December 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Mike Harmon and Jared Smith (in for Jason Smith) open hour 4 discussing the 49ers' big Monday Night Football win over the Colts. Then they react to the news that the USC vs. Notre Dame rivalry game is ending. Do they agree with the decision, or is it detrimental to the sport?
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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Speaker 5 (01:19):
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Speaker 6 (02:25):
You'll get I met the Tyract people at the Super
Bowl couple of years ago. Jagis there. They're great, They're awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We had a little lunch in that morning.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It was a breakfast or something for you know, all
the you know the people, and I got invited to it.
I don't know how I snuck in the back door.
It was all the full timers, and I just kind
of meandered my way in and I met all the
Tyraq people and everyone was good. Good.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
That must have been my lanyard. Where are you find them?
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Monday night football, Let's let's talk about those San Francisco
forty nine ers. We've done a bunch over the course
of the night forty eight twenty seven year final.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
They moved to eleven four on the year.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Seven to two away from Santa Clara, which will be
the host of the Super Bowl coming up in February.
You've got Indianapolis twenty seven points for Philip Rivers and company.
For a while we got a pretty good heavyweight fight,
and then just like you know, the Paul brother got
a little bit tired and Joshua broke his jaw. Same
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thing here with the Colts put up a good fights
to seventy seven two to one from Rivers, including that
dreaded pick six that sealed the scoring to give you
the twenty one point final. Jonathan Taylor just forty six
yards on the ground, sixteen carries and a touchdown. I
know it was open. This game opened up pretty fast
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right we started seeing pinball numbers and touchdowns early. I
was really surprised that the Colts didn't and Stiken didn't
take a beat and try to slow things down with
the ground game and not try to play a track
meet with the guy who, as we've talked about and
chronicled well since the signing was announced. Hell I can
go back to when he was last in Indianapolis, doesn't
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fire the ball down field with great regularity. You're trying
to scheme it up and work to yack. But again,
you gotta get chunkyardede. You gotta you know, slow methodical
on a lot of these drives. And it worked well
for a while, but you got to play sixty minutes
of football.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, and if I'm and I'm going through my box
score analysis right now, so another piek behind the curtain.
I have several categories that I usually analyze every game.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I have a little graph.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I have every game charted, yards per play, success right, turnovers,
penalty sacks, red zone third downs, Like that's kind of
the key metrics for me to determine if a team
won a game legit or if it's a little bit
of a fagazy loss. And when I look at this
box score like, it's kind of kind of you know,
obviously slight win for San Francisco and the arts were played,
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but success rate was pretty even. It was really the
pick six that made this a wider margin than it
really should have been. But the Cold were pretty good
on their downs. They were decent in the red zone
right two for two.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
They went there twice, two touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He can't put this loss on Rivers's that's for sure.
If this was a pinball game, then he's the pinball wizard,
I guess, because he was really good.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I mean, this is this is one of those situations
to where you.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Wonder, you wonder if if Indy can figure out a
way to sneak into the playoffs, and I don't think
they're gonna be able to, but if they can, I mean,
he's not the worst candidate I think.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
To start a game for them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, it's also the idea and lou Anna Rumo I
went after it in in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, he had a
fall guy there and he was the odd man and
odd man out and everything because the defense was catastrophically bad.
They certainly didn't get any better after his departure. But
we've watched it the same way this year and they've
done everything they can to try to plug the holes.
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They got Buckner back today. That didn't help because you
were still getting absolutely shredded in the secondary. No sustainable
pass rush. You can only do what you have with personnel.
So we watched them week after week. It's just a struggle,
particularly the back seven. So as San Francisco set this up,
you started seeing chunk yardage. George Kittle didn't play most
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of the fourth. We saw him pull up and then
he was stretching on the sidelines. His departure was certainly
a handwringing thing for a lot of fantasy owners, self included.
There's your two seconds of my fantasy woes that you
don't give a damn about. But all of that to
say that they were able to offensively do whatever they
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wanted like brock Perdy in company five touchdowns on the night,
did have the interception on a tip ball, but otherwise
clean football. Christian McCaffrey putting up big numbers doing his thing,
spreading the ball around well over the course of the night,
and really great ball placement from Purdy when you look
at some of those red zone opportunities and even the
ones that missed, put the ball in the only place
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that could. You had one touchdown that gets reviewed right
and incomplete review stays incomplete, trying to argue whether he
got a toe tap in or not. On one side,
Kittle had a ball that he probably should have caught
in and hauled in that he's done a million times
in his career. That was the only incompletion to him
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all night seven for one point fifteen and a score overall.
But when we look at where San Francisco is situated
now defensively, you know they don't have much of a
pass rusher. We certainly saw that at play because Philip
Rivers had plenty of time to operate in the pocket
over the course of the night. There's only only one
throw of the old broadcaster. I'd like to have that
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one back moment Jared was the missed Tyler Warren as
he did get a little bit disrupted in the pocket
and kind of short armed it to where Warren had
to turn and come back to it, and it fell
harmlessly incomplete. If he gets it out in front of him,
he walks into the end zone. But other than that, yeah,
if you're gonna just get absolutely decimated defensively. Time of
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possession was about thirty three and a half minutes or
thereabouts for San Francisco. But the chunk yardage, you know,
over a sixty minute fray was again what felled Indianapolis,
and Philip Rivers has quitted him well himself. Well, when
we look at quarterbacks one through thirty two, if we
take the normal starters, he might start having some arguments
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about where he ranks among those back options, even with
those original starters from week one.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
So here's something crazy. I just looked this up. The
Niners haven't punted since November.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
It's Christmas this week.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Literally zero point Piniero had his first miss of the
year on a sixty four yard attempt that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
They pund them five times against the Browns on November thirtieth.
That was the last time we saw Thomas Morstead on
the field.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Good.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I mean, I guess he could use a break. He's what,
he's forty years old.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
But yeah, as a nearly forty year old man myself,
I understand that he probably is enjoying his break. So
there's two quirky things about the Niners. They haven't punted
in a month, people, that's how good they're offense.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Twenty twenty three punted ninety nine times for the Jets.
I'll just leave it.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
There, obviously, like he's still tired.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
It's he's yeah, he needed a break from that season
with the Jets. So the Niners now play their last
two games at home. If they win both of those games,
they'll be the number one seed. The Super Bowl this
year is in their home stadium. There's a decent people stadium.
It is, and it's not San Francisco, by the way,
It's very far from San Francisco for those that are confused.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Isn't Santa Clair. My master's at Santa Clair. I know
what else I used to go and use. Those aren't
the a Slugs Now they're the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
That's the Broncos. Who's the banana slugs?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Right there? You go anyway back to Santa Cruz.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Santa Cruz Cruz, thank you, thank you, I get my
Santo something.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, mascots mixed up. There's a chance that tonight is
the last flight the Niners take until February. They're at
home the whole playoffs and then they play the Super
Bowl at home. I mean it is on a The
path is clear, right, It's almost like you're driving at
night and you can't see and then you flip on
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those flashers, those those those high beams, and all of
a sudden, it's like, wow, I could see everything. The
path is clear. The Niners have it all in front
of them, and it would be very unassuming. We have
not talked a lot about the San Francisco team this year,
and when we are talking about them, we're making jokes
about how banged up they are. Now they're a little
bit healthier, and they have this path, this runway where
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if they could figure out a way to win these
last two games, they'll get the buye, they'll get even healthier,
and then they literally will not have to take a
plane ride out of Santa Clara until the Super Bowl.
So it really does kind of lend to this narrative
that we're not really talking about, but we maybe should
start talking about it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Winners of five in a row.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You go back before that, you had the on again,
off again win against Arizona, loss to Jacksonville, win against
the Rams, lost to Tampa Bay, win against Atlanta, lost
to Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Some pretty good teams in that mix. When we talk
about the l's that they.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Took, oh yeah at Giants win, Rams at home loss,
and now five straight wins. So yeah, pinball back and forth,
trying to figure out the odds evens of it all.
Like Brett Saberhagen in the mid eighties. For you older
folks that remember baseball, some cy young wins and some
mediocre squad kind of opportunities mixed there in. But for
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the forty nine ers, look, we do it on the
Eyewatch Flex podcast. We talk about Kittle and McCaffrey and
a lot about brock Purty week to week and then
trying to figure out which wide receiver is gonna find
the love. No Ricky Piersoll tonight, so spread it around
pretty evenly amongst the rest of the receivers, a couple
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that you wouldn't have had on your Bengo card for sure. Eventually,
Juwan Jennings did get into the end zone, so folks
breathed a sigh of relief there if they started him
this week. He finished with five for seventy one and
a touchdown. A pretty good night all things considered. McCaffrey
with two touchdowns receiving as well, but twenty five and
two ninety five on the board for brock Purty as
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they roll through. So a big Monday night to cap
Week sixteen. Two weeks left in the regular season. Most
of our playoff grid has come to come to be
and we're not going to see much jostling from here
on out. Rams are the favorite currently according to the
odds maker forty nine ers still sitting down at plus
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thirteen hundred, which would make them the fourth in the NFC,
behind the Rams, the Seahawks, and the Eagles still at
nine to one.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
So here's another interesting one, and.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
This one this would be this would be an all
timer Mic. There's a lot of things left to be decided,
but if the playoffs started today, it would be the
seven seeded Colts and Philip Rivers at the two seed Chargers.
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If we get this weird flip flop with the Chargers
figuring out a way to unseat Denver.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
If we get that, I'm gonna go to that game.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
If we get a Chargers over Broncos win, and the
Patriots went out and get the one seed, and the
Chargers and Broncos both finish thirteen for the Patriots finished
fourteen and three, and the Chargers get the two there
is a chance that we could get Colts at Chargers
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wildcard game. The script writers are in their bag for that.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Again, a lot of things need.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
To happen, right, Houston's got to lose to the Chargers
this week, and then Houston has to lose to the
Colts the last week of the year. The Colts have
to beat the Jaguars this week. No easy to ask.
So again, this is probably not gonna happen, but there is.
Speaking of the path, there is a path for the
Chargers and the Colts to play in the wildcard round.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
My man, it is a Christmas week. If you're ever
gonna do any of the wishing, wanting and hoping, this
is it. Houston were Chargers on Saturday, Chargers two and
a half point favorites. The billboards are up and down
the highways. I got injury attorneys and I got Chargers football.
And that's what I got on my billboards as I
drive to and from the studio each and every night.
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Final couple of tickets still on sale, but certainly a
lot of Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert images in between
the who hurt You? That's now the tagline on one
of the billboards here, Jared, who hurt you? That's a
big question. There's a lot that goes on to that.
I don't know that I'm emotionally equipped and prepared to
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talk about that. For tonight, it's George Kittle and Trayvon Henderson.
I will name names in my fantasy futility. He's Jared
Smith that Jared Smith bats find me over at Swollendom.
Coming up next, we revisit the big determination in college
football rivalry will end? Change is good, but is it
always necessary? We'll talk about it next here on Fox
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Speaker 3 (16:32):
There it is leaving no stone unturned in our hot
celebration of holiday holiday holiday music. Alex tie shirt going
deep in the crates for this one. What is this, Alex?
Would you like to explain?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Well, Jared, I can sell that you're not hip on
the culture of Chewbacca. But that's Silent Night sung by
his Truly.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
It doesn't sound like the real like an actual chew
but it sounds like a like a weird version of Chewbacca.
Because I'm a big Star Wars nerd and that sounds
like a bootleg Chewbacca.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, I'm gonna go on a limit and say they
didn't get Peter Mayhew.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Yeah, come on, do it, Let's do it. Let's do it, right,
I mean, but there's also plenty of people.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Who can sound more like Chewbacca, though, But I like
the like the thought behind it's all about, wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, But that's the thing is, you got to keep
it one or two degrees away because if it sounds
too authentic, then Lucasfilm and now Disney get involved with
by Disney's damn right. So here it is that's ahead
of the game. That's why he's a wise man. Wise
That's why I keep him around here. I tell him
it's like, Hey, I'm in in the holidays, where are you?
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I'll be right by your side, man. Why Steve de
Sager's at the news desk, I and Roddy's in with me.
That's my team. We ride Jared Smith and for Jon
there you go. We're having a good time. I'm here
on a Monday night ahead of the Christmas holiday as
everybody gets ready to hit up the highways and byeways.
A lot of crazy activity here southern California. It looks
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like a giant Christmas tree. We all lit up if
you get the overhead view. We got a developing story
out of the NBA that we'll get to in short order.
No shortage of drama there. You know they used to
be on TNT and that was the slogan for years.
We know drama. But taking it to the college football world,
where we found out today that USC and Notre Dame
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are suspending operations after ninety seven meetings, nearly one hundred
years of activity in battles. No more two year deal
with BYU with Notre Dame insert all year we got
left out of the playoffs. We're going to go play
with the ball over here ourselves jokes that you will,
so you got that floating. But for USC, we played
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earlier the Keyshawn Johnson take where Lincoln Riley gets called
the task for some of his lobbying of well maybe
we shouldn't do that and how difficult it is given
the scheduling. See that there's that fine line Jared of
reasons versus excuses right where we play, and and reasons
versus whining and all of that. I wanted to bring
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our executive producer today, Ian Roddy, and he's wearing an
sc hat as we're sitting here, So it'd be remiss
if I didn't get his two cents as a a.
You know, he's got a little little less of the
the history, but certainly recognizes these from these past couple
of years. What this has meant in college football and
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the changing landscape that we're holding onto the vestiges of
once was. I wonder if he shares similar outrage to
the USC brethren and the legend like a Keyshawn Johnson.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
What do you think of all this same I I
don't know that this has been in This has been
in the rumor mill for like the past year plus. Yeah,
like everyone's kind of acting like this is something new.
Not that you guys are, but it's like I feel
like on social media, I'm seeing like this is something
that wasn't even it's just snuck up on everyone. But yeah,
I don't know from what I'm seeing, Notre Dame were
the ones who didn't want to didn't want to end
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up making it.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Official like they were.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
They were actually very close to announcing that it was extended,
and it was actually Notre Dame who ended up not
doing it. Maybe that's just me as a bias USC fan.
So I'm only seeing Trojan Twitter.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Just right, But that's that's But that's funny that you
should say it right, because it's the histories told by
the winners, right right. And so now it becomes a
you know, plashk, he's got to calumn up in the
La Times that is all bashing Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, he's in.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
La versus, you know, the Notre Dame side of it.
And then it's coming to terms with when you would
schedule the game right versus you know, we're talking one
of these early pre conference.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
So what I'm seeing is that usc USC wanted it
early on in the year because they've got a really,
really tough schedule coming up this season.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And I understand that that makes so much sense.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
They have to go probably three or four times traversing
the country.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Exactly, and Notre Dame is not even part of a
conference so it's like, I get that Notre Dame at
this point is more reliant on USC to help the
strength of their schedule.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
The USC is.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Notre Dame stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
They cherry picked the schedule, and then they get mad
that they got left out of the playoff, in which
that was a bad break. I will admit that was
a bad break. But then you're basically telling everyone that
when life hands you lemons, I'm just gonna take every
I'm just gonna, you know, cry about it and go
home and I'm not gonna make lemonade out of it.
Like that's essentially what they're telling people. And now this
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which I didn't know it was more on the Notre
Dame side than on the USC side. USC has a
very legit reason to want to put that game in
the beginning of the year, when they can control things
and when the non conference schedule is still raging, before
they get into the Big ten. And Notre Dame said no, no,
I don't know if that's true, but if so, then
keishaan owes the USC program in Lake of Riiley apology.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So if there's pieces to a lot of it, right,
you start talking about the percentage of blame and we
can look at both sides of it. For Notre Dame's
independence and having been the heavyweight with the NBC deal
low these many years and being able to dictate terms. Right,
play enough big ten teams, right, that was always the thing.
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Now they play the partial schedule acc and now you
have this game that has always been a hall mark
some years. It's greatly to your advantage in theory if
USC is what they're supposed to be, right, and this
is where we go to the EBB and flow, but
to the new era of college football. We should assume
there's enough benefactors and people that want USC to remain
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a powerhouse. Okay, I think we can all stipulate to
that to where this should be a heavyweight battle. Now,
if you do the home at home, so when you're
at USC it's an early September game versus.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
When you're at Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Hey, you're subject to their home and home like, that's
the fight that goes on, right, Because USC also kind
of wants their cake and eating it too, because they
blew up a conference to go to this conference, knowing
they would have to travel multiple times to the East Coast,
and now they don't like that, and they cry about
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it every chance they get totally fair, right, and then
that's not me being a usc hit or if anything,
I'm a Chicago kid where I had a lot of
people adopting Notre Dame for no reason other than it
was close and they wouldn't adopt Northwestern. So it became
and once upon a time perhaps maybe someone went to
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mass in their family. But so I would be more
likely to bash them. But looking at it, like Lincoln
Riley and others have taken every chance they can to
talk about, well, we got to go back out there
and it's an eleven o'clock game. I mean, well, yeah,
because you're not the heavyweight and it's a TV contract
that you're taking from the trough. That's the way this works, right,
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If you're not the primetime game, you're subject to Hey,
we're the early game on ESPN two or the early
game on FS one.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Get over it.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
I would just say, there's so much the way the
sports going right now, there's so much, so much more
parody now, like gone are the days where these dominant
programs just go completely lossless for the entire year, Like
I just don't I don't know the next time we're
going to see a team go fully undefeated. Obviously, you
know Indiana's still knock on wood for them, but it
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just feels and that feels like an anomaly here. And
when you have such a tough schedule like the Trojans
have coming up, it just it feels like it makes
sense to avoid another another strong opponent.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, but that's just it, right, That becomes the question
how much does that help or hurt you? In the
arguments of well, if you go and get blown out
by him, then certainly there's a multiplier. Okay, you were
measured against the best and you got blown out. But
if you have a narrow loss, doesn't necessarily count as
a full like real loss. But I understand for twenty
twenty six, and Jared and Ian, here's the schedule. You're
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at Indiana at Penn State dates to be determined, of course,
and then you've got home dates with Ohio State and Oregon.
We got all four on your schedule, So I can
understand for twenty twenty six you want any even perceived
level of advantage that you can possibly clean.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I think all good things must come to an end here, guys,
And I think this is just these two programs we've
drifted apart with the rivalry, and it doesn't work for
USC anymore, and clearly it doesn't work for Notre Dame.
It does sound like Notre Dame was kind of the
like if it was Mortal Kombat, finish him, like it
was Notre Dame. That that that that kind of gave
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the fatal blow here. But I totally understand why USC
wants to curate this schedule, knowing now that they've had
two years in the Big ten to kind of realize
the impact it has on you to travel back and
forth across the country. I totally understand why they would
want to fix this in their favor. And Notre Dame
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probably didn't like that, because what do we know about
Notre Dame. They want to control everything and then they
backed out like that aligns with what probably happened. USC said, listen,
we really want to do this, but it's not working
for us in November anymore, so let's do it in September.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Notre Dame said no, and that was it.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And I and that's if that is the case, and
that's the way it played out. I applaud USC for
not bowing to the Irish and to doing what's best
for their program. They knew where they were going to
get backlash from this. They're catching strays from Keyshawn left
and right. They knew they were gonna get backlashed for
this decision, but they stuck to their guns because I
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think at the end of the day, if the goal
is to make the playoff, played Notre Dame in November
is not necessary.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It's not a necessary thing.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
If your goal is to make the playoff, if your
goal is to appease your fan base and to keep
rivalry and tradition alive, then yeah, you play Notre Dame whenever, wherever,
and you keep that tradition going. But that clearly is
not the goal of what this USC program has anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
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I'll give you the last word. Lincoln Riley has the
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smaller every year.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think things are
trending the right way right now.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
He said.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
He set a really high bar that first year with
Caleb Williams. But yeah, you know, things are things are
looking good right now. But knocked on wood because we'll
see if you get the number one recruiting class and
then take a step back next year. I don't know
if he's long.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
For and you have your quarterback returning, so you got.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
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Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, we had a game in Boise tonight, as we'll
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Speaker 6 (28:44):
Be hating on the pop darts ball Mike.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
They haven't. Look, everybody keeps talking about it.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And while we're on college football, everybody wants to see
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Speaker 5 (29:03):
We cannot have enough college football. I cannot stress this
enough that the extra bowl games that are being played
this week, that is not the reason why people are
You know, college football needs change now. The change needs
to come at the top. We need to change the
silly rules that allow Tulane and JMU to mosey their
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way into the playoff to get their ass kicked by
thirty forty points. We need to change those rules and.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Let JMU play in the Boca a Tone Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I mean, have you ever attended JMU or you have
a thought on it and you want to get get
your shot in at Jared slid Bats. You know what
your name all week, You've already done that, And I
gotta I gotta go to him now because he's at
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I brought back memories of Christmas morning, Blue gray games.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's our guy, Steve de Sager.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
USC by the way in the Alamo Bowl against TCU
and the pop Tarts Ball will have BYU in Orlando
against Georgia Tech near the end of the month, and
BYU will be playing Notre Dame for the next two
years instead of the Irish against USC. By the way,
USC's non conference games early season in a couple of years,
they'll be hosting UNLV and Nevada. Next year, the early
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non conference games, SC will be hosting Fresno State and Louisiana.
North Carolina's Bill Belichick is reportedly working to hire Bobby
Petrino as his offensive coordinator, Freddie Kinchins was fired. Ohio
State head coach Ryan Day will call the offensive plays
and their playoff opener against Miami. Brian Hartline will leave
later for USF. Miami will be playing the number two
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rank Buckeys on New Year's Eve at the Cotton Bowl
quarter final, and Yes, Notre Dame withdrew from bowl season
after it wasn't picked for the playoff three other bowl games.
On Tuesday today, Washington State led Utah State twenty to
nineing third quarter thirty four to twenty one over the
Aggies the final at the bowl game in Boise. Each
team was six and six attendant seventeen thousand, Washington State
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nearly six hundred and thirty yards of all offense. The
San Francisco forty nine Ers have won five straight games.
They're up to eleven and four. They have eight chance
for the one seed still in the NFC. They will
be hosting Chicago and Seattle to close out the season.
The Niners were winners at Indianapolis tonight, forty eight to
twenty seven Brock Party with five touchdown passes two hundred
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ninety five yards Christian McCaffrey one hundred and seventeen yards
rushing and two TV catches. Tight End George Kitchell Kittle
had seven catches one hundred and fifteen yards in a
score that he left in the third quarter with an
ankle injury. San Francisco still hasn't punted this month. Niners
had six touchdowns in this win Tonight. Philip Rivers of
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the Colts two hundred and seventy seven yards, passing two
TV tosses in the first half, one pick six Late
Indy has lost six of its last seven games. This
Colts defeat clinched playoff spots in the AFC Tonight for
Buffalo for Jacksonville for the Chargers. The Niners scored points
on seven of their first eight drives. The only one
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they didn't when they missed that sixty four yard field
goal attempt at the end of the first half and
that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
By the way ap and the barrier. Look this up.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Since the Golden State Warriors moved to California in the
nineteen sixties, tonight, it's the first time that both the
Warriors and Niners won by at least twenty points on
the same day. How about that Golden State was a
winner over Orlando, won twenty to ninety seven. The Warriors
now fifteen and fifteen. The NFL suspended Steelers wide receiver
dk Metcalf for the final two games of the season.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
He will appeal.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium in
twenty thirty one, just across the border in Kansas. In
the NBA, Oklahoma City is twenty six and three after
beating Memphis one nineteen one oh three. Shay Gilgis Alexander
now has one hundred consecutive games of scoring at least
twenty points. He had thirty one tonight. Detroit's record is
twenty three and six after a win at Portland. Boston
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came back to beat Indiana. The Pacers have lost five straight.
Denver and New Orleans with home wins one five in
a row. Cleveland beat Charlotte one thirty nine, one thirty
two Donovan Mitchell thirty points. The Lakers Luka Doncic is
out tomorrow with a Bruce Calf. In college hoops on
FS one in Saint Louis number twenty, Illinois rip Missouri
ninety one to forty eight. In women's basketball in North Carolina,
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a top twenty five matchup Michigan State overall miss sixty
six forty nine, just four NHL matchups wins for Tampa
Bay and Philadelphia. Seattle won three to one at Anaheim,
Columbus a three to one winner at LA. The Mets
traded Jeff McNeil and cash to the A's and the
Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver two years, twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Back to you, you're the best, Steve. Remember street lights
over spotlights? Going back to that SGA.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Streak, street Lights over spotlight that.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Was the Clippers phillboards all across Los Angeles as they
paired up Kawhi Leonard and Paul George former Clipper. Yes, yeah,
all over town SGA.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
How did that work out?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Just one hundred row title Styeah, you know, and probably
another one along the way at Jared Smith Betts where
you find Jared in for Jason Smith tonight and I'm
buy Carmen as we continue, I want to go back
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Speaker 4 (34:13):
Game because something happened. At what point do you just.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Say, hey, history is just that we're talking about with
USC and Notre Dame, perhaps it's time to break a
tradition with a long time bet. Who is it and
what am I talking about? We'll tell you next year
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We had a little lunch in that morning.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It was a breakfast or something for you know, all
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I don't know how I snuck in the back door.
It was all the full timers, and I just kind
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Speaker 7 (02:48):
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Speaker 3 (02:49):
Monday night football, Let's let's talk about those San Francisco
forty nine ers. We've done a bunch over the course
of the night forty eight twenty seven year final.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
They moved to eleven four on the year.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Seven to two away from Santa Clara, which will be
the host of the Super Bowl coming up in February.
You've got Indianapolis twenty seven points for Philip Rivers and company.
For a while we got a pretty good heavyweight fight,
and then just like you know, the Paul brother got
a little bit tired and Joshua broke his jaw. Same
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thing here with the Colts put up a good fights
to seventy seven two to one from Rivers, including that
dreaded pick six that sealed the scoring to give you
the twenty one point final. Jonathan Taylor just forty six
yards on the ground, sixteen carries and a touchdown. I
know it was open. This game opened up pretty fast
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right we started seeing pinball numbers and touchdowns early. I
was really surprised that the Colts didn't and Stiken didn't
take a beat and try to slow things down with
the ground game and not try to play a track
meet with the guy who, as we've talked about and
chronicled well since the signing was announced. Hell I can
go back to when he was last in Indianapolis, doesn't
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fire the ball down field with great regularity. You're trying
to scheme it up and work to yack. But again,
you gotta get chunkyardede. You gotta you know, slow methodical
on a lot of these drives. And it worked well
for a while, but you got to play sixty minutes
of football.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, and if I'm and I'm going through my box
score analysis right now, so another piek behind the curtain.
I have several categories that I usually analyze every game.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I have a little graph.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I have every game charted, yards per play, success right, turnovers,
penalty sacks, red zone third downs, Like that's kind of
the key metrics for me to determine if a team
won a game legit or if it's a little bit
of a fagazy loss. And when I look at this
box score like, it's kind of kind of you know,
obviously slight win for San Francisco and the arts were played,
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but success rate was pretty even. It was really the
pick six that made this a wider margin than it
really should have been. But the Cold were pretty good
on their downs. They were decent in the red zone
right two for two.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
They went there twice, two touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He can't put this loss on Rivers's that's for sure.
If this was a pinball game, then he's the pinball wizard,
I guess, because he was really good.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I mean, this is this is one of those situations
to where you.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Wonder, you wonder if if Indy can figure out a
way to sneak into the playoffs, and I don't think
they're gonna be able to, but if they can, I mean,
he's not the worst candidate I think.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
To start a game for them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, it's also the idea and lou Anna Rumo I
went after it in in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, he had a
fall guy there and he was the odd man and
odd man out and everything because the defense was catastrophically bad.
They certainly didn't get any better after his departure. But
we've watched it the same way this year and they've
done everything they can to try to plug the holes.
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They got Buckner back today. That didn't help because you
were still getting absolutely shredded in the secondary. No sustainable
pass rush. You can only do what you have with personnel.
So we watched them week after week. It's just a struggle,
particularly the back seven. So as San Francisco set this up,
you started seeing chunk yardage. George Kittle didn't play most
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of the fourth. We saw him pull up and then
he was stretching on the sidelines. His departure was certainly
a handwringing thing for a lot of fantasy owners, self included.
There's your two seconds of my fantasy woes that you
don't give a damn about. But all of that to
say that they were able to offensively do whatever they
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wanted like brock Perdy in company five touchdowns on the night,
did have the interception on a tip ball, but otherwise
clean football. Christian McCaffrey putting up big numbers doing his thing,
spreading the ball around well over the course of the night,
and really great ball placement from Purdy when you look
at some of those red zone opportunities and even the
ones that missed, put the ball in the only place
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that could. You had one touchdown that gets reviewed right
and incomplete review stays incomplete, trying to argue whether he
got a toe tap in or not. On one side,
Kittle had a ball that he probably should have caught
in and hauled in that he's done a million times
in his career. That was the only incompletion to him
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all night seven for one point fifteen and a score overall.
But when we look at where San Francisco is situated
now defensively, you know they don't have much of a
pass rusher. We certainly saw that at play because Philip
Rivers had plenty of time to operate in the pocket
over the course of the night. There's only only one
throw of the old broadcaster. I'd like to have that
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one back moment Jared was the missed Tyler Warren as
he did get a little bit disrupted in the pocket
and kind of short armed it to where Warren had
to turn and come back to it, and it fell
harmlessly incomplete. If he gets it out in front of him,
he walks into the end zone. But other than that, yeah,
if you're gonna just get absolutely decimated defensively. Time of
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possession was about thirty three and a half minutes or
thereabouts for San Francisco. But the chunk yardage, you know,
over a sixty minute fray was again what felled Indianapolis,
and Philip Rivers has quitted him well himself. Well, when
we look at quarterbacks one through thirty two, if we
take the normal starters, he might start having some arguments
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about where he ranks among those back options, even with
those original starters from week one.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
So here's something crazy. I just looked this up. The
Niners haven't punted since November.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
It's Christmas this week.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Literally zero point Piniero had his first miss of the
year on a sixty four yard attempt that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
They pund them five times against the Browns on November thirtieth.
That was the last time we saw Thomas Morstead on
the field.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Good.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I mean, I guess he could use a break. He's what,
he's forty years old.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
But yeah, as a nearly forty year old man myself,
I understand that he probably is enjoying his break. So
there's two quirky things about the Niners. They haven't punted
in a month, people, that's how good they're offense.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Twenty twenty three punted ninety nine times for the Jets.
I'll just leave it.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
There, obviously, like he's still tired.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
It's he's yeah, he needed a break from that season
with the Jets. So the Niners now play their last
two games at home. If they win both of those games,
they'll be the number one seed. The Super Bowl this
year is in their home stadium. There's a decent people stadium.
It is, and it's not San Francisco, by the way,
It's very far from San Francisco for those that are confused.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Isn't Santa Clair. My master's at Santa Clair. I know
what else I used to go and use. Those aren't
the a Slugs Now they're the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
That's the Broncos. Who's the banana slugs?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Right there? You go anyway back to Santa Cruz.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Santa Cruz Cruz, thank you, thank you, I get my
Santo something.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, mascots mixed up. There's a chance that tonight is
the last flight the Niners take until February. They're at
home the whole playoffs and then they play the Super
Bowl at home. I mean it is on a The
path is clear, right, It's almost like you're driving at
night and you can't see and then you flip on
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those flashers, those those those high beams, and all of
a sudden, it's like, wow, I could see everything. The
path is clear. The Niners have it all in front
of them, and it would be very unassuming. We have
not talked a lot about the San Francisco team this year,
and when we are talking about them, we're making jokes
about how banged up they are. Now they're a little
bit healthier, and they have this path, this runway where
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if they could figure out a way to win these
last two games, they'll get the buye, they'll get even healthier,
and then they literally will not have to take a
plane ride out of Santa Clara until the Super Bowl.
So it really does kind of lend to this narrative
that we're not really talking about, but we maybe should
start talking about it.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Winners of five in a row.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You go back before that, you had the on again,
off again win against Arizona, loss to Jacksonville, win against
the Rams, lost to Tampa Bay, win against Atlanta, lost
to Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Some pretty good teams in that mix. When we talk
about the l's that they.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Took, oh yeah at Giants win, Rams at home loss,
and now five straight wins. So yeah, pinball back and forth,
trying to figure out the odds evens of it all.
Like Brett Saberhagen in the mid eighties. For you older
folks that remember baseball, some cy young wins and some
mediocre squad kind of opportunities mixed there in. But for
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the forty nine ers, look, we do it on the
Eyewatch Flex podcast. We talk about Kittle and McCaffrey and
a lot about brock Purty week to week and then
trying to figure out which wide receiver is gonna find
the love. No Ricky Piersoll tonight, so spread it around
pretty evenly amongst the rest of the receivers, a couple
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that you wouldn't have had on your Bengo card for sure. Eventually,
Juwan Jennings did get into the end zone, so folks
breathed a sigh of relief there if they started him
this week. He finished with five for seventy one and
a touchdown. A pretty good night all things considered. McCaffrey
with two touchdowns receiving as well, but twenty five and
two ninety five on the board for brock Purty as
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they roll through. So a big Monday night to cap
Week sixteen. Two weeks left in the regular season. Most
of our playoff grid has come to come to be
and we're not going to see much jostling from here
on out. Rams are the favorite currently according to the
odds maker forty nine ers still sitting down at plus
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thirteen hundred, which would make them the fourth in the NFC,
behind the Rams, the Seahawks, and the Eagles still at
nine to one.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
So here's another interesting one, and.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
This one this would be this would be an all
timer Mic. There's a lot of things left to be decided,
but if the playoffs started today, it would be the
seven seeded Colts and Philip Rivers at the two seed Chargers.
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If we get this weird flip flop with the Chargers
figuring out a way to unseat Denver.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
If we get that, I'm gonna go to that game.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
If we get a Chargers over Broncos win, and the
Patriots went out and get the one seed, and the
Chargers and Broncos both finish thirteen for the Patriots finished
fourteen and three, and the Chargers get the two there
is a chance that we could get Colts at Chargers
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wildcard game. The script writers are in their bag for that.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Again, a lot of things need.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
To happen, right, Houston's got to lose to the Chargers
this week, and then Houston has to lose to the
Colts the last week of the year. The Colts have
to beat the Jaguars this week. No easy to ask.
So again, this is probably not gonna happen, but there is.
Speaking of the path, there is a path for the
Chargers and the Colts to play in the wildcard round.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
My man, it is a Christmas week. If you're ever
gonna do any of the wishing, wanting and hoping, this
is it. Houston were Chargers on Saturday, Chargers two and
a half point favorites. The billboards are up and down
the highways. I got injury attorneys and I got Chargers football.
And that's what I got on my billboards as I
drive to and from the studio each and every night.
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Final couple of tickets still on sale, but certainly a
lot of Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert images in between
the who hurt You? That's now the tagline on one
of the billboards here, Jared, who hurt you? That's a
big question. There's a lot that goes on to that.
I don't know that I'm emotionally equipped and prepared to
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talk about that. For tonight, it's George Kittle and Trayvon Henderson.
I will name names in my fantasy futility. He's Jared
Smith that Jared Smith bats find me over at Swollendom.
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Would you like to explain?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Well, Jared, I can sell that you're not hip on
the culture of Chewbacca. But that's Silent Night sung by
his Truly.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
It doesn't sound like the real like an actual chew
but it sounds like a like a weird version of Chewbacca.
Because I'm a big Star Wars nerd and that sounds
like a bootleg Chewbacca.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, I'm gonna go on a limit and say they
didn't get Peter Mayhew.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Yeah, come on, do it, Let's do it. Let's do it, right,
I mean, but there's also plenty of people.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Who can sound more like Chewbacca, though, But I like
the like the thought behind it's all about, wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, But that's the thing is, you got to keep
it one or two degrees away because if it sounds
too authentic, then Lucasfilm and now Disney get involved with
by Disney's damn right. So here it is that's ahead
of the game. That's why he's a wise man. Wise
That's why I keep him around here. I tell him
it's like, Hey, I'm in in the holidays, where are you?
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I'll be right by your side, man. Why Steve de
Sager's at the news desk, I and Roddy's in with me.
That's my team. We ride Jared Smith and for Jon
there you go. We're having a good time. I'm here
on a Monday night ahead of the Christmas holiday as
everybody gets ready to hit up the highways and byeways.
A lot of crazy activity here southern California. It looks
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like a giant Christmas tree. We all lit up if
you get the overhead view. We got a developing story
out of the NBA that we'll get to in short order.
No shortage of drama there. You know they used to
be on TNT and that was the slogan for years.
We know drama. But taking it to the college football world,
where we found out today that USC and Notre Dame
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are suspending operations after ninety seven meetings, nearly one hundred
years of activity in battles. No more two year deal
with BYU with Notre Dame insert all year we got
left out of the playoffs. We're going to go play
with the ball over here ourselves jokes that you will,
so you got that floating. But for USC, we played
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earlier the Keyshawn Johnson take where Lincoln Riley gets called
the task for some of his lobbying of well maybe
we shouldn't do that and how difficult it is given
the scheduling. See that there's that fine line Jared of
reasons versus excuses right where we play, and and reasons
versus whining and all of that. I wanted to bring
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our executive producer today, Ian Roddy, and he's wearing an
sc hat as we're sitting here, So it'd be remiss
if I didn't get his two cents as a a.
You know, he's got a little little less of the
the history, but certainly recognizes these from these past couple
of years. What this has meant in college football and
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the changing landscape that we're holding onto the vestiges of
once was. I wonder if he shares similar outrage to
the USC brethren and the legend like a Keyshawn Johnson.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
What do you think of all this same I I
don't know that this has been in This has been
in the rumor mill for like the past year plus. Yeah,
like everyone's kind of acting like this is something new.
Not that you guys are, but it's like I feel
like on social media, I'm seeing like this is something
that wasn't even it's just snuck up on everyone. But yeah,
I don't know from what I'm seeing, Notre Dame were
the ones who didn't want to didn't want to end
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up making it.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Official like they were.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
They were actually very close to announcing that it was extended,
and it was actually Notre Dame who ended up not
doing it. Maybe that's just me as a bias USC fan.
So I'm only seeing Trojan Twitter.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Just right, But that's that's But that's funny that you
should say it right, because it's the histories told by
the winners, right right. And so now it becomes a
you know, plashk, he's got to calumn up in the
La Times that is all bashing Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, he's in.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
La versus, you know, the Notre Dame side of it.
And then it's coming to terms with when you would
schedule the game right versus you know, we're talking one
of these early pre conference.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
So what I'm seeing is that usc USC wanted it
early on in the year because they've got a really,
really tough schedule coming up this season.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And I understand that that makes so much sense.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
They have to go probably three or four times traversing
the country.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Exactly, and Notre Dame is not even part of a
conference so it's like, I get that Notre Dame at
this point is more reliant on USC to help the
strength of their schedule.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
The USC is.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Notre Dame stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
They cherry picked the schedule, and then they get mad
that they got left out of the playoff, in which
that was a bad break. I will admit that was
a bad break. But then you're basically telling everyone that
when life hands you lemons, I'm just gonna take every
I'm just gonna, you know, cry about it and go
home and I'm not gonna make lemonade out of it.
Like that's essentially what they're telling people. And now this
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which I didn't know it was more on the Notre
Dame side than on the USC side. USC has a
very legit reason to want to put that game in
the beginning of the year, when they can control things
and when the non conference schedule is still raging, before
they get into the Big ten. And Notre Dame said no, no,
I don't know if that's true, but if so, then
keishaan owes the USC program in Lake of Riiley apology.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So if there's pieces to a lot of it, right,
you start talking about the percentage of blame and we
can look at both sides of it. For Notre Dame's
independence and having been the heavyweight with the NBC deal
low these many years and being able to dictate terms. Right,
play enough big ten teams, right, that was always the thing.
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Now they play the partial schedule acc and now you
have this game that has always been a hall mark
some years. It's greatly to your advantage in theory if
USC is what they're supposed to be, right, and this
is where we go to the EBB and flow, but
to the new era of college football. We should assume
there's enough benefactors and people that want USC to remain
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a powerhouse. Okay, I think we can all stipulate to
that to where this should be a heavyweight battle. Now,
if you do the home at home, so when you're
at USC it's an early September game versus.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
When you're at Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Hey, you're subject to their home and home like, that's
the fight that goes on, right, Because USC also kind
of wants their cake and eating it too, because they
blew up a conference to go to this conference, knowing
they would have to travel multiple times to the East Coast,
and now they don't like that, and they cry about
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it every chance they get totally fair, right, and then
that's not me being a usc hit or if anything,
I'm a Chicago kid where I had a lot of
people adopting Notre Dame for no reason other than it
was close and they wouldn't adopt Northwestern. So it became
and once upon a time perhaps maybe someone went to
(23:26):
mass in their family. But so I would be more
likely to bash them. But looking at it, like Lincoln
Riley and others have taken every chance they can to
talk about, well, we got to go back out there
and it's an eleven o'clock game. I mean, well, yeah,
because you're not the heavyweight and it's a TV contract
that you're taking from the trough. That's the way this works, right,
(23:48):
If you're not the primetime game, you're subject to Hey,
we're the early game on ESPN two or the early
game on FS one.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Get over it.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
I would just say, there's so much the way the
sports going right now, there's so much, so much more
parody now, like gone are the days where these dominant
programs just go completely lossless for the entire year, Like
I just don't I don't know the next time we're
going to see a team go fully undefeated. Obviously, you
know Indiana's still knock on wood for them, but it
(24:17):
just feels and that feels like an anomaly here. And
when you have such a tough schedule like the Trojans
have coming up, it just it feels like it makes
sense to avoid another another strong opponent.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, but that's just it, right, That becomes the question
how much does that help or hurt you? In the
arguments of well, if you go and get blown out
by him, then certainly there's a multiplier. Okay, you were
measured against the best and you got blown out. But
if you have a narrow loss, doesn't necessarily count as
a full like real loss. But I understand for twenty
twenty six, and Jared and Ian, here's the schedule. You're
(24:51):
at Indiana at Penn State dates to be determined, of course,
and then you've got home dates with Ohio State and Oregon.
We got all four on your schedule, So I can
understand for twenty twenty six you want any even perceived
level of advantage that you can possibly clean.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I think all good things must come to an end here, guys,
And I think this is just these two programs we've
drifted apart with the rivalry, and it doesn't work for
USC anymore, and clearly it doesn't work for Notre Dame.
It does sound like Notre Dame was kind of the
like if it was Mortal Kombat, finish him, like it
was Notre Dame. That that that that kind of gave
(25:35):
the fatal blow here. But I totally understand why USC
wants to curate this schedule, knowing now that they've had
two years in the Big ten to kind of realize
the impact it has on you to travel back and
forth across the country. I totally understand why they would
want to fix this in their favor. And Notre Dame
(25:55):
probably didn't like that, because what do we know about
Notre Dame. They want to control everything and then they
backed out like that aligns with what probably happened. USC said, listen,
we really want to do this, but it's not working
for us in November anymore, so let's do it in September.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Notre Dame said no, and that was it.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And I and that's if that is the case, and
that's the way it played out. I applaud USC for
not bowing to the Irish and to doing what's best
for their program. They knew where they were going to
get backlash from this. They're catching strays from Keyshawn left
and right. They knew they were gonna get backlashed for
this decision, but they stuck to their guns because I
(26:33):
think at the end of the day, if the goal
is to make the playoff, played Notre Dame in November
is not necessary.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It's not a necessary thing.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
If your goal is to make the playoff, if your
goal is to appease your fan base and to keep
rivalry and tradition alive, then yeah, you play Notre Dame whenever, wherever,
and you keep that tradition going. But that clearly is
not the goal of what this USC program has anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
At Ian Roddy underscores where you find him on Twitter,
find Jared at Jared Smith Bets. To that end, Ian,
I'll give you the last word. Lincoln Riley has the
number one recruiting class in the land. That buyout gets
smaller every year.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think things are
trending the right way right now.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
He said.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
He set a really high bar that first year with
Caleb Williams. But yeah, you know, things are things are
looking good right now. But knocked on wood because we'll
see if you get the number one recruiting class and
then take a step back next year. I don't know
if he's long.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
For and you have your quarterback returning, so you got.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
That, fan and Roddy I love this.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
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Speaker 3 (27:34):
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Speaker 1 (27:43):
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Speaker 6 (28:34):
We got the poker at Tonebow tomorrow morning. What are
you not excited for that?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, we had a game in Boise tonight, as we'll
hear in Steve. Okay, the second I get it, we
got a couple more bowl games tomorrow, it'll.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Be hating on the pop darts ball Mike.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
They haven't. Look, everybody keeps talking about it.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And while we're on college football, everybody wants to see
a bunch of these bulls go away. If they do it,
they consolidate and they bring me back the blue gray
game on Christmas morning. I love nothing better than tell
me back Church and then betting on college football.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
We cannot have enough college football. I cannot stress this
enough that the extra bowl games that are being played
this week, that is not the reason why people are
You know, college football needs change now. The change needs
to come at the top. We need to change the
silly rules that allow Tulane and JMU to mosey their
(29:23):
way into the playoff to get their ass kicked by
thirty forty points. We need to change those rules and.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Let JMU play in the Boca a Tone Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I mean, have you ever attended JMU or you have
a thought on it and you want to get get
your shot in at Jared slid Bats. You know what
your name all week, You've already done that, And I
gotta I gotta go to him now because he's at
the news desk. And he smiled widely as soon as
I brought back memories of Christmas morning, Blue gray games.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's our guy, Steve de Sager.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
USC by the way in the Alamo Bowl against TCU
and the pop Tarts Ball will have BYU in Orlando
against Georgia Tech near the end of the month, and
BYU will be playing Notre Dame for the next two
years instead of the Irish against USC. By the way,
USC's non conference games early season in a couple of years,
they'll be hosting UNLV and Nevada. Next year, the early
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non conference games, SC will be hosting Fresno State and Louisiana.
North Carolina's Bill Belichick is reportedly working to hire Bobby
Petrino as his offensive coordinator, Freddie Kinchins was fired. Ohio
State head coach Ryan Day will call the offensive plays
and their playoff opener against Miami. Brian Hartline will leave
later for USF. Miami will be playing the number two
(30:37):
rank Buckeys on New Year's Eve at the Cotton Bowl
quarter final, and Yes, Notre Dame withdrew from bowl season
after it wasn't picked for the playoff three other bowl games.
On Tuesday today, Washington State led Utah State twenty to
nineing third quarter thirty four to twenty one over the
Aggies the final at the bowl game in Boise. Each
team was six and six attendant seventeen thousand, Washington State
(30:57):
nearly six hundred and thirty yards of all offense. The
San Francisco forty nine Ers have won five straight games.
They're up to eleven and four. They have eight chance
for the one seed still in the NFC. They will
be hosting Chicago and Seattle to close out the season.
The Niners were winners at Indianapolis tonight, forty eight to
twenty seven Brock Party with five touchdown passes two hundred
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ninety five yards Christian McCaffrey one hundred and seventeen yards
rushing and two TV catches. Tight End George Kitchell Kittle
had seven catches one hundred and fifteen yards in a
score that he left in the third quarter with an
ankle injury. San Francisco still hasn't punted this month. Niners
had six touchdowns in this win Tonight. Philip Rivers of
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the Colts two hundred and seventy seven yards, passing two
TV tosses in the first half, one pick six Late
Indy has lost six of its last seven games. This
Colts defeat clinched playoff spots in the AFC Tonight for
Buffalo for Jacksonville for the Chargers. The Niners scored points
on seven of their first eight drives. The only one
(31:59):
they didn't when they missed that sixty four yard field
goal attempt at the end of the first half and
that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
By the way ap and the barrier. Look this up.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Since the Golden State Warriors moved to California in the
nineteen sixties, tonight, it's the first time that both the
Warriors and Niners won by at least twenty points on
the same day. How about that Golden State was a
winner over Orlando, won twenty to ninety seven. The Warriors
now fifteen and fifteen. The NFL suspended Steelers wide receiver
dk Metcalf for the final two games of the season.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
He will appeal.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium in
twenty thirty one, just across the border in Kansas. In
the NBA, Oklahoma City is twenty six and three after
beating Memphis one nineteen one oh three. Shay Gilgis Alexander
now has one hundred consecutive games of scoring at least
twenty points. He had thirty one tonight. Detroit's record is
twenty three and six after a win at Portland. Boston
(32:54):
came back to beat Indiana. The Pacers have lost five straight.
Denver and New Orleans with home wins one five in
a row. Cleveland beat Charlotte one thirty nine, one thirty
two Donovan Mitchell thirty points. The Lakers Luka Doncic is
out tomorrow with a Bruce Calf. In college hoops on
FS one in Saint Louis number twenty, Illinois rip Missouri
ninety one to forty eight. In women's basketball in North Carolina,
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a top twenty five matchup Michigan State overall miss sixty
six forty nine, just four NHL matchups wins for Tampa
Bay and Philadelphia. Seattle won three to one at Anaheim,
Columbus a three to one winner at LA. The Mets
traded Jeff McNeil and cash to the A's and the
Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver two years, twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Back to you, you're the best, Steve. Remember street lights
over spotlights? Going back to that SGA.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Streak, street Lights over spotlight that.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Was the Clippers phillboards all across Los Angeles as they
paired up Kawhi Leonard and Paul George former Clipper. Yes, yeah,
all over town SGA.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
How did that work out?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Just one hundred row title Styeah, you know, and probably
another one along the way at Jared Smith Betts where
you find Jared in for Jason Smith tonight and I'm
buy Carmen as we continue, I want to go back
to that Golden State.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Game because something happened. At what point do you just.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Say, hey, history is just that we're talking about with
USC and Notre Dame, perhaps it's time to break a
tradition with a long time bet. Who is it and
what am I talking about? We'll tell you next year
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