December 21, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update the first College Football Playoff game between Indiana and Notre Dame. And the guys hit you with some Bold Predictions/Upset Specials!
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Well, we jump right in tonight because Game one of
the college football Playoff is just kicked off the second
half and note for Dave little bit of razzle dazzle
to started off. They run a reverse on the kickoff
and the Indiana gunner and this is me, you know,
because you know how good of a gunner.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I wasn't in high school.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So you've told us.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, no, dude, I've got video evidence of me being
a good gunner. Man, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
They run the reverse and the Indiana gunner has him
dead to rights, but lets him cut outside. Doesn't keep
the edge because you got us at the edge, and
he cuts outside and no Tre Dame gets it all
the way inside the Indiana forty five yard line.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So now here's no.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tra Dame up seventeen to three over Indiana, and they
are already in position to potentially get another score here.
That would probably be lights out for the Hoosiers because
you know, my go I don't like to say I
told you so, right, you know mean, I don't like
to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
In all these years we've done the show. It might
be actually be the first time that you do that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But I feel the need to.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I feel the need to because I told you last night, Hey,
you don't know how good Indiana is. And we have
more on that coming up in a minute, but Notre
Dame is just at a different level. And what did
I say they were going to run over Indiana? And
so far in the first half, one hundred and fifty
six yards rushing, you had a ninety eight yard touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It has been everything I thought this game was going
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Indiana looks a little bit outclassed throughout most of the
first half. They never really got their setting, and by
the time they get their setting, it might be over.
Like this, this is like end of your season time
for Indiana with Notre Dame up by fourteen and with
the ball in their territory.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, I mean, you look at the way the first
half plays out. You have a number of possessions both sides,
you know, feeling things out, they matched interceptions, and then
you get the ninety eight yard jail break touchdown run. Otherwise,
a lot of the metrics run the same. There's nothing exciting.
But Indiana's shown absolutely zero explosiveness right, zero of what
made them special during the regular season. And Notre Dame
(02:59):
is has contained all of that signetti for all of
his bravado, which is really fun. Kind of got sunned
a little bit by Nick Saban before in all the
pregame hype and excited Alabama Indiana Saban or Alabama Saban
or whatever we want to do there. But yeah, I mean,
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it'll be curious to see as they get their first
possession of the second half, does Rourke come out firing.
Can they stretch the field and find a little bit
of a spark because it was a pretty listless, lifeless, cold, distant,
well lonely kind of first half, even though all the
metrics kind of match up in terms of time of
possessions and plays and whatever else. But you give up
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one hundred and fifty six yards of rushing and what
do we always say, eventually you're gonna get run over.
I don't know, we might have talked about that a
little bit last night. Yeah, Gus Edwards isn't running for
six seven yards of carry, but guess what, Bam, he
punched in the face and sprinted forty three yards to break.
You're back, you know, after you were a dope at
the end of the first half, which I think we're
(04:04):
still the only show to actually acknowledge that, because otherwise
you have to go and pray to the altar of
Sean Payton.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So Notre Dame leads seventeen to three, and and this
is Indiana, this.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is it now. Curtis Rurke has had a really difficult
first half.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Like I never really look at a game and I think, boy,
this team looks cold.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But I be Indiana looks really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You know, all the Notre Dame guys were running around
pre game with no shirts on. Oh sure, who cares.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I can't imagine in the stand like this is because
I never think, like, how many games have I seen
in the cold one?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Like millions of them? Right, But yeah, very very rarely
do I go, oh boy, I bet it's cold. And
I don't know. Maybe I was thinking about that because Todd.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Furman, our you know, our our Vegas insider who comes
on the show with us every week, is at the
game tonight and I was like, dude, you're from Vegas.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's gonna be cold. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
None of him, but just kind of the crowd with
all their gortex and everything that was like, game time cold,
You're not.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Right, it looks cold. I feel cold for the fans,
but I feel really cold for Indiana because this looks right.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The first half looked like a hey, uh uh we
if we just play this game like and finish at
some point like this, can this not count? Like can this?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Can we just play and like just you know, just
make this game not count, like play during the day
when it's warmer, like I really feel like it's affecting Indiana.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Well, yeah, it's it's one of those feel out kind
of propositions, right, I don't I don't know how much
it's affecting them in terms of you know, Miami Dolphins
like things. You know, they do actually play in Indiana,
So in theory they've practiced in they don't play.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
This Like, come on, they never go to bowl games.
There are seasons done middle of October. What the hell
would you know about a bowl game? Pit Strike Bowl?
Every damn year, holiday holiday, holiday holiday, playing that game?
Holiday Bowl is going to get canceled. Watch us lose?
Wat What are your favored about?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh at this point?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, by the way, how about the story today? Kyle
McCord and Syriki maybe getting a fifty year of eligibility.
I'm thinking playoff next year. Man if Kyle McCord comes
with three for one more year, they are sudden.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Who's a benefactor that guaranteed him seven figures to stick around?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Brent Musburger? Wow, and Bob Costas you.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Know, Musburger is also a Northwestern alum. But anyway, well you.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Can claim as well, you can't claim as well. Now look,
now here's the thing. This is the Pithy the meat
of the discussion to get into with this game tonight, Right,
Indiana has not looked good and Notre Dame has outclassed them,
and this is going to be something that is an
unintended consequence of realignment in college football, because really, Indiana
(06:43):
is a great story, right, how much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is it to see them?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Indiana has not been good in a long time, and
you're thinking back video of Antoine Randall l and Anthony Thompson,
But we don't know because look, Indiana's best wins are Okay,
they beat Michigan, they beat Washington. This is not beating
Michigan and Washington in twenty twenty three, these two teams
are playing for the national title.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The one game they played against.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The top twenty five ranked team, Ohio State, they lost
by three touchdowns. But here they go through a big conference,
the Big Ten, and they're eleven and one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So yeah, of course we're gonna take you for the playoff.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But this is what this is what's gonna be one
of the big things that's gonna be looked at at
the end of this playoff and examined about how.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We see how this playoff goes. Are these eleven and one.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
The second teams you're taking from conferences, are they really
good or did they just play an advantageous schedule? Because
now the SEC and the Big Ten, they got twenty
teams in there.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
They're gonna wind up with each twenty teams.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right now they're sixteen eighteen, and you're gonna have seasons
where you don't play really good teams, right like Indiana
avoided Penn State and Ore. You avoid the best two
teams in the conference, two of the best three teams
in the conference this year, when you don't have to
play the best teams, yeah, and you're an okay to
you're a good team.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Hey, you can roll.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Up against those lesser rent the also rans and put
up a big record, right like Syracuse avoided almost everybody
this year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They lost three.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We lost to Stanford and and it was ridiculous in
Boston College and pitt but we avoided like Clemson with
the one big game against Miami we won. Okay, that's great,
but we're nine to three and feeling good because, well,
we had a pretty advantageous schedule.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We didn't play that.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We didn't play SMU, right, we didn't play Clemson, so
that's gonna be something that I guarantee you the College
Football and the Playoff Committee is.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Going to look at. Is that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, are these teams we're letting in that are the
second ranked teams in the conference that aren't going to
the conference championship games?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Are they really that good?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Because if we don't have wins that we can say
this is their approving ground. Okay, we see it in
the playoff and if these teams, if the Indiana's of
the world and the guy they wind up getting boat race,
it's gonna be Okay, maybe they really weren't that good,
And now the scheduling is going to take a really
it's gonna be a much bigger piece of the pie
next year, and maybe a team like Alabama, Well yeah,
(09:00):
Alabama lost three games, but look they beat three top
twenty five teams. Indiana didn't beat any. Maybe next year
a team like Alabama gets in over Indiana because if
Indiana sits here and this is a thirty eighth what
I said, what thirty eight thirt team was gonna be
the final This is one of those kinds of games. Yeah, okay,
who are the teams we let in that we weren't
sure that that. Hey, they won, but are they really good?
(09:21):
We don't know the schedule. Yeah, that's who we got
to look at for next year, and there will be
an over correction for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah. I don't know how that it's that quick a
knee jerk reaction, but I agree. I mean, you gotta
see how this plays out. First iteration. We already know
what's gonna expand, right, the money and the whininess of
everybody gets us there. It's like, all right, all right, sec,
we'll add another team. Shut up, so you'll have that,
(09:47):
no question. But in terms of scheduling, yeah, that's gonna
be the multi billion dollar question all this, Right, how
much do those early season games matter?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Notre Dame is still here. They lost in Northern Illinois.
Pretty good team, but not one that you consider anywhere
near a powerhouse. Right, Whereas we look at the Alabama
case you lost to and Andy you lost, you lost
three times.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, it was your only game, right, and you also
beat four top twenty five team.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
And you lost early, which is you know, the old
measure of matters. No, but it's true because you got
a whole new program a whole new set of kids
coming in, and then in theory, you gel and get
better as you go. So if you drop one early,
you know, whatever that equation is, it shouldn't count the
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same as something the second to last week of November,
you know, after you've played Mercer or a powerhouse like
that in your tune up game. But all of that
going into the Indiana discussion of great story head coach
gives you a lot of headlines, gives you a lot
of ammunition, and then you start to look at how
do you rate the conference properly?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Well, have the top heavy side of it when you
look at Oregon, when you look at Ohio State and
what they've been in Penn State in their their work
this year, but what do you how do you evaluate
the cannibalism that goes on right? How hard it is
to win on the road in some of these conferences.
Even if a team's not a powerhouse and finishes whatever
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four and seven, the metrics may may tell a different
tale than something else than another team in another conference.
So it's you know, what's that algorithm rhythm look like?
And until they give me the professor Frank really deep
dive on that we're gonna be left kind of wishing
and wondering and then just keeping our eyes on that
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committee and see who falls asleep. You don't get to
vote on that team when it comes time to vote
for where they go into the into the seating. But
for Indiana, yea, they are a true test case of
the new system, not only with how this roster was constructed,
but yes, their schedule and what it means going forward.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The Irish and the Hoosiers and the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's tough for me, right because you know, I like Bravado,
So there's something about Signetti. I like, there's also a
all right, shut up, you haven't done anything yet. Uh.
And then there's being from the South side of Chicago,
all the adoptions of Notre Dame through the years with
people that had no affiliation with the school. Somehow that
still bugs me.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It shouldn't it doesn't, you know, if he didn't get
your blood, sweat and tuition dollars, that bugs me. Yeah, no,
it does, And it doesn't bother me as much as
it does when they do it and they talk a
lot of smack.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm like, you just picked a team to root for.
Come on, you have no connection to this team. You're
not even from the town they're from. You don't go
to the games. You never got I don't go to
the games. You don't go to the games with head.
Don't talk smack for them, that's fine, but don't sit here.
Tell me team that I've blown up and and and
and put all kinds of blood sweat and tears on
my couch and my pillow for and all the emotional
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energy that I've waited.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Don't tell me that's the same thing. No, I'm with
you on that.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Tell me when you said blood sweat and tears, you
didn't have spinning wheels.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Start exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Domes.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Just understand, Indiana gets boat raced.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Trust me that if this is becoming gonna be a thing,
you're gonna see the committee go. Okay, we have to
pay much more attention to schedules next year, and and
the avoiding of the big teams in the conference is
gonna be something that's gonna hurt those teams.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Jason, call me when there's a fair cash free kick.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Okay, dude, we talked about that so often last night. Man,
that was that was so much fun. Yeah, that was
last night.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You know, I gotta say Frostburg that play and the
and the play at the end when Harbaugh decided to, hey,
kill the last play by go by going.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And I'm throwing it as high and as far as
I like. That's such a school yard play. That was
so much fun football. Those are like my two favorite
plays of the year in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The you know, the free kick field going, I'm just
gonna throw it up high and let the clock tick
off a go.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well, there's obviously no Jets highlights there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So no, no, there's there's there. Let's see, Wait a minute,
I don't know. Firing solo was a highlight. Firing double.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Get to watch that finding out we make decisions because
of Madden ratings. That's a highlight.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, but again we're like, we're not in the room
where that happens. Yeah, we got to watch it unfold
as a national audience. Are in and arm as football fans.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So right now, Notre Dame with the ball. They are
driving their first possession of the second half, which they
started in Indiana territory. They were forced to punt.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
However, Indiana had an offensive possession where they just went
backwards the punch of Notre Dame. They got it at
midfield and already they have a first down. They are
at the Indiana thirty three yard line with a first
and ten of seventeen to three, just under ten minutes
to go in the third.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, the last point on this before we watch the
continuation to this point. This game outside the ninety eight
yard run stinks.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, it's like I said, when you play in the
cold like this hit these guys. Hey, it's really really cold, man, whatever,
really cold. Sack up.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So coming up next, we'll have more on Notre Dame
Indiana as it merits throughout the night tonight. But what's
the big upset that we see on the schedule tomorrow
and the college football playoff? Plus we'll preview the game
of the week and the NFL All that and more
coming up next. It is a big football Friday. Keep
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have just shenanigans happening right now with Notre Dame in Indiana.
Notre Dame driving looked like they were going to wind
up having to kick a field goal to go up
twenty to three. However, Riley Leonard scrambling on third down,
is out of bounds and a late hit. He gets
hit in the white part of the sideline, so yeah,
that's a penalty. Gives the Irish a first down, fresh
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new set of downs. They get inside the ten, but
they can't go one anywhere from there, so they come
out for a field goal that's gonna make it twenty
to three. However, lining up for the field goal, then
Notre Dame scatters, they move the kicker out and they
run a fake play, and it's fourth and eight and
they run a running play and Notre Dame gets stopped
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two yards short of the first down. However, Kurt Signetti
called time out. Before the snap, so there was no play.
You can see on the replay. Indiana doesn't know what
to do. Is Notre Dame is all over the place
and he's running down the field yelling time out, time out.
The worst part for Indiana is that they had stopped
Notre Dame on the play, they would have had the football.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
But he's the smartest guy alive.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Ooh, but because of the timeout, they wind up getting
to rekick Notre Dame's field goal is good, make it
twenty to three.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Now Notre Dame over Indiana midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Very odd sequence of plays. And if you look at
it from the play by play perspective, here's a loss
of four. Here's a runout of bounds. Oh, there's a
penalty all right, now we got a fall start. Wait
now it's updating to show the timeout. Now we got
all this stuff. So it's it's chaotic, it's everything you
want for a playoff game in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And here's and here's what I don't get is that
the fake play that Notre Dame ran, they were on
the left side of the field. They ran they direct
snapped it to a tight end. Who it's fourth and eight. Like,
this is not like fourth and one. They direct snap
it to a tight end who's like eight yards behind
the line of scrimmage, and they think and they're running
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to the short side of the field. They think that
was gonna get the first down. Like wait, wait, what?
Like what Marco strim what are you? And he's clapping
and smiling as everybody's coming off the field, maybe because
he realizes, oh, Signetti called a time out.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I'm good, hey, man, because that boy, that would have
looked really bad.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I don't know, man, fourth and eight, we're gonna snap
it to a tight end eight yards back of the
line of scrimmage on the short side of the field.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I could think of better fourth than eight plays.
You want to fake the field?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
No? I think it's two things. One he realized Signetti
had called the time out. The second was I just
signed a contract extension. What the hell are they gonna
do to me? Yeah, let's go, let's get creative.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Hello, alumni, let's get wild out here.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's why he held the fourth four more I got
four more years, four more years.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You re elected me, let's go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You didn't like me, so twenty to three Notre Dame
they'll be kicking off, coming up back out of commercial.
Now you want an upset for tomorrow, I have an
upset for you in the first round of the College
one upset. I have an upset. And it's why it's
really gonna upset one of my best friends because he
went to Texas and we talk about Texas all the time.
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Oop cats out of the bag. Texas looks like they
might be out of gas. They've not looked like the
same team over the last few weeks. Now, they've been winning,
you know, up until they lost their second game of
the year to Georgia, but they have not been scoring.
You know, you look at their offense the last month. Hey,
after they blew out Florida, that might have been their
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peak because then you have trouble with Arkansas. You only
score twenty points against them. You know, Kentucky is one
of the worst teams in college football. You beat them
by two touchdowns. Yes, you beat Texas A and M
and A and m's a good team, but seventeen to seven,
you lose to Georgia twenty two to nineteen. The offense
has not been firing. It's just not been the same.
Whether it's it's it's any sort of in decision at
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quarterback with with viewers and Manning. But they're just not
the same team. And Clemson is coming on strong. They're
coming off a big emotional game in the ACC Championship game.
Kate Klubnick has been really good. He might be the
most underrated quarterback in college football because he was highly
touted out of high school and you had that big
game against yours in high school where he won.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But Clubnick so far and Clemson has been Yeah, he's
been all right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know, you're expecting Trevor Lawrence or Deshaun Watson has it,
but this year he's been really really.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But you also lost those games early, so we stopped
paying attention to that, and.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dabbo when Dabo's complaining about the portal, and and I
can't do this anymore, and I can't recruit.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Oh poor me, poor me. Oh here they are in
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Did you see they got some money today?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean you got to get somebody
at least. I mean, maybe Dabo was bry his phone
when they called.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I got one.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But Clemson is playing really well. And I'll tell you
what Clemson's gonna air it out because Texas run run
defense is really good. Right, You're not gonna run on
them because nobody runs on Texas. But Clemson's gonna air
it out. Club Nick's gonna have a big day, and
you're gonna see Texas and Ewers turn it over a
few times. Don't be surprised if this game goes the
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way and yours is not playing well that he gets
yanked and Manning goes in like this is one of
those games where they have not been They have not
been elite for at least the last month, and I
don't think you get well against once against one of
the hottest teams in college football that can put a
lot of points on the board.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So give me Clemson and the upset. I don't need
the points.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, I'll take them, but I don't need him
because on the field, club Nick has a big day,
he goes for three hundred, and Clemson has the big
upset tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And by the way, you're gonna take the thirteen and
a half. I mean, on the field, I'll take the points,
but I'm not gonna need him. I didn't say I'm
I'm not gonna need the points, and I'm not gonna
take them. I said, I'm not gonna need the points.
I'll take them, but I'm going Clemson on the field.
I do dig that. The one that's curious to me,
and this is the the pucker up and everybody doing
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their best defense of oh it was unfair, and the
expectations and all like, shut up. You spent a lot
of money. You have a twenty five million dollar roster.
You bring in chip Kelly, You're supposed to be a wizard.
So for Ryan Day, yeah, it is put up and
put up or shut up. Their seven point favorites at
home forty six. My fear is that Tennessee is not
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going to be able to travel well right, neutral field whatever, Yeah,
great here, No that perhaps there's a bit of an issue.
But they're getting seven and looking at perhaps with the
pressure on them, that the offense sputters a bit right.
They take a couple of chances early get out of sorts,
opening the door for Tennessee to come in and take it.
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Tenned two second in the sec. Good balance in terms
of what their offense was over the course of the year.
A lot of key component parts to both right. The
running game had multiple a lot of guys carried the
ball for them successfully this year, to the tune of
over five yards per carry, averaging about twelve yards per reception.
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So move the chains, take care of business. Tennessee goes
in and takes down Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh look at you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh my good.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You just said that. Every Ohio State fan just said. Yeah,
but it doesn't matter because I don't care because we
lost to Michigan. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if
we I don't really care about this game. We lost
the Michigan's seats over, it doesn't matter, making no difference.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's just a question of since that loss. You'd love
to have one of these documentaries that we keep seeing
all over the place. Shoe chill, Let's get behind the
scenes of this team, that team. Here's a day in
the life of some NFL legend. Let's go back and
look at the life and career of Olway or whomever else.
This is like, let me get a helmet cam and
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watch this thing unfold over these last couple of weeks,
because I gotta imagine it is not a comfortable environment.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No, I belok, bit. The best thing for Ohio State.
I fairly believe this is that they need this game.
They need I're gonna get this game. More detail coming
up in a bit, But they need a game, right like,
they need to play a game. They need to not
sit back and listen to what everybody is saying and
here fire right to keep Ryan Day, have the ad
talking about Ryan Day's status and all. They need to
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play a game because this is the most talented. The
reason it's one hundred million dollar roster. What do they
say a one hundred million dollar roster for a reason.
They're a great team. And beginning of the year, I said,
if Ohio State's not playing for the national championship, something
is wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They can right all their wrongs in this playoff, but
they need a game now. There is no team then
more desperate need of playing than Ohio State because they
need to flip that narrative from hey, we lost to Michigan.
It was a bad end of the season. How did
we do this again?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The flag planting stuff, the pepper spray with the players.
They need to play and a w and suddenly that
good feeling comes back and things will be great for
Ohio State. They gotta play.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Can they protect that is the question In Tennessee twenty
nine sacks on the season. Offensive line has been a
little leaky for Ohio State. Did they short up? Were
they able to find the buttress buttress for the playoff game?
That Butcher's one of my favorite I like buttress, good word.
Butcher's is a good word. I like butchers.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I would like to use that more.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
But I I, you know, I feel weird that people
would go oh oh, like, instead of being a funny word,
some people would think it was a really bad word
and get offended, which is okay.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I'm like, yeah, oh, just because you're butt just because
you're an idiot and you get offended.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, definitely not wrong, I said.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
But I'm not saying, Jason oh, I was talking to
the people that would be offended by uh.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I take it back.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Then, how much is Frostburg still? I think Frostburg's drunk
from that Charger game last night. He kept me with
a with a big bottle with big forty eight corps
like that, ready to produce. Well, show your catch, free
kick your face, dicker the kicker. We got more coming
up in ninety seconds, but first, let's find out what's
(26:04):
trending in the wide world of sportswomen who wore a
black protective mask to work tonight to protect his face
from an injury. As he is returning to the lineup
here at Fox Sports Radio, it's Steve the Sager.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, that is a veiled Joel Embiid reference. I can't
see through that much of it. By the way, after
the sinus fracture, he did return wearing a mask, and
Philly wanted home agains Charlotte one eight ninety eight is
Embiad had thirty four points nine assists. There were only
three NBA games tonight, Cleveland's twenty four and four after
ripping Milwaukee the one twenty four to one oh one.
(26:39):
You know, it wasn't that long ago. I saw the
Bucks win the NBA Cup. I thought all was settled
on how great this season was going to be.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And now tonight they lose by over twenty.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
What did you celebrate the Cup?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, like I do most Milwaukee Bucks victories.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Pause dnause nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, clearly, Steve, they peaked with the cup and now
it's all down.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
That's right, it's all downhill. I mean, did the Lakers
win a title?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Did they follow up?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Maybe a revisionist history there?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You know if they had Darvin Ham. Maybe Darvin hamd
there cos right for the Bucks. Maybe he wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
He is fourteen to oh after all.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
In Cup play thunder one oh four ninety seven winners
at Miami. Jimmy Butler left the game due to illness.
Luca Donsitch of the MAVs will be out again Saturday
with the bruise heal. And yes, there is a college
football playoff opener going on. Not much going on in it,
quite frankly, but late third quarter Notre Dame is dominating
Indiana twenty to three.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
In the cold.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Indiana's quarterback Curtis Rourke was just eighty five yards passing
and the early interception at the two yard line.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Next play for.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Notre Dame, they engineered a ninety eight yard touchdown run
Jeremiah Love.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
In fact, five.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Carries ninety two yards in the game, including the ninety
eight yard run Notre Dame twenty to three late third quarter.
By the way, Number two Georgia is off until its
Sugar Bowl quarterfinal New Year's Night against apparently Notre Dame.
The Baltimore Ravens cut wide receiver Deontay Johnson and wide
receiver Nelson Agalore with a concussion, is out for the
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Saturday game against the Steelers. Yes, there are two NFL
games tomorrow, including Pittsburgh at Baltimore on Fox TV four
to thirty pm Eastern Time. First baseman Christian Walker is
going to Houston on a reported three year deal. Among
the seven NHL games tonight, Rangers lead latent regulation at
Dallas two to one. Already wins for Washington and Toronto.
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And huge news this morning in Sports TV securing the
exclusive broadcast rights in the US for the next two
editions of the Women's World Cup Netflix. They're not only
going to have a couple of Christmas games in the NFL.
By twenty twenty seven, when the tournament's in Brazil, it'll
be only on Netflix. And then the twenty thirty one tournament,
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which could have some games in the US. There might
be a US Mexico joint bid for that one up
against England. We'll see, but huge news there. I can
only hope as a fan of the US team that
they will farm out US games, at least in group play,
to a regular channel.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
We'll see back to you, Hi, it's.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
This this Netflix. Yeah, Hi, I was watching Stranger Things
season five, and uh, all of a sudden, a soccer
game came in.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I don't want to watch it, but it keeps saying
I can't turn it off. Can you can you help
me out with that? I need to reset my my
box or something. It tells me I have to watch
this game. We'd like to watch something else.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
See the promos are already said running up that hill.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No, look this is look what what what do we
tell you? Right?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This goes to something we talked about for the last
three years. Streaming is the future of sports rights in
the United States, and we spend a lot of time
talking about obviously football, baseball, basketball, those are the big rights.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
But there's still a streaming playoff game for NFL, I
mean streaming only.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, but what you're you're seeing slowly all of these
different entities, Netflix, is Amazon's the ones that we know
are going to be around and because some.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Of them, what what we just wait for the Jets
to go back to AOL.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
No, we're on dial up. We're not even the problem
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But you see that that not only are the big
streaming giants making inroads with the NFL, A little bit
with Major League Baseball, right, Apple Plus had the big
stuff NBA, but now you're seeing like huge events just
just glombed up, Like, oh, Women's World Cup is a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, we can bid, we can have that, we can
have that. But I'm telling you, by the time we
get to twenty thirty, twenty thirty two, all of.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The I mean, I'll be we'll be lucky if any
stuff is over the air, Like we'll get the odd
over the air games once in a while, but like
you know, for during the week, Like, hey, ESPN is
still gonna have their two basketball games a week, but yeah,
are we gonna get games on NBA TV? Or is
everything gonna be streaming? Like they're making so much money
and the networks are not. And when these rights come up,
it's gonna be Yeah, we we got the money, we
(30:55):
can just bid on this.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
We can just buy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We buy whatever we want and if they get real
check it, we'll just buy that channel. Oh oh, CBS,
you don't want to give up the NFL. We're going
to buy you. Yeah, We're going to buy you.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And that that's it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
We're folding you in down on Netflix. Like in the
next ten years, like everything's going to be streaming. We'll
get a little bit of stuff over the air enough
to keep everybody happy, to keep football and different sports
on our TV.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But these big rights men, they're all going to go streaming,
every single one.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
See what I had witnessed this and was part of
it from the cable television side when I was some
part of something called the Football Network fledgling operation out
of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, me and Jerry Glanville and Danny Sheridan,
and I forget who the host.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Was the Football Network.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
This is not related two years ago when we had
the Baseball Network, which was fifteen games where you just
saw your own team anyway, but with different announcements.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
No, no, this goes back to you had show that
we were going to be one of the first right,
so fantasy and football and whatever, some gambling picks, and
then the idea was, we're gonna buy the rights to
NFL films. They were in negotiations for some of that
and for second tier, third tier college football games. But
(32:09):
then everybody realized, wait, there's a bigger market for all
of this stuff. Oh, in the NFL announced NFL Network.
Guess guess what we didn't finish this season.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now I remember, in fact, well, this is just gonna
be a bad story, so I'm gonna sit on it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I'm just gonna sit on it. It would be a
bad story for you, So I'm just gonna sit on it.
That story for me. Yeah, yeah, bad story for you.
Nothing bad, nothing effective, Just a bad story. You're like, yeah,
there you go. That's Football Network. So I'll just sit
on it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'll just sit on But coming up next, we're gonna
preview the biggest game of the week in the NFL,
and Justin Frostberg has some special audio for us coming
from last night's Charger game.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
We're gonna hear that's it. Everybody's fine, everybody's fine. Wow.
Now frost was gonna beat you up now.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
On the street for the free kick.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's yeah, it's coming on next right here, Jason and
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A game that is slowly making its way to its conclusion.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Notre Dame leads Indiana twenty to three, twelve minutes ago
in the fourth quarter, would have been a three point lead.
Further for Notre Dame, however, Indiana blocks their field goals,
so they take over down seventeen with twelve and a
half minutes left to go in the fourth Love more
on this game and more college football coming up in
a bit, but we're going to preview the biggest game
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in the NFL in a couple of minutes. But first,
Justin Frostburg has some very special audio for us today.
You know, we talked a lot last night about the
two big plays in the Charger win over the Broncos,
the free kickfield goal and then the final player regulation
where Harbaugh just tells Justin Herbert, hey just run around
back back there and then throw it up as high
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as you can out of bounds on the last play
to let the clock run out. Great street ball play.
Phenomenal play.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We have special audio, Mike Carmen that Justin Frostburg has
obtained for us. This is Herbert into the huddle before
the final play, that before that final play of the game,
four seconds left they gotta find a way until the
rest of the clock.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
This is Herbert in the huddle for the final play.
Let's hear it. First team off State.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I can put the ball wherever I want to. I'm
going to rain out here, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Guys ring in. I can put the ball wherever I
want to, Well, where you want where you want me
to throw it, I'll throw it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I'll throw it just out of bounds so it lands
in the white part of the out of bounds right
off the field.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I can do that.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I'll throw mountain. Whatever needs to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Coach put me. In the fourth quarter we to one state.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I'm telling you, I'm gonna throw it straight through the
center and the eye of the video board in midfield.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
The only thing that could have been better on that throw, Jason, Yeah,
is if it hits Sean Payton on its way down.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Look out, Coach couch Couch.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
See you keep telling me I'm I'm the problem.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Coach couch Couch.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't that I'm some of it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But come on now, I don't think See the thing is,
I don't think that. I think everybody in the stadium
is watching that ball. Go wow, that's so high. Wow,
where's it gonna come down? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh, it's gonna come down right now. I'm not watching,
not watching, not watching. I think everybody saw.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
What is kind of laughable, though, is show me you've
watched no Charger games without telling me you've you know,
watched no Charger games all season before last night, because
all of a sudden, it's see, Justin Herbert's really good.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I think people thought maybe he wasn't as good because
he wasn't as big a part of the offense.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
But I mean clearly, you see, hey, they need to
really rely on him more.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
If you do what you're asked to do, and in
a game like this where the defense fell down early,
just like they did on Sunday, yeah he rose up.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
No, I I kind of I kind of backed into
that prediction, getting that prediction right last night because it's
gonna be a low scoring game. They're gonna win. No, no, no, no,
It's not exactly went at all. But defense didn't look good.
The offense bailed them out in the second half, but
it doesn't matter, and win's a win, right, win's a win.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
No, And Peyton bailed them out by you know, calling
passing plays in that final possession of the first half.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now, speaking of coaches game of the week this week,
really there's two of them. There's one in the a
f C, one in the NFC, but the Steelers and
the Ravens. The Ravens absolutely need this game if they're
gonna have any hope of winning the AFC North.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
And I'll tell you what if I if I have
said this week, I'm just not in on Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I'm not in on them. I don't think they're that good.
They're limited, they're winning, but they're really just wait, I'm
waiting for the balloon to pop on them a little bit,
and it sort of is. But they're still winning games.
And you know there's still but Russell Wilson's not an
incredible quarterback. Russell Wilson's been playing. Okay, it's been a
lot of yak for the most part. This has not
been Oh he has rediscovered an unbelievable form. No, he's
(37:13):
been a little bit better than expected. And they're getting
by with a great defense. But they're dinged up. And
if I'm not in on Pittsburgh, I sure as hell
I'm not in on this game at Baltimore, all Right,
Lamar Jackson has to take this week, and I'm sure
he will. He's got to take this personal, right, He's
got to have the Jordan iPad. I'm taking this personal,
my failure against the Steelers. I am taking this personal
(37:36):
for all the questions of not finishing that the Ravens have.
Baltimore is gonna start to peak right now, at the
absolute right time.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right they made the big move today. We didn't know
what they were gonna do with Deontay Johnson. They waived him. Yes,
they're struggling at receiver this.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Week, but it's non factor. So he's been a distraction
for the media.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But Agalare is sitting too, and Bateman is dinged up.
He was in a walking boot, and.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
So they're keeping it. They're doing a lot of gamesmanship,
but it really doesn't matter. This is a Lamar Jackson week,
and he this is a week where he makes the
MVP race interesting. Like Everry wants to give it to
Josh Allen's Oh look at what he's like. But Lamar
Jackson might start to make it interesting the rest of
the way. Because I'll tell you what. They win this
game on Sunday, they roll the rest of the year
(38:25):
and they win the AFC North. I'm in on Baltimore
on Sunday, I'm in on them the rest of the
regular season.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Five touchdowns against eight picks in his career against the
Steelers make it two and six. As the pic total rises.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Look at you, you you're just your You're anti John Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Why I don't know, because if it's anti John Harbaugh,
brothers a Jim Harbaugh, frostbur will get mad.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
No, I do radio in Baltimore every week. Why would
I want to mat.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Doesn't matter what you could like other people too, doesn't
one guy?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Look in the end, you've got a history and a
track record that speaks for itself. Now, obviously you have
a difference maker potentially and Derrick Henry and maybe you
can get something going in the ground game. But I
just don't trust the passing game right now. Just don't
trust what I've got there. And you know you can
talk about YAK and yards after contact and all that
(39:17):
stuff on the Steelers side, it's how you win football games.
Throw the guy into space, let him go and get
it now. Missing George Pickens for another week, I mean,
you don't have to deal with him crying that he's
not getting the football, but he's not out there at
least making the safety be honest. So yeah, there's a
bit of a problem there. But looking for the Steelers
(39:37):
to take advantage of what has been a suspect Baltimore
defense all year long. A couple of those moon balls
land and let's let's go to the kicking game. I'll
take anybody right now over Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Wow, anybody, No, this is this is this is Lamar Jackson.
He is the best player on the field. He reminds
everybody of that minds everybody how good he is.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
This is Lamar.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
This is Lamar taking some MVP consideration away from your guy,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Well, he'll throw for better than forty eight point five
percent of his completion rate.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Maybe coming up next more from the Big Day of
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Well, we jump right in tonight because Game one of
the college football Playoff is just kicked off the second
half and note for Dave little bit of razzle dazzle
to started off. They run a reverse on the kickoff
and the Indiana gunner and this is me, you know,
because you know how good of a gunner.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I wasn't in high school.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So you've told us.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, no, dude, I've got video evidence of me being
a good gunner. Man, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
They run the reverse and the Indiana gunner has him
dead to rights, but lets him cut outside. Doesn't keep
the edge because you got us at the edge, and
he cuts outside and no Tre Dame gets it all
the way inside the Indiana forty five yard line.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So now here's no.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tra Dame up seventeen to three over Indiana, and they
are already in position to potentially get another score here.
That would probably be lights out for the Hoosiers because
you know, my go I don't like to say I
told you so, right, you know mean, I don't like
to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
In all these years we've done the show. It might
be actually be the first time that you do that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But I feel the need to.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I feel the need to because I told you last night, Hey,
you don't know how good Indiana is. And we have
more on that coming up in a minute, but Notre
Dame is just at a different level. And what did
I say they were going to run over Indiana? And
so far in the first half, one hundred and fifty
six yards rushing, you had a ninety eight yard touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It has been everything I thought this game was going
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Indiana looks a little bit outclassed throughout most of the
first half. They never really got their setting, and by
the time they get their setting, it might be over.
Like this, this is like end of your season time
for Indiana with Notre Dame up by fourteen and with
the ball in their territory.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, I mean, you look at the way the first
half plays out. You have a number of possessions both sides,
you know, feeling things out, they matched interceptions, and then
you get the ninety eight yard jail break touchdown run. Otherwise,
a lot of the metrics run the same. There's nothing exciting.
But Indiana's shown absolutely zero explosiveness right, zero of what
made them special during the regular season. And Notre Dame
(02:59):
is has contained all of that signetti for all of
his bravado, which is really fun. Kind of got sunned
a little bit by Nick Saban before in all the
pregame hype and excited Alabama Indiana Saban or Alabama Saban
or whatever we want to do there. But yeah, I mean,
(03:21):
it'll be curious to see as they get their first
possession of the second half, does Rourke come out firing.
Can they stretch the field and find a little bit
of a spark because it was a pretty listless, lifeless, cold, distant,
well lonely kind of first half, even though all the
metrics kind of match up in terms of time of
possessions and plays and whatever else. But you give up
(03:43):
one hundred and fifty six yards of rushing and what
do we always say, eventually you're gonna get run over.
I don't know, we might have talked about that a
little bit last night. Yeah, Gus Edwards isn't running for
six seven yards of carry, but guess what, Bam, he
punched in the face and sprinted forty three yards to break.
You're back, you know, after you were a dope at
the end of the first half, which I think we're
(04:04):
still the only show to actually acknowledge that, because otherwise
you have to go and pray to the altar of
Sean Payton.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So Notre Dame leads seventeen to three, and and this
is Indiana, this.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is it now. Curtis Rurke has had a really difficult
first half.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Like I never really look at a game and I think, boy,
this team looks cold.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
But I be Indiana looks really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You know, all the Notre Dame guys were running around
pre game with no shirts on. Oh sure, who cares.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I can't imagine in the stand like this is because
I never think, like, how many games have I seen
in the cold one?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Like millions of them? Right, But yeah, very very rarely
do I go, oh boy, I bet it's cold. And
I don't know. Maybe I was thinking about that because Todd.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Furman, our you know, our our Vegas insider who comes
on the show with us every week, is at the
game tonight and I was like, dude, you're from Vegas.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's gonna be cold. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
None of him, but just kind of the crowd with
all their gortex and everything that was like, game time cold,
You're not.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Right, it looks cold. I feel cold for the fans,
but I feel really cold for Indiana because this looks right.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The first half looked like a hey, uh uh we
if we just play this game like and finish at
some point like this, can this not count? Like can this?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Can we just play and like just you know, just
make this game not count, like play during the day
when it's warmer, like I really feel like it's affecting Indiana.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Well, yeah, it's it's one of those feel out kind
of propositions, right, I don't I don't know how much
it's affecting them in terms of you know, Miami Dolphins
like things. You know, they do actually play in Indiana,
So in theory they've practiced in they don't play.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
This Like, come on, they never go to bowl games.
There are seasons done middle of October. What the hell
would you know about a bowl game? Pit Strike Bowl?
Every damn year, holiday holiday, holiday holiday, playing that game?
Holiday Bowl is going to get canceled. Watch us lose?
Wat What are your favored about?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh at this point?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, by the way, how about the story today? Kyle
McCord and Syriki maybe getting a fifty year of eligibility.
I'm thinking playoff next year. Man if Kyle McCord comes
with three for one more year, they are sudden.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Who's a benefactor that guaranteed him seven figures to stick around?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Brent Musburger? Wow, and Bob Costas you.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Know, Musburger is also a Northwestern alum. But anyway, well you.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Can claim as well, you can't claim as well. Now look,
now here's the thing. This is the Pithy the meat
of the discussion to get into with this game tonight, Right,
Indiana has not looked good and Notre Dame has outclassed them,
and this is going to be something that is an
unintended consequence of realignment in college football, because really, Indiana
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is a great story, right, how much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is it to see them?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Indiana has not been good in a long time, and
you're thinking back video of Antoine Randall l and Anthony Thompson,
But we don't know because look, Indiana's best wins are Okay,
they beat Michigan, they beat Washington. This is not beating
Michigan and Washington in twenty twenty three, these two teams
are playing for the national title.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The one game they played against.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The top twenty five ranked team, Ohio State, they lost
by three touchdowns. But here they go through a big conference,
the Big Ten, and they're eleven and one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So yeah, of course we're gonna take you for the playoff.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But this is what this is what's gonna be one
of the big things that's gonna be looked at at
the end of this playoff and examined about how.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We see how this playoff goes. Are these eleven and one.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
The second teams you're taking from conferences, are they really
good or did they just play an advantageous schedule? Because
now the SEC and the Big Ten, they got twenty
teams in there.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
They're gonna wind up with each twenty teams.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right now they're sixteen eighteen, and you're gonna have seasons
where you don't play really good teams, right like Indiana
avoided Penn State and Ore. You avoid the best two
teams in the conference, two of the best three teams
in the conference this year, when you don't have to
play the best teams, yeah, and you're an okay to
you're a good team.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Hey, you can roll.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Up against those lesser rent the also rans and put
up a big record, right like Syracuse avoided almost everybody
this year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They lost three.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We lost to Stanford and and it was ridiculous in
Boston College and pitt but we avoided like Clemson with
the one big game against Miami we won. Okay, that's great,
but we're nine to three and feeling good because, well,
we had a pretty advantageous schedule.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We didn't play that.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We didn't play SMU, right, we didn't play Clemson, so
that's gonna be something that I guarantee you the College
Football and the Playoff Committee is.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Going to look at. Is that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, are these teams we're letting in that are the
second ranked teams in the conference that aren't going to
the conference championship games?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Are they really that good?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Because if we don't have wins that we can say
this is their approving ground. Okay, we see it in
the playoff and if these teams, if the Indiana's of
the world and the guy they wind up getting boat race,
it's gonna be Okay, maybe they really weren't that good,
And now the scheduling is going to take a really
it's gonna be a much bigger piece of the pie
next year, and maybe a team like Alabama, Well yeah,
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Alabama lost three games, but look they beat three top
twenty five teams. Indiana didn't beat any. Maybe next year
a team like Alabama gets in over Indiana because if
Indiana sits here and this is a thirty eighth what
I said, what thirty eight thirt team was gonna be
the final This is one of those kinds of games. Yeah, okay,
who are the teams we let in that we weren't
sure that that. Hey, they won, but are they really good?
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We don't know the schedule. Yeah, that's who we got
to look at for next year, and there will be
an over correction for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah. I don't know how that it's that quick a
knee jerk reaction, but I agree. I mean, you gotta
see how this plays out. First iteration. We already know
what's gonna expand, right, the money and the whininess of
everybody gets us there. It's like, all right, all right, sec,
we'll add another team. Shut up, so you'll have that,
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no question. But in terms of scheduling, yeah, that's gonna
be the multi billion dollar question all this, Right, how
much do those early season games matter?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Notre Dame is still here. They lost in Northern Illinois.
Pretty good team, but not one that you consider anywhere
near a powerhouse. Right, Whereas we look at the Alabama
case you lost to and Andy you lost, you lost
three times.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, it was your only game, right, and you also
beat four top twenty five team.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
And you lost early, which is you know, the old
measure of matters. No, but it's true because you got
a whole new program a whole new set of kids
coming in, and then in theory, you gel and get
better as you go. So if you drop one early,
you know, whatever that equation is, it shouldn't count the
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same as something the second to last week of November,
you know, after you've played Mercer or a powerhouse like
that in your tune up game. But all of that
going into the Indiana discussion of great story head coach
gives you a lot of headlines, gives you a lot
of ammunition, and then you start to look at how
do you rate the conference properly?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Well, have the top heavy side of it when you
look at Oregon, when you look at Ohio State and
what they've been in Penn State in their their work
this year, but what do you how do you evaluate
the cannibalism that goes on right? How hard it is
to win on the road in some of these conferences.
Even if a team's not a powerhouse and finishes whatever
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four and seven, the metrics may may tell a different
tale than something else than another team in another conference.
So it's you know, what's that algorithm rhythm look like?
And until they give me the professor Frank really deep
dive on that we're gonna be left kind of wishing
and wondering and then just keeping our eyes on that
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committee and see who falls asleep. You don't get to
vote on that team when it comes time to vote
for where they go into the into the seating. But
for Indiana, yea, they are a true test case of
the new system, not only with how this roster was constructed,
but yes, their schedule and what it means going forward.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The Irish and the Hoosiers and the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's tough for me, right because you know, I like Bravado,
So there's something about Signetti. I like, there's also a
all right, shut up, you haven't done anything yet. Uh.
And then there's being from the South side of Chicago,
all the adoptions of Notre Dame through the years with
people that had no affiliation with the school. Somehow that
still bugs me.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It shouldn't it doesn't, you know, if he didn't get
your blood, sweat and tuition dollars, that bugs me. Yeah, no,
it does, And it doesn't bother me as much as
it does when they do it and they talk a
lot of smack.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm like, you just picked a team to root for.
Come on, you have no connection to this team. You're
not even from the town they're from. You don't go
to the games. You never got I don't go to
the games. You don't go to the games with head.
Don't talk smack for them, that's fine, but don't sit here.
Tell me team that I've blown up and and and
and put all kinds of blood sweat and tears on
my couch and my pillow for and all the emotional
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energy that I've waited.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Don't tell me that's the same thing. No, I'm with
you on that.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Tell me when you said blood sweat and tears, you
didn't have spinning wheels.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Start exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Domes.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Just understand, Indiana gets boat raced.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Trust me that if this is becoming gonna be a thing,
you're gonna see the committee go. Okay, we have to
pay much more attention to schedules next year, and and
the avoiding of the big teams in the conference is
gonna be something that's gonna hurt those teams.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Jason, call me when there's a fair cash free kick.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Okay, dude, we talked about that so often last night. Man,
that was that was so much fun. Yeah, that was
last night.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You know, I gotta say Frostburg that play and the
and the play at the end when Harbaugh decided to, hey,
kill the last play by go by going.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And I'm throwing it as high and as far as
I like. That's such a school yard play. That was
so much fun football. Those are like my two favorite
plays of the year in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The you know, the free kick field going, I'm just
gonna throw it up high and let the clock tick
off a go.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well, there's obviously no Jets highlights there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So no, no, there's there's there. Let's see, Wait a minute,
I don't know. Firing solo was a highlight. Firing double.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Get to watch that finding out we make decisions because
of Madden ratings. That's a highlight.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, but again we're like, we're not in the room
where that happens. Yeah, we got to watch it unfold
as a national audience. Are in and arm as football fans.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So right now, Notre Dame with the ball. They are
driving their first possession of the second half, which they
started in Indiana territory. They were forced to punt.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
However, Indiana had an offensive possession where they just went
backwards the punch of Notre Dame. They got it at
midfield and already they have a first down. They are
at the Indiana thirty three yard line with a first
and ten of seventeen to three, just under ten minutes
to go in the third.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, the last point on this before we watch the
continuation to this point. This game outside the ninety eight
yard run stinks.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, it's like I said, when you play in the
cold like this hit these guys. Hey, it's really really cold, man, whatever,
really cold. Sack up.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So coming up next, we'll have more on Notre Dame
Indiana as it merits throughout the night tonight. But what's
the big upset that we see on the schedule tomorrow
and the college football playoff? Plus we'll preview the game
of the week and the NFL All that and more
coming up next. It is a big football Friday. Keep
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
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Speaker 1 (15:55):
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have just shenanigans happening right now with Notre Dame in Indiana.
Notre Dame driving looked like they were going to wind
up having to kick a field goal to go up
twenty to three. However, Riley Leonard scrambling on third down,
is out of bounds and a late hit. He gets
hit in the white part of the sideline, so yeah,
that's a penalty. Gives the Irish a first down, fresh
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new set of downs. They get inside the ten, but
they can't go one anywhere from there, so they come
out for a field goal that's gonna make it twenty
to three. However, lining up for the field goal, then
Notre Dame scatters, they move the kicker out and they
run a fake play, and it's fourth and eight and
they run a running play and Notre Dame gets stopped
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two yards short of the first down. However, Kurt Signetti
called time out. Before the snap, so there was no play.
You can see on the replay. Indiana doesn't know what
to do. Is Notre Dame is all over the place
and he's running down the field yelling time out, time out.
The worst part for Indiana is that they had stopped
Notre Dame on the play, they would have had the football.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
But he's the smartest guy alive.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Ooh, but because of the timeout, they wind up getting
to rekick Notre Dame's field goal is good, make it
twenty to three.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Now Notre Dame over Indiana midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Very odd sequence of plays. And if you look at
it from the play by play perspective, here's a loss
of four. Here's a runout of bounds. Oh, there's a
penalty all right, now we got a fall start. Wait
now it's updating to show the timeout. Now we got
all this stuff. So it's it's chaotic, it's everything you
want for a playoff game in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And here's and here's what I don't get is that
the fake play that Notre Dame ran, they were on
the left side of the field. They ran they direct
snapped it to a tight end. Who it's fourth and eight. Like,
this is not like fourth and one. They direct snap
it to a tight end who's like eight yards behind
the line of scrimmage, and they think and they're running
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to the short side of the field. They think that
was gonna get the first down. Like wait, wait, what?
Like what Marco strim what are you? And he's clapping
and smiling as everybody's coming off the field, maybe because
he realizes, oh, Signetti called a time out.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I'm good, hey, man, because that boy, that would have
looked really bad.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I don't know, man, fourth and eight, we're gonna snap
it to a tight end eight yards back of the
line of scrimmage on the short side of the field.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I could think of better fourth than eight plays.
You want to fake the field?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
No? I think it's two things. One he realized Signetti
had called the time out. The second was I just
signed a contract extension. What the hell are they gonna
do to me? Yeah, let's go, let's get creative.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Hello, alumni, let's get wild out here.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's why he held the fourth four more I got
four more years, four more years.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You re elected me, let's go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You didn't like me, so twenty to three Notre Dame
they'll be kicking off, coming up back out of commercial.
Now you want an upset for tomorrow, I have an
upset for you in the first round of the College
one upset. I have an upset. And it's why it's
really gonna upset one of my best friends because he
went to Texas and we talk about Texas all the time.
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Oop cats out of the bag. Texas looks like they
might be out of gas. They've not looked like the
same team over the last few weeks. Now, they've been winning,
you know, up until they lost their second game of
the year to Georgia, but they have not been scoring.
You know, you look at their offense the last month. Hey,
after they blew out Florida, that might have been their
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peak because then you have trouble with Arkansas. You only
score twenty points against them. You know, Kentucky is one
of the worst teams in college football. You beat them
by two touchdowns. Yes, you beat Texas A and M
and A and m's a good team, but seventeen to seven,
you lose to Georgia twenty two to nineteen. The offense
has not been firing. It's just not been the same.
Whether it's it's it's any sort of in decision at
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quarterback with with viewers and Manning. But they're just not
the same team. And Clemson is coming on strong. They're
coming off a big emotional game in the ACC Championship game.
Kate Klubnick has been really good. He might be the
most underrated quarterback in college football because he was highly
touted out of high school and you had that big
game against yours in high school where he won.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But Clubnick so far and Clemson has been Yeah, he's
been all right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You know, you're expecting Trevor Lawrence or Deshaun Watson has it,
but this year he's been really really.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But you also lost those games early, so we stopped
paying attention to that, and.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dabbo when Dabo's complaining about the portal, and and I
can't do this anymore, and I can't recruit.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Oh poor me, poor me. Oh here they are in
the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Did you see they got some money today?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean you got to get somebody
at least. I mean, maybe Dabo was bry his phone
when they called.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I got one.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But Clemson is playing really well. And I'll tell you
what Clemson's gonna air it out because Texas run run
defense is really good. Right, You're not gonna run on
them because nobody runs on Texas. But Clemson's gonna air
it out. Club Nick's gonna have a big day, and
you're gonna see Texas and Ewers turn it over a
few times. Don't be surprised if this game goes the
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way and yours is not playing well that he gets
yanked and Manning goes in like this is one of
those games where they have not been They have not
been elite for at least the last month, and I
don't think you get well against once against one of
the hottest teams in college football that can put a
lot of points on the board.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So give me Clemson and the upset. I don't need
the points.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, I'll take them, but I don't need him
because on the field, club Nick has a big day,
he goes for three hundred, and Clemson has the big
upset tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And by the way, you're gonna take the thirteen and
a half. I mean, on the field, I'll take the points,
but I'm not gonna need him. I didn't say I'm
I'm not gonna need the points, and I'm not gonna
take them. I said, I'm not gonna need the points.
I'll take them, but I'm going Clemson on the field.
I do dig that. The one that's curious to me,
and this is the the pucker up and everybody doing
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their best defense of oh it was unfair, and the
expectations and all like, shut up. You spent a lot
of money. You have a twenty five million dollar roster.
You bring in chip Kelly, You're supposed to be a wizard.
So for Ryan Day, yeah, it is put up and
put up or shut up. Their seven point favorites at
home forty six. My fear is that Tennessee is not
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going to be able to travel well right, neutral field whatever, Yeah,
great here, No that perhaps there's a bit of an issue.
But they're getting seven and looking at perhaps with the
pressure on them, that the offense sputters a bit right.
They take a couple of chances early get out of sorts,
opening the door for Tennessee to come in and take it.
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Tenned two second in the sec. Good balance in terms
of what their offense was over the course of the year.
A lot of key component parts to both right. The
running game had multiple a lot of guys carried the
ball for them successfully this year, to the tune of
over five yards per carry, averaging about twelve yards per reception.
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So move the chains, take care of business. Tennessee goes
in and takes down Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh look at you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh my good.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You just said that. Every Ohio State fan just said. Yeah,
but it doesn't matter because I don't care because we
lost to Michigan. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if
we I don't really care about this game. We lost
the Michigan's seats over, it doesn't matter, making no difference.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's just a question of since that loss. You'd love
to have one of these documentaries that we keep seeing
all over the place. Shoe chill, Let's get behind the
scenes of this team, that team. Here's a day in
the life of some NFL legend. Let's go back and
look at the life and career of Olway or whomever else.
This is like, let me get a helmet cam and
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watch this thing unfold over these last couple of weeks,
because I gotta imagine it is not a comfortable environment.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No, I belok, bit. The best thing for Ohio State.
I fairly believe this is that they need this game.
They need I're gonna get this game. More detail coming
up in a bit, But they need a game, right like,
they need to play a game. They need to not
sit back and listen to what everybody is saying and
here fire right to keep Ryan Day, have the ad
talking about Ryan Day's status and all. They need to
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play a game because this is the most talented. The
reason it's one hundred million dollar roster. What do they
say a one hundred million dollar roster for a reason.
They're a great team. And beginning of the year, I said,
if Ohio State's not playing for the national championship, something
is wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They can right all their wrongs in this playoff, but
they need a game now. There is no team then
more desperate need of playing than Ohio State because they
need to flip that narrative from hey, we lost to Michigan.
It was a bad end of the season. How did
we do this again?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The flag planting stuff, the pepper spray with the players.
They need to play and a w and suddenly that
good feeling comes back and things will be great for
Ohio State. They gotta play.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Can they protect that is the question In Tennessee twenty
nine sacks on the season. Offensive line has been a
little leaky for Ohio State. Did they short up? Were
they able to find the buttress buttress for the playoff game?
That Butcher's one of my favorite I like buttress, good word.
Butcher's is a good word. I like butchers.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I would like to use that more.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
But I I, you know, I feel weird that people
would go oh oh, like, instead of being a funny word,
some people would think it was a really bad word
and get offended, which is okay.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I'm like, yeah, oh, just because you're butt just because
you're an idiot and you get offended.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, definitely not wrong, I said.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
But I'm not saying, Jason oh, I was talking to
the people that would be offended by uh.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I take it back.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Then, how much is Frostburg still? I think Frostburg's drunk
from that Charger game last night. He kept me with
a with a big bottle with big forty eight corps
like that, ready to produce. Well, show your catch, free
kick your face, dicker the kicker. We got more coming
up in ninety seconds, but first, let's find out what's
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trending in the wide world of sportswomen who wore a
black protective mask to work tonight to protect his face
from an injury. As he is returning to the lineup
here at Fox Sports Radio, it's Steve the Sager.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
No, that is a veiled Joel Embiid reference. I can't
see through that much of it. By the way, after
the sinus fracture, he did return wearing a mask, and
Philly wanted home agains Charlotte one eight ninety eight is
Embiad had thirty four points nine assists. There were only
three NBA games tonight, Cleveland's twenty four and four after
ripping Milwaukee the one twenty four to one oh one.
(26:39):
You know, it wasn't that long ago. I saw the
Bucks win the NBA Cup. I thought all was settled
on how great this season was going to be.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And now tonight they lose by over twenty.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
What did you celebrate the Cup?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, like I do most Milwaukee Bucks victories.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Pause dnause nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, clearly, Steve, they peaked with the cup and now
it's all down.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
That's right, it's all downhill. I mean, did the Lakers
win a title?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Did they follow up?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Maybe a revisionist history there?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You know if they had Darvin Ham. Maybe Darvin hamd
there cos right for the Bucks. Maybe he wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
He is fourteen to oh after all.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
In Cup play thunder one oh four ninety seven winners
at Miami. Jimmy Butler left the game due to illness.
Luca Donsitch of the MAVs will be out again Saturday
with the bruise heal. And yes, there is a college
football playoff opener going on. Not much going on in it,
quite frankly, but late third quarter Notre Dame is dominating
Indiana twenty to three.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
In the cold.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Indiana's quarterback Curtis Rourke was just eighty five yards passing
and the early interception at the two yard line.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Next play for.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Notre Dame, they engineered a ninety eight yard touchdown run
Jeremiah Love.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
In fact, five.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Carries ninety two yards in the game, including the ninety
eight yard run Notre Dame twenty to three late third quarter.
By the way, Number two Georgia is off until its
Sugar Bowl quarterfinal New Year's Night against apparently Notre Dame.
The Baltimore Ravens cut wide receiver Deontay Johnson and wide
receiver Nelson Agalore with a concussion, is out for the
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Saturday game against the Steelers. Yes, there are two NFL
games tomorrow, including Pittsburgh at Baltimore on Fox TV four
to thirty pm Eastern Time. First baseman Christian Walker is
going to Houston on a reported three year deal. Among
the seven NHL games tonight, Rangers lead latent regulation at
Dallas two to one. Already wins for Washington and Toronto.
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And huge news this morning in Sports TV securing the
exclusive broadcast rights in the US for the next two
editions of the Women's World Cup Netflix. They're not only
going to have a couple of Christmas games in the NFL.
By twenty twenty seven, when the tournament's in Brazil, it'll
be only on Netflix. And then the twenty thirty one tournament,
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which could have some games in the US. There might
be a US Mexico joint bid for that one up
against England. We'll see, but huge news there. I can
only hope as a fan of the US team that
they will farm out US games, at least in group play,
to a regular channel.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
We'll see back to you, Hi, it's.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
This this Netflix. Yeah, Hi, I was watching Stranger Things
season five, and uh, all of a sudden, a soccer
game came in.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I don't want to watch it, but it keeps saying
I can't turn it off. Can you can you help
me out with that? I need to reset my my
box or something. It tells me I have to watch
this game. We'd like to watch something else.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
See the promos are already said running up that hill.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
No, look this is look what what what do we
tell you? Right?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This goes to something we talked about for the last
three years. Streaming is the future of sports rights in
the United States, and we spend a lot of time
talking about obviously football, baseball, basketball, those are the big rights.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
But there's still a streaming playoff game for NFL, I
mean streaming only.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, but what you're you're seeing slowly all of these
different entities, Netflix, is Amazon's the ones that we know
are going to be around and because some.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Of them, what what we just wait for the Jets
to go back to AOL.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
No, we're on dial up. We're not even the problem
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But you see that that not only are the big
streaming giants making inroads with the NFL, A little bit
with Major League Baseball, right, Apple Plus had the big
stuff NBA, but now you're seeing like huge events just
just glombed up, Like, oh, Women's World Cup is a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, we can bid, we can have that, we can
have that. But I'm telling you, by the time we
get to twenty thirty, twenty thirty two, all of.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The I mean, I'll be we'll be lucky if any
stuff is over the air, Like we'll get the odd
over the air games once in a while, but like
you know, for during the week, Like, hey, ESPN is
still gonna have their two basketball games a week, but yeah,
are we gonna get games on NBA TV? Or is
everything gonna be streaming? Like they're making so much money
and the networks are not. And when these rights come up,
it's gonna be Yeah, we we got the money, we
(30:55):
can just bid on this.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
We can just buy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We buy whatever we want and if they get real
check it, we'll just buy that channel. Oh oh, CBS,
you don't want to give up the NFL. We're going
to buy you. Yeah, We're going to buy you.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And that that's it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
We're folding you in down on Netflix. Like in the
next ten years, like everything's going to be streaming. We'll
get a little bit of stuff over the air enough
to keep everybody happy, to keep football and different sports
on our TV.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But these big rights men, they're all going to go streaming,
every single one.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
See what I had witnessed this and was part of
it from the cable television side when I was some
part of something called the Football Network fledgling operation out
of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, me and Jerry Glanville and Danny Sheridan,
and I forget who the host.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Was the Football Network.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
This is not related two years ago when we had
the Baseball Network, which was fifteen games where you just
saw your own team anyway, but with different announcements.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
No, no, this goes back to you had show that
we were going to be one of the first right,
so fantasy and football and whatever, some gambling picks, and
then the idea was, we're gonna buy the rights to
NFL films. They were in negotiations for some of that
and for second tier, third tier college football games. But
(32:09):
then everybody realized, wait, there's a bigger market for all
of this stuff. Oh, in the NFL announced NFL Network.
Guess guess what we didn't finish this season.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now I remember, in fact, well, this is just gonna
be a bad story, so I'm gonna sit on it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I'm just gonna sit on it. It would be a
bad story for you, So I'm just gonna sit on it.
That story for me. Yeah, yeah, bad story for you.
Nothing bad, nothing effective, Just a bad story. You're like, yeah,
there you go. That's Football Network. So I'll just sit
on it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'll just sit on But coming up next, we're gonna
preview the biggest game of the week in the NFL,
and Justin Frostberg has some special audio for us coming
from last night's Charger game.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
We're gonna hear that's it. Everybody's fine, everybody's fine. Wow.
Now frost was gonna beat you up now.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
On the street for the free kick.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's yeah, it's coming on next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio My Foot to your Face Stop.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
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Speaker 3 (33:12):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
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Speaker 3 (33:19):
A game that is slowly making its way to its conclusion.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Notre Dame leads Indiana twenty to three, twelve minutes ago
in the fourth quarter, would have been a three point lead.
Further for Notre Dame, however, Indiana blocks their field goals,
so they take over down seventeen with twelve and a
half minutes left to go in the fourth Love more
on this game and more college football coming up in
a bit, but we're going to preview the biggest game
(33:41):
in the NFL in a couple of minutes. But first,
Justin Frostburg has some very special audio for us today.
You know, we talked a lot last night about the
two big plays in the Charger win over the Broncos,
the free kickfield goal and then the final player regulation
where Harbaugh just tells Justin Herbert, hey just run around
back back there and then throw it up as high
(34:02):
as you can out of bounds on the last play
to let the clock run out. Great street ball play.
Phenomenal play.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We have special audio, Mike Carmen that Justin Frostburg has
obtained for us. This is Herbert into the huddle before
the final play, that before that final play of the game,
four seconds left they gotta find a way until the
rest of the clock.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
This is Herbert in the huddle for the final play.
Let's hear it. First team off State.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I can put the ball wherever I want to. I'm
going to rain out here, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Guys ring in. I can put the ball wherever I
want to, Well, where you want where you want me
to throw it, I'll throw it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I'll throw it just out of bounds so it lands
in the white part of the out of bounds right
off the field.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I can do that.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I'll throw mountain. Whatever needs to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Coach put me. In the fourth quarter we to one state.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I'm telling you, I'm gonna throw it straight through the
center and the eye of the video board in midfield.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
The only thing that could have been better on that throw, Jason, Yeah,
is if it hits Sean Payton on its way down.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Look out, Coach couch Couch.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
See you keep telling me I'm I'm the problem.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Coach couch Couch.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't that I'm some of it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But come on now, I don't think See the thing is,
I don't think that. I think everybody in the stadium
is watching that ball. Go wow, that's so high. Wow,
where's it gonna come down? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh, it's gonna come down right now. I'm not watching,
not watching, not watching. I think everybody saw.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
What is kind of laughable, though, is show me you've
watched no Charger games without telling me you've you know,
watched no Charger games all season before last night, because
all of a sudden, it's see, Justin Herbert's really good.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I think people thought maybe he wasn't as good because
he wasn't as big a part of the offense.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
But I mean clearly, you see, hey, they need to
really rely on him more.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
If you do what you're asked to do, and in
a game like this where the defense fell down early,
just like they did on Sunday, yeah he rose up.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
No, I I kind of I kind of backed into
that prediction, getting that prediction right last night because it's
gonna be a low scoring game. They're gonna win. No, no, no, no,
It's not exactly went at all. But defense didn't look good.
The offense bailed them out in the second half, but
it doesn't matter, and win's a win, right, win's a win.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
No, And Peyton bailed them out by you know, calling
passing plays in that final possession of the first half.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now, speaking of coaches game of the week this week,
really there's two of them. There's one in the a
f C, one in the NFC, but the Steelers and
the Ravens. The Ravens absolutely need this game if they're
gonna have any hope of winning the AFC North.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
And I'll tell you what if I if I have
said this week, I'm just not in on Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I'm not in on them. I don't think they're that good.
They're limited, they're winning, but they're really just wait, I'm
waiting for the balloon to pop on them a little bit,
and it sort of is. But they're still winning games.
And you know there's still but Russell Wilson's not an
incredible quarterback. Russell Wilson's been playing. Okay, it's been a
lot of yak for the most part. This has not
been Oh he has rediscovered an unbelievable form. No, he's
(37:13):
been a little bit better than expected. And they're getting
by with a great defense. But they're dinged up. And
if I'm not in on Pittsburgh, I sure as hell
I'm not in on this game at Baltimore, all Right,
Lamar Jackson has to take this week, and I'm sure
he will. He's got to take this personal, right, He's
got to have the Jordan iPad. I'm taking this personal,
my failure against the Steelers. I am taking this personal
(37:36):
for all the questions of not finishing that the Ravens have.
Baltimore is gonna start to peak right now, at the
absolute right time.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right they made the big move today. We didn't know
what they were gonna do with Deontay Johnson. They waived him. Yes,
they're struggling at receiver this.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Week, but it's non factor. So he's been a distraction
for the media.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But Agalare is sitting too, and Bateman is dinged up.
He was in a walking boot, and.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
So they're keeping it. They're doing a lot of gamesmanship,
but it really doesn't matter. This is a Lamar Jackson week,
and he this is a week where he makes the
MVP race interesting. Like Everry wants to give it to
Josh Allen's Oh look at what he's like. But Lamar
Jackson might start to make it interesting the rest of
the way. Because I'll tell you what. They win this
game on Sunday, they roll the rest of the year
(38:25):
and they win the AFC North. I'm in on Baltimore
on Sunday, I'm in on them the rest of the
regular season.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Five touchdowns against eight picks in his career against the
Steelers make it two and six. As the pic total rises.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Look at you, you you're just your You're anti John Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Why I don't know, because if it's anti John Harbaugh,
brothers a Jim Harbaugh, frostbur will get mad.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
No, I do radio in Baltimore every week. Why would
I want to mat.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Doesn't matter what you could like other people too, doesn't
one guy?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Look in the end, you've got a history and a
track record that speaks for itself. Now, obviously you have
a difference maker potentially and Derrick Henry and maybe you
can get something going in the ground game. But I
just don't trust the passing game right now. Just don't
trust what I've got there. And you know you can
talk about YAK and yards after contact and all that
(39:17):
stuff on the Steelers side, it's how you win football games.
Throw the guy into space, let him go and get
it now. Missing George Pickens for another week, I mean,
you don't have to deal with him crying that he's
not getting the football, but he's not out there at
least making the safety be honest. So yeah, there's a
bit of a problem there. But looking for the Steelers
(39:37):
to take advantage of what has been a suspect Baltimore
defense all year long. A couple of those moon balls
land and let's let's go to the kicking game. I'll
take anybody right now over Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Wow, anybody, No, this is this is this is Lamar Jackson.
He is the best player on the field. He reminds
everybody of that minds everybody how good he is.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
This is Lamar.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
This is Lamar taking some MVP consideration away from your guy,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Well, he'll throw for better than forty eight point five
percent of his completion rate.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Maybe coming up next more from the Big Day of
college football going on tonight and tomorrow Fox
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