The Fellas with Anthony Gargano, Jason Fitz & Kevin Figgers discuss Lamar Jackson’s Greatness, College Football Playoff Rankings & MORE!

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Well, good morning, happy, happy happy Foxsports Saturday Week ten
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I don't know about you, but I'm still a gog
over what I saw Thursday night and that incredible shootout

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between just just amazing quarterback play, uh with Burrow going
to the incredible Jamar Chase over and over again to
the raining MVP who is playing incredible football, and Lamar Jackson.
That was just a joy to watch. Bag.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, And I'm sitting here as we're watching Lamar just
wondering when everybody's gonna stand up and say, my bad
that had any issue with him getting a contract. Remember,
it's not that long ago people were sitting there saying,
oh my god, how can you pay him and people
were saying that his his values that he wanted were
inappropriate and we weren't questioning enough by certain teams weren't

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getting in on the Lamar Jackson sweep stakes. Now it's
the quarterback that's in so much control. Dude, It's like,
it's just he's epic, like he this is this is
unreal and for everybody, like the Falcons could have gotten
into that, the Raiders could have gotten into that.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Bringing this up to you, dude, I was gonna so
yesterday I had the same conversation with Mike Garifola from
the NFL Network and we're talking and I'm like, dude,
could you imagine Arthur blank and what you feel like
right now? Listen? You know, you know you feel good,
you got cousins or whatever, and you know you got
PANICX and you gotta hope for the future. But you
didn't even like bad an eyelash when you said, why

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would we want Lamar Jackson? Are you kidding me? How
do you feel now that you've chosen football? Great? Wealthy man, successful,
highly right, great, great guy too, But man, that's an
epic epic misstep by saying that.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean franchises aren't even being critiqued for or
criticized for setting themselves back years, Like, yeah, maybe you
can find another answer, but you could have done that,
or you could have somebody that is on the verge
of possibly winning his third MVP, and there's no shutting
it down, Like the just the ability for Lamar to

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take over, the ability for Lamar to make every play,
and then the ability for Lamar to flat out save
every play. And this is where I can hear people
just screaming, well, playoff success, playoff success. I'm not going
to let what has or hasn't happened in six games
that's how many playoff games he's played outweigh what has
happened in ninety five regular season games, Like it's just

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got we gotta call him this down, Like there are
going to be times for playoff conversation, but right now
you just continually look at Lamar and say, what else
can the guy do nothing? Maybe he is a two
time MVP that very well could be a three time
MVP and he's not even thirty yet, Like it's just
this is what I.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Gotta tell you. I see you're spot on, You're spot on,
and the most ridiculous I'm sorry. The most ridiculous thing
ever is well, yeah, like how how was he the playoffs?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
That's just nonsense.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's complete nonsense because in this league, this isn't the
NBA where you're gonna have regular season champions right like
you know or you know, when it comes to this league,
you kind of perform day out. The regular season matters.
It's the all many playoffs games. So I don't want
to hear about oh, well, you know when January comes.

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The dude is ridiculous. And that goes to say that
goes back at the time Peyton Manning. I love the
I love the the look at the history and go
all you know, Peyton Manning was not good in his playoffs.
I mean, look at him against the Patriots and look
at it. Even in the Super Bowl Hero only didn't
play that well even though they won. I heard these
nonsensical arguments that are just playing stupid seriously, because you

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ran into the Patriots and they were mugging your receivers
for you know, four straight, uh, the januaries like he
can't play and he was he was a joker. That's
I don't believe it. I don't It's all nonsense. The
same thing with Lamar.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, and they used to even go even further back
than that. Remember when there was a narrative that Elway
couldn't win the Big Game until yeah did. Like this
is just the stupidest, like reminding everybody that Nick Foles
and Trent dilt for have court have Super Bowl wins.
So let's stop making you know, the super Bowl like
you could have a magical playoff run and it's really
worth crediting. And I'm I'm all in for saying, wow,

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you can be a gamer that steps up in the
playoffs and we need to credit that. Fine, I'm all
in for saying, hey, look at Eli in the Super
Bowls and look at that. That's that's part of that's
a check in the positive column when we talk about
a quarterback. But to me, like, there's such a limited
body of work in the playoffs anyway, and it takes fifty.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Three, it's just it does.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
It does when you have ninety five games of total
dominance of the regular season, including a winning percentage just
what like sixty five sixty six percent, which is unreal,
it's actually a little higher than that. And then you've
got two MVPs maybe on the way to your third
and you are playing the position different than anybody like
you are throwing the ball better than any other running
quarterback has thrown it, and you are running the ball

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better than any other throwing quarterback has ever thrown it.
Like run it. There's just a spot here where we
got to stop with any of these anti Lamar Jackson
there that's got to stop rolling our eyes. We've gotta
start freshy that we're gonna tell our grandkids, Oh my god,
we watched Lamar like we are watching a Hall of
Fame quarterback that is one of the best to ever
do it, do it week in and week out, and

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also is never a problem, like he never says the
wrong thing, he never does the wrong Now he's.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now he's the greatest. I'm completely with you. I you
know I Marvel. I love quarterbacks. It's my favorite thing,
my favorite thing to talk about, my favorite thing to
position to watch in any sport is quarterbacks. Like you
brought up just a point that it should not be overlooked,
and we overlook it all the time about the fifty

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three and it goes back to Mahomes. Mahomes doesn't lose
if not for the fact that Super Bowl year that
he lost, he had two injured tackles. Both his tackles
were banged up or else he would have won that too.
All Right, Lamar is the type of football that he's playing,

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that the type of quarterback that he's evolved into is tremendous. Look,
I give Monkin all the all the praise of the
world because I think he helped him get to this level.
This is level is something that we've never seen because listen,
he's always had a ridiculous arm. He's always been a
phantom and move like a fantom. But put it together

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and play in a position and they've given him weapons abound. Right,
He's just his decision making's ridiculous. Like we talk about
his movement and the play he makes down the sidelines,
but in reality, he didn't even need to. Like his
running is just an accent. It's just spice on an
incredible meal.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, and to be able to do that, I mean,
look at the jump pass into the end zone. To
you know, there are certain guys that are so athletic,
just like Mahomes, that they they're going to force you
to make a decision. Are you gonna step up and
you're gonna try and and takehim down. He sold that.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Like even beyond just the sheer athleticism, he sold that
fake like he acted like he was going to run
the football and completely brought everybody up. It was, it was,
it was the selling of it that was just jaw
dropping to me.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, you're one hundred percent right, and he does it
all with such ease, like all of it looks easy,
like it's not that long ago. We watched Anthony Richardson
tap out of a game, and then you see what
Lamar is doing when he's running around like that. And
even look at this game that we just saw, there
were a couple of times that Joe Burrow did a
beautiful job of getting out of the rush.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh my god, he's crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
And still delivered an inaccurate football downfield because it's hard
to do all of that and then throw the ball
the way Lamar is throwing the ball when he does that.
It's just I just I think there are certain guys
that we get so dug in on for whatever we
think the narrative is. And I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
That hot take nonsense it is. It's the hot take
nonsense that's it. In a nutshell, dude, that listen, God
bless it. You know, you've been a living there. And
I watch it and love it and friends and go
on all the networks as a guest in love ESPN.
But all the hot take world society is what causes
is nonsense. It really does it. It's bogus. It's not intelligent.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, and unfortunately it just gets consumed and regurgitated at
such a level. I don't know how to stop it.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know, well you can't. I mean you can't. But
that's why it's sold. This is ridiculous. I mean, I
just want to go. The reason why I love sports
is I love the art of movement, and I love museums. Right,
I'll go into a museum and I'll go spend five
hours just just looking at pieces of art and watching

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the great quarterback play like I watched Thursday night. That
was like being in a museum and just watching that
work of art, just look at it admiring it.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, And I truly love anybody that I can't figure
out what you could have done better to stop them?
And that to me is maybe my favorite thing about
watching a guy like Lamar and and even you know,
as a Raiders fan. I say this, you know it
hurts my heart to say this, but it's one of
the things that I absolutely love about watching my homes
is that when you watch it and you say, Yep,

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there's literally nothing I can think of that you could
have done better on that to stop that play. You
just weren't going to stop it. I think that's a
beautiful thing. Like that's that's when you're watching football b
RT right, when you're looking at it and saying, you
can't coach all of that, You can't teach all of that,
you can't replicate all of that. All you can do
is marvel that somebody did it. And when you're trying

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to stop it, all you can do is tip your
cap and say, yep, you got me on that one.
Like That's what Lamar has done consistently, and frankly, I
don't trust the Ravens defense as much as I want
to trust the Ravens defense, but you can't tell me that,
you know, we shouldn't be talking about the Ravens is
viable Super Bowl contender. And the funny thing is about
all of that. If they lose in the playoffs, it

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will likely be because of their defense. And then somebody
it will still turn it into a little more conversation.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah yeah, I mean I you and I see it
the same way, the same way. I can't believe that
in this league that you have those teams that just
passed up on them. I'm figuring, good morning, good morning,

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my brother Warner. Gentlemen, we say we saw we missed
it last week, it's why whatever. For a second, I
was like, I.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Figure to figure, Yeah, yeah, I miss you guys. Last week.
I was caught up in the Dodger celebration. Who plowed?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
That was all that?

Speaker 5 (11:45):
So the local affiliate pulled me away. But I'm glad
to be back with you guys, and I agree with
everything that you had to say about Lamar Jackson. Will
also want to give Joe Burrow his flowers too, because
some of the throws that he made under your rest
and has been making all season long, has absolutely incredible.
Knowing that Jamar Chase was gonna get the ball, knowing
there was no t Higgins and they still couldn't stop it,
which goes to your point, FITZI, which I think is

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gonna be their demise is that raven defense. But I
still don't want to even in the midst of the
Ravens defense being mediocre. I do want to give flowers
to Joe Burrow because he had equally as impressive as
of a performance. And look if that face mass penalty
is called on the two point conversion, I mean we
might be talking differently, you know, from a win loss standpoint.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yah know, And you're right the ad and we would
We'd still be gushing over Lamar for sure, but we
would be gushing over Barrow like we've had this. The
lead would be it just changes the order, right, we
would be talking about Burrow going.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Dude, you see what a what a player?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Hey, and mind you can we talk for a second.
We're gonna we're gonna have to talk later today about him.
But we need to give lsu it's flowers, all right
because the players, what what that universe that program has
given to this league is just insane. It's insane. But

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what Jamar Chase? Can you can you tell me about
Jamar Chase for a second and the Jets that speed
fits you go, do you see that that another that
next level that was sick? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
I mean you just think about his ability to see
it and find it and get open in It is
really incredible. Right, there are certain guys that aren't just
running fast, They're running smart and fast. And that's Jamar Chase, right,
It's just and he and Burrow are on the same
page in so many ways. There's just a trust factor

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that I don't think we give enough credit to sometimes
in these games about knowing. You know, hey, I am
in duress. I do need so I need to be
able to chuck the football up and I know exactly
where he's gonna be. I think there's there's a specialist
to the way he attacks the football, Jamar Chase. There's
also a specialist to the understanding that Burrow has on
where he's going to be attacking the football. That figure,

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it's it's truly, it's it's special to see two guys
on the same page like that.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
I mean, you kidding me, fake, you know, I was
just looking up you mentioned l s U and just
looking up at players in the NFL, and it's it's
an all pro team in and of itself. I mean,
if you want to go to a quote unquote old
man legacy player, oh, they'll Beckham Junior. But I mean
Jordan Jefferson, Jamar Chase Joe Burrow if you want his

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Matt Neighs, his backup could be Jaydon Daniels. There you go.
It's it's an embarrassment. Who's ridiculous, Yeah, it's it's literally
an embarrassment. And that doesn't bring in a lot of
defensive guys. You're Derek Stingley's and you're Patrick Queens. Yeah,
I mean, it's it's it's unreal the amount of talent
that they've turned out.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I used to play Madden when they like back in
the day, remember when Madden had and they may still
I don't play that mode, but they they used to
have the like all Raiders team, certainly the best Raiders team.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Imagine if if we started to get the situation where
in Madden they combined with college football to be like, hey,
you want to play with an all LSU team just
from the last decade, we could do that for you. Yeah.
I mean, it's just you look at the success these
guys have had. It's not that they weren't dominant at
the college level, because certainly they were, but how dominant
they become at the NFL level is really stunning.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
To me, totally. I know, it's spot on. Man, it
really is. And we got a great day of football today.
And that game tonight is a playoff game. You know, that's.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Called the Loser Leave Town match. It's like the eighties
wrestling where like the looser has to retire, they're.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Leaving the loser leaves to the animal steel. Yeah, let's go. Yeah,
I know it is. I love that. I love that
it plays into a big day today, important things like
do you trust Ale?

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Miss right?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Again? Here they are at the precipice. Do you you
who you like out of the loser ball one's going
to make the playoffs? And two great teams, two interesting teams. Uh,
there should be a lot of points tonight. It's good.
It's a it's a big day. But we'll continue our
our NFL and quarterbacks and there's some fun stuff going on. Man,

(16:17):
it's great, It's it's great. I love it. I love
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He's Kevin Figures, I'm Anthony Gargana. Where the Fellas together
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Speaker 2 (16:45):
Fellas from the tire rack dot com studios. So how
was your week, my brother? I got all that was
all kiked up. I didn't give a chance to give
you a little salutation.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Man, my week was spectacular. It's like we're in November.
Everything feels good right, Like, I don't know. Everything was easy,
like we're that we're that part of the year, and
I think you can appreciate that, where like everything's got
rhythm for me. You know, it's like I know exactly
what happens on what day, what such a creature or routine.
It's just like I don't think I'm sitting there like
what happened interesting this week? I don't know. I talked

(17:19):
about sports all week, you know, like there's just for me.
I love that. I love you know. When I was
touring back in the day, there was an app that
we all had a Master Tour on our phones and
you would open up Master Tour to tell you where
you were, what you had to do that day, and
exactly where to be when. I kind of thrive on
that level of routine. So I don't know, it was
an easy week. Because you know, by the time you
factor in life and everything like it was super easy.

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How was yours?

Speaker 7 (17:44):
Not?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
As I'm not as gleeful as you.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know when you got two kids, you know, you're
you're doing your thing and you've got seventeen jobs, you know,
I mean, it's it's all good. I love this type
of year, So I'm with you, but it's not as easy,
I'm sure, Finky. That's to having the baby now.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, you know, I'm I'm like you, Fitzie, and that
I'm someone who is a creature of habit and loves
having a routine. But as Anthony will tell you, you know,
when you have a kid involved, that your routine goes
out of the window. Your routine is replaced by whatever,
you know, whim sees off of or they're off of
whatever they're if they're maybe they might not sleep well
a certain night, and that affects you that next morning
and affects what you're planning to do. All that, you know,

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factors in. So you know, my week was great. You know,
my routine was knocked off a couple of days. But
it's quite all right. It's all in the best of interests.
It's all in the interest of him. So it's fine.
I'm okay with it, but you know, was just thrown
off a little bit. So I'm someone who's a creature
of habit and loves to have a bit of a routine.
But when you start getting kids involved, yeah, it kind
of MUCKs things up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, Like you come home, like I come home, dude,
right and or actually in the car, the phone rings
my wife and she's on a war path because the kids,
like my boys are eleven and fourteen, and they are
you know, they're filthy animals, right of course, and they

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the houses they leave, they leave messes everywhere, Like the
house is constantly in a state of you know, just
a mess.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
One tornado follows another tornado.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
You never ate.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
By the time he cleaned one up, here comes the other. Yeah,
get it.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
And my wife, you know, he has to clean up
after him, and she's just freaking out. And they come out.
It's pictured day, and my little one didn't brush his
teeth into his hair.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Right, he's in sixth grade.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
He doesn't care, right, he's just looking at you know,
when's my next practice, when's my next game? And you know,
my wife's freaking out and then she's calling me, you
gotta get a hair on your kids. You know you're
too easy. You want to be the good guy. Well
blah blah, like that's you know, sorry, uh like that, God,

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I didn't do this. That nonsense bad that's every day.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I only only funny to me because I remember my
mom and dad having the same exact arguments. Like my
mom was always like, why am I always the bad guy?
So yeah, I remember that very distinctly. And what is
it about like middle aged school boys that just suddenly
stopped caring about basic hygiene? I don't I've never like
I don't have.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
They haven't started to care yet, right, that's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
They they haven't started yet.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Like you know, when they're they never cared about It's
not until you know, once you get to eighth.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Grade, let's say eighth or ninth this kind of.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's when they start, you know, like my anthony, now
you need your freshment in high school, so his hair
is done and you know.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
And it's not until you get to like sixth grade,
seventh grade that you really start. Your body's developed to
a point where like the funk starts coming out man
after pe. Like my wife is a middle school teacher,
and she'll say, second semester, you know when they started
coming in after pe. You know, you'll smell them before
you see them. It's amazing. They smell like a hogy. Yeah,

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a hogy that's been sitting out on the counter for
about three weeks exactly, and they are the last ones
to know that's the issue.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Bacine after football practice, right, so you know, like my
little what plays every sport, right, we're out, we'd start
basketball next week. Still, guys loving three football games to go,
the whole thing. So we're just running around, running around.
So he we have practice. It's a three you know,
it's like two and a half hour practice. The other night.
So he comes home and goes to bed. He doesn't

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shower right, So my wife walks into his room and
it just reached right. She yells at me, I'm getting
ready to go to work, and she's like, get in here.
He said, what smell this?

Speaker 4 (22:02):
As he stole and it's you know, it's just rancid.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
It's like when pepular pew when you just pass out, you.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Know exactly, I go, Masimo, you didn't show.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
You didn't shower.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was, you know whatever, Oh my god, dude, you
gotta shower after private you get hold you gotta shower.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, do you go fit it? I didn't.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
It has to be like that. Again, these are the
things like I don't even I realize what you're saying,
because I was a middle school aged boy at one
point contract to popular belief. And here's the funny thing
is like, as somebody that doesn't have kids, I forget
that chapter even existed, and what you're writing makes total sense.
But also like the basic like the principle of having

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to explain to somebody, hey man, you ran, you ran
for hours, you worked really hard, you should probably shower off.
Like that's but then again, like I'll be honest with you,
like this, this is gonna be disgusting for a lot
of people. But I know plenty of people out on
the road when I was touring that would come in
from a show and would just be like, oh, yeah,
you know, I'm dry now, it's fine, I'm gonna go
to bed, and they's sleep in their bunk, and I'm like,

(23:08):
you're disgusting. You just ran around on stage for two hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
your lights like you just we're disgusting. I know plenty
of people that post show will be like, I'm just
gonna have some pizza, go to bed, and I'm like, okay,
that's why the bus always stinks. So I guess maybe
a lot of guys never actually grow out of it.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
What they don't, I can't believe you want to shower
it to That's yeah. Maybe you know then that'll be Mike.
That'll be my master. That's for sure. My god, Vicky,
you want to hit it?

Speaker 5 (23:40):
I think yeah. Well I'll start with some injury news
out of the NFL to the surprise of No. One
quarterback Dak Prescott of the Cowboys being placed on injured reserve,
meaning he'll miss at least the next four games for
the team as he has or as he deals with
a hamstring injury. Previous reports stated that he'll be out
ultimately between six and eight weeks with that ailment. Washington
run back Brian Robinson is out against Pittsburgh as he

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deals with his own hamstring injury, and Jaguars quarterback Trevor
Lawrence listed as questionable, but it's unlikely to play against
Minnesota as he deals with the left shoulder issue and
left coast NBA hoops. On Friday, the Lakers defeated Philadelphia,
won sixteen to one oh six. A triple double there
for Lebron James clipper Is getting thirty one points in
twelve boards from Norman Powell in a victory over Sacramento.

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A triple double for Nicola Jokich as Denver defeat at
Miami one thirty five to one. Twenty two. The Knicks
defeated the Bucks Cleveland all over Golden State, Jason Tatum
thirty three points leading Boston over the Nets in overtime.
In college football, you had victories for New Mexico, Memphis,
cal and UCLA College basketball top rank Kandas blew a
twenty point lead but came back and held on to

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beat ninth rank North Carolina ninety two to eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Back to the Fellas, all right, it's the Fellas.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Jason Fifth, Anthony Garganda, my man, that's figgi As we
hang out Kevin figures Uh from the tyrack dot com studios.
So let's get back. We were talking a lot about
Thursday night and Burrow and really, Lamar, the most amazing
thing is, guys, let's go back to that point where
Lamar doesn't get any offers and he acts, he's acting

(25:13):
as his own agent. Do you think that there was
some I don't want to say collusion, right because that's
a big charge, but it felt like that nobody wanted
to deal with them, and nobody wanted to come close
to give him those contracts. Yet it's interesting, you know,
teams are fall over themselves given Deshaun Watson all guaranteed money.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, and I look, I don't everybody at the time
that I would talk to about it. So there's no collusion.
Just owners aren't willing to do it and they don't
want to second the precedent of Deshaun Watson. And I
hear that. But I also think, man, if you need
a quarterback, you need a quarterback, and if you can
get a quarterback, you get a quarterback. Like there is

(25:57):
just no proof of concept, you know, I say that
too much, but like proof of concept, Man, it matters,
you know, right, And that's where I just don't understand
why we're tripping over ourselves to figure out why it
doesn't matter when we know it does. And then you're
tripping over yourself to say, well, you really got to
get a rookie content. No, you don't if you have
a quarterback that becomes available. But in it it's so

(26:18):
rare that it happens. You just you go in and
you back up, the breakstruck, whatever it takes. That was
the approach I said at the time, Like I'm on
record back then before Lamar you know, continued this saying
this loudly at the time. If you needed a quarterback,
it was stupid to not go guarantee Lamar whatever he
wanted to go out there and get him, and I
just at some point we've got to change our thinking

(26:39):
and understand. I looked at this for Yahoo the other day,
and if you take twenty twenty out, twenty twenty was
a beautiful draft class at the quarterback position. In fact,
at twenty twenty, Burrow to Herbert, Love and Hurts all
came from the same draft. So I want to remove
that and we might make the argument that it's good
to be elected or drafted an election here because certainly

(27:00):
the twenty twenty four draft class, you know that people
think that there's some good there. Yeah, Jaden and Caleb so.
But but if you look at the last ten years
I went through ten years outside of that one draft class,
and I looked at every quarterback and I said, Okay,
how many of these quarterbacks have actually had sustained success
with the team that they are drafted in? If I
give an incomplete to Kyler Murray and Trevor Lawrence because

(27:22):
you know, we think they're good, but we're not sure.
If I give an incomplete to those, the number if
I include Deshaun Watson for what he did for the
Texans at the time, is five out of forty quarterbacks drafted,
five had sustained success with the team that they were
drafted on. Like, what are we doing? When you know
that number and teams know that number, why would you
possibly not look over and be like, yep, we'll take

(27:44):
Lamar instead of rolling the dice when you have a
rough ninety percent chance eighty five percent chance that who
you draft is going to fail, Like if your favorite team,
like my favorite team needs a quarterback and next year's draft,
I hate to be the one to break it to you,
but you are probably good going to fail when you
draft that guy.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
I feel like teams are just kind of scared. It's
kind of been a revolution at the quarterback position. I
believe it was started by cam before and then as
a transitioned into Lamar Jackson sort of a run quarterback,
and now he's improved as a passer greatly. As great
as of a rookie year as he had, he wasn't
the most efficient, It wasn't the most you know, didn't
have the greatest you know, completion percentage, and so coming

(28:22):
out of his first couple of seasons, I still think
people had question marks about whether or not the way
that he played was sustainable. But as we fast forward
it through the last couple of years, I mean, look
at the players who have been taken with high picks
or who are you know, starting quarterbacks at this point.
You have Jayden, you mentioned Hurts, Anthony Richardson was taken
high justin fields. I think those guys were taken and
were staked as franchise quarterbacks, namely because of the success

(28:46):
that Lamar Jackson had, And I don't know if a
lot of the other organizations had the foresight to think
that that's where the quarterback position would be going. And
so I think that's a big reason why a lot
of teams are hesitant. They just didn't know if it
was sustainable.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah or not. Yeah, I could see that. I'd say
it started with McNabb, yeah, you know in that sense
and Vic like that. That was that those guys, I
mean really r Randall is the you know, but kind
of like you're right, and then you could see the evolution.

(29:19):
By the way, you should watch that. It's a it's
a great, uh docu series called The Black Quarterback.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
I know about it. I haven't seen it yet, which
is really really good.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's really interesting. But the mobile quarterback, right, because you
see like guys like Lawrence or Barrow who is mobile, right,
he can move the the that that quarterback, I think
you're right on. I think they looked at Lamar and
they were like, well can he sustain this thing?

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
What really? To me? He's playing He's not like he
can move like again that's just the dressing. But he's
playing the elite quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
And I think.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Monkin Todd Munkin is it is a brilliant dude. I
don't think he gets enough respect because he teaches the
position so much, you know, so much of these quarterbacks. Man,
it's who's whose offense? It is who's your coach? Like
what are you getting? Like like I always feel bad.

(30:23):
There was a guy, do you guys remember Jason Campbell
remember him?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Well?

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah, Washington Raiders.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, he had in a span of uh four years,
he had four different offensive coordinators to start his career.
And you know, I remember him coming out of Auburn out.
I was like, I like him, man, I like him.
He never got in the right spot, with the right coaching,

(30:50):
with the right offense, and I just think it killed
his career.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
And I think there are a lot of guys.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know, there's a I think we take for granted
sometimes about the importance of who's coaching these kids. Like
Kingsbury with Jade Daniels is a big deal, right, He's
coming from LSU and then he goes to Washington and
he's got Cliff there, and Cliff those offense and those quarterbacks,
and I think they help those guys. And I think

(31:18):
Munkin really made Lamar into the elite perfect quarterback.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
The monk In portion of this is interesting because where
we do talk about offensive coordinators and defensive coordinators is
play calling, because that's something everybody can easily see. So,
you know, if the Ravens don't run the ball enough,
I yell about it. I'm the first to admit that,
I think a lot of people do. But you're right
that the part of the coordinating that we don't talk
a lot about position coaches, that we don't talk a

(31:45):
lot about is effective coaching improvement, right and the living, eating, breathing.
Best example of that is Josh Allen, who everyone said
would never get his completion percentage up. He worked his
tail off, he had some really good coaching, and he
got that percentage up. If you're an Anthony richardson Colt's
face and right now, you're begging for the same to
happen in Indianapolis, right. So you make a great point

(32:05):
that development is something we don't talk enough about. And
I often say at the end of the season, ask yourself,
did your team get better? Can you see a tangible
improvement on the field for individuals? If you can, that's
one thing that we can we can hang on the
hat of coaches FIGI And that maybe we don't pay
enough attention.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
To that, yeah, and that the player unfortunately gets stuck
with the unfair stigma because they might have been in
the wrong situation, but they could have thrived. I look
at someone like brock Party's a perfect example. If he's
playing with the Jets, is even in the league right now?
You know Donald right, Sam Darnold with Kevin o'cona. O'Connell
was going to be the next example. They're just certain
players in certain situations, you know, with the right coaching staff,

(32:43):
in the right system. That's why I'm not a big
fan of like so and so is a system quarterback.
It's like, well, certain guys talents are built around, you know,
certain situations. Yeah, you know, a guy will thrive if
he's placed in the right system. I think most players,
I think there's very few unicorns. Your unicorns are like
your Rogers, your Farves, your Peyton Mannings, no matter what
system they played in, throw the ball down the field,

(33:05):
dink and dunk down the fields. But those guys, there's
probably ten of them that ever played in the entire league.
The majority of the guys who even even the all
time greats, Joe Montana was a West Coast guy. If
Joe Montana was playing in Pittsburgh and they're throwing six
sixty yard bombs downfield, he couldn't do that like Terry
Bradshaw could do it. You know, it's just it's just
it just makes me so upset when people say, like, well,

(33:26):
so and Solo is a system quarterback. It's like, dude,
most players are system quarterbacks, right, That's why they're successful.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Like, let's put a pit in this. We'll get right
back to it. That's a it's a great conversation where
the fella is hanging right here Fox Sports Radio fellas
from the tyreq dot com studios. Uh, you brought up
something that's really interesting. It's these uh like you know,
the game manager, the system guy, like and who's the unicorn?

(33:57):
And I love these cops. I love these conversations. I
don't know, we're just old enamored by the quarterback. So
I'll ask you, guys, if you said give me the
unicorns right now, who would they be playing currently?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
FITZI, I mean did stand out wildly obviously, mahomes Lamar,
Josh Burrow.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I could play any system. I agree there was four
right there.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
I mean, yeah, I trust him in any system. I yeah.
So I'm just going through the AFC in my mind
because I don't I guess I'll catch heat for not
putting Justin Herbert in that.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
But I don't put No, I don't know if I'll
put him in there, And even honestly with Josh Allen,
I do wonder how he would in a traditional West
Coast system, if he'd have the precision to be able
to do that consistently that pair. I'd wonder about him
in that.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, I don't know if I would. I would want
to put him in that offense, But.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
All the other guys, I'm with you, the Burroughs, Mahomes obviously.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure if you can make all the.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Throws, yeah, the consistency, the rhythm of it, smart yea offense. Yeah,
he's a phenomenal player, But I just don't know if
he fits it, if he would fit in with that
type of offense.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Right, Like, if we're looking at the Unicorns today, there's
nobody else, because I agree Herbert's not at.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
There's only ever I think maybe four at a time
generally speaking, if even that four or five at a time,
that that you can say, I can plug and play
this guy in any offense and he can thrive.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
So you had Peyton, you had Brady, you had and
it's weird because Brady, you could actually argue, was you know,
half the system guy.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Kind of yeah, Like I mean, people said he couldn't
throw the D ball and then he got Moss and
it's like he will. You know, he could do it,
he just didn't.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know what Brady in modern right now? Where do
we put golf system?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Yeah, because I don't know if golf would be able
to play in a you know, a North Turner, let's
you know, play action drop back and throw a fifty
r bomb down the field. I don't know if he
could do that.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
It's fair, it's fair. It certainly took the right coaches
to bring the best out of him. I R. I
think that's a fair point.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
And again that's not it's not a knock on him,
like a good player obviously like that.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
And I've been hearing that so much. Oh you're gate manager.
It was funny.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
I was talking about it with Jalen Hurts, right, and
you know I made the point that you don't want
him throwing the ball, you know, thirty nine times, right,
you want him throwing the ball twenty five times, you know,
And that's that's the max. What do you hate on?
I'm like, okay, were we talking about, Like here's the deal.

(36:41):
You got the best offensive line, you got you know,
top three running back and you got two of the
elite receivers in the league. You know, if he was
an elite, top five quarterback, they would be they would
be unstoppable offense. Right, But he still you know, holds
the he could Madge, he's a game. He can throw
deep ball really well, but he can't. He still can't

(37:04):
throw intermediate over the middle. He still holds the ball
too long, right, Like, you know, there's some things that
he still is that keeps him from being a top
five quarterback. Doesn't mean he's not top twelve, but not
top five. Yeah, Like, that's the difference a player.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
If you have a player who can play to their
strengths and you take advantage of that and the team
ends up winning by virtue of that, he's going to
be considered a top quarterback, maybe potentially a Hall of
Fame quarterback. And look, he might not be as physically
talented or skilled from a quarterback a classic classical's quarterback standpoint,
like a Peyton Manning type, but in the system that
he played in, with the efficiency that he played it with,

(37:41):
in the precision, he ends up turning himself into a
great player and a Hall of fame player. Like, I
don't know why that's so difficult for people to conceive
just because he can't do as much as someone else does.
If he can thrive at doing a few things, well,
then therefore he's a great player. It's really that simple
for me.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
And it's funny the way you say that, because so
often once a quarterback starts to like when a quarterback
shows any cracks, he sucks in the minds of everybody.
Yeah yeah, if a quarterback starts to have success, then
questioning any part of that suddenly becomes why are you?
Like why are you? It doesn't make a lot of sense,
Like I think it's fair to say. Look at even

(38:21):
in his rookie year, some of the development around c J. Stroud,
Like they had to change some of the play calling,
they had to work some things around what works well
for him, and now they win a lot of football
games and he's a very respected quarterback. Like that's that's
a that's fine, that's the way it's supposed to work. Like,
not every quarterback is supposed to be able to save
you out of every situation. Not every quarterback is supposed
to be capable of doing absolutely everything. So I don't

(38:41):
think that that has to be a hot take.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, I'm with you, you know, I was. It was
funny because we were just assessed. I was just assessed
on him as we're looking at, you know, as he take,
because there was some he was not playing well. And
then during the bye week, uh, Kellen Moore, you know,
kind of stripped down his offense a little bit, went
heavy Barkley, and you know it worked right, Like he's thriving,

(39:09):
He's making throws down the field, complimentary throws, like really
managing the game and doing more but managing the game,
which is what you need to do to win. And
they won four in a row.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
More games are lost than one in the NFL, is
what Bill Belichick said. So if you can prevent me
from losing, I'll take it. And so you got to
be a hero.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah, and you get really rich doing it.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, Where the Fellas Big Hour
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a big day. You can see it. Man, You're right,
it's all taken form. The playoffs are out, the whole thing.
Here you go, Fellas, the rankings, you know it, Oregon,

(40:28):
Ohio State, and we got to talk about that Ohio
State Penn State game because I, for the life of me,
Jane Franklin strikes again. Georgia, Miami, Texas, Penn State, Tennessee,
Indiana at nine and oh BYU at eight and oh

(40:51):
Notre Dame Bama Boise FITZI.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I mean it's interesting. These things are always interesting to
me because the first committee rankings really tells us what
the committee values. And this committee obviously values the eye test.
I mean we learned that quickly because they they sort
of scattered these things all over the place. It was also,
I think a fairly safe ranking for Indiana. They put
Indiana somewhere where if Indiana manages to be Ohio State,

(41:19):
no catapult up. And if they lose, they're easy to
drop on down. So I think there were some significant things,
But really the de valuing of BYU to me was
pretty stunning. I know everybody's yelled about it all week,
but frankly, BYU has played better opponents. BYU has, at
least according to the committee, SMU is worth valuing. So
how BYU didn't get a little bit more love in
this thing, I think was pretty curious to me.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Yeah, I also thought, yeah more so than BYU got
disrespected a little bit.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Indiana deserved to be disrespected. They have one hundred and
third ranks, strendths to schedule in the entire country. They
haven't played anybody.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
You're still in the big and it's like BYU, I mean,
who was BYU played K.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
State Su SMU. The the committee told us SMU is
the number thirteen team in the country, and by you
beat them.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I mean that.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
I mean that, whether we agree with that or not,
like the committee said, SMU is real good and BYU's
got to win, Like that's that's far more than Indiana has.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
So I don't, Yanna, I mean, I get I think
Indiana's got whipped off.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
If yes, Indiana's schedule has not been good, and they
won't be tested until they play a state. But they
have been absolutely running teams off of the field. If
they were eking by winning by three, then it'd be different.
You're still in the Big Ten and you're still just
running by people left and right.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I mean, they beat UCLA at Ucla forty two thirteen,
They put up fifty two old Charlotte seventy seven. Western
Illinois they beat Maryland forty two twenty eight. They put
up forty one on Northwestern at Northwestern. They completely destroyed Nebraska.
I mean, say what you're up, but the Braska played

(42:54):
Ohiowa State tough. They beat Nebraska fifty six to seven.
They beat Washington handily thirty one seventeen. They go to
Eastlantic roll Michigan State forty seven. I don't know what else.
Like you know, li'sten can only play who you play.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
I mean, even having them below Tennessee. And I know
Tennessee beat Alabama, but I mean Tennessee's a couple of
bounces away from losing to Oklahoma Florida.

Speaker 8 (43:17):
I mean, yeah, I mean, but Oklahoma and Florida better,
Like Oklahoma sure are better than those teams that we
were just mentioning like there is some level of right now,
if you had to bet your house on Indiana versus Tennessee,
would you bet on Indiana.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
I wouldn't bet my house, but I wouldn't say that.
I would immediately say Tennessee. Absolutely, they're gonna win. Absolutely not.
I wouldn't be shocked at all if Indiana one, especially
the way Tennessee can't score and the way Indiana can.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I mean, I think that'd be I don't think it
was a great injustice. Tennessee might be the closest of them,
a Penn State Texas. Both of those teams I would
take handily over Indiana. And like, I'm still of the
belief that Indiana is not even gonna be in this
conversation because they're gonna get just throttle by Ohio State.
And when they get rattle by Ohio State, then it'll
be well, their strength to schedule doesn't warrant them being

(44:04):
a top twelve team anymore. They'll be out of the
conversation completely.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
I haven't been that impressed by Ohio State this year,
or so the fact.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
That I.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Thank you, I was a little surprised that Ohio State
was number two and the Oregon was number three, Sorry
that Georgia was number three, Like I would have flipped
those two. I don't like I'm not sitting here saying
this is a grossy justice, but I would have put
Georgia's the number two.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Well, neither of them has over the impressive either, So
I feel like I flip flop either of them, and
on a given.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Week other than Oregon, who has this year? Like right,
I mean, you can make a fatal flaw for Ohio State,
you can make a fatal flaw for Georgia, for Miami,
whose defense just doesn't even east.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I don't believe in Miami.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
No, Texas Quinn Eewers hasn't been the same since he
got back. They haven't looked as good. Penn State James
Franklin can't win the good big game at Tennessee. Nicos
had his fair share of problems at the quarterback position.
Indiana hasn't played anybody like you two through eight. I
mean I could sit there and yeah, but the hell out.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Of all of those agreed Allly beef with Indiana is
like I look at Penn State and I go I mean,
they ran the ball three straight times hand back dive
at the goal.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Line with off of the tackle in motion.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah, the same things. It's seventy three number seventy three
in motion three times in a row. They didn't try
to get the ball to Warren, who's their best player
on offense, Untiel fourth down, Like, what the freak are
you doing?

Speaker 5 (45:33):
But that's James Franklin every year, every year that he
loses to Michigan Ohio State and it comes down to
one player or one series, one drive and ends up
having you end up scratching your head. It happens every
single year, so it shouldn't surprise anybody. It's frustrating, but
it shouldn't surprise anyone.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
You saw you saw him yapping with the fan game.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
And by the way, Penn State just in general, I
mean they're seven to one, and if we're talking about
eyeball test, they have in this starily look overly impressive
in many of their wins.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Either, well, that's what I mean, Like that's where I go.
I don't know if I could if I could go
pooh pooh Indiana while you know, praise Penn State.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
Yeah, if Indiana and Penn State played each other today
on a neutral field, I'd probably take Indiana.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
To be honest, I would too. What about you? No
taking Penn State, you don't hear, You're just out.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I'm an Indian. I'm look, I want Indiana. Indiana's great story.
And look, they have the number one running defense rush
defense in all of college football right right now. So
I get that. But man, I just there's there's a
there's a different you know, I don't I believe of
the coast of four quarters. You'll get worn down on that.
I really do now that I'm first to admit that

(46:46):
that's some brand bias I do. I sit there and say, man,
that doesn't make any sense Indiana. You know. So I'm
the first to admit I could be proven wrong. But
you know, the one hundred and third rank schedule bothers me.
It's just it bothers me that they have played absolutely nobody.
And you know that that in my mind, they're not
that much different than Liberty was last year. Like Liberty,

(47:11):
Liberties strict the schedule last year.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
I can't wait till Signetti comes knocking on your door.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
He's like, you don't have to google me fits. I'm
right here, right.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I do.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
I don't think Indiana is going to win the national championship.
But to say, like, I think they're going to be
squarely in the playoff race. And I do think if
they look, if they have a loss in the schedule,
it's going to be Ohio State. I can certainly see
that happening. But I think I think they're going to
be squarely in, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
So so if they beat Michigan, which they should by twenty,
you know, so you're looking for better role Michigan, you're
looking you're looking for style points, right, sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, they're good. And that's not just
I think the Committee in general is going to be
looking for any When you are an unexpected team, you
just got to work harder. And that's that's real for
human nature in the committee. So I think they're going
to have to score style points to show the Committee
that they belong. If they eke out barely a win
over Michigan, I don't know that they'll get the same

(48:14):
level of street credit. I don't think that that's right,
but I think that's the way the human nature works.
So you know, yeah, and let's see, because Michigan can't
score on anybody, and the minute that game. Get The
problem for Michigan isn't just that they can't throw. It's
the minute they revealed that they can't throw in every game,
like one bad play all of a sudden, down by
three touchdowns and they can't make up that ground.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
And this defense is nowhere near as good as it
was last year. Going up against an offensive machine, you know,
and whether work is in there or not, they prove
they can score points. I think it's it'll be tough
slagh and this is a mediocre Michigan team at that.
So yeah, so I have no reason to believe Indiana
is not going to roll.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
You can see, like, yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
I was talking with somebody about them, and because I wondered,
like why didn't they do anything in the portal at court?
Like who you know? You have nothing? How could you not?
How could you come into this year with nothing in
the portal? Even if you look at the what's his face?

(49:15):
From obvious state and want to Syracuse the quarterback oh
dyble Cord, who was available because grind Day scapegoats them right,
become becomes available. If you're Michigan, why wouldn't you go
get kyleb Record? No, when you don't have any quarterbacking
Gael or the kid at Notre Dame right now, you.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Know, I mean I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah, I especially in the modern college noble world, you
can't win without at least something at quarterback. And if
you take the wrong you know better on a quarterback,
you're gonna lose your job. If you're Michigan. It almost
feels like they just expected to rebuild this year.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
So they're like, yeah, it was the Horball. They knew
Horrible was leaving, so they were like, let's just focus
on winning the NADDY and then we'll rebuild and look
our woms.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
Awes, Hubert or Huberson thinking that, you know, I mean,
even with you know, the good quarterback play last year,
McCarthy made some big plays in big moments for them,
they were still a team that would you know, bludgeing
you run the ball, you know, throw the ball twice
in a game, twice and a half or whatever it was.
So they have some talented running backs. Their offensive line
has taken a giant step back this year, so I
think they weren't expecting that. I think they thought they

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can just out physical teams and kind of win the
same way they won last year. But they don't have
the same horses that they had last year, and so
I think that was kind of a rude awakening for them.
So they didn't think they needed to have a great
quarterback because they thought they could win the same way
they've been winning.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah, which would be foolish.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Yeah, ground and pound, but you know you still don't.
You don't have horriball that's the biggest loss.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
It's just like, you know, if you look at the
Alabama and that'll transition us into today, you know, they
I question whether they can win at night in Baton
Rouge without Saban, right, we saw them miss Saban. Nothing
against the boards, like nothing against I think he's a

(51:07):
good Coats whole thing. But Saban, it's that extra button
up thing that he always had and that his team's
played with that they that bad has missed a couple
of times.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
So I agree with you that I'm concerned about that,
But I'm right now more concerned about the fact that
LSU can't stop anybody from running the football consistently. And
I just worry for LSU's sake that Jaylen Milroe's feet
are going to become dangerous in this like when he
can use his legs, he's such a better quarterback, sure
he can. When he can extend those plays and he

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can move around, it makes a difference. I That, to
me is the most curious part of this, because I'm
with everything on paper makes me feel nervous about winning
at night at LSU. Other than the fact that Jaln
Milroe should be able to I think he's actually a
more dangerous runner than thrower in this game because LSU
everybody wrote on him.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
So oh yeah, kenned A and m yeah ran all
over him last week, so yeah, run at the quarterback
position like that. It makes such a big difference.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
But Baman's got secondary issues.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
They ever, and that was Saban baby, so yeah, so you.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Know, let's see what nus Meyer. Let's see what he
could do.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
He's been so inconsistent though too.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, and listen, he's you know, he can't force it,
like he'll throw picks left and right. We saw, But
you guys put any stock because I do bat Ruge
at night, the setting, you know, I think it's coo.
I think it's a tester for BAMA.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
I think baton Rouge at night is is of all
the college football environments I've been lucky enough to be around.
I'm not sure. And he was more just mind blowing
than that one. Like, there is something different about Baton
Rouge at night, Like it it just it hits all
the fields. It's loud. It's it's not even just loud loud.
It's not the right word. It's disturbing loud. You know,

(53:00):
it's just. Yeah, I think that. I think the night
portion of this is huge. And the funny thing is,
I'm not sure I trust either team to to not
make some bone headed mistakes and this, like I call
this the loser leave Town game, And in some ways
it feels almost to me like the team that loses
deserves to be left out of this conversation because it's
gonna be mistakes for one side or the other. I

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don't trust Alabama. Speaking of mistakes, they're their prestat penalties
have been just stupid.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
It's mind boggling.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
So they're gonna put themselves in the wrong down and
distance repeatedly. In the scene, I'm talking myself into l
s U in this game. I think she's gonna win
this football game. How do you like that?

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
Well, then you would agree with me. Yeah, that's what
I started conversation.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
But for me, I think it's so close because both
teams are mistake prone. Garrett Mesmeyer, I think had three
interceptions last week. If this game was in Tuscaloosa, I
might flip it. I really think where this game is
played with when it's play makes a big difference.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Without a doubt. I could completely agree with you and
I and I go. But that's the extra piece of
sab it, Yeah for sure, right, Like that's where they
miss him, like they miss him in a game like this,
that little thing that sabing save. It's it's an intangible
it's something you can't you know, you can't just put

(54:15):
your finger on and I just say it, you know,
the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
That's a great game, dude, it's gonna be it's gonna
be awesome.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Yeah, I believe both offenses are gonna be able to
move the ball and score points. For me, it's just
like which quarterback is the one that makes the big
mistake because both of them are prone to Yeah both right, Yeah,
who makes the fewest mistakes, you know, or doesn't make
the mistake at the biggest point in the game. But
to your point, fits they're both going to at some point.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Yeah, and Lshoe still has a real shot at the
SEC championship. Absolutely, Like that's the crazy thing. L. Lshue
was not in that initial top twelve, and they win
this game, they will be in the top twelve. They
win this game, they're gonna have a real shot at
getting themselves all the way up to a top four seed.
As absolutely wild as that is to say. So you
know this this year, man, for everyone that said it

(55:03):
was going to be devalued. God, every game just seems
to have so hard.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
It's awesome. Yeah, whereas awesome last year.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
At this time. If we're if we had a game
where Alabama and LSU had two losses, we wouldn't care
exactly what teams are done. It's a disaster of a season.
Should Kelen the board be fired? Brian Carroll Kelly, what's
his next job? Now we're actually talking about fighting for
a playoff spot? Yeah, it's awesome, man, it really is.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
It's it. I love the product is so good.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
It's so good, and it actually has you caring about
games that you normally would and the fact that we're
arguing about by you or Boise State or SMU. We
wouldn't pay attention to the respect should have always had.
I agree, the most obsurding.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I don't know. I think back to when I was
a little kid and it was one of my first
questions ever, what do you mean that.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
A national champion is voted on?

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Right?

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Like imagine in this country, right in the country of
let's play out on the field man right of fairness,
that it was a voter Like that's insanity, like forever
talking about a playball. College football that was the early

(56:21):
of the early days of talk sports. Talk radio was
like college football, get a playoff. And it took us
this lull not only to get to get a substantial playoff.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Snail's pace, I mean the bs and all that.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Can I blow your minds with one other thing quick
that we learned that I think we're gonna remember. The
one thing you don't want to be is the twelve
seed if you barely sneak in the playoffs because what
we saw, but I remember, seating is different than the
ranking is different than seating. The way it plays out,
there's a very real chance the number two team in
the country, if they're same conference as number one ends

(56:58):
up being the five seed. Yeah yeah, yeah, So all
of a sudden, you're twelve and you snuck into the playoffs,
and your victory for that is that you get to
play the number two team in the country. Yeah, that
is that's you don't want to be the team that
accidentally gets in at the twelve spot. And then you're like, okay,
now for our reward, we get to take on the
actual number two team that is seated number five. Because

(57:19):
this is wildly complicated.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Well, conversely, you know, it'd be nice to be number
seven and you and you got Miami and you go, oh,
I'm going to go down there and put up forty.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Now Cam's probably going to put up forty on you two.
But you know it is neither here nor there.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I'm not a believer.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Oh I'm not either in Miami, Cam or in Miami.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
No Miami, Okay, yeah, because Camp, I think award's legitimate.
I mean like, yeah, I mean I think that's Yeah,
I don't think that's up for debate. Like I didn't
think that that was a question is for some people. Absolutely, yeah,
it's definitely a thing. I don't think so, I mean,
I think he's pretty obvious, how how good he is.
All right, let's do this. Let's say quick TiO. We'll

(58:02):
come back and let's play the game, real or fugazy.
I'll give you guys a statement, and you tell me
whether that statement is real or a fugazi a fake.
Where the fellas Jason fitz Kevin figures. I'm Anthony Gargano
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It's posted. All right, let's play a little game. Well, actually,
let's go to our trending and then we'll play a
little game called Realer for gazy.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
All right, we'll go to the NBA from Friday night,
with Lebron James scoring twenty one points with twelve rebounds
and thirteen assists, leading the Lakers over Philadelphia one sixteen
to one. Oh six thirty seven points for Anthony Edwards
as Minnesota defeated Portland. Norman Powell thirty one points for
the Clippers, leading them over Sacramento. Nicolea Jokicic's third straight
triple double as Denver defeated Miami Phoenix, picking up a

(59:56):
one point victory in Dallas, Boston and overtime went over Brooklyn.
Cleveland is ten and zer after molly wapping the Warriors
one thirty six to one seventeen. In NFL news, Cowboys
quarterback Deck Prescott placed on injury reserve. He will miss
at least the next four games with the hamstring injury.
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence questionable with the left shoulder injury,
and it is unlikely to play against Minnesota. The Bears

(01:00:18):
will be without their starting offensive tackles Braxton Jones and
Darnault Right against the Patriots as they both nurse knee injuries.
And in college football Friday night, UCLA twenty to seventeen
victory over Iowa Kyle winning a shootout over Wake Forest
forty six to thirty six victories from Memphis and New Mexico.
Back to the fellas. Looks nice, but is it real?

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
That's fro gazyzy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
He's overcooked, he's done, he's fired.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
It's time to find out.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Is it real?

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
Is Fugezy real or fugaysey?

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
All right, let's begin.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
With old Miss.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
His old Miss real or a fugazey? Trust him today
against the Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Oh how do you have to start with such a
tough one? Okay, here's the thing. The talent on ole
Miss is real. Lane Kiffin in big games a little fugazy,
But man, I don't trust Georgia's quarterback situations. You know what,
I'm gonna go out on a limb. Ole Miss is
gonna get it done. George is gonna take the other one.
Ah wow, A lot of man, there's a lot of

(01:01:32):
talent there. And I still believe that Lane is one
of the best offensive minds in college football. It just
is alarming how in big games, in the second half
of big games he gets so puckered up, you know,
like it's just I hope it is if he if
he can remain calman do his job, I think that
they can win this football game.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
FIGI see for Gayzy, for Gayze a thousand times over.
I have seen this too many times with Lane Kiff
and Team Tams who have all the hype coming in
your favorite going into a big game favor or underdog,
people think you have a legitimate shot of winning and
they fall flat on their face. So honestly, until I
see Ole Miss actually do it, it's really fair. I

(01:02:14):
can't pick them to do it. And I know I
usually don't like to go off. It's been this way.
They're oh and fifteen verses. I usually go off of
just this year. But you know what, this year they
lost the game against the LSU that I thought they
were gonna win. They lost to Kentucky. Yeah, Kentucky, which
is not even Bowl eligible yet. I don't think they
have like three or four wins. So no, absolutely for gazing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Absolutely fogazy. All right, uh fifty touchsol the number two
Carson Beck real NFL prospect or Forgazy.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
No, he's so fugazy. Like if your answer right now
is a fantas, we're gonna go draft Carson Beck. Sorry,
Like the ceiling for Carson Beck in the NFL will
make Jack Wilson look like Peyton Manning. I'm so out
on this one. And like, it's okay to admit that
last year, when you had Lab McConkie and Brock Bowers
as your safety net, maybe they made you look better

(01:03:11):
than you actually are at the quarterback position. And enjoy that,
enjoy the grace, enjoy the nil money you're getting, brother, Like,
go out there and just have fun playing college football
because your career should only be on Saturdays.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Yeah, complete and total fogazy. I wasn't even the biggest
fan of Carson Beck last year, to be honest with you,
And the fact that he loses McConkie and Bowers and look,
the passing game has gotten better over the last few weeks,
but he with his decision making and his turnovers certainly
is not from a physical standpoint. It's not like he's
the greatest athlete in the world, not like he has
the strongest arm in the world. So this idea that

(01:03:44):
he was going to be the first overall pick, I
never ever understood that there's four or five guys that
I can think of that I'd rather have as an
NFL prospect than Carson Beck. So absolutely not. He is
absolutely for gazing fu.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Gayzy of the first. All Right, a similar situation in
the NFL with a similar game Washington. Are the Commanders
real or foo gays FITZI?

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
The Commander's quarterback is so good that the team is real?
And you know, Charles Robinson, Yahoo NFL Insider said on
our taping this week, he talked to somebody in the
organization that even said, hey, our record and our roster
don't align. And that's what happens when you have a
quarterback as good as Jayden Daniels look. Two years in

(01:04:36):
a row, we've been kissed by the quarterback gods out
of the draft. To go from c J. Stroud turning
around the Texans to the way Jayden is playing right now,
He's gonna set the rookie record for completion percentages. He
absolutely bails them out time in time and time again
out of some of these plays where he should be
left dead in the water, he is. So if Jaydeen
Daniels stays healthy, the Commanders are real because he's just

(01:04:58):
that freaking good this year.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
I a thousand percent agree they are real, especially in
an NFC that overall is not necessarily the greatest conference
at this point in time. Based on how he's playing,
the defense could be better, but they're they're playing okay,
They're okay, but the offense is absolutely on fire. And
it's because of Jaydon Daniels. To fits his point, if
he can remain healthy, there's no reason why this team

(01:05:20):
doesn't win the NFC East and is not knocking on
the door for potentially even the NFC Championship game in Detroit.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
So Washington's opponent, the Steelers on Sunday, the switch the
quarterback has made them buyers. It's Russ three point zero
the Steeler edition real or for gazy?

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
See this one's This one's interesting to me because you know,
Mike Tomlin said, never confused good for great at the
quarterback position, and we got some greatness from Russ from
those first couple of games, but they were against teams.
So here's the thing. I trust the Steelers. I think
the Steelers are real. I still think that Russ is
a little fugezy like He's not He's not fugeyazy, he's

(01:06:05):
be's like for gezey.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Well, this is a Steeler thing, right, So it's you know,
three point out was more you know, fitting into the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
So the moon ball does. I was having this conversation
yesterday about.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
The moon ball. The moon ball makes the Steelers run
game with nausea and Warren that much better, right, that
much more effective, right, And it also fits his receivers, right,
Pickens and then you go get Mike Williams.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Those are moon ball receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
You're totally right. And I think this is a really
good match. But my god, like if I need if
we're talking about like, and I think the Steelers are
headed to the playoffs this season is yet another example
of just how good Mike Tomlin is and just how
smart that organization is. Having said all of those things,
if I got a one game sample size and I'm
taking Russ and the Steelers against any of the epic quarterbacks,

(01:06:57):
we talked about earlier today, I am confident that Russ
cannot compete to that level. So let's see how it
looks when they got to put a bunch of points
up on the board against a valuable opponent.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
I'll say Pittsburgh is real because I don't know and
look in a playoff situation. Ye, they might be in
a situation where they're gonna need to be able to
keep up. But their defense has been so good Russ.
We're talking about game managers and great quarterbacks and thriving
in all that last hour. I truly believe that Russ
under Arthur Smith and the offensive way he's played these
last couple of games, if he can just continue to

(01:07:27):
play that way, mistake free, make plays when plays are
there to be made, use your legs a little bit,
this team is real and they can make the postseason.
I don't think they're winning the Super Bowl, but I
think defensively they are good enough to be in every game,
and offensively with Russ, if he can play the way
that he's playing now within himself, there's no reason why
this team can even still win the FC out North.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
All right, let's go, Let's stay the AFC and let's
look at the powers, the superpowers. You have Kansas City,
and you have Baltimore, and then you have the team
from the North Buffalo. Are the Bills real or for

(01:08:12):
Gayzy as an AFC champion?

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
I think they're real, And you know, I mean, look,
do they have Mahomes? No, and mahomes will always have
the advantage. Do they have an offense that scares me
as much as the Ravens? No, but especially if Mari
Cooper can get healthy. Man, Yeah, No, I'm in on
the I'm in on the Bills being real. Frankly, I
think I trust them a little bit more than the

(01:08:39):
Ravens in the playoffs today, because, as we talked about earlier,
I don't trust that Ravens defense for nothing like that.
They're out there playing video game defense right now. They
can't tackle. It's really inexcusable on some of that. So
I trust the Bills defense more than I trust the
Ravens defense. And as a result, I think I trust
Buffalo more overall than I trust right now than I

(01:08:59):
trust Baltimore.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Yeah, I tend to agree. I don't like the Bills
defense per se either a whole lot, but i'd certainly
like it better than Baltimore's and Josh Allen has played
so much better this year, playing within himself, running less,
not turning the ball over. They actually have a legitimate
running game with Cooking Davis. So yeah, they're absolutely real,
one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Well, I'll ask you this, guys, is this statement real
or fugazy? Hopkins? DeAndre Hopkins was the best pick up
at the trade Dell, all the trades that preceded the deadline,
I'll throw it, Hopkins was the most important real Fames.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
That's real one hundred percent, And we were about to
take one of our shows that yeahoo right as the
news broke, and I started the show by saying on
the on the podcast, I started saying, hey, we blew
the whole rundown up for a mega trade. And one
of my co hosts laughed at me and was like,
come on, let's not. She said, I love your radio hyperbole,
but let's not call it a mega trade, and I

(01:09:57):
was like, no, I think this is a massive deal
and getting away from the Titans is a chef's kiss
move for everybody, Like remember when people thought Derek Henry
was cooked? Remember like when AJ Brown wasn't worth the
twenty something million dollars, and now we have DeAndre Hopkins
coming to Look, he doesn't have to be who he
was before. You bring in an experienced receiver that has

(01:10:20):
absolute greatness in his veins for the way he has
played the game that may have lost a step yet,
but now you're putting him with the best quarterback right
now and maybe one of the best quarterbacks, maybe the
best quarterback of all time. And you're putting him with
one of, if not the best head coaches of all time.
And you're asking three people that have seen this much
football together to translate in a way that will make
him immediately successful. I just I don't understand why I

(01:10:42):
didn't get more praise from the out He's gonna end
up being the number one receiver for them. He's gonna
catch a lot of different balls, and when the Chiefs
choice the Super Bowl Trophy for the third year in
a row, he will be a big reason.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Why opens up so many things for them. You know,
waivers A Xavier Worthy is a deep threat, and I
think having someone a possession receiver who catches everything thrown
in his direction just gives Mahomes another ultimate weapon. I
will say an underrated move is Zadarius Smith, though I
don't think that it's as impactful as the Hopkins. But
knowing that they lost eighten Hudchetson to pick up a

(01:11:13):
quality pass rusher like that will only help Detroit, uh,
you know, and their quest to reach the Super Bowl.
They're not playing out there either, They're they're very serious
about making a run. So I thought that was an
underrated move too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Agreed. I also thought Latimore to Washington, Yeah, because that
was their big that was their big need.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Yeah, that was a great move too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Yeah, yeah, all right, I'll be sneaking one more real
for Gaze. Jerry Jones needs to go higher. Dion to
reboot the Cowboys real or for.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Gazy Fugazy for Gezy for Gezy. Florida State could hire
him and it would reboot Florida State. The NFL and
college football are very different. Number one and number two
are just like, we're putting so much on Dion to
be able to come in and fix what other coaches
haven't been able to fix with huge personalities. I just

(01:12:08):
I don't know how much that works. It's fine that
everybody wants to cram Dion into this, but man, I
I don't d On the NFL coach. I think is
interesting because d On the college football coach is certainly
working for Colorado. Take nothing away from him. D On
the salesperson certainly works for Colorado, I take nothing away
from that. But that's not in and of itself enough

(01:12:29):
to get you the wins that you need for a
super Bowl. The only thing that would matter for Dion
with Dallas would be super bowls. And that's putting a
lot on somebody that hasn't shown the necessarily yet the
coaching resume to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
Yeah, the persona of Primetime and all the speeches and
all the Instagram videos and all that stuff that works
on college kids, Dion and even Dion I think a
minute last year when they was brought up, says he
has no desire to coach in the NFL because he
knows it's a different game. That stuff's not going to
work on grown men. You know, the primetime stuff they
don't care about that. You know you are a star
defensive back, Well so was the guy you drafted in

(01:13:02):
the first round a couple of months ago. So he's
gonna hold some reference to you, but not as much
as you will probably think. And also I think the
issues with the Cowboys, which I think you alluded to,
FITZI run deeper than who the head coach is. So
I don't think hiring Deon Sanders is going to fix anything.

Speaker 4 (01:13:18):
All right, I like it. Good job, Fellas.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
We'll come right back, fellas hanging out right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back Fellas, Jason Fitz Kevin Figures,
I'm anthety gargana. Hey, Brie, give me the uh the
Fitzi's charity. I love it, Ernie update, where do we

(01:13:44):
stand on?

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Man? God? You know I really need to be able
to just take that on my phone everywhere and go
with me. Okay, so you'll appreciate this, h I. I yes.
A couple of days ago, I needed to buy a
pair of jeans, and you know, this is just part
of the process, like nothing fits right pair of jeans
for something and needed specifically jeans, right, not not like
you know, pants or joggers are. Like I needed jeans

(01:14:06):
for something. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go
the store and I'm gonna get jeans, and so I like,
it's hard to find jeans in the world, and I
got scrawny legs, you know, as everybody knows. So I
gotta get like skinny jeans, you know, because I got
I got peg legs. So I'm walking around and I'm
going from department store to department store because I'm trying
to find jeans. I like, I'm very years of country music.
I'm very particular about my jeans. Finally found found a
pair of jeans I liked. I tried them on, and

(01:14:28):
I was like, Oop, gotta go down, Try them on,
Oop gotta go down, try them on. Oop, gotta go down.
I'm telling you, brother, like I knew i'd lost some weight,
but like, yeah, I'm in my bulking stage. We talked
about that before, right like where I'm starting. I'm I've
put on twelve pounds since I got to my lowest
of intentional like muscle, and you know, I'm eating like
a lot of protein, a lot of calories. Like so
I'm on my bulking stage. So I was a little

(01:14:50):
worried the jeans weren't gonna fit. Turns out I have.
I am now at the spot where the first number
on my waist starts with the two instead of a three.
Like that's why you know you are getting Yeah, yeah,
I got down to that twenty nine buddy, like twenty
nine thirty. Yeah for you know, five to nine and
twenty nine thirty waists Like I was. I was stunned.
I've never I have never gotten down to a twenty nine,

(01:15:12):
and I was like, okay, so, like, I gotta make this.
I'm at that spot where now I got to start
ordering things because they don't have them. They don't have
them in my size. And I'm doing that while I'm
both like as my my low weight got to like
one fifty and now I'm up to about one sixty five,
almost one sixty five. But it's all coming on in
the right way. I had to buy jeans and I
had to buy the thinnest cheese I've ever bought. Look
at that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
That's impressive, because I gotta tell.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
You it's a journey man.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
That's amazing. Impressive, impress But Iraul.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Problem, you guys can appreciate this. I am learning to
fall in.

Speaker 6 (01:15:43):
Like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
I don't like lifting. I don't like I do it
six days a week. It's basically all I do. I
lift at the end of my lift every day. I
have to do sprints at the end of my sprints,
I have to do one hundred flights of stairs, so
like it's like this is a regiment for me. But
the funny thing is when I first started, I was
really happy with every workout took about forty five minutes. Now,
because the workouts take longer, we've added more sets, and

(01:16:05):
then I've added you know, core a couple of days,
and then I have to do the sprints and the
walking afterwards and the stairs. Some days it's taking me
almost two hours in the gym, which is overwhelming. And
at first I used to be like I can't I
can't stand this. Now I'm learning to fall in love
with the fact that, like today, after the show, I'm
going to go to the gym and it's going to
take over two hours because I have a lot to

(01:16:26):
do today. And instead of like looking at it like
I hate this and I need to get it done,
I don't have time, I'm looking at it and saying, hey,
I can watch football while I work out. It's fine,
Like it's gonna be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Yeah, because it's exhilarating and you're actually seeing the fruits
of your labor. You see all the hard work. It's
really difficult. The first couple of weeks or first month
and a half, two months, whatever it is. We're not
necessarily seeing the results as quickly as you like. But
you see yourself now you're like, why didn't I start
doing this five years ago? And now you mentioned earlier
in the show about being a creature of habit and
doing your routine. You keep doing this, Fincy, I swear

(01:16:57):
it's gonna feel weird not to work out for two
hours a day if you're if you're in a situation
where you can't do it, you're like, a you know,
today just doesn't feel right. I'm off, A funk's way
is off because I didn't get my workout in.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
If you're actually so right, Like I left the other
day because I had something I had to do, so
all I could do is get in the lift portion,
and I knew I had to get the lift, and
I got the lift in. So I was in the
gym for like forty five minutes and I walked out,
and as a cat, I barely worked out today.

Speaker 5 (01:17:22):
Oh god, how much happens?

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
How much have we how much?

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
My gosh, that you're making me feel guilty and the
only thing I want to do is lifting.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
But yeah, that's it. You running the stairs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
I'm like, let me just walk instairs. I'm walking one
hundred flights of stairs. Takes a it's a walk of
those stairs. Like oh yeah, I'm trying to get a button.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
You know, that's where I gotta get you know, gonna
help me get that the tush going, you know. But
at all. The other weird thing that we've added is
the fasted fasted walk in the morning, so like fasted
cardio first thing in the morning. So like today, I
can't eat until after the show, So after the I
will then do my thirty minute walk and then I
will eat. That is a weird, like you know, fast.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Because you're burned out there. You're really in a burned
fat zone. So that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:18:09):
And you do that long enough, it's gonna feel weird.
If you ever eat and then walk, you're gonna feel
full and heavy. It's it's you'll get used to the
fastest training.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
I don't know if also they'll get it gets my
metabolism going the boys, because like I do that fastest
cardio first thing with the walk in the morning, the
rest of the day I am just I am hungry,
I mean more kyleries than I've ever eaten, and I
am hungry all day.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
That's awesome and that God blessed brother, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
God bless you. What I would do for two hours.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
If you had two hours?

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Right like that?

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
I need to work out for two hours too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
I know I'm speaking like I got like at work.
I go to gym down the street and I get
to I can. I'll go push weight for you know,
forty minutes and feel like I did something like you know,
walk around at least like I know I'm still you know,
field muscle.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
God bless you.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
Snap, crackle, pop your knees when you stand up and this.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Wow, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Man, you do great man.

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
We're very proud of you, absolutely very proud of you.

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We'll talk more about the co those games coming up,
and uh, we've got lots to get to. We're kind
of raven over the ravens Lamar and Joe Burrow of
the game the other night, which was just absolutely similating.
But let's uh, let's get into It's week ten and

(01:20:20):
as we look around the league. I want to kind
of go into some of the big storylines now that
we're a post deadline in the NFL, and we touched
on some doing real for Gayzy and some of the
kind of some of the plot lines. But this is
really the week where I think the next two weeks
is where it all crystallizes, right where you're going to see,

(01:20:43):
for instance, like let's look at the Vikings, like how
real are the Vikings as a you know, playoff, you know,
super Bowl contender in that division? Like we all know
that Detroit is right right now the team to beat
is clearly the top team in the NFC. And then
you got like a handful of all the teams are

(01:21:05):
quite a bit actually that are vying for that secondary spot.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
FITZI yeah, and look it's I think we just keep
waiting for the wheels to fall off on Sam Donald,
for Sam Donald to start having that Yeah, Sam Donald
run right, and he's going to have to prove that
he can continue week in and week out to play
high level football. He didn't last week. He had those
two picks that kind of looked ugly, and the Vikings won,

(01:21:32):
but it wasn't exactly a spirited win over the Colts, right,
and coming off with two straight losses, you just kind
of wonder, hey, can they right the ship, because certainly,
as we said a month ago, it looked like that
defense was untouchable. It was putting everybody in a blender,
and Sam Donald was hot, hot, hot, hot hot. Now
all of a sudden, Sam's not as hot, and the defense,
I won't say it's been figured out, but they've certainly

(01:21:54):
been more susceptible. They were susceptible to the Lions in
the rams, so I think a little there's they're cracks
in the armor. The Vikings have been overperforming so much
throughout the course of this year. It's not that I
think that they're necessarily getting suddenly. It's not like they
suddenly suck. It's just that they've come down to earth
a little bit to where we expect them to be.
So unfortunately for them, they have the Jags, the Titans,

(01:22:16):
the Bears for the next three weeks. They should pick
up three more easy wins, you know, so they've got
plenty of opportunity to bank wins. I think they're a
playoff team, but they are not in the same category
as the Lions to me.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
Yeah, I agree. They have a fairly easy road to
hoe up here for the next three or four weeks,
and then it starts getting tougher as you get to
the last part of the season. And because they've given
themselves this cushion of what are they six and two
right now? I mean, I think that you know, that
squarely places them as a as a playoff team, whether
that's the wildcard or maybe they even have an outside
shot of winning the division, although I think that's Detroit's

(01:22:50):
to lose at this point in time. Are they elite, No,
but they're certainly better than I thought they'd be this year.
I thought they'd be sort of a middling five hundred.
Maybe if things break their way, they can be fighting
knocking on the door for one of the final wildcard spots.
To now, I believe they're firmly going to be a
playoff team. All the cred in the world to Kevin
O'Connell and what he's done with Sam Darnald, to your

(01:23:10):
point fits he's kind of come back to earth a
little bit over these last couple of weeks, but still
certainly playing better than he ever did in New York
or even in Carolina, So still playing at a really
high level. So I do think they're a solid team,
and depending on the matchup in the first round, if
they make it to the wildcard, they can certainly give
somebody some trouble and maybe win a game. But I
don't know if they do anything beyond that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Yeah, I gotta tell you funny, because you guys are right.
I agree with everything you said, and you know, fifty
when you were like, well, you know, can you believe
in Donald?

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
I don't. I still don't.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
I don't believe him to the point of winning a
big playoff game. I believe in their defense. I believe
in Brian Flores I love the defense. I love Jefferson
right the weapons that surround him, and they got great weapons,
and they got a really good coach, and I love

(01:24:08):
their you know what their offense can be. I just go,
I don't believe it on that.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
You need to see it first, right, you have to
see it consistently and like this. Look, we had the
conversation about system quarterbacks and guys who fit and you know,
being with the right coach at the right time and
the right team, all those things working together synergistically, and
maybe it's possible. Sam Donald has found that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:31):
Yeah, you see stories of guys who bounce around all
the time, Fitzy and I can tell you about rich
Gannon who bounced around, was a backup, had some success
here and there, left and right, but never really did
a whole lot. Needed somebody like John Gruden to say,
you're our starter, I believe in you. Let's do this thing.
And had a great three year run that included an
MVP award and a run into the Super Bowl. I'm
not saying Donald's going to do that, but based on

(01:24:53):
the success he's had so far this season, you know,
in this system with Kevin O'Connell who's proven himself to
be a great quarterback coach and a right, you know,
evaluator of talent, cultivator of talent. I should say, I'm
I'm willing to bank on that and that he's going
to continue to thrive this season, and that Sam Donald's
gonna end up now, he's not gonna be there to stay.

(01:25:13):
And that brings up another conversation as to what happens
with the JJ McCarthy situation. But he has solidified himself
I think, I think as a legit NFL quarterback within
the right system.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Yeah. No, I need the Vikings go to the NFC
Championship game just so that we can have the chaos
you just mentioned, figment, What do we do with Sam Donald?
What do we do with JJ McCarthy, Like I need
that injected in my veins. I want all that so yeah,
I want the drama from it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:37):
Oh yeah, that helps us trust me for what we do.
That's spectacular for it is.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
All right, let's take a look at the other contenders
and this pool that is right underneath Detroit and there's
quite a few teams. We'll stay in the division and
we'll say Packers what's preventing you guys from believing that
the Packers are on par with Detroit?

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
Vincy you want to go first.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
The only thing I'd say is that I believe the
Packers are on par with Minnesota. I believe that the
Packers are on par with the next group of good teams.
I just I think that it's under selling Detroit a
little bit. It's not that like. So hear me out,
because I know I've been tough on Jordan Love, and
Jordan Love has played much better than I expected. Jordan
Love is is very good. I was wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
I was wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
I will say that. But man, you talk about the Lions.
The Lions not only have all the weapons. The Lions
not only have one of the best offensive lines in
the league, Like, they can beat you a million different ways. Yeah,
I just I love the Lions so much. What prevents
the Packers from being one of the best teams in
the NFC. Nothing, what prevents them from being on the

(01:26:51):
same level as the Lions. I trust the Lions offensive
line more than I trust the Packers offensive line. I
think you know, Lione play makes a difference on that.
So I'll take the Lions edge over the over green Bay.
But I will do that while loudly admitting that I
was wrong about Jordan Love and he is. You know,
I want a more proof of concept. He's given me
more proof of concept. I can now sit down, shut up,
and color in my book.

Speaker 5 (01:27:11):
The one thing that makes Green Bay on par or
close to par with Detroit is the same reason why
they're not, and that is Jordan Love. Because as spectacular
as he is, he has some farv in him, both
good and bad. And I think you know where I'm
going with this. He has the propensity to make the
most boneheaded play at the worst time. He did it

(01:27:32):
in the Rams game that they find that they thankfully
were able to come back and win. And he did
it last week and just just the oh my god,
what are you doing kind of play that can basically
do away with any sort of goodwill or good fortune
he would have put the team in to the point
leading up to that. That's my fear so far in
Jordan Love's young career. He just has he has the

(01:27:54):
propensity to just make the wrong throw at the wrong time.
And it's not yeah he just misread a coverage or
a ball got tip. It's you're being sacked and you
just threw the ball up into the air and a
d lineman picked it up and ran seventy yards for
a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Right, and now this has been a far it's Farvian.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
Yeah, so that's the that's the thing that's honestly, I
think that's holding green Bay back, that could potentially hold
green Bay back in a big game.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Yeah, Farvian, Yes, No, it's a it's a good point.
I think their defense too. I I don't know that's
the one air like I you you bring up a
great point about Love. I'm a big Love fan. Uh,
but you bring up good a very valid point. My
bigger fear with them is their defense. I just don't

(01:28:39):
know they have the teeth. Like, clearly they're not as
good as Minnesota as the best defense in the division.
The Lions are two and the Packers are third.

Speaker 5 (01:28:49):
Now, they're not bad at all. But if you're just
talking about pecking order, then yeah they probably there.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
They're not bad, but they're not. Yeah, they don't do
anything that is hackular.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Let's go keep around, Let's go out west and let's
look at the Niners are going to get McCaffrey back.
Where are you at with San fran as they get
healthy fits.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
It's just been such a lost season on injury. You know,
I love the concept that McAffrey comes back and kicks
ass and there's no questions and everything's great. And I
think that you know, brock pretty has managed pretty well
during this gap, and George Kittle has been an absolute delight.
So I think, you know, the opportunity for CMC to
come back and take a little of that lift off

(01:29:35):
of Kittle, provide him better opportunities is great. It's just
I don't know if they can you know, power turbo
wash there the sink that they're going to have to
have to come together and are we just trusting that
Christian McCaffrey comes in and all is glorious and he's
fine for the rest of the year. I just don't know. So, Look,

(01:29:56):
if they get healthy and they get the rhythm back,
they're still the forty nine ers. There's a reason that
they're constantly a Super Bowl team. But right now I
have more question marks about San Francisco than any of
the teams we've talked about, because I just don't know
if they can stay healthy long enough to be themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
Yeah, health is an issue. We don't know what McCaffrey
is going to look like. Obviously they don't have Iyuk
and Deebo's been banged up and been in and out
of the lineup this year. Defensively, they're just not the same.
They give up plays that historically over the last five years,
they just haven't given.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Up Miss hard Grave in the middle of that one.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
Yeah, it's a huge loss.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Absolutely, the people will realize how important defensive tackle, Like
the games won, right, whose defensive tackles win games? Everybody
looks you look the glamor or the edge, the pass rusher, the.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Star linebacker, the Fred Warner, Right, But yeah, the guys
who you know, muck everything up up front, take up
two blockers, you know, push the pocket, making the quarterback uncomfortable,
all that stuff, because those guys don't get the sacks,
they get the hurries or you know whatever, the stuff.
But it's not the glamour, sexy stuff that we all
talk about, but as equally as important, if not more important,

(01:31:03):
than the flashy stats. So my big concern about San
Francisco is not even necessarily offensively. I don't know if
they're as good defensively as they as they have been
in the past if they're a championship level defense, and
the Super Bowl hangover is a real thing too. And
I mean, they've made some deep runs into the postseason
for so many years in a row, and so is
Kansas City. But we are coming off of a Super
Bowl loss. It just makes it that much more difficult

(01:31:26):
to get up and get through an entire season. So
I think San Francisco has a couple of things working
against them.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
All right, let's stout West because the only other team
I think would have a chance would be the Rams,
because the Rams get healthy Rams offense. I like some
of the young players Jared Verse who talked about the
Rams could be scary if the Wolves they protect Stafford,

(01:31:53):
I think the Rams are dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:31:55):
You buy the Rams?

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
Fitsie Well, I think Kel there's another part of why
I don't necessarily buy the Rams, Mike my I don't.
I don't not buy the Rams. I'm not in love
with the Rams. My question for you is, why are
you buying the Rams and not buying Arizona?

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
I I Well, I love the Rams offense way more.
I love the receivers. I love Kyard Williams, I love Stafford.
I don't think it's close.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
I just feel like we're maybe sleeping a little bit.
I mean, the Cardinals have won three in a row,
and I know, you know, that's basically it's the Chargers,
the Dolphins, the Bears. Is a pull a back up.
Three wins in a row for a team that we
thought offensively was gonna have to score forty points of
a game to win and their defense was gonna be garbage.
Their defense has played a little bit ahead of schedule.

(01:32:45):
They do already have a head to head win over
the Rams earlier this year. Like, I don't think the
Cardinals are necessarily a great football team. I just wonder
why we're not giving them more.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
I mean, I think they're right, like you know, I
you know, I think that they're on your growth. You know,
I think everybody realizes that Kyler Williams, Kyler Murray is
you know worth, these had a renaissance, and I think

(01:33:16):
we all believe in that. I think we believe in uh,
you know, certainly Connor, and but I don't think they're ready.
I look at the Rams and I think that's a
that's a great, well coached team, right, you got an
epic coach. You got a team that's won. The quarterback
who's won who The reason why they were lost is

(01:33:36):
because they were not healthy. Their offensive lines better and
much more intact. Their young defense is coming together. I
just think they're a team that can be taken seriously.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
You're close discs that, but the one they'd say is
that look at what the Rams have coming up still
on their season. They still have the Dolphins, the Eagles,
just picking cherry picking some of these Dolphins, the Bills
to forty nine ers, They have the Cardinals, they have
the Seahawks. They have some tough games left. Arizona on
the flip side of it, they'll have the Jets this week.

(01:34:08):
Obviously they're favored there. That should take them to six
and four. Then they have the Seahawks, the Rams to
forty nine ers. I mean, they've got easy ahead of them,
so they've got a lot of winnable games. I feel
like the path to ten wins for Arizona's is right there.
Like Arizona's going to get to ten wins in my mind.
So if they get to ten wins, they got a

(01:34:29):
real shot at winning the division.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:34:30):
I think from the quarterback position is what puts the
Rams over the top for me, and Kyler has had
a renaissance and he's been better this year, but he
still has his moments and has his games. He's just
really inconsistent, and so it's hard for me too. Now
he can do more than Matthew Stafford, who's a statue
back there, which I think it's important. They're getting their
offensive line finally back healthy for the first time since
opening week, which is huge for them. They already look,

(01:34:53):
they're already good at running the ball. If they can
protect him more and get Nakua and a Cup back healthy,
they can score. And their defense has been improving. So
I'm apt to like the Rams. Look, we can talk
about the Arizona defeated at the Rams. That was what
week two. We know, all teams evolved, the Rams weren't
healthy back then. Things are different. So I'm not pooh poohing,
as Rob Parker would say, Arizona, but I'm with ant

(01:35:14):
that I do like the Rams more than I like Arizona.

Speaker 4 (01:35:18):
All right, let's uh, let's go to the East.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
The two teams they're gonna be playing in fact a
week from Thursday, actually this coming Thursday. Excuse me, and
the Eagles and Commanders. You kind of touched on the
Commanders doing real for Gayzy. I think we all believe
in them. I love the Lattimore move. I think they're legitimate.

(01:35:44):
I think the only weakness was their defense, and I
think they got better in the past defense in the
secondary with Latimore. And then you have the Eagles who
have won four in a row after a bye, now
sitting at six and two. So let's look at those teams. First, Washington.
How real is Washington as the number two team behind Detroit.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
It's just so Washington is so real to me because
of Jaden as we talked about earlier. I think a
lot of more trade helps him too. But man, that's
a lot to put on a kid. That's just a lot.
You're asking for a herculean lyft where there's never a
rookie moment for Jadon Daniels, and maybe that happens, Like
if Jade Daniels keeps playing this way, then yes, I'm

(01:36:32):
very comfortable with it. I'm just not comfortable asking any
rookie at any level to continue to have to lift
an entire team to win the division. So I want
to say Washington because I love the story of it,
and because I love Jaydon Daniels. But if I had
to bet, you know, Figi's house, because I don't want
to bet mine. If I had to bet Figgy's house
on one of these teams, I would probably bet the

(01:36:53):
Eagles right now. But it's man, that's a tight one
for me.

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
Yeah, it's rough because as much as I love Washington
for all the same reasons that you laid out fit Sie,
I'm not the biggest fan of Philadelphia, especially their defense. Uh,
but they have some veterans, they're battle tested, and look
at them a schedule standpoint, I will say, what has
Washington has working in their favor? It's not necessarily the toughest,
you know, Look, you have to play the Eagles twice,
that's going to be difficult. But Dallas, the Titans, the Saints,

(01:37:21):
the Falcons, So from a schedule standpoint, they certainly have
that working in their favor. Honestly, if this was on
the board and you told me Philadelphia or Washington pick one,
I'd say, can I just push on this one and
move on to the next bet Let me tough.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
Thing, let me try to quell your issues with their defense. So,
because I saw what you saw earlier in the year.
There's been a little bit of change with them. A
couple things. One fans you a scheme now is fully
embraced and taking an effect as a veteran, real sharp

(01:37:57):
defensive coordinator, even though I'm not the biggest fan of
that kind of passive scheme, but he's done a really
good job. They have two elite rookies in the secondary.
Queen Yon Mitchell from Toledo has been a dream. I
want you, I want to go over. I got to
get the list. But they're over the last six weeks.

(01:38:18):
What star receivers have done. That includes Malik Neighbors, that
includes Jamar Chase. The elite receivers have done nothing against
Kenyon Mitchell.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
It's it's really amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
He's only thrown They only threw them his side six
times last week. He's a kid that has been locked down.
And then Cooper dejen from Iowa has come in. He's
playing slock corner. He's made consecutive weeks big plays, really
big plays, physical tackles on fourth downs. He did it

(01:38:56):
against the Bengals, he did it last week. I mean,
I'm been real impressed. I love those two kids. I
think those two kids are real players, and I think
they've really helped that defense. They still don't have a
pass rusher. Yeah, all the edge guy, but Jalen Carter
has been been beasted.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
He gets double the tripled every every time. Dan. If
they're a pass rusher, I would think that they got
a puncher's chance against Detroit, but they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
Yeah, and that's that's it. And then the forcing turnovers
and I know they got to Jacksonville. I think they
forced two or three last week, but something that they
thrived on.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
And there.

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
You know, they're great seasons the last couple of years
and they've really been lacking this year. But you know,
maybe the changes that Vic Fangael has made will we'll
help them get more uh more turnovers from that standpoint,
but I do think it's difficult to especially if they
find to if they get behind, you know, not having
a pass rush, knowing that Jalen Hurts has been better
this year, but it's still not a guy that's going

(01:39:51):
to be able to drop back and bring you back
is tough.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Also, you mentioned Mitchell. I just want to remind people
go back and watch draft takes. If if you were
watching somebody at the draft that was not praising Mitchell.
Don't watch that person this year. Like if you anybody
that studied college football knew that he was going to
come in and be an immediate impact guy. There was
no question about his size, there was no question about
his city, there was no question about his ability to

(01:40:15):
compete a small school or not. It didn't matter. And
this is these are he's a great learning note player.
If you watch a draft analyst and they said, I
don't know about Whatwdney Mitchell because of where it came from,
just don't watch that person this year. You'll save yourself
some time.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
And well, yeah, and one other point too, because I
brought up Washington schedule on how I think it works
in their favor. Philadelphia does not have that in their favor.
So they have to play Washington twice. They go at
the Rams and at the Ravens and back to back weeks,
and they have to play Pittsburgh. So it's not necessarily
the easiest schedule for them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
Well, it's kind of like the same thing other than
I because Washington plays Pittsburgh tomorrow, you know, but I
feel you there's a fact to back. Rams Ravens are
tough that's the difference.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
Correct, That's what I yeah, I mean two games is huge.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
So yeah, yeah, no, I feel you. I feel you
on that. Uh well take quick too. We'll come right
back the fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
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Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
I'm gonna make you two bets right now. Number one,
I'm gonna bet you that the Cowboys win twelve games.
Number two, I'm gonna bet you the Cowboys finish ahead
of the Eagles in this year season. I got two
bets coming for you, because if you're ready for the action.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Let's go listen. I'm standing right here, brother, there we go.
You know, for you, Jalen Hurts is going to stick
it up your geegee seven ways from Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
Well look at that. That was interesting. Uh, Briana said that, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Really, I don't know you, guys.

Speaker 9 (01:41:56):
I got it from the archives. I went digging, and
I went and finding the.

Speaker 5 (01:42:01):
Breeze out there using AI to recreate It's unbelievable what
technology can do these days.

Speaker 9 (01:42:07):
Imagine if I was that talented?

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
That would be?

Speaker 9 (01:42:10):
And why would I do something like for teams? I
don't care about Come on, Jason, wow, wow.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
I have been. It's just a cool question.

Speaker 7 (01:42:19):
It did.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Did cousin buy like a massage for you? Because your
shoulder is going to be sore after throwing me under
the bus? I mean I've been. I've been chucked under
the bus stock I live it, I own it. I
believe I'm going to owe you a steak dinner somewhere, Cousin, like,
I think that's a I think there was a steak
dinner on the line. Yes there was.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
In fact, uh, somebody else is a part of it too,
because somebody else was was riding with you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Who is that?

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
I don't know is that on the tape. I didn't
hear that part I'm looking at I don't think I said, like,
I'm jumping in on this too. Yes, it was cool.
The sizzler is still open on Manchester by the form
here I got you, missus, don't worry you can you
know what? You can have two steaks because.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
Oh no, I don't know what kind of steak he
thought we were getting, Like I'm talking about waffle house steaks.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
Absolutely trying to cut through it. But it's like chewt.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
H, that's priceless.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Bad.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
That is break, great job break. I'm I'm goodn Brianna
recipes to try, so she's cooking my recipes.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
I heard this.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
She said, you got some pasta sauce recipe from you,
Like yeah, it was really good.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:43:40):
So I'm like trying to learn different things, and I'm
trying to like inner, like channel my inner Gargano.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
I saw the picture. I didn't, so the funny, you know,
this is the awkwardness of modern society we could talk
about on these shows. We have a group text, and
I saw the praise for it looks great, but I
never got a picture, so I had no idea what
it was about. And honestly, I think that was a
Wednesday night and I was already so I forgot. I
forgot to respond to everybody about it. So this morning

(01:44:09):
Bree was like, did you get the picture? And I
was like, no, oh, I totally forgot. She said the
picture it did look delightful, and I wrote down the
recipe you gave us. I think we should start doing
like a Garganto minute where he just gives us like
a flash here's a quick Italian recipe. You can make this.
I'm maybe because you know macros and everything, and it
didn't fit in like, but I'm I'm anxious to try it.
I need more. I need more tips and tricks on

(01:44:32):
how I can suddenly cook like I'm, you know, actually
know what I'm doing from from Italy, Like I'm a
good cook, but I don't. I don't have any real
Italian recipe, so you know I need this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
Look you got I was giving Brie She's going to
make a pasta with Dungeon his crab. Oh wow, Yeah,
so we're gonna that's our next one, right, Bri.

Speaker 9 (01:44:52):
Yeah, I'm excited. I'm going to go, Like there's like
two different fish markets. I'm gonna go check out and see,
like if they could give me a few pounds, so
wish me luck.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be good.

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
You're gonna look, I'll be a taste tester. You talking
about I'll be the guinea pig.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Let's talk about the Cowboys for a second, because brought
it up and that is a part of it. Uh.
Eagles do play Dallas this week. Cooper Rush and obviously
dak after the hamstring and leads all the questions and
the you know, the fascinating thing is take up a
fourth round pick for uh mingo? And I mean I

(01:45:32):
get it, like they're looking down the line and they
needed help down there. But all due.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
Respect, you're being too kind.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
I mean, all due respect. I was about to say,
there's a tree. It's not a mango tree. It's a
mingo tree, and you just pick mingoes off the tree
and you don't have to pay fourth round picks for them.

Speaker 5 (01:45:51):
You pick that that piece of fruit off of the ground.
It was not on the tree, it was He was
on the bench for the Carolina Panthers. I know, I
don't I don't understand it. Yeah, there's any team that
you could play for that would be the one. And
he couldn't get off the bench for them.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
So let me let me tell you a story about
my buddy Louis. Okay, I was in I was in
Vegas this summer with some boys on a boys trip, right,
and Louis came with the water cash. And at the
beginning of the trip, Louis was putting a hundred bucks
on black on blackjack, and it was working. Every time
he put the hundred bucks up, it was working, and
it was fine, and what do you know, after a
day or two of that, it stopped working, as always

(01:46:25):
happens in Vegas. That's why they build the big casinos.
And so we're several days into the trip and now
it's not worked long enough that you know, Louie didn't
have any money left. And so Louis did the one
thing you never do in Vegas. You never go to
the ATM in a casino because you know, if you've
gone to the ATM and casino, that means that things
didn't go right. Now you're gonna pay too much, and
you know you're going to make an impulse bet with that.

(01:46:46):
And what do you know, he went to the ATM
and the casino. He paid too much to get his
money out, and then he immediately lost that money at
the roulette table. While we all said, Louis, don't do it,
Jerry Jones, is Louis like that. At this point, Jerry
Jones has waited so long and he's this has all
gone so wrong, and now he's like, well, I got
to do something. So he paid too much an ATM
fees to get something that is absolutely going to go

(01:47:07):
down the trade Mingo is not a good acquisition. There
is nothing here for the Cowboys. It's a bad move
by a team that is desperate to just try and
find a way to make a move. None of it
makes sense. Congratulations Cherry or Louis.

Speaker 5 (01:47:19):
And I know I said Mingo was on the ground.
I don't want to like take shots at the kid.
He didn't do anything wrong and maybe he'll be a
reclamation project, though I doubt it. But this is just
enough thing trade for Trey Lance last year. Like I
don't know, I don't Maybe this is like a classes
example of you fell in love with a guy during
the draft process, he happens to be available, and you say,
we're the Cowboys, We'll got him, We'll fix him.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Like no, it's actually that's totally true too, because I
had somebody that covers the team say that they are
still dug in on some of the draft metrics they saw.
But somebody with the Carolina Panthers told me flat out
that Mingo is a good blocking wide receiver. Ass Oh boy, Okay,
you get a tight end that's a good blocking ashes,
you don't get a good blocking wide receive. You don't

(01:48:00):
trade a fourth rounder for a blocking wide receiver.

Speaker 5 (01:48:03):
If I was one of the single wing, the phenomenal yeah, right, yeah,
if I was an army sure yeah no not now
that's no no.

Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
I listen, and they just look a complete mess, Like
I don't know what you do where you go? You know,
McCarthy's obviously gone. You know where you're going to look next.
You know who who's the next coach that comes in.
But to your guys point, you said earlier, both of you,

(01:48:33):
that their problems go so much deeper beyond head coach
that said I never liked McCarthy and that I don't
know how you come into the and this is where
we were arguing about. In fairness, I don't know what
they were thinking coming into the season with just C.
D Lamb AND's your skill guy?

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Well, and I mean my logic back then was always
about the fact that hey, that's what they've done the
last several years and it's worth for them.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
Weirdly, but you're right again, like Poller was better than
I mean, I mean you got Dannell and who can't play,
and two ancient guys.

Speaker 5 (01:49:12):
Yeah, I mean Polar I think it was getting like
three point eight yards of pop or something, so he wasn't.
Now he was a he's a home run threat.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
He was just better than he was credible.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
I'm not telling the East or set, but I just
thought he was he was better, and Cooks was was
better as a number two, like they like they had
two at least they were legitimate, like they weren't legitimate.

Speaker 5 (01:49:34):
Well, honestly, I think the offensive line is really what
they're but they're missing most so totally that that's that's
the big issue.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
But but also like there is this moment where I
will remind everybody when Jerry says he couldn't afford it.
Five point one million dollars? Is the cap hit this
year for Derrick Henry five point one million dollars. It
was a two year deal. We're sixteen with some of
the money up front, which we know Jerry can handle.
But it's this year his cap number was five point
one million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
How about I about Barkley too, Like Barkley went cheap right,
Like people talk about like, oh, you're overpaid like the giants,
like we're not going to overpay for running back and
all this stuff. If you look at what Barkley got
compared to other positions, he got nothing, and he's He's
the Eagles best player.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
Now, easily, without question.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
And the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
And I think Jerry Jones tried to refine his statement,
though I don't think he came out looking any better
for it, saying like, well, well, Derrick Henry didn't fit
what we do offensively, you make him fits?

Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
He's wrong with you?

Speaker 5 (01:50:34):
Stupid the hell he talking about? It's one of the
greatest running backs of the last seven eight years. Look
what he's doing now for Baltimore. How has changed their offense?

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:50:42):
Like, I don't understand what he mean. He doesn't fit? Like,
what doesn't he do?

Speaker 5 (01:50:45):
Ok, we can't catch the ball on the backfield, Fine,
he doesn't need to.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Who cares? I mean, you've got somebody as dominant as
he is right now? You you taylor around him also,
as I have done, and I will continue to remind
people every time I possibly can. If we're going default
the Cowboys for not signing him, let's remind him that
Ran Carthon is the GM of the Tennessee Titans who
was a running back. And he looked at Derek Henry
and said, now we're comfortable letting him walk out the

(01:51:11):
door for five million dollars, Like, imagine, just when you
let it so can the organization different GM at the time.
But the organization let aj Brown walk out the door.
They've let DeAndre Hopkins walk out the door to Kansas
City to do I think he's got success there, and
they've let Derrick Henry walk out the door for peanuts.
I mean, no, the Titans were not going to be
good and they're not good this year, but that's just

(01:51:32):
malpractice in the way you run your organization.

Speaker 5 (01:51:34):
The only argument I would have had in favor of
ran Carthon is that a player like Derrick Henry has
a very precipitous fall, very quickly, and you don't know
when that's going to happen. So he was basically hedging
his bed and saying like, well, we think we got
the most theo the most run out of him that
we're going to get and the decline's going to start now.
Now he guessed wrong, but that's going to happen at

(01:51:55):
some point.

Speaker 4 (01:51:55):
He should worry about getting a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Oh no, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
And honestly, I think if Derrick Henry was in Tennessee,
they'd actually be better because defensively they're not bad solid
on the defensive end. They just can't do anything on offense.
And if Dereck Kearney was there, he at least poses
some sort of threat. I'm not saying they'd be greater
be a playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
I agree. I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
The quarterbacks just wone full.

Speaker 5 (01:52:14):
Yeah, it's ridiculous. You know, just well, Kitchen your wagon
to Will Levis, which we said at the time was
a mistake when they draft him to begin with, and
they're seeing it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
I mean, that's one of those things you had to see.
You had to see that coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
All right, Well, come back, and I want to ask
you we needn't go into the South. I'm curious about
the Falcons and if you're buying any Atlanta to any
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Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
All right, Uh, the one team, the one division we
need to cover is the South.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
Now obviously with Tampa and the injuries that kind of
wipes them out, we're looking at Atlanta. Do you, either
of you are you buying the Falcons FITSI, I.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
Mean not buying that they're going to win their division
for sure? Am I buying that they're a great football team?

Speaker 5 (01:53:44):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
Like there's I mean, eventually we're talking about in context
of who's number two behind the Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
Yeah, they're not. They're not there. To me, they're if
we're gonna for the other teams we've talked about, whether
it's Washington or Philadelphia or Minnesota in Green Bay. When
you talk about those teams, they're in a different tier.
I think that you've got to go down one tier
to get to where Atlanta is. And loll Kirk is
playing better, and I want to give a lot of
credit for that. Drake London started to really wake up

(01:54:12):
and become a bigger part of that offense. But now
some injury there so they are coming off with two
straight wins that I don't know are all that impressive.
Like you beat a Buccaneers team that's decimated, and you
beat the Cowboys right now, I don't know how I
feel about that, right So, I just think that they're
feasting on mediocrity and they're gonna have the chance to

(01:54:32):
keep doing that. They got a lot of easy games
left on their schedule, so you know, I see where
they're gonna get a bunch of wins. I just don't
like the path to eleven wins is pretty easy for
this team. I just don't think they're going to hit
the same way that other eleven win teams do.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Yeah, if this makes sense, I think they're the worst
of the best. So you start getting behind Detroit, Minnesota,
Green Bay, even if you want to throw the Commanders.
Obviously Philadelphia, I probably put them behind the Rams like
they're gonna win their division, but I mean their division
is terrible, so it makes sense. And as you mentioned, FITZI,
that's you know, not necessarily murderer's role in the rest

(01:55:09):
of their schedule. So yeah, they'll win double digit games
because the schedule breaks that way. And offensively they're they're improved.
I like Kirk Cousins, but defensively, I'm not impressed their
past rush is awful. So I think when they play
a quality opponent when it matters most, they're gonna get exposed.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Yeah, I feel you. I mean it's interesting because we
come with the pre with the premise of Chu's number
two behind the Lions, and it's like everybody butet Land
is number two.

Speaker 5 (01:55:38):
Yeah. Yeah, I got name five teams before I get
to Atlanta easily without hesitation.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (01:55:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
I got a question for you guys off the subject,
because you know, usually this time we like to to
I think, to take your pulse on something. And you're
a decorator, FITZI, so let me ask you because there
was a huge debate yesterday a buddy of mine all
in on the Christmas decorations. If you watch games, you

(01:56:08):
see commercials Christmas commery of how they commercial theme the
whole thing. It's there. He's freaking out saying it's too early,
the whole thing. I say, bleeping, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
Look you can't. How's it too early?

Speaker 5 (01:56:24):
Well, it's November, I will say. This fitsy. So I'm
driving to the gym. I'm driving to the gym one
morning and it's October thirtieth, and the mall that's not
too far from me has a giant bow and they're
constructing a tree. I'm like, can I at least have
the kids tricker tree before I start putting up Christmas decorations?
If you want to do November first, I'm not the
biggest fan of it, but I'll tolerate it. I will

(01:56:45):
not tolerate you putting up Christmas decorations before we even
get to Halloween. That's a violation for me, especially as
someone who loves Halloween as much as you do. Fitzy,
you have to agree with me.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
I respect that. I think businesses need a little time
because they need to have it up November first, so
they kind of have to start, you know, they put
it up early. But this is my big thing, Like
if you try by right now and you see somebody
with their Christmas decorations out and you think that's a violation,
then you are never allowed to sing any of the
Christmas songs and say I wish it was Christmas every day,
Like if somebody gets Christmas joy putting their stuff out early. Plus,

(01:57:17):
it's a pain in the butt, Like decorating for that
stuff takes time, it takes energy. It sure to enjoy it, right,
So you want me to stand outside, especially when it's
cold outside, if you're somewhere where it's cold, you want
me to stand outside for hours put this up so
that I can have it up and then only have
it up for like three weeks. Come on, Like I say,
the more the merrier, And like the weather's beautiful right

(01:57:38):
now in New England. It's uncanny, like how many eighty
degree days we're getting. This is a great time to
go out and be like, you know what, I'm just
gonna put all the outdoor stuff up now because it's
not freezing. It won't it won't hurt my body. The
same way to do it makes it easier on me.
I say, the more the merrier. Right now, we could
use some Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:57:56):
Look, this guy doesn't necessarily bother me that much. And
I know we talked about this in the past on
the show that Thanksgiving doesn't get its respect. But I
understand it's it's whatever Christmas is is the big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
That's what.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
That's what my man said. Thanksgiving gets no love for
text what.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
Let's face it, the Thanksgiving is a great holiday. We
all love it. But you know, decorating for Thanksgiving what
you got turkey, couple of gorge.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Yeah, all decorations like Thanksgiving doesn't have a solid mascot
everybody can go to.

Speaker 5 (01:58:30):
Yeah, I mean the Pilgrim, Turkey, the Pilgrim. I mean,
I feel like there's a lot of places you can go.

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Yep, none of them have the same draws.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
I mean, what does a Turkey give you, like the
warm and fuzzies. The Pilgrim it's a bad hat. I mean,
you know, we don't due respect to the Pilgrim. Who
wants to Does anybody want to be a pilgrim? I
don't want to be a pilgrim.

Speaker 5 (01:58:54):
There's only like, definitely don't want to be a Turkey.

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
No, yeah, yeah, especially season, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
Yeah no.

Speaker 5 (01:59:05):
And by the way, for the people that listen to
Christmas music, gonna say I wish it was Christmas and
seeing white Christmas in July, that's a violation.

Speaker 3 (01:59:11):
Too with the fellas.

Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
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Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
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Speaker 4 (01:59:23):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning.

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we want to get back to college football and the
big day today. We are about to embark on a
couple that really really important fun games today and let's
get back to it because the early one is very

(02:00:33):
interesting because the all eyes are going to be on
Georgia and Ole Myths, and Ole Myths once again has
the chance at home to win a big game. Can
they finally win a big game under Lane Kiffen, all

(02:00:55):
that talk about the portal, all that preseason hype. They
lost their first two shots. They get number three today.
FITZI yeah, and what a shame.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
By the way, the Lane Kiffin and Ole miss weren't
able to better capitalize like this should have been. When
you looked early in the season at games, you thought
that big newon game day everybody would want to be
at that would be the game of the year candidate.
This looked like it was absolutely going to be that, right,
So it's unfortunate to me that, frankly, they've blown two
other opportunities. And I know the committee points out, you know,

(02:01:29):
close losses, but losses are losses. So you know, now
what you've got is Jackson Dart and an offense for
Ole Miss that absolutely can score from anywhere, and a
Georgia defense that does give up some yards in the
passing game, which is concerning. And then you've got a
Georgia offense that turns over the ball all the time

(02:01:51):
and just hasn't been as efficient as anybody wants. So
all of this plays into why Ole Miss should win.
The only reason I am nervous about my prediction for
Old Miss to win is, frankly, I trust Kirby Smart
a hell of a lot more than I trust anything
that Lane Giffen has done in his career. And like,
this is this is squarely on Lane, It.

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
Is on this is on the game.

Speaker 3 (02:02:14):
It's a lane game, and I don't I don't trust
him at all.

Speaker 5 (02:02:16):
And like with that, like on paper, ol miss, I mean,
he should be considered, you know, a very good candidate
to be able to win this game. But you know
they have a great passing offense, and you mentioned Georgia's struggle.
Georgia can't run the ball at all, and old Miss
pass defense has actually been pretty solid this year. And
we know Carson Beck turns the ball over at a
pretty alarming rate, especially over the last month. But and again,

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there's no empirical there's no numbers, there's no stats other
than the fact that this is lane in a big game,
and I just have not seen him win yet and
it's just one of those Until he does it, I
can't with good conscience have confidence that he's going to
be able to I just can't. I've seen him falter
too many times big game lane.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
There we go came up with that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
It's interesting because nobody likes Georgia, right like the.

Speaker 5 (02:03:02):
New Alabama absolutely, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
No, well, and I mean like.

Speaker 4 (02:03:05):
Nobody likes nobody buys how good they are?

Speaker 2 (02:03:09):
Oh like that?

Speaker 5 (02:03:09):
Yeah, well there's that too, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:03:11):
And while you lost to Alabama, had the big lead.
Alabama comes back, or actually you came, but you came back.
Alabama jumps out to the big league. You can't come back.
Alabama wants up winning. But you know, listen, they go
into Texas and that was a no joke win man,
they dominated Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:03:29):
We'll start to finish that was that is a.

Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
Really I like Texas. I know that yours hasn't been
the same since he's come back from the injury. But
they went in there and they smashed them. I mean
they shut him down. I mean, is that worth anything?

Speaker 5 (02:03:43):
Well, I think the people who are defending Georgia would say, like, well,
they're a team that's playing down to their competition. The
fact that Florida can hang with them for a half,
the fact that Kentucky hung with them the entire game.
That they're they're good, they're talented, they're I don't know
if you want to use the word board uh, but
they're just a team that plays down to the competition
and when the lights are brightest, they step up and
play their best. Now, that was not the case for

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three quarters against Alabama, and they turned it on and
it just was too late. They ran out of time.
But so if you're a Georgia defender, if you want
to look at it that way, then that's an argument
that I guess I'm willing to listen to. But I
don't know if I fully feel that way. I just
think they're a flaw team.

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
Yeah, But I mean this comes back to one half
of football. They dug themselves in such a hole and
one half of football that we see the whole team differently.

Speaker 7 (02:04:25):
And I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
They've had close games that have looked ugly, but so
is Alabama repeatedly, right, So, like the interesting thing is
so is Texas at different times. It just feels, like
I said earlier, I think the only team this year
that you can really look at and say, Okay, you know,
it took Oregon a few weeks to get really rolling,
to be as explosive as Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
Not waving Oregon pomp pom's either. I think they're good
and worthy of the top spot. But I think everything
we talked about is right, which is this is a
this is a year of true parody in college football.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
Yeah, and this is you know, all of it comes
back to, like when we talk about name image like
this and you talk about the transfer portal, you see
talent spread out more across more teams. I mean, how
Boise State, Nash and genty took Oregon down to the wire, right,
So is that a sign that Boise stake can compete
with the big boys or is that a sign that
Oregon still hadn't really clicked yet? Like, these are the

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things that there just isn't really like most years. By now,
we know that we're going to be bored through the players.

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
No dominant team, right, That's the truth of the matter.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
There's no you know, the Georgia's of the past, the
Alabama's of the past, the LSU all that.

Speaker 4 (02:05:34):
But to your point, not none of these teams are
that dominant.

Speaker 5 (02:05:38):
Which sets up just makes this the perfect year for
us to have the twelve team playoff as opposed to
only four, because if I look from one through I'll
even say through eight, You're like, I know Fitzy doesn't
like Indiana that much, but I mean, I feel like
any number of those teams have a legitimate stake, especially
at least one through five does for sure. I mean,
Alabama is still talented enough to be able to get

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on a role potentially depending on how the matchups go,
they can find themselves in the final four the National
Championship game. So like, the field is as wide open
as it could ever be, and it just happens to
be that this is the first year that it's actually
opened to twelve teams as opposed to four.

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
I mean, give me that. I know we've all made
it very clear we don't trust Miami's defense. But Miami's
defense does one thing well. They forced turnovers right, right,
So you can't tell me that Georgia Miami isn't a
weird game because Georgia unforced errors is part of the
personality of who this team this year. Like I don't know, man,
Like they turn them all over a bunch, turn them

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ball over a bunch, and Miami.

Speaker 5 (02:06:36):
Alone, And I think Georgia they're better on the on
the lines at least all the offensive line, which we
know is Mario christ de Ball's baby, and they can't
get you up front and out and physical, be physical
with you. So I do think they can hold up
with Georgia in the trenches. And this is why I
think who you play where the seeding is who you
play when you play them, where you play them is
that is now going to be a factor.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
All of that matters. Yeah, I think Georgia crushes Miami.
I don't, I don't. I don't say it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:02):
Yeah, I don't. Just seeing Georgia this year they crush
any For me.

Speaker 4 (02:07:07):
It's more of a I don't. I don't buy Miami
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
So you know that's right.

Speaker 5 (02:07:14):
I can see it as you know, Miami can score
forty and Georgia can score sixty five. You know, if
you want to look at it that way, I can
see that potentially happening because Miami's defensive.

Speaker 4 (02:07:21):
I don't think Miami scores forty on Georgia.

Speaker 5 (02:07:24):
Oh, I think they can. I don't think this is
dominant Georgia defense in camp.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
But I agree they're not a dominant You're right, they're
not a dominant uh defense. But there's a big difference
between forty and thirty. Like you tell me they can
score thirty, I go, yeah, I don't think you can
score forty. I don't think they're capable of going that route.
I mean, look who's Miami played.

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Not.

Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
I mean, I mean, look look at the slop that
they Florida, Florida and n Ball State South Florida Virginia
Tech Cal they lost. They beat Cow by a point, yeah,
back in the fourth quarter to get that. Yeah, that
was Grouville Florida State, Duke.

Speaker 5 (02:08:05):
I mean they played Nobodyana.

Speaker 4 (02:08:09):
Yeah, like talk about Indiana. Go look at this slop schedule.

Speaker 5 (02:08:14):
I don't disagree, but this is I didn't say Miami
was gonna be Georgia. I just said that they can
score a lot of points against them. Miami can't stop anyone.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
So Miami's played the forty eighth ranks strength to schedule
b YU, the sixty third, Indiana, the one hundred and
third continue.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
I just kill you, like I don't care about that,
but that means nothing to me. I just read you
the opponents. You told me you was good.

Speaker 3 (02:08:35):
I mean, okay, so none of those teams are particularly good.

Speaker 4 (02:08:39):
Okay, that's my point. You can give me only strength.

Speaker 3 (02:08:42):
That's where those the teams you just meant a better lie. Yeah,
but the teams you just mentioned are better than Charlotte
and Maryland and Northwestern. They're better than Washington that isn't
any good this year. They're better than Michigan State than
I don't think he's one quarter an.

Speaker 4 (02:08:57):
I'll take Washington over over that.

Speaker 5 (02:09:02):
I don't know, Washington, I don't know watching it is
any better than Louisville or Duke or they're probably around
the same.

Speaker 4 (02:09:08):
I mean again that acc is trash.

Speaker 3 (02:09:11):
I mean, Louisville's had a good year. Louisville's had a
good like.

Speaker 5 (02:09:14):
At the would actually make steak.

Speaker 3 (02:09:19):
Louisville is better than Washington.

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
What are we doing Washington, I'll take, I'll take I'll
take any of those teams. I'll take Michigan. Today Indiana
puts up forty eight against Michigan.

Speaker 5 (02:09:29):
Look, and ultimately we say this all the time, like,
I mean, Miami can't I mean to a certain degree.
They can only control certain things on the stuff with.

Speaker 4 (02:09:36):
You, So I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:38):
I'm just put we're just having this debate that's to
get nonsense, because you can't really until it happens, there's
really nothing.

Speaker 5 (02:09:45):
That this is all going to get blown up in
three weeks in the city.

Speaker 2 (02:09:50):
You know, I'll give you that, Like you know, that's
why I don't think, you know, if they they can't
step on a field with Georgia and Scarrow. This whole
thing started because of that.

Speaker 5 (02:09:59):
Yeah, yeah, and my and my only point is I
think Miami offensively is legit enough to hang with anybody.
And by hang with I think just I've been put
up a lot of points, but I think, look, they
can still lose by twenty and still score thirty eight.
Is my point when it comes to Miami. That's the
only one. That's my only content that's fair. Yeah, I
don't think that they beat Georgia at all.

Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
I just say that I think Indiana would score every
possession against Miami.

Speaker 5 (02:10:22):
I don't disagree with that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:23):
Yeah, I think I think most teams would. I also
think Miami would score on everybody on every possession. I like,
I think Miami's offense, cam Ward the way he's playing
right now, and I mean the receivers. Yeah, Miami absolutely
can can score. They'll score every possession on Indiana.

Speaker 2 (02:10:38):
I love how I'm back to you.

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
It be.

Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
Jimmy Johnson's I mean this.

Speaker 3 (02:10:44):
This Miami offense is wild to watch it. It is
wild to watch that. There are times that they just
become complacent in the game and they're down by three
touchdowns and then they're like, oh, yeah, we should probably
try now. Bankan Bang Bang's legit.

Speaker 4 (02:10:57):
I mean, listen, I mean obviously right, like you know,
I mean, he's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (02:11:01):
Now after having this entire conversation, of course, I'm gonna say,
Georgia Tech is probably gonna upset.

Speaker 4 (02:11:06):
Them today, right dude, after all that is hates King
definitely playing.

Speaker 5 (02:11:11):
I don't know if he's definitely playing, but I believe
he's trending towards playing. But I have definitively on the other.

Speaker 2 (02:11:17):
I love well the line went down, so it's telling me, okay,
well there we go, all right, because it's thirteen a ten. Okay, yeah,
he's playing. I gotta tell you, I love Georgia Tech today.
I love that that that game. No, they may beat him,
but I said, I don't know if they'll beat him.
I think they was gonna they're going to scare him. Well,

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we know what happened.

Speaker 5 (02:11:39):
This is the infamous you know, should have taken a
knee last year and didn't do it, and that's how
Georgia Tech picked up the win. Yeah, so it's gonna
be a nip tuck. I think this is one I think.
I think, at the very least, I do think Georgia
Tech covers the spread.

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
Yeah, I'll take the ten. Yeah, it was actually thirteen years.

Speaker 5 (02:11:55):
Yeah, it was up to thirteen. So if it's down
to ten, that's.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
Shortly.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Yeah, I'll take Miami in that game. I'll still take
Miami and that game.

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
He is you want to tea Verdie?

Speaker 6 (02:12:08):
He is?

Speaker 4 (02:12:09):
Look at you.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
I love it, king, he is.

Speaker 4 (02:12:13):
Jason fits the caing.

Speaker 5 (02:12:18):
Like we'll be running on the sideline next to Michael Squad.

Speaker 3 (02:12:21):
I'm basically like, well that works for my for me
image wise, like people often think of me and and
you know, Michael Irvin and Miami Hurricanes in the same breath.

Speaker 2 (02:12:30):
Absolutely, you and Mike got that. Yeah, I got that edge.
You got it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
How do we feel about b y U Utah? By
the way, the Holy War like game man By slips
up like Utah is not this year.

Speaker 5 (02:12:43):
Utah is terrible this year for that?

Speaker 4 (02:12:45):
Isn't there always a game is playing?

Speaker 2 (02:12:47):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:12:48):
I believe?

Speaker 9 (02:12:48):
So?

Speaker 4 (02:12:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:12:49):
I mean is there isn't that's Utah? Like, isn't this
like they always bite you, mister pack twelve? How many
times late in this season?

Speaker 7 (02:12:59):
You?

Speaker 4 (02:13:00):
Yeah, it's a it's a death trap going in there.

Speaker 5 (02:13:02):
Well, it's usually been good. They haven't been this bad.
They have been five hundred this is late in the season,
since I couldn't tell you when.

Speaker 2 (02:13:07):
But they still like they are injuries or something will
happen and then they'll they'll lose a game or two.
But then in the late season they're they're torture to
deal with.

Speaker 5 (02:13:15):
Yeah, oh, you mentioned your Rising is out. By the way,
Rising's out for the year.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
But yeah, yeah, right, I was looking to see Zach
Wilson's brother is the.

Speaker 5 (02:13:22):
One that Yeah Wilson, Yeah, Isaac Wilson is going to start,
not not Cam Rising. So I look, it's a rivalry game,
and I know crazy things can happen.

Speaker 4 (02:13:30):
Why did I read did I read it? Is he
definitely out for.

Speaker 5 (02:13:32):
The he had surgery. After the surgery, he's done.

Speaker 3 (02:13:35):
He's trying to trying to get another he's fifteen yearlgib.

Speaker 2 (02:13:37):
Maybe that's why I read something about it. Yeah, that's interesting.
I'll take Uh. I guess why is that line only four.

Speaker 5 (02:13:46):
For the that's surprising to me.

Speaker 3 (02:13:49):
B Yu hasn't won at Utah and yeah, so long, like.

Speaker 5 (02:13:52):
Fifteen years it's been since they've been playing, but I
feel like this is the year. Look, maybe they cover
the spread or maybe it's a close game. Potentially because
rivalry games things can kind of get wacky. But BYU
has just just played so well and I think it's
just far superior. It's a Utah who's been They've been bad,
they fired their offensive coordinator, Cam Rising is hurt. They
just have a lot of things working against them this year.

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So I like BYU in this one. I don't even
think it's I don't think it's that close.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
Yeah, I like BYU two. I just like that big
of a rivalry game. You always wonder if that's there's
a little slip up there BYU where things get really
hectic too. Is like there's this situe. I don't think
Iowa State's playing very good football right now, Colorado actually is.
So if Iowa State slips up anywhere, you could end
up with Colorado taking on BYU. And this is where
like bid thiefs come in, because if Colorado wins the

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Big Twelve over BYU, there's no guarantee they'll be a
top twelve ranked team and they'll be guaranteed a playoff spot.
So it's kind of crazy to think about. You could
have a sixteen, seventeenth ranked, you know, Colorado team that
turns around and is guaranteed the playoff spot because they
won their.

Speaker 2 (02:14:54):
Nah, absolutely imagine that.

Speaker 5 (02:14:56):
Oh my god, no, you think those Buffalo fans are
loud on into the playoffs with those guys about it.

Speaker 2 (02:15:04):
I got I got a couple buddies of mine. They're
big time Buffaloes. They're all there, my man, r k oh,
it's all I hear Buffalo's, Buffalo's let's go quickly. Texas
needs to needs to play well at Florida. But well
they need to open up a can Florida. I mean,
they get the vote of confidence for Naprier this week.

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Whether that's en or bad, I'll leave that up to
your playing better.

Speaker 3 (02:15:28):
They are they are right, Yeah, it's gotten better. Yeah,
give them credit.

Speaker 5 (02:15:32):
You know they're they're plagia.

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
Tough, and they they annihilate Kentucky. They played tennis tse. Yeah,
you know, they beat UCF they pretty easily.

Speaker 5 (02:15:44):
Which is probably why Naybeer got the vote of confidence
because despite their being devoid of talent for their standards,
at the very least, they're playing hard and they're staying
in games. So yeah, you know, I can I can
see them doing something this weekend.

Speaker 4 (02:15:56):
Texas is a twenty two point favorite in that game.

Speaker 5 (02:16:00):
That's considering how they're playing and how Miami's playing.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
I know, yeah, that's interesting now, it really is. And
then of course we talked Georgia Old Miss and then tonight, Wow, man,
this is a great game, man, LSU Bama. We sulked
about a little bit earlier, but again this should be

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a high scoring game. Mill Rose legs against nuts Meyer's
arms and can that arm not make a mistake will
be the key for LSU.

Speaker 3 (02:16:35):
Yeah, man, I just don't trust. I have trust issues
with both these teams. Like, the funny thing is the
winner of this is still in prime position to make
the playoffs. I'm not sure either of these teams are
the type of team I want to trust in the playoffs.
If you just took the helmet off of Alabama and
you just treated them like you treated any other team.
The penalties, the turnovers, the wild inaccuracy at times by Milroe,

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like it's just this is not the usual. And then
even you know, watching guys cost their team games with
penalties and not getting chewed out on the sidelines. I
keep talking about it like culturally, this is the year
that Alabama had to make a shift, and that's normal,
that's natural. I just don't, man, I don't trust them
in the details. I do not trust this Alabama team
to win the details. So I lean the home field

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advantage of LSU. But man, that means I got to
trust Garrett Neusmier to not be stupid with the football. Also, yeah,
it's difficult to do.

Speaker 5 (02:17:28):
Yeah, yeah, So I have to trust to either of
these quarterbacks when it comes to that. Who makes the
big mistake at the wrong moment of the game is
really what the difference is going to Because both teams
are going to be able to score points against these defenses.
It's the matter of which quarterbacks makes more plays.

Speaker 2 (02:17:42):
I agree. Let me throw this set you guys, because
I'm just curious how you feel. I do like both quarterbacks.
For like, I think both could be developed for the
next level.

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
Oh yeah, yeah from mill Row and for a ness, man, yeah, absolutely.
I've had a couple of people told me they think
nes Meyer is the best quarterback in this class.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
People tell me that too, And I like, I like
his father's the quarterbacks coach Philadelphia, and uh so we're
watch him pretty closely.

Speaker 4 (02:18:12):
And I like Melroe.

Speaker 2 (02:18:16):
I you know again, I think he needs he's got
a lot of you know, they're gonna iron it out,
but he goes to the right spot.

Speaker 5 (02:18:22):
I think he'll be Yeah. He and people are saying
like he's better as a passer than Lamar Jackson was
when he came out. Now, jam Lamar was a better
football player overall, running, reading the pocket and doing all
that sort of stuff that he did, uh when he
was at Louisville. But uh, there's some there's some talent there,
you know, the short and intermediate. He's gonna need some
work on. He can throw. He throws a great deep ball,
and obviously he's like he's like a tailback when he

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runs the ball. So there's definitely something there. And look,
we talked about quarterbacks in today's NFL having to be
able to have a capability moveability within and outside of
the pocket. He fits the bill. He just needs some
more refinement. But yeah, I would definitely take a flyer
on him. I think he'd be an excellent pro with
the right system and the right coaching staff.

Speaker 2 (02:19:02):
Yeah, I'm I'm with you guys.

Speaker 3 (02:19:04):
All right, he's got to work on he's got to
work on his accuracy. Yes, he's in accuracy. You've got
to work.

Speaker 4 (02:19:10):
But like, yeah, the right spot.

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
I mean, I think you're you're ego to the right place,
you know, I think you can you can make him
into something special. All Right, We're gonna take quick to you.
We'll come right back. We'll talk to the brain. He'll
take a look at the games, the card this weekend
from a betting standpoint. That's coming up next. Fellas on
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Speaker 5 (02:20:23):
All right, Well, we'll start in the NBA from Friday night,
where the Lakers defeated Philadelphia one sixteen to one oh
six behind a thirty one point effort from Anthony Davis.
Lebron James also had a triple double in that game.
Denver had all five starter score and double figures that
included nicolea Jokic, who racked up his third consecutive triple double.
As they defeated Miami. Kevin Durant scored twenty six points,

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leading Phoenix to a one point victory in Dallas. Cleveland
is ten and oh They dominated Golden State one thirty
six to one seventeen. Shay Yoders, Alexander and chet Holmgren
with twenty nine points apiece as the Thunder defeated Houston,
who had victories for Boston, Minnesota and the Clips, who
won in Sacramento. In college hoops, top rank Kansas defeated
at number nine North Carolina ninety two to eighty nine.

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New Mexico upset twenty second rank UCLA seventy two to
sixty four Perdue, Alabama and Duke with victories. In college football,
Ucla defeating Ayowa twenty to seventeen. That's their third straight
win Memphis over Rice twenty seven to twenty. New Mexico
and col with victories as well. Back to the Fellas,
All right, that's us fellas hanging out and joining us

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our man, the Brain, Brad Feinberg, Hello Brain.

Speaker 7 (02:21:35):
Good morning, Good morning to see how are you today.

Speaker 2 (02:21:38):
Good buddy, Let's get right into it. Big college football day,
lots of fun games. Let's go over the card with you.
Because we were just remarking, it looks like Haines King
is a go and Georgia Tech that lines down to
ten Bradley, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:21:55):
And Anthony, in my opinion for good reason. Like to me, Anthony,
Miami is a team that he's just waiting to be beaten,
just waiting to be beaten. And I actually think Tech
at the chance. And obviously Miami's offense has been great.
We know how tremendous Ward has been. But this team defensively,

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forget about leaking oil, they're leaking everything. I think Tech's
really live here. I think they can keep this game.

Speaker 5 (02:22:27):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
For the record, I don't disagree with anything you're saying
about their defense, but brat like their offense can score
on any like, so I hear you when I keep
bad this year, Like we keep seeing this teams that
look like they're trying to lose games, but dang, all
they do is figure out how to win them in
the end.

Speaker 7 (02:22:48):
Look, he was goodding at Washington State and when he
got there, I really he was one of my favorite
quarterbacks to watch last year and I'm not like what
he's done this year has really not surprised me. But
it's funny some of these games they've had. I just
the Virginia Tech game, I'm still now again obviously like

(02:23:09):
the just to get Hail Mary is lucky, but I
didn't think there was evidence to overturn that Cal severely
outplayed them. Louisville was in a fifty to fifty game
with them, Duke was winning in the fourth quarter against them.
I just, again, I give them credit, and they're they're
obviously just really really good in terms of they're offensively,

(02:23:29):
they're they're terrific. But I get I don't know, I
think the team that I'll just say that when the
when the college playoffs start and they're going to be
in the college playoffs, this is a team I just
have no faith personally, uh that's going to have any
kind of success, and I wanted I don't even lissily
want to eat. I just I don't trust them defensively

(02:23:50):
at all. Uh. And defense still is part of the sport,
even though obviously he's offensively they're phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (02:23:57):
All right, Uh, let's keep going through it, and let's
go let's go quick a couple then and I'll throw
it back to Fitzie. But let's hit a couple with you. Uh,
Texas has Florida. That's twenty two. We're talking about that.
That seems a lot of points for a team like
Texas not playing well.

Speaker 7 (02:24:14):
Yeah, I don't. I don't disagree with you. I do
not disagree with you. And Texas really is not played great.
My numbers made this twenty so listen, that's the only
way I come up. But obviously, here's the thing, Florida's
quarterback situation. Yeah, you know, And that's yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:24:35):
You know, that's a good point we were talking about that.
You're right, that's it. That's that quarterback spot. It could
be ugly.

Speaker 7 (02:24:41):
Yeah, right. And if you don't you know, if you
don't have that, I mean, he's going to be a
game time decision. Laguay who again, not that he's a
fairly taking you to heaven, but I need to know
about that now. If he plays. If he plays, I
think he's a hamstring issue. He plays, I definitely easy
side from the easy side, guys, it's larder. I don't

(02:25:03):
need that. They're a shrink quarterback.

Speaker 2 (02:25:06):
All Right. We were talking about this one and I'm
just curious kind of where you stand. But you know, Georgia,
Old miss is this the game where Lane finally breaks through?

Speaker 7 (02:25:23):
I mean, you've you've talked about Elaine and like I
gave the promp that he's been a little bit like
Jane Franklin right where, really done a nice job in
so many ways, but just cannot win that big game.
It'll probably a bit harder for Lane, if I'm being
fair about it. Like he's at Mississippi versus being at
Penn State, and you know he's going again, He's going

(02:25:44):
into Georgia and Alabama, which is probably harder than what
Franklin had. I will come, but listen, I do think
they have a really good chance to say, look from it,
it's funny from the handicapping perspective, the Stackeys adore Mississippi
because the yards for play metrics or through the roof,
and they're just a team that you know, on paper,
in terms of the raw stats are probably gray out

(02:26:07):
of high as as any team in college football. But
when they played a harder competition, they just haven't gotten
it done. They just haven't. But that being setting out
to me, I do think they get this one in
For me, though, a lot of it's just because of
Georgia Beck, the guy. It's like death taxing and Carson
beckstelling interceptions. I mean he's been he's actually been bad,

(02:26:28):
and it's funny it's actually been.

Speaker 4 (02:26:29):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (02:26:30):
I always say, is a sports scram that we have
to adjust with new data, new information. We can't stick
our head in the sand. Carson Beck was a guy
going into the is very into really thought he was terrific.
But he's He's eleven interceptions his last five games. Think
about that, guys, really think about that in college football,
playing for theoretically arguably the best team. Eleven interceptions in
five ers in five games. That's unacceptable. That's like, you

(02:26:53):
can't do that. That's not even like on the menu
allowed things. So look to me, no, the only way
I'm looking his own miss Getty couldn't didn't quite get
the three guys. That's actually creaked down now it's more
like one and a half. So now just only a
lead to me, it got three, I would have I
would definitely played all this.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
And by the way, not for nothing, Georgia has Tennessee
next week. Like there's still a path that george is
not even part of the college football playoff.

Speaker 7 (02:27:17):
No, I'm very much so. Now. Obviously, look if they win,
if they go ten and two, they'll get in. But
this is their last Mulligan so to speak, they get
one more mole than you figure where they can lose
one more game. But if they lose this game, yeah,
they're gonna have to still play, still have to win out,
which will not be and it's not a sure thing.

(02:27:38):
There's still dominant in the Sharon college football that's the thing,
and there's no anything to lose any week in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (02:27:44):
Yeah, I agree with say that earlier today.

Speaker 3 (02:27:47):
So speaking of Mulligan's loser leaves Town matches, that keep
calling it Alabama LSU, Well, what do you like there?

Speaker 7 (02:27:55):
You nail? That's it's a it's a loser leave Town game.
And and I think I think Albama's gonna beleave in town.
I like LSU here and I'll listen again. Obviously these
games are all close, all tight. I just personally, when
I made my numbers here they see I thought, this
is okay, this is basically I made this game factory Anna,

(02:28:17):
home field fact and everything. I made this game a pet. Okay,
you can find threes out there. There's still threes out there.
I bet out trying. I bet LSU at LSU hitting
three points. I just think, personally, it's too many points.
And you know, I think this is gonna be a
very close game. And it's funny. LSU has been rushing

(02:28:39):
the pass really really well recently, so I think their
defensive line can have some successor, as you said, loser
lead town kind of game. I'll just take the team
at home with a great home crowd, getting a feelable
on a game I expect to be very tight.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:28:55):
Hey, we were arguing about Indiana.

Speaker 2 (02:28:59):
Michigan, and don't you think Indiana has to because just
for respect guys like FITSI and the committee.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
I had nothing for Indiana and their one hundred and
third ranked schedule.

Speaker 7 (02:29:16):
What kind of guy are you?

Speaker 2 (02:29:17):
I mean, don't they need to just bury Michigan and
which they can.

Speaker 3 (02:29:23):
Yeah they should.

Speaker 7 (02:29:24):
Yeah, I mean listen, but you know it's funny at
this point, Indiana, you have to give them. I mean,
they are without question, I think you would have heard
this the most team from the beginning of the year
of what we thought they were to what they are now.
The team has been most oppressive or comfortable before the
year the power ranking. Here's what I love about them
that they listen to this where you could choke on
this one and I even might get meana, but I'm
just I'm having fun with you, buddy. They've covered every game, okay,

(02:29:49):
and they're covering the games by nineteen points a game.
Think about that. So if they're favored by ten, they're
winning by twenty nine, right, just really think about that,
Like that's like that's impossible to do what they're doing.
And they've just been They've been terrific. All they've done
all year. It's like a great never game. But at
some point I always say, you you can't be stubborn. Yeah,

(02:30:09):
you're just this is a good team. And yeah, I
think they absolutely should beat Michigan.

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
Line obviously, what would the line be in the fellas
bawl Indiana versus Miami.

Speaker 7 (02:30:21):
I had Indiana in my ratings around in e four
and I have Miami at super Miami at I have
Miami at eighty four. I have these teams dead evening. Wow,
I have the I have these teams rank, took them numbers.

Speaker 6 (02:30:43):
No.

Speaker 7 (02:30:43):
I think the public would obviously be all Miami anything
like that, but I actually have them ranked like literally
dead even in my ranks. And I think my rankings
are fair because again, I think the way Indiana's played again,
it's you can't have any biases if you're doing this.
Indiana has just played really really well. For what about them,
don't you? You just don't trust it just because they've

(02:31:05):
never been been been good before this year more or
less or look, I.

Speaker 3 (02:31:11):
Like everything I've seen. We just we've seen it against
no one. So there's just a part of me that's like, hey,
i'd like.

Speaker 6 (02:31:20):
It.

Speaker 7 (02:31:20):
With all due respect, Ucla has actually played pretty well
this year. They actually have to ty and I was
anti Ucla. Ucla has been a covering machine. They've actually
played well Ucla. They beat them by four touchdowns on
the road. Nebraska has showed spots of playing well this year.
I'm not saying they'd be.

Speaker 4 (02:31:37):
They played Ohio State really tough.

Speaker 3 (02:31:40):
Yeah, they melted down in that game against Indiana. They
looked like I know they've played Ohio State well, but
they've played like trash in that game. And I'll hear
you on Ucla.

Speaker 7 (02:31:47):
But like so, Ucla is not a respectable team. Washington
is a team that is respectable and they beat them
with their backup quarterbacks by two touchdowns. I'm just saying
that's it again. I'm not saying they're schedule is taking
you to Havyboddy. I get what you're saying. I get it,
but I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong. I'm just saying, Look,
we're gonna find out the truth soon, right, the true

(02:32:08):
serum's coming next week, aren't. In two weeks against Ohio State,
the true serum will be injected and we'll see what's
going on. But I personally don't think this team is
a flute. And I think they're good. They're obviously well coached,
and I don't think this team is just the cinder.
The script is just gonna come off and if they're
get embarrassed, but we'll see how it plays out.

Speaker 2 (02:32:29):
All right, we got we got only got like a minute.
Can you go through that? No, not at all. It's
a great conversation. Could you go through the uh what
you like this week in the NFL and maybe some
of the top plays?

Speaker 5 (02:32:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:32:42):
Yeah, NFL. Look, guys, look, I think God was from
the NFL games. I like, I feel let me bring
it up right now. Sorry I bringing this up. Uh, okay,
Bears against the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (02:32:54):
Guys.

Speaker 7 (02:32:55):
Look, I think the Bears are really not a great team.
Not that the pay straight Trent kickers obviously aren't. But
I'm more down on the Bears in my power rankings
than I guess the public or the people who said
these lines are. I think the Patriots have a chance
to keep this game extremely tight. I grab seven at
the opening, still grab six and a half. I still
think that's even too high. I like the Bears to

(02:33:17):
keep this getting closed. Commander's laying two and a half
at home against Pittsburgh. All the respects in the world
for coach Tomlin that if he's top three coach in
the world. But I just think the Commanders are better.
I think the Commanders are like are good. I think
they are a good team. I trust their offense inherently
more nobvigedly. You can say we'll brad their chief, which
is way worse. That's fair. But I really think Washington

(02:33:40):
at home gets to win there. I really really do
a teaser that I like very very much. To me,
you can guarant Kansas City at home Land seven a half.
You could see them down in one and a half
against Denver. All we know is that king to be wins, wins, wins,
and I would tease them with the Chargers at Homing
as the Titans team that's really not very good, only
seven enough points there, but I think they're certainly good

(02:34:02):
enough to get the win and then a Monday night
football guys. Again, this is a line I just haven't gotten.
I gotta be honest. I thought this line would be
between two and a half and three, and it's sitting
at one. Dolphins at the Rams. I think the Rams
are the better team. Obviously a very weak home field,
I get it, but I just I don't understand what
the Dolphins have done. I think Miami's has not been

(02:34:23):
as good, and I think the Rams are the better team.
I think they're starting to play pretty well right now.
I like the Rams basically a pick at home.

Speaker 2 (02:34:29):
I love it. I bring great stuff as always. Man
at Brad's bets bets on Twitter. You want to follow him,
He's the best. We'll come back and wrap it up.
Fellas right here Fox Sports Radio. Fellas play your song
and FITZI.

Speaker 3 (02:34:51):
It's always bittersweet. It means that the Fellas are coming
to an end.

Speaker 4 (02:34:59):
Jason fitz figures. I'm Anthony Guar.

Speaker 2 (02:35:01):
I got a special thanks as always to our production crew,
producer Brianna Moro, who was fantastic, and of course mighty
Mighty Mark, our sound engineer who plays all the songs
and everything else. So we thank those they were terrific
as always. All right, guys, what are we watching this weekend?

(02:35:23):
What's on plan for the weekend? I got I'll go first.
I got a game. We play a big game, Playoffs
in a couple of weeks. For my Massimo. I sent
you guys to video him quarterback. He broke on the
outside and scored on a nice run. I was proud
of that one. That was great.

Speaker 3 (02:35:44):
I love these highlights too, keep them coming. And it's
awesome too that we are in an age where you
can have that stuff forever. You know, like for everything,
like now you can look back at those when he's forty,
you can look back and watch those highlights with him.
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:35:59):
Yeah, it's I send it to fifty and Figgy every
week in Monci's Highlights, so I have to they're gracious
enough to indulge me to watch the eleven year olds.
And then I got Eagles Cowboys tomorrow, so I'm looking
forward to that, and of course the big college games
today where you got their fig Oh sorry, what do

(02:36:24):
you got there, my brother?

Speaker 3 (02:36:25):
Once you go, FITZI all right, I'll go here and
look on the Sunday slate. I think Steelers Commanders is
the one that stands out to me is really the
most interesting. You know, that game and what's on the
line for both teams. And it's remarkable that one team,
Steelers are six and two, the Commanders are seven and two,
and they both got people breathing down their necks, right,
so when you start thinking about the fact that they

(02:36:46):
don't have a ton of wiggle room, and this is
such a big game for both teams, even though it's
not a conference matchup. I love this. Plus it's another
data point for Jayden Daniels, which is going to be
a key part of this. So I'm all in on that,
and then on the college slate, it's obviously tonight. I mean,
I could get cute with it, but when you start
talking about Alabama LSU and the fact that I truly

(02:37:08):
believe that the loser of this is completely out of
any playoff contention and the winner in this process, I'm
not even sure they can make us have faith like
this could turn into a very ugly football game. Then
we just sit there and say, well, one of them's
got to win, you know. I just I feel like
it's gonna be an ugly game. And for that, like
I want to see these two teams.

Speaker 2 (02:37:27):
So you think it's gonna be ugly ugly meaning uh
like mistakes by no Smier or because I could see
both teams scoring. So I think both teams, you know,
have success moving the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:37:41):
I'm gonna be yeah, I agree with that, but I
also think both teams are gonna turn the ball over
and penalties are gonna be everywhere, and we're gonna be
sitting there saying, like, boy, that's just bad defense. Sometimes,
like I don't feel like I'm gonna walk away with
this this from this game, with a bunch of faith
in either of these teams. But I just I love
getting to see backs against the wall games with that
everything on the line and from the quarterback, like for

(02:38:01):
us Meyer, who people are starting to praise for the draft,
Like this is one of those moments. I right, show
it to me, like you gotta win.

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
Yeah, be smart, be smart with the football, which he
hasn't done. And you're right, big game. It's at home again.
We talked about it earlier. If the game was in Tuscaloos,
I might feel differently. But because the game is at
night and it's in bad tom Rouge and that place
is going to be insane, I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (02:38:31):
I like L s U.

Speaker 3 (02:38:33):
Yeah, and you're right. If this was in if this
was it at Alabama, I feel much better. But yeah,
I'm taking LSU tonight, taking all the upsets L s
U and ol Miss. Let's see what happens.

Speaker 2 (02:38:42):
Wow, look at that.

Speaker 4 (02:38:43):
That's gonna be another one. Man, that's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (02:38:47):
That's good. I'm curious about Georgia, I really am uh
and and this will tell me a lot about them
because I'm still not completely over them.

Speaker 4 (02:38:55):
I know, it sounds like you might be.

Speaker 3 (02:38:59):
Maybe for the natty, but we'll see. This will prove
a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:39:01):
YEP, I'm with you all right. That's a good deal
for us. Everybody, have a great weekend. We love you,
We'll see you next Saturday.

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