25W: There is a New Goldfish on the Show + Notre Dame HC Marcus Freeman + Why are NY Teams So Bad

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Speaker 2 (01:11):
This is a podcast cap twenty five wists stuck in
fun ball and they.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
All whist So, yeah, it's too bad, but what did
you expect?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's a podcast. Couple twenty five whistles, twenty wine win
all right, blow the westle letty, all right, let's start it.
I made my my my discussion list, and my first
question is who wins the NFC East. I write that
down before I start answering it myself because I'm just
wondering if I'm giving up on the Cowboys completely. I

(01:40):
would not as a fan, but as a better because
I remember I've bet like fifteen hundred twenty five thousand. Yeah,
So who wins the NFC East? I wrote it down.
Here's the information. The Giants are in fourth place. Now,
the great thing about this they're only four teams. Easier
to win with less teams. Yep, the Giants are two
and six. They will not win the division like that,

(02:03):
there's no chance they're gonna play the Commanders probably won't
win that they're gonna play the Panthers. Who knows. It
doesn't matter. I don't walk to their schedule because they suck.
But the Giants will not win the division and mark
them off. The Cowboys are three and four? Do they suck? Eddie?

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Are you saying that because you're sad?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, I'm gonna being realistic for the first time in
my life as a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
What can they do to not suck?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Right now? They could?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like, how can they patch this season together? Trade deadline
hasn't hit yet. Yeah, we need trades for sure today
or is it next week?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's election day? We have a few days, Yeah, to
make the team better. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think
it's we just gotta get rid of the head coach.
We got to change the whole change the logo, to
build a new stadium. Don't call us America's team in wow.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, okay, Okay, so you've given up.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
It's just not gonna happen this year.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay everyone, And when they do make a run, inevitably
will do something to give hope to some people. Do
not let them get back on.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
We'll have that clip would get back on what my
own team.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now your team anymore? You just gave them a you
just sent them away until they get a new head coach.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's tough, man, that's tough. Love the cowboy. But are
they going to make the playoffs?

Speaker 5 (03:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Are they going to get change their season around?

Speaker 6 (03:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I really don't think that's gonna happen, especially with but
I asked what could they do? And you said, restart
the whole system. It's like you know when you play Nintendo,
you just unplug it, man, turn it off. It's not
gonna happen this year.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, So, but inevitably when they do make some little
micro run, we're not accepting your enthusiasm.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, and I will see it as a micro run.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Cowboys remaining Falcons. I think they can win that game.
They may they may not win the game. I think
they can win that game. Uh, Eagles, that'll be a
big one. Texans. That's tough. Commanders. I can't buy in
fully to the commanders yet.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
You can't know. We're pretty magical, right, That's why.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
But that's exactly why it's magical. It's too magical, So
if you were consistent, I would go yeah. And that's
also rookie quarterback. We did this with Texans last year
and I'd never believe in CD Stroud and I was
an idiot. But it's so magical it's hard for me
to believe right now that it's going to maintain. So
let me see how many wins the Cowboys could possibly

(04:23):
have in my mind. Let's see Falcons. I'm just gonna
give them one. If it's Borderline'm given it to them.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Gosh, you can't even look at the schedule and make
a true decision.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Commanders. Two, I'm just gonna if it's if it's flip
flip coin you say win, yeah too, it's coin flip,
but coin flip, I'm given to them. Giants. Three Bengals,
No even tho. The Bengals have to win like seven
to nine to the playoffs. Panthers, Okay, four bucks.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Why not five?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
So we're playing Fantasy worlds, fancy Land.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Go for it.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think they can win six games one, five, six, seven,
eight out of ten, which will put at them at
nine and eight. And I think there's an outside shot
that nine and eight can get you in the playoffs,
So a lot of things have to happen, like, well,
they have to beat the teams that are coin flattering.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Oh, I know that, that's like the that's the obvious.
But what else could happen?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh dude, I had my daddy suck.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
We get like two other good receivers all of a sudden,
trade deadlines next week, our offensive line doesn't allow any sacks.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
It seems like all the all the receivers are they're gone.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Teams for free. Mike Williams is still out.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
That's true. Yeah, we'll probably give Mike Williams.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
And and also it's it's a little easier to get
a mid to good receiver than it is a mid
to good quarterback or offensive lineman. You probably get a
good decent linebacker.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
But if they get like an Adam Thielen or a
Mike Williams, what is does that?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
What is that death?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
You need to running better than Brandon Cooks. Yeah, so
when you say that that's better than Brandon.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Cooks, so he's still not playing.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
He's not playing.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
But again, but I'm saying that's the that's the ceiling
of your number two. Yeah, is Brandon Cooks right now?
It's Tolbert, right, but I or the little guy, But
you're missing my point. At their best, the ceiling of
a number two is Brandy Cook and Feeling or Mike
Williams or whomever is better than that than that. But
you're also right that who just said that? What? Somebody

(06:16):
say something smart and I liked it, and I forgot
probably do anything for him.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
N We'll move on.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
He's just saying it wasn't. I don't think it was, you, dude.
I just guess I don't think it was. Eagles are
five and two, so they're in second place. They're playing
the Jaguars. Here's thinking about the Eagles. I know they're
five and two, but there it's not a believable five
and tube. Yeah, because it's just been weird.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know, it's weird.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
They blew out the Bengals last week in the second half,
but you almost believe in the Bengals still more than
you do. And then for whatever reason, I guess because
of the collapse, right, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I guess because Sirianni and I don't mind Sirianni, but
they like Sirianni is the devil and the dumbest dude ever.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, Sirianni, you would look at him and be like, gosh,
this guy's so smart.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
He knows what he's doing. Are you looking at me
like he looks scared?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
He he shaved his head. He shaved his head cause
that could be it. Yeah, yeah, but they to me
to see their five and two is a bit surprising,
even though I could would count and go.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, really good to Cleveland too. Like you said, they
blew up the Bengals, but then they almost lost to
Cleveland with Deshaun Watson, so it's like, you don't even
know whether you guys are good? What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
And they do have a j brown back and they're
talking about firing their coach. They talked about finding their
coach for three weeks and they're five and two. Okay,
Eagles are playing the Jags win probably coin flip Cowboys.
I don't know the Cowboys are gonna win one of
those games. I think the Cowboys beat him one of
the two times, just because it's the Eagles and the
Cowboys commanders don't believe in him yet. Rams Rams are

(07:40):
getting hot boys. Well guys back for getting hot boys.
Ravens probably lose that. Panthers probably win that. Then you
have the Commanders. Let's look at their schedule. Giants that
should win that Steelers. I bet they lose that. Really,
I don't really don't care.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Cowboys be the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, but the Cowboys played the Steelers with Justin Field.
Yeah yeah, correct, Eagles, Cowboys, Grus have the Titans. The
Saints are now terrible. They were the best team ever
two weeks in. Looks like the Commanders have the hardest
schedule though remaining. So I'm gonna say the NFC East
is probably I'm gonna I'm gonna I guess the Eagles

(08:17):
win the NFC East based on nothing but looking at
what's happening and not believing in the Commanders. They still have.
They're still the Commanders. And I cannot believe that a
team is now good after they've been so bad for
so long, after only eight games, regardless of who's running it.
I can't. I just can't shift that. My perception of
the Commanders is still terrible, and it's gonna take. Like
I now see the Texans, it's a pretty good team.

(08:38):
And it took a year and a half for me
to actually see that logo as a winning logo.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
That was gonna ask you what week will it take?
But it sounds like next year.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yep, okay, not a week.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, okay, so that was number one. Who wins the
NFC East? I'm going to go with the Eagles based
on the schedule, although I would like to the Cowboys
make the playoffs, so Eddie is not allowed root for them.
That's why you're not allowed root for the cowboy.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
You know what, I think?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I'm the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, me too, And I tell you what, if they
make the playoffs, maybe we all go and don't take him?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
What typical cowboy fans over there? Who loves those guys?

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Eddie?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Who wins the NFCS?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I think right now the Commanders do? I mean, if
the Commanders keep playing the way they're playing, they're gonna
win the NFCS, which is shocking because no way we
thought that at the beginning of the season.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Your boy, if the Eagles keep playing the way they're playing,
no win too. They just have a game less, right,
But that I mean, just using your logic.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. I just for
some reason, I look.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
At the Eagles and functional. It looks so dysfunctional, and I.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Start thinking, like losing Kelsey, that did that? Do that
much of the team, do you? They can't, they cannot.
They couldn't do the Tousch push.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
I saw them successfully push touch the touch push.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
But Jalen Hurt still had a hell of a game
last week.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
But touchdowns or something.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, but he didn't say that. He said they couldn't
do the touch push, which is crazy. A touch push
they could there was last year. It's like if they
attempted it, it was going to happen. But I would
say too, there's uh strategizing how to stop it. The
more they do it, the more teams are trying to
figure out to stop it as well. So that's probably
probably counting that too.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's true too, But I agree.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, who wins it? Let's go Eddie NFC.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
You say the commanders said, commander?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Because I'm not a Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Fan, Yeah, exactly in your Cowboys hat, Casey.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I think the Eagles are gonna squeak it out. I
think too, They're too talented. I think they're gonna find
a way to win the division. But then they could
probably fail great like, you know, gloriously in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Kevin.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, I'm gonna go to Commanders too.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm all in read.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
I'm gonna go Eagles, man, those Eagles.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, favorite team. So I have on my list here,
I have the new updated pickleball rankings.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
For I'm gonna go to the restroom.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
To be to be in the rankings, you have had
to play at least twice, so no one can show
up once and be really good or really bad and
make the list. That's fair, because that's unfair because somebody
can show up once and they never fall off the list. Yeah,
so the new rankings. Where's my list? This is a
very important list that I wrote with pen five minutes ago.

(11:10):
Can you hear all my papers?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh Yeahlin, sound like a mad scientist over there.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I guess I go from my memory. The new rankings
are at number one, well, still me at number two.
Still George Burg he wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
But he's played like four bye way he's he's he
has the games.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, I throw that.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Even official if I don't have the sheet.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hey, did your dog each your homework?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
At number three? Kick off, Kevin, Yeah, we came all
the way to number three.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
At number four. Read what seven to four? He was
the gold fit now and the goldfish mean he'd have
that dog in me at that goldfish. And he's at
number four now at number five, injured, but still number

(12:11):
five Kevin Klug.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's crazy. The injured Kevin Klug is number five.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
At number six gator oh and at number seven the
worst pickleball player. He now is called the Goldfish.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Eddie.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm sorry the pickleball rankings at l Reid brought Eddie
a goldfish sticker and puts on a show. Wow, you
jumped all the way to four to buddy.

Speaker 8 (12:48):
I'm proud of myself. I'm hurting today, but it was.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Worth it, amen, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Yeah, man, I don't
how much you say I played terribly that Yeah, that's
game is tough. It's a lot of court.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
Reid.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
You beat him.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
So the first big match was Kevin and Eddie because
that he's like, I can't wait to play Kevin.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I'm not wait.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
And then Kevin just disposed of them, dominated me just
disposed of him.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah. What was that score, Kevin?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Seven to two?

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
And so for those wonder we played a seven because
there's a lot of singles matches and we play a
seven instead of eleven because we'd be there all day.
So after that it ended up being what was that
would be the last place match between Reid and Eddie
and Red disposed of Eddie, and then Gator who runs
the station, ended up playing and Reid beat Gator, and
so then it ended up being Eddie to be in

(13:37):
the Goldfish.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, the heart of a Goldfish fell off the ranking list.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
How you feel about that, buddy? I need you to
say something, speech, speech, No, what.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Do you want to say?

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Man?

Speaker 4 (13:46):
It feels terrible.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I'm going to get back to training. I'm going to
hit the gym. I'm going to hit the pickleball court
and hopefully I get back on the list and slowly
moved my way back up.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I love read taking a picture of you now with
the goldfish in your chest. No, I'm not smiling like
you're the You're the worst.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I am the worst out of you guys.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
That sucks.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, how do you feel being the best?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I won't be the best forever. I work hard to
be the best. I'm looking for. I'm trying to get
people to come out and play and push me. Kevin
pushes me now a little bit. I'm a still being
a pretty bad scorewise, but he moved.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, what it was like, what's the movie? Oh Fast
and Furious?

Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know anything?

Speaker 3 (14:24):
I almost had you and it's like, no, he didn't.
I felt like I know it was seven to one, okay,
score seven to one, but but in my head I
screwed up so many times. Every time I had to
serve and I had an opportunity to make a point,
I screwed up. But in my head it was way closer,
and it's all that matters.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
And you know coming, you know, when Read and I
played through, we were zero zero for thirty minutes, Like,
say about our level.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Man, we're just rank four and your rank seven.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Hey, but you know what too is.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's and I'm not gonna blame it on this, but
it's almost not fair. You try really hard to put
that dog into Read. You don't say anything to me
while now I.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Try to motivate because Reid is like a kind, gentle soul,
and it hurts. It doesn't hurt Read to lose, but
it hurts Read when we make fun of him for losing.
So and there's an difference. It does not hurt read
to lose because he's just a kind, sweet guy and
he loses, like I'm sure there will be another game again.
A wonderful, sensitive, beautiful, soft guy and we love him.

(15:30):
But what he doesn't like is when we get on
here we make fun of him because.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
That hurts him so that he didn't like the name Goldfish.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I was talking to him before. I was like, dude,
you have to play mad because you're mad, is like
or even yeah, and he's like, well, I'm not mad.
I'm like, no, you have to bed like play angry.
And then like point two, he's like laughing and in
his paddle up and I'm like, dude, you're not yes,
but you're right. I was trying to emotionally coach him

(16:00):
because I did. He didn't care if he lost, but
he does not like us to make fun of him
when he loses, so I wanted him to avoid that today.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, and you know, my coach told me nothing.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
You don't take coach, you take no coaching because they'll
say what happens with Eddie the couple and Nelson.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
I am not.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
I don't claim to be great at pickleball our group.
I'm pretty good I'm probably pretty good overall, like in
the Nashville community, but there are people that are much
better than me that I would take a lot of
tips from. They would play a lot and sa anything
to Eddie goes, I know, I got it. I got
I got it, like immediately, yes, immediately immediately.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
So it's like, you know what I'm doing, dude.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
So it's like you don't saying you don't say anything,
because after about the third time that I know, I know,
it's like, no, you don't because you're not doing that.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
I really did because I thought it. And then you
would say something.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like I just thought that I know this is just
not true. So that's the deal.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I could have used a little encouraged no, hey man,
get that dog, and you would tell read focus man, focus, yeah,
because he loses focus because he's like, how can I
help she would like to help somebody struggling.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Or like, no, dude, play the game.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
But that helped him a lot.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
It did help him. Yeah, even when I was playing
him at the beginning of it, I could tell he
was playing mad and because he was being he was
in there, I mean like seven to one or something.
But he, like Kevin said it was much closer. I know,
I know it was almost a skunk but almost had you. Yeah,
but recongratulations Buddy manly appreciate it. And then Eddie, I'm sorry.

(17:20):
Number three on my list of things I do want
to talk about Penn State Ohio State, which is a
very a fun game for a person who does not
care about the Big Ten personally, Like it's a good game.
I like to watch it, but I have no interest
in the Big Ten generally as a conference. That game
is very interesting to me because you have two teams
that kind of need it based on the history of
not getting it. I mean, Ryan Dad needs a win.

(17:42):
Ryany cannot lose another game. That would be real bad. Yeah,
for him to lose another game. Two conference losses to
Oregon and and then Penn State, who they just can't
win the game. They can't get there. And so it
is it's in.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Valley.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, yeah, Penn State. That's what they call it, val
Happy Valley.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Happy Valley.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
And isn't Penn's state And is it not in College
College grow Growth, No, No, that's that's California College State
College State State College.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, is that a big deal over there, Like if
you live in the Northeast.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
What do you mean, I don't I don't know the
U answer a question.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I feel like this game is just kind of a
normal game to me because I'm not from up there.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I know it's a massive national game for a couple
of reasons. One, they're both extremely I had all my
notes too, but they're both extremely high ranked. I was
looking at my pickleball notes. I lost every note. It's
like when you watch someone in one of those movies
or walking in they have all their files and they
bump into somebody in the hallway and the floor like,
oh my god, Like that's literally what happened to me.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
And so I got it.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I mean I've lost everything. Let's say it's gotta be there,
is there somewhere. Ohio State versus Penn State they spread
as Ohio State minus three and a half. James Franklin
is one and nine versus Ohio State is Penn State's
head coach one and nine. That's the wild the odds
to make the College Football Playoff Ohio State minus one thousand,
which means they do think they'll make the CFP. But

(19:06):
they start to play Penn State and Indiana and that's
two losses, and you could possibly still get it even
with two. And if anybody gets a benefit of the
doubt's gonna be Ohio State Penn State minus six fifty.
I think drew out. I think he's playing Penn State quarterback.
Last thur heard it's a game time decision, but I
think is he not playing?

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I think the likelihood he is playing, but like officially
they're saying game time.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Last thing I read, Will Howard, the Ohio State quarterback,
grew up Penn State fan, wanted to go there, they
didn't recruit him. He went to Kansas State, then transferred
to Ohio State. Both of these coaches need to win
this game. Yeah, what have we learned? Both can't win?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh only one winner.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Unless they tie. But now you can't even tie noe.
So who do you want to win?

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Pens State?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Why?

Speaker 3 (19:53):
They've always been the little brother in Ohio State's always
bothered me for some reason, and I'd just like to
see them get that one big win they've been trying
for so long for.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Who do you think will win Ohio State? This is
a day game. If I'm correct, that sucks for Penn State. Yeah,
because I think it's like the Big Ten, like the
they're Big Game. They put it in noon based on
like the network, and that sucks.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, it's at eleven.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That is terrible. I know Central time, So yeah so
noon there.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I think Ohio State probably wins it, and I would
love for Penn State to win it. That's like for
James Franklin's one to nine, right. If Ryanda loses this game,
they probably hire Signati from Indiana next year. Ohio State
they probably just fire him, can you after the season?

Speaker 5 (20:36):
What I heard?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's sixty two and nine Ryan Day that is at
Ohio State, and he's still like everyone wants them. He's
just on the cusp of being fired.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Because Michigan kept pounding him. Right, basically, yeah, he can't
be Michigan. You can't win the national championship. Those are
the two things they want.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
And then if you can't beat Penn State. But he can,
oh he can. But if it's just not a good
year to loose to Penn State. Hey Rie, what are
your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
On this game?

Speaker 6 (20:57):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (20:58):
You know, Dawson, my roommate went to Penn State, So
I'm gonna give it to Penn State.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
There, you go underdogs.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
You know, I'm an underdog. They're an underdog.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
I believe in him.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
He's a fourth in the pickleball league, so so he
has an opinion. Yeah. I think if you're I think,
if you're like six or seventh, you don't even get
an opinion on stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh, because goldfish, they don't talk.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
They don't I don't even know what the subject is
they forgot. Yeah, because you know, you know what's good
about a goldfish?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
They got ten second memory?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
You mean, the the happiest animal on earth?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Is it a goldfish? Ten second memory? Be a goldfish?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Sam, Yeah, I'm a goldfish ready.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I have two other things, the Battle of the Please
give ups. It's the Saints and Panthers, and God, that's
a terribtriits of Titans.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
That's terrible.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
I think when my son says something like they allowed
those two teams to play.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
They should combine both teams and make well, not even
a super team, a mediocre team to play the rest
of the league.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
The Saints are two and six. They've lost six straight.
Derek Carr is going to play right, yep. God, they've
been terrible.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
The Panthers are one and seven, losers of five straight.
Bryce Young expected to start this week. You didn't play
terrible last week? They get through for like two fifty
or something, did he? Yeah, they just got They're just bad.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
The other game Patriots and Titans, God.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Dang, we'll be there.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
They should a game what do they call it in soccer?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Relegating.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, they should relegate two of these teams.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
When they fall off the league.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
They're down, They're they're out. They're playing the winner of
Penstead Ohio State next week. So Patriots are two and six.
Drake may still a Kikusha protocol. I know, Jakoby Prisette
may probably will start. Titans are one and six. Man,
they suck and they've traded everybody away that was only
kind of sucky. So those are two terrible games that

(22:47):
the only reason people will put an eyeball on them
at all. Fantasy and DraftKings. That's it. Thank god that
those things exist. But these games will not be seen.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Kevin said. Kevin said that he's going to the game,
like is it a game that you want to go to?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Does it matter?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's like the cool part is my dad and brother
flying in for it. And we haven't been to a
game together in like five or six years.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Maybe you should win this one too.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
That part is cool. If Drake may plays, I am
excited to watch. If he doesn't, then I'm kind of like, Okay,
hopefully we win.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I hope he doesn't play, and I hope you lose
because you just why when?

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Why when?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Because I'm there, No, I hear you, but why whin?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
And deep inside you're still a fan like no, but
but think, think with your head. It's tough, not your heart.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's tough. I'm a goldfish.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
There's not much going on.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
And then finally the Dodgers won the World Series. Baseball
is a very regional sport. It used to not be
Baseball used to be awesome. Baseball YouTube my favorite sport.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
What's the region wherever you live? Your team? Got?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Very based on only one part of the country watches baseball.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Most of the reason. Where you are, if your team,
you have a team there, you follow the team. It's
not really a national sport per se, near as much
as the NFL, even a bit of the NBA. The
Dodgers are the champs. But to prove my point here, Eddie,
how many Dodgers. Can you name starting lineup?

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Go, let's see, let's go with the Shoho Tani, Mookie Betts,
Freddy Freeman, Monsey don't know his first name.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, I'll accept it, Max Munsey, you're right.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Max Muncy, Teoscar Hernandez, great job, yeah, Geek Hernandez.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Yeah, uh.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Oh yeah, no he's not.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
He's you doing a good job on this one though.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Look at the outfield there. Yeah, it's about it. I
think Taylor. He comes in and plays a little bit sometimes,
Chris Taylor, Chris Taylor.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, I would have said Will Smith teachers the catcher,
just because I always think of Will Smith the actor.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fresh Prince literally reason I ever think
of him.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Austin Barnes, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Who's the MP?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
He did say it, okay, you mean yeah, yeah, the world.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yea, thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
I watch it. I think it's four nothing, and I
was like, well, this game's over to for sure go
to game six. And then I looked at the ESPN
app and it was not over. And then I was like,
I don't even care. I'm done. I don't care about
either one of the teams. It was late.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
It was late.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I watched. I watched it and the Yankees. I had
a friend there for the Yankees and went to Game five,
not a diary Yankee fan who was just rooting for
the Yankees, and I thought about texting him, and then
I was like, I don't even care that much, right,
which is weird because I mean, I lived and died
by it. It's so hard in Major League Baseball because
the stars aren't on enough. It doesn't matter who the

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star is. Let's imagine you have a quarterback. Half of
the game, you're showing the quarterback on the screen. He
is involved in the play, even if you're handing it off.
Look at basketball, there's only five dudes out there. He's
always seen, and if he's one of the dude dudes,
he's getting the ball a lot. Baseball, let's just he's
only playing d h So he's he's only batting. He's

(26:03):
not in the field defensively, which means he's not on
camera anyway. And a ball gets hit out there, but
he's not at all, and then.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
They go to commercial they do show the little thing
where's holding the bat. That's true about it, that's.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
True, but playing he's only batting one out of every
nine spot. So it's hard for a star in baseball
to elevate to that level that breaks into like the
mass population masks because if you don't see him enough. So, yeah,
it sucks for baseball.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I've never thought about that, but that's true because.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
I would the Dodgers were on like Game of the
Way and I have I have major League Baseball Sunday ticket. Uh,
what's it called, and then I'll be like, let me
see it. He wouldn't come on forever. I'd like, this sucks.
I'll see what they are in the order on the
ESPN app and be like, well, I'll just come back.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, but he will be pitching next year, so that'll help.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's it helps that he was awesome enough to not
have to pitch this whole year.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
And forgive me Clinton kershaw he got hurt or something. Yeah, Okay,
I was wondering why I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Pitching Hetafford High School together. Yeah, I did for that story,
like every single story ever. Okay, that's those are my
h those are the five things I wanted to address.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
So let's do this.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Let's build our parlay real quick.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Peez the app up.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
So what's the deal here, Mike, you want to do
four picks?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
We do.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
They know we don't get three R four they know that,
look for bigger odds.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
But we'll be on the app.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
We don't get three, right, they want us to Okay, yeah, Sarah,
you die. You almost died running the marathon, but we
want you to iron man this time. It's like, all right, okay,
you read you want to throw read into this? Oh
yeah for the fourth Yeah, because he'll probably get it right.
That's why he'll blindly just get it right.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Okay, So look at the schedule.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Reason, Yeah, yeah, I gotta.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Look at it.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Ray.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Do you know anybody who's playing this week?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Nope, not at all.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
But you are fourth and pickleball is right.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I put up a clip of Eddie and Reid playing
pick a ball. My story, they look pretty good. You
guys look pretty good in that clip. Yeah, Eddie had
losing the point, but it was it was a good
point loss. Yeah, you look good.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
And the clip that Eddie put up, I was like,
it looks so much slower with doubles than singles.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
It is.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, you're just standing there. Yeah, okay, Kevin, you go first.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I'm gonna go with our local team here. Vanderbilt plus
seven at Auburn.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Mmmm man, that felt like a sucker bet so like,
I agree so much. I know gotta be wrong.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I know why I did so much. I don't know,
but I'm gonna take it.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, Vanderbilt plus seven, Eddie, I.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Am taking the armed Forces. I'm taking Army. Army minus
twenty two over air force. Air force has nothing against
that triple option, can't stop.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Have you watched the Army at all?

Speaker 6 (28:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (28:53):
No, no, but they're in defeated.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
I think No, they just got killed by No.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, didn't maybe did exact?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Do not talk? I'm still undefeated?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, why do you say undefeated?

Speaker 4 (29:04):
They say that weird?

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Maybe I say it weird. I say, I say undefeated, unfeeded.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
And well, I think I was trying to be like undefeated,
you know what I mean. It's trying to like the silk.
Do you like that one?

Speaker 1 (29:16):
I didn't know if maybe I said it wrong because
it's I don't know. I haven't I've seen nothing except
people debating if they're going to be in the college
football playoffs.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Same here. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Okay, so you're taking what Army minus twenty two.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Minus twenty two against two air Force.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Oh got it.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
You don't like air Force?

Speaker 4 (29:36):
No, just football.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
No.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I love our military, love our armed forces. But in football,
go Army.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Read.

Speaker 8 (29:42):
I'm thinking Michigan plus fourteen and a half against Oregon.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
You know, Oh, it's a lot of points.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
It's at Michigan. You think they're gonna You think they're
going to just run through them like that.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Read.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
We're idiots, So you hold onder your pick. But that's
not a pick I would have made, so probably will win. Okay,
sure we're gonna hold it. It's true. Yeah, And then
I'm gonna go Tennessee minus sixteen and a half. They're
playing Kentucky. It's at Tennessee. I do think Tennessee runs one.
Throw them in. Kentucky has had a bad loss to hour.
That's a bad loss. That's an embarrasing loss. That's when
you put the graphic up on Twitter and you just

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go final.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
With no yea the social media final.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
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Speaker 8 (30:28):
Right?

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Uh.

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b ball. All right, I want to get to an
interview here. It's pretty awesome. It's my talk with Notre

(31:12):
Dame head football coach Marcus Freeman. He was an offensive
coordinator out to day before becoming the head coach of
twenty twenty one. Fight and I were seven to one
this season, ranked in the top ten. Big thanks to
coach Freeman for taking the time out of his day
and talking with me here. He is Marcus Freeman. Hey, coach,
thank you very much for the time. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Absolutely man, glad to be on here.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Question number one, you guys need a bunch of on crustables.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
I think that's all football programs, college, NFL, probably high school,
and then me and my wife have six kids, so
you know that uncrustables are, you know, being bought through
a lot of different households in football programs.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Like they always do those like if you go back
in time, mold you invest as like Apple some people's
like I think I would invest in on crustables as
much as like NFL team at college, do you guys
have like an uncrustable order?

Speaker 6 (32:03):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we have plenty of them. We
are always stocked with uncrustables. I don't know what the
infatuation is, but they definitely eat them.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Let's talk about Navy for a second. For me, it
seems like to play a team that runs an offense
like that. It could be Navy, any of the service academies.
Like what they do is so different than what everybody
else does. It's almost like you have to start somewhat
over and understanding their offense. Is that true or am
I out of my mind.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
No, it's true.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
There's a it's a unique offense that that you don't
defend every week, and so you have to have a plan.
It's something that you have to work in fall camp,
you have to work during your bye week, because if
you think you're gonna be able to put in this
special defense in one week, it's probably not going to
have much success. So it's been something we play Navy

(32:53):
every year, so we've had some type of scheme that
we've had in our package, but you know, you have
to continue to practice it throughout the year before you
play them.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Are there assignments that some of your guys, maybe your
ends or your linebackers that they just don't have all
year until this week and you really have to spend
extra time with them going this is your assignment.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Yeah, it's almost every position, and it's you know, making
sure the biggest thing is that your eyes are in
the right spot because they have so many motions and
we call them smokes and smoking mirrors that it tries
to really cloud to your vision. And if you can
keep your eyes in the right spot, you have a

(33:38):
chance to have success. But then you got to make
you play with the right technique, but it is again
something that's just unique for only a triple option offense.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
And I know you got a couple of weeks and
I hate to jump ahead, but I'm not planned, so
I don't care. But you're playing Army coming up. Is
it very similar in what you're going to do game
planning or at least understanding what they do? Do they
run it almost exactly the same?

Speaker 6 (34:00):
You know, I think the core principle of the triple
option is the same, but you know, they use different personnel,
and when you really evaluate and prepare for an opponent,
the triple option is just one part.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Of what they do.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
They do so many different things, but it's all personnel driven,
you know. I think I've heard Army uses a little
bit more tight end, so they might have two tight
ends in the game, whereas Navy was strictly one tight end.
But again, there's going to be parts of it that
are the exact same, but there's also gonna be a
big part that is totally different that's predicated just towards

(34:36):
what Army or Navy does.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
When you're recruiting a kid, do they ever say it's
just too cold up their coach.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
If they say that, I probably turn away as fast
as I can. You know, I let them know that.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
Listen, man, we have jackets, we have indoor stadium, an
indoor practice facility.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
I'm from the north, I'm from Ohio.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
I'm a Midwest guy, and so listen, cold as cold,
and you don't ever get used to it. You just
got to put on more clothes and at some point
you'll you'll figure it out. But you know, most kids
that say, coach, I can't play in the cold, you
know right away you're not going to get them.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
What's like the trick to catching balls in the cold.
I know you look at me and you go, that
guy was a heck of a high school receiver, and coach,
I accept that. Thank you for saying that in your mind.
But I always struggle catching balls in the cold. I
catch balls in the warm, but catching balls in the cold, like,
what is the key to catching a ball in cold weather?

Speaker 6 (35:25):
You know, I think you've got to try to keep
your hands warm, Like, if your hands are frozen, you're
not gonna be a great pass catcher. And so you know,
obviously hand warmers, they have those, the handwarmers that you
were outside of your uniform. But in between plays, it's
really important to keep your hands warm, and so you
have to use different things to make sure that happens.

(35:46):
That might be hand warmers inside your glove, that might
be a couple of different things. But if your hands
are frozen, you're not going to catch that ball.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Can you wear doctor's gloves inside of a glove.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Yeah, there's some players that do that. There's some coaches
that do that.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
And that's what I do because we'd be in the
deer woods and I wear doctors gloves underneath gloves, and
I was made fun of. Do you guys make fun
of people who do that? Because if so, I take offense. Not.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
As as long as you get your job done, nobody's
gonna make funny. I always say, there's no there's no
such thing as a cold tough guy. And so you know,
if you're if you're cold, you're cold. You're not being
a tough guy. So do whatever it takes and make
sure you're warm.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Now you're gonna be humble here. I would prefer you not,
but maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle. Do
you think you could play a solid two to three
minutes a game right now, you've said enough enough.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah, it depends on what the offense is doing. But yeah, listen,
I mean, my pride is telling me I could give
you two to three minutes. The outcome might be something
that the offense or defense doesn't want, but you know,
my pride tells me, yeah, I could play a couple
of plays.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
If you win a big game, and I would say,
I mean, you guys rolled this week pretty easily watched
the whole game. If you win a big game, how
quickly do you go home? Do you have a bit
of family time at home? Or do you get right
to film that evening? Depending on who the next opponent is, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
I go right away. That's just who I am.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
If it's an away game, I make sure I evaluate
the game on the plane as we come back. If
it's a home game, I come right into my office.
For me, it's hard to go home and have family
time when I haven't evaluated the previous game. So I
evaluate that game right away and take some notes and
then go and have a little bit of family time
and come in on Sunday, and now you can be
ready to move on to the next opponent.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Tell me about Riley Leonard as a dude.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
He's awesome man. He is just a great human being.
He's a great teammate.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
There's not enough compliments that I can give him, but
he is a wonderful, wonderful individual.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
So after the loss at Northern Illinois, what was the
big takeaway that has changed this team for the good.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
I think it's just the mindset that we have to have.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
And I said this to the media on the Monday
after that game, is that this is the first time
for me as a head coach of my three years
that we won that big game early. You know, we
lost to Ohio State the past two years early in
the season and it was kind of like you were
humbled and you got to make sure you're getting ready
for the next opponent. But this time we won the
big one early over Texas A and M. And I

(38:23):
think as we look back, we didn't have the right mindset,
the mental approach to this game. And I don't think
anybody in this program believed that we could lose in
Northern Illinois. And you know, sometimes you have too much
pride and you get humbled, and we were humbled. And
I think I often tell this group in this program,
like we have to keep that pain and we have
to remember what it was like to lose that game,

(38:44):
and so we can never lack in the mental approach
to the preparation.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
It's not just a physical approach, it's a mental approach.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
And we know if we don't prepare the right way
and respect our opponents the way we should, then we
can be beat by anybody in the country.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
And so that's what we got to understand.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
And it's you know, easy at first to have that mindset,
and now you've had a couple of wins and you know,
people are telling you how good this.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Team is, but we got to keep that same mindset.
It's just this is who we are.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
We're not going back to who we used to be,
and we got to approach every week with the right mindset.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I feel like Winston Churchill's pretty cool when I like
read what he had to say. I feel like sometimes
I listen to Gary Vee and let's talk about sports cards.
Who is it that you can listen to talk and
it can really fire you up or kind of reset you.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Oh man, you know there's a couple of people, you know,
every once in a while, listen to a motivational speech.
You know, we we played a Kobe Bryant video the
other day just talking about the mindset. I might listen
to a sermon by TD Jakes or something like that.

(39:51):
I'll listen to a coach. I talked to my college coach,
Jim Tressel often, who helps, you know, with my mental
approaches that head coach, coach and the leader each week.
But I think you can grab wisdom from anybody, and
it's all about you know, are you humble enough to
accept the wisdom that's out there.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Do you still call coach dress up coach?

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Absolutely? Always will and.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
That's pretty cool. What about your high school coach? You
still call him coach?

Speaker 5 (40:18):
I call them coach.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
I think once you have a coach, like especially somebody
that's older than you and that's impacted you in a
strong way, like, they're always coach to you, and no
matter how long or how o would you get, you
know they're always going.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
To be coach.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Notre Dame, known for their traditional uniforms, we know who
it is when we see it immediately in the land,
though of everybody wanting ten thousand uniforms, any idea to
put like a couple of hearts on the side of
the helmet, or like just like one game, like switch
it up a couple of lightning bolts, like or is
it just we are who we are, We're not changing.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
Listen, there's a little bit of both, right the old traditionalists.
You know, every year we wear green jerseys, and I
don't have to be social media to hear sometimes the complaints.
Sometimes even within this building, we have some guys that
played here that just love the tradition Notre Dame, and
I can tell it kind of turns their stomach when

(41:10):
they see us in green or wear a different combination.
But I think part of it is that we have
to remember what our tradition is, like those gold helmets,
the normal home and away uniforms is something that makes
us unique. But the young people like a little bit
of flavor, and so I think you can be somewhere
in the middle where you let your your players and

(41:32):
your captains kind of determine what they want to wear
for that week. But at the same point, let's not
get too far away from the tradition.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
What about people not wearing knee pads? Do you ever
like to put knee pads in? No?

Speaker 6 (41:46):
I mean listen as you look in the NFL, some
of those guys don't wear knee orth iPads, And you know,
it depends on what position you are. If you're a
ball carrier, you probably should have knee pads in. But
a lot of guys on defense, you know there's not
a whole bunch of cup blocks anymore unless you're playing
Navy and Army. Knee paths can be overrated at times,

(42:10):
but it's all based on the position you play.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
What if one of your guys wanted to wear like
the old school single bar, like Dick Bucke's helmet is
like coaches, would you allow that?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
The only things you better be tough.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
Now, if you're gonna wear one of the school homes,
you better be tough and represent what that means.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
But as long as you go do your job and
you're tough, I'm good with whatever you wear.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Man. I got three final questions for you. I want
to go back to the first time you ran through
the tunnel as the head coach of Notre Dame very Special. Obviously,
can you remember what you were thinking or feeling right
before you ran out?

Speaker 6 (42:44):
I mean, there's a there's an adrenaline rush that it's
hard to reciprocate in any part of your life when
you come out of a tunnel and it's every week,
like it isn't much different going out for my whatever
time it's going to be. When when we played Florida
State in a couple of weeks, then it was the
first time Nike there is a there's butterflies. There's an
adrenaline rush from the time you're in that tunnel til

(43:05):
you run out, and then you get to the sidelines
and then you got to reset and really get focused.
But it's just something that it's hard to reciprocate in
any part of your life. But I still get it
every time I run out of tunnel.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
You mentioned Florida State, they're coming up next week. Whenever
you're playing a team that maybe has not been record
wise as good as they were expected versus a team
that's killing it. They're six and two, seven and one
Florida State. Not that I'll either the're one and seven.
What's the approach and with the guys going, hey, there
may be one in seven, but anybody gets sneak up
on anybody, how do you have that conversation?

Speaker 6 (43:38):
Well, I think that that for us, Fortunately, we've been humbled, right,
is that we know if we don't approach this opponent
with the utmost respect and prepare the right way, that
we're going to get beat. And we've shown that by
getting beat week two of this season. And so it's
just a constant reminder, it's a constant demand as the
head coach that we got a demand and we prepare

(44:00):
the right way and then continue to remind them the
mindset we should have and and each player has to
choose to have that right mindset, and so that's my
job to make sure they're mentally ready, physically ready. But
again that's why we got to keep the pain of
that Northern Illinois game, because we got to remember, if
we do not approach this game the right way, that

(44:21):
out comes not going.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
To be what we want.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
What's the rule on Instagram live in that locker room, I'm.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Not one hundred percent sure. I know we had a
discussion about it. You know, I want the young people
just to be able to be young and have fun,
but also respect, you know, the privacy of their teammates.
And that was my biggest thing, is like you know,
you got guys changing and those type of things. We
got to respect the privacy that happens in the locker room.
But I also want you to be able to have fun, right.

(44:46):
I know social media is real and you want to
be able to experience that moment with with some of
your followers and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
But it's a fine line between it. So I haven't don't.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
I don't have a rule decision not allowed to do
social media in the locker room and stuff like that.
But you gotta be smart and intelligent and understand that
there's a privacy aspect to your teammates too.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
A final final question, what if at halftime I wanted
to take a shower? Could I? I was playing?

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Let me see, you got about between halftime adjustments and
you know, getting back out there, you probably got about
seven or eight, nah, maybe seven minutes to get all
your equipment off, take a shower and get back into it.
So if that's what's gonna what it's going to take
for you to go out there and play well the
second half, go get a shower, but make sure it's quick.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Anybody ever done that, but like, I gotta get a shower.
Coach just samel real bad. No, I've never had I
for sure do that and then I'd be late going
out and then I'd be benched.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
And I was really exactly right the second half right.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Now, and I'd made like three tackles for losses as
a linebacker. It's crazy, coach. Congratulations, good luck this week
against Florida State. We really appreciate the time. I would
play for you. I say this all the time. I
know you're not here, but I would play for you
even though you would never let me. But like, I
watch you and I'm like, that's a dude that I'm
not like at all because I'm not near as tough
or cool or good looking. But I would like to
play for him. So congratulations, coach.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
It means a lot. Mat I appreciate you. I would
love to host you here in South Bend anytime. Man.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
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Speaker 3 (47:33):
The Dodgers won the World Series, all that is great,
but there's sometimes these fans go a little far and
La there's twelve people arrested and a bus set on
fire and people throwing stuff at cops in LA celebrating.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
The Dodgers win.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
To say, let's go until the cop part.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Yeah, it's like, guys, what are we doing?

Speaker 8 (47:49):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
I I thought you were also going to bring up
it's been days. But the fan interference with the Yankees hilarious.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
That was amazing. That's crazy, man, and it was excessive.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
It was stupid, and they should be banned, not just
from game, they should be banned from every sporting event. Yeah,
for trying to steal the guy's glove, forgetting a.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Ball, but help grabbing his other arm, moves other arms.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
They try to take him, They don't take him. I
just all go they take him home. Yes, Yeah, it's
always weird when someone wins and it turns into violence.
Most I think in Detroit when that happens, because they've
had a couple of really bad runs, they've won something
and then burn things, and for some reason, it's always couches.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah, but couches are couches better than a bus, but
you're still burning stuff?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Like why burn when you win? Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Yeah, I agree? Yeah either way, it's like, what do
we do? Why do we need to set things on fire?

Speaker 1 (48:32):
I guess there's just energy. You gotta get rid of
that energy. Yeah, this raw energy all right, case.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
You have anything?

Speaker 4 (48:37):
H yeah. I mean I want to kind of touch
on the World Series as a Yankee fan. Uh, just
very disappointing the way that we blew it. And I'm
just kind of looking ahead of this off season with
Wan Soto and where he goes. I heard that the
Dodgers are now in play for him, the Mets are
in play, I mean basically all the teams with money.
But uh yeah, I'm just uh, I don't really know

(48:57):
what's going on with them. So it's going to be
an interesting off season.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Why does New York suck at sports when they shouldn't?

Speaker 4 (49:03):
I don't really know.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
I mean because the series, Okay, but they haven't. If
they haven't one to fifteen, it hasn't if you've ever
been in fifteen years, right, one in fifteen years. Yeah,
I don't retract my statement, but I'll cut a slipper
of it off yeah, yeah. Do you think it's because
there's two of everything?

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Maybe I never really thought about it like that, not
that that.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
I mean, it's just like there's the Jets and the Giants.
They both suck the pretty unbelievable fan bases. That just
imagine if you had a unified fan base rooting for
one New York team, like crap, what happened? Or they
they've burned that thing down?

Speaker 9 (49:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Everything.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
But since it's kind of cuttingto two, you got you
fight with each other. You got the Yankees and Giants,
the Jets and the Mets.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
It's kind of the usual.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Do you feel like New York owners like you could
go to them individually? Are if I feel like New
York sports team owners are known as incompetent owners.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Yeah, well definitely Woody Johnson, Okay, and Dolan usually so yeah.
The next for sure, al Steinbrenner is pretty just like
I don't he's just complacent. He doesn't really care. I mean, uh,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, and not a dig at you because my team
also struggle mightily, but it feels like New York should
win more than it does. Yeah, but then imagine if
New York just had one team in the because I
go to Hockey Rangers Isllanders, yeah, even though it's not
in New York. But the ownership there.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Yeah, well Dolan's the Ringer owner. So that's like the
one thing that he has on his okay and his
record that's good.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
And they're good.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Yeah, they are good.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Oh good.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah, they've they've been. They made it far in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I don't know about hockey.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
I know very little.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, I my hockey.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
They're pretty solid playoff chances for NFL teams. Kansas City
ninety nine point nine percent, Buffalo ninety nine point eight,
Houston ninety six point seven, Buffalo, I'll see, Baltimore ninety
four point five, Pittsburgh ninety two point four. So those
are the AFC teams in the nineties. In the seventies,
the Chargers have a seventy eight point five percent chance.
There is no eighties Chargers. Seventy eight point five in

(50:57):
Denver's is sixty six point two a sid for Denver
to make the playoffs. I mamagine yeah, with a rookie
quarterback Chom Payton's second year.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
There after blowing up the whole thing with having no
money to spend.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Wow, and then it gets into like Cincinnati at twenty
two point four percent, where Cincinnati has to win. I
think we had seven to nine, right, it would sell
it Burrow and he's like, we can do that. And
if there's a quarterback that says that that, I will go.
Maybe they can't. It's Joe Burrow or it's Lamar or
it's my home. There's like five quarterbacks that would believe that.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
What about bon Nicks, No, not yet because he say
that yet you would say, and then everybody else kind
of sucks here the colt to twenty one percent, Jacksonville
ten percent, the Jets nine percent.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah, by the time this air will have already played. Yeah,
particularly Score recording this on Thursday afternoon, predict to score Casey.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
I'm going to say that the Texans are going to
beat us. It's gonna be another heartbreaker. So I'm saying
like twenty to seventeen. I mean, we're gonna lose by
like a field goal.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I think the Texans are a point and a half underdog.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Yeah, we're a fade out. Yeah, where they saw that
we're the favorite somehow, Yeah, I don't know. I have
they lost.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Miami four point three percent at Cleveland two point two
and then under one percent Vegas, New England, Tennessee. All right,
sounds right, NFC. The Carolina has zero point zero percent.
Are they mathematically eliminated or they just had no faith?
Is that what?

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Really?

Speaker 4 (52:13):
What it is?

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Zero point zero? The Giants have zero point one percent.
I'm under ten percent, the Rams and the Saints under
twenty percent, Arizona and Dallas at eighteen point seven percent.
But you gotta feel good. That's a one, and that's
almost a one to five shot. That's better than you.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
Probably it's a prayer as what one is?

Speaker 6 (52:32):
Five?

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Not bady hold On Eddie, I wrote a number down
one through five, picket three, it's two. You didn't go
you almost want to play?

Speaker 4 (52:42):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Seattle thirty three percent, Tampa Bay thirty eight percent, the
Bears forty three percent. Now you get to the team's
over fifty percent, Minnesota fifty six point six percent, San
Francisco fifty nine percent, Green Bay seven two percent. Chance
to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
That's only because that division is so tough.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Philadelphia seventy five point eight percent.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Yeah, because that's every for them. They're really good.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yeah, Philadelphia seventy five point eight percent, Atlanta eighty two
point two percent. That's because the division is not good, Yes,
exactly the exact opposite of the other. Not that Tampa
isn't better.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
They're they're hurting.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
They're hurt there.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I think mostly it's a it's a future as well
as Yeah, Detroit ninety five point four percent and then
number one, the highest percentage the playoff chances ninety five
point five percent with the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
But but you don't believe.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
I don't because it's too magical. I don't believe anything.
I don't believe in magic.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
No, I guess I don't either.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Did you watch Disney as a kid, That's.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Funny, Kevin. Not really, and that's true. I didn't watch Disney.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I did not watch much much Disney. Now, okay, I
think that's that's about it. I'm just looking at the
weekend big games. Boise States playing San Diego State. They're
a huge favorite. We talked about how to state Penn State.
Miami should run. Is Miami gonna lose the a C
championship game on defeated?

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Their Their schedule is so weak.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
I know, I know Ole Miss at Arkansas, Ole miss
is a seven point favorite. I think we're gonna win
that game.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
I like it. I think we're gonna win that game.
I think we're gonna win. I'm not saying to bet it.
I think we're gonna win that game. And you know,
I think we're gonna win it so much, I'm not
going because if I go, we'll lose good logic. Yeah,
I think we're gonna win that game. Whatever. Oregon's fourteen
and a half point February of Michigan, Florida and Georgia.

(54:48):
Georgia should run that one. I'm the Texas A and
M South Carolina game is pretty close that they're playing
at South Carolina. It's a two and a half point
uh spread text A and M's you know, almost three
point favorite South Carolina. They play hard, especially at home.
That would be really funny to watch South Carolina beat Texas.
A and M the Texan and beat Texas.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
That's why that spread scares me. That two and a half.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
That really funny for me, not for Mike d though, No,
might do it. Not like that. Okay, So there we go.
In the NFL Cowboys and Falcons, Dude, if the Cowboys
do it this week. They're back in it. My Cowboys
are back in it.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Gosh, it's tough, man, I don't I'm not even excited anymore.
I know that feeling.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
That's like I used to like, especially around right now.
I excited.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Good.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Think about NFL though, you can still be excited, like
Casey cannot be excited anymore. No, it sucks the Jets fan,
that sucks. They let him down. They couldn't beat a
bad team nofense, Kevin, But you can still be excited.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
They look bad though, dude, they look like they can't
play football.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Bill's and Dolphins Bill six point favorite. Bengals should beat
the Raiders. If they don't, they're the New York Jets
and they're done. Yeah. Chargers and Browns.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Now that Watson's up and it's not even that I mean, yes,
but James was awesome, Like, let's go Browns. Titans are
at three and a half point favorite of the Patriots.
Commanders only at three and a half point favorite at
the Giants. M that's a weird spread to me. Saints
Panthers Saints big favorite there, Bears and Cardinals don't care
about the game. But it's the close Cardinals and one

(56:24):
point favorite Rams at Seahawks don't care about the game.
But the Rams are two point favorite and the Vikings
big over the Colts. But here's the thing. The Vikings,
excuse me. The Colts have said that that Anthony Richard
is not the quarterback anymore.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Yea, a bench.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
What did you say?

Speaker 6 (56:38):
His name was?

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Flacco?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
What Flacco like skinny and Spanish flaco flakito?

Speaker 4 (56:43):
Yeah? Flacco?

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Huh is that?

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Not?

Speaker 4 (56:46):
How again?

Speaker 1 (56:46):
I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't say it
like that, dude.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
I've always pronounced his name as Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Does that sound weird you?

Speaker 7 (56:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Okay, because I say Joe Flacco. Also, I'm from the South.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Oh you say like a flat Okay? Okay, yeah, I
mean I've seen people look at me weird when I
say it.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
But no, no, no, you may say it right Joe Flacco,
but he's extremely white, so he says fla oats probably.

Speaker 5 (57:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
I've never heard anybody say flo Oh you haven't.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
No, okay, you just did.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Were done, Thank you, guys. My prediction is Reid will
hit the one game on that we hate him for it. Eddie,
you need to be excited about the Cowboys. You have
another week to be exacse I they lose again, you
cannot be excited. I mean, I just bought my first jersey,
like I have to, like, I have to wear it.
I bought a CD lad jersey and bought a jersey
in like, I don't.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Know ten years.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
You just bought a jersey.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Yeah, why from fanatics?

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Oh the car.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
He bought somebody that you signed for.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Kind of gifted a jersey.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
I did, But I mean I made the purchase. But
he's right, like when you purchase a jersey, you're like,
all right, not necessarily.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
A fan of an adult man. Though that's weird.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
And I'm not gonna wear it outside the house.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
I'm just in the house.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
But but you know, you got to think, like how
long is this player gonna be here? Like do I
want a Dak Prescott? He's terrible.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
I say, you are so fairweare there, like I know
you're a Cowboysan, but you're so fair.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
I'm talking about players. When you buy the jersey, like
we're gonna get rid of park? How long's Parsons is
gonna be here.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
I like Parsons digs like I don't know his lifespan
of the Cowboys seedee lamb, he's gonna be here for
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
I buy that one.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Why how do you figure your Cowboys ed talk like that? Like?
Why is he giving up hope so quickly?

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Have you watched their games?

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Mic? They showed some signs of life last week?

Speaker 4 (58:31):
For what that's like when you like, you know what
no one's looking, let's go like the game's.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Over, even even being sad's okay, But to like hate
on your quarterback openly like you just did, Like he's
what I say? You said that probably got sucks.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
He's thrown two interceptions every game, like, and the passes
don't look good.

Speaker 9 (58:49):
He's been the biggest DAK defender for so long and
he sucks. And after after being burned so many times,
you know, you gotta admit when you're wrong, and I
was wrong, I don't blame you. Gosh, he looks terrible
every single game.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
I wish Dad could talk about our pickleball league on
this show.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Oh he would have ritten me a part you can't
even serve.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Yeah, we're right here, blow the whistle, Eddie, all right,
I see you guys, see next week. Next week by
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