January 2, 2026 • 49 mins
On a Friday edition of the Best of the Show: Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos discuss Ole Miss's run to the national semi-finals in the CFP and how Lane Kiffin factors into it.
Dan and Monse discuss Indiana's run to the national semi-finals and Dan admits he was wrong.
Dan and Monse welcome former Bucs' General Manager Mark Dominik on to talk about week 18 of the NFL schedule.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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get in on the conversation onto it. Yeah, yes, everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Else, well, you're in any for other reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, but why not pile on? Why not just like
add on to the list. It'll be a free for all.
It's always a free for all when Monty and I
get together and we hang out with the likes of
one Jason Stewart a happy New Year.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
To you, Jason, Hello everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right, Chris Purfett is here, He's going to be
here for a little while and Iowa Sam takes over.
But uh, happy new Year, Chris Purfetz, Happy New Year everyone.
And the one and knows only Isaac Lohan Crown is
after news desk. Also not an idiot like me and
Lane Kiffin. We'll get to that in a sack. But
happy New Year, Isaac.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
It's not easy being low and crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That is true. I feel like I have company being
an idiot with me and Lane Kiffin. Not for the
same reasons, but it sure didn't feel like the ole
Miss Rebels missed their old head coach last night and
that Sugar Bowl win against Georgia, not.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Even a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And I know the first half for ole Miss didn't
look like they were getting in a groove, but coming
out of that half they I don't know, I don't
know what was said to Trinidad Chamliss, but he was
so fun to watch in that second half.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And I just was wondering the whole time, what is
Lane Kiffin thinking? What is he doing?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I thought the same thing, you know, So what did
you think that Lane Kiffin was thinking as he was
holding hands with Kim Maulky at the LSU women's basketball
game last night in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, I was here with Aaron Torres, who was
in seven to eleven Pacific time, and I was like
cheering or like reacting to Trinidad Chambliss every time he
scrambled and extended the play and then got some crazy
you know thrown downfield.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I was like, oh my god. And I think Lane
Kiffin was like, no, no, no, no, no, drump that ball.
That's what I think Lane Kiffen was doing.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I think you're absolutely right. And I think that human
nature or the good the little devil and the angel
talking yeah yeah, the angels like those are your guys,
Those are your guys, here for them, and the Devil's like,
you got work to do at LSU. They need to lose.
Ole Miss is nothing without you. And that's probably the
voice that took over in his head. For as much
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as assistants that are with ole Miss now that will
come to LSU, if they stay at ele Miss another week,
it could really hamper his efforts for getting players in
the transfer portal and that whole deal. So I think Ultimately,
Lane Kiffin's new job took over in what he wanted
to happen last night.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, because he knows what's going to come with that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I feel like he he had a tweet ready or
to put all guys, you tried your hardest.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But instead he couldn't send that tweet and all he
did was a little flag to like indicate support or.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Whatever, And it was like, you know, he didn't want
to send.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That because in reality, like you said, I don't think
they missed him one bit.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
They did not need him to go out there and
kick some ass.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah. I think that there's And you've worked with me
long enough, you know what. You know what I want
to do When I come back from a week long vacation.
The first thing I want to do is say, like,
how things go? How was say the Sunday show that
I do with Carry Roads. Yes, let's say I missed
the Sunday Show and I come back the next week
and I ask you, Monty, how did this? How did
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the Sunday show go? What do I want to hear?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You want me to say it went fine, but we
really missed it?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yes, Yes, I don't want to hear great. Yeah, I
don't want to hear it was a really good show.
I don't want to hear that it may have been
and I may not have been missed at all, but
I want to be missed. Yeah, And I think that's
what Lane Kiffin wanted. Land Kiffin wanted to be missed,
even though it was his own decision to leave and
leave when he did, and he says that it's ole
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Miss's decision, which I believe. He wanted to coach the Rebels,
but he ultimately had the decision of do I take
the LSU job and not coach them, or do I
stay at ole Miss and try to see this run
through it's national championship. He made the decision to leave,
and that's the bed that he has to sleep in.
But I know that in the heart of hearts, he
wishes things wouldn't have gone as well for ole Miss
as they did last night in the Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I totally agree that he wanted to be missed, but
I think it was something else, not just that he
wanted to be missed. Dan he wanted to be right.
He said he was leaving because he wanted to go
win a championship. So right now you have left a
championship caliber team. And so he wanted to be right
in saying that I left because this team couldn't get there.
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Oh so I agree he wanted to be missed, but
more than any I think he wants to be right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And not only not only did they beat Georgia last night,
they avenged the loss from the regular season when they
lost in Athens, when ole Miss had a sizeable lead
in that game only to have Georgia kind of take
over in the fourth quarter. So last night, in a
game where ole Miss is the one that makes the comeback,
there was a point where it felt like Georgia had
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regained the momentum. And in a three point game, they're
driving for a touchdown, and there were calls that were
leading up to that point that sure seemed to go
in Georgia's favor, a face mask call, other things happening.
I mean, Georgia kind of panicked and going for it
when they did on the fourth down and Old Miss territory.
But to the Bulldog's credit, they were able to rebound.
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And it's a three point game and Georgia's got a
gold to goal situation and I'm just thinking to myself,
this is the part where Georgia wins and the Old
Miss story comes to an end and we're all sad. Instead,
they held them to a field goal and then they
drive down and they kicked their own field goal to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You did feel like within the two minutes that it
was going away from Ole Miss, just for just for
the sense of you were running out of time. You know,
like it wasn't that they weren't doing it's just like,
oh my goodness, you're about to run out of time
after this great three third quarter started the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And then they managed to still get the win.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And the end of that game, did anyone know what happened?
No one knows what happened at the end of that game.
It was a stage out three times. Dan, I know
they looked the stage out three times.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It reminds you if you see that TikTok clip where
the guys carrying the bench across the floor in like
the eighth grade game, and some kids got to like
hurdle it because anyway, that was like just there was
ice on the field that they had already dallased peak
Golding with the Gator Rays. So they had to peak.
Golding took a picture with his kids, and then they
had to run two more plays. There was a point
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where he's on the field and somebody's like, Cay, can
we get a photo, and he stopped because he had
his kids there, took a picture. They had to move
off because they reviewed the backwards pass on the kickoff.
They realized that there was enough time, and so then
they did the onside kick and it was covered by
Georgia on the ground and they thought all that was over.
That lost a second. Uh uh. By the way, another
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reason why you need tens of a second on the
clock in college football. That is another reason. The official
in the booth at ESPN says, well, if you just
recover it on the ground, no time elapses in that portion.
But we just thought as soon as the one hit
and you touch the football, it expires and the game
is over. Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso
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would say, yeah, Mazi, it took forever. It took like
fifteen minutes. It felt like guys at Buffalo Wild Wings
were just going crazy trying to get the overtime button,
trying to keep this game go, to keep going and
going and going and going.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
No, it was.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was an awesome ending because it was hilarious as
you just saw it unravel like it's over. No it's not,
it's over. There's a stage a third time. Don't take
the stage away. But despite all of that, ole Miss pulls.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Off this win in a convincing way. They didn't just
win it because Georgia lost it, right.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They won it because they came back exactly, came back.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
In the second half. They adjusted, and they took you down.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think that the Georgia fourth down call wasn't great,
but no, ole Miss made plays in that game to
win it. And that's what then now makes this so
intriguing because Manti, I think that you hit it on
the head of ole Miss proving Lane Kiffen wrong that
he thinks he can win a championship at LSU. I
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think he thinks he can win multiple championships at LSU.
I don't think that he thought that he could win
multiple championships at all Miss. But last night I think
was a perfect example of addition by subtraction. I don't know, Oh,
I don't know if ole Miss wins that game with
Lane Kiffin last night. I don't know if that happens,
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there seems to be something else going on with this
ole Miss team. And I know they played a game
with him or without him already, but just the way
that they respond and kind of just don't want this
thing to end, I got that sense there isn't they
chip on their shoulder if lane Kiffin stays right, and
I feel that there is now that there is something
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to prove. And these players, some of whom will follow
lane kiffen to LSU and transfer to be an LSU Tiger.
There are players on ole Miss's team that will do
that and get their NIL money. But if lane Kiffin
is on the sidelines last night for ole Miss, Georgia
is in the semi finals of the college football Playoff.
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I think it was his dismissed, his leaving and his
absence last night, and how Pete Golding and the staff
have rallied the players that allowed them to pull off
the upset last night. Not that it was a carbon
copy of the g game that they played in Athens
where they had a lead and let it go, but
it was the opposite. They had their own lead, let
it go and then came back and without with lane Kiffin,
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there that's what happens with Lane Kiffin there. I don't
think it happens last night.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, It's like what pushes a team to just have
an edge over another team, And it looks like for
ole Miss, I agree with you, losing Lane Kiffin or
Lane Kiffin walking away from them has propelled something beyond
just wanting to win from probably what they want to
do obviously with him. But even with that, Trinidad Chambliss
doesn't know if he's gonna play again. He's fighting to
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get more eligibility, which, listen, I love that guy. I
love watching him play. You can't play another year, my guy, Like,
you just can't. I don't think you should because then
it gets mess here and messy here, and that's a
whole different conversation. So he's also he doesn't know what
he's gonna do, you know what I mean? Like his
story alone within the story of ole Miss, Yeah, is
great him.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Listen, the story of Trinidad Chambliss is great by itself.
Then you have the whole story of Old Miss fighting
because Lane Keivin is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I want to bring in Jason Stewart because one of
the reasons I'm an idiot is I complained about some
of the rematches that we had in the college football
bracket and this being one of them, this being a
very SEC centric matchup, but it sure seemed to expand
well outside of the SEC lines, especially for you. So
this this.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Speaks to how well I follow college football and enjoy it.
I barely knew this was a rematch, so I became
a massive ole Miss fan. Given the entire Lane Kiffin ordeal,
I think I was one of many people that are
massive ole Miss fans and temporary old Miss fans, and
I thoroughly enjoyed watching them last night, and I was
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fully behind them and on this guy. I was watching,
and I was learning new things about this team that
I'm sure you knew all along. And then you start
learning like the little social media things, like like when
Kiffin's first post was a flag, and I'm thinking, there's
no way in heck that a Confederate flag is in
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our emoji system. Why would he put a Confederate flag
out there, knowing the history of the program. And then
you go and you search and it's a Trinidad flag. Oh,
Trinidad's the name of the quarterback, all these things I'm
playing ketchup on. But it's a great experience. Yeah, and
then just watching them and knowing him the way he
must have taken a kind of it was like one
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of those he took it with the pride. It was
a punch to his pride. But then you read that
he got a five hundred thousand dollars bonus and you're like,
that feels dirty, and that's probably why he worked that
into negotiation. But anyways, it was a great experience last night.
I really enjoyed watching that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
In the game that again I thought that only a
certain region of the company, and then off of what
happened in the game prior that maybe people would be like, Okay,
you know, this Indiana story is crazy to see. I
don't know if ole Miss topped it, but it sure
gave it a unique chapter of its own last night.
And to think Lane Kiffin and to then hear the
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stories of Lane Kiffin wanting to go on college game day,
thought about going to the Sugar Bowl himself, which would
have been a complete distraction. How about ole Miss winning
in Louisiana, like just in that, in that representation and
in the state that now I know it's not Baton Rouge,
but Beaton Rouge ain't far from New Orleans, so but
just the representation was really really yeah, it was just
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it was an awesome atmosphere and for the for the
energy or lack thereof. And I don't blame Oregon and
I don't blame Texas Tech, but there was just nothing
buzzworthy about the Orange Bowl, which started early, and Oregon
had a travel across the country. But when you look
at what happened with the Rose Bowl with the crowd
there every year, Rose Bowl has great crowds. But when
you put two SEC teams in the Sugar Bowl, like
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we talk about the Rose Bowl maybe being a spot
where a national championship game should always be held. Maybe
as we're looking at the bracket here, and I know
that Greg Sankei and the SEC wouldn't want this, but
if you're putting in five or six SEC schools, have
them always in the Sugar Bowl because that's the sort
of atmosphere that you would get to be able to
fill it out, let alone having a coach leave a
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team and abandon a team prior to their run and
get revenge on another team that they lost to earlier
on in the season. All of that came into play.
But there was a lot of good with the college
football playoff in the way that it worked out, and
I didn't see it happening this way Monty actually did.
We'll get to that a little bit later on. That's
kind of why I'm an idiot, because I thought New
Year's Day was an absolute win for college football and
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what a win for Ole Miss.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
What a win for Ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But I agree with you that that Oregon Texas Tech game,
it was like what you played today?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
This meant something. It had no like, no aura, no,
not nothing to it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was not cinema. That's what the kids like to say.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yes, it was not cinema. That was that mean, right, cinema?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, it was not cinema. There was You're right, there
was no aura.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
On a scale of one to one hundred, I gave
it a six seven. That's what I did. We'll continue
that in twenty twenty six. She is Mancey Belagio's Dan
Byer Iowa Sam as a college football fan, how great
was yesterday on New Year's Day? For you? In watching football?
Just as as someone who loves the sport.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I certainly think that the ole Miss Georgia game made
up for some I mean, listen the the the Alabama
and Indiana and the Oregon Texas Tech games, Like we're
not competitive, So Georgia Georgia ole Miss made up.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
For a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Yeah, and then the night before you know, I'm sorry
to your Buckeyes, but at least that was more competitive.
And I think we're just trying to avoid these like
huge blood games.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's and we're going to dive into that because I
think like this is where like I think Sam and
I are on the same point, but I I feel
like I have to admit that I'm wrong on some stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yes this is yeah, you were wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
But just to Sam's point that I actually think even
though Indiana blew out Alabama, Indiana was fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Set up Texas Tech. And I couldn't tell.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
You one thing that happened in that game that was
also I mean, those were two surprising results.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I couldn't tell you one play that stood out in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I could see Fanana Mendoza making throws in the third quarter,
you know what I mean, Like that game was so boring.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't remember anything of it. Even though the other
one was a blowout, it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Had moments, it was so it's so different even though
they were both blowouts.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
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Speaker 2 (16:27):
The only thing worse than not being in on the
joke is not being in on the fun, right. Yeah,
Like when you hear everybody got together it was a
great time, and you're like, oh, I wasn't there. Still
it was a great time. Really, you don't want to
miss out on the fun when I miss work, I
don't want there to be as much fun as when
I'm there. We covered that earlier. I feel like I'm
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missing out on the fun of Indiana and I could
not have been. I could not have been more wrong
than I was about what is true inspired in the
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Mendoza Kurt Signetti Indiana Hoosiers story.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I absolutely have been all about it all season.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And this is coming from someone who's never really had
a college football team.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I have vacation in that world.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh yes, just take twelve weeks in the in the fall. Yeah,
maybe maybe into January.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't have any real estate, you know what I'm saying, Like,
I just vacation there.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yes, I have a grand time.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think Jason Stewart you're kind of in that same boat.
I know that you're like you'll pull for the Syracuse
Orange when there's reason too. But I don't want to
say that you're a college football free agent. But you
even said earlier that you're age football casual. So you've
been taking in India, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And I'm an adopted old miss for these playoffs. And
but Indiana's fun to watch. Everyone pulls for this team,
I think. And Kurt Signetti said something yesterday that I'd
like to get to before the end of the show here.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Okay, Well, let's let's hear it. Then let's let's hear
it right now. We'll get to it right now. Jason Stewart, Well,
this is what happened. This is what happened. I submitted
sound yesterday. No, I won't get into that anyways. Rhys
Davis caught up with Kurt Signetti after the game last
night and he first asked him, how would you describe
(18:36):
the turnaround and what you have been able to build?
And Kurt Signetti said, and this feeds into my pet peeve.
It would be one hell of a movie. And then
then the fall was this.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Who would stars Kurt Signetti in the movie?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I don't know about that one, but there'd be a lot.
There'd be a big cast of characters. Because it's all
about people. You gotta have the right people and your staff,
the right guys in the locker room. And we've been
very fortunate. And uh, these guys buy in. They all
think alike, they play like we want them to play.
There's been a lot of first It is kind of surreal.
There's no doubt about it. I understand why there's been
(19:15):
a lot of skeptics, but I only have one thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Poo poo pooh.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And perfectly said Kurk, congratulations.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Now, good, good for him, good for Signetty. And I
love the story, but I'm going to disagree with this one.
Would it be a hell of a movie just for
like a traditionally basketball program to win a national title
in football? I don't think it would be a very
interesting movie. There doesn't seem a lot of drama or
a character arc there.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, And they couldn't call it Hoosiers, like so like
that's off the boards, r. You wouldn't be able to
even call it Hoosiers. That there's a there's a whole
basketball movie about the you know, about the old shucks
small town team and going and reaching the high heights,
and it's called Hoosiers. I do think, and I love
Reese Davis. I think that Reese Davis is as good
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at his job as anybody else that does that job
in sports media. That was an awful follow up question.
And good on Signetti for taking the wheel and bringing
it back, because I'm sure he was caught off guard
by the whole movie. But it's Pasadena, it's Hollywood, it's
la it's the whole deal, and so you're playing into
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that by Signetti saying what he did and then to
ask him who would play him in that role just
completely derailed. It was an eighteen car trail train derailment
with that question. But Signetti brought it back on track.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I mean, it's under the umbrella of the thing that
I really can't stand, which is the old cliche that
writers go to and that reporters go to, and you'll
hear athletes say it that Hollywood would never be able
to write this story. You always hear that as an
exaggeration of just a routine short story. And I'll always
say this, and I'll put a button on this, this
portion of this. They made a movie about a snail
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that won the ND five hundred. It's called Turbo. You
could watch it. Maybe it was a good movie. But
once you've made that movie, I don't think any athlete
or sports announcer could ever say that Hollywood writers would.
They would kick you out of the room if you proposed.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
This, right.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, No, Nowadays, with the movies and shows that come out,
anything is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Right now, I understand that there is no real stakes.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
If you were to make a movie about Indiana, but
I do think it can be done.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
And Brad Pitt would play Kurt Signetti. There we go.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You got Chad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I just think that he is maybe a smidge young,
but you know, with the little makeup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I wish they were around the same age. Actually, I
wish you would have said, Sidney Sweeney. I wish that
would have been his answer. That would have shown so good.
That would have been how dumb is this question?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Was?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But I think like there's just such bad movies and
television out there that it may be better than you
think a story about well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, you're right. Never there's never like Hollywood's never made
like an underdog story. I never like never like never
has happened.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But this isn't an underdog according to me. People they're
not an under now, they're not. They spent a lot
of money, they should be here.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, but you also do have the right people. There
are people who spend a lot of money and you're
not the right people, and it doesn't work, and like,
this is this is the portion. I'm glad that you
said that, because this is the portion where I feel
like I'm an idiot and I feel like I'm an
outsider as someone who is admittingly an Ohio State football fan,
I cannot jump on the Indiana bandwigon. But it took
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what happened yesterday and really what happened on New Year's
Eve night with Ohio State losing for me to realize
why I was an idiot on New Year's Eve afternoon
when I said it would be a failure and it
would be an awful situation for college football if you
had Indiana, Miami, Ole, miss In Texas Tech winning games.
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Three of those four things happened, and now as we
see here on January twenty, January second of twenty twenty six. Honestly, Manci,
I feel embarrassed for myself because I feel it was
an elitist take. I feel it was one coming from
a spot that did not see other places. And I know,
in this world of hot take and people want you
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to argue and disagree the whole time, I am here
admitting my wrongs that this bracket probably couldn't have gotten
any better from what transpired yesterday and what transpired on
New Year's Eve night. Sure you love the brands, and
maybe that's the problem with college football is that there
are too many big brands we talk about the blue bloods,
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we talk about all the jobs there are, you know,
six or seven jobs you can't turn down in college football.
Maybe that's the problem with it. Maybe that's the problem
that we're all so sick of Alabama. As an Ohio
State fan, I knew ninety percent of the country was
rooting for Miami on New Year's Eve night and the
ten percent were We're Ohio State fans, Like that's that's
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the reality of it. Maybe we were sick of Clemson
in the runs that they made, like we needed something
new and we needed something different, and that was a
blind spot for me. And now in seeing how things transpired,
seeing link Kiffin, levele miss and things that they didn't
have a shot against Georgia because I just thought Georgia
was the better team, Georgia had the better players. That
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wasn't the case. And I feel that's why I'm an idiot.
So my wife doesn't have to still be on hold
for an hour, Like I fully admit that I was
an idiot because I felt my view was so narrowed.
I can't jump on the Indiana bandwagon. There's no way
that that's happening. I don't care who now wins the
college Football Playoff Championship. But I can recognize, and it
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really took old miss to do it, but I can
recognize how these stories have given new life to college football.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, I think Dan, a lot of people actually
probably saw the situation like you did. Not that they
were Ohio State fans, but maybe they were the Georgia fans,
the Alabama fans, the Oregon fans, right, I think.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
They saw it the way you did it that you
did as well.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And it's people like me and Jason from the outside
that have not looked at it, not looked at it
with blinders because we don't have a team, so we're
kind of just kind of for the fun ride. We
hear this story, we see this game, we watch this person,
this player, this coach, and we're like, of course, I
just think we see it from a different perspective. And
then now with nil, basically like if you can spend money,
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which we see some more teams are doing that, it's
even in the playing field. Maybe spending money has made
it okay now in college football, right because now there
aren't these teams that are just so dominant that it's
clear as day that you are gonna move on to
the next round. I think that's actually a really good
thing for college football, because when NIL first opened up,
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I was like, Oh, this is bad idea.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
This is going to go about.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And I know there's still some parts of it that
I think need to be fixed and whatnot, but clearly
the playing field has even out for the teams that
can spend money, for the schools that can spend money
and can actually do this. But I think a lot
of people actually felt like you did, Like real college
football fans that have been around for years and.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Years, I feel like they looked at it the way
you did.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I want to get to I know Jason wants in
on this. I do want to say. One thing is
I also thought that last year's semi final, where you
had these established programs of Texas, Ohio State, Penn State,
Notre Dame, that that's what that's what you wanted in
college football. You wanted those four teams. And I thought
last year's playoff was good, Like Texas Ohio State maybe
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wasn't a great played game, but it was dramatic. Penn
State and Notre Dame was a low scoring affair, and
Notre Dame at a heck of a comeback against Ohio
State in the National Championship game, just couldn't complete the
deal in Ohio State ends up winning. But you had
those four big brands, and I thought, Wow, that's what
the committee, that's what the fans would want to pick
if we could pick it. And I couldn't have been
more wrong, Jason.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I just think what Monsi said is so true. Like
I think for us kind of casual fans, I follow
college football just because I'm in the industry, just because
I need to. But like, there are so many people
and you have to think about it. This is like
a symptom of our industry. There are so many people
with takes and they make their predictions, and when the
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predictions don't come right, they're like really bitter about things.
I just felt in the last forty eight hours a
lot of those people that make predictions, that think they
know college football so well, and they were making these
absolute takes after the playoffs, seating all this stuff, they
were just kind of groveling the last couple of days.
It was kind of fun to watch and then most
of us I think that and this is good for
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college football. By the way, the people that are just
kind of tuning in now, are like this is fun. Yeah,
like that was really fun.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You know. Yeah. I think Ole miss put a lot,
you know, a lot of fun into it last night.
The Indiana story. The thing that I can't get over
with Indiana is it just gets better and better.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So like last year, like them making the playoff as
it was, and then they lose to Notre Dame. That
could have been the high point. That could have been
the high point of kurtent Signetti's time in Bloomington, and
we would have said, remember when he took him to
the college football playoffs, like Indiana a top ten team,
imagine that. So then their run this year of being undefeated,
of winning at Oregon, a, beating Ohio State in the
Big Ten title game, and then going to the Rose Bowl.
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So just to see Indiana's name in the Rose Bowl
as something the end zone that we hadn't seen, to
see not only them beat in Alabama but dismantled Alabama,
and I thought that Alabama is not the same as
it once was, and I think that it was evidence
last night. But to see how they took that Alabama
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team apart, and we're just better than they are, Like
it just it keeps on getting better for Indiana and
now I'm like sitting then, like it when when does it?
When does the bottom fall out? Because it does for
every college football program except one, and now that may
be the one where it never does.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
And we haven't even mentioned Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman winner,
and what he's doing and his interviews and how fun
he is and goofy and like how he's winning over people.
I feel like just by how he comes across, like
there's nothing negative to be said about Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Chris Signetti you could argue if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Or Francisco Mendoza. I think Jason would agree.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, Iowa Sam, I am curious from your perspective. I'm
also curious from Isaac's perspective as well. I feel Isaac
very neutral despite the USC UCLA roots that run through
his house. I want to start with you, Iowa Sam,
though as an Iowa fan, being familiar with Indiana, how
not just Indiana, but even this final four? Do you
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enjoy this final four? Do you like these matchups? How
have you taken this all in?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
I'm blown away by like, I just I don't know.
Kurt Signetti has this magic potion for just turning in
the program into exactly what he wants in the last
two years, so that's been unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Are you wrapped up in it? Like, do you want
Indiana to win it all?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I'm like it went from Indiana when Kurt Signetti started.
I looked at like their jerseys, their colors, their emblem,
and I'm like, it's Indiana now.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm like, I look at it. I looked at them differently,
I really do.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I'm like, they're like a power and it's because of
Kurt Signetti because I really don't know much about their players.
I know he got a lot of he took a
lot of players with him from James Madison. But I'm like,
even those guys, how are they this good? They're supposed
that was a James Madison was an FCS team up
until a few years ago, and they've been in the
FBS and then you know, they made the playoff, and
there must be something magical about James Madison. But to
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like watch Indiana for years and years be occasionally get
to a bowl game, you know, and win a bowl game,
maybe go like eight and five or nine and four
is like a really really good year for them for
them to just like they've I mean there's for them
to go, did you even better than last year?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's just even more mindful. Yeah, Indiana has something that
not every college team has, and that's dudes. Like they
have got guys like there's you. You can look at
a college roster and be like they got great kids,
and you can look at a college roster and be like,
they got great guys, and they're different because these are
these are men, These are big, big guys like Charlie
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Becker just posting someone up in the end zone on
a post route like like they've got there. The physical
nature of their players has such an effect as well
that matches the top programs in the country. Isaac kind
of from a Switzerland neutral point of view, I'm not
sure if he's got any interest, but uh, actually he's
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tied up. But I think that the neutral people, the
neutral people are sitting there saying, yeah, I'm I'm along
for the ride, whether it be Ole, miss, whether it
be Indiana in those scenarios.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Whether it be Miami. I think unless you were.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
This is yes, this on the side. This is my
point about yesterday is so Miami. Of when Miami beats
Ohio State, Miami, it's not like Miami's a likable program,
like Michael Irvin was not disliked during his playing career,
Like who likes the cowboys? Right? Then he's winning and
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then he's dancing in your face. Now he's he's doing
his dances. He's wearing that same long sleeved you know,
University of Miami Hurricane shirt. He's doing his belt.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, he did that just to show his abs. Did
you see his abs?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of course that's why he did that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That was I was like, oh, that's why you're taking
your shirt off, got it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
But it's also why I think and I think that
Ohio State's probably the most disliked brand in college football
right now. Alabama was probably up there. I think Notre
Dame is up there. But it's why people could rally
behind Miami and and a a strutting Michael Irvin. Ray
Lewis was the subdued one on the sidelin. It's like,
when does that ever happened? But that's what happens when
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you get Michael Irvin on the sidelines of the you
and it's an upset Carson Beck, let's be real, probably
not one of the most likable quarterbacks. That's something that
you're warming up tos like, and here he comes in
and he's bulldozing Ohio State safeties trying to get first downs.
Like people are warming up to that because they also
beat the defending national champions, and so all of that
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taken into account, I think has made it very, very
good for college football.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I don't know what's happening on those sidelines, but I
feel like they hate just so you know, they hate
from like Ohio State and like those schools that have dominated.
It's more of a hate because of the domination with
like Miami. It's it's like the other stuff as to
why people are annoyed by them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, so it's very different. It's very different.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I think that I think people hate Ohio State's fan
base more than they actually hate Ohio State. I think
people probably don't like Michael Irvin doing that stuff on
most days and being cocky and being show voting, because
that's all Miami was. They were the you, they were
the outlaws, the all of that stuff. They were the
team that you wanted to be but couldn't be. I
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think all of that plays into why you would dislike
a team. Do you think that the fan base, though
of Ohio State, makes people go to the other side?
I felt that when I saw social media on how
many people were excited about what happened with Miami beating
Ohio State on New Year's Eve, and there were just
as many people happy for Indiana to beat Alabama and
happy for Ole Miss to beat Georgia. That's what I
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got the sense of.
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Speaker 2 (34:39):
Junning us now, fresh off of a New Year celebration
and a great day of college football. Former Buccaneers GM
Mark Dominic joins us here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey Mark,
Happy New Year.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
How are you happy New Year? I'm great, looking forward
to some more football over the next couple of days
as well.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, let's how much do you watch what transpire yesterday?
I know there's an NFL I but obviously some of
these guys are going to be in the NFL at
some point in there in their lives. How do you
watch a New Year's Day tripleheader with the top quality
of football that we had yesterday.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Well, you know, it's hard. Sometimes I'm able to keep
myself and plant down in front of a TV and
watch the entire thing and just enjoy it. And sometimes
I'm able to catch pieces of it. I'm not going
to be acting like I watched something I didn't see,
but I was able to watch a lot more of
the I'd say the old Miss Georgia game that that
was the one that probably put the most time into.
But we've got four teams in here that you know,
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I've seen all season long, and you know, I don't know,
you know, I find it fascinating what Saban said about Miami.
It seems to be coming true how dangerous they may be.
But I'm just I don't think anybody really understands how
good Indiana really is because it just feels so out
of place.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Hey, Mark, Happy New Year. Let's start here with Trinidad.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Chambliss, what do you see as maybe this ceiling for him?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Or does he go to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I know he's trying to get another year of eligibility,
but what do you see in Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
So I think he's a very exciting football player to
watch when you when you watch him and just what
he's able to do for Old Miss it has been
amazing for his you know, production and him just tossing
the ball around the field. I really you know, I
like that he's coming here from where it was Fairs State,
if I remember, Yeah, and be really played exceptionally well.
And what I love about what he's done was the
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fact that his touchdown interception ratio is so strong. Right,
just the three turnovers this year, that has been a
big piece of why he's been so effective. He just
doesn't turn the ball over and he's still running the
ball effectively as well. I hope he gets one more year.
I don't think it's a bad thing for to play
one more college football. He's still only twenty three years old,
and knowing that, you know, if you get into this
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league and play for a long time, you could play
your mid thirties, late thirties as we're seeing now. So
it'd be great for him to see another season to
kind of build on what he's done. But if he
decides to make the jump, you know, I feel like
people are going to enjoy getting to know him from
a character standpoint.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I've already started to hear it. Mark Dominic joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio. She's Monte Bolanos. I'm Dan Beyer.
Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner, Indiana's number one. They're
rolling on possible potential number one overall pick. When you
see a guy like Mendoza, does he have the qualities
of someone that you would want to take number one overall?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Well, fields like it, right, I mean, everything seems to
be coming together in terms of like his production and
his play and obviously what he's done, you know, with
the Maxwell Award and the Walter Campi He's won just
about every award you can win, right, So he's kind of,
you know, checked the box there. I think the big
thing for me is just getting to know the player.
(37:44):
I think what you like about him is that every
year he's improved, whether it's completion percentages, yards, touchdowns, et cetera.
He's gotten better and better and better, and that's what
you like to see in any player. He's certainly got
a lot of production and a lot of play time
underneath his belt, which makes you feel good. With three
full seasons in that regard in terms of cal and
then obviously Indiana this year. You know, the thing that
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and I've talked about this a little bit is is
getting to know the character of the kid kind of
like what we just talked about is the time you
can spend with them to understand what makes them tick
and how do they tick and how do they handle
the locker room. And it's not just meaning the quarterbacks guys, right,
it's also just talking to the coaching staff, the equipment staff,
the trainers, the other players on the team and getting
(38:27):
a sense of what is mendo what's he like as
a leader, who did he hang out with, who are
his best friends on the team. All those things kind
of come together to find out is the guy worthy
of being you know, this number one pick over all
the draft, and we're going to get to know about that.
But Mendoz has certainly put himself in a great position
so far.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Let's shift gears here and go to the NFL. Some
divisions are still up for grabs NFC South Panthers and Buccaneers.
Can you pinpoint the what happened in the downfall with
Tampa Bay this year?
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Yeah, that's an amazing drop. And it's just been shocking
to me to watch this team that started the season
so strong and now they're not even in control of
their own destiny. And that's that's you know, that's amazing
because they at that buy, I think there were six
and two at the buy and they've only won one
game since, and you know, it's been I think, very
frustrated organizationally. I mean, they've had four straight losses in
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a row of under you know, four or less points
and any one of those turn and this is a
little bit different of the season. It's hard for me
to really point the but I think it's the offensive,
you know, just the offensive. And I don't want to
just put on the coordinator, but certainly the pieces of
the offense. It doesn't feel like it's you know, functioning
the way it had over the last couple of years.
Hence that's why those two guys have gone on to
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be head coaches. You think about the Buccaneers last year,
and they were averaging almost thirty points a game, especially
down the stretch. They were crushing it. You know, this year,
when you look at them, they're averaging closer to that
twenty two to twenty four points a game and the touchdowns,
you know, the difference between them winning the last four games, right,
So I think it's just, you know, you can have
the same players, but play calling is an art and
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it takes time and it's hard to do, and it's
a lot harder to do when you're in the boot
than when you're on the couch because you're like, oh,
we always run, but you're like, you got to set
up the run. So I do think it's in the
offense whether they've learned enough and feel comfortable keep moving forward.
I don't see a big change. I don't see Todd
Bowles being let go. That's to me, having worked for
the Glazers and nineteen years there. I think maybe they
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would make a change of coordinator potentially, but I think
that would be the only real change I think, because
I think when you look at the roster from an
offensive standpoint, and Mike Evan's not being around this year
with his injury certainly is a big piece of that too.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Mark Dominic joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, he
said it himself, twenty years more than twenty years in
NFL front Office's former GM of the Buccaneers joining Monci
Bolanios and myself Dan Byer. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Aaron Rodgers admitted that he's got options coming up. Also
admitted that maybe not as many options as others or
options that he once had, but he is going to
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be a free agent. Do you think playing in twenty
twenty six is a realistic possibility for these now Steelers quarterback?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
I actually don't. I think he's done. I think this
is his last run. My gut instinct is this is
Aaron's final role through the National Football League and hopefully,
you know, for him and for the Steelers organization, they
get to go to the postseason with it and see
what he can do. But it just feels like to me,
every year feels harder, longer, tougher, and when you think
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about his stats and his legacy, at least you know,
he feels like he's riding out on a much more
Aaron Rodgers type of season. I know the yards aren't
there like he's used to, but the touchdowns, the interceptions,
the ability to be in the postseason or potential to
put them in the postseason all as part of it.
I think with the loss, I think I'm certain he's retired.
I think with the win. It's just kind of the
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only thing would be is how far can they get
in the postseason? If that gets the adrenaline going. But
I truly believe that this is Aaron's last year.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
What do you think happens with Daniel Jones and the Colts?
Speaker 8 (41:55):
Yeah, I think there's a great story. I think you
can find common ground there in terms of, uh, some
type of a deal. Maybe it's it's it's something a
little bit obviously like a Baker Mayfield mindset. It's going
to be a big beast is you know, and I
assume that you know, the GM the head coach will
both be back. But I think it's going to be
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in that range where they're gonna they're gonna look and say, hey,
how can we how can we rework this contract? And
I know it's just that what was a one year,
fourteen million dollars deal?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (42:28):
I think the agent and that the player both would
be wise to kind of stay where they are for
another year, uh and and just kind of build on
it and continue to build on continuity instead of change,
change change for the sake of change. He's gotten money
in his pocket. I mean, he's made what one hundred
and twenty million dollars in his career ready. So this
is about Daniel Jones making the right career move, and
I think the right career move for him is a
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stay put. So I think you find something that's built
with incentives, you're going to have to get that number,
probably the twenty five to thirty in the base just
because of the quarterback position. But I think you can
build a lot more into time snaps, touchdowns, you know, postseason,
all those things to build it up to a more reasonable,
you know, one year deal potentially, to see what you
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can do. I'd like to do a one year deal
from the coast to make sure I believe in what
I've seen it stay healthy, and I think for Daniel Jones,
a one year deal you know, gives him, you know,
more stability, but a chiefs to bite that apple. Really
in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I think it's so intriguing on so many different levels
because I mean, there's there's no guarantee he's one hundred
percent from from this injury next season. You also have
Anthony Richardson, who you've given opportunities to so much, and
then now he doesn't seem a part of your future.
But you're probably not going to pick up his fifth
(43:43):
year option. I wouldn't think that you would if you're Indianapolis.
But I have no idea what the future of Richardson is.
But it's also in a way mark where Jones may
have been sought you know, sought after throughout the league
if he was fully healthy, and now the Chiefs get him.
Just the whole scenario to me is I have no
idea where they're going to find this middle ground, and
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with all the other pieces moving around, that's why I
just I find it fascinating in Indianapolis.
Speaker 8 (44:09):
No, I do too, And again, if I'm the Colts,
if I can build something with a lot of I
know this contray has some incentive bases also, but you know,
build something with playtime percentage, build something with wins, build
something with postseason, and be able to put something in
front of Daniel Jones that could get to you know,
forty forty five, maybe even up to fifty million dollars
based off of you know, if you can take us
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to the Super Bowl and win it. Sure, I think
every owner's sign up for that. But I think at
the same point to your point, ideally for the Colts
is like I I'd rather, you know, I'm happy to
pay more in a year from now to prove that
you can stay on the football field and you can
do this again. The sad thing for Daniel Jones is
besides his rookie year, he's still never thrown for more
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than what twenty touchdowns and only his rookie year, So
he hasn't done anything to say, hey, let's get over
the top and let's just go make this payday. And
so I think that the both sides really really need
to understand that the best move truly is for him
just to stay put one more year, build on what
he's learned, stay in the same system, and then you know,
in twenty twenty seven you become a free agent or
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you know, the tag is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
It's Friday, Black Monday is coming up fast. Sometimes it's
black Sunday night after after some of these games. Do
you have a ballpark number on how many vacancies that
we could see coming up after Sunday's games.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
Yes, It's it's tough because there's there's some teams out
there that you know, obviously have already made changes. I do.
I do think the Raiders will be one and done.
I do feel like that's going to be Pete Carroll's
going to be in Peek Carroll will be out. Yep,
nothing against Pete Carroll specifically, but it's just, you know,
I just don't see the future there, and I think
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you want a younger coach to jump in there and
kind of be the Tomlins, so to speak, or the
John Horbaugh where he's going to be there for you know,
you're looking for the fifteen twenty year coach and that's
what you're hoping to find. And I think there's some
really interesting younger coaches that are coming through the systems
right now. My guy. You usually we see what six
to eight total openings. I feel like we're gonna get
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the lower end of that. You know, a lot of
people are clamoring for m Morris. I think he holds
on for another season, you know, those kind of jobs.
I have a feeling I think Arizona probably stays put
is just because of Kyler Murray in that situation. So
I don't feel like we're going to see quite as
much extreme, but I still think we'll probably be you know,
when it's also and done, probably at least six openings.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Well, we'll find out next week and we'll be talking
about those openings because they likely will be open when
we talk to you next Mark, We appreciate it. Enjoy
Week eighteen and Happy New Year. Thanks so much, Happy
New Year.
Speaker 8 (46:44):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Guys. She's Manti Blanios, I'm Dan Byer. It is Fox
Sports Radio. I think about five or six. There's there's
all these also these rumblings about if the Browns end
up making a move with Kevin Stefanski land somewhere, and
then if the Browns make a move, would would Cleveland
be interested? And maybe Mike McDaniel of Miami something that
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we'll get into. But I would say six, if I
were to put a number on it, I would say
six head coaches get relieved of their duties. He said
the low of six or eight. I thought about a
handful plus one, So I'm saying six.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Just scanning through it, I feel like he.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Six got you already.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Yeah, raiders, he thinks I agree, agree, I agree with
that one.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Jason Stewart is thinking and j E. T s Jets
Jets Jets. I hope so as as an opening, I think.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
That hasn't opening.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
I do really think that maybe Arizona I agree.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I side with you. Mark thinks said Jonathan Gannon is safe.
I don't think that that is the case.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
And I know, I know two people have already told
me that Todd Bowles isn't going anywhere. And I don't
know how Tampa Bay does not look at the situation
just like, yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
I think Raheem Morris saved this job with the Falcons
win against the Buccaneers and then what they did against
the Rams. Yeah. Yeah, I think that there was like
prior to that, there were a lot of questions. But
Mark Dominic thinks that Raheem Morris is safe. I think.
I think there could be a surprise, Like I think
that there could be a move with with Kevin Stefanski.
I think that McDaniel stays with the Dolphins. But then
(48:24):
if that happens, is there's some sort of move something
that we'll all get into. But I think six is
going to end up being the number that we get.
Maybe seven. There could be a huge surprise. You'll find
out maybe if a team, you know, crashes out in
the playoffs, somebody's like, all right, we'll move on from them.
Plus you have the Raider, the Ravens and Steelers situations, right,
(48:45):
So I don't think Harbon Tomlin, I really don't think
that they're in jeopardy, but they could be a part
of the conversation.
Speaker 4 (48:50):
Agree. I don't think they're in a hot seat, but
I think the seat.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Is warm, yes, for both, but it's like it's not hot,
it's so warm.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
And I think that how these seasons have played out,
there is going to be there's going to be a
tipping point, and I just don't think that we've gotten
there yet
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
Else, well, you're in any for other reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, but why not pile on? Why not just like
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It's always a free for all when Monty and I
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one Jason Stewart a happy New Year.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
To you, Jason, Hello everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right, Chris Purfett is here, He's going to be
here for a little while and Iowa Sam takes over.
But uh, happy new Year, Chris Purfetz, Happy New Year everyone.
And the one and knows only Isaac Lohan Crown is
after news desk. Also not an idiot like me and
Lane Kiffin. We'll get to that in a sack. But
happy New Year, Isaac.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
It's not easy being low and crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That is true. I feel like I have company being
an idiot with me and Lane Kiffin. Not for the
same reasons, but it sure didn't feel like the ole
Miss Rebels missed their old head coach last night and
that Sugar Bowl win against Georgia, not.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Even a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And I know the first half for ole Miss didn't
look like they were getting in a groove, but coming
out of that half they I don't know, I don't
know what was said to Trinidad Chamliss, but he was
so fun to watch in that second half.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And I just was wondering the whole time, what is
Lane Kiffin thinking? What is he doing?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I thought the same thing, you know, So what did
you think that Lane Kiffin was thinking as he was
holding hands with Kim Maulky at the LSU women's basketball
game last night in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, I was here with Aaron Torres, who was
in seven to eleven Pacific time, and I was like
cheering or like reacting to Trinidad Chambliss every time he
scrambled and extended the play and then got some crazy
you know thrown downfield.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I was like, oh my god. And I think Lane
Kiffin was like, no, no, no, no, no, drump that ball.
That's what I think Lane Kiffen was doing.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I think you're absolutely right. And I think that human
nature or the good the little devil and the angel
talking yeah yeah, the angels like those are your guys,
Those are your guys, here for them, and the Devil's like,
you got work to do at LSU. They need to lose.
Ole Miss is nothing without you. And that's probably the
voice that took over in his head. For as much
(02:48):
as assistants that are with ole Miss now that will
come to LSU, if they stay at ele Miss another week,
it could really hamper his efforts for getting players in
the transfer portal and that whole deal. So I think Ultimately,
Lane Kiffin's new job took over in what he wanted
to happen last night.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, because he knows what's going to come with that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I feel like he he had a tweet ready or
to put all guys, you tried your hardest.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But instead he couldn't send that tweet and all he
did was a little flag to like indicate support or.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Whatever, And it was like, you know, he didn't want
to send.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That because in reality, like you said, I don't think
they missed him one bit.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
They did not need him to go out there and
kick some ass.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah. I think that there's And you've worked with me
long enough, you know what. You know what I want
to do When I come back from a week long vacation.
The first thing I want to do is say, like,
how things go? How was say the Sunday show that
I do with Carry Roads. Yes, let's say I missed
the Sunday Show and I come back the next week
and I ask you, Monty, how did this? How did
(03:53):
the Sunday show go? What do I want to hear?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You want me to say it went fine, but we
really missed it?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yes, Yes, I don't want to hear great. Yeah, I
don't want to hear it was a really good show.
I don't want to hear that it may have been
and I may not have been missed at all, but
I want to be missed. Yeah, And I think that's
what Lane Kiffin wanted. Land Kiffin wanted to be missed,
even though it was his own decision to leave and
leave when he did, and he says that it's ole
(04:20):
Miss's decision, which I believe. He wanted to coach the Rebels,
but he ultimately had the decision of do I take
the LSU job and not coach them, or do I
stay at ole Miss and try to see this run
through it's national championship. He made the decision to leave,
and that's the bed that he has to sleep in.
But I know that in the heart of hearts, he
wishes things wouldn't have gone as well for ole Miss
as they did last night in the Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I totally agree that he wanted to be missed, but
I think it was something else, not just that he
wanted to be missed. Dan he wanted to be right.
He said he was leaving because he wanted to go
win a championship. So right now you have left a
championship caliber team. And so he wanted to be right
in saying that I left because this team couldn't get there.
(05:02):
Oh so I agree he wanted to be missed, but
more than any I think he wants to be right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And not only not only did they beat Georgia last night,
they avenged the loss from the regular season when they
lost in Athens, when ole Miss had a sizeable lead
in that game only to have Georgia kind of take
over in the fourth quarter. So last night, in a
game where ole Miss is the one that makes the comeback,
there was a point where it felt like Georgia had
(05:28):
regained the momentum. And in a three point game, they're
driving for a touchdown, and there were calls that were
leading up to that point that sure seemed to go
in Georgia's favor, a face mask call, other things happening.
I mean, Georgia kind of panicked and going for it
when they did on the fourth down and Old Miss territory.
But to the Bulldog's credit, they were able to rebound.
(05:50):
And it's a three point game and Georgia's got a
gold to goal situation and I'm just thinking to myself,
this is the part where Georgia wins and the Old
Miss story comes to an end and we're all sad. Instead,
they held them to a field goal and then they
drive down and they kicked their own field goal to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You did feel like within the two minutes that it
was going away from Ole Miss, just for just for
the sense of you were running out of time. You know,
like it wasn't that they weren't doing it's just like,
oh my goodness, you're about to run out of time
after this great three third quarter started the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And then they managed to still get the win.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And the end of that game, did anyone know what happened?
No one knows what happened at the end of that game.
It was a stage out three times. Dan, I know
they looked the stage out three times.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It reminds you if you see that TikTok clip where
the guys carrying the bench across the floor in like
the eighth grade game, and some kids got to like
hurdle it because anyway, that was like just there was
ice on the field that they had already dallased peak
Golding with the Gator Rays. So they had to peak.
Golding took a picture with his kids, and then they
had to run two more plays. There was a point
(06:58):
where he's on the field and somebody's like, Cay, can
we get a photo, and he stopped because he had
his kids there, took a picture. They had to move
off because they reviewed the backwards pass on the kickoff.
They realized that there was enough time, and so then
they did the onside kick and it was covered by
Georgia on the ground and they thought all that was over.
That lost a second. Uh uh. By the way, another
(07:20):
reason why you need tens of a second on the
clock in college football. That is another reason. The official
in the booth at ESPN says, well, if you just
recover it on the ground, no time elapses in that portion.
But we just thought as soon as the one hit
and you touch the football, it expires and the game
is over. Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso
(07:42):
would say, yeah, Mazi, it took forever. It took like
fifteen minutes. It felt like guys at Buffalo Wild Wings
were just going crazy trying to get the overtime button,
trying to keep this game go, to keep going and
going and going and going.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
No, it was.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was an awesome ending because it was hilarious as
you just saw it unravel like it's over. No it's not,
it's over. There's a stage a third time. Don't take
the stage away. But despite all of that, ole Miss pulls.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Off this win in a convincing way. They didn't just
win it because Georgia lost it, right.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They won it because they came back exactly, came back.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
In the second half. They adjusted, and they took you down.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think that the Georgia fourth down call wasn't great,
but no, ole Miss made plays in that game to
win it. And that's what then now makes this so
intriguing because Manti, I think that you hit it on
the head of ole Miss proving Lane Kiffen wrong that
he thinks he can win a championship at LSU. I
(08:43):
think he thinks he can win multiple championships at LSU.
I don't think that he thought that he could win
multiple championships at all Miss. But last night I think
was a perfect example of addition by subtraction. I don't know, Oh,
I don't know if ole Miss wins that game with
Lane Kiffin last night. I don't know if that happens,
(09:06):
there seems to be something else going on with this
ole Miss team. And I know they played a game
with him or without him already, but just the way
that they respond and kind of just don't want this
thing to end, I got that sense there isn't they
chip on their shoulder if lane Kiffin stays right, and
I feel that there is now that there is something
(09:27):
to prove. And these players, some of whom will follow
lane kiffen to LSU and transfer to be an LSU Tiger.
There are players on ole Miss's team that will do
that and get their NIL money. But if lane Kiffin
is on the sidelines last night for ole Miss, Georgia
is in the semi finals of the college football Playoff.
(09:47):
I think it was his dismissed, his leaving and his
absence last night, and how Pete Golding and the staff
have rallied the players that allowed them to pull off
the upset last night. Not that it was a carbon
copy of the g game that they played in Athens
where they had a lead and let it go, but
it was the opposite. They had their own lead, let
it go and then came back and without with lane Kiffin,
(10:09):
there that's what happens with Lane Kiffin there. I don't
think it happens last night.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, It's like what pushes a team to just have
an edge over another team, And it looks like for
ole Miss, I agree with you, losing Lane Kiffin or
Lane Kiffin walking away from them has propelled something beyond
just wanting to win from probably what they want to
do obviously with him. But even with that, Trinidad Chambliss
doesn't know if he's gonna play again. He's fighting to
(10:36):
get more eligibility, which, listen, I love that guy. I
love watching him play. You can't play another year, my guy, Like,
you just can't. I don't think you should because then
it gets mess here and messy here, and that's a
whole different conversation. So he's also he doesn't know what
he's gonna do, you know what I mean? Like his
story alone within the story of ole Miss, Yeah, is
great him.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Listen, the story of Trinidad Chambliss is great by itself.
Then you have the whole story of Old Miss fighting
because Lane Keivin is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I want to bring in Jason Stewart because one of
the reasons I'm an idiot is I complained about some
of the rematches that we had in the college football
bracket and this being one of them, this being a
very SEC centric matchup, but it sure seemed to expand
well outside of the SEC lines, especially for you. So
this this.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Speaks to how well I follow college football and enjoy it.
I barely knew this was a rematch, so I became
a massive ole Miss fan. Given the entire Lane Kiffin ordeal,
I think I was one of many people that are
massive ole Miss fans and temporary old Miss fans, and
I thoroughly enjoyed watching them last night, and I was
(11:42):
fully behind them and on this guy. I was watching,
and I was learning new things about this team that
I'm sure you knew all along. And then you start
learning like the little social media things, like like when
Kiffin's first post was a flag, and I'm thinking, there's
no way in heck that a Confederate flag is in
(12:02):
our emoji system. Why would he put a Confederate flag
out there, knowing the history of the program. And then
you go and you search and it's a Trinidad flag. Oh,
Trinidad's the name of the quarterback, all these things I'm
playing ketchup on. But it's a great experience. Yeah, and
then just watching them and knowing him the way he
must have taken a kind of it was like one
(12:23):
of those he took it with the pride. It was
a punch to his pride. But then you read that
he got a five hundred thousand dollars bonus and you're like,
that feels dirty, and that's probably why he worked that
into negotiation. But anyways, it was a great experience last night.
I really enjoyed watching that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
In the game that again I thought that only a
certain region of the company, and then off of what
happened in the game prior that maybe people would be like, Okay,
you know, this Indiana story is crazy to see. I
don't know if ole Miss topped it, but it sure
gave it a unique chapter of its own last night.
And to think Lane Kiffin and to then hear the
(13:01):
stories of Lane Kiffin wanting to go on college game day,
thought about going to the Sugar Bowl himself, which would
have been a complete distraction. How about ole Miss winning
in Louisiana, like just in that, in that representation and
in the state that now I know it's not Baton Rouge,
but Beaton Rouge ain't far from New Orleans, so but
just the representation was really really yeah, it was just
(13:23):
it was an awesome atmosphere and for the for the
energy or lack thereof. And I don't blame Oregon and
I don't blame Texas Tech, but there was just nothing
buzzworthy about the Orange Bowl, which started early, and Oregon
had a travel across the country. But when you look
at what happened with the Rose Bowl with the crowd
there every year, Rose Bowl has great crowds. But when
you put two SEC teams in the Sugar Bowl, like
(13:45):
we talk about the Rose Bowl maybe being a spot
where a national championship game should always be held. Maybe
as we're looking at the bracket here, and I know
that Greg Sankei and the SEC wouldn't want this, but
if you're putting in five or six SEC schools, have
them always in the Sugar Bowl because that's the sort
of atmosphere that you would get to be able to
fill it out, let alone having a coach leave a
(14:07):
team and abandon a team prior to their run and
get revenge on another team that they lost to earlier
on in the season. All of that came into play.
But there was a lot of good with the college
football playoff in the way that it worked out, and
I didn't see it happening this way Monty actually did.
We'll get to that a little bit later on. That's
kind of why I'm an idiot, because I thought New
Year's Day was an absolute win for college football and
(14:27):
what a win for Ole Miss.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
What a win for Ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But I agree with you that that Oregon Texas Tech game,
it was like what you played today?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
This meant something. It had no like, no aura, no,
not nothing to it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was not cinema. That's what the kids like to say.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yes, it was not cinema. That was that mean, right, cinema?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, it was not cinema. There was You're right, there
was no aura.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
On a scale of one to one hundred, I gave
it a six seven. That's what I did. We'll continue
that in twenty twenty six. She is Mancey Belagio's Dan
Byer Iowa Sam as a college football fan, how great
was yesterday on New Year's Day? For you? In watching football?
Just as as someone who loves the sport.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I certainly think that the ole Miss Georgia game made
up for some I mean, listen the the the Alabama
and Indiana and the Oregon Texas Tech games, Like we're
not competitive, So Georgia Georgia ole Miss made up.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
For a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Yeah, and then the night before you know, I'm sorry
to your Buckeyes, but at least that was more competitive.
And I think we're just trying to avoid these like
huge blood games.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's and we're going to dive into that because I
think like this is where like I think Sam and
I are on the same point, but I I feel
like I have to admit that I'm wrong on some stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yes this is yeah, you were wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
But just to Sam's point that I actually think even
though Indiana blew out Alabama, Indiana was fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Set up Texas Tech. And I couldn't tell.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
You one thing that happened in that game that was
also I mean, those were two surprising results.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I couldn't tell you one play that stood out in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I could see Fanana Mendoza making throws in the third quarter,
you know what I mean, Like that game was so boring.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't remember anything of it. Even though the other
one was a blowout, it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Had moments, it was so it's so different even though
they were both blowouts.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
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Speaker 2 (16:27):
The only thing worse than not being in on the
joke is not being in on the fun, right. Yeah,
Like when you hear everybody got together it was a
great time, and you're like, oh, I wasn't there. Still
it was a great time. Really, you don't want to
miss out on the fun when I miss work, I
don't want there to be as much fun as when
I'm there. We covered that earlier. I feel like I'm
(16:51):
missing out on the fun of Indiana and I could
not have been. I could not have been more wrong
than I was about what is true inspired in the
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Speaker 4 (17:28):
I absolutely have been all about it all season.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And this is coming from someone who's never really had
a college football team.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I have vacation in that world.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh yes, just take twelve weeks in the in the fall. Yeah,
maybe maybe into January.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't have any real estate, you know what I'm saying, Like,
I just vacation there.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yes, I have a grand time.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think Jason Stewart you're kind of in that same boat.
I know that you're like you'll pull for the Syracuse
Orange when there's reason too. But I don't want to
say that you're a college football free agent. But you
even said earlier that you're age football casual. So you've
been taking in India, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And I'm an adopted old miss for these playoffs. And
but Indiana's fun to watch. Everyone pulls for this team,
I think. And Kurt Signetti said something yesterday that I'd
like to get to before the end of the show here.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Okay, Well, let's let's hear it. Then let's let's hear
it right now. We'll get to it right now. Jason Stewart, Well,
this is what happened. This is what happened. I submitted
sound yesterday. No, I won't get into that anyways. Rhys
Davis caught up with Kurt Signetti after the game last
night and he first asked him, how would you describe
(18:36):
the turnaround and what you have been able to build?
And Kurt Signetti said, and this feeds into my pet peeve.
It would be one hell of a movie. And then
then the fall was this.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Who would stars Kurt Signetti in the movie?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I don't know about that one, but there'd be a lot.
There'd be a big cast of characters. Because it's all
about people. You gotta have the right people and your staff,
the right guys in the locker room. And we've been
very fortunate. And uh, these guys buy in. They all
think alike, they play like we want them to play.
There's been a lot of first It is kind of surreal.
There's no doubt about it. I understand why there's been
(19:15):
a lot of skeptics, but I only have one thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Poo poo pooh.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And perfectly said Kurk, congratulations.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Now, good, good for him, good for Signetty. And I
love the story, but I'm going to disagree with this one.
Would it be a hell of a movie just for
like a traditionally basketball program to win a national title
in football? I don't think it would be a very
interesting movie. There doesn't seem a lot of drama or
a character arc there.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, And they couldn't call it Hoosiers, like so like
that's off the boards, r. You wouldn't be able to
even call it Hoosiers. That there's a there's a whole
basketball movie about the you know, about the old shucks
small town team and going and reaching the high heights,
and it's called Hoosiers. I do think, and I love
Reese Davis. I think that Reese Davis is as good
(20:07):
at his job as anybody else that does that job
in sports media. That was an awful follow up question.
And good on Signetti for taking the wheel and bringing
it back, because I'm sure he was caught off guard
by the whole movie. But it's Pasadena, it's Hollywood, it's
la it's the whole deal, and so you're playing into
(20:29):
that by Signetti saying what he did and then to
ask him who would play him in that role just
completely derailed. It was an eighteen car trail train derailment
with that question. But Signetti brought it back on track.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I mean, it's under the umbrella of the thing that
I really can't stand, which is the old cliche that
writers go to and that reporters go to, and you'll
hear athletes say it that Hollywood would never be able
to write this story. You always hear that as an
exaggeration of just a routine short story. And I'll always
say this, and I'll put a button on this, this
portion of this. They made a movie about a snail
(21:08):
that won the ND five hundred. It's called Turbo. You
could watch it. Maybe it was a good movie. But
once you've made that movie, I don't think any athlete
or sports announcer could ever say that Hollywood writers would.
They would kick you out of the room if you proposed.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
This, right.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, No, Nowadays, with the movies and shows that come out,
anything is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Right now, I understand that there is no real stakes.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
If you were to make a movie about Indiana, but
I do think it can be done.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
And Brad Pitt would play Kurt Signetti. There we go.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You got Chad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I just think that he is maybe a smidge young,
but you know, with the little makeup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I wish they were around the same age. Actually, I
wish you would have said, Sidney Sweeney. I wish that
would have been his answer. That would have shown so good.
That would have been how dumb is this question?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Was?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But I think like there's just such bad movies and
television out there that it may be better than you
think a story about well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, you're right. Never there's never like Hollywood's never made
like an underdog story. I never like never like never
has happened.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But this isn't an underdog according to me. People they're
not an under now, they're not. They spent a lot
of money, they should be here.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, but you also do have the right people. There
are people who spend a lot of money and you're
not the right people, and it doesn't work, and like,
this is this is the portion. I'm glad that you
said that, because this is the portion where I feel
like I'm an idiot and I feel like I'm an
outsider as someone who is admittingly an Ohio State football fan,
I cannot jump on the Indiana bandwigon. But it took
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what happened yesterday and really what happened on New Year's
Eve night with Ohio State losing for me to realize
why I was an idiot on New Year's Eve afternoon
when I said it would be a failure and it
would be an awful situation for college football if you
had Indiana, Miami, Ole, miss In Texas Tech winning games.
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Three of those four things happened, and now as we
see here on January twenty, January second of twenty twenty six. Honestly, Manci,
I feel embarrassed for myself because I feel it was
an elitist take. I feel it was one coming from
a spot that did not see other places. And I know,
in this world of hot take and people want you
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to argue and disagree the whole time, I am here
admitting my wrongs that this bracket probably couldn't have gotten
any better from what transpired yesterday and what transpired on
New Year's Eve night. Sure you love the brands, and
maybe that's the problem with college football is that there
are too many big brands we talk about the blue bloods,
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we talk about all the jobs there are, you know,
six or seven jobs you can't turn down in college football.
Maybe that's the problem with it. Maybe that's the problem
that we're all so sick of Alabama. As an Ohio
State fan, I knew ninety percent of the country was
rooting for Miami on New Year's Eve night and the
ten percent were We're Ohio State fans, Like that's that's
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the reality of it. Maybe we were sick of Clemson
in the runs that they made, like we needed something
new and we needed something different, and that was a
blind spot for me. And now in seeing how things transpired,
seeing link Kiffin, levele miss and things that they didn't
have a shot against Georgia because I just thought Georgia
was the better team, Georgia had the better players. That
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wasn't the case. And I feel that's why I'm an idiot.
So my wife doesn't have to still be on hold
for an hour, Like I fully admit that I was
an idiot because I felt my view was so narrowed.
I can't jump on the Indiana bandwagon. There's no way
that that's happening. I don't care who now wins the
college Football Playoff Championship. But I can recognize, and it
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really took old miss to do it, but I can
recognize how these stories have given new life to college football.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, I think Dan, a lot of people actually
probably saw the situation like you did. Not that they
were Ohio State fans, but maybe they were the Georgia fans,
the Alabama fans, the Oregon fans, right, I think.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
They saw it the way you did it that you
did as well.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
And it's people like me and Jason from the outside
that have not looked at it, not looked at it
with blinders because we don't have a team, so we're
kind of just kind of for the fun ride. We
hear this story, we see this game, we watch this person,
this player, this coach, and we're like, of course, I
just think we see it from a different perspective. And
then now with nil, basically like if you can spend money,
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which we see some more teams are doing that, it's
even in the playing field. Maybe spending money has made
it okay now in college football, right because now there
aren't these teams that are just so dominant that it's
clear as day that you are gonna move on to
the next round. I think that's actually a really good
thing for college football, because when NIL first opened up,
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I was like, Oh, this is bad idea.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
This is going to go about.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And I know there's still some parts of it that
I think need to be fixed and whatnot, but clearly
the playing field has even out for the teams that
can spend money, for the schools that can spend money
and can actually do this. But I think a lot
of people actually felt like you did, Like real college
football fans that have been around for years and.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Years, I feel like they looked at it the way
you did.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I want to get to I know Jason wants in
on this. I do want to say. One thing is
I also thought that last year's semi final, where you
had these established programs of Texas, Ohio State, Penn State,
Notre Dame, that that's what that's what you wanted in
college football. You wanted those four teams. And I thought
last year's playoff was good, Like Texas Ohio State maybe
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wasn't a great played game, but it was dramatic. Penn
State and Notre Dame was a low scoring affair, and
Notre Dame at a heck of a comeback against Ohio
State in the National Championship game, just couldn't complete the
deal in Ohio State ends up winning. But you had
those four big brands, and I thought, Wow, that's what
the committee, that's what the fans would want to pick
if we could pick it. And I couldn't have been
more wrong, Jason.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I just think what Monsi said is so true. Like
I think for us kind of casual fans, I follow
college football just because I'm in the industry, just because
I need to. But like, there are so many people
and you have to think about it. This is like
a symptom of our industry. There are so many people
with takes and they make their predictions, and when the
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predictions don't come right, they're like really bitter about things.
I just felt in the last forty eight hours a
lot of those people that make predictions, that think they
know college football so well, and they were making these
absolute takes after the playoffs, seating all this stuff, they
were just kind of groveling the last couple of days.
It was kind of fun to watch and then most
of us I think that and this is good for
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college football. By the way, the people that are just
kind of tuning in now, are like this is fun. Yeah,
like that was really fun.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You know. Yeah. I think Ole miss put a lot,
you know, a lot of fun into it last night.
The Indiana story. The thing that I can't get over
with Indiana is it just gets better and better.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So like last year, like them making the playoff as
it was, and then they lose to Notre Dame. That
could have been the high point. That could have been
the high point of kurtent Signetti's time in Bloomington, and
we would have said, remember when he took him to
the college football playoffs, like Indiana a top ten team,
imagine that. So then their run this year of being undefeated,
of winning at Oregon, a, beating Ohio State in the
Big Ten title game, and then going to the Rose Bowl.
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So just to see Indiana's name in the Rose Bowl
as something the end zone that we hadn't seen, to
see not only them beat in Alabama but dismantled Alabama,
and I thought that Alabama is not the same as
it once was, and I think that it was evidence
last night. But to see how they took that Alabama
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team apart, and we're just better than they are, Like
it just it keeps on getting better for Indiana and
now I'm like sitting then, like it when when does it?
When does the bottom fall out? Because it does for
every college football program except one, and now that may
be the one where it never does.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
And we haven't even mentioned Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman winner,
and what he's doing and his interviews and how fun
he is and goofy and like how he's winning over people.
I feel like just by how he comes across, like
there's nothing negative to be said about Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Chris Signetti you could argue if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Or Francisco Mendoza. I think Jason would agree.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, Iowa Sam, I am curious from your perspective. I'm
also curious from Isaac's perspective as well. I feel Isaac
very neutral despite the USC UCLA roots that run through
his house. I want to start with you, Iowa Sam,
though as an Iowa fan, being familiar with Indiana, how
not just Indiana, but even this final four? Do you
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enjoy this final four? Do you like these matchups? How
have you taken this all in?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
I'm blown away by like, I just I don't know.
Kurt Signetti has this magic potion for just turning in
the program into exactly what he wants in the last
two years, so that's been unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Are you wrapped up in it? Like, do you want
Indiana to win it all?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I'm like it went from Indiana when Kurt Signetti started.
I looked at like their jerseys, their colors, their emblem,
and I'm like, it's Indiana now.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm like, I look at it. I looked at them differently,
I really do.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I'm like, they're like a power and it's because of
Kurt Signetti because I really don't know much about their players.
I know he got a lot of he took a
lot of players with him from James Madison. But I'm like,
even those guys, how are they this good? They're supposed
that was a James Madison was an FCS team up
until a few years ago, and they've been in the
FBS and then you know, they made the playoff, and
there must be something magical about James Madison. But to
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like watch Indiana for years and years be occasionally get
to a bowl game, you know, and win a bowl game,
maybe go like eight and five or nine and four
is like a really really good year for them for
them to just like they've I mean there's for them
to go, did you even better than last year?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's just even more mindful. Yeah, Indiana has something that
not every college team has, and that's dudes. Like they
have got guys like there's you. You can look at
a college roster and be like they got great kids,
and you can look at a college roster and be like,
they got great guys, and they're different because these are
these are men, These are big, big guys like Charlie
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Becker just posting someone up in the end zone on
a post route like like they've got there. The physical
nature of their players has such an effect as well
that matches the top programs in the country. Isaac kind
of from a Switzerland neutral point of view, I'm not
sure if he's got any interest, but uh, actually he's
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tied up. But I think that the neutral people, the
neutral people are sitting there saying, yeah, I'm I'm along
for the ride, whether it be Ole, miss, whether it
be Indiana in those scenarios.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Whether it be Miami. I think unless you were.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
This is yes, this on the side. This is my
point about yesterday is so Miami. Of when Miami beats
Ohio State, Miami, it's not like Miami's a likable program,
like Michael Irvin was not disliked during his playing career,
Like who likes the cowboys? Right? Then he's winning and
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then he's dancing in your face. Now he's he's doing
his dances. He's wearing that same long sleeved you know,
University of Miami Hurricane shirt. He's doing his belt.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, he did that just to show his abs. Did
you see his abs?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of course that's why he did that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That was I was like, oh, that's why you're taking
your shirt off, got it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
But it's also why I think and I think that
Ohio State's probably the most disliked brand in college football
right now. Alabama was probably up there. I think Notre
Dame is up there. But it's why people could rally
behind Miami and and a a strutting Michael Irvin. Ray
Lewis was the subdued one on the sidelin. It's like,
when does that ever happened? But that's what happens when
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you get Michael Irvin on the sidelines of the you
and it's an upset Carson Beck, let's be real, probably
not one of the most likable quarterbacks. That's something that
you're warming up tos like, and here he comes in
and he's bulldozing Ohio State safeties trying to get first downs.
Like people are warming up to that because they also
beat the defending national champions, and so all of that
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taken into account, I think has made it very, very
good for college football.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I don't know what's happening on those sidelines, but I
feel like they hate just so you know, they hate
from like Ohio State and like those schools that have dominated.
It's more of a hate because of the domination with
like Miami. It's it's like the other stuff as to
why people are annoyed by them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, so it's very different. It's very different.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I think that I think people hate Ohio State's fan
base more than they actually hate Ohio State. I think
people probably don't like Michael Irvin doing that stuff on
most days and being cocky and being show voting, because
that's all Miami was. They were the you, they were
the outlaws, the all of that stuff. They were the
team that you wanted to be but couldn't be. I
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think all of that plays into why you would dislike
a team. Do you think that the fan base, though
of Ohio State, makes people go to the other side?
I felt that when I saw social media on how
many people were excited about what happened with Miami beating
Ohio State on New Year's Eve, and there were just
as many people happy for Indiana to beat Alabama and
happy for Ole Miss to beat Georgia. That's what I
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got the sense of.
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Speaker 2 (34:39):
Junning us now, fresh off of a New Year celebration
and a great day of college football. Former Buccaneers GM
Mark Dominic joins us here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey Mark,
Happy New Year.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
How are you happy New Year? I'm great, looking forward
to some more football over the next couple of days
as well.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, let's how much do you watch what transpire yesterday?
I know there's an NFL I but obviously some of
these guys are going to be in the NFL at
some point in there in their lives. How do you
watch a New Year's Day tripleheader with the top quality
of football that we had yesterday.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Well, you know, it's hard. Sometimes I'm able to keep
myself and plant down in front of a TV and
watch the entire thing and just enjoy it. And sometimes
I'm able to catch pieces of it. I'm not going
to be acting like I watched something I didn't see,
but I was able to watch a lot more of
the I'd say the old Miss Georgia game that that
was the one that probably put the most time into.
But we've got four teams in here that you know,
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I've seen all season long, and you know, I don't know,
you know, I find it fascinating what Saban said about Miami.
It seems to be coming true how dangerous they may be.
But I'm just I don't think anybody really understands how
good Indiana really is because it just feels so out
of place.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Hey, Mark, Happy New Year. Let's start here with Trinidad.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Chambliss, what do you see as maybe this ceiling for him?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Or does he go to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I know he's trying to get another year of eligibility,
but what do you see in Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
So I think he's a very exciting football player to
watch when you when you watch him and just what
he's able to do for Old Miss it has been
amazing for his you know, production and him just tossing
the ball around the field. I really you know, I
like that he's coming here from where it was Fairs State,
if I remember, Yeah, and be really played exceptionally well.
And what I love about what he's done was the
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fact that his touchdown interception ratio is so strong. Right,
just the three turnovers this year, that has been a
big piece of why he's been so effective. He just
doesn't turn the ball over and he's still running the
ball effectively as well. I hope he gets one more year.
I don't think it's a bad thing for to play
one more college football. He's still only twenty three years old,
and knowing that, you know, if you get into this
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league and play for a long time, you could play
your mid thirties, late thirties as we're seeing now. So
it'd be great for him to see another season to
kind of build on what he's done. But if he
decides to make the jump, you know, I feel like
people are going to enjoy getting to know him from
a character standpoint.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I've already started to hear it. Mark Dominic joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio. She's Monte Bolanos. I'm Dan Beyer.
Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner, Indiana's number one. They're
rolling on possible potential number one overall pick. When you
see a guy like Mendoza, does he have the qualities
of someone that you would want to take number one overall?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Well, fields like it, right, I mean, everything seems to
be coming together in terms of like his production and
his play and obviously what he's done, you know, with
the Maxwell Award and the Walter Campi He's won just
about every award you can win, right, So he's kind of,
you know, checked the box there. I think the big
thing for me is just getting to know the player.
(37:44):
I think what you like about him is that every
year he's improved, whether it's completion percentages, yards, touchdowns, et cetera.
He's gotten better and better and better, and that's what
you like to see in any player. He's certainly got
a lot of production and a lot of play time
underneath his belt, which makes you feel good. With three
full seasons in that regard in terms of cal and
then obviously Indiana this year. You know, the thing that
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and I've talked about this a little bit is is
getting to know the character of the kid kind of
like what we just talked about is the time you
can spend with them to understand what makes them tick
and how do they tick and how do they handle
the locker room. And it's not just meaning the quarterbacks guys, right,
it's also just talking to the coaching staff, the equipment staff,
the trainers, the other players on the team and getting
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a sense of what is mendo what's he like as
a leader, who did he hang out with, who are
his best friends on the team. All those things kind
of come together to find out is the guy worthy
of being you know, this number one pick over all
the draft, and we're going to get to know about that.
But Mendoz has certainly put himself in a great position
so far.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Let's shift gears here and go to the NFL. Some
divisions are still up for grabs NFC South Panthers and Buccaneers.
Can you pinpoint the what happened in the downfall with
Tampa Bay this year?
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Yeah, that's an amazing drop. And it's just been shocking
to me to watch this team that started the season
so strong and now they're not even in control of
their own destiny. And that's that's you know, that's amazing
because they at that buy, I think there were six
and two at the buy and they've only won one
game since, and you know, it's been I think, very
frustrated organizationally. I mean, they've had four straight losses in
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a row of under you know, four or less points
and any one of those turn and this is a
little bit different of the season. It's hard for me
to really point the but I think it's the offensive,
you know, just the offensive. And I don't want to
just put on the coordinator, but certainly the pieces of
the offense. It doesn't feel like it's you know, functioning
the way it had over the last couple of years.
Hence that's why those two guys have gone on to
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be head coaches. You think about the Buccaneers last year,
and they were averaging almost thirty points a game, especially
down the stretch. They were crushing it. You know, this year,
when you look at them, they're averaging closer to that
twenty two to twenty four points a game and the touchdowns,
you know, the difference between them winning the last four games, right,
So I think it's just, you know, you can have
the same players, but play calling is an art and
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it takes time and it's hard to do, and it's
a lot harder to do when you're in the boot
than when you're on the couch because you're like, oh,
we always run, but you're like, you got to set
up the run. So I do think it's in the
offense whether they've learned enough and feel comfortable keep moving forward.
I don't see a big change. I don't see Todd
Bowles being let go. That's to me, having worked for
the Glazers and nineteen years there. I think maybe they
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would make a change of coordinator potentially, but I think
that would be the only real change I think, because
I think when you look at the roster from an
offensive standpoint, and Mike Evan's not being around this year
with his injury certainly is a big piece of that too.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Mark Dominic joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, he
said it himself, twenty years more than twenty years in
NFL front Office's former GM of the Buccaneers joining Monci
Bolanios and myself Dan Byer. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Aaron Rodgers admitted that he's got options coming up. Also
admitted that maybe not as many options as others or
options that he once had, but he is going to
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be a free agent. Do you think playing in twenty
twenty six is a realistic possibility for these now Steelers quarterback?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
I actually don't. I think he's done. I think this
is his last run. My gut instinct is this is
Aaron's final role through the National Football League and hopefully,
you know, for him and for the Steelers organization, they
get to go to the postseason with it and see
what he can do. But it just feels like to me,
every year feels harder, longer, tougher, and when you think
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about his stats and his legacy, at least you know,
he feels like he's riding out on a much more
Aaron Rodgers type of season. I know the yards aren't
there like he's used to, but the touchdowns, the interceptions,
the ability to be in the postseason or potential to
put them in the postseason all as part of it.
I think with the loss, I think I'm certain he's retired.
I think with the win. It's just kind of the
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only thing would be is how far can they get
in the postseason? If that gets the adrenaline going. But
I truly believe that this is Aaron's last year.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
What do you think happens with Daniel Jones and the Colts?
Speaker 8 (41:55):
Yeah, I think there's a great story. I think you
can find common ground there in terms of, uh, some
type of a deal. Maybe it's it's it's something a
little bit obviously like a Baker Mayfield mindset. It's going
to be a big beast is you know, and I
assume that you know, the GM the head coach will
both be back. But I think it's going to be
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in that range where they're gonna they're gonna look and say, hey,
how can we how can we rework this contract? And
I know it's just that what was a one year,
fourteen million dollars deal?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (42:28):
I think the agent and that the player both would
be wise to kind of stay where they are for
another year, uh and and just kind of build on
it and continue to build on continuity instead of change,
change change for the sake of change. He's gotten money
in his pocket. I mean, he's made what one hundred
and twenty million dollars in his career ready. So this
is about Daniel Jones making the right career move, and
I think the right career move for him is a
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stay put. So I think you find something that's built
with incentives, you're going to have to get that number,
probably the twenty five to thirty in the base just
because of the quarterback position. But I think you can
build a lot more into time snaps, touchdowns, you know, postseason,
all those things to build it up to a more reasonable,
you know, one year deal potentially, to see what you
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can do. I'd like to do a one year deal
from the coast to make sure I believe in what
I've seen it stay healthy, and I think for Daniel Jones,
a one year deal you know, gives him, you know,
more stability, but a chiefs to bite that apple. Really
in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I think it's so intriguing on so many different levels
because I mean, there's there's no guarantee he's one hundred
percent from from this injury next season. You also have
Anthony Richardson, who you've given opportunities to so much, and
then now he doesn't seem a part of your future.
But you're probably not going to pick up his fifth
(43:43):
year option. I wouldn't think that you would if you're Indianapolis.
But I have no idea what the future of Richardson is.
But it's also in a way mark where Jones may
have been sought you know, sought after throughout the league
if he was fully healthy, and now the Chiefs get him.
Just the whole scenario to me is I have no
idea where they're going to find this middle ground, and
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with all the other pieces moving around, that's why I
just I find it fascinating in Indianapolis.
Speaker 8 (44:09):
No, I do too, And again, if I'm the Colts,
if I can build something with a lot of I
know this contray has some incentive bases also, but you know,
build something with playtime percentage, build something with wins, build
something with postseason, and be able to put something in
front of Daniel Jones that could get to you know,
forty forty five, maybe even up to fifty million dollars
based off of you know, if you can take us
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to the Super Bowl and win it. Sure, I think
every owner's sign up for that. But I think at
the same point to your point, ideally for the Colts
is like I I'd rather, you know, I'm happy to
pay more in a year from now to prove that
you can stay on the football field and you can
do this again. The sad thing for Daniel Jones is
besides his rookie year, he's still never thrown for more
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than what twenty touchdowns and only his rookie year, So
he hasn't done anything to say, hey, let's get over
the top and let's just go make this payday. And
so I think that the both sides really really need
to understand that the best move truly is for him
just to stay put one more year, build on what
he's learned, stay in the same system, and then you know,
in twenty twenty seven you become a free agent or
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you know, the tag is right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
It's Friday, Black Monday is coming up fast. Sometimes it's
black Sunday night after after some of these games. Do
you have a ballpark number on how many vacancies that
we could see coming up after Sunday's games.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
Yes, It's it's tough because there's there's some teams out
there that you know, obviously have already made changes. I do.
I do think the Raiders will be one and done.
I do feel like that's going to be Pete Carroll's
going to be in Peek Carroll will be out. Yep,
nothing against Pete Carroll specifically, but it's just, you know,
I just don't see the future there, and I think
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you want a younger coach to jump in there and
kind of be the Tomlins, so to speak, or the
John Horbaugh where he's going to be there for you know,
you're looking for the fifteen twenty year coach and that's
what you're hoping to find. And I think there's some
really interesting younger coaches that are coming through the systems
right now. My guy. You usually we see what six
to eight total openings. I feel like we're gonna get
(46:12):
the lower end of that. You know, a lot of
people are clamoring for m Morris. I think he holds
on for another season, you know, those kind of jobs.
I have a feeling I think Arizona probably stays put
is just because of Kyler Murray in that situation. So
I don't feel like we're going to see quite as
much extreme, but I still think we'll probably be you know,
when it's also and done, probably at least six openings.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Well, we'll find out next week and we'll be talking
about those openings because they likely will be open when
we talk to you next Mark, We appreciate it. Enjoy
Week eighteen and Happy New Year. Thanks so much, Happy
New Year.
Speaker 8 (46:44):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Guys. She's Manti Blanios, I'm Dan Byer. It is Fox
Sports Radio. I think about five or six. There's there's
all these also these rumblings about if the Browns end
up making a move with Kevin Stefanski land somewhere, and
then if the Browns make a move, would would Cleveland
be interested? And maybe Mike McDaniel of Miami something that
(47:06):
we'll get into. But I would say six, if I
were to put a number on it, I would say
six head coaches get relieved of their duties. He said
the low of six or eight. I thought about a
handful plus one, So I'm saying six.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Just scanning through it, I feel like he.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Six got you already.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Yeah, raiders, he thinks I agree, agree, I agree with
that one.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Jason Stewart is thinking and j E. T s Jets
Jets Jets. I hope so as as an opening, I think.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
That hasn't opening.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
I do really think that maybe Arizona I agree.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I side with you. Mark thinks said Jonathan Gannon is safe.
I don't think that that is the case.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
And I know, I know two people have already told
me that Todd Bowles isn't going anywhere. And I don't
know how Tampa Bay does not look at the situation
just like, yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
I think Raheem Morris saved this job with the Falcons
win against the Buccaneers and then what they did against
the Rams. Yeah. Yeah, I think that there was like
prior to that, there were a lot of questions. But
Mark Dominic thinks that Raheem Morris is safe. I think.
I think there could be a surprise, Like I think
that there could be a move with with Kevin Stefanski.
I think that McDaniel stays with the Dolphins. But then
(48:24):
if that happens, is there's some sort of move something
that we'll all get into. But I think six is
going to end up being the number that we get.
Maybe seven. There could be a huge surprise. You'll find
out maybe if a team, you know, crashes out in
the playoffs, somebody's like, all right, we'll move on from them.
Plus you have the Raider, the Ravens and Steelers situations, right,
(48:45):
So I don't think Harbon Tomlin, I really don't think
that they're in jeopardy, but they could be a part
of the conversation.
Speaker 4 (48:50):
Agree. I don't think they're in a hot seat, but
I think the seat.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Is warm, yes, for both, but it's like it's not hot,
it's so warm.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
And I think that how these seasons have played out,
there is going to be there's going to be a
tipping point, and I just don't think that we've gotten
there yet
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