September 1, 2023 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike talk about the Dodgers vs Braves game as this series hypes up as a potential playoff game matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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more college football on the way in a second, but hey,
incredibly large baseball series going on right now, a huge
four game set, huge four game set, huge Braves in
the Dodgers. And you've heard John Palmerrosi on the air.
This was in studio with us last night, so listen.
If it's not the Braves and the Dodgers in the NLCS,
then there's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You're talking about the two most dominant teams in baseball,
not just in the Nation League in baseball. Right now,
the Braves lead the Dodgers eight to four as the
Dodgers bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, And
really quick, I'm gonna need Steve to saying it really
quick for one second, because Lance Lynn started the game
tonight for the Dodgers and he's given up three home
runs before coming out of the game in the fifth inning. Now, Steve,
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I got a question for you, because I didn't get
to see it his watching it in the college football
Mookie Betts hit a three run homer to bring the
Dodgers with an eight to four. Did Bets also homer
off of Lance Lin?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You know, initially you'd think that would be impossible, but
you don't know who you're dealing with here, Okay, a
man who's not only your teammate but out of the game. Yeah,
I'd say it as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, just wanted because I didn't know. I didn't see it,
and I saw, well, all the home runs are flying.
He must have hit it off of Lanceln as well,
so okay.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, and that made it seven to four at the time.
Now eight for Atlanta bottom of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The sixth All right, thank you very much, Steve, I
appreciate it. Uh So there we go, uh Braves Dodgers eight,
four Braves at the lead as the Dodgers bat in
the bottom sixth inning.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What what baseball fans?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We look at the we look at the games you
watch this season, and now that we're getting into September,
you're seeing the cream rise at the top of the
teams we're talking about. Are the best teams in baseball?
You know, Look, we talk Braves, we talk Dodgers, and
here come the Astros and the and the big race
in the AL West is phenomenal, and look at the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
In the AL East.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But I don't know that everybody understands just how much
better Atlanta is than everybody else. I mean, you look
at what Atlanta has done every single stat in the league.
Atlanta leeds, They lead everything. They have eight All Stars
for a reason. They go one through eight in the order,
and it's pick your poison. Everybody's hitting over two sixty
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right in everywin. If you if you had two to
fifteen everybody, the Mets have lucky. If they have one
guy hitting over two sixty in the lineup every night.
And that's if Jeff mcneils some noow can say above
two sixty when he was a batting champion last year.
The Braves hit eight guys are hitting at least two sixty.
They're starting pitchers. They're able to control every single game
and pitch deep into every game and give you a
near quality start every single night. Yes, the Braves and
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the Dodgers are the top two teams in Major League Baseball,
but the gap between the Dodgers and the Braves is huge.
The Braves are gonna go into any series as an
overwhelming favorite. They have a plus two thirty five run
differential over the rest of the league. Remember when Tampa
Bay was at the top of the lead. Hey, Tampa
Bay's run differential is fantastic. Long term, you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Two thirty five.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They've outscored their opponents by two hundred and thirty five runs.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You'll get know the teams having big years. The Dodgers
are great. They're at one seventy, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The Braves are outscoring opposition by he's over sixty more
runs than the Dodger, and the Dodgers are hitting like
Gangbusters the last month and a half. It's really the brain.
And I'm not saying this to Jakes, the Braves or
anything else. I'm gonna I realize, I'm gonna have to
watch a National League team, not name the Mets, an
NL East team that's not the Mets win the World
Series almost every year.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Now, and it really it's it's the Braves World Series
to lose.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I know that Houston is really good and the other
defending champs and they're playing really well, but it really
is the Braves World Series to lose. And everybody else
is They're good, but no one's at that level.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No one is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Yeah, let me ask this question, are any of them
dual sport athletes, you know, to where maybe they can
cross over back into Florida and help the Gators.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh? Look, because Atlanta is close to joy It is close.
It is close.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Funny time to talk about this series, the heroics and
Mookie bleeping Bets two and fiftieth career, can't get it,
No such greatness. But you know, waiting in the wings,
you know, like he's caged big cat ready to talk,
is our guy?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It really is, it's it's it's an unbelievable run for
the Braves who have had a great I don't want
to say it's lucky, but what the Braves have done
is they've found every young player coming up that looks
like they're good, which means if you put together a
season of being good as a rookie, hey we're gonna
strike first. How about a ten year, one hundred million
dollar contract. Right. That's what they signed Ronald Lacuna too,
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And they've done that with a lot of their stars.
They've been very forward thinking in that, hey, we'll pay
these guys way before we have to, and hey, you know, look,
we're gonna make money on them at the end. They're
gonna make money on us in the beginning, right we can.
We can hold them down right now to They can
hold a guy like a Cunya down to like two
million a year for a while, so he becomes a
free agent. But instead, hey, well are you ten million
a year now? Okay, Now, at some point when Aconia
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gets me twenty seven years old, he's gonna go, yeah, no,
I'm not coming. I'm not playing for ten million anymore.
I'm not doing it. We're gonna we're gonna renegotiate this deal.
But for right now, they've locked up all their young
players and they have a good two three year window
that's just begun about a year and a half ago,
until they have to worry about other teams that are
gonna usurp them from the top of the list because
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they're all young, they're all really good, and they've they've
made the right choices. They've had a great run of
the right prospects be able to come up and dominate.
Or is every single player they signed long term deal
for less money great? No, But are most of them yeah?
And when you have when you have great young players,
you're maximizing them for a good four or five year span.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
This is what you get. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
As much as I say about them Braves brains, the
Braves do things right and they're this dominant team. Now
they have to deal with the fact that this should
be the year they win the world If they don't
win the World Series this year, something is wrong. I'll
take JP's statement and I'll amp it up by another.
If they don't win the World Series this year, then
something's wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We'll just have a bunch of pictures of Bobby Cox
and Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin and John Smoltz to
look at Steve Avery.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't forget Steve Avery with pitching games for reasons passing
understanding sho.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
He's a little lesser guy, you know, because he doesn't
have the Hall of Fame resid may that the rest
of them do. But look, it's the Braves and Dodgers
and everybody else is trying to figure out some formula,
including your guy burning fun Bucks like he's Leo DiCaprio
off the side of a ship.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I like that burning fun Bucks. I am Burnin Funnu,
burning burning fun Bucks as we will call you Vernon
fun Bucks as a Cunya. Tonight, speaking of Ron Walcunya
makes history. He is the first thirty sixty player again
like this, I get a little tired of every He's
the first twenty four to fifty four guy. He's the
first twenty five to fifty seven guy. He is the
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first thirty home run, sixty stolen bases player doing that
tonight with the grand Slam that gave the Braves the
four run lead they have yet to relinquish. Here over
the Dodgers. Look this this he's telling everybody, Hey, I
saw that Mookie Bets is leading for MVP. I see
your Mookie Bets, and I raise you one me.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Remember I'm the guy you were talking about for the
first four months.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That was suddenly everybody loves the Dodgers and move Uki
and Freddy and the dance at second base. They hit
a double, everybody goes d Now, remember I was a
guy the first three months people couldn't stop talking about,
not them, It was.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Me, Well, sometimes you want to reclaim that the top
you know, uh sure, sure, well you know, he what
else do you want me to say? It's like no,
You're no, You're like, yeah, that's a great story. It's
a great August. I've got the great season. Let me
remind you on a grand scale, when you pitch the
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home run serving Lance Lynn and he'd been great for
a month, right, because tonight there's gonna be a lot
of poison pens out, a lot of anger. The one
thing the guy has done consistently, even as a member
of the Dodgers is he will give.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You a gopher ball or two.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It's just a matter of are they solo shots or
like tonight where Acuna hits a grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now elsewhere in baseball. As as this game is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Look, even if the Dodgers get swept, everything is fine.
They're still going to a fourteen game lead in the NLA.
We saw a lot today speaking of a team that
goes just down the five and is hoping Shoeo Tani
does not know what's been going on the last couple
of days and wants to stay. The Guardians grab just
about everybody that the Angels put on waivers a couple
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of days ago. The Guardians, treating today like it was
their own trade deadline, added three pitches to their staff
to make a run in the Al Central. And the
first thing I'm gonna say is I love this by
the Guardians and DJ clearly the Guardian Angels. They may
need to be called now after these moves today. The
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Angels put six players on waivers on Tuesday, right as
they're waving the white flag.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And we told you how horrible and optic this was.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And if you're shoe Heotani, are you really going to
stay with a team that traded two of your top
three prospects for two guys you let go after a month.
I get it didn't work out, but this is just
an awful way to run a team. Makes you like,
we really don't know what we're doing. Why do we
give up two of our best three prospects for guys?
Okay with saying goodbye to in a month, Why don't
we give up like our fifteenth and sixteenth best guys?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
No, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All those players that went on waivers, Hey, guess what,
just about all of them got claimed today. We watched
Lucas Gialino, Matt Moore, and Ronaldo Lopez all get claimed
by the Guardians. Hunter Renfro went to the Reds, dominic
Leone went to the Mariners. So everybody they put out there,
they've lost all of them, and the Guardians got three
of them, turning this into a Hey, I know there's
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no trade deadline, but we're only five games back in
the Central We just won two out of three with
the Twins, where you know, it's not like the Twins
are running away with a division. Yes, we're under five hundred,
but hey, we can be gutsy right here. And I
kind of like this move. And I don't know if
this is gonna be something that happens in the future
that teams are gonna look at the end of August
and go, well, if we don't want to pay these
guys anymore, we can put them out here and save
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money at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And maybe that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Acts as a pseudo you know, late August deadline, the
waiver deadline that we used to have.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But I kind of dig this.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, it's still bad news for the Angels because
now they had to watch all these guys and they
thought we're gonna be parts of their team.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
They're all gone now.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And Otani's not gonna know half the guys in the
clubhous when he shows up, but he's gonna say, I'm
just punching the clock to log it out, just punching
the clock. So nothing got better for the Angels today,
But for the Guardians and other teams who were saying, hey,
the end of August, now maybe there are players out
there for us.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I kind of dig this.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, opportunity knocks, right. You don't have the second trade deadline,
you don't have any of that. But if you're gonna
have a team, and I wonder if you don't see
more of this, all right, can we circumnavigate or do
they get hammered anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Can you say, well, we successfully dodged the luxury tags.
So ha Nana nanny boo boo to the fun and
exciting world of Major League Baseball. Or do they say no, no, no,
we know exactly what you did here, right, because literally
it's it's a bit of bit of money, right, It's
only two million dollars in terms of what their penalty
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would have been. But the idea that, hey, we only
give up a fourth we still get a second round
if Otani leaves versus getting a fourth rounder, Man, does
major League Baseball slap them on the risk going all right,
Arnie Moreno, we saw what you did here.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But because if they.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Don't and you set precedents like this, what's to say
you don't have a couple of other teams going, you know,
we're not resigning that guy anyway. So all of a sudden,
it's the fantasy owner in week twelve going out of
hell with it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm out of it. Let's cause some chaos.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
You know, the guy that doesn't want to pay his
dues because he's mad about some auto pick function that
that got triggered during the draft. You know, I got
knocked offline and then it picked three guys that I
would have never picked in a million years. You know,
I hate those guys all of that kind of stuff.
So yeah, it'll be interesting to watch. But yeah, if
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a team can go and do this, why not get
a couple of players on the cheap that you think
can help stretch you some innings or maybe give you
a vibe at bat or two down the stretch. I mean,
you know what your schedule is, there might be some
matchups and series whereby those guys can become difference makers.
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Speaker 3 (14:34):
It is Pete fu tech Pete. What's happening, buddy? How
are you? Man?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
How you been?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
By?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
By the way, I can only hope and pray that
my wife loves me as much as you love the
Atlanta Braves. Wow, that's you have money or something.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Dude. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't love the braves. It pains me to say
everything I said about the braves. It pains me so
much buddy, it's so hard.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
And fifty nine games get in the playoffs and run
into one hot pitcher in their house. You don't work
out their funky you don't have a four team college
football playoffs thing. You're right, instincts it should be the
Dodgers and Braves in already get rid of everyone else
and just play those two and go on.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
All right, well, all right, let's start with some of
the dramas night.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
First of all, I don't know if you were one
of the fortunate ones, if you had direct TV, if
you had Spectrum, but Spectrum making this number two cable
provider in the country makes decisions because of their carriage
dispute with Disney at kickoff of Utah and Florida to say, well,
I'm sorry, we're not bringing you the game. We're not
bringing you any of the Disney Channel programmings on this
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tier because we're at war with them over carriage rates,
and so half the country doesn't get to see this game.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I hope you got to see it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
See I'm old enough to remember in my house in Minneapolis,
the Rabbit ears if you put it just right, the
spectrum that was actually where after eleven o'clock at night,
you might see a.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Boob if like, no, you got it just the right way.
But yet no YouTube TV came to clutch. You know
last year they had their carriage cross. But you're right,
there was a whole lot of screaming, yelling outs for
Direct TV and Spectrum and all that to see this, and.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
You know they'll get this hired out.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
There's too much money involved across the board here.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
But you know, look it was fun. You know it
was you know, the Florida Utah was a dud.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
But Minnesota Nebraska on your your your Fox there, that
was one entertaining football game over the last like ten
minutes because.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
You could just see it was so bad. It was
so ugly, and you just like my friends I grew
up Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
My friends are texting me in Minneapolis.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
This was awful.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I texted, I literally text them it's Nebraska.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Just to wait and like, of course it happened. It
had poor Nebraska people, these good loving fans who get
ninety thousand people out there to watch volleyball and love
their sports and love everything. And you can just seem like, oh,
what's happening again. They flew it. They've just absolutely gaged
that thing away, and Minnesota somehow got out alive with
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a thriller of a thirteen to ten game.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And that's that's why you watch. That's why you know
Fox made the money for the Big Ten, because that's
gonna be a whole lot of fun over the next
several years.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Well, Gus Johnson gets to call a game winner on
Opening Night. Have you ever seen a game where the
only two touchdowns are the most improbable plays you'll ever see?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That was an amazing catch.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know, I don't know I've ever seen a
better toe tap in my Life's his right leg is
three feet over out of bounds and he still drags
left foot down.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
How do you do that?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And the right foot stays up on fourth down? And
on a team they threw it forty times in games
like twelve yards like somehow they hit Yeah, they went nowhere,
and then all of a sudden, you get that at
the very end and like you said, like the fumble
Ruski play that went awry and Jeff Simms have the
presence of mind to kind of gather it up and
throw that. I mean, it was a fun game for
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being a thirteen to ten game with you know, no
offense on either side.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, I gotta tell you, Pete, you know because I feel,
you know, I feel I always feel a duty here
on the show, and we talked about this a little bit.
Agos like Nebraska is like a is like a sports stonehenge,
the relic of a bygone era, because there's people to
watch college football for twenty years that sit here and go,
why do people older than me that are like fifty
have like that wistful look in their eye when they
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think when you hear Nebraska football Because they haven't been
good in twenty years, but they used to be. It
used to be everything in college football.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'm old enough to go along. Another reference than rabguars
on a TV Little me was in the Metrodome when
Irving Fryar caught the first or second play of the
game and Turner Gill in the nineteen eighty three game
against Minnesota at the end of the game with my
dad's were all those people who never ever lease a game.
Early the scoreboard read twenty one Nebraska twenty one, twenty one,
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twenty one. Twenty one went across the board in eighty
fourteen game over the Gophers. They just used to be
just a powerhouse, and they used to be cool.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I used to take Nebraska, I mean, you know, before.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
The era where we could watch it any game, Nebraska
might as well have been on the moon. Well that
I know, it's, you know, not that far from Minneapolis.
I thought it was like the coolest place on earth
because look at these great football teams.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
This is amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
But yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be hard. It's
a rebuilding job under Matt Ruhle, and it's gonna take
a bit. It's a really super young team. But I
don't know if you can get the recruits there like
you could in the past. You certainly couldn't get them,
you know, take the one hundred and ten pound kid
off the farm like you used to and turn them
into you know, a two hundred and eighty five pound,
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you know, killer defensive tackle. But it's it's it's not
gonna be that easy to fix, especially when you've got
the big powerhouses from the Pac twelve coming in and
all the other parts. It's gonna be a heavy lift
to get Nebraska to be really good, much less anywhere
near where it used to be back when it was
one of the you know superpowers that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Ruled the world speaking.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Uh you know the way you laid that out. That
was the alternate plot line for Captain America instead terrorizing
people for Nebraska Man.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah. Yeah, but they used to, I mean, they used
to make the running game kind of fun. You know,
they used to you know, the big red machine to
get wistful about it, and the fans still want that.
But they do have the crazy fan base that always
shows up. They are about as good a fan base
as you can come across. They're not really jerky about stuff.
They just sort of, you know, are fans about it,
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and gosh, you just tell just how their souls just
got ripped out there because you could tell they fumbl.
It's like, okay, well Minnesota's not doing everything anything, they'll
be fine, And sure enough they still blew it. So, uh,
it's a long teas.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But now they go to.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Colorado next they get coach Prime. They still have time
to turn this around a little bit and potentially go
bowling and have a decent season. That was supposed to
be a lost. Minnesota was supposed to be good. This
was kind of budgeted in so they just kind of
have to regroup fast realize, Okay, this there is not
the norm here. We're not going to keep losing one
score games. I think they're not two and fifteen in
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their last three years in one score game. And for Minnesota,
good luck because they got to find some running game fast.
They got to go to North Carolina a couple of
weeks Michigan's come to town to get ohiose stayed on
the schedule along with the Wisconsins and Iowas and everyone else.
So Minnesota, this was a must win moment for Minnesota
because they lose that home game, they're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Pete Futec college Footballnews dot com college football insider Extraordinaire
with us here at the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon.
All right, let's get to Florida Utah here for a second,
because you know, if you just didn't know anything, you
were dropped on social media, you would think Florida was
the number one ranked team in the country and they
upset by Kentucky Wesleyan. But look, the reality is Utah
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is really good. They won the last two Pac twelves
and Florida is a team not quite like Nebraska. But
you know, they're not gonna be that heavyweight that they
were in the early nineties into two thousands. They're good
every few years and I don't know, billion api or
may not have more than this year to turn it around.
But that's kind of where Florida is at. The new
normal for them is, hey, you're not what you were
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and try to go forward because to think that they're
suddenly the team they're gonna that's just not happening anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Either.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yeah, this is the moment, and it doesn't help when
Georgia suddenly, you know, blew up like to be a
good And remember they were in the SEC Championship not
that long ago. I mean, it gets locked. They're the
one team that pushed that amazing Alabama team in that
twenty twenty SEC Championship. I actually on merit and I
will still argue this that I was the time I
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was right because I want back. I voted Kyle Trasker
the Heisman. We forget that he put up Joe Burrow
X numbers under Dan Mullen. And it's not that long
ago that Florida was really good. But the problem is
that just looked like a team. And this is the
problem with Week one and last week week zero. They
desperately looked like a team that needed to play like
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Central Creampuff Tech or something first.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They needed.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
You can kind of see the timing wasn't there. They
weren't quite in game shape. They're playing at the elevation
of Utah. They just they needed to get their legs
under them, and they finally started to find it in
the third quarter, and it was kind of too late.
I think Florida's better than this. They're gonna be okay.
But you put you nails it right on the head
where you comes good. You know this is the this
(23:29):
You're right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
This is the fourteenth ranked.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Team in the country. It's the highest ranked team out
of the future Big twelve, and it's good enough to
win the Pac twelve again. And they've got the lines
and the talent to win games like this, and at
home in calt Lake. They are an amazing team. Maybe Georgia, definitely,
Ohio State, definitely in Michigan that not everyone else. I
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think they beat LSU or Florida State or anyone else
you want to throw out there. If they're coming into
a Salt Lake city, they're just.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That good Pete. You check our guest here Jason's the
Show with Mike Carmen, Fox Sports Radio at Pete Futech,
where you find him on Twitter. You could read all
his work and latest musings, college footballnews dot Com, all
the predictions, all of the punditree that you want, team
by team. I don't think Pete sleeps for the next
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six months. I have a few minutes of your time here.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You you quip and joke. I honestly don't. And it
hit me today like, oh crap is three months. I'm
not going to sleep or do any of this like
it's it's this is but this is a fun time.
This is when there's that moment today where you realize,
you know what, this is not exactly breaking rocks. This
is you know, fuching football's pretty fun and you know tonight,
even with a bunch of dud games and everything else,
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this is still kind of a blast for a while.
When you talk to Florid Dukan at the end of
that Minnesota game, that's certainly why why we watch this
stuff and still play all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I mean, even the Utah Florida game down the stretch,
final couple of minutes. I mean you can drop touchdown
pass right all of a sudden, Hey, we might have something.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
There was a moment, and that's you know, what you're
hoping for and going forward. And you know, hey, look
if if you're one of those people who have you know,
over the unders or things like that, there's always a moment.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like that that you're you're watching for Pete few tax life.
Now if you made it into a pie chart, like
it would be eighty five percent college football, fifteen percent
his fantasy teams in football.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Now that that's the that's the pie chart of your life.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, now you know, carve out another five percent for
pie because now here's the sucky part. Now I don't
work out, so I'm going to do everything else to
keep the football season twenty off me. So now you
just put the word pie in my head and I'm
still mentally you know, you know soft at this point
from no sleep that I there's no way I'm not
finding pie before this fight's over.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
See, I was.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Figuring you were going to carve out two percent for
uh hate watching the Braves for the next month after Jason, once.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
The playoffs start, I am the biggest baseball I'm that guy.
Unfortunately where I don't watch sports until playoffs unless the
NFL because there's just kind of no need. But I
will be I like the brave. I have nothing against
the brave guys.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So but no, this will be fun.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Give it a few weeks and let's get going.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yet. Hey, Pip, you mentioned Colorado. Oh, I was just
gonna say, go ahead, Mike. I was going to say,
coach Prime, you go Colorado, go get it your reference Prime.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
And I'm seeing them all over the place, all the
surgeries everything else. Now we actually get down to the
business of football. Man, what are we expecting out of
the jump here? Such the roster turnover, so much attention
on this program, Pete. In the end, when the lights
are actually on, what are we getting?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Full disclosure. Deon Sanders is probably my favorite college player
of all time. I'm at the head of the committee
against any man over the age of twenty one wearing
a jersey. But I do have a Deon Sanders jersey
in my basement from my high school college years.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That was the thing.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
I almost bought the Deon Sanders CD. That's how big
a fan I was, so I hope he went. I know,
I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I didn't do it having what was this pumps and
the bump was pumps.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Must be the money. It was must be the money exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So uh.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Shockingly it was about you know, the standers sucking money.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah. Vid by the way, great video. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But look, I he put together an all star team.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
It's not USD from last year. But you look at
that starting twenty two and the depth. They are all
Power five guys on there, and there's a lot of talent.
Shador Sanders, his son is an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
You know, they have so much talent across the board
that they should be able to hang. But I have
no idea what the exportations are. I think they're twenty
points better than twenty points the TCU good. But the
problem is their schedule is an absolute killer. I mean
even Colorado State. I mean they're the you know, they're
the proverbial will if we go one and seven and
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win one game, we're happy. Well, they want this Colorado game,
so that's gonna be a fight. They got to do
in Nebraska and then you got to do with the
rest of the Pac twelve season. Uh, they've got one
of the toughest schedules in America. And what happens when
coach Prime has to have to deal with some adversity.
It's all fun right now because everyone loves him. He's
Deion Sanders and this is gonna be a whole lot
of fun. But what happens if they're you know, two
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and four? You know where does that go?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Then?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
So, but he's put together a whole bunch of talent
on that team that I think they're gonna be a
little better than everyone thinks.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
All right, Pete, lastly, here if I give you the
film the blank, I always ask you every week look
for the upset.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I know it's week one.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You don't see a lot of stuff out there, but
it's rather than say giving me a definitive upset, what's
a game you would not be surprised to see a
big favorite lose one game?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Would not be surprised.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Out there Coastal Carolina and US. You see, if you
look at UCLA under Chip Kelly over the last few years,
they lost to Cincinnati twice when they were a group
of five program. They should they lost the San Diego State,
They should have lost the South Alabama. Last year of
South Alabama didn't screw up its kicking game plan at
the end, uh and they struggled for a half again
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Bully Green. Even Coastal Carolina is still good. Grayson McCall
is one of those quarterbacks. He's going to hit seventy
percent of his passes, and they've got enough of an
offense where they're going to be a tough out. Meanwhile,
UCLA is replacing just about everyone on offense. They're they're
apparently they're going to rotate nineteen quarterbacks in this game
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and try to play around with it a little bit.
But I would not be surprised if Coastal Carolina gave
UCLA a real rough time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, Tyler, think Pen's going to have a big game
for them this week, and I'm expecting big things at
it exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yeah, No, this is this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I think UT is one of those teams that no
one's they don't go to any hype because of all
the great quarterbacks across the Pac twelve board and because
of all the other things happening with the Pac trobe
including probably you losing Stanford Cal to the ACC maybe tomorrow,
and you know, there's all these other things going on
that you just flying under the raider. So we'll see
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if you Seela dropkicks Coastal Carolina, then all of a
sudden they might be a team to kind of fly
into the radar and watch out for as well.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is, at Petefutech
college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for college
football previews analysis another year, Pete, can't wait another year
breaking down everything going on with you as always, Thanks
so much and thanks so much for staying up late
and after games like this and making people feel better
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about Nebraska and Florida.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
I'm trying my best. It's all gonna be okay. At
some point they used to be good. You know, he
had your moments.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Yeah, appreciate you, brother, Drop me a lot. We your
favorite type of coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He gonna need it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Then, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Pete Futech is just so unbelievably awesome Twitter at how
about a Fresco Mike gets swollen down the Jason Smiths
with Mike Carbon Livethtyreck dot Com Studios. Time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
It is yet another home run for Mookie Betts, and
now it is six home runs a lance Lynn has
given up four to the Braves and three to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's getting close in the eighth inning, Steve O.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Actually, it's been a great ballgame at Dodger Stadium. Even
though Atlanta was up seven to one in the fifth inning.
The Braves lead is now eight seven over LA in
the bottom of the eighth because the Dodgers have hit
four home runs after LA starter lance Lynn allowed three
early long balls, including a grand slam from Ronald Acunya
his thirtieth. Austin Riley hit his thirty second, but Mookie
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Betts has two home runs thirty eight on the season.
In fact, thirty eight home runs out of the leadoff
spot is nearly the all time record. That's thirty nine.
We're not quite to September here. Max Munsey has just
hit his thirty second home run of the season. Dodgers
have also put a couple men on in the bottom
of the eighth with one out down eight seven to
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the Atlanta Braves. LA this month with a record of
twenty four and four Miami's and.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Max magn fact this right, Max Monthsey forty two home runs.
He's also hitting one forty two.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, it's like, is that right, It's like Kyle Schwarber West. Actually,
he is hitting very well for average in the last
couple of weeks, so it's gotten him over two hundred.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Oh, yes, he's a two oh nine. You're right, he's
a two o nine.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
You got to hit four hundred for the last two
weeks to get up to two oh nine. But yeah.
Miami's record sixty seven and sixty seven. After their victory
at Washington tonight seven to to the final, Giants hold
the final ANL wildcard spot. It was a half game
over Idle Arizona. Giants have won seven to two at
San Diego. The other only other game was today in
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Detroit ten inning win for the Tigers four to three
against the Yankees. The Brewers gave third baseman Josh Donaldson
a minor league deal. Philadelphia's at Milwaukee tomorrow night. Brewers
are first in the NL Central, three games over the Cubs,
six up on the Reds. Cubs are going to be
playing a double header tomorrow at Cincinnati. The Reds claimed
outfielder Hunter renfro Off waivers from the Angels and got
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alfielder Harrison Bader from the Yankees. Cleveland claimed pitcher Lucas
Giolito off waivers from the Angels. Tomorrow, Cleveland will be
hosting a Tampa Bay team that's won four straight. The
White Sox promoted Chris Getz to general manager. He says
manager Pedro Griffol will return to the NFL news. The
Vikings gave tight end TJ. Hawkinson a four year extension.
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He was acquired from Detroit last season, then had sixty
receptions for Minnesota in ten games. Rams star wide receiver
Cooper Cup is day to day after a setback with
his strained hamstring. The Patriots claimed quarterback Matt Corral off
waivers from Carolina, who drafted him in the third round
a year ago. The Dolphins gave fullback alec Ingold a
three year extension. MYAMMI running back Jeff Wilson was placed
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on IR with a hand injury, so he'll miss four games.
And we have an update on the late college football
game tonight at Arizona State in timp The problem late
first half was a dust storm that made visibility a problem. Nonetheless,
Asu with a touchdown before the break to go up
twenty one to seven at halftime. That was right before
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the thunderstorm arrive, so they're in a lightning delay and
they still have not begun the second half. In fact,
they're saying it may be upwards of a half an
hour before they will even allow fans back into the stands,
much less players on the field. So it's a long
halftime delay. Arizona State leading Southern Utah twenty one to
seven at the break. Wins for Tulsa and Missouri, wins
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for UAB and wake Forest, and victories tonight for Western
Michigan and Georgia State. What a game on Fox TV
the finish at least Minnesota, with ten points in the
last three minutes, beat Nebraska thirteen to ten on a
forty seven yard field goal final play victories for NC
and UCF, and fourteenth ranked Utah led Florida twenty four
to three early fourth quarter twenty four to eleven the
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final and Utah star quarterback Cam Rising is still out
he tour an ACL last season, so tonight starter through
a seventy yard touchdown pass on the first play of
the season, but the other eleven drives just twelve first
downs and still Utah dominated Utah's d with five sacks.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
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Coming up next a story out.
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The Jason Smith Show is My best Friend Mike Harmon
live from the tyrak dot com studios. We get back
into the wild night that was college football coming up
in a couple of minutes. But this story today I knew.
First I saw this, I couldn't believe it. I got jealous.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Then I realized maybe it could happen for me.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid did an interview with Chris
Long a green Light with Chris Long podcast this week,
and Chris Long asked Andy Reid, Hey, did you ever
borrow any play calls from high school football or somewhere else?
And Andy Reid raised the stakes by saying, I took
one from a janitor one time in Green Bay. Wait
(37:38):
what he said in Green Bay when he was one
of the offensive coaches there earlier in his career. There
was a janitor, a mom and pop group that cleaned
the facility for a while and they worked on game day.
Guy kept telling me, the owner of the company. He
kept saying, I have a play. I gotta play for
I gotta play for you. So read okay. At this point,
he's an offensive assistant. This is when Brett Farv is
playing quarterback for the Packers. He kept saying, I have
(37:59):
a play.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I have a play. I have a play.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He kept telling him over and over and over. Finally
Andy Reid said, Okay, here's a car. Draw it up
for me. So the guy draws the play up and
Andy Reid says, man, that plays pretty good.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And in a game.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
He called it before halftime and it's scored, and the
guy's walking around going, that's my play. That's my play.
See borrowed a playm Janitor and it worked and they
scored a touchdown on it.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Good ideas can come from anywhere in Mike Carmen, I
dig this well. But that's the thing, right, You always
got to keep your ears open. Yep.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Yeah, I mean ninety nine percent of things that you
hear in your life or get rich quick schemes and
things that you should immediately get into the trash folder
of your life. But that's the one percent. This just
one percent to give you greatness.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
This just brings me back to the fact that maybe
my hail marry idea can work if someone would just
do it all right now, my hail Mary idea I've
had for a long time because I love this idea.
You look at how the defense lines up for a
hail mary, right with the defensive backs all the way across.
The quarterback gets to a spot, and the defensive backs
all kind of roll to one side of the field
(39:08):
right all the all the receivers kind of converge either
on the left side of the field, right side of
the field. But if you had a hail Mary, and
I'm telling you had hail mary where the quarterback looked
like he was let's just say, he's gonna throw it
to the left. He rolls out a little bit, gets
a line of scrimmage, looks like he's going to the left.
Everybody starts going to the left finger he's gonna throw
the ball to the goal line on the left side
of the field. But what he's really gonna do is
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stop and throw it all the way across the other
side of the field, and a wide receiver who looks
like he's breaking towards the group right there. Instead, when
he sees the quarterback throwing it or at a predistermined time,
he just immediately cuts back and runs the other way.
And he has to run under the ball because the
quarterbacks obviously got to throw it up as high as
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he can. But he runs across the field and runs
under it, and maybe he's the only guy there for
a catch. Maybe that works.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Okay, No, I dig that. I mean you actually drew
that out on the white in the old studio once
upon a time.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Been pitching it for a decade, I t I mean,
how many times did a janitor the janitor have to
tell Andy Reid, hey use his play?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Uses play?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
We marry gotta keep doing it till somebody uses it.
All right, fine, I'll do it well. And then they
ran it on a simulator.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Maybe they put it into one of the video games
that I run this, see what happens.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Oh yeah, I don't think it was just hey, let's
do this, this play might work. I'm sure they ran
it a couple of times in practice.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
No, no, but legitally, even before.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
You get it onto a practice field, it's like, all right,
let's let's at least try to simulate this. You got
that computer program we had? All right, let's see what happens.
Does the chaos theory hold Twitter?
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incredibly large baseball series going on right now, a huge
four game set, huge four game set, huge Braves in
the Dodgers. And you've heard John Palmerrosi on the air.
This was in studio with us last night, so listen.
If it's not the Braves and the Dodgers in the NLCS,
then there's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You're talking about the two most dominant teams in baseball,
not just in the Nation League in baseball. Right now,
the Braves lead the Dodgers eight to four as the
Dodgers bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, And
really quick, I'm gonna need Steve to saying it really
quick for one second, because Lance Lynn started the game
tonight for the Dodgers and he's given up three home
runs before coming out of the game in the fifth inning. Now, Steve,
(01:37):
I got a question for you, because I didn't get
to see it his watching it in the college football
Mookie Betts hit a three run homer to bring the
Dodgers with an eight to four. Did Bets also homer
off of Lance Lin?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You know, initially you'd think that would be impossible, but
you don't know who you're dealing with here, Okay, a
man who's not only your teammate but out of the game. Yeah,
I'd say it as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, just wanted because I didn't know. I didn't see it,
and I saw, well, all the home runs are flying.
He must have hit it off of Lanceln as well,
so okay.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, and that made it seven to four at the time.
Now eight for Atlanta bottom of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The sixth All right, thank you very much, Steve, I
appreciate it. Uh So there we go, uh Braves Dodgers eight,
four Braves at the lead as the Dodgers bat in
the bottom sixth inning.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What what baseball fans?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We look at the we look at the games you
watch this season, and now that we're getting into September,
you're seeing the cream rise at the top of the
teams we're talking about. Are the best teams in baseball?
You know, Look, we talk Braves, we talk Dodgers, and
here come the Astros and the and the big race
in the AL West is phenomenal, and look at the Orioles.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
In the AL East.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But I don't know that everybody understands just how much
better Atlanta is than everybody else. I mean, you look
at what Atlanta has done every single stat in the league.
Atlanta leeds, They lead everything. They have eight All Stars
for a reason. They go one through eight in the order,
and it's pick your poison. Everybody's hitting over two sixty
(03:04):
right in everywin. If you if you had two to
fifteen everybody, the Mets have lucky. If they have one
guy hitting over two sixty in the lineup every night.
And that's if Jeff mcneils some noow can say above
two sixty when he was a batting champion last year.
The Braves hit eight guys are hitting at least two sixty.
They're starting pitchers. They're able to control every single game
and pitch deep into every game and give you a
near quality start every single night. Yes, the Braves and
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the Dodgers are the top two teams in Major League Baseball,
but the gap between the Dodgers and the Braves is huge.
The Braves are gonna go into any series as an
overwhelming favorite. They have a plus two thirty five run
differential over the rest of the league. Remember when Tampa
Bay was at the top of the lead. Hey, Tampa
Bay's run differential is fantastic. Long term, you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Two thirty five.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They've outscored their opponents by two hundred and thirty five runs.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You'll get know the teams having big years. The Dodgers
are great. They're at one seventy, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The Braves are outscoring opposition by he's over sixty more
runs than the Dodger, and the Dodgers are hitting like
Gangbusters the last month and a half. It's really the brain.
And I'm not saying this to Jakes, the Braves or
anything else. I'm gonna I realize, I'm gonna have to
watch a National League team, not name the Mets, an
NL East team that's not the Mets win the World
Series almost every year.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Now, and it really it's it's the Braves World Series
to lose.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I know that Houston is really good and the other
defending champs and they're playing really well, but it really
is the Braves World Series to lose. And everybody else
is They're good, but no one's at that level.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No one is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Yeah, let me ask this question, are any of them
dual sport athletes, you know, to where maybe they can
cross over back into Florida and help the Gators.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh? Look, because Atlanta is close to joy It is close.
It is close.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Funny time to talk about this series, the heroics and
Mookie bleeping Bets two and fiftieth career, can't get it,
No such greatness. But you know, waiting in the wings,
you know, like he's caged big cat ready to talk,
is our guy?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It really is, it's it's it's an unbelievable run for
the Braves who have had a great I don't want
to say it's lucky, but what the Braves have done
is they've found every young player coming up that looks
like they're good, which means if you put together a
season of being good as a rookie, hey we're gonna
strike first. How about a ten year, one hundred million
dollar contract. Right. That's what they signed Ronald Lacuna too,
(05:26):
And they've done that with a lot of their stars.
They've been very forward thinking in that, hey, we'll pay
these guys way before we have to, and hey, you know, look,
we're gonna make money on them at the end. They're
gonna make money on us in the beginning, right we can.
We can hold them down right now to They can
hold a guy like a Cunya down to like two
million a year for a while, so he becomes a
free agent. But instead, hey, well are you ten million
a year now? Okay, Now, at some point when Aconia
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gets me twenty seven years old, he's gonna go, yeah, no,
I'm not coming. I'm not playing for ten million anymore.
I'm not doing it. We're gonna we're gonna renegotiate this deal.
But for right now, they've locked up all their young
players and they have a good two three year window
that's just begun about a year and a half ago,
until they have to worry about other teams that are
gonna usurp them from the top of the list because
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they're all young, they're all really good, and they've they've
made the right choices. They've had a great run of
the right prospects be able to come up and dominate.
Or is every single player they signed long term deal
for less money great? No, But are most of them yeah?
And when you have when you have great young players,
you're maximizing them for a good four or five year span.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
This is what you get. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
As much as I say about them Braves brains, the
Braves do things right and they're this dominant team. Now
they have to deal with the fact that this should
be the year they win the world If they don't
win the World Series this year, something is wrong. I'll
take JP's statement and I'll amp it up by another.
If they don't win the World Series this year, then
something's wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We'll just have a bunch of pictures of Bobby Cox
and Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin and John Smoltz to
look at Steve Avery.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't forget Steve Avery with pitching games for reasons passing
understanding sho.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
He's a little lesser guy, you know, because he doesn't
have the Hall of Fame resid may that the rest
of them do. But look, it's the Braves and Dodgers
and everybody else is trying to figure out some formula,
including your guy burning fun Bucks like he's Leo DiCaprio
off the side of a ship.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I like that burning fun Bucks. I am Burnin Funnu,
burning burning fun Bucks as we will call you Vernon
fun Bucks as a Cunya. Tonight, speaking of Ron Walcunya
makes history. He is the first thirty sixty player again
like this, I get a little tired of every He's
the first twenty four to fifty four guy. He's the
first twenty five to fifty seven guy. He is the
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first thirty home run, sixty stolen bases player doing that
tonight with the grand Slam that gave the Braves the
four run lead they have yet to relinquish. Here over
the Dodgers. Look this this he's telling everybody, Hey, I
saw that Mookie Bets is leading for MVP. I see
your Mookie Bets, and I raise you one me.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Remember I'm the guy you were talking about for the
first four months.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That was suddenly everybody loves the Dodgers and move Uki
and Freddy and the dance at second base. They hit
a double, everybody goes d Now, remember I was a
guy the first three months people couldn't stop talking about,
not them, It was.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Me, Well, sometimes you want to reclaim that the top
you know, uh sure, sure, well you know, he what
else do you want me to say? It's like no,
You're no, You're like, yeah, that's a great story. It's
a great August. I've got the great season. Let me
remind you on a grand scale, when you pitch the
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home run serving Lance Lynn and he'd been great for
a month, right, because tonight there's gonna be a lot
of poison pens out, a lot of anger. The one
thing the guy has done consistently, even as a member
of the Dodgers is he will give.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You a gopher ball or two.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It's just a matter of are they solo shots or
like tonight where Acuna hits a grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now elsewhere in baseball. As as this game is going on.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Look, even if the Dodgers get swept, everything is fine.
They're still going to a fourteen game lead in the NLA.
We saw a lot today speaking of a team that
goes just down the five and is hoping Shoeo Tani
does not know what's been going on the last couple
of days and wants to stay. The Guardians grab just
about everybody that the Angels put on waivers a couple
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of days ago. The Guardians, treating today like it was
their own trade deadline, added three pitches to their staff
to make a run in the Al Central. And the
first thing I'm gonna say is I love this by
the Guardians and DJ clearly the Guardian Angels. They may
need to be called now after these moves today. The
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Angels put six players on waivers on Tuesday, right as
they're waving the white flag.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And we told you how horrible and optic this was.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And if you're shoe Heotani, are you really going to
stay with a team that traded two of your top
three prospects for two guys you let go after a month.
I get it didn't work out, but this is just
an awful way to run a team. Makes you like,
we really don't know what we're doing. Why do we
give up two of our best three prospects for guys?
Okay with saying goodbye to in a month, Why don't
we give up like our fifteenth and sixteenth best guys?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
No, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All those players that went on waivers, Hey, guess what,
just about all of them got claimed today. We watched
Lucas Gialino, Matt Moore, and Ronaldo Lopez all get claimed
by the Guardians. Hunter Renfro went to the Reds, dominic
Leone went to the Mariners. So everybody they put out there,
they've lost all of them, and the Guardians got three
of them, turning this into a Hey, I know there's
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no trade deadline, but we're only five games back in
the Central We just won two out of three with
the Twins, where you know, it's not like the Twins
are running away with a division. Yes, we're under five hundred,
but hey, we can be gutsy right here. And I
kind of like this move. And I don't know if
this is gonna be something that happens in the future
that teams are gonna look at the end of August
and go, well, if we don't want to pay these
guys anymore, we can put them out here and save
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money at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And maybe that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Acts as a pseudo you know, late August deadline, the
waiver deadline that we used to have.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But I kind of dig this.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, it's still bad news for the Angels because
now they had to watch all these guys and they
thought we're gonna be parts of their team.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
They're all gone now.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And Otani's not gonna know half the guys in the
clubhous when he shows up, but he's gonna say, I'm
just punching the clock to log it out, just punching
the clock. So nothing got better for the Angels today,
But for the Guardians and other teams who were saying, hey,
the end of August, now maybe there are players out
there for us.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I kind of dig this.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, opportunity knocks, right. You don't have the second trade deadline,
you don't have any of that. But if you're gonna
have a team, and I wonder if you don't see
more of this, all right, can we circumnavigate or do
they get hammered anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Can you say, well, we successfully dodged the luxury tags.
So ha Nana nanny boo boo to the fun and
exciting world of Major League Baseball. Or do they say no, no, no,
we know exactly what you did here, right, because literally
it's it's a bit of bit of money, right, It's
only two million dollars in terms of what their penalty
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would have been. But the idea that, hey, we only
give up a fourth we still get a second round
if Otani leaves versus getting a fourth rounder, Man, does
major League Baseball slap them on the risk going all right,
Arnie Moreno, we saw what you did here.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But because if they.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Don't and you set precedents like this, what's to say
you don't have a couple of other teams going, you know,
we're not resigning that guy anyway. So all of a sudden,
it's the fantasy owner in week twelve going out of
hell with it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm out of it. Let's cause some chaos.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
You know, the guy that doesn't want to pay his
dues because he's mad about some auto pick function that
that got triggered during the draft. You know, I got
knocked offline and then it picked three guys that I
would have never picked in a million years. You know,
I hate those guys all of that kind of stuff.
So yeah, it'll be interesting to watch. But yeah, if
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a team can go and do this, why not get
a couple of players on the cheap that you think
can help stretch you some innings or maybe give you
a vibe at bat or two down the stretch. I mean,
you know what your schedule is, there might be some
matchups and series whereby those guys can become difference makers.
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Speaker 3 (14:34):
It is Pete fu tech Pete. What's happening, buddy? How
are you? Man?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
How you been?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
By?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
By the way, I can only hope and pray that
my wife loves me as much as you love the
Atlanta Braves. Wow, that's you have money or something.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Dude. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't love the braves. It pains me to say
everything I said about the braves. It pains me so
much buddy, it's so hard.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
And fifty nine games get in the playoffs and run
into one hot pitcher in their house. You don't work
out their funky you don't have a four team college
football playoffs thing. You're right, instincts it should be the
Dodgers and Braves in already get rid of everyone else
and just play those two and go on.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
All right, well, all right, let's start with some of
the dramas night.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
First of all, I don't know if you were one
of the fortunate ones, if you had direct TV, if
you had Spectrum, but Spectrum making this number two cable
provider in the country makes decisions because of their carriage
dispute with Disney at kickoff of Utah and Florida to say, well,
I'm sorry, we're not bringing you the game. We're not
bringing you any of the Disney Channel programmings on this
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tier because we're at war with them over carriage rates,
and so half the country doesn't get to see this game.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I hope you got to see it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
See I'm old enough to remember in my house in Minneapolis,
the Rabbit ears if you put it just right, the
spectrum that was actually where after eleven o'clock at night,
you might see a.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Boob if like, no, you got it just the right way.
But yet no YouTube TV came to clutch. You know
last year they had their carriage cross. But you're right,
there was a whole lot of screaming, yelling outs for
Direct TV and Spectrum and all that to see this, and.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
You know they'll get this hired out.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
There's too much money involved across the board here.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
But you know, look it was fun. You know it
was you know, the Florida Utah was a dud.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
But Minnesota Nebraska on your your your Fox there, that
was one entertaining football game over the last like ten
minutes because.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
You could just see it was so bad. It was
so ugly, and you just like my friends I grew
up Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
My friends are texting me in Minneapolis.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
This was awful.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I texted, I literally text them it's Nebraska.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Just to wait and like, of course it happened. It
had poor Nebraska people, these good loving fans who get
ninety thousand people out there to watch volleyball and love
their sports and love everything. And you can just seem like, oh,
what's happening again. They flew it. They've just absolutely gaged
that thing away, and Minnesota somehow got out alive with
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a thriller of a thirteen to ten game.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And that's that's why you watch. That's why you know
Fox made the money for the Big Ten, because that's
gonna be a whole lot of fun over the next
several years.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Well, Gus Johnson gets to call a game winner on
Opening Night. Have you ever seen a game where the
only two touchdowns are the most improbable plays you'll ever see?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
That was an amazing catch.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know, I don't know I've ever seen a
better toe tap in my Life's his right leg is
three feet over out of bounds and he still drags
left foot down.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
How do you do that?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And the right foot stays up on fourth down? And
on a team they threw it forty times in games
like twelve yards like somehow they hit Yeah, they went nowhere,
and then all of a sudden, you get that at
the very end and like you said, like the fumble
Ruski play that went awry and Jeff Simms have the
presence of mind to kind of gather it up and
throw that. I mean, it was a fun game for
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being a thirteen to ten game with you know, no
offense on either side.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, I gotta tell you, Pete, you know because I feel,
you know, I feel I always feel a duty here
on the show, and we talked about this a little bit.
Agos like Nebraska is like a is like a sports stonehenge,
the relic of a bygone era, because there's people to
watch college football for twenty years that sit here and go,
why do people older than me that are like fifty
have like that wistful look in their eye when they
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think when you hear Nebraska football Because they haven't been
good in twenty years, but they used to be. It
used to be everything in college football.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'm old enough to go along. Another reference than rabguars
on a TV Little me was in the Metrodome when
Irving Fryar caught the first or second play of the
game and Turner Gill in the nineteen eighty three game
against Minnesota at the end of the game with my
dad's were all those people who never ever lease a game.
Early the scoreboard read twenty one Nebraska twenty one, twenty one,
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twenty one. Twenty one went across the board in eighty
fourteen game over the Gophers. They just used to be
just a powerhouse, and they used to be cool.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I used to take Nebraska, I mean, you know, before.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
The era where we could watch it any game, Nebraska
might as well have been on the moon. Well that
I know, it's, you know, not that far from Minneapolis.
I thought it was like the coolest place on earth
because look at these great football teams.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
This is amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
But yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be hard. It's
a rebuilding job under Matt Ruhle, and it's gonna take
a bit. It's a really super young team. But I
don't know if you can get the recruits there like
you could in the past. You certainly couldn't get them,
you know, take the one hundred and ten pound kid
off the farm like you used to and turn them
into you know, a two hundred and eighty five pound,
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you know, killer defensive tackle. But it's it's it's not
gonna be that easy to fix, especially when you've got
the big powerhouses from the Pac twelve coming in and
all the other parts. It's gonna be a heavy lift
to get Nebraska to be really good, much less anywhere
near where it used to be back when it was
one of the you know superpowers that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Ruled the world speaking.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Uh you know the way you laid that out. That
was the alternate plot line for Captain America instead terrorizing
people for Nebraska Man.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah. Yeah, but they used to, I mean, they used
to make the running game kind of fun. You know,
they used to you know, the big red machine to
get wistful about it, and the fans still want that.
But they do have the crazy fan base that always
shows up. They are about as good a fan base
as you can come across. They're not really jerky about stuff.
They just sort of, you know, are fans about it,
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and gosh, you just tell just how their souls just
got ripped out there because you could tell they fumbl.
It's like, okay, well Minnesota's not doing everything anything, they'll
be fine, And sure enough they still blew it. So, uh,
it's a long teas.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But now they go to.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Colorado next they get coach Prime. They still have time
to turn this around a little bit and potentially go
bowling and have a decent season. That was supposed to
be a lost. Minnesota was supposed to be good. This
was kind of budgeted in so they just kind of
have to regroup fast realize, Okay, this there is not
the norm here. We're not going to keep losing one
score games. I think they're not two and fifteen in
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their last three years in one score game. And for Minnesota,
good luck because they got to find some running game fast.
They got to go to North Carolina a couple of
weeks Michigan's come to town to get ohiose stayed on
the schedule along with the Wisconsins and Iowas and everyone else.
So Minnesota, this was a must win moment for Minnesota
because they lose that home game, they're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Pete Futec college Footballnews dot com college football insider Extraordinaire
with us here at the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon.
All right, let's get to Florida Utah here for a second,
because you know, if you just didn't know anything, you
were dropped on social media, you would think Florida was
the number one ranked team in the country and they
upset by Kentucky Wesleyan. But look, the reality is Utah
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is really good. They won the last two Pac twelves
and Florida is a team not quite like Nebraska. But
you know, they're not gonna be that heavyweight that they
were in the early nineties into two thousands. They're good
every few years and I don't know, billion api or
may not have more than this year to turn it around.
But that's kind of where Florida is at. The new
normal for them is, hey, you're not what you were
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and try to go forward because to think that they're
suddenly the team they're gonna that's just not happening anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Either.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yeah, this is the moment, and it doesn't help when
Georgia suddenly, you know, blew up like to be a
good And remember they were in the SEC Championship not
that long ago. I mean, it gets locked. They're the
one team that pushed that amazing Alabama team in that
twenty twenty SEC Championship. I actually on merit and I
will still argue this that I was the time I
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was right because I want back. I voted Kyle Trasker
the Heisman. We forget that he put up Joe Burrow
X numbers under Dan Mullen. And it's not that long
ago that Florida was really good. But the problem is
that just looked like a team. And this is the
problem with Week one and last week week zero. They
desperately looked like a team that needed to play like
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Central Creampuff Tech or something first.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They needed.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
You can kind of see the timing wasn't there. They
weren't quite in game shape. They're playing at the elevation
of Utah. They just they needed to get their legs
under them, and they finally started to find it in
the third quarter, and it was kind of too late.
I think Florida's better than this. They're gonna be okay.
But you put you nails it right on the head
where you comes good. You know this is the this
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You're right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
This is the fourteenth ranked.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Team in the country. It's the highest ranked team out
of the future Big twelve, and it's good enough to
win the Pac twelve again. And they've got the lines
and the talent to win games like this, and at
home in calt Lake. They are an amazing team. Maybe Georgia, definitely,
Ohio State, definitely in Michigan that not everyone else. I
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think they beat LSU or Florida State or anyone else
you want to throw out there. If they're coming into
a Salt Lake city, they're just.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That good Pete. You check our guest here Jason's the
Show with Mike Carmen, Fox Sports Radio at Pete Futech,
where you find him on Twitter. You could read all
his work and latest musings, college footballnews dot Com, all
the predictions, all of the punditree that you want, team
by team. I don't think Pete sleeps for the next
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six months. I have a few minutes of your time here.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You you quip and joke. I honestly don't. And it
hit me today like, oh crap is three months. I'm
not going to sleep or do any of this like
it's it's this is but this is a fun time.
This is when there's that moment today where you realize,
you know what, this is not exactly breaking rocks. This
is you know, fuching football's pretty fun and you know tonight,
even with a bunch of dud games and everything else,
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this is still kind of a blast for a while.
When you talk to Florid Dukan at the end of
that Minnesota game, that's certainly why why we watch this
stuff and still play all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I mean, even the Utah Florida game down the stretch,
final couple of minutes. I mean you can drop touchdown
pass right all of a sudden, Hey, we might have something.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
There was a moment, and that's you know, what you're
hoping for and going forward. And you know, hey, look
if if you're one of those people who have you know,
over the unders or things like that, there's always a moment.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like that that you're you're watching for Pete few tax life.
Now if you made it into a pie chart, like
it would be eighty five percent college football, fifteen percent
his fantasy teams in football.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Now that that's the that's the pie chart of your life.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, now you know, carve out another five percent for
pie because now here's the sucky part. Now I don't
work out, so I'm going to do everything else to
keep the football season twenty off me. So now you
just put the word pie in my head and I'm
still mentally you know, you know soft at this point
from no sleep that I there's no way I'm not
finding pie before this fight's over.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
See, I was.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Figuring you were going to carve out two percent for
uh hate watching the Braves for the next month after Jason, once.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
The playoffs start, I am the biggest baseball I'm that guy.
Unfortunately where I don't watch sports until playoffs unless the
NFL because there's just kind of no need. But I
will be I like the brave. I have nothing against
the brave guys.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So but no, this will be fun.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Give it a few weeks and let's get going.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yet. Hey, Pip, you mentioned Colorado. Oh, I was just
gonna say, go ahead, Mike. I was going to say,
coach Prime, you go Colorado, go get it your reference Prime.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
And I'm seeing them all over the place, all the
surgeries everything else. Now we actually get down to the
business of football. Man, what are we expecting out of
the jump here? Such the roster turnover, so much attention
on this program, Pete. In the end, when the lights
are actually on, what are we getting?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Full disclosure. Deon Sanders is probably my favorite college player
of all time. I'm at the head of the committee
against any man over the age of twenty one wearing
a jersey. But I do have a Deon Sanders jersey
in my basement from my high school college years.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That was the thing.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
I almost bought the Deon Sanders CD. That's how big
a fan I was, so I hope he went. I know,
I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I didn't do it having what was this pumps and
the bump was pumps.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Must be the money. It was must be the money exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So uh.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Shockingly it was about you know, the standers sucking money.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah. Vid by the way, great video. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But look, I he put together an all star team.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
It's not USD from last year. But you look at
that starting twenty two and the depth. They are all
Power five guys on there, and there's a lot of talent.
Shador Sanders, his son is an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
You know, they have so much talent across the board
that they should be able to hang. But I have
no idea what the exportations are. I think they're twenty
points better than twenty points the TCU good. But the
problem is their schedule is an absolute killer. I mean
even Colorado State. I mean they're the you know, they're
the proverbial will if we go one and seven and
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win one game, we're happy. Well, they want this Colorado game,
so that's gonna be a fight. They got to do
in Nebraska and then you got to do with the
rest of the Pac twelve season. Uh, they've got one
of the toughest schedules in America. And what happens when
coach Prime has to have to deal with some adversity.
It's all fun right now because everyone loves him. He's
Deion Sanders and this is gonna be a whole lot
of fun. But what happens if they're you know, two
(28:28):
and four? You know where does that go?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Then?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
So, but he's put together a whole bunch of talent
on that team that I think they're gonna be a
little better than everyone thinks.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
All right, Pete, lastly, here if I give you the
film the blank, I always ask you every week look
for the upset.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I know it's week one.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You don't see a lot of stuff out there, but
it's rather than say giving me a definitive upset, what's
a game you would not be surprised to see a
big favorite lose one game?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Would not be surprised.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Out there Coastal Carolina and US. You see, if you
look at UCLA under Chip Kelly over the last few years,
they lost to Cincinnati twice when they were a group
of five program. They should they lost the San Diego State,
They should have lost the South Alabama. Last year of
South Alabama didn't screw up its kicking game plan at
the end, uh and they struggled for a half again
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Bully Green. Even Coastal Carolina is still good. Grayson McCall
is one of those quarterbacks. He's going to hit seventy
percent of his passes, and they've got enough of an
offense where they're going to be a tough out. Meanwhile,
UCLA is replacing just about everyone on offense. They're they're
apparently they're going to rotate nineteen quarterbacks in this game
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and try to play around with it a little bit.
But I would not be surprised if Coastal Carolina gave
UCLA a real rough time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, Tyler, think Pen's going to have a big game
for them this week, and I'm expecting big things at
it exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yeah, No, this is this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I think UT is one of those teams that no
one's they don't go to any hype because of all
the great quarterbacks across the Pac twelve board and because
of all the other things happening with the Pac trobe
including probably you losing Stanford Cal to the ACC maybe tomorrow,
and you know, there's all these other things going on
that you just flying under the raider. So we'll see
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if you Seela dropkicks Coastal Carolina, then all of a
sudden they might be a team to kind of fly
into the radar and watch out for as well.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is, at Petefutech
college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for college
football previews analysis another year, Pete, can't wait another year
breaking down everything going on with you as always, Thanks
so much and thanks so much for staying up late
and after games like this and making people feel better
(30:47):
about Nebraska and Florida.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
I'm trying my best. It's all gonna be okay. At
some point they used to be good. You know, he
had your moments.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Yeah, appreciate you, brother, Drop me a lot. We your
favorite type of coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He gonna need it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Then, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
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It is yet another home run for Mookie Betts, and
now it is six home runs a lance Lynn has
given up four to the Braves and three to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's getting close in the eighth inning, Steve O.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Actually, it's been a great ballgame at Dodger Stadium. Even
though Atlanta was up seven to one in the fifth inning.
The Braves lead is now eight seven over LA in
the bottom of the eighth because the Dodgers have hit
four home runs after LA starter lance Lynn allowed three
early long balls, including a grand slam from Ronald Acunya
his thirtieth. Austin Riley hit his thirty second, but Mookie
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Betts has two home runs thirty eight on the season.
In fact, thirty eight home runs out of the leadoff
spot is nearly the all time record. That's thirty nine.
We're not quite to September here. Max Munsey has just
hit his thirty second home run of the season. Dodgers
have also put a couple men on in the bottom
of the eighth with one out down eight seven to
(32:10):
the Atlanta Braves. LA this month with a record of
twenty four and four Miami's and.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Max magn fact this right, Max Monthsey forty two home runs.
He's also hitting one forty two.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, it's like, is that right, It's like Kyle Schwarber West. Actually,
he is hitting very well for average in the last
couple of weeks, so it's gotten him over two hundred.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Oh, yes, he's a two oh nine. You're right, he's
a two o nine.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
You got to hit four hundred for the last two
weeks to get up to two oh nine. But yeah.
Miami's record sixty seven and sixty seven. After their victory
at Washington tonight seven to to the final, Giants hold
the final ANL wildcard spot. It was a half game
over Idle Arizona. Giants have won seven to two at
San Diego. The other only other game was today in
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Detroit ten inning win for the Tigers four to three
against the Yankees. The Brewers gave third baseman Josh Donaldson
a minor league deal. Philadelphia's at Milwaukee tomorrow night. Brewers
are first in the NL Central, three games over the Cubs,
six up on the Reds. Cubs are going to be
playing a double header tomorrow at Cincinnati. The Reds claimed
outfielder Hunter renfro Off waivers from the Angels and got
(33:19):
alfielder Harrison Bader from the Yankees. Cleveland claimed pitcher Lucas
Giolito off waivers from the Angels. Tomorrow, Cleveland will be
hosting a Tampa Bay team that's won four straight. The
White Sox promoted Chris Getz to general manager. He says
manager Pedro Griffol will return to the NFL news. The
Vikings gave tight end TJ. Hawkinson a four year extension.
(33:39):
He was acquired from Detroit last season, then had sixty
receptions for Minnesota in ten games. Rams star wide receiver
Cooper Cup is day to day after a setback with
his strained hamstring. The Patriots claimed quarterback Matt Corral off
waivers from Carolina, who drafted him in the third round
a year ago. The Dolphins gave fullback alec Ingold a
three year extension. MYAMMI running back Jeff Wilson was placed
(34:02):
on IR with a hand injury, so he'll miss four games.
And we have an update on the late college football
game tonight at Arizona State in timp The problem late
first half was a dust storm that made visibility a problem. Nonetheless,
Asu with a touchdown before the break to go up
twenty one to seven at halftime. That was right before
(34:22):
the thunderstorm arrive, so they're in a lightning delay and
they still have not begun the second half. In fact,
they're saying it may be upwards of a half an
hour before they will even allow fans back into the stands,
much less players on the field. So it's a long
halftime delay. Arizona State leading Southern Utah twenty one to
seven at the break. Wins for Tulsa and Missouri, wins
(34:44):
for UAB and wake Forest, and victories tonight for Western
Michigan and Georgia State. What a game on Fox TV
the finish at least Minnesota, with ten points in the
last three minutes, beat Nebraska thirteen to ten on a
forty seven yard field goal final play victories for NC
and UCF, and fourteenth ranked Utah led Florida twenty four
to three early fourth quarter twenty four to eleven the
(35:07):
final and Utah star quarterback Cam Rising is still out
he tour an ACL last season, so tonight starter through
a seventy yard touchdown pass on the first play of
the season, but the other eleven drives just twelve first
downs and still Utah dominated Utah's d with five sacks.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
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Of the NFL that will make not just me, but
you think you could call plays for an NFL team.
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The Jason Smith Show is My best Friend Mike Harmon
live from the tyrak dot com studios. We get back
into the wild night that was college football coming up
in a couple of minutes. But this story today I knew.
First I saw this, I couldn't believe it. I got jealous.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Then I realized maybe it could happen for me.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid did an interview with Chris
Long a green Light with Chris Long podcast this week,
and Chris Long asked Andy Reid, Hey, did you ever
borrow any play calls from high school football or somewhere else?
And Andy Reid raised the stakes by saying, I took
one from a janitor one time in Green Bay. Wait
(37:38):
what he said in Green Bay when he was one
of the offensive coaches there earlier in his career. There
was a janitor, a mom and pop group that cleaned
the facility for a while and they worked on game day.
Guy kept telling me, the owner of the company. He
kept saying, I have a play. I gotta play for
I gotta play for you. So read okay. At this point,
he's an offensive assistant. This is when Brett Farv is
playing quarterback for the Packers. He kept saying, I have
(37:59):
a play.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I have a play. I have a play.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He kept telling him over and over and over. Finally
Andy Reid said, Okay, here's a car. Draw it up
for me. So the guy draws the play up and
Andy Reid says, man, that plays pretty good.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And in a game.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
He called it before halftime and it's scored, and the
guy's walking around going, that's my play. That's my play.
See borrowed a playm Janitor and it worked and they
scored a touchdown on it.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Good ideas can come from anywhere in Mike Carmen, I
dig this well. But that's the thing, right, You always
got to keep your ears open. Yep.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Yeah, I mean ninety nine percent of things that you
hear in your life or get rich quick schemes and
things that you should immediately get into the trash folder
of your life. But that's the one percent. This just
one percent to give you greatness.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
This just brings me back to the fact that maybe
my hail marry idea can work if someone would just
do it all right now, my hail Mary idea I've
had for a long time because I love this idea.
You look at how the defense lines up for a
hail mary, right with the defensive backs all the way across.
The quarterback gets to a spot, and the defensive backs
all kind of roll to one side of the field
(39:08):
right all the all the receivers kind of converge either
on the left side of the field, right side of
the field. But if you had a hail Mary, and
I'm telling you had hail mary where the quarterback looked
like he was let's just say, he's gonna throw it
to the left. He rolls out a little bit, gets
a line of scrimmage, looks like he's going to the left.
Everybody starts going to the left finger he's gonna throw
the ball to the goal line on the left side
of the field. But what he's really gonna do is
(39:29):
stop and throw it all the way across the other
side of the field, and a wide receiver who looks
like he's breaking towards the group right there. Instead, when
he sees the quarterback throwing it or at a predistermined time,
he just immediately cuts back and runs the other way.
And he has to run under the ball because the
quarterbacks obviously got to throw it up as high as
(39:49):
he can. But he runs across the field and runs
under it, and maybe he's the only guy there for
a catch. Maybe that works.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Okay, No, I dig that. I mean you actually drew
that out on the white in the old studio once
upon a time.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Been pitching it for a decade, I t I mean,
how many times did a janitor the janitor have to
tell Andy Reid, hey use his play?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Uses play?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
We marry gotta keep doing it till somebody uses it.
All right, fine, I'll do it well. And then they
ran it on a simulator.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Maybe they put it into one of the video games
that I run this, see what happens.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Oh yeah, I don't think it was just hey, let's
do this, this play might work. I'm sure they ran
it a couple of times in practice.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
No, no, but legitally, even before.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
You get it onto a practice field, it's like, all right,
let's let's at least try to simulate this. You got
that computer program we had? All right, let's see what happens.
Does the chaos theory hold Twitter?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
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