November 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith believes a new Heisman front-runner will be crowned this weekend if Alabama crushes LSU. And USC pulls off the most incredible fake punt against Northwestern thanks to a jersey change!
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the third quarter on Big Fox USC elimination game in
the College Football Playoff because i USC loses well at
six and three, they'll be out. They lead Northwestern right now,
twenty one to fourteen. If you have the over in
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this game, you're feeling pretty good right now. I believe
Mike Harmon has the over, even though he hasn't really
admitted it yet.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I mean, you got to keep some things under wraps. No,
no need for everybody to live and die. I mean,
why do you think I was really upset when the
defensive line had the ball lodged, just lodged by the
quarterback diving in Is I.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
At any time Northwestern defensive touchdown?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
And I got that ripped out of my arms, stolen,
stole a piece of my soul along the way. No,
I mean, thirty five points in the first half, highly entertaining,
a lot of o fens, some trick plays, right, You
got the punter throwing a pass lefty. You got a
little bit of everything, as we've mentioned over over the
course of this one. A lot of luminaries out in
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Los Angeles, and yeah, pretty exciting. Stone only seventy six
passing yards in the first half. He'll have to pick
it up. His name is Preston Stone Casting you know.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, well we were named a stone. You have to
be good, right, Like you have to be really like
what who was the linebacker for notre name Mike stone
breakstone Breaker? Sure, ye, i'd bean like, you have to
be a superstar if your name is stone Breaker, had
a choice? Yeah, I mean that's like, hey, you got
to be like the most physical linebacker. You have to
be chiseled all the concrete things together. You really, if
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you're not great in your name is stone Breaker, you
got problems?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, I did, right, It's Burgy onto greatness. It's like,
you know, giving your kid a first name that kind
of tells the profession. Because it's a family show and
it's still early on a Friday, I'll stay with some
of the the more problematic ones.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah no, but you know what I mean, really, just
really quick, I've noticed this in my life. There's two
names that when people have them, I notice, like there's
a great book by this author, Florence Knapp, called The Names.
It's come out. It's a big it's a big hit.
I haven't read it yet, but but I have it
on let get it from the library. And it's it's
about a family and they name their kids something and
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it's about that kid's life and they tell three stories
because they have three different names, like like they name
the kid one like they name the kid John. And
the first note Nova novella about it is about what
life is when the name is John and they name it,
they name the kid. It's the same thing, but they
name the kid something different and how different the kid's
life is because the name is different. Right, So it's
really I really can't wait.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
To read it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Seems really interesting twins in naming them Maximus and Minimus.
I mean, there's gonna be sure you're gonna see how
how they go through life. Your child Destiny.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Minimis isn't doing anything for Essa, you're kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But going through my life, the number of people that
I have known, like there's been like a handful maybe
like I don't know, like three or four people whose
last name is sergeant or their first name is Christian,
and it's like they get all kinds of respect and
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Especially well, if your name is sergeant, I gotta respect
you because you're a sergeant, not like your sergeant slaughter,
but your last name is like Kenny Sargent, who the
Speed Freaks guy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, for a long time, but people.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Your last name is sergeant and first name of like Christian, Yes, okay, respect.
I'm like, wow, those are names that just have respect
built in there.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's funny because you bring that up and we have
a theory that we're still working on in the house,
but it's got a lot of legs under it that
anybody I've met that goes by Chuck or Charles, they've
gone in one of two camps. You can prove themselves
to be a really good guy or they're a real
dirt bag.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So I approach all of them with great skepticism in
that first meeting, Like it's Charles, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Huh, so, where where does Charles Barkley?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I don't the man?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay, well, but I'm saying you have you have to
have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, but I mean he's I don't know Charles Barkley.
I'm talking about in my life.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He's been in the public eye for thirty five but
he's never shown up at.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
My dinner table.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
If it was John Ratzenberger at the end of that
Cheers episode, he would have been one of those people
that's never been in my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, all right, all right, just making sure okay, just
making sure.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I mean, I gotta think he's probably on the good side,
but I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Don't know, all right, all right, he could be evil.
So we'll have more.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We have more NFL coming up in a few minutes.
Pete fu Tech again. College football News insider joins us
next hour on the show. But a couple of big
takes looking into tomorrow's game. Two really big games. One
is kind of off the beaten path, but one of
the big ones for thirty game on ABC LSU and
number four Alabama.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Now, you would think that Brian Kelly would have.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Soon well that we've seen a coach that got dismissed
where people were more glee. Now with James Franklin, they
ran a bunch of statistics, right, he didn't hear he
didn't do that. With Brian Kelly, you had some of that,
but then it really became all right, let me tell
you a story about Brian Kelly. Yeah, oh yeah, okay, remorse.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There's been no buyer's remorse or Brian Kelly, none at all,
absolutely not. But I'll tell you this about Alabata. We
talked about the Kaylen de Boor earlier in the week.
Shout out to him because a month ago it was
what is his buyout? He can't win big games. We
need somebody to replace the guy that replaced Nick Saban
And here they are now. Now the guy can do
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no wrong. They're seven and one, they're undefeated in the SEC,
they're ranked fourth, they win the SEC. They're going to
have a buy and a home game. Like everything is
coming up, Kaylen de bor right now. But I'll tell
you what else. Everything is gonna come up. Ty Simpson's
gonna win the Heisman Trophy. Right we we could talk
about the pro prospects of Mendoza and Dante Moore, who
clear with the size they have and as good as
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they are, and Simpsons starting to climb up charts like
he's that third guy, as you talked a few minutes ago.
He's that third guy right there with them. And you
don't know how things are gonna evolve over the course
of the next few months. But I'll tell you this,
college football wise, he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy because
he has the storyline. He's got Alabama back into prominence.
They're gonna play big games the rest of the season,
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right because it's Alabama Fanana Mendoza. Yeah, one is big
game against Dante more but it's not like the guys
suddenly playing big game after big game after big game.
The Heisman is usually a stats award, right, it's usually
a big you look at stats, but this year nobody
really has the stats. If Mendoza or Dante Moore running
away with stats and it was like, hey, Mendoza's got
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forty touchdowns, everybody else has twenty. Okay, that's one thing,
but nobody really has that. So that so that kind
of year, what's it gonna be. Hey, here is ty
Simpson with a difficult SEC schedule and Alabama is in
the top four. Who knows where they finish at the
top of the year, But right now, I'll tell you this.
He's guy that doesn't throw any picks. He puts enough
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offense up on the board. It's gonna be one of
those cumulative Troy Smith kind of years. When Troy Smith
won the Heisman for Ohio State, he wasn't that flashy,
but he had wins and and Ohio State was unbeaten.
They went into the into the playoff. That's kind of
what I see for Simpson. It's gonna be at the
end of the year. Well, no real player really stood
out with crazy ass Joe Burrow seventy touchdown type numbers.
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So yeah, the quarterback of Alabama is gonna win the
Heisman Trophy. I got a big feeling on him for that.
I'll tell you right now. I know he's second or
third in a lot of books, but he will race
to being number one very soon.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
All right.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Current leader in the clubhouse is Julian Saying twenty one
hundred and eighty eight yards, twenty three touchdowns against three picks.
He is currently at plus one fifty, Mendoza at plus
two to thirty, Simpson at plus four to thirty, and
then Marcel Reid is at plus six point fifty. He's
got seventeen touchdowns against six picks. Yeah, that's where we're
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a statistic.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Not a great not a great year, Bob.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know who's that great year? Ready?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
This is Steve Anngelli with six touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
But look at that plus one fifty plus two thirty
plus four thirty plus six fifty. The next guys on
on the board Stockton and Lolurimiah Smith. Yeah exactly, they're
both thirty to one. Yeah, that's how big that gap is.
Between those front four and the next on the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Board, it's not a great year. It's not a great
year for the Heisman Trophy. And once in a while,
when when you don't have the stats, it comes to
leadership big teams, and look, Ohio State's not playing anybody, right,
how big is the win over Texas?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Is it really big?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And Julian Sayan did not play great in that game.
It's not like he's I can't play. He's only the
favorite because Ohio State's number one. So knowing that, that's
kind of how what people are thinking right now. By
the end of the year, it's going to be Simpson.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He's got Yeah, he's got Purdue next. Yeah, then u
c l a home game, and then you finish it
off against Michigan, right, Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
His only chance to have a Heisman moment is that game,
right or you know, or looking at the Big Ten.
But if you're undefeated the Big Ten championship, it doesn't matter.
So even if you lose, you're making the playoff like
that doesn't He's got one chance for a Heisman moment.
But by then and and and and Simpson's gonna have
more chances. Yeah, he's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Interesting to watch this week, and I know a little
bit of run for Nick Saban with some of his
comments as you look at and evaluate the the LSU
and Alabama game is LSU's already fired their coach, So
don't you just throw everything against the wall. You're ten
and a half point dogs. This is one of the
most dangerous spots that you can be in, right because
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you know there's a lot of talent on that squad.
Now it's just a matter of can you can you
harness it and come up with one big effort? So
for Simpson, huge test.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Jas the Smith Mike Harmon lot from the Fox Sports
radio studios. The other game to focus on here for
a couple of minutes is really off the beaten path.
And you would think that, okay, beginning of the year,
I'd be a game people want to see.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Colorado and West Virginia. They are third to last and
second to last in the Big Twelve, both teams one
and five and three and six. Colorado has looked absolutely
awful many times this season. They've lost the last two
weeks by the combined score of one hundred and five
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to twenty four. They've lost to Utah. Who's in the top,
Who's who's the I think they're fifth or sixth in
the Big twelve right now.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Utah is not bad.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Arizona is not great there, you know, they're in the
middle of the pack in the in the in the
Big twelve. But this is now Colorado getting absolutely pacing
back to back games. Is gonna be no bowl game
for them this year. They're three and six and it's
not gonna be this year. But this is gonna be
a bad finish for Colorado, right because then they have
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Arizona State after this game, Arizona State six and three.
Then they got Kansas State coming up after that. They're
middle of the pack there, four and five. Dion Sanders
maybe in a winner go Home type situation for next
year with Colorado because the way he came in with
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such bravado, all the attention on the program Shador Sanders
and Travis Hunter. Wow, it's awesome. And then they lost.
But okay, hey, this is a one win team for
a long time, and all right, we're building it. And
he's got a lot of he's got a lot of
interest in the program, and Colorado's a media darling yes,
we love life. We love life. Okay, last year things
were a little bit better for Colorado than they were
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the year before. You at Shadoor Sanders getting headlines all
year long, and of course Travis Hunter is your Heisman
Trophy winner. Now it didn't end in a playoff, didn't
end how they wanted it to end, but still you
saw a lot of growth because this is a team
that finished nine and four last year. So okay, now
they're starting over it. They went to the transfer portal
for Caden Salter, all kinds of changes. Now they are abysmal.
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And it's not it's it's it's too soon for this
year to be Okay, Dion, it's not working. But another
year like this and last year is Dion's last.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Year at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like they're not getting the return for I'm sure what
they're what they're putting in for, nil what they paid
for Dion. Like Dion gets there, his kids are there,
and they were good, and now that cupboard is empty,
and man do they look bad?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are they getting boat raced?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Uh on? You know, very very uh very commonly this year.
So I would say after this year, it's gonna be man.
If Dion has another year like this. If it's not
a if there's no growth, there's no bowl game or
a seven eight win season next year, yeah, they're gonna
move on. They're gonna go get somebody else because what
they're doing is not working. And and Deon's not gonna
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trend up. Now this is gonna be you know, four
years of recruits for him and if it's not okay,
So this is you've had your guys to come in.
You hand picked all your guys, right, you hand picked
all your guys to come in. You get guys an nil,
You do really well. You get guys to come in.
You're a great recruiter, you get the players to come in.
We need something better than this. So it's too soon
for this year. But you're looking at how it's gonna end.
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And if this is another bad game against West Virginia,
who's terrible, and West Virginia is like a six point
favorite in this game, I would say you are into
next year where it's a Deon Sanders wins or he
gets fired by Colorado.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Well, what's difficult also in the process is the handling
of the coaching staff. Knee jerk reactions, demotions. Did it
to Shermer this week. So Pat Shermer, deposed as your coordinator,
did that same thing to Sean Lewis, as you remember famously.
He's now the head coach of San Diego State. But
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it's one of those words like all right, it's always
a kind of a finger pointing, kicking down the line. Right.
Obviously you want to shuffle up and make some changes.
Think you're gonna make some spark. Okay, fine, but what
does that do to the squad? Do you really get
that jolt? I know we're talking about it. You know,
with these coaching changes and what the teams do. Could
I be surprised if lsu one, I'd be shocked. But
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would I be surprised if they lost by forty? No,
I would not. You know, those kinds of things. Same
thing here with Colorado. You know, we want to give
you want to give some grace because obviously, you know
what he came into the season and his physical, physical
health and mental health told that that had to take
on him and what it's meant to the program. So
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you have that, but once you're on the field, you
still got to be able to take care of business,
and you don't have the depth necessary at each of
these positions and they're just getting boat raised, right, They're
not even competitive at this point. And really it just
shows you had your sons and Travis Hunter propped up
the entire program. It was three guys. So it's the
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decided fall off is problematic on a whole other level.
You know, whether you can still activate boosters or whatever
else is a whole other part of the equation. From
a coaching perspective, there's no cohesiveness right now, and certainly
you can only do so many speeches. I like getting
you know, the approach he takes overall, you know, in
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terms of accountability and such, but that only gets you
so far. You still need to go out and win
games for that to hold.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it's weird to think about it because you know,
you think of all the things, yes, all the things
he went through and coaching, but you know, it's a
results oriented business, right, It's what it is. And the
school needs to know, Hey, where we're spending a lot
of money, we're doing a lot of things here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We want to know that that we're on the right path.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And and it's you know, it's if you're getting crushed
like this, I mean, look at look at a guy
like Brian Kelly's winning nine and ten games, and it's
not enough, right, Like, I mean, what's enough? What's enough
in Colorado to say, yeah, we're okay? Is it a
three and nine year this year? And is five and
seven good enough next year? With with all the stuff
that Dion brings the table, both good and stuff that
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you're not crazy about? So yeah, I really think you're
Look at the end of this year, it's going to
be Hey, Dan's gonna be an approved year. Next year
could be his last one in Colorado. Exit out about
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Speaker 4 (18:18):
Sure, I'd like to spank your bald head and lick it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Uh, it's been well, let's say it hasn't been a
great run at USC for Lincoln Riley so far this year.
But right now six and two, USC beating Northwestern by
two touchdowns and coming up in a few minutes, we'll
get into a play that USC pulled off earlier in
the game tonight that I really have to take my
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hat off to Lincoln Riley and tell now that's a
trick play, all right, We got that coming up in
about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That sure make it jerk. That's a trick we could
do anything when everybody was stopping all over your Syracuse
Orange the last couple of weeks. But no, let's go
after Northwestern because it's in our window. Dude, you were
sending you, you were sending me, you were sending me
videos of Justin Field's interceptions. Here's another one, here's another one,
here's another one. Well, they were all with Bears uniforms on.
(19:10):
They were foreshadowing.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, well, I mean here's it. I could say.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The one thing though, Justin Fields is not turning the
football over. No he's I mean we're not scoring points. No,
we're not turning the football over. So there's that.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Well, I mean it's a clean box scorer.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So that's good. Remember when I said, zero's a whild
for Justin Fields. No touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
No yard Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I mean we talked about the name game earlier. Do
you have a running back for USC named King Miller,
so naturally he's got to have a big day. Eleven
carries ninety five yards of the score. Yeah, and since halftime,
Preston Stone has two passing yards for Northwestern.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah. Yeah, that's how it's.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Uh, if your name is Stone, we said you gotta
be really good and hopefully this turns out better for you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Car Yeah, well, I mean, look, the long road begins
with that first step. Sure, it all goes back to
that that fumble recovery that well didn't happen, now did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That was it. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But by the way, and off the line of run
for for Aaron Donald as well, Like they showed him
on the sideline and he's got nothing to do with
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, but it's fun that he's there. Let's just show
him that he's there. What were what? What do you what?
Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You don't like when people show people at games like
you're upset about that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Well, she's there as a fan, Okay, all right, he's
just a guy, all right, He's not there as a
fan of football. He's just I'm a fan of football.
I celebrate it all.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He might be taking over for Lincoln Riley if Lincoln
h so being a football Friday. A lot more college
football coming up in a bit, but a couple more
big games this week in the NFL. And it's weird
because you wouldn't think this beginning of the year, but
maybe the game of the week. Obviously, we talked about
(20:57):
Rams forty nine ers, big game last time, But suddenly
the Patriots and the Bucks is a big game, maybe
the biggest game of the week. And again, didn't have
that on my Bengo card beginning of the season.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a fun one, right. Certainly you've said your
piece about Drake may and the schedule that they've played
to date. Look, you can only beat who's on it.
When we talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's been
a mass unit, still waiting for a lot of those
top notch and top flight players to get back on
the field. But Baker Mayfield certainly has provided a lot
(21:33):
of thrilling finishes throughout the year. So we'll see rubber
meets the road here for the Patriots, right to step
up in class on the road in a big spot.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Where New England finally plays a good team finally, right, Okay,
the Bills were good, they won that game, Okay, five whatever, Yes, yes, yes,
let's let's play hang it all on that one game.
Every other team you have played stinks. Every team you
play after this stinks. Every body stinks. It's the easiest
schedule in the NFL in years. I still can't get
over this with the Patriots. Oh, they finally play a
(22:07):
good team and they're finally gonna lose. Right, Tampa Bay
is at home, coming off a bye. They've had time
to fix what's gone a little off over the course
of the past couple of weeks. Right, Baker Mayfield was
out to an MVP type start, kind of hit the
skids a little bit. And now, obviously you can only go
so far when you keep losing wide receivers and and
and and you're saying, hey, Keyshan, can you come back
(22:28):
and play? You know, John Gruden's not here anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He was on the sideline. He's he's looking tight, endish,
you're gonna you're good.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That's okay, Hey, that's okay again.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And no where you go, you lose Bucky Irving, who
is a really big weapon. And and early in the
season you could see he was Baker mayfield security blanket.
How many times in big drives did Mayfield make the
right call checking it down Irving is open and he
gains ten or fifteen yards. Missing him has been a thing.
But now they've had a week to get healthy, to
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get ready, and this is gonna be one of those
Baker Mayfield chip on his shoulder games. I gotta play
well coming out of this. You know he's gonna come
out and play like his hair is on fire.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I have a great, big projection for him this week.
I think he's a top three fantasy quarterback this week. Overall,
their defense gets after New England enough, and I see
this as a game where, hey, New England's stay is close,
but Tampa Bay pulls away and wins this by double digits.
Huge game for Baker Mayfield and Tampa gives the Patriots
a much deserved l as a good team that they
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finally play and they lose to there.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Can you take the Jets hat off now there? That's
fine because that's all that was a lot of no
lies right there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
No lies, no lies, no lies, no lies detected there again,
Buccaneers giving up the schedule two zero point three per
game the Jets.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
If the Jets, if the Jets had the schedule, they
would be like three and six. Man, come on, that's.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So easy, you're I mean, look, that takes you out
of the running for whatever quarterback was your favorite. If
you agree with what I'm with, it's like I go
to the other position players and I backfill the quarterback
out of this class. All fine young individuals, but I
don't think you have that true number one difference maker.
(24:21):
But we'll see. We still have a lot of football
to play. Buccaneers given up twenty two to three per
game New England at eighteen point eight. When we talk
about defensive aciman, can you get after it? Front seven?
Rashad White will be the guy out of the backfield
once again. Bucky Irving is out. No return for Chris
Godwin yet obviously Mike Evans lost for the year. So
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for Abuka and the other receivers, imperative to try to
create separation on the edges. And that's been a tough spot,
right That's where New England has been good. And this
is what we have to try to figure out. What's
the noise what's the noise factor of the schedule versus
guys you know, just taking care of business. How about
yet about that? You know you can only play who's
(25:02):
on the schedule, buddy, So no, I know that.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm not saying no, no, no, Listen, you say that
all the time, and I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm
not saying but they're scared, they're they're impact and how
good they are, they're overrated because they again, you gotta
beat somebody who's good. You can't just keep beating how
many I can't believe every team they play has zero
or one or two wins this year. And again they
haven't played the Jets once yet. Then they get the
(25:27):
Jets after they trade away their two best defensive players. Like,
I mean, they still have the Jets twice in Miami
once they might get home field advantage of the AFC,
and the total record of the teams they are playing
against is gonna be like nine one hundred and seventy
five strength.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
The schedule is three fifty eight for the remainder of
the season.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean, come on, what is it? Up until now?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I have not done that calculation that was mainly but
since I mean just looking forward. But this is an
option like outside of Abuka, Like that's the curiosity right
in the receiving course, Sterling, shit, that's gonna make the
big play for you. I think Drake may will certain
to see a little more continuity with the receivers. And yeah,
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you hang a little bit of a grain of salt
wat Tampa Bay two and a half point favorites at
home forty eight and a half. That's a little so
expecting some fireworks in this one. Would not be surprised
to see a massive effort out a Baker Mayfield and
a celebration. But I'm gonna go the other way. I'm
gonna say New England's defense is good enough to get
it done.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh boo boo.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, you'll say, hey, I will say this, and I'll
be fair. If they beat Tampa Bay, I will say, okay,
all right, you know what, Hey, they're legit. They beat
Tampa Bay, I will say, they're legit?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Are they wearing the bucko? Bruce Unis? Then I might
have to change my pick.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Now elsewhere And this is where again you're gonna love
me or hate me?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Giants and the Bears.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know what to tell you, man, I don't
know what to tell people that still, for some reason
think that Caleb Williams isn't on the star path.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We told you he was on the star path earlier
this year. What else do you want him to do? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I mean this is Chicago has become a complete team.
The running game is working great now, it's a full
service offense. They scored forty seven in Roma Dunes. They
didn't even catch a pass. Caleb Williams is winning games
at the end. He's taken him on long drives. He's
putting up big numbers. I don't know what else you
want from the guy. And I've told you the beginning
of the year it was gonna be the era of
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good feeling for the Bears. It took Ben Johnson a
couple of weeks to really kind of get going right,
to get used to what it's like to be an
NFL head coach. And the difference between him and Aaron
Glenn is that I've seen growth from Ben Johnson and
Aaron Glenn still is not throwing Hill Mary's at the
end of the first half.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No, no, no, don't want to put points on the board.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Let's just go to halftime. Let's just go to halftime.
So I've seen a lot of growth out of the Bears. Look,
the Bears are good right now. Are they top of
the league?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Good? No, that might be a year away. But are
they playoff good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Again, their offense is full service. It doesn't it doesn't
matter if they're missing one guy out their out of
their weapons they have enough players to jump in right
to Cole Comet and Colton Lovelin. What's gonna happen. Cole
Comet can't play, Colton Loveland has the breakout game last week.
Maybe he's gonna wind up being the go to guy
when it's all said and done. But it's almost like
(28:19):
I feel like the Bears are like the Lions light,
where they have weapons all over. They have two good
running backs now and two good wide receivers and a
good tight end.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
If you want to go position by position with the
Lions and the Bears, the Lions have the little bit advantage.
So that's why I call them the Lions Light. But
that's kind of where this Bears offense is. They are
gonna steamroll the Giants. Jackson Dart's gonna throw at a ton.
I love them in fantasy, but Chicago is more complete.
They are gonna thump the Giants and all of a sudden,
it's gonna be a big Chicago. Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I always knew you were a good party.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And remember we were on the Chicago Bears train much
earlier than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, when you look at it, still, you got an
offense that's inconsistent, and he did what they needed to
against Cincinnati, and they put up a full forty seven.
When it's all said and done. Giants defense decent defensive front.
Perhaps we overrated them a little bit, but the back
seven certainly beatable. A Doonezale will have a big day here.
(29:15):
You're talking about DJ Moore got back in the good
graces of fantasy owners and Bears fans a week ago.
Comet had that pass completion before he got hurt, so't
forget that. But you know, when you look at the
tight end, who pretty much is another wide receiver out there,
the way you can line leveland up is a big
deal for them, and they found their their back, you know.
(29:38):
And DeAndre Swift got downgraded personal plus injury, so you
push that down a little bit as well. But you're
you're looking at a balanced offense against a suspect defense.
Jackson Dartal may have his fantasy day, no question, because
they'll still run a bunch, so you'll get some of that,
but but none, guys. Two of the last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
He's been huge.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
You'll have a another spot here against the Giants. Look
at them going away minus four and a half, easy score.
By the way, also a game that's gonna get weird,
supposed to be snow and wins up to thirty miles
an hour in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna look great, man, I'll tell you.
Bears Bears Giants is always so much fun because that's
a that's a game that takes back.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Really not many games take me back to the seventies.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But when you said, like Steelers Cowboys, Steelers Steelers Cowboys
takes me back to the seventies, Redskins Cowboys back to
the Redskins, not Commanders obviously takes back to the seventies.
Bears Giants also takes me back to the seventies.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
No, that's it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I mean a very few.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Matchup A lot of them take me back to the eighties,
some of the nineties, but there's just a few that
get me back to the seventies.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Bears Giants is one of them.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Or you circle back to the eighties, like we were
talking about a little bit last night with some of
the efforts I'm gonna use that word kindly, or maybe
with the sarcasm dripping of the punting game, because maybe
you want to cue a little Sean Lindett. You're at it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh, so there's a couple of our picks from the
biggest games of the week. Wiff on the punt right there.
Time ow to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. But guy's wearing a bowling shirt to
work because he's going to seventies night after the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Hey, it's Steve Desager.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
By the way, we only almost had one of those
windy Lendetta punts last.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Night at Denver. Yeah, you would think that was consistently bad.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
We have college football going out on Fox TV right
now at nineteenth rank USC The Trojan's lead is now
twenty eight seventeen against Northwestern in the final seconds of
the third quarter. Tulane is still leading at Memphis, final
minute of the third quarter thirty eight seventeen. Yeah, late
third at the Coliseum, Late third in Memphis. This is
(31:47):
worth noting because when we were on Tuesday night on
this show, we mentioned, Hey, we had the first college
football playoff rankings and Notre Dame is number ten, but
Texas and Oklahoma would each be out of the playoff
at eleven and number twelve. Right now, because Virginia number
fourteen in the country as acc Champ would get in
and Memphis, as the best of the group of five teams,
(32:09):
would get into the playoffs. Memphis eight and one, losing
at home thirty eight seventeen to Tulane late in the third.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I'll tell you Penny Hardaway has some time to get
back into this one though.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Just wait, it just ended.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
The thirty has less time now. Houston has taken the
lead thirty to twenty seven at UCF, which just over
two minutes to go on FS one. The forty nine
Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting the Rams.
Tampa Bay running back Bucky Irving is out foot and
shoulder injuries. Patriots running back Ermandre Stevenson out again toe injury.
(32:43):
The Raiders fired special teams coach Tom McMahon as for
the two late games in the NBA. The Denver Nuggets
at home, leading Golden State late in the third eighty
three sixty nine for the Warrior. Steph Curry out due
to illness. So far from Nikola Jokic. In twenty five
minutes on the court for the Nuggets, he has twenty points,
nine rebounds, eight assists and just one turnover. Oklahoma City
(33:07):
is eight and one and leading at Sacramento eighty five
seventy six under five minutes to go. In the third.
Milwaukee beat a Chicago Bulls team that was six and
one one twenty six one ten as Janisantenacumpo scored forty
one points. At Minnesota, Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in
twenty six minutes. Minnesota beat Utah one thirty seven to
(33:28):
ninety seven. Cleveland ripped Washington one forty eight to one fourteen.
The Wizards are one in eight. Miami after the first quarter,
led Charlotte fifty three to thirty three. The heat winted
in a laugh for one twenty six to one oh
eight victories for Toronto and Memphis. For Orlando and San Antonio,
which ended Houston's five game winning streak. One twenty one,
(33:50):
one ten Detroit one. It's fifth in a row. One
twenty five, one oh seven at Brooklyn K. Cunningham thirty
four points. In college hoops, North Carolina beat Kansas number
one per Due You at home was tied at the
half against Oakland of Michigan, but did beat Oakland eighty
seven to seventy seven NHL wins for the Rangers and
Minnesota and in fact, in progress, Chicago leads late for
(34:11):
nothing at Ketlgary and Japanese third baseman Munataka Mirakami was
posted to start the process of free agency.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve though The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
So we'll have more NFL on the way, two more
big games to preview in about twenty minutes. But straight ahead,
a trick play that I think even the most staunchest
of Lincoln Riley haters can get behind, something I think
(34:40):
we've only seen one other time in college football.
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Big Fox right now, Number nineteen USC on top of
Northwestern twenty eight seventeen, early in the fourth quarter again,
elimination game for USC and college football for the playoff.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
It's a big week for that.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Teams with two losses, they wind up losing, that's kind
of it. But they're in control, they're driving. Looks like
they're gonna put another score on the board here and
clinch this game. However, there is a trick play from
earlier in this game that I really as as bad
as it's been for Lincoln Riley at USC and how
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much everybody wants him out, I give him a lot
of credit for the fake punt that USC pulled off
early in the first half against Northwestern. It resulted in
extending their drive, which ended in a touchdown run by
jade Myiva. Here's the play by play, and then we're
gonna tell you how they pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Well, it's a bank.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Sam Johnson gets it to Hines, it to a first down.
Sam Johnson's been at Bell Paraizo, Jackson State, Alabama and USC,
and little did they know in Indiana and down south
they could throw the.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Ball like this.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Yeah, you're gonna watch to Nook Hines inside release, but
put the foot down, get back out and.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Look at this Diaz.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Oh my goodness, that punter said I could play quarterback too, baby.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Let's go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Only one thing with that big fox on the call.
It was not USC punter Sam Johnson that may the throw.
But wait a minute, they know who Sam Johnson is,
Number eighty, he's the punter. A couple of weeks ago,
USC took their third string quarterback Sam Hewart of the
(37:14):
Washington Hewards and gave him number eighty. He was listed
as number eighty on the UC roster for this week.
USC made the change really quietly. I'm sure, thinking he's
the third string quarterback. Is he really gonna play?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
If he does, we're gonna put him in his number eighty,
and we're gonna get a chance when it's time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
We're gonna pull off a fake punt.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So he's wearing the same number as Trojans punter Sam Johnson,
which of course is allowed in college football.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Right, you see this all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
No, there's a number one on offense, number one on defense, right,
because so many players this happens. So Sam Hewart is
the third string quarterback. He came out, threw that pass
atonook Hines. It was a dime right, I mean right
on the outside shoulder out of about ounce for a
first down and that extends the drive. It goes in
for a touchdown. He's a couple of inches shorter than Johnson.
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Johnson's sixty three. Heward's like six' one ish or so.
But he comes off the feel, he takes off his
helmet high five Like, wait a minute, that's Sam Hewart.
That's not Sam Johnson. So again, this is some kind
of trick play. The amount of detail going into this
and keeping it quiet just to pull it out here
when they need it. That is a trick play, my friend.
(38:28):
There's all kinds of crazy. We're gonna do this, and
the guy's gonna pretend to leave the field and he's not.
And this guy's gonna hide the football, you know, in
his back and we're gonna make sure this guy's over it. No,
but this is some kind of trick play with planning.
I all hats off, whether it's Lincoln Riley or whatever
defensive coach, special teams coach came up with it. That
is some kind of trick play.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Spirit of the law, integrity, all of those things start
out the window, shit cannery, tom foolery. Hey, man, if
the rules are on the books, then allow you to
do such man. Yeah, I mean in the end, you
still have to defend it, and you failed.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Completely legal, completely legal play.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Last year, apparently Bowling Green pulled off a similar stunt
in the sixty eight Ventures Bowl where their third string
quarterback switches uniform number to a number very close to
the punters jersey but not the same, which I don't
know why you would be close but not the same.
And he came on the field he actually threw a
touchdown pass when they thought it was the punter and
it was a touchdown pass. So here's usc Maybe that
(39:30):
was where Lincoln Riley got it from. But that's a
fun play. To keep that quiet. I mean, I don't
know that I could like, no, no, no, no, I gotta
tell somebody we got this coming.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
No, no, no, I mean like you slipped that into
the into the rows, because I got to imagine it's
not going through some clearinghouse. I mean it's like, ah,
we just did this. They chose up on the roster card.
And whether Northwestern noticed that in the in the offing
or not, I'm gonna go out and limits of No,
(40:00):
they reacted to the pass route. But you know again,
you used to got to go play defense. So hats
off to him, either intestinal fortitude or desperation, whatever it works.
They got the touchdown and then and they're winning going away.
So uh now I'll celebrate something that is actually fun.
You know me, I'm not a huge marching band guy,
but if you can get Mick Fleetwood out there to
(40:22):
do some tusk and hang out with the USC marching band,
I can get on board that.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
And when I say that Sam Hewart is of the
Washington Hewarts, yes he is Damon Hewart's son, Rock Hewart's nephew.
Like David Hewart, who who I think he was the quarterback,
didn't he didn't he take over? Hewart took over for Brunel.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yeah, I'm in that timeline. The other thing is he
used to work with Jason Bennetti, so failed by Benetti.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Coming up next, we take a look at two more
huge games in the NFL this week, and it's a
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the third quarter on Big Fox USC elimination game in
the College Football Playoff because i USC loses well at
six and three, they'll be out. They lead Northwestern right now,
twenty one to fourteen. If you have the over in
(01:24):
this game, you're feeling pretty good right now. I believe
Mike Harmon has the over, even though he hasn't really
admitted it yet.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I mean, you got to keep some things under wraps. No,
no need for everybody to live and die. I mean,
why do you think I was really upset when the
defensive line had the ball lodged, just lodged by the
quarterback diving in Is I.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
At any time Northwestern defensive touchdown?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
And I got that ripped out of my arms, stolen,
stole a piece of my soul along the way. No,
I mean, thirty five points in the first half, highly entertaining,
a lot of o fens, some trick plays, right, You
got the punter throwing a pass lefty. You got a
little bit of everything, as we've mentioned over over the
course of this one. A lot of luminaries out in
(02:09):
Los Angeles, and yeah, pretty exciting. Stone only seventy six
passing yards in the first half. He'll have to pick
it up. His name is Preston Stone Casting you know.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, well we were named a stone. You have to
be good, right, Like you have to be really like
what who was the linebacker for notre name Mike stone
breakstone Breaker? Sure, ye, i'd bean like, you have to
be a superstar if your name is stone Breaker, had
a choice? Yeah, I mean that's like, hey, you got
to be like the most physical linebacker. You have to
be chiseled all the concrete things together. You really, if
(02:41):
you're not great in your name is stone Breaker, you
got problems?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, I did, right, It's Burgy onto greatness. It's like,
you know, giving your kid a first name that kind
of tells the profession. Because it's a family show and
it's still early on a Friday, I'll stay with some
of the the more problematic ones.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah no, but you know what I mean, really, just
really quick, I've noticed this in my life. There's two
names that when people have them, I notice, like there's
a great book by this author, Florence Knapp, called The Names.
It's come out. It's a big it's a big hit.
I haven't read it yet, but but I have it
on let get it from the library. And it's it's
about a family and they name their kids something and
(03:20):
it's about that kid's life and they tell three stories
because they have three different names, like like they name
the kid one like they name the kid John. And
the first note Nova novella about it is about what
life is when the name is John and they name it,
they name the kid. It's the same thing, but they
name the kid something different and how different the kid's
life is because the name is different. Right, So it's
really I really can't wait.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
To read it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Seems really interesting twins in naming them Maximus and Minimus.
I mean, there's gonna be sure you're gonna see how
how they go through life. Your child Destiny.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Minimis isn't doing anything for Essa, you're kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But going through my life, the number of people that
I have known, like there's been like a handful maybe
like I don't know, like three or four people whose
last name is sergeant or their first name is Christian,
and it's like they get all kinds of respect and
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Especially well, if your name is sergeant, I gotta respect
you because you're a sergeant, not like your sergeant slaughter,
but your last name is like Kenny Sargent, who the
Speed Freaks guy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, for a long time, but people.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Your last name is sergeant and first name of like Christian, Yes, okay, respect.
I'm like, wow, those are names that just have respect
built in there.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's funny because you bring that up and we have
a theory that we're still working on in the house,
but it's got a lot of legs under it that
anybody I've met that goes by Chuck or Charles, they've
gone in one of two camps. You can prove themselves
to be a really good guy or they're a real
dirt bag.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So I approach all of them with great skepticism in
that first meeting, Like it's Charles, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Huh, so, where where does Charles Barkley?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I don't the man?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay, well, but I'm saying you have you have to
have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, but I mean he's I don't know Charles Barkley.
I'm talking about in my life.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He's been in the public eye for thirty five but
he's never shown up at.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
My dinner table.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
If it was John Ratzenberger at the end of that
Cheers episode, he would have been one of those people
that's never been in my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, all right, all right, just making sure okay, just
making sure.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I mean, I gotta think he's probably on the good side,
but I.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Don't know, all right, all right, he could be evil.
So we'll have more.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We have more NFL coming up in a few minutes.
Pete fu Tech again. College football News insider joins us
next hour on the show. But a couple of big
takes looking into tomorrow's game. Two really big games. One
is kind of off the beaten path, but one of
the big ones for thirty game on ABC LSU and
number four Alabama.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Now, you would think that Brian Kelly would have.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Soon well that we've seen a coach that got dismissed
where people were more glee. Now with James Franklin, they
ran a bunch of statistics, right, he didn't hear he
didn't do that. With Brian Kelly, you had some of that,
but then it really became all right, let me tell
you a story about Brian Kelly. Yeah, oh yeah, okay, remorse.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There's been no buyer's remorse or Brian Kelly, none at all,
absolutely not. But I'll tell you this about Alabata. We
talked about the Kaylen de Boor earlier in the week.
Shout out to him because a month ago it was
what is his buyout? He can't win big games. We
need somebody to replace the guy that replaced Nick Saban
And here they are now. Now the guy can do
(06:37):
no wrong. They're seven and one, they're undefeated in the SEC,
they're ranked fourth, they win the SEC. They're going to
have a buy and a home game. Like everything is
coming up, Kaylen de bor right now. But I'll tell
you what else. Everything is gonna come up. Ty Simpson's
gonna win the Heisman Trophy. Right we we could talk
about the pro prospects of Mendoza and Dante Moore, who
clear with the size they have and as good as
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they are, and Simpsons starting to climb up charts like
he's that third guy, as you talked a few minutes ago.
He's that third guy right there with them. And you
don't know how things are gonna evolve over the course
of the next few months. But I'll tell you this,
college football wise, he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy because
he has the storyline. He's got Alabama back into prominence.
They're gonna play big games the rest of the season,
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right because it's Alabama Fanana Mendoza. Yeah, one is big
game against Dante more but it's not like the guys
suddenly playing big game after big game after big game.
The Heisman is usually a stats award, right, it's usually
a big you look at stats, but this year nobody
really has the stats. If Mendoza or Dante Moore running
away with stats and it was like, hey, Mendoza's got
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forty touchdowns, everybody else has twenty. Okay, that's one thing,
but nobody really has that. So that so that kind
of year, what's it gonna be. Hey, here is ty
Simpson with a difficult SEC schedule and Alabama is in
the top four. Who knows where they finish at the
top of the year, But right now, I'll tell you this.
He's guy that doesn't throw any picks. He puts enough
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offense up on the board. It's gonna be one of
those cumulative Troy Smith kind of years. When Troy Smith
won the Heisman for Ohio State, he wasn't that flashy,
but he had wins and and Ohio State was unbeaten.
They went into the into the playoff. That's kind of
what I see for Simpson. It's gonna be at the
end of the year. Well, no real player really stood
out with crazy ass Joe Burrow seventy touchdown type numbers.
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So yeah, the quarterback of Alabama is gonna win the
Heisman Trophy. I got a big feeling on him for that.
I'll tell you right now. I know he's second or
third in a lot of books, but he will race
to being number one very soon.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
All right.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Current leader in the clubhouse is Julian Saying twenty one
hundred and eighty eight yards, twenty three touchdowns against three picks.
He is currently at plus one fifty, Mendoza at plus
two to thirty, Simpson at plus four to thirty, and
then Marcel Reid is at plus six point fifty. He's
got seventeen touchdowns against six picks. Yeah, that's where we're
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a statistic.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Not a great not a great year, Bob.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know who's that great year? Ready?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
This is Steve Anngelli with six touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
But look at that plus one fifty plus two thirty
plus four thirty plus six fifty. The next guys on
on the board Stockton and Lolurimiah Smith. Yeah exactly, they're
both thirty to one. Yeah, that's how big that gap is.
Between those front four and the next on the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Board, it's not a great year. It's not a great
year for the Heisman Trophy. And once in a while,
when when you don't have the stats, it comes to
leadership big teams, and look, Ohio State's not playing anybody, right,
how big is the win over Texas?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Is it really big?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And Julian Sayan did not play great in that game.
It's not like he's I can't play. He's only the
favorite because Ohio State's number one. So knowing that, that's
kind of how what people are thinking right now. By
the end of the year, it's going to be Simpson.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He's got Yeah, he's got Purdue next. Yeah, then u
c l a home game, and then you finish it
off against Michigan, right, Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
His only chance to have a Heisman moment is that game,
right or you know, or looking at the Big Ten.
But if you're undefeated the Big Ten championship, it doesn't matter.
So even if you lose, you're making the playoff like
that doesn't He's got one chance for a Heisman moment.
But by then and and and and Simpson's gonna have
more chances. Yeah, he's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Interesting to watch this week, and I know a little
bit of run for Nick Saban with some of his
comments as you look at and evaluate the the LSU
and Alabama game is LSU's already fired their coach, So
don't you just throw everything against the wall. You're ten
and a half point dogs. This is one of the
most dangerous spots that you can be in, right because
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you know there's a lot of talent on that squad.
Now it's just a matter of can you can you
harness it and come up with one big effort? So
for Simpson, huge test.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Jas the Smith Mike Harmon lot from the Fox Sports
radio studios. The other game to focus on here for
a couple of minutes is really off the beaten path.
And you would think that, okay, beginning of the year,
I'd be a game people want to see.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Colorado and West Virginia. They are third to last and
second to last in the Big Twelve, both teams one
and five and three and six. Colorado has looked absolutely
awful many times this season. They've lost the last two
weeks by the combined score of one hundred and five
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to twenty four. They've lost to Utah. Who's in the top,
Who's who's the I think they're fifth or sixth in
the Big twelve right now.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Utah is not bad.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Arizona is not great there, you know, they're in the
middle of the pack in the in the in the
Big twelve. But this is now Colorado getting absolutely pacing
back to back games. Is gonna be no bowl game
for them this year. They're three and six and it's
not gonna be this year. But this is gonna be
a bad finish for Colorado, right because then they have
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Arizona State after this game, Arizona State six and three.
Then they got Kansas State coming up after that. They're
middle of the pack there, four and five. Dion Sanders
maybe in a winner go Home type situation for next
year with Colorado because the way he came in with
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such bravado, all the attention on the program Shador Sanders
and Travis Hunter. Wow, it's awesome. And then they lost.
But okay, hey, this is a one win team for
a long time, and all right, we're building it. And
he's got a lot of he's got a lot of
interest in the program, and Colorado's a media darling yes,
we love life. We love life. Okay, last year things
were a little bit better for Colorado than they were
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the year before. You at Shadoor Sanders getting headlines all
year long, and of course Travis Hunter is your Heisman
Trophy winner. Now it didn't end in a playoff, didn't
end how they wanted it to end, but still you
saw a lot of growth because this is a team
that finished nine and four last year. So okay, now
they're starting over it. They went to the transfer portal
for Caden Salter, all kinds of changes. Now they are abysmal.
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And it's not it's it's it's too soon for this
year to be Okay, Dion, it's not working. But another
year like this and last year is Dion's last.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Year at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like they're not getting the return for I'm sure what
they're what they're putting in for, nil what they paid
for Dion. Like Dion gets there, his kids are there,
and they were good, and now that cupboard is empty,
and man do they look bad?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are they getting boat raced?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Uh on? You know, very very uh very commonly this year.
So I would say after this year, it's gonna be man.
If Dion has another year like this. If it's not
a if there's no growth, there's no bowl game or
a seven eight win season next year, yeah, they're gonna
move on. They're gonna go get somebody else because what
they're doing is not working. And and Deon's not gonna
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trend up. Now this is gonna be you know, four
years of recruits for him and if it's not okay,
So this is you've had your guys to come in.
You hand picked all your guys, right, you hand picked
all your guys to come in. You get guys an nil,
You do really well. You get guys to come in.
You're a great recruiter, you get the players to come in.
We need something better than this. So it's too soon
for this year. But you're looking at how it's gonna end.
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And if this is another bad game against West Virginia,
who's terrible, and West Virginia is like a six point
favorite in this game, I would say you are into
next year where it's a Deon Sanders wins or he
gets fired by Colorado.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Well, what's difficult also in the process is the handling
of the coaching staff. Knee jerk reactions, demotions. Did it
to Shermer this week. So Pat Shermer, deposed as your coordinator,
did that same thing to Sean Lewis, as you remember famously.
He's now the head coach of San Diego State. But
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it's one of those words like all right, it's always
a kind of a finger pointing, kicking down the line. Right.
Obviously you want to shuffle up and make some changes.
Think you're gonna make some spark. Okay, fine, but what
does that do to the squad? Do you really get
that jolt? I know we're talking about it. You know,
with these coaching changes and what the teams do. Could
I be surprised if lsu one, I'd be shocked. But
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would I be surprised if they lost by forty? No,
I would not. You know, those kinds of things. Same
thing here with Colorado. You know, we want to give
you want to give some grace because obviously, you know
what he came into the season and his physical, physical
health and mental health told that that had to take
on him and what it's meant to the program. So
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you have that, but once you're on the field, you
still got to be able to take care of business,
and you don't have the depth necessary at each of
these positions and they're just getting boat raised, right, They're
not even competitive at this point. And really it just
shows you had your sons and Travis Hunter propped up
the entire program. It was three guys. So it's the
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decided fall off is problematic on a whole other level.
You know, whether you can still activate boosters or whatever
else is a whole other part of the equation. From
a coaching perspective, there's no cohesiveness right now, and certainly
you can only do so many speeches. I like getting
you know, the approach he takes overall, you know, in
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terms of accountability and such, but that only gets you
so far. You still need to go out and win
games for that to hold.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it's weird to think about it because you know,
you think of all the things, yes, all the things
he went through and coaching, but you know, it's a
results oriented business, right, It's what it is. And the
school needs to know, Hey, where we're spending a lot
of money, we're doing a lot of things here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We want to know that that we're on the right path.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And and it's you know, it's if you're getting crushed
like this, I mean, look at look at a guy
like Brian Kelly's winning nine and ten games, and it's
not enough, right, Like, I mean, what's enough? What's enough
in Colorado to say, yeah, we're okay? Is it a
three and nine year this year? And is five and
seven good enough next year? With with all the stuff
that Dion brings the table, both good and stuff that
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you're not crazy about? So yeah, I really think you're
Look at the end of this year, it's going to
be Hey, Dan's gonna be an approved year. Next year
could be his last one in Colorado. Exit out about
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Speaker 4 (18:18):
Sure, I'd like to spank your bald head and lick it.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Uh, it's been well, let's say it hasn't been a
great run at USC for Lincoln Riley so far this year.
But right now six and two, USC beating Northwestern by
two touchdowns and coming up in a few minutes, we'll
get into a play that USC pulled off earlier in
the game tonight that I really have to take my
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hat off to Lincoln Riley and tell now that's a
trick play, all right, We got that coming up in
about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That sure make it jerk. That's a trick we could
do anything when everybody was stopping all over your Syracuse
Orange the last couple of weeks. But no, let's go
after Northwestern because it's in our window. Dude, you were
sending you, you were sending me, you were sending me
videos of Justin Field's interceptions. Here's another one, here's another one,
here's another one. Well, they were all with Bears uniforms on.
(19:10):
They were foreshadowing.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, well, I mean here's it. I could say.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The one thing though, Justin Fields is not turning the
football over. No he's I mean we're not scoring points. No,
we're not turning the football over. So there's that.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Well, I mean it's a clean box scorer.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So that's good. Remember when I said, zero's a whild
for Justin Fields. No touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
No yard Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I mean we talked about the name game earlier. Do
you have a running back for USC named King Miller,
so naturally he's got to have a big day. Eleven
carries ninety five yards of the score. Yeah, and since halftime,
Preston Stone has two passing yards for Northwestern.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah. Yeah, that's how it's.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Uh, if your name is Stone, we said you gotta
be really good and hopefully this turns out better for you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Car Yeah, well, I mean, look, the long road begins
with that first step. Sure, it all goes back to
that that fumble recovery that well didn't happen, now did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That was it. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But by the way, and off the line of run
for for Aaron Donald as well, Like they showed him
on the sideline and he's got nothing to do with
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, but it's fun that he's there. Let's just show
him that he's there. What were what? What do you what?
Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You don't like when people show people at games like
you're upset about that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Well, she's there as a fan, Okay, all right, he's
just a guy, all right, He's not there as a
fan of football. He's just I'm a fan of football.
I celebrate it all.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He might be taking over for Lincoln Riley if Lincoln
h so being a football Friday. A lot more college
football coming up in a bit, but a couple more
big games this week in the NFL. And it's weird
because you wouldn't think this beginning of the year, but
maybe the game of the week. Obviously, we talked about
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Rams forty nine ers, big game last time, But suddenly
the Patriots and the Bucks is a big game, maybe
the biggest game of the week. And again, didn't have
that on my Bengo card beginning of the season.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a fun one, right. Certainly you've said your
piece about Drake may and the schedule that they've played
to date. Look, you can only beat who's on it.
When we talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's been
a mass unit, still waiting for a lot of those
top notch and top flight players to get back on
the field. But Baker Mayfield certainly has provided a lot
(21:33):
of thrilling finishes throughout the year. So we'll see rubber
meets the road here for the Patriots, right to step
up in class on the road in a big spot.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Where New England finally plays a good team finally, right, Okay,
the Bills were good, they won that game, Okay, five whatever, Yes, yes, yes,
let's let's play hang it all on that one game.
Every other team you have played stinks. Every team you
play after this stinks. Every body stinks. It's the easiest
schedule in the NFL in years. I still can't get
over this with the Patriots. Oh, they finally play a
(22:07):
good team and they're finally gonna lose. Right, Tampa Bay
is at home, coming off a bye. They've had time
to fix what's gone a little off over the course
of the past couple of weeks. Right, Baker Mayfield was
out to an MVP type start, kind of hit the
skids a little bit. And now, obviously you can only go
so far when you keep losing wide receivers and and
and and you're saying, hey, Keyshan, can you come back
(22:28):
and play? You know, John Gruden's not here anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He was on the sideline. He's he's looking tight, endish,
you're gonna you're good.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That's okay, Hey, that's okay again.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And no where you go, you lose Bucky Irving, who
is a really big weapon. And and early in the
season you could see he was Baker mayfield security blanket.
How many times in big drives did Mayfield make the
right call checking it down Irving is open and he
gains ten or fifteen yards. Missing him has been a thing.
But now they've had a week to get healthy, to
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get ready, and this is gonna be one of those
Baker Mayfield chip on his shoulder games. I gotta play
well coming out of this. You know he's gonna come
out and play like his hair is on fire.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I have a great, big projection for him this week.
I think he's a top three fantasy quarterback this week. Overall,
their defense gets after New England enough, and I see
this as a game where, hey, New England's stay is close,
but Tampa Bay pulls away and wins this by double digits.
Huge game for Baker Mayfield and Tampa gives the Patriots
a much deserved l as a good team that they
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finally play and they lose to there.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Can you take the Jets hat off now there? That's
fine because that's all that was a lot of no
lies right there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
No lies, no lies, no lies, no lies detected there again,
Buccaneers giving up the schedule two zero point three per
game the Jets.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
If the Jets, if the Jets had the schedule, they
would be like three and six. Man, come on, that's.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So easy, you're I mean, look, that takes you out
of the running for whatever quarterback was your favorite. If
you agree with what I'm with, it's like I go
to the other position players and I backfill the quarterback
out of this class. All fine young individuals, but I
don't think you have that true number one difference maker.
(24:21):
But we'll see. We still have a lot of football
to play. Buccaneers given up twenty two to three per
game New England at eighteen point eight. When we talk
about defensive aciman, can you get after it? Front seven?
Rashad White will be the guy out of the backfield
once again. Bucky Irving is out. No return for Chris
Godwin yet obviously Mike Evans lost for the year. So
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for Abuka and the other receivers, imperative to try to
create separation on the edges. And that's been a tough spot,
right That's where New England has been good. And this
is what we have to try to figure out. What's
the noise what's the noise factor of the schedule versus
guys you know, just taking care of business. How about
yet about that? You know you can only play who's
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on the schedule, buddy, So no, I know that.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm not saying no, no, no, Listen, you say that
all the time, and I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm
not saying but they're scared, they're they're impact and how
good they are, they're overrated because they again, you gotta
beat somebody who's good. You can't just keep beating how
many I can't believe every team they play has zero
or one or two wins this year. And again they
haven't played the Jets once yet. Then they get the
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Jets after they trade away their two best defensive players. Like,
I mean, they still have the Jets twice in Miami
once they might get home field advantage of the AFC,
and the total record of the teams they are playing
against is gonna be like nine one hundred and seventy
five strength.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
The schedule is three fifty eight for the remainder of
the season.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean, come on, what is it? Up until now?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I have not done that calculation that was mainly but
since I mean just looking forward. But this is an
option like outside of Abuka, Like that's the curiosity right
in the receiving course, Sterling, shit, that's gonna make the
big play for you. I think Drake may will certain
to see a little more continuity with the receivers. And yeah,
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you hang a little bit of a grain of salt
wat Tampa Bay two and a half point favorites at
home forty eight and a half. That's a little so
expecting some fireworks in this one. Would not be surprised
to see a massive effort out a Baker Mayfield and
a celebration. But I'm gonna go the other way. I'm
gonna say New England's defense is good enough to get
it done.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh boo boo.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, you'll say, hey, I will say this, and I'll
be fair. If they beat Tampa Bay, I will say, okay,
all right, you know what, Hey, they're legit. They beat
Tampa Bay, I will say, they're legit?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Are they wearing the bucko? Bruce Unis? Then I might
have to change my pick.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Now elsewhere And this is where again you're gonna love
me or hate me?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Giants and the Bears.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know what to tell you, man, I don't
know what to tell people that still, for some reason
think that Caleb Williams isn't on the star path.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We told you he was on the star path earlier
this year. What else do you want him to do? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I mean this is Chicago has become a complete team.
The running game is working great now, it's a full
service offense. They scored forty seven in Roma Dunes. They
didn't even catch a pass. Caleb Williams is winning games
at the end. He's taken him on long drives. He's
putting up big numbers. I don't know what else you
want from the guy. And I've told you the beginning
of the year it was gonna be the era of
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good feeling for the Bears. It took Ben Johnson a
couple of weeks to really kind of get going right,
to get used to what it's like to be an
NFL head coach. And the difference between him and Aaron
Glenn is that I've seen growth from Ben Johnson and
Aaron Glenn still is not throwing Hill Mary's at the
end of the first half.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No, no, no, don't want to put points on the board.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Let's just go to halftime. Let's just go to halftime.
So I've seen a lot of growth out of the Bears. Look,
the Bears are good right now. Are they top of
the league?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Good? No, that might be a year away. But are
they playoff good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Again, their offense is full service. It doesn't it doesn't
matter if they're missing one guy out their out of
their weapons they have enough players to jump in right
to Cole Comet and Colton Lovelin. What's gonna happen. Cole
Comet can't play, Colton Loveland has the breakout game last week.
Maybe he's gonna wind up being the go to guy
when it's all said and done. But it's almost like
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I feel like the Bears are like the Lions light,
where they have weapons all over. They have two good
running backs now and two good wide receivers and a
good tight end.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
If you want to go position by position with the
Lions and the Bears, the Lions have the little bit advantage.
So that's why I call them the Lions Light. But
that's kind of where this Bears offense is. They are
gonna steamroll the Giants. Jackson Dart's gonna throw at a ton.
I love them in fantasy, but Chicago is more complete.
They are gonna thump the Giants and all of a sudden,
it's gonna be a big Chicago. Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I always knew you were a good party.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And remember we were on the Chicago Bears train much
earlier than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, when you look at it, still, you got an
offense that's inconsistent, and he did what they needed to
against Cincinnati, and they put up a full forty seven.
When it's all said and done. Giants defense decent defensive front.
Perhaps we overrated them a little bit, but the back
seven certainly beatable. A Doonezale will have a big day here.
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You're talking about DJ Moore got back in the good
graces of fantasy owners and Bears fans a week ago.
Comet had that pass completion before he got hurt, so't
forget that. But you know, when you look at the
tight end, who pretty much is another wide receiver out there,
the way you can line leveland up is a big
deal for them, and they found their their back, you know.
(29:38):
And DeAndre Swift got downgraded personal plus injury, so you
push that down a little bit as well. But you're
you're looking at a balanced offense against a suspect defense.
Jackson Dartal may have his fantasy day, no question, because
they'll still run a bunch, so you'll get some of that,
but but none, guys. Two of the last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
He's been huge.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
You'll have a another spot here against the Giants. Look
at them going away minus four and a half, easy score.
By the way, also a game that's gonna get weird,
supposed to be snow and wins up to thirty miles
an hour in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna look great, man, I'll tell you.
Bears Bears Giants is always so much fun because that's
a that's a game that takes back.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Really not many games take me back to the seventies.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But when you said, like Steelers Cowboys, Steelers Steelers Cowboys
takes me back to the seventies, Redskins Cowboys back to
the Redskins, not Commanders obviously takes back to the seventies.
Bears Giants also takes me back to the seventies.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
No, that's it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I mean a very few.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Matchup A lot of them take me back to the eighties,
some of the nineties, but there's just a few that
get me back to the seventies.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Bears Giants is one of them.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Or you circle back to the eighties, like we were
talking about a little bit last night with some of
the efforts I'm gonna use that word kindly, or maybe
with the sarcasm dripping of the punting game, because maybe
you want to cue a little Sean Lindett. You're at it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh, so there's a couple of our picks from the
biggest games of the week. Wiff on the punt right there.
Time ow to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. But guy's wearing a bowling shirt to
work because he's going to seventies night after the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Hey, it's Steve Desager.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
By the way, we only almost had one of those
windy Lendetta punts last.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Night at Denver. Yeah, you would think that was consistently bad.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
We have college football going out on Fox TV right
now at nineteenth rank USC The Trojan's lead is now
twenty eight seventeen against Northwestern in the final seconds of
the third quarter. Tulane is still leading at Memphis, final
minute of the third quarter thirty eight seventeen. Yeah, late
third at the Coliseum, Late third in Memphis. This is
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worth noting because when we were on Tuesday night on
this show, we mentioned, Hey, we had the first college
football playoff rankings and Notre Dame is number ten, but
Texas and Oklahoma would each be out of the playoff
at eleven and number twelve. Right now, because Virginia number
fourteen in the country as acc Champ would get in
and Memphis, as the best of the group of five teams,
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would get into the playoffs. Memphis eight and one, losing
at home thirty eight seventeen to Tulane late in the third.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I'll tell you Penny Hardaway has some time to get
back into this one though.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Just wait, it just ended.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
The thirty has less time now. Houston has taken the
lead thirty to twenty seven at UCF, which just over
two minutes to go on FS one. The forty nine
Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting the Rams.
Tampa Bay running back Bucky Irving is out foot and
shoulder injuries. Patriots running back Ermandre Stevenson out again toe injury.
(32:43):
The Raiders fired special teams coach Tom McMahon as for
the two late games in the NBA. The Denver Nuggets
at home, leading Golden State late in the third eighty
three sixty nine for the Warrior. Steph Curry out due
to illness. So far from Nikola Jokic. In twenty five
minutes on the court for the Nuggets, he has twenty points,
nine rebounds, eight assists and just one turnover. Oklahoma City
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is eight and one and leading at Sacramento eighty five
seventy six under five minutes to go. In the third.
Milwaukee beat a Chicago Bulls team that was six and
one one twenty six one ten as Janisantenacumpo scored forty
one points. At Minnesota, Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in
twenty six minutes. Minnesota beat Utah one thirty seven to
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ninety seven. Cleveland ripped Washington one forty eight to one fourteen.
The Wizards are one in eight. Miami after the first quarter,
led Charlotte fifty three to thirty three. The heat winted
in a laugh for one twenty six to one oh
eight victories for Toronto and Memphis. For Orlando and San Antonio,
which ended Houston's five game winning streak. One twenty one,
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one ten Detroit one. It's fifth in a row. One
twenty five, one oh seven at Brooklyn K. Cunningham thirty
four points. In college hoops, North Carolina beat Kansas number
one per Due You at home was tied at the
half against Oakland of Michigan, but did beat Oakland eighty
seven to seventy seven NHL wins for the Rangers and
Minnesota and in fact, in progress, Chicago leads late for
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nothing at Ketlgary and Japanese third baseman Munataka Mirakami was
posted to start the process of free agency.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve though The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
So we'll have more NFL on the way, two more
big games to preview in about twenty minutes. But straight ahead,
a trick play that I think even the most staunchest
of Lincoln Riley haters can get behind, something I think
(34:40):
we've only seen one other time in college football.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
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Speaker 1 (35:31):
Big Fox right now, Number nineteen USC on top of
Northwestern twenty eight seventeen, early in the fourth quarter again,
elimination game for USC and college football for the playoff.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
It's a big week for that.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Teams with two losses, they wind up losing, that's kind
of it. But they're in control, they're driving. Looks like
they're gonna put another score on the board here and
clinch this game. However, there is a trick play from
earlier in this game that I really as as bad
as it's been for Lincoln Riley at USC and how
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much everybody wants him out, I give him a lot
of credit for the fake punt that USC pulled off
early in the first half against Northwestern. It resulted in
extending their drive, which ended in a touchdown run by
jade Myiva. Here's the play by play, and then we're
gonna tell you how they pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Well, it's a bank.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Sam Johnson gets it to Hines, it to a first down.
Sam Johnson's been at Bell Paraizo, Jackson State, Alabama and USC,
and little did they know in Indiana and down south
they could throw the.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Ball like this.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Yeah, you're gonna watch to Nook Hines inside release, but
put the foot down, get back out and.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Look at this Diaz.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Oh my goodness, that punter said I could play quarterback too, baby.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Let's go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Only one thing with that big fox on the call.
It was not USC punter Sam Johnson that may the throw.
But wait a minute, they know who Sam Johnson is,
Number eighty, he's the punter. A couple of weeks ago,
USC took their third string quarterback Sam Hewart of the
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Washington Hewards and gave him number eighty. He was listed
as number eighty on the UC roster for this week.
USC made the change really quietly. I'm sure, thinking he's
the third string quarterback. Is he really gonna play?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
If he does, we're gonna put him in his number eighty,
and we're gonna get a chance when it's time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
We're gonna pull off a fake punt.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So he's wearing the same number as Trojans punter Sam Johnson,
which of course is allowed in college football.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Right, you see this all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
No, there's a number one on offense, number one on defense, right,
because so many players this happens. So Sam Hewart is
the third string quarterback. He came out, threw that pass
atonook Hines. It was a dime right, I mean right
on the outside shoulder out of about ounce for a
first down and that extends the drive. It goes in
for a touchdown. He's a couple of inches shorter than Johnson.
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Johnson's sixty three. Heward's like six' one ish or so.
But he comes off the feel, he takes off his
helmet high five Like, wait a minute, that's Sam Hewart.
That's not Sam Johnson. So again, this is some kind
of trick play. The amount of detail going into this
and keeping it quiet just to pull it out here
when they need it. That is a trick play, my friend.
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There's all kinds of crazy. We're gonna do this, and
the guy's gonna pretend to leave the field and he's not.
And this guy's gonna hide the football, you know, in
his back and we're gonna make sure this guy's over it. No,
but this is some kind of trick play with planning.
I all hats off, whether it's Lincoln Riley or whatever
defensive coach, special teams coach came up with it. That
is some kind of trick play.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Spirit of the law, integrity, all of those things start
out the window, shit cannery, tom foolery. Hey, man, if
the rules are on the books, then allow you to
do such man. Yeah, I mean in the end, you
still have to defend it, and you failed.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Completely legal, completely legal play.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Last year, apparently Bowling Green pulled off a similar stunt
in the sixty eight Ventures Bowl where their third string
quarterback switches uniform number to a number very close to
the punters jersey but not the same, which I don't
know why you would be close but not the same.
And he came on the field he actually threw a
touchdown pass when they thought it was the punter and
it was a touchdown pass. So here's usc Maybe that
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was where Lincoln Riley got it from. But that's a
fun play. To keep that quiet. I mean, I don't
know that I could like, no, no, no, no, I gotta
tell somebody we got this coming.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
No, no, no, I mean like you slipped that into
the into the rows, because I got to imagine it's
not going through some clearinghouse. I mean it's like, ah,
we just did this. They chose up on the roster card.
And whether Northwestern noticed that in the in the offing
or not, I'm gonna go out and limits of No,
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they reacted to the pass route. But you know again,
you used to got to go play defense. So hats
off to him, either intestinal fortitude or desperation, whatever it works.
They got the touchdown and then and they're winning going away.
So uh now I'll celebrate something that is actually fun.
You know me, I'm not a huge marching band guy,
but if you can get Mick Fleetwood out there to
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do some tusk and hang out with the USC marching band,
I can get on board that.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
And when I say that Sam Hewart is of the
Washington Hewarts, yes he is Damon Hewart's son, Rock Hewart's nephew.
Like David Hewart, who who I think he was the quarterback,
didn't he didn't he take over? Hewart took over for Brunel.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yeah, I'm in that timeline. The other thing is he
used to work with Jason Bennetti, so failed by Benetti.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Coming up next, we take a look at two more
huge games in the NFL this week, and it's a
Big Football Friday.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
We're only halfway done, Fox
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