Know Your Enemy | Grambling

Ohio State is facing off against Grambling, but why?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Anchors up sells. Welcome to the slop past. How are
you going to do it today?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Time bart dinner?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm doing it fine? Sorry, sun Card just worked the sentence. Also,
Brambling was kind of like a drunken gamble and it
threw me. I that's it. That's that's that's it's the
entire sentence. Today's know your Enemy. Today we preview the
Ohio State Game, the upcoming Ohio State Game, and the

(01:09):
Ohio's Day Buck Eyes are playing in a HBCU team
a FCS school. They're playing the Grambling Tigers. We have
sun Card in the chat, who is I won't say
an expert on Grambling, but certainly knows more about it

(01:30):
than we do, at least from a historical perspective. Welcome
to Drunk Gambling Week. We would sell a lot of tickets. Yeah. See,
unfer We just did the Sloop Picks episode, like we
literally just finished recording it, and we couldn't even we
couldn't even include Ohio State because this game is not

(01:52):
available at most casinos that there is not Apparently some
cars is a Dell State Hornet scrad, which is another HBCU.
The uh this game's not on the books, you cannot.
Kyle apparently found someplace that put a line on it.
What did you say the number was, Kyle.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I can't confer if it is or not. It's a
one place in fifty five, I don't I don't think
there's a place you can actually bet.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
On, but not not with US dollars. Probably probably need
a different currency, but fifty five at least feels accurate,
if nothing else. But yeah, we couldn't even do this
one in the sloop picks because I State's playing an
FCS school, which I'll go on the record and I say, why, yeah,

(02:46):
why why didn't I say playing an FCS school? Why
does anyone play FCS schools?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Why?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why why are we doing this? Donation?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Ohio State is very generous.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sure, we'll say generous. They got to pay someone the money.
I guess it might as well be grambling. But no,
I don't. I don't like playing FCS schools. No, in
my opinion, play a MAX school, Play keep the money
in State, Play Miami, play.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Toledo, Achron can't.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh got bowling Green? You got so many to choose from.
If you're gonna play an if you're gonna play an
FCS school, at least play Youngstown State. But even then,
don't play FCS schools. Spikes, beat me to it. Uh yeah,
at least play Youngstown Stare if you're gonna do it

(03:45):
all right, Kyle, Uh, I suppose we should get to
know Grambling. That is the name of the show.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It is the name of the show, isn't it. I mean, honest,
it's hard to tell. There is no exact depth chart.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
There's not a We do have last week's numbers, and
I'll say this, the team that Grambling played is almost
as far away from Grambling as Ohio State is from Grambling.
I was trying to do some research on the team

(04:20):
that Grambling played last week, and I couldn't even find
like capacity numbers on their stadium because they aren't published.
I tried to look up the other team that Grambling.
This sounds like I'm doing a bit right now. It's not.
I'm not doing a bit like. This has the cadence
of a joke, but I'm telling truths right now. If

(04:41):
you're gonna play FCS, at least play Michigan State. That's
a funny line, sun Card. I'm trying to find like
ESPN didn't even have a logo for this team that
Grambling played last week. I looked up the Grambling game
from last week, and ESPN had a generic like nothing

(05:03):
logo up for this other team. I don't I don't
know that the team Grambling played even actually exists. I'll
tell you that there are about half of the high
school stadiums in the state of Ohio have a higher
capacity stadium than the team that Grambling played last week.

(05:26):
This is a stand up bit. I understand that it
has the cadence of a stand up bit. I acknowledge that.
But nothing I'm saying is a lie, Like these are
all just truths. I understand the cadence that I'm using
and that it sounds like that, but that I like,
these are all just facts, facts on the table. Grambly

(05:49):
played Bishop Sycamore last week. If you know, you know
who are the Bishop Sycamore controversy, I do.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So Grambling.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Jared Kyle's going to put us back on track.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm going to try to started off with a quarterback,
Ashton Fry, who was only in the game to throw
eight passes, and then Teaset came in and did the
vast majority of the passing for the rest of the
game there, So who's going to be the starter or not?

(06:25):
I'm I'm not going to pretend to know which one
it is. But as far as stat wise, combined the
the quarterbacks three for four touchdowns two fifty yards, it's
like seventy five, yeah, sent seventy seventy five percent completion Like,

(06:46):
but states should be doing what a hot state should
be doing to Grambling to stay Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
No, it's like the set got most of the reps
but didn't start with that information.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
What you will, that's same thing, same thing with the
same thing with the running backs they had they had one, two, three, four,
They had five players with with five rushing attempts or more,
and they they rushed. They rushed for forty three times
in that game for over two hundred yards. So getting

(07:22):
getting everybody that touches there while they can, uh, I
believe it is Bradford who is good who is the
starter in that one, But I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna say that with a lot of a lot of confidence.
Clyde Clyde McLennon led the team in carries six or

(07:43):
excuse me, ten carries for fifty one yards and like
the wide receivers also, just like their running backs, handful
of players who caught five or more passes as well too,
so dishing around all around two So but grand scheme

(08:03):
of things, Jared, I'm not I'm not worried. Buckeye fans
shouldn't be worried about this game. It's just going to
be a matter of how well how well will we
see Ohia State's offense? Look what we see? What we
see a little bit more passing in this game, since
Ohio State did hold back a little bit on saying

(08:25):
against Texas, well, will they try to open it up
to make them feel more comfortable in this game? Get
a little bit more confidence going into week three here.
I think there are a lot of questions that will
We'll find out this weekend here.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, I mean sure, get some confidence up for the
big game against Ohio. Hey, like a MAXYO a Max school.
They did it. You can play two Max schools in
the same season, is all I'm saying. Like there's no

(09:01):
rule saying you can't. That's all I'm saying. Ohio State
put up seventy seven against Florida Atlantic. Excuse me, excuse me,
that's not Florida Link, that's Florida A and M. They
will score eighty four and Grambling. If they wanted to
score eighty four and Grambling, they will. I don't think
they'll want to. That being said, it could be a

(09:24):
lot of points because I think that Ohio State will
probably want to get both quarterbacks some meaningful reps in
this game. When I say meaningful, I don't mean like.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't mean Link is gonna get like a bunch
of first quarter reps. I am saying that they're probably
gonna want to send clean hole keenholes in there and
want him to actually throw some passes, throw some passes
in a football game. So I don't think he's going
to go in there and just hand the ball off
a bunch. I think it's time. I think you gotta

(10:03):
get I think you got to get your quarter your
backup quarterback some reps. So you know how many points
Ohio State scores might just depend upon how quickly they
score on those reps.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sure, Ohio State has played Grambling State once in basketball,
back in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
This is this is the first.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Football This is the first football matchup.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
We should have been none, but here we are.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think they have to flash the passing game a
lot early to prove the Texas game was a game
plan thing and not a max kept capability thing. You
also have to get your starters some reps too. You're
not going to prove literally anything against Grambling. No one's
gonna watch Ohio State play Grambling and oh look they

(11:01):
can throw the ball. This this game proves nothing. Do
you have nothing to prove this? This is this game
is a paycheck. M hm, oh High State. It's going
to write a paycheck to Grambling. Fox is going to
write a a paycheck to Ohio State. A bunch of
fans are going to write very small relative There's still

(11:26):
a lot of money to get into the shoe, but
in the grand scheme of things, a bunch of very
small checks to Ohio State to to sit their butts
in the seats. Like what it's Grambling, man, I don't
know what to tell you, Like it's a High State

(11:48):
will score exactly the number of points that they want
to score this game. I was gonna say this is
a glorified scrimmage or a glorified spring game. But quite frankly,
it won't be that good.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
You can buy tickets as low as forty three dollars.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's gonna those are gonna go down. That's are gonna
go down.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh I'm sorry, that's forty three dollars for two seats.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Okay, that might not go I mean, actually it's it's
still potentially could go down. Yeah, this it's it's this is.
This is a spring game, but maybe not that good. Like,
I don't know what to tell you. I'm not I
I I I can't. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna
pretend like this is anything other than what it is.

(12:37):
If Ohio State wanted to, they could go out and
make sure that Jeremiah Smith sets a single season excuse me,
a single game receiving yardage record in this game. If
they wanted to, like just just just let's see if

(12:58):
we can set some records today. If they want to
do that, they could do that. I'm not saying they
I'm not saying they want to do that. I'm not
saying they should do that. Thinking out loud might be
good for Heartline to have a sea ball go through
the hoop kind of experience of play call, oh, see
the ball go through the hoop cell play calling, get

(13:18):
him in a rhythm. Sure, I mean yeah, I mean
you can get some confidence going for your young quarterback,
maybe some confidence going for your for your young play caller.
You know, in the same way you might go out
and throw the ball, just just didn't on the practice field.

(13:44):
I guess, like, I don't know what to tell you,
Like it's grambling, it's it's grambling. What am I gonna
do tell you about how they're gonna line up Terrell
Rabbie against Jeremiah Smith and that he's gonna be the
player to watch this game? Would you believe me if

(14:06):
I said that? Maybe if you're convincingly yeah, I'm not
into lying. Okay, it feels like this whole episode is gramping.
Oh you're making a vamping joke. I got there, all Rightyle,
what you were about the transition, I'm gonna let you
do that.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
For some sloop sayers, it's being it's being easy is
kind of the point for getting heartline and rhythm. If
he's learning and uh, every game he's throttle back mode
the whole time. How do you know he can hit

(15:31):
the throttle when you need him to. I just don't
know realistically, like me, very macro level Sadly, Ohio State
could play two games on Saturday. Yeah, yeah, they're gonna

(16:00):
practice after the game, stick around in the shoe. They're
gonna have a quick practice after the game. Like, I
don't know what to tell you, esquire it, I mean,
sure it, And again, I just don't know what could
actually even if I said to you sit down and

(16:21):
do some some quick addition problems for me as an
adult man, Hey, no, just just do these addition problems
real quick and fill out this thing that's two plus
two equals four and five plus three equals eight. And
you sit like, are you actually learning anything or is
it just so below your skill level and you aren't

(16:43):
being challenged that you aren't actually learning anything? That this
that that's my point. It's sort of like what's Malcolm
Gladwell has that whole Oh, if you do something for
ten thousand hours, you become an expert. And here's my
problem with this statement is that if you aren't challenging yourself,

(17:06):
if you aren't upping the stakes like my camera is
challenged areio camera, then you aren't actually learning anything. So
you can't just sit there and do the exact same
thing over and over and over again for ten thousand
hours and become an expert at it. You have to
keep making the thing harder as you do it so
that you continue to grow. I'm saying grambling is so

(17:27):
far down on the ladder and there is such a
lack of challenge that I realistically don't know what could
be gained here that couldn't be gained in practice. They
couldn't better be gained by practicing in the woody against
your own defense. It's more like solving calculus problems. But

(17:55):
ninety five percent of the problem is already filled out.
Now see that's the thing. No, it's not this is question.
This is this is practicing your your your single digit editions.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
How would the Ohio State club team do?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
No, let's not be silly, Kyle, Let's not be silly.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, let's let's let's do something silly and do some
Austin over unders. How about that.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Let's let's let's let's absolutely wait, were we actually going
to do the sloop sayers? Or did I just ruin
that Ohio State player to watch Julian saying.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Go Kyle, Uh, well that was mine.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, Julian saying for both of us enemy player to
watch Ohio State against themselves, like Ohio State against Focus.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's that's it right there, Key.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Matchup once again, Ohio State against Focus. What do you
who do you have?

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I got the Ohio State band versus Grambling State band.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Ah, damn it? You beat me. That's a that's a
better answer. Uh, spread pick there is no spread winner
pick Ohio State. Kyle, you to pit Grambling. I think
I'll take our off state final score. Whatever Ohio State
wants against hopefully zero. Don't let's get a.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Shut out on the books, Jared, this is the perfect
opportunity right now. The score sixty nine to nothing.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Sixty nine to nothing. I like where your head zat, Kyle.
Although I hear this on from I hear that the
kids really you like the number sixty seven. Now, I
have no idea why I'm an old man.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I don't know what it must all right, Austin's over
unders go, he said, over unders for the Packers logo.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
This is the third team, the third most popular team
to use this logo.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
All right, Julian sayan pass attempts over under twenty and
half under for me under for.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Me, they might to to to Esquire's point, they might
try and get him in some rhythm. I'll go over here, all.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Right, not a lot over different Grambling rushing yards at
fifty eight and a half. They rushed again for who
they played, but they rushed. They rushed for two hundred
and nineteen yards at five point one per pop and

(20:38):
four touchdowns. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go over, yeah, exactly, Esquire.
They're gonna go over just because of garbage time.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'll say under because of sacks.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Oh oh too, sche All right, next up here we
have people's in Jackson, People's plus Jackson rushing yards, but not.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
But not Donald.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah not Donald, People's plus Jackson rushing yards at one
hundred and twenty three and a half yards over yep,
I agree, we're going to go over on this one
as well. Yeah, that's quest.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, I think so too, Esquire. I think that's totally
valid that Jackson gets this by himself.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeap, all right, Atkinson Sury, Atkinson plus Curry plus Hicks
tackle four losses, so sax count as well at three
and a half. I would think Curry plus all all
of them combined for three and a half. I'm going
to go.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Over TFLs Yeah over, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's Atkinson, Curry, and Hicks combined for tackle for losses.
Sex are included at three and a half. Sacks are
just yeah over. If you get a sack, you get
a TfL. So grambling, Grambling turnovers at two and a half.

(22:12):
I'm just looking to see if they had any turnovers,
and they did, and they had one turnover, all.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right, hear me out. I don't know how much they're
actually gonna have the ball to turn it over, get under.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
You know, I like what I saw from the Silver bullet.
I'm going to go over. I don't care, I'm going
to be wrong. I want I want to see some turnovers,
different players with a touchdown for both teams four and
a half.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh OHIOSA is going to go into their bench. You
might not see anyone get multiple touchdowns. Uh, so give
me the over.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I'm gonna go over as well. And last one
here we have Clear plus Inness catches combined at six
and a half.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm gonna go under here. I think they're gonna spread
the ball around so much. I think this is a
This is a game where you see like seven or
eight different wide receivers with catches.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, clear plus Inness combined, one with one with three,
one Wood with four. This is probably your best one, Austin.
But I'm gonna go over and Jared goes under for
that one.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, and that Kyle is Austin's over enders Kyle, I
don't think we're gonna do a lot of these shows. Uh,
this far under time, but like scrambling, I don't I
don't know, I'm really not I'm really not trying to

(24:02):
be a dickhead about this. If I am, it's because
I'm frustrated that it's not. I'm really not. I really
I'm afraid that this is coming across like I'm picking
on Grambling. And if you think that's what I'm doing,
I don't blame you, because it kind of is coming
across that way. But what I'm doing is ripping on

(24:23):
Ohio State for playing Grambling. This is what I'm actually doing,
And I understand that it might come across like I'm
picking on Grambling, but that's not my intent. My intent
is picking on Ohio State for playing Grambling.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I'm going to read a quote, a tweet from kerkurb
Street here Jared, Okay, he says here and instead of
this is related to some people were thinking that he
was saying they're bad about North Carolina when he actually
said you're bad to someone on his team on the

(25:01):
broadcast there. So he says here instead of making things up.
Instead of making things up things has said, how about
giving Reece, Holly and I some love for getting through
that game? Those games are by far the toughest games
you announcers have to call. So Jared, these kind of

(25:22):
games or how state plays an FCS.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 2 (25:29):
How do you? I?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
I One of the things that podcasting for ten years
about sports has done for me is give me a
lot of sympathy, maybe a lot more than they deserve.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Two.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Like people have to announce games, it's like, Oh, the
announcer accidentally used the wrong word. Yeah, it happens. Go
talk into a microphone for four straight hours. You're gonna
accident only use this word when you meant to say
that word. It happens.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
But whoever, whoever's announcing game on the Big ten network here,
good luck. I have.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
I cringe at the idea of having to talk about
having to Jake Butt's doing it. I begrudgingly like him.
I think he's very good at his job.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, I have honestly, other than other than where he
went to college at. Yes, I don't. I don't. I
don't have any issues with Jake, but I.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Really yeah, I didn't know he's a color commentator. Yeah,
the former athlete is almost always ninety five percent of
the time the color commentator. I begrudgingly have to admit
that he's actually pretty good. Yeah, I don't like admitting
that he is at least from the Columbus area, So

(26:57):
I guess he's he's a Pickerington kid. Not that he's
a kid anymore, but you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
But Jared, we didn't even cover any of the stats here.
If we're going if we're going off of we're gonna
go off of any kind of stats, Jared. I mean,
if you if you look at if you look at it, Jared,
uh huh. This shouldn't even be a close game. This
shouldn't be a close game.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I know you're right, A High State's gonna get crushed.
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, maybe
Vegas isn't putting this on the books because Ohio State's
gonna lose by fifty five points.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Grambling is letting up negative thirty two yards on the
ground a game.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, I mean, that's the best run defense in the country.
It has to be it is, It would have.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
To be yards. They're also first and not letting up
a single third down.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Wow. Okay, did we did we pretend Grambling is good
for for long enough?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Did we we did?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay? Cale, do you have anything in Kyle's corner?

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Do you have anything Kyle's corner. That's a great question.
I really don't I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
No, it's an okay nos, an okay response to that question.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yep, life's busy, haven't had I haven't really seen anything.
Hopefully the crew does better as the end of the
MLS stretch comes along. So yeah, that's it all right.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
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