January 9, 2026 • 42 mins
Jason Smith and Monse Bolanos filling in for Mike Harmon break down the ending of the Fiesta Bowl and try to learn Spanish within the sports media world! Plus, Pete Fiutak - College Football Insider joins the show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Welcome to the show, Monsei. There you remember everything you
(01:00):
say at some point in your life from when you
were born until now. Alex Tischer will find a way,
either through AI or some other way to play it
back on it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I am an as man.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
As you can see that that's going to run all night.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Apparently, what a great world we live in.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hey, make sure your mom's listening.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She is.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Call your mom right now. Make sure she's listening. Oh
so today, okay, so hang on a second really quick.
So today you know Spanish?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
When I texted you yesterday in Spanish about the Clippers
Knicks game after the Knicks wiped the floor with your clippers,
you gave me back no oblomo. But now you're speaking
you can speak Spanish.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Sometimes it happens, you know, in the moment when you
texted me in Spanish, I did not understand it. I
thought it was another language.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What are you talking about? I went to the Spanish
she was translator on Google gave me the exact word.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, I know, you went most Clippers clus Nicks.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes, no, I know. And I was like, how do
I respond?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Do I say in English that I don't understand Spanish,
or do I say in Spanish that I don't understand Spanish?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I say in Spanish that I don't understand Spanish. Okay,
sure that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I don't want to talk about that game.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I gave you. I gave you York.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, no, I heard it. I heard you singing it
in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not as, it's not as. It's not as lyrical
as it is in English. New York, New York. Where
do you go Tomos York for amost Way York. It's
it's too much to say it doesn't work. It's absolutely
too much. Yeah. So are you okay after that beatdown
that you guys got yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I mean, I'm not okay, but I have other beatdowns,
you know throughout the season. You're used to it exactly
as a Clippers fan. I'm more upset that you hurt
Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
An we didn't hurt. Yes, you did. No, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's your fault.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Kawhi Leonard when he walks around every day is in
danger of getting hurt. We didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
No, it was absolutely your fault at Madison Square Garden.
I don't know who else to blame but you, you
specifically Jason Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, like it's me. Yes, I put out the karma going,
oh that's it. No, Kawhi Leonard when he wakes up
in the morning is at risk of getting hurt. So yes,
so yeah, that's how it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Comes and just because it's accurate, but it's also right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They've signed him twelve years ago and he's played in
eight games since they've signed him. Okay, just and they
still keep giving him more money. So I was gonna
give the more games he misses, the more money he gets.
Lat's keep giving Kawhi Leonard money. How many games he
missed more games this year than last year, Give him
more money, give him more, give more. Uh So, while
the while the Knicks are enjoying, you know, resting tonight
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after that, well they kind of broke a sweat against
the Clippers, game one of the college football playoff semifinal.
Right now, early in the third quarter, still Carson Beck
has just scrambled for a first down, Miami with the
lead over ole Miss seventeen thirteen. Both Miami and ole
Miss have missed field goals. Ole Miss had a doink
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that could have cut the lead to one, and now
Miami has crossed midfield. The game started to open up
a little bit after a first quarter where I gotta
be honest because I know you, I know the gambler.
You are wearing your wearing your green visor into work tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
With my cigarette like my number one.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm gonna put all this money on this game, all
the money that my nephew is going to college. Johnny
doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Y that's right, isn't.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The number one? The number one thing that I liked
the most about this game was the under, right be
Miami's defense has been playing terrific. Both quarterbacks have look,
Carson Beck has been game. We'll have more in him
in a couple of minutes, but he's kind of been
game managing his way through the playoff. I really like
the fact that I thought Miami was gonna be able
to hold down Chambliss and hold down the offense on
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Ole Miss and Miami would have their typical you know,
twenty five play thirty yard drive, you know, take twelve
minutes off the clock for a field goal. And I
was feeling great after the first quarter and then Kawan
Lacy runs for a touchdown first play the second quarter.
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Now now the over is
gonna hit. Come on, man, we're at thirty points already.
I was feeling so good about the under and now
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I'm like, h you know, it's just going to be
some big chunk plays now between now and.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The end of the game, what was the over under.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think it closed a fifty one and a half fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
One and a half.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
And you know, I hear what you're saying, especially just
because Miami's defense is the real deal.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's why they're here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
It's not necessarily Carson Beck in the offense we have
not seen necessarily. I feel like Carson Beck might give
you a really hot game. He might not give you
a hot game. It's more like the defense of Miami
that keeps some of all these games.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And so I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
But like Shundad Chambliss has been like lightning, and you
know what I'm saying, Like he's been so awesome that
if he gets hot, We've seen him get hot, even
if it's just for one quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he could put up twenty one.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Points in a quarter if if he gets hot.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
So even though I think you are being logical in
thinking the under, I feel like Ole Miss is everything
but logical.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, oh, I mean, you know what I'm saying. Just think,
just think for a second, right because the biggest thing
is going to be like what's Lane Kiffin thinking? What's
going please?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like I love these kids, they all hate me. I'm
rich as hell now I'm at LSU, But boy, I
kind of want them to I feel like Lane Kiffin
to be like, I kind of want them to win
because they all hate me. Now I kind of want
them to win. But if they lose, yeah, I'm not
gonna be heartbroken. Like it's not one way where oh
I can't stand it. Like he's you know, he's watching
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the game where in a Miami hat and it's next
next to Michael Irvin and Bernie Cozar. They're all like, eh,
let's watch his game together, all you Miami legends. Let's go,
you know, making the U into the into the in
the TV, making the U with my hands, wearing the gloves.
But I don't think it's quite that because look, when
you coach these kids for as long as they do,
you understand the relationships they have, even if it's only
been three years. So I kind of feel like that's
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you know, thinking about how just a normal, a normal
reaction would be, is that of course, you know, he
wants the guys to win, He loves the coaches. Some
of them may still wind up going with him to LSU,
who knows. But at the same time, you know, you
have an attitude, you have a you have a an
ego as a coach, and if they win the championship
without me, it's how good was I? Really? Maybe Lsu
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was going, boy, how good was he really? You know,
you think how good was I really? If they win
the championship if it happens without me, Because being selfish
is something that is really it's it's given a wrong
connotation when it comes to sports. All great athletes are selfish,
all of them to an extent, whether it's I want
the ball at the end of the game, whether it's
I know on this play, I'm the best option, or
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I know my way is right. If you're a coach
and you're disagreeing with with something happening, but like everybody's
everybody selfish and everybody has that belief, and it's only
natural to be Okay, yeah, I wanted to win, but boy,
how am I gonna feel if they win without me?
And then it's ten days if we didn't need Lane
Kiffin and here they are in the championship, And then
you have the part where Lane Kiffin goes, I left
the team that's one game away from winning the championship.
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I got a LSU. I gotta build this thing from
the ground up and get to the championship and then
win when my old team now is one game away
from winning and all I had to do was stay.
It was stay for another month and it would have
been great.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, he is he wants them to lose.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Jason, I think like a small piece of him like
twenty five percent. Like he's got little angel on one side,
the devil on the other shoulder.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Is like seventy five percent and is like, you want
them to lose.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You want them to lose because you left to go
win a championship and they can't win without you, because
then what.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The hell did you do? Then you're the idiot.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He has the devil telling him you want them to lose,
even though again the twenty five percent, because if they win,
with his new contract with LSU, doesn't even get another bonus.
So it's just like, see, like he does want him
to win because it's gonna make his pocket a little
bit bigger, but he can't have them win.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He has to be.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Right, okay that he left to go be a champion
somewhere else because he didn't think Ole Miss can do it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And now they're showing him, no, we're doing that without
your ass.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know, I'm okay, so give me. So you just
gave me what the devil on the shoulder, which is
bigger than the angel, right, what would the little angel
on the shoulder be telling them?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No, But they're your kids. You got them smaller.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's a smaller range of smaller. One have to be
really proud of what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You did that, you did that.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, you did it?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He No, you did it. You didn't do it. They're
doing it without you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
It's bad that he can't have I know what you're
saying about competitiveness and being selfish. I want one hundred
percent agree with all of that, but his selfish seems
a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh and guy can't stay more than five minutes in
one place, whereout I gotta go about. I'm just he's
a happy feed head coach, right, I get that, But like,
this is this is real. I mean, just for a second,
just from a human standpoint of where it is, it's
got to be really really difficult with here. You know,
you make relations. You still you talk to the parents
and the coaches and everything else, and it's and it's
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a man, I can't believe we're here. I can't believe it.
So I feel like it's more like, you know, like
I think it's like this, like you know, in fantasy
when you are starting or you need a big game
from a player on your fantasy team that's playing against
your favorite tim right, Okay, so like how many times
because I had times, like you know how many times
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during my life that Tom Brady was my fantasy quarterback.
So and look, the Jets we stunk anyway, so it
didn't matter. But like when when the game would start
and I wanted the Jets to I wanted Brady to
throw four picks. I wanted the Jets to win. But
if Brady threw three touchdowns and three hundred yards, I
wasn't absolutely heartbroken because okay, we were probably gonna lose anyway,
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and I need the points and he was gonna do
it anyway, so okay, like I had no control over it.
So okay, that's kind of I'm out, Like, hey man,
I'm really up. But at the same time, I'm not
that heartbroken that that's happened.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Right, you wanted the Jets to win, you know twenty
eight to twenty five and Tom Brady threw for three touchdowns,
But you wanted the Jets to win, so not given.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Jets aren't scoring twenty eight points and two games, I'll
score twenty eight points maybe three, maybe three?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Give giving you just a one off here, Lane kiffn
is hoping that the Hurricanes barely beat the Rebels. You
know what I'm saying, Where you can be so he
can tweet out goodf for I knew you guys were
almost there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I would have given you that sense.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I would have changed this plan.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That's what he wants to be able to tweet out
a great job, guys, so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You were so close. Maybe if I was there, you
would have got it. But uh, good good job, good job.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He can't tweet out if they win, oh congratulations, you're
onto the damn championship.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He's not going to tweet that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So you think after the game, if Ole Miss loses,
we get the Kermit the frog sipping the.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Because he's playing the game.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So he's gonna say, good job, good job to my team, job,
good effort. So close of you. I knew what I
knew what I had built. I knew it was good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I knew it had a chance. That's gonna be the tweet.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's funny you say that, because like, I never thought
about this, Well, I never thought until it happened, and
then I think about it for you know, the rest
of my life. Uh is that when we were in
high school and I was playing high school football and
we were getting ready to play a game against a
team that the year before had beaten us pretty bad,
but it was gonna be a close game this time around.
And our coach told us, I can't stand this team
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because we won last year. We had a really good
quarterback the year before, and all they did after the
game was over was come up to him and just
because they won big, they were like, boy, what a
great quarterback you have there. He's so great he saw
Oh my good. All the coaches came up to him
and they're saying, you know, because it's easy when you
win a game like that to come in and say, oh, hey,
well you know what, look, look how great that guy's
(12:27):
really really great. They're not doing that if we beat them.
They're not coming over saying how great we are. If
we beat them right, like, if if ole Miss wins, like,
is he really going over the top and said no,
but if ole Miss loses, hey man, you guys are great.
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yes, exactly, that's what he's waiting for.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He's not happy with what just happened. A deflected pass
off of Carson Beck's throw. Rebels intercepted the ball. They
get it back and they were in a position to
maybe get some points, but Rebels just got the ball back.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Interception.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, big time deflection. It looked like Miami. Look, Miami
looks too offensively, starting to be putting their stamp on
this game a little bit. They're moving the football. Well
they're you know, they're they're really out physically. Ol Miss.
That's a big miss right there, coming off all Miss
jink in the field goal going down, going in for
another score, and suddenly it could be a two score
game going to the fourth quarter. Suddenly things are getting
(13:17):
a little tight for all Miss. That that deflection and
that ball, that ball deflected across almost half the field.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Impressive that somebody was able to pick it up. Yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He throws it into the left in the flat and
and it and it just careems into the middle of
the field where ole Miss is able to leap on
it and make the plane. It just happened seconds ago.
So now ole Miss has the football, and very few
players can flip a game like this, and and this
could wind up being one of them.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
And you don't want this with Trinida Chamblists because he
gets hot, he's streaky.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You only want it if you have the under. If
you have you want more turnovers, less points. Yeah, turnovers,
less points.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
It you may still get it because it's only one
more quarter and the way things are going, you know,
it's so close under fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, don't don't, don't don't jinx that out there by
saying jop it could still happen. It could happen. For that,
I know it could. Happy. You don't need to put
it out there, opisode. It's gonna be Chambers with a
seventy five yard touchdown pass, oh Carson Beck with an
eighty yard touchdown pass kick off return for a touchdown.
Then the overhits. So it's gonna happen three plays. Watch
what it can get three plays in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Great, it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Welcome to the Last Show. Monci Bolanos, ever does here
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Uh so, good way to start the year.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We'll keep you updated here right now again. Miami with
the lead seventeen thirteen over Ole miss till three and
a half to go in the fourth quarter, almost with
the football on their own fourteen yard line.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
Miami holds a twenty four to nineteen lead over Ole
miss Ole miss driving. They are approaching midfield, but facing
a big third and eight. They're nineteen seventeen lead was
short lived thanks to Malachi Tony and I gotta be honest.
I love Dante Moore blank that man. I want the
(15:10):
NFL to change the rules so the Jets can draft
a seventeen year old kid at number two overall. He
is unbelievable. He catches a short pass right off the snap,
takes it thirty six yards for a touchdown. You just
played it in your update. There's no play that he
can't make, right. I feel like we've been blessed with
a couple of guys two years in a row. You know,
(15:31):
he's only seventeen years old, right, like Ryan Williams Alabama.
You know he's only seventeen, you know Malachai Tony saying
thing seventeen. He does so much with the football. He's
so incredibly exciting, Like he's somebody that I can see
because he's you know, he hits the radar screen early
and still a couple of more years where depending on
the year, he had another couple of years, like next
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year is supposed to be a great quarterback year, and
then the year after that, Like it wouldn't surprise me
if there's not a big quarterback to be taken in
two years when he's probably coming that he could be
the number one pick in the draft. He is that exciting,
He is that good. I mean his escapability, Yeah, you
wh is just next level. And again there is something
(16:13):
to be said. I know here they got Yes, he's
only seventeen and he's this good. He is absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, Trinidad Chambliss just escaped as you were talking about that,
and I don't know if you saw the face of
Mario Crystoball. He was about to have an aneurysm because
they called a pass interference.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That could be like crystal Ball's like seventh aneurysm tonight,
He's not only had one, he's a fear I had
a few.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
That one was another wine because they called the past
interference after you said it was a long thirty eight
I think, is what when you were mentioning that play
and they called past interference. So the Rebels just did
get into hurricane territory and in fact now they're approaching
the red zone and there's plenty of time left. But yeah,
that play by male Kayitni was just you could hear
it in the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Guys calling the game. How excite that that just gives
so much excitement.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Because there hasn't been a lot of excitement, but there
is excitement right now for the Rebels.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Trinidad Chambliss has all miss in the end zone.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Can say about the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I know, I know, I know, And what did I
tell you about not talking about points on the board
because I like the under. Now we're we're one more
score away from the over being hit. The over Actually
I said fifty one and a half. It went off
at fifty two.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And a half, fifty two and a half twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Twenty five, twenty four and now you know they're gonna
go for two to make it a field goal game,
because he doesn't do any good to go up by two.
So you looking it could be a twenty seven to
twenty four game. One more score in the final three
minutes and suddenly the overhits, and it's your fault. It's
because you put it out there last hour.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You put it out I think you should blame Miami's
defense for allowing this time.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, I blame Miami's defense. Is fine until you decided
all these things could happen.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, no, I said Trinida. Chamblis gets hot, he gets
out of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
And that's exactly a two point conversion, successful successful rebels,
up by three.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, it's your fault. It's your fault. So now the
the the under is just it's just.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Here now it fished number eight happening right now.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
From Yeah, Crystal ball is like it and all I
think if I think of NoHo Hank from from Bowery,
Cristal Ball was Cristal ball. We have on Cristal ball.
Yeah uh yeah, he has not been happy. He has
been Alternately, he has lived every emotion in this game.
Right like we're gonna we're gonna talk about Kurtzignetti coming
up later on in the show and how he said
today at his press conference head coach of Indiana, I
(18:28):
gotta be the same guy the entire time. I can'tch
a lot of but America, No, no, no, no no.
He's got his arms up in the air high five.
And when Big plays, then when he's mad, he looks
like you can see it. He looks like your dad
when you like take the car without permission and come
back at three in the morning and liked.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Get his eyes twitching.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You're just like, oh, wow, this is this is bad, man.
What I did was really bad. Yes, this is really
That's what he looks like.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
That's what he looks like, because he's like, I can't
believe we let this team stay in it for this long.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It was only a matter of time before.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Chambliss started hitting those throws, because it's not like he
hasn't done this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
So it's like it was only a matter of time,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And the and the thing is is that like I
seeing this game, how it was gonna go. When I
picked Miami to win again with the under uh and
now if Miami wins, it's gonna be the over. So
I'm either gonna be right about the under or I'm
gonna get so like what do I want? I want
to be right about the game. So, but the thing
is is that to think about this, I thought this
game would go where slowly Miami's defense would take over
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and the fourth quarter would be play after play of
Chambliss scrambling trying to find space, not being able to
get it, and the Hurricane defense just pouring it on.
And instead it's become a game where for both teams
the fourth quarter because the defense have played so well
for three quarters. You see that once in a while
in big games, when the pressure is off and guys
go out there to play and the defense gets gassed,
(19:51):
you start seeing big chunk yardage plays for no reason,
like why are we seeing a chunk yard We haven't
seen one chunk yards play for three and a half court.
Now we're getting it now, Like that's what we've been
say so far in the fourth quarter. So I thought, hey,
this is gonna be the opposite way, and Miami's defense
is gonna shut things down in the fourth quarter, And
instead it's now the offense has to has to pull
it out for Miami here in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, and I don't know. Again, I don't know if
they can.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Carson Beck to me is just a little bit too
inconsistent to trust him in this situation. He just I
don't know if it was a miscommunication in that throw,
but it didn't look good for Miami, And you're probably right.
I think the defense might be a little bit tired
right now. And this is not this is not what
either team wants in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, I mean that play should have been a touchdown
like he had he had received streaking open and he
just threw it short.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Short.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It looks short, yeah, yeah, like it was a thirty
yard pass downfield and that's where where's why is that
football five feet behind me? And you see he puts
his hands on his head and says, oh my goodness,
Which is why we watch a missed opportunity.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Miscommunication because of how he reacted to where he was like, oh,
you know, but yeah, it seemed like he had a
he had him to go downfield and then it was
a little short.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Now, I will say this about Carson Beck in that
he has been the the like if you look up, hey,
what's the dictionary definition of a game manager at quarterback?
Like he has been game managing his way all season long, right,
because that's kind of what Beck is. Beck was really
good at Georgia obviously moving around now going to Miami
hitting it there because he was never really the dynamic
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player that we thought he was gonna be, but he
has game managed, you know, pretty well, and watching him
especially tonight, like this is something Eli Manning never really
got enough credit for with the Giants, is that Eli
Manning was a guy that always one of the things
he did his big superpower was always whatever the formation was,
he would get the Giants in the right formation, take
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the play clock down, and knew where to go with
the football right away. And that's a big deal when
you know, Okay, they look like they're gonna do this,
we have to get into this formation. This is what
we're gonna do. Carson Beck has done that so much tonight,
making sure Miami's in the right formation, seeing what's out there,
calling for motion, moving guys around, like even that touchdown
pass to Tony, Hey sees what's happening, you know, gives
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Tony the nod to come in motion, so you know,
that's why one of those plays where it's not set
from the come in motion, it's if I give you
the nod, it's because I see something in you come
in motion. He gives Tony the nod, he comes in motion,
gives them the ball like he's done that. He's done
a great job on that tonight. But now you've got
to get to a point where okay, that that's great,
but now you got to get downfield in the final
couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I said that, like, he's inconsistent on the offense.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
For me, whenever I watch Miami this season, but they
haven't it's it's not like they've won in spite of him.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I agree with you. I think he's done a really
good job with Miami this year, and I don't know
if they would win without him. They need him. Even
though he is a game manager. He does so much
for them.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It's just like when he has like a really good game,
it's like, I just don't know what I'm gonna see
that offense. That offense again from Carson Beck. Yeah, because
he is a game manager and he has moments. He
has moments, but they have Definitely he is not hindering them,
because sometimes I feel like we use game managers like
a negative thing, right, like somebody we always use it,
always a negative.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
But I don't always think it is, like I truly
with him, it's not.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I don't think it is with Jalen Hurts, Like there
are certain game managers that you're winning with them and
because of them, not in spite of them.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, and especially coming off last year your Miami you're saying, Okay, well,
we just had the number one pick in the draft.
We just lost a guy, but we're still uber talented.
If we don't think we quite have the next star quarterback,
five star recruit coming into the U, what do we
do now, Let's go get Carson Beck, who has been
through the wars, he started forty games in college football.
I'm pretty sure he can come in and master the
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playbook and get everything going and get our team to
where it needs to be. Now, maybe he's not doesn't
have to quite have the ceiling not another guy would have,
but he's someone I know that there will be no
growing pains. We're not going to lose games early and
have to worry about someone growing into the role because
we don't want to give a year away that we're
coming off of we're building a lot of momentum, because
that hurts recruiting, it hurts everything. So bring him in
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obviously the right call because there on the playoff, in
the semi final, two minutes away potentially from the championship game.
So it works. But at this at the same time,
now it's okay, this is where you got to bring
that little bit something extra to the party, right, doing
a great job most of the night tonight again getting
guys in the right formation moving. But this has been
a team that that you know, at some point your
quarterback's gotta go win a game for you at some point.
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Not every week, not every week, and you expect a
guy to go out and sing, but once in a while,
I was like, hey, need you something here. They can't
run the sledge hammer ground game anymore with two minutes
to go down by three. They can't keep running the
short passes to Malachai Tony because now they're down, they
need to be able to get downfield and he's got
to be dynamic and he's got two minutes to get
Miami down there. Because that's we're at right now. With
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the two minute warning, Miami driving they still have the
ball on their side of the field, down by three
to ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's gonna be a tall task to ask Carson beck
to do that. I think he has it in him.
I think he has it in him, right.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's just like you can't expect him to do it
every game, but I think he has it in him
to get you at least in a position to tie
the game.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, so now let me ask you this now. The
big question obviously as we sit here in pause two
minute warning, is Lane Kiffin watching this game going, come on,
guys too matches defense? Or is he saying, come on,
Carson doing the U Come on, Carson, get down there,
win this game.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'm telling you he's he's cheering for the Hurricanes, hoping
Carson beck Beck puts some in a position to win
because he can't have the Rebels go to the championship
without him.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
He can't.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
He wanted that would be such a terrible, you know,
strike to his ego because he has to be right
what I left to go win a championship. This team
you left is literally in the championship without you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean, think about the optic and the story that
I left a team that I brought as far as
I thought we could go to go someplace bigger to
win a national championsip where I have to start over,
got to bring my players in my staff, everything, got
to play a whole season, and they're expecting the playoff
right in a national title right away? Right, So that
(25:48):
was But instead the team I left two games later,
it's gonna play for the Nationals. Yeah yeah, idiot, idiot.
That's such an awful there's that's such an off full
optic for Lane Kiffin, and it really makes you, It
really makes you wonder if he really thought that Ole
miss could get there, right, because if you if LSU
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really wanted him and he said with a handshake, deal, listen,
I'll go, but I'm going at the end of the playoff. Yeah,
it gets to a point where it's difficult because you
are in a situation of we got to have a
coach at some point, and if you're playing till the
middle of January with a transfer portal hitting and and
you know, look, this week has been all about the transferportal.
We kind of need somebody else. But you know, still,
(26:31):
I mean, you gotta wonder, man, I could be losing
my my biggest shot at the championship. Now I gotta
go build everything from scratch at LSU and try to
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't think he thought ole Miss could get there,
like really get there. I don't think so. And that's
why he was okay with walking out the way he
did it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Really, I mean, he's gotta be. He's got to be
a glass case of emotions like now, like rod Bergen
tell you, he's cheering every play. If it's a completed
passer midami, he's cheering it. If it's an incomplete pass,
he's cheering it. He's doing all of He's cheering both sides,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He seems like a type that would throw something at
the wall, like his drink. Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
The minute the Rebels took the lead, I can already
see he threw his drink to the wall.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I can see like I picture him being like all
the gifts you have that are on there of people
just ripping their televisions off the wall and throwing him
out the window. My new favorites are the guys that
are punching their TVs and break them, you know, and
they see a play that doesn't go right, they just
punch their TV and break it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I've told you how much I just want to destroy
a car. Like punching the TV also sounds great. Yeah,
like right through it and you can see all the
color and it just smashed in front of you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, you want to go in a rage room.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I do want to go. You talked about it a
rage room.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
With it with a Clipper colored car. Cr Well, I
mean the Clippers are your team.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Right, But I don't want to destroy a Clipper cart.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well no, I mean just painted the Clippers colors.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
No, I would rather destroy a Nick car. Why because
last night?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Because you couldn't do it on the court, so you
have to do it. You couldn't do it then. So
where we sit right now? Twenty seven, twenty four, Miami
driving the ruling on the field is a completed pass
to Tony on the sideline. They are looking at it
to see if he got one foot down. If he
(28:15):
does have one foot down, he makes this catch. This
is one of the greatest catches you'll ever see in
college football. It's not a completed catch. He reaches back
behind him where Carson Beck a play where he just
tries to keep the play alive, and he fades back
to pass, and he's all over the place, and he
throws it to the sideline and reaches like Spider Man like,
(28:36):
reaches all the way back with one hand, pulls it in,
but it looks like the back half of his foot
came down out of bounds. So it's gonna be third
and six from Miami here about a minute twenty six
left to go. Obviously two down territory for the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But they're right there. They're right there in field goal range.
Oh that I wish they would have caught. They would
have kinded that. I know, Okay, the sake of football.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That was a catch. Yeah, they are on the cusp
of field goal range. They are three, three or four
yards away from field goal range. But listen is as
Pete Futek, who's going to join us after this game,
likes to say, college kickers, college kickers, college college NFL kick. Yeah,
but you're not putting Cameron Dicker out there and guys
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that can you know, Hey, we're good from fifty all
the time. College kickers. Cole, You've already seen missus and
guys hitting the upright tonight. College kickers. But it looks
like Miami did. Get the first down. Yes, Daniels catches
the ball at the sticks and reaches out past the
first down marker. It is a first and ten for
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Miami with about a minute ten left to go. Again,
a field goal ties it. A touchdown would most likely
give them the win. Again, now they are fully in
field goal range. We'll have more on this game coming
up next. Are we talking about overtime? Are we talking
about oh Miss without Lane Kiffin the title? Are we
talking about Michael Irvin dancing in the middle of the field?
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Ta What are we gonna see?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
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Speaker 1 (30:11):
Joining us now in the hotline to break it all down.
Nobody better than the owner, editor, proprietor Grand puba of
the best college football website in the country, college Footballnews
dot Com. All the picks, all the prognostications, all the
analysis you want from longtime friend of the show, Pete Futac. Pete,
you okay, after that game?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, I guess so. I mean, look, by the way,
watch it again. Watch the Miami pass rushers get absolutely
tackled like for Yeah, it was it was passive. I
do agree that it was kind of a non call,
I mean because they were both grabbing at each other.
But I get where you could have and should have
called a PI and it's it was. It was close
(30:58):
enough or I'm kind of glad they ate the I
G at the end. I was close enough. But yeah,
there was a lot.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
To that game.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But you know what, thank you, Carson Beck, because without
him and that drive, Mendoza or Dante more would throw
for four and nineteen yards in the National Championship against
this old miss that we wouldn't get Georgia TCU. But man,
(31:28):
with that defense, just get eaten up by whatever is
coming out of that Peach Bowl tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'll tell you what Pete you brought up, Carson Beck.
We talked about a few minutes ago, counting everything that
goes along with being quarterback, which watching him tonight, getting
Miami into the right formation on almost all the plays,
moving protections around. This was the best game I've ever
seen him play quarterback. Everything. He had control of everything,
even his touchdown run at the end. The scramble wasn't
(31:54):
something that was a panic run. This was going through
my progressions and nobody's open the side of the field.
I mean, yes, he game managed his way through most
of the season, but this is the best game I've
ever seen him play.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
That was an NFL dude doing that. I mean, that
was you know, we all forget that he was kind
of being thrown out there as a possible number one
overall pick a couple of years ago, and then it
wasn't great last year and kind of the shine was
off a little bit. But he's got it. He's got
all the tools. I mean, he's got the size, strength,
(32:27):
just enough mobility, and he's obviously you know, just you know,
be able to figure out defenses. And it was kind
of crazy to think about it because, like you're right,
I mean, think about that last drive with that offensive line.
First of all, what are you doing not running the
ball every play? Miami? I mean that Ole Miss defense.
I mean we could have run for eight yards against
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that and they were just hammering away at it. But
look at the very end, they weren't going for the
field goal. I thought they were just going to keep
running because when they really wanted to run and power through,
they were power went away for ten yards of crack
I mean, they were just blasting away. They had some
timeouts left, but instead they let Beck throw and you
(33:08):
had better trust that quarterback because they had the field goal.
You know, the kicker's been a little shaky in the
playoffs so far, but they had the field goal right there,
and yet they still let Beck go after and keep
firing it in there and he's making some NFL reads
and some NFL throws.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Now Miami is headed to the National Championship, so they're
happy and all. But what did you make of that
targeting call against Xavier Lucas that you know, he ended
up being ejected because we.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Kind of didn't like that call over here.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, look, I'm all, I get that. I get the targeting.
The letter of the targeting rule is really that you
are trying to hit the guy in the head with
your head or something some other way of excuse me,
knocking that guy out. And if it's if you're supposed
to be able to pull off, you're supposed to avoid
(33:57):
those hits. You're supposed to get it. I am the
anti brain injury, you know, I'm I'm before and that's
more going the other way, and you know, making sure
you over call that but that was a little bit rough.
So there are a couple of calls that you know,
kind of could have gone either way tonight, But for
the most part, there were a lot of penalties. And
this was this was Miami c plus game, and they
(34:20):
got out, you know, and they got out alive. So
they still have the starting twenty two. Uh So I'm
not just assuming tomorrow night's the national championship. Miami could
absolutely win this thing.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So, Pete, I need you to call people you know
in college football and make them change the rules so
the Jets can draft Malachi Tony at number two.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The problem is he's only fourteen years I know, I know,
I know, But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
We have him for so much longer though, I'd be great. Yeah,
I mean, this is a Pete. This is a guy that,
depending on what the quarterback situation is, coming into the
draft in two years, like I can see him being
the number one overall pick in the draft. Like he
is that special.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, Okay, Percy was Percy Harvin the number one overall guy.
I mean he's great, you know, don't get me wrong,
but yeah, look it's it all starts with the lines.
I mean, that's Mario Christobal. That is the offensive front.
They've got some NFL dudes on that offensive front and
they were blasting away. And so, yes, Tony's absolutely special.
(35:21):
He was making some amazing plays. But yeah, you give
him a couple of years and he's going to be
up there with But he is a absolutely electric playmaker
and they certainly rely on him a way too much.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
What about Carson Beck and Shouldad Chambliss. Do you think
they have a path to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Oh charts to Beck? Yes, I mean again, he he's
not going to be a first rounder. This is kind
of a weird year for quarterbacks. And it's a weird
year where you do have teams like the Jets, you know,
like the Raiders, you know, depending on if he's the
Browns really want to go make that move. Definitely the Steelers'.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Every the Jets and the Raiders and the like. Every
year they get that high beat every year.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Repeat, yes, repeat, So you do have you do have to,
like you said, the usual suspects looking for that. So
I don't think Beck goes bad, But like you know,
they NFL scouts fall for the latest thing. You know,
it's the whole industry is kind of who he's but
you know, they they see what they see and then
if they see a guy like Carson Beck in that moment,
(36:22):
you're thinking, wait a minute, Like we just talked about,
that's a guy who was making NFL throws and NFL
reads in the most pressure pack situation he will ever
be in unless he goes and is fighting for a
super Bowl. And that is that was That was it.
That's what you want to see in your NFL quarterback
chambles is just too dangerous. I mean he is. He
is a whole lot of fun and it'll be interesting.
(36:45):
He's trying to buck for like he's trying to be
on the Diego Pavia train here and you know, come
back for his you know, you know, you know what
are guys who stay in college for eight years, Well
they're called doctors. You know. It's so he's he's trying
to come back. But yeah, he's got he's certainly dynamic enough.
The arm strength is just good enough. But he is
(37:06):
just one of those playmakers who look, you know, their
butt were a play in the end zone, he almost
pulled that thing out.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Pete Futec college football News dot Com insider with us
Jason Smith Monsei Bolano's Fox Sports Radio. All right, let
me ask you a question that may not be able
to be answered, but your gut instinct. If Lane Kiffin
is coaching this team all the way through, when he
stays with them, does Olemis pull this game out? Is
there something you saw tonight that that tells you that, boy, Hey,
(37:34):
they kind of missed Lane Kiffin here.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yeah, they didn't do anything. I mean, Goldie did just fight.
I mean, look, they shouldn't have been here. I mean,
as I kind of said all season long, the SEC
was just sort of eh. And I know they took
Miami down to the wire but still the ACC team.
But uh, look they should They got by Georgia that
was a good that was a good win for them,
(37:57):
and they hung around with Miami. I think they would
have gotten destroyed if they want they pulled this thing out.
But I don't think Kiffin did as much as he
could have done with this. I don't think Golding did
anything wrong by a chance, by stretch, So I know,
I don't think Kiffen pulls this thing out because this
was a flawed team. They were great, the offense was outstanding,
(38:20):
the defense did its job for the most part. But
the problem was that when you're going for field goal
attempts like my ole miss did, you'll leave yourself open.
And they just couldn't quite punch it in when they
needed to.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
The other semi final game tomorrow Friday seven thirty Eastern
Oregon and Indiana. How are the Ducks going to handle
not having Jordan Davison.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
That'll be fine, you know again, they they've got so
much talent, They've got so much speed across the board.
Dante more is still out there, they still have you know,
I still think he's probably the number one pick over Mendoz.
If not, he's number two. But looking through this playoffs
so far, the first two games, I know, James Madison
is Teams Madison and everyone kind of you know, looked
(39:04):
at the Texas Tech game. We're like, oh see, look,
Texas Tech wasn't real.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
It was real.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
They weren't great for prime times, yeah they were. Oregon
was just better, and I think we're going to see that.
I think the world is kind of over loving Indiana
because they beat Indiana. They beat Alabama. The Alabama team
wasn't very good. Again, SEC wasn't very good, so uh,
Indiana certainly could win this. They've they've certainly got the talent,
(39:28):
they've they've done it before. Look, they're undefeated. They got here,
they're the only undefeated team left. They've been absolutely unflappable
so far. I just sort of think that until the
Mark Cuban money really starts to kick in. Uh, Oregon
just has more talent, They have more guys, and I
think Oregon pulls this off.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So just like we expected Oregon and Miami for the
National Championship, I just crazy though.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Again, Oregon was OG was supposed to be good and close.
Miami was supposed to win the ACC. You know, I
was not the believer in Clemson from the start. I said,
how long this is gonna be Miami's ACC. But yeah,
it's a little bit bizarre, it's a little bit off.
I mean, it's not Ohio State, it's not Georgia. But
you know, the crazy part about it is now is
(40:14):
a third straight year we're not getting an SEC team
in the National Championship. We went over a nineteen year span.
The Ohio State College Football Playoff win over Oregon to
start this whole thing off was the only time in
the last nineteen years we did not have an SEC
team in it until the Michigan TCU and then last
(40:34):
year obviously with Ohio State beating Notre Dame, and now
we're gonna have a third straight year without the SEC.
So anytime you don't have an Alabama an LSU, you know,
at Georgia or Clemson or an Ohio State, it seems
a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
So let me get this straight. Between this out Pete
Feutech says fire, Greg Sankee, hang on, let me just
get that.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Well, you can't be the conference. Oh, it just means more.
And then when you get you know, an atomic weggie
pulled on you in the pole season'd be like, oh, well,
we didn't really try that hard, and we had opt
outs and we had all this well, which is it?
You know, everyone had opt outs, Everyone had guys who
are transferring and coaches leaving, and you know, look these
(41:16):
things they're cyclical. SEC probably goes like nine to zero
in the Bulls next year. I mean, you know how
this works. But look, it's it's kind of a bad
look for the conference where all right, this is this is,
let's be your thing, and Big ten all of a
sudden got more money and more talent, more national championships coming.
They're gonna about to make it three straight. So uh yeah,
(41:37):
it's kind of a kind of a rough look in
the SEC offices Right now.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
He's on ex at Pete Feutech. That is, at Petefeutech
college Footballnews dot com, your website one stop shopping for
everything college football. Pete, we had a double shot with you.
We'll talk to you tomorrow night after the Jets Raiders
Bowl with Dante More and Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Oh yeah, it is. It's gonna be like genius versus
Marcus Marriota.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yes, great talks and wrong buddy, you have a good one.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
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I gave you. I gave you York.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, no, I heard it. I heard you singing it
in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not as, it's not as. It's not as lyrical
as it is in English. New York, New York. Where
do you go Tomos York for amost Way York. It's
it's too much to say it doesn't work. It's absolutely
too much. Yeah. So are you okay after that beatdown
that you guys got yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I mean, I'm not okay, but I have other beatdowns,
you know throughout the season. You're used to it exactly
as a Clippers fan. I'm more upset that you hurt
Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
An we didn't hurt. Yes, you did. No, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's your fault.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Kawhi Leonard when he walks around every day is in
danger of getting hurt. We didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
No, it was absolutely your fault at Madison Square Garden.
I don't know who else to blame but you, you
specifically Jason Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, like it's me. Yes, I put out the karma going,
oh that's it. No, Kawhi Leonard when he wakes up
in the morning is at risk of getting hurt. So yes,
so yeah, that's how it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Comes and just because it's accurate, but it's also right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They've signed him twelve years ago and he's played in
eight games since they've signed him. Okay, just and they
still keep giving him more money. So I was gonna
give the more games he misses, the more money he gets.
Lat's keep giving Kawhi Leonard money. How many games he
missed more games this year than last year, Give him
more money, give him more, give more. Uh So, while
the while the Knicks are enjoying, you know, resting tonight
(03:34):
after that, well they kind of broke a sweat against
the Clippers, game one of the college football playoff semifinal.
Right now, early in the third quarter, still Carson Beck
has just scrambled for a first down, Miami with the
lead over ole Miss seventeen thirteen. Both Miami and ole
Miss have missed field goals. Ole Miss had a doink
(03:55):
that could have cut the lead to one, and now
Miami has crossed midfield. The game started to open up
a little bit after a first quarter where I gotta
be honest because I know you, I know the gambler.
You are wearing your wearing your green visor into work tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
With my cigarette like my number one.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm gonna put all this money on this game, all
the money that my nephew is going to college. Johnny
doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Y that's right, isn't.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The number one? The number one thing that I liked
the most about this game was the under, right be
Miami's defense has been playing terrific. Both quarterbacks have look,
Carson Beck has been game. We'll have more in him
in a couple of minutes, but he's kind of been
game managing his way through the playoff. I really like
the fact that I thought Miami was gonna be able
to hold down Chambliss and hold down the offense on
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Ole Miss and Miami would have their typical you know,
twenty five play thirty yard drive, you know, take twelve
minutes off the clock for a field goal. And I
was feeling great after the first quarter and then Kawan
Lacy runs for a touchdown first play the second quarter.
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Now now the over is
gonna hit. Come on, man, we're at thirty points already.
I was feeling so good about the under and now
(04:59):
I'm like, h you know, it's just going to be
some big chunk plays now between now and.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The end of the game, what was the over under.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think it closed a fifty one and a half fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
One and a half.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
And you know, I hear what you're saying, especially just
because Miami's defense is the real deal.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's why they're here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
It's not necessarily Carson Beck in the offense we have
not seen necessarily. I feel like Carson Beck might give
you a really hot game. He might not give you
a hot game. It's more like the defense of Miami
that keeps some of all these games.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And so I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
But like Shundad Chambliss has been like lightning, and you
know what I'm saying, Like he's been so awesome that
if he gets hot, We've seen him get hot, even
if it's just for one quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he could put up twenty one.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Points in a quarter if if he gets hot.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
So even though I think you are being logical in
thinking the under, I feel like Ole Miss is everything
but logical.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, oh, I mean, you know what I'm saying. Just think,
just think for a second, right because the biggest thing
is going to be like what's Lane Kiffin thinking? What's
going please?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like I love these kids, they all hate me. I'm
rich as hell now I'm at LSU, But boy, I
kind of want them to I feel like Lane Kiffin
to be like, I kind of want them to win
because they all hate me. Now I kind of want
them to win. But if they lose, yeah, I'm not
gonna be heartbroken. Like it's not one way where oh
I can't stand it. Like he's you know, he's watching
(06:22):
the game where in a Miami hat and it's next
next to Michael Irvin and Bernie Cozar. They're all like, eh,
let's watch his game together, all you Miami legends. Let's go,
you know, making the U into the into the in
the TV, making the U with my hands, wearing the gloves.
But I don't think it's quite that because look, when
you coach these kids for as long as they do,
you understand the relationships they have, even if it's only
been three years. So I kind of feel like that's
(06:44):
you know, thinking about how just a normal, a normal
reaction would be, is that of course, you know, he
wants the guys to win, He loves the coaches. Some
of them may still wind up going with him to LSU,
who knows. But at the same time, you know, you
have an attitude, you have a you have a an
ego as a coach, and if they win the championship
without me, it's how good was I? Really? Maybe Lsu
(07:06):
was going, boy, how good was he really? You know,
you think how good was I really? If they win
the championship if it happens without me, Because being selfish
is something that is really it's it's given a wrong
connotation when it comes to sports. All great athletes are selfish,
all of them to an extent, whether it's I want
the ball at the end of the game, whether it's
I know on this play, I'm the best option, or
(07:27):
I know my way is right. If you're a coach
and you're disagreeing with with something happening, but like everybody's
everybody selfish and everybody has that belief, and it's only
natural to be Okay, yeah, I wanted to win, but boy,
how am I gonna feel if they win without me?
And then it's ten days if we didn't need Lane
Kiffin and here they are in the championship, And then
you have the part where Lane Kiffin goes, I left
the team that's one game away from winning the championship.
(07:49):
I got a LSU. I gotta build this thing from
the ground up and get to the championship and then
win when my old team now is one game away
from winning and all I had to do was stay.
It was stay for another month and it would have
been great.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, he is he wants them to lose.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Jason, I think like a small piece of him like
twenty five percent. Like he's got little angel on one side,
the devil on the other shoulder.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Is like seventy five percent and is like, you want
them to lose.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You want them to lose because you left to go
win a championship and they can't win without you, because
then what.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The hell did you do? Then you're the idiot.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He has the devil telling him you want them to lose,
even though again the twenty five percent, because if they win,
with his new contract with LSU, doesn't even get another bonus.
So it's just like, see, like he does want him
to win because it's gonna make his pocket a little
bit bigger, but he can't have them win.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He has to be.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Right, okay that he left to go be a champion
somewhere else because he didn't think Ole Miss can do it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And now they're showing him, no, we're doing that without
your ass.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know, I'm okay, so give me. So you just
gave me what the devil on the shoulder, which is
bigger than the angel, right, what would the little angel
on the shoulder be telling them?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No, But they're your kids. You got them smaller.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's a smaller range of smaller. One have to be
really proud of what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You did that, you did that.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, you did it?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He No, you did it. You didn't do it. They're
doing it without you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
It's bad that he can't have I know what you're
saying about competitiveness and being selfish. I want one hundred
percent agree with all of that, but his selfish seems
a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh and guy can't stay more than five minutes in
one place, whereout I gotta go about. I'm just he's
a happy feed head coach, right, I get that, But like,
this is this is real. I mean, just for a second,
just from a human standpoint of where it is, it's
got to be really really difficult with here. You know,
you make relations. You still you talk to the parents
and the coaches and everything else, and it's and it's
(09:38):
a man, I can't believe we're here. I can't believe it.
So I feel like it's more like, you know, like
I think it's like this, like you know, in fantasy
when you are starting or you need a big game
from a player on your fantasy team that's playing against
your favorite tim right, Okay, so like how many times
because I had times, like you know how many times
(09:59):
during my life that Tom Brady was my fantasy quarterback.
So and look, the Jets we stunk anyway, so it
didn't matter. But like when when the game would start
and I wanted the Jets to I wanted Brady to
throw four picks. I wanted the Jets to win. But
if Brady threw three touchdowns and three hundred yards, I
wasn't absolutely heartbroken because okay, we were probably gonna lose anyway,
(10:20):
and I need the points and he was gonna do
it anyway, so okay, like I had no control over it.
So okay, that's kind of I'm out, Like, hey man,
I'm really up. But at the same time, I'm not
that heartbroken that that's happened.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Right, you wanted the Jets to win, you know twenty
eight to twenty five and Tom Brady threw for three touchdowns,
But you wanted the Jets to win, so not given.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Jets aren't scoring twenty eight points and two games, I'll
score twenty eight points maybe three, maybe three?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Give giving you just a one off here, Lane kiffn
is hoping that the Hurricanes barely beat the Rebels. You
know what I'm saying, Where you can be so he
can tweet out goodf for I knew you guys were
almost there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's what he wants to do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I would have given you that sense.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I would have changed this plan.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That's what he wants to be able to tweet out
a great job, guys, so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You were so close. Maybe if I was there, you
would have got it. But uh, good good job, good job.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He can't tweet out if they win, oh congratulations, you're
onto the damn championship.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He's not going to tweet that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So you think after the game, if Ole Miss loses,
we get the Kermit the frog sipping the.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Because he's playing the game.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So he's gonna say, good job, good job to my team, job,
good effort. So close of you. I knew what I
knew what I had built. I knew it was good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I knew it had a chance. That's gonna be the tweet.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's funny you say that, because like, I never thought
about this, Well, I never thought until it happened, and
then I think about it for you know, the rest
of my life. Uh is that when we were in
high school and I was playing high school football and
we were getting ready to play a game against a
team that the year before had beaten us pretty bad,
but it was gonna be a close game this time around.
And our coach told us, I can't stand this team
(12:06):
because we won last year. We had a really good
quarterback the year before, and all they did after the
game was over was come up to him and just
because they won big, they were like, boy, what a
great quarterback you have there. He's so great he saw
Oh my good. All the coaches came up to him
and they're saying, you know, because it's easy when you
win a game like that to come in and say, oh, hey,
well you know what, look, look how great that guy's
(12:27):
really really great. They're not doing that if we beat them.
They're not coming over saying how great we are. If
we beat them right, like, if if ole Miss wins, like,
is he really going over the top and said no,
but if ole Miss loses, hey man, you guys are great.
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yes, exactly, that's what he's waiting for.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He's not happy with what just happened. A deflected pass
off of Carson Beck's throw. Rebels intercepted the ball. They
get it back and they were in a position to
maybe get some points, but Rebels just got the ball back.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Interception.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, big time deflection. It looked like Miami. Look, Miami
looks too offensively, starting to be putting their stamp on
this game a little bit. They're moving the football. Well
they're you know, they're they're really out physically. Ol Miss.
That's a big miss right there, coming off all Miss
jink in the field goal going down, going in for
another score, and suddenly it could be a two score
game going to the fourth quarter. Suddenly things are getting
(13:17):
a little tight for all Miss. That that deflection and
that ball, that ball deflected across almost half the field.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Impressive that somebody was able to pick it up. Yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He throws it into the left in the flat and
and it and it just careems into the middle of
the field where ole Miss is able to leap on
it and make the plane. It just happened seconds ago.
So now ole Miss has the football, and very few
players can flip a game like this, and and this
could wind up being one of them.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
And you don't want this with Trinida Chamblists because he
gets hot, he's streaky.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You only want it if you have the under. If
you have you want more turnovers, less points. Yeah, turnovers,
less points.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
It you may still get it because it's only one
more quarter and the way things are going, you know,
it's so close under fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, don't don't, don't don't jinx that out there by
saying jop it could still happen. It could happen. For that,
I know it could. Happy. You don't need to put
it out there, opisode. It's gonna be Chambers with a
seventy five yard touchdown pass, oh Carson Beck with an
eighty yard touchdown pass kick off return for a touchdown.
Then the overhits. So it's gonna happen three plays. Watch
what it can get three plays in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Great, it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Welcome to the Last Show. Monci Bolanos, ever does here
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Uh so, good way to start the year.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We'll keep you updated here right now again. Miami with
the lead seventeen thirteen over Ole miss till three and
a half to go in the fourth quarter, almost with
the football on their own fourteen yard line.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
Miami holds a twenty four to nineteen lead over Ole
miss Ole miss driving. They are approaching midfield, but facing
a big third and eight. They're nineteen seventeen lead was
short lived thanks to Malachi Tony and I gotta be honest.
I love Dante Moore blank that man. I want the
(15:10):
NFL to change the rules so the Jets can draft
a seventeen year old kid at number two overall. He
is unbelievable. He catches a short pass right off the snap,
takes it thirty six yards for a touchdown. You just
played it in your update. There's no play that he
can't make, right. I feel like we've been blessed with
a couple of guys two years in a row. You know,
(15:31):
he's only seventeen years old, right, like Ryan Williams Alabama.
You know he's only seventeen, you know Malachai Tony saying
thing seventeen. He does so much with the football. He's
so incredibly exciting, Like he's somebody that I can see
because he's you know, he hits the radar screen early
and still a couple of more years where depending on
the year, he had another couple of years, like next
(15:52):
year is supposed to be a great quarterback year, and
then the year after that, Like it wouldn't surprise me
if there's not a big quarterback to be taken in
two years when he's probably coming that he could be
the number one pick in the draft. He is that exciting,
He is that good. I mean his escapability, Yeah, you
wh is just next level. And again there is something
(16:13):
to be said. I know here they got Yes, he's
only seventeen and he's this good. He is absolutely outstanding.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, Trinidad Chambliss just escaped as you were talking about that,
and I don't know if you saw the face of
Mario Crystoball. He was about to have an aneurysm because
they called a pass interference.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That could be like crystal Ball's like seventh aneurysm tonight,
He's not only had one, he's a fear I had
a few.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
That one was another wine because they called the past
interference after you said it was a long thirty eight
I think, is what when you were mentioning that play
and they called past interference. So the Rebels just did
get into hurricane territory and in fact now they're approaching
the red zone and there's plenty of time left. But yeah,
that play by male Kayitni was just you could hear
it in the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Guys calling the game. How excite that that just gives
so much excitement.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Because there hasn't been a lot of excitement, but there
is excitement right now for the Rebels.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Trinidad Chambliss has all miss in the end zone.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Can say about the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I know, I know, I know, And what did I
tell you about not talking about points on the board
because I like the under. Now we're we're one more
score away from the over being hit. The over Actually
I said fifty one and a half. It went off
at fifty two.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And a half, fifty two and a half twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Twenty five, twenty four and now you know they're gonna
go for two to make it a field goal game,
because he doesn't do any good to go up by two.
So you looking it could be a twenty seven to
twenty four game. One more score in the final three
minutes and suddenly the overhits, and it's your fault. It's
because you put it out there last hour.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You put it out I think you should blame Miami's
defense for allowing this time.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, I blame Miami's defense. Is fine until you decided
all these things could happen.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, no, I said Trinida. Chamblis gets hot, he gets
out of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
And that's exactly a two point conversion, successful successful rebels,
up by three.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, it's your fault. It's your fault. So now the
the the under is just it's just.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Here now it fished number eight happening right now.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
From Yeah, Crystal ball is like it and all I
think if I think of NoHo Hank from from Bowery,
Cristal Ball was Cristal ball. We have on Cristal ball.
Yeah uh yeah, he has not been happy. He has
been Alternately, he has lived every emotion in this game.
Right like we're gonna we're gonna talk about Kurtzignetti coming
up later on in the show and how he said
today at his press conference head coach of Indiana, I
(18:28):
gotta be the same guy the entire time. I can'tch
a lot of but America, No, no, no, no no.
He's got his arms up in the air high five.
And when Big plays, then when he's mad, he looks
like you can see it. He looks like your dad
when you like take the car without permission and come
back at three in the morning and liked.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Get his eyes twitching.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You're just like, oh, wow, this is this is bad, man.
What I did was really bad. Yes, this is really
That's what he looks like.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
That's what he looks like, because he's like, I can't
believe we let this team stay in it for this long.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It was only a matter of time before.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Chambliss started hitting those throws, because it's not like he
hasn't done this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
So it's like it was only a matter of time,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And the and the thing is is that like I
seeing this game, how it was gonna go. When I
picked Miami to win again with the under uh and
now if Miami wins, it's gonna be the over. So
I'm either gonna be right about the under or I'm
gonna get so like what do I want? I want
to be right about the game. So, but the thing
is is that to think about this, I thought this
game would go where slowly Miami's defense would take over
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and the fourth quarter would be play after play of
Chambliss scrambling trying to find space, not being able to
get it, and the Hurricane defense just pouring it on.
And instead it's become a game where for both teams
the fourth quarter because the defense have played so well
for three quarters. You see that once in a while
in big games, when the pressure is off and guys
go out there to play and the defense gets gassed,
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you start seeing big chunk yardage plays for no reason,
like why are we seeing a chunk yard We haven't
seen one chunk yards play for three and a half court.
Now we're getting it now, Like that's what we've been
say so far in the fourth quarter. So I thought, hey,
this is gonna be the opposite way, and Miami's defense
is gonna shut things down in the fourth quarter, And
instead it's now the offense has to has to pull
it out for Miami here in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, and I don't know. Again, I don't know if
they can.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Carson Beck to me is just a little bit too
inconsistent to trust him in this situation. He just I
don't know if it was a miscommunication in that throw,
but it didn't look good for Miami, And you're probably right.
I think the defense might be a little bit tired
right now. And this is not this is not what
either team wants in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, I mean that play should have been a touchdown
like he had he had received streaking open and he
just threw it short.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Short.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It looks short, yeah, yeah, like it was a thirty
yard pass downfield and that's where where's why is that
football five feet behind me? And you see he puts
his hands on his head and says, oh my goodness,
Which is why we watch a missed opportunity.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Miscommunication because of how he reacted to where he was like, oh,
you know, but yeah, it seemed like he had a
he had him to go downfield and then it was
a little short.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Now, I will say this about Carson Beck in that
he has been the the like if you look up, hey,
what's the dictionary definition of a game manager at quarterback?
Like he has been game managing his way all season long, right,
because that's kind of what Beck is. Beck was really
good at Georgia obviously moving around now going to Miami
hitting it there because he was never really the dynamic
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player that we thought he was gonna be, but he
has game managed, you know, pretty well, and watching him
especially tonight, like this is something Eli Manning never really
got enough credit for with the Giants, is that Eli
Manning was a guy that always one of the things
he did his big superpower was always whatever the formation was,
he would get the Giants in the right formation, take
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the play clock down, and knew where to go with
the football right away. And that's a big deal when
you know, Okay, they look like they're gonna do this,
we have to get into this formation. This is what
we're gonna do. Carson Beck has done that so much tonight,
making sure Miami's in the right formation, seeing what's out there,
calling for motion, moving guys around, like even that touchdown
pass to Tony, Hey sees what's happening, you know, gives
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Tony the nod to come in motion, so you know,
that's why one of those plays where it's not set
from the come in motion, it's if I give you
the nod, it's because I see something in you come
in motion. He gives Tony the nod, he comes in motion,
gives them the ball like he's done that. He's done
a great job on that tonight. But now you've got
to get to a point where okay, that that's great,
but now you got to get downfield in the final
couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I said that, like, he's inconsistent on the offense.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
For me, whenever I watch Miami this season, but they
haven't it's it's not like they've won in spite of him.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I agree with you. I think he's done a really
good job with Miami this year, and I don't know
if they would win without him. They need him. Even
though he is a game manager. He does so much
for them.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It's just like when he has like a really good game,
it's like, I just don't know what I'm gonna see
that offense. That offense again from Carson Beck. Yeah, because
he is a game manager and he has moments. He
has moments, but they have Definitely he is not hindering them,
because sometimes I feel like we use game managers like
a negative thing, right, like somebody we always use it,
always a negative.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
But I don't always think it is, like I truly
with him, it's not.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I don't think it is with Jalen Hurts, Like there
are certain game managers that you're winning with them and
because of them, not in spite of them.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, and especially coming off last year your Miami you're saying, Okay, well,
we just had the number one pick in the draft.
We just lost a guy, but we're still uber talented.
If we don't think we quite have the next star quarterback,
five star recruit coming into the U, what do we
do now, Let's go get Carson Beck, who has been
through the wars, he started forty games in college football.
I'm pretty sure he can come in and master the
(23:27):
playbook and get everything going and get our team to
where it needs to be. Now, maybe he's not doesn't
have to quite have the ceiling not another guy would have,
but he's someone I know that there will be no
growing pains. We're not going to lose games early and
have to worry about someone growing into the role because
we don't want to give a year away that we're
coming off of we're building a lot of momentum, because
that hurts recruiting, it hurts everything. So bring him in
(23:49):
obviously the right call because there on the playoff, in
the semi final, two minutes away potentially from the championship game.
So it works. But at this at the same time,
now it's okay, this is where you got to bring
that little bit something extra to the party, right, doing
a great job most of the night tonight again getting
guys in the right formation moving. But this has been
a team that that you know, at some point your
quarterback's gotta go win a game for you at some point.
(24:10):
Not every week, not every week, and you expect a
guy to go out and sing, but once in a while,
I was like, hey, need you something here. They can't
run the sledge hammer ground game anymore with two minutes
to go down by three. They can't keep running the
short passes to Malachai Tony because now they're down, they
need to be able to get downfield and he's got
to be dynamic and he's got two minutes to get
Miami down there. Because that's we're at right now. With
(24:30):
the two minute warning, Miami driving they still have the
ball on their side of the field, down by three
to ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's gonna be a tall task to ask Carson beck
to do that. I think he has it in him.
I think he has it in him, right.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's just like you can't expect him to do it
every game, but I think he has it in him
to get you at least in a position to tie
the game.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, so now let me ask you this now. The
big question obviously as we sit here in pause two
minute warning, is Lane Kiffin watching this game going, come on,
guys too matches defense? Or is he saying, come on,
Carson doing the U Come on, Carson, get down there,
win this game.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I'm telling you he's he's cheering for the Hurricanes, hoping
Carson beck Beck puts some in a position to win
because he can't have the Rebels go to the championship
without him.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
He can't.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
He wanted that would be such a terrible, you know,
strike to his ego because he has to be right
what I left to go win a championship. This team
you left is literally in the championship without you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mean, think about the optic and the story that
I left a team that I brought as far as
I thought we could go to go someplace bigger to
win a national championsip where I have to start over,
got to bring my players in my staff, everything, got
to play a whole season, and they're expecting the playoff
right in a national title right away? Right, So that
(25:48):
was But instead the team I left two games later,
it's gonna play for the Nationals. Yeah yeah, idiot, idiot.
That's such an awful there's that's such an off full
optic for Lane Kiffin, and it really makes you, It
really makes you wonder if he really thought that Ole
miss could get there, right, because if you if LSU
(26:10):
really wanted him and he said with a handshake, deal, listen,
I'll go, but I'm going at the end of the playoff. Yeah,
it gets to a point where it's difficult because you
are in a situation of we got to have a
coach at some point, and if you're playing till the
middle of January with a transfer portal hitting and and
you know, look, this week has been all about the transferportal.
We kind of need somebody else. But you know, still,
(26:31):
I mean, you gotta wonder, man, I could be losing
my my biggest shot at the championship. Now I gotta
go build everything from scratch at LSU and try to
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't think he thought ole Miss could get there,
like really get there. I don't think so. And that's
why he was okay with walking out the way he
did it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Really, I mean, he's gotta be. He's got to be
a glass case of emotions like now, like rod Bergen
tell you, he's cheering every play. If it's a completed
passer midami, he's cheering it. If it's an incomplete pass,
he's cheering it. He's doing all of He's cheering both sides,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He seems like a type that would throw something at
the wall, like his drink. Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
The minute the Rebels took the lead, I can already
see he threw his drink to the wall.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I can see like I picture him being like all
the gifts you have that are on there of people
just ripping their televisions off the wall and throwing him
out the window. My new favorites are the guys that
are punching their TVs and break them, you know, and
they see a play that doesn't go right, they just
punch their TV and break it.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I've told you how much I just want to destroy
a car. Like punching the TV also sounds great. Yeah,
like right through it and you can see all the
color and it just smashed in front of you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, you want to go in a rage room.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I do want to go. You talked about it a
rage room.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
With it with a Clipper colored car. Cr Well, I
mean the Clippers are your team.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Right, But I don't want to destroy a Clipper cart.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well no, I mean just painted the Clippers colors.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
No, I would rather destroy a Nick car. Why because
last night?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Because you couldn't do it on the court, so you
have to do it. You couldn't do it then. So
where we sit right now? Twenty seven, twenty four, Miami
driving the ruling on the field is a completed pass
to Tony on the sideline. They are looking at it
to see if he got one foot down. If he
(28:15):
does have one foot down, he makes this catch. This
is one of the greatest catches you'll ever see in
college football. It's not a completed catch. He reaches back
behind him where Carson Beck a play where he just
tries to keep the play alive, and he fades back
to pass, and he's all over the place, and he
throws it to the sideline and reaches like Spider Man like,
(28:36):
reaches all the way back with one hand, pulls it in,
but it looks like the back half of his foot
came down out of bounds. So it's gonna be third
and six from Miami here about a minute twenty six
left to go. Obviously two down territory for the Hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But they're right there. They're right there in field goal range.
Oh that I wish they would have caught. They would
have kinded that. I know, Okay, the sake of football.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That was a catch. Yeah, they are on the cusp
of field goal range. They are three, three or four
yards away from field goal range. But listen is as
Pete Futek, who's going to join us after this game,
likes to say, college kickers, college kickers, college college NFL kick. Yeah,
but you're not putting Cameron Dicker out there and guys
(29:19):
that can you know, Hey, we're good from fifty all
the time. College kickers. Cole, You've already seen missus and
guys hitting the upright tonight. College kickers. But it looks
like Miami did. Get the first down. Yes, Daniels catches
the ball at the sticks and reaches out past the
first down marker. It is a first and ten for
(29:40):
Miami with about a minute ten left to go. Again,
a field goal ties it. A touchdown would most likely
give them the win. Again, now they are fully in
field goal range. We'll have more on this game coming
up next. Are we talking about overtime? Are we talking
about oh Miss without Lane Kiffin the title? Are we
talking about Michael Irvin dancing in the middle of the field?
(30:01):
Ta What are we gonna see?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
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Speaker 1 (30:11):
Joining us now in the hotline to break it all down.
Nobody better than the owner, editor, proprietor Grand puba of
the best college football website in the country, college Footballnews
dot Com. All the picks, all the prognostications, all the
analysis you want from longtime friend of the show, Pete Futac. Pete,
you okay, after that game?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, I guess so. I mean, look, by the way,
watch it again. Watch the Miami pass rushers get absolutely
tackled like for Yeah, it was it was passive. I
do agree that it was kind of a non call,
I mean because they were both grabbing at each other.
But I get where you could have and should have
called a PI and it's it was. It was close
(30:58):
enough or I'm kind of glad they ate the I
G at the end. I was close enough. But yeah,
there was a lot.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
To that game.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But you know what, thank you, Carson Beck, because without
him and that drive, Mendoza or Dante more would throw
for four and nineteen yards in the National Championship against
this old miss that we wouldn't get Georgia TCU. But man,
(31:28):
with that defense, just get eaten up by whatever is
coming out of that Peach Bowl tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'll tell you what Pete you brought up, Carson Beck.
We talked about a few minutes ago, counting everything that
goes along with being quarterback, which watching him tonight, getting
Miami into the right formation on almost all the plays,
moving protections around. This was the best game I've ever
seen him play quarterback. Everything. He had control of everything,
even his touchdown run at the end. The scramble wasn't
(31:54):
something that was a panic run. This was going through
my progressions and nobody's open the side of the field.
I mean, yes, he game managed his way through most
of the season, but this is the best game I've
ever seen him play.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
That was an NFL dude doing that. I mean, that
was you know, we all forget that he was kind
of being thrown out there as a possible number one
overall pick a couple of years ago, and then it
wasn't great last year and kind of the shine was
off a little bit. But he's got it. He's got
all the tools. I mean, he's got the size, strength,
(32:27):
just enough mobility, and he's obviously you know, just you know,
be able to figure out defenses. And it was kind
of crazy to think about it because, like you're right,
I mean, think about that last drive with that offensive line.
First of all, what are you doing not running the
ball every play? Miami? I mean that Ole Miss defense.
I mean we could have run for eight yards against
(32:47):
that and they were just hammering away at it. But
look at the very end, they weren't going for the
field goal. I thought they were just going to keep
running because when they really wanted to run and power through,
they were power went away for ten yards of crack
I mean, they were just blasting away. They had some
timeouts left, but instead they let Beck throw and you
(33:08):
had better trust that quarterback because they had the field goal.
You know, the kicker's been a little shaky in the
playoffs so far, but they had the field goal right there,
and yet they still let Beck go after and keep
firing it in there and he's making some NFL reads
and some NFL throws.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Now Miami is headed to the National Championship, so they're
happy and all. But what did you make of that
targeting call against Xavier Lucas that you know, he ended
up being ejected because we.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Kind of didn't like that call over here.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, look, I'm all, I get that. I get the targeting.
The letter of the targeting rule is really that you
are trying to hit the guy in the head with
your head or something some other way of excuse me,
knocking that guy out. And if it's if you're supposed
to be able to pull off, you're supposed to avoid
(33:57):
those hits. You're supposed to get it. I am the
anti brain injury, you know, I'm I'm before and that's
more going the other way, and you know, making sure
you over call that but that was a little bit rough.
So there are a couple of calls that you know,
kind of could have gone either way tonight, But for
the most part, there were a lot of penalties. And
this was this was Miami c plus game, and they
(34:20):
got out, you know, and they got out alive. So
they still have the starting twenty two. Uh So I'm
not just assuming tomorrow night's the national championship. Miami could
absolutely win this thing.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So, Pete, I need you to call people you know
in college football and make them change the rules so
the Jets can draft Malachi Tony at number two.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
The problem is he's only fourteen years I know, I know,
I know, But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
We have him for so much longer though, I'd be great. Yeah,
I mean, this is a Pete. This is a guy that,
depending on what the quarterback situation is, coming into the
draft in two years, like I can see him being
the number one overall pick in the draft. Like he
is that special.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, Okay, Percy was Percy Harvin the number one overall guy.
I mean he's great, you know, don't get me wrong,
but yeah, look it's it all starts with the lines.
I mean, that's Mario Christobal. That is the offensive front.
They've got some NFL dudes on that offensive front and
they were blasting away. And so, yes, Tony's absolutely special.
(35:21):
He was making some amazing plays. But yeah, you give
him a couple of years and he's going to be
up there with But he is a absolutely electric playmaker
and they certainly rely on him a way too much.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
What about Carson Beck and Shouldad Chambliss. Do you think
they have a path to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Oh charts to Beck? Yes, I mean again, he he's
not going to be a first rounder. This is kind
of a weird year for quarterbacks. And it's a weird
year where you do have teams like the Jets, you know,
like the Raiders, you know, depending on if he's the
Browns really want to go make that move. Definitely the Steelers'.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Every the Jets and the Raiders and the like. Every
year they get that high beat every year.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Repeat, yes, repeat, So you do have you do have to,
like you said, the usual suspects looking for that. So
I don't think Beck goes bad, But like you know,
they NFL scouts fall for the latest thing. You know,
it's the whole industry is kind of who he's but
you know, they they see what they see and then
if they see a guy like Carson Beck in that moment,
(36:22):
you're thinking, wait a minute, Like we just talked about,
that's a guy who was making NFL throws and NFL
reads in the most pressure pack situation he will ever
be in unless he goes and is fighting for a
super Bowl. And that is that was That was it.
That's what you want to see in your NFL quarterback
chambles is just too dangerous. I mean he is. He
is a whole lot of fun and it'll be interesting.
(36:45):
He's trying to buck for like he's trying to be
on the Diego Pavia train here and you know, come
back for his you know, you know, you know what
are guys who stay in college for eight years, Well
they're called doctors. You know. It's so he's he's trying
to come back. But yeah, he's got he's certainly dynamic enough.
The arm strength is just good enough. But he is
(37:06):
just one of those playmakers who look, you know, their
butt were a play in the end zone, he almost
pulled that thing out.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Pete Futec college football News dot Com insider with us
Jason Smith Monsei Bolano's Fox Sports Radio. All right, let
me ask you a question that may not be able
to be answered, but your gut instinct. If Lane Kiffin
is coaching this team all the way through, when he
stays with them, does Olemis pull this game out? Is
there something you saw tonight that that tells you that, boy, Hey,
(37:34):
they kind of missed Lane Kiffin here.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yeah, they didn't do anything. I mean, Goldie did just fight.
I mean, look, they shouldn't have been here. I mean,
as I kind of said all season long, the SEC
was just sort of eh. And I know they took
Miami down to the wire but still the ACC team.
But uh, look they should They got by Georgia that
was a good that was a good win for them,
(37:57):
and they hung around with Miami. I think they would
have gotten destroyed if they want they pulled this thing out.
But I don't think Kiffin did as much as he
could have done with this. I don't think Golding did
anything wrong by a chance, by stretch, So I know,
I don't think Kiffen pulls this thing out because this
was a flawed team. They were great, the offense was outstanding,
(38:20):
the defense did its job for the most part. But
the problem was that when you're going for field goal
attempts like my ole miss did, you'll leave yourself open.
And they just couldn't quite punch it in when they
needed to.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
The other semi final game tomorrow Friday seven thirty Eastern
Oregon and Indiana. How are the Ducks going to handle
not having Jordan Davison.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
That'll be fine, you know again, they they've got so
much talent, They've got so much speed across the board.
Dante more is still out there, they still have you know,
I still think he's probably the number one pick over Mendoz.
If not, he's number two. But looking through this playoffs
so far, the first two games, I know, James Madison
is Teams Madison and everyone kind of you know, looked
(39:04):
at the Texas Tech game. We're like, oh see, look,
Texas Tech wasn't real.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
It was real.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
They weren't great for prime times, yeah they were. Oregon
was just better, and I think we're going to see that.
I think the world is kind of over loving Indiana
because they beat Indiana. They beat Alabama. The Alabama team
wasn't very good. Again, SEC wasn't very good, so uh,
Indiana certainly could win this. They've they've certainly got the talent,
(39:28):
they've they've done it before. Look, they're undefeated. They got here,
they're the only undefeated team left. They've been absolutely unflappable
so far. I just sort of think that until the
Mark Cuban money really starts to kick in. Uh, Oregon
just has more talent, They have more guys, and I
think Oregon pulls this off.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So just like we expected Oregon and Miami for the
National Championship, I just crazy though.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Again, Oregon was OG was supposed to be good and close.
Miami was supposed to win the ACC. You know, I
was not the believer in Clemson from the start. I said,
how long this is gonna be Miami's ACC. But yeah,
it's a little bit bizarre, it's a little bit off.
I mean, it's not Ohio State, it's not Georgia. But
you know, the crazy part about it is now is
(40:14):
a third straight year we're not getting an SEC team
in the National Championship. We went over a nineteen year span.
The Ohio State College Football Playoff win over Oregon to
start this whole thing off was the only time in
the last nineteen years we did not have an SEC
team in it until the Michigan TCU and then last
(40:34):
year obviously with Ohio State beating Notre Dame, and now
we're gonna have a third straight year without the SEC.
So anytime you don't have an Alabama an LSU, you know,
at Georgia or Clemson or an Ohio State, it seems
a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
So let me get this straight. Between this out Pete
Feutech says fire, Greg Sankee, hang on, let me just
get that.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Well, you can't be the conference. Oh, it just means more.
And then when you get you know, an atomic weggie
pulled on you in the pole season'd be like, oh, well,
we didn't really try that hard, and we had opt
outs and we had all this well, which is it?
You know, everyone had opt outs, Everyone had guys who
are transferring and coaches leaving, and you know, look these
(41:16):
things they're cyclical. SEC probably goes like nine to zero
in the Bulls next year. I mean, you know how
this works. But look, it's it's kind of a bad
look for the conference where all right, this is this is,
let's be your thing, and Big ten all of a
sudden got more money and more talent, more national championships coming.
They're gonna about to make it three straight. So uh yeah,
(41:37):
it's kind of a kind of a rough look in
the SEC offices Right now.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
He's on ex at Pete Feutech. That is, at Petefeutech
college Footballnews dot com, your website one stop shopping for
everything college football. Pete, we had a double shot with you.
We'll talk to you tomorrow night after the Jets Raiders
Bowl with Dante More and Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Oh yeah, it is. It's gonna be like genius versus
Marcus Marriota.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yes, great talks and wrong buddy, you have a good one.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
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