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what a game? Lane Kiff and kicking his own self
in the ass. And it looked like to me John
and o Jo they were really trying to get Georgia
this football game. Because they blatantly missed some calls that
could have we should not have had as interesting game.
But this is the way college intended it for to be,
not the Alabama game and not the previous game with
an Oregon and who do you know who?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But anyway, man, what a game.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Thirty nine thirty four of the Old Miss Rebels moves
on to the semifinals thanks to a thirty nine thirty
four victory over Georgia Trinidad Chambler's with sensational thirty or
forty six three sixty two two touchdown. Keewan Lacey had
twenty two cares ninety nine yards two touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Harrison Wallace the third nine.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Four a buck fifty six a touchdown, Dejon Stribbling seven
four buck twenty two. Man Ole Miss look good, they
look really really good. Thank you guys for joining us
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for joining us. As I mentioned, the number six old
Miss Rebels get their revenge Earlier this year, Johnny it
(04:13):
was a very exciting game. It was a forty three
to thirty five victory in Georgia's favor, this time around
thirty nine thirty four in Old miss favor. Trinidad. Chamblin's
had him a game of games. He probably should have
had more yards than that. He could have easily had
four hundred yards, had not all the drops that took
place in the first half, guys, and to drop at
the end of the game thanks to a big hit.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But when he needed to make it, he was making
some throws on the run.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Those are NFL throws that he was making, and they
win this ball game because he plays sensational Congratulations to
Pete Golden, Oh, Joe, Johnny. I don't know if y'all
know this, Dan Lanning, he was at Alabama. Crystal Bull
with at Alabama, Kurbis Mark without Alabama, Pete Golden with
at Alabama. You notice the theme, it's not an accident.
(04:59):
And the guy that said that Alabama got his ass
kicked and made Alabama everything did work for him for
the last two decades. He raced it.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Kaitlyn D. Boar with that performance.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Today, we're gonna get into that, but then we're gonna
start with you, what did you like about how was
Old Miss able to win this game? The coach leaves,
there's a lot of turn Moore, give these guys credit.
I will say this, the lane letting those offensive coaches
come back, and coach Charlie Whitse Junior is gonna be
a head coach within the next year.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Go ahead, Johnny, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Look, the first game they played earlier this year was
a great game back and forth. Georgia made the plays
in that game, and in this game, Old Miss made
the plays. Look, they gave Georgia a lot of opportunities
throughout the night, but when they needed to step up,
like the last drive with fifty four seconds left, whatever
it was, they stepped up. Champlers made an unbelievable throw
on a fade ball to get them in the field
(05:47):
goal position. And then you know, after the way this
game's played out, there was no way that kicker was missing.
That he was nails all night. And to be honest,
it shouldn't have even been that close, because they should
have got three points before half. To be honest, they
kind of gave that away a little bit. But look,
from the second that they walked out on the field today.
Old Miss, you can tell is playing for one another.
(06:09):
In that locker room. They're playing for their brothers. They're
not playing for Lane, they're not playing for any of that.
They're playing for themselves and they got something to prove.
So this is a really good Old Miss team. They've
cleaned up a lot of what they you know, they
were lacking a little bit throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I mean listen, looking at the first half of the game, huh.
I thought Georgia was gonna run away with the game. Obviously,
try to come out the first two series, they tried
to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That didn't work.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Old Miss got points within those first two series, and
then Georgia went back to what they do best, playing
ball in the trenches where the game is. When when
you looked at look at the game yesterday when Miami played,
how did Miami win the game? They won the game
up front, and the way Georgia played in that second
quarter going into the half, I was like, oh my goodness, listen,
(06:56):
they finna blow these young bulls out the water if
they just keep doing that. But listen, coming in the
second half. I'm not sure what adjustments Old Miss made
but they got damned Chamblis on well, some of the
throws he had to make in the second half, they
get a team back into the game. Even with the
drops that they had, the costs he dropped that they had,
they were still able to make enough plays to get
(07:17):
back into the game.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Brother Lacey had one hell of a game.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
If I'm not mistaken, he was on the show, correct.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, Now have you noticed what everybody that's come
on the show and it's gone back to play and
they respect the craft and they respect the sport. For
some reason, they've had unbelievable, unbelievable success. Hey, this is
one hell of a game. I goddamn old miss man.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
This was nice.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And like you did say, this is what Bowl games
were about, not what we saw earlier today. I'm not
gonna mention it. I'm gonna let I'm gonna wait till
we get to it. But this was a great game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, you look at this ball game. I mean, Trenidad
Chamblers had himself a day. I don't know if he's
eligible to come out, Johnny, you can speak more to that,
but his ability to throw the football in to run,
his ability to throw the ball from the.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Pocket, use his legs if he absolutely have to. But
he is absolutely a pocket passer.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He just happened to be athletic enough to get outside
and can throw the ball with pinpoint accuracy. As you
mentionedweyn Lacy, he put the ball on the ground early.
Georgia got a touchdown on a scoop and score. He
put the ball on the ground early. But I love
the way he run. He did something very and he
must have been listening. I say they blitzed. You saw
him step up. He stepped up, closed the distance, met
(08:28):
the guy. He's like, oh hell, my quarterback in trouble,
let me leak out. Caught the ball, went got a
first down. They were able to sustain that drive and
get a touchdown out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's smart heads. He plays like that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That the common person who might not notice, but when
you watched him steady of the game of football, you're like,
that's a football player.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's a football play that he made.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He realized I'm not gonna give this guy a running
start to let him sit me in my quarterback's lap.
I'm gonna close the distance. Oh damn, my quarterback's in trouble.
Georgia for about two and a half three quarters got
that defense. I'm like, well, damn are you? Are you
sure they got a level men on the field, ain't
no damn wearing hell. As soon as the guy catch
(09:08):
the ball, they owned him. They weren't missing any tackles
if they were swarming to the football. I hadn't seen
anything like that in a very long time. And then
all of a sudden, slowly but surely, old miss they
got Trinidad, he'll pass over the middle and the guy
spun up out of it. That was really the first
time I saw miss tackle. And from that point on,
(09:28):
they got rolling. And once they got rolling, and you know,
momentum is funny. It's funny. You see, they weren't doing nothing.
Then all of a sudden they got momentum, and then
Georgia couldn't stop them. And then the refs bell had
that PI O Joe, when that guy grabbed it, he
grabbed the dB helmet, turning head.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Damn there all already, he damned there pulled the t
Higgins on Jay.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Ram Oh yeah, oh yeah, I said, come on, and
they miss and they missed a face mask.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh lazy, how you missed that?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, Joe, I don't know. I don't I don't know
looking at it, I don't know if they can see it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did they think the man was beetlejuice?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Hey, I don't know what the ref was looking at.
I don't know what they was looking at. But they
missed some calls. Obviously, human era is inevitable, especially be
in a position like that.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
We have to see everything.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Uh, and you should see everything, especially those calls because
if we can see it sit here at home, I know,
damn where you can see it up close and perfect
exactly side.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You know, there were two plays on that last Georgia drive.
There was a PI down the left side that was yeah,
he walled him out a little bit to the sideline,
but like he just didn't get his head around. That
was a little ticky TACKI wishy washy kind of and
then they ran kind of a stutter go and he
was beat and he grabbed him and saved a touchdown.
So like a lot of great ball on both sides,
(10:48):
offense and defense from Old miss that are huge heads
up plays that allowed them to get you know, a
loss of three yards on first down when it was
from the six yard line. Made a great defensive play
on third down in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And then and then the fade ball on offense the
next time to the number two receiver on an inside fade.
I mean, yep, you get pressed, man. I mean anytime
I would ever see that in college. You're kind of
salivating at the mouth. If he stays over the top,
you can throw it back shoulder, and he beat him
over the right away. You got so much room you
can use the sideline. You don't have to worry about
him walling you off to the sideline or anything like that.
(11:22):
So man stones from the kicker. Unbelievable job by him.
Trinidad obviously, Lacy. I think there were some guys on
the defense who really stood out. But oh yeah, yeah,
yah yah yah yeah yeah. Gunner Stockton too. That guy's
as tough as nails. He took a shot early in
that game, took a bunch of shots. That was crazy.
That guy can play ball.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah. I when you give charloiie wife Junior a lot
of credit. Ojo. They threw that ball with thirty six seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now that ball is incomplete, it's fourth down and the
clock stops and Georgia has three timeouts. Three so for
him to put that ball up in the air and says, hey, champlers,
you brought us this far son, take us on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Home, bring us home. And I been damn if he
didn't pay. He dropped it in the bucket.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That if Johnny said that takes huge stones, that that's
a hell of a call by offensive coordinator that trusts
this quarterback. Know this quarterback is Dally. The only back
I need you to do, son, is catch it, because
he gonna put it in your basket. All I need
you to do is don't trip on your way to
the market. Is the eggs in the back, don't don't,
don't waste the profit, don't trip on the way to
(12:34):
the market. Boy, he dropped that faking and that's so pretty.
I thought he was gonna get away, but he's like,
you know what, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But Johnny, you mentioned something earlier that kicker fifty five
fifty six looked like.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It had been good from sixty five sixty six.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Then I say that, Now, don't come late in the game.
Now you dont hit need to astronomics out of the world,
out of galactic field goals. Now you're gonna come when
they when they really need it and shake a thirty
something y'all, because we've seen that so many times.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But I think you have to give Old Miss credit.
I don't think a.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Lot of people thought Old Miss could beat Georgia, considering
they had played earlier. But I was telling my sister
that I was like levit, I'm saying they played them earlier,
Georgia munt of the comeback, I say, but Old Miss
is not in awe of Georgia. They're not fearful of Georgia.
They know they can play them tough. And I always
liked being the team that lost the first time around
(13:24):
because I've getting an opportunity to make a lot of
wholesale changes.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
If you win, Oh Joe, why would I'm making changes?
I won? Yes, well I need to change. But this was, man,
this was a game.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
This This is what this is what it should be
in the college football playoff, Guys, I don't that what
we saw at the Rose Ball that what we saw
at the Peach Oregon in Texas Tech. That ain't That
ain't what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be too. Equally,
I don't know what happened those offenses to day from
those other those opposing teams. But man, I was really
(13:59):
really impressed with Old Miss. Oh look, I don't know
how many seniors they got. I don't know if Trinidad
Tramplers can come back, but they got.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
A team, man, a very good team, very good.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
They got a damn good team. What'd you think you,
Johnny Man?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm thinking the Old Miss is gonna be a really
hard out that next game they play. Obviously they play Miami.
Miami's playing great ball right now. I think if you
get that level of Carson Beck that you got yesterday,
if you can get that with their defense, they're gonna
be a really, really hard out. But this is gonna
be a really good game. You just don't know what
Carson Beck you're gonna get. He looked the other day
(14:39):
like a guy who's played thirty forty games, But then
you'll see him against A and M and you know
he'll make enough plays to get it done. But inconsistent
at times. But I still think he's a good quarterback
and this Old Miss team's going to be fired up.
I think that game is going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, Hey, I think that game is gonna be really
good as well.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Obviously, you know when we watched we watch the Hurricanes,
we understand they can do some of the things that
George was able to do. They can stifle the run,
they can get after your quarterback, they can make Champlers
uncomfortable back there.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
But obviously Champla's being somewhat of a dual threatened.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Being yeah, he got better legs than saying he.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Got some legs on him.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So they're going to have to be careful, especially when
they decided the blitz.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But obviously we saw them do something that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
They didn't have to do because they can get four
and four can get home when we didn't have to
do that. We didn't have to put our back, our back,
our back in and harm's way by having it, you know,
to bring extra help, you know, to get home to
the quarterback. So it's gonna be an interesting game to
see how that game plan works out and how things
go when the old Missus Miami played. But that's gonna
(15:44):
be one hell of a game. I have one question too. Yeah,
and Johnny, I'm not sure. I'm sure y'all probably know
where is that game gonna be held?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, Oregon, Yeah, that's the Fiesta Bowl. Okay, so that
Arizona and the other guy is then Peach Bowl is
in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Dan, that's a long ways away, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, Uh and the great neutralizer, it's a neutral sight. Yes,
ain't nobody got no home field?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How well do your face? How well do your fans
want to see you play a bowl game? Are you
guys gonna travel?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I think both these teams are gonna travel, like I
I agree. Yeah, I think they're gonna flock the Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Look here.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Your old miss Ain't no, but the Hosky. It's about
seven it's about six hour drive from from UH from Oxford, Mississippi, Yeah,
to to Atlanta. They're gonna flood. They're gonna boy No,
they're not there there in Phoenix, Damn Dan, Phoenix, Oregon
and what you call them goes to UH. Organ in
(16:46):
Indiana is in the Peach Bowl. Organ in Indiana in
the Peach Bowl. That's a long way for Oregon to
travel Indiana. Is it's not that far. I mean it's far,
but it's not as far as it is from Oregon
way over there to way over here. But I think
these are gonna be some They're gonna be some very
good games.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Organ and Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They're familiar with each other, same conference, Big Ten, they
know each other, very familiar with each other. Uh So
that's gonna be interesting. But I was very very impressed
with old mess because.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I was I was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I was worried at first, guys because they moving the
ball up and down the field and they kicking field goals.
I was like, bro y'all got to push this thing in.
Damn these field goals. And then they scored a touchdown
and they don't get the two point conversion. I was like, Oh,
but that's this was a game. This what this is
what I got. Nate fraise he got, he got nicked
(17:39):
in this game. Oh Joe, he ran the ball extremely
hard fifteen carres eighty six eighty six yards. Maybe they
should have leaned on the little running game a little
bit more, because once they kind of got that going
in the fourth, Yes, it kind of opened.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Up the passing game.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But cham Chambliss, his ability to get outside Oho and
throw the ball over the top, That's what was most
pressing for me tonight. I think that was really the
difference in the ball game. Georgia has outstanding speed at
all three levels. His ability to race them to a
point outside and still be able to throw the ball
with marksman accuracy over the top was extremely, extremely impressive
(18:16):
today and they won this ball game. Oh man, I
can imagine what it's like at Oxford. I know they
going crazy. They probably saying Lane, who who? We ain't missing?
We ain't missing. But unfortunately Charlie Weiss Junior is gonna
be gonna be taggered along with Lane the LSU. But
I will not be surprised. Within the next year Charlie
(18:37):
Weiss Junior gets a head coaching j'all because what he
did tonight, Yes, sir was masterful. Let's move on college
football playoff win. But Lane still get paid. He got
two fifty for the first game. Was he made for
this game?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The five hundred he still get paid on Joe, just like.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
He coaching young got understand that this is his product.
This is his product that he.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Didn't think he must didn't like it.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You said, sell itself, sell itself, which is why he
looked the way he looked today. Just because coaches last game.
You gotta understand that he's had these players all season long.
He's had them prepared and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, so it's gonna be it's gonna be very very
interesting to see. Boy, can you imagine if ol Miss
goes on and win the national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And Lane don't win one at l U.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Well, hold on you saying he don't get no rank.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hell now you're gonna get no rint.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
He's still getting the check, Ain't it?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
How much you want to bet he don't get a ring?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
How much you want to make a bety?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Does I bet you? I bet you?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I bet bet it?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Hold on, They wouldn't let advance staying coach, hold.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
On, let me, let me finish, let me go ahead.
Now you're gonna have to make some sense to me.
Come on, now, you're still getting checks for you're not
coaching the team that's in the playoffs. But you need
to tell me if they win a national championship, it's
okay to give you a checks, but you're not gonna
get a ring.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
What since that made a lot of sense? The checks
in the contract. Ain't no ring in the contract.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I guarantee you as players wouldn't give him a ring.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Hell no?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And and and he wanted to stay.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
They didn't want him to stay.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Right, Well, obviously, when you're taking another job. I don't
think they would want you to stay either. Now the players,
they might feel a little different administration.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nah, buddy, nah oh yo. I don't know if you've
been listening close enough, the players. The players ain't no
love loss that players did not want him to stay
in coach.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They don't understand the business yet, they'll get it. They
get they'll get They in college right now, they don't.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They do nunder stand if you love me so much,
why you leave it? It had a It happens all
the time, But I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I'm talking about here.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, there are a lot of kids get put up
for a doctor, but that ain't got nothing to do
with our situation right here, right now.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We're talking about me and you. I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, there are hardships, Yes, as some moms go through
things and they're not equipped.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I get all that, But what does that gotta do
with me?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yeah, you say a lot of kids get what.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, you ain't getting put up on a doction. But
it ain't got nothing to do with me. You you
said you didn't want me. Now when I have success,
you want some of the credit.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
That happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Ain't give you none of it. So we'll see how
this thing plays out. In there are routes, Oh Lord
thirty eight three in the Rows Bowl behind Heisman Trophy
winner Fernando Mendoza three touchdown in there and earns its
first Bowl game since nineteen ninety one. The Hoosia the
advance to face Oregon in the Summer Finals. Dimond Trophy
(22:00):
winner for Nando Mendoza threw four one hundred and ninety
two yards three touchdowns while the defense held Alabama to
one hundred and ninety three yards.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Man, Alabama ain't got no speed. I ain't know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Their defense looks so slow. The still everything on offense,
they was moving in mud. Indiana was flying. It was
also flying and take off.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What you see, man, This is kind of the same
Alabama team we've seen all year. I mean, at times
they've looked good, but they had to fight and claw
to win the Iron Bowl. They had times throughout the
season where they look terrible. This is still a team
that lost to Florida State to open the season. Just
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a very inconsistent team. I think Ty Simpson at times
throughout this year we've praised on this show. We praised
this play, we praised this poison at times making big throws.
That wasn't the same guy today. And you got to
give a lot of credit to Signetti the way he
has Indiana playing a lot of heart flying around the field.
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They're determined, they're focused. Obviously, Mendoza has to feel extremely
confident with the way that he's playing football right now.
You knock off Ohio State, you go and smack Alabama.
You're just looking at this situation like next up. They
almost seem to me like a little bit of team
of a fate of destiny to do something for them
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in their program that hasn't been done ever. And I
think everybody in that locker room is bought in. And
since the Penn State game, we really haven't seen them
slip up very much. You know, No, I think I've
made a lot of noise about was Mendoza deserving of
the Heisman? Was he the best player in the country
and all that. You put that to bed and put
that to rest, because you have the trophy now his
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is sitting in his room or in his house or
wherever it is. Now you go out and solidify it,
and you know how you solidify that running the table
and going under going undefeated and winning the national championship
and doing two things that have never really been done
in Indiana. On the football side.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, I agree. A Oho.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Signetti also was at Alabama.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, he was an assistant on the coach Saban so
both coaches that was in the old Miss Georgia game
with at Alabama. Uh, the University of Crystal Ball. He
was at Miami. Signetti, he was at my he was
at Alabama. Dan Lanning he at Alabama. Ain't an accident,
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It's not an accident.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh. What'd you see in this game? Ojo?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Alabama looked Alabama looked awful. Other than they looked awful.
What did you what did you see?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I mean, listen, the game was The game was one
upfront defense defense Indiana, They all over the place made
Ty Simpson uncomfortable all goddamn day long. I'm not sure
if Indiana's defense at offenses moving that fast or just
Alabama's offensive defensive players.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Were just that slow. Yeh see the skilled players.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
They weren't effective and almost to a point, it's like
it's Alabama.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Did they really belong here? Where they?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Did they really belong? In the playoffs. To begin with,
with the way they look tonight, I mean early earlier today. Obviously,
I understand Indiana hasn't lost all season long. They looked
really good all season long, and they played up the
part and letting put everybody else everybody else, I'll notice
that we are serious. What you saw last year from us,
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We are the real deal. What you saw from us
during the regular season, Yes, that is us, and we
can play with the best, and they proved today with
a thrashing of Alabama. It just it almost it was
a lopside of game on It was a lopside of
games to the point where it was like, why is
Alabama even out here again?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
With I agree, I can't recall. And I've been watching
Alabama a long time. I remember when coach Bryant actually
coached Alabama. So that's how far I've been watching Alabama.
And I told y'all earlier this year, I've never seen
an Alabama team look like this team.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They're big, they're slow, Yeah, they're slow. Alabama.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I mean their defense, there's nothing when there used to
be things that there are things that you could look at.
Alabama says, Okay, they're special. You look at the offensive line,
the defensive line they would used to be little with
first round pick special. You look at their wide receiver
groups special. You look at their dvs. Special, you look
at their linebacker special. You tell me one thing that's
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special about Alabama offense, defense.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Or special teams.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Tell me one thing, Chad that you guys have seen
all year long that says, Okay, that's a special player,
that's a special unit. Nothing, nothing jumps out at you.
Absolutely nothing. Boy, they got Alabama fans and alumni boosters
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problem saying that we show who took that job at Michigan.
Leave us the hell alone. Yeah, Dan, it was bad.
It was it was. It was bad. And I think
the thing is maybe, uh, people like, well, well man
them days. No, it's not that Alabama. Those days are
never over. Yeah, it's just like Michigan. It's just like
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Ohio State. There's still a standard. They're not gonna settle
because coach Stapan is not there or coach Bryant's not there.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, Johnny, And you know we talked about the standard
about Alabama having a standard. When when when when coach
coach Saban coast there? Well, obviously when Cole Saban coast
there n I L wasn't wasn't active. Everyone wanted to
go to Alabama. The the the players think about all
the receivers at one point they will receiving university on
They filtered one after the other. The running backs filter
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one after the other. Having one of the best defenses.
They all filtered one after another going into the draft,
so everybody wanted to go there. Now with n I
L is even the playing field, so all the players
are going all over the place.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So now everybody, everybody is good.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Everybody getting those five star, four star players now, so
now coaching comes into play even that much more because
you're not getting the best of the best.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Now makes it lot easier.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
When you got the best receivers, you got the best dline,
you're getting the best defensive backs, and you're getting the
best safeties. Now you're not, and they're going all over
the place. Every team is sprinkled in some five stars.
So now other factors come into play when it comes
time to playing and competing.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I guess you looked at Ohio State when they had
the Bolsa brothers, when they had Chase Young and they
had all those guys. It wasn't no, nil, when they
had Zeke Elliott, when they had Vernon, when they had
Vernon Doster and Denzel Ward. It wasn't when they had
Denzel Ward. And what's the one that got He went
to U. He went to Detroit, the dbend Harry and Arnold. No, no, no, no,
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he was Ohio State. Okudah, Yeah, there.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Wasn't no n I L.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So don't pretend like Alabama's the only win getting them
damn stuck playoffs. Ohio State was getting them because remember
they went defensive playing Rookie of the year, Defensive rookie
of the year, defensive rookie of the year. Let me
take you They with with Joey, with Joey Bosa, they
with with Chase Young, they were with Nick Bosa.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Okay, let me tell you some. Let me tell you some.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I think it was inn I L back then too, ha, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He went into the front door going to the back door.
This time they just walked through the front door. That's
the only different all right.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You said it before I can get it out. You
said it.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Oh, that's the only difference, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, it adds for all that's wrong in n I L.
Right now, and people are frustrated about it, and there
needs to be a lot of changes. The one thing
that it has done is create parody and different teams
getting into the playoffs absolutely what we wanted. We were
tired of seeing the same teams in every year, the
same national championships, same matchups.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So Georgia Alabama, George Alabama.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Clemson Alabama, you know, same thing. So it has added
to where the talent pool is definitely spread out. Now
do the players have too much power now to do
whatever they want? And I saw I think Sark saying
this the other day is like, we're dealing with kids
who are leaving, you know, before the bowl game or whatever,
and we go and talk to their agent, and their
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agent may be their roommate sitting down on the couch
with a so like, you don't know what's going on.
There definitely needs to be some changes, and it's gonna
take it's going to take a guy like Nick Saban
to come in and oversee a committee and they're going
to have to find some rules on how to do it.
And it's going to take somebody really powerful like that
to make the changes that are necessary. John Calipari went
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on a seven minute rant the other day after the game,
and it was all time for what he's dealing with
on the college basketball side. And I will say this
as well. I can't believe I'm going to say it,
but even though Notre Dame's taking their ball and going
home and running off, they would have put up a
better fight today than Alabama for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, you gotta do is to get in the carvers
and play somebody. That's very true. You just gotta play somebody.
And I think that with the nil, they just goes
to show you you can get good in the hurry. Now,
it's not so much the nil because but you gotta
spend the money on the right places. It's all about location, location, location.
Just because you open up a restaurant, it can be
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great food, but if it's not in the middle of nowhere,
ain't nobody traveling way way out there. You gotta have
you know, you won't foot traffic. You want be Oh,
let's try this place. You get the right. You see
what happened with Texas Tech. You gotta have a quarterback.
They got Mendoza, Indiana got Mendoza. Yeah, uh, old miss
got Chamblets.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
M h.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh Miami got got back.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mm hmm, yeh uh did in the Oregon's god transferred
to I think so, I think Oregon's got a transfer also.
But you can get good in a hurry. Yes, if
you get the right people. Is everybody think what hey,
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he transfers from UCLA, so you see yeah quick?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I mean, look, what do you think Lane Kiffin's gonna
do next year when he gets to l s U.
You think he's not going to poach your quarterback from somewhere?
First and foremost guarantee you what he's doing right now?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You know, Johnny, it's about to They're about to do
away with springball because all guys are doing the spring
ball is getting the tape, cutting it up and sitting
it out. Say okay, what you got for me? Pretty
soon it ain't gonna be no spring ball like you
and I had to spring that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Hey, I see you come somewhere. Do worry aboudy.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's where you make a lot of your development though,
I mean, that's where you grow a lot as a
football player. Is that time from January to May? Those
are some of your biggest games and the way your
and your technique and what you do. I know for me,
you know, from first year to second year, I have
my biggest growth from that offseason and spring ball and
getting more comfortable in the offense and more camaraderie with
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your guys. So you know, I think it just takes you, know,
your development back a little bit because you're playing the business.
And that's what you changed so much about college football
is that you better go get this bread because you're
not guaranteed it at the next level. So you may
as well stick around in college for as long as
you can get your mag up, get a good financial advisor,
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and save your chicken for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
But he left to thing, Johnny, you see how you
made you? Say you made you from February to May,
somebody else would have came and said, oh, he did
make some development. We got three million dollars for him
and then bye bye, Johnny feat. So that's why that's
why they do it away with springball. Could I agree
with you? I got so much better from that time.
I got an opportunity to hit the waves and got
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an opportunity to really work on what I needed to
work on. O Joe, getting out there every day competing,
and I could feel like, man, I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Getting better and getting better and getting better.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
But you get these guys ot Joe, they getting better
and better, and they say, well, you know, get me
a little cut up and they send their practice tape off.
Oh that kid work said, Oh, hes gonna start for us.
That's say them fifty, that's a million dollars. They already
talking about top quarterback going for three and a half
to five million.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh Joe, a nineteen year old twenty yard three and
a half.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The five absolutely, And when you think about it too,
ay Johnny, the fact that these these quarterbacks that they're
not proven to a point where they're gonna come to
your program and make that much of a significant difference,
and they getting that kind of money. So the pressures
on the pressures on them once they get the money.
And oh I'm a four star, I'm a five star
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based on where you come from, based on what you
did in high school, and you come to these huge
entities in organizations and they put all that pressure on you.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Hell, we paying you that kind of money. You got
to come and make a difference right away.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
To look at Curson back, look at Carson back for example.
Not to mention just the money that you're making right,
he's in Florida. He's not paying state income tax. He's
seeing a lot of that bread. On top of that,
there ain't no way he's paying for a car. And
I see him in the cluster live. He ain't paying
for no bottles. He going out for free everything else
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you're walking in. Alumni sees you at dinner. I went
to dinner with Diego Pavia this year. I looked at
it was like a fifteen h two thousand dollars bill.
He ain't paid none of that. So the perks you're getting,
on top of the money you're getting, if you're really
smart about it, you can leave college if you're a
guy like that, after three years you can have twelve
fourteen million dollars cash all day.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
That's what you need to have happen guys, And I
don't begrudge the guys the only thing. And if you
look at it, not Johnny Ocho teams are really not
going after the high school guys.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Like they once did.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They want a guy that's already established, already knows the
college routine. He knows he has study hall, he knows
he has you know, weightlifting and things of that nature.
So he's already abreast of the college experience as opposed
to getting somebody in that doesn't really understand college. You
hope they figure it out. They're mature enough. But let
me get somebody that's already gone through this. Even a
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three to five million dollars, the top receiver gonna go
to one problemly somewhere between seven and fifty and two
million dollars, maybe even three million. Yeah, man, hey, I
ain't got no problem with it, but the problem but
you see what's gonna happen on Joe. It's just kind
of a very similar situation to like.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
The Georgia kid. Ye got the money and then left.
Georgia is suing him.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yes, when it comes to that situation, Uncle and Johnny,
with Georgia suing him for actually leaving because he got
the money to decide to leave. Who's gonna win that.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We don't know. That's why they go in the court.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Somebody will set a precedent for it, and it'll kind
of go off of that. Yes, and for but let's
listen to this. For single sport recordings, more than thirty
three hundred plus college football players that entered in the
portal by day two of the twenty twenty five window
that kills high school kids, kills these guys who were
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the guys like me, really the three star guys who
were Man, I waited a long time to get my
Texas A offer. I had to wait for a lot
of people to turn that down. I would have never
got that offer living in this day and age. I
would have been going to Rice or Sam Houston.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It plagued one year there and then guess what did
it came back and dumped the bag and your lapping.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You'd have been in Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, and then I would have been somewhere else the
next year and then somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's like one of these these smart kids, one of
these computer analysts, one of these coders, and things like that,
and my tea graduates. Apple, you got Apple, you got Microsoft,
you got all these companies.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What you got for you?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's crazy to see. I went to the Texas Texas
A and M game this year and I was around
a lot of you know, our bigger boosters, and we're
sitting there talking a little bit, like during halftime, and
they're telling me, like, yo, watching our season develop with
how much money we've invested into this team. They're like,
we're a nervous wreck watching these games. Like they have
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a lot of their money on the line on these
guys every single week, every single year. This isn't a
couple million dollars we're talking about. This is tens of
millions of dollars that one individual at one school can have.
And unless you're sitting in that five ten twenty billion
dollar range like somebody like at Michigan, you know, you've
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got to look back, Michigan, we're.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Worth billion. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
He that doesn't even make him flinch. But you got
guys that maybe got about five six hundred million, and
you're dumping about forty fifty sixty one hundred, and that's
a different that's a different level of nervous. So, you know,
it is it is crazy, you know, the world that
we live in. I mean sometimes it goes good Miami
Carson back situation, that's the reason they're allowed to be
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in this round of the playoffs. And then you have
a situation where you're Bryce Underwood and you get smoked
by twenty points in your bowl game against you know, Texas,
and I think he'll be good. I think if they
give him time to develop, he'll he'll be Okay. That's
a lot of pressure what you have on you right
away with the kind of money that you're getting. And
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they gave him a crazy deal coming out of high.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
School with twelve million dollars. What twelve million dollars to
thirteen million dollars for four years. And I think when
you look at this, this thirty five point defeat is
the most lopsided postseason Alabama lost in history, which was
previously a thirty two point loss Nebraska in the nineteen
seventy two Orange Bowl.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That's when they have many things.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's considered the greatest football team with the Heisman Trophy
win of Johnny Rogers.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
This is crazy. I mean, this is like what Alabama
did to Notre Dame in the National Championship in twenty twelve.
This turnaround, they got smacked the same way that they
beat them down like this was. This was my first
thing that I said to everybody is listen, you can
put another coach in there, but Alabama will never be
what they were without the main guy, Nick Saban, running
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that program the way he did. It'll never be the same.
I don't care. If you have a million disciples that
Nick Saban come through there, they will never be him.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It's gotta be somebody. That's if you look at coach Saban.
Coach Saban had coached in the SEC. He was like LSU.
He won a national championship with LSU. So Kaylin Damore
has no idea.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I get it. He won wherever he was. But Washington
is a different brand of football in that Alabama. Every
place ain't Alabama in the SEC. So you need Kirby
smart knows what it's like. He knows what it needs
at Georgia because he was under saving Lane Kiffin, Pete Golden.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
They know what they need right.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
And you look at Crystabal, look at the type of
guy that he gets signatty. You have to understand what wins.
But I need to see it up close and personal.
Ojo when you see, because I'm a visual learner. You
hear Crystal Balue talking. He say, hey, masks something. He
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said like masks wins. You gotta get them. Yes, Alabama,
Alabama looks ordinary, they look routine. If I took if
I took that Crimson away right and just putting them
out there, You're.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Like, what the hell is that? What division? What DJW,
what what FCS team is that?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's Alabama, ma'am. Not that slow, not that there's nothing.
There's nothing special about Alabama.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, nothing pops out on film, Johnny, And nothing pops
on out on film like most Alabama teams that we
used to see in offensively, the receivers, offensively, the quarterbacks.
Most of the time it's been a running back.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
I don't think they've had a running back come out
of there since you Gibbs. That just popped out on film, Like,
you know what, we're watching Alabama. You gotta watch out
for this kid here. Defensively, the D line, there's always
a good d tackle, there's always a good end that
can get out to your quarterback. They've always had a
very very good safety or very very good corner at
some point. Right now, ye don't, I don't. I don't
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see nothing that they exemplifies the Alabama that we're used
to watching, especially after that God damn.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Out in the day.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
I still got faith in y Williams, Marrison. I still
got faith in Ryan Williams.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
If this is a they've had a couple of tough
catchers today. But you know, they don't have no Quinn Williams.
They don't have no Deryan Paines. They don't have no
Jonathan Allen's. They don't have no bar Moares. They don't
have that. There ain't no passer Tains.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
No, no, no, no, no there there There aren't any coups.
There aren't any Ridleys. There are no Julios, there are
no Davonte Smith. There's no Rugs. There's no uh uh
Jalen Waddles. There aren't any of them mo jokes. They're
not for that. No Mendoza season in Indiana, first ever
number one ranking, first Big Ten titles since nineteen sixty seven,
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first undefeated season in eighty season, first who's you to
win the Davy O'Brien Award, first Indiana Heisman Trophy winner,
and now the first ever playoff college victory. Mendoza, he
ain't gonna ever have to pay for nothing in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
He whatever, he ain't gonna ever have.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
He's Herschel He's what you know what he's gonna be
where Herschel Walker was to Georgia when Georgia won the
national championship. And then look now they did have a
I think it was Frank Sinkowitch won the Heisman before
before Herschel. But Herschel is a Stethson Bennett the same way.
Stepson Bennett is the second most famous player in Georgia
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football history. And we know there have been some great players,
it's Herschel Stenson bending on my rush.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Now you can add whoever else you want to. You
want Matthew Stafford, you want Champ Bailey, whoever you want,
but those two were definitely going up there.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, Johnny, is you just like when you go to
College station, you walk in the convenience store and come
out with a bag. It ain't got no money in
your pockets. Yeah, it's the same way with Mendoza in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Man, Honestly, I was blown away by Mendoza just being
around him. I'd never I'd talked to him a little
bit on Instagram throughout this year, but it never really
spent much time around him in person. I know everybody's
got their opinion of him, but for me, I walked
into the Heisman thinking one way and just spending time
around him, his brother, his family. Man, I was blown
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away with the way he carries himself with how he is.
He's a very you know, football loving, focused, you know, determined,
solid individual. Like that's all I got to say about Mendoza.
The kid h has been impressive in every interview that
he's done. He may not be everybody's cup of tea,
but if you're looking at it in the way that
you know guys who love the game and their joy,
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enjoy football and being out there, I mean, he's uh,
he's one of those dudes for sure, and he's putting
on I mean, this resume and what he's done this
year is it's solid. I mean, what else can you
say about it? It is balling.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
I think the figure of Johnny when you look at him,
he doesn't have the biggest arm, he doesn't have Cam
Newton size, he doesn't have your or Lamar Jackson elusiveness.
It's like you just look at him, You're like, he
wouldn't Hoddan with those stats, Like, but when you watch
him play, oh yeah, you watch his ball placement, yes.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
Sir, like be damn yeah. And you know, Uncle Johnny,
it's a lot of people like that that when you
look at him, you don't see the intangibles. There's certain
things that you can measure. You know, it's not about
they're not They don't run fast. You know, they don't
have the strongest arm. He might have the size and
looks like a Josh Allen, but doesn't have the arm strength,
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you know, or he doesn't have the dual thread of
the legs of a Josh Allen, even though he has
somewhat close to almost like the build of him. But
then when it comes time you turn on the film
and it's time to play.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Football, he's ready for that.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Oh, he's ready for that. Oh, he's definitely ready for that.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Oregon swarm Texas Tech from the start to finish in
the Orange Bowl and won twenty three nothing, forcing for
forcing for turnovers while racking up four sacks seven tackles
for losses. The first game and the shutout in school's
history since the nineteen seventeen Rose Bowl against pen The
Ducks had the Red Raiders to a season low and
passing yards to fifteen, rushing yards seventy eight, first downs
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nine and the first shutout of an AP Top five
opponent since twenty eighteen. Texas Tech also had one of
the top teams in the nation and turnover margin coming
in with a plus minus seventeen, but finished the game
minus three.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Look, I understand that the Texas take didn't score, but
I'm right now, I think Alabama actually looked worse than Texas.
Look worse than Texas take. Johnny, what happened to Texas take.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
They didn't put their best player on the field on offense.
He stayed on defense the whole day. That was their
only chance for them to get a score today. Is
put that linebacker at running back or something like they
did earlier in the year.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
I mean, look, I will say this, over the last
couple of days of these games, of these playoff games,
there's been some unbelievable hitting going on on the defensive
side of the ball, Swarming, popping people. I've had the
volume up on the TV and I'm like, ooh, damn,
they're smacking folks out here. And I think Oregon set
the tone early on. Kind of a slow start for
(47:53):
them offensively, but they played really sound defense. Turnovers. I
mean the turnover in the end zone, the guy caught
the ball like he was so surprised the quarterback even
threw it. I mean, if you're a Texas tech and
you're going to drive the ball down to the eight
yard line, and that's how your drive is gonna end.
It's just it's just a recipe for disaster. And they
gave Oregon so many chances. Oregon played really sound on
(48:17):
the defensive side of the ball. I think all the
way around, Oregon was just a better team than Texas Tech.
I think Texas Tech is going to be back in
this situation again because of what their conference is, because
of what they're putting in the nil, because of their coach,
their ad. They have good pieces in place, so they'll
be back. But Oregon looked like a Dan Lannying Oregon
(48:40):
team that was prepared, well coached. Offense, they made enough plays,
quarterback made enough plays, and they just swarmed Texas Tech
from start to finish.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
But some of those interceptions, I'm like, bro, yeah, where are.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
You throwing.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
You?
Speaker 2 (49:00):
You thought that was gonna be completed? You really thought that.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
The fad was bad? That was that was double covered
on your throne. That wasn't I would close.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Dante Moore twenty six and thirty three, two thirty four,
zero touchdowns, one interception. They ran the ball, They ran
them off forty seven times. For sixty seven yards. They
had a little they had three hundred yards, three hundred
nine yards, three hundred and nine yards, and they pissed
the shutout.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
I mean that has to change next week for them.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Absolutely, Oh yeah, what if they played like that, if
they played like they played against Texas Tech, Indiano beat
them like they beat like they beat Alabama Alabama?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
Absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
I mean, you know, I've watched them the last as
it got closer to the end, I started watching Indiana obviously.
I watched them in the Big Ten Championship. They got
SEC speed. Well let me take that back. They got
it Georgia speed, not Alabama speed. Their defense was flying.
I was like, damn, I thought Texas Tech was supposed
(50:11):
to be pretty good, and.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
You know, I was like with damn, Yeah, they weren't
it today. You know, I think you look at Texas
Tech season, they had you know, wins where they had
to go out and get it. I think the Big
twelve title game versus BYU. But I mean they really
didn't play too tough of a schedule this year for
being honest, like a Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Kent Oregon State,
(50:38):
they played Utah, Houston, Kansas, Arizona State. They lose in
Oklahoma State, Kansas State by U u CF, Like, what
are we talking about? That ain't like a run of
the gauntlet, like they really And I think BYU was
a decent team and obviously one that almost got into
the playoffs, but you know, not a great schedule from
(51:00):
them this year, and when they finally got tested in
a real game, you know they got they just got beat,
you know, from start to face or I.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Think you know what it looked like to me, Johnny,
it looked like like the coach they call the game
plans like, look, if they don't get pick six or
scooping scores, they can't beat us.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah's battle by four too, You're gonna lose the turn
of a battle by three. Your your chances of winning
that game already go down astronomically. So you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
So there was like, Nah, we don't need to do
we don't need to do anything special. We don't need
to try to do anything out of the ordinary, because
this team can't move the ball consistently and unless we
unless something unforeseen, they block a kick, they get a
scoop and score, they get a pick six. They can't
because think about it, Oregon ran the ball forty seven
times for sixty seven yards.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
That's not even two yards of carry. That's one and
a half yard to carry.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Hey, And at some point you have to abandon things
that aren't working. At some point, you have to bandon
things that aren't working and make it justs end game
and go to something else.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
Well, organ didn't have to go to anything else because
Texas Tech couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (52:09):
Texas Tech could, but you're not gonna be able to
pull that shit off against goddamn Indiana.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Definitely to happen.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
Absolutely not, Joddy, we gonna get you out of here
on this one. Teams that make the college football Playoffs
semifinals earn fourteen million dollars for their conference. The ACC
is giving the entire fourteen million to Miami, per Front
Office Sports, Johny, what do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (52:32):
I mean, I think it's great for Miami, obviously. I
think something happened at the end of the season where
they the ACC kind of maybe trash Miami or something
a little bit. So maybe this is them giving them
their little lick back, being like, Yo, we apologize, Let's
keep everything keep everything smooth. But listen that that team,
Miami is popping up the whole conference right now for them. Yes,
(52:54):
they're putting on for the whole conference. They're making that
whole conference look good. So I think it's awesome, what
a great gesture. I mean, I don't really know what
fourteen million dollars does for a school anymore at this point,
but you know, yeah, they'll probably grab a couple of
players for him a little bit, you know, a handful
of players. But look, Miami's Miami's rolling. I'm excited about.
(53:16):
You know, obviously the matchup that they have next Ole
miss that's going to be an unbelievable game. Yeah, going
back to the you know Indiana Oregon thing. You know,
they've already played each other. Indiana wins by ten. But
like we were saying earlier, it's really hard to go
and beat a team twice. And in that game, Oregon
only rushed for two point seven yards of carrying that game,
(53:37):
so they didn't really run it very well on them. Again,
I just think Indiana is a different beast. They're a
different outlier. They're a team that's going to be well prepared, yeah,
and ready to you know, correct on the mistakes that
they had the first time. Oregon's going to have to
play their best game to beat them and Indiana, can
you know they can still win that game with making
(53:57):
some mistakes. I feel like and then man in the
Miami side, Bain is an unbelievable player on the defensive end.
You know, I know, crazy his seen guys like that
throughout the SEC. But he is a special, special talent
one that is for sure gonna wreak havoc in that
(54:18):
game cause a lot of problems. Listen, I can't believe
saying through that bubble the other day and they just
pick it take it to the house like they're you
want to.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Talk about the block that didn't happen? What happened?
Speaker 5 (54:31):
O Joe?
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Oh you got you got?
Speaker 4 (54:34):
You got initiate contact right away?
Speaker 2 (54:36):
Who didn't initiate contact? Ojo?
Speaker 4 (54:39):
REI no?
Speaker 2 (54:40):
No to receive? What number was the receiver? Where is
he from?
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Ojo?
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Because you might think from dain't counting. I've been watching
that kids. He's the high school. That was Jeremiah Okay,
it was Jeremiah Smith, not Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
I know you heard that song.
Speaker 4 (54:57):
Hey, you know you know it's funny too, unk is God, damn,
what's what's young boy? What's young boy named? That intercept
that ball? I can't remember his last name? Yeah, Delaney, Hey,
he played and he played it so perfect. Unk he was.
He was inching himself inside, looking at the ball, waiting
(55:18):
on the snap.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Let him go inside on, Joe. You gotta make him bubble, yeah, yeah,
you you.
Speaker 4 (55:23):
You gotta make him.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Johnny what you always teach him, Make him go.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
Over the The motion messed him up a little bit. He
was looking at the motion a little bit, and he's
got to keep his eyes on that receiver and his
first steps gotta be inside. It took almost like a
false step.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
And.
Speaker 4 (55:43):
It was it was too late.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
It was too late.
Speaker 4 (55:45):
That that's what you call film study on That's what
you call when you when you watch Sam it's played football.
When you watch every play football and you and you
and you're trying to figure out how the hell they
knew it was coming. That's watching film and knowing based
on the alignment, based on what you're doing, based on formation. Okay,
I saw this on film. This is what's coming. That's
the only way you make a playlist.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Sure you gotta trust it though, ojo. We see a
lot of time guys they don't trust himself. They know
it coming and they get there and they just no, no, no,
he trusted, like you said his film study, I trust this,
yess what if it ain't this.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
If they throw the scenemen behind me.
Speaker 3 (56:23):
That got me time to run the pump, run the pump,
running him out the scene.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Oh man, what run run Jeremiah Smith on the scene.
Now we got hey, We got him dead to write.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
And do the thing.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
But on that route, you got to make that guy
because if you let him go underneath, there's no one there.
He's got a free shot and he hit it on
the run, o Joe. He timed it perfect. He trying
to snap count what you call him, took the false step,
he stepped upundon himself because he was kind of looking.
That's where you just tell him, son, if you just
get a pass of the Farens call.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
We'll take that. But you cannot let this guy inside.
Speaker 1 (56:59):
You cannot let did him get a running start, because
if he can catch it, look and he caught.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
If you look at the way he caught it, he
caught that like that for me, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
Yeah, yeah, him. Yeah, it took him a while to
spend it in his hand. When Sam caught it, he
didn't catch it clean. It took him a while to
get the laces and on that. You gotta get that
ball out. It's right away to the field. It's already
to the wide side of the field. It's already. You
got a motion out there. It's a deeper throw. It's
(57:29):
not an inside bubble. You gotta however, and we used
to work to get it all the time.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Sometimes you just gotta throw it, damn the scenes. You
just gotta catch it and throw it.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Gotta get it out no matter what.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
All right, guys, thank you Johnny for joining us. Make
sure you go subscribe to Johnny's YouTube page and his
podcast called Glory Days. Johnny, thanks for having you. Thanks
for coming back. Man.
Speaker 2 (57:50):
Look forward to see you next week with these semifinal games.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
I appreciate you boys. I really need seeing one of
those weeks. You know, obviously everything that transpired, you know,
got a chance to talk to McAfee everybody on game day,
say my piece on what really happened for the people
who were really concerned about me being sick. You know,
it looks one way, but in reality it's another. It
was a tough Christmas for the Manziell family with the sickness. Man,
(58:15):
I'm happy to be back you guys. Put a smile
on my face. Is exactly what I needed for my
life right now. So happy at the holidays. I hope
you guys had a great one. Great twenty twenty six
and let's go out with a bang this year, much
loved boys.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Appreciate it all right, I appreciate you, Johnny Man, how
will go with Mas?
Speaker 1 (58:29):
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Thirty nine thirty four of the Old Miss Rebels moves
on to the semifinals thanks to a thirty nine thirty
four victory over Georgia Trinidad Chambler's with sensational thirty or
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Miss Rebels get their revenge Earlier this year, Johnny it
(04:13):
was a very exciting game. It was a forty three
to thirty five victory in Georgia's favor, this time around
thirty nine thirty four in Old miss favor. Trinidad. Chamblin's
had him a game of games. He probably should have
had more yards than that. He could have easily had
four hundred yards, had not all the drops that took
place in the first half, guys, and to drop at
the end of the game thanks to a big hit.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But when he needed to make it, he was making
some throws on the run.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Those are NFL throws that he was making, and they
win this ball game because he plays sensational Congratulations to
Pete Golden, Oh, Joe, Johnny. I don't know if y'all
know this, Dan Lanning, he was at Alabama. Crystal Bull
with at Alabama, Kurbis Mark without Alabama, Pete Golden with
at Alabama. You notice the theme, it's not an accident.
(04:59):
And the guy that said that Alabama got his ass
kicked and made Alabama everything did work for him for
the last two decades. He raced it.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Kaitlyn D. Boar with that performance.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Today, we're gonna get into that, but then we're gonna
start with you, what did you like about how was
Old Miss able to win this game? The coach leaves,
there's a lot of turn Moore, give these guys credit.
I will say this, the lane letting those offensive coaches
come back, and coach Charlie Whitse Junior is gonna be
a head coach within the next year.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Go ahead, Johnny, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Look, the first game they played earlier this year was
a great game back and forth. Georgia made the plays
in that game, and in this game, Old Miss made
the plays. Look, they gave Georgia a lot of opportunities
throughout the night, but when they needed to step up,
like the last drive with fifty four seconds left, whatever
it was, they stepped up. Champlers made an unbelievable throw
on a fade ball to get them in the field
(05:47):
goal position. And then you know, after the way this
game's played out, there was no way that kicker was missing.
That he was nails all night. And to be honest,
it shouldn't have even been that close, because they should
have got three points before half. To be honest, they
kind of gave that away a little bit. But look,
from the second that they walked out on the field today.
Old Miss, you can tell is playing for one another.
(06:09):
In that locker room. They're playing for their brothers. They're
not playing for Lane, they're not playing for any of that.
They're playing for themselves and they got something to prove.
So this is a really good Old Miss team. They've
cleaned up a lot of what they you know, they
were lacking a little bit throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I mean listen, looking at the first half of the game, huh.
I thought Georgia was gonna run away with the game. Obviously,
try to come out the first two series, they tried
to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That didn't work.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Old Miss got points within those first two series, and
then Georgia went back to what they do best, playing
ball in the trenches where the game is. When when
you looked at look at the game yesterday when Miami played,
how did Miami win the game? They won the game
up front, and the way Georgia played in that second
quarter going into the half, I was like, oh my goodness, listen,
(06:56):
they finna blow these young bulls out the water if
they just keep doing that. But listen, coming in the
second half. I'm not sure what adjustments Old Miss made
but they got damned Chamblis on well, some of the
throws he had to make in the second half, they
get a team back into the game. Even with the
drops that they had, the costs he dropped that they had,
they were still able to make enough plays to get
(07:17):
back into the game.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Brother Lacey had one hell of a game.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
If I'm not mistaken, he was on the show, correct.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, Now have you noticed what everybody that's come
on the show and it's gone back to play and
they respect the craft and they respect the sport. For
some reason, they've had unbelievable, unbelievable success. Hey, this is
one hell of a game. I goddamn old miss man.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
This was nice.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And like you did say, this is what Bowl games
were about, not what we saw earlier today. I'm not
gonna mention it. I'm gonna let I'm gonna wait till
we get to it. But this was a great game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, you look at this ball game. I mean, Trenidad
Chamblers had himself a day. I don't know if he's
eligible to come out, Johnny, you can speak more to that,
but his ability to throw the football in to run,
his ability to throw the ball from the.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Pocket, use his legs if he absolutely have to. But
he is absolutely a pocket passer.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He just happened to be athletic enough to get outside
and can throw the ball with pinpoint accuracy. As you
mentionedweyn Lacy, he put the ball on the ground early.
Georgia got a touchdown on a scoop and score. He
put the ball on the ground early. But I love
the way he run. He did something very and he
must have been listening. I say they blitzed. You saw
him step up. He stepped up, closed the distance, met
(08:28):
the guy. He's like, oh hell, my quarterback in trouble,
let me leak out. Caught the ball, went got a
first down. They were able to sustain that drive and
get a touchdown out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's smart heads. He plays like that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That the common person who might not notice, but when
you watched him steady of the game of football, you're like,
that's a football player.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's a football play that he made.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He realized I'm not gonna give this guy a running
start to let him sit me in my quarterback's lap.
I'm gonna close the distance. Oh damn, my quarterback's in trouble.
Georgia for about two and a half three quarters got
that defense. I'm like, well, damn are you? Are you
sure they got a level men on the field, ain't
no damn wearing hell. As soon as the guy catch
(09:08):
the ball, they owned him. They weren't missing any tackles
if they were swarming to the football. I hadn't seen
anything like that in a very long time. And then
all of a sudden, slowly but surely, old miss they
got Trinidad, he'll pass over the middle and the guy
spun up out of it. That was really the first
time I saw miss tackle. And from that point on,
(09:28):
they got rolling. And once they got rolling, and you know,
momentum is funny. It's funny. You see, they weren't doing nothing.
Then all of a sudden they got momentum, and then
Georgia couldn't stop them. And then the refs bell had
that PI O Joe, when that guy grabbed it, he
grabbed the dB helmet, turning head.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Damn there all already, he damned there pulled the t
Higgins on Jay.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Ram Oh yeah, oh yeah, I said, come on, and
they miss and they missed a face mask.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh lazy, how you missed that?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, Joe, I don't know. I don't I don't know
looking at it, I don't know if they can see it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did they think the man was beetlejuice?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Hey, I don't know what the ref was looking at.
I don't know what they was looking at. But they
missed some calls. Obviously, human era is inevitable, especially be
in a position like that.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
We have to see everything.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Uh, and you should see everything, especially those calls because
if we can see it sit here at home, I know,
damn where you can see it up close and perfect
exactly side.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You know, there were two plays on that last Georgia drive.
There was a PI down the left side that was yeah,
he walled him out a little bit to the sideline,
but like he just didn't get his head around. That
was a little ticky TACKI wishy washy kind of and
then they ran kind of a stutter go and he
was beat and he grabbed him and saved a touchdown.
So like a lot of great ball on both sides,
(10:48):
offense and defense from Old miss that are huge heads
up plays that allowed them to get you know, a
loss of three yards on first down when it was
from the six yard line. Made a great defensive play
on third down in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And then and then the fade ball on offense the
next time to the number two receiver on an inside fade.
I mean, yep, you get pressed, man. I mean anytime
I would ever see that in college. You're kind of
salivating at the mouth. If he stays over the top,
you can throw it back shoulder, and he beat him
over the right away. You got so much room you
can use the sideline. You don't have to worry about
him walling you off to the sideline or anything like that.
(11:22):
So man stones from the kicker. Unbelievable job by him.
Trinidad obviously, Lacy. I think there were some guys on
the defense who really stood out. But oh yeah, yeah,
yah yah yah yeah yeah. Gunner Stockton too. That guy's
as tough as nails. He took a shot early in
that game, took a bunch of shots. That was crazy.
That guy can play ball.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah. I when you give charloiie wife Junior a lot
of credit. Ojo. They threw that ball with thirty six seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now that ball is incomplete, it's fourth down and the
clock stops and Georgia has three timeouts. Three so for
him to put that ball up in the air and says, hey, champlers,
you brought us this far son, take us on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Home, bring us home. And I been damn if he
didn't pay. He dropped it in the bucket.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That if Johnny said that takes huge stones, that that's
a hell of a call by offensive coordinator that trusts
this quarterback. Know this quarterback is Dally. The only back
I need you to do, son, is catch it, because
he gonna put it in your basket. All I need
you to do is don't trip on your way to
the market. Is the eggs in the back, don't don't,
don't waste the profit, don't trip on the way to
(12:34):
the market. Boy, he dropped that faking and that's so pretty.
I thought he was gonna get away, but he's like,
you know what, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But Johnny, you mentioned something earlier that kicker fifty five
fifty six looked like.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It had been good from sixty five sixty six.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Then I say that, Now, don't come late in the game.
Now you dont hit need to astronomics out of the world,
out of galactic field goals. Now you're gonna come when
they when they really need it and shake a thirty
something y'all, because we've seen that so many times.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But I think you have to give Old Miss credit.
I don't think a.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Lot of people thought Old Miss could beat Georgia, considering
they had played earlier. But I was telling my sister
that I was like levit, I'm saying they played them earlier,
Georgia munt of the comeback, I say, but Old Miss
is not in awe of Georgia. They're not fearful of Georgia.
They know they can play them tough. And I always
liked being the team that lost the first time around
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because I've getting an opportunity to make a lot of
wholesale changes.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
If you win, Oh Joe, why would I'm making changes?
I won? Yes, well I need to change. But this was, man,
this was a game.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
This This is what this is what it should be
in the college football playoff, Guys, I don't that what
we saw at the Rose Ball that what we saw
at the Peach Oregon in Texas Tech. That ain't That
ain't what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be too. Equally,
I don't know what happened those offenses to day from
those other those opposing teams. But man, I was really
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really impressed with Old Miss. Oh look, I don't know
how many seniors they got. I don't know if Trinidad
Tramplers can come back, but they got.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
A team, man, a very good team, very good.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
They got a damn good team. What'd you think you,
Johnny Man?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm thinking the Old Miss is gonna be a really
hard out that next game they play. Obviously they play Miami.
Miami's playing great ball right now. I think if you
get that level of Carson Beck that you got yesterday,
if you can get that with their defense, they're gonna
be a really, really hard out. But this is gonna
be a really good game. You just don't know what
Carson Beck you're gonna get. He looked the other day
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like a guy who's played thirty forty games, But then
you'll see him against A and M and you know
he'll make enough plays to get it done. But inconsistent
at times. But I still think he's a good quarterback
and this Old Miss team's going to be fired up.
I think that game is going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, Hey, I think that game is gonna be really
good as well.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Obviously, you know when we watched we watch the Hurricanes,
we understand they can do some of the things that
George was able to do. They can stifle the run,
they can get after your quarterback, they can make Champlers
uncomfortable back there.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
But obviously Champla's being somewhat of a dual threatened.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Being yeah, he got better legs than saying he.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Got some legs on him.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So they're going to have to be careful, especially when
they decided the blitz.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But obviously we saw them do something that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
They didn't have to do because they can get four
and four can get home when we didn't have to
do that. We didn't have to put our back, our back,
our back in and harm's way by having it, you know,
to bring extra help, you know, to get home to
the quarterback. So it's gonna be an interesting game to
see how that game plan works out and how things
go when the old Missus Miami played. But that's gonna
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be one hell of a game. I have one question too. Yeah,
and Johnny, I'm not sure. I'm sure y'all probably know
where is that game gonna be held?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, Oregon, Yeah, that's the Fiesta Bowl. Okay, so that
Arizona and the other guy is then Peach Bowl is
in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Dan, that's a long ways away, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, Uh and the great neutralizer, it's a neutral sight. Yes,
ain't nobody got no home field?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How well do your face? How well do your fans
want to see you play a bowl game? Are you
guys gonna travel?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I think both these teams are gonna travel, like I
I agree. Yeah, I think they're gonna flock the Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Look here.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Your old miss Ain't no, but the Hosky. It's about
seven it's about six hour drive from from UH from Oxford, Mississippi, Yeah,
to to Atlanta. They're gonna flood. They're gonna boy No,
they're not there there in Phoenix, Damn Dan, Phoenix, Oregon
and what you call them goes to UH. Organ in
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Indiana is in the Peach Bowl. Organ in Indiana in
the Peach Bowl. That's a long way for Oregon to
travel Indiana. Is it's not that far. I mean it's far,
but it's not as far as it is from Oregon
way over there to way over here. But I think
these are gonna be some They're gonna be some very
good games.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Organ and Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They're familiar with each other, same conference, Big Ten, they
know each other, very familiar with each other. Uh So
that's gonna be interesting. But I was very very impressed
with old mess because.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I was I was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I was worried at first, guys because they moving the
ball up and down the field and they kicking field goals.
I was like, bro y'all got to push this thing in.
Damn these field goals. And then they scored a touchdown
and they don't get the two point conversion. I was like, Oh,
but that's this was a game. This what this is
what I got. Nate fraise he got, he got nicked
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in this game. Oh Joe, he ran the ball extremely
hard fifteen carres eighty six eighty six yards. Maybe they
should have leaned on the little running game a little
bit more, because once they kind of got that going
in the fourth, Yes, it kind of opened.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Up the passing game.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But cham Chambliss, his ability to get outside Oho and
throw the ball over the top, That's what was most
pressing for me tonight. I think that was really the
difference in the ball game. Georgia has outstanding speed at
all three levels. His ability to race them to a
point outside and still be able to throw the ball
with marksman accuracy over the top was extremely, extremely impressive
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today and they won this ball game. Oh man, I
can imagine what it's like at Oxford. I know they
going crazy. They probably saying Lane, who who? We ain't missing?
We ain't missing. But unfortunately Charlie Weiss Junior is gonna
be gonna be taggered along with Lane the LSU. But
I will not be surprised. Within the next year Charlie
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Weiss Junior gets a head coaching j'all because what he
did tonight, Yes, sir was masterful. Let's move on college
football playoff win. But Lane still get paid. He got
two fifty for the first game. Was he made for
this game?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The five hundred he still get paid on Joe, just like.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
He coaching young got understand that this is his product.
This is his product that he.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Didn't think he must didn't like it.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You said, sell itself, sell itself, which is why he
looked the way he looked today. Just because coaches last game.
You gotta understand that he's had these players all season long.
He's had them prepared and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, so it's gonna be it's gonna be very very
interesting to see. Boy, can you imagine if ol Miss
goes on and win the national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And Lane don't win one at l U.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Well, hold on you saying he don't get no rank.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hell now you're gonna get no rint.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
He's still getting the check, Ain't it?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
How much you want to bet he don't get a ring?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
How much you want to make a bety?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Does I bet you? I bet you?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I bet bet it?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Hold on, They wouldn't let advance staying coach, hold.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
On, let me, let me finish, let me go ahead.
Now you're gonna have to make some sense to me.
Come on, now, you're still getting checks for you're not
coaching the team that's in the playoffs. But you need
to tell me if they win a national championship, it's
okay to give you a checks, but you're not gonna
get a ring.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
What since that made a lot of sense? The checks
in the contract. Ain't no ring in the contract.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I guarantee you as players wouldn't give him a ring.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Hell no?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And and and he wanted to stay.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
They didn't want him to stay.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Right, Well, obviously, when you're taking another job. I don't
think they would want you to stay either. Now the players,
they might feel a little different administration.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nah, buddy, nah oh yo. I don't know if you've
been listening close enough, the players. The players ain't no
love loss that players did not want him to stay
in coach.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
They don't understand the business yet, they'll get it. They
get they'll get They in college right now, they don't.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They do nunder stand if you love me so much,
why you leave it? It had a It happens all
the time, But I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I'm talking about here.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, there are a lot of kids get put up
for a doctor, but that ain't got nothing to do
with our situation right here, right now.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We're talking about me and you. I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, there are hardships, Yes, as some moms go through
things and they're not equipped.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I get all that, But what does that gotta do
with me?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yeah, you say a lot of kids get what.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, you ain't getting put up on a doction. But
it ain't got nothing to do with me. You you
said you didn't want me. Now when I have success,
you want some of the credit.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
That happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Ain't give you none of it. So we'll see how
this thing plays out. In there are routes, Oh Lord
thirty eight three in the Rows Bowl behind Heisman Trophy
winner Fernando Mendoza three touchdown in there and earns its
first Bowl game since nineteen ninety one. The Hoosia the
advance to face Oregon in the Summer Finals. Dimond Trophy
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winner for Nando Mendoza threw four one hundred and ninety
two yards three touchdowns while the defense held Alabama to
one hundred and ninety three yards.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Man, Alabama ain't got no speed. I ain't know.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Their defense looks so slow. The still everything on offense,
they was moving in mud. Indiana was flying. It was
also flying and take off.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What you see, man, This is kind of the same
Alabama team we've seen all year. I mean, at times
they've looked good, but they had to fight and claw
to win the Iron Bowl. They had times throughout the
season where they look terrible. This is still a team
that lost to Florida State to open the season. Just
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a very inconsistent team. I think Ty Simpson at times
throughout this year we've praised on this show. We praised
this play, we praised this poison at times making big throws.
That wasn't the same guy today. And you got to
give a lot of credit to Signetti the way he
has Indiana playing a lot of heart flying around the field.
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They're determined, they're focused. Obviously, Mendoza has to feel extremely
confident with the way that he's playing football right now.
You knock off Ohio State, you go and smack Alabama.
You're just looking at this situation like next up. They
almost seem to me like a little bit of team
of a fate of destiny to do something for them
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in their program that hasn't been done ever. And I
think everybody in that locker room is bought in. And
since the Penn State game, we really haven't seen them
slip up very much. You know, No, I think I've
made a lot of noise about was Mendoza deserving of
the Heisman? Was he the best player in the country
and all that. You put that to bed and put
that to rest, because you have the trophy now his
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is sitting in his room or in his house or
wherever it is. Now you go out and solidify it,
and you know how you solidify that running the table
and going under going undefeated and winning the national championship
and doing two things that have never really been done
in Indiana. On the football side.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, I agree. A Oho.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Signetti also was at Alabama.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, he was an assistant on the coach Saban so
both coaches that was in the old Miss Georgia game
with at Alabama. Uh, the University of Crystal Ball. He
was at Miami. Signetti, he was at my he was
at Alabama. Dan Lanning he at Alabama. Ain't an accident,
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It's not an accident.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh. What'd you see in this game? Ojo?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Alabama looked Alabama looked awful. Other than they looked awful.
What did you what did you see?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I mean, listen, the game was The game was one
upfront defense defense Indiana, They all over the place made
Ty Simpson uncomfortable all goddamn day long. I'm not sure
if Indiana's defense at offenses moving that fast or just
Alabama's offensive defensive players.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Were just that slow. Yeh see the skilled players.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
They weren't effective and almost to a point, it's like
it's Alabama.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Did they really belong here? Where they?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Did they really belong? In the playoffs. To begin with,
with the way they look tonight, I mean early earlier today. Obviously,
I understand Indiana hasn't lost all season long. They looked
really good all season long, and they played up the
part and letting put everybody else everybody else, I'll notice
that we are serious. What you saw last year from us,
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We are the real deal. What you saw from us
during the regular season, Yes, that is us, and we
can play with the best, and they proved today with
a thrashing of Alabama. It just it almost it was
a lopside of game on It was a lopside of
games to the point where it was like, why is
Alabama even out here again?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
With I agree, I can't recall. And I've been watching
Alabama a long time. I remember when coach Bryant actually
coached Alabama. So that's how far I've been watching Alabama.
And I told y'all earlier this year, I've never seen
an Alabama team look like this team.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They're big, they're slow, Yeah, they're slow. Alabama.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I mean their defense, there's nothing when there used to
be things that there are things that you could look at.
Alabama says, Okay, they're special. You look at the offensive line,
the defensive line they would used to be little with
first round pick special. You look at their wide receiver
groups special. You look at their dvs. Special, you look
at their linebacker special. You tell me one thing that's
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special about Alabama offense, defense.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Or special teams.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Tell me one thing, Chad that you guys have seen
all year long that says, Okay, that's a special player,
that's a special unit. Nothing, nothing jumps out at you.
Absolutely nothing. Boy, they got Alabama fans and alumni boosters
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problem saying that we show who took that job at Michigan.
Leave us the hell alone. Yeah, Dan, it was bad.
It was it was. It was bad. And I think
the thing is maybe, uh, people like, well, well man
them days. No, it's not that Alabama. Those days are
never over. Yeah, it's just like Michigan. It's just like
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Ohio State. There's still a standard. They're not gonna settle
because coach Stapan is not there or coach Bryant's not there.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, Johnny, And you know we talked about the standard
about Alabama having a standard. When when when when coach
coach Saban coast there? Well, obviously when Cole Saban coast
there n I L wasn't wasn't active. Everyone wanted to
go to Alabama. The the the players think about all
the receivers at one point they will receiving university on
They filtered one after the other. The running backs filter
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one after the other. Having one of the best defenses.
They all filtered one after another going into the draft,
so everybody wanted to go there. Now with n I
L is even the playing field, so all the players
are going all over the place.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So now everybody, everybody is good.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Everybody getting those five star, four star players now, so
now coaching comes into play even that much more because
you're not getting the best of the best.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Now makes it lot easier.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
When you got the best receivers, you got the best dline,
you're getting the best defensive backs, and you're getting the
best safeties. Now you're not, and they're going all over
the place. Every team is sprinkled in some five stars.
So now other factors come into play when it comes
time to playing and competing.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I guess you looked at Ohio State when they had
the Bolsa brothers, when they had Chase Young and they
had all those guys. It wasn't no, nil, when they
had Zeke Elliott, when they had Vernon, when they had
Vernon Doster and Denzel Ward. It wasn't when they had
Denzel Ward. And what's the one that got He went
to U. He went to Detroit, the dbend Harry and Arnold. No, no, no, no,
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he was Ohio State. Okudah, Yeah, there.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Wasn't no n I L.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
So don't pretend like Alabama's the only win getting them
damn stuck playoffs. Ohio State was getting them because remember
they went defensive playing Rookie of the year, Defensive rookie
of the year, defensive rookie of the year. Let me
take you They with with Joey, with Joey Bosa, they
with with Chase Young, they were with Nick Bosa.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Okay, let me tell you some. Let me tell you some.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I think it was inn I L back then too, ha, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He went into the front door going to the back door.
This time they just walked through the front door. That's
the only different all right.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You said it before I can get it out. You
said it.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Oh, that's the only difference, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, it adds for all that's wrong in n I L.
Right now, and people are frustrated about it, and there
needs to be a lot of changes. The one thing
that it has done is create parody and different teams
getting into the playoffs absolutely what we wanted. We were
tired of seeing the same teams in every year, the
same national championships, same matchups.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So Georgia Alabama, George Alabama.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Clemson Alabama, you know, same thing. So it has added
to where the talent pool is definitely spread out. Now
do the players have too much power now to do
whatever they want? And I saw I think Sark saying
this the other day is like, we're dealing with kids
who are leaving, you know, before the bowl game or whatever,
and we go and talk to their agent, and their
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agent may be their roommate sitting down on the couch
with a so like, you don't know what's going on.
There definitely needs to be some changes, and it's gonna
take it's going to take a guy like Nick Saban
to come in and oversee a committee and they're going
to have to find some rules on how to do it.
And it's going to take somebody really powerful like that
to make the changes that are necessary. John Calipari went
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on a seven minute rant the other day after the game,
and it was all time for what he's dealing with
on the college basketball side. And I will say this
as well. I can't believe I'm going to say it,
but even though Notre Dame's taking their ball and going
home and running off, they would have put up a
better fight today than Alabama for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, you gotta do is to get in the carvers
and play somebody. That's very true. You just gotta play somebody.
And I think that with the nil, they just goes
to show you you can get good in the hurry. Now,
it's not so much the nil because but you gotta
spend the money on the right places. It's all about location, location, location.
Just because you open up a restaurant, it can be
(31:27):
great food, but if it's not in the middle of nowhere,
ain't nobody traveling way way out there. You gotta have
you know, you won't foot traffic. You want be Oh,
let's try this place. You get the right. You see
what happened with Texas Tech. You gotta have a quarterback.
They got Mendoza, Indiana got Mendoza. Yeah, uh, old miss
got Chamblets.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
M h.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Uh Miami got got back.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mm hmm, yeh uh did in the Oregon's god transferred
to I think so, I think Oregon's got a transfer also.
But you can get good in a hurry. Yes, if
you get the right people. Is everybody think what hey,
(32:14):
he transfers from UCLA, so you see yeah quick?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I mean, look, what do you think Lane Kiffin's gonna
do next year when he gets to l s U.
You think he's not going to poach your quarterback from somewhere?
First and foremost guarantee you what he's doing right now?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You know, Johnny, it's about to They're about to do
away with springball because all guys are doing the spring
ball is getting the tape, cutting it up and sitting
it out. Say okay, what you got for me? Pretty
soon it ain't gonna be no spring ball like you
and I had to spring that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Hey, I see you come somewhere. Do worry aboudy.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's where you make a lot of your development though,
I mean, that's where you grow a lot as a
football player. Is that time from January to May? Those
are some of your biggest games and the way your
and your technique and what you do. I know for me,
you know, from first year to second year, I have
my biggest growth from that offseason and spring ball and
getting more comfortable in the offense and more camaraderie with
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your guys. So you know, I think it just takes you, know,
your development back a little bit because you're playing the business.
And that's what you changed so much about college football
is that you better go get this bread because you're
not guaranteed it at the next level. So you may
as well stick around in college for as long as
you can get your mag up, get a good financial advisor,
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and save your chicken for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
But he left to thing, Johnny, you see how you
made you? Say you made you from February to May,
somebody else would have came and said, oh, he did
make some development. We got three million dollars for him
and then bye bye, Johnny feat. So that's why that's
why they do it away with springball. Could I agree
with you? I got so much better from that time.
I got an opportunity to hit the waves and got
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an opportunity to really work on what I needed to
work on. O Joe, getting out there every day competing,
and I could feel like, man, I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Getting better and getting better and getting better.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
But you get these guys ot Joe, they getting better
and better, and they say, well, you know, get me
a little cut up and they send their practice tape off.
Oh that kid work said, Oh, hes gonna start for us.
That's say them fifty, that's a million dollars. They already
talking about top quarterback going for three and a half
to five million.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh Joe, a nineteen year old twenty yard three and
a half.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The five absolutely, And when you think about it too,
ay Johnny, the fact that these these quarterbacks that they're
not proven to a point where they're gonna come to
your program and make that much of a significant difference,
and they getting that kind of money. So the pressures
on the pressures on them once they get the money.
And oh I'm a four star, I'm a five star
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based on where you come from, based on what you
did in high school, and you come to these huge
entities in organizations and they put all that pressure on you.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Hell, we paying you that kind of money. You got
to come and make a difference right away.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
To look at Curson back, look at Carson back for example.
Not to mention just the money that you're making right,
he's in Florida. He's not paying state income tax. He's
seeing a lot of that bread. On top of that,
there ain't no way he's paying for a car. And
I see him in the cluster live. He ain't paying
for no bottles. He going out for free everything else
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you're walking in. Alumni sees you at dinner. I went
to dinner with Diego Pavia this year. I looked at
it was like a fifteen h two thousand dollars bill.
He ain't paid none of that. So the perks you're getting,
on top of the money you're getting, if you're really
smart about it, you can leave college if you're a
guy like that, after three years you can have twelve
fourteen million dollars cash all day.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
That's what you need to have happen guys, And I
don't begrudge the guys the only thing. And if you
look at it, not Johnny Ocho teams are really not
going after the high school guys.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Like they once did.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They want a guy that's already established, already knows the
college routine. He knows he has study hall, he knows
he has you know, weightlifting and things of that nature.
So he's already abreast of the college experience as opposed
to getting somebody in that doesn't really understand college. You
hope they figure it out. They're mature enough. But let
me get somebody that's already gone through this. Even a
(36:19):
three to five million dollars, the top receiver gonna go
to one problemly somewhere between seven and fifty and two
million dollars, maybe even three million. Yeah, man, hey, I
ain't got no problem with it, but the problem but
you see what's gonna happen on Joe. It's just kind
of a very similar situation to like.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
The Georgia kid. Ye got the money and then left.
Georgia is suing him.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yes, when it comes to that situation, Uncle and Johnny,
with Georgia suing him for actually leaving because he got
the money to decide to leave. Who's gonna win that.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We don't know. That's why they go in the court.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Somebody will set a precedent for it, and it'll kind
of go off of that. Yes, and for but let's
listen to this. For single sport recordings, more than thirty
three hundred plus college football players that entered in the
portal by day two of the twenty twenty five window
that kills high school kids, kills these guys who were
(37:10):
the guys like me, really the three star guys who
were Man, I waited a long time to get my
Texas A offer. I had to wait for a lot
of people to turn that down. I would have never
got that offer living in this day and age. I
would have been going to Rice or Sam Houston.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It plagued one year there and then guess what did
it came back and dumped the bag and your lapping.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You'd have been in Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, and then I would have been somewhere else the
next year and then somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's like one of these these smart kids, one of
these computer analysts, one of these coders, and things like that,
and my tea graduates. Apple, you got Apple, you got Microsoft,
you got all these companies.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What you got for you?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's crazy to see. I went to the Texas Texas
A and M game this year and I was around
a lot of you know, our bigger boosters, and we're
sitting there talking a little bit, like during halftime, and
they're telling me, like, yo, watching our season develop with
how much money we've invested into this team. They're like,
we're a nervous wreck watching these games. Like they have
(38:16):
a lot of their money on the line on these
guys every single week, every single year. This isn't a
couple million dollars we're talking about. This is tens of
millions of dollars that one individual at one school can have.
And unless you're sitting in that five ten twenty billion
dollar range like somebody like at Michigan, you know, you've
(38:36):
got to look back, Michigan, we're.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Worth billion. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
He that doesn't even make him flinch. But you got
guys that maybe got about five six hundred million, and
you're dumping about forty fifty sixty one hundred, and that's
a different that's a different level of nervous. So, you know,
it is it is crazy, you know, the world that
we live in. I mean sometimes it goes good Miami
Carson back situation, that's the reason they're allowed to be
(39:03):
in this round of the playoffs. And then you have
a situation where you're Bryce Underwood and you get smoked
by twenty points in your bowl game against you know, Texas,
and I think he'll be good. I think if they
give him time to develop, he'll he'll be Okay. That's
a lot of pressure what you have on you right
away with the kind of money that you're getting. And
(39:24):
they gave him a crazy deal coming out of high.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
School with twelve million dollars. What twelve million dollars to
thirteen million dollars for four years. And I think when
you look at this, this thirty five point defeat is
the most lopsided postseason Alabama lost in history, which was
previously a thirty two point loss Nebraska in the nineteen
seventy two Orange Bowl.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That's when they have many things.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That's considered the greatest football team with the Heisman Trophy
win of Johnny Rogers.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
This is crazy. I mean, this is like what Alabama
did to Notre Dame in the National Championship in twenty twelve.
This turnaround, they got smacked the same way that they
beat them down like this was. This was my first
thing that I said to everybody is listen, you can
put another coach in there, but Alabama will never be
what they were without the main guy, Nick Saban, running
(40:14):
that program the way he did. It'll never be the same.
I don't care. If you have a million disciples that
Nick Saban come through there, they will never be him.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It's gotta be somebody. That's if you look at coach Saban.
Coach Saban had coached in the SEC. He was like LSU.
He won a national championship with LSU. So Kaylin Damore
has no idea.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I get it. He won wherever he was. But Washington
is a different brand of football in that Alabama. Every
place ain't Alabama in the SEC. So you need Kirby
smart knows what it's like. He knows what it needs
at Georgia because he was under saving Lane Kiffin, Pete Golden.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
They know what they need right.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
And you look at Crystabal, look at the type of
guy that he gets signatty. You have to understand what wins.
But I need to see it up close and personal.
Ojo when you see, because I'm a visual learner. You
hear Crystal Balue talking. He say, hey, masks something. He
(41:16):
said like masks wins. You gotta get them. Yes, Alabama,
Alabama looks ordinary, they look routine. If I took if
I took that Crimson away right and just putting them
out there, You're.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Like, what the hell is that? What division? What DJW,
what what FCS team is that?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's Alabama, ma'am. Not that slow, not that there's nothing.
There's nothing special about Alabama.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, nothing pops out on film, Johnny, And nothing pops
on out on film like most Alabama teams that we
used to see in offensively, the receivers, offensively, the quarterbacks.
Most of the time it's been a running back.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
I don't think they've had a running back come out
of there since you Gibbs. That just popped out on film, Like,
you know what, we're watching Alabama. You gotta watch out
for this kid here. Defensively, the D line, there's always
a good d tackle, there's always a good end that
can get out to your quarterback. They've always had a
very very good safety or very very good corner at
some point. Right now, ye don't, I don't. I don't
(42:20):
see nothing that they exemplifies the Alabama that we're used
to watching, especially after that God damn.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Out in the day.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
I still got faith in y Williams, Marrison. I still
got faith in Ryan Williams.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
If this is a they've had a couple of tough
catchers today. But you know, they don't have no Quinn Williams.
They don't have no Deryan Paines. They don't have no
Jonathan Allen's. They don't have no bar Moares. They don't
have that. There ain't no passer Tains.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
No, no, no, no, no there there There aren't any coups.
There aren't any Ridleys. There are no Julios, there are
no Davonte Smith. There's no Rugs. There's no uh uh
Jalen Waddles. There aren't any of them mo jokes. They're
not for that. No Mendoza season in Indiana, first ever
number one ranking, first Big Ten titles since nineteen sixty seven,
(43:08):
first undefeated season in eighty season, first who's you to
win the Davy O'Brien Award, first Indiana Heisman Trophy winner,
and now the first ever playoff college victory. Mendoza, he
ain't gonna ever have to pay for nothing in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
He whatever, he ain't gonna ever have.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
He's Herschel He's what you know what he's gonna be
where Herschel Walker was to Georgia when Georgia won the
national championship. And then look now they did have a
I think it was Frank Sinkowitch won the Heisman before
before Herschel. But Herschel is a Stethson Bennett the same way.
Stepson Bennett is the second most famous player in Georgia
(43:55):
football history. And we know there have been some great players,
it's Herschel Stenson bending on my rush.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Now you can add whoever else you want to. You
want Matthew Stafford, you want Champ Bailey, whoever you want,
but those two were definitely going up there.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, Johnny, is you just like when you go to
College station, you walk in the convenience store and come
out with a bag. It ain't got no money in
your pockets. Yeah, it's the same way with Mendoza in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Man, Honestly, I was blown away by Mendoza just being
around him. I'd never I'd talked to him a little
bit on Instagram throughout this year, but it never really
spent much time around him in person. I know everybody's
got their opinion of him, but for me, I walked
into the Heisman thinking one way and just spending time
around him, his brother, his family. Man, I was blown
(44:48):
away with the way he carries himself with how he is.
He's a very you know, football loving, focused, you know, determined,
solid individual. Like that's all I got to say about Mendoza.
The kid h has been impressive in every interview that
he's done. He may not be everybody's cup of tea,
but if you're looking at it in the way that
you know guys who love the game and their joy,
(45:09):
enjoy football and being out there, I mean, he's uh,
he's one of those dudes for sure, and he's putting
on I mean, this resume and what he's done this
year is it's solid. I mean, what else can you
say about it? It is balling.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
I think the figure of Johnny when you look at him,
he doesn't have the biggest arm, he doesn't have Cam
Newton size, he doesn't have your or Lamar Jackson elusiveness.
It's like you just look at him, You're like, he
wouldn't Hoddan with those stats, Like, but when you watch
him play, oh yeah, you watch his ball placement, yes.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
Sir, like be damn yeah. And you know, Uncle Johnny,
it's a lot of people like that that when you
look at him, you don't see the intangibles. There's certain
things that you can measure. You know, it's not about
they're not They don't run fast. You know, they don't
have the strongest arm. He might have the size and
looks like a Josh Allen, but doesn't have the arm strength,
(46:07):
you know, or he doesn't have the dual thread of
the legs of a Josh Allen, even though he has
somewhat close to almost like the build of him. But
then when it comes time you turn on the film
and it's time to play.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Football, he's ready for that.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Oh, he's ready for that. Oh, he's definitely ready for that.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Oregon swarm Texas Tech from the start to finish in
the Orange Bowl and won twenty three nothing, forcing for
forcing for turnovers while racking up four sacks seven tackles
for losses. The first game and the shutout in school's
history since the nineteen seventeen Rose Bowl against pen The
Ducks had the Red Raiders to a season low and
passing yards to fifteen, rushing yards seventy eight, first downs
(46:48):
nine and the first shutout of an AP Top five
opponent since twenty eighteen. Texas Tech also had one of
the top teams in the nation and turnover margin coming
in with a plus minus seventeen, but finished the game
minus three.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Look, I understand that the Texas take didn't score, but
I'm right now, I think Alabama actually looked worse than Texas.
Look worse than Texas take. Johnny, what happened to Texas take.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
They didn't put their best player on the field on offense.
He stayed on defense the whole day. That was their
only chance for them to get a score today. Is
put that linebacker at running back or something like they
did earlier in the year.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
I mean, look, I will say this, over the last
couple of days of these games, of these playoff games,
there's been some unbelievable hitting going on on the defensive
side of the ball, Swarming, popping people. I've had the
volume up on the TV and I'm like, ooh, damn,
they're smacking folks out here. And I think Oregon set
the tone early on. Kind of a slow start for
(47:53):
them offensively, but they played really sound defense. Turnovers. I
mean the turnover in the end zone, the guy caught
the ball like he was so surprised the quarterback even
threw it. I mean, if you're a Texas tech and
you're going to drive the ball down to the eight
yard line, and that's how your drive is gonna end.
It's just it's just a recipe for disaster. And they
gave Oregon so many chances. Oregon played really sound on
(48:17):
the defensive side of the ball. I think all the
way around, Oregon was just a better team than Texas Tech.
I think Texas Tech is going to be back in
this situation again because of what their conference is, because
of what they're putting in the nil, because of their coach,
their ad. They have good pieces in place, so they'll
be back. But Oregon looked like a Dan Lannying Oregon
(48:40):
team that was prepared, well coached. Offense, they made enough plays,
quarterback made enough plays, and they just swarmed Texas Tech
from start to finish.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
But some of those interceptions, I'm like, bro, yeah, where are.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
You throwing.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
You?
Speaker 2 (49:00):
You thought that was gonna be completed? You really thought that.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
The fad was bad? That was that was double covered
on your throne. That wasn't I would close.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Dante Moore twenty six and thirty three, two thirty four,
zero touchdowns, one interception. They ran the ball, They ran
them off forty seven times. For sixty seven yards. They
had a little they had three hundred yards, three hundred
nine yards, three hundred and nine yards, and they pissed
the shutout.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
I mean that has to change next week for them.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Absolutely, Oh yeah, what if they played like that, if
they played like they played against Texas Tech, Indiano beat
them like they beat like they beat Alabama Alabama?
Speaker 3 (49:47):
Absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
I mean, you know, I've watched them the last as
it got closer to the end, I started watching Indiana obviously.
I watched them in the Big Ten Championship. They got
SEC speed. Well let me take that back. They got
it Georgia speed, not Alabama speed. Their defense was flying.
I was like, damn, I thought Texas Tech was supposed
(50:11):
to be pretty good, and.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
You know, I was like with damn, Yeah, they weren't
it today. You know, I think you look at Texas
Tech season, they had you know, wins where they had
to go out and get it. I think the Big
twelve title game versus BYU. But I mean they really
didn't play too tough of a schedule this year for
being honest, like a Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Kent Oregon State,
(50:38):
they played Utah, Houston, Kansas, Arizona State. They lose in
Oklahoma State, Kansas State by U u CF, Like, what
are we talking about? That ain't like a run of
the gauntlet, like they really And I think BYU was
a decent team and obviously one that almost got into
the playoffs, but you know, not a great schedule from
(51:00):
them this year, and when they finally got tested in
a real game, you know they got they just got beat,
you know, from start to face or I.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Think you know what it looked like to me, Johnny,
it looked like like the coach they call the game
plans like, look, if they don't get pick six or
scooping scores, they can't beat us.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah's battle by four too, You're gonna lose the turn
of a battle by three. Your your chances of winning
that game already go down astronomically. So you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
So there was like, Nah, we don't need to do
we don't need to do anything special. We don't need
to try to do anything out of the ordinary, because
this team can't move the ball consistently and unless we
unless something unforeseen, they block a kick, they get a
scoop and score, they get a pick six. They can't
because think about it, Oregon ran the ball forty seven
times for sixty seven yards.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
That's not even two yards of carry. That's one and
a half yard to carry.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Hey, And at some point you have to abandon things
that aren't working. At some point, you have to bandon
things that aren't working and make it justs end game
and go to something else.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
Well, organ didn't have to go to anything else because
Texas Tech couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (52:09):
Texas Tech could, but you're not gonna be able to
pull that shit off against goddamn Indiana.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Definitely to happen.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
Absolutely not, Joddy, we gonna get you out of here
on this one. Teams that make the college football Playoffs
semifinals earn fourteen million dollars for their conference. The ACC
is giving the entire fourteen million to Miami, per Front
Office Sports, Johny, what do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (52:32):
I mean, I think it's great for Miami, obviously. I
think something happened at the end of the season where
they the ACC kind of maybe trash Miami or something
a little bit. So maybe this is them giving them
their little lick back, being like, Yo, we apologize, Let's
keep everything keep everything smooth. But listen that that team,
Miami is popping up the whole conference right now for them. Yes,
(52:54):
they're putting on for the whole conference. They're making that
whole conference look good. So I think it's awesome, what
a great gesture. I mean, I don't really know what
fourteen million dollars does for a school anymore at this point,
but you know, yeah, they'll probably grab a couple of
players for him a little bit, you know, a handful
of players. But look, Miami's Miami's rolling. I'm excited about.
(53:16):
You know, obviously the matchup that they have next Ole
miss that's going to be an unbelievable game. Yeah, going
back to the you know Indiana Oregon thing. You know,
they've already played each other. Indiana wins by ten. But
like we were saying earlier, it's really hard to go
and beat a team twice. And in that game, Oregon
only rushed for two point seven yards of carrying that game,
(53:37):
so they didn't really run it very well on them. Again,
I just think Indiana is a different beast. They're a
different outlier. They're a team that's going to be well prepared, yeah,
and ready to you know, correct on the mistakes that
they had the first time. Oregon's going to have to
play their best game to beat them and Indiana, can
you know they can still win that game with making
(53:57):
some mistakes. I feel like and then man in the
Miami side, Bain is an unbelievable player on the defensive end.
You know, I know, crazy his seen guys like that
throughout the SEC. But he is a special, special talent
one that is for sure gonna wreak havoc in that
(54:18):
game cause a lot of problems. Listen, I can't believe
saying through that bubble the other day and they just
pick it take it to the house like they're you
want to.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Talk about the block that didn't happen? What happened?
Speaker 5 (54:31):
O Joe?
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Oh you got you got?
Speaker 4 (54:34):
You got initiate contact right away?
Speaker 2 (54:36):
Who didn't initiate contact? Ojo?
Speaker 4 (54:39):
REI no?
Speaker 2 (54:40):
No to receive? What number was the receiver? Where is
he from?
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Ojo?
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Because you might think from dain't counting. I've been watching
that kids. He's the high school. That was Jeremiah Okay,
it was Jeremiah Smith, not Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
I know you heard that song.
Speaker 4 (54:57):
Hey, you know you know it's funny too, unk is God, damn,
what's what's young boy? What's young boy named? That intercept
that ball? I can't remember his last name? Yeah, Delaney, Hey,
he played and he played it so perfect. Unk he was.
He was inching himself inside, looking at the ball, waiting
(55:18):
on the snap.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Let him go inside on, Joe. You gotta make him bubble, yeah, yeah,
you you.
Speaker 4 (55:23):
You gotta make him.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Johnny what you always teach him, Make him go.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
Over the The motion messed him up a little bit. He
was looking at the motion a little bit, and he's
got to keep his eyes on that receiver and his
first steps gotta be inside. It took almost like a
false step.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
And.
Speaker 4 (55:43):
It was it was too late.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
It was too late.
Speaker 4 (55:45):
That that's what you call film study on That's what
you call when you when you watch Sam it's played football.
When you watch every play football and you and you
and you're trying to figure out how the hell they
knew it was coming. That's watching film and knowing based
on the alignment, based on what you're doing, based on formation. Okay,
I saw this on film. This is what's coming. That's
the only way you make a playlist.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Sure you gotta trust it though, ojo. We see a
lot of time guys they don't trust himself. They know
it coming and they get there and they just no, no, no,
he trusted, like you said his film study, I trust this,
yess what if it ain't this.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
If they throw the scenemen behind me.
Speaker 3 (56:23):
That got me time to run the pump, run the pump,
running him out the scene.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Oh man, what run run Jeremiah Smith on the scene.
Now we got hey, We got him dead to write.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
And do the thing.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
But on that route, you got to make that guy
because if you let him go underneath, there's no one there.
He's got a free shot and he hit it on
the run, o Joe. He timed it perfect. He trying
to snap count what you call him, took the false step,
he stepped upundon himself because he was kind of looking.
That's where you just tell him, son, if you just
get a pass of the Farens call.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
We'll take that. But you cannot let this guy inside.
Speaker 1 (56:59):
You cannot let did him get a running start, because
if he can catch it, look and he caught.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
If you look at the way he caught it, he
caught that like that for me, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
Yeah, yeah, him. Yeah, it took him a while to
spend it in his hand. When Sam caught it, he
didn't catch it clean. It took him a while to
get the laces and on that. You gotta get that
ball out. It's right away to the field. It's already
to the wide side of the field. It's already. You
got a motion out there. It's a deeper throw. It's
(57:29):
not an inside bubble. You gotta however, and we used
to work to get it all the time.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Sometimes you just gotta throw it, damn the scenes. You
just gotta catch it and throw it.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Gotta get it out no matter what.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
All right, guys, thank you Johnny for joining us. Make
sure you go subscribe to Johnny's YouTube page and his
podcast called Glory Days. Johnny, thanks for having you. Thanks
for coming back. Man.
Speaker 2 (57:50):
Look forward to see you next week with these semifinal games.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
I appreciate you boys. I really need seeing one of
those weeks. You know, obviously everything that transpired, you know,
got a chance to talk to McAfee everybody on game day,
say my piece on what really happened for the people
who were really concerned about me being sick. You know,
it looks one way, but in reality it's another. It
was a tough Christmas for the Manziell family with the sickness. Man,
(58:15):
I'm happy to be back you guys. Put a smile
on my face. Is exactly what I needed for my
life right now. So happy at the holidays. I hope
you guys had a great one. Great twenty twenty six
and let's go out with a bang this year, much
loved boys.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Appreciate it all right, I appreciate you, Johnny Man, how
will go with Mas?
Speaker 1 (58:29):
You know we've got love while you here at Nightcap
always absolutely
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