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December 11, 2024 19 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the fallout of Bill Belichick going to North Carolina, flag planting legislation in Ohio after Michigan’s recent win, Shohei Ohtani in Los Angeles, and the Ducks’ road in the CFP.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts
Petros Papadikas.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Here we go the moment that at least a couple
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Speaker 4 (01:51):
How often do you get requests to appear on other
talk shows around the country?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Not often really.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I go on in Boise, Arizona every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
But how many other shows do you do weekly? Like
this one?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
One?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And that'd be Fox the Fox Radio.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Okay, gotcha, So we are kind of lucky to have
you on the very exclusive correct Well, we pay you
like it, so we should get a princely prince.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Hey, did you hear the latest news about Bill Belichick?
By the way, going to North Carolina?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is this a joke about about what girl. Oh, okay,
a joke.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh ow is twenty four year old girlfriend you're talking about?

Speaker 5 (02:38):
You heard the one about Bill Belichick he went to
the Viagra store in Tempel Hill.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You know, I thought it was gonna be one like that, Hey, God.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Here you go.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
No, is he going to hire your your defensive coordinator?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well that's the word.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And everybody's well not everybody, but some people are like,
oh my god, we're gonna lose Steve Belichick or DC.
They're saying, I guess the story is that if Bill
goes that Steve would be named the head coach in
waiting and that's why he would take the job in Carolina.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
And I don't know. I was talking to coach in
waiting that.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
He would be the guy he would take over when
Bill retires or whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
But he's eighty.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I mean, maybe he coaches for a year or two
and he gives the job to Steve. Don't you think
it's kind of lame though, that he would get a
job like that because his daddy made it happen for him.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, coaching is a little bit like that.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
And so many guys that we have coaching who are
really good coaches are somebody's son who was a head coach.
And I mean, look at the Harbaugh family, for God's sakes,
and I understand.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
That part of it.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
I mean, John Robinson's son was on our staff. Pete
Carroll's son was on his staff. I've seen it throughout
my life. And if it's going well, then it's great
for everybody. But if you start losing games, then you
have to fire your kid. And which is sad, which
I believe you guys saw up there in Seattle, yep.

(04:08):
Which was like Abraham and Isaac the Old Testament, God
said to Abraham killed me a son. So I mean,
what if what if Bill goes to Chapel Hill where
his girlfriend will be the old, an old hag compared

(04:29):
to the Cohens at twenty four, like an old shoot
up piece of gum out there.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I just think it's kind of lame that well, I.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Mean, what happens if Steve, Well, you didn't think it
was lame when Steve Belichick and Brennan Carroll became your
one two punch court, Yeah, you didn't think that.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Was kind of I think it's a little different.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
I mean, you know, Steve was a co coordinator the NFL,
he was calling plays. Brennan had been an offensive coordinator
slash offensive line coach before, and they came here for
the same job. I mean, everybody's a mercenary. I think
we all know that now, especially in college football.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
But if Steve.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Belichick is gonna be coaching while his father is alive
and has a head coaching job, that's probably where he's
gonna coach. I just I don't see it as something
that you need to bitch about. I wouldn't feel I
wouldn't fill Lake Washington with your tears over losing a

(05:37):
mulleted son.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I mean, was your defense really that great?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm not bitching about it.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
It didn't look that great when John Mattier was f
in your ear's funny?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are you done yet? Really?

Speaker 5 (05:56):
I mean, who cares? Steve Belichick left for Chapel Hill.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Seriously, I'm not bitching about him leaving you, dub. I
just asked you a question. Don't we find it a
little bit lame? Like, for example, if your dad your
dad played football, right?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay? Was he a football coach? Your father?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:22):
He was a defensive coordinator at Rolling Hills in Peninsula
High while I was the water boy.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Okay, so let's say your dad took a head coaching
job at some other high school and said, my son
wants to be a coach one day. I'm only taking
this job if you make him the head coach in
waiting when I'm done. Wouldn't you feel like kind of
a schmuck taking your first head coaching job that way?

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Well, I mean, I guess you're walking around in your
dad's shadow anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Just a little bit.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean, I remember the USC baseball coach, God
rest his soul, the great Mike Gillespie, who won a
title in ninety. The only reason he laughed but he
did because he didn't get along with Mike Garrett. The
ad was that they made Chad Cruder, his son in law,
the man or the coach and Chad Cruder famous for

(07:15):
getting in a fight in the Wrigley Field when they
took his hat. Remember that anyway, that was one of
those times I've seen it before, And yeah, lame, I
guess it's a good way to describe it.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you happy?

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, I'm glad that we can agree on, is what
I mean. I don't know why you're so surprised.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'm not surprised.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I just wanted to have a casual conversation, and you're
the one that stretched it to seven minutes.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
I heard that you came out of the bathroom red
eyed and period. That is true, but that was about
a different topic. Petros with us on the air courtesy
of Sweet James. Do you know who the name Josh
Williams is. Does that name ring a bell to you?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I mean it could be a thousand guys.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
He is a representative from Ohio, the state of Ohio.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh yeah, the flag guy.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
And he wants to he wants to make it illgals,
introducing a bill to yesterday that would classify flag planting
at Ohio Stadium around Buckeye football games as a felony.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
A felony.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
I don't think that's going through.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I mean unless all those people in Ohio there are
that but hurt.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
And maybe they are.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I mean they could be, I don't know. I mean,
win the game, for God's sakes, instead of having to
legislate your way out of this.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
I mean, it's just like, how embarrassed are you if
you're a Buckeye fan?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
It is embarrassing.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
My god, their inability to deal with the pregame, the
post game, and then obviously this isn't this is an
Ohio State fan or a person you know, in legislating positions,
but in a legislative position, but it's not coming from
the team. But it is kind of funny. I mean,

(09:12):
talk about trying to act all hard and looking like
a bitch.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh really, God on thousand percent. I mean you you
would think if if anything like that would ever happen,
it would happen in our state or maybe your state
right down there.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I mean, we got that.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
No one cares enough about college football, yeah, to like
arrest Jaden DeLaura at the border. That's right, you know,
after he planted the flag. I called that game.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
But we got the biggest in the country in our state,
and nobody here even brought that up.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Great state of Ohio, with those blue collar people are
electing people like this. The want to make it a
felony because somebody had the balls to put a flag
on your fifty Comand.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I think the politician is thinks that this will gain
him favor with pumpkinheaded drinkers who are angry about the.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Loss to Michigan.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Uh, that doesn't necessarily mean that they that they will
gain him favor. I think that they'll be mocked so roundly,
like it's happening now that uh that that will not
I mean, can you just imagine them cuffing the guys
in their pads.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
They form a circle of cops around the guy nobody
touched them, he's ours, and they move in and handcuff
him and drag him off.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
The I mean, pepper spray. You're gonna get tased. You're
gonna get tased.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Unbelievable. You ever been the way?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
No?

Speaker 5 (10:37):
No, I haven't. Those people drop pretty hard. Looks like
it's pretty impactful.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, like Rob Wriggle tasing Galifanakis in The Hangover.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I didn't see that movie. You never saw The Hangover?

Speaker 4 (10:51):
No, no, wow, I don't believe that. I think you
saw The Hangover and you didn't.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
I have a tendency now, I have a tendency to
try to avoid like the movie everybody liked. I did
see the New Top Gun finally. Now what'd you think
of it? I thought it was all right, Yeah, not bad,
not as good as the original, but that's all right.
I mean, what is Empire Strikes Back was better? Than
episode four. I want to take a ride into that
danger zone, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I thought Rocky two was better than Rocky one, but
that's just.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
My double knockout.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
That's hard would be. But Karate Kid two, of course
is the best karate kid.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
You disgraced me.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Yeah, no, let's see this only way you can we.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Can you tell.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
I thought Sadow and Jetfish?

Speaker 5 (11:59):
No please, I'm not a comedian. I'm not a voice comedian.
Yeah yeah, Dad's I'm not doing that.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
You said.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Was at a Laker game the other day and he
wasn't even in the front row. He was like sitting
back with.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
His wow, secret wife, his secret wife. Well you know
what do you mean his secret wife?

Speaker 5 (12:20):
I had like a secret relationship, like a secret wedding. Okay,
but he's kind of a secret. Everybody knows he's married
now and yeah who his wife is?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Right?

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yeah, he's like sitting ten rows deep. What a humble man?
I mean in the Lakers, I'm like Otani's coming. I
guess I'll sit him up front right all the other
Yeah yeah, but I'm sorry, I mean Hollywood types.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Should I bleep that out?

Speaker 1 (12:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I can.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
You want me to bleep it out. Yeah, okay, each
your row. I don't remember his wife hanging around a
lot either.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean she kind of wife.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Mean it is a dog too.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh god, I was going to ask you about the
bitch and coming out of Eugene, Oregon, about the road
to the final that they've gotten there all what happened?

Speaker 5 (13:13):
They have a bye, they play the winner or.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
What Tennessee Ohio State and they're mad about that.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
We got screwed. What do they who do they? What
do they want to play?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
N LV?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
What do they want?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, they want to play Wazoo?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, what do you?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
They're passed. They don't like the fact that they got
a tough draw. What do you You haven't heard that conversation.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
I mean, everybody's gonna bitch about this no matter what. Everybody.
And it's great because there's twelve more teams they I
mean there's ten more teams, eight more teams excuse me
that get to be part of it. And that means
there's maybe twenty more teams that thought they had a

(13:57):
chance in the month of November. And that's pretty cool.
I mean, it's crazy to think that Georgia went through
what they went through. In that crazy overtime game against
Georgia Tech, maybe got saved by the officials a little bit, and.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Now they're in.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
A great position after winning the SEC and another nutcutter
so and they lost their quarterback.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
So it's I think that.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Overall there were too many eyes on the brand recognition
of the committee for them to let Alabama in and
leave SMU out.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
And when they didn't do that, then who cares?

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Okay, Oregon, you yeah, you're gonna have to play a
good Oh my god, you're gonna have to play a
good team in the playoff. Guess what I wouldn't want
to play Boise if I was them. Boise had them
by the ball. You know what's so easy about Boise?
Just because you know what it's like, you know, get
in bed with an exotic woman like Tennessee. They probably

(15:02):
don't want to play Ohio State again too, because if
the quarterback wasn't such a meathead, they would have they
would have won that game.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
They may have won that game and they would.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Have beat they would have beat the Dump. So I mean,
I don't think it's the worst draw ever. If you
have a first round by right, you have a first
round by you're playing less games than everybody else. You're
going to have to You're gonna have to bow your
neck and play a real game. Get over yourself.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, they would get the winner of the Tennessee, Ohio
State game and then in the semi in the Cotton Bowl,
either ASU, Clemson or Sark. So you you might get
Texas in Dallas in their backyard, and they're whining about
that that that would be favorable to Sark.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
In the Longhorns, they thought they were gonna have army.
Probably they thought they're gonna have army in Eugene twice. Yeah,
and then the championship Minnesota is what I heard. Minnesota
was never talked about for the playoff. At least army
was mentioned.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, UNLV was in the Mountain West championship too, You're right,
they were mentioned.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, Hey how about them November?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, I mean, look in the end, it's them in
Alabama that are doing the most bitching, and I just
feel like, don't lose to Vanderbilt in Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Like yeah, I mean, I remember this happened with the
USC with the Miller Mosque guy before Lincoln Riley pulled
him just to change the narrative. Even though they weren't
any better. He was like, yeah, keep that same energy.
And it's like, wait, wait, keep what energy? The energy
that everybody had when you lost to Maryland and Minnesota.

(16:37):
Because it's October and you lost to Maryland in Minnesota
and now the season's over over. Yeah, everybody's going to
keep that same energy. You're USC or a blue blood,
you can't lose those games. It's indicative of a real
problem at that place. If you're Alabama, you can't go
to Vanderbilt and lose.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
You can't.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
And if you do and they lose to Oklahoma, who
you were supposed to blow out one of the most
mediocre Oklahoma teams we've seen in years, and then do
you want to have a problem. You played Mercer last
month and you want to have a problem.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
The entitlement and of the brand recognition in college football
is crazy. At least US he sucks and there's no
argument there, right exactly.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, nobody's complaining about USC getting hose, now, are they not?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
At all?

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Because they stick? Well, Huskies went six and six too,
but they didn't lose.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
USC didn't lose nearly as many players as the Huskies did,
so Washington's got a little bit of a reason to
be six and six.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
I don't understand why losing players or switching players is
an argument anymore. I don't think you're allowed to do
that half the roster point of personal procedure. You're out
doing that because look at teams like Indiana. Look at
they're all new teams and they're they're awesome. Look at
Arizona State. You know, they're all new people and they're great. Okay,

(18:03):
So I don't want to hear it. I don't want
to hear it from you in your face.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, maybe maybe fish doesn't know what he's doing. Maybe not.
Maybe Signetti and Dilly Dilly know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Maybe he's a fish out of water.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Signetti and Dilly Dilly are the college football coaches of
the year.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Though maybe fish Sticks doesn't know what he's doing. I
don't know. I think it's an excuse.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I've been just walking around the whole year thinking it
was an excuse, and now you're telling me it's not.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I got to rethink this whole thing.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, maybe you should flip your script.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
God darning.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes
of the world.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Isn't this Dillingham's second year though at ASU.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, you have that going for you, but they're still
old Siggy Siggy in the big ten right there, staring
at your balls.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah yeah, that's why he's the coach of the year.
That's right. Like your boy, Todd Graham, I'm the.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Coach of the year.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's me all right, Todd Graham. We gotta go.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
I cut my own hair with a floaby.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
We're talking a week man, I'll see you. Petros Papadakis
with us.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
We're gonna break Kevin Harland obviously at five Coming up
on ninety three three kJ RFM, I'm Dodd Grea
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