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But I do want to talk about some things going
on in college football in terms of this, and I
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know we've talked about it several times, but it's the potential,
Oh yeah, the hope, the ceiling, the ceiling, yes, and
all of that, and even you know, just from a
fan perspective, what the team is going to look like
heading into the fall. And this is the summertime, this
is when it happens. We're looking at the calendar. It's
July second, and we know SEC football media days start
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July fourteen, yep. So we're going to start hearing from coaches,
and we're going to start having the media talk about
what teams and obviously we know with the SEC we're
going to start hearing the propaganda.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And yes, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Using that word again as a negative here, I think
that word it is because it's all about what the
conferences are trying to do to get as many eyeballs
as they can, because ultimately.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They know that eyeballs equals dollars, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And to be able to do that, you need to
get into the college football Playoff, and we know there's
going to be expansion down the road. I love the
fact that we at least have twelve teams right instead
of four right now. Yes, it's definitely a good starting point.
I want it to go to sixteen and so I'm
all about that, and we're going to talk about that
in a little bit. As far as is college football
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right now at a crossroads, because I think there is
something about college football and we know college athletics has
changed as of yesterday with everything that was agreed upon
with the House Settlement is going into effect, and there's
still going to be things that need to be ironed
out and need to be put in proper place. And
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things are going to change a little bit. So don't
get too used to how things are right now because
it will change again. But more important, we know so
much of this centers around college football.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It just does. I mean, that's the money maker.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It is because if you look at it just from
the perspective of we look at professional sports, I mean,
you've got the NFL and you got everybody else. Yeah,
and it's quite a gap. It's quite a gap. And
can we say the same thing in college athletics. You've
got college football and then you've got every buddy else.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I think with college athletics it's a little bit more
season dependent as far as basketball and football are concerned,
because when March Madness rolls around and they basketball owns March. Okay,
So I will say that that's the caveat yeah, I
mean outside of that, yes, and that's where okay, So
let's examine that and we'll talk more about that because
(04:21):
I do want to talk about quarterbacks here in college football.
Is when you look at college football, the regular season
is so important. Oh yes, And when I say important,
I'm saying not that it means more than the postseason
or anything of that nature.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I'm not trying to say that. I'm just saying that
as fans, we're so engaged in the regular season. And
that's where I do believe that college football separates itself
from all of the other sports because with college basketball,
and this is a college basketball guy. I mean, I
used to a college basketball coach, so I love it.
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But outside of that, there's not a lot of fans
that are so engaged on a week by week basis
with the college basketball season because it's longer, and there's
multiple games during the week, yes, all of that, so
it's deluded to a certain degree. And so that's why
I feel that you've got college football, then you've got
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everybody else, except when you get to March Madness, then
all of a sudden, Yes, college basketball skyrockets in terms
of fan engagement, viewership, interest, all of that because there's
that urgency is there, yeah, exactly, and the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Of having upsets.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And that's why, again, college football, each game seems to
be urgent, just like the NFL, each game in the
regular season seems to be urgent. And I think that's
different than some of the other sports. Just because they
play more games agreed on.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And also it almost feels to me a little bit like.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
The regular season is more important in college football than
it is compared to like the NFL. Like when you
get to when you get to the playoffs, whether when
we have the four team playoffs or now with the
twelve team playoffs. Like, obviously, people are engaged and they're
wanting to watch, especially if your team makes it. But
it does feel like to me, compared to say, March Madness,
where viewership ramps up, I always feel like viewership falls
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off a little bit for the college football playoffs because
it just doesn't feel as important. It's almost an afterthought.
Like everything rides on the regular season. Everything comes down
to it. We've got to beat our rival week. That's
what matters the most. I would rather beat my rival
instead of Winninnatti.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And that's why I think when we talk about these crossroads,
and I'm going to talk about this in a little
bit more detail, is that that's why I think college
football needs to understand how they're going to keep fans
engaged within the regular season and then obviously into the playoffs.
Part of it too, is that, hey, how in the
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hell do these teams make the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I mean, I think we have an idea.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But when you've got a selection committee, and it's a
little bit different in terms of the basketball committee because
we've had the committee for so long, you know, it's
been different, and so we're used to that. And that's
why I think there's, you know, something to be said
about where college football can go and some of the
things that they need to work on and work out
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to be able to keep that excitement for the fans
heading into the postseason. And I do believe with the
expansion even to sixteen, it's going to keep people engaged.
But it can't be a scenario though, where it's eight
teams from the SEC that get in. That's the problem
and that's where I'm worried that we might be going.
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And that's why I think we're, you know, at this crossroads,
you know, from that side of things. But you know, again,
you look at like the NBA, I mean, half the
teams get in the playoffs, you know, so that's why
they're regular season is like a ho hum and it's
too long. And in the NFL almost half the teams
get in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know it's different though for some reason, I don't
know why. There's no question it is different. But in
like college basketball, even when you're having sixty eight teams
and now there's talk about going you know to seventy
two or seventy six. Yeah, but there's three hundred and
fifty Division one college basketball teams, so you're not at
you're not at half. And we know in college football
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when you had four teams making it out of one
hundred and thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Plus teams, yeah, where near half? There is nowhere near half.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And even if you have twelve or sixteen, it's still
is a scenario that plays out. There's only a handful
of teams that's going to win it and legitimately have
an opportunity to win it. So that's why I think
college football definitely needs to look at some things. But
going back to now the season of hope, and interestingly enough,
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we know Paul Finbaum, Oh yeah, okay, you're talking about propaganda.
Anything that the SEC does is gold according to Paul Finebaum, right,
and all of the other conferences are as we've talked about.
You're talking about the NFL and other sports. That's the
(09:21):
way Paul Finebaum views the SEC in terms of all
the other conferences, that the gap is massive and to
the point where now you have an arch Manning at
Texas taking over the starting job. Quen you Weers is
no longer there. So now it's an arch Manning's team,
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it's his opportunity. And how long has Texas been in
the SEC?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A year? Year and a half year, just a year.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
This will be their second year in the SEC, and
it's like, okay, of course arch Manning is an SEC
quarterback and I'm like barely when he signed with Texas, Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was not in the SEC.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
It's like that Olympic thing a couple of years ago,
of course, trying to grab everybody that used.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and that's why I was so upset with the
ACC that you don't need to put out marketing material
that shows that you know, in the Olympics that ACC
schools were represented by X number of athletes and you're
including Stanford. You know. It's like, hello, no, that's that's
not a part of it. And so and I get it.
(10:28):
He wants to promote the SEC, and he wants to
promote players in the SEC. And we know from day
one when arch Manning when he signed with Texas. Obviously
his pettigree and all of that that was going to
be a lot. I mean, he was going to garner
a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's his namesake, Yeah, exactly, Eli Manning, it's Peyton Manning,
it's Archie Manning. You know, it's it's all the Mannings.
And so now this is the next in line. But
Paul Finebaum to come out and say some of the
things that he just recently said does make me question, Okay,
have you have we really been watching enough and understanding,
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you know, what's going on in college football.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So here's Paul Finbaum talking.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
About the meteoric rise of arch Manning, who hasn't even
had a full season as a starter in college football.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
The absolute roof. I think there's a reasonably good chance
that arch Manning will be sitting on the front row
in New York at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that
his team does what it's supposed to do and compete
for not only the SEC but for the national championship.
And I really believe they will. I think Steve Sarkisian,
who's one of the most amazing play callers I've ever
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seen made a critical mistake late in the year. He
was way too loyal to Quinn Yours, who was banged
up and was really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted
in the second half of that game, like Nick Saban
did a couple of years ago with a tongue of
I loa, I think there's a reasonably good chance that
Texas would have beaten Ohio State and won the national championship.
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They're very capable of doing it again this year. I
believe also that ars Manning is the best college football
quarterback we have seen since Tim Tebow entered the scene
in two thousand and.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Six, the best quarterback okay, since two thousand and six
when Tim Tebow entered the scene. And Hey, we know
there's a lot of talk about ceiling about hype, and
he does have the last name Manning.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I get all of that helps, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Don't disagree necessarily with Paul in reference to Hey, maybe
things would have been different for Texas if Steve Sarskgian
would have made a switch at quarterback, and he referenced
Nick Saban making that bold move replacing Jalen Hurts with
Tuatungua baaloa. But how many times have we ever seen
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that that a quarterback gets right switched after the first
half in a national championship game. We don't even see
it when Clemson's playing Firman hardly until the second half
because of yeah, it's a blowout. But are you kidding me?
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I mean, it is so rare to change at quarterback. Now,
I also have to look at it that, hey, arch Manning,
no doubt he is a talent, oh I think so? Yeah,
And who knows what his ceiling could be. And Paul
could be exactly right that he will be there front
row at the Heisman, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That he is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
But you also have to look at last season.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean, it's easy for us to say, oh, yes,
arch Manning should have been starting, he's so much better
than Queen yours. Well, guess who's see it every single day.
Guess who's been coaching a long time in college football?
Probably head coach, Yes, the head coach, Steve Sarkisi. I
think I would trust him a little bit that if
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he didn't see regardless of how loyal he is, right,
at some point, it becomes pretty evid, all right, this
guy's better. And I remember when we were seeing Trevor
Lawrence and Kelly Bryant at Clemson. In the first four games,
it was Kelly Bryant starting over true freshman Trevor Lawrence,
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but it was pretty evident that the fans and everybody knew,
like Dabo, what are you doing right? Trevor Lawrence is
so much better. I don't know if we've seen that.
Arch Manning is so much head and shoulders above a Quinn.
You weers at the time are coach Arkisian he would
have made the move.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Thank you exactly from a fan perspective, really and truly genuinely,
how much have we seen? We've seen small bits of
him obviously, but we haven't gotten a.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Full season of him yet.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
The big takeaway I see from this too is what
do we always talk about when we talk about quarterbacks
in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We talk about him in college elevate? Oh can they elevate?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And we always talk about does how does he you know,
what does he do when he's got people around him?
And the big takeaway I took from Paul Finebaum is, hey,
I'll see him. I fully expect him to be there
for the Heisman if his team does what it should well,
if he's so great, if he's a Patrick Mahomes level,
if he's a Peyton Manning, if he's a Joe Burrow,
whatever you want to say, a Josh Allen, what did
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he have in Wyoming? We didn't talk about, Oh, Josh Allen,
if his team were around him, if they did what
they were supposed to. If Arch Manning is so great
that Paul bim to where Paul Finebaum thinks he is,
why is it not, Oh, well, he'll be there no
matter what, despite his team.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Despite his team.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
As a very valid point, yes, because yes, there is
a component now with the heisman that it is relative
to your team's success, right, right, But at the end,
if you're at Texas and you're the best quarterback right
since two thousand and six with Tim Tebow.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Shouldn't have to worry?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Shouldn't have to worry?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, it should be automatic that you're going to be
in New York because your play is going to showcase that,
and your team is going to be the best teams
because you're that guy that elevates the team. And so
I also look at and we talked about it previously,
the EA Sports. Yeah, and the ratings that they have. Okay,
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So here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, and now these numbers are all.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Within just a few of each other, your ratings, so
just keeping keep that in mind. So here's the top
ten for the EA Sports quarterbacks coming into this twenty
twenty five season. Number one, Cade Klubnik at Clemson Okay,
with the rating of ninety two. Garrettnssmeyer at LSU with
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a rating of ninety two. And there's some that say
that Garrett is the best quarterback out there from a
looking at it from a pro perspective. Yeah, that would
be pros parati to go, yeah, more pro ready. Okay,
So he's there at number two with a ninety two rating.
Drew Aller at Penn State is there at ninety two.
So watch out for Penn State too, And I'm looking
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forward to talking about some of these teams moving forward.
Sam Levitt at Arizona State is number four with a
rating at ninety one. Had a breakout season last year.
Arizona State gets into a college football playoff. Number five
Leonoris sellers South Carolina with a rating of ninety one.
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He started last year, that was his first year, Yeah,
as a starter, yeah, and look how he's kind of
climbing the ratings, and we saw how good he was
in certain situations, so there's a lot of expectations there.
John Mattier at Oklahoma a rating of ninety one. This
is a transfer from Washington State. Carson Beck at number
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seven with a rating of ninety one, and now this
is the Georgia quarterback transferring to Miami, and so he
wasn't as productive last year, but there's a lot of
weapons down there. And then you've got Blake Horvath at
Navy with a rating of ninety okay, and apparently the
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ratings talk about this man is a hammer and he's
not going to throw a whole lot, but he's going
to run all over you as he threw. He only
threw for thirteen hundred yards last year, but he rushed
for twelve hundred yards last year. Yeah, so and he's
averaging seven yards per Carrie at number nine.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Arch Manning with Texas the rating at ninety.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So again there's not a whole lot of gap. I
do get that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But isn't this all just.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
About hype right now?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
With arch Manning especially, like who's to say he even
comes out in twenty like, because I see people looking
at him in the draft and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Do we haven't even seen him play, not in merely,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Limited Opportunities'll had two starts because quinn ew Weres was
hurt last year through for nine hundred and thirty nine yards,
nine touchdowns and two interceptions. But to say based on
that data, those data points that he's going to be
the next greatest quarterback that we've seen since Tim Tebow
in two thousand and six. And from a college perspective,
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it's Tim Tebow was the man. We do know that
in how he led Florida to two national championships. But
this is a little much right now. But I'm pulling
for Archpanning. I would love to see Arch Maanning come
out there because there is something about having to live
up to the hype, right because there's a lot of
hype going on right now with Arch Manning. So but
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to anoint him already, no, I don't think so. I
think that's more of the SEC propaganda led by Paul Finebaum.
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Speaker 2 (20:28):
All right, Trey.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
One of the things that you and I have talked
about quite a bit, and we're talking about the gap
between the NFL and all of the other sports, and
even then when you start looking at college football and
how it's a gap in reference to all the other
sports in college athletics.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
But there's something about can you get too greedy?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, without a doubt, I think so, can you start?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I wouldn't say alienate a fan base or anything like
that that might be aggressive. But we know there's talk
right now with the NFL going to eighteen games, right
and initially there was even talk about and we heard
Roger Goodell talk about it. Oh yeah, they've you know,
looked at the potential of like twenty game regular season
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and that's just way too much. Yeah, I think so,
So eighteen. Okay, I loved sixteen. That just seems to
fit seventeen all, I guess, you know. I mean we
can say, well, it's another NFL. It is game that
we get to watch.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah it is. I get that.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But we just talked about be careful not to dilute
the regular season. So how inevitable do you feel that
we're going to an eighteen game schedule in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh? I bet on it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I feel confident enough that that is where this is heading.
And I feel like you start. I guess the question
you have to ask if you're like a Roger Goodell
is are what's what's the benefit like getting an extra game?
Like let's say you move from seventeen to eighteen, what
does that do? What is that extra game? How does
it mean? Because to your point, you don't want to
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dilute the regular season, you look at something like basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Or baseball, look at those regular games. I it's like, okay,
why why do I care?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
And from a team perspective too, you get to a
point where it's like, I know teams aren't gonna tank
or they're not gonna do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But at a certain point.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You might look at it as a player and go
and maybe it doesn't matter if I lose this game
because I've got eighteen games, or if you're in baseball,
I've got one hundred and eighty games. Like if I
lose a game, maybe I don't have to go out
there and get my best effort. A little bit different, obviously,
it is.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
A little bit different. Well, according to various reports right
now is that it is inevitable. It's going to happen. Now,
it's not an if it's a win, right, it's a win?
Is this going to happen? And again, according to various reports,
and this is even Zachary perellis on cbssports dot com
talking about that the NFL and the NFL Players Association
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are not expected to engage informal negotiations to expand to
an eighteen game regular season until twenty twenty six. Okay,
so there is a little bit of time. But as
we know, Trey, this is what happens consistently, is that
when you start having some of these early discussions and
information is being leaked out for whatever reason, it seems
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like the timelines are expedited. So as much as we say, oh,
it might not be formal discussions until twenty twenty six,
they're talking.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh, they're talking resolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's the keyword, formal discussions and negotiations. And so that's
why I do think it's going to happen, and it
might happen before that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
As far as being approved now implementing it now, that
might be, you know, something different, But we are in
twenty twenty five, so twenty twenty six is right around
the corner.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well, I also imagine you'd have to go through the
Players Association, like the place, have to agree agree on
it's it's so much more you could talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It, that's right, And that's why right now I know
the the NFL is wanting to have a team by
team meetings with players to also start talking with the
Players Association about bargaining priorities and what's going to be
important for them because it's going.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
To be a trade.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh, of course, it's going to be a give and take,
maybe another bye week, I don't know, that's right. It's
going to be something, and that's where again, this is
not just as easy as all right, just add another game,
because now you have to look at all the logistics
that go into it, you know, making sure that you're
within a certain calendar window. And I do believe though,
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the other caveat to this that will really push this
through is the fact that how many times have we
been talking about, hey, the Monday after the super Bowl
should be a holiday.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Oh well, yes, yes, a lot exactly, and maybe that's
not going to have happened from a legal standpoint, and
that you know, we have Congress, you know, identify that
that Monday after the super Bowl is a legal holiday.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But that's where by adding an eighteen game schedule, and
how the calendar could fit is that the super Bowl
could be played on that Sunday before President's Day, which
we do know is already a recognized, legal national holiday.
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And so therefore the NFL doesn't really have to go
in petition.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And as cool as that would be to.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Say, oh, yeah, it's a national holiday, yeah, super Bowl Monday,
to help, you know, being able to watch on Sunday night,
I think this would fit naturally that then there's no issue, right,
everybody has Monday off and it's great. My only concern though,
and this is why there's unattended consequences.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
The one thing that I do love about.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The Super Bowl if it is, you know, being played
on Sunday, and I still think you could have it
on Saturday and it would be a great event. Oh yeah,
but there is something about it being on Sunday because
that's when we normally have CNFL. That's the NFL exactly,
that's their day. But that's where the super Bowl. I
love that it starts to like at six o'clock, six thirty.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, you're worry of the movie, so yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
So they't want to go to primetime and kick off
at nine pm because they know you don't have to
work the next day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't want that. That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
And like to your point about that schedule and the
way it pans out, I think it's perfect. You don't
have to you don't have to start earlier. It naturally
ends on a holiday. And I also worry too when
we talk about players as player safety, this is not
like that's right, you know, any of the other longer
form seasons in these other sports. I mean, this is
head to head. These car crashes every time they step
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on the field. And we're already seeing what last year,
I think there were fifty maybe sixty. I'd have to
look at the stats starting quarterbacks last year almost because.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Quarterbacks are going down, you've got players going down. Same thing.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The year before that, it was like fifty something. So
you're seeing a little bit of an uptick in injuries.
And I have to wonder, you add games, what does
that do to the body of the players. You can
make it as safe as you want, you can add guardrails,
whatever you want to do, but at the end.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Of the day, they're still hitting each other.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
That's right, fifty nine quarterback, fifty nine starting quarterbacks, and
that's a lot that was actually down from twenty twenty
three where it was sixty six and in twenty twenty
two an all time record sixty nine starting quarterbacks in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
That's a lot. That's a lot, that's more than two.
That's every single team. I was gonna say, yeah, that's
every single team, and then they're backup.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That's absolutely insane when you start looking about that, when
you start looking at that from that perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what does that number look like at twenty games.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yes, and that's why there's no way they could do it.
I don't think so. And that's why I even with
an extra bye week, I mean, it's almost laughable that
the NFL wants to push and promote safety quote unquote safety.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Hey, but we're.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Going to keep playing games, right, We're gonna add more.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense, and we obviously know again
the logistics that go behind it. That's not going to
just be an easy type of scenario. And I think
at the end of the day, I think you made
the point that I really wanted to hone in on.
Is it's going to happen? I get that, But what's
the ROI right, exactly what's the true value of an
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eighteenth game? Are you getting that much more?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Is the squeeze worth the juice? That's the question, And
I just don't know if it's enough.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I don't either, not to mention.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I mean, yes, I'll enjoy it, I guess, But again, but.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
They already they literally own the calendar year. There's not
a day in the calendar year that we do not
talk NFL. And I'm like, what does an extra game
add to that? Maybe you could sell it a little
bit more, I guess, or just keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Just keep doing exactly. Hey, sometimes it's not broke. You
don't have to try to fix it. You don't have
to improve it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You can make a few tweaks, but that I think
adding a game is more, much more than just a tweak.
Oh yeah, that's a big that's a big change in
the NFL. We'll see what Roger Goodell and the rest
of the NFL owners. Yes, you remember the owners there.
They want dollar signs. That's part of it too, the
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All Mighty Dollar. We'll see how that all plays out.
Also coming up next, let's see Lebron James. Where might
be some landing spots outside of the Lakers, because I
don't know if the Lakers really want to invest a
whole lot into Lebron James. I know they'll pay right,
But I'm talking about players to try to win a championship.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
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(30:11):
were talking about Lebron James. I wanted to mention because
NBA free agency is going crazy. It's been a crazy
year and I can't keep up with all of it
right now because it's so fluid, and so we'll be
able to break it down in a little bit more detail.
And we've had Jason Temp, host of Hoops Tonight, on
with us the entire playoff season there in the NBA
(30:35):
each Wednesday, and so this is the first Wednesday we
haven't had, Oh Jason on. He need a little bit
of downtime, but he's not getting any because of the
free agency that's going on. But him and I we
did talk, and once free agency is done, we're on
having back on to really dive into, you know, some
of the winners and losers of NBA free agency, and
especially when you're looking at like the Milwaukee Bucks and
(30:59):
waving Damian Lillard right, you know, and then being able
to sign Miles Turner from the Indiana Pacers on a
four year, one hundred plus million dollar deal and what
that's going to do in terms of the domino effect
that's going to happen. But there's also the big domino
that's waiting to see what happens, and that's Lebron James.
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We know, at forty years old, twenty three years in
the NBA, he wants to win, and he wants to
win now.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Remember the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They just bowed out in the first round of the playoffs,
and they're still without a center because they traded obviously
Anthony Davis, and now they lost a Dorian Finney Smith,
a great wing player in free agency, and they haven't
done anything to boister the roster with Luka Doncic, and
we know they're building around him. But there's also this
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void that's happening with Lebron James and how he's opting
for the contract to actually where he would earn fifty
plus million dollars this next season staying with the LA Lakers,
but he could leave. He could yeah, yes, And the
question is, though, is anybody going to try to take
on that type of contract with Lebron James And very
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very doubtful. Yeah, And so the question is is Lebron
James is he more motivated by winning another championship or
is it just financial security into the future. But I
have to say, my goodness, I think he's pretty set right,
So I don't know why he would need to focus
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so much on earning fifty million dollars next season. Sure,
I think of more value would go be winning an
NBA championship. But he has no trade clause, so if
somebody wants to trade, then he has to approve it.
So there's only going to be a few teams that
would even be on his list. Right the San Antonio
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they would definitely have enough cap space even to bring
in Lebron James. Yeah, hello, sant Anto. Him Spurs tan't,
but they're not ready to win right now. There's absolutely
no way. So what other teams could Lebron James look at?
And I've got a few. The first one, it's an
obvious the Cleveland Cavaliers. Oh well, yeah, hello, yeah, I
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mean that's the obvious team to throw on there from
both James's perspective and Cleveland's perspective. But it's just not
that easy because I mean, yes, it would be an
amazing romance that would happen once again, that Lebron comes
back to his hometown Cleveland, and could he help try
to get Cleveland pass the Eastern Conference Finals into the
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NBA Finals once again.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And we saw how unfortunately they weren't.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Able to have the success that they thought they were
going to have as a number one seed getting upset there.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
But it's just not that simple. It's not that easy.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And that's why I don't know if the Cavs could
do that, because they would also have to lose a
lot of other players on their roster to be able
to do that, and they might have to dump some salaries,
and so it's a little bit more complicated than just
Lebron James saying, you know, yes, I trade me for Cleveland.
But now, how about this one, This one would be
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would be interesting. What about the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right, I know you're laughing, you're laughing. It's ironic, and
it's it is funny.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
But remember, Kyrie Irving is there, right, Anthony Davis is there,
and he needs a big man.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Does he needs a rim protector?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I get that, And I know Kyrie Irving's going to
miss probably half of the season coming back from an injury.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But you've also got Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You've got a guy that you're going to be building
around in the future, so you do have that. And
you've got Klay Thompson there again, Clay Thompson's a Hall
of Famer. Oh no, you know, so, yeah, you do
have some opportunities there, but I just don't know, again,
based on the cap, would they be able to make
enough rhyme for him there?
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The other one I would be thinking about is the
Golden State Warriors. There's been a lot of discussion that
Lebron and Steph would love to play with each other,
you know, So there's some new intrigue there. Yes, there's
definitely some intrigue there. And now Golden State they're already
losing some players in free agency right now, so they
could definitely have the opportunity. And I do believe this
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would be a team that Lebron James would say, yes,
I would be traded you know there. And I also
think the New York Knicks, Yeah, I could see. They've
got a big man right with the Kat Karl Anthony Towns.
You've got Jalen Brunson, and they also have some wing
players that the Lakers need right after losing Dori and
Finney Smith. So I think there's something to be said
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that maybe the Knicks could make a move also, But
it all is predicated on what Lebron James wants to do.
But I don't have to say right now based on
what the Lakers are doing or not doing in free agency.
It wouldn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling if I'm
Lebron James saying, hey, they're building to win now, because
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they're not right and that's why it makes zero sense.
So that's why there has to be something that the
Lakers are looking at doing. And I just don't know though,
if you can just go grab a guy out of
free agency and that's the guy that's going to all
of a sudden make your team win, because it's yes,
you need a big man, but DeAndre Ayton, I don't
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know if he's going to be that X factor that
all of a sudden elevates that Lakers team to a
team that can win an NBA championship based on who
we're seeing in the West right now, you know, So
there's something to be said about that.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But I would suspect that.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Lebron James, he'll sign, he'll re sign with the Lakers,
and this might be his swan song, and this would
be the last we see of Lebron James and heading out.
And that's why there's a part of me I think
it would be a great part of the story if
he did go back to Cleveland and was able to
have a swan song there in Cleveland, and you see
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what he could do. But it's the lure of La
when he went there eight years ago. It's one of
the reasons why he did to be in La. Oh yeah,
big market. It's the Lakers. I get that it's under
new ownership though, so there's gonna be changes coming with
the La Lakers, and we'll see if one of those
changes is Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
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But I do want to talk about some things going
on in college football in terms of this, and I
(01:54):
know we've talked about it several times, but it's the potential,
Oh yeah, the hope, the ceiling, the ceiling, yes, and
all of that, and even you know, just from a
fan perspective, what the team is going to look like
heading into the fall. And this is the summertime, this
is when it happens. We're looking at the calendar. It's
July second, and we know SEC football media days start
(02:16):
July fourteen, yep. So we're going to start hearing from coaches,
and we're going to start having the media talk about
what teams and obviously we know with the SEC we're
going to start hearing the propaganda.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And yes, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Using that word again as a negative here, I think
that word it is because it's all about what the
conferences are trying to do to get as many eyeballs
as they can, because ultimately.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They know that eyeballs equals dollars, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And to be able to do that, you need to
get into the college football Playoff, and we know there's
going to be expansion down the road. I love the
fact that we at least have twelve teams right instead
of four right now. Yes, it's definitely a good starting point.
I want it to go to sixteen and so I'm
all about that, and we're going to talk about that
in a little bit. As far as is college football
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right now at a crossroads, because I think there is
something about college football and we know college athletics has
changed as of yesterday with everything that was agreed upon
with the House Settlement is going into effect, and there's
still going to be things that need to be ironed
out and need to be put in proper place. And
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things are going to change a little bit. So don't
get too used to how things are right now because
it will change again. But more important, we know so
much of this centers around college football.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It just does. I mean, that's the money maker.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It is because if you look at it just from
the perspective of we look at professional sports, I mean,
you've got the NFL and you got everybody else. Yeah,
and it's quite a gap. It's quite a gap. And
can we say the same thing in college athletics. You've
got college football and then you've got every buddy else.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I think with college athletics it's a little bit more
season dependent as far as basketball and football are concerned,
because when March Madness rolls around and they basketball owns March. Okay,
So I will say that that's the caveat yeah, I
mean outside of that, yes, and that's where okay, So
let's examine that and we'll talk more about that because
(04:21):
I do want to talk about quarterbacks here in college football.
Is when you look at college football, the regular season
is so important. Oh yes, And when I say important,
I'm saying not that it means more than the postseason
or anything of that nature.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I'm not trying to say that. I'm just saying that
as fans, we're so engaged in the regular season. And
that's where I do believe that college football separates itself
from all of the other sports because with college basketball,
and this is a college basketball guy. I mean, I
used to a college basketball coach, so I love it.
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But outside of that, there's not a lot of fans
that are so engaged on a week by week basis
with the college basketball season because it's longer, and there's
multiple games during the week, yes, all of that, so
it's deluded to a certain degree. And so that's why
I feel that you've got college football, then you've got
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everybody else, except when you get to March Madness, then
all of a sudden, Yes, college basketball skyrockets in terms
of fan engagement, viewership, interest, all of that because there's
that urgency is there, yeah, exactly, and the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Of having upsets.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And that's why, again, college football, each game seems to
be urgent, just like the NFL, each game in the
regular season seems to be urgent. And I think that's
different than some of the other sports. Just because they
play more games agreed on.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And also it almost feels to me a little bit like.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
The regular season is more important in college football than
it is compared to like the NFL. Like when you
get to when you get to the playoffs, whether when
we have the four team playoffs or now with the
twelve team playoffs. Like, obviously, people are engaged and they're
wanting to watch, especially if your team makes it. But
it does feel like to me, compared to say, March Madness,
where viewership ramps up, I always feel like viewership falls
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off a little bit for the college football playoffs because
it just doesn't feel as important. It's almost an afterthought.
Like everything rides on the regular season. Everything comes down
to it. We've got to beat our rival week. That's
what matters the most. I would rather beat my rival
instead of Winninnatti.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And that's why I think when we talk about these crossroads,
and I'm going to talk about this in a little
bit more detail, is that that's why I think college
football needs to understand how they're going to keep fans
engaged within the regular season and then obviously into the playoffs.
Part of it too, is that, hey, how in the
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hell do these teams make the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I mean, I think we have an idea.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But when you've got a selection committee, and it's a
little bit different in terms of the basketball committee because
we've had the committee for so long, you know, it's
been different, and so we're used to that. And that's
why I think there's, you know, something to be said
about where college football can go and some of the
things that they need to work on and work out
(07:28):
to be able to keep that excitement for the fans
heading into the postseason. And I do believe with the
expansion even to sixteen, it's going to keep people engaged.
But it can't be a scenario though, where it's eight
teams from the SEC that get in. That's the problem
and that's where I'm worried that we might be going.
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And that's why I think we're, you know, at this crossroads,
you know, from that side of things. But you know, again,
you look at like the NBA, I mean, half the
teams get in the playoffs, you know, so that's why
they're regular season is like a ho hum and it's
too long. And in the NFL almost half the teams
get in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know it's different though for some reason, I don't
know why. There's no question it is different. But in
like college basketball, even when you're having sixty eight teams
and now there's talk about going you know to seventy
two or seventy six. Yeah, but there's three hundred and
fifty Division one college basketball teams, so you're not at
you're not at half. And we know in college football
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when you had four teams making it out of one
hundred and thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Plus teams, yeah, where near half? There is nowhere near half.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And even if you have twelve or sixteen, it's still
is a scenario that plays out. There's only a handful
of teams that's going to win it and legitimately have
an opportunity to win it. So that's why I think
college football definitely needs to look at some things. But
going back to now the season of hope, and interestingly enough,
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we know Paul Finbaum, Oh yeah, okay, you're talking about propaganda.
Anything that the SEC does is gold according to Paul Finebaum, right,
and all of the other conferences are as we've talked about.
You're talking about the NFL and other sports. That's the
(09:21):
way Paul Finebaum views the SEC in terms of all
the other conferences, that the gap is massive and to
the point where now you have an arch Manning at
Texas taking over the starting job. Quen you Weers is
no longer there. So now it's an arch Manning's team,
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it's his opportunity. And how long has Texas been in
the SEC?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
A year? Year and a half year, just a year.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
This will be their second year in the SEC, and
it's like, okay, of course arch Manning is an SEC
quarterback and I'm like barely when he signed with Texas, Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was not in the SEC.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
It's like that Olympic thing a couple of years ago,
of course, trying to grab everybody that used.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and that's why I was so upset with the
ACC that you don't need to put out marketing material
that shows that you know, in the Olympics that ACC
schools were represented by X number of athletes and you're
including Stanford. You know. It's like, hello, no, that's that's
not a part of it. And so and I get it.
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He wants to promote the SEC, and he wants to
promote players in the SEC. And we know from day
one when arch Manning when he signed with Texas. Obviously
his pettigree and all of that that was going to
be a lot. I mean, he was going to garner
a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's his namesake, Yeah, exactly, Eli Manning, it's Peyton Manning,
it's Archie Manning. You know, it's it's all the Mannings.
And so now this is the next in line. But
Paul Finebaum to come out and say some of the
things that he just recently said does make me question, Okay,
have you have we really been watching enough and understanding,
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you know, what's going on in college football.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So here's Paul Finbaum talking.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
About the meteoric rise of arch Manning, who hasn't even
had a full season as a starter in college football.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
The absolute roof. I think there's a reasonably good chance
that arch Manning will be sitting on the front row
in New York at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that
his team does what it's supposed to do and compete
for not only the SEC but for the national championship.
And I really believe they will. I think Steve Sarkisian,
who's one of the most amazing play callers I've ever
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seen made a critical mistake late in the year. He
was way too loyal to Quinn Yours, who was banged
up and was really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted
in the second half of that game, like Nick Saban
did a couple of years ago with a tongue of
I loa, I think there's a reasonably good chance that
Texas would have beaten Ohio State and won the national championship.
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They're very capable of doing it again this year. I
believe also that ars Manning is the best college football
quarterback we have seen since Tim Tebow entered the scene
in two thousand and.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Six, the best quarterback okay, since two thousand and six
when Tim Tebow entered the scene. And Hey, we know
there's a lot of talk about ceiling about hype, and
he does have the last name Manning.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I get all of that helps, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Don't disagree necessarily with Paul in reference to Hey, maybe
things would have been different for Texas if Steve Sarskgian
would have made a switch at quarterback, and he referenced
Nick Saban making that bold move replacing Jalen Hurts with
Tuatungua baaloa. But how many times have we ever seen
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that that a quarterback gets right switched after the first
half in a national championship game. We don't even see
it when Clemson's playing Firman hardly until the second half
because of yeah, it's a blowout. But are you kidding me?
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I mean, it is so rare to change at quarterback. Now,
I also have to look at it that, hey, arch Manning,
no doubt he is a talent, oh I think so? Yeah,
And who knows what his ceiling could be. And Paul
could be exactly right that he will be there front
row at the Heisman, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That he is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
But you also have to look at last season.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean, it's easy for us to say, oh, yes,
arch Manning should have been starting, he's so much better
than Queen yours. Well, guess who's see it every single day.
Guess who's been coaching a long time in college football?
Probably head coach, Yes, the head coach, Steve Sarkisi. I
think I would trust him a little bit that if
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he didn't see regardless of how loyal he is, right,
at some point, it becomes pretty evid, all right, this
guy's better. And I remember when we were seeing Trevor
Lawrence and Kelly Bryant at Clemson. In the first four games,
it was Kelly Bryant starting over true freshman Trevor Lawrence,
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but it was pretty evident that the fans and everybody knew,
like Dabo, what are you doing right? Trevor Lawrence is
so much better. I don't know if we've seen that.
Arch Manning is so much head and shoulders above a Quinn.
You weers at the time are coach Arkisian he would
have made the move.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Thank you exactly from a fan perspective, really and truly genuinely,
how much have we seen? We've seen small bits of
him obviously, but we haven't gotten a.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Full season of him yet.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
The big takeaway I see from this too is what
do we always talk about when we talk about quarterbacks
in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We talk about him in college elevate? Oh can they elevate?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And we always talk about does how does he you know,
what does he do when he's got people around him?
And the big takeaway I took from Paul Finebaum is, hey,
I'll see him. I fully expect him to be there
for the Heisman if his team does what it should well,
if he's so great, if he's a Patrick Mahomes level,
if he's a Peyton Manning, if he's a Joe Burrow,
whatever you want to say, a Josh Allen, what did
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he have in Wyoming? We didn't talk about, Oh, Josh Allen,
if his team were around him, if they did what
they were supposed to. If Arch Manning is so great
that Paul bim to where Paul Finebaum thinks he is,
why is it not, Oh, well, he'll be there no
matter what, despite his team.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Despite his team.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
As a very valid point, yes, because yes, there is
a component now with the heisman that it is relative
to your team's success, right, right, But at the end,
if you're at Texas and you're the best quarterback right
since two thousand and six with Tim Tebow.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Shouldn't have to worry?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Shouldn't have to worry?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, it should be automatic that you're going to be
in New York because your play is going to showcase that,
and your team is going to be the best teams
because you're that guy that elevates the team. And so
I also look at and we talked about it previously,
the EA Sports. Yeah, and the ratings that they have. Okay,
(16:25):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, and now these numbers are all.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Within just a few of each other, your ratings, so
just keeping keep that in mind. So here's the top
ten for the EA Sports quarterbacks coming into this twenty
twenty five season. Number one, Cade Klubnik at Clemson Okay,
with the rating of ninety two. Garrettnssmeyer at LSU with
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a rating of ninety two. And there's some that say
that Garrett is the best quarterback out there from a
looking at it from a pro perspective. Yeah, that would
be pros parati to go, yeah, more pro ready. Okay,
So he's there at number two with a ninety two rating.
Drew Aller at Penn State is there at ninety two.
So watch out for Penn State too, And I'm looking
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forward to talking about some of these teams moving forward.
Sam Levitt at Arizona State is number four with a
rating at ninety one. Had a breakout season last year.
Arizona State gets into a college football playoff. Number five
Leonoris sellers South Carolina with a rating of ninety one.
(17:31):
He started last year, that was his first year, Yeah,
as a starter, yeah, and look how he's kind of
climbing the ratings, and we saw how good he was
in certain situations, so there's a lot of expectations there.
John Mattier at Oklahoma a rating of ninety one. This
is a transfer from Washington State. Carson Beck at number
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seven with a rating of ninety one, and now this
is the Georgia quarterback transferring to Miami, and so he
wasn't as productive last year, but there's a lot of
weapons down there. And then you've got Blake Horvath at
Navy with a rating of ninety okay, and apparently the
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ratings talk about this man is a hammer and he's
not going to throw a whole lot, but he's going
to run all over you as he threw. He only
threw for thirteen hundred yards last year, but he rushed
for twelve hundred yards last year. Yeah, so and he's
averaging seven yards per Carrie at number nine.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Arch Manning with Texas the rating at ninety.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So again there's not a whole lot of gap. I
do get that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But isn't this all just.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
About hype right now?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
With arch Manning especially, like who's to say he even
comes out in twenty like, because I see people looking
at him in the draft and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Do we haven't even seen him play, not in merely,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Limited Opportunities'll had two starts because quinn ew Weres was
hurt last year through for nine hundred and thirty nine yards,
nine touchdowns and two interceptions. But to say based on
that data, those data points that he's going to be
the next greatest quarterback that we've seen since Tim Tebow
in two thousand and six. And from a college perspective,
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it's Tim Tebow was the man. We do know that
in how he led Florida to two national championships. But
this is a little much right now. But I'm pulling
for Archpanning. I would love to see Arch Maanning come
out there because there is something about having to live
up to the hype, right because there's a lot of
hype going on right now with Arch Manning. So but
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to anoint him already, no, I don't think so. I
think that's more of the SEC propaganda led by Paul Finebaum.
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Speaker 2 (20:28):
All right, Trey.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
One of the things that you and I have talked
about quite a bit, and we're talking about the gap
between the NFL and all of the other sports, and
even then when you start looking at college football and
how it's a gap in reference to all the other
sports in college athletics.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
But there's something about can you get too greedy?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, without a doubt, I think so, can you start?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I wouldn't say alienate a fan base or anything like
that that might be aggressive. But we know there's talk
right now with the NFL going to eighteen games, right
and initially there was even talk about and we heard
Roger Goodell talk about it. Oh yeah, they've you know,
looked at the potential of like twenty game regular season
(21:17):
and that's just way too much. Yeah, I think so,
So eighteen. Okay, I loved sixteen. That just seems to
fit seventeen all, I guess, you know. I mean we
can say, well, it's another NFL. It is game that
we get to watch.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah it is. I get that.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But we just talked about be careful not to dilute
the regular season. So how inevitable do you feel that
we're going to an eighteen game schedule in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh? I bet on it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I feel confident enough that that is where this is heading.
And I feel like you start. I guess the question
you have to ask if you're like a Roger Goodell
is are what's what's the benefit like getting an extra game?
Like let's say you move from seventeen to eighteen, what
does that do? What is that extra game? How does
it mean? Because to your point, you don't want to
(22:10):
dilute the regular season, you look at something like basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Or baseball, look at those regular games. I it's like, okay,
why why do I care?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
And from a team perspective too, you get to a
point where it's like, I know teams aren't gonna tank
or they're not gonna do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But at a certain point.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You might look at it as a player and go
and maybe it doesn't matter if I lose this game
because I've got eighteen games, or if you're in baseball,
I've got one hundred and eighty games. Like if I
lose a game, maybe I don't have to go out
there and get my best effort. A little bit different, obviously,
it is.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
A little bit different. Well, according to various reports right
now is that it is inevitable. It's going to happen. Now,
it's not an if it's a win, right, it's a win?
Is this going to happen? And again, according to various reports,
and this is even Zachary perellis on cbssports dot com
talking about that the NFL and the NFL Players Association
(23:03):
are not expected to engage informal negotiations to expand to
an eighteen game regular season until twenty twenty six. Okay,
so there is a little bit of time. But as
we know, Trey, this is what happens consistently, is that
when you start having some of these early discussions and
information is being leaked out for whatever reason, it seems
(23:25):
like the timelines are expedited. So as much as we say, oh,
it might not be formal discussions until twenty twenty six,
they're talking.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh, they're talking resolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's the keyword, formal discussions and negotiations. And so that's
why I do think it's going to happen, and it
might happen before that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
As far as being approved now implementing it now, that
might be, you know, something different, But we are in
twenty twenty five, so twenty twenty six is right around
the corner.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well, I also imagine you'd have to go through the
Players Association, like the place, have to agree agree on
it's it's so much more you could talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It, that's right, And that's why right now I know
the the NFL is wanting to have a team by
team meetings with players to also start talking with the
Players Association about bargaining priorities and what's going to be
important for them because it's going.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
To be a trade.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh, of course, it's going to be a give and take,
maybe another bye week, I don't know, that's right. It's
going to be something, and that's where again, this is
not just as easy as all right, just add another game,
because now you have to look at all the logistics
that go into it, you know, making sure that you're
within a certain calendar window. And I do believe though,
(24:43):
the other caveat to this that will really push this
through is the fact that how many times have we
been talking about, hey, the Monday after the super Bowl
should be a holiday.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Oh well, yes, yes, a lot exactly, and maybe that's
not going to have happened from a legal standpoint, and
that you know, we have Congress, you know, identify that
that Monday after the super Bowl is a legal holiday.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But that's where by adding an eighteen game schedule, and
how the calendar could fit is that the super Bowl
could be played on that Sunday before President's Day, which
we do know is already a recognized, legal national holiday.
(25:30):
And so therefore the NFL doesn't really have to go
in petition.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And as cool as that would be to.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Say, oh, yeah, it's a national holiday, yeah, super Bowl Monday,
to help, you know, being able to watch on Sunday night,
I think this would fit naturally that then there's no issue, right,
everybody has Monday off and it's great. My only concern though,
and this is why there's unattended consequences.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
The one thing that I do love about.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The Super Bowl if it is, you know, being played
on Sunday, and I still think you could have it
on Saturday and it would be a great event. Oh yeah,
but there is something about it being on Sunday because
that's when we normally have CNFL. That's the NFL exactly,
that's their day. But that's where the super Bowl. I
love that it starts to like at six o'clock, six thirty.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, you're worry of the movie, so yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
So they't want to go to primetime and kick off
at nine pm because they know you don't have to
work the next day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't want that. That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
And like to your point about that schedule and the
way it pans out, I think it's perfect. You don't
have to you don't have to start earlier. It naturally
ends on a holiday. And I also worry too when
we talk about players as player safety, this is not
like that's right, you know, any of the other longer
form seasons in these other sports. I mean, this is
head to head. These car crashes every time they step
(26:46):
on the field. And we're already seeing what last year,
I think there were fifty maybe sixty. I'd have to
look at the stats starting quarterbacks last year almost because.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Quarterbacks are going down, you've got players going down. Same thing.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The year before that, it was like fifty something. So
you're seeing a little bit of an uptick in injuries.
And I have to wonder, you add games, what does
that do to the body of the players. You can
make it as safe as you want, you can add guardrails,
whatever you want to do, but at the end.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Of the day, they're still hitting each other.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
That's right, fifty nine quarterback, fifty nine starting quarterbacks, and
that's a lot that was actually down from twenty twenty
three where it was sixty six and in twenty twenty
two an all time record sixty nine starting quarterbacks in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
That's a lot. That's a lot, that's more than two.
That's every single team. I was gonna say, yeah, that's
every single team, and then they're backup.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That's absolutely insane when you start looking about that, when
you start looking at that from that perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what does that number look like at twenty games.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yes, and that's why there's no way they could do it.
I don't think so. And that's why I even with
an extra bye week, I mean, it's almost laughable that
the NFL wants to push and promote safety quote unquote safety.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Hey, but we're.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Going to keep playing games, right, We're gonna add more.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense, and we obviously know again
the logistics that go behind it. That's not going to
just be an easy type of scenario. And I think
at the end of the day, I think you made
the point that I really wanted to hone in on.
Is it's going to happen? I get that, But what's
the ROI right, exactly what's the true value of an
(28:29):
eighteenth game? Are you getting that much more?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Is the squeeze worth the juice? That's the question, And
I just don't know if it's enough.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I don't either, not to mention.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I mean, yes, I'll enjoy it, I guess, But again, but.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
They already they literally own the calendar year. There's not
a day in the calendar year that we do not
talk NFL. And I'm like, what does an extra game
add to that? Maybe you could sell it a little
bit more, I guess, or just keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Just keep doing exactly. Hey, sometimes it's not broke. You
don't have to try to fix it. You don't have
to improve it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You can make a few tweaks, but that I think
adding a game is more, much more than just a tweak.
Oh yeah, that's a big that's a big change in
the NFL. We'll see what Roger Goodell and the rest
of the NFL owners. Yes, you remember the owners there.
They want dollar signs. That's part of it too, the
(29:26):
All Mighty Dollar. We'll see how that all plays out.
Also coming up next, let's see Lebron James. Where might
be some landing spots outside of the Lakers, because I
don't know if the Lakers really want to invest a
whole lot into Lebron James. I know they'll pay right,
But I'm talking about players to try to win a championship.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
We'll talk about that coming up as we continue on
the Wednesday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by
Ingles Markets. The Wednesday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show
presented by Ingles Markets continues as we are podcasting from
the Ingles Studio downtown Greenville, right here on North Main
Street in full force, mister Trey Falco behind the board
and behind the mic as always. All right, Trey, we
(30:11):
were talking about Lebron James. I wanted to mention because
NBA free agency is going crazy. It's been a crazy
year and I can't keep up with all of it
right now because it's so fluid, and so we'll be
able to break it down in a little bit more detail.
And we've had Jason Temp, host of Hoops Tonight, on
with us the entire playoff season there in the NBA
(30:35):
each Wednesday, and so this is the first Wednesday we
haven't had, Oh Jason on. He need a little bit
of downtime, but he's not getting any because of the
free agency that's going on. But him and I we
did talk, and once free agency is done, we're on
having back on to really dive into, you know, some
of the winners and losers of NBA free agency, and
especially when you're looking at like the Milwaukee Bucks and
(30:59):
waving Damian Lillard right, you know, and then being able
to sign Miles Turner from the Indiana Pacers on a
four year, one hundred plus million dollar deal and what
that's going to do in terms of the domino effect
that's going to happen. But there's also the big domino
that's waiting to see what happens, and that's Lebron James.
(31:21):
We know, at forty years old, twenty three years in
the NBA, he wants to win, and he wants to
win now.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Remember the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They just bowed out in the first round of the playoffs,
and they're still without a center because they traded obviously
Anthony Davis, and now they lost a Dorian Finney Smith,
a great wing player in free agency, and they haven't
done anything to boister the roster with Luka Doncic, and
we know they're building around him. But there's also this
(31:52):
void that's happening with Lebron James and how he's opting
for the contract to actually where he would earn fifty
plus million dollars this next season staying with the LA Lakers,
but he could leave. He could yeah, yes, And the
question is, though, is anybody going to try to take
on that type of contract with Lebron James And very
(32:17):
very doubtful. Yeah, And so the question is is Lebron
James is he more motivated by winning another championship or
is it just financial security into the future. But I
have to say, my goodness, I think he's pretty set right,
So I don't know why he would need to focus
(32:38):
so much on earning fifty million dollars next season. Sure,
I think of more value would go be winning an
NBA championship. But he has no trade clause, so if
somebody wants to trade, then he has to approve it.
So there's only going to be a few teams that
would even be on his list. Right the San Antonio
(33:00):
they would definitely have enough cap space even to bring
in Lebron James. Yeah, hello, sant Anto. Him Spurs tan't,
but they're not ready to win right now. There's absolutely
no way. So what other teams could Lebron James look at?
And I've got a few. The first one, it's an
obvious the Cleveland Cavaliers. Oh well, yeah, hello, yeah, I
(33:22):
mean that's the obvious team to throw on there from
both James's perspective and Cleveland's perspective. But it's just not
that easy because I mean, yes, it would be an
amazing romance that would happen once again, that Lebron comes
back to his hometown Cleveland, and could he help try
to get Cleveland pass the Eastern Conference Finals into the
(33:43):
NBA Finals once again.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
And we saw how unfortunately they weren't.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Able to have the success that they thought they were
going to have as a number one seed getting upset there.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
But it's just not that simple. It's not that easy.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And that's why I don't know if the Cavs could
do that, because they would also have to lose a
lot of other players on their roster to be able
to do that, and they might have to dump some salaries,
and so it's a little bit more complicated than just
Lebron James saying, you know, yes, I trade me for Cleveland.
But now, how about this one, This one would be
(34:17):
would be interesting. What about the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right, I know you're laughing, you're laughing. It's ironic, and
it's it is funny.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
But remember, Kyrie Irving is there, right, Anthony Davis is there,
and he needs a big man.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Does he needs a rim protector?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I get that, And I know Kyrie Irving's going to
miss probably half of the season coming back from an injury.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But you've also got Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You've got a guy that you're going to be building
around in the future, so you do have that. And
you've got Klay Thompson there again, Clay Thompson's a Hall
of Famer. Oh no, you know, so, yeah, you do
have some opportunities there, but I just don't know, again,
based on the cap, would they be able to make
enough rhyme for him there?
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The other one I would be thinking about is the
Golden State Warriors. There's been a lot of discussion that
Lebron and Steph would love to play with each other,
you know, So there's some new intrigue there. Yes, there's
definitely some intrigue there. And now Golden State they're already
losing some players in free agency right now, so they
could definitely have the opportunity. And I do believe this
(35:31):
would be a team that Lebron James would say, yes,
I would be traded you know there. And I also
think the New York Knicks, Yeah, I could see. They've
got a big man right with the Kat Karl Anthony Towns.
You've got Jalen Brunson, and they also have some wing
players that the Lakers need right after losing Dori and
Finney Smith. So I think there's something to be said
(35:53):
that maybe the Knicks could make a move also, But
it all is predicated on what Lebron James wants to do.
But I don't have to say right now based on
what the Lakers are doing or not doing in free agency.
It wouldn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling if I'm
Lebron James saying, hey, they're building to win now, because
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they're not right and that's why it makes zero sense.
So that's why there has to be something that the
Lakers are looking at doing. And I just don't know though,
if you can just go grab a guy out of
free agency and that's the guy that's going to all
of a sudden make your team win, because it's yes,
you need a big man, but DeAndre Ayton, I don't
(36:34):
know if he's going to be that X factor that
all of a sudden elevates that Lakers team to a
team that can win an NBA championship based on who
we're seeing in the West right now, you know, So
there's something to be said about that.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But I would suspect that.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Lebron James, he'll sign, he'll re sign with the Lakers,
and this might be his swan song, and this would
be the last we see of Lebron James and heading out.
And that's why there's a part of me I think
it would be a great part of the story if
he did go back to Cleveland and was able to
have a swan song there in Cleveland, and you see
(37:12):
what he could do. But it's the lure of La
when he went there eight years ago. It's one of
the reasons why he did to be in La. Oh yeah,
big market. It's the Lakers. I get that it's under
new ownership though, so there's gonna be changes coming with
the La Lakers, and we'll see if one of those
changes is Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
All Right, We'll
Speaker 3 (37:33):
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