September 3, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon discuss how Brian Kelly and Dabo Sweeney may in fact be on hot seats already after week 1 in College Football.
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is a final. Boston College has defeated Florida State the
tenth rank seminoles. We'regona linn say they're not going to
be in the top twenty five. Wait, you know when
the new polls come out, because they don't. This bowl
got delayed to wait for them to lose it. That's wait, okay, uh.
They are the first team to be ranked in the
top ten to be favored in their first two games
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by double digits and lose them both. All right, they
were favored by double digits in both of these games,
Georgia Tech and Dublin. This game tonight at home against
Boston College. Boston College kneeling down at the end, showing
mercy to Florida State. And and this is it's stunning
for a team that just a few months ago was
at the top of the college football world. And the
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main thing that this is gonna mean for for everybody
Florida State. Hey, this is just gonna make those fans
even more pissed that they didn't make the playoff last year.
We're gonna start o it too. You just could have
put us in even without Jordan Travis. We had a
great game, we had a great team. We still didn't
make the player. Now we stak you could at least
put us in there. We knew this crap was gonna
happen to us.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I feel bad for long though, I mean because
he's gonna wear it fully as opposed to the fact
that they gave up what was it, two hundred and
sixty three rushing yards fifty three attempts.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, you had three guys running for at least seventy
yards in the game. I mean Boston College. That from
the passing game castianos ten of sixteen, one hundred and
six yards, two touchdowns. Yeah, but you get run over,
Like that's a whole other indictment of where your program is.
This is like, this is like looking at a box
score of a team that played against Nebraska in the eighties.
That's right, and they would have like three guys with
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one hundred yards rushing. Turner Gill would be like four
of six passing the football, but we ran for four
hundred yards. But yeah, that like watching this game. They
just got bludgeoned from pillar to post.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And it's back to back weeks, obviously, the loss in Ireland,
and then you come back here in a game you're
heavily favorite. I think the money line was minus eight
fifty one point, so you're talking the spread open to
twenty one moves because of what we saw a little
bit of hesitance after the loss overseas, and now you
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come back here and you get absolutely worked. This game
was never closed, right, No, they made it at least
an interesting game, right, It got interesting for a minute,
but it was the momentary, because we commented on it
last hour. Right the at fourteen nil, the announcers were basically,
it's gotta have touchdown drives.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Like no, no, no, you can chip away.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You just need to, you know, show some intestinal fortitude
at the line of scrimmage and stopped giving up chunky
yardage on every run. Well, that didn't happen. That didn't happen.
Passing game couldn't click, and there were a few moments
where it started to at least look like more of
a game. But just as soon as Florida State showed
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some signs of life, Boston College had the answer.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's week two and Florida State, who was a top
five team coming into the season, has already been eliminated
from the play. Yeah, it's a final, they're already, they're done,
They've already congratulations longer. Hey, I can't just win the division. No,
you can't even go to the eliminated you know, And
that and that's that's the one big thing, the one
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big misconception from Week one of college football is this
is that I know that that big teams, when they
lose unexpectedly, they want to try to paint a rosy
picture on things. Okay, it's a long season. Hey, we're
twelve teams in the playoffs. Now, okay, maybe let let
let's let's stay with your preseason. A lot of change.
(04:32):
We don't know who we are. Yeah, if you lose
the first week of the season, you're done. You're not
making the playoffs. Because if you lose the first week
of the season, whoever you lose against, if you lose
against a good team, it means you're not as good
as that good team. And if you lose against a
bad team, it means you're not as good as you
think you are. Now forget about even two loss and
two lows of Florida State. It's like they are tanking
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now for arch Manning's little brother, right, They're they're taking
for the for the other man in uh now they're
in the in the lead. Now, hey, they could even
lead for arch Manning if Quinn you weers good. But anyway,
they're taking for the next Manning kid. That's where they are.
But the biggest misconception is that, oh we lose week one,
everything is still fight. No, you're done if you lose.
But if you're Florida, if you're LSU because one more
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loss and you're out. No, you're in panic. But the way,
but the way that pundits and experts and coaches want
to say, yeah, but if we run the table, nobody
runs the table. They make it sound so that twelve thirteen,
fourteen weeks of football and all the hard work, everything's
gonna go their way, and what if we run the table.
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Like it's the most stupid. It's the stupidest thing to say.
If they run. Yeah, if you can run the table
with three games left, all right, I say, but like
you're talking after oh and one, if we run the table,
we're good at augh, we can run the No, you're done,
You're done. You hose week one, you are finished. You
are not even with twelve teams. You are not going
to be a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Sorry, I'm trying to go glass half full and saying, hey,
you still think you have a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Got to be realistic, man, somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I mean, you could look at the rest of their
schedule and say, hey, you might be able to uh
go on skin. The problem is you've now put your
back against the wall after one week. No, like there
is no margin for error, and that's it. At this point.
You haven't had a bunch of injuries. You have it
like all of those things that pop up over the
course of the season. This is you know here, look
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that you're assuming you're gonna have a perfect run from here.
Oh this was the hiccup.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh wait, they got us. This is okay. Let me say,
when I was growing up, the biggest thing that I
could do wrong in my house, well I can live
with my grandparents growing up, was if I forgot to
take the garbage out. Okay, yeah, you've mentioned Okay, that
was the thing my grandfather was if you if he
asked you to take the garbage out and you forgot,
that was the worst thing the This is the likelihood
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that you think about about running the table when it's
oh we lose week one, we're still in it. This
is like if my grandfather said to me, okay for
the next four months. Okay, if you fail to take
the garbage out twice when I ask you, you're grounded
for the next six months. You're grounded from January until
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you finish school in June. Whoa wha. But if I twice,
I'll give you one free one, I'll give you one.
But then if I have to ask you take the
garbage out twice, and you forget, then you're grounded. Okay,
And then the very first time he asked me, I forget.
So now it's the beginning of September, and I have
one more time to forget to take the garbage out
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the rest of the way, and if I fail to
do it, then I'm grounded for the six months after that.
Am I really gonna go the next six months? I'm
really gonna go all the way through until December, remembering
to take the garbage out every single time. Of course not,
of course not. I've already forgotten the very first time
he said, take the garbage out. Okay, pop, put on
my shoes and walk out without the garbage. Okay, now
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I have no more I have no more rope, I
have no more cache. He that's it, And this is
just something that simple. You lose your first game, you're
gonna win every other game. You just lost the first game,
You're gonna win every other game.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, the behavioral change and the coaching them up. Like
the players are not changing out at this point, right,
You're not suddenly having Hey, here's a week three transfer
that's gonna come fortify your offensive or defensive line, because
clearly now after two games, I think we could say
Florida State doesn't have enough guys up front on either
side that's gonna get them to the Promised Land. Defensively,
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they are not going to have enough to stop opposing
running games. So yeah, long season for Norvell and company.
That way, still hold out hope, maybe though it might
be vastly diminished having watched some of these squads. Mean
Brian Kelly and ls, you know, I mean after the
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fake tirade, I mean, how excitable am I there?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Not at all?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And some of it goes back to the arguments we
had years ago when everybody was trying to bury Jim Harry,
and it was you got to remember who are what
you are right. You might have had a great run
up and you might have had a period of great success.
You know, they talk about life and seasons. If we
want to go into you know, the way you talk
about things, maybe from a religious standpoint or whatever, the
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seasons of your life. And for we bring Dabo Sweeney
into this. You know with Clemson is you had a
good run, but you got to remember who you are right.
You weren't a perennial powerhouse, like this is not a
traditional monstrous program that you had a few years where
things worked and then sometimes you get kicked right back
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in the face and sand is you know, kicked in
your face like the old cartoon that used to be
at the back of like comic books and stuff. Right,
it's like, hey, you know, go order Jack Llane's workout videos.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Go look it up.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's still there. I think they've just changed it to
somebody else at this point as the figurehead there. But
like recognizing where you at, where you stand in the
pantheon of great programs, and particularly in a changing environment
here of have you done enough to acclimate to the
new environment? Even if they expand the playoffs, are you
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good enough?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
If it was the NFL, it's different because they're much
more forgiving. And this is why college football still, even
with adding an extra team in has the best regular
season of any sport because there is so much on
every game. That's it, right, twelve teams, so much on
every game. You can go to sixteen, yeah, you go,
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don't You can go to twenty four yeah, because you
still have so many teams, so many battles and the
War of attrition. No one's getting in with three losses anywhere,
no one's getting Hey, look here's a nine and four
teen unless they make a rule where if you win
the conference, you get in and if something happens, you
have a crazy record, but you and because we've seen
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it before, where hey, look here's Alabama playing the SEC
championship game against you know, Mississippi, who is you know,
seven and five or whatever? You see it in the
Big Ten sometimes as some of the weird divs, unless that,
like you know, you see Iowa playing Michigan last year.
That's the only way, right. That's why college football has
the best regular season by far if any sport doesn't matter,
any sport, because there's so much at stake every single week.
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And to want to dismiss it, I understand the coaches
want to do it, but get that if you lost
Week one, you're cooked.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Just have the best season that you can continue to go.
Don't think about long term because you're not going to
be in the playoffs. I know you want to think that, Oh,
there's so many more slots up there, there's so many
more golden tickets I could get either, it's not happening
for you why disppen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I think a lot of adjacent comes back to recognizing
human nature and the idea being able to be singularly focused, right,
because you look at it as the long view of
we can do this and we still have a puncher's chance, right,
we can still make the playoff, and we've got to
be perfect. And then it goes back to the old
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philosophy of I gotta go one and oh today, rights,
it's just one game at a time, but human nature
is not to look at it that way. It's the
series of I've got eleven more games on my schedule
or twelve plus a conference title game, all of those
things that can decide whether I'm in and out in
or out for Florida State. Yeah, there's gonna be a
lot more lamentation and handwringing about we got screwed, we
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should have still been allowed to go to the dance
last year, and it's all your fault because you got
to direct that outrage somewhere. But the ability to just
be consistent, like that's where most of us fail at
some point in all in our lives. We all have
that one thing right, all right, I'm gonna be consistent
I'm gonna go to the gym, all right, you shoot
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for three days a week, as opposed to I'm gonna
do this every day for the next ninety going back
to your grandpa of hey, you got to take out
the trash for four straight months.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Consistency is where we fail, right, which is why dieting
in fad diets don't work. It's why you know, if
you're a B student, you're not suddenly gonna figure it
out and become a straight a guy.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I fail the first test. I'm getting a's on all
the restaurant. No, no, no, I recognize now she's asking
me questions. Now I figured it out. I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, trying to go from an F to a C
and then a sea to a beat, and we'll see
where we're at. You talking about no steps not gonna
happen week to week. It's a all right one. It's
a one game playoff each and every week here after.
That's a lot of pressure on what are still young
men going out and playing these games.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Uh. The stress of that, the chatter, especially now in
an nil world, like that resonance, that noise locally gets
a lot louder after one loss than maybe it did
even two three years.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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it's over. You lose week two. You're waiting for the
next man and kid. You're wait, You're waiting, You're wit,
You're waiting. I don't know if there's any more. Maybe
there will be a dead but if hey, this year,
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maybe you clinch that. You clinch that thing. Gotta go
figure that out. Yeah, what's the next blood? The blood? Lie,
what's the next w It's a bloodline to get the
next man and kid? Come on, please? Uh coming up next? Yes,
we got more from the big weekend in college football.
You want a Big Bowl prediction about some of the
big coaches who walked away with l's this weekend. We
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I always felt like this song sounded like like the
theme to the Monsters or you know, like it had
that campy here's a sixties TV show about monsters type themes,
you know, like, okay, so like a scary it was
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switching in the buff look at something like that. I
kind of that. Boris Pickett is a Boris Pickett. Yeah.
Wilson Pickett. No, No, Wilson Pickett, No, No, Kenny Pickett. Sorry,
Kenny Pickt, Hey we got all our picket Kenny Picket. Yeah,
Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett did the he did the backup
version of the too Much, Too Much? What do you
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hate him so much? I don't I was just right
about him. I was just right about Kenny Pickett and
his tiny little baby. But I feel I was right.
He hurt you. I was right, No, because it's not.
But it's it's you know, I just I just feel like,
look what I'm right, and I'm mainly right when when
a huge fan base just rises up against me telling
me how wrong I am because uh, you know, he
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actually led them on a big touchdown drive Week twelve
in the third quarter, So uh ha, you jerk, you
know what you're talking about. Yeah, I kind of feel
like I like to say, yeah, I was right about
any picking.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, But here's the question I have to keep asking,
And this goes back to, uh, just the Steelers of
the last half decade plus, how much of it is
uh well, the personnel versus the uh all the people
doing the coaching.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
At some point, you know, when you when you point
one finger at somebody else, there's four fingers pointing right
back at you.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Just keep coming back to the when offensively, just time
in again, you have the coordinative position and you're in the.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Bottom ten of total offense.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
How much of it is the player that you chose
versus the people a doing the picking and b doing
the coaching. Is you know, sir Arthur Smith suddenly going
to figure this out?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yes, oh the Smith, Yes, if you have the and
right now there's people for the first time going wait
point one thing. Oh, I see that four fingers a
point back? I see, yeah, see point I get it. Well,
you know now speaking of pointing fingers, hey, let's go
this Week one in college football saw a lot of
topsy turvinus. We saw big statements that were made by teams.
Clearly Georgia is as loaded as they were. Uh, whether
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this running back, it still doesn't matter. They roll on
Clemson and and Dabosweeney the last couple of days is
I look, I mean, I feel like the old Jeff
Fisher on the competition committee. You know, Dabosweeney doesn't use
the transfer portal. Yes, we all know this. It's it's
it's you're not breaking any new ground by saying this
in the last twenty four hours. You know, Dabo Sweeney
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doesn't use the trends. Yes, right. And and Ryan Fitzpatrick's
a smart quarterback. Yeah I get all this. And and yes,
and Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw played together that yeah,
all the this is not anything new, not anything no.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But but for debo, when it comes to this, you
get to just put it in a bigger fond because
the rules of engagement have changed, right and for a while.
And this goes back to what we were just talking
about when you're looking at Brian Kelly and week zero
in week one and losses there and how much it
gets magnified is you can get away with stuff for
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a while, right and maybe under the old rules you're
a heavyweight.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Guess what stuff change? Stuff changes? The rules of engagement
change nil actually matters.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Because remember in twenty twenty one we laughed about it
and laughed at him then saying, hey, you know, if
they start getting paid, I'll be doing something else. Guess
what you might be soon because that's now part of
the game that you have to navigate. You just can't
coach him up, expect folks to show up, no, and
think that it's gonna be good enough anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Look, the two biggest games of this weekend that we
can take a big look at the coaches from are
Clemson's huge loss to Georgia and Brian Kelly and LSU's
lost to USC Okay, because these are two coaches that
were paid tons of money in the last couple of years.
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Dabosweeney with the level of excellency had from Deshaun Watson
through Trevor Lawrence, which ended very abruptly with dj Yuiyanelee, like,
oh ko, now we're struggling. Now, now we're struggling. And
now Clemson has not really been a factor in four years.
And yes, there's a lot to go along with Dabosweeney
and not using the transfer portal. Yes, yes, I know,
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I know. Yes, he's just gonna be the latest head
coach to be the old school enough going. I don't
like this new level of college football. I'm not made
for this. And you have Brian Kelly, who LSU paid
a lot of money to say, all right, come here,
we're gonna buy you away from note today because we
have one hundred million dollars for you, come build our
program up. When melt Tucker got that money from Michigan
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State and Gus Johnson got him that money because of
the way he broadcast that that Michigan State went over Michigan,
that changed everything in college football. Then it was hey,
if we want a big time coach, we got one
hundred million dollars. Let's go get him right. It's how
Brian Kelly wound up there. It's how Lincoln Riley wound
up at USC. But now the question is gonna be
is wow, Brian Kelly three a lost year, a four
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loss year. Clearly, now we're looking at a year that
maybe another three or four lost year. This is not
what we brought him here for. Dabo Sweeney's got a
lot of money coming, got like nine million dollars a
year for the next few years. Oh my goodness, what's
gonna happen all this? Dabb on the broadcast booth, Dabbo here,
Brian Kelly here. The biggest reaction has been, well, these
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guys can't get fired because look at the money there. Owed.
When I see that, I just laugh, like, have we
not learned? All right? Because eventually and there's gonna be
different ways how they do it. But how many times
have we seen quarterbacks in the NFL? We are the
dead cap hit is where he's not getting moved. Dude,
you sound stupid when you say that when you say
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packers can't trade Aaron Rodgers, No money can always be
figured out. What are we seeing now? Quarterbacks that are
due so much money, and you count this in dead
cap and this is your dead yell, look at this,
Look at this dead capt You know what. Teams are
figuring it out. They don't care. Deshaun Watson's gonna be
a dead cap hit after this year because he stinks,
right They The Broncos figured it out with Russell Wilson,
The Packers figured out with Aaron Rodgers. All of these
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things can be figured out. Money can be figured out.
The salary cap is going up. Teams don't care, right Deshaun,
but he's doing eighty million. It doesn't matter, it doesn't
You can smooth everything, figure it out. Teams will figure
it out. And if you think that's not gonna happen
in college football, you're ridiculous because that is what schools
are going to figure out now, because I guarantee you
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that conversation is happening at Clemson, It's happening at LSU. Okay,
don't want to push the panic button too early here,
but what do we have to do if we want
to get out of this contract? And what do we
have to do? Will Will he agree to a buyout?
Because the one thing that schools have on there. On
their side is that Dabos Tweety doesn't want to go
to coach Clemson and just get drilled for the next
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five years because he won't go into the transfer portals
team is not good. He doesn't want to tarnish his
legacy of what he's done with a bunch of three
and nine seasons. Right, Brian Kelly doesn't want to sit
there at LSU and go, boy, they're only I'm only
sitting around here and eight nine and four. And like
Ed Oorserin won the national title and got fired two
years later, these guys, don't you had some stuff going
on in the It did not help this, but you
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say that you should. You would think a national title
would have would have given you but built you a
little bit more. But these guys, and I'm talking about
Sweeney and Kelly, think, well, they can't they can't fire him.
And I see well respected college football people that have
covered the sport for a long time ago, Well they're
not getting fired, dude. They can easily get fired. They
can figure out a buyout, they can figure out some
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kind of situation in which we're gonna pay you out.
And there's stuff that I'm not thinking of, and I'll
be the first one to tell you I'm sure. However,
teams want to figure out how to buy out coaches
like this. It may be away differently from what I'm thinking,
but I'll tell you one thing. Whatever that is, that's
what every other school is gonna use. If LSU figures
out a way which they will to buy out Brian
Kelly if they suck this year, If Clemson will figure
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out a way to buy out Dabosweeney or figure out
a parting of the ways, that's what every school is
going to do. They will figure out the money. These
guys are not tied to these schools forever just because
they signed a big deal. It's going to nil, It's
going to boosters and saying hey it's not working out.
You're not going to the same guy saying hey, I
know you gave us that twenty million dollars for Dabosweeney.
It didn't work. No, You're going to somebody else. It's like, Hey,
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I'm a big Clemson fan. I just became a billionaire
in the last five years because I invented an app
that invents apps. I want a great head coach. Hey,
you're the guy that's gonna give us thirty million dollars
for our next head coach. Like, that's how the business goes.
So it's not like you have to even worry about
a salary cap with the coach. It's just money and
schools are making and you have to make more money
by winning more games and making the playoff. If you
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think that that Brian Kelly and Dabos Sweeney are guys
that can't be fired and can't be replaced, that is
absolutely incorrect. It can happen at any time, and I'm
like I said, I'm sure there's conversation now, however exploratory
they are. You know what, it is one game into
the season. How crazy are we gonna go? I'd be
a little bit crazier for Clemson because wow, did they
look bad. But that's going to happen, and they're going
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to find a way to move on from these coaches.
These are not guys that are here and hey, you
better be good because if not, we're stuck with you
for eight years. No, it's not gonna happen. These guys
can be replaced and colleges will find a way to replace.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The big thing becomes the know what you are right
again owing to the earlier conversation Jim Harbaugh and Michigan,
we were trying to be the voices of reason for
those years ahead of the of the last three, the
Stallions era as it's been dubbed by some, and where
Michigan suddenly was back to that place of prominence. You're
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an eight and nine win team most years, maybe the ten,
and Jim Harbaugh gave you a nice consistency. Remember before
the run up what happened. People were looking to fire
Jim Harbaugh. What's he done? What's he won? All of
those things, remembering.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Who you are, right.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
You got a Lloyd car season, and you got a
Boat chem Beckler season, and then you got a lot
of years where you're trading on your name, on your history,
your size, your large s, and people's love of the
Maze and Blue. But you weren't a perennial powerhouse by
any measure. Maybe fighting for some big ten titles along
the way, but not one that you're saying, Wow, they're
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the powerhouse, right, go chase down Michigan for much of
their run, and LSU's had some of that.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, we look in in the history under last Miles.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You talk about Ojeron, go back to when Nick Saban
was back with the program. You had years of dominance,
but you also had a lot of eight nine win
seasons mixed therein as well.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And so it becomes say, all.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Right, what are what's expectation, what's reality? What's delusional? For
Clemson a couple of titles under under Dabbo, some great years. Well,
the rest of their schedule for this year, and I
know they look terrible, but that's Georgia and George is
a monster.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, I mean, look, it clearly could be. Hey, you
just had bad luck. That's the one. Look at the
rest of Georgia. You know they had two more ranked
opponents on their schedule the rest of the year. Is
Miami one of them?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, the rest of their schedule they have North Carolina
State and the team that will not be ranked after
getting run over the first few weeks of this season,
Florida State. And that's early October. Otherwise, I mean, I
guess Louisville we circle as a maybe they're gonna be
good and maybe they're they're gonna be at the but.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Right now those are the only two ranked teams before
this But but what's good now for for Clemson, like four,
that's not good enough but.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Potentially, But that's the question, right recognizing who you are
versus you know, delusional fan based delusional we.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Know who we are? No, No, you really don't know
we do?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, But like are you? Is nine wins enough? Is
ten wins enough?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Because legitimately this is like one of the outliers to
the Week one loss is that you did face Georgia
and almost everybody's gonna get sunned by Georgia in the
current college football world.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
For Dabo sweety and and Clemson, the R E.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
L A X Aaron Rodgers thing of relax most teams
like no, but for Dabbo and them might actually be
legit because you might be able to run most of
the game. You might lose one more here, but you
might still be a back end playoff team when this
is all said and done. Now how he does business?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, dude, you lose Week one like this all of
a sudden, all the other teams you're gonna beat, You're
gonna win every game the rest of the state, state.
But then, but then what's gonna happen? Who are you
gonna have to play?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, I'm not saying you won't get crushed in a
playoffs okay, no, no, but even to get there, right
because eventually you're gonna run into Miami, you know, and
even if you don't play an over season, you're gonna
run a title game and they're gonna work you.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Cam Ward is better than he was with the Hurricanes,
and he wont a Stanley Cup. There is he is fantastic.
This kid is unreal.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But but again, just to the point of for Brian Kelly,
I think there's there's a lot more uh potential for
him because there's a lot more poison mends for him.
I think around college football, then there is necessarily for Dabbo.
People still like Dabbo. No, and they'll show him from
a good will kind of thing, right, you won't have
(29:38):
the wolves at the door.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Next. The conversations are starting to happen because after week one, Okay,
how shameful is it that lsu blew a game to USC. Well,
if US turns out to be good and they may
be all right, maybe that's not so bad. And the
same thing if Georgia just seems to be that far
better than everybody. Okay, So I'm not saying, hey, push
that panic button now, but there's gotta be stuff put
(30:00):
in motion where Okay, if this is another down year,
this is another four loss year for LSU and Brian Kelly.
If this is another year where Dabosweeney is going on
I don't know, no portal, no, no, then you have
to look and say, all right, maybe Dabosweeney just hit
it big with two great college quarterback had run. Now
we can't get the quarterbacks right. What's happening right? You
(30:21):
guys might have had some outliers. You can replace what
your program portends itself to be. You can get out
of that money. You can get out of that money.
Dabosweeney can be done after this year, so can Brian Kelly.
You're living up here, but you really, Yeah, you're mad,
you're living You're living down with Billy Napier. Is that
you're living?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I think dabos can still open a water bottle. Yeah, no, yeah,
but Napier's not even making it to October.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It right now? A guy who said I just want
to make it to October so I can see the
w NBA playoffs, it's specially delivery. Steve to say let's
go with what's trending in the wide world of sports,
say said no one, but okay, you keep betting the
Vegas Aces and they keep not covering for you. Hey,
keep betting Caitlyn Clark and her assist total. Yeah, she's
(31:06):
over consistently.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
WNBA off tonight. And for those NBA fans, you realize
we are less than a month until all the training
camps are due to open.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
We are into the first weekend of September and already
Florida State is out of it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
If you haven't heard the show today, they've officially been eliminating.
The late season has arrhyved, the Gators coach.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Also this from Associated Press, Florida State and Florida both
lost at home by double digits in the same week
for the first time in over fifty years this weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, and remember the Florida State the opening loss that
was a conference game. It was Georgia Tech with the
last second field goal in Dublin. This was a home
conference loss to Boston College twenty eight to thirteen, which means,
aside from the COVID year in twenty twenty, Florida State's
the first team in almost twenty years to start a
season with back to back conference losses. Florida States offense
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went three and out on its first three drives tonight,
then got a couple of field goals, but by early
third quarter BC was up twenty one to six. A
reminder this Saturday on Fox TV Texas at Michigan noon
Eastern time.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Steve, do you have a Do you have Matt Ryan's
full stats for Boston College tonight? Mad? You have his stats?
Four touchdowns? Is that what it was for tonight?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Actually, I think Florida State could use Matt Ryan like
the current Matt Ryan compared to what we saw out there.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Hey, can we call if he's got eligibility left?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Maybe? Man, just maybe.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase miss practice again, wanting a
new contract. Dolphins wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
each practice fully after being limited last week. Vikings wide
receiver Jordan Addison practiced after an ankle injury. Steelers running
back Jalen Warren participated in individual drills and says he'll
join team drills on Wednesday after his hand amstring injury.
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Jessica Paula won her fourth round match at the US Open.
Women's number one Egis Fiontek was a winner tonight, and
there's of course late night tennis in New York. Men's
number one Yonick Sinner has won the first two sets
in tie breakers against American Tommy Paul and center's up
three to one in the third. Cubs and White Sox
to mention as we get to baseball, the White Sox
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have lost eleven in a row. They dropped a thirteen
to three decision at Baltimore. The losing pitcher, Chris Flexen,
is now two and fourteen on the season. Gunner Henderson
hit his thirty fourth homer since the All Star Break.
The White Sox record is four and thirty seven. Meanwhile,
the cub good not good. Just for the record, need
cliff notes thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The Bears have twice as many captains as the White Sox.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
In the last Yeah, okay, the Cubs have won six
or had one six in a row. Thinking playoffs, of course,
who's gonna catch the Mets. Let's be honest about this.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs five three, even though the Cubbies
led three to nothing going to the eighth inning. Tonight.
How's this from stat syc. The last time the Cubs
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were up three nothing or better in the eighth inning
or letter or later at Wrigley and then blew the
lead all in one inning and lost was the Bartman
game in the two thousand.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
And three against the Martins.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
That's how the Cubs gagged at rugily tonight late game
to the Yankees, winning eight to four at Texas, Garrett
cole to win. Cleveland and Minnesota with victories Dodgers and
Padres got wins. The Mets have won five straight, beat
Boston four to one, and Oakland with a solo homer
bottom of the ninth edge Seattle five to four.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Speaker 2 (35:16):
I gotta dig that.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, uh, I'll tell you what Week one of college football.
And I always feel bad because Week one of college
football is treated with so much attention. It's so great,
and then the NFL starts like, yeah, yeah, we got tea,
we'll get to you, all right, we got to That's
all right, we got the week one. But let me
tell you the team that I after. Even I know
(35:37):
it's one game, and I realized potentially on being prisoner
of the moment, but there are so many things that
I liked about what they did. I am in on
them as a playoff team. Okay, partially because of what
they do, partially because I think it's going to be
a bit of a down year in their conference. But
I am in on USC as a playoff team, look
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at you, which sounds crazy, right. They lose Caleb Williams,
they're replacing him. Lincoln Riley have not been smooth, He's
fought with reporters. It's not been great. Potentially another bad season.
They're buying out Lincoln Riley, at least telling them you
can't find the private you know, the plane anymore. But
that game last night against LSU, the three things that
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jumped out at me was that USC number one is
a better defensive team than they've been in the last
Not great because still LSU was able to move the
football on them, but they are much better. They tackled better.
They you know, they were able to pressure exactly. They
were able to make make LSU have to extend drives
(36:44):
and and make very timely plays. So I was really
impressed with how well they played defensively. Again, they rolled
up a lot. They didn't let him run the football,
and that was a big thing. We're going to run
the ball. We had run the football. I was like, whoa,
that was a thing. You couldn't run the football.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And there was a lot of chatter and I was actually,
my daughter had a soccer tournament this weekend. In one
of the conversations we were having before kickoff, they were
trying to figure out where they were gonna watch it
and everything else. Hopefully they found someplace that didn't have
direct TV so they were able to actually wait, sorry,
find a place down the street. But they were all excited,
you know, talking about going to some events and just
(37:21):
talking to the strength coach and all the breakdown of
what they did, how much muscle these guys all put
on in weight they put on to forty five getting
ready for Big Ten play, and it showed up in
Week one.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
They're gonna be a big problem because it's gonna be
a bit of a down year in the Big Ten.
Right Like Michigan doesn't look like they're gonna be what
they were last year. They don't look like they'd be
anything close to last year. You got questions about IOWA.
Was sure, yes, Ohio States is the big gun in
the conference, but USC showing that they can get past
the Caleb Williams era, and now you're in the Miller
(37:53):
Moss era. And he was so impressive last night. We
saw him in the bowl game and you started thinking, Okay,
maybe USC isn't completely screwed with Kayleb Williams going, because
boy was he good. Great decisions, He's accurate, and he's calm.
He is calm under pressure. He delivers the football well,
(38:13):
there was no point where I saw him any kind
of happy feet. He stayed in the pocket, he was
able to throw the ball in the tight windows like
Miller Moss is legit. He is absolutely legit. And Kyen
Hudson is just freaking uber talented. Like you're talking about
who's the next great receipt, it's Kyen Hudson. A couple
of those catches he made, but the you know, obviously
(38:34):
he made the big one handed one. You're like, oh
my goodness. But that catch that he made that set
up the game winning field goal when he is between
two guys knowing he's going to get drilled, and the
ball is out in front of him and he's able
to reach out with one hand and pull it in
and hold on to it after a helmet to helmet
hit Like that, What a stud play that was. And
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he gets up and he and he a good, good thing.
He was okay, And they made the right call, unlike
how they missed it in Colorado game, but they made
the right call. Moving up fifteen yards was a targeting play.
But seeing how USC navigated the end of that game.
And yes, they usually do start well and Lincoln Riley's
team start well, but this had a different feel. This
had a we are a much better team than the
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last couple of years where it's been hey, we're just
gonna try to score fifty points a game, and if
we win fifty to forty eight, that's fine. They still
have the talent on offense, and I can't again, I
can't tell you I'm pressed. I was with Moss and
is slowing the game down under pressure. But you see
the talent, the talent of Udson and the defense like
this is a different USC team.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
No, just the physicality of it from the defensive side.
I'm going to stay in the Big Ten and a team.
When we were making notes last week and we're talking
about surprise playoff teams, I actually circled Nebraska staying in
the Big Ten. Now it's going to take Scott Frost
is never going to send you a Christmas card. Now
you're picking them. He is never going to send you Christmas.
I sent him home. Remember he got fired after losing
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the Northwest. But you look at the game this week,
Roola looks the part. They put up a big point total,
obviously a huge matchup this week. You mentioned Colorado briefly
talking about I have no doubt after that game and
that miss targeting call that every officiating crew got a
notice saying you throw the flag and we will review
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it as opposed to maybe not. But yeah, tough road
for them along the way because they will have to
go to Ohio State and you do have dates with USC,
your squad and Iowa in the final month of the season.
That's where it gets interesting. Ohio State and then UCLA.
You know, they're in Los Angeles, that game in Nebraska
(40:44):
at USC in the middle of November. And then they've
got Wisconsin, who doesn't look like the usual Wisconsin, but
you never count them out.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
They could.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
They could muddy up a game just as well as anybody.
And then finally at Iowa to finish the season. And
they're a team that I can sit because the offense
has to be better than it's been, right, and it
was good, right and.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well they had they had three touchdown catches from wide
receivers in their opening game and they had two all
of last year. And all it took was Kirk Ference
to be suspended for the game. You know, I like
I well, I just the very interesting overall what USC
was able to do. And here they are in a new,
new new season and no one's familiar with them. You're
all you don't know them year to year like the
(41:27):
Big Ten schools know each other. I'm in on usc man.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It's excited to see physicality on the defense. It's the
thing we've been clamoring on watching this team for years.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
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is a final. Boston College has defeated Florida State the
tenth rank seminoles. We'regona linn say they're not going to
be in the top twenty five. Wait, you know when
the new polls come out, because they don't. This bowl
got delayed to wait for them to lose it. That's wait, okay, uh.
They are the first team to be ranked in the
top ten to be favored in their first two games
(01:12):
by double digits and lose them both. All right, they
were favored by double digits in both of these games,
Georgia Tech and Dublin. This game tonight at home against
Boston College. Boston College kneeling down at the end, showing
mercy to Florida State. And and this is it's stunning
for a team that just a few months ago was
at the top of the college football world. And the
(01:34):
main thing that this is gonna mean for for everybody
Florida State. Hey, this is just gonna make those fans
even more pissed that they didn't make the playoff last year.
We're gonna start o it too. You just could have
put us in even without Jordan Travis. We had a
great game, we had a great team. We still didn't
make the player. Now we stak you could at least
put us in there. We knew this crap was gonna
happen to us.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I feel bad for long though, I mean because
he's gonna wear it fully as opposed to the fact
that they gave up what was it, two hundred and
sixty three rushing yards fifty three attempts.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, you had three guys running for at least seventy
yards in the game. I mean Boston College. That from
the passing game castianos ten of sixteen, one hundred and
six yards, two touchdowns. Yeah, but you get run over,
Like that's a whole other indictment of where your program is.
This is like, this is like looking at a box
score of a team that played against Nebraska in the eighties.
That's right, and they would have like three guys with
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one hundred yards rushing. Turner Gill would be like four
of six passing the football, but we ran for four
hundred yards. But yeah, that like watching this game. They
just got bludgeoned from pillar to post.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And it's back to back weeks, obviously, the loss in Ireland,
and then you come back here in a game you're
heavily favorite. I think the money line was minus eight
fifty one point, so you're talking the spread open to
twenty one moves because of what we saw a little
bit of hesitance after the loss overseas, and now you
(03:01):
come back here and you get absolutely worked. This game
was never closed, right, No, they made it at least
an interesting game, right, It got interesting for a minute,
but it was the momentary, because we commented on it
last hour. Right the at fourteen nil, the announcers were basically,
it's gotta have touchdown drives.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Like no, no, no, you can chip away.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You just need to, you know, show some intestinal fortitude
at the line of scrimmage and stopped giving up chunky
yardage on every run. Well, that didn't happen. That didn't happen.
Passing game couldn't click, and there were a few moments
where it started to at least look like more of
a game. But just as soon as Florida State showed
(03:45):
some signs of life, Boston College had the answer.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's week two and Florida State, who was a top
five team coming into the season, has already been eliminated
from the play. Yeah, it's a final, they're already, they're done,
They've already congratulations longer. Hey, I can't just win the division. No,
you can't even go to the eliminated you know, And
that and that's that's the one big thing, the one
(04:12):
big misconception from Week one of college football is this
is that I know that that big teams, when they
lose unexpectedly, they want to try to paint a rosy
picture on things. Okay, it's a long season. Hey, we're
twelve teams in the playoffs. Now, okay, maybe let let
let's let's stay with your preseason. A lot of change.
(04:32):
We don't know who we are. Yeah, if you lose
the first week of the season, you're done. You're not
making the playoffs. Because if you lose the first week
of the season, whoever you lose against, if you lose
against a good team, it means you're not as good
as that good team. And if you lose against a
bad team, it means you're not as good as you
think you are. Now forget about even two loss and
two lows of Florida State. It's like they are tanking
(04:54):
now for arch Manning's little brother, right, They're they're taking
for the for the other man in uh now they're
in the in the lead. Now, hey, they could even
lead for arch Manning if Quinn you weers good. But anyway,
they're taking for the next Manning kid. That's where they are.
But the biggest misconception is that, oh we lose week one,
everything is still fight. No, you're done if you lose.
But if you're Florida, if you're LSU because one more
(05:17):
loss and you're out. No, you're in panic. But the way,
but the way that pundits and experts and coaches want
to say, yeah, but if we run the table, nobody
runs the table. They make it sound so that twelve thirteen,
fourteen weeks of football and all the hard work, everything's
gonna go their way, and what if we run the table.
(05:37):
Like it's the most stupid. It's the stupidest thing to say.
If they run. Yeah, if you can run the table
with three games left, all right, I say, but like
you're talking after oh and one, if we run the table,
we're good at augh, we can run the No, you're done,
You're done. You hose week one, you are finished. You
are not even with twelve teams. You are not going
to be a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Sorry, I'm trying to go glass half full and saying, hey,
you still think you have a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Got to be realistic, man, somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I mean, you could look at the rest of their
schedule and say, hey, you might be able to uh
go on skin. The problem is you've now put your
back against the wall after one week. No, like there
is no margin for error, and that's it. At this point.
You haven't had a bunch of injuries. You have it
like all of those things that pop up over the
course of the season. This is you know here, look
(06:23):
that you're assuming you're gonna have a perfect run from here.
Oh this was the hiccup.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh wait, they got us. This is okay. Let me say,
when I was growing up, the biggest thing that I
could do wrong in my house, well I can live
with my grandparents growing up, was if I forgot to
take the garbage out. Okay, yeah, you've mentioned Okay, that
was the thing my grandfather was if you if he
asked you to take the garbage out and you forgot,
that was the worst thing the This is the likelihood
(06:46):
that you think about about running the table when it's
oh we lose week one, we're still in it. This
is like if my grandfather said to me, okay for
the next four months. Okay, if you fail to take
the garbage out twice when I ask you, you're grounded
for the next six months. You're grounded from January until
(07:08):
you finish school in June. Whoa wha. But if I twice,
I'll give you one free one, I'll give you one.
But then if I have to ask you take the
garbage out twice, and you forget, then you're grounded. Okay,
And then the very first time he asked me, I forget.
So now it's the beginning of September, and I have
one more time to forget to take the garbage out
(07:31):
the rest of the way, and if I fail to
do it, then I'm grounded for the six months after that.
Am I really gonna go the next six months? I'm
really gonna go all the way through until December, remembering
to take the garbage out every single time. Of course not,
of course not. I've already forgotten the very first time
he said, take the garbage out. Okay, pop, put on
my shoes and walk out without the garbage. Okay, now
(07:52):
I have no more I have no more rope, I
have no more cache. He that's it, And this is
just something that simple. You lose your first game, you're
gonna win every other game. You just lost the first game,
You're gonna win every other game.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, the behavioral change and the coaching them up. Like
the players are not changing out at this point, right,
You're not suddenly having Hey, here's a week three transfer
that's gonna come fortify your offensive or defensive line, because
clearly now after two games, I think we could say
Florida State doesn't have enough guys up front on either
side that's gonna get them to the Promised Land. Defensively,
(08:27):
they are not going to have enough to stop opposing
running games. So yeah, long season for Norvell and company.
That way, still hold out hope, maybe though it might
be vastly diminished having watched some of these squads. Mean
Brian Kelly and ls, you know, I mean after the
(08:47):
fake tirade, I mean, how excitable am I there?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Not at all?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And some of it goes back to the arguments we
had years ago when everybody was trying to bury Jim Harry,
and it was you got to remember who are what
you are right. You might have had a great run
up and you might have had a period of great success.
You know, they talk about life and seasons. If we
want to go into you know, the way you talk
about things, maybe from a religious standpoint or whatever, the
(09:18):
seasons of your life. And for we bring Dabo Sweeney
into this. You know with Clemson is you had a
good run, but you got to remember who you are right.
You weren't a perennial powerhouse, like this is not a
traditional monstrous program that you had a few years where
things worked and then sometimes you get kicked right back
(09:39):
in the face and sand is you know, kicked in
your face like the old cartoon that used to be
at the back of like comic books and stuff. Right,
it's like, hey, you know, go order Jack Llane's workout videos.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Go look it up.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's still there. I think they've just changed it to
somebody else at this point as the figurehead there. But
like recognizing where you at, where you stand in the
pantheon of great programs, and particularly in a changing environment
here of have you done enough to acclimate to the
new environment? Even if they expand the playoffs, are you
(10:11):
good enough?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
If it was the NFL, it's different because they're much
more forgiving. And this is why college football still, even
with adding an extra team in has the best regular
season of any sport because there is so much on
every game. That's it, right, twelve teams, so much on
every game. You can go to sixteen, yeah, you go,
(10:36):
don't You can go to twenty four yeah, because you
still have so many teams, so many battles and the
War of attrition. No one's getting in with three losses anywhere,
no one's getting Hey, look here's a nine and four
teen unless they make a rule where if you win
the conference, you get in and if something happens, you
have a crazy record, but you and because we've seen
(10:56):
it before, where hey, look here's Alabama playing the SEC
championship game against you know, Mississippi, who is you know,
seven and five or whatever? You see it in the
Big Ten sometimes as some of the weird divs, unless that,
like you know, you see Iowa playing Michigan last year.
That's the only way, right. That's why college football has
the best regular season by far if any sport doesn't matter,
any sport, because there's so much at stake every single week.
(11:19):
And to want to dismiss it, I understand the coaches
want to do it, but get that if you lost
Week one, you're cooked.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Just have the best season that you can continue to go.
Don't think about long term because you're not going to
be in the playoffs. I know you want to think that, Oh,
there's so many more slots up there, there's so many
more golden tickets I could get either, it's not happening
for you why disppen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I think a lot of adjacent comes back to recognizing
human nature and the idea being able to be singularly focused, right,
because you look at it as the long view of
we can do this and we still have a puncher's chance, right,
we can still make the playoff, and we've got to
be perfect. And then it goes back to the old
(12:00):
philosophy of I gotta go one and oh today, rights,
it's just one game at a time, but human nature
is not to look at it that way. It's the
series of I've got eleven more games on my schedule
or twelve plus a conference title game, all of those
things that can decide whether I'm in and out in
or out for Florida State. Yeah, there's gonna be a
lot more lamentation and handwringing about we got screwed, we
(12:22):
should have still been allowed to go to the dance
last year, and it's all your fault because you got
to direct that outrage somewhere. But the ability to just
be consistent, like that's where most of us fail at
some point in all in our lives. We all have
that one thing right, all right, I'm gonna be consistent
I'm gonna go to the gym, all right, you shoot
(12:45):
for three days a week, as opposed to I'm gonna
do this every day for the next ninety going back
to your grandpa of hey, you got to take out
the trash for four straight months.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Consistency is where we fail, right, which is why dieting
in fad diets don't work. It's why you know, if
you're a B student, you're not suddenly gonna figure it
out and become a straight a guy.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I fail the first test. I'm getting a's on all
the restaurant. No, no, no, I recognize now she's asking
me questions. Now I figured it out. I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, trying to go from an F to a C
and then a sea to a beat, and we'll see
where we're at. You talking about no steps not gonna
happen week to week. It's a all right one. It's
a one game playoff each and every week here after.
That's a lot of pressure on what are still young
men going out and playing these games.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Uh. The stress of that, the chatter, especially now in
an nil world, like that resonance, that noise locally gets
a lot louder after one loss than maybe it did
even two three years.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Ago eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Live the
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it's over. You lose week two. You're waiting for the
next man and kid. You're wait, You're waiting, You're wit,
You're waiting. I don't know if there's any more. Maybe
there will be a dead but if hey, this year,
(14:12):
maybe you clinch that. You clinch that thing. Gotta go
figure that out. Yeah, what's the next blood? The blood? Lie,
what's the next w It's a bloodline to get the
next man and kid? Come on, please? Uh coming up next? Yes,
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You want a Big Bowl prediction about some of the
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(14:34):
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Speaker 1 (16:06):
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I always felt like this song sounded like like the
theme to the Monsters or you know, like it had
that campy here's a sixties TV show about monsters type themes,
you know, like, okay, so like a scary it was
(16:29):
switching in the buff look at something like that. I
kind of that. Boris Pickett is a Boris Pickett. Yeah.
Wilson Pickett. No, No, Wilson Pickett, No, No, Kenny Pickett. Sorry,
Kenny Pickt, Hey we got all our picket Kenny Picket. Yeah,
Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett did the he did the backup
version of the too Much, Too Much? What do you
(16:50):
hate him so much? I don't I was just right
about him. I was just right about Kenny Pickett and
his tiny little baby. But I feel I was right.
He hurt you. I was right, No, because it's not.
But it's it's you know, I just I just feel like,
look what I'm right, and I'm mainly right when when
a huge fan base just rises up against me telling
me how wrong I am because uh, you know, he
(17:11):
actually led them on a big touchdown drive Week twelve
in the third quarter, So uh ha, you jerk, you
know what you're talking about. Yeah, I kind of feel
like I like to say, yeah, I was right about
any picking.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, But here's the question I have to keep asking,
And this goes back to, uh, just the Steelers of
the last half decade plus, how much of it is
uh well, the personnel versus the uh all the people
doing the coaching.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
At some point, you know, when you when you point
one finger at somebody else, there's four fingers pointing right
back at you.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Just keep coming back to the when offensively, just time
in again, you have the coordinative position and you're in the.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Bottom ten of total offense.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
How much of it is the player that you chose
versus the people a doing the picking and b doing
the coaching. Is you know, sir Arthur Smith suddenly going
to figure this out?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yes, oh the Smith, Yes, if you have the and
right now there's people for the first time going wait
point one thing. Oh, I see that four fingers a
point back? I see, yeah, see point I get it. Well,
you know now speaking of pointing fingers, hey, let's go
this Week one in college football saw a lot of
topsy turvinus. We saw big statements that were made by teams.
Clearly Georgia is as loaded as they were. Uh, whether
(18:27):
this running back, it still doesn't matter. They roll on
Clemson and and Dabosweeney the last couple of days is
I look, I mean, I feel like the old Jeff
Fisher on the competition committee. You know, Dabosweeney doesn't use
the transfer portal. Yes, we all know this. It's it's
it's you're not breaking any new ground by saying this
in the last twenty four hours. You know, Dabo Sweeney
(18:47):
doesn't use the trends. Yes, right. And and Ryan Fitzpatrick's
a smart quarterback. Yeah I get all this. And and yes,
and Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw played together that yeah,
all the this is not anything new, not anything no.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But but for debo, when it comes to this, you
get to just put it in a bigger fond because
the rules of engagement have changed, right and for a while.
And this goes back to what we were just talking
about when you're looking at Brian Kelly and week zero
in week one and losses there and how much it
gets magnified is you can get away with stuff for
(19:21):
a while, right and maybe under the old rules you're
a heavyweight.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Guess what stuff change? Stuff changes? The rules of engagement
change nil actually matters.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Because remember in twenty twenty one we laughed about it
and laughed at him then saying, hey, you know, if
they start getting paid, I'll be doing something else. Guess
what you might be soon because that's now part of
the game that you have to navigate. You just can't
coach him up, expect folks to show up, no, and
think that it's gonna be good enough anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Look, the two biggest games of this weekend that we
can take a big look at the coaches from are
Clemson's huge loss to Georgia and Brian Kelly and LSU's
lost to USC Okay, because these are two coaches that
were paid tons of money in the last couple of years.
(20:18):
Dabosweeney with the level of excellency had from Deshaun Watson
through Trevor Lawrence, which ended very abruptly with dj Yuiyanelee, like,
oh ko, now we're struggling. Now, now we're struggling. And
now Clemson has not really been a factor in four years.
And yes, there's a lot to go along with Dabosweeney
and not using the transfer portal. Yes, yes, I know,
(20:40):
I know. Yes, he's just gonna be the latest head
coach to be the old school enough going. I don't
like this new level of college football. I'm not made
for this. And you have Brian Kelly, who LSU paid
a lot of money to say, all right, come here,
we're gonna buy you away from note today because we
have one hundred million dollars for you, come build our
program up. When melt Tucker got that money from Michigan
(21:02):
State and Gus Johnson got him that money because of
the way he broadcast that that Michigan State went over Michigan,
that changed everything in college football. Then it was hey,
if we want a big time coach, we got one
hundred million dollars. Let's go get him right. It's how
Brian Kelly wound up there. It's how Lincoln Riley wound
up at USC. But now the question is gonna be
is wow, Brian Kelly three a lost year, a four
(21:25):
loss year. Clearly, now we're looking at a year that
maybe another three or four lost year. This is not
what we brought him here for. Dabo Sweeney's got a
lot of money coming, got like nine million dollars a
year for the next few years. Oh my goodness, what's
gonna happen all this? Dabb on the broadcast booth, Dabbo here,
Brian Kelly here. The biggest reaction has been, well, these
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guys can't get fired because look at the money there. Owed.
When I see that, I just laugh, like, have we
not learned? All right? Because eventually and there's gonna be
different ways how they do it. But how many times
have we seen quarterbacks in the NFL? We are the
dead cap hit is where he's not getting moved. Dude,
you sound stupid when you say that when you say
(22:09):
packers can't trade Aaron Rodgers, No money can always be
figured out. What are we seeing now? Quarterbacks that are
due so much money, and you count this in dead
cap and this is your dead yell, look at this,
Look at this dead capt You know what. Teams are
figuring it out. They don't care. Deshaun Watson's gonna be
a dead cap hit after this year because he stinks,
right They The Broncos figured it out with Russell Wilson,
The Packers figured out with Aaron Rodgers. All of these
(22:32):
things can be figured out. Money can be figured out.
The salary cap is going up. Teams don't care, right Deshaun,
but he's doing eighty million. It doesn't matter, it doesn't
You can smooth everything, figure it out. Teams will figure
it out. And if you think that's not gonna happen
in college football, you're ridiculous because that is what schools
are going to figure out now, because I guarantee you
(22:53):
that conversation is happening at Clemson, It's happening at LSU. Okay,
don't want to push the panic button too early here,
but what do we have to do if we want
to get out of this contract? And what do we
have to do? Will Will he agree to a buyout?
Because the one thing that schools have on there. On
their side is that Dabos Tweety doesn't want to go
to coach Clemson and just get drilled for the next
(23:15):
five years because he won't go into the transfer portals
team is not good. He doesn't want to tarnish his
legacy of what he's done with a bunch of three
and nine seasons. Right, Brian Kelly doesn't want to sit
there at LSU and go, boy, they're only I'm only
sitting around here and eight nine and four. And like
Ed Oorserin won the national title and got fired two
years later, these guys, don't you had some stuff going
on in the It did not help this, but you
(23:37):
say that you should. You would think a national title
would have would have given you but built you a
little bit more. But these guys, and I'm talking about
Sweeney and Kelly, think, well, they can't they can't fire him.
And I see well respected college football people that have
covered the sport for a long time ago, Well they're
not getting fired, dude. They can easily get fired. They
can figure out a buyout, they can figure out some
(23:57):
kind of situation in which we're gonna pay you out.
And there's stuff that I'm not thinking of, and I'll
be the first one to tell you I'm sure. However,
teams want to figure out how to buy out coaches
like this. It may be away differently from what I'm thinking,
but I'll tell you one thing. Whatever that is, that's
what every other school is gonna use. If LSU figures
out a way which they will to buy out Brian
Kelly if they suck this year, If Clemson will figure
(24:20):
out a way to buy out Dabosweeney or figure out
a parting of the ways, that's what every school is
going to do. They will figure out the money. These
guys are not tied to these schools forever just because
they signed a big deal. It's going to nil, It's
going to boosters and saying hey it's not working out.
You're not going to the same guy saying hey, I
know you gave us that twenty million dollars for Dabosweeney.
It didn't work. No, You're going to somebody else. It's like, Hey,
(24:42):
I'm a big Clemson fan. I just became a billionaire
in the last five years because I invented an app
that invents apps. I want a great head coach. Hey,
you're the guy that's gonna give us thirty million dollars
for our next head coach. Like, that's how the business goes.
So it's not like you have to even worry about
a salary cap with the coach. It's just money and
schools are making and you have to make more money
by winning more games and making the playoff. If you
(25:04):
think that that Brian Kelly and Dabos Sweeney are guys
that can't be fired and can't be replaced, that is
absolutely incorrect. It can happen at any time, and I'm
like I said, I'm sure there's conversation now, however exploratory
they are. You know what, it is one game into
the season. How crazy are we gonna go? I'd be
a little bit crazier for Clemson because wow, did they
look bad. But that's going to happen, and they're going
(25:27):
to find a way to move on from these coaches.
These are not guys that are here and hey, you
better be good because if not, we're stuck with you
for eight years. No, it's not gonna happen. These guys
can be replaced and colleges will find a way to replace.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The big thing becomes the know what you are right
again owing to the earlier conversation Jim Harbaugh and Michigan,
we were trying to be the voices of reason for
those years ahead of the of the last three, the
Stallions era as it's been dubbed by some, and where
Michigan suddenly was back to that place of prominence. You're
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an eight and nine win team most years, maybe the ten,
and Jim Harbaugh gave you a nice consistency. Remember before
the run up what happened. People were looking to fire
Jim Harbaugh. What's he done? What's he won? All of
those things, remembering.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Who you are, right.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
You got a Lloyd car season, and you got a
Boat chem Beckler season, and then you got a lot
of years where you're trading on your name, on your history,
your size, your large s, and people's love of the
Maze and Blue. But you weren't a perennial powerhouse by
any measure. Maybe fighting for some big ten titles along
the way, but not one that you're saying, Wow, they're
(26:37):
the powerhouse, right, go chase down Michigan for much of
their run, and LSU's had some of that.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, we look in in the history under last Miles.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You talk about Ojeron, go back to when Nick Saban
was back with the program. You had years of dominance,
but you also had a lot of eight nine win
seasons mixed therein as well.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And so it becomes say, all.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Right, what are what's expectation, what's reality? What's delusional? For
Clemson a couple of titles under under Dabbo, some great years. Well,
the rest of their schedule for this year, and I
know they look terrible, but that's Georgia and George is
a monster.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, I mean, look, it clearly could be. Hey, you
just had bad luck. That's the one. Look at the
rest of Georgia. You know they had two more ranked
opponents on their schedule the rest of the year. Is
Miami one of them?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, the rest of their schedule they have North Carolina
State and the team that will not be ranked after
getting run over the first few weeks of this season,
Florida State. And that's early October. Otherwise, I mean, I
guess Louisville we circle as a maybe they're gonna be
good and maybe they're they're gonna be at the but.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Right now those are the only two ranked teams before
this But but what's good now for for Clemson, like four,
that's not good enough but.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Potentially, But that's the question, right recognizing who you are
versus you know, delusional fan based delusional we.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Know who we are? No, No, you really don't know
we do?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, But like are you? Is nine wins enough? Is
ten wins enough?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Because legitimately this is like one of the outliers to
the Week one loss is that you did face Georgia
and almost everybody's gonna get sunned by Georgia in the
current college football world.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
For Dabo sweety and and Clemson, the R E.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
L A X Aaron Rodgers thing of relax most teams
like no, but for Dabbo and them might actually be
legit because you might be able to run most of
the game. You might lose one more here, but you
might still be a back end playoff team when this
is all said and done. Now how he does business?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, dude, you lose Week one like this all of
a sudden, all the other teams you're gonna beat, You're
gonna win every game the rest of the state, state.
But then, but then what's gonna happen? Who are you
gonna have to play?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, I'm not saying you won't get crushed in a
playoffs okay, no, no, but even to get there, right
because eventually you're gonna run into Miami, you know, and
even if you don't play an over season, you're gonna
run a title game and they're gonna work you.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Cam Ward is better than he was with the Hurricanes,
and he wont a Stanley Cup. There is he is fantastic.
This kid is unreal.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But but again, just to the point of for Brian Kelly,
I think there's there's a lot more uh potential for
him because there's a lot more poison mends for him.
I think around college football, then there is necessarily for Dabbo.
People still like Dabbo. No, and they'll show him from
a good will kind of thing, right, you won't have
(29:38):
the wolves at the door.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Next. The conversations are starting to happen because after week one, Okay,
how shameful is it that lsu blew a game to USC. Well,
if US turns out to be good and they may
be all right, maybe that's not so bad. And the
same thing if Georgia just seems to be that far
better than everybody. Okay, So I'm not saying, hey, push
that panic button now, but there's gotta be stuff put
(30:00):
in motion where Okay, if this is another down year,
this is another four loss year for LSU and Brian Kelly.
If this is another year where Dabosweeney is going on
I don't know, no portal, no, no, then you have
to look and say, all right, maybe Dabosweeney just hit
it big with two great college quarterback had run. Now
we can't get the quarterbacks right. What's happening right? You
(30:21):
guys might have had some outliers. You can replace what
your program portends itself to be. You can get out
of that money. You can get out of that money.
Dabosweeney can be done after this year, so can Brian Kelly.
You're living up here, but you really, Yeah, you're mad,
you're living You're living down with Billy Napier. Is that
you're living?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I think dabos can still open a water bottle. Yeah, no, yeah,
but Napier's not even making it to October.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It right now? A guy who said I just want
to make it to October so I can see the
w NBA playoffs, it's specially delivery. Steve to say let's
go with what's trending in the wide world of sports,
say said no one, but okay, you keep betting the
Vegas Aces and they keep not covering for you. Hey,
keep betting Caitlyn Clark and her assist total. Yeah, she's
(31:06):
over consistently.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
WNBA off tonight. And for those NBA fans, you realize
we are less than a month until all the training
camps are due to open.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
We are into the first weekend of September and already
Florida State is out of it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
If you haven't heard the show today, they've officially been eliminating.
The late season has arrhyved, the Gators coach.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Also this from Associated Press, Florida State and Florida both
lost at home by double digits in the same week
for the first time in over fifty years this weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, and remember the Florida State the opening loss that
was a conference game. It was Georgia Tech with the
last second field goal in Dublin. This was a home
conference loss to Boston College twenty eight to thirteen, which means,
aside from the COVID year in twenty twenty, Florida State's
the first team in almost twenty years to start a
season with back to back conference losses. Florida States offense
(32:06):
went three and out on its first three drives tonight,
then got a couple of field goals, but by early
third quarter BC was up twenty one to six. A
reminder this Saturday on Fox TV Texas at Michigan noon
Eastern time.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Steve, do you have a Do you have Matt Ryan's
full stats for Boston College tonight? Mad? You have his stats?
Four touchdowns? Is that what it was for tonight?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Actually, I think Florida State could use Matt Ryan like
the current Matt Ryan compared to what we saw out there.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Hey, can we call if he's got eligibility left?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Maybe? Man, just maybe.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase miss practice again, wanting a
new contract. Dolphins wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
each practice fully after being limited last week. Vikings wide
receiver Jordan Addison practiced after an ankle injury. Steelers running
back Jalen Warren participated in individual drills and says he'll
join team drills on Wednesday after his hand amstring injury.
(33:01):
Jessica Paula won her fourth round match at the US Open.
Women's number one Egis Fiontek was a winner tonight, and
there's of course late night tennis in New York. Men's
number one Yonick Sinner has won the first two sets
in tie breakers against American Tommy Paul and center's up
three to one in the third. Cubs and White Sox
to mention as we get to baseball, the White Sox
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have lost eleven in a row. They dropped a thirteen
to three decision at Baltimore. The losing pitcher, Chris Flexen,
is now two and fourteen on the season. Gunner Henderson
hit his thirty fourth homer since the All Star Break.
The White Sox record is four and thirty seven. Meanwhile,
the cub good not good. Just for the record, need
cliff notes thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The Bears have twice as many captains as the White Sox.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
In the last Yeah, okay, the Cubs have won six
or had one six in a row. Thinking playoffs, of course,
who's gonna catch the Mets. Let's be honest about this.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs five three, even though the Cubbies
led three to nothing going to the eighth inning. Tonight.
How's this from stat syc. The last time the Cubs
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were up three nothing or better in the eighth inning
or letter or later at Wrigley and then blew the
lead all in one inning and lost was the Bartman
game in the two thousand.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
And three against the Martins.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
That's how the Cubs gagged at rugily tonight late game
to the Yankees, winning eight to four at Texas, Garrett
cole to win. Cleveland and Minnesota with victories Dodgers and
Padres got wins. The Mets have won five straight, beat
Boston four to one, and Oakland with a solo homer
bottom of the ninth edge Seattle five to four.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon, Coming up next?
What team? What surprise team am I absolutely buying as
a college football playoff team after one week? Tell you next?
Right here Jason to Mike, This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
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Speaker 1 (35:08):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I think the theme of the night
is eclectic one hit wonders here on the show.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I gotta dig that.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, uh, I'll tell you what Week one of college football.
And I always feel bad because Week one of college
football is treated with so much attention. It's so great,
and then the NFL starts like, yeah, yeah, we got tea,
we'll get to you, all right, we got to That's
all right, we got the week one. But let me
tell you the team that I after. Even I know
(35:37):
it's one game, and I realized potentially on being prisoner
of the moment, but there are so many things that
I liked about what they did. I am in on
them as a playoff team. Okay, partially because of what
they do, partially because I think it's going to be
a bit of a down year in their conference. But
I am in on USC as a playoff team, look
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at you, which sounds crazy, right. They lose Caleb Williams,
they're replacing him. Lincoln Riley have not been smooth, He's
fought with reporters. It's not been great. Potentially another bad season.
They're buying out Lincoln Riley, at least telling them you
can't find the private you know, the plane anymore. But
that game last night against LSU, the three things that
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jumped out at me was that USC number one is
a better defensive team than they've been in the last
Not great because still LSU was able to move the
football on them, but they are much better. They tackled better.
They you know, they were able to pressure exactly. They
were able to make make LSU have to extend drives
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and and make very timely plays. So I was really
impressed with how well they played defensively. Again, they rolled
up a lot. They didn't let him run the football,
and that was a big thing. We're going to run
the ball. We had run the football. I was like, whoa,
that was a thing. You couldn't run the football.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And there was a lot of chatter and I was actually,
my daughter had a soccer tournament this weekend. In one
of the conversations we were having before kickoff, they were
trying to figure out where they were gonna watch it
and everything else. Hopefully they found someplace that didn't have
direct TV so they were able to actually wait, sorry,
find a place down the street. But they were all excited,
you know, talking about going to some events and just
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talking to the strength coach and all the breakdown of
what they did, how much muscle these guys all put
on in weight they put on to forty five getting
ready for Big Ten play, and it showed up in
Week one.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
They're gonna be a big problem because it's gonna be
a bit of a down year in the Big Ten.
Right Like Michigan doesn't look like they're gonna be what
they were last year. They don't look like they'd be
anything close to last year. You got questions about IOWA.
Was sure, yes, Ohio States is the big gun in
the conference, but USC showing that they can get past
the Caleb Williams era, and now you're in the Miller
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Moss era. And he was so impressive last night. We
saw him in the bowl game and you started thinking, Okay,
maybe USC isn't completely screwed with Kayleb Williams going, because
boy was he good. Great decisions, He's accurate, and he's calm.
He is calm under pressure. He delivers the football well,
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there was no point where I saw him any kind
of happy feet. He stayed in the pocket, he was
able to throw the ball in the tight windows like
Miller Moss is legit. He is absolutely legit. And Kyen
Hudson is just freaking uber talented. Like you're talking about
who's the next great receipt, it's Kyen Hudson. A couple
of those catches he made, but the you know, obviously
(38:34):
he made the big one handed one. You're like, oh
my goodness. But that catch that he made that set
up the game winning field goal when he is between
two guys knowing he's going to get drilled, and the
ball is out in front of him and he's able
to reach out with one hand and pull it in
and hold on to it after a helmet to helmet
hit Like that, What a stud play that was. And
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he gets up and he and he a good, good thing.
He was okay, And they made the right call, unlike
how they missed it in Colorado game, but they made
the right call. Moving up fifteen yards was a targeting play.
But seeing how USC navigated the end of that game.
And yes, they usually do start well and Lincoln Riley's
team start well, but this had a different feel. This
had a we are a much better team than the
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last couple of years where it's been hey, we're just
gonna try to score fifty points a game, and if
we win fifty to forty eight, that's fine. They still
have the talent on offense, and I can't again, I
can't tell you I'm pressed. I was with Moss and
is slowing the game down under pressure. But you see
the talent, the talent of Udson and the defense like
this is a different USC team.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
No, just the physicality of it from the defensive side.
I'm going to stay in the Big Ten and a team.
When we were making notes last week and we're talking
about surprise playoff teams, I actually circled Nebraska staying in
the Big Ten. Now it's going to take Scott Frost
is never going to send you a Christmas card. Now
you're picking them. He is never going to send you Christmas.
I sent him home. Remember he got fired after losing
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the Northwest. But you look at the game this week,
Roola looks the part. They put up a big point total,
obviously a huge matchup this week. You mentioned Colorado briefly
talking about I have no doubt after that game and
that miss targeting call that every officiating crew got a
notice saying you throw the flag and we will review
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it as opposed to maybe not. But yeah, tough road
for them along the way because they will have to
go to Ohio State and you do have dates with USC,
your squad and Iowa in the final month of the season.
That's where it gets interesting. Ohio State and then UCLA.
You know, they're in Los Angeles, that game in Nebraska
(40:44):
at USC in the middle of November. And then they've
got Wisconsin, who doesn't look like the usual Wisconsin, but
you never count them out.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
They could.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
They could muddy up a game just as well as anybody.
And then finally at Iowa to finish the season. And
they're a team that I can sit because the offense
has to be better than it's been, right, and it
was good, right and.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well they had they had three touchdown catches from wide
receivers in their opening game and they had two all
of last year. And all it took was Kirk Ference
to be suspended for the game. You know, I like
I well, I just the very interesting overall what USC
was able to do. And here they are in a new,
new new season and no one's familiar with them. You're
all you don't know them year to year like the
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Big Ten schools know each other. I'm in on usc man.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It's excited to see physicality on the defense. It's the
thing we've been clamoring on watching this team for years.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Uh exit out, bout of Fresco, Exit, Swallen Dome. Coming
up next, we get back into a big story out
of football. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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