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teams at the top of the rankings. Whether it's the
College Football Playoff rankings or the EP rankings, five undefeated's
at the top. Two are in action right now. Florida
State leading Miami twenty to thirteen, five and a half
minutes to go in the third quarter in that game,
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and Washington still trails at home to Utah twenty eight
twenty seven, seven minutes to go in the third quarter.
There Number two Georgia, they got a test today. They're
gonna be kicking off in about an hour, taking on
eight to one. Number now nine Ole miss Ohio State
has a much easier game at the shoot, taking on
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Michigan State a little bit later on. And then there's
one undefeated team that remained undefeated today, Ephraim. That would
be the University of Michigan on the road against the
Penn State Nitney Lions, Michigan domination without their coach on
the sidelines. There's so many things to talk about with
the Michigan situation, but let me start with this. Okay,
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according to the Big Ten Conference, they have an investigation
going on. Well, that raises the question, why are you
leveling any kind of punishment against Michigan if you have
nothing more than an investigation going on?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Don't we live in an America where guilty until proven
you know, or innocent until proven guilty. If they're still investigating,
why would they punish me Michigan if you want to
call it that by expelling Jim Harbaugh from the sidelines.
So does that make any sense?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But unless you're looking at it like they're trying to
get ahead of the NCAA. So they don't want sanctions levied,
they don't want UH scholarships taken, they don't want lengthy
suspension suspensions. So they're being preempted. They're going like, okay,
we not we're not sure what happened, but something happened
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and we're willing to punish them, so when the investigation
is over, they can be like, Okay, yes he's punished,
let's move on.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay. But the Big Ten also said that this was
not a penalty directly against Jim Harbaugh. It was against
the institution, right, So what kind of penalty if you
want to call it? When you have a coach, it's
actually able to coach throughout the entire week to get
you ready for the game. I don't know how much
he's doing in terms of play calling or anything else.
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Most head coaches at the level of a Jim Harball
once the game begins, they're just sort of standing there,
you know, and they're sort of orchestrating traffic. But they're
not really doing a lot of play calling. So I'm
not quite sure what kind of penalty that is against Michigan.
Didn't penalize them today because even though the score seemed
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relatively close twenty four to fifteen, this was complete domination
by the Wolverines, who, by the way, in their last
thirty plays from scrimmage, ran the ball, just ran the
ball right down the throat of Penn State. So I'm
still trying to figure out, Okay, so you.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Haven't.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You have an ongoing investigation. You decided in the midst
of that to penalize Michigan. You don't want to single
out Jim Harbaugh, but you are singling now Jim Harbor
by keeping them off the sideline. He watched the game
from the hotel. I'm just trying to figure out where
are we going with all this.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Trying.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
They're trying to get to the end of it. They
want it over. We know Jim Harnball probably be coaching
the Raiders next year anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So well, I'm sure if Jim Harbaugh has this way,
they will.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Be his salary.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I mean, it's just been one of those situations where
he finally got over the hump beat Ohio State, got
into the the playoffs College football Playoffs, lost to a
team probably shouldn't have lost to.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
To me, I feel it feels like this is his
last hurrah this year at Michigan. So as long as
they keep winning and we talk about Penn State, Man,
I feel so bad for that defense. That defense won
the top defense in the nation. That defense is the
real deal.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Their offense is completely inept, Like I mean, I couldn't
it was it's a hard watch. It's a hard watch,
and it really makes you you understand the importance of
a real quarterback at any level, high school, college, pros.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's glaring.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
How bad a team offensively can be without the proper quarterback.
I see it every week with San Diego State. I mean,
we haven't had a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So you have a defensive back as your quarterback. Quarterback
supposed to be a decent quarterback for Penn State. This
was a weird game. So it was still a one
score game, right, It was still a one score game,
completely within reach, and there was four and a half
minutes to go, and you got a fourth and six
from your own thirty yard line, and I'm thinking, wait,
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you have two timeouts remaining a defense, it's just stuffing
a missions, not throwing the ball. JJ McCarthy for the
game was seven of eight for sixty yards, so they're
just running the ball. So you have timeouts to stop.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And you just stopped them the previous two series.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So why are you going for right? And then they
go for it on fourth and sixth? Did you see
that play off? Where was he throwing it off? He
literally threw to an empty spot. There was fifteen yards
clear of any Penn State receiver. There was no Penritten
State receiver even in the zip code of where that
throw was. And then Blake korm runs thirty yards for
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a touchdown and essentially that was the game. So Michigan
is you know what's going to be interesting this week
as we see this committee putting out their rankings. No
one at the top here is going to have a
more impressive win on paper than Michigan winning on the
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road in dominating ren State. Right, so they sat at number.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Three through When you say top do you mean top five?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I'm talking about the top five undefeated teams.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Okay, Well, so to that point, if Washington which they
had just come back and taking the lead against Utah, but.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
They're at whole and they were big favorites against.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Utah, I get it. But Utah is ranked right, so
this is Look, they're ranked. Utah is a good team.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We know that.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
So you know they're ranked eighteenth right now, They're seven
and two in a conference where you know they have
the best quarterbacks across the board in all of college football.
So that's going this win. If they hold on and
win this game, this is going to mean something.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, the most meaningless win is Ohio State. Today they're
playing Michigan State. Michigan's Ohio State being ranked number one
by this committee was based on that win against Notre Dame,
who's lost three games. Now yeah, yeah, so I don't
know how that holds up. Now, Georgie's got a quality
opponent at home against Old Miss. But none of these
teams is going to have a bigger win than a
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road win for Michigan against tenth rank Penn State. So
are they gonna move Michigan up for this or are
they going to penalize them based on this investigation that's
going on right now.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I don't think they'll penalize them. I don't think. I
don't really think the committee cares about the investigation. Honestly,
I think they will move up. I think Washington if
they hold on and win this game, they'll move up.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And well, the team that should go down is Ohio
State there.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But yes, I agree. If Georgia blows out Miss at home,
they'll be the new number one.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
They should be, They should be their number one.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Now, So that's how I think this is going to
play out. Okay, so it'll go Georgia Michigan, Ohio State
and Washington, and Washington holds.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
On eastiull Florida State in there.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, they're struggling against the six and three Miami right now.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, they are so so they dropped to number.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Five, I would put I would swap them in Washington
all right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
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You have what do you have here? Brannon?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh? You do.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Let's hear this all right? So this was the Michigan
I guess you call. He's an assistant coach, but he
was the interim coach today. Uh, standing on the sidelines
with Jim Harbaugh out. This is classic? Can we play this?
As was? How much? Can we play all of it?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's hear what he had to say after Michigan's big
win today against Penn State, to win on.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
The road in this environment when there were doubts, Tuan,
what does it mean to you?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I thank the Lord, I thank coach Marball, love you man,
loved you man. But there's university the president al ad,
we got the best players, best university, best alumni, in
the country. Love you guys, these guys, like these guys
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right here, these guys did it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
These guys did it. Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Coach that was live on Fox after the game.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Can I just asked the question. I'm not sure how
this goes, but can you thank the Lord?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yes? And then start dropping cuss words?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I don't know, but he just did.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I mean, I get it, mm hmm, thank the Lord,
and then just cuss for the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
You go to confession on national television. I don't know
what the protocol is for that, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I don't know. I don't Is that something that's that
we should be doing. I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I don't think Fox dumped it either. I think the
the no button guy was in the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
They didn't dump it when it happened because they didn't
expect it to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
No, not one, not two, but three times.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh So it was like, Okay, why are you crying?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh? He was weepy, like what is happening here?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
He wanted to thank Jim Harbaugh. He wanted to think.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
He's alive.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
He's literally like a mile away at the hotel.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He's not one. He's not dead.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You know, I was thinking about this and I heard
a couple other people sort of throw this about. If
I'm Michigan right now, the hell with the Big Ten?
Everyone else's movie? We went out of this conference? Yeah,
sec interested in Michigan about that acc Pac twelve Big twelve.
If you're Michigan, right why do you want to be
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part of a league, because you know everyone has done
something of similar nature to what Michigan is accused of doing.
You know who's behind this, don't you so?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oi? State?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I thought, of course, I mean, this is.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
What happens when your biggest rival all of a sudden
beats you in back to back years and then is
raced off to a historic started their season, and want
to slowed them down little bit. If I'm Michigan, the
heck with this? Everyone's moving to different conferences. Why are
we still here? You don't want us here, We'll take
our team elsewhere. It's free reign these days, you don't
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there's so many players that have been spotlighted over the
course of the the season, and there's always this conversation
about who's the league's MVP. But let me ask you this,
is there any player in the league more valuable to
his team than the rookie c J. Stroud is for
Houston Texas.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
He's well that game last week was remarkable and talking
to a plugged in team source and this I didn't
know about him because you don't. You didn't hear a
lot about him in terms of his demeanor and what
he's like around the coaches and players. He's got a
lot of swag. He around the coaches. He's super confident.
That'll explain his ability to see it before it happens.
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He processes way better than people expected. He had not
only a great game for rookie, any veteran would be
loved to have four hundred and seventy yards passing.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Night, five touchdowns, just.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
Some incredible And I know the Bucks said, hey, they
had a lot of defensive breakdowns, but whatever the case
may be, he took advantage of everything. And they've got
their guy. They've done a decent job of building around him.
But what I've learned in this business is a quarterback
of processes this well will make their offensive line better,
and he certainly has done that so far.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
All Right, just a quick follow up again, they're four
and four. Where would their record be? Because I'm looking
at their running backs, their wide receivers, their skilled guys
are completely anonymous. This is why I talk about most
valuable player in the league as opposed to how you
look at that award and maybe say who's the most
valuable player for his team? To me, Straud's a runaway.
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That team could easily be one in seven, zero to
eight without him.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Oh, no doubt, I'm in Look, there are a lot
of quarterbacks having good seasons. Jalen Hurts, who was the
runner up last year to Mahomes, He's right up there.
Jared Goff, by the way, he's played extremely well. Lamark
Jackson's playing really well, they're not putting a lot on him,
but what they're putting on him, he's getting done.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Two has had a very good year. You know, we
don't look a rookie.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
First of all, if they get in the playoffs, because
I voted two polls, I'm gonna have to take a
deep look at what I'm going to do there because
right now they're the ninth seeded team, they're only a
game out of the wild card spot. It's been a
credible story and there are a lot of look, I'll
be honest with you, there are a lot of teams that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did not love c. J.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Strau, And no, obviously it doesn't look very good. But
again we're only eight games in for his career. But
his swag and the way he carries himself and his
confidence is the other part. I had added to that
from what I was told earlier this week, and it shows. Man,
he's kind of fearless is what you're looking for in
a rookie, which we rarely see in a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
To be honest with oh, well, he's big, he's got size,
and the flip side of that, the actual first pick
in the draft and Bryce Young.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, he is Look, man, he's struggling. He is struggling.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
But when you look at him when he's coming off
the field or when he's in the huddle, you can't
even see him. He is small his stature. Look, this
is a big man's game. Okay, when you're playing quarterback
and you're standing behind your offensive line that averages sixty
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four to six five. I mean, I think they lead
the league and batted down passes. What moving forward? How
does this work with him? I mean, I just don't
get it.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
So I could a couple of things. I know from
talking to the Panthers before and after the draft, of
being around the training camp talking during the season, they
had no problem with young side. They just felt like, look,
if they could run the ball effectively, which they've not
done by the way, Miles Sanders making six point two
five million season, he's been awful so far. If they
could run it, better not put everything on young Even
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they had a play call and changed Frank Right, the
head coach. I'm told it was his idea to give
the play calling to Thomas Brown, who's calling place for
the first time in his career.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
So that's a little bit difficult as a rookie.
Speaker 11 (18:46):
They don't really do anything well from you know this
as a former player, what is your identity? They wanted
their identity to be the running game. Well, they have
no running game, so that puts it on the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well.
Speaker 11 (18:56):
Other than Adam Field, who's really been great, he's given
them everything they thought, no one else has done well. Really,
Hayden Hurst has not done well as a free agent
tight end. They've not gotten anything else really out of
their passing game. And they're just a bad football team.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Now.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
The shame of it is their defense is really competitive
despite they they've had all four of their stars in
the secondary of miss time. We're currently out, but their
defense is hung in there. It's their offense. It's been
absolutely pitiful yet Yet two weeks ago, when the Texans
play at the Panthers, Young had his best game and
Stroud did not play well.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Go figure, all right, So I'm doing the show on
Sundays obviously with rich Ornberger, and we got this Stroud
thing going on, and then we got Joshua Dobbs. I mean,
I mean, people really have no clue. So I was
in Arizona a month ago when Dobbs was actually playing
pretty well, right, they beat the Cowboys. They're competitive of
the forty nine ers. Some of the locals are sort
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of talking up Dobbs like he's you know, he's pretty good.
I mean, he's been around, but he's playing pretty well.
And then it's sort of went sideways and then they
make the deal to send him to the Vikings. But
try to explain to everyone listening out there, how insane
it is for a guy to literally not take a
single snap in practice on a new team where he
basically doesn't even know the names of the players, and
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then has to be thrown in because of the injury
to haul and lead that come from behind victory. How
improbable was that scenario for Dobbs and the Vikings.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Yeah, he never took any STAPs with the first team offense.
So if from nosis as an offensive lineman, when the
quarterback has never taken snap from the starting center, good,
you're just hoping to hang on. I mean, you're just
hoping for the best. And it's just it's seriously, covering
this business nearly twenty five years, I've never seen anything
like this. He'll obviously start the rest of the season.
John Hall, There's no way if Dobbs is healthy. I
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would go back to last season. Let me give you
another part of this. I don't know if you guys
remember on a Thursday night last year he wound up
I believe it's a Thursday night. What happened was he
was signed from the Lion's practice squad. It was there,
so it was a primetime game that he played. He
was signed off of the Lions practice squad. He started
the next week in a primetime game, and he gave
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Tennessee the Titans really the ability to win that game.
And I remember talking to someone of the Titans. They
were like, you know what, we may have found something here.
And what happened was they had a coordinator change in
Tennessee and the Browns, uh, you know, the Browns knew
him a little bit. We forget he actually was with
the Browns earlier this offseason. Yeah, and then then you
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had you had the trade to the Cardinals because they're
running the same scheme, the Browns and the Cardinals running
exactly the same offensive scheme. And then this situation happens
and Josh Jobs is good enough to be a good
backup for many years to come. That that's the thing
he's only twenty eight. By the way, that's nothing at quarterback.
That might be at running back. You're at the your
you're in the back nine at run At quarterback, no,
you've got plenty of timeline.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I got a name for you, Gino Smith, right.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Yeah, and that well that ten years, Steve ten years.
It took him out of the blue. And I talked
to a GM. It's so funny you mentioned him. I
talked to a GM at the at the owner's meetings
in I think it was in Phoenix earlier this year.
Said man, why didn't you guys look at Ji Smith?
Goes Dude, if Juna Smith was going to be this good,
we would have signed him. He never showed anything before
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last season. It's it's a very odd business.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It is.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Let me speaking of odd business and possible shakeups, the
Giants are trending towards the number one pick. Is there
any world where although they just gave Daniel Jones that extension,
is there any world where they get themselves out of
that and use I'm sure they'd be in the top
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three picks on one of these quarterbacks coming out this year.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Let's cut off. Let's make it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Let's make it better. Let's make it. They get the
number one pick in the draft. Look, they could revisit it.
They've got a lot of issues. They've been They've been
just about eve from every week. They've been without three
starting offensive line in both tackles most weeks. It's been
an absolute disaster. Barkley mess time with a high ankle sprain.
Jones obviously has the ACLI the neck injury. He didn't
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play well where he got hurt, but obviously they were
not protecting very well. They're pretty much there's there's really
no way they can get out of it. His base
salary of thirty five point five millions fully guaranteed, so
they can't cut him.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
No one's going to taken me. Had an ACL injury,
they could certainly get out of it after twenty four.
The fully guaranteed money's gone after twenty four. There, Look,
they over let's call look at that. They overchief severally
last season. They had a great winning at Minnesota in
the playoffs. Reality hit them too many injuries. This is
another thing we've seen this season. A lot of team
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seasons have either been derailed or slowed by injury. Some
have rebounded, some have not. But yeah, I know there
was a lot of consternation with some fans. Giant fans,
why did they extend Jones' contract. They felt they were
comfortable because they made the playoffs with that quarterback. They
were comfortable with them. It just didn't work. But look,
they've had so many injuries. They are another team that
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it's hard.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Man.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
I mean, this kid, Tommy DeVito is going to start.
There were not only was he non directed free agent,
their teams had no interesting with signing was an undrafted
free agent. Matt Barkley's brought out of mothballs. He'll be
the backup was with some of this group back in Buffalo.
It's just a it's a nightmare. I feel bad for
Giant fans. I mean, it's just it's hard to watch them. Right,
But they've earned their seventeen point dog. In fact, I
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remember they got whitewashed at home forty to nothing in
a week one.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
All right, I have to ask you about one game,
specifically forty nine Ers Jaguars. So the forty nine Ers
come in with a three game losing streak, Jags come
in on a five game winning streak. Both had a
bye week, and the Niners are favored on the road
against the Jags. Should they be.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
I put an ascis at that three. See here's the problem.
Trent wains Or left tackle is very queschable to doubtful.
He's got to have this recurring ankle injury. It's the
same Echoy had hit a procedure on some years ago.
And their left guards out Aaron Bank. So my problem
with that number is their their left side but most
likely be changed tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's not good.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
You're going against a Jaguars defense. That's really come on here.
Josh Allen, the other Josh Allen is on a contract year. Now,
we could look at the Jaguars schedule. Remember remember they
got off to kind of a slow start and they've
kind of turned things around. But yeah, they did win
at Buffalo. That was an impressive win. Overall, they haven't
had a very tough schedule. Now, should they be favored,
(25:16):
Probably not. It should be a pick them. It's a
little bit.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
No.
Speaker 11 (25:19):
I still believe that the nine to a final way
to win. They're getting Deebo Samuel back. Trust me when
I say this, I know from talking to them he
means a lot to them. Oh yeah, he gets Brock
Purdy another pass target. They gotta get Christian McCaffrey the
ball more. But the other thing, the other thing, guys,
before we move on here, their defense has really fun
off there. They're giving up too many big plays, which
is not the story early in the season. Part of
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this three game losing streak is their defense and the
secondary is not playing well night.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
In the addition of Chase Young at the trade deadline
is helping. To man, that's gonna help. That's gonna help
him as a player because now he doesn't get to
see the double team. It'll be over there on a
nick nick both.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, Jacksonville is one of those teams that people still
are hesitant to believe in, and they are a good team.
By the way. Week ten of the NFL, I'm gonna
make this bold prediction, every single game tomorrow and the
Monday night game will be better and more watchable than
that Thursday night game was between the Bears.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
One of the worst I've ever seen it. I call
it well funny going in. I called it take a
Perker's night off. Yeah, I couldn't imagine showing up to
that game.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
What a bleep?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, Wow, that took the game back and.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
Watch I know a lot of people wouldn't watch it.
Funny mentioned, I know a lot of people, a lot
of friends that said, I'm not watching that.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I thought this could be a really bad matchup, and
it actually it was. Adam has always been You're the
absolute best. Will do it again next Saturday. Thanks so much,
Thank you, Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider.
All right, let's find out what is trending right now
once again double duty, the hardest working man here for
Fox Sports Radio. Martin. You this is almost become part
(27:01):
of your normal routine now, well, hanging out with us
on Saturdays before you actually do your own show. Well,
you know, Steve challenges make champions. So that's what I'm
here for.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
You know, you gotta dig, man, That's what you gotta do.
Let's push myself, man, you know what I'm saying. Just
try to deliver. That's all I try to do. Just
try to deliver every day.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And you do that. Busy Dan college football, it sure
is he from tall.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Just a second ago that Florida State was struggling with
Miami six and three team.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well now they have a fourteen point lead. The fourth
ranked team in the nation.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Florida State does over that Miami team ten forty five
left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
There.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Number five Washington has a thirty five to twenty eight
lead over number eighteen Utah in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That's on Fox TV.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Number twelve ranked Oregon State with a fourteen to seven
lead over Stanford. Number fourteenth Missouri leading thirteenth throeing Tennessee
thirty six to seven. That matchup is in the fourth quarter.
There shit five to fifty five left. Rutgers are number
twenty two Iowa, Iowa with the fifteen nothing lead late
in the fourth quarter and finally over.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Thank goodness for all people who involved.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Number twenty five Kansas State beats Baylor fifty nine to nineteen.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Also still in progress.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Number fifteen Oklahoma State thorbe blasted right now by UCF
thirty five to forty three, eight minutes left in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
There.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, it's been some lopsided scores in the NFL. Aurason
A Cardinals quarterback Carla Murray he'll make his first Star Sunday,
he toys ACL eleven months ago. Cardinals also activating running
back James Connor and expecting receiver Michael Wilson to play
San Francisco wide receiver for Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
He's expected to play.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Like Adam Kaplan just said, after suffering a hairline shoulder
fractured three weeks ago, left tackle Treat Williams still real questionable,
per head coach Kyle Shanahan. Wide receiver Stefan Diggs missed
Buffalo's practice today, is expected to play in the game
this weekend. Justin Jefferson, however, not activated prior to tomorrow's
game versus New Orleans. He's still nursing a hamstring injury.
(28:54):
Steve e from back to you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
All right, Martin, thank you very much. Once again. This
is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbin from Salam with it.
We are live from the tairaq dot com studios. We're
talking earlier with Adam Kaplan about MVP in the National
Football League, and obviously I'm hyping up the rookie because
he's been that valuable to his team. That being said,
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in my opinion right now, with all due respect to
the Philadelphia Eagles, the best team in the league right
now is the Baltimore Ravens. I mean, they beat the
Lions thirty eight to six, and then last week they
beat the Seahawks thirty seven to three, and Lamar Jackson
is now suddenly looking like the Lamar Jackson that won
(29:39):
an MVP Award several years ago. So in the moment,
and by the way, this is the same person that
was hyping San Francisco for a possible undefeated season when
they were five and zero. So let's keep that in mind.
But right now, I think the best team in the
National Football League is the Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, I would say you have an argument. I'll say
you have an argument. I would definitely put them in
the top three. But as long as Patrick Mahomes is
walking around, and I know he doesn't have the weapons
offensively outside of Kelsey that we've come to know and love,
(30:26):
but the fact that their defense is actually playing like
a top five defense, when you add those two together,
then yeah, you don't have to now score thirty four
points to beat an opponent. And with a quarterback like
Patrick Mahomes an offensive minded coach like Andy.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Reid, that is a luxury that you can't overlook.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Not having to put that amount of points up on
the board just to win games is huge for Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
They've only had. I mean, if you look at their
offensive numbers, keep in mind they played the Broncos twice
in a three week span and scored a total of
twenty eight points in two games. They put up twenty
one against a Dolphins team that is not exactly a
defensive juggernaut.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, but you gotta look they got They had both
of those corners that at what's the kid from Jacksonville
both for their ramsey and yeah, that's the first time
they stand played together. Yeah, I'm in that defense for Miamis.
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They're they're not a pushover. I mean, they got two
lockdown corners and they got a front seven that will
get with.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Philip Chiefs defense. The Chiefs defense has been outstanding all
season long. But offensively, this team bears no resemblance to
the Chiefs team we've seen over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But what I'm saying is the thing that will carry
you is that defense. So you don't have to score
thirty points a game.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
How do you feel about that Jacksonville forty nine er game?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
A big game? Huge?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Forty nine ers are three point favorites. I know, Deebo
Samuel's coming back. That's huge, which is huge for them,
obviously huge. But I think that it's it's less about
San Francisco more about people just like Ah, I know
the Jags are six and two. I know they've won
five straight. They had a bye week, just like the
forty nine Ers. Lots of people don't get to see
the Jaguars. A lot of people no one watches the Jags.
(32:33):
I watch every game, so I see every well we do.
I mean, the majority of people don't know. I would
love to see a coming out party for the Jags
in that game, because if they do beat the forty
nine Ers and get to seven and two.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
This is a whole different conversation. There's a whole different conversation.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
It is getting interesting on both sides, all right, coming
up on the other side. It is my weekly feature.
I don't know if I've been trying to keep this
a secret, but I'm let it out today. I have
a heman what I've never I haven't I haven't said
that in a week. And I have a new name
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of someone that, when it's all said and done, has
a path controls his own destiny to hoist the biggest
prize in college football. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbin,
he from Salaam Fox Football Saturday. We are live from
(33:35):
the Tairaq dot com studios. All right, it is that time.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Countdown, Hesman watch.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You know again, big update that I do have a
Heisman vote. I've been trying now because we only have
three more weeks after this. Yeah, I mean we're coming
down the stretch here, and I can tell you it
is a wide open Heisman chase. There was one guy
I was determined to get on my list this week,
but it shows you how every can then can change
in one way. I'll give you the name Ollie Gordon,
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the Second. Oli Gordon is the running back for Oklahoma
State who went into this week leading the nation and rushing.
Not only leading the nation and rushing, but coming off
some monster games, including a big game last week in
their win over Oklahoma. So I'm ready to introduce the
country to Ali Gordon Junior, or the Second as he
(34:34):
likes to call himself. Today is twelve carries or twenty
five yards, no touchdowns, and they're losing forty five to three.
So Oli Gordon did not make the cut. These three
guys did. Here is my current number.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
Three bol nobody in the backfield with him on that
shotgun snap back to throw, pressure comes, throws it in complode.
I beg your pardon. Touched Oregon. I'm looking at an
inside receiver. Handa's going to the outside to Franklin. Touchdown,
Ducks touchdown Troy Franklin.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, So that's Jerry Allen from layer field there.
Bow Knicks is still on my list. Why well, they've
lost one game on the road against Washington. They have
a big game obviously at home against USC today. He
still leads the nation in completion percentage. In fact, right
now he would be setting an all time NCAA record,
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and I believe he's still only throwing one interception. So
bow Knicks Oregon quarterback is my current number three. Here
is my number two.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
First quarter Mill Road with Lady of Time.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Look at tal the midle. Why do for catch made nine.
Speaker 12 (35:47):
Black touchdown Alabama six nothing, laid bag thirty eight to
go first quarter, twenty six yards.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
On the pitch and catch for the opening score. Eli
God from the lay field, who would have dreamt a
quarterback that was benched is now number two and has
got a lot going for him. Jalen Milroe the quarterback
at Alabama today, threw for three touchdowns, ran for three touchdowns.
Last week against LSU, he ran for one hundred and
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fifty plus and four touchdowns. Top five in the nation
and passing efficiency, and he has seven rushing touchdowns in
the last two games alone. Jalen Milroe is not only back,
but he is very very much in the Heisman chase.
But he's still chasing this.
Speaker 11 (36:38):
Guy top of the hands, takes a snap, stands in
the pocket, pressure coming, bouncing out to the right, going
for the home run up.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
The sideent top touchsound.
Speaker 12 (36:47):
Roma Tumsay's first tench of the ball game goes the
distance thirty four yards for the politic Touff candidate Roma Tunsey,
and the Huskies hit the lead.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Bet Tony Casasoni from lair Field's So Michael Pennix is
still leading the pack as far as the Heisman is concerned. Now,
if you look at Washington right now, we got inside
two minutes to go, Washington with a seven point lead.
They have a second of five at the Utah eight
yard line. And Pennix has had decent numbers, not overwhelming
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in terms of percentage, twenty four to forty two but
three hundred and thirty two yards, two touchdowns, big stat here,
no interceptions. Utah one of the better defenses in the
Pac twelve. So Pennix Junior, of course, last week had
the shootout against Caleb Williams, came away with a victory
in that game. As long as Washington stays undefeated, and
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by the way, the University of Washington's never had a
Heisman Trophy winner. They've had some great players over the years,
it's his to lose at this point. But I'm telling you,
Milroe lookout. I mean, I'll put it this way. If
Alabama plays Georgia, and by the way, with their win
to they clinched the West. So if they played Georgia
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in the SEC championship game and Milroe beats him, Just
like when Bright Brice Young won the Heisman, it was
really up in the air, and then Bryce Young had
that unbelievable game against Georgia and Alabama pulled the upset
that made him an easy Heisman choice. We're in a
similar situation right now. But it's wide open, wide open.
I'm open to anything, but that's good coming down the stretch.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Like you said, three weeks left, I love the uncertainty
of who is the best player in college football right now.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I love that guys are playing.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
We're seeing a high level from several guys, and it's
good for the sport.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Well, one guy that is it's a little hard for
me is Jayden Daniels at LSU. He still leads the
nation in pass inefficiency and he leads the nation in
total offense, but his team has lost three games, and
actually Milroe out played him last week with Alabama getting
that win over LSU. And by the way, it's not
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like Caleb Williams is completely disintegrated, folks. If he goes
into Eugene and somehow their defense can play at all.
By the way, what'd you think of SE firing their
defensive coordinator? And what does that mean for Lincoln Riley,
who really stuck his neck out to keep this guy.
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Is Lincoln Riley going to be the head coach of
USC next year?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I doubt it, But I mean they've invested a lot
in Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Oh yeah, you bet they have, so I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Say I doubt it unless he's trying to go to
the league with Caleb Williams, then I would presume he'd
be back.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
It's a lot of money invested in him.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
There is a lot of money invested in him. And
I have news for Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
If you are.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
A college coach at that level making that kind of money,
why would you even entertain the thought of going to
the National Football League. You don't have that kind of
security in the NFL. We've seen it time and again.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
No, and it's not going to go like you think
it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Well, look at Urban Meyer. That wasn't a prime example
of a guy who was used to running the entire
show having.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Total control disaster.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
How about when he signed Tim Tebow as a tight
end to that basically walk around the locker rooms to
tell people how.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Good locker room with that one?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Unbelievable. All right, we got a lot of college football,
some big games kicking off Georgia, Ole Miss, and more
NFL talk. This is Fox Football Saturday.
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Speaker 2 (40:52):
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got a big game that is kicking off right now.
That is Georgia. I know the ranks second in the
playoff poll, but to me, they're number one until somebody
knocks them off. So they're taking on an eight to
one old miss team.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Just got a pick right now in that Washington Utah game.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
So Washington had a chance to extend their lead to
ten with a field goal. It was blocked by Utah.
But Utah has just thrown an interception inside a minute
to go in this game, and that is going to
do it. Washington is going to survive and they are
going to remain undefeated on the season. How good are
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the Huskies.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
You get to this point in the year, especially going
through that guntlet of the PAC twelve, the last year
of the PAC twelve as we know it, and the
amount of teams they had ranked in the top twenty
five and still do and you're undefeated, then you're good.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
So they are ten and zero with this win over Utah,
but it's not going to get any easier from next week.
They're on the road against Oregon State, and the Beavers
have lived up to the hype. Ranked number twelve in
the country. They're winning big today against Stanford, so they
could be a top ten team going into that matchup
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with Washington and they're going to head into Corvallis in that.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Deep, vacually tough place to play up there.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Tough place to play. And then of course Washington will
finish their regular season with a matchup in the Apple
Cup against Washington State. You know a lot of people
are making all this noise about some of these rivalries
that will be gone. I mean the Civil War Oregon
Oregon State, the Apple Cup between Washington Washington State. I mean,
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they're going to try to hold some of these things
together in terms of being now non conference games. How
just how big are these rivalries to you as a
fan of college football?
Speaker 4 (43:15):
I mean that the sport is built on these rivalries, correct, right,
So that's it's just not a you know, a fleeting thing.
There's sports and the allegiance to these teams and to
the NC DOUAA.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
They're built on these rivals.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
So you know you were saying, like, if Michigan decides
they want to leave, like, what happens to the Michigan
Ohio state rivalry?
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Correct? Like it's it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
It's a family dividing house dividing situation when you talk
about these rivals, so to not have them anymore, it's
it's like someone in your being kicked out of your family.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
You know, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Rivalries are literally the heartbeat of college football, no question
about that. I mean some of these rivalries go back
well over one hundred years, generations upon generations on those rivalries.
All right, we have an injury time out going on
right now in this Florida State Miami game. I know
(44:18):
there's seven old fans listening out there saying, Harvin, what
are you ever going to get the name Jordan Travis
out of your mouth? In terms of the Heisman Trophy,
solid numbers today nineteen to thirty one, two hundred and
sixty five yards, one touchdown and no picks. It's just
other guys are just putting up better numbers. There's not
much I can do about that. But Miami's definitely got
a chance here. Miami down seven, still two forty three
(44:40):
to go in the game, and the Hurricanes have the ball.
So we'll keep our eye on that matchup Georgia and
Miss Old Miss getting underway and the course a little
bit later on the other undefeated team number one according
to the playoff poll, that would be Ohigh of State.
They should have no trouble against a Michigan State team
in with a record of three and six. I don't
(45:02):
know if there's a better time. You know, when I
think about the month of November, Ephraim, I mean, it's
just reeks of football. I mean, right well, I mean
that's all part of it. I mean the you know,
the smells of fall, you know, the season change and
everything else.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
I can just remember, look at we've got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes,
hawk malky.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Oh sorry, go.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Ahead, okay, let me ask you right now. First of all,
I get a little upset. When I was a kid
a thousand years ago, Thanksgiving was not sort of the
stopover before Christmas. The idea of putting up a single
Christmas decoration before Thanksgiving never happened. Thanksgiving was big, big,
(45:57):
that dinner, oh man, that was it? What is your
number one side dish for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Mac and cheese? Man?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Okay, now when you look at mac and cheese being
brought out, just just eyeballing it. How do you know
it's going to be top notch? What is what is
the apparent? Does it need to have a little the
color and you need a lot of cheese?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, if it's too light, If it's too light.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Not that in it. No, that's not it. No, that's
not it. No.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
If it's too runny, no, you don't want any run
in your macatoe.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
No, the spoon must stand up in it.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yes, now you're talking.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
The spoon must stand up. And if it's not that,
then whoever did it is doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
How many different cheeses are you pay?
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Man? All of them? Okay?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
You well, not all of them, because you don't want
no goat like anybody with some goat cheese and.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
All that, you know, feda like that. That's not We're
not doing.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
That, guys.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
We're gonna go home and eat at home. Guys, thank you.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
There has to be a little bit of that orange
tinge to it.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yes, it has to look like uh.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Bart Simpson, so uh you're absolutely right about that, but
I mean November. Look, I know you're consumed with the
NBA Cup right now, of course, but you don't. You
never know, Like all of a sudden, I wake up
on a Friday, and there there's that funky This is
(47:42):
gonna drag off for months. I'm trying to figure this out,
the stupidest idea of all time, this NBA Cup.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Guys are in, They're invested in it always.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
They're they're keeping the company line.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
You heard Lebron and we had to win this game.
It was the first game. It was so funny. Everybody
has been giving their talking points, including the talking heads.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
So I gave you some numbers, like each member of
the winning team and this is all said and done
gets a five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
That's a hell of a vacation.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Steph Curry currently makes six hundred and thirty four thousand
per game. Every game he plays, he gets, including those
games that are tournament games except for the championship game
will be separate. So look and look at I love
my NBA basketball, love watching I watched last night. I
watched that Lakers Suns game. Your your Lakers needed to
(48:39):
win a game, and they got that win on the
road against the.
Speaker 4 (48:41):
Suns because it was the first game of their in
season tournament.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
They took advantage of their former coach, Frank Vogel, who
decided that Reddish was not somebody who wanted to guard
at the three point line. Thank you, What do you
say at some point you say, let's change our strategy
of letting that guy literally park but on the exact
same spot and continue to take the same shot over
and over.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Again if no one's going to guard.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
It was unbelievable, and they kept calling time out and
they never did anything out of a timeout.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Hey man, look he's the son's problem. Now. It was
good to see Bradley Bilbeck out there playing, though less.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I love Bealing. I love First of all, Bill's an
exceptional person. You ever seen an interview with Bill? You know,
this guy's next level. But I love his game, and
I mean, look, they still don't have Bookers, so I
mean they got to get a full house there.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah, I mean we up two oero on them, so
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, exactly. That's the one team who've been able to
beat so far. Thank goodness, I say you all right,
So let's talk a little bit more about what's coming
up here a little bit later on. I want to
get back to Caleb Williams for a moment here. So
USC fired their defensive coordinator after this latest debacle against Washington.
You saw the frustration for ca Williams like he was
(50:01):
weeping after that loss to Washington because it was a
faint chance of winning a maybe a conference championship that
could you know, take him to the playoff for something
along that time.
Speaker 4 (50:14):
I mean, basically the season is over for him. Yeah,
he's making a lot of money this year, but it's
not I'm sure. Well, of course he wants to be
in the college football playoffs and as to win a
national championship, but you can't do it without defense. Man,
I don't care how good your offense is, it's not
gonna happen on any level.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Even pros are here.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Well, we've seen these coaching changes. One of the big
stories in the NFL last week, and I want to
get a little bit into this, was the Raiders situation.
So the Raiders right now have a club president, a
woman who is black and Korean. You have a black
general manager, and you have a black head coach. And
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they took pictures. So the first time in NFL history
that a team team has had people of color in
all three of these positions.
Speaker 4 (51:05):
If we could just get that owner spot Mark Davis
is so close, almost almost.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
Mark Davis needs to marry a black woman.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
Well, and then he is dating I think a stripper
or she's a dance girl in one of the clubs.
Down a bagas.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
First of all, I'm not going to shame someone for
their job.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Okay, yeah, and she's not African American. But I mean
if the Raiders, I mean again, I don't know how
much you kind of went over the Giants because the
Giants are a disaster now. Of course Daniel Jones lost
for the season. I don't know that's good or bad
for the Giants, as poorly as he's played this year,
but if they continue to play well, because you and
I are both speculating by oh, Jim Harbaugh, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
But.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Look at Basacha was doing a pretty good job a
couple of years.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Kept that's where they made their mistake. But that's where
you lost the locker room. You lost the locker room
with them. That move he got those guys galvanized. They
made the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Did you see their afternoon, their post game celebration, the
cigars and everything. I mean, they hated playing for Josh mcgannis.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
A lot of people do, right.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
Well, you know, some people were bringing this whole thing up.
I saw this on Pro Football Talk. Florio mentioned this,
The Belichick way is dead. It's that hardcore my way
or the highway.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Nobody's falling for that. Man. If the Belichick way only
works with Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Well that was the point. In other words, would the
would the Belichick way have ever worked had it not
been for Tom Brady?
Speaker 3 (52:40):
No, no, no, it wouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
So his first year in New England they had a
losing record.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Yeah, that's that's that's a good point there, Like it's
it's bigger than.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
Than that.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Like you come on, man, you guys on especially the
younger generation with social media to where it is, the
guys have their own platforms and they're going to be vocal.
They're going to speak out that that whole Belichick would
keep everything in house in it.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
No, well, he was a disciple of Bill Parcells. It
was the same way.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
You know, Big Bill wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Oh yeah, unless your name was Lawrence Taylor. It was
my way of the highway. Unless you're lt then you
can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
When you're the best ever ever, yes, across the board
at any position, Yeah, then yeah, you could pretty much
do what you want.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
But much like Pop did with Tim Duncan, he would
come down on Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan would take it,
and that was the message to everyone on the team.
And it's the same thing with Tom Brady.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
I agree that he bought into Tom Brady's gonna take less.
Why won't you take less? It's like, wait, so what yeah?
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Okay, all right, so yeah, the big change with the Raiders.
It'd be very interesting to see if Peerce can keep
this thing going for the Silver and Black.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
Coming up on the other side, we got some NFL
games you want to get to, plus much more on
the college football scene and what's next for Michigan after
their big win today against Penn State. Does the Jim
Harbass situation change the dynamic at all? We'll discuss this
is Fox Football Saturday now.
Speaker 5 (54:18):
Though motion running back to Quinnin Jackson into the backfield
snapped the Barns.
Speaker 11 (54:22):
Barnes looking the pass pressure coming throw over the middle here.
Speaker 12 (54:25):
Setting up Funso to Batalla up the right sideline, forty
fifty turn on the tuts, big boy thoughts up to
Batalla's going all the way. Oh, we dropped the football.
Did he cross the goal line? We're waiting for a signal?
Speaker 3 (54:40):
Fish?
Speaker 12 (54:41):
Did you talk the one yard line? O Thotso to
Botalla did not score.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Bryson Barnes tries to change the play. He goes under
center at the one yard line, hand off to the backfield.
Speaker 12 (54:53):
Husky's got a safety.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
Husky's get a safety.
Speaker 12 (54:58):
They hit him in the backfield to Quintin.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
Jackson goes down and the Husky's.
Speaker 12 (55:04):
Gonna safety to take a seven point lead.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
All right, that's Tony Casasoni there from a layer field.
Washington hangs on defeat Utah thirty five twenty eight. So
we we actually saw the tail end of this play.
Here he from where the ball was intercepted and then
it was dropped, dropped right at the one. The ball
just stood at the one yard line, recovered by Utah.
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But then their first play they tried a straight handoff
and it just got stuffed for the safety. Washing hangs
on for the seven point victory. Once again, this is
Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbini from Salam with you. We
are live from the tire rack dot Com studios and
as we speak, Old Miss has jumped out on top
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of Georgia. Eleven play, seventy five yard drive extra point
is good. So just like that, seven to nothing. This
is an Ole Miss team ranked ninth in the playoff
eight and one. Jackson Dart getting some big play passes
in that drive. So again we've been talking about Georgia.
This team is not as good as the Georgia team
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we've seen in the last two years.
Speaker 4 (56:12):
Oh oh no, I mean those guys are all playing tomorrow
right exactly. Jeordi of twenty five to thirty of their
teams the last two seasons are now playing on Sundays
and having huge impacts on Sundays. So they were basically
essentially just men amongst boys, just rag dalling college kids
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on their way to the NFL. And it's gonna take
some time. George is still consider one of the top
teams they if not the top team in the country.
But it's it's no Stetson Bennett who had been there forever.
It's no defensive front seven who you know, all first
round draft picks in second round draft picks from the
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linebacker corps. So it'll take some time. They're still undefeated
and they still have an opportunity to represent the SEC
and the college football playoffs.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
I'll tell you one thing though, if it does come
down to a Georgia Alabama game as well as Milroe
is playing right now at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Lookout, that's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
After that loss of Texas early, Alabama seems to be
getting better and better and better and better them.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 4 (57:21):
I mean, you look at the Heisman winners that are
now throwing passes in the NFL. It's going to take
some time. Like you said, they've gone through two three
quarterbacks this year, coming back to their original starter. Coming
into the season, they just needed to figure out what
they had and they used the early part of the season.
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They just ran into a team that was pumped up
and ready to go and beat them.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
The highlight game in college football today was the Michigan
Penn State game. It happened early. Michigan dominated throughout. In fact,
they ran the ball the last thirty plays from scrimm.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Just second half. They didn't throw a pass.
Speaker 2 (58:02):
Six of eight passing for their previously heisman Canada JJ McCarthy,
and they ran the ball down the throat of Penn State.
I believe they had something like two hundred and sixty
five yards on the ground. They get the victory.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
I want to ask you this about love those teas.
By the way.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
It's an offensive line, by the way, can I I'm
gonna get a little sighting because I saw this headline
and I got to throw this at you. With your
thirteen years in the NFL, A lifetime on that offensive line,
Micah parsons, the NFL needs more officials. They missed too
many blatant holding calls. Coming from one of the best
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pass rushers edge guys in the NFL. So it was
a guy who was thirteen years in the trenches in
the National Football League. When you hear an edge guy
like Michaeh Parsis saying, yeah, we need more officials because
they're constantly missing holding calls on the field, your response, come.
Speaker 3 (58:59):
On, man, get out of here with that. I care
about all that. Sung it up. You know.
Speaker 2 (59:06):
I was watching highlights from an old time NFL game.
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Back in the sixties, an old time game and.
Speaker 2 (59:12):
Where the offensive lineman still had to keep their hands
to their chests.
Speaker 3 (59:15):
Oh god. Arch used to talk about that all the time.
Speaker 2 (59:18):
Basically like this, and you had to position your body.
You couldn't extend.
Speaker 4 (59:24):
Your hands, your hands holding. We get it, art, we
get it, Yes, we get it, we get it.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Could you have done that?
Speaker 3 (59:31):
But it's a terrible way to try to block someone awful.
Speaker 2 (59:36):
Well, you have to use your body. Then you can't
use your hands. No, and yet the defensive guys, oh,
they can use their hands. They could slap you.
Speaker 4 (59:46):
Yeah, head slap you, Deacon Jones, head slap your brain out.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
I told you that. Hall of Fame. Bob Brown was
an offensive tackle, one of the all time greats. He
got so tired of Deacon with the head slap. He
actually had a screw that he went through the side
of his helmet. And I know this happened because Deacon
once showed me his hand. Deacon did the head slap,
and the screw, which was protruding from the helmet ones
right through his hand. He showed me the scar in
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the middle of his d because my hand was stuck
on his helmet. Oh, those are the good, those are
the good?
Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Is all right?
Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
I want to get back to Jim Harbaugh for a
second here, all right, So Harbaugh will sit out the
rest of the regular season as far as Michigan is concerned.
No mention of the Big Ten championship game, no mention
of a potential playoff appearance, that of course is not
under the jurisdiction of the Big Ten. Remember that the
playoff is a different beast. That being said, to talk
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about Jim Harbaugh returning to the NFL, I just wanted
to get your thoughts on how good a coach is
Jim Harbaugh. So the reason I say that is, look,
the last couple of years they were in the playoff.
I still don't know how they lost that game to TCU.
That was that was not pretty, especially after TCU then
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got blasted by Georgia in the championship game. But if
you're Mark Davis with the Raiders and you have an
opportunity to hire Jim Harbaugh and everything you get with
Jim Harbaugh, and if you thought he was set in
his ways, maybe turning off a few people in San
Francisco when he left the forty nine ers to go
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to Michigan, he's even more set now. So what do
you think of Jim Harbough's head coach.
Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
Well, it's track record, he can coach. So it's what
are you willing to give up? What are you willing
to deal with as an owner? When you bring someone
in like Jim Harbaugh, it's gonna want to run things
his way. It's going to be expensive. But what you
know you get is a real coach, someone who can
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work with a quarterback, someone who can run a team,
someone guys players like to play for. But you're gonna
have to give up some control.
Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Well, we were just talking about the Belichick way. I
mean coaches that want too much control. I mean there
isn't a coach out there that doesn't want total control.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Believe me, that doesn't exist, doesn't exist, right, what the
more storied, the more.
Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
But returning to the college game the way he did,
where you do have the kind of control that you
can never have at the NFL level. Is he a
different coach than he was when he was with the
forty nine ers?
Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Why? I wouldn't say he's a different coach. And he's won.
Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
Everywhere he's coached, that is true. So if you're the
Raiders need winners. The Raiders need a change of culture.
Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Well, the credibility into that locker room.
Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
That's right, you can't continue to lose.
Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Now, what will happen is we have to see how
Antonio Pierce finishes out, because if he keeps, if he
has those guys playing like they played last week, then
you might want to roll the dice there. You don't
want to have another situation where guys have embraced and
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excited about an interrim coach and you go in a
completely different direction.
Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
And remember the money still owed.
Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Josh McDaniels, Oh yeah, yeah, I don't where is Mark
Davis getting all this money from.
Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
He doesn't have that money. No, I promise it he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
It's between him and the gym. That's eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yeah, man, I know that's a big number. Hue System nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Yeah, I mean, Mark Davis doesn't own a tech company.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
He doesn't have anything. And remember this, the Davis family
owns less than fifty percent of the team. Yeah, so
whatever the value of the team is, his take is
less than fifty percent. It's closer to forty percent than
it is fifty percent.
Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Well, and again a Jim Harbaugh a night stag on
that I just don't. I don't think that's going to happen.
I hope Pierce does well, I really do. I like him,
and I like his I like that he is buying.
The Raiders are a unique organization. Take it for someone
that work for the Raiders, you have to buy one
hundred percent in. The reason I left the Raiders when
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I did is that I was being pushed to the
point where if I crossed another line there was no
going back, like I would be branded Raider for life.
Some people wanted that at that point in my life
had decided I did not. I do not think free
dedicating the life my life to the Raiders was not
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the good idea. All right, let's find out what is
trending right now. I don't know, Martin. Do you think
back in the day, if you had been under the
influence that I was working with Al Davis and he's
looking at you and goes, you know, Martin, I'll see you.
I think you're a ridda and I think I think
you need to be a riddit for life. If you
were in your late twenties, would you sign on the
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dotted line or you'd say whoa whoa, whoa whoa wo
what am I signing up for you?
Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
That depends, you know, Lebron James signed a lifetime contract
with Nike at nineteen years old and it seemed to
work out for him pretty well.
Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
So true, you know, it depends. You know, maybe who knows, Maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
If I was in there, we wouldn't they wouldn't be
having all the issues they have now.
Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
All right, you know, we're not hiring John Gruden to
day as the kids we're sticking with. We're sticking with
Josh McDaniels, we're sticking with Rich, We're sticking with Besatia.
Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
You know, maybe that would maybe that would have been
the case.
Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
I know this, if I was a ready for life,
Dare never would have signed Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yeah, well, Josh McDaniels was just a bad hire, a
really bad higher.
Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Strangely enough, Steve that the first time he was a
bad higher, So you knows, maybe that was.
Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
The point time Jerry knew that he was going to
be a bad All right, to the business.
Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
Right now, Number nine Old Miss and number two Georgia,
they're tied seven apiece in the first quarter. Number seventeen Oklahoma,
West Virginia. Same score there that's tied up seven apiece.
That one on Fox TV Number twelve, r Oregon State
with a forty one to ten lead over the Stanford
Cardinal in the third quarter. There about to start Michigan
State and Ohio State, Texas and TCU and Florida and
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LSU all kicking off in just a moment. In the NBA,
we have the Magic and the with the Magic of
the Bucks right now, the Magic with a sixty five
to forty nine lead at the start of the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
In the first quarter Raptors Celtics.
Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
Raptors lead by two, twenty four to twenty two two
minutes thirty five seconds left in the first quarter. And
in the NFL, Kyler Murray makes his first start and
Sunday after tearing his ACL eleven months ago. Running Back
James Connor also activated off of injury reserve Michael Wilson
to play for the Cardinals as well. DeVos Samuel back
in the lineup after suffering a hairline fracture three weeks
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ago for the forty nine ers. Left tackle Trent William
still questionable per head coach Kyle Shanahan. Wide receiver Stefan
Diggs with miss Buffalo's practice today. He is still expected
to play this weekend. Justin Jefferson will not be activated
prior to tomorrow's game first New Orleans. He's still nursing
a hamstring and a of course from the Athletic This
Hour says the Jets are not expected to bench quarterback
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Zach Wilson. Quote, barring a disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Haven't they been watching him already?
Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
If somebody may want to get some you know, dictionary
dot com, New York.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Could use the Vikings make a deal to get dops. Right,
how's that working for the Vikings right now? I mean
right now, the Vikings may make the playoffs thanks to
making that deal to replace an injured quarterback. I mean
with the right guy, instead of righting the way with
a quarterback that is clearly proven Zach Wilson that he
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is not going to be a playoff caliber quarterback in
this league.
Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
It's like breaking up, moving out and then not being
able to find somewhere to live and.
Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Moving back in. You're still broken up. That's still yours.
Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
I don't know why they didn't try to find a
new backup quarterback instead of Zach Wilson this offseason.
Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
But he'll be the starter quote barring a disaster. Okay,
they haven't been paying attention then, thank you very much, Mark,
great job. As always, once again, we're coming Alive from
the Tiraq dot Com Studios, Fox Football Saturday, Steve Hartman
and he from Salam speaking of a disaster. The New
England Patriots sit alone at the bottom of the standings
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in the AFC with a record of two and seven.
They just lost a home game to the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
From the Fox Sports studios in Law.
Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Yes, exactly. I thought that was a big intro for
the next segment. They have a game against the Colts,
not a very good team this week at home. I
say at home. They've only won one home game all
year long. They go to the Giants, I mean the
next couple of weeks. If they lose those games, how
do you think this is all going to play out?
(01:09:08):
If they go I don't know, four and thirteen this year,
which is a real possibility, very real. Does Bob Kraft
walk in and you know, basically say Bill, you have
two choices here, Either you resign or I fire you.
Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Yeah, I think so, I think, And.
Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
If you don't resign then I will fire you.
Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Well, I think that you have to understand that we
have just been talking about the Patriots way and what
that meant and who who needed to be there for that.
We do understand that there had been dissension in the
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ranks prior, oh yes, to Belichick losing like he's been
the last few years. So and some of the choices
he's made. Remember he didn't want to trade Garoppolo. He
wanted Garppolo to be heir apparent until Tom went to
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Tom and Tom went to uh to Bill and said, hey,
you know, Tom went to Robert and Robert went to
to to Bill.
Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
And was like, you trade him now, right, And so.
Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
Then you remember some things came out a couple of
years ago about what was going on and to disconnect
and they got to get on the same page Tom
Brady's last year there. So I think we're coming to the.
Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
End of you know, Patriots Belichick.
Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
I mean, what he's done for that organization is unparalleled
side of control.
Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Right, So I'm trying to get a read again on
the value of coaches in the NFL. I go back
Bill Walsh. I actually did a radio TV show with
Bill Walsh for a year. When he went back to
Stanford after three years in the announcing booth, and then
went back to Stamford in ninety two. We did a
show together and I asked him about retiring from the
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forty nine ers after he won his third Super Bowl.
I said, what was it like the next year to
watch the same forty nine er team that you coach
beat the Broncos fifty five to ten in the Super
Bowl and George Seffert is standing on the sideline and
not you, And he said he admitted he got caught
up in the emotion. It had been such a difficult
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ride that year. They had been bouncing the first round
of the playoffs three straight years, and then they win
that third Super Bowl. He said, I was exhausted. But
a year later, I'm watching my team win better than ever.
I'm better than ever without me. And a reminder like,
oh so you don't need me on the sidelines to
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win Super Bowl? And what does this do?
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
If if Belichick is literally in his last season in
New England and it turns out to be a four
and thirteen, five and twelve even worse disaster, what does
a dude to his legacy He's.
Speaker 4 (01:12:14):
Still gonna be one of the greatest coaches just sheered
over three hundred wins. I mean that puts you and
one of the greatest coaches ever.
Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
But everyone's gonna say it was all Tom Pray.
Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
It doesn't matter. He's still won. Right.
Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
The wins are the wins. You can't take the wins away. Okay,
you can't take the You're not gonna take the wins
away from a coach, right Don Shula, Dan Marino, Okay,
but you still keep the wins.
Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
So in terms of his legacy, it is what it is. Right,
him and Tom Brady made a heck of a pair.
Now Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes going and win five
more Super Bowls? Does that make Andy Reid any less
of a great coach because he had Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Correct Again, it's people talk about a partnership. And if
you look at the history of Pro football Hall of
Fame coaches, most of them had a Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
That's true, most of them had Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
It's it's hard to do it without one, I can
tell you that.
Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
And when they're Hall of Fame quarterbacks leave not so great.
Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
No, So you know his legacy is cemented.
Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
It just.
Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
You know, his inability to draft properly, his inability to
put a staff together that can get to maximize what
they do have in the locker room. Those are the
things that are now more glaring than ever without a
Tom Brady. Tom someone like Tom Brady an all time
great mask and cover up a lot of the deficiencies
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you have as a coach, right not drafting, not being
able to draft the re receiver, not being able to draft,
you know, a running back like these things are now
more prevalent than ever because you don't have a mass
to hide behind.
Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
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Steve Harbin and e from Salam. We're live from the
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Tiraq dot com studios. Want to thank the crew today.
Of course, Martin doing double duty. He and veg are
getting ready to do their show coming up. Loreno on
the board of course, doing a marvelous job. As always,
she has been a superstar all year long. And then
there's Brandon who is consumed right now with the front
on who is going to be the next manager of
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his beloved San Diego Poe like he is obsessed with
who is going to be the next manager? I can
tell you this, whoever you hire is not going to
be more qualified than the guy you just let go,
Bob Melvin, who, of course now is the manager of
the Giants. Who is your leader of the pack. Who
do you want to be the next manager of the
Padres higher Benji Gil, Benji Gill? And why does Benji
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Gill stand out for you Spanish speaker?
Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
I think he'd be great in the clubhouse. And all
he's done is one as a manager. I mean, he
led a Mexico team that wasn't really looked at to
do much in the World Baseball Classic all the way
to the final or the semi final. Excuse me, right,
but yeah, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
And also, I was gonna say, trying to interrupt your
podre talk is what he's trying to do. It's all right,
no worries.
Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
He's also saying he's gonna bring Randy Rose Arena with them,
which hey man, I love Randy.
Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Here here's the problem for the Podres. It's the same
problem that many franchises. The Clippers are like this. They
they are who they are. There's a reason why certain
franchises have never won anything. Let me give you an example.
The Detroit Lions, now Ephraim, as you know, I have
been on this earth quite a while now, a long time,
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and in my lifetime, my lifetime, the Detroit Lions have
won one playoff game in my lifetime. Okay, that was
Wayne Fonz back in nineteen ninety one. Eric Kramer a quarterback,
Barry Sanders, he blew out the Cowboys. That was Troy
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Aikman's first game in the postseason. So this week, the
Lions are on the road against the Chargers. I always say,
on the road against the Chargers is sort of like
a weird thing because the Chargers don't have any home games.
Every game they play at home, they're forced to go
to a silent count because the majority of whoever's at
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SOFI Stadium is rooting for the other team. So it's
just sort of built into their game plan that they're
gonna have to go to a silent count at home.
But that being said, the Lions are three point favorites
in this game on the road against the Chargers, And
I know the Chargers were going up against Zach Wilson
last week, but they look good and we know that
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Charger team has talent. Which why are you leaning on
that game?
Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Again?
Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Lions six and two?
Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
I'm leaning towards the Lions.
Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
So you're leaning the Lions that they can come back
because the last time we saw them they trust more?
Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Which head coach do you trust more?
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Brandon Staley the last couple of weeks has got them back?
Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
One? Do you trust more?
Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
I think everyone.
Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
In critical times in a game, which coach would you
rather rely on?
Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
But again I get back to my statement answered the question.
I'll get to your It's in a roundabout way because
we have two franchises that are identical in their ability
not to win games they need to.
Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Win, So which one?
Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
I don't really trust either one of them? But yes,
I would lean to Dan Gambll. Okay, there you go barely.
Well there's your answer the Jared Goff. But we know
it's going to come down justin Herbert versus is.
Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Going to come down to decision making, and most NFL games,
it's going to come out blowouts.
Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
We were just talking about coaches and what kind of
impact they have, and we got back to they're only
as good as their quarterback, right, Yeah, So which quarterback
do you trust more in this game?
Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Definitely?
Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
Definitely justin Herbert, But I don't trust a guy putting
them in a position.
Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
I think the Chargers are going to surprise you.
Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
I would like that, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
I'm leaning Chargers in that game. Okay, that game will
be tomorrow afternoon. All right, quickly, Now, let's get back
to the game of the day, and that is the
Jaguars and the forty nine Ers. Forty nine Ers have
lost three straight, Jackson won five straight. Both had a
bye last week. Which way are you leaning in this
game where the forty nine ers are the road favorite.
Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
I'm leaning towards the forty nine ers. Getting Deebo Samuel's back.
Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
I think Chase Seong is going to be tremendous to
pair with Nick Bosa.
Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
The defense.
Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
They gotta get the defensive coordinator out on the field,
so I'm leaning towards the Niners.
Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
All right, we got a lot more coming up here.
Don't go anywhere, keep it here. This is Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
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