July 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam didn't believe general manager Andrew Berry would draft Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round of the NFL Draft.
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Music, what's up Ken Folk, it's RJ Young.
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question in the comments below. Do you think Jimmy Haslam needed
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to tell folks what he told folksabout Shadora Sanders?
Do you think Penn State has one of the easier schedules in the
Big 10? Do you think that DJ Lagway is
going to make it through this entire season unscathed by
injury? And frankly, do we think that
Florida has a chance to do what Indiana did last year and make
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the College Football Playoff? Lot of things to unpack in this
show. It is a lot of fun to be able to
talk about pre season football, especially coming off the heels
of what frankly was good news onMonday when Deion Xander's got
to tell everybody had a tumor onhis bladder and his doctors did
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a great job of well removing it and he is cancer free.
And like most things, Dionne News stops everybody moving and
people pay attention. I know this because I know
writing about Deion Sanders, saying he's going to have a
press conference over the weekend, then having one just to
update people on his health as there had been so much going on,
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so much rumor about where he wasand what he was doing and how
ubiquitous his presence has become as a head coach since
becoming 1/20/20 at Jackson State.
And I don't think it's hyperboleto say it's been a meteoric rise
for him as a head coach. Never been an assistant at the
college football level. Arrives as a head coach,
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immediately gets to winning, hasone losing season as a head
coach and flips A2 win team intoa four win team into a nine win
team with a Heisman Trophy winner, a number two overall
draft pick. And then we get to talk about
Shidur Sanders. This is actually where I want to
pick this up. So I watched the Bear and I'm
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sure many of you do too. Carmi needs to get out of the
way. Carmi's been getting in the way.
Carmi's getting on my nerves. And I think all of us love
Richie, right? Richie Jaramovic, who is cousin
right and feels like the person that makes this show go in so
many ways, sits a little bit high, strong.
If I had brothers, I hoped it would be the facts, right down
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to John Cena and haunting and you know what it's like to be
haunted. But I am thinking about Richie
in this space because Richie is watching his ex-wife get married
to Frank, played by Josh Hartnett.
I hate Frank. Frank's perfect.
There's nothing wrong with Frank.
Frank is great, that's why I hate Frank and I love Richie.
But Richie is from a house at a very good restaurant, right?
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And they keep asking, when can we come and, you know, taste the
food and have the experience because that's what you're doing
at the fine dining level. You're giving people an
experience. You're taking care of them in a
way that they are rarely taken care of.
You are reading minds. And it is such a cool show to
watch because you're inside the chaos of the kitchen, and you're
outside with what feels like a very rich and stylized
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experience and how those things are always at odds.
It's a duck on the pond, right? It is serene on the top.
And underneath those feet are going a mile a minute.
So Rich's ex-wife and Frank wantto know when they can come.
And he says when it's perfect, which is what he's been saying
to most people. You can come when it's perfect.
And I thought that was a really good way of explaining how she'd
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do her. Sanders has viewed his
experience at Cleveland so far. Because Deion Sanders talking to
Michael Irvin and sit down. And Mike had asked about, you
know, she'd learn how he's doingin Cleveland.
And if he's going up there to, you know, go check on him, see
how he's doing. Because there's a four
quarterback battle going on withJoe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan
Gabriel. And she'd do her Dylan.
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And she'd do her being the rookies to which apparently she,
Dort told Dionne. He's like dad, I may get 3 or 4
reps in practice. I don't want you seeing that I'm
not where I want to be. Let me get to where I need to be
when preseason comes, watch me work.
And I love that. I love that he is learning on
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the fly. And, you know, most of the
reports are really good. There's a clear pecking order
right now. Joe Flacco penciled in as a
starter, Kenny Pickett as the backup, as the two guys with NFL
experience and NFL starting experience, to say nothing of
Joe Flacco having won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens
and really showing people that he's an old guy that still got
it. But he's also taking on this act
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of I ain't teaching nobody nothing.
You go have to come get it thinking, you know, everybody
want to be Kobe. You're not Kobe.
There's only one Kobe. Meanwhile Luka Donchitz out here
said y't calling me fat too long.
Watch this. Damn Luca on the cover of Men's
Health just making it happen. I love that see these body
transformations in real time. I also love how people are
pulling for Shudur. You know, it has been
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interesting to watch a group of people in college football who
would say that he's playing daddy ball knowing nothing at
all about the sport. Knowing that, you know, he threw
4000 yards, 30 plus touchdowns and was the offense at Colorado,
they were dead last in rushing yards per game because they
could not be trusted to run the ball.
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Which means that when Schdur threw the ball, that was the
only time they were going to getsome offense.
And he helped his homie get the Heisman Trophy.
Throw in him the ball 96 times that he caught it and over 1200
yards would I believe 131415 TDsand traps.
Hunter But you know, Dylan Gabriel played on an Oregon team
that won the Big 10 championshipand was the one seed going in
the College Football Playoff andhad LED Oklahoma to its last ten
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win season. And they obviously liked him a
little bit more and took him in the third round.
This guy that had a seventh round grade before he went back
to school at Oregon. And then Andrew Berry traded up
to go get Shuduer Sanders in the5th and we'll talk about that a
little bit more. But I think as we're talking
about this quarterback Derby andyou see some of the clips that
are coming out of Cleveland, yougot Miles Garrett talking about,
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you know what you need, what youneed from me.
Miles Garrett, who's one of the best pass rushers of all time
and one of the best Cleveland Browns of all time.
It's like I play tight end, Miles Garrett.
A tight end would be insane likeI was.
I would love that so much. But you're also got mixed
feelings on on both sides, apparently because Jimmy Haslam,
who owns the Cleveland Browns, was asked about drafting Shudur,
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to which he made it very plain and clear to everybody what his
thoughts were on the matter. He said, look, when you know,
day three comes around and we'rehaving these conversations early
and they're the right people areinvolved, I'm thinking no
chance. We're not.
We're not drafting them that it doesn't fit.
We took a quarterback in the third.
Why we take another quarterback in the 5th.
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But the way that he framed this notion, which I think is worth
putting out because I think he'sgetting killed for how he put
this, even though I'm not sayingthat I agree with it and I'm not
even saying that I would have come out and said it was If you
would have told me y'all are going to pick Chidor, I would
have said that's not happening. Andrew Berry made the call to
pick Chidor, which is followed up by him saying, look, Kevin
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Stefanski makes the play calls. Those are his.
That's his job. That is his lane.
We're not down there micromanaging the playbook.
He is going to make the playbookhis and he is going to call the
game, as best he sees it, to thebenefit of the Cleveland Browns.
Andrew Berry, who is your general manager, needed to be
the guy that makes that call. Now, Andrew Berry is, to use the
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parlance of Tulsa, OK, because we out here, you know, in the
country, put his ass in the jackpot not once but twice.
First dog, you could have had Travis Hunter, but you traded
away that opportunity to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who also
got a young general manager who put his ass in the jackpot by
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making this go. Because you trade it for a dude
that can be a superstar at the level and probably will be.
It's going to play both ways. We don't know how many snaps can
play both ways, but looking likehe's going to play a little bit
more defense than offense. And he might be out there as
your slot guy or your your Z, right When you got your X&Y out
there, he might be your Z and then he'll play some corner.
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So you need that to work becauseno matter how you slice it up
until Travis Hunter plays a deckin the league going both ways,
nobody's done it right. And we say this about him in
college football, nobody could do it.
And now we're seeing at Minnesota, Cory Perich, he's
going to play special teams, he's going to play defense and
he's going to catch passes on offense because they think he's
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that good. And also now you have proof that
this can work if you manage it correctly.
And that's what Travis Hunter, Deon Sanders did.
They managed it correctly. But over there in Cleveland,
you're not only traded to the opportunity to have Travis
Hunter on the team, you traded up to go get Shudur Sanders when
you got a rookie quarterback, a veteran, and, you know, a
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starter. And a lot of this is because the
Cleveland Browns suck at drafting quarterbacks that can
turn the franchise around in a meaningful way.
And it's becoming one of these things where we believe that
it's got more to do with Cleveland than it does to
quarterbacks. Think about Baker Mayfield and
how excited we all were because of what Baker had been able to
do at Texas Tech, what he did atOklahoma.
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He thought maybe this was the guy after Johnny Manziel was not
the guy after Robert Griffin. Third was not the guy all the
way back. Tim Couch not the guy right.
And she'd do her. Sanders, looking like a
Cleveland Brown pick at the time, said, look, I turned
around Jackson State, turned around Colorado.
Why wouldn't I be able to turn around Cleveland?
And the short answer is because ain't nobody been able to turn
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around Cleveland dog. And that ain't got nothing to do
with you so much as I've been toCleveland.
I'll put it this way. I didn't know that Major League
the movie was so very correct and how it portrayed the city of
Cleveland. Dog.
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There was a fire on the lake. There was fire on the water,
smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
I get that. That's that's a great song.
Fire on the water. What y'all putting in the water?
That's flammable, guys. Meanwhile, I got to look at the
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Cleveland Cavaliers and think that what LeBron was able to do
just proves the .1 of the three greatest basketball players has
ever lived. I don't know this should do is
one of the best quarterbacks who's ever lived, but he got an
opportunity to show it. You know, you win a Super Bowl
at Cleveland. Holy smokes.
I you know. But here's the thing.
Lewis Hamilton got a better chance of winning his eighth
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world championship at a piss poor garbage Ferrari.
Then it feels like a quarterbackgot an opportunity to leave the
Cleveland Browns to the Super Bowl.
You know what I mean? In that effect, dog, It feels
like Yuki Sonoda got a better shot at winning a world
championship than the Cleveland Browns.
And yet here we are once again talking about the Cleveland
Browns. Because they are.
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They are broke Dallas Cowboys, right?
The broke in, I should say, not broke as in like poor, but like,
if we're going to make a bizarroDallas Cowboys where all you do
is draw the attention to yourself.
Cleveland does that, but in a way that has been considered a
train wreck more often than not.Because on the one hand, I'm
pointing out to you how Andrew Berry basically fumble Travis
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Hunter, Tushidor Sanders. But it might not be a fumble
because we got to see how they play.
But it's looking like a fumble, right?
You can get them both. You could have, you could have
had them both. Or if you're going to take one,
take the dude at 2 and go, hey, we didn't need a quarterback and
let Shudur be, I don't know, a Las Vegas Raider to just pick a
team. You know, a Dallas Cowboy, pick
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a team. But that's not what you did.
The audacity to trade up and go get him because you see value at
on the in the fifth round for Shudur Sanders when you probably
could have had him in the 6th and 7th if that's what you
wanted to do. Again, pass in the jackpot.
And then you got Jimmy Haslam, who let it be known that wasn't
my call. And then trying to say I'm
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backing my guys by saying I hired them to do a job.
And at the end of the day, that's that is absolutely his
call and my job is to own the team.
That ain't how owners generally think they will be involved in
any decision they would like. Do y'all remember Dan Snyder?
I remember Dan Snyder. You draft a guy because you like
him, not necessarily because he's a good fit for your team.
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That's not winning football. This is why The Jets will always
be the New York Jets. They got meddling from people
that don't really know football,but they own the team.
So they they get to do this. It's it's the Knicks.
It's firing Tom Thibodeau for doing a good job.
It makes no sense. But that's just it.
It normally doesn't. What does make sense is should
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do or Sanders saying with a straight face, hey dad, give me
a second while I go figure this out and then see what it is.
Meanwhile, Shiloh's like, come on dad, anytime you want,
anytime you want. We come back.
I want to have a conversation about Ohio State and where it
sits in the Big 10 strength of schedule rankings compared to
place like Penn State, Michigan and also want to talk about DJ
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Lagway and how his health is becoming an issue.
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Back on Adapt and respond with me RJ Young.
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question in the comments below. Who do you believe has the
toughest schedule in the Big 10 and who do you believe has the
easiest schedule in the in the Big 10?
Because this is this is an interesting topic, especially as
we look at how teams are might be ranked in the preseason and
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what they were able to accomplish last year and what we
can expect from teams that went through their roster management
and roster transformations this offseason.
To say nothing of the defending national champions are also not
the defending league champions. Very interesting if you take a
look at it. So ask question comments below,
you know, let me know what you think.
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We also got an audio podcast forthose of you that are new to the
channel and where you could listen to the entire episode if
that's what you're doing. Thank you so much for doing
that. So I'm looking at this and I
think Ohio State playing one of the most difficult schedules in
the Big 10 is something we can say because of Texas, right?
You add Texas to your slate, that's College Football Playoffs
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semi finalists. That's going to help you.
Maybe a preseason number one team might be Ohio State.
I haven't given a pick in that game yet, but I will.
And I'm not necessarily sure it's going to reflect my
ultimate 136, which will come out next month.
But you also have Penn State on the road.
You're going to Michigan, you'regoing to Illinois, you're going
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to Washington, and that starts to really add up quickly.
Washington being the the team that could be great, could be
bad, we don't know. Michigan is going to be tough,
especially knowing that Ohio State hasn't beaten Michigan
since 2019. Penn State is supposed to be
tough, but Penn State's record against top five opponents says
that's an Ohio State win. Ohio State has treated Penn
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State like a rental property. Penn State is O and seven the
last four years against both Ohio State and Michigan.
So we'll see about that. So does it have the toughest
schedule in the Big 10? No, but I would give top five
because Texas is doing a lot of work there.
Penn State will be a a top five team to many.
We'll see where Illinois lands. Illinois ought to be a top 25
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team. I think they are.
I think they've earned that after what they had did last
year and what they've got comingback to this year.
And then we'll see again what Washington becomes.
Michigan feels like it's skating, which you know, par for
the course because they're they're not in conference for
the most part has been garbage. To use that French term to which
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I can already hear Wolverine fans.
They're like, yo, man, don't we play your Oklahoma Sooners?
Ain't they supposed to be good? Not two out of the last three
years, my guys, Oklahoma has averaged just better than seven
wins over over the Brent Venables era.
If Oklahoma won seven games in aseason in the Bob Stoops era,
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and that was that was the cap inthe 2000s, we got a problem.
We, we, we got a problem. And that's what you got in
Oklahoma. We got a problem, right?
I don't think that anybody wouldhave been saying bye, would have
got fired, but we'd have had a problem because eight and five
felt like 5:00 and 7:00 at Oklahoma.
That's just not the case anymore.
Some of that is the SEC, some ofthat is new management, some of
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that is name, image and likenessand the perils of modern college
football. But it's still Oklahoma and you
expect it to be good, which is where I can say OK, Michigan, if
it is the Oklahoma that we have seen say in 2023, you got a shot
there, but after that you're talking about Nebraska and USC.
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There's a four-game stretching that includes Ohio State,
Michigan State, Purdue Northwestern.
But of those four teams that I just named, Ohio State's the
only one that gives you to, you know, the Scary's.
If you get the Scary's and Michigan doesn't, they're like,
hey, tell us the last time they beat us again.
Was it 6 years ago? Was it 7?
I forget it's six years ago, butNovember 29th that's probably
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going to be once again about who's going to play in the Big
10 championship and who is makesthe College Football Playoff.
It could be both of them. At least one of them I think is
going to be good enough to do this.
Ohio State being the one. But Michigan was able to put
together an 8 win season, beat the national champs and Alabama
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with quarterback play where theyaveraged 5.4 yards per attempt.
That's a service Academy number,guys.
They played the game without a quarterback, and they still were
pretty frigging good. So knowing that the schedules
got Oklahoma on it, USC and Nebraska, depending on how you
feel about that, but might be the same way you feel about
Washington and conversation withOhio State.
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And then you got a Purdue team that you ought to beat, like you
stole something, Northwest team you ought to beat, like, stole
something. The Michigan State team that you
ought to beat, like, stole something.
And Ohio State, Does it feel like Michigan is skating on the
Big 10 schedule again? Yeah, Has it mattered when it's
time to play ball? Ball, like play against Ohio
State, play against Iowa in a Big 10 championship game, play
in the College Football Playoff,win a Nash championship?
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No, it hasn't. And that's got nothing to do
with NCAA infractions or federalindictments of past assistance
or whatever Jim Harbaugh did or didn't do.
That's just who they have been since 2021.
And the last team that I want totalk about in this strength
schedule bit is Penn State, who some people believe have one of
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the easiest schedules in the conference.
I don't think it's the easiest schedule in the conference.
I do, however, believe it's toward the middle, right?
So we're talking about you got to play Oregon.
That'll be tough. Oregon also got the win against
you in the Big 10 championship game.
You got to play Ohio State. That will be tough.
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And, you know, depending on how you feel about Oregon, that's
two top five opponents. And if James Franklin's record
continues to hold? You're one for 16 against top
five opponents in the AP. You could be one for 17 if you
don't change up Wick fast and ina hurry.
Plan those two teams. There's there's time between
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Oregon and Ohio State for us to have a better read on who Penn
State is. But because Penn State doesn't
play anybody that we care about,it's always difficult to put a
finger on how good they are because they just as easily
could have been what Michigan has been the last four years.
They just can't beat Ohio State or Michigan for that matter.
But you look at the rest of the schedule, they're on the road to
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Ohio State. You get UCLA, Iowa, Michigan
State and Rutgers. You got trips to I mean Iowa,
UCLA, then your non conferences.Essentially it makes Oklahoma
6A1 look like the NFC North. You know Oklahoma 6A1 by the way
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is high school football for those of y'all that uninitiated.
Nevada, FIU and Villanova say that again, Nevada, Florida
International and Villanova. Why do we let people do this?
And you know, like Indiana got absolutely destroyed for
dropping Virginia from its future schedule.
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And Kirstenetti said, hey, we just thought we might schedule
like an SEC team for once. They don't want to play
meaningful non conference games because that they think it will
hurt them because it might When the College Football Playoff
selection committee decides to start ranking teams based on who
they played. No, they rank them based on
their record. And I'm telling you, Nevada,
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Florida International, and Villanova will prove nothing
except that Penn State will run up the score.
And because they'll run up the score, they'll move up the
rankings because voters don't watch as much college football
as I watch. And they're also not going to
look at FIU and go that team is not even in the same hemisphere
as a Penn State should be. There's no apples to apples
comparison in their non conference.
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And that that's what sucks. Now, aside from that and why, I
would say it's more toward the middle and not at the bottom.
They got 3 College Football Playoff teams on their schedule
and that means something, right?They got to play Oregon, they
got to play Ohio State, and theygot to play Indiana.
If Indiana gets the win against Penn State, then we get to have
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conversations about what James Franklin is, you know, doing for
Christmas. Is it preparing for a New Year 6
bowl berth or is it preparing a job resume?
I think that could make or break.
I really do, especially as you're trying to get back to the
playoff and the reason that, youknow, your alumni and new
athletic director went all in ongetting you Jim Knowles and
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giving you the kind of money youneeded to make sure that K Tron
Allen, Nick Singleton denied, Dennis Sutton, Drew Aller and
them all come back is to win thewhole damn thing.
It certainly doesn't mean losingthe Indiana.
However, you might also rememberIndiana's only losses last year
were two of the two teams that played in the national
championship, Ohio State and Notre Dame.
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You could do worse, which is another reason why sleeping on
Indiana is no longer a thing we get to do.
So is it the toughest? No.
Is it the softest? No.
Should it be enough for them to get to the playoff?
Abso frigging lutely come back. I want to talk about DJ Lagway
Florida and they also are up against it in a very real and
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severe way if he is not healthy and he's hurt again.
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So DJ Lagway reportedly is in a boot, according to Rich Johnson
at CBS Sport, after Florida juststarted their preseason camp.
Sucks. It sucks because that dude is so
good when he is healthy and he'scoming off the shoulder surgery.
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And he had said, look, guys, I'mnot, you know, I didn't die or
anything, like, I'm OK. But it doesn't feel that way
because he has never been fully healthy at any point when
they're playing meaningful football.
So last year we're talking aboutthe shoulder and then we're
talking about the hamstring thathappened during the Georgia game
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that they probably would have won had he been able to finish
it. I mean Florida had the third
string quarterback in there and Georgia still needed to come up
with a Georgia like performance at the end to beat a Florida
team that wasn't very good and look like getting it's head
coach fired. Add to that he's in a walking
boot after they just get startedto camp.
You're asking yourself what the hell were they doing?
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They've even had that dude on a pitch count.
You know that He's only throwingso much because the goal is just
to get him to the season and keep him healthy throughout it
at this point. Billy Napier said on Tuesday
that he is day-to-day and I'm like that dude should be this
month to next month. You don't need DJ Lagway to get
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any more opportunities to hurt himself.
Before you got to play Liu, and I realize it's Liu, but after
Liu, you start to play meaningful football games that
absolutely matter if you're a Florida team trying to get to
the College Football Playoff. And you are.
Because when DJ Lagway starts and finishes the game, Florida's
undefeated. They're six and O, they're just
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six and one when he starts the game.
That's last year and that's against SEC opponents, right?
The losses to Georgia, who won the SEC championship.
You need that dude. He makes you into the kind of
team that Tennessee was last year where you make the playoffs
and probably hasn't at large. Maybe you play for an SEC
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championship and we'll see. But at this point, I don't want
anything to happen to him. Let him sit down for a while
because your schedule ain't exactly easy either.
You know, like I'm looking at this, they they got LSU and
Miami on the schedule, but they've also got 3 College
Football Playoff teams from lastyear on it, Texas, Georgia, and
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Tennessee. Of the three of those, you would
expect them to be competitive ifnot be able to beat Tennessee.
The other two we expect to be playing the SEC Championship
game again, you can't either have can't afford to have a DJ
Lagway who isn't 100% when you get into your high leverage
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situations, right? We're in baseball season as it
is. And I don't I don't talk a bunch
about baseball because it reallyis an audience over here for me
to talk baseball with. But I really love the sport.
And I say high leverage situations because when you've
got a starter that can also act like a reliever where he can
pitch himself out of jams or he can walk himself into a jam and
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immediately go get you the Ouch you need, that's called making a
play. That's what we do in college
football. It is third and long.
Everybody knows you're throwing the ball.
Do you have a guy out there thatcan go win?
Yeah. And his name is DJ Lagway.
And they're so young, but they're so experienced because
they had to be. They suffered so many injuries.
If a couple of things go their way, yeah.
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It's a playoff team, so stop playing with it.
You know, he's in a walking bootin day-to-day.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe that's just something you
say, but it feels like a lot of us are going to be out on
Florida if it does not feel as if DJ Lagway is going to be able
to make it through this thing. Quinn Ewers, I think fell in the
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NFL draft in large part because he didn't make it through an
entire season healthy. I the arm talent is there, his
ability to read the field is there.
He will be given the opportunity, a really good
quarterback in the NFL because he's got all the
characteristics. But talking about an ankle
injury, a shoulder injury, he getting knocked out of the game
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with an abdominal injury, that'sthree consecutive seasons of him
missing time and meaningful football.
If you are an NFL team, the one thing you do not want from your
superstar talent is to know thathe is brittle and injury prone
is not just the thing we say. There are studies to show
certain kinds of injuries belongto certain kinds of people like
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A7 footer in the NBA is going tohave back problems.
It's going to happen. As a matter of fact, one of the
coolest things I think to ever happen in college basketball is
Bill Self who got very little ofJoel and Joel Embiid at Kansas
told him because knew about the back issue.
You need to go to the NBA right now.
There's no we're not risking your future staying at Kansas
because that time. Remember there's no name in
which you like this is no money to make except in the NBA.
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So you went and then the processends up being him and Joel is
one of the best centers over thelast 25 years.
He also just happens to play in the same generation as Jokic,
which feels kind of ridiculous because I man, I feel so bad for
all of the cyclists that have toride against Tadich Pokachar
because that that dude's eating everybody alive.
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He's 4 time 2 of the front champ.
Can't nobody touch that dude. And yet all the guys behind him
are generational talents. And as we're getting back to
college football, we don't really have one of those this
year. Travis Hunter was that last
year. And I'm glad that he won the
Heisman Trophy. But somebody's going to have to
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announce themselves. We think it could be an arch
Manny, we think, But there's a lot to show there.
DJ Lagway has shown out of high school.
He can be that guy, but you're never going to reach that
potential if you turn into Greg Oden, you know?
And he hadn't done that. He's played more meaningful
football than Odin played meaningful NBA games.
But let's not play with this. Take care of that dude, take
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care of your future and let's see if Florida can't do what
it's not done before and make the College Football Playoff.
All right, that's going to do itfor me on this episode of Adapt
and Respond. If you like the longer shows,
let me know in the comments below.
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to tell folks what he told folksabout Shadora Sanders?
Do you think Penn State has one of the easier schedules in the
Big 10? Do you think that DJ Lagway is
going to make it through this entire season unscathed by
injury? And frankly, do we think that
Florida has a chance to do what Indiana did last year and make
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the College Football Playoff? Lot of things to unpack in this
show. It is a lot of fun to be able to
talk about pre season football, especially coming off the heels
of what frankly was good news onMonday when Deion Xander's got
to tell everybody had a tumor onhis bladder and his doctors did
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a great job of well removing it and he is cancer free.
And like most things, Dionne News stops everybody moving and
people pay attention. I know this because I know
writing about Deion Sanders, saying he's going to have a
press conference over the weekend, then having one just to
update people on his health as there had been so much going on,
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so much rumor about where he wasand what he was doing and how
ubiquitous his presence has become as a head coach since
becoming 1/20/20 at Jackson State.
And I don't think it's hyperboleto say it's been a meteoric rise
for him as a head coach. Never been an assistant at the
college football level. Arrives as a head coach,
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immediately gets to winning, hasone losing season as a head
coach and flips A2 win team intoa four win team into a nine win
team with a Heisman Trophy winner, a number two overall
draft pick. And then we get to talk about
Shidur Sanders. This is actually where I want to
pick this up. So I watched the Bear and I'm
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sure many of you do too. Carmi needs to get out of the
way. Carmi's been getting in the way.
Carmi's getting on my nerves. And I think all of us love
Richie, right? Richie Jaramovic, who is cousin
right and feels like the person that makes this show go in so
many ways, sits a little bit high, strong.
If I had brothers, I hoped it would be the facts, right down
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to John Cena and haunting and you know what it's like to be
haunted. But I am thinking about Richie
in this space because Richie is watching his ex-wife get married
to Frank, played by Josh Hartnett.
I hate Frank. Frank's perfect.
There's nothing wrong with Frank.
Frank is great, that's why I hate Frank and I love Richie.
But Richie is from a house at a very good restaurant, right?
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And they keep asking, when can we come and, you know, taste the
food and have the experience because that's what you're doing
at the fine dining level. You're giving people an
experience. You're taking care of them in a
way that they are rarely taken care of.
You are reading minds. And it is such a cool show to
watch because you're inside the chaos of the kitchen, and you're
outside with what feels like a very rich and stylized
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experience and how those things are always at odds.
It's a duck on the pond, right? It is serene on the top.
And underneath those feet are going a mile a minute.
So Rich's ex-wife and Frank wantto know when they can come.
And he says when it's perfect, which is what he's been saying
to most people. You can come when it's perfect.
And I thought that was a really good way of explaining how she'd
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do her. Sanders has viewed his
experience at Cleveland so far. Because Deion Sanders talking to
Michael Irvin and sit down. And Mike had asked about, you
know, she'd learn how he's doingin Cleveland.
And if he's going up there to, you know, go check on him, see
how he's doing. Because there's a four
quarterback battle going on withJoe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan
Gabriel. And she'd do her Dylan.
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And she'd do her being the rookies to which apparently she,
Dort told Dionne. He's like dad, I may get 3 or 4
reps in practice. I don't want you seeing that I'm
not where I want to be. Let me get to where I need to be
when preseason comes, watch me work.
And I love that. I love that he is learning on
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the fly. And, you know, most of the
reports are really good. There's a clear pecking order
right now. Joe Flacco penciled in as a
starter, Kenny Pickett as the backup, as the two guys with NFL
experience and NFL starting experience, to say nothing of
Joe Flacco having won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens
and really showing people that he's an old guy that still got
it. But he's also taking on this act
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of I ain't teaching nobody nothing.
You go have to come get it thinking, you know, everybody
want to be Kobe. You're not Kobe.
There's only one Kobe. Meanwhile Luka Donchitz out here
said y't calling me fat too long.
Watch this. Damn Luca on the cover of Men's
Health just making it happen. I love that see these body
transformations in real time. I also love how people are
pulling for Shudur. You know, it has been
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interesting to watch a group of people in college football who
would say that he's playing daddy ball knowing nothing at
all about the sport. Knowing that, you know, he threw
4000 yards, 30 plus touchdowns and was the offense at Colorado,
they were dead last in rushing yards per game because they
could not be trusted to run the ball.
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Which means that when Schdur threw the ball, that was the
only time they were going to getsome offense.
And he helped his homie get the Heisman Trophy.
Throw in him the ball 96 times that he caught it and over 1200
yards would I believe 131415 TDsand traps.
Hunter But you know, Dylan Gabriel played on an Oregon team
that won the Big 10 championshipand was the one seed going in
the College Football Playoff andhad LED Oklahoma to its last ten
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win season. And they obviously liked him a
little bit more and took him in the third round.
This guy that had a seventh round grade before he went back
to school at Oregon. And then Andrew Berry traded up
to go get Shuduer Sanders in the5th and we'll talk about that a
little bit more. But I think as we're talking
about this quarterback Derby andyou see some of the clips that
are coming out of Cleveland, yougot Miles Garrett talking about,
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you know what you need, what youneed from me.
Miles Garrett, who's one of the best pass rushers of all time
and one of the best Cleveland Browns of all time.
It's like I play tight end, Miles Garrett.
A tight end would be insane likeI was.
I would love that so much. But you're also got mixed
feelings on on both sides, apparently because Jimmy Haslam,
who owns the Cleveland Browns, was asked about drafting Shudur,
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to which he made it very plain and clear to everybody what his
thoughts were on the matter. He said, look, when you know,
day three comes around and we'rehaving these conversations early
and they're the right people areinvolved, I'm thinking no
chance. We're not.
We're not drafting them that it doesn't fit.
We took a quarterback in the third.
Why we take another quarterback in the 5th.
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But the way that he framed this notion, which I think is worth
putting out because I think he'sgetting killed for how he put
this, even though I'm not sayingthat I agree with it and I'm not
even saying that I would have come out and said it was If you
would have told me y'all are going to pick Chidor, I would
have said that's not happening. Andrew Berry made the call to
pick Chidor, which is followed up by him saying, look, Kevin
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Stefanski makes the play calls. Those are his.
That's his job. That is his lane.
We're not down there micromanaging the playbook.
He is going to make the playbookhis and he is going to call the
game, as best he sees it, to thebenefit of the Cleveland Browns.
Andrew Berry, who is your general manager, needed to be
the guy that makes that call. Now, Andrew Berry is, to use the
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parlance of Tulsa, OK, because we out here, you know, in the
country, put his ass in the jackpot not once but twice.
First dog, you could have had Travis Hunter, but you traded
away that opportunity to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who also
got a young general manager who put his ass in the jackpot by
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making this go. Because you trade it for a dude
that can be a superstar at the level and probably will be.
It's going to play both ways. We don't know how many snaps can
play both ways, but looking likehe's going to play a little bit
more defense than offense. And he might be out there as
your slot guy or your your Z, right When you got your X&Y out
there, he might be your Z and then he'll play some corner.
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So you need that to work becauseno matter how you slice it up
until Travis Hunter plays a deckin the league going both ways,
nobody's done it right. And we say this about him in
college football, nobody could do it.
And now we're seeing at Minnesota, Cory Perich, he's
going to play special teams, he's going to play defense and
he's going to catch passes on offense because they think he's
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that good. And also now you have proof that
this can work if you manage it correctly.
And that's what Travis Hunter, Deon Sanders did.
They managed it correctly. But over there in Cleveland,
you're not only traded to the opportunity to have Travis
Hunter on the team, you traded up to go get Shudur Sanders when
you got a rookie quarterback, a veteran, and, you know, a
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starter. And a lot of this is because the
Cleveland Browns suck at drafting quarterbacks that can
turn the franchise around in a meaningful way.
And it's becoming one of these things where we believe that
it's got more to do with Cleveland than it does to
quarterbacks. Think about Baker Mayfield and
how excited we all were because of what Baker had been able to
do at Texas Tech, what he did atOklahoma.
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He thought maybe this was the guy after Johnny Manziel was not
the guy after Robert Griffin. Third was not the guy all the
way back. Tim Couch not the guy right.
And she'd do her. Sanders, looking like a
Cleveland Brown pick at the time, said, look, I turned
around Jackson State, turned around Colorado.
Why wouldn't I be able to turn around Cleveland?
And the short answer is because ain't nobody been able to turn
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around Cleveland dog. And that ain't got nothing to do
with you so much as I've been toCleveland.
I'll put it this way. I didn't know that Major League
the movie was so very correct and how it portrayed the city of
Cleveland. Dog.
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There was a fire on the lake. There was fire on the water,
smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
I get that. That's that's a great song.
Fire on the water. What y'all putting in the water?
That's flammable, guys. Meanwhile, I got to look at the
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Cleveland Cavaliers and think that what LeBron was able to do
just proves the .1 of the three greatest basketball players has
ever lived. I don't know this should do is
one of the best quarterbacks who's ever lived, but he got an
opportunity to show it. You know, you win a Super Bowl
at Cleveland. Holy smokes.
I you know. But here's the thing.
Lewis Hamilton got a better chance of winning his eighth
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world championship at a piss poor garbage Ferrari.
Then it feels like a quarterbackgot an opportunity to leave the
Cleveland Browns to the Super Bowl.
You know what I mean? In that effect, dog, It feels
like Yuki Sonoda got a better shot at winning a world
championship than the Cleveland Browns.
And yet here we are once again talking about the Cleveland
Browns. Because they are.
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They are broke Dallas Cowboys, right?
The broke in, I should say, not broke as in like poor, but like,
if we're going to make a bizarroDallas Cowboys where all you do
is draw the attention to yourself.
Cleveland does that, but in a way that has been considered a
train wreck more often than not.Because on the one hand, I'm
pointing out to you how Andrew Berry basically fumble Travis
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Hunter, Tushidor Sanders. But it might not be a fumble
because we got to see how they play.
But it's looking like a fumble, right?
You can get them both. You could have, you could have
had them both. Or if you're going to take one,
take the dude at 2 and go, hey, we didn't need a quarterback and
let Shudur be, I don't know, a Las Vegas Raider to just pick a
team. You know, a Dallas Cowboy, pick
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a team. But that's not what you did.
The audacity to trade up and go get him because you see value at
on the in the fifth round for Shudur Sanders when you probably
could have had him in the 6th and 7th if that's what you
wanted to do. Again, pass in the jackpot.
And then you got Jimmy Haslam, who let it be known that wasn't
my call. And then trying to say I'm
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backing my guys by saying I hired them to do a job.
And at the end of the day, that's that is absolutely his
call and my job is to own the team.
That ain't how owners generally think they will be involved in
any decision they would like. Do y'all remember Dan Snyder?
I remember Dan Snyder. You draft a guy because you like
him, not necessarily because he's a good fit for your team.
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That's not winning football. This is why The Jets will always
be the New York Jets. They got meddling from people
that don't really know football,but they own the team.
So they they get to do this. It's it's the Knicks.
It's firing Tom Thibodeau for doing a good job.
It makes no sense. But that's just it.
It normally doesn't. What does make sense is should
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do or Sanders saying with a straight face, hey dad, give me
a second while I go figure this out and then see what it is.
Meanwhile, Shiloh's like, come on dad, anytime you want,
anytime you want. We come back.
I want to have a conversation about Ohio State and where it
sits in the Big 10 strength of schedule rankings compared to
place like Penn State, Michigan and also want to talk about DJ
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Lagway and how his health is becoming an issue.
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Back on Adapt and respond with me RJ Young.
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question in the comments below. Who do you believe has the
toughest schedule in the Big 10 and who do you believe has the
easiest schedule in the in the Big 10?
Because this is this is an interesting topic, especially as
we look at how teams are might be ranked in the preseason and
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what they were able to accomplish last year and what we
can expect from teams that went through their roster management
and roster transformations this offseason.
To say nothing of the defending national champions are also not
the defending league champions. Very interesting if you take a
look at it. So ask question comments below,
you know, let me know what you think.
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We also got an audio podcast forthose of you that are new to the
channel and where you could listen to the entire episode if
that's what you're doing. Thank you so much for doing
that. So I'm looking at this and I
think Ohio State playing one of the most difficult schedules in
the Big 10 is something we can say because of Texas, right?
You add Texas to your slate, that's College Football Playoffs
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semi finalists. That's going to help you.
Maybe a preseason number one team might be Ohio State.
I haven't given a pick in that game yet, but I will.
And I'm not necessarily sure it's going to reflect my
ultimate 136, which will come out next month.
But you also have Penn State on the road.
You're going to Michigan, you'regoing to Illinois, you're going
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to Washington, and that starts to really add up quickly.
Washington being the the team that could be great, could be
bad, we don't know. Michigan is going to be tough,
especially knowing that Ohio State hasn't beaten Michigan
since 2019. Penn State is supposed to be
tough, but Penn State's record against top five opponents says
that's an Ohio State win. Ohio State has treated Penn
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State like a rental property. Penn State is O and seven the
last four years against both Ohio State and Michigan.
So we'll see about that. So does it have the toughest
schedule in the Big 10? No, but I would give top five
because Texas is doing a lot of work there.
Penn State will be a a top five team to many.
We'll see where Illinois lands. Illinois ought to be a top 25
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team. I think they are.
I think they've earned that after what they had did last
year and what they've got comingback to this year.
And then we'll see again what Washington becomes.
Michigan feels like it's skating, which you know, par for
the course because they're they're not in conference for
the most part has been garbage. To use that French term to which
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I can already hear Wolverine fans.
They're like, yo, man, don't we play your Oklahoma Sooners?
Ain't they supposed to be good? Not two out of the last three
years, my guys, Oklahoma has averaged just better than seven
wins over over the Brent Venables era.
If Oklahoma won seven games in aseason in the Bob Stoops era,
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and that was that was the cap inthe 2000s, we got a problem.
We, we, we got a problem. And that's what you got in
Oklahoma. We got a problem, right?
I don't think that anybody wouldhave been saying bye, would have
got fired, but we'd have had a problem because eight and five
felt like 5:00 and 7:00 at Oklahoma.
That's just not the case anymore.
Some of that is the SEC, some ofthat is new management, some of
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that is name, image and likenessand the perils of modern college
football. But it's still Oklahoma and you
expect it to be good, which is where I can say OK, Michigan, if
it is the Oklahoma that we have seen say in 2023, you got a shot
there, but after that you're talking about Nebraska and USC.
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There's a four-game stretching that includes Ohio State,
Michigan State, Purdue Northwestern.
But of those four teams that I just named, Ohio State's the
only one that gives you to, you know, the Scary's.
If you get the Scary's and Michigan doesn't, they're like,
hey, tell us the last time they beat us again.
Was it 6 years ago? Was it 7?
I forget it's six years ago, butNovember 29th that's probably
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going to be once again about who's going to play in the Big
10 championship and who is makesthe College Football Playoff.
It could be both of them. At least one of them I think is
going to be good enough to do this.
Ohio State being the one. But Michigan was able to put
together an 8 win season, beat the national champs and Alabama
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with quarterback play where theyaveraged 5.4 yards per attempt.
That's a service Academy number,guys.
They played the game without a quarterback, and they still were
pretty frigging good. So knowing that the schedules
got Oklahoma on it, USC and Nebraska, depending on how you
feel about that, but might be the same way you feel about
Washington and conversation withOhio State.
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And then you got a Purdue team that you ought to beat, like you
stole something, Northwest team you ought to beat, like, stole
something. The Michigan State team that you
ought to beat, like, stole something.
And Ohio State, Does it feel like Michigan is skating on the
Big 10 schedule again? Yeah, Has it mattered when it's
time to play ball? Ball, like play against Ohio
State, play against Iowa in a Big 10 championship game, play
in the College Football Playoff,win a Nash championship?
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No, it hasn't. And that's got nothing to do
with NCAA infractions or federalindictments of past assistance
or whatever Jim Harbaugh did or didn't do.
That's just who they have been since 2021.
And the last team that I want totalk about in this strength
schedule bit is Penn State, who some people believe have one of
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the easiest schedules in the conference.
I don't think it's the easiest schedule in the conference.
I do, however, believe it's toward the middle, right?
So we're talking about you got to play Oregon.
That'll be tough. Oregon also got the win against
you in the Big 10 championship game.
You got to play Ohio State. That will be tough.
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And, you know, depending on how you feel about Oregon, that's
two top five opponents. And if James Franklin's record
continues to hold? You're one for 16 against top
five opponents in the AP. You could be one for 17 if you
don't change up Wick fast and ina hurry.
Plan those two teams. There's there's time between
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Oregon and Ohio State for us to have a better read on who Penn
State is. But because Penn State doesn't
play anybody that we care about,it's always difficult to put a
finger on how good they are because they just as easily
could have been what Michigan has been the last four years.
They just can't beat Ohio State or Michigan for that matter.
But you look at the rest of the schedule, they're on the road to
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Ohio State. You get UCLA, Iowa, Michigan
State and Rutgers. You got trips to I mean Iowa,
UCLA, then your non conferences.Essentially it makes Oklahoma
6A1 look like the NFC North. You know Oklahoma 6A1 by the way
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is high school football for those of y'all that uninitiated.
Nevada, FIU and Villanova say that again, Nevada, Florida
International and Villanova. Why do we let people do this?
And you know, like Indiana got absolutely destroyed for
dropping Virginia from its future schedule.
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And Kirstenetti said, hey, we just thought we might schedule
like an SEC team for once. They don't want to play
meaningful non conference games because that they think it will
hurt them because it might When the College Football Playoff
selection committee decides to start ranking teams based on who
they played. No, they rank them based on
their record. And I'm telling you, Nevada,
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Florida International, and Villanova will prove nothing
except that Penn State will run up the score.
And because they'll run up the score, they'll move up the
rankings because voters don't watch as much college football
as I watch. And they're also not going to
look at FIU and go that team is not even in the same hemisphere
as a Penn State should be. There's no apples to apples
comparison in their non conference.
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And that that's what sucks. Now, aside from that and why, I
would say it's more toward the middle and not at the bottom.
They got 3 College Football Playoff teams on their schedule
and that means something, right?They got to play Oregon, they
got to play Ohio State, and theygot to play Indiana.
If Indiana gets the win against Penn State, then we get to have
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conversations about what James Franklin is, you know, doing for
Christmas. Is it preparing for a New Year 6
bowl berth or is it preparing a job resume?
I think that could make or break.
I really do, especially as you're trying to get back to the
playoff and the reason that, youknow, your alumni and new
athletic director went all in ongetting you Jim Knowles and
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giving you the kind of money youneeded to make sure that K Tron
Allen, Nick Singleton denied, Dennis Sutton, Drew Aller and
them all come back is to win thewhole damn thing.
It certainly doesn't mean losingthe Indiana.
However, you might also rememberIndiana's only losses last year
were two of the two teams that played in the national
championship, Ohio State and Notre Dame.
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You could do worse, which is another reason why sleeping on
Indiana is no longer a thing we get to do.
So is it the toughest? No.
Is it the softest? No.
Should it be enough for them to get to the playoff?
Abso frigging lutely come back. I want to talk about DJ Lagway
Florida and they also are up against it in a very real and
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severe way if he is not healthy and he's hurt again.
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So DJ Lagway reportedly is in a boot, according to Rich Johnson
at CBS Sport, after Florida juststarted their preseason camp.
Sucks. It sucks because that dude is so
good when he is healthy and he'scoming off the shoulder surgery.
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And he had said, look, guys, I'mnot, you know, I didn't die or
anything, like, I'm OK. But it doesn't feel that way
because he has never been fully healthy at any point when
they're playing meaningful football.
So last year we're talking aboutthe shoulder and then we're
talking about the hamstring thathappened during the Georgia game
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that they probably would have won had he been able to finish
it. I mean Florida had the third
string quarterback in there and Georgia still needed to come up
with a Georgia like performance at the end to beat a Florida
team that wasn't very good and look like getting it's head
coach fired. Add to that he's in a walking
boot after they just get startedto camp.
You're asking yourself what the hell were they doing?
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They've even had that dude on a pitch count.
You know that He's only throwingso much because the goal is just
to get him to the season and keep him healthy throughout it
at this point. Billy Napier said on Tuesday
that he is day-to-day and I'm like that dude should be this
month to next month. You don't need DJ Lagway to get
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any more opportunities to hurt himself.
Before you got to play Liu, and I realize it's Liu, but after
Liu, you start to play meaningful football games that
absolutely matter if you're a Florida team trying to get to
the College Football Playoff. And you are.
Because when DJ Lagway starts and finishes the game, Florida's
undefeated. They're six and O, they're just
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six and one when he starts the game.
That's last year and that's against SEC opponents, right?
The losses to Georgia, who won the SEC championship.
You need that dude. He makes you into the kind of
team that Tennessee was last year where you make the playoffs
and probably hasn't at large. Maybe you play for an SEC
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championship and we'll see. But at this point, I don't want
anything to happen to him. Let him sit down for a while
because your schedule ain't exactly easy either.
You know, like I'm looking at this, they they got LSU and
Miami on the schedule, but they've also got 3 College
Football Playoff teams from lastyear on it, Texas, Georgia, and
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Tennessee. Of the three of those, you would
expect them to be competitive ifnot be able to beat Tennessee.
The other two we expect to be playing the SEC Championship
game again, you can't either have can't afford to have a DJ
Lagway who isn't 100% when you get into your high leverage
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situations, right? We're in baseball season as it
is. And I don't I don't talk a bunch
about baseball because it reallyis an audience over here for me
to talk baseball with. But I really love the sport.
And I say high leverage situations because when you've
got a starter that can also act like a reliever where he can
pitch himself out of jams or he can walk himself into a jam and
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immediately go get you the Ouch you need, that's called making a
play. That's what we do in college
football. It is third and long.
Everybody knows you're throwing the ball.
Do you have a guy out there thatcan go win?
Yeah. And his name is DJ Lagway.
And they're so young, but they're so experienced because
they had to be. They suffered so many injuries.
If a couple of things go their way, yeah.
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It's a playoff team, so stop playing with it.
You know, he's in a walking bootin day-to-day.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe that's just something you
say, but it feels like a lot of us are going to be out on
Florida if it does not feel as if DJ Lagway is going to be able
to make it through this thing. Quinn Ewers, I think fell in the
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NFL draft in large part because he didn't make it through an
entire season healthy. I the arm talent is there, his
ability to read the field is there.
He will be given the opportunity, a really good
quarterback in the NFL because he's got all the
characteristics. But talking about an ankle
injury, a shoulder injury, he getting knocked out of the game
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with an abdominal injury, that'sthree consecutive seasons of him
missing time and meaningful football.
If you are an NFL team, the one thing you do not want from your
superstar talent is to know thathe is brittle and injury prone
is not just the thing we say. There are studies to show
certain kinds of injuries belongto certain kinds of people like
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A7 footer in the NBA is going tohave back problems.
It's going to happen. As a matter of fact, one of the
coolest things I think to ever happen in college basketball is
Bill Self who got very little ofJoel and Joel Embiid at Kansas
told him because knew about the back issue.
You need to go to the NBA right now.
There's no we're not risking your future staying at Kansas
because that time. Remember there's no name in
which you like this is no money to make except in the NBA.
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So you went and then the processends up being him and Joel is
one of the best centers over thelast 25 years.
He also just happens to play in the same generation as Jokic,
which feels kind of ridiculous because I man, I feel so bad for
all of the cyclists that have toride against Tadich Pokachar
because that that dude's eating everybody alive.
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He's 4 time 2 of the front champ.
Can't nobody touch that dude. And yet all the guys behind him
are generational talents. And as we're getting back to
college football, we don't really have one of those this
year. Travis Hunter was that last
year. And I'm glad that he won the
Heisman Trophy. But somebody's going to have to
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announce themselves. We think it could be an arch
Manny, we think, But there's a lot to show there.
DJ Lagway has shown out of high school.
He can be that guy, but you're never going to reach that
potential if you turn into Greg Oden, you know?
And he hadn't done that. He's played more meaningful
football than Odin played meaningful NBA games.
But let's not play with this. Take care of that dude, take
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care of your future and let's see if Florida can't do what
it's not done before and make the College Football Playoff.
All right, that's going to do itfor me on this episode of Adapt
and Respond. If you like the longer shows,
let me know in the comments below.
Otherwise I will see y'all on the flip side doses.
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