Hour 3: LaVar, Brady & Jonas – Lamar Jackson Contract Negotiations

Deshaun Watson’s contract is still complicating negotiations with Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson’s deal didn’t make things any easier. After week 1, the Pac-12 is already eliminated from the College Football Playoff and a breakdown the logistics behind expansion. Plus, the return of the BQ News.

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hear an update on the Lamar Jackson contract situation with
Baltimore Ravens. Alright, so here we go. This was the

(01:24):
head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, John Harbaugh, with a
with a major, major update on Lamar and his in
his contract with the team. You know, I don't have
any updates on that. There's nothing that I'm aware of.
It's been football, football, football for for players and coaches,
and um, that's kind of where we're at. My interactions
with Lamar have been all football, and he's been focused
and locked down on that. It sounds like a guy

(01:46):
who was tired of talking about it. That's what it
sounds like to me. Uh So, Lamar Jackson still no
deal done. Josina Anderson of CBS Sports HQ said that
there's an improved offer that is out there to Lamar,
but that Steve but Joddy is never going to sign
off on the type of guarantees that Deshaun Watson got
or a deal like that. So this is where we

(02:08):
are currently at with Lamar Jackson, and the countdown is
on because he did implement that deadline once the season started,
no more contract talks, so half have fun with that.
So here we go, Lamar Jackson. I'm still not believing that,
but I just can't believe this has a bit done
by now that either he hasn't agreed to something or

(02:28):
they haven't you know, provided him with something that would
be you know, not not Deshaun Watson like. Look, I
think we've seen now after the Russell Wilson deal, which
if you looked at everyone who's trying to re up
right now, right, Russell Wilson probably made the most sense
heading into this year of the player that would have
gotten something close to a Deshaun Watson deal. And and

(02:51):
the reason I'm saying that it is, Look, he's one
to his super Boy has been to two. He's he's
been a prolific passer, and you know, obviously Denver gave
up a lot to go get him, and so in
order to make it work, make sure he's there for
the long haul, you'd figure they would have been the
one to offer something close to that probably would have
warranted that. Even like the person he is off the field,

(03:12):
you know, I think you feel pretty good about so
whence he didn't sign that contract, That's where I was like, Okay,
this is gonna fall in line, very similar to after
Kirk Cousins signed his three year, fully guaranteed deal when
he first got the Minnesota I really thought. I guess
I was naive. I thought like, oh, there it is,
like we want guaranteed contracts, like this is how they're

(03:34):
gonna have to do it. Like one player is gonna
take the chance to do it. He's gonna sign that
contract and everyone's gonna fall suit. And then no one
followed suit. So you know, I guess that's that. That
was kind of where we're at with the Shawn Watson deal,
like it's just an outlier. It's an anomaly. We're not
going to see it again. And if that's what Lamar
Jackson is looking for, I don't think any organization is

(03:54):
gonna sign them to that. I just don't. I don't
think anyone was as desperate as that Cleveland Browns were
once they you know, wanted to I guess, move on
from Baker Mayfield and we're and looked at the options,
were like, well, Deshaun Watson's is the only only option
we've really got and so let's go, you know, given
an offer he can't refuse, so he doesn't go to
Atlanta and the rest is history. But I just I

(04:17):
can't believe that, you know, he's going into his final
year of his deal. He's now staring franchise tags or
free agency, however you want to look at it. They're
not letting him go though he's staring at dead in
the face, and it's it's hard to believe that the
Baltimore and him haven't gotten something done. Surprised Kyler Murray
got a deal done before Lamar Jackson. H not, I

(04:38):
mean not really because they were so upfront about it,
you know, and and he didn't get the type of
deal that Lamar Jackson probably is is seeking. Like it's
a different, different deal. Listen, I do think that a
contract like the Deshaun Watson contract will happen and will
be beyond that. It's just not I hate to say

(04:59):
this today, it's just not Lamar Jackson. Now, if somebody
like the kid for the Chargers, you know, Herbert, if
he is to throw up prove outright a burrow like
the Bangals don't have the money but it might not.
But it might not be the Bengals. It might be
an organization. It might be like in Atlanta, it might

(05:21):
be a Carolina It could it could be a team
and in the next year or two that says to themselves,
if we can deliver ourselves this type of player, then
we can put ourselves in and contention for a Super Bowl.
It's funny you bring up Atlanta and Carolina because they
are teams that you look at and go, well, they're
going to be in the market for a quarterback very soon. Possibly,

(05:44):
it's assuming you know, Marcus Mariota doesn't work out or
Baker Mayfield isn't could be a guy just you know
that that injury. But I mean he could. He could
be a guy that fills the bill. But if he's not,
you're talking about teams like that. Yeah. And both of
those teams were in on the Deshaun Watson contract negotiator

(06:05):
and the trade potentially, and both of them ended up
not landing Deshaun Watson because they weren't coming anywhere close
to the deal that Cleveland was willing to offer him.
It feels like Jimmy Hasselm is on an island by himself.
It piste off a lot of other owners, no other organization.
That's what you like it. Other owners can be upset

(06:28):
about it. But what happens is whenever a guy gets
a contract like that, they have now reset the market.
But there's been two deals done since then and they're
nowhere close to that. Yeah, and I get that, And
you know, it's a hard one for me to to
kind of make sense of in terms of, you know,
next guy up, Like it's always next guy up, and

(06:51):
and so there have been some next guys up to
get contracts, but there's going to eventually be a next
guy up that gets more than what what Shaun Watson
has gotten. And I mean there are some contracts that
are higher and number than Deshaun Watson's is just not
as much guaranteed money in the contract. But I think
that those quarterbacks are out there that are going to

(07:14):
reset the market as the next one up. Again, I
just don't think that. I mean, for what it's worth,
it's just not Lamar Jackson right now. The reality is,
you know, Aaron Rodgers contract which is fifty million a year,
right like that pays more out per year than Watson's does.
It's just like for example, if I got if I
go to a bank and I'm Deshaun Watson, I could

(07:37):
take out whatever debt I want against that because it's
all guaranteed, like they's they're they're not going to take
that away from him. It's all guaranteed. And so he
can go get a huge loan and and pay it
back if he wants or what however he wants a
structure because that that bank knows, yeah, a line of credit.
That bank knows he's making that money. There's no one

(07:59):
else who can say that they've got two and thirty
million fully guaranteed coming to them. So you know, to
LaVar's point, it is resetting the market. It's just you're
not gonna see someone else reset it until probably Josh Allen,
you know, honestly when he re ups again. Like like
he's young enough, he's good enough. I think the Bagoula

(08:21):
family has enough money, and so they might be one
of those those franchisees you're looking at, because any of
the other teams you're talking about, like Carolina Atlanta, like
if if Ritter's the guy, okay, but we're probably he
wasn't a first round pick, so we're probably three years
away from that. If Carolina was looking at someone, it
was same thing with I guess Kraal, evenough I don't,
I don't think he's that guy. Um, you know you're

(08:42):
still looking three years away from that, like or they're
or they're gonna draft one. And if they draft one
in the first round high like a Bryce Young, who
I will I'll sit here and tell you he's the
best college He's the best college football quarterback. That kid
should be number one in next year's draft. If he's not,
it's because teams are just against his his heights size,

(09:03):
but he is damn he is good anyway. It's like
that guy's the next guy that may get it, Like
like he's the guy that I'm looking at that Like
he's not even in the NFL right now, and he
should be the next one that gets it because I
think it's gonna be that good once he gets there.
Doesn't wonder where the cap is on all of this.
At what point does the numbers stop going up? Because

(09:25):
there's I mean there are probably they're guys like me
and Joe Green and you know Male Blunt's you know
the guys I grew up around. They're sitting there like
they were seeing our money and they were like, oh
my gosh, I used to deliver newspapers and milking off season. Here,
look at the money you guys are making now. Now

(09:47):
Guys like us are sitting there like, oh my gosh,
I used to drive a five hundred and that's five hundred.
Now they're driving maybaps and private jets like yeah, I
mean like driving, not even flying. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
What do you think, Uh, what do you think the contract?

(10:10):
If they do get so how how's this gonna play out?
If he doesn't get the deal done this year he
bets on himself, then they're just gonna franchise him, right,
I mean, that's that's where this is going. And then
who So he's not going anywhere. I mean, he's going
to be a Baltimore Raven barring injury or something catastrophic
or it starts to turn into a scenario where it

(10:31):
makes sense to get a deal done if he If
he balls out this year and they put him on
a franchise tag, you just gotta go ahead. And it
might be hard feelings because it's like I bet on myself.
You guys should pay me, you should be happy to
pay me. But if you're not going to pay me
the way that I want to be paid, he's still

(10:53):
in a position where he's going to have to seriously,
seriously take a step back and could look at what
it is that he's being offered and say, do I
want to play out a franchise tag and possibly one
more another one next year, or or do I take
this contract that's in front of me that guarantees me

(11:15):
no matter what. As as Q was saying that this
is what I'm going to make, I mean, at some
point you gotta, I mean, unless you just feel confident
staying on one year deal. Look at dak and Dallas.
Dallas could have gotten that deal done for a lot
less than what it ended up getting done at. But
they kept going back and forth and that was all
part of the negotiation. And and Jerry loves spending money,

(11:40):
loves at stuff. It was to say Jerry wouldn't do
it for Lamar. You know that's true next year or
two or hey, if if to it doesn't work out, Miami,
thanks Jerry. With the Jerry Jones, that's like how boys

(12:05):
a rich person thing where they'll like just throw money
at problems or talking about how much money they had
to spend on, Like I bet Jerry was like man,
Dak Prescott, he really got us, had to pay a
lot extra for him. You know, I just say that,
didn't he know? He's like he got the best of us.
But like it's like a rich person thing, like the
people will tell you who are really really wealthy, like

(12:27):
how much money they lost or how much money they
had to spend on something that shouldn't how much they have,
Like when they're really, really, really rich, they were telling
you how much they had to spend or lost on
something like because they have so much more than that
that it doesn't even like hit them as far as like,
oh you lost that much, Okay, that's more than I

(12:50):
could ever imagine making. But that's how much you lost.
Oh got it? Okay, it's it's you talked about this.
I don't know if this was off the air on
the air at one point. Sort of how it works
when it comes to these contracts that certain owners just
can't afford it, like the Bengals to where how do
how does it work? They have to have and it's

(13:11):
got to be there that they can draw from and
if they don't have that cash, they can't offer a
deal like Jimmy has them offered it Deshaun Watson. So
there's so how many How many owners are in a
position to do that? Not many? I mean that's why,
like you see Stan Cronky able to pay out, you
know it to so many superstars, all these large signing

(13:34):
bonuses because of the cash flow that he's got coming in,
and so they're able to spread out that signing bonus
over the lifetime of the deal. And the other thing
you've seen organizations do um to help lessen that impact,
and you'll hear people refer to as kicking the can
down the road, is they'll put on avoidable years in
the contract. So you know, they'll right into a contract

(13:57):
it's a three year extension, but really you've got two
extra years or three extra years attached onto that deal
and they're all avoidable years. And so you're like, wait,
why would they do that? Well, it's because they want
to spread out that signing bonus over that five or
six year period as opposed to the three years were.
Really that's what it is. And that then what that

(14:17):
does is it obviously you know, impacts the salary cap
for the two or three years after that, players like
done and retired or even there like Drew Brees is
something we mentioned earlier. You know, his his cap it
was still at least I think what last year affecting
the team and maybe even still this year. I have
to go back and look. But there's other scenarios like
Tony Romo was like that with the Dallas Cowboys, and

(14:40):
teams are willing to do that, you know, because there's
they're willing to say, Hey, we're gonna go through a
rebuilding period or rebuilding phase. Let's just go ahead and
kick the can down the road. Try to win while
we can. Now. Jeez, no, maybe maybe we'll get this done.
And Lamar Jackson is going to be there long term
if not. Gambles on himself and we get to see
but his style. I'm just prize to your point. I

(15:01):
can't believe we're still sitting here and he doesn't have
a deal like I don't. I don't understand. I wonder
how far apart they are as far as the money goes.
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up later on this hour, we are gonna have the
return of the b Q News. Been way way way
too long, way too long. Need our fix, need a
little bit of a bump here on to Tuesday. You
know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I guess yeah,
you know. Yeah. By the way, and it's been since

(16:10):
it's been a little while. You've got some good stuff
for us. Nothing good, okay, that's good, good, alright, very fun.
Nothing looks nothing to look forward to him, Yeah, nothing
to see here. How's your Charlie Batche coming along? It's
not good? Come on man, why we listened during the break.
It's not that hard, not gonna track. I think you
can do it. He was practicing. He really was proctic.

(16:33):
I was trying to I can't get it, can't get
it done. Um hey, how about the Pack twelve Welcome
to college? How about USC? Yeah? But USC getting done? Yeah?
And I mean how about Oregon Utah? I mean Pack
twelve just playing all the hits here and we one
of the college football season. I mean it's just everybody

(16:55):
looked Grave and U c l A in front of
a packed house, I mean just in their room. All
they were they were concerned about COVID at that game.
They were like these people are on top of one another.
It was social distancing. Uh. But they had no other choice, like,
well there's nobody around what he what he wants to do.

(17:16):
Um yeah, it's not not the not the best look
for the conference. Can we just say this that they're
basically already eliminated. I mean, let's just put it that way.
And here's why. And the Pact twelve has been known
for doing this for quite some time. Honestly, one of
my biggest gripes with the College Football Playoff is them
not demanding that conferences force every conference to play the

(17:39):
same amount of conference games. Now, I don't care if
you play eight or nine. I really don't like that.
That to me, it doesn't matter what they choose. You know,
the SEC doesn't play nine, Um, the PACT twelve does.
There's other conferences who do. And I think the hard
thing is if you're not playing the same amount of
conference games, Like there's that one game and that one

(18:01):
opponent that knows you well, um, because they're in your conference,
and they might match up better than an FCS opponent
or a lesser opponent from a group of five, you
know school that you end up playing in one of
those non conference games. That's usually it ends up happening.
So the PAC twelve is always because they played nine
conference games, they've always stumbled like they've they've had For example,

(18:26):
USC is probably the only one you're looking at now
saying all right, that's their best chance of making getting
a team to the playoff. And the reason I say
that is, look, Utah losing the Florida hurts because even
if Utaw wins out and that's their only loss to Florida,
Florida probably isn't getting into the playoff. The way it
looks right now, it's probably gonna be Obama and Georgia
as good as they both looked, and Georgia beat the

(18:48):
life out of Oregon. And so the problem is if
if Oregan, for example, beats Utah, or if Oregan, for example,
however that ends up playing out, if you see some
of that that parody or in fighting taking place in
the Pac twelve, they're gonna knock each other out of
even being a part of the College Football Playoff because
in the non conference games they haven't fared well at

(19:09):
least compared to the SEC. So USC now would being
the only team that you know, won this past week
from those teams that we look at the top of
the Pack twelve, they've got a tough road. They're gonna
probably have to beat Utah. If you think Utah is
gonna end up playing in the Pactchwalk Championship game, they
have to beat him twice because they already played them
once this season. They've got to beat Notre Dame, who

(19:30):
I understand lost, but that's a team that I think
is gonna be playing much better football by the end
of the year. Considering how they look to start the
year on the road versus number two team in the country.
So I just it's an uphill battle. I think that,
I honestly think that after one week of college football
and they're already eliminated from the College Football Playoff, I'm
so perplexed at how bad Georgia beat him. Look, I

(19:57):
know we had the conversation before. It's like they lost
a lot out of players, Like this is a team
that's going to have to try to figure it out
because of all of the leadership and all of the
talent that they lost to the to the draft. And
it's like they came out there and they looked like
they were last year's team. Yeah, why weren't they last
year's tave? I mean they beat Oregon so bad. I

(20:21):
mean it was bad, and Oregon is not a bad
football team, Like they have talent on that team, and
they got man handled. That was that was that called
uh what y'all call it? Boat raced? Boat race? Jeez,
pistol whipped that you're not You're not gonna hit that.
You're not you're not gonna hit the button on the Come.

(20:42):
What are you talking the button on that come? I
don't know you in tombstone. I Clanton got pistol whipped
like four times. And I mean it's a great deflection, Jonas,
but you can't use pistol. It's not socially point being.

(21:03):
That's why if if if you're a Notre Dame fan
and anybody says, hey, so why do you feel somewhat
good about what happened on Saturday at Columbus? You go, oh,
did you see Georgian Oregon? Because it could be worse.
You could be Oregon go to a neutral site. Yes
it was Atlanta, but you know, neutral site and get
absolutely dismantled. Wasn't even Yes, they were leading at halftime

(21:30):
and didn't go ahead to the fourth quarter. I think
it was late in the third and then it was
the ninety five yard drive which sealed it. Left in
the fourth. Yeah, um, but I just I look at Oregon.
I got at no point in that game. Were they
any threat to Georgia at any point in that game?

(21:50):
And and yeah, this is Georgia who everybody, even though
they just won a national title, says they lost all
these guys in the draft, and you've got Alabama who's
on on a revenge tour. And it just felt like
George is gonna play second fiddle. They've got the tough team,
they've got the for what it's worth, eleventh rank team
in the country. It's on a neutral site, and just

(22:11):
wipe them clean. Aesthetically, they're nice to look at, though,
I mean, they'll continue to be a team that's nice
to look at. Yeah, I guess at some point, though,
it's got to go beyond just all of the swag
that you get, and you gotta win, you know, you
gotta you gotta be able to win games. But I mean,
Oregon did look nice. I wonder how far they're going

(22:32):
to drop in the polls because the top from the
new Top twenty five hasn't come out yet. I don't
I think it comes out. Is it gonna come out
later on this morning? I'm assuming it'll come out later today.
I don't really care. Okay, well to the College Football
Playoff comes out with their's Okay, I mean they're sitting
at eleven. You think they fall completely out of the
top twenty five. How aboult they get them out of
the top twenty five? We get Penn stayed in the

(22:53):
top two. I don't think they fall out because they're
playing a top five team. What's Georgia one too three?
There were three? I think, yeah, that's not you're not
going to drop too far. So you took a big game,
you took a risk. It's like the best time to
do it. Even though you'll say, yeah, they they potentially
are definitely out so to speak, if you really think

(23:17):
about it. Well, that was in Atlanta to the Mercedes
Pens done right, Yeah, yeah, that was that neutral site
sit site. I mean, at least like l s U
in Florida State are playing back to back years in
neutral site games, and I think you've got this year
was in New Orleans, which is not a neutral site.

(23:37):
That's all l s got, and then you've got next year,
I believe in Orlando or something like that, and that's
obviously closer to Tallahassee. So it's like at least they're
like acknowledging, Okay, this isn't really a neutral site game,
but we'll make it fair. In this case. It's like, yeah,
we're gonna have you to complay a neutral site game
in Atlanta. Oh it sounds great. Can't wait to show

(23:57):
up in our all green uniforms. Gonna ask you. And
by the way, in the state of Georgia and in Atlanta,
the Georgia Bulldogs are the most popular team, Like they're
more I think they're more popular than the Falcons than
the Braves. Then, yeah, I think I think that's that
team like galvanizes the entire state. Yeah, right there. I

(24:20):
think I think it's because the University of George has
that dog. Yeah, that's good point about if you got
that whole. By the way, tell me, tell me if
you think, tell me what you think. Because the college
football Playoff expansion came out and they've got the twelve
teams and they got the four the top four conference
championships are gonna get buys and then they're gonna, you know,

(24:42):
do the highest ranked teams according to the rankings. At
the end of the year, they're gonna make up the
other ones. And so people have complained about, you know,
what is this going to do? And we've talked about, well,
is what is this going to do to rivalries and
things like that. It's not going to do anything. Those
rivalries are still going to count, but because now you're
gonna have more wiggle room and they're going to try
and get this done for four but the tentative plan is,

(25:06):
don't you feel like teams are gonna take chances like
an Oregon, like a Notre Dame early in the season,
knowing they've got a little bit of leeway now that
more teams are gonna be able to compete for a
national title. I think the Week one matchups are going
to be better because I hope. So. The problem is,
no one who's ever lost an opener has made it

(25:26):
into the college football playoff, so that history would stand
against like Notre Dame this year, Utah this year, or
what you're referring to. I mean, look, we could go
back and forth about the philosophy of a playoff system
and if it takes away from the regular season. But
the hard thing is, like I think the greater conversation

(25:47):
in regards to like expansion in the playoff that no
one really talks about is is that the best way
of determining your champion? Like, is that the best way
of doing it? And the reason why I asked is
because like a lot of people don't realize this. Do
you guys know how many and do we talk about
this last week, how many teams actually were a part

(26:07):
of March Madness? Initially, excuse me, the n c A Tournament,
I should say, was it thirty two? Was that the
original it was eight? It was eight up until and
then they expanded to sixty four teams, And so think
about that, like when when you look at the amount
of teams that repeated, and I think the n c

(26:30):
A Tournament that give or take started like nineteen thirties
six or something like that. I can't exactly remember. It
wasn't even biggest tournament, like the n I t was
a bigger deal, bigger tournament until the n c A
Tournament was able to kind of get some more TV
revenue and pump it up. But the point why I
bring it up is because go look at when the
n c A Tournament started and when they expanded to

(26:51):
sixty four teams, there were way more back to back
champions Like it was just an easier path, Like it
was easier for the best teams to go through an
eight team bracket to go repeat. I mean John wouldn't
had his glory years with u C l A then
I don't think he would have done that because we've
only seen that twice since the n c A Tournament

(27:12):
has expanded to sixty four teams. We've seen Florida do
it and then one other team to do it since then.
But so if you look at expansion, like my argument
would be, well, we're not going to see repeats, which
like Alabama has been kind of like every other year,
but they're always a part of it, and we I
don't believe we've seen a back to back champion at
least in regards to the College Football Playoff. But I

(27:34):
think what you're doing by expanding and creating more games
is making it more difficult for those best teams to
be able to have that path to go win it.
So that's in one way good for college football, but
I think it also brings up the question of is
this really the best way of determining who our champion
is versus what we had in the BCS era right

(27:55):
where we just had this formula where we selected the
top two teams or what we have now where we
have this committee who decides who are the top four
teams and they playoff for it. Like, I think that's
that's the question that like no one's really answering right
now in regards to how we're going about constructing an
expanded playoff. And I think it should be at the
forefront of this conversation. The other one, too, is when

(28:16):
people say, well, it's gonna water down the the championship
for college football. What because there's some teams that aren't
as good as other teams. So what are we gonna do,
like not having NFL playoffs, We're just going to crown
a champion and say we don't want to water down
the Super Bowl. Let's just get right to the big
game and let these are one game playoffs, like so,
so the chances like who the hell knows? You have
one bad half and all of a sudden, you know,

(28:39):
the twelve seed beats the five seed, like we've seen
happen a bunch in college basketball. Every single year, there's
a twelve beating a five. If that happens in college football.
I I do like the idea though, that the early
round games are gonna be at home, like the higher
seed is going to be at home. That atmosphere at
those places, like can you imagine Penn Stayed hosting a

(29:01):
playoff game? Good God, I mean I can. That's yeah,
that's how much fun would that be? Though? It would
be a ton of fun. I think the hard thing
is is, you know, there's a lot of other like
safety you know, issues and things they have to look
at as far as like is the field able to
potentially you know withstand playing a game in up in

(29:22):
the north and inclement weather at that time like that,
that's where it becomes a little bit more difficult. Like
I'm more of a fan of, you know, celebrating, you know,
the accomplishment of being a part of the playoff and
having them go to some of these bowls and so
whether it's the New Year six and how you incorporate
them or however you go about constructing it, Like I'm
more of an advocate for that as much as people

(29:42):
champion or cheer for the home games like you've got
in the NFL, which I do think. I think it
incentivizes you to obviously like want to be able to
have the best record as possible, Right, what's more revenue,
But it's also just you feel like you have a
better chance of winning, right if you're playing at home,
and better chance of advancing. My only issue is like
the buys, Like I'm not I'm not so sure that

(30:06):
you know the college that the top four college teams
deserve a bide and I know we still have it
in the NFL structure, but let's be real. Eventually that's
gonna go to eight teams on each side, and we're
gonna have you know, half the league in the playoffs
and no one's gonna get a buy. I mean, that's
that's just the direction that it's going, at least with
if they want to keep you know, pumping out TV revenue,
UM that that's one of the ways of doing it.

(30:27):
So it's a it's a hard discussion to have because
I do think UM expansion is needed. Like the more
teams who are involved in the playoff, the more teams
can say, hey, we have a shot of winning a
national championship. We went to the playoffs last year, and
I think that's good. I think the narrative to that
all these old look at the semi final games, they're
all blowouts, Like I want gonna get more of that. No,
you're not. You know, look at the Rose Bowl last year,

(30:50):
there was a phenomenal game. Both Ohio State in Utah
would have been part of that playoff last year in
a twelve team format and so you would have seen
obviously I extremely competitive, compelling game where the winner in
Ohio State would have advanced. I mean, I actually I
would actually argue the opposite. I think you're gonna see
more parity after the top really two teams and as

(31:13):
far as how they all play off um and so
I think that's a good thing for Bull season because
it does you do get the sense and feel that
with guys opting out not to play in the Bull
games everything else, that it's it's kind of difficult sometimes
I want to watch. Look per New Tennessee in the
Music City Bowl was one of the best games all
year long. Like that game was unbelievable last year, and

(31:33):
that was a quote unquote exhibition game. I just I
just haven't and having a hard time finding a lot
of flaws with with the college football playoff expansion. I
don't know, there's a lot of people bitching about it.
I can't find a lot wrong with it. But it
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It's a great song for what Jonas was just talking about.
I'm glad it's an instrumental though, like highlight film of
like envisioning. It is uh, I was being educated, LaVar
was walking me through. I was being educated. I was

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(33:34):
Here's Brady Quinn, an ice cream truck driver and Staten Island,
was arrested yesterday for allegedly luring a ten year old
girl into his truck. Yeah, pretty bad deal. The man
was twenty years old and the accusing allegedly picking up
to this. Uh you know that this child here's the

(33:57):
only problem. For whatever reason, the ten a girl lied
to her parents, who then obviously reported what the girl
had told him, that he was trying to abduct her,
all this stuff, and so he was detained and arrested.
Yet they come to find out the entire story was fabricated,
fabricated and made up. Wait, so it never happened even

(34:20):
though he got arrested in real life. Yep, jesus. So
can he file a lawsuit? Can like? Can he sue
or for I mean, how how does that work? So
you can just make stuff up and then we're just
nothing happens to the person who makes the false accusation.
Just I don't know where this goes from here, But
you'd had that any ten year old couldn't just make

(34:42):
something up like that, even though there are ten you
have to be aware of that, um and and they
couldn't damage someone's reputation like that. Yeah, that's rough, pretty tough.
Yeah that sucks. How about this, Um, do you guys
have any sort of like like sleep app they like,
do you guys snore? I think when I'm super super tired,
I do. Yeah, I'm the same when I'm when because

(35:05):
I sleep on my back at all times, so I
never I tend to a snore sometimes when I'm really
out of it, really exhausted. A new study is saying
that people who snore may have an increased risk of cancer. Yeah,
those who snore. Um, there's a good amount that have
obstructive sleep apnea. It's a disordered that affects a lot

(35:26):
of people. Obviously, it presents loud snoring or gasping for
air at times at night or even like daytime sleepiness.
That's kind of some of the symptoms however you look
at it. But um, there's a study now that's come
out from a medical conference in Barcelona, and it's basically
saying that you know, especially if you are over wheat
or excuse me, overweight over weeks over week, um beasts

(35:48):
have diabetes. Smoke consumed large amounts of alcohol, you're even
more at risk for developing forms of cancer when combined
with having sleep apnea. So you know what I'd like
year once, I'd like to hear instead of all the
things that could cause cancer, how about like some things
that could like you know, prevent cancer or cure cancer.

(36:10):
What we're going to get to that better than that
is if all those things that you did that were
bad actually cured or kept cancer away. We'll keep doing
this away all of the horrible things that you like,
bad habits, the fuji eat. Many people working out be
walking around the lungdoor right now, just smoke away. Smoke,

(36:30):
yeah right, and that that keeps bickness and the illness
is away. You're still smoking. Imagine that world there There
probably is somebody out there who still does it all,
who still rips heaters first thing in the morning, and
they're in their seven perfectly healthy, probably like who probably
in the who do you think the oldest smoker is?

(36:52):
I don't know, I don't know, Like, well, what do
you the oldest person to last smoking a cigarette with
me on this league? Could you here's oldest known smoker
in the history of the US. Get it. I'm gonna
go to the end of the I'm gonna say it'
I'm gonna say it's Jim Leland. By the way, who

(37:15):
Grappa Godo died at a hundred forty six smoking cigarettes?
A hundred forty six sounds real, that's what it is. Yeah,
I mean, I mean he's not American, but a hundred
lived a hundred Yeah, that's real. That's a bunch of

(37:36):
crap that that's something like Marlborough or those like we're
lucky to get to like Centurion, when when people actually
make it to a hundred forty six, Get out of here,
and he was a smoker, Get out of here. Come on, Lee, alright.
Last story of the day, um high school teacher quitter
classroom um to basically share explicit content and only fans.

(37:59):
She's not a millionaire. Yeah, thanks to this new career. Ah,
we took her a few years, she says, I would
have taken her twenty five years. That she stayed the
same course teaching, and she's happy about it. For families
vacations to Nashville and Hawaii and some other trips she
took solo. But she is uh now found financial freedom. Nice. Yeah,

(38:21):
that's good. I've never had. She's been posting a lot
of photos that would also be very freeing. Yeah. Uh
it was this one and twenty two days, one two years,
one hundred and sixty four days. The oldest documented person
were they were they were they on only fans to France? Yeah,

(38:43):
they were on only fans Okay, yeah, would Jesus everybody's
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