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Speaker 2 (00:38):
We talked a little bit about it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The city of Cleveland and in months of speculation about
where the Cleveland Browns will play in the future, announcing
the franchise has made a decision to leave downtown, the
team's home since nineteen forty six. Course, there was two
different franchises, right there was the Cleveland Browns that left
and then the new Cleveland Browns, but again both played
and they played at the old it was a memorial stadium,
right that was still where the Indians used to play
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Municipal Municipal Stadium right, which is a dump, but that's
where both the drive took place and the fumble took place.
Right in Cleveland. The Indians used to play there as well,
and then they built a new place. And now because
they can't get a new stadium, they've said, hey, we're
leaving Brown's ownership. In form Mayor Justin Bibb of the
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decision last night. Now, I will caution us, Okay, I
will caution us. Those of us who have paid attention
to sports long enough know that there was like a
six month window where the Patriots were going to be
the Connecticut Patriots. Yeah, when they won that first Super Bowl,
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Tom Brady, remember they had the they were building the
new Gillette Stadium, but that stadium wasn't going to be built.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
They reached an impasse and the.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Patriots like, all right, and where Renschler Field is East
Hartford was supposed to be the stadium for the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They agreed to the deal, announced the deal.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Did the ribbon cutting, did everything, and then they end
up getting a better deal to remain in Foxborough. We've
seen this with the Bears. Right where are the Bears
gonna build air new stadium? Is it Arlington? Are they
just going to redo Soldier Field? What's going to happen there?
A lot of it is is jostling, is jockeying. But
it's a weird play considering how many of these things
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have maybe financially they haven't failed, and maybe this new
NFL wave, maybe this is challenging to the But I mean, heck,
the Pistons moved, you know, Pistons a bit moved out
of downtown for Auburn Hills. That didn't work. It's not
like Joe, not like the new arena's working all that well?
Is that what Papa John's that was called? But these
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teams that move out of downtown and you look at them.
The Colts are in downtown Baltimore, in downtown.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
New York.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Tried to build one on the West Side, which was mixed.
Although I still think that the Jets absolutely should have
moved there. It would have given them a site for
final fours for everything in Dome Stadium, but it got killed.
That was the West Side Highway project. They're not in
the burbs. They're in Jersey, which nobody likes. I'm trying
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to think, guys, is there any suburban stadium that is
a win.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's a win.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Seattle's in downtown, the Seahawks, the Rams and Chargers don't.
It's not downtown, but it's in the middle of everything
in Englewood.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
There was a time when the Raiders. You guys remember
the Raiders were going to play in City of Industry.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
City of Industry, for people that don't know, is like
literally a city where, like all you do now, there's
all these RVs where homeless people live. But outside of that,
it's all these what are those called where they're like
like warehouses just basically storage warehouse everywhere. It's like the
whole It's this complete, non descript area on the east
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side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's about ten degrees warmer.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Than it is in LA It's anyway it never came
to be, and that that was the reason the Raiders
left to go to Oakland was they were supposed to
have the Coliseum where USC now owns in plays, they're
supposed to have that redone. It was never redone to
the level of an NFL stadium. They tried to stay
and play in City of Industry. That didn't work. They
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left to Oakland, and now they're in Vegas, which, by
the way, is a stadium which is right on the strip,
right off the strip. This is just a weird play
where it hasn't worked. I don't think any can you
if we think about it right, San Francisco is in
Santa Clara. I've never heard anyone say that's a great
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stadium or that's a great low location. But they're no
longer in San Francisco proper. They're not even close. What
do you guys think, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm just surprised about. And
it isn't even the Cleveland location is unique because of
where it's situated. It's on the lake front. I've been
there a couple of times, went to a November game
there once it's cold. It's Chiley. But Chicago's on the
lakefront as well. In Chicago, different lake. But the point
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is is that we've seen locations there. Now you're moving
it out into the suburbs, but you're also leaving a
facility that I remember being built. And when the Titans
moved to Nashville, their stadium obviously completely outdated. They're getting
a new stadium for the hope of getting a Super
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Bowl and getting Final Fours and doing all of this.
And that was a stadium that was built in the
late nineteen ninety and it's the turnover of these stadiums
and dug in your backyard right now of Green Bay.
They've made renovation after renovation after renovation. But it is
considered a cathedral in the National Football League. And there
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are very few, if any cathedrals in the National Football
League outside of lambeau Field. You can make an argument
for some of them, like a couple, only a couple
of them I think you could make an argument for.
But this is the point of when we talk about
baseball parks and Fenway and Wrigley and the charm of that,
and I get that they have their sometimes have their problems,
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but there is something about going to those places. Now
in the National Football League, all of these places are
the same. There's nothing unique. They just want to build
a business shopping center around them and throw artificial turf
and yeah, we can host final fours. How many times
do you think the Final four is can be going
to Cleveland? Seriously, let's be real here, how many Super
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Bowls are you actually going to get in Cleveland with this.
Just to me, it's just as a it's a it's
weird and it's weird that we're outliving these stadiums and
just like almost it feels like a snap of the fingers,
you know, twenty twenty five years, move on, let's get
a new one.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I would I would say that the there's a couple
things to it. Right First, there's stadium envy. You know,
you walk into Sofa and you're like, man, you walk
into Vegas, man, you walk into Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Man.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I also think that as much as I hate Dome football,
like I really don't like Dome football, if you can
do it like the Raiders in and I don't know
if you can do it there, or you could do
it like they do overseas where they have the the
infrared lights underground, if you can play it on a grass,
I think that could that could help be a sale
for people to still think it's real football and play
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it open air at times, because it makes the stadium
so much more viable the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But the big thing is you can just make.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Gobs and gobs and gobs of money, not just on
the stadium but also.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
On the surrounding area.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
If somebody is going to give you hey, whether you
own the stadium or don't know, on the same you can,
if you can have owned the entertainment district. I mean,
you just That's really what happened to the Patriots. It
wasn't just that they got a new stadium built, but
they got Patriot Place where they have a hotel and
they have restaurants and all this other stuff, and so
they just it's a business. They're trying to make sure
the Packers. Obviously it's unique because it's owned by people
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in the town, but they're much their model as being
the oldest stadium which the team has played consistently continuously
in the Nation Football League. Their model is more of
the European soccer model in that like if you go
in there today or tomorrow, even day before the game,
they have tours, they have restaurants. It is it's a
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tourist attraction. Whereas Cleveland and some of these others that
I agree, we're outliving these stadiums. They're not old enough
or unique enough to be tour subtractions, and yet they're
not new enough to have this kind of vibrant all
digital and then entertainment district.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Doug Doug.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I think that's where therein lies the question, like when
do you decide, based on how old a stadium is,
do you want to preserve it and turn it into
like almost a historic landmark like a lot of stadiums
in college football and you know lambeau Field, or if
it's like built after nineteen sixty, do you just look
at it as like just a pile of concrete and
steel and we can just bulldoze and replace it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, it's in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Now this one is you know, I'm just saying like
this one was like I know, No, I'm saying like.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think twenty five years supposedly. I mean, I mean,
think about it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Now there's there you know, you have all these are
built for standard def you know, with all kinds of wires,
and now you have to have everything digital, and there's
there's such a different, more advanced way of building them.
I remember being in Qualcom that last year that was
just such a du ump and it was so old.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The scoreboard was very small. I saw the last game. Yeah,
it was just like a little it looks like a
just like a square TV up there exactly, but it's like,
but you know a stadium that's only twenty eight years old,
or like where the Braves used to play now it's
what Georgia State plays there, and then they moved into
a new stadium for the Braves, and it's like, it's
just to me, it's just I'm I'm I like dumps.
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I like preserve dumps or just have them be dumpy.
There's I think there's a part of the fan, you know,
general sports fan base out there that likes sort of
the dive bar feel of some stadiums like Wrigley and Fenway,
where there is like.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
One hundred years I know what I'm saying, it's like
a hundred where.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Do you Where do you decide then to preserve the
next fen the next Fenway or the next Wrigley.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If we're just I think, I think, I think, uh,
Camden Yards. I think what's the one in Pittsburgh called
now the Baseball Stadium that everything?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I just know this P and C. I don't know
if it's still that, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I don't either, Like those are the it's I don't know, guys,
have you guys have bought in homes. But if you've
ever walked into a tween or home, like, you don't
want to walk into a home that was redone in
like two thousand and two thousand and five. I'd much
rather walk into one that it's was built in nineteen
seventy and it looks like nineteen seventy, and then I
can gut and redo it and make it my own
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that I can that somebody else redid it, and then
it's all the.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Colors all it's got to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, or even the early two thousands, right back when
everything was tope and uh yeah, I mean there's just
different colors tope. You know, we got we went to
everything was white about last five years after paint house white.
Now houses are black people loved like black and charcoal
shingle houses.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Out here in La the white look is very is
very prominent, especially if new builds.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, I mean it's clean, it's easy.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
If you ever redo a house, it's just I like
color though in everything white, I know, but it looks
new and fresh when it's white, and then you paint
your own.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was just to say this is also like part
of the problem of like, so baseball gives you some
charm where you've got eight I'll just call it AT
and T in San Francis where the Giants play again,
naming rights and forget what everything changes. That's part of
the problem, by the way, Yeah it could be. Yeah,
I mean the like that ballpark is still one that
my buddy's a newer ballpark would say like, oh I
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got to get to San Francisco, and how many your
friends out in l I say, like, oh I got
to get to Pittsburgh to a game, and then the
National Football League all of these places are the same,
like there's and I don't know if that's because it's
a football stadium and baseball you can have unique stuff
with views and but now when we're just like going
out and building these, I'm going to just a barn dominium,
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if you will. For the Cleveland Browns for all of
your you know, all encompassing needs, there's just no character
to it. And we're moving on from a facility that
was built because it was the reason that the Browns
left in the first place. Where in the city of Cleveland.
I don't know all the ins and outs of it,
so I don't know if it was a good deal
or a bad deal for the renovations. But I do
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know Lambellfield has had so many different versions of itself
with skyboxes on one side, skyboxes on both sides, skyboxes
encompassing the whole stadium. Then they're building an upper deck.
Like it's been change after change after change after change.
But people still, you know, want to go to Lambelefield
and it's the place to be and you don't don't
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have that in the National Football League. I would say
people more want to go to college stadiums because of
their history than they would have anything in the National
Football League.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I think the same could be said in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Right, Indy is a really cool areta, a little unique
the garden, you know, do you only put the billion
dollars into the garden Madison Square Garden when they redid it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, with a b a billion and it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But outside of that, you know, like the Clippers are
the first and this is a big new and the
Clippers needed one because it's their first time they have
their own building, their own own and they put a
ton of money into it. I would say that what
we're not what we don't know and it's what I've
been told is if you own your own building, own
that own entertainment district, you make gobs and gobs and
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gobs of money. I don't know who owns the Brown Stadium,
but I'm guessing that they don't own it, and if
they do, they don't own any entertainment district close. And
so the thing is, now you can make when you
have an entertainment district. You can make money in the summer,
not just on the you know, ten or eleven home
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dates you have in the fall. So I do think
and while it while there is the stadium and the
newness and the sponsorships, and you know what pays for
all those jumbo boards is the fact that they can
sell ads on them all the time and make and
really pay for itself. So that's why all that signage
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stuff and all the digital stuff is so important to have.
But the bigger thing is, I believe, is owning the stadium,
owning the surrounding areas, owning the parking and the entertainment district.
And that's where you're just talking about crazy, crazy amounts
of money. And oh yeah, by the way, you don't
have to split that with the players right, because they
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split football revenue, not overall revenue.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So it's a it's a brilliant way of doing business.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And again I agree with you Dan, like I'm a
traditionalists as well. I hate that the changing naming rights
or whatever, just playing the same damn stadium and fix
it up.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
But these are the realities of business.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Are you guys bothered by Arrowhead possibly being abandoned at
some point? I think Airhead's one of the most unique stadiums,
and it's only it's fifty two years old. I think
the design of it, especially the upper bowl lip, is
one of the most recognizable in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
It's one of the few that I mentioned when I
said there are very few stadiums that people I think
would want to go to and see and see what
the design of it is unique. Yes, yeah, they obviously
want a new one. The Bills are getting a new one.
I know that. I'd love to see the current one,
just to see how the NFL has been in that
stadium for you for how long? But now, Doug and
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I and Jason remember when the Dolphins got Joe Robbie.
The new stadium is nineteen eighty seven, is when it opened.
That's the sixth oldest stadium in the National Football League,
and that one's been redone very well, very nicely.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah to a football only Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
But only the Soldier Field, Lambeau Arrowhead where the Bills play,
and the Superdome are older facilities in the National Football League.
The Jaguars, who just have their new stadium that they
announced they got approved by the NFL, that was the
seventh oldest facility in the National Football League. So now
there's no chance of us having great history at any
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of these places because there's only going to be Soldier Field,
Lambeau Field and Arrowhead and the Superdome to move on,
because all these other places are going to be within
the last thirty years or so of being built. Crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And one more thing, I get it too, Like I
went to the Rose Bowl about ten years ago, and
you could never you know, the idea of like you know,
demolishing the Rose Bull and building a new one or
something's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
It makes you mad, But I do get it.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
When you go in there, people were just legitimately smaller,
like one hundred years ago, and those tunnels are tiny,
and it takes a while to get everybody into the stadium,
so I go get it. There's logistically sometimes you do
need just something better because you like, it's just not
accommodating anymore logistically.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, I again, I do think the logistics in those
and being accommodating is important. I don't think it's even
close to the real reasons being done.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Is the money the sponsor you want to draw in sponsorships, Yeah,
you want something new and fresh.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, but who doesn't they they don't have to pay
for it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Who doesn't love your you know, using one of those
you know troughs though, and like you go, I think
you used to go into Wrigley and they had him
up until recently. Maybe they still do have them, but
they had the troughs. Man, that's that's old school throwing
it back, and some people just find that to be nostalgic,
even if it's a little weird and outdated.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, it's weird to have that little guy urine old thing.
And then everybody's like, can I use that? Do I
don't use that? Is it some of my manhood? Then
you have the handicap one, which is like an apartment
at the end, which everybody likes to go camp out in,
but You're not handicap, so is this as bad as
parking in a handicap spot. These are all the questions
that they come through my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Just get in and out, get back to your seat.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It's one way to do it.
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Great fall day.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Here in northeast inn Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
About seventy four degrees sunny, not a cloud in the sky.
Potential to have the Dodgers in the World Series by
the end of the night. Of course, we got college
football tonight. College football on the weekend, NFL football on Sunday.
Should be an awesome weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
For you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
To Jared Smith, our NFL betting expert, let's make our
own betting picks for the weekend. Something we call the
gambler gambled. Very simple. One pick you would tell your
closest friend who's desperately in need of a dub this weekend,
Hey man, can you just give me a pick?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Let's go with Dan Byer, what's your.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Pick Well, Doug the six and oh so far Dan
Byer here on the Gambler this season, looking to go
seven and l Maybe dangerous, but I'm going back to
a well that has provided for me so far this year.
We go back to London. Last week the Bears proved
me right in destroying the Jaguars. Now you look at
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Jacksonville sitting there as a six point favorite against New England.
They've had to sit in London all week long wondering
if their head coach is going to be their head
coach next week. Well, the New England PA Patriots have
just flown over with Drake May as their quarterback and
there's some good mojo there, even though they were outscored
by the Texans by about twenty points last week. Patriots
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come to London. I may I beat the Jaguars, but
the Jaguars just need to win. Patriots keep it close.
Give me the Patriots plus six against the Jaguars in
London on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let's get to Jason Stewart the jsdow team. Parlay what
you got, Jay.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Thanks to I'll take it from here. Got a couple
of Humdingers in the early window. I need you guys
to race to the betting window. I don't want you
to miss this one. The Jay's two team parlay for
the weekend. I want you to pair BYU. They're playing
a really bad Oklahoma State team. BYU is giving nine
points at home to Oklahoma State. And you know for
parlay you need to have a second team to pair
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it with. Oregon is visiting Perdue. I want you to
take Oregon. They're giving thirty points to Purdue. And just
a quick message to Purdue fans, Jim Everett is not
walking through that door tonight Oregon and BYU and thank
me on Monday.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
What would he get? What did we get last week?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It was like, uh oh, crep duster or something or
ordinately we got some other some of their phrase or
term used that was a real clap dancer something that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
All right, presume it's my turn now.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You know, you guys know I love to go college
football and I usually glom onto Iowa and they are
visiting East Lansing tomorrow night. Take on the Spartans. They're
about a five and a half six point favorite. I'm
gonna take I would cover those six. Jonathan Smith starting
over again, new regime, there in East Lansing with the Spartans.
They're quarterbacks throwing more picks than it touchdowns. I'm gonna
take the Hawk Eyes and their solid defense to get
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that done. Cover that six.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
We haven't covered it a lot here. We talked a
little bit about it. There's a quote from Neil Brown.
He was on I think his coaches show or postgame
press conference. I'd lost to Iowa State, and he asked
if you know He said, you know, I know these
donors are upset, but did they have fun?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Did they show up and have a good time at
the tailgate? It was one of the most bizarre things
I've ever heard, Like, huh, well, Kansas State comes calling.
Obviously they survived Colorado. Great comeback on the road against Colorado.
I just I don't think Wes Virginia is very good
and a team they played that's good when they're meeting
give me k State on the road, lay in two
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and a half, that second.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
When wait, oh run, don't count it, when nasty version
time and account when the.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Doug got them show Fox Sports Radio Jared Smith joins,
this is our Fox Sports Radio betting analyst. You can
hear with Rich Hornberger and Brian no tomorrow morning, starting
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listen live on any of our Fox Sports radio affiliates,
the iHeartRadio. It's presented by Bett m g M. All right,
let's get after it, Jared, because we have a lot
of picks, a lot of games, a lot of interest
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out there, and uh, I think it's going to be
super interesting to see. Okay, I'm wondering. I'm wondering what
your thoughts are on Alabama Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah, and I first of all, Dan Buyer six to
zero in the gambler segments. That's impressive. Man, I'm not
gonna lie. That is very, very impressive. I don't know
if Alabama's defense as impressive as Dan Bayer's gambling record
is so far this year. This is the big question
in this game. Can Alabama's defense, which has been a
very maligned unit for most of the year, handle a
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Tennessee offense which also has struggled to do the things
that we think Tennessee can do well. And that's the
side of the ball that I think the variance lies
in this game. Alabama deserves to be a favorite. I
think at three it's probably a no play from the
professionals at three and a half Tennessee being a three
and a half point home underdog, that's where the ball's
money I think will step in comes Saturday. But again,
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Nico's not playing very well. It's holding on to it
way too long, taking too many sacks. The offense in
general outside the top one hundred and on these per game.
The tackles are just a turnstyle. And the calling card
of this Tennessee defense is tempo and throw the deep
ball well tempo. Anybody can do that. You don't have
to be very talented to just play fast. But throwing
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the deep ball. Nico four of thirteen on throws twenty
plus yards over the last three games, and that's against
Florida and Arkansas and Oklahoma. And I know those are
SEC defenses, but I just think the level of athlete
that Alabama has, even though they're not as organized as
we would like on the defensive side, they are right
there on the offensive side for Alabama. This is strength
on strength right Alabama's offense Tennessee's defense. Jalen Milroe Boomer
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bust eight touchdowns one pick this year on those deep
passes twenty or more yards downfield with a completion rate
over fifty percent, which is one of the highest completion
rates in the country on those deep throws. The one
question I see with Alabama's offense here is the offensive
line struggling to protect. I mean, go watch the tape
against South Carolina mill Route. Now, granted to be fair,
those are two first round defensive ends that we're chasing them.
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I don't know if Tennessee has that quality off the edge,
but they were. Jalen Milroe was running for his life
in that game, but holding on to it too long,
absorbing the pressure and getting the ball out before taking
the sack. That's not something Milroe does well. We analyze
this a lot in the NFL. It's not as interesting
in college, but the pressure to sack ratio is something
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I like to look at. Patrick Mahomes is the best
at this. He's like sub five percent every year, absorbing
the pressure, not taking the sack. Garrett Nelsmeyer's doing a
good job this year. He's best in the country at
two percent. Jalen Milroe over twenty percent, which means two
out of every ten pressures it's getting home to a sack,
and that just you can't operate like that and stay
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ahead of the sticks. So I think if Alabama's offense
can hit their explosives and if Tennessee's offense cannot, Alabama
goes in there and wins his football game. But that's
a coin flip. Most days, I would say take the
points at home with Tennessee, especially if you can get
that three and the hook.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Jared Smith, our guest here on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Okay,
let's go to Georgia and Texas.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Oh this game. I'll be honest, I've analyzed a bunch
of games this year. This has been my favorite one.
Let's start Texas offense against the Georgia defense. But first
of all, before we even start that, this is the
first time since the opener of the twenty one season
against Clemson that george has been a dog. Forty nine
consecutive games they have been favored. So it's just the
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changing of the guard. Maybe perhaps there's a chance that
we see if Texas does what they're supposed to do,
which is, you know, four and a half five point
home favorite, a little bit of a changing of the
guard here in the SEC. But let's start with the
strength on strength, which is I think Texas is offense
right against that Georgia defense. Now, Georgia's defense hasn't been
a strength this year, but historically speaking, it has been
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this season. Though outside the top twenty and a lot
of those key metrics, they don't have as much high
end talent as they usually do. Mikel Williams was supposed
to be the All American. He's played twenty five snaps
against Bama and just seventeen in the last two weeks
Againstssissippi State and Auburn, so he just he hasn't played
a whole lot. And their highest graded defender, Smile London's
out in this game with an injury. Three out of
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the four leading tacklers for Georgia this year or in
the secondary. That's not a good sign. That means that
the runs are all getting to the second level. And
there's Georgia defense, which I think does have a patented
Kirby smart game in them. We haven't seen it yet
this year, but you've got to give Texas to the
edge on offense. They've moved it against Michigan Oklahoma. I
would say those defenses are on par with what we've
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seen from Georgia this year. The old line might be
the best in all of college football. Kelvin Banks, the
left tackle, hasn't allowed a sack all year, five straight
games without of pressure. I really like the running game
quin Travian Weisner's come on lately. That's the guy to
keep an eye on in this game. We know about
the receivers. They're like medieval torture chambers. They will stretch
you vertically. Bond and Wingo, the freshman game breaker, is
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going to be an absolute rock star. He might be
better than Jeremiah Smith. Not quite Ryan Williams's grade yet,
but he's right there in terms of the best receivers
in the country. The opposite side is where the variants
comes here. Georgia offense against the Texas defense. I think
it's fair to say Mike Bobo to Todd Monkins a
downgrade and Bobo. The real struggle I've noticed, Doug is
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is just the early games. They scored zero combined points
in the first quarter against Clemson, Kentucky and Bama. Sub
thirty percent success right in the first quarter, Like that's
supposed to be your top shelf stuff, Like the first
quarter scripted plays and they have not gotten off the
mat in those games. If we get a full sixty
from the Georgia offense here, absolutely capable of pulling the upset.
It's also very fair to note that the Texas defense
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has not faced an offense with a yards per play
rank higher than seventy nine all season. It's been Oklahoma,
Mississippi State, ulm Utsa, Michigan, Colorado State. So this is
the first offense that Texas is faced with a pulse.
I like the over in this game fifty six and
a half. I think both offenses have an edge.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Stug got Liab show here on Fox Sports Radio. I
got one that's interesting. Colorado going too Arizona. Now Travis
Hunter is going to play, right, I mean, so that
changes Colorado and I think Jimmy Horn Junior is going
to play. You know, see you obviously lost in overtime
to k State last week, but they didn't have any
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of their top four wide receivers. What are your thoughts
on CEU taking on Arizona. They're a two and a
half point dog in the Desert.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah, I think the Arizona defense is where I would
look to the matchup here. I think if Colorado's healthy
on offense. I think they have more horses to kind
of outflank this Arizona defense. Arizona has been spunky this year,
but they're also dealing with a ton of new coaching,
you know, changes, and it's been very up and down.
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I really like to win at Utah. I thought that
was kind of the I thought that was kind of
the game where you where you saw the best. But
what's Utah kind of been this year? And you know,
Colorado did lose to Utah last year in a very
physical football game. But it's tough to really gauge what
Utah is this season. Last two games, you know, Texas
Tech BYU you know, law loss is a favorite outright
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to Texas Stack that's not a good result for Arizona,
and then lost to BYUS as a two and a
half point dog. I still think, and we talked about
it last week, I bet Travis Hunter to win the Heisman.
I still think that BET's live. I think if Colorado
can win this game and figure out a way to
get into the playoff or at least get to eight wins,
I think Travis Hunter is still very live to win
the Hidsman, But he's got to play he's got to
play effectively in this game. And listen, Colorado almost won
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that game last week without their two best players both
offense and defense for Travis Hunter and their best receiver
second best receiver behind him. So definitely the Buffalo is
a live dog in the desert in this one.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Jerry did the best man. Have a great weekend. Can't
wait to hear you on air tomorrow. You guys do
an outstanding job. And thanks for me our guest on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
I appreciate it, Doug.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
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Speaker 1 (31:09):
Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Mm hmmmmmmm, wist and time.
It's a beautiful Friday here. I hope you're having a
good fall. And look, I got lots of friends that
are Mets fans, but I would love to see the
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Dodgers close up shop and give us an absolute LA
team and make the make game starts in twenty minutes,
make the Yankees again. I'm a I'm just a fan
of sports, okay, And as much as my attention has
waned from Major League Baseball in the regular season, I
have told you for the last two years how much
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I enjoy watching regular season baseball more than ever and
postseason baseball.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It's a better product. There is a ton of talent.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And oh yeah, by the way, if you have sho
Heyo Tani in the World Series, he's the best player
to ever play baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
You have Aaron Judge, like, he's the most prolific home
run hitter maybe in the history of baseball. Right, we
can consider it clean versus you know, dirty and holding
the true home run record. And you have New York
twenty seven World Series titles, and the Dodgers, who have
been also ran so many times over one World Series
title but that was COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You can't so.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You don't have to be a fan of those two
teams to hope for that in the World Series, to
have more people pay attention to baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Let's get to the press, sport the press shortly after
the show. Podcast is going up.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
So this show podcast one plus we have the one
hour podcast only version where JAYCEU and I, well, let's
talk a little bit more, a little more baseball plus
Jayce do hates Dud's doing celebrations after getting a single right.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Celebrations African skill.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Imagine, by the way, if that happened when we were
like in middle school, early in high school.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Huh first base, first base? First base? When happened?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Downloaded, subscribe rate review Doug outlib show wherever you download
podcast Dan byra What's What's What's on top of the presce.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It brings back memories. Remember the coach would actually coach
third base. But then you put a kid who wasn't
in the game coaching first who did absolutely nothing as
first base. It just stood there with his arms folded.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Hey, huh, huh sign you signed back.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
You wouldn't even do that.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
He was kid.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Dug out, dugout?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Oh man. So Tony Bennett stepped down as the head
coach at Virginia Word leaked yesterday and then became official
with his news conference today that he's retiring after fifteen seasons.
And yet it's because of the current state of college basketball,
and yeah, it's because of agents.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
There has to be some limits on the agent involvement
to these young guys. And there are good agents and
there are bad agents, and they're driving some of this
stuff that we're in. And I worry a lot about
the mental health of the student athletes as all this
stuff comes down. Sometimes when you're in it, you have.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
To step away.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
And maybe I can be an advocate for the student
athletes and the coaches to get the changes. But this
is a place that will not compromise and do it
the right way.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I think, honestly, what really bothers him is that you
go to a place like Wisconsin, like Virginia where the
educational piece really matters, and in the current landscape it's
hard to make it matter. It just is, you know,
and the rare three schools now you have four and
five schools, Like what is that? That's a joke. The
constant free agency, that's a joke. So I get it now.
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I rushed in when others are rushing out. But I
also haven't been in it for twenty five years, and
I've been you know, I've been coaching AU basketball, which
actually kind of parallels this much more.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
All right, Doug. Former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler was arrested
in Tennessee on Thursday on multiple charges, including dy in
possession of a firearm, wall under the influence. The police
report says that Cutler tried to flee the scene after
an alleged rear ending of another vehicle at around five
o'clock local time in the Nashville area Franklin, Tennessee the
exact spot, and then offered allegedly two thousand dollars in
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cash to the victim to not report the accident.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean, the saying, hey, don't report, it messes up
my insurance is one thing. The being liquored up. And
then of course you're having a firearm.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Is it illegal? Is it legal? Firearm whatever?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
But that's the problem with that's the problem with everybody
having guns, is like, all right, you have guns, are
you going to drink? Well, yeah, it gets my right
to drink, and it's your right to bear arms. But
you're not supposed to mess with the firearm when you're drinking.
But when you're drinking, that gun's like come burying me
up and talk to me right. So not good stuff.
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I think the word we're looking for is uber lift.
Also a possibility.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Well, he's in uber trouble right about now. Oh, National
Football on the sticker, Bart Swaight staff, George Pickens not
doing the Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin would not name a
starter four week seven's game against the Jets on Sunday
Night Football, the Steelers wide receiver took a different route
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and speaking with reporters today, have you.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Noticed him putting in extra time this week? Maybe working
with you one on one, just to try to get on.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
The same page.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Yeah, again, on the same page after practice, throwing in
the morning morning usually because you know this is first.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Start talking about Russell Wilson. So George Pickens is the
one who let the cat out of the bag that
Russell Wilson will start Week seven.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, I mean, George Pickens is a lot man. You
got to be really good for the stuff that he's doing.
Now he's now he's you know, breaking stories. Not supposed
to do that, not even a little bit.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
It's the comeback story we all wanted to see, and
it's gonna happen in Week seven as the Browns host
the Cincinnati Bengals. The good thing is in ten years,
we won't be able to remember the site where Nick
Chubb returned from his devastating knee injury because the Browns
will be playing in suburban or suburban Cleveland. But on Sunday,
Nick Chubb returns from that devastating knee injury suffered against
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the Steelers last year in Pittsburgh season debut, coming up
against the Bengals in Week seven.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Man, Nick Chubb, What a stud? That guy is right
coming back from the knee injury.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Stud.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I'm a big Nick Chubb guy. Bengals Browns this weekend.
I just think that Bengals record is so deceiving. But
you can't drop one too the Browns or it is
absolutely over.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
And guys, there's only one person working on the show
right now that draft and saved Nick Chubb in their
guillotine league and might see the fruits.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Oh JESU, thank you. One final note before we go
on the heels of Jason Stewart's birthday this past Wednesday,
Iowa Sam a a big apple. Sam will celebrate a
birthday tomorrow when we are not here. So a big
happy birthday to Big Apple sam Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
It's very sad about my Mets, Julie disappointed, but see
what the Dodgers can do. What about your Yankees? Oh yeah,
this is true my Yankees. You know, I root for
both the Mets and the Yankees. That's what they call me,
Big Apple Sat.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
And my Dadams is the Jets. Happy birthday to you, Sammy.
That is the press, all right.
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