Best of Outkick the Coverage: 09/20/2019

Alex Marvez is in the house to help explain AB’s new drama and talks everything NFL. Clay has a Titan flame thrower moment to start hour 3 and Joel Klatt joins Outkick to talk about being on the road again. Clay gives his Blood Bank Guarantee gambling picks and then gets College football talk from Joel to end a great week! 

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Sports Radio. Let's bring in Alex Marvez. He's our NFL insider.
He joins us an hour to every Friday, all year round.
All right, Alex, let's start here, um before we even
get to Jags Titans, because this broke last night after
that game, which is the Antonio Brown text messages where

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it appears that he's basically threatening a woman who said
that he behaved inappropriately with her. What in the world
is the NFL gonna do here? What have you heard
about their investigation? How does the Antonio Brown drama eventually
play itself out here? Were you using air quotes on
investigation when you said that? I just wanted to make
sure you know, because obviously the New England Patriots are

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not going to do anything on their own right. I
mean they can talk. You know, they leaked something NFL network,
you know, as part of giving you know, trying to
give some insight. I oh, yeah, the Patriots wouldn't have
gone down this road had they known about that, right.
But once they're on this road, of course, you can't
change course. You gotta at Antonio Brown play last week,
of course against the Miami Dolphins. But this one is
a toughie and Antonio Brown may have really done himself

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in I mean, for those who aren't aware, I mean
basically sending out menacing grouped text messages to a woman
who had accused Antonio Brown of basically stiffing her when
it came to you know, money, that was out and
that was the big thing that the Sports Illustrated story,
you know, portrayed. One of the big things that came
out by Robert klemp Go on Monday was the fact
that Antonio Brown has the string up debts. In fact,

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a buddy of mine, chef's staff. Uh, you know, he's
a chef. He got stiffed, oh Stefadeshi, Yeah, I mean
he he's he's a character, I will tell you that.
And he's you know, he's you know again he's a
little bit goofy, but he he's a good guy, right,
and he loves the Steelers and and you know, he
really wanted to try to, you know, get involved with
with a professional athlete and doing something, and he got
stiffer about thirty eight thousand dollars in a catering bill,

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you know. So that being said, though, when when this
article came out of for Antonio Brown to send these
text messages you know, and their screenshots of him the
attorney released him, uh, you know, to be basically saying
let's investigate this woman and putting up photos of her kids,
you know, in these text messages. I mean, my goodness,
what you know, did he Does the NFL have any

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other choice but to act after they? I mean, right,
I mean, and you know, for him to to include
his attorney in all this, and you know, it's just
it's just a real mess. I mean, I think Antonio
Brown this time, while the league I think could have
maybe just said, look, this is a domestic issue and
we're not going to get involved in this one. I
don't know if he's given them any other choice but

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to act. Of course, a lot of people are wondering
for their fantasy football teams, which is really the most
important part of all this, right, whether he's going to
play on Sunday. And I don't know if the NFL
acts that quick to be able to investigate this and
and start with this sent with Antonio Brown against that
he doesn't play on Sunday. But how do you not
act immediately when it comes to trying to intimidate somebody
who has maybe potentially cooperating with the NFL to try

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to help in their investigation by whether Antonio Brown broke
its personal comment post. It's next level stupid by him.
All right, let's leave Antonio Brown on the wayside and
talk about the the big win if you're a Jacks fan,
the unmitigated disaster if you are, like me, a Titans
fan from what we saw last night in Thursday Night Football,
I tweeted out Alex that I'm not the kind of

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guy to overreact, but I want the owner forced to
sell the team. I want the head coach fired, I
want the GM fired, and I want the quarterback or placed.
Tell me, I mean the a f C South. So
let's just talk about this for a second. The a
f C South from the moment that Andrew Luck announces
his retirement could not be more wide open, right, because
otherwise I think it's fair to say the Colts were

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going to be clearly the best team in the a
f C South. Andrew Luck retires, Jacob be Brissette replaces him.
That's fine. Jacoby Brissette nowhere near the quarterback that Andrew
Luck is. And then Nick Foles gets knocked out in
the first quarter of the first game for the Jacksonville Jaguars,
and then the Titans managed to get run by Jacoby
Brissette and by Gardner Minshew in the space of five days.

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Tell me why they should not burn the entire village down. Uh, well,
I don't say why they shouldn't. I can just tell
you why they won't. I mean, basically, John Robinson and
Mike were able under contract through two and I don't
see Amy Adams Trunk making any sort of decision at
the moment. They're going to continue to play this out.
The question is first, it's got to start up front
with this offensive line, right, And I know Taylor Lawan
can't play five positions at the same time, but his

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return will help because then you can bump Dennis Kelly
from left tackle to right tackle because unfortunately Jack Conklin
as a shell of the player he once was after
tearing up his knee a couple of years ago. Right,
I mean he was pretty dreadful yet a guy at
right guard who had no business being out there last night,
journeyman Jamal Douglas, he was a turnstyle and then Calais
Campbell showed it. You know, that's part of it. I mean,
Marcus Mariota last night did not have a chance. He

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didn't and the running game couldn't get going. Derrick Henry
huge drop, you know on a screen pass that would
have picked up yards put you in scoring position. Listen.
And I'm not I'm not trying to defend Rabel's coaching
last night. I mean when they went for it on
fourth and sixth at the Jaguars eleven yard line on
the first drive at the second half, you had an
offense that needed some momentum, needed some points on the board,

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and you decided to is shoe that and went for
it on fourth and six knowing how leaky your offensive
line was. The play calling by Arthur Smith four straight
runs to open drives in the second half, when you're
trailing the way that they were, I'm not sure what
that was all about. It was a bad night for
the Tennessee Titans. Look, I'm not again and I agree
with you. The a f C South is wide open
and that's probably why the Titans thing they can get

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back to the drawing board. They have some extra time
now this weekend, try to figure some things out and
get back on track against Atlanta in Week four. There
one and two, Clay, that's the good part about it.
And like you say, nobody's going to run away with
this division. I mean, who do we really like? Deshaun
Watson is about to become the first quarterback in NFL
history unless they short things up against the Chargers on
the road on Sunday, the first quarterback ever since Sachs

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became a stat in two to be sacked four or
more times in nine straight games. Can he really make
it through a season and be effective if he does? Yeah,
I hear you on the Colts and Jacobe bir said,
it's a team that's probably gonna be in it, you know,
one score games up, you know, throughout the year. And
they have a kicking problem right now because then Adam Venitary,

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you know it might be at the very end. They
worked out six kickers on Tuesday, just in case Venitary
can't get his act together. And do we trust in
the Jaguars for the long haul? I mean, and you know,
the Jalen Ramsey situation is going to continue to play
out if he's you know, remaining with that team, is
that going to become a big time distraction? They handled
it great last night, and I gotta set and tell
you the guy looked awesome on the field, right, Maybe
that was his audition to try to get elsewhere, but

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nine tackles, a forced fumble, got beat on, that one
seven yearund passed by Taj Sharp, but that was about
it place. So I mean, I'm just telling to tell
you I understand how frustrating last night was. And I'm
not saying that there's an easy fix on the horizon.
I hope John Robinson starts trying to look for some
offensive lineman. But again, you know that that's a tough situation. Right.
Do you call the Washington Redskins and say what is

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it gonna take to get Trent Williams and cant and
you do you move Taylor to one the right tackle?
I mean, I'm just throwing scenarios out there because I
don't know what they can do at this point to
try to get any better. Seventeen sacks, by the way,
this is from NFL research of Marcus Mariota through three weeks.
That's the most times that a quarterback has been sacked
through three weeks and almost twenty years in the NFL.

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And it's not like he's holding onto the ball that much, right,
Although Corey Davis is I mean, you know, showing all
the signs of being a draft bust, isn't he? I
mean just in terms of where they drafted him. I mean,
you know, Sharp was good last night, Adam Humphreys. I
still think they don't know how to fit him in
this offense. We know how good the Landy Walkers Andy.
By the way, whatever happened to Dean Lewis? Do you
remember him play the guy who was supposed to be
a one two running back combination, you know with Derrick Henry.

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And I'm not saying don't feed Derrick Henry the football,
but you can't find a role for Dion Lewis coming
out of the backfield. I mean, the guy was pretty dark.
Aren't good when you played for the New England Patriots,
right and suddenly after Derrick Henry got had last year,
Matt la Floor forgot that d and Lewis was in
the offense and didn't and didn't use him. So and
I still and I still don't trust the secondary. By
the way, to Cam Wake play last night. Anyone see

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Cam Wake. I'm just wondering. I just haven't seen him.
And it's not like the Jaguars were putting out the
greatest offensive line either play. There there is reason for concern.
But this may be a division, like you say, nine
and seven, eight and eight. It's it's almost like the
NFC South in a way. Who do we like in
the South right now? I mean, do we still like
the Saints and just figure they can weather the storm
with that Drew Brees? You know, the Panthers are falling apart.

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Ron Rivera melts down when I asked, you know, some
questions about Cam Newton walks out on the Carolina media,
You know what I mean? Really? I mean, what was
that about Tampa Bay? Jamis Winson's got a string together,
two good games, you know, something he's rarely done in
his NFL career in Atlanta, I mean, that was an ugly,
ugly win. That is not a very good Falcons team,

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despite the fact that they beat the Eagles on Sunday.
So again, these are going to be some division where
it's really going to probably stay wide open December. I
really don't see any teams running away with it. So
you're Titans have hope play just like the just like
the volunteers on on Saturday against my Florida Gators. Titans
are a titanic. Tennessee has already sunk as the University
of Tennessee. They're already at the bottom of the ocean floor.

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We're talking to Alex Marvez. You can find him on
Twitter at Alex Marvez. Alright, um, you were talking about
a lot of different storylines. So let's go back for
a second here. Uh, let's go to the jag side.
Gardner Minshew, what level of optimism should they have based
on what he has done in his basically first three
games because he effectively came in and played almost the

(09:37):
entirety of that game against the against the Chiefs. Yeah,
why a lot? And you know part look, Clay, and
I'm hate to throw out some football cliches here, but
I'm going to because you know my verbiage maybe isn't.
I don't. I'm not that original, But I will say this,
he has not looked overwhelmed by anything. I mean, you
think about this. You going to the opener, right, and
Nick Foles as your starting quarterback. You're not probably expecting

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to play week one for quarter against Kansas City, and
yet there you are, right because Folds gets banged up
by Chris Jones and suddenly you're thrown in there. And
the guy didn't went to bed. He did. He was
pretty okay last week against Houston on Sunday. You know
a lot of times, you know, first reading out there,
tuck and run, but he didn't make the huge mistake.
And then you saw last night that armed talent play

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the throws that he made. You know last night the
Ded Robinson, that play on the sideline was great. I mean,
he was dropping some dimes last night. And that's the thing.
The accuracy is there. You don't see that in some
of these young quarterbacks. You know, you try to teach
accuracy in the NFL, like Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills, right,
you try to teach the kid how to throw and
his completion percentage has gone up from fifty two point

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four percent about sixty two percent this season. But I
still wouldn't say he's a great thrower. There's more high
percentage passes maybe, but Gardner minshe is a great thrower
and he's not afraid to throw down field. That's the
nice part about it. Look, I'm not ready to declare
him their long term starter and say that Nick Foles
is going to stay in moth balls and he's gotten
wally pipped when he's ready to return in week eleven.

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But man for a sixth round pick for this young man,
and duit he has done. It's really one of the
great stories of the NFL. And a colorful guy, you know.
And let's see, I mean so far, he's handled the
attention really well. As teammates like him. When I've talked
to them, they say he's composed, you know, no panic
in the huddle. They really like him. They're feeding off
his enthusiasm. So maybe Jacksonville found a diamond in the
rough and did it didn't have the tanks like the

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Miami Dolphins to get there. Uh, let's talk about how
bad the Dolphins are and how bad the Jets are,
right now, you've been covering the NFL for a long time.
For people out there who don't really pay attention to
point spreads, it's unheard of for teams to be over
a one point underdog in the NFL. Right that. The
Dolphins going on the road against the Cowboys are over

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three touchdowns and the Jets going on the road against
the Patriots are over three touchdown underdogs. We've got both
of them going on right now. What the world's going
on with these two places? Well, a couple of things here.
And I think that the NFL, I mean, really has
to have a talk about tanking, you know mean, and
the Dolphins are doing it so blatantly. And I don't
know if the answer is putting in a draft lottery

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for the two or three teams at the very bottom
to finish there so you're not guaranteed that number one
overall pick. And maybe this way, teams like the Dolphins
have to be competitive and have to put something decent
on the field because you know that the draft isn't
gonna necessarily be the you know, the answer to your problems.
And by the way, we've seen teams tank and it's
not necessarily proven to be successful. Yeah, you get a

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little bit better, don't get me wrong. But remember the
Oakland Raiders tank, and you know it's taken a couple
of coaching changes and even now they still haven't won
a playoff game since they made the postseason once and
then regressed. I mean, we've seen the Cleveland Browns. I'm
not buying Baker Mayfield right now. Well, yeah, to your point,
in the NBA, when you tank, it's rare or if
you know that a guy's a stud in the NBA

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draft for him to come out and not be a
big time playmaker right Whereas in the NFL, even if
you tank. Let's say that the Miami Dolphins are out
there and they're saying, hey, we tank because we believe
to is gonna be a revelatory when he actually gets
into the NFL. We think he's gonna be a Hall
of Fame caliber player. Let's it's still commonplace for guys
to swing and miss on quarterbacks. It's like a coin

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flip regardless. So even tanking, if you get the number
one overall pick, it's still a coin flip as to
whether or not that guy is gonna end up being
a stud in the NFL. Right. And on top of that,
if you if you're to a tongue of violoa, you
don't have to go to the NFL next year. I mean,
it's probably in your best interest, right and strike while
the iron's hunt. But he's got to know the year
of eligibility can come back and he can come back

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and play for Nick again. If he doesn't think that,
Brian Flores and this Dolphin staff and what gives anyone
confidence at the people on top of the Miami Dolphins,
you know, have the answers. You know, again, it's easy
to lose games. It's hard to build a winner. You know. No, look,
my source tells me that, you know, the Dolphins were
thrilled with what they got from make of Fitzpatrick that

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they didn't they didn't judge him nearly as highly as
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Not sure. You know, the Steelers maybe
a little bit desperate, desperate to make and moved from
INCA because they lost Sean Davis, they're starting safety for
the season and the torn labor hum and they figured,
you know, he's going to be a free agent at
the end of the season. Let's get this guy. But
the first round pick for a team that you know,
no guarantees with Mason Rudolph. That's that's something interesting. I

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will tell you that in Pittsburgh and we'll see how
that plays out. But you're right about the Dolphins being dreadful,
and now Josh Rosen is throwing into the Wolves on
the road against the Dallas Cowboys. Good luck with all that.
And the Jets, you know, I have a little bit
more sympathy for them because of the fact that you've
lost two quarterbacks. I mean the Dolphins, right, the Dolphins
haven't lost any quarterbacks, you know, they just they just
have bad quarterbacks. In the case of the Jets, I mean,

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it's so difficult right now with Luke Fowk and you
know the way that Bill Belichick blows up these young quarterbacks,
and the problems on the offensive line, and I was
talking about one of my sources yesterday said that we
have three areas that we got to shore up, right.
I mean, basically, you know, they know that they need
the offensive line that's gonna need addressing. They've got to
address their secondary, and they've got to address the past rush.

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Those are three big things that need addressing for the
New York Jets. But They're not try trying to lose games.
Adam Gates is trying to build a winning culture and
he doesn't want that hanging over his head. That's not
that's not the way to go for them, And they
don't want to lose all these games. You don't sign C. J.
Mosley Levy on Bell thinking that we're gonna win a
year or two down the road. So for the Jets,
I have some sympathy, just a bad storm of things

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right now. For the Dolphins not so much. They deserve it.
And it's gonna be fifteen more weeks of the Dolphins
going through all these things, you know, and Routo in
sixteen that just can you know? Ruin your future as well?
Why do we Why do players want to listen to
Brian Flores? You know, it undermines him, It undermines the
general manager and Stephen Ross. I mean you talk about
bad ownership play, I mean this guy's I mean horrible owner, horrible.

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I don't care how much money he throws it at
the facility, but he alienated players with his political stuff
earlier this offseason. He can't get out of his own
way when he talks to the media. I mean he's
just a bad, bad owner. We're talking with Alex Marvez.
You can follow him on Twitter at Alex Marvez. You can.
We'll listen to him on Sirius XM and read him
where Sports Illustrated. I mean, not done play. I'm retired.

(16:05):
I'm retired. I'm done. Man. That that what that was
a grind to twenty five years of writing. It was enough, man, Yeah,
I know the feeling, trust me, alright. So best game
of the weekend in the NFL, in my opinion is
the Ravens on the road against the against the Chiefs.
What do you expect to see in this game? Well,
I mean this is the Lamar Jackson litmus test, right,
I mean if if the Chiefs get to a lead,

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and it's fair to say even with the Ravens defense
playing well, but that that offense, when you have Patrick
Mahomes throwing for two hundred seventy four yards and four
touchdowns in one quarter play, you got to go back
to Drew Brees in two thousand and eight, I believe
is what it was for any quarterback whose passed for
more yards in one quarter he passed for two nine
three back then. But But to me, though you know,
the Chiefs put up points at home like you figure

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they will, and Shady McCoy training in the right direction
to play after injuring his ankle last week. Can the
Ravens keep up. I think that's the big thing right now.
We've seen Baltimore play against you know, look, the worst
team in the NFL in my in Miami and the
worst team in the NFL from two thousand and a
team the Arizona Cardinals. Not exactly a great way to
gauge how good this Ravens team is. We can get
a better idea against the chief So if they fall behind,

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kill Lamar Jackson lead a passing offense that can put
up some points. That to me is a big story
in this game. I saw you tweet out about to
hop on the show and you had a tweet from
Colin Kaepernick's agent or whatever else. I'm kind of over Kaepernick, honestly,
but there there have been or I think, so, yeah,
did you know about to talk to NFL? No, no, no, no, no,

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no no. I'm off the Kaepernick stuff. People get it.
You know why he's not playing. We all know why
he's not playing. And there's nothing there's nothing new there
nothing to see here, So is there anything for many
of these teams that that are So we've got eight
guys basically that have gone out with injury as this
season has kind of progressed. What are you hearing about
Drew Brees in terms of how long he's going to

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be back? And so far Sean mcna make Sean Payton
has played his cards really close to his vest. He
hasn't told us whether Teddy Bridgewater or Taysom Hill are
going to play. Now could because both of them are
going to play, right, I mean, even with Drew Brees,
Taysom Hill has been in the games quite a bit.
But what do you anticipate in their game against Seattle?
We'll see that's the thing. I anticipate a really funky
game plan. Yeah, I mean I just see something really,

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you know, just offbeat, and that makes it tough for
the Seahawks. It really does. And it looked cudles to
Seattle hard fod victory over the Stillers. But let's be
honest here. The Stillers aren't all that great and Seattle,
I mean look there two and oh and so these
wins look at the end of the year, we don't
think back in Wow, that team wasn't all that great
in week one or week two. But just how good
is the Seattle team? Right? I mean, you know, Russell

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Wilson's really good. I mean, completing eight of his passes
last week, a career high on the road. That was great.
But they struggled and defensively, they're still looking for some answers.
No Ziggy Anso returns for the Seahawks, makes his debut
this week. He's been out with his later latest rash
of injuries. I think it was a shoulder once again
and his recovery from surgery. So we'll see if he's
able to make a difference. But I think with the Saints,

(18:57):
and you give Sean Payton a full week now to
gameplay and for the absence of of you know, Drew Brees,
and I think you're gonna see something wild here. I mean,
I expect the close game that to me is one
I'm really interested in seeing. And you know, again, the
Saints get job by the officials last week, and the
officiating I know, play, we go down a rabbit hole
and we talk about that, the man that cam Jordan
play and the inadvertent whistle that the official makes and

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calls a play. I mean, these are things that that
really do separate winners and losers. Think about how the
fate of the NFL may have been different if Myles
Jack gets that touchdown return against New England Patriots in
the a f C Title game, and how everything may
be different at that point. Right the Patriots don't go
on to win that game because the Jacks are too
far ahead and everything changes. Well, in the case of
the Saints, that was a tough one last week. They

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needed every point they could get with that Drew Brees
and Cam Jordan got his play called back. One of
the things to note it's you're gonna see differences in
backup quarterbacks who come in like like a Teddy Bridgewater
who has no snaps with the first team offense basically
during the week, or one for every ken the Drew
Brees gets. He will look a lot sharper this week.
My opinion, I think the Saints may even pull off
the upset in this at least a close game, and

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I'm watching that one very closely on Sunday. Good stuff
is always Alex Marvez. We will talk to you next week.
Appreciate getting up early with go Gators, Baby, Thank you.
Be sure to catch live editions about kick the Coverage
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Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.
Last night's Thursday night football game, the Jags took a

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two by four to the Tennessee Titans and just whip
their ass all over the field nine sacks. That now
means that Marcus Mariota through three weeks has been sacked
seventeen times. According to NFL research, That's the most times
a quarterback has been sacked in the first three games
of the season since two thousand two, seventeen years of

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teams have not been this bad, and it was a
physical mismatch at the line of scrimmage. You can point
to a lot of different issues in this game. Titans
typically did what they do, gave away points, play like crap,
but ultimately this came down to the Jaguars defensive line.
Calais Campbell playing like the greatest defensive lineman in the
history of the NFL. And while you can criticize Marcus

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Mariotta as much as you want, and I'm sure he
bears the blame for some of the sacks. Nine sacks
is just flat out inexcusable. The Jaguars came into this
game with their best player maybe in the history of
the franchise, having demanded a trade on a short week,
not sure if he was gonna play. They're starting a

(21:31):
sixth round quarterback, a rookie and Gardner Minshew because Nick
Foles got hurt in week one of week uh week
one of quarter one of the beginning of the season.
They're coming off a really tough late defeat against the
Houston Texans on the road, and they dominated and kicked

(21:54):
the Titans ass up and down the field, and from
a Titans perspective, in addition to the that you couldn't
protect Marcus Mariota, I don't know what else you can
say except this team is a failure. Decision by Andrew
Luck to retire opens up the a f C South

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in a massive way. The Titans get insanely fortunate in
their first two division games. Instead of going up against
Andrew Luck and the Colts, who have beaten them eleven
straight times, they get to go against Jacoby Brissette and
the Colts. What do they do choke away a fourth
quarter lead and lose then a few days later they

(22:38):
get to go down to Jacksonville and they get fortunate
to play on the road. Instead of against Nick Foles,
a two million dollar a year quarterback, they get to
play against a sixth round draft pick in Gardner Minshew
who's never won an NFL game before. And what do
they do? They get whipped. So I don't know what
you can say this. I I know bad football team,

(23:00):
sam is. Unfortunately I've had to watch a lot of them.
Despite the fact that the Titans one Week one against
the Browns, this is a four and twelve football team.
Here to tell you, it's a four and twelve football team,
and the Titans are gonna have to look back at
the end of the season and say what went wrong.
I think they lose to uh the Falcons on next Sunday.

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If you look at their schedule going forward, I don't
think there's any doubt that things are gonna get worse
before they get better. And I don't even know that
they're gonna get better at all. But if you look
at this Titan schedule, I think there's a good chance
the Titans are sitting at one and six after their
first seven games and effectively the season's over, and then
the question becomes, what in the world are you doing

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with the GM, what are you doing with the head coach?
And why is Marcus Mariota in year five taking more
sacks than has ever happened in the last seventeen years
of NFL football. He dropped back to past forty times
and he either got sacked or hit on eight team
of those past attempts. That's unbelievable. Almost a fifty percent

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hit or sacarate on your quarterback when he drops back
to pass. And then the special teams are so incompetent
to Dorry Jackson can't handle a simple uh punt and
gives away seven points to start this game. Mike Vrabel
makes a really questionable decision on fourth and six to
go for it down fourteen nothing. Again, this is systematic,

(24:26):
it's symptomatic. They're large issues associated with everything with the
Titans right now. They went out and tried to make
moves on the offensive side of the ball, and they've
all blown up in a disastrous way, and ultimately the
offensive line is pure trash. I don't have a good
solution for the Titans, but this is a year, if any,
that you should be able to compete in the a

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f C South, and now they've started going two in
the division, and I think in the next couple of
weeks they'll be officially done and you can ring them
up and count them out. So that is where the
Titans are right now. I'm not sure what's gonna have
one with the Jacks. I think if you watched the
game last night, they showed Nick Foles quite a bit
on the sideline and it was almost as if his

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expression realized that he was gonna get Nick Foles himself,
that Gardner Minshew may come in and end up taking
his job away. And if Minshew keeps playing like he
is right now and through three weeks, he's posted the
best rookie passer rating in the history of the NFL,
and effectively he basically played the entirety of Week one
against the Chiefs. If he keeps playing like this, I

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don't know how you bench him to replace him with
Nick Foles, other than the fact that you gave Nick
Foles twenty two million dollars and feel obligated to pay
the guy that you pay to play the guy that
you paid a lot of money to um Leonard four
Nette seems like he's totally done. I know he had
the one run, but everybody's gonna stack the line and
try to stop him and see whether or not Gardner

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Minshew can beat you. And last night he beat the
Titans and he got his his first ever when in
the NFL. So, if you are a Colts fan, I think,
even with the dump or fire that is your relationship
with Jalen Ramsey, you have to be pretty pretty competent
with how this thing went. You played very competently in
a game against the Houston Texans that you could have won,

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and you took a two by four to the Tennessee
Titans and really whipped them in uh in the game
that we saw last night. So I think the Titans
are dead and buried. I think you can go ahead
and toss some dirt on their grave. I think they're
done as a contender in the a f C South.
I think the Jags. You know, look, I mean, you're
sitting at one and two. You feel like you have
some hope. We'll see what happens with the Houston Texans

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going on the road against the Chargers and the Atlanta
Falcons playing against the Indianapolis Colts. But I think the
a f C South is not a good division. It
doesn't have very many good quarterbacks, and last night Mariota
frankly looked like the worst of the four quarterbacks in
the a f C South, which is saying something because
two of them are backups. So that was my takeaway

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in general of everything that we saw happen last night.
I tweeted out, don't want to overreact, but I think
the owners should be hired. I think the GM should
be fired for the Titans, I think the coaching staff
should be wiped out. Whatever plan you have in place,
it has blown up in your faces when you are
the Titans and you lose in this situation like they
did to the Colts and to the Jags in back

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to back weeks playing against Jacoby Brissette and Gardner Minshew.
If you can't beat those two guys, you have no
hope of contending to ever win your division. So whatever
game plan you've put in place is a disaster. It's
time to go back and re examine it. Uh. Those
are my thoughts in general. By the way, We're gonna
be joined by Joel Klatt, who is up in Wisconsin
getting ready for the Badgers. Hosting Michigan That will be

(27:39):
the noon kickoff game tomorrow at Fox. We'll talk to
him in this next segment in a bit, But let
me bring in the crew. Danny G What did I miss?
What else did you see last night in Thursday Night Football? Man? Well,
good thing, your emotions aren't running over. I just think Clay,
I mean, I know you're really frustrated. Uh, And we
heard Alex Marvez last hour trying to talk you off

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the ledge a little bit. Look, because of the division
your favorite team is in, there's still a little bit
of hope because you arguably have the best backup quarterback
in the NFL. In fact, last night during the game,
I tweeted that I never thought I'd be wanting a
team to put Tannehill into a game. Well, Matt Mike
Rabel said after the game that there was no that
they were in no way close to go into believe him. Yeah,

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So so he is he blaming the old line then? Uh? Effectively, Yes,
I think he is. I mean, I think if you
get sacked nine times again, I'm not going back through
and like excelling exciting and owing everything and assigning percentage
blame and everything else. But if you have seventeen sacks
for a fifth year quarterback through three weeks, I don't
know what you can say in negative about Mariota. I mean,

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amazing thing to me about the Mariota situation being sacked
seventeen times is he still hasn't turned the ball over. Now,
he's fumbled a couple of times and recovered his own
fumble this season, he hasn't thrown any interceptions, and really
he hasn't thrown that many balls that were close to
being intercepted. I mean, the guy is dropping back to
pass expecting to get drilled on every single play. His

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offensive line can't block for him at all. And by
the way, the Titans are sitting at one and two,
they're gonna lose to the Falcons on Sunday. I mean
I would put put almost every dollar that I have
on that happening. Uh. The Bills they might be able
to beat, They'll find a way to lose to the
Broncos Chargers. I mean, like this is this is a
bad football team. I know bad football teams, trust me.
Unfortunately I've had to watch way too many of them. Uh,

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in the last twenty years of being a football fan.
This is a bad football team. And what's frustrating I
think is this is almost a dead ringer rep replica
of last year the Baltimore Ravens came into Nashville and
sacked Marcus Mariota ten times and beat the Titans twenty one. Nothing.
This game was almost a dead ringer for that one
um in terms of how bad the Titans were. And

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it's like everything nothing changes, Everything just remains the same
over and over and over again, and at some point
you just get fed up with the same reaction. And
it's also a function of how wide open the a
f C South is. I would just say, if you
can't beat Jacoby Bursett and Gardner Minshew when they're replacing
Andrew Luck and Nick Foles, whatever game plan you have

(30:13):
is fundamentally broken at its inception, you need to go
back and burn down the village because you have no hope. Wow,
the truth. I mean, look, people, what people are are
you sure this time? Because last season when he didn't
I'm talking Mariota, when he didn't because of an injury,
did not suit up for the playoff game, you came

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on the air the next Monday morning and said that's it.
I'm done with him. I retire on Mariota. He's garbage.
He should have played no matter what injury, because we
thought he was gonna play. We thought he was gonna go, remember,
because he was playing for a chance to go with
the win that have to go to the play and
he had practiced, so we thought he was gonna play,
and he didn't, and at that point you were done

(30:55):
with him. Yeah. But so I think focusing at this
point on Mariota is too easy. Yeah, because your defense
they need some of They were suspect last night because
the Jags don't have a great old line either in
market pressure. Again, that's what I'm saying, Like it's easy
people like to go and say, oh, just put the
backup quarterback in. But it's not like Tannehill is gonna

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not stand back there and get decked. It's also not
like Tannehill hasn't proven to be incredibly brittle himself. So again,
to me, it's easy when you just point to something
and say, oh, my team lost, Oh let's go replace
the quarterback. That's what's frustrating about this is I think
it's systemic and structural rot. It's like the house doesn't

(31:37):
need a new roof. The entire thing is infested with termites, right,
so if you could just go replace the roof on
the house, You're like, Okay, everything else is great with
the house. Oh the water heaters out, let's go replace
the water heater. Oh you know the air conditioning is
not working. Well, we can get the air conditioning fixed.
This is like your entire house is riddled with termites,
and when you lean against the wall, the whole thing

(31:57):
might collapse down around you. That's what the tights are
right now. And so that's what I'm saying. I think
there is structural flaw in the way that this team
was designed, and I think it's brutal, stone cold reality
that you have to look in the mirror and say,
what game plan have we designed such that when Andrew
Luck retires and we get an amazing gift of Jacoby

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Bursett is now the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, and
when Nick Foles gets knocked out of quarter one week one,
such that you get Gardner Minshew, who's never won a
football game before as a quarterback in the NFL, as
the two quarterbacks that you have to beat, and not
even beat both of them, just split in order to

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be in the mix to win your division, and you
get beaten by both, you have to look in the
mirror and say, how many different decisions have we made
that have led us to this point where we are
so structurally unsound that this is the result. And look,
I'm not a failure, right like I win in life.

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But part of being a winner is looking at yourself
and accepting the things that you do poorly. Let me say,
for example, if if what is the equivalent of what
I do giving up the most sacks in seventeen years
of NFL football on the offensive line? Right? I always
like to like make that analogy. If you came to

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me and said, Clay Travis, you just did something so
bad on Fox Sports Radio that no one in radio
has done it in seventeen years, And if I said, well,
we just gotta I just gotta work a little bit
harder to get better. No, no, no no. If you
are the worst in seventeen years at something, it's a
structural failing. It's not like, oh, I need to hit

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the commercial breaks better on time. It's not like I
need to have a better guest in our three. It's
not like I need to be a little bit better.
On my opening, it is that the entire show is
rotten to its core. If you are doing something that
is so bad in terms of protecting your quarterback that
every other NFL team has managed to do it better

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than you for the last seventeen years, then it's not
one thing that needs to be fixed. Your structure is unsound.
It's riddled with termites, and you gotta look yourself in
the mirror and figure out why that's the case. And
to me, it's the plan. Whatever game plan you have implemented,
is an unmitigated disastrous failure. It would be like if

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you talked lacrosse for seventeen minutes and drop three f box.
But even if I did that, we'd be able to
look at it and be like, oh, that was just
one segment that was wrong, I guess maybe, instead of like,
this is like us getting the monthlies first September and
I have a seventeen year lows in radio national radio
across the country. That's what giving up all these sacks

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is like. And the structural failure of it, like, for instance,
the there there are reasons you can point to why
teams stink, right, Like let's use the Dolphins, for example.
The Dolphins stink because they are trying to stink. You
can agree or disagree with their plan, but it seems
clear to me that the Dolphin plan is we're gonna

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have the overall number one pick in the NFL draft,
and we're gonna go get to a tag of Bloa.
We believe that he is so good at quarterback that
it's worth stinking this year adding a bunch of draft picks,
going to get him at quarterback, and we're gonna be
good for the next ten to twelve years because that's
how much we believe in him. You may not agree

(35:36):
with that decision, but that is the Dolphin plan. There
is a method to their madness. The Jets stink right now.
They are awful, but if you look at it structurally,
you can say, well, are starting quarterback who we think
is gonna be really good, got motto that sucks man.
We can't really control that. Our young quarterback got the

(35:58):
kissing disease, and then our backup got his ankle blown
up and he's out now and we're on our third
string quarterback. We're gonna have to take the lumps because
of the awfulness that has befallen us. From a luck perspective,
the overall structure of their game plan may or may
not be in question. To me, your number one goal

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when you are in an NFL team is to win
your division, because you can't really control a lot of
other things. But if you win your division, you host
a home playoff game. So the Titans and every other
NFL team out there has to devise a game plan
predicated on winning their division. I don't know, if you
are looking at these results, you can't beat Jacoby Brissette.

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Nothing against Jacoby Brissette. Brissette, but he is a pale
approximation of the talent that Andrew Luck brings to bear.
Every single Colts fan out there who was booing when
Andrew Luck retired was doing it because they knew how
good Andrew Luck was. The Cults are a prohibitive favorite
to win the division, and then their quarterback decides to retire.

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That's a huge benefit to the Texans, to the Jags,
and to the Titans. Then the twenty two million dollar
quarterback that the Jags have brought in to lead them
back to respectability to replace Blake Bortles gets knocked out
in quarter one week one, and they have to go
with a sixth round draft pick who is never won

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an NFL game in his career. And so the Titans
are sitting there saying, if we beat Jacoby Brissett and
we beat Gardner Minshew, we've got a tremendous lead in
this division. And even if we don't beat both of them,
if we just beat one of the two of them,
we're in pretty good shape after three weeks in this division.
And what do they do. They lose to both. That's

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a structural failure. They give up the most sacks in
seventeen years. No matter what you do for a living,
if you're so bad at what you do that you've
done something that has never happened in your field of
work in seventeen years, despite the fact that a lot
of other people are doing it too, you have failed.

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You need to stare into the mirror and figure out
why structurally what you're doing is unsound and broken. And
I'm willing to do that. I self assess all the time,
and if you do a good job of that, you win,
You address your flaws, you try to get better. I
do this all the time in my career. And if

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you're making bad decisions. You go back to the drawing
board and you adjust what you're doing. The Titan game
plan is structurally broken. I don't have I can't think
of a single positive thing that came out of last
night's game, not one, not one positive, and so to me,
you go right to the top. People want to focus

(38:55):
on the quarterback, but again that's an easy, lazy answer.
Oh just replace East a quarterback. That's not the answer.
The answer is your game plan is structurally unsound. Your
house is riddled with termites. You don't need a new
water here, you need to burn the entire house down
and start over. And I think that's where the Titans are.

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And it sucks. But they went nine and seven, nine
and seven, nine and seven, and I think they're gonna
go four and twelve this year, and they're going to
recognize that everything that they thought they were built upon
was quicksand and they have built a crap foundation and
a crap team. That's what I think the takeaway is now.
I don't think the Jags are in great place. They

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won the game, but the best player in the history
of their franchise is asking for a trade. I could
add more wrinkles by the way, on why this is
such a bad loss for the Titans. I think it's
a worst loss for the Titan jest that a lot
of times after games happen, it's a goodwin or bad loss.
Makes a really bad loss for the Titans. Jags are
still not, in my opinion, very good, and they're best

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player in franchise history is being traded. There's clear dissension
in that locker room. Everything for the Jags since really
the fourth quarter of the a f C Championship Game
has gone off the rails. It's been a slow moving disaster.
But to me, the much more disastrous outcome last night

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was on the Titan side. That's the game you have
to win, and at a minimum you have to split
in your division against Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew. If
your fifth year, twenty million dollar plus quarterback in Marcus
Mariota and instead you go out and you give up
nine sacks and as a result, your quarterback has now
been sacked more times in three weeks than has happened

(40:47):
in seventeen years in the NFL. It's pathetic. All right,
we come back. I'm fired up. I hate failure and
I hate stupidity, and I hate when stupid people put
to gather a plan that leads in failure, leads to
failure and they can't figure out how to adjust it.
And I think that's where the Titans are right now.

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Frustrating a lot of you out there know what I'm
talking about. Like you see people who aren't very good
at their job building a plan that's not gonna work,
and you give your free time to watch them, And like,
I understand, Like if you wouldn't listen to my show
if I performed in any way like the team that
I root for performed last night, I don't blame me.

(41:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of I Would Kick
the Coverage with Clay Travis weekdays at six am Eastern,
three am Pacific. The Titan game plan is structurally broken.
I don't have I can't think of a single positive
thing that came out of last night's game. Joel Clad

(41:53):
joins us. Now he's probably gonna love this because I'm
an utterly defeated man this morning, Joel. I I just,
I mean, I don't know why I watch football, Honestly,
I really don't. I'm close to just stopping to be
a fan. Did you watch any of last night's game
Thursday night football in the NFL? I was traveling again,
so no I didn't. I just try to. I've got

(42:14):
to start trying to. I don't know, like watch it
online once I get to the hotel or something. Because
every Friday morning you're beside yourself about something. Oh yeah,
I'm every morning I'm beside myself about something. But here's
the deal, all right, Marcus Mariota has now been sacked
seventeen times, I believe. Is the number? Which is the now,
what's the number? What are the hell? The number is

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it's the most sacks that a team has given up
in three uh three year, I mean the first time.
So let me just start this a this this fact over. Okay, this,
I'll rilled up. I am all right. So the Titans
have given up the most sacks for any team through
three weeks of a season in seventeen years. Okay, that's incredible. Yes,

(43:00):
So what I am saying is, at some point, like
everybody wants to you know, you were a quarterback. Everybody
always likes the backup quarterback, and there's always like fans
are like, oh, just change the quarterback or whatever else.
But my thing is your game plan, whatever it is.
If your quarterback is being sacked more times than has
occurred in the first three games of an NFL season
than has ever happened in seventeen years going all the

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way back to two thousand two, structurally everything is broken, right,
Like you need to stare at the mirror and just
be like, whatever decision I did, I need to pull
a Castanza and start doing the exact opposite of it,
like back in Seinfeld days, because the foundation I mean,
I want to get your opinion legitimately on this. If
you are in the a f C South and Andrew

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Luck retires and you get Jacoby Brissett to replace him,
and Nick Foles is making twenty two million dollars and
he gets knocked out, and you get Gardner Minshew, who
I know, you know well, but he's a sixth round
quarterback who's never won a game in the history of
the NFL. And you have a fifth year starting quarterback
in Marcus Mariotta that you have built everything around in theory,

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and you can't beat Jacoby Bursett and you can't beat
Gardner Minshew. Am I crazy for thinking that you need
to maybe examine the fact that your entire game plan
is broken. I mean, listen, protecting the quarterback has to
be number one and one B of any game plan

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that can possibly create, because if you don't protect the quarterback,
you're absolutely screwed. You can do it in several different ways,
by the way. You can build a running game that's
gonna protect the quarterback. You can build offensive wine that's
going to protect the quarterback. You can build a game
plan that can protect the quarterback by getting the ball
out of his hand quickly and so on and so forth. Um,
and then situations obviously play into it as well. I

(44:49):
know at one point, you know, they were well basically
the whole game, they were just down. And so once
you're down in a game, the opposing defense can kind
of pin their ears back and get after your order
back a little bit. But yeah, there's certainly an issue
of personnel and game plan when it comes to protecting
the quarterback, and if you don't have those things, then
you're not gonna win. All right, I'm still riled up,

(45:11):
but so uh, you would have loved basically the entire show,
because I'm ready to burn down an entire village umh
to to save the kid here? All right, let's ge're
ready to burn down the village every day. I do
want to accept my own village. My own village is
very sounds well well designed, got great to latrines, um,
really well. Uh, situated on a hill to protect my

(45:33):
own village that I've built is very good. Everybody else
builds really crappy. Think this is one of those days
where I wish I didn't have FCC restrictions. I would
love to have been able to come on today and
say whatever I want without having to worry about about cursing.
But let's go to Let's go to college before I
just continue to to to burn down more villages here. Uh,
let's go to Uh, let's go to where you are, Madison, Wisconsin.

(45:54):
First of all, is your hotel better day? Oh my gosh,
my hotel is amazing. Or at the edge wall or
in Madison right in downtown, It's an incredible hotel. This
is maybe the best hotel I've ever stayed in. All right,
let me ask you this. We talked last week for
everybody out there who was listening about ghosts and hotels,
But did you, like, was everybody else also of the

(46:16):
opinion that the hotel that you guys were staying in
was awful or were you being a diva? No, it
was it was universal, unanimous. It wasn't even you know, like, oh,
a couple of people, no, no, no, it was unanimous.
Everybody on the crew was like, Hey, this is the
worst hotel we've ever been in. So how does that?
How does that happen? Did you go back and like

(46:36):
and and like, much like the Titans have to readdress
their game plan? Whoever booked the hotel do? They like
have to look themselves in the mirror and be like, Okay,
this is a really bad game plan I put together
this week. Who was responsible? Did you ever figure out?
I don't know who was who is responsible? But I
can tell you, like, our crew never goes to that city,
so I could we would never have a say, you know,

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there's definitely discussion than the offseason about which cities have
the bet, you know, like where's the good places to stay?
Sometimes it's just too expensive at the nicest hotels, which
is fine because hey, every company's got a budget, so
that's the way it is. And I understand that, and
so we try to find like the best hotel that
that fits in with, you know, our cruise budget or whatever.

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And we had never been to Bloomington. I don't know
what cruise had been to Bloomington, but it was there
was some disconnect and you know, someone just saw holiday in.
I don't think I said it last week, but like
holiday in and just booked it and it was atroci.
Here's but here's the thing with hotels, Okay, like this

(47:40):
is a foundational game plan for your life. Truth, are
you ready? New hotels, regardless of brand, are always the
way to go. And I'm not a hotel snob, and like, oh,
I always have to stay in X brand, Like that's
not how it is. Because I've stayed in you know,

(48:03):
hyghatt regencies that have been really bad but they're supposed
to be really good. And then I've stayed in things
like the Home to Sweets that are brand new, and
I'm like, hey, this is great. Yeah, you know. So
for me, it's about like cleanliness and and being somewhat
new and and anything else. Man, just the dirtiness gets
to me. You stay in enough hotels during the course

(48:23):
of your life and you just getting grossed out by
the dirtiness of hotels. That's a game plan for life.
That is a good game plan for life. And I
will say for people who are on the road a lot,
the hotel matt when you work all the time, like
going back to a hotel and just having it not
be a total crapple a place does make you feel better,
Like if you can go down to the gym and

(48:43):
the gym is like a functional gym, or if you're
in your hotel and you're like, this is kind of
a nice shower, you know, like it doesn't take that much.
And I will say this, there's a wide variety and
some of these chains right like, and it's not just
the the like because a lot of these places are
franchise and you can have a good franchise e or
you can have an awful one like for instance, and

(49:04):
this is not a hotel. We like drive down with
the family down to the beach, right and when we
get off the interstate, there is an area of of
I think it's like Montgomery where they have the worst
McDonald's that's ever existed on the planet, right, Like, the
kids are always hungry and like, you know, it's time
for a stop, and I have stopped like a couple

(49:26):
of times in this McDonald's and it's the worst McDonald's
that exist in the country. It's a Montgomery, Alabama. If
you've ever driven to Deston, Florida or the beaches, they're
like coming down and I walk like I've had because
the location is good, right, location is fabulous, and the
kids are hungry and they have to go to the
bathroom and it's time and they'll eat McDonald's and they're
not gonna complain. And Dad's ready to just like, you know,

(49:47):
like off himself if you drive your family very far.
And so I've been there like twice. And my thing
is like, how hard is it to just not suck
as a fast food restaurant? Right, like just be moderately competent.
I shouldn't walk into your business and be like, this
is the worst McDonald's I've ever been in before. And
I feel like that sometimes happens with hotels to do

(50:08):
they have no quality control? Can they not strip the
franchise name off? If I walked in and I was
associated with those brands, I'd be like, yeah, we're firing you.
You can't be associated with our brand anymore. It's it's
very true when I walk into a fast food place,
the one thing that will give me the turnaround fastest
is like that that slippery, greasy floor, like the cake floor,

(50:31):
you know when your foot kind of slips when you're walking. Yes, Like, okay,
I'm ready to turn around the leave. Yeah. And here's
the thing, it's not rocket science because you know who
never has this issue Chick fil A. I've never gone
to a bad Chick fil A in my life. I've
never walked in and been like, they need to pull
this franchise's license, like they are so official. First of all,

(50:51):
it's not a franchise, no, they are, yes, but the
Chick fil A franchise requirement because I've looked into it
because I was like, you know what I'm gonna do, Like,
the three best businesses in America are like Apple, Google,
and Chick fil A. It's impossible to lose money with
any of those, right, Like you get in the Apple business,
that the Google business or the Chick fil A business,
three greatest businesses on the planet. You can only because

(51:14):
I looked into it. You can only get like you know,
sometimes they'll sell like twenty franchises to you, right, Like
so there dudes, right, now listening to us, probably who
are loaded because they have like twenty burger Kings right like,
and people out there are laughing, But no, you can
buy like twenty burger Kings, and like it's hard to
lose money. And you have all these franchises and they
start paying for each other and use your cash flow

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to buy another one. All those things Chick fil A,
it's almost impossible to get more than one franchise, and
you have to go through like franchise school. It's an
incredible undertaking. By the way, was under the assumption that
one we would talk about college football, there're two we
would that that Chick fil A was owned and operated.
Always buy Chick fil A. No, No, they they may

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they may own to operate a lot of them, but
they also have franchise. By the way, can you come
back and can we actually talk football in the final segment? Yeah,
all right. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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Radio app. Gambling Picks Central Florida wipes Out Pit, Michigan State,

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Northwestern The Under, Michigan, Wisconsin, The Game. Joel Klatt's gonna
have I like Wisconsin to get it done. Tennessee at Florida.
I love the under it's my blood bank guarantee. I
also like Tennessee plus fourteen and that when l s
U wipes out Vanderbilt, Kentucky covers against Mississippi State, South
Carolina Miszoo Miszoo big and the over, Oregon takes care

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of Stanford, and Georgia destroys Notre Dame. That is all
of the gambling picks for you. Joel Klatt, What happens
in your game? Michigan Wisconsin, Well, this is such an
interesting game, at least, you know, because of Michigan's offense.
Michigan's offense has been really bad to open the season,

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in particular with this whole switch to Josh Gaddis to
their new offensive coordinator, they have not been on the
same page. I mean, it's just they've been taking some time. Meanwhile,
Wisconsin is the number one defense in the country and
like every single category that you can possibly make measure.
So I think it's gonna be a low scoring game.
I think that ultimately it comes down to the quarterbacks

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because each team wants to run the football even get
us out of the spread system. They want to run
the football at Michigan, and obviously Jonathan Taylor is going
to be the focal point of the game plan for Wisconsin.
So for me, it really comes down to when you
get off schedule, which quarterback can make throws. And so far,
Jack Cone from Wisconsin has been the more consistent player

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so far this year. UM and Shade Patterson has struggled.
I would expect, actually, with the way shape Patterson has
put the ball in the ground with his bumbles, I
would expect a pretty short leash if he's not playing well.
I would expect to see a lot of Dylan McCaffrey,
who is the younger brother of Christian McCaffrey, for people
who might not be that familiar with him. Uh and

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as a big time quarterback recruit. All right, let's go
to uh the Georgia Notre Dame game. I think Georgia
is just going to crush him. What do you think, Well,
it's it's one of those like terrible matchups. I don't
think Georgia is twenty points better than Notre Dame, but
I think that they might beat them by twenty because
of the specific areas where these teams have success and

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where they struggle. UM, Notre Dame specifically has been struggling
against the run this year. UM They've had some big
runs put up against him. Louisville. They were not great.
They averaged Louisville averaged over five yards per carry. It
just it wasn't solid and hasn't been solid. They're tackling
at the second level has not been what you needed
to be. Meanwhile, George is the best running team in

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the SEC. This is a team that's averaging over eight
yards per carry clay and and two hundred Nadie I
think six yards per game. So Georgia is uniquely suited
to exploit exactly what Notre Dame struggles with and that's
why I think Georgia is gonna handily win this game.
And then obviously the narrative is going to continue about

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Notre Dame not being great against good teams and the
SEC is all powerful and so on and so forth.
And while I wouldn't buy into both of those narratives,
I do think that this matchup is really bad for
the fighting Irish. What's going on with USC and U
C l A. I mean, what do you think happens
with Clay Hilton and Utah. That's a game that's on
FS one, I believe tonight with traveling into l A

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and then you see l A is just awful. I mean,
how would you break down l A College for football
right now? I know you live out there and you're
obviously familiar with those stories. It's both of them are
um at this point, kind of a disaster, and I
would not be shocked at all. Did you just see
where Dan Guerrero, the athletic director of u C. L A,

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announced his retirement. That's something that all of us have
been kind of, you know, behind the scenes, wondering and
thinking it was probably gonna come barely soon. Dan has
been a great athletic director for a long time, and
he thought that this was gonna be kind of like
his best move, his last best move. I was gonna
get Chip Kelly, set the program on the right track

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and then retire. But it hasn't happened. And what you're
gonna have now is that you're gonna have Dan Guerrero retire,
and so it's gonna have to well well, and frankly,
somebody's gonna have to fire Chip at some point. I'm
not saying that you should and maybe he can get
it turned around. But if it continues to go like

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this and you can't put people in the seats, you know,
at some point it starts costing you more money to
keep your coach than it does UH to make to
make a change. Meanwhile, USC is looking for an athletic director.
So now you got both of these schools looking for
an athletic director. Um, you've got both of their marquee
programs U C l A and basketball USC and football
that have been struggling on the national stage. Um, it's

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it's not a good deal, man. I gotta tell you.
They have really struggled and because of that, that's why
the conference has struggled. Okay, narratives when it comes to
conference has to do with your main brand. And if
your main brand is doing fine, then everything is fine.
That's why no one is paying attention to the absolute
dumpster fire that is the a c C right now

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because Clemson is there. So everyone's like, oh, yeah, the
SEC is fine, They're going to be in the playoff,
maybe even win the national championship again. But under Clemson,
the a c C is awful this year. I mean awful.
I mean, for goodness sakes, Kansas beat Boston College. They
are indeed awful. Joel have a good game. Will be
watching tomorrow noon Eastern with with Michigan and Wisconsin. This

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