Colin gives his instant reaction to the Packers blowing out the Saints on Monday Night Football.
While he normally waits until AFTER the game to record the pod, Colin only needed until halftime to decide the Packers/Saints game was the least competitive game he’d seen all year (4:00). Instead, he dives deep into the Packers unique situation of not having an owner and why that’s proven to be a huge advantage when it comes to stability and management (7:30).
Finally, he addresses the public backlash to all the blowouts early in the College Football Playoff, why the blowouts were entirely predictable, and why blowouts will get worse as they expand the field of teams in the future (13:30).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. Well, it's the most wonderful time of the
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absolutely great time of the year. So a lot of
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if you're gonna bet for the first time, just make
(00:23):
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Speaker 1 (01:26):
So it's twenty one nothing Green Bay at half, and
you know the Saints have like thirty five yards passing,
So I thought, I'm just going to do a fifteen
minute pod if the Saints come back and win. Screw
what I said. That's the least competitive football game I
have watched in the NFL, certainly that I've watched every
play of this year. And I'm going to get back
(01:48):
to that game in a second. And it has to
do with the Packers. But you know, one of the
things I'm proudest of. I do a segment every Monday
called Colin Wright and Colin is Wrong, and it's one
of my higher segments I've ever done. Every week. And
I do think people appreciate just saying, hey, I whiffed
on something. And I've said before that I'm I'm willing
(02:10):
to change my mind if I get no information. And
I was thinking about watching the Packers tonight about I'll
give you an example of something I radically changed my
mind on. So I would say, forty years ago, I
liked the Olympics far more than the World Cup. And
the reason was is at forty and forty five years ago,
when I'm you know, fifteen years old, twenty years old,
(02:31):
college student, high school student, and as somebody that absolutely
loved sports, you didn't get three straight weeks of sports.
You didn't have this proliferation of regional networks and local networks.
You know, when I was a kid growing up fifteen
years old, you got an NBC Baseball Game of the week.
You know, I lived in around Seattle. I couldn't get
(02:51):
Mariner games except on radio. You couldn't watch Mariner games.
And I you know, I was a kid from divorce.
We didn't have the money to go to Mariner games.
It was a two and a half hour drive. I
lived on the each in Westport, Washington. So you know,
like once every five years, I'd go to a Mariner game.
So the Olympics, you know, for a sports obsessed fifteen
and twenty year old, was three straight weeks of sports.
(03:14):
It didn't matter that I didn't care about the sports
at that point, I'd never skied. It didn't matter. I'd
watch the Winter Olympics. I wasn't in track, I didn't care.
I'd watched the Summer Olympics. It didn't matter. I still
don't care about Olympic sports, most of them. But it
was three straight weeks of sports. And then you have,
over the course of the last forty forty five years,
this proliferation of cable and again all these networks. I
(03:37):
can turn on my television any day of the week
and get twenty games. I mean, you can fish around
on you know, a Tuesday and get you know, during
the baseball season, I can watch every baseball team. So
the Olympics now today don't feel as special to me
because I didn't care about the sports and the Olympics
then or now. But the fact that you got three
(03:57):
straight weeks of sports was really unique. Now it's not.
And so now you could have the Olympics. I'll watch
the opening ceremonies, maybe a couple events. I just don't care.
But I love the World Cup. Some of that is
I worked at two networks with World Cup and soccer
analysts and experts, so I'm around more soccer people, and frankly,
(04:21):
you know, I every four years, you know, it's something new,
it's something fresh. I mean, how many NBA games, how
many football games? Can I watch? The quality of soccer
is great. I know more about soccer. It doesn't matter
if it was the other place or Fox, I'll watch
more soccer. A lot of my adult friends have given
up baseball and they're more soccer friends fans. On a
(04:43):
Saturday morning, they'll watch English Premier League, you know, and
I have a lot of friends like that. I've also
gone to Europe more in my life, so I'm just more.
I'm just more into the World Cup than soccer. I've
totally changed my opinion on that. And this is where
I get back to the Packers. I always thought not
having an owner was a disadvantage to the packers. Is
that having a stan cronk who can literally as he's
(05:06):
on the tarmac true story of flying out of the
country can tell Sean McVay all right, go for it,
Go get Matt Stafford. Like you know, it's gonna be expensive.
I'm gonna pay for Jared Goff in Detroit and Stafford
in LA. Let's go for it. Big advantage. But I'm
watching the Packers tonight and think about this. Ten of
(05:27):
thirty two teams in the NFL, thirty one percent of
the NFL has five wins or fewer for a couple
of weeks to go. So the Saints have five and
they'll lose tonight Carolina. The Jets in Chicago have four,
four and eleven. Vegas, Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, and New England
(05:47):
are three and twelve, and the Giants are two and thirteen.
So that's ten of thirty two teams. That was only
five last year. It's doubled. That is a really really
large bottom and unwatchable part of the NFL feels very
much like the NBA. It really does. I mean, thirty
(06:08):
percent of the NBA or more as unwatchable. And I
think there are two reasons for that number. One more
and more because a rule changes and culture. Quarterback just
means more. I mean, there's only one great quarterback in
the NFL. That's not going to make the playoffs. Joe Burrow,
cheapest owner in the league, terrible defense, shaky o line,
(06:32):
and he's still fighting for a playoff spot. They may
make it. Statistically very little chance, but they may make it.
He's the only great quarterback that won't make the playoffs.
If you have one year in, if you have a
good rookie quarterback, Jayden Daniels, Boon Nicks, you're in. Michael Pennix,
my guess now is going to win the remaining games
for Atlanta, They'll be in. If you just have a
(06:53):
competent rookie quarterback, a penex down the stretch, Bick, Jaden Daniels,
You're Inquarterback's more important than ever. And number two is
billionaire owners now the poorest owners billionaire and it wasn't
like that ten years ago. And billionaire owners are less patient.
Firing as staff and having to pay forty five million
(07:14):
dollars is more of a rounding air, and so you
have more chaos among coaching staffs and more chaos in
the coaching community. So between it's more quarterback centric and
more impulsive owners. You just have more hot messes in
the NFL. And I'm watching tonight. I mean, I'm one
(07:35):
of these guys that can sit down and watch almost
any NFL team, Giants, unwatchable, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas, hard
to watch Carolina. With Bryce Young, I can watch a
little Jets, Aaron Rodgers, I'll watch Chicago, I'll watch Saints tonight, unwatchable.
So it's just interesting. It's something I've really changed my
(07:59):
mine on is that having an owner I always thought
was a huge advantage, But I think Green Bay going
forward having no owner because I now believe because of
the impulsive nature of billionaires, richer owners less patient, more impulsive.
There's only about four to five great owners. I think
(08:21):
the Hunt family in Kansas City's excellent. Stan Kronkey with
the Rams is really excellent. You know Robert Kraft. People
will argue he's frugal but pretty solid owner. But there's
a lot of average to below average owners right now.
There's more good quarterbacks and good coaches in the NFL
than great owners. And I think going forward, you're allowed
(08:43):
to be much more patient. I mean, you're allowed to
sit Aaron Rodgers on the bench for three years and grow.
You couldn't do that if you had an owner. No
way you could have a first round quarterback and not
rush him onto the field. The owner would be harping
every year. There's no way you could have Jordan Love
sit for three years as Aaron was getting prickly and
(09:05):
high maintenance and passive aggressive, and owner would have stepped
in and said, ship him, let's play the kid. Just
why do you think Green Bay, more than any NFL franchise,
can keep using this formula, drafting, you know, high end
quarterbacks first round and not playing him for three years.
You could not do that. Even with a good owner.
You couldn't do it. There'd be too much pressure. I mean,
(09:28):
I think you'd be surprised how often owners listen to
sports talk and listen to fans. Gms are too busy
to listen, so are coaches. Players don't really care. Billionaire
owners who have people under them want to get the
temperature of fans. In the media, and I mean, there's
(09:50):
no question that New York media is influenced. Woody Johnson
influenced by the New York media firing Robert Sala. No,
everybody was banging on him. And if Woody Johnson's not listening,
his kids are listening. We've heard stories about Woody Johnson's
kids having influence. So I think it's a real advantage
(10:11):
for Green Bay going forward. And I believe strongly in this,
and I never used to think it is that as
the wealth and the net worth has gone up ten
times for owners, you don't have to worry about Brian
Gouden Kunst, Mark Murphy. Who are they answering to the
Packers board And it's you know, not a lot of
(10:34):
power there. So you know, Washington Green Bay, and I
don't think it's a coincidence that they have been able
with the last two star quarterbacks to just let him
sit for three years. No way in the world could
you do that with an owner, even a good owner.
So tip of the cat to the Packers. Some more
thoughts on college football. There was a lot of angry
(10:57):
reactions to college football, and I really thought the games
would be more competitive. But in retrospect, you know, college
teams struggle on the road, and I think you have
to realize with certain things like as sports fans, especially
football fans in America, were sort of spoiled, right, I mean,
(11:17):
you have the Pacific ten o'clock window, the one o'clock window,
Sunday night, Monday night. It's very formulaic. In the NFL,
got to have a quarterback to win. You have four
or five major broadcast teams. You really know what to
expect when you roll out of bed on a Sunday morning.
With the NFL, you got your Red Zone early, your
Big Fox games, CBS games, late Sunday night Football, NBC,
(11:39):
Monday Night ESPN. You get used to it. And college
football is a little bit of a barnyard musical. It's
you know, it's games starting early, mid late. You never know,
you turn on a game Saturday at midnight, you'd find
something on. You know, there's just games everywhere, and it's
always been a sport that has blowouts. And so I
guess in retrospect, as this tournament expands to fourteen or
(12:02):
sixteen teams, you're just gonna get blowouts. That's just the
way it is. I mean, I'll say this again, go
back to Nick Saban's heyday, that twelve year run where
they were really dominant. There were years there weren't three
teams that could compete with them on a neutral field,
maybe LSU, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson if they had good
quarterback play maybe, so don't expect the twelfth best team
(12:28):
and the eleventh, the tenth, and the ninth and the
eighth going forward to play road games and to compete.
I mean, hell, I'm watching Tennessee get steamrolled and they
got pros. They don't have Ohio States pros, but they
got pros. And I think we just have to understand
that the one similarity between the college football regular season
and the college football Playoff is these are nineteen and
(12:51):
twenty year old kids and they are extremely influenced by circumstances.
And like tonight, the Saints are a bad team in
Green Bay, they'd lose at home, They'd lose in Green Bay.
That's that's not a circumstance. That's a personnel issue, coaching issue.
But in the NFL, you know, you go on the
(13:11):
road right now in Vegas, they consider the home field
advantage to be a point to a point and a half.
Because of improved technology and improve travel, teams just travel
smarter than they did eight, nine, ten years ago. But
I mean, people are really freaking out about the college
football Playoff, and I mean it's better than the alternative
(13:32):
bowl games with empty stands. Going forward with the nil
with players who don't really want to play in them.
Some do you know, some six win teams. It means
a lot to end up in, you know, a bowl game.
But a lot of these big name schools that are disappointing.
I mean, just look atf Ohio State wasn't playing in
the playoff this year. They'd be in like the you know,
(13:53):
the Citrus Bowl or something. You know, seven eight, ten
guys on that roster. They're looking to the NFL. Some
would even play. So you take a deep breath. We're
a little spoiled by the NFL and the quality generally,
the time, the structure, the formulaic nature to it. You know,
it's the margins in college football on any given Saturday,
(14:15):
there's twenty blowouts. Sometimes when you have good teams square off,
you know, I mean Ohio State and Tennessee those are
blue bloods. That thing was over in eight minutes. It
wasn't even competitive generally. In the NFL. You know, Ravens
face the Steelers, Chiefs face the Texans. You know, you
kind of feel like both teams have a chance. One
team may be better. Home field matters a little, but
(14:38):
you kind of know, you know, if you get two
good quarterbacks and two good coaches. I mean the Jets
and the Rams. I mean you got Aaron Rodgers Matt Stafford,
and that was a good football game. The better team
should have won and did. There's a competitive football game
for three quarters. They're all pros. So I think the
college football playoffs is just going to get better and better.
But we just got to bake it in college teams
(15:01):
on the road, even talented ones. Things go sideways really fast,
really fast. The volume
The volume. Well, it's the most wonderful time of the
year for getting in on all the basketball, football, hockey
action at DraftKings sports Book. It's the season of giving,
so we're being gifted college football and basketball, pro football, basketball,
pro hockey to almost twenty four to seven. It's an
absolutely great time of the year. So a lot of
games every day, so many opportunities to place your first bet. Now,
if you're gonna bet for the first time, just make
(00:23):
it simple. Pick a team to win, any team. Go
to DraftKings Sports Book. They have an app. Download it
ninety seconds. Here's the gift for all new customers. Bet
five bucks, just five bucks. If your bet wins, you
get one hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets. Download
the DraftKings sports Book app. The code is Colin Coli
n New customers, one hundred and fifty bucks and bonus bets.
(00:44):
If you've got five bucks and it wins, Happy Holidays
from DraftKings. Crown is yours.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Gambling problem called one night hundred Gambler in New York
called eight seven seven eight Hope and Why or text
Hope and Why four six seven three six nine. In Connecticut,
Health is available for a problem gambling called eight eight
eight seven eight nine seven seven, seven and seven or
visit CCPG dot org. Please play responsibly on behalf of
Boothill Casino in Resorting, Kansas twenty one and over. Agent
eligibility varies by jurisdiction Voyd and Ontario. Bet must win
(01:11):
to receive reward. Bonus bets expire one hundred and sixty
eight hours after issue. In four additional terms and responsible
gaming resources see DKANNG dot co slash bball.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So it's twenty one nothing Green Bay at half, and
you know the Saints have like thirty five yards passing,
So I thought, I'm just going to do a fifteen
minute pod if the Saints come back and win. Screw
what I said. That's the least competitive football game I
have watched in the NFL, certainly that I've watched every
play of this year. And I'm going to get back
(01:48):
to that game in a second. And it has to
do with the Packers. But you know, one of the
things I'm proudest of. I do a segment every Monday
called Colin Wright and Colin is Wrong, and it's one
of my higher segments I've ever done. Every week. And
I do think people appreciate just saying, hey, I whiffed
on something. And I've said before that I'm I'm willing
(02:10):
to change my mind if I get no information. And
I was thinking about watching the Packers tonight about I'll
give you an example of something I radically changed my
mind on. So I would say, forty years ago, I
liked the Olympics far more than the World Cup. And
the reason was is at forty and forty five years ago,
when I'm you know, fifteen years old, twenty years old,
(02:31):
college student, high school student, and as somebody that absolutely
loved sports, you didn't get three straight weeks of sports.
You didn't have this proliferation of regional networks and local networks.
You know, when I was a kid growing up fifteen
years old, you got an NBC Baseball Game of the week.
You know, I lived in around Seattle. I couldn't get
(02:51):
Mariner games except on radio. You couldn't watch Mariner games.
And I you know, I was a kid from divorce.
We didn't have the money to go to Mariner games.
It was a two and a half hour drive. I
lived on the each in Westport, Washington. So you know,
like once every five years, I'd go to a Mariner game.
So the Olympics, you know, for a sports obsessed fifteen
and twenty year old, was three straight weeks of sports.
(03:14):
It didn't matter that I didn't care about the sports
at that point, I'd never skied. It didn't matter. I'd
watch the Winter Olympics. I wasn't in track, I didn't care.
I'd watched the Summer Olympics. It didn't matter. I still
don't care about Olympic sports, most of them. But it
was three straight weeks of sports. And then you have,
over the course of the last forty forty five years,
this proliferation of cable and again all these networks. I
(03:37):
can turn on my television any day of the week
and get twenty games. I mean, you can fish around
on you know, a Tuesday and get you know, during
the baseball season, I can watch every baseball team. So
the Olympics now today don't feel as special to me
because I didn't care about the sports and the Olympics
then or now. But the fact that you got three
(03:57):
straight weeks of sports was really unique. Now it's not.
And so now you could have the Olympics. I'll watch
the opening ceremonies, maybe a couple events. I just don't care.
But I love the World Cup. Some of that is
I worked at two networks with World Cup and soccer
analysts and experts, so I'm around more soccer people, and frankly,
(04:21):
you know, I every four years, you know, it's something new,
it's something fresh. I mean, how many NBA games, how
many football games? Can I watch? The quality of soccer
is great. I know more about soccer. It doesn't matter
if it was the other place or Fox, I'll watch
more soccer. A lot of my adult friends have given
up baseball and they're more soccer friends fans. On a
(04:43):
Saturday morning, they'll watch English Premier League, you know, and
I have a lot of friends like that. I've also
gone to Europe more in my life, so I'm just more.
I'm just more into the World Cup than soccer. I've
totally changed my opinion on that. And this is where
I get back to the Packers. I always thought not
having an owner was a disadvantage to the packers. Is
that having a stan cronk who can literally as he's
(05:06):
on the tarmac true story of flying out of the
country can tell Sean McVay all right, go for it,
Go get Matt Stafford. Like you know, it's gonna be expensive.
I'm gonna pay for Jared Goff in Detroit and Stafford
in LA. Let's go for it. Big advantage. But I'm
watching the Packers tonight and think about this. Ten of
(05:27):
thirty two teams in the NFL, thirty one percent of
the NFL has five wins or fewer for a couple
of weeks to go. So the Saints have five and
they'll lose tonight Carolina. The Jets in Chicago have four,
four and eleven. Vegas, Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, and New England
(05:47):
are three and twelve, and the Giants are two and thirteen.
So that's ten of thirty two teams. That was only
five last year. It's doubled. That is a really really
large bottom and unwatchable part of the NFL feels very
much like the NBA. It really does. I mean, thirty
(06:08):
percent of the NBA or more as unwatchable. And I
think there are two reasons for that number. One more
and more because a rule changes and culture. Quarterback just
means more. I mean, there's only one great quarterback in
the NFL. That's not going to make the playoffs. Joe Burrow,
cheapest owner in the league, terrible defense, shaky o line,
(06:32):
and he's still fighting for a playoff spot. They may
make it. Statistically very little chance, but they may make it.
He's the only great quarterback that won't make the playoffs.
If you have one year in, if you have a
good rookie quarterback, Jayden Daniels, Boon Nicks, you're in. Michael Pennix,
my guess now is going to win the remaining games
for Atlanta, They'll be in. If you just have a
(06:53):
competent rookie quarterback, a penex down the stretch, Bick, Jaden Daniels,
You're Inquarterback's more important than ever. And number two is
billionaire owners now the poorest owners billionaire and it wasn't
like that ten years ago. And billionaire owners are less patient.
Firing as staff and having to pay forty five million
(07:14):
dollars is more of a rounding air, and so you
have more chaos among coaching staffs and more chaos in
the coaching community. So between it's more quarterback centric and
more impulsive owners. You just have more hot messes in
the NFL. And I'm watching tonight. I mean, I'm one
(07:35):
of these guys that can sit down and watch almost
any NFL team, Giants, unwatchable, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas, hard
to watch Carolina. With Bryce Young, I can watch a
little Jets, Aaron Rodgers, I'll watch Chicago, I'll watch Saints tonight, unwatchable.
So it's just interesting. It's something I've really changed my
(07:59):
mine on is that having an owner I always thought
was a huge advantage, But I think Green Bay going
forward having no owner because I now believe because of
the impulsive nature of billionaires, richer owners less patient, more impulsive.
There's only about four to five great owners. I think
(08:21):
the Hunt family in Kansas City's excellent. Stan Kronkey with
the Rams is really excellent. You know Robert Kraft. People
will argue he's frugal but pretty solid owner. But there's
a lot of average to below average owners right now.
There's more good quarterbacks and good coaches in the NFL
than great owners. And I think going forward, you're allowed
(08:43):
to be much more patient. I mean, you're allowed to
sit Aaron Rodgers on the bench for three years and grow.
You couldn't do that if you had an owner. No
way you could have a first round quarterback and not
rush him onto the field. The owner would be harping
every year. There's no way you could have Jordan Love
sit for three years as Aaron was getting prickly and
(09:05):
high maintenance and passive aggressive, and owner would have stepped
in and said, ship him, let's play the kid. Just
why do you think Green Bay, more than any NFL franchise,
can keep using this formula, drafting, you know, high end
quarterbacks first round and not playing him for three years.
You could not do that. Even with a good owner.
You couldn't do it. There'd be too much pressure. I mean,
(09:28):
I think you'd be surprised how often owners listen to
sports talk and listen to fans. Gms are too busy
to listen, so are coaches. Players don't really care. Billionaire
owners who have people under them want to get the
temperature of fans. In the media, and I mean, there's
(09:50):
no question that New York media is influenced. Woody Johnson
influenced by the New York media firing Robert Sala. No,
everybody was banging on him. And if Woody Johnson's not listening,
his kids are listening. We've heard stories about Woody Johnson's
kids having influence. So I think it's a real advantage
(10:11):
for Green Bay going forward. And I believe strongly in this,
and I never used to think it is that as
the wealth and the net worth has gone up ten
times for owners, you don't have to worry about Brian
Gouden Kunst, Mark Murphy. Who are they answering to the
Packers board And it's you know, not a lot of
(10:34):
power there. So you know, Washington Green Bay, and I
don't think it's a coincidence that they have been able
with the last two star quarterbacks to just let him
sit for three years. No way in the world could
you do that with an owner, even a good owner.
So tip of the cat to the Packers. Some more
thoughts on college football. There was a lot of angry
(10:57):
reactions to college football, and I really thought the games
would be more competitive. But in retrospect, you know, college
teams struggle on the road, and I think you have
to realize with certain things like as sports fans, especially
football fans in America, were sort of spoiled, right, I mean,
(11:17):
you have the Pacific ten o'clock window, the one o'clock window,
Sunday night, Monday night. It's very formulaic. In the NFL,
got to have a quarterback to win. You have four
or five major broadcast teams. You really know what to
expect when you roll out of bed on a Sunday morning.
With the NFL, you got your Red Zone early, your
Big Fox games, CBS games, late Sunday night Football, NBC,
(11:39):
Monday Night ESPN. You get used to it. And college
football is a little bit of a barnyard musical. It's
you know, it's games starting early, mid late. You never know,
you turn on a game Saturday at midnight, you'd find
something on. You know, there's just games everywhere, and it's
always been a sport that has blowouts. And so I
guess in retrospect, as this tournament expands to fourteen or
(12:02):
sixteen teams, you're just gonna get blowouts. That's just the
way it is. I mean, I'll say this again, go
back to Nick Saban's heyday, that twelve year run where
they were really dominant. There were years there weren't three
teams that could compete with them on a neutral field,
maybe LSU, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson if they had good
quarterback play maybe, so don't expect the twelfth best team
(12:28):
and the eleventh, the tenth, and the ninth and the
eighth going forward to play road games and to compete.
I mean, hell, I'm watching Tennessee get steamrolled and they
got pros. They don't have Ohio States pros, but they
got pros. And I think we just have to understand
that the one similarity between the college football regular season
and the college football Playoff is these are nineteen and
(12:51):
twenty year old kids and they are extremely influenced by circumstances.
And like tonight, the Saints are a bad team in
Green Bay, they'd lose at home, They'd lose in Green Bay.
That's that's not a circumstance. That's a personnel issue, coaching issue.
But in the NFL, you know, you go on the
(13:11):
road right now in Vegas, they consider the home field
advantage to be a point to a point and a half.
Because of improved technology and improve travel, teams just travel
smarter than they did eight, nine, ten years ago. But
I mean, people are really freaking out about the college
football Playoff, and I mean it's better than the alternative
(13:32):
bowl games with empty stands. Going forward with the nil
with players who don't really want to play in them.
Some do you know, some six win teams. It means
a lot to end up in, you know, a bowl game.
But a lot of these big name schools that are disappointing.
I mean, just look atf Ohio State wasn't playing in
the playoff this year. They'd be in like the you know,
(13:53):
the Citrus Bowl or something. You know, seven eight, ten
guys on that roster. They're looking to the NFL. Some
would even play. So you take a deep breath. We're
a little spoiled by the NFL and the quality generally,
the time, the structure, the formulaic nature to it. You know,
it's the margins in college football on any given Saturday,
(14:15):
there's twenty blowouts. Sometimes when you have good teams square off,
you know, I mean Ohio State and Tennessee those are
blue bloods. That thing was over in eight minutes. It
wasn't even competitive generally. In the NFL. You know, Ravens
face the Steelers, Chiefs face the Texans. You know, you
kind of feel like both teams have a chance. One
team may be better. Home field matters a little, but
(14:38):
you kind of know, you know, if you get two
good quarterbacks and two good coaches. I mean the Jets
and the Rams. I mean you got Aaron Rodgers Matt Stafford,
and that was a good football game. The better team
should have won and did. There's a competitive football game
for three quarters. They're all pros. So I think the
college football playoffs is just going to get better and better.
But we just got to bake it in college teams
(15:01):
on the road, even talented ones. Things go sideways really fast,
really fast. The volume
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