll expand it by two teams. Now, like,
I don't understand how it's all of this money, all
these things happening.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, you can easily make that.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
No, it's the same rule now, man, somehow we're not
gonna find a way to do that. Oh, all the
other sports are doing it, and they seem to be
doing really well, and they want to talk about adding
teams to the NFL playoffs, the Major League Baseball and
the NBA. Now they got to play in round college football? No, no, no,
I want to keep it small.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Why would you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Now, I'll take you back, and I'll give you the
first couple chapters of my book from my professional career
through Yahoo and some of what I know to be
true behind the scenes. People may be really smart, but
don't always do what they should. Likewise, here you gotta
as we've talked about a lot of politicking, a lot
of territory protecting and expansion of your own interests as
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opposed to how it benefits everybody else. Right, I'll take
it just tax I don't like paying taxes either, but
on the grand scale, the more taxes I pay means
I probably had a pretty good year.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Right, same thing. If it's a bigger pie, everybody wins.
Maybe maybe get a little.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Less, but that the in terms of a percentage, but
the pie is a lot bigger, so you actually end
up with more money.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
But if the percentage is what you're fixating on, you
lose because now you have those internal fights like how
do we give up that percentage? Like we actually made
it at you one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't care. We gave up a percentage to him
him him.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
We lost, like not really, you can still win even
if you take the other approach and look at it
through a different lens and see a loss. That's fine.
But for the college football playoff, it's inevitable. Coming out
of here. There's so much.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Handwringing and anger.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And again Alabama in this process got to slip in
out the back door.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You guys keep arguing about yourself. We're gonna go get
ready for Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna It's like, what's the movie where
where the three of them are arguing over the money.
I see the three bad guys that are kind of
the anti heroes are arguing over the money, and the
two people argue with a big time, and by the
time they look up and look around, the third person's
left for the money, Like, where do you go? Them
all like I see them in a house and they're
all arguing for the money and they're like.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's mine, it's my. They go, wait, where did it go?
Where's the money? Just slipped right out? That's in Alabama.
We're just heading out. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Look, it happened to Notre Dame. If it happened Alabama,
we'd get changed too, right, Sure, the big teams, it happens, right,
but Notre Dame is the biggest of the big teams.
Magically will be at sixteen teams, all the all the differences,
it'll be, it'll be thrown to the wayside and they'll
magically come to an agreement.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It's too bad because, you know, because they have to
deal with NBC and not ABC, ESPN, Disney, because then
you could have had Selanna Gomez or someone wave the
wand with the mouse hears to say, hey, we're the
sixteen teams or Wizards.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You could have had her with Martin Short and Steve
Martin on investigating the murder of the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh now Sea.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, only, I think we should focus on only teams
getting left out of the playoffs in the building, let's
just focus on that. Uh time out to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We got a score on the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Board in overtime in La Chris Purfetts got more on
this CP.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
That's right, Chargers got the ball to start overtime, Cameron
Dicker a fifty four yard field goal after the Chargers
drive petered out just to cross us midfield or so.
But they take the lead here, Eagles about to get
the ball, as you were saying. The leading rusher for
the Chargers is Justin Herbert's ten carries sixty six yards
(31:10):
so far.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Not bad, not bad at all. What can you say?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
The main touchdown for the Charges, of course, coming early
in this game from an Amari and Hampton receiving touchdown
where just coming off I ar today. And the Eagles
answered early on with another touchdown from Saquon Barkley. And
that's how we are here in overtime with a lot
of field goals tacked on on top of that.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
News around the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
According to Adam Schefter Tuesday, we're going to see a
practice for Philip Rivers Old marble ARD's back.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Not a game, not a game game, but practice. We're
talking about practice.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Do you think do you think this is to get
away from the fifteen kids or is this like going
to be like just how much that contract might be
going back to making sure they've got daycare.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah. Yeah, let's let's see. Let's see how this actually
goes before we sign.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
I mean that last year he still had some zip
on the ball, but that was five years ago. That
was like we were talking about the pandemic at that point.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And happy birthday, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
That's right, happy birthday either way, though, the only other
option for the Colts right now on that roster is
practice squad quarterback Brett Rippian. There you go, and I'm
trying to remember where he even went to college and
I'm failing. Speaking of college Heisman finalists. So we've got
Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayan, who had a seventy eight
point four percent completion percentage with the Buckeyes this year.
We've got Vanderbilts Diego Pavia, who hit almost thirty two
(32:38):
hundred passing yards twenty seven touchdowns, running back from Notre Dame,
Jeremiah Love with twenty one all purpose touchdowns and rounding
that out Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, who led the Hoosiers
to their first ever undefeated season and their first Big
Ten titles since I believe the sixties, it's been a minute.
On Monday, the tam Bay Buccaneers hosted veteran linebacker Jason
(33:01):
Pierre Paul for a tryout. Afterwards, he's on the practice squad.
Could get some reinforcement there as well. NBA Scoreboard all
those games final here, Spurs take down the Pelicans one
thirty five, one thirty two, Pacers take down the Kings
one sixteen to one oh five, and the Suns defeat
the Timberwolves one o eight to one oh five. Jason
and Mike back to you as this gets spicy here.
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well five and a half to go in overtime. Still,
the Chargers have the three point lead. Eagles have the football.
(33:47):
Jalen Hurts scrambles for about twenty five yards in a
first down, but a holding penalty is gonna bring it back.
Make it third and long for the Eagles coming up next.
Are we talking about a big Eagle win? Well, the
Charger assaulted a way. No matter what, We'll be talking
about a play from this game that none of us
(34:08):
have ever seen in the history of football.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh, that's not it.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
A play earlier in this game none of us have
ever seen in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
What is it? No, it's not it's not that either.
It's not we dad the anniversary of it's over. It's
not the fail Mary pick six. It's a play that
none of us have ever seen in NFL history. That's exit.
All right, that's out of embarrassing. What else do I have?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I just excited?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
That's next, Jason Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Fox Sports Radio. Woo, all right, we will get into
the ah.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
None of us have seen in the history of the
NFL coming up in a few minutes. Jalen Hurts of
the Eagles had two turnovers on one play earlier in
this game. However, you're gonna have to make it another one.
In a game that has been defined by mistakes, a
final one puts the w on the board for the Chargers.
(35:26):
Charges facing a fourth and four, it would have been
a sixty yard field goal for the Eagles. Eagles decide
to go for it fourth and four and the Chargers
jump off side. They get a way to come offside,
Dallas Goddard just turns to go in motion and oh
Way leaps across the line, So first down for the Eagles. Okay,
(35:49):
Eagles start moving the football more. Goddard catches the ball
inside the twenty yard line. There's about three minutes left
to go. The Chargers lead it by a field goal.
You know, the Eagle are going for the score. They're
going for the touchdown because they eschewed the field goal
that could have tied the game. And Jalen Hurts throws
an interception on a tipped ball that Jefferson comes down
(36:13):
with at the goal line, and the Chargers escape with
a twenty two to nineteen win over the Eagles. It
was an ill advised pass. Uh, not quite a heat
check pass, but wow, I'll tell you man, I don't
know what hurts saw. He's looking for Dotson and there's
two players around him, and Heart tips it.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
He reaches ball.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
He does a good job to leave god her Yeah,
and Heart tips the ball.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The ball.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
He's run past the ball, but not too far. He
just reaches out his arm tips the ball up. Jefferson
grabs it at the three yard line. His teammates all say,
go just get down. We've seen two turnovers on the
same play. Here, go down, go down, go down. Jefferson
slides down. The Chargers are celebrating. Justin Herbert somehow is
able to do an interview after getting hit approximately seventy
(37:05):
six times during the game. Tonight, Chargers win at twenty
two to nineteen. The Eagles go home a game dotted
by turnovers, decided on a turnover.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Fourth interception of the night. Yeah, just playing it out.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
You got Goddard short on the right sideline, goes for
Johan Dodson, thinking he could pass zip it past Heart
and he gets a hand on it for the deflection
and a game sealer for the Chargers ugly game. To
your point, Herbert played ridiculously well despite being bludgeoned over
the course of the night, his best work coming via
(37:41):
the run because we saw him in the passing game.
We saw a good job from dejene on mconkey all
night long. Finishes with one hundred and thirty nine passing
yard sixty six on the ground, but the tail of
the tape is coming into the game. Jalen Hurts just
two interceptions all year long. That tip ball was his
fourth night.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Jalen Hurts tonight twenty one out of forty two hundred
and forty yards, no touchdowns, four interceptions the other that's
his stats. Those are his stats tonight. I think that's
just about well. He did have eight yards rushing, but
that's let's say so eight. That's about a zero in fantasy.
It's about a zero.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, whether you get dinged for that sack or not,
we'll decide it. But that's the other stat right sakuon
Barkley twenty garys one hundred and twenty two yards. They
go away from him and they're going for the jugular
in the passing game. Now, they had a couple of
big passes. You had the other big conversion on a
long pass to Smith across the middle. He was quiet
(38:41):
on the night, just four for thirty seven, like thirty
of them came on. That pass gets the completion to Goddard.
But instead of tucking the ball back into the gut
of Saquon Barkley and grinding down knowing you got the
field goal in your back pocket, they get aggressive and
they it cost him dearly.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So how did it sound? Here's the final play of overtime.
The Chargers get the pick and they win twenty two
to nineteen.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Perks and the shotgun. A touchdown would win it for
the Eagles. Kurtz pulls it, throws.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Intercepted game over, intercepted game over day on Henley game over.
The fourth interception Tony Jefferson unbelievable, uncedes.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
It Matt Money Smith and five to seventy justin Frossberg
producing that broadcast right there are Chargers Radio network. Uh,
that's twenty two to nineteen. The Chargers improved to nine
and four and the Eagles have a lot of questions
at eight and five. However, because we are a show
about positivity and looking forward about that great game tonight,
(39:45):
not a great played game. Great game tonight. I have
the solving of the problems for both of these teams
as they go forward in their quest to win the
Super Bowl. More so, I can solve the Eagles problems,
but look the US Carter is one tonight. But more
so so, I can solve the problems of the defending champions,
and I can do it. Coming up next, you can
solve their problem, solve I was thinking a suit of
(40:07):
armor might help.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Justin Herbert, I can say, well, okay, there is that.
There is that. He comes in looking like Lancelot holding
on tak got. He's got a mazed I don't know.
I don't think you could use that.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
But the champs are now eight and five. The Cowboys
could win the NFC East. But I can solve their problems.
That's coming up next. Right here, we break down a
big Monday night game.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
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