Steve Hartman & Monse Bolanos React To College Football Week One, NFL Rosters, Hartman's Heisman's, and More!

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Min See, you know how I feel about college football,
and I know how you feel about college football.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
This is a great time of the year for me.
I mean I am.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I have said this time and time again. I love
all sports, and I think I have shown over the
years I have a knowledge of a lot of sports,
and a lot of people don't care about it. If
I were to separate myself from some of the other
people that have knowledge of sports, it's the fact that
I do it across the board.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm not just circled in on one sport.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That being said, college football to me represents everything you
talk about checking every box.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Look, I know the highest level football is played.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Obviously in the NFL, so it's a notch below that,
but it has the history, it has sort of that
regional flavor. It has the fans that show up in
mass over one hundred thousand at over a dozen stadiums
around the country. It just to me, and you get
new faces all the time. It's not the same old story. Certainly,

(01:30):
we have certain coaches that hang around a long time,
but new names, new faces every year is very fresh
to me. So this, to me, is the most exciting
time of the sports season.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
I may not be as close to college football as
you or many other people. I've said that I don't
have any fandom in here, but everything you just said,
I see it. I feel it. And even though I
have no direct connection to a football team or a
school like that, I still see it and see I
see it. I feel it, the excitement, the people, the fans.

(02:05):
There are things that, yes, I have questions about. I
was just telling you off air. I was like, I
don't know how I could be excited that my team
is kicking ass seventy seven to zero. But yet, okay,
that's part of football season in college I don't know
how I could get into that. I would be absolutely
wasted by the end of the game if I was
at one of those because it's it's just I don't.
I don't. I like competitiveness right, so that I don't understand,

(02:27):
but I do feel correct me if I'm wrong here.
I used to always hear that college football was better
than the NFL because players played because they love the game.
Now with nil, doesn't that change it.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's a great question, but your first thought about the
difference in players playing college football versus the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, this goes back in the day.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
So when I went to UCLA, two of our biggest
college stars at UCLA both had great NFL careers. One
of them is actually in the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
and both were three time All Americans at UCLA and
both in the College Football Hall of Fame. That was
Jerry Robinson, a great linebacker, and Kenny Easley, who was

(03:13):
one of the great safeties in.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Professional football as well.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
So years ago I was doing I was working for
a UCLA publication and part of my assignments do these
interviews with members of the you know, the Athletic Hall
of Fame. So I did separate interviews. I knew both
of them on a personal level. It wasn't like I
was introducing myself to either one of these guys. So
we started going through over details about their college games.

(03:42):
I think Jerry was the first one and he stopped
as we were talking about a game. He goes, you know,
it's really interesting. I can remember almost every detail of
every college game I played, but outside of maybe the
Super Bowl I played in, I don't remember much of
any of my NFL games. Interesting, So I guess it
was maybe a month later when I talked to Kenny
Easley and we're starting to you know, let's go back

(04:04):
to u STLA days and he's talking. He goes, you know,
it's really where, Steve, I can remember almost every detail
of my college career. It was like it was a script,
Like he literally said. I paused, like, have you talked
to Jerry Robinson basily? But this is the way it is.
It's a much different mentality. Even guys that have been

(04:26):
Hall of famers will tell you the difference between playing
college as opposed to making football your actual profession. You know,
from day one, when you're draft in the NFL, your
first training camp, you're in competition for a job, and
it's not like that now. I think the money situation

(04:49):
that you bring up is a very interesting dynamic because
it's no longer amateur athletics if you're paying them. So
how that will change, I don't know if time will
maybe tell, but that that is the big difference. If
you were talk to football players, they will tell you
our own of our errington. Yeah, you know, college football
Hall of Famer at Penn State and then obviously had

(05:10):
a great NFL career before some injuries, you know, short
in his career, but he'll tell you it's like.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Night and day.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you know, the atmosphere and what was like to
play at Penn State as opposed to playing in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
That's what I had heard forever, forever, and so I
always try to like get into college football and it's
taken some time. Like I said, I really enjoy watching it.
I don't even care who wins. There's something in the
air with college football that stands out in comparison to
other atmospheres. You kind of like can't replicate it with
other sports. You can kind of replicate it, right like

(05:43):
going to Yes, going to an NFL game has way
more fans than an NBA game, But you can kind
of replicate that atmosphere with college football than you can.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, and let's go back to what we saw the
other night with Colorado and North Dakota State. Oh yes,
so Colorado football a couple of years ago, they were
a one win program and they made the Bowl move
to hire Deon Sanders coach Prime as their head coach.
And then last year got off to that amazing three
and zero start and then the wheels fell off and
they go one and eight the rest of the way.

(06:13):
So they're opening their season against North Dakota State at home.
North Dakota State is an FCS power, they win national championship.
They've had all these quarterbacks, so Carson Wentz and Trey
Lance and Easton Stick, all these quarterbacks over the years.
Who's you know, we've seen in the NFL. But there's
still a FCS program.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
They're not, you know. And it was a great game.
It was back and forth.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
But what was more impressive than me is just seeing
that Colorado crow.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh yeah, right, of course. I mean the stands are full.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
There was not an inch of availability, none, none. I
think students were on top of each other.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
They were given away tickets a couple of years ago.
So this is what coach Prime has brought to the
He's made them and the country's watching. Even a team
that was one in eight in conference play last year
in the PAC twelve four and eight.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Overall, it doesn't matter. Let's see what's next.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
They still have Sherdoor Sanders, they still have Dravis Hunter,
they still have some players that we want to see.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
And that's that's the beauty of it.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
And that's when you get that level of enthusiasm for
the college game. That I'm not saying this for all
NFL teams, because there are some really rabid fans for
NFL teams, like in Buffalo or Green Bay and places
like that, but it's a it's a different dynamic, a
different atmosphere when you're going to one of these big

(07:35):
time college football stadiums see a game.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, because in the NFL, I feel like the fandom
it's not ninety percent to ten percent. When in college
football it really is like that you only root for
your school, that is it.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
You will not.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Root for another school. And I feel like with professional sports,
you're like me, it's like, oh, I'm a Dodgers fan,
but you might see me rooting for Aaron Judge and
the Yankees too. That happens. You know, it's just a
little bit different. But in college that is your school.
Everybody else is dead to you, well.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Exactly, and it's such a dynamic about you know, this
is me versus you, you know, and you wear your
colors and everything else. Yeah, and again I'm not belittling
true NFL fans of their NFL team, not at all.
But what percentage of people that are absolutely devoted to
the National Football League are motive more devoted to their

(08:26):
fantasy football teams than any.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Actual team in the league. So true or the team
they're betting on? That thing? True?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Not? The gambling doesn't exist in college football as far
as the games are concerned. But you know, I haven't
seen college football fantasy football. I mean it might be
out there, but it's not like the NFL.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's actually a really good point because in fantasy football,
a lot of my friends are even me Sean. It's
like you draft somebody you don't like. You're like, oh,
I have to draft this player. I don't want them
on my team. I bet you if you did college fantasy,
people will be like, I can't draft this person. This
person goes to my rival school. I can't do that.
But yeah, then I have to draft this guy that
I don't like, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I

(09:03):
feel like that would not happen in college.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
It is such a weird dynamic.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Start cheering for them a little bit, you're kind of
root for them.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You can't do that.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Tomorrow We're gonna be doing on our Fox Football Sunday show,
Final one before we get to Red Zone Radio, our
preview of the NFC, and then of course then we
get to Red Zone Radio. It's so funny with you,
know you and you always have multiple fantasy football tea Yes,
so while you're scrambling to update all these games are

(09:33):
going simultaneously, at the same time, you're also watching your
fantasy football player.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yes, I'm trying to pretend I'm not affected and trying
to pretend.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I just remember that very first week we have with you,
and your head was literally spinning. It was like ten
games kicking off, You're trying to follow your fantasy football
and we come to you for that first update and
you're just like.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, nope.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
I think I quit that day on airon like seven
times within four hours, just because I was like, this
is not possible. Nobody prepped me for this. And now
it's like nine games.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Please please please, it's nothing throw something happening. Yeah, so
this is this is such a dynamic time of the year. Look,
most of these first couple of weeks we're gonna see mismatches.
I mean, we've got the game right now, Texas and
Colorado State. Texas leading this game inside eleven minutes to
go in the fourth court, it's forty five to nothing.
And the big story in this game quin yours. Who

(10:28):
is a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate the Texas quarterback?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Remember arch Manning?

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah, no, he's on the team who.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Was in the top three nil earners a year ago.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
He didn't get.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Off the bench much last year, and he's coming off
the bench again this year. By the way, he came
off the bench in his blow out win. He saw
four for four sixty five yards in a score. So
he's off to a good start.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
But you ask.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yourself, with the transfer portal and everything else, why is
he is he gonna sit another year at Texas? Can
you imagine how much money he is getting to stand
on the sidelines so he won't leave Texas?

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, that is a good question. But I feel like
with arch Manning, it is a different situation than the
average college player. I think the average college player nowadays
is looking to make money. M is arch Manning looking
to make money.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, I mean, remember Hayden and Eli are his uncles exactly.
That's what I'm saying, is his dad who's done well,
you can only assume.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
My point with that is that you can only assume
he's there because he wants to be there, apparently, And
it's a rarity while everybody else is going maybe where
they're wanted more, you know, money and all that.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
So that's all. It's a unique situation.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
No one with his high I mean, he was rted
the number one high school quarter of the back in
the country two years ago and sit for two years.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, again, he's not in a rush. He's probably he
probably just really wants to be there. He is a
rarity to this entire situation because of his family.

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Steve Harbin and Monzi belanios here Fox Football Saturday. We're
coming alive from the Tairaq dot com studios. Now, Manzi
is training for a half marathon, which is next week.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
It is next week, So how did.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
You prep today to get ready for this half marathon, which,
by my calculation is over thirteen miles.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Just a tiny bit over thirteen just a little smith. Yeah,
I ran nine miles today, so I'm a little tired,
all tired.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Now here's the thing about Moncey. Moncey is not the
tallest individual. So I feel like like nine miles for
you would be like eight miles for me from exactly.
You know, if you have well you know those runners,
because you run with these and you see these long,

(14:27):
lengthy long legs, right and you're doing two steps, two
strides are every one of theirs. This is true, so
you're really having to work it.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes, that is that is accurate.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, I you know, but.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
I've done them before. I have not done a half
marathon since before the pandemic, so it's been a minute,
but I have done them before and it's the week before.
So it was like I had no I woke up
and I was like, I have no option but to
run nine miles today.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I have no other Here's my hats would be never. Never.
I can barely ran nine hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean seriously, Well, I problem with running for me
is I'm very flat footed. Ah yeah, and so it's
not a matter so much about the cardio as my
feet literally going numb after half a mile of running,
like I cannot feel for my ankles down and you and.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yes, flat being flat footed is a disadvantage to the situation,
that is true. And shoes matter like I I shoes matter, Yeah,
they do. Like my running shoes are not cheap.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So your your race is when.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
September eighth, Sunday, Sunday, a week from tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa are you going to go for?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
So you're taking the day off.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
I'm taking the day off.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh okay, I was gonna say no, way was gonna show.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
I told I told Dan, I was like, listen, if
nobody can come in, I will show up on Sunday,
sweaty and in my metal I will do it, don't
you worry. But luckily somebody was able to cover.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
But I was gonna come in. If you couldn't find anyone,
I wouldn't let you. Guys hang I al. I didn't
know it was going to be the same. I signed
up for this so long ago, and then it was like, oh,
it's first week of NFL, and I was like, why
would I what? I didn't know. I signed up for
this so long ago.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
It was so foreign to me. I just I admire anybody.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm one of those that's been on the periphery of
sports my entire life. It wasn't like I was completely uncoordinated.
It's just like I didn't have wheels. Like if you
don't have wheels, you're limited as an athlete. And so
that's what was my biggest step. I had decent hands
and I coordination everything else, but if you don't have
the wheels, it's hard.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
And I'm not fast. I'm not like a sprinter, and
I didn't run in high school. I played sports. This
was something I picked up like after high school. And
you know, I don't know, I just started. I started
running with my brother and we've been doing it. I'm
running with my brother. We've been doing it for years now,
and we're both like, oh, how are we going to
get through this one? You know, because I'm sure maybe
some of you have heard, I had to put my

(16:49):
dog down on August twelfth, very sad. I'm still Dexter,
but you know what, he is living his best life
somewhere else and I know it. And so it took
I lost two weeks of training. I was doing really well,
and then for two weeks, you know, I didn't want
to do anything and I didn't, so I kind of
took a step back.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Dexter will be with you that entire rold.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
That's what I'm hoping that he'll give me the energy
to get to the thirteen.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
He will carry you to the finish line, all right.
So speaking of the finish line, trying to get on
a fifty three man roster in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
That's a finish line, especially.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
If you are a free agent rookie, is difficult. It happens.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I mean there are free agent rookies that show up
at training camps and while them Austin Eckler. Yeah, you know,
it was a free agent rookie with the Chargers and
became at least for a few years, an elite running
back in the National Football League. So it's not unpressing.
But for Sam Hartman, my nephew by proxy, oh it
hurts you. He did not make the fifty three man roster.

(17:51):
Now he was added to the practice squad. And if
you're not familiar with practice squads around the NFL, here's
how it works.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
So they can maintain up to ten player.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
I don't know if they've raised it, but at least
ten players on the practice squad and they're there for practice.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I mean, you need extra bodies.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
But any other team can take someone off a practice
squad because essentially they're free agents if and only if
they are to be on the fifty three man roster.
So remember these are marginal guys anyway, if they're on
a practice squad and so then you know, again, maybe
someone will look at Sam Hartman. There might be a
couple of injury quarterbacks. But when you think about his legacy,

(18:30):
you know, he had some huge years at wake for US,
went to Notre Dame, and then he showed up at
the combine with the flowing loss.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
I mean, let's be real, that hair. It's hard to
forget it. You have similar hair.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I no, not even close. But I mean he the
flowing loss. I mean you're like, Okay, he's a first
round pick.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Lot of the ladies are like, now that's a first
round pick.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
How like panteen Provy did not make a commercial out
of Sam Hartman's hair is something that they definitely that
was a missed opportunity for everybody with the shampoo product,
for sure. And you know, if you're on the practice squad,
you have to be feeling good, especially as a quarterback.
How many quarterbacks started last year in the NFL after
all the injuries one hundred and twenty. I know that's
not the number, but you get what I'm saying, Yes,

(19:15):
how many ended up playing?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
He has a chance there. It is. Look at that
flowing main right, It is just flowing.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Is something about It's like he has a fan with
him at all times, and it's.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Just he looks so good. Yes, what is it? I
told you my daughter Paris Hartman met Sam Hartman. He
was out in the uh oh right, oh yeah, mate
ran into him and you know, so and she goes
he lived up to the hype.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I would be like, do you use dry shampoo? Sam?
That's what I mean? And if you do, what kind uh.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
One interesting story, though, beyond Sam Hartman not making a
fifty three man roster, was the announcement by Jerry Jones
that Dak Prescott will not be offered a contract extension
before the Sea. In other words, he's playing out the string.
He's heading to free agency in twenty twenty five. This
is a guy who finished second in the NFL Most

(20:10):
Valuable Player voting a year ago. The Cowboys gave Ceedee
Lamba's money. They've given other players of money, but they
have decided, no, We're gonna do a wait and see.
And of course you run the risk that if Dak
Prescott has a big year, how about wins the Super
Bowl or something, all of a sudden he's a free agent, yeah,

(20:30):
and the buckets of money are being ported at his feet,
and he could look at Jerry Jones said you had
your chance one percent.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
I don't know what Jerry jones thought process is here.
I have thought before that Jerry Jones doesn't necessarily care
about winning that he just cares about money and he
cares about the product that is the Cowboys, which, lucky
for him, Cowboy fans are not going to go anywhere.
They're gonna stick around. I mean they signed obviously, Michael

(21:01):
Parsons is still up in the air.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
But this just kind of.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Makes me feel like Jerry Jones does not care about winning,
and he thinks he's smarter than the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'm not sure about the winning part.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
He's at a point of his life where the clock
is running out and it's been thirty years almost now
since they won that last Super Bowl or even been
to the NFC Championship game. I do agree about the
idea that obviously, I mean, he has the most valuable
North American franchise. Yeah, I mean it's worth ten billion dollars,
So I mean he's He's okay from the money standpoint.

(21:35):
I just know this, when you lock up a certain
percentage of your cap to one player, which is usually
a quarterback because they're the highest paid players, it limits
what you can do. And he's got to be looking
at Deck's inability. I mean last year was a disaster. Yeah,
they had all that momentum going into the postseason. You're

(21:56):
hosting the Green Bay Packers with a first year start
quarterback in Jordan Love, and Jordan Love was the better
quarterback in that game.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
On the road against the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
So you're thinking, look, I've got all these weapons, I
got all these pieces to the puzzle. Is Dak Prescott replaceable?
So in his mind he must think he is?

Speaker 3 (22:18):
He is.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
That's what it seems like that he is okay with
Dak walking away if he has a successful season, because
there's a lot of teams I think that would pick
up Dak Prescott if they could.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 4 (22:31):
He would do it right now, even with last absolutely,
So imagine if he has a good season, there's gonna
be double the amount of teams. So I think you're
onto something that Jerry Jones at this point has to
be okay with a successful season for the Cowboys and
for Dak Prescott and Prescott walking away and him starting
over with Tree Lamp.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I think the Cowboys tomorrow for our NFC preview on
Fox Football Sunday.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's gonna be the most interesting team.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
We had some real discrepancy with the AFC last week
in terms of this funny Rich and I. Rich Arnberger
and I were sort of in lockstep. And then our
producer Bow and Chris on the board, they seem to
be in a lot like we were like like Rich
and I were not far apart of most of the teams,
and then we get to them and they're.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Like, no, yeah, that's great though.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
So you'll be like the tiebreaker. I can see that
coming up tomorrow. All right, let's find out what is
trending right now. Look who's in the house mind double duty,
triple duty.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Whatever he does. The great Martin Weiss is here right.
How are you, man, I'm doing well. I'm good. How
do you feel about your Wolverines this season?

Speaker 7 (23:40):
I feel slightly better after watching Ohio State today.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
All that money in that rotter, all that, and it.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Just looks like they swapped hold on here, the zips
are not good.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Actually yeah, yeah, well, I'm just do We saw this
with Ohio State a million times last year.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I know you asked me the question about the Wolverines.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
But the reason, oh, I'm saying, because look, defending national
champions will be true until the National Championship is played again.
I'm not sure how Michigan will be after losing everybody.
But if Michigan wins three games this year, and one
of the three is the Saturday after Thanksgiving beating Ohio State.
I will consider that not only a success, but like

(24:22):
almost just sort of best case scenario. Yeah, because Michigan rebuilds,
and even in the rebuilding year, Ryan Day, it's not happening.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
For you if you're having I'm always curious about fans' mentality,
especially alum on rivalry. Games like this happened to me
a few times at UCLA where we didn't have a
particularly good year, but we beat SC if I get
erase the whole bad year. In fact, I was doing
the color commentary one year on you say football, we
had a losing season four and six upset sc made

(24:55):
my ear. They said, what was your record this year?
I go one and oh one, that's what our record
was this year.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's weird.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
I mean, I know every game counts as a winner
or lost in the standings, but some games you can't lose.
In some games, as you know, if you lose, if
you lose one or two of them, nobody cares. Yes, right, yeah,
they would have cared in Ohio State if they had
lost the actor Today, it's not going to happen though,
just over twelve minutes left in the fourth quarter thirty
eight to six. Took a second for Ohio State to

(25:23):
get started scoring, but defensive started scoring a fumble recovery
for a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
So on.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
Kansas Estate transfer Will Howard hundred seventy three yards, passing
two touchdowns through the air, both of those to Jeremiah Smith,
freshman wide receiver for the Buckeyes. He has six catches
ninety two yards. Fourth quarter winding down in texas As,
the long Horns at a fifty two to nothing lead
over Colorado State. Quinn Youwers twin or sixty yards, passing
three touchdowns and an interception. Arch Manning also got in

(25:52):
the game, and this one threw a touchdown pass himself.
Speaking of rivalries not going well, I don't know what
it looks like for the rest of the year for
the Versity of Florida, but right now it's ugly.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Thirty eight to ten.

Speaker 7 (26:03):
University of Miami the nineteenth three team of the nation,
beating the Gators eleven minutes left in the fourth quarter.
There Washington State transfer quarterback Cam Ward three hundred and
twenty one yards passing three touchdowns, one interception, and Steve,
to answer your question again, if I had seen cam
Ward and Scarlett and Gray, would have been much more
nervous about what's going on in the Big Ten, because

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that kid looks legit right now. Elsewhere in college football
games that we already saw wrap up, I was scored
forty on Illinois State. Akad McNamara had two U and
fifty one yards passing three touchdowns. Oklahoma State forty four
over South Dakota State scored twenty that game in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Tennessee hung sixty nine on Chattanooga.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
No, Steve, you don't have to say the Tennessee quarterbacks
name the kid from Long Beach.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I haven't figured it out yet. I am Alivia, I'm Olevia.
Look it took me long enough for uyong Alla.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Okay, I can barely do that one.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I figured out when he was in high school, before
he went to Clemson, then Oregon State, and Well Nico.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Had a better then.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
DJ had basically an entire career throwing in fourteen yards,
passing few tucholl.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
They even now call him vis dj.

Speaker 7 (27:13):
U DJU DJ Well Nico I here Virginia Tennessee balled
out today Georgia thirty four over Clemson, who had three.
Clemson the fourteenth, thirteeen of the nation going in. That'll
change in Penn State beat West Virginia thirty four to twelve.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
I remember doing an interview with Marcus Mariota when he was,
you know, winning the Heisman at Oregon. Sure, I asked him,
I said, you know, I've heard your last name two ways.
I've heard Mariota, I've heard Mariota.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
And he was very nice about it.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
He goes, look at it, it's it's Marcus Mariota. It's
not Marcus Mariota. It's Marcus Mariota. Because I don't really care.
And to this day, I still hear people call him
Marcus Mariota when it's Mariota, like Mario Tomato Tomato, like
Martin Martin Martin.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
There you go, it's only one way to pronounce it, truly.
I'm I'm a lady as I A M A L
E A V A. That's a There's a lot of.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Different with that.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
When you when you see names, and especially in television,
I'll see names like on the prompter and it just
looks like a bunch of letters thrown up on the
you know, like there's no rhyme or reason to him.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
And but you know what, you know what, guys, just
be fair. We got through tongue of iailoo. Yeah, we
got through that, working that tourniko. We'll get there, prowd,
We'll get there. Well, how about Mike Krzyzewski. That's Krazuski.
His name is Krzuski. Look at it, k r where's
the where's the Shushchevski? Where did that come from? But
we figured it out right, So there you go. All right, Martin,

(28:44):
great stuff. He has a very busy day today.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's got his own show coming up here a little
bit later on once again, this is Fox Football Saturday.
We're coming to life from the ti rak dot com studios,
by the way, coming up here in about twelve minutes,
the debut of Hartman's Heisman and Monsi's not happy about this.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
It's not that I'm not happy about it.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, I know I blindsided you too.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
There we go, there we go. It's fine. It's in
theme with football season.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, it's fine. It's my part of my Saturday shows
over the years. You know, I give you the top
three in the Heisman chase. The difference Now I used
to go by the previous week. I'm in the moment,
so you're gonna go with you because we are our
show starts, you know, later in the afternoon. Now, so
a lot of games have already been played that day.

(29:32):
I realized, like, it's sort of hard to talk about
through last week. Most of the guys have already played today.
Some of them have bad days, and I'm like, well,
why am I putting him out here? He's not in
the race, So it will be up to the moment
coming up here.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Shortly.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
I wanted to ask you about this Tom Brady story
and his ownership with the Raiders. Okay, this is a
really interesting story. So when you buy a portion of
any team, it to get approval from the other owners,
and usually it's a formality. It's rare that they ever

(30:08):
say no. If somebody is willing to invest money on
the league, they're like, fine, you can do that.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
But here's the problem for Tom Brady. If Tom Brady
gets approval.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
For part ownership of the Raiders as a Fox Sports
radio analyst, not just any one that's being paid thirty
seven million dollars a year and it's the lead analyst
on their number one broadcast, will be cut off from
access to every single team in the NFL. Now, if

(30:41):
you don't know how this works, and I go back
even to the Raider days when we were on a
feature game, the announcers that week, whoever they were, would
come down, We'd give them insight. They'd talk to players,
they would talk to the coaches. It is what you
do to get ready for the broadcast. Tom Brady, if

(31:02):
he's approved for ownership hard ownership of the Raiders, will
be excluded from ever talking to anybody anybody leading up
to a game, not just for the broadcast, anyone at all,
because he has an ownership stake in one of the teams,
which means he would have to do the analysts work

(31:23):
every week without any conversations with any coaches, players, or anyone.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Else leading up to that game. Now, there's a couple
of questions.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
A Can he pull that off and still be a
dynamic analyst without that prep going into the game. Should
he be restricted? And is it worth it to buy
I don't know ten percent.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Of the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, Tom Brady's pickle is a big one, that's for sure.
I don't think he can do the job if he
does not do the job as well as he could
if he does not have access like everyone else. I
don't see how this works out unless he decides to

(32:08):
not become an owner yet. I don't see why we
can't just put that to the side. It's like, let
me do this year full analyst, let me have all
the access, and then in a year maybe we can
talk about my ownership with you, mister Davis.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
But it's not just any job, because he's being paid
thirty seven million dollars a year now right. Walking away
from thirty seven million dollars a year guaranteed over ten
years seems rough. But how many opportunities do you get
an ownership stake in an NFL team? Every team is
worth well over a billion dollars, right.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
So I feel like the fair thing, I mean, life
isn't fair, but the fair thing for him is right
to actually do this and do it the right way
with all the access, and then make a decision as
to what he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
After this year.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
I read that maybe they could entertain the idea of
bringing Greg Olsen on the team and then there's three
of them, and that way he still is there. But
he doesn't have the access.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
That's thirty seven million dollars.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Really, it makes it doesn't if you're fine, look at.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
If I'm Fox Sports, I'm I'm laying down the law
as much as you are the number one guy. There's
a reason we gave you this. We even sat on
this deal for a year because you didn't want to
do it last year. Fine, the idea, but the idea
of him, you.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Know, yeah, no, and he they can't give him access
if he does become an owner.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
You can't do that.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Zero, You cannot do that. That is murky waters. You
don't want to do that. So there's that. Take that
off the table. It's either put the ownership to the
side for another year and do this fully, or you
are not an analyst and you just move forward.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, I guess it really comes down to the audience.
Does the audience care? In other words, you're saying, I
don't really care. It's Tom Brady. He's all he's really
doing is analyzing the game as it's happening.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Do I really care about backstories? Do I really care?

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Like, well, you know, I talked to the quarterback coach
this week and he said, you know, Lee looking for this.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
But that matters with his analytics.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
It doesn't matter because it's Tom Brady. Is he in
a class by himself?

Speaker 4 (34:13):
He isn't a class by himself. Both can be true.
He isn't a class by himself. It is Tom Brady.
And maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe he can still analyze
the game without having that access. But I think it
would just enhance his analysis. And why take course, it
would I'm saying so it's like, no, you can't.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
You can't do both well.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
And the other part of that is when you say it,
would it enhance? This is a guy who became the
goat by detail every single aspect of the game. He
did too perfection to become even though he didn't have
the greatest physical tools necessarily, he became the goat because

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he didn't skip any steps. So it just seemed to
me the mentality for someone like.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
That that he wouldn't even want to do it.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Walk into a game not prepared, yeah, no notes, nothing,
just wing it.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, doesn't seem like to be part of his mentality.
All right.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
The Heisman chase is underway. Hartman's Heisman is coming up next.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
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Speaker 1 (35:31):
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are live from the Tirak dot com studios, and I'm
very happy to say it's that time. All right now, Mancy,
I know I keep this a secret, but I actually
have an official Heisman vote.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Oh my goodness, this is brand new information. Wow.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I tell everybody this.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
This is actually my fifteenth year of being an official
Heisman voter. The first time I voted was in twenty ten,
and that was the year Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
How many of the times that you have voted hasn't
been the Heisman winner?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
All but three times?

Speaker 4 (36:16):
All but three.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
The only times I voted for someone other than who
actually won the Heisman was I had Manti Tail over
Johnny Manzil, I had Christian McCaffrey over Derrick Henry, and
then last year Michael Pennock over Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
So each week, what I want to do is.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Keep you updated on where I sit in terms of
the Heisman race. We have three because well that's how
many spots are on the final Heisman ballot.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I always like when they hear the top five. No,
there's not top five, there's three. There's always three spots.
So let's get this thing started. Here is my current
number three. Sought you up to back. Gabriel runs it himself.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Has a whole five two one touchdown.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Helloh, Dylan Gabriel. He's playing today, Teddy touchdown. That's Toby
Rowland lear field.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Dylan Gabriel is about to play his first game of
his season. He is now at Oregon. If you lost
sight of where he is, so, is that Central Florida.
Then he went to Oklahoma for a couple of years.
It's his sixth year. But Dylan Gabriel already has had
a remarkable college career. And if he stays healthy and
he puts up the kind of numbers the third rank

(37:26):
Oregon is expected to put up, this guy could literally
rewrite the college football record book. Dylan Gabriel, orgon quarterback,
is my current number three.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Here is my number two.

Speaker 8 (37:39):
Two receivers tight to the left, that's Loving and Smith
Won to the right. That's Colby Young. He's going after
Colby beg puts it in the air, caught on a
spinning move in the end zone. Touchdown, Georgia.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
That's Scott Howard Learfield, Georgia quarterback. Carson Beck is my
current number two. He's still smarting from that lost to
Alabama last year in that Sea Championship game, by the way,
the only game that Georgia's lost in three years.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Right, and he is determined.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
He said to not only win a national championship, but
to win the Heisman Trophy.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
He is actually saying.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
It, that's a tall task.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
I want to win the Heisman Trophy. Carson Beck, Georgia quarterback,
is my current number two. Here is my current number one.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Shuku Staff taken by shoot. He throws at white side.

Speaker 8 (38:28):
Travis Hunt reaches up, makes the spectacular crowd touchdown, touchdown Colorado.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
He's an alien, he's a freak, he's a new eat.
He's the best player in college football. And the Buffaloes
take a ten point lead.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's Mark Johnson Lairfield, and he's talking about the unbelievable.
He's like the sho hey Otania college football. We're talking
about Travis Hunter, who played fifty seven plays on offense,
seven catches over one hundred yards, three touchdowns. Oh yeah,
also played over seventy plays on defense at corners safety.
A little linebacker. Travis Hunter is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Great call by Mark Johnson because he was an alien.
The stuff he was doing out there was insane. That
catching the end zone with the guy literally on top
of him and he caught. I was like, how he's
an alien? But Steve, how can he be your number one?
When there's only been one Heisman winner that comes from
a losing team.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
It sounds like, who's your daddy? You're giving me a question?

Speaker 6 (39:30):
I did.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, Well that was painted it.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
That was Paul Horning's controversial winn in nineteen fifty six.
He was the quarterback in Notre Dame, had a phenomenal year,
but the team won two to eight and he ended
up winning the Heisman Trophy.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Look, they're one and zero.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Right now, Colorado, so as long as they're winning, it
is a big question. The other big question him is
just health. Remember his freshman year at Jackson State, he
missed time with injuries. Last year he missed time with injuries.
When you are playing over one hundred and twenty plays
in a game like he did against North Dakota State
to stay on the field is going to be difficult,
so it's an uphill climb. But again, the award says

(40:07):
best college football player in the country, and.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
He's definitely proving that he is in one week.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Again he's the show.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Hey Otani at college football plays both It is insane,
really is.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
But can't he keep it up for a full season?

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Look if Colorado goes seven and five and he puts
up big numbers on both sides of the football, yeah
he can win the Heisman.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
If they go four and eight, it's gonna be tough.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
It's gonna be tough.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
But he's got a lot of marque games on his
Big twelve schedule. Now, remember Colorado now in the Big twelve,
so he'll have plenty of opportunities to showcase his talents.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
I can't wait to see it though.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
No, it's gonna be an exciting season.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
He is that good.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
And so is this because we got more football coming up,
not just Saturday football, but Sunday football.

Speaker 2 (40:53):

Speaker 1 (40:55):
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(41:16):
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Speaker 2 (41:21):
Got a lot of NFL news.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
To get to as we get ready for the start
of the NFL season, which of course will be next Thursday,
and we have a rematch the AFC Championship game between
the Chiefs and the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
I can't believe it's already football season. It's very exciting.
It's very exciting because it goes by in the blink
of an eye.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
That is the thing that I say. The problem with
football is it just it goes at such a rapid rate.
It is, and you know, unlike other sports, we have
multiple games during the week and there's just a lot
of forgettable games along the way. You know, the it's
an event, it is and every matter you know, it

(42:04):
really does. Because when you look at the NFL and
we get down to the final week of the season,
you know, every we always had that playoff scenario for
that last wild card or wherever. It's like, well, if
this team wins, they're in, but if they lose, then
this team they're in. And we like three or four
teams are lineup for like one slot, and then you

(42:25):
go back over the course of a seventeen game season
and you lose the game on a fumble. All bounces
the wrong way. I've said this many times, you know,
I used to say back in the sixteen game schedule,
you have to understand there's not a lot of difference
between ten and six and six and ten. A few
bounces either way with that weird shaped ball that you're

(42:45):
playing with can determine whether you make the playoffs or
coach getting fired. And now we have college football with
the expanded playoff this year. Now, I was watching Booger
McFarlane from ESPN. I think he does a great job.
I'm being a fan, but he was not a fan
of the expanded playoff because he was making the argument

(43:08):
that when he had fewer playoff spots, you couldn't afford
a loss like what happened to Florida State in that
opening game against Georgia Tech. I mean, Florida State now
is like, all right, well that was bad but we
still have plenty of time to make up for that.
But in the other format, you're pretty much eliminated.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
I remember hearing fans of teams we lost one game,
we're out. There's no chance, right, that was the mentality,
and you're right. Now it is a little vity, not
that it's easier, but you can't lose a game and
not feel like it's the end.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
But here's the whole point that you have to understand.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
If you look at the NFL now, I obviously the
Chiefs have been dominant in recent but there are many
times over the history with the team that was not
considered the best team going into the playoffs ends up
becoming Super Bowl champions. Look at the Giants twice to
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
So that's the way playoffs work.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
We see it in every sport where a team, you know,
gets hot at the right time. We've seen it in
the nca basketball tournament many times over the years, where
you look at the final four it's like, how did
this team get there? Or you know, how does this
team wins the national championship. So the question, I guess is,
you know, back when we had the BCS championship game.
They were trying to determine the two best schools. And

(44:26):
we think about that all time classic between Texas and
USC when Vince Young scored the winning touchdown. I was
there at the Rose Bowl that night. It was an
unbelievable football game, right, And you're thinking, well, if there
had been a playoff, it's a possibility that one of
these teams might have been upset. So which do you
prefer mont see do you want to like at the

(44:49):
end of the year saying all right, these are the
two best teams, or these are the four best teams,
or do you open the door for the possibility of
upsets along the way where you know you got twelve
schools and then the championship game is the number five
seed or the number four seed versus the number seven seed.
You know, like, oh, that's not really what I wanted

(45:11):
to see.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I think there's pros and cons to both situations, but
I think I like it to be a little tougher.
I didn't like it when baseball added the wildcard teams
going into the playoffs. I didn't like it when the
NFL did it either, And I think but for college
football there's so many teams that it almost does make sense.

(45:33):
But I didn't like it when it happened in baseball
or in the NFL. I just was like, no, it
should be a little bit cutthrow. I like that better
cut throw. But with college football, I think this is good.
I think it'll work because there's been a lot of
teams that, like last year Florida Florida State, right, that
didn't make it and everybody was so disappointed, grounded. They

(45:53):
lost their quarterback, and I think that had a big
reason why they weren't selected into going into that the
final four?

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Was it, right?

Speaker 4 (46:00):
And I think with this there's gonna be less heartbreak
early on in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Here's the thing about Florida State last year.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Okay, so they were undefeated, right, and they were down
there their third string quarterback playing in the ACC Championship game,
and they didn't get picked. But my thought was, forget
Florida State, what about Georgia. Georgia was number one the
entire season and Alabama pulls a miracle to beat him
in the SEC and they were sixth in the final.

(46:29):
I'm like, whoaha, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, No, we
all season long, we kept saying Georgia's in. They were
undefeated the year before, they're undefeated this year. Even if
they lose to Alabama, Like, if they lose it, they're
going to be in the final.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
You can.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
They were like sixth in the final poll. I'm like, what, well,
Texas beat Alabama and Georgia loses to Alabama. Go, it's
not like Alabama ran them out of the bill. It
was like a miracle fourth down play. How is Georgia
not one of the four best teams? So that part

(47:08):
of it, to me, is eliminated, right.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
It is eliminated, And that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I mean, if we're going to argue about who's the
twelve and thirteen down, there will be arguments, but I'm like,
that's weak argument.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
At that point, the best of the best, the best
teams will be out there, you know.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
So that's the good thing.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
That's the good thing.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
But the idea of an expanded playoff is simple. You
get upsets, asked the Dodgers. The last couple of years,
you're you're getting you're losing opening series to teams that
you blew out in your own division. Yeah, in consecutive years,
and by the way, the Dodgers most likely will face
either the Padres of the Diamondbacks in the opening round
of this year's baseball player.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
I know baseball this year has been just a treat Yeah,
but that's the upsets happened, and I know in football
they happen.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
It's different than like basketball.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
Right, or even it's different than baseball. Is so weird
because you would think that the actual best team in
baseball because it's a series, but it's not like that.
Like in basketball, the best team wins because it's a
seven game series, so typically the best team wins. But yeah,
with baseball, march manis it's one game and you're done.
You have one bad game, you're unlucky.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Here's my favorite stat in baseball. The Florida slash Miami
Marlins in their history, have won two World Series. They've
never won a division type. Both years they won the
World Series, they came in as a wildcard team and
they've never won a division title. And yet they've won
two World Series.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yeah, see in retrospect, here's the whole thing. You don't
remember that. Here the frustration of college basketball coaches. You
know why I would go to final fours A lot
you interview coaches and they would get frustrated because they
have a thirty win season. Then they get upset in
the tournament and suddenly the season is deemed a failure.
It's like, we won our division, we won our conference tournament,

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we won thirty games, and we get upset in the
second round or the sweet sixth and we're a failure.
And other coaches somehow have mediocre seasons, get hot in
the tournament, show up at the final four, and everyone's
singing their praise and they go, well, that's the nature
of the sport. What have you done for me lately?
So this is gonna happen. I mean the idea that

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whichever two schools are the one and two most people
think going into the year, the two best teams in
the country are Georgia and Ohio State. Most people right
now and projecting how the season will end up, will
say Georgia and Ohio State. Well, that puts a lot
of pressure on Kirby Smart and Ryan Day because if

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they don't get there, if they're the one two seeds
and one of them gets upset along the way, they're
gonna feel it. And we'll see how this plays out.
Because if it happens year after year like that where
suddenly a top seed or a second seed gets a
loss early and you end up with who in the

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championship game.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
With the twelve team playoff, are there buys?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yes? The first four they? So what is going Here's
how it works.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Remember we had five power conferences when they put this together,
and now we only have four. So it's going to
be the four highest ranked conference champion, the champions. So
that now you look at the SEC, the Big Ten,
the Big twelve, and the ACC and then AA seed
champion okay, unless Oregon State or Washington State undefeated, so

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that fifth seed who would not get a buy, it's
the five highest ranked conference champions will be the top
five seeds, and then you have seven at large bits okay, okay,
So five plays, twelve, six plays, eleven, seven plays, ten,
eight plays.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Nine top four seeds get a buy and then it
plays on from there.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
Do you want to buy?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
That's another great question. Don't we talk about this in the.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
How many times that we've seen teams wrap up their
division title, rest players week seventeen and then get a
buy on top of that, and then they show up
and they're stale.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
There's yeah, so I do you even want to buy?
I'm just thinking out loud here this new playoff format.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Keeping players healthy. Remember if you play in your conference
championship game and then you're still like a five seed
and then they maybe move all the way to the
champion that's a seventeen game season for these college kids.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
It's a lot of football.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
That is a lot of football.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
They got to keep everyone healthy, all right. So that's
what we're looking at as we get this college football
season underway, all right. Coming up on the other side,
we're going to get back to the National Football League.
It's a down week for the NFL. Rosters are set
and we got some big stories to share with Adam Kaplan,
our NFL insider.

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We got a lot to get ready for in the

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few days we have before the start of this NFL year.
And who better to give us all the information we
need than our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider Adam Kaplan
joining us right now. Adam, do you like this bye
week that we were introduced to you Ondesday expanded to
the seventeen game season. Suddenly we had this off week

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to sort of allow college football to get the like
this weekend, and then and Howard teams using this time.
You know, the rosters were set on Tuesday, fifty three
man rosters. You put your practice squads together. But how
had they been using this extra time over the last
couple of years to get themselves ready for Week one?

Speaker 6 (53:19):
Yeah, they could focus more on the game plan, whereas
when you had the fourth preseason game, you were doing
as coaches would tell me, you're doing half and half.
You're getting ready for that last game where you're really
evaluating the top, the bottom five to seven players and
now without that and it's a bye week, really, you
just totally focus on the game plan. That first opponent,
the Ravens and Chiefs, who play Thursday in Kansas City.

(53:43):
You know they started earlier because they have to play earlier.
Then you got the Packers Eagles game in Brazil. First
time we've ever had a game in Brazil. So talking
to coaches, it's a little bit more time. They actually
like not having that I could. I could tell you
as much as they need the tape to get an
idea of who should be on the rester who shouldn't,
they really like the fact that they get this extra practice.

(54:05):
Tom They've never had that before. It's been four years now.
It's a good thing, Adam.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
So the Steelers are opening up the season against the Falcons,
and something that I haven't been able to understand what
exactly Mike Tomlin meant when he was on the Rich
Eisen Show. He said, my friend Raheem Morris better be
ready for a justin fields package. There's too much talent
to be sitting around watching what he's So basically, you

(54:31):
see what I'm confused.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
So what happens here is in training camp it could
be third down, it could be first in goal at
to ten. Justin Fields came on the field. It's sort
of a change up quarterback. You know, you remember many
years ago the wildcat quarterback started with the Dolphins in
the late Tony Sperano. You're going to see something with
Justin Fields. It's called the Justin Fields package. They it's

(54:54):
a specialty. At some point in a game, they're going
to put him on the field. I was actually talked
to so with the Steelers about that, how because the
media saw it, so it's not a secret. They actually
saw it in training camp. So that's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Now.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
You know the Steeers didn't get Brandon Ayuk. They're really
hurting opposite George Pickens. It's gonna be Van Jefferson, the
former Falcon to play for Arthur Smith, the Steelers offensive
coordinator in Atlanta. He'll be He'll be starting opposite Pickens.
Robin Wilson, I'm told the rookie receiver Michigan third round
he's got a high ankle sprain, so he's very iffy.
I'd be surprised if he played. He hasn't practiced in

(55:29):
over four weeks. So they're really light there. That's that's
a problem, and they're gonna be run based anyway, but
you know that's the problem as they play the Falcons
this coming week.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Last week on our Sunday show, Adam, we were breaking
down the AFC, and obviously the Chiefs are the Kings,
but we're trying to figure out who's the next best team.
I have a sense that Joe Burrow's gonna have a
healthy season. Remember last year, he didn't start the season healthy,
then he started to get healthy, and then he obviously
got hurt again. I believe that if Joe Burrow is

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healthy for seventeen games, start seventeen games for the Bengals,
that they are the prime threat in the AFC to
the Chiefs. How do you believe it shakes out in
terms of the second best team in that conference?

Speaker 6 (56:15):
All right, I'm going to surprise you with this one.
Half of its surprising, and half of you might say, I, well,
I could see whether it be much better. But the
Jets have arguably the NFL's best defense. They really don't
have weakness, and they're still hopeful Son Reddick will come
to senses and reports so they could least redo this
final year of its contract, so it coul at least
make up that money that he lost well over two

(56:37):
million fines. But their defense is phenomenal. Really, they don't
really have a weakness getting Aaron Rodgers back. I could
just tell you what being the Jets recently, they have
not had a good offensive line in years.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
They actually have some depth.

Speaker 6 (56:52):
There was a running joke with their coaches that every
backup that they had last year on the roster started
a game because of injury. And now these guys are backups.
So it's a good thing. They're going to get Mike
Williams back, the former Charger receiver. I'm told that he'll
be in a limited snap count early on, but he
will be able to play early on. Brice Hall. You're

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now two years from the ACL injury. This is a
really good roster. They absolutely when you have a great defense.
And now the only asterisk is is Rogers going to
play as well as he did before the Achilles injury.
Now I know he had a great training camp they
thought he look it's just as good, if not better
than last year's training camp. But he is forty one
years old. We have to understand that. But other than that, guys.

(57:35):
I go through the AFC and it's a fair question.
Cincinnati's got some major question marks of the secondary. You're
a pretty good defensive line. Offensive line is better always
a struggle. It's a little better, it's still just okay.
Now here's another one for you, Steve. I know Jamar
Chase has been there, but he's on the Brandon Value planet.
What kind of game shape is he in?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
We don't know that.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Let me ask you this, who do you have more
trust in twenty twenty four as a quarterback?

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Joe Burrow Aaron Rodgers. It's a fair question.

Speaker 6 (58:02):
Now Burrow, coming off of he's actually his third major
injury he's had the ACL was the worst one who
to have more trust in. I get Burrow because he's
way younger and he does have good mobility when he's healthy.
But this is a good one. I I you know,
I hadn't even thought of this. I would rank him

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if we had a rank one through. Give me you know,
if we had to rank the playoff teams like Gokse one,
Jets two, Bengals three, maybe the Dolphins, Dolphins, maybe Texans
because we're going to pick them to win the division,
then Dolphins so no, I'm sorry, I got I got
it with Baltimore's in my top three or four. The

(58:44):
only thing with the Ravens is, Guys, this is not
talked about enough. They've got a first time defensive coordinator
in zach Or who's very young. He's the youngest coordinator
in the NFL. Thirty two play callings and art we
just don't know. I mean, he's only been been in
position code for a couple of years. This is a
big deal here. With the Ravens I would have in
my top four, I would not put him in my

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top two or three.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Do you think Jamar Chason the Bengals are gonna get
a deal done before the season started.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
What I'm told is there's a possibility that they don't
want to extend his contract to thirty million a year.
They've made that pretty clear.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Doesn't he want one more cent than Justin Jefferson?

Speaker 6 (59:18):
But see the thing is he wants more than that. No,
he wants he wants that contract. But in terms of
they really want to wait till next.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Year, right because he has two years left. Yeah, they
don't want to do it. They're old, super old school.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Mike Brown is I'll give Mike Brown credit and the
reason why they've turned this around for a number of
years under Zach Taylor once he decided to stay out
of personnel and actually spend some money in scouting. So
I've been covering this league so long. Their coaches were
their scouts more or less. They didn't really have a
scouting department. It's sympathetic, it was, But Mike, they're not

(59:55):
a cast rich team. They're just not like the Cowboys
and others, and they really don't want to spend that
type of money right now. Now, what they could do
to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch
is they could the fifth year that you don't have
to worry aout the fifthe option. Now, as you mentioned,
you got two years left, but they certainly could redo
that this this fourth year to make to make him happy,

(01:00:17):
just to just show some respect. Now you made the point,
remember Jefferson from the twenty twenty draft, Ceedee Lamb from
the twenty twenty twenty draft. So that that's the thing
that Chase needs to understand. But it's tough. I get
I You've just got his deal done. Now that that
one was fascinating. It's one of the strangest contractual situations
I've ever seen. I mean not folks. He should have

(01:00:40):
been traded. He really should have been traded. I mean,
if you really knew some of this.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Is out there, some is not.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
All he had to do is say yes, he was
traded to a contract extension with Cleveland. Cleveland was all
set to go. But this is the bizarre bizarreness of
that situation.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Well, speaking of bizarre, Jerry Jones has made up his
mind no contract extension for Dak Prest. So how does
this affect the Cowboys season?

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Well, look, he he's going to be first all Steve,
You're looking at a starting point of sixty million a year, right, Okay,
and that's the that's the floor. The ceiling could be
sixty five to sixty eight. It's just this is ridiculous.
Now they have the cash, folks to do this. Now
they got the Michael Parson situation, it's another one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
How's it play out?

Speaker 6 (01:01:25):
He's going to play this? I still maybe I'm in
the minority. I still think he's gonna be a Cowboy.
Why would you want to rebuild when you have your
guy who you got right in that draft and twenty
sixteen is a fourth round pick. Teams just don't walk
away from the step of quarterbacks. It's not it's one thing, folks.
If you've been injury prone, been playing poorly, then I
get it you might want.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
To walk away.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
I played poorly in that playoff game home against Green Bay.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Yeah, but you know what that that's not the way
you look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
But Jerry Jones, look at the clock is ticking on Jerry.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
It's been almost thirty years, not only winning a super Bowl,
how about getting into a conference championship game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
And if he's not, if.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
He's a then I've got all these pieces here and
I can replace that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Guy with what Stevie look at it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I'm not that, but I mean that's got to be
his mentality or else he would pay the price right
now and give Dak that extension.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
But he's not going to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
He just don't want to spend the money. He just
he wants to He wants to wait. He wants to
do everything on his terms. Someone has dealt with Jerry.
A personal executive told me that you got to do
everything on his terms despite him giving him up a
little bit more. Yes, he is personnel control. He does
whatever he wants Will McClay. They're great personnel director. He

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gives a little bit more deference to those guys, but
in the end he does everything on his terms and
he look he heyay, he paid a little bit less
than Justin Jefferson Cede Lamb.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Think about it, folks, if they would have.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
Stepped up to the play last year and paid him
twenty seven million like like CD one and last year
would have gotten done and they paid more a year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Later, way more.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
He doesn't want to pay Dak, but if Dak has
a great year, he's go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
It's stupid.

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
Yeah, it's just it's really remarkable. And agents love Jerry
by the way, just so you know this, They love
it because they love that he waits almost always.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
It's very rare.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
He screwed up on des Bryant's final extension. He waited,
He waited and waited, seek Elliot's least extension. And this
this Michael parsonstelefik Get's ton it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Historic, unbelievable stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
All right, we're ready for the football season, all right,
So Adam next week obviously we'll be in the UH
in the midst of week one of the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
We can't wait.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
We appreciate all your time, and we'll talk to you
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Yeah, we'll talk about the Green Bay Philly game.

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
We'll talk about them. We'll have two games in the
tank already, right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
All good stuff, All right, good stuff, Adam, we'll talk
to you next week. That's Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports
Radio NFL Insider. Now, let's find out what is trending.
It's been a very busy day in college football, and
Martin's been all over it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
That's true.

Speaker 7 (01:03:57):
At the University Alabama and the number fifth three team
in a nation. Right now, ten minutes left in the
first quarter, Jalen Milroe just had a rushing touchdown. He's
now scored seven to nothing Bama.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
TJ. Finley, the quarterback for Western Kentucky. He's been all
around college football.

Speaker 7 (01:04:12):
Remember Auburn and one other place in between, Texas State.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
I believe in between there. TJ.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
Finley right now with an interception so far for Western Kentucky.
He earlier said, I said earlier today, you know this
is not your uh, you know your grandfather's Western Kentucky
say they will go and compete in this game. So
we'll see how that works out. What do you think
Steve giving Western Kentucky a shot? No, but.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
This is I mean, what kind of season Alabama's going
to have with Debor I mean you talk about pressure.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
How about following up Nick Saban? I mean that's you'd
like to be supposed to be the guy that follows
the guy. I'm pretty sure Nick Saban is capital T,
capitol G the guy.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
Yeah, yeah, you're not following him. You're starting out right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Well, if you look at the numbers, he's the goat.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Yeah, Nobody anywhere in the history college football ever did
what he did at Alabama. Okay, exclude LSU, where he
did win a national championship. Obviously Michigan stayed back in
the day. But if you just look at his Alabama run,
there's nobody close, nobody.

Speaker 7 (01:05:16):
I don't think you found much argument here. Yeah, sixth
rane team in the nation, Ole miss with a fourteen
nothing lead over Furman with just under six minutes left
in the first half. Jackson Dart I'm sorry in the
first quarter. The reason why I thought first half because
Jackson Darts numbers. He's got one seventy one yards through
the air, a one touchdown so far, carry for fifteen
yards on a touchdown as well. Eighteenth three Kansas Stay

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with the fourteen nothing lead over UT Martin midway through
the first quarter, and Michigan just kicking off to defending
national champion Michigan Wolverines, ninth three team in the nation
just kicking off against Fresno State. Earlier today, we saw
a bunch of top twenty five teams in action. One
team probably won't be in the top twenty five anymore
after this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:05:57):
I might be a sharp drop, but number fourteen rate
Clemson got pounded today by the number one overall team
in the nation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Georgia, thirty four to three.

Speaker 7 (01:06:05):
The Bulldogs beat the Tigers Carson Beck two hundred eighty
seven yards passing two touchdowns. Ohio State, the second ranked
team in the nation, fifty two six over Akron Will
Howard with three passing touchdowns, two of them to freshman
Jeremiah Smith. Fourth rank Texas beat Colorado State fifty two
to nothing. A rank Penn State beat West Virginia thirty
four to twelve. Tennessee, the fifteenth th eighteen in the nation,

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hung sixty nine on Chattanooga, who managed a field goal
six to nine. To three the final, Oklahoma State forty four,
South Dakota State twenty in Iowa. All right, how many
times Iowa scored forty points today?

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Yes, that's more than they scored all of last season.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
That's how I was about that. How many weeks will
it take from today on? Because they beat Illinois State.
Shout out to the Red Bird. They tried their best, right,
But now Iowa, the twenty fifth ranth team in the
nation forty points today? How many more weeks will it
take for Iowa have scored forty points?

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Well? Think about last year.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
They were one twenty nine out of one thirty amongst
FBS schools in total offense last year and they won
ten games.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
I mean, Kirk Ferrence, I don't know how you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
But forty points, I mean, that's three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
But it's the most offense they've had in like six years.
I saw all bunch of life. I don't know if
that's a sign of things to come. It couldn't get
much worse. But they still were able to win all
those games last year.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
They got Iowa State, Troy, and Minnesota. They might get
to forty by the fifth week of the season, when
they play Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
They might nothing five weeks to score forty and then
they'll put a forty on Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
You'd be happy about that, wouldn't you, You know what
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:07:45):
But I almost would rather Ohio State be like perfectly
undefeated than lose to Michigan and then see I love
what you say.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
I used to say this as UCLA guy, you know,
like I root it for USC, okay, because my attitude
is if US is good and we beat them, it
means that much more, right, Yeah, it does.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
I mean, if you're.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Ohio State Michigan fans, you want that game to decide
you know something, Well, it.

Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
Doesn't decide anything anymore because they ruin the playoff. But
I know, well what I mean, Like I gay, Like
I said, best case scenario, Ohio State is undefeated going
into Michigan, loses to Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Do you realize this, we were talking about this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
If Ohio State and Michigan are both undefeated, yes, going
into that game, the winner goes on to win the
conference championship, they'll be a top four seed. The best
seeding that the loser of that game will have is
a sixth seed. Yeah, that's the highest they can be
seeded because the top five conference champions would could be

(01:08:43):
an AAC conference champion would be the top five seeds.
And then so you could be the second best team
in the country and still.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Be the sixth seed. That's why I'm in the tournament.

Speaker 7 (01:08:54):
Ohio States undefeated, drop to six and then lose to
like the fourth best team in the See who ends
up being that twelve team?

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
The twelfth team?

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
An you know, there you go, Auburn goes all new
to us, Auburn goes and you know, hangs a bunch
on ITM that'd be crazy, look at it'd be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
All right, Martin, thank you very much. Very busy day.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Martin's got his own show coming up here shortly. Once again,
we're live from the ti iraq dot com studios.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
So Monci.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
He mentioned Clemson getting boat raced today by George, especially
in the second half. It was a postgame at halftime.
Clemson's defense I thought control the line of scrimmage in
the first half, but second half they got run over.
Thirty four to three was the final. So Dabos Sweeney
has made it clear that he has no interest in
this transfer portal. In fact, he hasn't had a single

(01:09:38):
player through the transfer portal start a game since the
thing started six years ago. Now his reasoning is this, Monci.
He says, the problem with bringing in twenty or thirty
new guys Colorado is over forty this year through the
transfer portal is that it doesn't breed chemistry.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
That you get all these different guys from different program
I remember Lane Kiffin at ole Miss a couple of
years ago. They had something like twenty twenty five transfers
coming in and he was asked, you know, how.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Do you feel about this? He goes, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
You got guys coming from distrant systems, from different programs
all over the country, and now I got to immediately
put these college kids all on the same page at
the same time. So Dabo Sweeney's argument is I don't
want to do that. I will build my system with
the players I recruit high school players. You know, we

(01:10:36):
might have a player here or player there to fill
a need, but most important to me is chemistry, and
I can't do that if I'm bringing in guys from
all these different programs from around the country.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
I understand what he's saying, because you think it does
make sense chemistry, you've been working together for more than
a year, You're gonna be able to play better than
a team that was just put together. Right, But clearly
times are changing in college football, and if he cannot
adjust or prove that his theory of chemistry is better

(01:11:10):
than the transfer portal, then he needs to retire. Nick
Saban didn't want to deal with all this new stuff
in college football for that very reason transfer portal, and
he didn't want to deal with any of that. You
kind of have to adjust with what's happening in front
of you. You have to do it. And with today's game,
I know it was just Week one, but that was
not a good showcase for Clemson.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Well, I guess the argument about today's game is you're
playing the number one team in the country now has
won forty consecutive regular season games, So should we I mean, yeah,
it was it scored a field goal. Yeah, the offense
was horrific. I mean, when you go from Deshaun Watson
to Trevor Lawrence and then obviously dj Ouyungalila did not
work out, and now suddenly Clemson has lost their offense,

(01:11:55):
it's not a good sign. I wouldn't judge it solely
on one game. We'll see how they play on their
ACCS schedule. But you're one hundred percent right when you say, like,
if you're not taking advantage of the transfer portal when
everybody else is, that's coaching suicide a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
And it's like, we're not asking you to have a
brand new team every single time, but how are you
not taking advantage of the transfer portal when it's there
at your disposal?

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Well, also, your players are not going to honor your deal,
not at all. I think like Nick Saban's biggest frustration
wasn't trying to recruit players here the transfer portal.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
It was losing players.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Yeah, like you bring in a five star freshman who
maybe gets shared some time their first year, which would
be normal, and then they're like, I've got an offer
to go elsewhere. It's like, what are you talking about, Like, no,
you're going to start this year. You know, we got
to your feet wet, and he's like, no, this is
a better opportunity. That was what was really irking Nick

(01:12:52):
Saban is losing players through the transfer portal.

Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Which is that kind of We started the show right
that college football is a little bit different with nil
and all that stuff different. So it's like with knowing
that that's what Nick Saban didn't like about it, Dablo
Sweeney needs to realize that it's like your chemistry that
might no longer be a thing, whether you like it
or not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
So comes there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
You can try, you can try and keep whatever you
want together. But now there's all these options for these
young paid athletes.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
I mean, look at Oregon, right you you lose Bonix
who had five years as a starter, and you get
Dylan Gabriel who's already had five years. Dylan Gabriel has
already thrown for almost fifteen thousand yards in his career.
This is his sixth year. So if you're Oregon, why
would you not take the opportunity to bring in someone

(01:13:43):
with that level of experience. Yeah, especially moving into the
Big ten. So we'll see how it play us out
for Dabo. But yeah, I get a sense said, if
you're going to try to go old school in this
new age of college football, you're gonna get left behind.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Yeah, this isn't the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Hill to die on.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Chemistry matters is the hill to die on?

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Well, they had they can all share in that route.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Yeah, so they'll have that chemistry going into their second game.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
All right, what kind of a week is it gonna be?

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
We're gonna take a look ahead at the college football Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
And yes an NFL Thursday.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harvey, Montzi Bolangos. Here
Fox Football Saturday. We're live from the Tiraq dot com studios.
I want to think Martin for jumping in before his
own show. Do some updates today, Mary Mac she came
in on Fire today. I won't say why, but I

(01:14:39):
could already tell Mary Mack was fired up for the show.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
So they actually exhausted. I'm running on like two hours
of sleep.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
Oh those are rough days.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Yeah, I got home at like nine am this morning. Nice. Wow, yeah, nice.
But you can do that when you're twenty one years old,
Mary Mack. Yeah, I live in twenty one lifestyle. Mary Mack.
I was twenty one in the seventies, so I'm just
my mom was born than the seven Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
I turned twenty one nineteen seventy nine. Patrick, phenomenal job today.
Now I have to apologize to Mancy on air because
you know we have morphed into from Fox Sports Saturday
into Fox Football Saturday and she was on her nine
mile run this morning before she got in. So I

(01:15:31):
had to make a decision on this heisman the return
of the Heisman countdown, and that meant know, who's your daddy?

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:15:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
So I want to publicly apologize to you because I
know you put a lot of time and effort and
I'm obviously a very enjoyable segment for me Who's your Daddy?
But I just I felt like I needed to make
this decision.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
No, you just made the decision without me, And it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
It's fine the way you just said that, it's not
and I can understand that. Yeah, I've heard that before,
but yeah, no, I know it's okay, it's fine, but
it is.

Speaker 6 (01:16:09):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
You're right Fox Football Saturday. You are not incorrect about that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
So you know, like, well, it's only going to get
crazier with Fox Football Saturday because once we get NFL
football going forget.

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
It, right, And you know, I'm not Dablo Sweeney. I
can adjust to what's in front of me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
No, you can't.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
I can't. So we're good.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Well, next Saturday, obviously we'll have NFL football already to
talk about it and start Thursday Chiefs Ravens and you know,
we go back to that AFC Championship game and Carrie
Rhodes was sitting with me leading into that AFC Championship
game and he of course went to Louisville. He was
personal friends to Lamar Jackson. I said, all right, so,

(01:16:49):
I mean the last thing we know that the Ravens
wanted to put Lamar Jackson, the league's MVP, into a shootout,
a passing shootout with Patrick Mahomes like, and he assured me,
will not see that. And in what was basically a
one score game, the entire game, he was throwing more
passes than Mahmes. It just was the worst game plan,

(01:17:11):
especially considering it was for a ticket to the super
Bowl that I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
And what was shot.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
This is John Harbaugh, this is a super Bowl winning coach.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Yeah, and they change it like they just kept doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
They just kept throwing the It.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Was the word.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
It's like, why are we not changing the game plan
that's not working.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Look, if you're down two touchdowns seventeen points, I get
it was never that. So it was I'm very interested
about this game on Thursday. I have a sense that
the Ravens could surprise in this game.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Yeah, yeah, I do too.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
I'm really curious to see how they're going to utilize
Derrick Henry along with Lamar Jackson. That is what's interesting
about the Ravens this year, because now you're not just
worried about one. Now you gotta worry about two. And
I do think that they could surprise. It sweek one
with the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
Yeah, I look at if the Ravens do win this game.
It's not like, you know, let's rite the Chiefs obituary.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Oh no, not at all, not at all.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
But yeah, I saw sweet one last year. Didn't they
against the Lions?

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Yeah? I was like, didn't they did?

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
They did?

Speaker 4 (01:18:16):
It was against the Lions Week one, Yeah they did.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, Week one is not going
to you know, make a break a season, especially for
a team like the Chiefs. But yeah, I think that
hopefully the Ravens have a completely different game plan. Like
you say, you didn't bring in Dereck Henry to be
a spectator, No you did not. You didn't bring in
Dereck Henry to be a receiver. Derrick Henry is an
old school Rundown Hill wear out defense running back exactly.

(01:18:44):
So we'll see if we see a little of that.
By the way, Also college football tomorrow, interesting game USC
LSU and that game is going to be played in Vegas.
And for Lincoln Riley, after last year's catastrophe, you had
the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. Everyone is like talking about, Hey,

(01:19:08):
you know, you lost out on a trip to the
final four of the year before. But with Caleb Williams
coming back, this will be our year. And you had
the worst defense in the country and you wasted Kayleb Williams,
who still had a good year. But it's hard when
you have to score fifty points a game to come
out on the winning side. I think he's I think
Linka Riley's under immense pressure. Yeah, and they're an underdog,

(01:19:32):
by the way, in this game against LSU, I know,
and they're.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Both ranked teams. And I asked you off, I'm like,
I mean, what is the realistic expectation for us C.
And you're like, big expectations.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Well, there are no other expectations for USC. They're foring money.
You talk about money being spent on the nil. I
mean they've been spending money like crazy to try to
get this thing together and get him back to what
they were hoping was a return to the Pete Carroll era.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Well, I don't think we're returning to that this year.
I just think you're what the expectation. It seems to
be a very big jump, and I just don't know
if SC is gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
So let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
So Pete Carroll is on campus, you know, and you
know Lincoln. Riley said, well, I'll be crazy not to
utilize Lincoln right, to utilize Pete Carroll. And I'm thinking,
don't you dare? I mean this way if you fail again.
And that guy's sitting here, Yeah, No, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
How old he is. He's you know, he's younger than
his age.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Yeah, careful what you wish for, Careful what you wish
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
That's it, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Well, we wish for more football talk, and we got
plenty of it coming.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Keep it here. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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