The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk Football Season Social Do’s & Don’t’s, Shohei Ohtani & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wow, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, a buddy,
well happy happy week zero. We have reached week zero,
ladies and gentlemen, hol my, finally we actually will see

(00:30):
a football game, a couple of them and uh hey,
we're gonna see a rank team, a big team far
to State Georgia Tech from Dublin, a game that actually matters.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
Is this not the dumbest name in all of sports?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
So?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Week zero? How can you have week zero? It's week one? Like,
what are we doing? How is there a week zero
when it's really week one? And it walked me through
this makes no sense. Week zero even feels the value.
They're like, it's a week zero, you know, like just
make a week one, make it a big thing. I'm
at least glad that we get one ranked team and
the Dublin experience is gonna be incredible. But this is

(01:30):
this is sort of like the appetizer, Let's be honest, right,
Like I'm like, we're all salivating for next perise.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Maybe the appetizer. It's like the uh.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh, what's it called? When you when you're in the
restaurant and the the like the fancy place and the
chef just sends out the little thing that you're like, hey,
I didn't order this, but they send it out anyway.
It's a little one byte thing. It's that that. It's
the one BikeE. It's the one bite getting you're ready
for the entire like slate of games. And you're right,
not for nothing. I think bread, Oh oh, how much?
How much bread? Is too much?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Bread?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Too?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Like you can't with the bread before the meal.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
You can't you know the last time I had bread, Dude,
Like I don't even know what to do, Like I
have a hoss up on that bread. Like give me
all the breads and all the dipping sauces. And that's
that's Florida State here. Because I will tell everybody. I
think it's important to note Florida State comes in still
with the chip on their shoulder. Florida State comes in
still angry about what happened last year. But Florida State

(02:27):
comes in with the reimagined roster, Like they lost several
Playton players to the NFL, so all of a sudden,
they're going to really have to prove that they are
sustainably Florida State at this point that they are back.
Mike Norvella, I think has a little sneaky amount of
pressure this year to get something done in a just
junk acc so out of the gates. I'm interested to
see what they look like in Dublin.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, it's gonna be uh it's you know where I
look at it. I just see a game, right, a
game that matters, and.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, that's what Week zero is all about.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Like it's just like it signifies the start, and you're right,
we'll get into your spot on about Florida State, but
it's a game that matters.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I actually love the name.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Because it's not really Week one, and I don't know
something about like zero, like zero is cool, Like I
don't know, I just always liked it, Like I just
think I like the whole thing, Like like I want
to expand week zero. I think week zero is a
great name that could be expanded and become even bigger.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
You have lost your mind, good sir, because weeks are
like nobody says you go from one to a hero,
You go from a zero to a hero. Right Like,
there's just this point for me where week zero feels
like it's almost an accident. You know we're not counting
this one guy.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's just a.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Little teaser here. Yeah, for me, exact, I love the
expansion of it. Just make it week one, you know,
let's just be honest about it here.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, well, examine it real quick, real quick. Zero right
like zero and counts zero dark thirty like zero.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's got a it's got like a there's something about
like I don't look at it as a negative.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I almost look at it like it's it almost feels
almost I don't.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Know, exotic zero dark thirty might be changing my mind,
Like I guess you're right. There is a level of
like suddenly I'm like, oh, that doesn't.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Like you understand where I can't convey it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It just to me, I look at it almost like
I don't know, it's uh, sounds so stupid. But like,
I don't know, it's like military, it's it's oh my god, zero,
it's you know, zero counting.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I almost view it as the dumbest thing in the world.
That's ridiculous conversation. But I love I think I take
a completely different connotation.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Can I Can I tell you what I'm excited about today,
though not just because we're all sitting there talking about
like Florida State Georgia Tech. Game's gonna be in Dublin.
I got a bunch of friends that are over in
Dublin now going actually have some friends that were just
passively going to Dublin and are now going to the game.
So like this, the environment's gonna be incredible. All the
TV shows today are gonna be incredible, Like it's gonna

(05:19):
be awesome. What I'm genuinely looking forward to on the
East Coast tonight is about nine to fifteen at night
when I realize I'm sitting back watching SMU take on
Nevada and just feels right. Things just just gonna feel
right when it's nine or ten at night on the
East Coast on a Saturday night, and I don't have
to sit there and pretend that I want to watch
another episode of Law in Order that I've already seen

(05:40):
fifty two times. I'm just gonna have SMU Nevada on
in the background, and I'm just gonna be able to
sit there and bask in the glory of knowing, realizing.
From here on through the rest of the year, I
don't have to actually think all on a Saturday or
a Sunday. My life is so easy. Now just turn
on a TV. From the minute I wake up, I
had every TV, every of the fifty two damn TVs

(06:01):
I got in this house are all gonna be on
all day. My electricity bill's gonna go through the roof
and they're all gonna have different football games on it.
That's that's that is. I find such peace in ut That's.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
So spot on, dude, spot on.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is so right, so right, And you know, I
look at it the same way, which is like it's
it man, It's on like you know, Labor Day weekend.
We know what that's about. And then the NFL and
the NFL this year, I have to admit, I'm like
crazy that my squad is the Friday and playing from Brazil.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
But I love it. I love a Friday.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, like a Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I mean, that's that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Well, and even this, when I think about what today means,
it means the start of even more because you mentioned
the NFL sleep. But let's be real. This coming Thursday,
there is a full slate of college football games. Now
a bunch of them are you know, they're they're they're fine,
they're fine, they're whatever. But like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, like
when the Fellas hits the air a week from today, Yeah,

(07:13):
we'll be talking games all through the weekend. We're about
to have Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday of college football games.
And that's just man, that's just hits different. There's just
something about it that that hits different. And it reminds
us how long we've been waiting for this, because we
haven't had just the normal slate of Saturday and Sunday
are covered and we don't have to think of college
football in the NFL since what December? Right, Like, so

(07:36):
you know you think about how long that actually is.
That's why for all the time that every show spends
just lamenting whatever's wrong with the NBA, whatever's wrong with
the NHL, whatever's wrong with Major League Baseball. I would
just remind everybody that there's one core thing that simply
makes football different and then it's and that's this that
it's just now August and we're finally getting to the

(07:58):
spot where like if you if you just love regular
season college football in the NFL, you haven't had this
since the end of November, honestly, like where you've had
both sports Saturday Sunday. That's a long time to just
sit there and miss her, you know, like, that's a
long time to just sit there and be like, God,
I just I just wander back. I want her back
in my life. Well, what's happening this weekend?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's a that's a great point because it's my favorite
time of the year. I it's not even close the
first of all, you know, it all in all September,
legionto October and the confluence of all four sports, but
knowing that you have football, NFL and college football together

(08:43):
is really the greatest.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's it's funny.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's the one sport where I don't think the playoffs
are that much better than the regular season, Like obviously
Super Bowl, you know, the title games.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
I get it right.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
But the game, the regular seasons themselves have so much
meaning to them that they're so heightened that every game
matters so like, so it's why each week is so
important that I hate rushing through the season. Like listen,

(09:20):
we're in baseball and I love baseball, right, you know that,
Like we talk about this right around now, it's like,
all right, man, like let's get to like October, right,
like thinking about from that sport, it's like it's season
is so long, Like it's amazing that there is another
five weeks to go in MLB, and MLB has been

(09:44):
fun this year, like the game's move, the players are,
there's a lot of good, young talented players to watch.
I mean, the game actually is a great I think
in a great spot, but it's so long. It's like,
all right, you know, let's get to let's get to
the playoffs. NBA is the same way, Like what.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
You hit.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
January and February and it's an all star game, You're like,
all right, we still got how much still the playoffs start?
How long we got to go for the playoffs? Hockey?
Same thing, I mean, you say it.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
It's it's interesting too, because it is the one sport
that I think honestly translates the same too. We all
know playoff baseball's wildly different, playoff basketball, wildly different. Playoff hockey.
My god, get one hot goldie, you can suddenly find
yourself in the cup. Playoff football is just a heightened
version of what we've already seen all year. Like when

(10:43):
you get chief spills in Week ten. Yeah, chief spills,
I'm making that up. That's not the actual week. But
you know what I'm saying, a regular season chief spills
game versus a playoff chief Spills game, maybe it's a
little bit more amplified, but it's not a completely different
game that you're watching. And I think that's the case
in almost every other The playoff version of every other
sport is so different. So it just makes it feel

(11:04):
different when you watch these things in the regular season
because the regular season stills valued. Every other sport has devalue.
The regular season Football simply hasn't, and I and it
simply won't. There just aren't enough games for any of
it to lose its value.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Dude, that's so spot on.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
The playoffs are so different in those all the sports,
and that's why. And also, don't you love like you
talk about being in the sports bar with all the games,
the volume. You love the volume. We love the fact
that there's like I get depressed with the playoffs because.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
The schedule shrinks, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I love the fact that I could I got Thursday
if you just looking at NFL right Thursday, and then
you know all day Sunday early, you know, afternoon night, Monday.
I mean, I love the Monday doubleheaders. So like there's
this rhythm to it where there's a lot of games.

(12:08):
The playoffs, it may be heightened, but it's sparse, Like
you look around and other than that, the first weekend,
which is great, all of a sudden, you know, by
the championship weekend you got two games and you're like,
damn that. I always hate the feeling of that championship
weekend Saturday when there's no football for the first time.

(12:31):
It's the opposite of like Week zero, right, Like that
Saturday of Championship weekend there's no football for the first time.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
It's it is funny when you talk about that, because
as much as I absolutely love every single Sunday, one
thing about Sundays that always just bums me out as
a Raiders fan is that the majority of the slate,
especially early in the year, is always the one o'clock
games on the East Coast. So you go, you sit
in the bar one o'clock game. The vibes are just electric, right,

(13:01):
everybody's rooting for Somebody starts cheering in the corner. You
look over, You're like, oh, the Browns. Something happened in
that game. Like it's electric. And then at four o'clock
on the East Coast, particularly, the bar kind of empties
out and you're left with ten percent of the crowd
you used to have because there's only three games at
four twenty five, and they don't have as many people
there that care, and everybody's been drinking all day, so
they all sort of go home, and that vibe just

(13:22):
gets a little sad. Sometimes you're like, man, I wanted
everybody to stay and watch me yell at the Raiders game,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh yeah, that makes sense to me.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Like it it just sort of empties out the vibeusiness.
That's why I prefer watching the four o'clock games at
home most of the time, because I just the vibe
isness is electric out. You're right that having a slate
of games where it's just all of the games have
everybody living that high at once. Is one of the
beautiful things about watching football on Sundays in the bars,
Like the slate of action is great. And one thing

(13:51):
that's great about every like, especially if you're in a
place that you know, dabbles in the art of gambling.
You go out on a Saturday, my god, Like every
college football bar is packed because people have money on everything.
So it's just it's so electric when you get that
many games at once that are all wildly important to
each fan base. It's not just a let's sit back
and have some nachos. And if the Red Sox Yankees

(14:13):
game happens to be on the background, that's cool. Like,
it hits much differently when it's somebody passionately sitting there
saying Florida State's national championship playoff hopes are on the line.
You know, it just it makes it more electric.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, you're you're way more locked in.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Like I went, like my father was in town and
we went out to get a bit to eat and
watch the Phillies game. It was Wednesday night, and yeah,
I mean, you know, like and it was a good game.
It was Philly's Brave. So the game mattered for the division.
But you know, like you're there and you know there

(14:50):
was a the bar was there and people were having
a bite and the game was on, but it was
completely background.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, yeah, you were watching it, but you're not locked in.
You're talking.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's football. You are laser focused and you really only
talk to one the commercials, which is I.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Prefer That's never a doubt. Like I'm just imagine, especially
you know Anthony, like Anthony Gargano, like the consummate Italian,
you know, just we give you the shirt off his back.
Just great dude that just loves talking and catching up
on life the minute the Eagles game is on. I'm
just imagining the glare that comes across the table when

(15:28):
somebody's sitting there running their yapp or during the middle
of the game.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh my god, Prather, you have no idea.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I hate when people talk door to game, like talk
about other stuff other than the game. You know, I
don't want to hear about like the game's not theft
like the background. So I don't care about your week
right now, all right, if you must during the commercial

(15:56):
not doing the game, man, I don't want to agree hash.
I don't want to catch up. I don't want to
just watch the game talk about the game. I'm in
no talking about anything else other than the game during
the game.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Look, you got me. All I know is the number
of times I find out later that I committed myself
to something. We're like, no, we talked about it during
the Raiders game. And I'm like, that's got to stop.
Like that's just there's no way, Like, don't talk to
me during the Raiders game because I'm saying yes or
no to whatever you're saying. I'm just agreeing to get
you to shut up. That's it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's that's the completely playcating like oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah yeah, love it, love great greater.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm all in for that.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
I need to go over the rules, you know, we
need to prime the rules.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's interesting, Uh, my producers in the early twenties and
and you know, I constantly am on them for the
etiquette of football, right like a producer in Philadelphia, and
I'll always talk about the etique like of just being
a sports fan. There's a lot of you know, just

(17:08):
lawlessness that I don't like.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I think we got to rate it in brother, I
love this idea.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
I love the idea of like having a laminated rule list.
When you walk into the bar, it's like I want
to remind everybody, here are the rules.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
These are the rules.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
No shirt, no service right, Like you know, come on, brouh.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
We got lots to get to. It is weeks here,
We're gonna have some fun.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
We got a million things to talk about, lots of
thatfl college. We got to get in to our college mood,
go through schedules, the whole nine where the fellas, Jason Fitz,
Anthony Gargano hang it right here on Fox.

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way tire buying should be all right, some other rules.
The fall is obviously a big social time, So there's
a couple of things a play here.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
One anything that is not.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Vital and I'm talking you know, christenings, weddings, right, Like
I prefer that you do your due diligence and get
married on a bye week, But like I do understand
that you know, the fall is a long.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Period of time.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
So anything that is trivial, like all due respect to
the baby reveal, that does not belong on a Sunday
in the fall.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
It just does.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Look. Look, I'm just gonna come with the most controversial
take as a guy with no kids. I really don't
care what gender your baby is. I just don't. I
don't need a video. I don't need exploding blue or
pink things. I don't need a party on that like that.
You know what they always say in the corporate world.
That could have been an email, could have been a text.
It's a boy. Awesome now I know what to get you, like,

(20:32):
I just I just don't. I don't need to have
a big gathering where everybody gets dressed up and you know,
you you suddenly shock the world with your elaborate scheme
to tell us what gender your baby is. I'm going
to spend the next you know, roughly eighteen years around
the kid. We'll figure out what gender it is. I
just don't need I don't need any of it. I
don't need any of that as part of my life.

(20:53):
So if you're giving me a gender reveal party and
the Raiders have a significant game, I'm not going like
that's just and that's okay, Like you should understand that
about me, I should understand that about you. It's fine.
It's fine, dude.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's a just right. It should not be controversial take
at all. In fact, it's right, Like, here's what I
wish for you, that you have a healthy baby.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
All right, amen? Amen, that's it, all right.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So whatever this gender revealed nonsense that has coming to
the forefront of society. It's the most bizarre thing in
the world, right, I mean, you got two choices, right, It's.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Not like it's just ridiculous. It's just so ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
And these people who are having parties during this NFL Sunday, like,
are you out of your mind?

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Like no, so, like I mean, if we're being honest,
I don't really like I don't really want to give
you my money that many times on it like like
it just feels like this is all a ploy. It's
all a ploy to get an extra gift, right, Just
hit me up for the extra gift. Just be like, hey, man,
give me two things off the registry. I respect that
at least be like, Okay, I got you, I got
you boo. But like the going to a gender revealed

(22:12):
party and then there's still gonna be a baby shower.
Then it's just it's just too much. It's too much.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
I just way too much. Honestly, it's out of control.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
What's going on here, completely out of control, Like you know,
the shower should be abolished.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean I'm talking about the wedding shower.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah. Yeah, I didn't think you were talking about actual
showers because like, let's face it, you've been around enough,
you have teenage boys. There's there's no ways, there's no
way that you're you're eliminating showers from life.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh, speaking of that, you know what, I don't know
what you guys call it? What do you call a
sandwich that is with traditional lunch meat and uh, lettuce
and onion and tomato.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
It's just which is a sub?

Speaker 3 (23:02):
So you call it a sub? Right?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
In Philadelphia we called a hogi, right, And the name
hogi just kind of connotes like a smell to it,
like it's you know, there's onions and it's you know,
and sometimes it's a.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's a good smell.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right, You're hungry and you go into a Hogi shop
type of thing and you go, oh, right, you know
it's good, But that Hogi smell is not good on
a human.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Being Oh my god, raw onions don't smell good on.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
A person, no, like that onion smell. That smell is
never good.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
And my eleven year old has that smell too often, obviously. Like,
so I tell you about him all the time. He's
you know, football, baseball, right, basketball. So you know, I
spend almost every weeking hour with him and my older one,
the both of them. The older one's a little bit
better now that he's fourteen, so he's a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
The little one.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Oh my god, dude, I go, oh geez, Like, he'll
get in the car. When's the last time you showered, dude, Like,
do you have football practice? You're supposed to get this
shower that yeah, I was playing video games and weh
blah blah. Oh and then marinates and I'm like and

(24:33):
then he cracks up laughing and right away puts up
his armpits.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I'm like, oh, dude, come on, man, you're killing me.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
That's You're only giving me another reason why I'm very
glad I never made the decision to have kids. You know,
that's just uh yeah, yeah, too much, too much, brother,
too much?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh yeah, no, you you become desensitized to everything that
you in your life you fought was gross most of it.
You become dessensitized when you become a parent within the
first you know, two weeks, and then it gets even
progressively worse like baby vomit or baby poop or whatever.

(25:18):
It's nothing right, like it's nothing, you're you know completely,
they're babies. They're like, you know, it's beautiful, everything's beautiful.
All the smells, like the baby's beautiful. But when they
become little people, ah.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Because see, but you have this glowing like I know
people listening right now are like, why aren't you talking
about Florida State? Look, we are this glowing, glowing sort
of moment. That's beautiful when you talk about kids. I'm
gonna be honest, like, y'all the world needs to hear this.
There are a lot of ugly babies. There's just art.
There are a lot of ugly babies out there, and

(25:51):
everybody thinks their baby's pretty. Guess what, your baby's probably not.
Your baby doesn't belong in commercials. There are a lot
of ugly babies, and like it just you need more
friends in your life. It will look and be like yo,
your baby's fine, right, Like, I just you know, everybody
thinks they're beautiful because they're a baby. I just can't
hop on that train, cousin, I can't hop on that
train babies. And by the way, baby smell still like poop,

(26:12):
still smells like poop. I'm out. I'm out on baby smell.
I'm out on baby smell.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Well, we got into this conversation because it's when you're
planning social behavior in the fall, because the falls of
every social time.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Be cognizant of football people, be cognizant of that. All right,
did you see the dude?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
This was a great video that in fact his wife
read his uh he put in.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
His two week notice.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
I haven't seen this now. Ah.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
It was classic the guy.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
The guy leads his wife a letter and he's like,
I regret to inform you that I am putting in
my two weeks that in two weeks I will no
longer be around.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
To do chores.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
When you do list drive the kids here, I will be,
uh you unreachable during Saturdays in the fall from twelve
until midnight. And then he went into it, you know,
from twelve until midnight on Sunday, Monday night, Thursday night,

(27:28):
I will be unavailable. And she's reading this letter and
he's filming her and she's cracking up.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
It's a greatting. The letter was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
And then at the end she says, I cannot take
your I cannot accept your resignation as we have a
staffing shortage.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
That's amazing. That is amazing. But you know what I like.
I like establishing some some boundaries. Look what I always
tell you in therapy that you're supposed to establish boundaries,
like you know what, Like, let's let's put a positive
spin on it, like somebody coming in and saying, I'm
gonna protect what gives me joy. Like that's boy, that
is a politician's spin on that. But I like that.
I like that that concept of like going in and establishing, hey,

(28:11):
this is this is a time that I'm going to
cherish and protect for myself and then just see how
that goes. Like you better have a really solid foundation
on that relationship before you turn in your two week
notice for football. Though, I'm just.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Saying, yeah, she may go, all right, you're gonna be
out for well, I'll be unavailable to Saturday night, all right.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Now? That is that is my friend. One advantage I've
always had in life is I Actually, maybe it's all
the years of sleeping on a tour bus. I love
sleeping on the couch like I choose to sleep on
the couch sometimes. So if the method of get back
to me and get back at me is like, you
know what, you can go sleep on the couch, my
answer to that is like, glory be to God. Look
at that. I'm gonna have a company not to sleep,
Gonna turn the TV on, gonna back right up against

(28:51):
that couch pack, gonna nuzzle my butt right up against
those cushions and just get comfy. Like, look, that's good
night for me. That's good old Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I agree. I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a count.
I can do couch. I could do anything, like I'm
with you. I travel a lot on the road. I
can sleep anywhere. I'm good. I'm I'm a floor man.
I can go floor. I got no problem to be
next to the dog. I'm good, I got I'm good.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
And there's some freedom in that too, because then you're like, hey,
guess what, Like I don't have to worry about I
don't have to worry about these repercussions. You want to
send me to the couch. Cool, let's send me to
the couch.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean the floor is one step from the street,
which is not good. But you know, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, the floor okay. Like I'm a little old for
floor sleep. That is a you know, never too old
for an air mattress, way too old for floor sleep.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Uh, here's your schedule, so today noon Eastern, Like we
talked about Florida State and Georgia Tech from Dublin. Then
at four o'clock FS one, Tanta State, New Mexico, And
just in case you're wondering, Montana State is a fourteen

(30:06):
point favorite, the total fifty four and a half. Cantu
and Nevada, like you said, primetime eight o'clock CBS Sports
Network SMU of course a big favorite, lay twenty seven.
And then if I don't know if this game is
on television, but apparently there's a line on it because

(30:30):
I'm looking at it right now in ESPA, Delaware State,
Hawaii at midnight, I can't find where it's on Hawaii's
forty and a half.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Colley. And the sad thing is that, like there's a
part of me that just kind of wants to tonight marathon.
It like, there's a part of me that thinks, if
I can find that Hawaii game on at midnight, maybe
the move is to just take a bunch of edibles
and sit back and see if I can make it
to the end of the Hawaii game.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
It just feels like that is like the right way
to play a Saturday night right now.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
That is yes, Yeah, I mean like this sat like
these two slay of games is an addedible type of slate.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's the edible slate.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Yeah, that's really what you got to one. We're coining
that for the rest of the year. There's an edible slate.
Like what game do you just you need a little
help to get through? It's gonna be that one. It's like, hey,
things have gotten weird tonight. Like now I'm just I'm
just getting through it and I'm just gonna take some
edibles and watch the rest of this game.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
All right. So I want to read to you.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
The schedule because you know this begins, you know Thursday,
there's a bunch of games. It looks like another edible night.
But I'm gonna read you the games. I will kind
of go through it also. ESPN. I don't know if
you saw this did this thing where they grabbed all
the teams in tears so which I found was interesting

(31:56):
and I want to throw that by it. We'll get
it too. It lots to do where the fella is
hanging out on a week zero right here Fox Sports.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (32:11):
All right, Welcome back, fellas from the tai iraq dot
com studios Jason Fitz Anthony Gargana. So it all begins,
you know. You know what's interesting is college football and
the level of the the smaller schools that use like

(32:35):
there's I was just looking at this the games on
Thursday night and there's a couple of schools like I
haven't even heard of, and I'm pretty.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Like college out there, let's go look And.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm pretty like, you know, tapped into it, right, But
I didn't know linden Wood.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Did you have you heard of linden Wood?

Speaker 4 (32:58):
No, not at all, not a linden Wood.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yes, l y yet linden Wood.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
No university in beautiful Saint Charles, Missouri.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, they're playing missoo so that would make sense, missoo
or on Thursday night.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Private University founded in eighteen.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Tuesday to Kansas. They're playing Kansas on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, shout out to my buddy Lancelo Buld founded in
eighteen thirty two by George Champlain Sibley and Mary Eastern Sibley.
Is the linden Wood School for Girls, originally second oldest
higher education institution west of the Mississippi River.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Wow. Wow, asking me.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Shall we receive I'm just dropping knowledge here, you are
dropping knowledge.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
So this is your this is your week, right, so
this is a map out our week. So we gave
you about week zero today and then Thursday. Some of
the bigger schools that Nancy State is playing Western Carolina
on the Big TENN work Hot Rutcords and Howard Thursday Night,

(34:05):
Central Michigan, Central Connecticut on the ESPN plus.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Missoo, Murray State.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I mentioned Kansas, linden Wood, Minnesota, North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
All right, that's a good game.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
On Fox Thursday night, eight o'clock down with that Colorado
Buffalos and Dion in action Colorado North Dakota State, which
is a good that's a good game.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
North Dakota State. They're not bad.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know, Perennial, They're a team that is always that
one double eight.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
They're always around.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
They give you a good Some good quarterbacks come out
of their Carson Wentz came out of their Easton Stick
came out of there.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
So Easton Stick, No. Look, the funny thing is that
all eyes are gonna be on call. This is sort
of a known situation for Colorado out of the game,
right because if they come out and they struggle, even
just a little bit, people are gonna for a read
out trying to figure out what's wrong. Is Diona fraud
all these things?

Speaker 5 (35:10):
You know.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Now you've got this controversy where the school has decided
not to let a particular reporter ask any more questions
for the rest of the year because Dion doesn't like
his tone, finds his reporting to be personally attacking. And
so you've got just this this sort of cloud over
everything where much like I think there are certain coaches,
Lincoln Riley is another one that you know, I don't

(35:30):
think Lincoln Riley has done much to ingraining himself into
la as we've talked about, like things better go really
right if you're Colorado this year. Fournate ain't gonna be
good enough. You've talked too much. Talk four Nate got
you a little bit last year of grace, but there
ain't gonna be any grace this year for Dion thea
ain't gonna be any grace for Colorado, and frankly, there
shouldn't be. You can't talk that level of talk and

(35:51):
then just turn around and ask people to have patients
in a program that that's just not gonna happen. So
they don't just have to win. They gotta come out
and they gotta look like one of the best, one
of the best teams in the country out of the gates.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I mean, it was pretty amazing last year.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
The Buffalo's the Colorado phenomenon. Man, you remember early on
how big it was. Oh my god, I mean it
was like the odd stole college football for the first
month of this season.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Well, and I remember, you know, last year doing videos
for y'all who Sports my other job, you know, and
we were doing reaction videos to all the college football action.
After two weeks of the season, we realized we had
to push everything back to include Colorado in it. Not because,
as people on Twitter like to say, you're shoving Colorado
down nfans. It's not that at all. It's that you
put Colorado in it and people clicked on it, right,

(36:42):
So which came first, the chicken or the eggs? So
I'm genuinely curious to see what the national level of
interest is this year for Colorado football. Is it the
same where everybody's paying so much attention to it that
a game like Colorado Colorado State's putting up historic numbers?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, it was bizarre. I guess it started. Let's relive
it for a second. So last year, it starts with
they got their schedule in front of me. That TCU game,
Remember that crazy game forty five forty two. They win,

(37:20):
and it was like, wow, they up and they upset
TCU and the thriller.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Then they breath.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Then they beat Nebraska thirty six fourteen, and then they
they beat uh, Colorado State in overtime. So then it's
they're three and oh and then they get then at
Oregon just lays it like a can on them.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Then they lose to to USC forty eight forty one,
and then we realized that USC's defense was not good.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Right right, and that that's the funny thing about that is,
like there's a a level as you just laid it out,
Like the hardest part early in the year is trying
to figure out who's good and then where their opponents are,
Like was this really good or is that team just
really bad?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Right?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
And USC's defense being just a joke, abysmal, being absolutely
just an abomination what other words, gonna like USC's defense
just being a whole barrel of suck definitely changed the
way that that was perceived, you know.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, Then they beat Arizona State, which is no good.
They beat then they give up forty six to Stanford
in overtime. Then they lose, So they lose forty six
to forty three. They lose to UCLA, and they lose
to Oregon State. They lose to Arizona good game, they

(38:49):
lose thirty four to thirty one Arizona State. Washington State
buries them, Utah beats them close game, but beats them.
And that's kind of how it all fizzled out so quickly.
I don't I mean, there's a level to just how
good were they really? How good were they really? I
mean we remember at the time that they were kind

(39:12):
of like puffed up, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
I mean, the funny thing is we're sitting here saying
how good were they really, and then you look at
their record and the answer is they were bad. Like,
the funny thing here is that our expectations were so low.
And this is what we do for every sport, it's
what we do in life in general. But because Colorado
football has a history of being an absolute joke, the

(39:35):
fact that they were foreign eight and competitive suddenly irrelevant,
suddenly felt like something special. But if we're being honest,
Colorado was a bad team and a bad conference that
you know, right now, I don't have a lot of
reason to believe won't also still struggle.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, yeah, no, And it's just bizarre how they became
the story strictly because of you know, Dion and even
like even now, you know, the the banning of the reporter,
like thrust them back into the spotlight.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
You know, it's like Colorado like they matter.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Wait, we wouldn't be talking about Colorado went all off
not for Dion.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yeah, you're you're right about all of that. And by
the way, like it doesn't sustain.

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Speaker 3 (40:58):
I hope he's doing well with the baby.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
Uh think you're listening right now. I think he's got something.
He's got the fellow's coming. No, he ain't sleeping.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
He made me.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
You're probably right, but he's probably got you know, ESPN
on or Fox on low FX one, something like low.
The baby right now is probably sleeping on his shoulder
and he's in the in the chair in front of
the TV with one eye open the other eye closed.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
That's how it is.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
I hope we didn't listen to the part where I
said there are a lot of ugly babies, because you know,
I don't you know, we work together figures. Yeah, I
mean figure you're if you're listening now, your baby's beautiful.
There we go covered all my basis.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Well the best is like he's doing that right now.
And you talked about how all smells, including baby smell,
is gross, like you were like, it's all bad.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
I mean, you're not wrong, Like I'm out on I'm
out on most of these, like when people are like, oh,
I love the smell of puppies, Like now I'm just
sort of out on all of that, Like I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Well, we were talking about we started the show talking
about football etiquette. We covered Colorado at the end there,
and I want to do get back to them a
little bit and we'll get through the tiers of college football.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
But we were talking about a lot about football.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Etiquette, and this is this time of the year where
and I brought up the story that was that went
viral about a husband who gave his wife his two
weeks notice for football season, which was absolutely classic.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
But it's indicative of how we.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
View the fall and when our team plays. Like these
social things that we got going on, we're really separated
into two groups, football people and non football people. Like
non football people live in almost this oblivion right, like

(43:14):
they're completely clueless as to this whole world that exists
outside of them, and they don't understand. They look at
you like an alien if you say, well, no, I
don't want to meet you for a drink tonight or
whatever to talk when the game's on, Like they don't.

(43:38):
They're the people that are driving, go Wow, how come
there's nobody else on the road. Well, the game's on,
all right, and so everybody's home watching a game and
they have no concept of this. Like, I'm sure in
the music industry you found some people like this, right.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Almost everybody I toured with was like that, like just
didn't really like sports at all. The amount of people
when I was living on a tour bus that looked
at me so strange. When I was sett up a
mic to do a podcast at the time back in
what twenty twelve, twenty thirteen to do a podcast, and
it was like, I want to make it in sports,
and everybody's looking at me like what, Like all the
guys in the band, they had very little, if any interest,

(44:20):
and still have very little of any interest in sports.
Like most of my friends that I toured with in
on that project still don't really understand what I do
for a living. Like, so, you know, I think I've
been around more people that don't understand and understand sports
than do, you know, and I totally I think the
one thing for me about that, though, is that I've
never looked at looked at any of it judgmentally. My

(44:40):
thing is like, if you don't like football, cool, Like
I don't judge that at all. You don't have to
like football. You don't have to like country music, right,
you don't have to like the things that have impacted
my life. I just don't need you to, you know what,
all over the fact that I do like football, So like,
that's the part of it that I've always What I
don't get are the people that hate sports and they
want to vocally remind you cont how much they hate sports.

(45:01):
It's like that's just a lot of negative energy to
put towards something that most of the rest of the
world is enjoying. And I don't really like. I don't
I would say I don't understand opera, but I could
not imagine going to an opera as a former classical musician.
I can't imagine sitting in an opera house and the
whole time saying this thing sucks. I don't know why
you guys gonna like this. I don't tell you. It's

(45:21):
just it makes no sense to me.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
I know, I dude, I feel you. And there is
it's funny that subculture really does they and they hate
sports because it makes them feel almost ostracized, right, So
I think they lash out.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
And it's not that anybody's ostracizing them.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
It's more that sports has become such a phenomenon, right,
so big that if you're not into it, there is
something you know, all not off, but there's something that
you're missing, right, because most society is so you're on

(46:08):
the alps because you're not into it, and it's just
and I think it gives them like an attitude towards
sports people especially.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
And that is yeah, well, I think because it's so prevalent, right,
it is right there, it's so impossible to if you
don't like football and you live, for example, in the South,
like you're screwed on Saturdays and Sundays. You just are
like it's it is harder and harder to find ways
to go places. And I've lamented this in the past
at times, like if I go to a really nice restaurant,

(46:39):
if I am laying out KSh if I'm putting the
bag out to go to dinner and there's a TV
in the restaurant playing a football game. That's a little
weird to me, But in the South, that's everywhere, right,
So like everywhere you go, it doesn't matter if you're
going to, you know, a Michelin Star type restaurant, there's
going to be a TV somewhere with whatever. The college
football game of the weekend is on. And I'm I'm

(47:00):
like sitting there thinking, I don't know, man, Like, if
this is a three hundred dollars dinner, I probably don't
need the football game. So I understand why people that
don't like it feel attacked by it because it's just everywhere.
But also, you know, just at that point, just figure
out a way to work around it.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
You know, yesterday it was during work.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
We stopped and I had some work people with me,
and we stopped into a bar and and they were like,
we meet us at this bar and we were going.
I was, we're going to pick up lunch for everyone.
So I meet him at this bar and I walk
in and you ever noticed when something's off and something's weird, right,

(47:45):
and it's GREATO, it's a great local bar. Whatever and
I've been there before, like years ago. But I'm sitting there,
I'm at the bar and I get a drink with them,
and I'm just kind of looking around.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
I'm like, what's what's what's wrong in this picture?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
And then I realized they don't have a television in
the bar, and like, listen, I think that's cool, right,
Like that's a place that's that's cool, like no TV.
And I respect that, but it's in this day and
age where you know, like, you're right, like even nice

(48:23):
restaurants have a bar area and there's always a TV.
There's a dining area without television, but the bar area
always has a TV.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
I mean, you're right, but you gotta pick and choose
that battle, right, because if you're a super swanky bar,
like maybe if there's a game day like that.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
That way, and this was not This is not like
a swanky bar. It's just a it's a it's it's listen.
It's in the center of town, so it's a nice
part of town, but it's not a swanky bar. It's
it's really just an an everyday bar that has it's
known for. And I forgot. I'm like, oh word, Fergie's

(49:05):
and Fergize does not have a bar, and that was
what I was like, Wow, what's weird about this room?
And I'm looking around and I realize it's right down.
I'll have a TV.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I will say. The thing that bothers me is the
mid level bar, the sports bar. And I don't care
if we're talking about like a Chili's or we're talking
about a local place. I don't care. I love you Chilies,
by the way, love me back. I think what bothers
me is the bar that has like just enough TVs
to not get every game on every Sunday. That's the
one I can't handle. Like, I'm in this bar and

(49:36):
I'm not sure if you're gonna have the Raiders game
on because you don't have enough TVs to have a
full slate of Sunday ticket That is the ultimate party foul.
The ultimate football foul of a bar is once you
get past like three TVs in your place, you got
to go enough that you have every game on every Sunday.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
So I like that rule. I do.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Let me ask you this rule because I this bothers me.
They weren't a game. I do not want to hear music.
I like listen while games on music is the worst.
I just want to watch the freaky game when here
be announcers.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
I had a buddy that was playing there's a there's
a little bar and that's not little, it's huge. There's
a big like brewery placing Connecticut, Connecticut called Lissit and
there was like a little band that was playing in
the corner and it was like loud, like five piece band,
drums like the whole thing. And this place is like
a big almost, like it's a massive, massive ceilings. TV's everywhere, right,

(50:40):
So they are you know, they're not a sports bar,
but they certainly have every sporting event on. And my
buddy asked me if I wanted to sit in for
a few songs. This is a while back back when
Duke was playing North Carolina in the Final four, if
you remember that game, and so that game came down
to the wire. It was a close game, and that
was the night that I got asked to sit in
and I was like, I'll go watch the game and
like sitting for a couple of songs. Well, the band

(51:02):
was playing while that game was coming down to the wire,
and I kept looking around thinking what are we doing,
Like just stop everybody should just stop right now because
we are in the second half of a close game
between two of the biggest rivals and all the sports
and everybody in the bar was intently watching the fifty
TVs they have around. But the band kept going. Band
just kept going. You know that that that that was

(51:22):
an absolutely I felt like I felt like I was
a part of a foul I didn't want to be
a part of I've never gotten back to sit in since.
I feel like we failed.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yes, yeah, now that's you gotta read the room, don't you.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
But don't it doesn't the leader like whoever's you know,
the guy in Chwarz, go yo, listen, give it, give
you the this throat slash, like, let's go, let's take
a break and do whatever and then come on after
the game.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I mean that's kind of like you got to read
the room.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
I mean there is a You also gotta swallow your pride.
That's the hardest thing in those situations, Like you gotta
you gotta real like that nobody is there to hear
your cover of a Zach brahmaton. They are they are
there to watch this game, you know, and you're right,
like that's one thing that bothers me again, I'm just
throwing sponsors out all over the place. But there's a
bar right down from my house up in Connecticut, the
bar On Seater. I love bar On Theater, Like the

(52:16):
food is really good. It's a dive bar, you know.
I feel like John Tafford would probably come in there
and shut it down. But I love that place, like
I just I love it, but most of it and
they have great TVs all over the place, but they
also have one of those like you know, touch tunes
type of things where you can play music. And even
I was in there once on a Thursday night and
flat out ass they're only like ten of us in there.
I was like, can we turn the music off and

(52:37):
turn the game on? And the guys like, Nope, can't
do that. We never do that. I'm like, that's just
I'm out on that. Like if I got to listen
to like obnoxiously loud music and I can't hear the
game broadcast, I'm out. They only played the audio when
it's a Patriots or Giants, like when it's a local area.
The rest of the time they cover it up with music,
which which means I don't go there as often.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Dude, I wouldn't. I don't disagree with you like that.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
That's a that's a deal breaker for me, Like I
don't want to like listen, I love music, but I
don't want to hear it door to game. And I
don't understand why that's a thing. Like if you have
a Sunday with you have a game, all like all right, like, dude,
like stop force feeding me to music at least, Like

(53:23):
I don't know if it's a Sunday night game or
a Monday night game. I mean, how about you put
the music on uh it commercials? I mean you gotta
put it all door to game, like you know the same,
and you gotta do that, then you freakingt annoying, man, that's.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Why you really got it. That's the one risk in
going out to watch football games when it's your favorite team, right,
Like that's part of the reason that I enjoy watching
the Raiders at home, because hey, my language is offensive.
I apologize to my neighbors every year. But and b
I want to be able to jump and down the
scream and not worry about if anyone's staring at me
or pulling their phone out. But then there's also this

(54:04):
element of I and I think you could appreciate this.
I don't like to risk anything on game day, So
for me, if the Raiders are playing at four twenty five, like,
I gotta go to the bar, I gotta figure out
which TV is gonna be on. In a lot of
bars don't do a great job of labeling that. Are
they even gonna have my game on? What if the
early games are running late? Where am I gonna sit?

(54:25):
Is the crowd gonna come out?

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Like?

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Is there? Like? Am I gonna have a spot at
the bar? Or am I gonna have to wait till
the early games? And am I gonna miss the first
ten minutes of the game because I'm waiting for somebody
to flip the TV channel?

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Like?

Speaker 4 (54:36):
All of these are variables that absolutely drive me crazy,
which is why I genuinely believe that there is some
element of finding one spot and creating a relationship with
that one spot and going back to it every week,
because it at least provides me consistency. If I walk
in and the bartender has seen me every week and
I have already tipped the bartender, well, I know that TV

(54:56):
is gonna get moved over early. But I can't. I
can't take that risk early in the season, particularly not smart.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
I want you to listen to the conversation that I
had with Brianna. So Brianna our producer alone with Mighty Mark,
a great production team. Uh, Brianna, tell Fitzie your dating
plans for the fall.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
Well, I did say that I was probably going to
go into like a dry spell because I don't know
if I'm going to date, like I don't know if
I'm going to socialize, like I just don't think, Like
I'm not going to be in a position to be
sitting at a bar and I'd be half paying attention
and have to hear like how many brothers.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
And sisters do you have?

Speaker 8 (55:41):
Where did you go to school? Are you a coffee
or you a tea person? And do you like to
go outside and go camping? Like I don't. That's just
I just don't. I don't see that happening for me,
you know.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
So here's my counter. I think if you went out
on the profiles and you went out with anybody that's
going out with and you're like, hey, you want to
watch a game, like we don't need to do the
get to know you is just like let's just go
watch football. I think that the right person would be like, hecky,
I'm all in for that. You know, I personally wouldn't
do that on a date just because I don't need
somebody to see that side of me right out. Also

(56:16):
that that is just like, yeah, I can't be held
responsible for what happens when somebody, you know, fumbles the
when Derek Carr fumbled the ball out of the back
of the end zone, and suddenly like, I can't be
held responsible for that. I don't want you to be
held responsible for that now as a Saints fan, and
it's two different.

Speaker 8 (56:31):
Brianna's like, that's why I and we talked about that earlier.
I don't go out to bars anymore to watch my
Saints game because I lose control. Same with like the
seeing the Suns, Like I need to be in a
bre cave and I need to be just locked away truly.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
A bre cave. I love it.

Speaker 8 (56:47):
Yeah, I can't. I have my three TVs for a reason,
you guys, you know what I mean, Like I do
not need to be seen in public. I don't like
I'm a completely different person, you know, kind of like
doctor chuckle, mister Hyde kind of thing like different breathe well.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I love too, Like where did you did you catch
the uh? You know, the level of disdain for the
small talk that she has, which I completely love, Like
you know how.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
You brother sisters?

Speaker 3 (57:16):
You have you coffee or date?

Speaker 2 (57:19):
She's like, oh my god, yeah another one? Like you know,
can you break down a cover two for me?

Speaker 4 (57:28):
There is an element too, like I don't know, especially
if it's like a first date on that stuff, how
much of that is is being retained? Like the first
date is like a really weird audition, right, you know,
and so like you're just trying to figure out if
you even want to talk to the person. So like
I don't know, miss me with the whole conversation about
you know, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces I and just give

(57:51):
me the bare minimum, like let me figure out if
you can even have a decent conversation and then we'll
figure out like what your family structure looks like on
a third date, you know, like let's let's getting vested
before I have to actually worry about anything again. I
am all I'm cold and callous today. I sound like
a real jerk.

Speaker 8 (58:05):
No, I'm really jealous. I mean, I kind of wish
I could feel like that, because I mean, I'm just
very I don't even I'm just closed off to the
idea completely, Like there's nothing that I'm like, Oh no, no,
I mean there's just no way, Like I can't.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
I feel like if you have seventy four brothers and
sisters that you know live on a ranch, I can
figure that out over time. I don't have to figure
that out on a first date. Like we can expand
and explore the ranch life over time. It doesn't have
to be right there that it's life.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Oh that's priceless. I love with brigos, she says to me,
even like they're happy for other jobs. She goes happy hour,
I want to watch the game, Like, no, I don't
want to go to happy hour on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
Oh I never thought about that because you're in LA.
The game is on during.

Speaker 8 (58:54):
Happiness it is and so and I and I work
in Newport Beach and when I when I go to
the office now is actually they're like, oh, Monday, we're
gonna it's like, you know, half off happy hour all night. Okay,
well you we can go, but you're gonna put me
in the bar and I'm maybe gonna be like twenty
five percent paying attention, and I will give you one
hundred percent during commercials. But no, like, I don't know.

(59:18):
It's a different kind of version of me.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
You know, isn't that great? I love it, completely love it.

Speaker 8 (59:25):
I don't know if it's he doesn't sound like he
loves it.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
No, no, no, no no no, like look well to peel
behind the curtain. You know, Mighty Marks just said break time,
So I was like, I'm just gonna lay out. I'm
gonna let that. I'm gonna let that happen.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
I usually, you know, and Money marks the best because
he'll be the steward here and uh, you know, I
usually get like one pass until the second break time
where he gets a little bit more forceful is when
I go all right, like I gotta go to break

(01:00:01):
all right, I'm gonna do that right Mark, Like the
second one, I usually go all right, I'll follow, I'll
fall in line.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Thank goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Mark's like, no, you won't know, you won't for the fellas,
hang it out right here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
All right, Fitzy, let's get back to the schedule and
kind of looking at some of these teams, kind of
where we're at with the tiers of college football. And
then I want to get to midshow mania. Do you
have Minshew mania?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
I have?

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
What? What's in the middle? What's like? I'm not completely Yeah,
I got mintioned, may I'll give you minch meh. Here's
the thing, though, I will say this about Gardner Minshaw
being named the starter of the Las Vegas Raiders over
Aidan O'Connell. I don't think that made any difference to
their final win total. I really don't. It just tells
you that Aidan O'Connell isn't the future, which I already

(01:02:36):
knew anyway, I think most of us did. But I
don't think it suddenly takes the Raiders from well, they
were going to be an eight win team to now
a six win team. Because the gardener instead of or
vice versa. I just don't think it makes a difference.
The team's not going to be defined by their mediocre quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
But yeah, yeah, I listen, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
And it's you know, he's a placeholder and they were
breath place holders, so and you knew that going in.
So I'm with you. So let's look at this for
a second. So I was reading over this schedule for
you on Thursday last week, left this coming Thursday. We

(01:03:15):
got a couple of decent games. I mean, you know,
it's North Dakota State and Colorado on ESPN is a
big one in North Carolina, Minnesota on Fox. I mean
those are your two kind of standout games. And then

(01:03:35):
you got Friday. Oh god, I'm a Temple guy and
we have Oklahoma in Norman.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
That yeah, wow.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Good luck for that. So how many minutes? How many
minutes or you just sigh? I'd say, what.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Thirty eight forty three?

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
O my first this was going to be forty two,
and I felt like that was too high.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Yeah, Boomers, sooner forty three over Temple.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
And what will happen is and you'll know this, there's
the rhythm of college football when the patsy's play, right.
So when you're a patsy and I've you know, been
a Temple guy, I've been a patsy all except for
a handful of years under met rule and a little

(01:04:26):
bit under Al Golden and used to the down twenty
one six minutes to go in the first quarter. Yeah,
like you've seen that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
There just isn't any And this is one of the
hard things I think for a lot of football programs now.
There isn't a viable, reasonable thing that I think they
could do to prevent that. When you schedule that sort
of a team like it, just that is just the
stark reality. Like you can hope for a miracle, and
who doesn't like that's great, But weekend and week out,
if you're if you're Temple and you're playing a team

(01:05:04):
like Oklahoma, that's what's going to happen. That's what's always
going to happen, and that's the way it's always going
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Yeah, So Saturday, next Saturday we'll be talking.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
I'll go, hey, you see that Temple ago, Yeah, I
saw its sixty three to seven.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
Yeah that feels about right, Yeah, that feels about right. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Wichcon Western Michigan, Wisconsin, TCU, Stanford and then Saturday is awesome.
So Saturday is the real day, right, So the uh,
the big kickoff, the big nude kickoff is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Clemson and Georgia. Dude, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
A week from today at twelve o'clock eastern, non am
Pacific Georgia and Clemson.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
It's also it speaks to how far Clemson has fallen
in the eyes of many, that we're not sitting here
just salivating over that game for a month and that
there are you know, obviously it's it is the premier game,
but it just doesn't well I guess Texas A and
m Notre Dame wants something to do with that, right,
But I think it's interesting to me. If Clemson comes

(01:06:22):
in and is competitive, we're gonna have to rethink some
things we think about where Dabo is right now with
that program. But if they get absolutely destroyed, as most
of us think they will in this process, it's just
going to be a oh, how the Mighty have fallen?
Because it wasn't that long ago that Clemson was a
perennial national championship contender. If they go out there and
get thumped by Georgia, it will be a reminder that

(01:06:42):
they are now part of the clearly second tier in
college football.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Well, I mean, does it get any more indicative than
the quarterback? Right to Sean Watson and the Mighty Fall Like,
it's amazing because the Browns who gave all that guaranteed
money are sitting there going, all right, we got a
great team. If the quarterback can play, we're good.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
I mean, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
If the quarterback can play, and it's a big if, well,
I don't know to expect from him this year.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Uh yeah, I don't. I don't expect anything. I'm out
on Deshaun being great. And it's funny because I think
the Browns are Super Bowl caliber team otherwise, so it's
really unfortunate that they got to Shawn. And at the time,
what I asked was, given everything off the field, what
would it take for the organization to feel like it
was worth it? And the answer that I kept coming
back to is probably at least an appearance in the

(01:07:42):
Super Bowl. And what's funny is I believe the rest
of the roster is now capable of that. DeShawn just
is no longer even anywhere close to a top five quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
No, I mean he's he's now now you go? Is
he a bad quarterback? Like I heard that data want
anything to do with bringing Flacco back because the minute
he had issues, the crowd will be chanting for Flacco
and they didn't want to deal with that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
That is such a foreign concept to me to think
that it's gone that far, Like to think that the
person that was absolutely universally praised by so many Browns fans.
I will say that there are Browns. I'm just talking
about the football player, not the human being. To be
very clear, the football player Deshaun Watson. Browns fans rightfully,

(01:08:33):
so very excited about the football player from the outset,
and now to think that he's become the biggest liability
for that roster and the way the fans just have turned,
I mean, it's just it's heartbreaking for Browns fans above
beyond everything else, it's heartbreaking for Browns fans that you're like, no, guys,
we might actually be in a super Bowl window with
this roster if it weren't for this one dude.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
It's the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Uh my main nick, he give me a yo, taking
Georgia and laying it. How about Penn State Virginia West Virginia.
That's a great game on Fox at noon, the big
new kickoff, Penn State at West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
I'm definitely in on that game.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
State. By the way, is I keep using them as yeah,
me too, But I think I keep using them as
the example of expanded playoff Let's see, yes, you know,
like because if you're Penn State, you don't have to
win your conference anymore. I just you have to get
in the playoffs every single year. Like that's gonna be
the expectation. James Franklin gets paid too much. Not too
I think Penn State has a ton of talent. But

(01:09:41):
in a stacked Big ten they should now be renamed
the Big eighty seven or whatever. But like in a
stacked Big ten, Penn State becomes an interesting like you
better rise. You got to be part of that that
crew that stays at the top of the top, because
if you fall into that middle tier, that's gonna be
absolutely like the world will be the sky will be

(01:10:02):
falling for Penn State fans.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Oh yeah, you have no idea. I mean being in
the middle of Penn State country, Like that's the m
up what you just said, right, like, and you know
they'll they'll forgive you to a point like all right, well,
you know Iowa State was great or Michigan was great,
but at some point you've got to play with those teams.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
You got to beat one of those teams.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
I mean, now, the projections that have them finishing fourth
in the Big Ten, you know, behind Ohio State, Oregon,
maybe Michigan. You know that. Let's see what USC looks like.
I don't have a lot of belief there, but Penn
State opens the season at number eight, but by the
end of the year I could see where fourth or
fifth in the conference is is kind of real And like,
how does that feel to Penn State fans being in

(01:10:49):
fourth place in your own conference? I don't know, as
long as you make the playoffs, but it man, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
No making the playoffs is now it's going to shade
how we view these coaches too, because you're right about Franklin,
very good coach, great recruiter, or the whole thing. But
now he gets held to a different kind of standard,
which is all right. Well, before, even though you weren't
a series contender, you weren't the level of Michigan or

(01:11:19):
higher State well, now you got to make the playoffs.
It's like, dude, there's no more you're skating. You got
to make the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Yeah. Yeah, And that's gonna be In the NFL, we
rarely see coaches fired for making making this wild card, right,
I wonder if that's gonna be the case in college football.
It's gonna take a minute to it, just because if
Penn State, let's say for the next three years, Penn
State makes the playoffs every single year, that's fine, but
they never win the Big Ten in that process, they

(01:11:48):
don't really make any noise in that process. Will that
be enough? I don't, I don't know, you know. And
and this is why I think the Big Ten becomes
particularly interesting because teams like Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, even miss
chign State that have made little runs where suddenly they
pop up and it's like, this is a year that
we won ten games and we're right on the cusp of,
you know, being relevant. Well, those teams now in a

(01:12:10):
tougher Big Ten. You know, they're they're looking at six, seventh,
eighth place, Like some of those teams are going to
be struggling for bowl eligibility and a tougher big ten. Like, boy,
that's a different mindset. Like then, you know, if you're
used to winning eight to ten games and all of
a sudden it goes to seven to nine games, that's
a big difference in the way it is. He's a program.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
No, dude, you're You're spot on. It's a it's a
huge difference. And by the way Oregon looks, you know,
on paper, Oregon looks just frightening.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
Yeah, Like, I think Oregon's legit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Right, I I just I saw them earlier being listed
as the ESPN did the tiers like I was talking
you about, and Dan Oregon and a Tier two fig there,
Tier one.

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
I think Oregon has a real shot at the national championship.
And I don't think Dylan Gabriel, the quarterback that's there now,
I don't think Dylan Gabriel is a world beater. But
he's old and he's played a lot of football, and
I just believe in that. And if you get into
the playoffs and you have the choice in the playoffs
between a young kid that's you know, less than a
year removed from a proposal versus a kid that's seen

(01:13:22):
a ton of college football, I just think there's a
lot of value for experience. So I think right now,
as much as Ohio State probably should win the conference,
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Oregon in
the Natty.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. All right, let's say quick
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
We'll continue going through Saturday, which Saturday is elite, man,
you got you know, it's real on Saturday. You know
Today's you know, it's some fun and then we're joking
about it. But next Saturday, I mean, that's slate is impressive.
We'll get back to it. Where the fell is Jason Fitz,
I'm Anthony Gargatta right here on Fox Sports.

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Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargan. We're going over to the schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Good excuse to talk about the games and the teams
and kind of what to expect from some of these teams. Saturday. Again,
it's a week from today, August thirty. First, we gave
you to Chris the Big games early Clemson, Georgia, Penn
State and West Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Illinois State and Iowa, Yukon, Maryland,

(01:14:51):
Kent State, pitt Tennessee, and Chattanooga.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
Tennessee is interesting. What's your outlook on the on the Voles.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
I think Tennessee's being slept on a little bit this year,
you know, I mean honestly that too. They've got so much.
First of all, I believe in their offensive skill set
in general. I believe in their coaching in general. I
think that's an important part of it. Uh, we become
so obsessed with how certain teams look in the SEC.
To me, you know, they get NZ State this year,

(01:15:26):
that's tough. They get Oklahoma, that's tough, But I think
they can win. That game. Really comes down to they
have Alabama and Georgia. I'm not at the same spot
everybody is with Alabama. So I think Alabama is a
winnable game for Tennessee. That Georgia game is really the
big difference because Georgia is just in the class of
their own. So I think I think Tennessee has the
chance by the end of the year to be a
sneaky playoff team.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
What don't you like about I'm curious about, Like, what's
the biggest thing you don't like about Bama, because I do.
I mean, Milroe took the step we kind of wanted
him to take last year.

Speaker 4 (01:15:59):
I just think culture just being slept on a little bit,
you know. Like talk to Kaitlyn de Boor at the
National Championship Game and one thing his players stressed to
me is that he never yells. And one of his
rules is he doesn't like to raise his voice on
the sideline at anybody for any reason. So I asked
him about it at the time and he said, yeah,
you know, like controlling emotions is something he takes seriously.
And he said, I wouldn't say never yell, but I'd

(01:16:20):
say that I'd do my best to never yell. And
that's a really nice part of who he is as
a coach. I love that. I appreciate that that's such
a culture shift from what we're used to seeing, you know.
And then you've also got the other side of it,
which was the success at Washington, which was really tremendous,
also came with people that knew his system, knew what

(01:16:41):
to execute, and people that had been in that system
for a minute. I think we're sort of undervaluing how
much Saban meant, and we're overvaluing Kaitlyn de Boor's ability
to just come in and suddenly compete at that level.
So I think there's just a transition here. I don't
think Alabama's bad. I just I could easily see Alabama
being a three or four law team this year. It
feels like everything's in the right spot. It's just, man,

(01:17:04):
it's going to take a minute for that to get
to where it needs to be. And that that's not
hating Onbama. Also, they do have Georgia and then they
have a gauntlet in three straight weeks where they have
Tennessee Missouri, LSU, Mercer, then Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
So read that schedule to me.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
So they've got a couple of cupcakes, Western Kentucky, Florida.
Then they go at Wisconsin. It's a winnable game for them, obviously.
Then they have Georgia at home Vandy South Carolina. Those
are easy, but then they have at Tennessee Missouri number
eleven for anyone that doesn't know, then at LSU for
three straight weeks, Mercer, and then they go at Oklahoma.
That's just it's pretty easy for me to find three

(01:17:41):
losses there, and that three losses doesn't mean you stink.
It just means that, you know, new normal.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Yeah, no, listen, you're not wrong. You're not wrong. Buck
Eys gets acron out of state going to be nasty.
It's a it is. It is interesting, right. It feels
like those two teams take their Michigan Ohio State have

(01:18:08):
taken turns over the last you know, decade, and right
now it's the Buckeyes turn.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
Yeah, and this Buckey's team. Look, they they spend a
lot of money to put together a team that they
think can turn around and win a championship right now.
And I do think there's heavy expectations on Ryan Day
and this Buckeyes team to live up to that. And
that doesn't mean, you know, we always say what is that,
you know, you gotta win a Natty. I don't think
it's that. I think that Ohio State throughout the course
of the year has to be one of the best

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teams in the country. And I think that when they
have huge games, there needs to not be some like
just absolute glaring moment here where it's well, coaching costs
them or that was a bad game, or that was
a stupid moment, Like, look, if they lose an epic
game somewhere along the way and it keeps them from
winning a national championship, I don't think you fire everybody,
but if you turn around and suddenly they get dominated

(01:18:58):
by Michigan or they you know, they go into Penn
State and get their buck kicked, or Oregon clearly just
throttles them down, Like they've got some tough games this
year coming on the schedule. They are at Oregon, They're
at Penn State this year, you know, and then obviously
they have Michigan, so I think, and then let's remember
the Big Ten Championship game. They've gotten rid of divisions
in the Big Ten, so it's gonna be one v two.

(01:19:20):
So in my mind, they're gonna go to Oregon. But
then they're also gonna play Oregon again for the Big
Ten Championship game and might have to play Oregon again
in the playoffs, right, so you know, I don't think
they have to win it all, but man, they have
too much talent to not be clearly one of the
two or three best teams in the country all year long.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
It's gonna be interesting to see Will Howard, who you know,
comes over, and I'm fascinated by it, right because you
know McCord, there was a lot of there was a
lot of blame that was putting his shoulders. So now
you've got Will Howard coming up over. I'm curious see

(01:20:02):
how he's gonna fare.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
Another guy that's seen a lot of football and now
he's going to be executing Chip Kelly's offense. Right, So
you know that that's the other You know Chip Kelly's
offense very well. Right, So it's it's just a little
adjustment there, you know, it's it's a little adjustment and
a little adjustments for the top two or three teams.
You know that paper thin margin becomes something substantial when

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you're talking about little adjustments.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
Yeah, yeah, what happens? What happens to Chip? They have
a big year? Does he get the job automatically or
does he does he have a home for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
I think he's there for a while. I think he's
just there for a while, winning a bunch of games
and sort of rehabbing whatever the concept is around Chip Kelly.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Yeah, I kind of see the same thing, Like you know,
I almost think he needs.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
To stay put for three or four years, and just
before you take one more shot at it, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Yep, I totally agree, Like, stay put for three or
four years, win some rings, get some get some bling,
and let everybody turned around and be reminded how great
you are.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Yep, yep, all right, fellas big gul We're coming up
next college football.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
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Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
The one thing I do want to bring up off
of last night was the O Tawny Grand Slam. Was amazing, dude,
Like I mean that dude, the theater of that moment,
you know, locked in and it's extras bas is loaded,
and he hits the Grand Slam and he's now already

(01:22:12):
into the forty forty club, which is like truly absurd.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
He really is a marvel.

Speaker 4 (01:22:18):
Yeah, And to do both of those things in one game,
to do the walk off, and then to really cement
the reminder here that what we're seeing is just special.
It's different, and you know, we have to stop. And
I use this Russell Westbrook comp a lot, but you know,
the first time we saw Russ average a triple double
for a season, everybody was enamored. The next season, everybody

(01:22:41):
was just sort of blase with it. We can't blase show. Hey, right,
there's just fastest player in Major league history to reach
the forty four mark. Forty forty mark, I should say,
took one hundred and twenty six games. You know, that's
the solid twenty one games faster than the next fastest.
So you think about what that means and what it
means to his dominance right now, and how special this is.

(01:23:02):
It just I think we need to stop every once
in a while and just remind ourselves that we're seeing
a modern marble.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
I mean it was interesting, right because I was kind
of going over this show, and so I was online
and I'm like looking at the baseball stuff, and so
I was following the game and I was like, oh wow,
like the Rays are tied and so here they are.
And the Dodgers had I think months he was up,
they were getting down of the inning. Month they walk monthsI.

(01:23:31):
I'm like, wow, months he's a pitch or he just
come back. He's pretty locked in. He's had a couple
of home runs since he got back. So they walk
Monthsy and it's like, wow, here's your your you walk
Monsie and you get show Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
And man, it was like boom. I talk about just
dramatic and man he is. He's box office.

Speaker 4 (01:23:57):
He really is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
He's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
Pretty incredible to me too, that that was the first
walk off of his career. You know, like that's just
that doesn't even seem real considering all the greatness that
he constantly brings. But you're right, it is. It is
box office and there It's very rare to have a
player that I feel like, every time they're up to bat,
an entire bar stops and just says, oh, let's see

(01:24:21):
what happens here. That's what show Hay has become, you know,
and very reminiscent. Remember during the home run battles between
Maguire and Sosa that ESPN at the time would count.
Every time one of them was up to the plate.
ESPN would cut it in no matter what they were showing,
just to see if somebody was going to hit a
home run. It kind of feels like that moment would
show hey, not with the home runs, but just with
the ability to constantly do the unexpected in a way

(01:24:44):
that makes the top ten list. You know, it's just
every single time he has the opportunity, he makes the play.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
It was thoughts, I actually went on the Sosa beat.
I was working for the New York Posts. Wow, and
you bring that up, and it was like, oh man,
I was like swept up in it. And so wherever
it was, the god started early, so I started middle

(01:25:12):
to end of August. Excuse me and I So they said, listen,
we want you to go on the Sosa beat. So
wherever Samy goes, wherever the Cubs go, you're going to go.
So I literally set up shop in Chicago, and you know,

(01:25:33):
I traveled with them over the last six weeks in
the season, and there was in fact, I was in
Saint Louis when they square it off. When do you
remember when the reporter grabbed the bottle of Andro diastem.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Adam McGuire's locker. I was standing right there when he
did it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
Oh god, and I was like why, Like the worst
thing you could do was like going, you never go
on somebody's locker, but the andro was right there and
nobody really understood what it was, and uh, but it was.
It was kind of interesting. But that was one of
the greatest moments, man. I covering that thing was was unbelievable,

(01:26:14):
and like you're just there and I'm just writing, like
the home run, like what's it like? And uh, it
was interesting. Then he would hit like a couple on
the game.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
It was wild.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Therese two going back and forth, and whether you know
the juice thing or whatever it was, you still got
to hit it all right. Like the one thing I
always tell people about that stuff is you still got
to hit the baseball, Like you still got to go
connect on a you know, ninety nine mile an hour
baseball and uh and and get your bat around.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
So you know, there's a massive skill to it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
Well, and that was because of everything that it encapsulated
in that moment. It became a moment where baseball took
over America. I would love to see show, hey have
that same level of impact. You know, Unfortunately, it's hard.
You'd need Show Hey and Show Hey Light. You'd need
like a Show A A, one A one B to
sort of replicate any of what that was because it

(01:27:15):
wasn't one dude going on that run that made that
so actual. It was the fact that there were two, right,
So you know, I don't know how that happens, but
I do know that the more that we see Show A,
especially with the Dodgers, that I just continue to think
that this is going to be the moment where all
of a sudden, the world stops and pays attention. And
you know, what he did last night is a part
of the reason why, like we we love greatness until

(01:27:38):
we're bored with it. And the beautiful thing is that
we're not bored with the greatness of Show Hey, yet.
I just think we need to maybe love the rise
a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Let me ask you a question, because you know, I'm
I'm a bit of a scene head, so I'm kind
of a little bit I shouldn't be, I should be
disqualified from the conversation, but I look around baseball and
we're talking about Show Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
But there's some amazing talent across the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Bobby Witt Junior, who plays in Kansas City, is one
of the most dynamic players. He is for power, ridiculous power,
He's scot ridiculous speed. He it just all he does
is hit like I mean crazy. I mean he's hitting
whether it is over four hundred since the All Star Break.

(01:28:31):
He's just an amazing player. But he's not alone like
you got you know Elie Dela Cruz and Cincinnati's his
six ' five short stop, the kid O'Neil Cruz and
since in Pittsburgh is his six ' seven short stop.
There's so many dynamic young players across the sport, but

(01:28:53):
yet nobody knows them. And I don't know what it
is about MLB and marketing its players, but it's almost sad.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Like I look at it, I go that people don't
know how good this sport is. Right now. It's it's great.
The players are some epic talent.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
So then the question becomes, how do you find your
Caitlin Clark? Because I would argue that the w has
been on a trajectory of getting better and better and
better with some really strong players all the way across
the board for years, right, but it took Caitlyn Clark
to get people to really become enamored with it, and
now all of a sudden it feels like it's blown up, right,

(01:29:38):
And so you know, it's not just like it would
we pay as much attention to Angel Reese getting as
many boards as she does if there wasn't Caitlin Clark
in the sport, I don't know. I think you got
to have your Kitlin Clark. So then you ask yourself,
what's Caitlyn Clark? What makes Caitlyn so special? And it's
that she's doing things nobody's ever done before. Shouldn't show
hey be doing that? Like, shouldn't show hey have the
impact that brings people to me duty and it makes

(01:30:01):
them want to discover the rest of them, you know,
like that's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
I don't know why showhy is not Caitlin Clark or
you know, and Bobby Wood Junior, right, but forever.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
But Mike Trout before, it's a shame his injury, just
his careers just got the railed by injuries. But you know,
it was like watching Joe Damagio, like it was watching
one of the great players ever and he got no
press and nobody really cared. And I'm looking around and
I could pick the like five Caitlin Clark's and yet

(01:30:37):
nobody pays.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Nobody cares or.

Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
It's funny because you need somebody that will change everybody's
mind and that that's just being real like and and
it's so hard to look lightning in a bottle here,
but you could look at uh, you know, Connor McDavid
and wonder why somebody doing what he's doing isn't bringing
more people to hockey, right, Like, it is funny to
me that you need somebody that is so good that

(01:31:03):
people will change their perception of the league that they playing,
because that certainly happened with the W There's no doubt
about that show. Ay is that good and should be
that good that it resonates? I honestly don't have the answer.
I'm not smart enough to know why it hasn't necessarily
clicked at that same level because you're one hundred percent right,
think of how the not just he's every.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Been at Caitlin Clark, Like, listen, Kitlin Clark's ridiculous, great
player in the whole thing. But like I'm look at
Otani and I go, yeah, he checks all those boxes too,
what doesn't he have? And it's maybe it's just that
basketball is just a we have a love affair with
basketball in this country, that hey, we have fallen out

(01:31:46):
of love with baseball, that baseball really just is of
another time.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
Baseball has been friend zoned, and I don't know how
you get out of the friend zone. You're like, you'll
hang out with him when you want to, but like,
I just don't know how you get out of that mindset.
I genuinely don't know this. This is It's interesting because
I hadn't thought about it til you brought it up.
But certainly it should be transcending. Why it doesn't And
if show A doesn't transcend, what the hell does?

Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
What the hell? Ever?

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Will you know?

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
That's a? That's a really that's a difficult question because
I don't think Major League Baseball is not trying to
market their stars. It's just I don't know. I don't
know what you do in that situation, And like, what
do you you know?

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
I mean, you're more general on the sport.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
I'm not a same head at all.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Yeah, right, Like I'm may weren't into it, so I
seek it out?

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
How come they don't have you And I mean, I
know they got you to extent, but like.

Speaker 4 (01:32:48):
No, they got it's part of my job, You're right,
Like I don't wouldn't sit down and watch baseball if
it wasn't part of my job, But like, what.

Speaker 3 (01:32:55):
What is it? I guess it just has to be
the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
If like the w grabbed you, it was a part
of your job, but the WNBA grabbed you man like
you you know, you know a lot about it, not
just because it was your job, like you got into it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
I think there's an element of baseball feels like to me,
it feels like a much heavier lift. There's just so many,
so many games, so much catching up to do. And
if we're being honest, like a lot of times, baseball
fans are so hell bent on the history of the
sport and very like baseball guy is a very special thing.
We all know that, right, Like baseball guy is so

(01:33:36):
rooted in the don't mess with baseball, Like sometimes it
doesn't feel like it's as well, Like it feels like
we all sort of not not all of us, but
a large portion of the country came together to the
WNBA at the same time. So it was this discovery
of a new thing for everybody at once. Sometimes the
baseball it just feels like, hey, it's intimidating to get
into because there's so many games, there's so many players,

(01:33:56):
there's so much history you should know, but you don't know.
And then I would argue that baseball fans as a
whole are not always the most welcoming to the new
fans coming in. So it's just it doesn't have that
same thing. That's community point.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
It's a great point, man, it's a great point that
there is that that baseball already has a club.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
That's a spot on point, man, I've ever thought of that.
And we we do like to we do like to
be the first. Like there's something about people, you know
that we you know, we're all wired as human beings,
like we want our own thing, right, like we want to.

(01:34:43):
It's why people like eclectic music, right even if they
they know that, you know, pop music is for a
reason they want to be different, like, oh well I
don't listen to that. I listened to this, right because
they want to be all most inventing the new sounds.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
Yeah? I mean and also, like God, forbid. You say
something wrong about baseball in general, you just get eviscerated
for it. You know, it's it's it just it it
is not to me. It's a lot like you're walking
into the Cafeterian High School and there's a table over
on the side that like, the kids aren't that cool,
but they think they are, and they really don't want
anyone to join their party. That's what baseball has always

(01:35:27):
felt like to me. The w felt like the party
table over on the side and they're like, come on,
come hang out, like everybody's hanging out here, look at
this cool kid like that. It just it just opened
up more easily because of that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
To me, fat that's so interesting to me, And it's
funny because like I don't know, like you know, you
know you are you are right so and in my
city it's a big deal and it's always a big
been a big deal. Now obviously football's football, but the
town was always a baseball town. It means to be

(01:36:00):
close too. Like you said, you know, baseball's are the
friend zone. Whereas you know, it came from being football
like before, in the in the previous generation, baseball was
bigger than if you go back to what nineties it switched,

(01:36:21):
But like in the early nineties, baseball was bigger than football.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Oh yeah, it seems unfathomable, but it really was.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Well, isn't that the word to the wise When anyone
says football will never die, It's like, I don't think
football will die anytime soon. I and God knows, maybe
it never will. But certainly you're right. If you went
back in time to let's say, nineteen eighty five eighty six,
and you told everybody that baseball would be largely irrelevant
nationally and football would be the thing that absolutely rules

(01:36:52):
our society, I think people would have laughed at you.
Absolutely would have laughed at you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah, yeah, no, I think you're I think you're bottle on.
It's so interesting. But the World Series wasn't national thing
like everybody was. I remember being a kid when you
were little. Did you do the same people when you
were little, Like it was like, oh my god, the
World Series is on, and they were slowly that went

(01:37:18):
away and then football took over.

Speaker 4 (01:37:21):
The World Series was such a stop and notice moment
for every It was it was like the Super Bowl
is now, but it was two weeks of it, you know,
it's two weeks of of you know, games constantly like it.
Just but also that was a time when finding sports
content was harder than ever, so we were we ate
what we were fed, you know. So we were fed baseball.

(01:37:43):
It was like, well, this is awesome. But now you're
fed every game from every place, from everywhere, and it's
just it's become I mentioned watching Law and Order marathons earlier,
that's become baseball for a lot of people. It's just
background noise. You know, it's background noise. And if you
can have a sport that's background noise, and the fans
of it are super protective of it. And you know,
if you don't, you know, you don't necessarily feel the

(01:38:04):
most welcome to that background noise. Eventually just turn around.
It's like, man, I don't know, I don't know that
that really grabs me. I don't know that I need
to be a part of that, like it. It's a
lot of lyft for very little joy in that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Yeah. Yeah, that's shame, man. You know, I I'd love
to see it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
I think they've you've changed the game a little bit,
and they made it faster, they made it fun.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
I'd like to changes.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
Well, and it's funny when you mention it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Sport, man, it's like, right now, it's way better now
than it was ten years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
One of the top things that you'll hear people say
me included is I don't love baseball, but I love
going to games. I hear that all the time. The
number of my people in my life that'll be like, oh,
do you like baseball? No, but I love going to games.
How often do you hear that? Like, think of how
weird it is for a sport to be something that
I'll go to Hartford Yard Goats whenever and whenever I

(01:38:58):
can possibly get a chance of the arguts. I love
going to it because, like, going to a game is
so much fun, sitting outside with the buddies. You know,
you're having a drink, it's a beautiful day. Baseball's onto
the background, like it's perfect. But I don't remember the
last time I just turned on a game and said,
let me watch seven innings of this, you know, Red
Sox Yankees game. That's just it doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
Yeah, No, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
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Welcome back fellas on a Fox Yes Football, Dare I
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Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Wow, it just feels so good, like makes my no
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Speaker 3 (01:40:27):
I know it's the truth.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
It's funny how simple creatures that we are. Uh, let's
get it back to college football. And they kind of
go through we were going through Saturday schedule for you
to kind of look into a good way for us
to kind of look at some of the teams and
some of the outlooks the outlook preseason wise. Next hour
we'll get into NFL. But we went over Clemson, Penn State,

(01:40:53):
we talked to Loto State, Alabama. Let me, uh, let
me ask you about Texas because they're interesting, man. They
they could be really good at Seccene. Now changes they
look on paper, I mean yours back, they look super strong.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
Yeah, I don't think there's a real weakness for Texas
right Like, it's just it's a great, great team with heavy,
heavy expectations coming straight in and you know, not for nothing. Also,
they sort of won. I know, you know, you never
know how the schedule is going to play out. And
I know people say, well they're going to at Michigan.
That's fine, they got to go to Michigan. They take

(01:41:38):
on Oklahoma obviously, But when you compare the gauntlet that
Oklahoma has in their first year the SEC versus the
gauntlet that Texas has, I just want to remind everybody
not all schedules in college football are created equally. I
think the schedule is pretty favorable to Texas. I'd be
stunned if Texas isn't in the College Football Playoffs, Absolutely stunned.
And Quinn Eewers becomes really interesting because a lot of

(01:41:59):
nil money, a lot of nil money was given obviously
to arch Manning, and so all these expectations and Quinn
has done nothing but manage keep him on the bench,
which I think, in and of itself is pretty spectacular.
So that was the number three defense against the run
last year, one of the best defenses in the country.
They lost some people, but they're still going to be very,

(01:42:19):
very good. I just I feel like this team has
everything they need to be a national championship contender. I'm
not going to say Texas is back, because that always
bites us in the butt, but I think Texas is
going to walk into the SEC and immediately cement themselves
as one of the absolute top teams in the conference.
I'd be pretty stunned at the end of all this
they're not. I've got Texas finishing third in the SEC,

(01:42:40):
but I could see them going anywhere from two to four.
And that's pretty amazing for your first year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
In I know, right, I mean, but I to your point,
I don't see really any weaknesses. You know, I look
at them and they look great up and down. Hey,
by the way, speaking of Texas, you see with Xavier
Worthies the one for the Chiefs. No, oh my god, dude,
you sleep about sleeper. He's going to be a sleeper

(01:43:08):
you want. Andy Reid is gonna This kid's gonna have
a role this year.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Look, when he was drafted, I thought it was a
great pick, especially for that offense. And I think he's
a great player. So I'm not surprised by that at all.
You know, you get a little benefit of the doubt
too when you go into Andy Reid. So yeah, none
of that surprises me. I think people need to be
a little bit more aware of, you know, sort of
what Andy can do there and what Patrick Mahomes is
going to bring out, Especially with injuries at the wide

(01:43:37):
receiver position, there's gonna be opportunity. Yeah, a hundred percent right.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
And you know it's funny because I mean obviously that
was their biggest weekness last year and with the injuries now,
I mean, I this kid, this kid's a player. I like,
I love Worthy. I think he's a player. I think
he's going to have an impact right away.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
H let's keep.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Going Miami against Florida. How about that game Florida Miami
on Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
Do you remember that game?

Speaker 4 (01:44:07):
Used to be Yeah, that game used to like, look
for anybody young listening right now, Florida Miami used to
sort of shut down the world right like it just
it meant so much. And now, you know, frankly, honestly,
my heart breaks for Billy Napier in Florida this year
because the schedule Gods, you know, absolutely, it's the toughest

(01:44:28):
schedule in the country or one of the toughest schedules
in the country. I don't love anything about this schedule
for them. They're gonna have their hands full of Texas,
A and m They got to go to Tennessee. They
gotta take on Georgia, they gotta play Texas, they gotta
play LSU. In fact, in a row, they played Georgia, Texas,
LSU Ole miss in a row. Like Billiy Napier and
Florida could be pretty good and still lose six games

(01:44:50):
this year. It's wild how bad their schedule is, how
tough their schedule is. And Florida is added to that
conversation I had earlier about teams like you know, Wisconsin,
Nebraska that are trying to figure out what they look
like in this new world, like Florida might not be
terrible because of their schedule. Finish looking at it, eleven twelve, geez.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
Look at it. So here just just start to finish.
To put it in context. So you got Miami to
start to cease, and then you got Samford. All right,
So then here it starts Texas A and m at
Mississippi State, you get UCF. Then at Tennessee home against Kentucky.

(01:45:34):
And like my man Chuck, who is a great listener,
who is a fella, He's like Kentucky. He's down there,
he knows the deal. Kentucky's gonna be good at Georgia,
at Texas home, LSU home, Oh Miss at Florida State

(01:45:57):
to end it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
Oh god, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
They could lose the games, Like I think they could
genuinely finish the season with the five game losing streak.
And it doesn't mean they're bad. It just means that, Look,
this isn't a hot take. Florida is not as good
as Georgia, not as good as Texas, not as good
as l s U, not as good to an old mess,
and not as good as Florida. Florida State, like all
of those teams right now, in a neutral field, would

(01:46:22):
be favored over Florida I just they don't have the
talent to be able to compete with those teams right now.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Wow, that's gold man, I ain't seen that skill that
schedules nasty.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
Yeah, damn man, Yeah they got no shot.

Speaker 5 (01:46:39):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Uh we talked about Bama. It's funny, man. I do
love that no Row, Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
I love monro lot like. I think I get your.

Speaker 2 (01:46:52):
Point as to why you're not as bullish on them,
and I think you make a good point. I love
that kid that I love that kid.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
I'm just curious where he's at.

Speaker 4 (01:47:04):
Yeah, I think he has a real shot to be
a Heisman contender if things go well. Yeah, you know,
you are asking him to learn an all new system
coming into this, so I think there's a little bit
of you know, hey, wait and see, I trust I
only trust coaches so much to be able to get
the best out of them, right, So let's see what
that looks like. But you know, Jalen Mirroll has all
the tools to be a superstar, absolutely no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
Should we think about the old miss you buy it?
I mean they're loaded, yeah, Jackson Dark, I mean they're
they're loaded, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:47:38):
Yeah, they're loaded. All over the place. I mean, there's
just they I don't look at them and say, man,
the way they've used the transfer portal is reminiscent of
if you take Michigan State Meltucker what he did his
first year where he used the portal to you Kenneth
Walker and a bunch of other players, and all of
a sudden he got himself ten million dollars a year.
Like they've taken that, and they've elevated that game right

(01:47:58):
like the way that they've gone, and basically Lane Kiffin
has said, all right, we are going to we are
going to use the transfer portal like free agency, and
we are going to absolutely build. If this works for
Ole Miss, it changes the way everybody does business moving
forward because they are going to try and build a
super team every single year. They have a quarterback that's
been in this system for a minute that knows it.

(01:48:19):
The only thing that I would say is that in
a playoff game, we'll find out how great Lane Kiffin
actually is as a coach. He's got to win some
of these big games against big teams. But I think
their schedule is relatively favorable. They obviously have to take
on Georgia this year. That's going to be tough. Oklahoma
is a tough matchup. They should be able to win
that though. I think they're better than LSU as it
stands right now. So for me, I'd be stunned if

(01:48:42):
ole Miss also isn't in the college football playoff. But
moreover than that, ole Miss has got to win some
playoff games. They have too much talent with the quarterback
that's been around for a minute for me to look
at it and say just making the playoffs is enough.
I think ole Miss has a real shot at being
in the national championship game.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I think you're uh,
you're spot on.

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
What we're gonna see next year of the portal is
is just a free for all.

Speaker 4 (01:49:10):
How wild is Oxford gonna be if ole Miss is
actually a like I've got him finishing second in the SEC.
How wild is that because that environment is wild when
they suck? How crazy is it going to be down
there if ole Miss is actually a national championship caliber like,
I desperately want ole Miss to be the number one

(01:49:32):
team in the country, even if it's for one week,
just because I want to see what the environment would
be like down there for the number one team in
all the land. Co he just in check that in
my veins. That would be such an iconic college football moment.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
I know, dude, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
I mean they got let's see, so you know their
their line was a problem, right, Yeah, So right off
the bat, he got the two big guards from Washington
that are both over three hundred pounds for the interior,
and they got a commitment from North Carolina diego pounds

(01:50:13):
to left tackle. And then and then on defense, I'm
just reading the storts. It's unbelievable, man, with they add
they add three studs to that defense just to stop
the run. Oh my god, Nolan Chris Paul Jr. Princely,

(01:50:33):
they got that kid. He could play. Oh my god,
the way he did it is so interesting. And he's
smart because you're right, that's the name of the game.
You got n Il money. Let's go and then and
no run. Now here's I'll throw this say how soon

(01:50:54):
until one of.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
These schools.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Says you can't try to poach my players in the
portal because that's tampering.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
I mean, that seems like the inevitable that when we
talk about ways the NCAA can change things because me,
let me be very clear, I think this is the
best era of college football in history. I think this
is going to be the most incredible season in college
football history. And if you're listening right now and you're
hearing us talk about the transfer portal, and you're rolling
your eyes and you're yelling about what's bad about college football,
kindly shut up, because this is everything that's good about

(01:51:31):
college football. The fact is Olmus decided they wanted to
make a run at a national championship game, so they
raise the money and they're making the run. That is
empowering to me. I love everything about it. But when
we talk about what's going to change, like the name
nim Is likeness, stuff isn't going to change because anytime
somebody tries to throttle it back, it's going to be
challenged in court and they are going to lose. Like
this is, courts will step in and say that you

(01:51:53):
cannot collude against these players, like the NCAA lost their
opportunity to do this. So barring Congress stepping in and
making some sort of massive statement, which I don't think
they're gonna do anytime soon, this is college football. So
how can college football navigate it well. They could start
to come up with standards and practices and rules for
how the transfer portal can be used by other schools,

(01:52:13):
not denying kids any opportunity, but simply trying to create
a better structure for what happens when a kid wants
to enter the transfer portal. That's a real thing, and
I think that's gonna happen soon. You see more and
more schools too, hiring gms now, salary cap people, nil
people like. All of these things that we've seen in
the NFL, they now exist in college football. So this
is going to end up looking just like the NFL

(01:52:35):
in a few years, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Oh yeah. In fact, that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
At the Eagles's a guy named Jake Rosenberg who was
the number two to Howie Roseman. He left to start
his own consulting firm. He just signed up Oklahoma and
Nebraska and he's got a couple other teams on the hook.
So basically, he's a consultant to come in and do

(01:53:05):
build an NFL front office for you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
So he's going to come in and build the front
office for you. This is what they need.

Speaker 4 (01:53:13):
I mean, that's a brilliant idea by the way, and
should I mean good for him on being ahead of it.
He's gonna make a lot of money doing it. But
also schools need this, and look, cousin, I've died on
the sill again. But I will remind everybody that might
be listening to this the first time. If your favorite
school is struggling to figure this out and you want
to make a difference, I would talk to your school
and I would ask them why do we not have

(01:53:34):
a name, Image, likeness major program? Because to me, what
I would do if I was an ad right now
in a school, I would create the opportunity to major
for everybody, not just the athletes. Like, let's say you
got kids there in your law school that want to
be agents. Let's say you got kids that want to
be marketing brand reps. Let's say you've got kids that
want to run social media for football teams and football players. Like,
there's a great opportunity to start a program where actually

(01:53:57):
these kids can start to connect with each other, and
then by connecting with each other, you might be creating
relationships to go into like Rich Paul with Lebron, you
might be creating relationships to go into the next level.
And instead of trying to step bury your head in
the stand like an Ostrich Gott and embrace what NIL is.
Get yourself free labor from the kids that are in
your program. Let them start working these marketing deals. Let

(01:54:18):
them start making money for everybody. Create a real atmosphere
around NIL that makes your school, not just athletes, but
everybody win. And I think schools will win in the
long term. This is the future of college sports to me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
Well said, Well said.

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(01:55:37):
coming up next week. So next next Saturday is we
said earlier, just to put a bow on it. Farida State,
Georgia Tech today and then next Saturday. You had your
great early games, like we told your collapse in Georgia,
Penn State, West Virginia. Then you're gonna have Tennessee, Oklahoma State,

(01:55:58):
all ranked teams. Ohio State's in action in Texas, Colorado
State at three thirty, Miami, Florida at three thirty, and
then that takes you into the evening, and there's a
couple of good ones. There is uh well, Alabama's playing
at night. You also have old miss Kansas State. They're

(01:56:21):
playing all the uh the donkeys. But then Notre Dame
and Texas A and m on ABC. I mean, this
is it like that that's gonna be incredible. Oregon and
Michigan are playing as well. Michigan's got Fresno State and
uh Ucla Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
I mean, look at it. Look at the cards Saturday.
It's it's a full slate, buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
Yeah, that Notre Dame Texas A and M game two.
So much on the line for Texas A and M.
I mean, really, if your Notre Dame, the playoff is
the expectation because you always feel like you're getting at
large bid and Notre Dame schedule is softer and sharman
this year, so you know, I don't think they have
a tunnel wiggle room obviously to screw up. And this

(01:57:09):
game is obviously at Texas A and M, so that's
a big deal here. But man, if you're Texas A
and M, you're really trying to right the ship. And
I think this is an opportunity if you can come
out and beat Notre Dame. It's an opportunity to tell
this version of the SEC that you belong right now,
because I just don't know what to make of where
this team is, you know. And it's it's interesting too

(01:57:30):
because if you're Texas A and M, you're head coach
Mike Elko a lot of familiarity with the quarterback he'll
be taken on at Notre Dame, so you know there's
a Riley Leonard is the quarterback and Notre Dame. Those
guys know each other from their time together Duke, so
it's there's a lot in that matchup that really matters
to me. I expect Notre Dame to be able to roll,
but Texas A and M. Really they got to prove

(01:57:53):
that they're closer to, you know, matching up with the
Tennessees of the world than they are to the Bandis
of the world. And it feels like that Week one
matchup is a big statement for them because I think
it's gonna be a tough year for A and M.
They're sort of middle of the pack at best in
the SEC. They need to come out of the gates
and prove everybody wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
Yeah, man, it's I mean, they're they're they're they're up
for it. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
That conference is too good. Yeah, they got uh let's
look at their schedule for a second. You get the Irish,
then you got McNeice, and you're at Florida and you're
home Bowling Green, then your home Arkansas, then your home Missouri,
then you're at Mississippi State, then you host LSU, then

(01:58:40):
at South Carolina, home New Mexico State at Auburn and
then Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:58:45):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:58:47):
But if you think about it, like to what I
was saying, let's say they lose to Missouri, LSU, and
Texas all excusable losses. Three losses in this this current
version of the SEC feels pretty good. If you lose
to Notre Dame, four losses feels much different and you
get no wiggle room the rest of the year, you know.
So it's that's where it gets. It's if you tell

(01:59:08):
me that Texas, A and M comes out of the
season with three losses, I would feel pretty spectacular. I
feel like it's more likely they come out with five losses,
and that's because Notre Dame and then one other slip
up somewhere along the way when the season doesn't really
matter the way it should. So, you know, Auburn sitting
here looking at him and saying, hey, why not us?

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:59:24):
So it's just amazing how different the narrative is around
the team depending on whether or not. That's why I
think this week one matchup is so big.

Speaker 3 (01:59:33):
And so that's Sunday night, Well, have Sunday Night football.
It's it's a great game.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
USC LSU seven point thirty Sunday Night, Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:59:45):
Yeah, that that is going to be just again. Now
you're putting a standalone game together with the team in
the USC that is going through how much change constantly?
It feels like there's constant change there with the coaching
staff trying to figure out how to actually play some
semblance of defense. I'm not sure they can. And then
you're taking on an LSU team that's trying to replace
you know, one of the best players in the country
at the quarterback position. So obviously, you know everybody wants

(02:00:08):
us Miner to be you know, no drop off. But man,
you got to see something there. So it LSU has
an opportunity this year to surprise some people too. I
think this is a big, proven matchup for both of
these teams. It's it's a perfect Sunday night, standalone college
football game in the modern environment.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Hey, let me ask you, because I'm disappointed the Labor
Day night game stakes. Yep, Well, you get Florida State
again right fresh off the trip from the Dublin and
it boss to college.

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
Why I mean, you're basically conceding that everybody's drunk at
the end of that Monday and they don't feel like
what I don't understand it at all. I thought that
was a lame pick for a game. And I think,
you know, realistically, looking at some of the ones we
talked about, like Clemson Georgia, you could have put that
on on Labor Day. That would have been great. Could
have put you know, you could have put anything. It
would have been better there. Notre Dame in Texas, A

(02:01:00):
and M would have been better there too.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
Listen or at least move something to get like, at
least schedule the games right. Schedule some some tougher games
and some interesting games that you could put on on
Labor Day. I mean, I even think that Sunday there
should be like three like treat it like an NFL
Sunday and early.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
At mid and late.

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
You know, I agree talking with them all day exactly
where the fellaws big NFL hour a head.

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Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
But let's look some NFL my man, all right, So
NFL big boy football, this is it the last weekend
of preseason? Today is it? And then cutdowns come next week.
There was a trade earlier in the week by the Eagles. Fitzy,

(02:03:19):
I love this trade. The Eagles had a big hole
at third receiver and they get Jahan Dotson from Washington,
and he's a dramatic upgrade to what they had. He's
a guy, he's twenty four entering his third year, had
some issues with confidence in the preseason, some drops, but

(02:03:42):
he's a former number one pick, new regime in Washington,
so it's easy to kind of use him to make
a statement.

Speaker 3 (02:03:50):
And so they trade him.

Speaker 2 (02:03:52):
And he's a guy with aj Brown, DeVante Smith, Barkley
out of the backfield, got it is a tight end.
He's their fifth option and in a lot of space
he can get behind it. He can get behind the secondary.
So I love that from an Eagles offense standpoint, that's
good trade.

Speaker 4 (02:04:09):
Yeah, I liked it a lot. And again I'll go
back to his college career at the time covering it.
Just a guy that always had a invisible escalator under him,
like he can high point a football from anywhere. So
I think Johan Dotson was underutilized in the last regime.
And sometimes you just need somebody to reignite the best

(02:04:29):
of who you can be. We've seen the best of
who Johan Dotson could be, frankly repeatedly in college. I
think that that shows in Philly. It's a great pickup. Look,
it's not somebody that's gonna come in. He doesn't have
to come in and be you know, the superstar, doesn't
have to come in and be the main guy. That
being said, he's gonna get a lot of numbers simply
in my mind because he is the other option, gonna

(02:04:51):
have same favorable secondary matchups. Like, I think this was
a good pick. I still believe in Johandatson the player
a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:04:57):
Yeah, and again like to your point, yeah, I mean
you got a J. Brown, you got Devonte Smith. You
don't need you know, I mean you need. Look, when
you're an eleven personnel, you know who's your third receiver,
and now they have one and so's it's a pretty
good you know, I think, pretty good, pretty good deal there.

(02:05:19):
So I'll start with you because we touched it a
little bit. But Gardner Minshew is your quarterback? Thoughts?

Speaker 4 (02:05:29):
Yeah, well, I mean, look, I'm a little surprised because
I don't think either quarterback did anything to separate themselves.
So with that being said, I thought of no one separated.
Aiden would get the job simply because he's young and
it's been around for a minute and maybe you want
to see if you can develop something. But this really
comes down to the fact that to me, this puts
all the pressure in the world on offensive coordinator Luke Getsy.
Now Getsy was the offensive coordinator in Chicago withusin fields

(02:05:52):
that obviously didn't work out for either the player or
the coach. But the one thing we have to remember
is that last year the Colts were on the brink
of the playoffs, not because of Gardner, but because Shane
Steichen did a magnificent job working a game plan that
got the best out of Gardner Minshew. So now I
look at Luke Getsy and say, Okay, your job is
to do every bit the job with Gardner Minshew that

(02:06:14):
I don't know another coach just did. So I think
that's why it becomes to me it launches a ton
of pressure on Luke Getzy to be able to get
the most most out of this offense. I think it
launches a ton of pressure on him to be able
to design things that get guys open. But I also think,
you know, not for nothing, and you know the studying
with Baldi, what do they want? Like every offense has

(02:06:36):
to know what their identity is. I think the Raiders
offense is identity is going to be two tight ends
with the rollout quarterback that's throwing the ball six to
eight yards down the field, trying to make something happen
that way. So in that sense, Aidan O'Connell has no athleticism.
This kind of made sense.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
Yeah, and you said it earlier we talking about but
you know their placeholders, I mean, and you get it.
Bode Nicks in Denver looks good, right like, it looks
like Sean Payton as a quarterback. And when Sean Payton
as a quarterback little dangerous. How do you look at

(02:07:14):
your neighboring Broncos in that AFC West.

Speaker 4 (02:07:18):
Look, Bonix has looked really good. But go back to
his college career, especially at Auburn, and really examine his
road and away splits. There's drastic versions. I've said this
for years, Bo give it them, Bo take it away.
So you know, we've got to see this in live action,
and frankly, I've got to see what he looks like
at Arrowhead. He didn't struggle as much in the PAC

(02:07:40):
twelve in Oregon with the road splits as much, but
also that was the PAC twelve, right, So to me,
no discredit, but also a little bit of discredit. I
think what does he look like on the road, What
does he look like against non vanilla offenses. I think
Bo's pretty good. But I'm not going to buy into
any of this like massive, oh my god, a hype
that we're getting right now from some people on Boatecks.

(02:08:01):
I just let's wait and see what it looks like
in the actual regular season, see what he's taking on there.
I still think, you know, you've got a decent quarterback,
not a great one. We'll see. Spoke like a man,
all right, man, I mean, let's just say this. I'm
not losing sleep suddenly, like super super scared of the possibility.

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
About when they got its chiefs, right, yeah, exactly exactly
what you're sake divisions to goat is what it is.
It's just some news around we're going up through the
through the NFL. Some of the news of the week,
uh speak of quarterbacks. My god, the Steelers. Oh Ross

(02:08:40):
is so cooked. Yep, he's just so done. Like I
feel sorry for the Steelers. Man, Oh, you gotta got
to go. You're gonna try to have to go with
fields and see if you can make something with fields.

Speaker 4 (02:08:56):
Which is what I remember predicting from the outset like
even look at the financials on like, I just don't
think it makes sense for us to win this job,
and he hasn't done anything to actually win the dang thing. So,
you know, And I talked on Yahoo Sports this week
on our show, I talked to Charles Robinson, our insider,
and he made it clear that no decision has been made.
And if no decision has been made, then I think

(02:09:16):
that the fact that the door is open for Justin
Fields speaks to the poor play of Russell Wilson, like,
because that's just fact to me. So I think Justin
Fields wins this job. But also I wouldn't be surprised
if we end up with a rotating you know, maybe
it's this guy for a few weeks. Maybe it's this
guy for a few weeks, and you just don't win.
Like I'll say the same thing about the Raiders. If
it's Gardner, Minshew and then Aiden and then back to Gardner,

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you don't win that way. That's the that just tells
you that your season with the you know what.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
Now, I'll ask you this, give me three teams and
we could do it by conference. Who you think their
fortunes have changed? And it doesn't need to be dramatically,
but have been altered by the preseason.

Speaker 4 (02:10:00):
I think it's pretty fair to say Minnesota like comes
to mind first because JJ McCarthy being out like that,
that just I think that that absolutely that has tremendous meanings.
So I put them on that list.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
As we'll study the NFC, we'll go NFC and the
Chiefs that whose fortunes have been altered, and it could
be by play, what you've seen, what you've heard, injuries.

Speaker 4 (02:10:25):
I think, you know, I'll give the Seahawks a little
bit of love here because I've been sort of out
on that Seahawks defense, the thought being that it's going
to need some time to gel together. But the Seahawks
defense in the preseason has actually looked pretty good, So
you know, I put the Seahawks on that on that
list of at least it's changing my mind a little

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bit with the Seahawks. And then I don't know that
the fortunes have changed, but I would say that I
think the Bears are sort of living up to the
early height. You know that, So I was I was
cautious with it. I'm no longer cautious. I think the
Bears have a real shot at the playoffs this year,
So I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
That's yeah, yeah, no, I agree, No, you're right, I
think he is. He's an upgrade.

Speaker 5 (02:11:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:11:10):
I get good vibes about Atlanta. I got a downturn
about the Giants. I hear the Giants are just awful.

Speaker 4 (02:11:20):
Yeah, and well yeah, but the other thing is like
what chance do they have once things start to erode
for the Giants, what chance do they have to get
it back on track? So you know, yeah, I love it.
I love the Giants as that pick too, I'll give
you that for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:11:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
You know what people are talking about in the NFC
under the radar And obviously you got your Lions and
your Grinton Packers and and and Niners and Eagles, but people,
they swear to me, I heard it from like four
different NFL people that the Buccaneers are going to be good.

(02:11:58):
And as much as I'm like eh on Baker Mayfield,
they're like, dude, like, look what at with golf?

Speaker 5 (02:12:07):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
Like, you don't you're not making him that face when
it comes to Jared Goffe any more, are you? And
they think the same thing can happen with Mayfield. And
they love their defense and you know they're bullish ing
with shot White and I go, all right, but it's
four different guys told me that, So I just won
the pants and along.

Speaker 4 (02:12:28):
No, I think the only difference that I would say
is that golf still has the same offensive coordinator, and
I really think that Canalis not being there. Let's see
what that means. But Baker was reinvented at the Super Bowl,
you know, seeing him there and just talking to him
about why success, and he talked about how he doesn't
feel any pressure and he could just be himself and
all these things like there is something to reinvention for

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some of these guys that have just been through the cookers.
So I would love to see that. I also keep
hearing people tell me that Arizona is just going to
be absolutely dynamic offensively, almost dynamic to the point that
they can make up for their abomination of a defense.
I need to see that first. I'm not the same
believer in Tyler Murray as everybody else right now, but
certainly people around me continue to tell me that Arizona's

(02:13:11):
gonna be worth watching.

Speaker 3 (02:13:13):
Yeah, I uh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
I let's go to AFC because the one team if
it appears like the Colts are gonna be nasty. It
appears that Stiking has Anthony Richardson poised and ready to
come back and pick up short sample size. But he
looked good, He's looked good so far in the preseason.

(02:13:39):
He threw that one pick, but he you know, the
pick six, but he he could be a dangerous weapon.

Speaker 4 (02:13:46):
Yeah, I think that's probably a pretty fair point. That Again,
all all tips of the Caps right now go to Stichan.
Like sometimes you just have a coach that you know,
if you've got McVeigh, you don't have to worry about
the same things. And it just feels like Stiking has
the pulse on this thing. So got to give him
a lot of credit. I think Indy much better so
far than I thought. I really came into this saying, hey,

(02:14:07):
it's okay to give Indy an incomplete because what do
we know yet we need? We know Anthony Richardson needs
more game time and he didn't get that last year.
I'll also say, in the same division, we don't know
a lot about the Titans, and I think the Titans
have looked better. There's this preseason so far than I expected.
So you know, let's see because if if the Titans
end up finding out that they do have an answer
at quarterback and Will Levis, they got a lot of talent.

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There's talent on the offensive side of the ball. There's
a lot of unknowns in who Callahan's going to be
as a head coach. I think the Titans have looked
a little better than I expected early on too.

Speaker 3 (02:14:39):
Did you see, Speaking of Will Levis, did you see
his new cologne?

Speaker 5 (02:14:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
God, yeah, Like you know, I wish, I wish somebody
and his team would have said stop. But hey, I
appreciate the entrepreneurial lials and go get that money. Will
You'll get that money. You go get that bag for
the Mayo mail bag.

Speaker 3 (02:14:55):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:14:55):
So he gave a Mayon A's scented cologne because he's
such a fan of Mayo.

Speaker 4 (02:15:05):
M that's Mayo's disgusting. Like it's not desinarately, Yeah, like
I don't, I don't even like because it has too
much Mayo in it. Like I'm out, Like Mayo is
as absolutely you put Mayo on it and you can
just throw it away from me. I don't even want
to taste it. Like IM out And unless it's the
Duke's Mayo Bowl, which is the best of all the

(02:15:25):
bowl games, and Dukes, I love you, call me back,
but if it's actual, like just you want me to
eat mayo, No, I'm out, Like I'm out of mayo,
I'm out on whatever, miracle whip, all of those things.
It's just they're all they don't belong in sandwiches. They
don't belong in food. If your summer dish that you
bring to a party has mayo in it, shame on.
You do better, be better. Like it's just there's nothing
about the Mayo game that I even respect.

Speaker 3 (02:15:47):
I know nothing about the Bao game. That's it's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:15:50):
I'm not a fan either, but I do love the
Mayo Ball because the Duke's Mao Ball just because the
coach gets the mayo bad is you know, fa fantastic, right,
This is great theater. I hear Buffalo's run game is
looking really really strong.

Speaker 4 (02:16:12):
Which it needs to write like, I mean, this is
and and look, the death of the Bills is reported
annually and never happens. So you know, I think Buffalo
is going to be just fine if they can figure
out how it's to me, the issue is not running
the ball and hopefully they fix this when they change
offensive coordinators last year. The issue is actually having the

(02:16:32):
discipline to run the football during the game, right like,
And that's that's where I think they just got to be.
They've got to be disciplined in their play calling one
hundred percent of the way. So I think there's an
opportunity for Buffalo. I think Buffalo's still very very good
by the way. I hear that.

Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
We talked about this before, but the Deshaun Watson thing
that there's more struggles and the rest store arm.

Speaker 3 (02:17:00):
Dude, yeah, sore arm. What are we doing?

Speaker 4 (02:17:04):
I'm out on the I'm out on the quarterback position
for the Browns, which only stinks because I thought they'd
be a sleeper this year and now I just don't
know that I can call it. Like when you talk
about teams that I think we can downgrade from the preseason,
I think the Cleveland Browns belong on that list one
hundred percent because I just I've seen nothing that I
can trust in any way.

Speaker 2 (02:17:23):
Shape shamee man. And I like damn man. I like
the way I mean, I love that to you. I
like that I like that Kevin Stevans get a lot.
I think he's a really good coach. Yep, yeah, I
feel I feel.

Speaker 4 (02:17:38):
I love the rest of the roster.

Speaker 3 (02:17:39):
I know, I know it's a good roster, man, it
really is.

Speaker 4 (02:17:46):
I'm also, by the way downgrading the Raiders, Like, even
as a fan, I'm downgrading the Raiders. They are absolutely
getting run all over, and I think teams are going
to figure that out quickly. I think their past rush
has the chance to be one of the best in
the NFL, but they got to shore up the run.
I don't feel good about that. I don't feel good
about their quarterback position, particularly so you know, I thought
they were maybe an eight win team. Now it's it

(02:18:08):
just feels like a seven win team is probably more likely.
So downgrading my beloved Raiders.

Speaker 2 (02:18:13):
How do you go into a ceason and look, you
know you've had practice of this where you know you
got first year Antonio. Antonio appears fired up, right old thing.
After you know the tag comes off, you have a
team that you got some players to watch on defense. Max,

(02:18:36):
you love Max, but you know you got no quarterback
and you know your expectations are limited. So how do
you gear up for a six, seven, eight win You
know forecast.

Speaker 4 (02:18:51):
My goal is to see more Sundays that I'm happy
than I'm sad. So nine and eight is like, I
can get to nine and eight, might I might throw
a little like parade up and down my street in Connecticut,
might get a little confetti out, just start chucking it
in the air. If I can get to more more
good Sundays than bad Sundays, that I have won the
Life Lottery this year, That's the way it goes. And
the difference like, because you're not wrong most of the time,

(02:19:12):
you can turn around and say, hey, you know what,
as long as our Like if you're a Bears fan
and the whole season goes awry, but Caleb Williams is
a superstar, you got something right. So the problem here
is that I genuinely don't believe the Raiders will be
bad enough to be picking at or near the top
of a draft.

Speaker 3 (02:19:31):
When does draft come into.

Speaker 4 (02:19:33):
Play midway through the season. I think you want to
hope that maybe there's a miracle and you can have
one of those seasons nobody expected and by by you know,
especially by Thanksgiving, then you're like, okay, but look, if
you're a Patriots fan, it's probably a three or four
win team this year, and that's okay because you're you're
you're gonna find out that Drake May is great and
everything's gonna beautiful. Like I love all of that. But

(02:19:54):
you know, if you're a Raiders fan, you're just sitting
there there, they're terrible. If you're a Raiders fan, you
just I don't I don't know the easy solution because
there's not going to be a quarterback available. So you know,
you're just you survive the season and you hope by
the end of the year that it's deck next year
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:20:09):
Yeah. Interesting, All right, let's take a quick time out.

Speaker 2 (02:20:13):
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Speaker 3 (02:20:20):
He's coming up next.

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Speaker 3 (02:21:02):
All right, let's take.

Speaker 2 (02:21:03):
A look at as we do here on this show,
take a look at football from a betting standpoint with
our insider. I'll put them up against anybody in the brain.
That's right, Brad Feinberg, the brain joins us. Good morning, brain,
good morning. All right, we're good. We're we're happy because

(02:21:26):
Fitzy and I go, it's week zero. We have real football.
It's our first taste. It's a uh you know what
this this dere's the analogy, Fitzy, I finally got the analogy.
When Sunday morning, my grandmother would be up early and

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she would make the traditional Italian gravy they called it
like a red sauce, right, and she would be like
frying the meatballs and the putting all the thing and
making this big pot that we would devour later in
the day. But she would get a little meatball that
she fried, and and she would give it and give

(02:22:10):
it to me is a treat in the morning.

Speaker 3 (02:22:13):
And it was that that little tiny bite is what
today week zero is.

Speaker 5 (02:22:21):
He had something I think that it's a pretty good
compy you I like it. Look, there is one decent game.
I mean, the Georgia Tech Florida State game is certainly,
you know, a game of Note, which I do think
you know, will be you know, a competitive, decent game.
It's twenty line of that game. It's interesting, Anthony, I

(02:22:41):
thought that line should have come in at like twelve.
If you can get a ten out there, I lean
Florida State. It's interesting. Djole guy somethings like he's been
around thing for seventy five years.

Speaker 2 (02:22:55):
Oh my god, that's what it is with this portal, right,
fancy with the portal, Like do you see these guys
are here?

Speaker 3 (02:23:02):
Were like five six years. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (02:23:05):
I mean, the guy changes teams every single years. Unbelievable.
He really he's been around forever. But it's interesting they
talking about Georgia Tech. They got James king Beck, who
you know, decent running quarterback. Didn't do as well for
Tech s a m. But he did do decently for
Georgia Tech last year. Tech has eight starters back on

(02:23:28):
offense going into pretty good Florida State secondary. It's interesting
Georgia Tech's weakness last year was they were stopping the run.
They were almost dead last in college football, and Florida
State does have a good offensive line. Look again, I
thought the fly should come in at twelve. It's like
ten and a half most places. But if you could
find a ten, I do think that I you know,

(02:23:52):
don't think he could do worse than taking Floridastate. I
do you think they one the game at double digits?

Speaker 3 (02:23:55):
But you do think this game is competitive though?

Speaker 5 (02:23:59):
Well yeah, certainly. Again I thought the line was again
it was close to my numbers, So yeah, I mean,
look Tech again, Tech did get eight starters back offensively,
they it's interesting they did win. I think Tech lester
was six and six. They you know, they hadn't for them,
you know, a pretty a pretty solid year, and ains
King played better for them in my opinion. It's a

(02:24:20):
lot less pressure. So much pressure on him at tex Am,
you know, and it just Dean never was able to
do what they needed him to do there. But going
at a little less of a you know, the spotlight,
so to speak, at Georgia Tech, I thought he did
a nice job for them. But I do think that
I do think Sarta State.

Speaker 2 (02:24:39):
Which this one I want to one last thing I
want to I want to give it to Fiti. Uh total,
is it you already vibe on the total for this game?
Because I'm curious. It feels like there should be some
points now, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:24:52):
But the total of things around fifty five and a
half ish? Uh yeah, I mean, listen, there should be
some points in the sense that again, I definitely think
that Georgia Tech is very susceptible to FOTA six running game.
And but I'll say this, I'm just I'm not confident
enough for me personally taken over here, I'm not confident

(02:25:15):
enough that Georgia Tech's will score enough points. I actually
do respect Florida State Secondary, I'm not and they're gonna
have to probably get, you know, certainly into the prior
for this game to go over, you know, at least
in the twenties. Not totally confident they're going to be
able to do that. So for me, the totals of
path I think it's the right number.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
Give me a philosophical answer here to a sport with
no preseason, we come into week zero, week one for everybody,
for everybody that is trying to figure out how to
gamble and what to gamble over the course of the
next ten days. Essentially, how do you factor in what
you've seen in the past versus what you expect right
now when there has been nothing for you to put
your eyes on going into this weekend's games.

Speaker 5 (02:25:57):
Well, well, listen all. First of all, well, there are
like and there's you know, there are string the practices
and you can read about w or watch them. These
games are not actually on, they tell these games are
televised by the networks. They could watch us bring games three.
What's going on? You have to be up on the
transfer portal. Which team, like sort of State did well
in the transfer portal this year? Norville always is you know,

(02:26:19):
one of the better guys that's doing that. You have
to look at that obviously, like returning starters, returning quarterback play. Listen,
it is to a certain extent and educated guests right
where you're giving you have all the data you need.
But so you're right until the team actually plays and
you see how they look in jail, you know. But

(02:26:39):
then I again, some people are more leary of adjusting
their power ratings early. But I can't play how many times,
like remember there was a year I picked I bet
Oklahoma to win the national title. And they played the
opening game, this is like five years ago, against the
team they really favorite, the Pummel, And I watched the
game and they they struggled, and I'm like, all right,

(02:27:00):
I severely lowered my power ratings in Oklahoma immediately. I
wasn't in and it turned out to be correct. Like
I'm more apt to see how things are going in
the beginning and if the team is like established, like
in the NFL, I'm more patient with my power ratings.
But in college I will adjust quickly if I see
a team is overrated or underrated, because I think the

(02:27:22):
college is much more volatile because of what you said.
It's the terms of understanding who's good, new isn't.

Speaker 4 (02:27:28):
Is there any level does the does the college football playoff?
Like like for everybody right now that's jumping in and
trying to figure out when totals like futures bets, does
the college football playoff impact any of the way that
you're betting that stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:27:40):
No, no, no, no, no, not at all now. But
it's injured the college old payoffs. So and listen, it's
a great comp great comp is you know, like in
my air, like when I was growing up, you know,
I think that's this like it used to be, you
know before teams that makes the playoffs. In baseball you
have the you know before it was four divisions and
each team made it and and that was that, you know,

(02:28:01):
that was that was four teams the playoffs. Think about that,
the four the wind provision wonners. That's what the college
football playoff was like, right, there's only four teams that
made it. And now you have the baseball playoffshere twelve
teams may get the same thing with the college football
playoffs year where it's going to open it up like crazy,
and it's like again, what it does is, in my opinion,
it makes it, yeah, well more teams get in. I

(02:28:21):
think it makes it extremely harder in my opinion, maybe
not so much in football as baseball, but certainly in
baseball for the best teams to get through. And that's
that's my opinion, because you have to win more games
and it just becomes you know, more, more things get involved.
But I think for the sport itself, guys, having the
twelve team playoffs is going to be amazing for the sport. Absolutely.

(02:28:44):
I think the interest is going to be through the roof.
I mean absolutely through the roof. And I think it's
going to be like a you know, a great an
incredible thing for the sport. Like I think it's I've
been wanting this forever and I think it's going to
be absolutely incredible.

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm with you. It's funny. It's always great.
Where I got.

Speaker 2 (02:29:03):
One of our listeners, Eddie Webster says, I can't wait
for the brains Florida State pick today.

Speaker 3 (02:29:09):
So you are they know you anything? What's that, buddy?

Speaker 5 (02:29:20):
I do lean Florida State. Yeah, you know from the
part what he just said. I do. I do lean
the Florida State.

Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
First, let me ask you this, anything this week got
your either, I mean, I mean the other couple of games,
they aren't really attractive.

Speaker 3 (02:29:37):
I don't know if you've got an advantage.

Speaker 5 (02:29:39):
I didn't. I didn't. I look, I'll be honest, I
didn't get any of these weeks zero games. But I
wanted to discuss the Florida State games. So that was
to me the most you know, the biggest game of
the card. And again, if it was a padlock again
it was a tad lower, you know, especially an hundred ten,
I would have I would have taken uh, cause it's

(02:30:00):
ten and a half. It's closed, because even you know
half point point lower. I may have played a bet
on philosophy, but I personally did not been anything for
every listening, I personally did not be anything myself in
these week zero games.

Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
How about uh later in the week, anything stand out
Thursday or Saturday?

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Speaker 5 (02:30:19):
No again, not here. Listen, I'll tell you this what
I what I did do. I did that in UH
in the NFL, I did bet the Unders the Cardinals
Broncos game. But I don't think that number is still there.
Let me check real quick. I did that under thirty
five in that game. You're gonna get absolutely no one

(02:30:41):
playing in that game. Let me just see what it
is now it is?

Speaker 4 (02:30:46):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:30:47):
Why am I not saying it? I'm not getting up
on my screen right now. I'll give me one second.
Uh Cardinals, Uh, okay, it's down to thirty two. I
love so much for that. Okay, but you're gonna absolutely
no one uh in that game. In terms of you know,
it's interesting I lost the bet Anthony left night. Listen
this in the history of this happening, A history of

(02:31:09):
UH these spreads. There was the biggest line move of
any game ever, and I lost the game. I had
a bet on San Francisco yesterday. I think they opened
as like a they closed as like a ten point
It's like a ten point favorite or something like that,
and I I was laying like two and a half.

(02:31:32):
That made a pied against the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (02:31:35):
Oh my god, Yeah, that's what he gets, buddy.

Speaker 4 (02:31:39):
They tied against the Raiders. And there's a freaky ending
on that too, like it almost a bunch of laterals
almost scored. You know, you almost you almost got there,
almost got there. That's the story of everybody almost.

Speaker 5 (02:31:50):
Got I was so disgusted. I got to think that.
I was so disgusted when it when they kicked the
forty three year fulgal, I just turned it off. What
what I did then't look look at the play by
play with how close was it? What was like what
before forty five year pass or something.

Speaker 4 (02:32:05):
Like he threw sort of a hail mary that was
underthrown and then but it was caught by the forty
nine ers close to the goal line. And then they
started this lateral game and an offensive lineman was tackled it.
I don't know, inside the five yard line, but they
kept fumbling and lan laterling. It was one of those
like only in preseason football plays that that happened. Let
me ask you this about preseason. Have you seen anything

(02:32:26):
in preseason football that's changed the way that you view
any of these teams going into this year as far
as the winter have that's yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:32:32):
I got to tell you something. That's a great question,
and there's really there's one team to me that really has.
And I'm you know, I was against this team to
begin with, but I am telling everyone listening to the show. Look,
I think Pittsburgh is a team that they're going to
be stout defensively, you know, but I think offensively this
team is I love all their unders. I've been under

(02:32:55):
forty three in the Atlanta game and now I think
it's down the forty two already. But I I love
I'm gonna and I did Atlanta in a week one
laying less than a field one. That line did move
to three, but I still like Atlanta even laying three.
I think Pittsburgh is a team especially it's just going
to be so in ft offensively. I think the quarterback

(02:33:15):
play they have is going to be like going to
the dentist. From their point of view, Tomlin's not one
of his nine games this year. I know, death taxes
and Mike Tomlin winning all going over five hundred. It's
been the three things in life that we could say
for sure happens not gonna happen this year in my opinion. Uh,
that's the team. They played two straight games, but their

(02:33:36):
their offense and they can't They can't score a point
against all backups. Think about that. I mean to me,
that's that even the thing when there's smoke, there's fire,
I mean to me, that's the definition. Tickns is a
good receiver. They have some good running backs, but you listen,
when you don't have a quarterback play, I just think
it absolutely ruins you. And that's the team that again,

(02:33:58):
and I was optimistic the beginning with guys, but that's
the team. I'm really really downgraded and knowing we're near
as bad as I thought they were, I think it
may be worse for them. I think they're going to
be the worst.

Speaker 3 (02:34:10):
They're going to be awful. Yeah, they're gonna be dreadful. Hey,
anything y'all's for us before you roll?

Speaker 5 (02:34:18):
Okay, Yeah, I got the basebook plubling, real quick frame, Ervald,
this has been absolutely on fired the guys. His last
seven starts everything about nine strike ups. The game they
made a total five and he's gone over six or
last seven they made a total five and a half
against the Baltimore team that has been striking out recently,
and it just hasn't been nearly as productive as they
have all year in terms of not striking out and

(02:34:39):
scoring runs both. I like battles or five and a
half strike ups. I thought that should have been six
and a half that Gallon Arizona. And this is more
of a legacy that than anything, I'll be honest. And
the matchup that Anthony, you respect matchups. Gallen's only five
hundred of that bet this year over four and a
half strike ups, but if the last three years he's
fifty nine and thirty two. Okay, And here's the reason
I really like the bet now, Chef Sampony, you talk

(02:35:00):
about it all the time. Red Sox third Major League
Baseball and strikeouts this year at last fifteen games get
struck out the most times buy a wide margin. Because
of the matchup gowns only at half the time this
year two out and three of the last three years.
I'll take my chance. This is one of the times
he gets there against the bed sucks, Red sucks in
the strikes. Not a lot. George Kirby under two and
alf fronts. It's pricey La Dollar picks the area. But

(02:35:24):
this guy at home allows eleven two runs a game.
He's eight and three this year to the under twenty
nine and eleven at home in the last three years
against the very suspect Giants team. I say he goes
under two and a half runs, and I like under
three and a half runs in the five inning line
of that game. Everyone like you have Blake Snell, who's

(02:35:44):
pitching historically blate in the seven starts against Kirby, I
will dare four runs between those two offenses to be scored.
I just don't say it, and I double dip. I
took Kirby underruns two. I really like the under of
that game.

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Speaker 5 (02:36:40):
Like?

Speaker 3 (02:36:40):
What do you got it? What do you got to schedule?
Now it's getting real, baby.

Speaker 4 (02:36:45):
I mean in general, Uh, you know, it's about to
get fired up for Yahoo Sports, so certainly NFL, NFL
Inside coverage, we'll have episodes three times a week, and
then hosting Fantasy Football Live for Yahoo Sports, and then
also launching a new college football show for Yahoo Sports
on Tuesdays and Saturday nights. So about to go to

(02:37:06):
six days a week of doing what I love.

Speaker 5 (02:37:08):
Like.

Speaker 4 (02:37:08):
The funny thing is people always say like, oh, do
you have to do a lot of prep? But it's
like no, I would sit down and watch all of
these games anyway. I just have to do it with
the notepad out. That's the only difference, so I don't
think out what I'm thinking life ever, Yeah, I could
never have.

Speaker 2 (02:37:22):
Any any tips for the people fantasy wise know how
to attack their draft. A lot of people's drafts are
coming up this week.

Speaker 4 (02:37:31):
Yeah, I would say this. People are kind of obsessed
with tight ends right now unless you're getting one of
the absolute top tight ends. Wait, patience is a virtue,
and then be really diligent about where you think the
line in the sand is for the running back position.
Like if what happens so often in these snake drafts
is you sit there and say, well, it's a little

(02:37:51):
too high to take this guy. Okay, Well you really
got to ask yourself is he still going to be
there when it comes back around to me? And if
he isn't, how big is the drop off? Because I
would argue you can find a ton of wide receivers,
not maybe a ton of the great ones, but you
can find a ton of wide receivers. It's the running
back you gotta be a little careful. Like so you
know right now there's a stigma about drafting running backs
too high. I would I would not share that Stigma'd say,

(02:38:13):
go get your guy, like, make sure you got somebody
that you love at that position. After you get your
superstar wide.

Speaker 3 (02:38:18):
Receiver, any anybody stand out to you you like.

Speaker 4 (02:38:22):
Not that's not that's different than the rest of the world.
But I will say in the rookie class, you know,
I think one thing that's interesting is look for guys
that are going to have a median impact. So that's
why when you're looking in the rookie class, like I
like eighty Mitchell a lot. I think he's going to
have a shot to have a lot of reps. But
in general, one interesting stat I learned from Yahoo eighty
five percent of the teams in Yahoo League history that

(02:38:45):
have started three and oh have made the playoffs. So
we sit here and worry all the time about what's
going to happen late in the season, and we worry
about five weeks and we worry about all that. Now,
right start three and a. Yeah, if you start three
and oh, you've got a really good shot. Eighty five
percent of the teams that make the playoffs or that
start three to zero make the playoffs. And that number
if you start one and two. So with the losing record,

(02:39:06):
I think it drops down to like twenty something percent.
So you talk about the drop off of percentages, go
get somebody that's going to help you right now. So
that also means, by the way, not for nothing. If
you love Hollywood Brown, the numbers say you don't take
him because he's not going to be playing for you.
The first couple of weeks of the season, so you know,
just to stick with guys that can help you right now.

Speaker 2 (02:39:26):
Yeah, it's interesting. How about the quarterbacks? You know, with
the PPR league, you know, the quarterbacks are so devalued.
It's the only thing that I look at and I go,
you know, when it comes to the skill and the
stats of the league that doesn't mimic it, which is
the importance of the quarterback. But are you of you

(02:39:47):
just got to take a duel forreck guy?

Speaker 4 (02:39:49):
Yeah, I mean that's why Frankly, I love Josh Allen
so much because working with Damien Harrison the draft, he
made it clear that the Bills believe that Josh Allen
accounts for forty touchdowns a year and they don't care
how that comes, whether it's on the root, on the air,
in the air, on the ground. I think a guy
like Josh Allen, a guy like Jalen Hurts is gonna
have opportunities to score some touchdowns on the ground. That
really helps you. Lamar helps you, you know. So Anthony Richardson,

(02:40:12):
the only thing with Anthony is everybody's absolutely falling in
love with Anthony Richardson. And I would say I just
want to see a little bit more proof of concept,
that's all. That's all.

Speaker 3 (02:40:23):
Yeah, I get that, I get that.

Speaker 2 (02:40:25):
I think he could be, you know, a very explosive
and dynamic but yeah, I mean he scares me in
the sense that we overrake it. Like guys like here
we go overboard and we overdraft you.

Speaker 4 (02:40:39):
Know, yep, yeah, now that's the we. We also we
overdraft because we fall in love with potential. And again,
I just I like proven entities, I like proving concept.

Speaker 2 (02:40:50):
Yeah. Yeah, Barkley's gonna be interesting guy this year because
he's gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (02:40:55):
Yeah, you know. And the kid McCaffrey. Can he replicate
when he's been when he's been.

Speaker 4 (02:41:00):
Doing until he doesn't, you know what I mean, Like
I believe in it. I cannot. There's no way I'm
not believing in that.

Speaker 3 (02:41:07):
No way, No, I know, I know. I just you know,
you always worry about the injuries and stuff like that.
But yeah, you're right on. Hey, listen, this will do
for us. Man.

Speaker 2 (02:41:14):
I have a great week, brother, h fellows, love you guys,
Thanks for hagging. We'll see you next week.

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