December 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon weigh-in on Jaxson Dart refusing to change his aggressive style despite taking massive hits. And Jason can’t understand why Lane Kiffin chose to leave Ole Miss for LSU, a place nearly impossible to succeed.
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Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
A development in a story we talked about maybebout an
hour and a half ago. It wasn't his best night tonight,
but I've soon enough from Jackson Dart. By this time
next year we will be talking about him as a
top five quarterback in the NFL. He has all the tools,
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he has the attitude, he has the belief, he has
the moxie. He will have his weapons back because he's
still putting up points even though everybody is gone. Maleak
Neighbors is long gone. Cam Scattaboo is long gone.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I celebrate the catalog of Dale Robinson likebody else they
lost Tyrone Tracy Tonight to to believe a head injury
and he's getting checked out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wandale Robins. Just look at Wandelle Robinson. Look at where
he's gone from. Boy, he was a second round pick
that I don't know why he wasn't so great. Now
all of a sudden he's become a go to guy, right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He will.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He'll be fifty years old, still catching passes, going has
late and we're still running late and still oh sure yeah,
and Cruise in a Keem Nicks Yeah one hundred percent,
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Victor Cruz, Like, why's that guy got ahead? That catch?
Craylon Birds, that's my move? You stole my move.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No doubt in my mind he is that good. He
will be that guy.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
When we talked about this a couple hours ago, you said,
his style of play worries me, and I said, you know,
the thing is, it's not like he is a running
quarterback like Lamar Jackson or runs in the middle of
the field like Josh Allen or Cam Newton. And he's
not big enough to withstand the hits because look, Cam's
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prime ended early because he took so many hits. But
he also put a lot of hits on guys. He's
a bigger quarterback. That was also what made him great.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, right, It went from he's good, he's getting great,
he's an MVP. Yeah because of that. Yes, you'll get
two years at the back end.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But Jackson Dart, as elusive as he is, is not
that kind of running quarterback. He's someone that, yes, you
can have some design runs, but a lot of it
is he knows when to tuck the football and get
out of trouble and make a play. He's gotten hurt
a couple of times this year. He's gotten hit a
couple of times where you probably should have taken those hits.
He's already had to sit out and miss time with
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a concussion, and tonight he got absolutely lit up on
a play in the first half running for a first down,
he's gonna be a couple of yards short, but he
doesn't get down and he gets absolutely drilled along the sideline.
Now legal ish hit, I don't want to hear. Oh,
completely legal issue. You don't usually hit a quarterback like
that that close to the sideline. So again not quite
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the whole super legal thing where I can blow it off. Yeah,
you don't really hit a quarterback like that.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
That's one of those where we've blurred the lines the
last couple of years because of the number of guys
that decided, hey, that's an extra advantage, right, as opposed
to it used to be, Hey, that's another defender. You've
got to decide what you're doing or you just get
out of bounds. But Mahome's in so many have done
the all right, you're gonna let up. I'm gonna take
an extra five yards on you. So guys are saying, okay, well,
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I'll take the shot that they don't throw this flag
by this guy tiptoeing.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Down the sideline.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So he gets hit, he stays in the game. Luckily
he doesn't get knocked out because that video is ryle
like he's looking and you can tell he doesn't even
see the defender coming to.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
The side right. So we talked about this. You said,
I worry about this.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I said, this is something you can easily teach out
of him, to say, hey, look on a play like this, dude,
you gotta get down. This is not it's not a
do or die play. It's not fourth and goal with
two minutes left to go. It's not a This is
a play where hey, you're scrambling. You gained thirteen yards
on second and fifteen. Okay, take the thirteen yards.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Be smart. And I said, I'm not too worried about that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But then this was Jackson Dart tonight after the game
talking about that hit and what this means for him
now and going forward.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I understand the question, like this is like this is football,
Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in the pocket
or outside the pocket, Like it's O. Don't I feel
like I've played this way my whole entire life. There
shouldn't be like any shock or anybody if you've followed
along with my career and I'm we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer out here, like you're gonna get hit.
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Things happen. It's part of the game. Look, I'm gonna
keep playing aggressive. No, hopefully everybody can take a second
to watch my tape going back to high school and
realize that this is not a shock. Like I play
the game aggressively. I took one hit that people are
talking about. I slid got out of the way of
a lot of hits. So I appreciate people, you know,
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wanting to you know, me to be healthy and all
that stuff, and I want to be healthy too, But
I play this game aggressive, so I'm not I'm not
going to just change how I play the game.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, I remember when I was young in twenty three
and thought I knew everything and I knew nothing. Uh, yeah,
I get that that's how you played. Doesn't mean it
was smart, doesn't There's things that have gone on in
the world that just because we always did them didn't
mean they were always smart. Okay, Like women couldn't vote
for a long time. Well that's the way it was, Like,
doesn't mean that was smart or right. Right, I mean,
like I'm going a little extreme with that, but just
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know that there's things in the world that's like, okay,
just we did them a long time, but it doesn't
mean it was right. Child you've played that way, but
in high school when you are by far and away
the best player on the field, and in college when
you are by far and away the best player on
the field. Okay, this is the NFL, man, this is
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the NFL. And yes, you're gonna get hit. I understand that,
but the thing is to limit those times. Don't take
unnecessary hits. That was an unnecessary hit, right, a completely
unnecessary hit that he took on the sideline. Didn't have to,
didn't have to, could have easily stepped out of bounds,
figured out a way to not get hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I've done it. I've done that yet.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Dude, you've already missed time with a concussion. Guess what,
when you get a concussion, you're more susceptible concussions.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
We need to keep you safe. You need to be smarter.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is where the Giants hopefully hear what he has
to say and they have an intervention tomorrow and Mike
Kafka says, listen, dude, I care about you, I love you.
I'm hoping to coach you next year for a long time,
but I might not be and if I'm not here,
I want didn't want the season to end without me
telling you, dude, you have to slide. You have to
take care of yourself. You are a priority. This is
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your life that you are talking about, your NFL life.
You want a big contract, you want to be a star.
You love playing the game. You love playing the game.
You want to keep playing that game as long as possible.
You have this is non negotiable. In a situation like that,
you get the blank out of bounds, right, you slide,
you make the right play. No, there are plays you're
gonna get hit. But you have to learn that. And
it's a feel thing for quarterbacks right when they get
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to the league. Okay, you know some things that I
should be able to still do, but I can't. Boy,
that's really weird. Yeah, because the defensive players are so
much faster and so much smarter and so much better
across the board. Right, this was this was Reggie Bush's
big thing. I don't know why I can't bounce every
runout because you're not playing Fresno State. Okay, that's why
every defensive back is the best defensive back you ever played.
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They're gonna be able to cut you off. You can't
do that. Like, he's got to understand that that this
is not something that you can get away with. This
is not smart. This is not how you stay around, right.
You gotta run around to stay around. That's they say
in the NFL, even running backs. No got to run
around to stay around. Don't want to take unnecessary hits.
That's an unnecessary hit you took. If this was running
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in the middle of the field for a first down
and you were reaching for the first down marker, I
could see it, and I could say, but you don't
want to lose that aggressiveness. I understand that this is
you on the sideline. You could have got out of bound.
You're not getting there. It's a two and ten season.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You have to make.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You have to be able to be around. You have
to understand that. I get you think you know everything,
and I love that part about you and the confidence
that you have. But you gotta know that is not right.
That is wrong, and that is a wrong way to think.
And that's not how you're gonna stay around in the NFL.
You want to be in the NFL in a couple
of years, don't take hits like that. You're not gonna
be in the NFL. What does the NFL stand for?
Mike car Matt for long.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
When you make plays like that, No, and that's the
biggest concern, as much as it's a lot of fun
to watch these guys run around like their hairs on
fire and making big plays. And we talk about the
greatness that we've seen from Josh Allen, from Lamar Jackson,
from others. You see what where Lamar Jackson is physically
right now, he can't do that. I mean it's become
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a once in a blue moon where he actually can
get out, get to the edge and make a big play.
Josh Allen's not running the same way he used to.
You're not seeing the same level of Superman cape from him.
For Jackson Dart, it's new, it's exciting. It's a different
brand and style. This is a guy that played a
lot of meaningful football, and he played against the best.
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Right always equated it to the collegiate level. Right when
you come in as a student, you might be the
smartest guy or gal in a small town and I
don't know, pick whatever state you want. But then all
of a sudden, you go to an academic powerhouse and
you're just another guy here.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Everybody's just as smart as you. You're smarter.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Here, everybody's just as fast or faster, bigger, faster, stronger
chasing you down. You can't blow through a linebacker defensive back.
They're coming in with their eyes wide, you know, like saucers,
ready to blow you up.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And we watched it. How many trips to the medical
tent this year thus far? Is it five? Is at six?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I mean, how much should we wring our hands? Your
coach got fired because he went to the medical tent.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
That part of it, right, was all right? Is he
protecting this guy? And Thomas has been in and out
of the lineup. You haven't had the offensive line. I
get that you've missed a couple of your big players offensively,
but that's not changing that. That's that's a whole other
conversation about the flow of a game versus putting yourself
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in harm's way. This is the old Peyton manning. You
got to learn the turtle man. You either throw the
ball out of it and get out of the pocket.
Because nowadays they call intentional grounding aphazardly, So you gotta
make sure you're really outside that tackle box and then
you fling that thing downfield. They may still decide that
you threw it too far from the receiver, but you
know you'll fight that battle as opposed to taking another sack,
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which is another unnecessary hit. But we did all the
handwringing for two a tongue of iloa. Why because those
hits were cringey, right, the convulsions and those things on
the field that we saw the video and once you
replayed it, you didn't want to see the third time. Hell,
you stopped it midway through the second hit. But for
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Jackson Dart, while we haven't had one of those, the
fact that he's had to go to the tent that
often and today he probably, if we're being honest about
things given away this season's gone, probably should have had
a look see before he got back under center because
it was a long pause before he got back in
the model. So it's those kind of things like self preservation. Man,
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you got a lot of raw talent to be a
great quarterback. Afraid we're never going to see that materialize
because he's not going to be able to consistently be
on the field.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He's got to understand I don't know everything, and that
that the coach I gotta trust the coaches I gotta
trust when I hear things that, Oh I got to
you gotta stay around right, what's your best ability? Your availability?
You gotta know now to to flip flip it around here.
This is Mike Rabel, Patriots head coach, was asked about
the hit on Jackson Dart and this is what Rabel
had to say following the game.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It's a weekly reminder to the quarterback, our quarterback, you know,
I mean we show him every week, like I wouldn't
get too cute over there by the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It happens every week.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And so Christian's playing, you know, through the through the whistle,
and as long as the players in bounds, he's going
to try to hit them legally. Yeah, I mean again
it's it was borderline, borderline not cool that again, you
don't hit quarterbacks like that close to the sideline.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But you'd be in jail. They would just take the
whole defense off the field.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Off the foot is that he's done that so much
many times and stolen an extra five seven however many
yards because you see guys back off and you've got
coaches that the old reverberation of the whistle thing being
applied to the sideline.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm like he didn't step out forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Blow him up, But he's not trying to fool anybody
like because when I agree when when quarterbacks do stuff
like that and they do the fake like, that's not
cool because the rule is there to protect you and
if you get hit and you get hurt there, I
don't have a lot of sympathy for you. But this
was dark just trying to get to that. I mean,
all right, you hit him really hard. The guy was
going out of bound. Basically, he was at the out
of bounds and you hit him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But this is Rabel.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
This is how you say, we show our quarterback every week,
don't do this, don't get too cute on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But how many times do we see the half assed
slide of oh I'm about to get blown up, and
you do one of the like you do a young
Way coup slide just you know, like you never get
the full extension of what a slide's supposed to be.
And that gets flags like no, no, no, no no. I
was already going hitting him. I was gonna strike him
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square and the kid and now he's laying down haphazardly
in front of me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But look, Vrabel's got it. Right obviously that he understands
he tell it. Don't get too cute in the sideline.
I don't know why Jackson Dart even needs to be
told this. It's the old rule. I don't want to
go to the judges. I don't know why you even
need he even needs to be told that. Why he
would say stuff like oh yeah, yeah, this is how
I play. Go back and look at my tap again
doesn't mean it was right the right thing. You're lucky
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if that you sit here, you didn't take any hits
in college or high school that knocked you out and
and and forced you to miss time, or maybe you
don't make it all the way back from an injury
like you realize you're lucky with this man, understand this
is the NFL coach is gonna tell you this. Giants
got to sit him down this week and say, dude,
we're not gonna practice today. We're gonna sit here and
just talk about stuff. You don't have to go out there,
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you don't have to throw the football, doesn't matter. We
got to talk about some stuff. I got two weeks
because I gotta buy a week here. Week fourteen by
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
Jackson Dodd will have to get down and slide now.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Mary, we need the Bill Belichick version of this. Have
yourself a merry little Christmas. Oh, it is that time
of year.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We are getting to that time now I don't even
know who he had one.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh, you're kidding. It's the best. It's the best Christmas
song ever. Did Jordan give him clearance to sing the song?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
She said, we can't play it. Well, it's actually before
it's pre Jordan, So we're okay.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, but she's in charge.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, but I don't think she can come after welcome
to come sit in the studio down case, the same
age as she might beat me up.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, well, baby, now if you start with how many
pye perview? Although do you see that they got pictures
of her this weekend pumping gas. I'm like, okay, she's
not at that. She's not at that Angelina Joe Lee,
George Clooney, Tiger Woods type of fame, where hey, here
she is pumping gat.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
No, no, no, come on, man, let's stop. Let's stop.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's only a fun story if it's in Jersey. So
our long national nightmare is now over. Lane Kiffin has
a new job introduced today. It's the next head coach
at LSU, a saga that's played out over the past
few weeks and hit its peak this past weekend. He
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wins the Egg Bowl he decides on Saturday to take
LSU's money. He is now the LSU head coach. And
first of all, before we get to something that people
haven't talked about, give you something different about this topic.
Everything that happened as this went on. This is not
the end of college football. This is not things have
to change. This is just incredibly on brand for Lane Kiffin. Okay,
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prickly on my way out the door. It's not smooth
while we're winning. It's nothing is ever smooth with Lane Kiffin. Right,
nothing is ever smooth.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You might as well take his speech or his statement
and add Shaggy's wasn't me. It's never smooth, right the
guy I of course he was gonna leave. He's got
happy feet. He can't stay coached somewhere more than a
couple of years. He's had six head coaching gigs since
two thousand and seven. That's once every three years. Like
Bill Parcells, I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Loving it here, but I gotta go, gotta go, gotta go,
gotta go. Right, nothing is it was out of the ordiny.
This is incredibly predictable. Of course he was gonna go.
He's been at Mississippi for a couple of years. I
gotta go someplace out. This was the reclamation project.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
This was the reinstallment, the re invigoration of his reputation,
his history, stability for double digit win seats, like all
of this, it restored that the wonder kind that he
was once upon a time. You remember he was a
Raiders coach, Nate the Great, He's night the Great height
think I.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Said, wonder kid, you know me, No, wonder kid. Well
with an end mon.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Uh, But everything went how you thought it would go, right,
Lane Kiffin tries to play the victim. I prayed on
this all night last night. Not the twelve million dollars
here getting from LSU, but I prayed on this.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I wanted to stay, but the evil ad didn't want
me to stay.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I had no choice but to go because Nick Saban told.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Me to go.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hey, uh, I don't think that's super cool that an
ESPN analyst is telling somebody where to go.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But all these guys, I Pete Carroll was the guy
that was like rats off of sinking ship, not they're
coming for us, right, Yeah, I'm going to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Nothing I could do. These guys told me how to
do it. I'll talk to Marty Smith before I get
on my plane and just to say, hey, I'm a
really good guy and why I feel bad about that.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
But then it was like he was in a confessional again.
I want you, said Thurlman behind him, eighty year old violinists.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Let's go hang.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I brought in my own violinists to play. Played that
really sad?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Uh that that that dirg you were playing before?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I want something like that. Uh yeah, play something something
from early Phantom of the Opera. Yeah, give me that,
or bring me that guy from Sinners he can play
behind me, come on. But everything was on brand for
Lane Kiffin, right the blame for him. Of course, the
ad is gonna say we don't want a guy that's
taking another job here. It's different than the UCLA situation,
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where they're like, listen, we're okay, you're coaching in the playoff.
We're not a big rival. Well, you can leave James
Madison and come coach us after you're done. This is
I'm staying in the SEC. I'm going to a bigger school. No,
we don't want the playoff to be an infomercial for
Lane Kiffin. Hey, come to LSU with me. We don't
look at what he did here.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Look at all these players can't wait to see what
he does at LSU. Hey, that's what you saw on Saturday,
the chug at your heartstring.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Shouldn't they let him coach?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
None of that was everybody I know, like all the
biggest names, like you guys are shills. People you know
lost Eddy, that Jay got ripped from it. It's now ernalism.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
There's so many there's so many people to do a
great job covering college football, and some of the guys
that I really admire the most of the work they do,
it's embarrassing to have them go. This is the this
has to change. This happened to dude. College football has
no rules. Don't give me any bull crap like, oh,
this has to change. You don't do this. We got
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to change the times a coach can go. We got
to change the NL rules. There's no rules, there are
no rules. It's just this is what we're doing this year,
and then everything changed. Don't give me give me this
crap that all college football's got a change. There are
no rules for college well, and they change it to
where you don't have to sit out if you transfers anymore.
So like you've thrown all of this away. There are
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zero rules in color. They don't tell me stuff needs
to change, there's no rules. Think of the children. So
none of this was crazy. You can make it out
to be crazy and everything. We've seen coaches leave like this.
We've seen coaches leave in a huff. We've seen coaches
a lot of it at least was above board. And
I love that. I love that we knew all about it,
And I love that Kiffin didn't shy away from it
and try to tell us lies like Nick Saban did. Guys,
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I don't have to tell him not going to Alabama,
but he could in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Ran Jason, it was like, what three weeks ago we
were talking about it, and it's like he'd done it right. Yeah, everyone,
it's like he'd address it whatever. Then well I want
I mean, come on, dude, you're not gonna walk. Everybody's
gonna hate you.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Just own it and go.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Like, the one thing I could say is just own it.
I went to LSU, I have a better chance to win.
All the reasons that you were giving yourself why you
would go, just own it. People just want to see it.
Mississippi Ole miss is not gonna go I can't stand
like kiffan Oh, but he felt he had to go
and he prayed on it. I love Lane Kiffin. No,
no one is saying that, but to give you something
different on Lane Kiffin because I understand him leaving because
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Ole miss is not a perennial power. You don't know
how long that goodwill and that run is gonna go right?
How long is Kurtzignette's running Indiana gonna be right?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's not. It's not a power.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You don't suddenly turn a school into a power. You
can maybe do it for a few years, and look
what happens. Michigan State was a power for a while,
Mark D'Antoni was a coach. Looking happened. Now they're hiring
another guy to come in. Right, Michigan State has been terrible.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But I get leaving because I guess I want to
get someplace bigger, where I have a better chance to win,
where there's more money, there's a little bit more everything.
I understand that. I don't understand why LSU. I don't
understand why LSU is the job he took. Wouldn't I
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wouldn't even say go to Florida because he's at such
a high level. Now, he could have stayed at ole Miss.
They would have given him everything. They would give a
ten year contract, ten million dollars a year, would have
got everything. And the thing is, if he had two
or three bad years at Ole Miss, he's staying all right.
He is going to be employed at the place he
supposedly loves. There's no reason he had to leave. But again,
(23:38):
happy Feet, I want to make sure I get to
a better place. LSU is not a better place. LSU
is an absolute mess. You have the governor who's talking
about firing head coaches and paying guys out. LSU is
an absolute mess. They kicked Brian Kelly out after they
spent all kinds of money to get the guy from
Notre Dame. What did Brian Kelly do? He had nine
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and three seasons, okay, and that wasn't enough and he's
out in three years. Do you think you're gonna get
more time to prove yourself. No, you're not, because apparently
LSU can print money, because they can pay out at OrderIn,
they can pay out Brian Kelly. And now they get
all this money for you. They have all kinds of
I don't know what rich alumni they had went to LSU.
But I want to look and see who's got all
this money to pay people out. There's the Air's one
(24:20):
hundred million dollars. You're all good. You are not in
a position to succeed at LSU. They're going to expect
ten and two in a playoff, which is what you're
doing right now at All Miss. But they're gonna expect
that every year. You don't do that, in two years,
guess what, You're fired and somebody else is coming in
to coach a team. Kurt Signetti is coming in to
coach LSU when they decide for a buyout in two years.
You are not in a great place to succeed, and
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it's not a great job. Yes you have a couple
of national championships, but man, you saw the mess this
place is, and you saw what just happened to the
most recent coach. And you've seen your track record. Some
places you've won, some places you haven't. I know that
you think I can go here and win, but at
so such a high level, and you've made it work
from Jackson Dart to this season. When you thought, okay,
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well they lost Dart, you lost a guy that's a
high pick in the draft. There's gonna be there's gonna
be a drop off. No, you're still really good. You're recruited.
The good times are here for a couple of years.
This is where, if you're Lane Kiffin, you wait for
what is really the next great job, because LSU ain't it.
LSU is not the next great job now. Is there
a great job out there this year? No, but every year,
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every couple of years, there are great jobs that open up.
Right next year, if Michigan doesn't win next year, guess what,
Searon Moore is out and maybe Lane Kiffin's coaching Michigan
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
If USC doesn't win next year, Lincoln Riley, maybe he's
out and you can be the triumphant guy going back
to USC. There are big jobs open that you can
go get that maybe aren't open right now, but you
will still be a hot enough candidate in a year
where you can go to a place where this is
a really good job. And this is a job that
I leave Ole Miss for. You left Ole Miss for
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a set of problems at lsuold. I know you think
you can recruit Brian Kelly's a pretty good coach. He's
been to a national championship. Look at the problems he had.
He couldn't keep he couldn't keep the number one recruit
in the country. They lost him to Michigan. Not like
they're like, oh, Brex Underwood, he's not very good, so
we're happy with that. But things aren't just gonna suddenly
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go great and you're not gonna be the pied piper
walking in and sudden we're gonna win big. You're in
a position to fail and you're gonna have less time
than Brian Kelly. So in two years when you're fired
and then you're trying to start your career again at
Florida International or someplace else small, don't say nobody told
you this was not the job to leave for. There
were jobs to leave for.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
This is not one of them. Yeah, it's one of
those you look at your timeline and maybe you're done.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right. It's with jobs, relationships, whatever. There's that line in
the sayan and the all right, I can do this
until I can't. Right, there's there's a philosophy I can
do anything for excellent. I can tell my daughters with
their their coursework, right. If there's one that a teacher
you're not particularly getting along with or a course that
you're not having the best time with. Either you're just
(27:02):
not enjoying the subject matter or you're not doing well.
It's like there's a finite time coaching wise, same thing
might have said, I ran, I ran, of course here,
this is as good as it's gonna get four double
digit win seasons in the last five and that you've
got a wandering eye. And that's who Lane Kiffen has
been and coming with that early success and kudos and
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entry to the NFL and everything else. It stands to reason,
right history his dad and that legacy. Remember he invoked
money as often as he could in this process at
the end as well. But you know, yeah, LSU is
rife with issues. I mean, great money, great traditions. How
(27:45):
are we referring to death Valley? Are we putting it
in puney and positively or punny negative? Next year as
Lane Kiffin takes over. But you know one thing, he
definitely is gonna need to realize all the missteps that
Brian came because there's a lot of people that have
a liking problem with him and that they don't and
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that ultimately felled him, you know, losing the recruit I
mean Sean Moore, I mean he probably has like three
more years, right because he was the fall guy for
the Connor Stallion stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
He took all the suspensions.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
This year.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but but it was an awful game against Ohio
State this year. Yeah, they were due. You had last
number one, you have last country. Last year is the
game the year where I think from Michigan more than
this year losing Ohio State, because I get it. This year,
Ohio State was better across the board, and Michigan couldn't
get any pass rush and they couldn't cover their wide receivers.
You're not gonna win them any games. But to go
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through last year without a quarterback and not go to
the nil and get somebody for a team that had
seventeen first round picks, that's unforgivable. Lose here to Ohio
State at home. One more bad year, you lose to
Ohio State again. Yeah, that's a new sets. The coach
potential was there, right, But that's it. We're talking about potential,
and we do in the draft and we do this.
You know, when a new coach takes over, it's like,
(29:04):
well they might be good. We don't know yet, right,
We need to prove of concept.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Same thing here, Lane Kiffin, if he's got anxious happy feet,
and we don't know what else is swirling in the
background here right there's there's always more to the story
as and if maybe Marty Smith had him in for
another thirty five minutes on the tarmac, we could have
gotten to the to the bottom of it while the
violin guy played the next part of the concerto. But
the idea that that next job might be there potential
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versus you're looking at those and you like him, you
had an issue with whatever the Florida A D said
to you, And then LSU becomes the well it's open.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't know why LSU. I also don't know why.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Steve Disager is gonna tell us what's trending right now
in the wide world of sports, except I do.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
It's his job, Steve, O what he got?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I thought you're gonna say. I don't know why the
Giants are still in the league wow relegation. They are
zero and eight on the road, two in eleven. Overall,
they have lost seven straight and they were trailing at
New England thirty to seven at halftime tonight thirty three,
fifteen Patriots. The final young quarterback Jackson Start of New
York did start after missing time with a concussion. He
(30:14):
was seventeen of twenty four, passing only one hundred thirty
nine yards in a TD The Pats were four for
five on field goals. They won ten in a row.
They're eleven and two overall. Here just for twenty four hours,
they had been tied with Denver for best record in
the AFC. Temperatures were in the twenties for this one tonight.
Drake May had two touchdown passes two hundred eighty two yards.
(30:34):
By the way, no NFL team had to buy this
past week, but now this coming week four teams are off,
including New England and the Giants. Next up after the buye.
For the Patriots, they'll host Buffalo and then play at
Baltimore on a buy this coming weekend, San Francisco and Carolina.
The Lions play this Thursday, hosting Dallas and Detroit. Star
wide receiver aman Ross Saint Brown did not practice due
(30:56):
to a sprained ankle. Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens was
limited in practice today with calf and knee injuries. The
Vikings cut wide receiver Adam Thielen as he'd requested. Minnesota
quarterback JJ McCarthy is due to return from his concussion
this week. The team says he is symptom free, but
running back Aaron Jones is called day to day with
a shoulder injury. Bengals wide receiver T Higgins is still
(31:17):
in concussion protocol. Colts defensive back Sauce Gardner will miss
some time. He is called week to week with a
strained calf. Michigan State's new football coach is Pat Fitzgerald
X of Northwestern. UCLA's new coach will be Bob Chesney,
who will still coach James Madison this weekend. Kentucky fired
coach Mark Stoops, and BYU head coach Kilate Sataki is
(31:37):
purportedly a candidate for the Penn State job. The new
committee rankings come out Tuesday. College football selection Sunday is
this weekend. The Mets gave reliever Devin Williams a three
year deal. US women's soccer won its final exhibition of
the year two nothing over Italy and Fort Lauderdale. The
US beat him three nothing. On Friday. NHL wins for
San Jose six to three over Utah and Anaheim. Which
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won four to one at Saint Louis. In women's hoops,
Yukon still number one. Texas up to number two after
beating UCLA, now number four, and beating number three ranks
South Carolina in men's college basketball. Perdue in Arizona are
still won two in the new polls. Michigan is up
to number three after dominant wins over Auburn and Gonzaga
last week. Villanova beat Temple on FS one tonight seventy
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four fifty six. Golden State signed Seth Curry for the
rest of the season. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid will take tomorrow
off with the Soornee. The NBA Players of the Week
are in the East Jalen Brunson, New York. In the West,
the Lakers Luka doncic Luca with thirty eight points nine turnovers. Tonight,
the Lakers seven game winning streak ended with a home
loss to Phoenix one twenty five, one oh eight. Dallas
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was just six and fifteen, but got to win at
Denver one thirty one, one twenty one Anthony Davis thirty
two points. Utah and Miami each one at home. Orlando
and Brooklyn as well, Detroit and home edged Atlanta ninety
nine ninety eight. Pistons record now seventeen and four. Washington
was two and sixteen but got a home win against
Milwaukee one twenty nine, one twenty six, and Cleveland picked
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up forty three points from Donovan Mitchell in a victory
at Indiana one thirty five, one nineteen. The Pacers record
now four and seventeen. Back to you, Thank you, Steve Olle.
Coming up next, what team is thinking super Bowl? You
would never have thought they'd be thinking super Bowl at
this point.
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Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
A development in a story we talked about maybebout an
hour and a half ago. It wasn't his best night tonight,
but I've soon enough from Jackson Dart. By this time
next year we will be talking about him as a
top five quarterback in the NFL. He has all the tools,
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he has the attitude, he has the belief, he has
the moxie. He will have his weapons back because he's
still putting up points even though everybody is gone. Maleak
Neighbors is long gone. Cam Scattaboo is long gone.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I celebrate the catalog of Dale Robinson likebody else they
lost Tyrone Tracy Tonight to to believe a head injury
and he's getting checked out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wandale Robins. Just look at Wandelle Robinson. Look at where
he's gone from. Boy, he was a second round pick
that I don't know why he wasn't so great. Now
all of a sudden he's become a go to guy, right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He will.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He'll be fifty years old, still catching passes, going has
late and we're still running late and still oh sure yeah,
and Cruise in a Keem Nicks Yeah one hundred percent,
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Victor Cruz, Like, why's that guy got ahead? That catch?
Craylon Birds, that's my move? You stole my move.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No doubt in my mind he is that good. He
will be that guy.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
When we talked about this a couple hours ago, you said,
his style of play worries me, and I said, you know,
the thing is, it's not like he is a running
quarterback like Lamar Jackson or runs in the middle of
the field like Josh Allen or Cam Newton. And he's
not big enough to withstand the hits because look, Cam's
(02:36):
prime ended early because he took so many hits. But
he also put a lot of hits on guys. He's
a bigger quarterback. That was also what made him great.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, right, It went from he's good, he's getting great,
he's an MVP. Yeah because of that. Yes, you'll get
two years at the back end.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But Jackson Dart, as elusive as he is, is not
that kind of running quarterback. He's someone that, yes, you
can have some design runs, but a lot of it
is he knows when to tuck the football and get
out of trouble and make a play. He's gotten hurt
a couple of times this year. He's gotten hit a
couple of times where you probably should have taken those hits.
He's already had to sit out and miss time with
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a concussion, and tonight he got absolutely lit up on
a play in the first half running for a first down,
he's gonna be a couple of yards short, but he
doesn't get down and he gets absolutely drilled along the sideline.
Now legal ish hit, I don't want to hear. Oh,
completely legal issue. You don't usually hit a quarterback like
that that close to the sideline. So again not quite
(03:41):
the whole super legal thing where I can blow it off. Yeah,
you don't really hit a quarterback like that.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
That's one of those where we've blurred the lines the
last couple of years because of the number of guys
that decided, hey, that's an extra advantage, right, as opposed
to it used to be, Hey, that's another defender. You've
got to decide what you're doing or you just get
out of bounds. But Mahome's in so many have done
the all right, you're gonna let up. I'm gonna take
an extra five yards on you. So guys are saying, okay, well,
(04:06):
I'll take the shot that they don't throw this flag
by this guy tiptoeing.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Down the sideline.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So he gets hit, he stays in the game. Luckily
he doesn't get knocked out because that video is ryle
like he's looking and you can tell he doesn't even
see the defender coming to.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
The side right. So we talked about this. You said,
I worry about this.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I said, this is something you can easily teach out
of him, to say, hey, look on a play like this, dude,
you gotta get down. This is not it's not a
do or die play. It's not fourth and goal with
two minutes left to go. It's not a This is
a play where hey, you're scrambling. You gained thirteen yards
on second and fifteen. Okay, take the thirteen yards.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Be smart. And I said, I'm not too worried about that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But then this was Jackson Dart tonight after the game
talking about that hit and what this means for him
now and going forward.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I understand the question, like this is like this is football,
Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in the pocket
or outside the pocket, Like it's O. Don't I feel
like I've played this way my whole entire life. There
shouldn't be like any shock or anybody if you've followed
along with my career and I'm we're not playing like
we're not playing soccer out here, like you're gonna get hit.
(05:17):
Things happen. It's part of the game. Look, I'm gonna
keep playing aggressive. No, hopefully everybody can take a second
to watch my tape going back to high school and
realize that this is not a shock. Like I play
the game aggressively. I took one hit that people are
talking about. I slid got out of the way of
a lot of hits. So I appreciate people, you know,
(05:40):
wanting to you know, me to be healthy and all
that stuff, and I want to be healthy too, But
I play this game aggressive, so I'm not I'm not
going to just change how I play the game.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, I remember when I was young in twenty three
and thought I knew everything and I knew nothing. Uh, yeah,
I get that that's how you played. Doesn't mean it
was smart, doesn't There's things that have gone on in
the world that just because we always did them didn't
mean they were always smart. Okay, Like women couldn't vote
for a long time. Well that's the way it was, Like,
doesn't mean that was smart or right. Right, I mean,
like I'm going a little extreme with that, but just
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know that there's things in the world that's like, okay,
just we did them a long time, but it doesn't
mean it was right. Child you've played that way, but
in high school when you are by far and away
the best player on the field, and in college when
you are by far and away the best player on
the field. Okay, this is the NFL, man, this is
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the NFL. And yes, you're gonna get hit. I understand that,
but the thing is to limit those times. Don't take
unnecessary hits. That was an unnecessary hit, right, a completely
unnecessary hit that he took on the sideline. Didn't have to,
didn't have to, could have easily stepped out of bounds,
figured out a way to not get hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I've done it. I've done that yet.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Dude, you've already missed time with a concussion. Guess what,
when you get a concussion, you're more susceptible concussions.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
We need to keep you safe. You need to be smarter.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is where the Giants hopefully hear what he has
to say and they have an intervention tomorrow and Mike
Kafka says, listen, dude, I care about you, I love you.
I'm hoping to coach you next year for a long time,
but I might not be and if I'm not here,
I want didn't want the season to end without me
telling you, dude, you have to slide. You have to
take care of yourself. You are a priority. This is
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your life that you are talking about, your NFL life.
You want a big contract, you want to be a star.
You love playing the game. You love playing the game.
You want to keep playing that game as long as possible.
You have this is non negotiable. In a situation like that,
you get the blank out of bounds, right, you slide,
you make the right play. No, there are plays you're
gonna get hit. But you have to learn that. And
it's a feel thing for quarterbacks right when they get
(07:45):
to the league. Okay, you know some things that I
should be able to still do, but I can't. Boy,
that's really weird. Yeah, because the defensive players are so
much faster and so much smarter and so much better
across the board. Right, this was this was Reggie Bush's
big thing. I don't know why I can't bounce every
runout because you're not playing Fresno State. Okay, that's why
every defensive back is the best defensive back you ever played.
(08:06):
They're gonna be able to cut you off. You can't
do that. Like, he's got to understand that that this
is not something that you can get away with. This
is not smart. This is not how you stay around, right.
You gotta run around to stay around. That's they say
in the NFL, even running backs. No got to run
around to stay around. Don't want to take unnecessary hits.
That's an unnecessary hit you took. If this was running
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in the middle of the field for a first down
and you were reaching for the first down marker, I
could see it, and I could say, but you don't
want to lose that aggressiveness. I understand that this is
you on the sideline. You could have got out of bound.
You're not getting there. It's a two and ten season.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You have to make.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You have to be able to be around. You have
to understand that. I get you think you know everything,
and I love that part about you and the confidence
that you have. But you gotta know that is not right.
That is wrong, and that is a wrong way to think.
And that's not how you're gonna stay around in the NFL.
You want to be in the NFL in a couple
of years, don't take hits like that. You're not gonna
be in the NFL. What does the NFL stand for?
Mike car Matt for long.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
When you make plays like that, No, and that's the
biggest concern, as much as it's a lot of fun
to watch these guys run around like their hairs on
fire and making big plays. And we talk about the
greatness that we've seen from Josh Allen, from Lamar Jackson,
from others. You see what where Lamar Jackson is physically
right now, he can't do that. I mean it's become
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a once in a blue moon where he actually can
get out, get to the edge and make a big play.
Josh Allen's not running the same way he used to.
You're not seeing the same level of Superman cape from him.
For Jackson Dart, it's new, it's exciting. It's a different
brand and style. This is a guy that played a
lot of meaningful football, and he played against the best.
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Right always equated it to the collegiate level. Right when
you come in as a student, you might be the
smartest guy or gal in a small town and I
don't know, pick whatever state you want. But then all
of a sudden, you go to an academic powerhouse and
you're just another guy here.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Everybody's just as smart as you. You're smarter.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Here, everybody's just as fast or faster, bigger, faster, stronger
chasing you down. You can't blow through a linebacker defensive back.
They're coming in with their eyes wide, you know, like saucers,
ready to blow you up.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And we watched it. How many trips to the medical
tent this year thus far? Is it five? Is at six?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I mean, how much should we wring our hands? Your
coach got fired because he went to the medical tent.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
That part of it, right, was all right? Is he
protecting this guy? And Thomas has been in and out
of the lineup. You haven't had the offensive line. I
get that you've missed a couple of your big players offensively,
but that's not changing that. That's that's a whole other
conversation about the flow of a game versus putting yourself
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in harm's way. This is the old Peyton manning. You
got to learn the turtle man. You either throw the
ball out of it and get out of the pocket.
Because nowadays they call intentional grounding aphazardly, So you gotta
make sure you're really outside that tackle box and then
you fling that thing downfield. They may still decide that
you threw it too far from the receiver, but you
know you'll fight that battle as opposed to taking another sack,
(11:13):
which is another unnecessary hit. But we did all the
handwringing for two a tongue of iloa. Why because those
hits were cringey, right, the convulsions and those things on
the field that we saw the video and once you
replayed it, you didn't want to see the third time. Hell,
you stopped it midway through the second hit. But for
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Jackson Dart, while we haven't had one of those, the
fact that he's had to go to the tent that
often and today he probably, if we're being honest about
things given away this season's gone, probably should have had
a look see before he got back under center because
it was a long pause before he got back in
the model. So it's those kind of things like self preservation. Man,
(11:55):
you got a lot of raw talent to be a
great quarterback. Afraid we're never going to see that materialize
because he's not going to be able to consistently be
on the field.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He's got to understand I don't know everything, and that
that the coach I gotta trust the coaches I gotta
trust when I hear things that, Oh I got to
you gotta stay around right, what's your best ability? Your availability?
You gotta know now to to flip flip it around here.
This is Mike Rabel, Patriots head coach, was asked about
the hit on Jackson Dart and this is what Rabel
had to say following the game.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It's a weekly reminder to the quarterback, our quarterback, you know,
I mean we show him every week, like I wouldn't
get too cute over there by the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It happens every week.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And so Christian's playing, you know, through the through the whistle,
and as long as the players in bounds, he's going
to try to hit them legally. Yeah, I mean again
it's it was borderline, borderline not cool that again, you
don't hit quarterbacks like that close to the sideline.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But you'd be in jail. They would just take the
whole defense off the field.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Off the foot is that he's done that so much
many times and stolen an extra five seven however many
yards because you see guys back off and you've got
coaches that the old reverberation of the whistle thing being
applied to the sideline.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm like he didn't step out forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Blow him up, But he's not trying to fool anybody
like because when I agree when when quarterbacks do stuff
like that and they do the fake like, that's not
cool because the rule is there to protect you and
if you get hit and you get hurt there, I
don't have a lot of sympathy for you. But this
was dark just trying to get to that. I mean,
all right, you hit him really hard. The guy was
going out of bound. Basically, he was at the out
of bounds and you hit him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But this is Rabel.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
This is how you say, we show our quarterback every week,
don't do this, don't get too cute on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But how many times do we see the half assed
slide of oh I'm about to get blown up, and
you do one of the like you do a young
Way coup slide just you know, like you never get
the full extension of what a slide's supposed to be.
And that gets flags like no, no, no, no no. I
was already going hitting him. I was gonna strike him
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square and the kid and now he's laying down haphazardly
in front of me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But look, Vrabel's got it. Right obviously that he understands
he tell it. Don't get too cute in the sideline.
I don't know why Jackson Dart even needs to be
told this. It's the old rule. I don't want to
go to the judges. I don't know why you even
need he even needs to be told that. Why he
would say stuff like oh yeah, yeah, this is how
I play. Go back and look at my tap again
doesn't mean it was right the right thing. You're lucky
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if that you sit here, you didn't take any hits
in college or high school that knocked you out and
and and forced you to miss time, or maybe you
don't make it all the way back from an injury
like you realize you're lucky with this man, understand this
is the NFL coach is gonna tell you this. Giants
got to sit him down this week and say, dude,
we're not gonna practice today. We're gonna sit here and
just talk about stuff. You don't have to go out there,
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you don't have to throw the football, doesn't matter. We
got to talk about some stuff. I got two weeks
because I gotta buy a week here. Week fourteen by
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
Jackson Dodd will have to get down and slide now.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Mary, we need the Bill Belichick version of this. Have
yourself a merry little Christmas. Oh, it is that time
of year.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We are getting to that time now I don't even
know who he had one.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh, you're kidding. It's the best. It's the best Christmas
song ever. Did Jordan give him clearance to sing the song?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
She said, we can't play it. Well, it's actually before
it's pre Jordan, So we're okay.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, but she's in charge.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, but I don't think she can come after welcome
to come sit in the studio down case, the same
age as she might beat me up.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Okay, well, baby, now if you start with how many
pye perview? Although do you see that they got pictures
of her this weekend pumping gas. I'm like, okay, she's
not at that. She's not at that Angelina Joe Lee,
George Clooney, Tiger Woods type of fame, where hey, here
she is pumping gat.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
No, no, no, come on, man, let's stop. Let's stop.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's only a fun story if it's in Jersey. So
our long national nightmare is now over. Lane Kiffin has
a new job introduced today. It's the next head coach
at LSU, a saga that's played out over the past
few weeks and hit its peak this past weekend. He
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wins the Egg Bowl he decides on Saturday to take
LSU's money. He is now the LSU head coach. And
first of all, before we get to something that people
haven't talked about, give you something different about this topic.
Everything that happened as this went on. This is not
the end of college football. This is not things have
to change. This is just incredibly on brand for Lane Kiffin. Okay,
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prickly on my way out the door. It's not smooth
while we're winning. It's nothing is ever smooth with Lane Kiffin. Right,
nothing is ever smooth.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You might as well take his speech or his statement
and add Shaggy's wasn't me. It's never smooth, right the
guy I of course he was gonna leave. He's got
happy feet. He can't stay coached somewhere more than a
couple of years. He's had six head coaching gigs since
two thousand and seven. That's once every three years. Like
Bill Parcells, I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Loving it here, but I gotta go, gotta go, gotta go,
gotta go. Right, nothing is it was out of the ordiny.
This is incredibly predictable. Of course he was gonna go.
He's been at Mississippi for a couple of years. I
gotta go someplace out. This was the reclamation project.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
This was the reinstallment, the re invigoration of his reputation,
his history, stability for double digit win seats, like all
of this, it restored that the wonder kind that he
was once upon a time. You remember he was a
Raiders coach, Nate the Great, He's night the Great height
think I.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Said, wonder kid, you know me, No, wonder kid. Well
with an end mon.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Uh, But everything went how you thought it would go, right,
Lane Kiffin tries to play the victim. I prayed on
this all night last night. Not the twelve million dollars
here getting from LSU, but I prayed on this.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I wanted to stay, but the evil ad didn't want
me to stay.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I had no choice but to go because Nick Saban told.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Me to go.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hey, uh, I don't think that's super cool that an
ESPN analyst is telling somebody where to go.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But all these guys, I Pete Carroll was the guy
that was like rats off of sinking ship, not they're
coming for us, right, Yeah, I'm going to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Nothing I could do. These guys told me how to
do it. I'll talk to Marty Smith before I get
on my plane and just to say, hey, I'm a
really good guy and why I feel bad about that.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
But then it was like he was in a confessional again.
I want you, said Thurlman behind him, eighty year old violinists.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Let's go hang.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I brought in my own violinists to play. Played that
really sad?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Uh that that that dirg you were playing before?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I want something like that. Uh yeah, play something something
from early Phantom of the Opera. Yeah, give me that,
or bring me that guy from Sinners he can play
behind me, come on. But everything was on brand for
Lane Kiffin, right the blame for him. Of course, the
ad is gonna say we don't want a guy that's
taking another job here. It's different than the UCLA situation,
(20:07):
where they're like, listen, we're okay, you're coaching in the playoff.
We're not a big rival. Well, you can leave James
Madison and come coach us after you're done. This is
I'm staying in the SEC. I'm going to a bigger school. No,
we don't want the playoff to be an infomercial for
Lane Kiffin. Hey, come to LSU with me. We don't
look at what he did here.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Look at all these players can't wait to see what
he does at LSU. Hey, that's what you saw on Saturday,
the chug at your heartstring.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Shouldn't they let him coach?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
None of that was everybody I know, like all the
biggest names, like you guys are shills. People you know
lost Eddy, that Jay got ripped from it. It's now ernalism.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
There's so many there's so many people to do a
great job covering college football, and some of the guys
that I really admire the most of the work they do,
it's embarrassing to have them go. This is the this
has to change. This happened to dude. College football has
no rules. Don't give me any bull crap like, oh,
this has to change. You don't do this. We got
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to change the times a coach can go. We got
to change the NL rules. There's no rules, there are
no rules. It's just this is what we're doing this year,
and then everything changed. Don't give me give me this
crap that all college football's got a change. There are
no rules for college well, and they change it to
where you don't have to sit out if you transfers anymore.
So like you've thrown all of this away. There are
(21:29):
zero rules in color. They don't tell me stuff needs
to change, there's no rules. Think of the children. So
none of this was crazy. You can make it out
to be crazy and everything. We've seen coaches leave like this.
We've seen coaches leave in a huff. We've seen coaches
a lot of it at least was above board. And
I love that. I love that we knew all about it,
And I love that Kiffin didn't shy away from it
and try to tell us lies like Nick Saban did. Guys,
(21:51):
I don't have to tell him not going to Alabama,
but he could in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Ran Jason, it was like, what three weeks ago we
were talking about it, and it's like he'd done it right. Yeah, everyone,
it's like he'd address it whatever. Then well I want
I mean, come on, dude, you're not gonna walk. Everybody's
gonna hate you.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Just own it and go.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Like, the one thing I could say is just own it.
I went to LSU, I have a better chance to win.
All the reasons that you were giving yourself why you
would go, just own it. People just want to see it.
Mississippi Ole miss is not gonna go I can't stand
like kiffan Oh, but he felt he had to go
and he prayed on it. I love Lane Kiffin. No,
no one is saying that, but to give you something
different on Lane Kiffin because I understand him leaving because
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Ole miss is not a perennial power. You don't know
how long that goodwill and that run is gonna go right?
How long is Kurtzignette's running Indiana gonna be right?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's not. It's not a power.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You don't suddenly turn a school into a power. You
can maybe do it for a few years, and look
what happens. Michigan State was a power for a while,
Mark D'Antoni was a coach. Looking happened. Now they're hiring
another guy to come in. Right, Michigan State has been terrible.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But I get leaving because I guess I want to
get someplace bigger, where I have a better chance to win,
where there's more money, there's a little bit more everything.
I understand that. I don't understand why LSU. I don't
understand why LSU is the job he took. Wouldn't I
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wouldn't even say go to Florida because he's at such
a high level. Now, he could have stayed at ole Miss.
They would have given him everything. They would give a
ten year contract, ten million dollars a year, would have
got everything. And the thing is, if he had two
or three bad years at Ole Miss, he's staying all right.
He is going to be employed at the place he
supposedly loves. There's no reason he had to leave. But again,
(23:38):
happy Feet, I want to make sure I get to
a better place. LSU is not a better place. LSU
is an absolute mess. You have the governor who's talking
about firing head coaches and paying guys out. LSU is
an absolute mess. They kicked Brian Kelly out after they
spent all kinds of money to get the guy from
Notre Dame. What did Brian Kelly do? He had nine
(23:59):
and three seasons, okay, and that wasn't enough and he's
out in three years. Do you think you're gonna get
more time to prove yourself. No, you're not, because apparently
LSU can print money, because they can pay out at OrderIn,
they can pay out Brian Kelly. And now they get
all this money for you. They have all kinds of
I don't know what rich alumni they had went to LSU.
But I want to look and see who's got all
this money to pay people out. There's the Air's one
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hundred million dollars. You're all good. You are not in
a position to succeed at LSU. They're going to expect
ten and two in a playoff, which is what you're
doing right now at All Miss. But they're gonna expect
that every year. You don't do that, in two years,
guess what, You're fired and somebody else is coming in
to coach a team. Kurt Signetti is coming in to
coach LSU when they decide for a buyout in two years.
You are not in a great place to succeed, and
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it's not a great job. Yes you have a couple
of national championships, but man, you saw the mess this
place is, and you saw what just happened to the
most recent coach. And you've seen your track record. Some
places you've won, some places you haven't. I know that
you think I can go here and win, but at
so such a high level, and you've made it work
from Jackson Dart to this season. When you thought, okay,
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well they lost Dart, you lost a guy that's a
high pick in the draft. There's gonna be there's gonna
be a drop off. No, you're still really good. You're recruited.
The good times are here for a couple of years.
This is where, if you're Lane Kiffin, you wait for
what is really the next great job, because LSU ain't it.
LSU is not the next great job now. Is there
a great job out there this year? No, but every year,
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every couple of years, there are great jobs that open up.
Right next year, if Michigan doesn't win next year, guess what,
Searon Moore is out and maybe Lane Kiffin's coaching Michigan
next year.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
If USC doesn't win next year, Lincoln Riley, maybe he's
out and you can be the triumphant guy going back
to USC. There are big jobs open that you can
go get that maybe aren't open right now, but you
will still be a hot enough candidate in a year
where you can go to a place where this is
a really good job. And this is a job that
I leave Ole Miss for. You left Ole Miss for
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a set of problems at lsuold. I know you think
you can recruit Brian Kelly's a pretty good coach. He's
been to a national championship. Look at the problems he had.
He couldn't keep he couldn't keep the number one recruit
in the country. They lost him to Michigan. Not like
they're like, oh, Brex Underwood, he's not very good, so
we're happy with that. But things aren't just gonna suddenly
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go great and you're not gonna be the pied piper
walking in and sudden we're gonna win big. You're in
a position to fail and you're gonna have less time
than Brian Kelly. So in two years when you're fired
and then you're trying to start your career again at
Florida International or someplace else small, don't say nobody told
you this was not the job to leave for. There
were jobs to leave for.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
This is not one of them. Yeah, it's one of
those you look at your timeline and maybe you're done.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right. It's with jobs, relationships, whatever. There's that line in
the sayan and the all right, I can do this
until I can't. Right, there's there's a philosophy I can
do anything for excellent. I can tell my daughters with
their their coursework, right. If there's one that a teacher
you're not particularly getting along with or a course that
you're not having the best time with. Either you're just
(27:02):
not enjoying the subject matter or you're not doing well.
It's like there's a finite time coaching wise, same thing
might have said, I ran, I ran, of course here,
this is as good as it's gonna get four double
digit win seasons in the last five and that you've
got a wandering eye. And that's who Lane Kiffen has
been and coming with that early success and kudos and
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entry to the NFL and everything else. It stands to reason,
right history his dad and that legacy. Remember he invoked
money as often as he could in this process at
the end as well. But you know, yeah, LSU is
rife with issues. I mean, great money, great traditions. How
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are we referring to death Valley? Are we putting it
in puney and positively or punny negative? Next year as
Lane Kiffin takes over. But you know one thing, he
definitely is gonna need to realize all the missteps that
Brian came because there's a lot of people that have
a liking problem with him and that they don't and
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that ultimately felled him, you know, losing the recruit I
mean Sean Moore, I mean he probably has like three
more years, right because he was the fall guy for
the Connor Stallion stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
He took all the suspensions.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
This year.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but but it was an awful game against Ohio
State this year. Yeah, they were due. You had last
number one, you have last country. Last year is the
game the year where I think from Michigan more than
this year losing Ohio State, because I get it. This year,
Ohio State was better across the board, and Michigan couldn't
get any pass rush and they couldn't cover their wide receivers.
You're not gonna win them any games. But to go
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through last year without a quarterback and not go to
the nil and get somebody for a team that had
seventeen first round picks, that's unforgivable. Lose here to Ohio
State at home. One more bad year, you lose to
Ohio State again. Yeah, that's a new sets. The coach
potential was there, right, But that's it. We're talking about potential,
and we do in the draft and we do this.
You know, when a new coach takes over, it's like,
(29:04):
well they might be good. We don't know yet, right,
We need to prove of concept.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Same thing here, Lane Kiffin, if he's got anxious happy feet,
and we don't know what else is swirling in the
background here right there's there's always more to the story
as and if maybe Marty Smith had him in for
another thirty five minutes on the tarmac, we could have
gotten to the to the bottom of it while the
violin guy played the next part of the concerto. But
the idea that that next job might be there potential
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versus you're looking at those and you like him, you
had an issue with whatever the Florida A D said
to you, And then LSU becomes the well it's open.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't know why LSU. I also don't know why.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Steve Disager is gonna tell us what's trending right now
in the wide world of sports, except I do.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
It's his job, Steve, O what he got?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I thought you're gonna say. I don't know why the
Giants are still in the league wow relegation. They are
zero and eight on the road, two in eleven. Overall,
they have lost seven straight and they were trailing at
New England thirty to seven at halftime tonight thirty three,
fifteen Patriots. The final young quarterback Jackson Start of New
York did start after missing time with a concussion. He
(30:14):
was seventeen of twenty four, passing only one hundred thirty
nine yards in a TD The Pats were four for
five on field goals. They won ten in a row.
They're eleven and two overall. Here just for twenty four hours,
they had been tied with Denver for best record in
the AFC. Temperatures were in the twenties for this one tonight.
Drake May had two touchdown passes two hundred eighty two yards.
(30:34):
By the way, no NFL team had to buy this
past week, but now this coming week four teams are off,
including New England and the Giants. Next up after the buye.
For the Patriots, they'll host Buffalo and then play at
Baltimore on a buy this coming weekend, San Francisco and Carolina.
The Lions play this Thursday, hosting Dallas and Detroit. Star
wide receiver aman Ross Saint Brown did not practice due
(30:56):
to a sprained ankle. Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens was
limited in practice today with calf and knee injuries. The
Vikings cut wide receiver Adam Thielen as he'd requested. Minnesota
quarterback JJ McCarthy is due to return from his concussion
this week. The team says he is symptom free, but
running back Aaron Jones is called day to day with
a shoulder injury. Bengals wide receiver T Higgins is still
(31:17):
in concussion protocol. Colts defensive back Sauce Gardner will miss
some time. He is called week to week with a
strained calf. Michigan State's new football coach is Pat Fitzgerald
X of Northwestern. UCLA's new coach will be Bob Chesney,
who will still coach James Madison this weekend. Kentucky fired
coach Mark Stoops, and BYU head coach Kilate Sataki is
(31:37):
purportedly a candidate for the Penn State job. The new
committee rankings come out Tuesday. College football selection Sunday is
this weekend. The Mets gave reliever Devin Williams a three
year deal. US women's soccer won its final exhibition of
the year two nothing over Italy and Fort Lauderdale. The
US beat him three nothing. On Friday. NHL wins for
San Jose six to three over Utah and Anaheim. Which
(31:59):
won four to one at Saint Louis. In women's hoops,
Yukon still number one. Texas up to number two after
beating UCLA, now number four, and beating number three ranks
South Carolina in men's college basketball. Perdue in Arizona are
still won two in the new polls. Michigan is up
to number three after dominant wins over Auburn and Gonzaga
last week. Villanova beat Temple on FS one tonight seventy
(32:22):
four fifty six. Golden State signed Seth Curry for the
rest of the season. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid will take tomorrow
off with the Soornee. The NBA Players of the Week
are in the East Jalen Brunson, New York. In the West,
the Lakers Luka doncic Luca with thirty eight points nine turnovers. Tonight,
the Lakers seven game winning streak ended with a home
loss to Phoenix one twenty five, one oh eight. Dallas
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was just six and fifteen, but got to win at
Denver one thirty one, one twenty one Anthony Davis thirty
two points. Utah and Miami each one at home. Orlando
and Brooklyn as well, Detroit and home edged Atlanta ninety
nine ninety eight. Pistons record now seventeen and four. Washington
was two and sixteen but got a home win against
Milwaukee one twenty nine, one twenty six, and Cleveland picked
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up forty three points from Donovan Mitchell in a victory
at Indiana one thirty five, one nineteen. The Pacers record
now four and seventeen. Back to you, Thank you, Steve Olle.
Coming up next, what team is thinking super Bowl? You
would never have thought they'd be thinking super Bowl at
this point.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Sure, Also final thoughts on Monday Night Football and something
unbelievably good I will say about Drake May.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
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