Sean O'Connell Show w/Brice & Bianucci - Full POD 10-3-25

Brice Larson and Jordan Bianucci talk Utah football with Bill Riley, MLB Playoffs with Roxy Bernstein, CFB & NFL betting lines with Lee Sterling, Airing of Grievances, NFL weekend preview + more

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's myself, Bryce Larson alongside Jordan bia Nucci James Peterson
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(00:57):
Check them out today at seventeen seventeen Main Street. And
a loaded slate for a Football Friday on a bye
week edition of The Sean O'Connell Show, Jordan b and Ucci.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yes, a Football Friday with a terrible game tonight in Provo,
no game for the utes a baffling game between Cincinnati
and Iowa State, and yeah, hey, look at least we
had some excellent, excellent Thursday night football last night.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
We did, and we'll break that down for you coming
up here in just a couple of minutes. Talk about
that Rams forty nine Ers matchup and more. Coming up
at eleven thirty, we'll continue to talk some college football
with our friend Roxy Bernstein that stops by. He also
does MLB on ESPN and more. And the last time
you and I saw Roxy was out in Eugene at
the Eugene Regional for college baseball. So we'll recount our

(01:47):
fun times with him out there in Eugene. Jordan, I
love Roxy.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Maybe I sneak a col question in for Roxy the
one loss California Golden Bears. Rocky is a big colt. Well,
I think he went to Cal so he said, yeah,
the one guest we have on that I can go, Okay,
what do you think.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Of the Bears?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then the Voice of the Utes, Bill Riley, stops by
today twelve thirty to talk a little bit about your utes.
On a bye week, we'll get the latest on the
injury situations, take a look around the Big twelve and
more with Bill Riley, and then at twelve forty five
Lee Sterling, we're going to talk with him some college football,
get his best plays of the weekend and more, and

(02:27):
we'll talk about the loaded college football slate this coming
weekend one thirty the airing of grievances, So get your
grievances ready on the Sean O'Connell Show, Jordan b and Ucci,
that's a loaded slate for you on a football Friday
edition of the program.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
And speaking of football, let's jump into it.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Thursday Night football, the forty nine Ers get the win
over the Rams and what's crazy overtime thriller with a
fourth and one play where the Rams decide to run
it to Kien Williams and get stuffed at the line
of scrimmage.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, I mean, look, the Rams had no business losing
that game. That's that's I don't know if in bear
sing is too strong a word, but the Niners had nobody.
They had a backup quarterback on one leg. No Kittle,
no Pierce All. I'm gonna miss a ton of I
mean just there was nobody, No au Juwan Jennings, no
Juwan Jennings, no Nick Bosa on defense, and I just

(03:20):
don't get it. I don't get the Rams. I know
that Shanahan just except for those that NFC Championship game,
which is hey, that's the one that counts. He just
owns McVeigh for the most part. But that was excruciating
for the Rams and a great win for the Niners.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It was a really slow start for the Rams as well. Yeah,
the way that they went down early in that game
and then they had to come all the way back
push it into overtime. They had the fumble at the
goal line from Kien Williams, who, by the way, since
he's entered the NFL has had the most fumbles of
any running back, most fumbles lost of any running back

(03:59):
in the football league.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's not great for the Rams in terms of anything.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And then you have the questionable play call where even
after the game, Sean McVay steps up to the podium
and says, yeah, that one's on me. I that was
a bad play call. Probably should have put it in
Matthew Stafford's hands. And yeah, absolutely, i'd agree with that.
Probably should have put in Matthew Stafford's hands.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Probably, But you know, you look at the comparison between
you would think, Okay, mac Jones backup quarterback with a
bad knee going up against Matthew Stafford, a Hall of Famer.
Mac Jones was thirty three of forty nine, Stafford was
thirty of forty seven. Mac Jones threw for three hundred
and forty two yards and two touchdowns. Stafford threw for
three eighty nine and three touchdowns. That's does that. I

(04:42):
think that says more about the Rams defense maybe than
it does about because Stafford. That's a good game, not
a great game, but it's solid game and he pretty
much did that in three quarters. Yeah, anything in the
first quarter, which is insane. I'm looking at that going
that's ridiculous. Like the the Niners were great, a lot
of points in that game. But that is a game

(05:02):
you have to win. If you're the Rams, you just
do I just man, can't get over the That is
a game where everything is set up for you to
take control of that division in a lot of ways,
and you just you blew it.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You take a look at the NFC West standings now,
San Francisco leads it four and one overall on the season,
Seattle right behind him at three and one, they played
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday afternoon. The Rams fall to
three and two, and then the Arizona Cardinals are two
and two. So my question to you, is that the
toughest division in the National Football League right now?

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I think so. I think until we see how good
JJ McCarthy is when he's healthy with the Vikings and
the NFC North, that's the toughest division. Yeah, because all
four teams are good in that division are the you know,
the Bears. My other candidate would be the NFC North
and the I'm looking at the Bears and the Seahawks,
Bears and the Cardinals. I take the NFC West right now.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I think think the NFC West is definitely in that
conversation at this moment in time.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
We'll take a look at the rest of the NFL
slate as we go throughout today's show. Not a ton
of matchups that jump out at you, but it's always
these weeks in the NFL that has have like the
wildest NFL football games. Like when you don't have the
marquee quote unquote marquee matchups, the big names going against
the big names, these are always the weirdest weeks in
the NFL, big time comebacks, strange like the witching hours,

(06:28):
that final hour of football where wins become losses and
losses become wins. And this weekend, I feel like we're
gonna have a lot of that, just because we're looking
at this going not great matchups in the NFL, These
games I think are gonna be a lot closer than
what we expect.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I hope so because they are not good games, just
looking at them, well, yeah, we'll see. Last week I
wasn't expecting a great morning's late of games, and it
got a lot. You got a lot of good ones.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, no doubt about it. So we'll take a look
at that as we go throughout the rest of today's program.
Let's jump over to college football. Of course, Utah is
on a bye. We're gonna talk with Bill Riley about
the health of the team, big storylines going into an
Arizona State game under the lights here in Salt Lake City.
Jordan Bianucci, we have talked a lot about the utes
and a lot about what needs to be changed moving forward.

(07:18):
I think tackling is probably a number one question on
the defensive side, at least.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, there are not a lot of questions on that
defensive side, So yeah, I take tackling most Yeah, most
of the questions are you know, with the offense. They
looked great against West Virginia. It's West Virginia. So absolutely,
we're gonna get a lot of questions answered against Arizona State,
and I think we'll be able to start making some
definitive statements about this team after that game.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
We talked with Riley Jensen, former Utah State quarterback and
current mental performance coach up at Weaver State this morning
on Bryson Biannucci over on one of three to nine
and ninety eight three And if you missed that conversation
with Riley Jensen can find out on the Bryce and
being Unci podcast. But what we've discussed in terms of
Devin Dan Pierre, he brought up a concern that he

(08:07):
doesn't think that he's a natural passer.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
What does he mean by that?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
His throwing motion a little bit different, a little bit
off the way that he releases the football. He said
it was worrisome that the safeties for Texas Tech were
playing so far up ten yards off the ball that
that kind of showed they weren't worried about him going deep.
They did hit the one deep ball to Jackson Biddy
that got brought back. But that kind of concerns you

(08:32):
against better athletes. That's not a West Virginia football team.
That's just not great and down to their fourth, fifth,
and sixth string guys. That's a concern moving forward for
this Utah offense. And we're going to find out real
quick against Arizona State whether or not they could fix it.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, And I think my question would be, does that
say more about Dan Pier or more about Utah's wide
receivers not being able to create some separation downfield? Because
Dan Piers made some nice throws. He didn't throw a
great ball all the time, but he's made some nice throws.
I yeah, natural passer. I don't know, I get you know,
I trust Riley Jensen more than I trust my own opinion.

(09:08):
He played, but he throws well enough to get the
job done and extends plays, So I'm not too worried
about that. I really am more worried about guys getting open.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Now.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
We asked Bill last week, was it guys not getting
opened against Texas Tech? Or was it damn p here
not seeing them, and he said it was a little
of both. He said there were a couple instances where
he missed a guy, but also guys just yeah, we're
not open downfield.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, that's something to keep your eye on, and we'll
keep looking at it as we go through this bye
week and into yet another game week next week.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Let's check out the rest of the Big Twelve.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
The game later on tonight in provo between BUYU and
West Virginia. BYU released their availability report. Just four players
out for the Kudes. Probably not going to be a
great football game. We know what West Virginia is, both
what we saw into Utah last week. By you at
least cover, I would think so, unless nineteen and a half, Yeah,

(10:04):
unless we were talking about it earlier, Unless there's like
a backdoor cover with West Virginia scored in the fourth
one BYU's second and third stringers are in.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, this isn't going to be a close game.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
That's your one Big twelve matchup on a Friday night,
Probably the only other one that I would be worried
about in terms of upset alert, and it's kind of
backwards right now. According to ESPN, BET, Cincinnati is a
two and a half point favorite at home against Iowa State.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
We talked about this yesterday.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Keep your eye on this game because the fourteenth ranked
Iowa State Cyclones might be in trouble.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Some would say they would put them on upset alert,
But it wouldn't be an upset if Cincinnati won this
game because they are favored at home, which you're shaking
your head, still an upset, that's not an upset. If
Cincinnati is favorite at home, it's not an upset.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
It's not technically an upset. It's in the spirit of
the line. It is not an upset. I do not
look at the AP pole. Is any written code in
college foot how about I don't trust how about our eyeballs?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I do not trust the AP top twenty five with anything.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't from what we've learned in the last ten weeks.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Have you watched Cincinnati play this year?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, I watched him beat Kansas on the road.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
But if you've watched Iowa State and you're going even
with the.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, I watched Iowa State squeak by case State.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I know, the very first game of the season.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
I watched them handle Arizona, who I didn't think was
that bad. I don't know. I thought I was. It
was really good.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Here's the reason.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
One thing that we failed to mention in our breakdown
of the game yesterday and when we were talking about this.
You take a look at the availability report for Iowa
State and it is brutal. Sixteen different players listed as
out for Iowa State this weekend, two of which are
starting corners for this defense. So that is a very

(11:53):
large portion of this conversation. Whether it whether we've seen
Iowa State or not earlier. They're without a lot of
dudes that made them play the way they've played in
the first couple of weeks of this season.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Okay, so here's my question, and you can weigh in
on the text line, and I want your answer. If
you're a Utah fan, you have one loss, do you
want to see Iowa State lose this game? I think
I do. If I want Utah that Big Twelve championship game, yeah,
I want to see them these other teams get beat
up a little bit. I absolutely go up here.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Here's the debate, because you want the Big Twelve. If listen,
this is is it the conference? Is it your team?
You want the Big Twelve to have as many teams
in the College Football Playoff as possible to make the
Big Twelve look better. So you need multiple undefeated teams,

(12:45):
maybe maybe multiple one loss teams. You want to make
sure that, but at the same time, you want to
make sure that your team gets in. So you can't
have multiple undefeated teams because you're not going to make
it into Big Twelve championship games.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
So yeah, this is kind of an intro debate. It's
got to shake out in your favor if you're a
Utah fan. But what is the correct way in doing
that to make sure it works out for every like
in the best way possible in the Big Twelve getting
the national respect it deserves, but also Utah getting it
in that championship game.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's a great question.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Wello, Utah doesn't have Iowa State this year, so they
need somebody to beat them.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And uh, well you might not have to wait till
after this weekend. And see that's what I'm saying. They
might lose on the road at Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Listen, if you're Utah, you're as much as I want
the Big Twelve to do well. I want these teams
to I need Texas Tech to lose. I need these
teams to beat each other up a little bit so
that you can have a berth in the conference championship
game once you're in, once you're in conference mode, unless
you're undefeated, like, you need some guys to you need

(13:49):
some people to lose.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
And if you take a look at the rest of
Texas Tech slate this season, I mean it's pretty favorable
the rest of the way with who they have just
maybe one or two tests the rest of the way
and and that's about it.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
But yeah, you're right, you need them to lose at
some point this season.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Does can't? Does Iowa State play Texas Tech in the
regular season this.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Year, I'm gonna have to pull it up. The internet
is not working in my favor at this moment.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
That's not great. It's not helpful for the show because that, yeah,
because they could, I don't know, we'll see if they
play each other. But yeah, you need you need because
I'm trying to think who else on Iowa State schedule.
I don't think BYU beat some I could be wrong
about that. That could be a very close game. But

(14:35):
this is an opportunity for you to get back and
not that you does not in the race, right now,
but they could get back in the race with a little,
you know, an Iowa State loss this weekend, especially by
the way Iowa say, if they lose to Cincinnati, and
we'll look at the rest of their schedule. They have
tougher teams in Cincinnati on there though, so they could
be a two loss team and that really helps you out.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, So Iowa State the rest of the way goes
obviously to Cincinnati to Colorado. They've got a home game
against BYU, home against Arizona State on the road at TCU.
Then they finished with Kansas and Oklahoma State. So their
toughest games left are going to be well this week
against Cincinnati, we'll see if they get past them. BYU

(15:19):
at home, We'll see how that works out. Arizona State
at home on the road at TCU. To be honest
with you, on the road at TCU might be the
their toughest game.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, I think so. I think so Arizona State and
TCU back to back.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
For them, Arizona State and TCU.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yep, they go BYU, Arizona State TCU three weeks in
a row.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
So this is a huge man if just Iowa State wise,
this is a huge game for them. This game couldn't
decide whether they go to the Big Twelve Championship or not,
because I don't think they're coming out of that stretch
with BYU, Iowa State or excuse me, Arizona State and
TCU three and Ohero. I bet you they're they're They're

(15:57):
losing one of those and I would I agree with you,
I think would be.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
TCU so Texas Tech. The rest of the way, they're
gonna be at Houston this weekend. They've got Kansas Arizona
State on the road, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, BYU at home,
UCF and West Virginia. They've gotten They've got an easy
rest schedule. Really, the only two teams that I think
are going to give him a hard time maybe on

(16:21):
the road at Arizona State, it's going to be a
tough game to win. But you've got BYU at home
with a freshman quarterback in Lubbock.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Against that defense.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, yeah, No, I'm taking Texas, which which might not
even be able to run the football against him. We
saw him in Utah. It was tough to run the
football in between the tackles.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
LJ.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Martin down in a BYU is gonna have a hard
time toting the rock against that Texas Tech defense.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh yeah, So who will Texas Tech playing the Big
Twelve Championships.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, so you might want Iowa State to lose this weekend.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
If you do, I'm tad. There's no reason to have
one loss anyway to Mississippi State. So I don't know
that it would hurt him, hurt the Big twelve two
if I was excuse me, sorry, Arizona State lost mississi State. Yeah, yeah,
Iowa State there underfeed still right? Yeahah so you yeah,
you're right, You're right, need a loss? Is that what
you're chairing for this weekend? Is that what you're chairing

(17:14):
for personally?

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I mean I want to see local teams in the
Big twelve Championship game. Yeah, so absolutely, I want to
see b YU and Utah Big Twelve Championship game. This's
another question we had talked to BYU goes on the
road and beats Texas Tech. Yeah, well, there's my question.
We had talked to OC about this off the air.
Would that be other take away the Jazz, We'll take

(17:38):
away the Jazz and the Bulls, NBA Finals and the Olympics.
Would a Utah BUYU Big twelve championship game be the
biggest sporting event in the history of the state, wouldn't
I don't know, wouldn't it?

Speaker 6 (17:52):
I think so?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Something bigger than that for a college football playoff Berth.
I think the Olympics are bigger, and I think the
NBA Finals are big with Michael Jordan especially.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, what about RSL no bringing home the title? Nope,
not bigger. What about Utah going to the.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Not even gonna think about it?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Nope, not even not even a thought.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Here's another one about Nope, not even close. Utah going
to the championship game under Majeris. It's only one team though,
It's not why he's not in.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
There, right, Yeah, No, I think you're you're onto something here.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
It would be thank you? Would you right?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Would you put it up there with the NBA, with
Utah's success in the playoffs, I.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Would put it up. I would put it up there.
But just because you're it's the NBA, it's Michael Jordan,
Michael John. If it wasn't Michael Jordan, it's one of
the here's the thing.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
If it was Jazz Pacers, which almost happened in ninety eight, right,
probably not as good as as a potential Holy War
in the Big twelve championship game. Obviously, Also, if the
Jazz win, that's bigger than no matter who they're playing,
that's a bigger deal than even the Holy War, and

(19:09):
in a in a powerful championship in my opinion, maybe
maybe other people disagree.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
The other one that I would put in there that
I think the Holy War would still be a bigger
deal is U two Rose Bowls, especially the one against
Ohio State. I think if you're gonna, if you're gonna
put the Majeris Championship game for the running Uts in there,
I think their Utes Rose Bowls should should Also, I
think there's at a similar spot even though one is
playing for a championship, one is not. I think there's

(19:37):
there's still similar things. Football is a bigger deal than
college basketball, so that probably is why they're on similar
footing there. But I still think I I think we
all agree, Jordan, I think this would be other than
the Jazz Finals runs, a b yu Utah Holy War

(19:57):
Big twelve Championship game would probably be the biggest game
in the state's history.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Bigger than that Las Vegas ball twenty fifteen.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Just slightly. That's until the Mammoth hoist the Stanley.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Right, a Stanley Cup.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
A Stanley Cup would might trump that as well, especially
if it's against an national six team like we talked about.
That would be the equivalent to the Jazz playing Michael
Jordan in the finals.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
They play the.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
If it if it's like they've beaten Nashville or Nashville's
in the West, isn't it anyway.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
It's beaten, it's a good.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
Like I'm trying to think about, I'm trying to think
of a lesser known or a lesser you know known
Eastern Conference franchise that that would be the Carolina Hurricanes.
If it's the Mammoth beating the Carolina Hurricanes and the
Stanley Cup final, especially if it's not a competitive series,
Holy War trump's that in a championship game. But like

(20:59):
you be the Bruins or the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup,
that probably trump's the Holy War power forward championship game.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
It should, But I wonder if and if it happened
twenty years from now, I think it would. But is
there enough you know, the Mammoth are new like what
did Yeah? So that's part of it too. We're not attached.
There's not that emotion. Yeah, there's no attachment yet.

Speaker 7 (21:24):
The history that with all that, all the emotion and
emotional investment over decades like there is with BAU and Utah.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, college football might as well be the NFL in
this state. Well, yeah, there's nothing else. Absolutely, that's the football.
That is where people put their money, that's where people
that's what we care about the most here in the state.
So absolutely it would be the biggest thing. That's my
question for James too. Is college football here more popular
than the jazz? Because when the Jazz are good, the

(21:52):
Jazz are Holy cow. I mean, that's it. That's the Yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
I will reluctantly say yes, because as a basketball fan, first,
I have loved I've loved the basketball history in this
state and more of the jazz history. I didn't get
that attached to the college basketball history in the state.
I know lots of people have, and that's that was rich,
especially during the Majeris years with Utah, But that as

(22:20):
a kid, I had no Like, you couldn't have told me.
I couldn't have told you when Utah and BA you
played every year, I could tell you when the Jazz
played right. And I might have been an outlier with that,
but that was that signal. At least in my experience,
the Jazz were were the biggest deal, and especially in

(22:43):
when they were making when they were in the Western
Conference finals about every year, making those making those back
to back years in the finals, even the d Will
years when they were competitive in the Western Conference. Uh,
I would say that that was a bigger deal than
college football around here in those times, that twenty to
thirty year window. But I think in the last fifteen years,

(23:09):
I think that the as the Jazz have been less competitive.
Even in the Gordon Hayward slash donin Mitchell Rudi go
Bear years that run, it was super exciting. Everyone was
juiced about it. But I think that that was also
coinciding with Utah leveling up in the Pac twelve, right, Yeah,

(23:29):
And I think that I think that Utah football in
particular eclipsed those Jazz teams in popularity and how much
people what people cared about the most here in the
state because they were just playing at a higher level
than the Jazz were in their respective sport. And I
think that being in a Power five conference at that time,

(23:52):
and now BYU also being in a power conference has
leveled that up to the point where, coinciding with the
Jazz being terrible right now is level it up to
where college football is the most popular sport in the state.
I wish that it was still basketball as much as
they love college football, but I think college football's eclipsed

(24:12):
it by quite a bit in the last few years.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Do you agree with that, Jordan?

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Right now? Yeah, and it's all about it's all about
you dogging to the back twelve right, that changed everything
and now yeah, and the.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Jazz not playing well.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
If the Jazz were one of the better teams in
the National Basketball Association, the Jazz would still be the
most popular thing here in the state of.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know, even with the recent success.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know, did I James saying.

Speaker 7 (24:35):
No, Yeah, I see, I don't know, because twenty ten,
I'm gonna put in my probably would have would I
think the Jazz probably still would be.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
It just wouldn't be as big.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
A gap as it was in the nineties, right, I think, yeah,
if the Jazz were better, if they were competitive in
the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
When you're out of stock Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Draw then either college football team here in the state
of Utah, if.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
They were like Stockton Malone level, we could win a
championship every year. Oh yeah kind of thing. It would
eclipse college football. But that hasn't been the case since.
It hasn't been the case since the SOCCA Bone days,
like truly, but like the d Will the d Will
Boozer days, it almost felt like they were. But it

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was enough of that you had enough of that feeling
that I think it's still eclipsed uh college football and
in popularity, whether it's by U or Utah, and and
how much people cared about it.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
But I mean that and the.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
The Sugar Bowl run for Utah the two times they
bust the BCS certainly closed the gap in the in
that same span that d Will and Boozer were We're
having a great run with the Jazz. But it just
that was the finals were still so recent that it's like, yeah,
the Jazz are still the biggest steal here. The Jazz

(26:03):
could still win a championship if they've got a good
enough team like they seem to have had then at
least that was the perception around here, even if it
wasn't very realistic. Since d Will got traded, I don't
know that it's ever. I don't know that it's been
that close to that, And I'm sad about that because
I miss those jazz days right like we were fooled

(26:27):
big time, especially in twenty twenty one about the Jazz
in the Donovan Mitchell being built around Donovan Mitchell and
Rudy Gobert, that they that they actually had a chance
to win a championship. In reality, they were not that close,
all right. We want yeah, Utah and BYU at least
in the last couple of years, have been a lot closer.

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You can normally find us on the brother station on
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Right now, let's talk some Major League baseball in college
football with the one and the only Roxy Bernstein from ESPN. Roxy,
glad to have you back on the last time we
spoke was in Eugene for that regional between Oregon and
Utah Valley.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
How thing's been since.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
Busy, but good busy.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
You know, just got done working the Americanly wild Card
Series last night here in New York and I'm my
way to Seattle for an American League Division series now
ready for the Mariners and Tigers. After just in a
lot of ways at historic night at Yankee Stadium last.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Night, Rocky, I wanted to ask you about that right
off the bat. First of all, two parter, what was
Cam and or Cam schw but doing that made him
so dominant? And then second, just what was it like
to be in the Bronx last night? That crowd was insane,
that atmosphere was incredible.

Speaker 10 (29:10):
Well, okay, let's start with Cam Schlitzler first, and you know,
it's funny like last night. I had to be very
deliberate the way I said his name, just to make
sure he screwed up, because if he screwed up, that's
a pretty bad lane to go down. His stuff was
electric last night. He was phenomeno. Pounding the zone consistently,

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the Red Sox st one guy to second base all night.
He was continuously getting ahead of hitters. The Red Sox
just didn't have an answer. His stuff was phenomenal, and
what we saw last night was historic. It had never
been done before ever, necessarily by Yankee or by a rookie.
That has never happened in the postseason in a major

(29:52):
league game where a pitcher struck out well with no
walks and no runs and it was in a winner,
take all Game three. You're wondering how rookie will handle
it situation, And he wasn't phased by the big stage
of the atmosphere there last night. He was so dialed
in from the opening pitch. He was blowing low hundreds
with his fastball, and it was really exciting to watch

(30:16):
something like that because you could see instantly that he
had something special working for him last night. And it
really is a great story because he grew up a
huge Red Sox fan. We were talking about this last night.
When he was three, his dad took him to the
two thousand and four Red Sox World Series Championship parade.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
Grew up a huge.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
Red Sox fan about twenty minutes from Fenway Park. His
dad is a chief of police in Needham, Massachusetts, and
then one of their own comes back to haunt the
Red Sox last night. For that atmosphere, you could get
a sense for the adrenaline, the rush, the electricity in
the crowd. What was at stake, winner take all playoff game,

(30:58):
Red Sox Yankees, the atmosphere. It doesn't get any better
than we had last night.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
What's the feeling around Aaron Boone in New York? Is
it a World Series or bust? He's gone if he
doesn't get there?

Speaker 6 (31:11):
What's yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:11):
What's the Byeblike with the Skipper in New York?

Speaker 10 (31:15):
There's some frustration, I think with the fans, but I
think it also come. I don't want to say a
sense of entitlement for Yankee fans that they expect World
Series or bust every year. But he went to the
World Series last year, and they dealt with some injuries
last year and navigated through a tough stretch ninety four wins,
tied for the division lead with Toronto the Blue Jays,

(31:36):
and the tiebreaker they had the better seed in the postseason.
But there's always pressure and you're always going to be
under the microscope when you're the manager of the New
York Yankees. It's a different New York Yankee establishment now
with George Steinbrenner having passed away and his family's still
running it. How Steinbrenner's got a different outlook than George did. George,

(31:59):
if you do win, he considered the season of failure,
or how looks at it with more the glass half full,
that realizes, hey, look, you're not going to win it
every year. And Aaron Boone's been to the playoffs every
year but one, and I think it's unfair in a
lot of ways. That it also comes with the territory
when you're the manager of the Yankees. So let's say

(32:20):
they don't get past the Blue Jays. I'd be pretty
surprised if Aaron Boone got let go. He's had a
lot of success here, and I get it there's some
frustration and people were criticizing him after they lost Game
one to the Red Sox and some of the managerial
decisions that he made.

Speaker 9 (32:37):
They won the series and now they're moving on.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Roxy Bernstein's here with us for a couple more minutes
on the Sean O'Connell show ESPN seven hundred and ninety
two one FM Roxy. There's currently a conversation going on
about the expanded playoffs and whether or not it devalues
the regular season of Major League Baseball, specifically with the
Cleveland Guardians and the Tigers matchup that we saw with
the Guardians having to face the Tigers. What are your

(33:01):
thoughts on division winners not getting a bye and having
a fight in this three game series with the wild
card and does it devalue the regular season and what
happened there at all?

Speaker 10 (33:12):
I don't think it does, and I'm okay with this format.
Initially I was hesitant with bring in the third wildcard in,
but I think it rewards you for the one hundred
and sixty two games. Like you look at the American
League and the Blue Jays and the Mariners had earned
those top two seeds by winning their divisions, and that
puts everybody else in the wildcard in the best of three.

(33:34):
The Guardians didn't have the advantage of that series being
played in Cleveland. They didn't win it, obviously, so the
Tigers are moving on to face the Mariners and heading
now west for Game one tomorrow. But it's yes, I
understand some of the frustration from people that, Okay, it's
the best of three, but I think it's a fair
format and give the Guardians a lot of credit. My goodness,

(33:56):
this team came what the middle of July, they were
fifteen and a half games.

Speaker 9 (34:00):
Back, and they won the division.

Speaker 10 (34:02):
That's incredible what Steven Vote did with that team, considering
that they lose Emmanuel Classe, their lights out closer because
of the off field gambling issue that he's currently suspended.
They gave up with the deadline, they traded Shane Bieber,
former Cy Young Award winner, thinking they were out of it,
and here they are in the playoffs. It's really a

(34:23):
remarkable story and the greatest comeback we've seen in Major
League history for a team to come from fifteen and
a half back. This format works, and it was crazy
last Sunday. Every game that involved a playoff team had importance.
The seedings basically were still up for grabs, and this
format I think plays more favorably than the previous formats.

(34:45):
I like the best two out of three in the
wildcard situation instead of just a one game playoff to
see who gets in roxy.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
I thought it was impressive how the Tigers bounced back
after that epic collapse in September to take two of
three and win that series Cleveland. We all know about
cal Rawly, who else are the Tigers encountering when they
head to Seattle.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
Seattle to beating could be the best team in American League.
Even I know with performance we saw from Schlitler last night,
and certainly Max Free the way he's pitched and what
the Yankees have. The big question with Seattle is the
help of Brian Wu, their all star starter, who had
to leave the second to last weekend of the season
with a strained pack muscle when he was facing the

(35:30):
Houston Astros. But when when Seattle was aggressive of the deadline,
made the moves to go get Josh Naylor, to go
get Auhaneo Suarez, it really bolstered their lineup. They already
had cal Rawley, who is having a season for the Ages.
We haven't seen a catcher ever do this before. So
to me, with the bullpen as tough as it is

(35:51):
for Seattle, and if Wu is healthy, to me, even
though they're the two seed, the Mariners could be the
team to beat in the Americanly, all.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Right, Rock before we let you go.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
We got to get you your thoughts on some college
football here. We're here in Big twelve country, of course,
home of the US. What are your thoughts on the
Big Twelve?

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Of course Utah loses to Texas Tech. There's a couple
of really good football teams in this conference. How do
you see the rest of the season playing out here
in Big twelve country?

Speaker 9 (36:17):
It's kind of a free for all.

Speaker 10 (36:19):
Right, just when you think you figure things out, you
really haven't figured anything out. And like, for example, I
was thinking, Okay, TCU, here's a team that could maybe
take a run at the Big Twelve title. I'm not
saying that they can't. But they blow that seventeen to
nothing lead last Friday night at Arizona State, and all
of a sudden, now and Josh Hoover had a couple

(36:40):
of bad mistakes in that game, and so TCU takes
a step back. Texas Tech is really good. And I
like the way Utah rebounded against West Virginia last week.
I think that was really important for them. But from
week to week, it really is tough to figure out
the Big Twelve, maybe more so than any other league

(37:02):
in college football, just because I think there's so many
good teams.

Speaker 11 (37:06):
There's no dominant team in the Big twelve, but a
lot of really good football's being played, so that makes
it more challenging and leaves the race wide open. For example,
we saw Arizona State come out of nowhere and win
it last year. I think this year for Kenny Dillingham's team,
it's the feelings a little bit different because the targets
on their back as opposed to last year, and nobody
expected them to do what they did, and from week

(37:29):
to week you really have to be dialed in, and
it to me it's the most wide open power conference
in college football.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
All right, Roxy, we appreciate your time, thanks for jumping
on with us here.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Before we do, let you go though. One last thing.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
The last time I mentioned the last time we saw
you was in Eugene for that regional Utah Valley in Oregon.
Where does that rank with Ansonnaro's getting thrown out, him
running over the catcher the plate and Mason Strong and
then of course Utah Valley's upset of Oregon, where does
that rank on the craziest ug or regional that you've
called in your career?

Speaker 11 (38:02):
That was bizarre and I've had a lot of dramatic regionals.
I've seen a walk off to win a regional from
Stanford when they beat Texas State a few years ago
at Sunk and Diamond on the Farm, But that one
has to be right there, just because the controversy, and
still I think to this day, I don't.

Speaker 9 (38:24):
Think that umpire and crew got that call correct.

Speaker 11 (38:27):
Now, I do believe that some of the call was correct,
but I don't think they viewed it totally correctly. And
it was still it created a lot of dialogue and
discussion clearly around the landscape of college baseball. The significance
of it because a four seed Utah Valley goes in
and beats the top seed in the home team and

(38:47):
Oregon went to and out, which is pretty shocking considering
how good they were in the season. But it was
more early in that regional, for example, the craziness that
we saw, and as the regional went on, the power
of Arizona, all the home runs that they hit to
win that regional and move on.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
How did the atmosphere compare to other atmospheres that you've seen,
because that was one of the craziest college baseball atmospheres
we've ever seen.

Speaker 9 (39:13):
It was really good.

Speaker 10 (39:14):
It was really good those two, especially that Utah Valley
Oregon game, because so much for at steak. When the
home team gets eliminated, it kind of creates this dug
feeling because the energy, I mean, excuse the acid is
not going to be there in the ballpark. So we're
there on Sunday right where there's three teams left and
not one of them is Oregon.

Speaker 11 (39:34):
It kind of took away from the atmosphere, the in
the rush that you may get. But it was for
those two games at Oregon played, especially the game against
Utah Valley on the Friday night, that was just a
tremendous atmosphere for college baseball.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yes it was. Hey, Roxy, thanks again for jumping on
with us. Safe travels, my friend. Good luck on the call.

Speaker 9 (39:52):
Right, Thanks guys, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
That is Roxy Bernstein of ESPN and Jordan ban Ucci.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
What a guy, What a guy.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
I love Roxy. Roxy does it all. Yeah, we could
have Roxy on for like forty five minutes because I
had more baseball questions, more college football questions. I'd love
to ask him about Bob, Bob Melvin and the and
the Giants. Roxy also a bit was a huge a's like,
I'd love to get his take on some a's questions. Yeah,

(40:22):
Roxy's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
A lot to talk about with Roxy and of course
his commentary on the Big twelve as well, wide open conference.
We'll see who steps up to take it. All right,
we'll take a break. Your text messages on the other side,
we'll touch on a couple of those at eight seven
seven three five three zero seven hundred. We are also
going to give away the first pair of Fierce Fighting

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It's two tickets to Fierce Fighting Championship tonight at the
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(41:27):
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Speaker 1 (41:47):
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Speaker 2 (42:02):
All right, back at it on the Sean O'Connell Show
this morning on Friday, October the third. We're into the
month of the into the month of October already, Jordan, boy.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
You've been taking me up. Are you watching any horror
movies yet?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
No? Not yet.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Come started to watch you know, the TV show creep Show. No,
after the old comic book. No, I've not seen a
TV show out there about it. I started watching. My
wife was like, turn this off. So it's gonna be
a little hard for me because she doesn't watch horror
movies or any TV shows that are scary.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
She Oh, she doesn't like them at all.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
No, that's gonna have to watch them alone.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I'll be like in the in the bedroom on my
phone watch and she's like, what are you doing over there?

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
What do you mean, stop basking?

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Yeah, it's just a scary movie. Uh. I was flipping
and I was watching Yank's Red Sox Flipping dirt between innings.
The original Halloween on AMC so fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah,
the original is great. The rest of them are fun
to watch, but they're not good movies. But yeah, got
to get into it, man, October.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
We're gonna take your text messages get through a couple
of these on our conversation we had earlier in the program,
which is bigger at this moment by U.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Utah football is a college football in.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
General in the state, or is it the Utah Jazz
And I think over the last ten years, what we
came to a conclusion, at least here in this room
is over the last ten years it's flipped to college
football from the Utah Jazz, and mostly is because the
Jazz haven't been great. Yeah, and Utah football has been
much better. BYU football gets into a power for conference,
I think it's college football.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
If the Jazz were good.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
And competing, I think the Jazz would be a better
product and more people would care about the Jazz.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
I don't know, no, No, that's my question is right now,
it's absolutely college football. But if the Jazz are contending,
if they were to contend this year or net whatever,
are not going to but would the Jazz be more
popular than Utah and b why you combined?

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Right?

Speaker 2 (44:06):
So, a couple of text messages coming in on the
text in line and a few that we should probably
touch on, and then also give some tickets away here
in just a couple of minutes to some fierce fighting
championships as well.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
One that I want to bring up here.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Pro will always be bigger than college by you and
Utah divides the state. Anything pro unified the state. Jazz
fans are still Jazz fans, good or bad. This will
always be a basketball state first, I get it. Yeah,
listen in the conversation of unifying the state. Yeah, we're

(44:43):
all Jazz fans, whereas you know college football fans. You're
either one or the other right, or maybe you got
Utah State or other. In terms of popularity, though in
terms of popularities, college football more popular at this moment
in time, jazz basketball is sure it is, yeah, And
if the jazz were better, would it be more popular?

Speaker 4 (45:05):
I don't know. I would defer to James on this
one too, because I don't know I would think the
jazz would be. But boy, people like college football here.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
Yeah, I think that the I think the fact that
fan bases get unified with the jazz is completely irrelevant.
We're talking about the combined the combination of care factor
and popularity from the BYU fan base, the Utah fan
base primarily, and then as as Bryce said, you know
secondarily the Utah the Aggies fan base and others. But

(45:36):
those the combination of that, and the Aggies have had
some good years over the last ten fifteen years too,
not quite as consistent as Utah certainly in the Mountain
West and a different level of course, but like that
combination I think has surpassed the combination of this A
lot of the same people who care about the jazz

(45:57):
because the Jazz have even when they've been good, they
haven't been good at the level that Utah football in
particular has been good, and we're really at the level
that even BYU was last year in their second year
in the Big Twelve, in my opinion, like they were
basically a conference finalist.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
When's the last time the Jazz were conference finalists? You know?

Speaker 7 (46:20):
And I just I think that that lack of success
makes it so that we don't care quite as much.
I really do, because even the young fans that that's
the that's the highest and the most exciting they've been
about the Jazz basketball. Even those guys are raised by
people who are like, this is nothing like John Stockton
and Carmelen went to two straight finals. They were in

(46:41):
the Western Conference finals every year in the nineties. But this,
I mean, it's fun, but this is still not that
this is still not near as exciting as what it
used to be, all.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Right, Texter nine nine zero saying the best way this
is our other conversation regarding Utah football and if you
want to see Iowa State win or lose this weekend
in order for Utah to get in the championship game, saying,
the best way for you to get your own local
team in the playoff and build respect for the conference
is to have Texas Tech in Utah win out and

(47:14):
then have Utah beat Texas Tech in the Big Twelve Championship.
With that, you possibly get two teams into the playoff,
including your own in Utah.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
I would say Iowa State losing this weekend and look
they're two and a half point dogs on the road
to Cincinnati here.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Do you know what the question is there is can Utah.
Let's say that happens. Let's say Utah gets to the
Big Twelve championship game, they have the one loss. If
they lose again to Texas Tech, they're not getting into
this college football playoff, right. The only way you're getting
two in is if Utah beats Texas Tech they both
get incorrect. Is that what you're I think that's the scenario.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
And the other thing that I would recommend and remind
everybody in early season loss way better than losing in
the last couple of weeks of the season, way better.
Just for whatever reason, the college football playoff they really
take into account recency buys. They really love their recency buys.
Look at Notre Dame last year they lost early on

(48:14):
to Northern Illinois. The would go and reel off a
bunch of wins get in the college Playoff. You could
probably say they deserved it because of the way that
they played, right looking back on it, But you get
a lot more respect from the College Football Playoff Committee
if you lose early and you start to reel off
a bunch of wins late, because they say your team
looks a lot better than a team that would lose

(48:36):
a week before the College Football Playoffs, You're gonna have
some favor there. So, yes, you are in a good
spot if you're Utah. If you win out the rest
of the way, you could be in a good position.
And then of course with Texas Tech, if they get
into the Big Twelve championship game and Utah can beat
Texas Tech, then yeah, I think that's probably the best
way it's going to happen, if it's going to happen
at all.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
But right, so, getting a little ahead of ourselves.

Speaker 7 (48:57):
I'll go back even further with you, just to reinforce
that point you made the very first year of the playoff,
that Ohio State wins the championship with Urban Meyer with
the third string quarterback. They lost in Week one to
Virginia Tech, who may have just been a bowl team
like they were not at home, right, TCU loses fairly

(49:21):
early to Baylor in or no, did I may have
got that backwards. They one of those teams beat each other,
they get leap frog by Ohio State because Ohio State
got got everything together.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Parrett J. T.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
Barrett looked like maybe the best quarterback in college football
or one of the best quarterbacks in college football. After
that Virginia Tech loss, they went They beat Wisconsin fifty
nine to nothing in the in the Big Ten Championship game.
Big twelve didn't have a Big Twelve Championship game at
that time, right, TCU and and Baylor still looked pretty good,

(49:56):
but not near as good as as Ohio State looked
against Wisconsin and extra game, and so Ohio State leap
frogs those two from six to four and they make
the first playoffs.

Speaker 6 (50:08):
So I mean, even back to the beginning of the.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
College football playoff, the early losses get excused away for
teams that, as you said, real around in de form
really well and play really good football the rest of
the season. And that still could be the case for
Utah and if BYU falls to Utah and October eighteenth,

(50:31):
that could be the case for BYU two like or
you know, Utah loses, they're probably two losses.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
That early that might eliminate them.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
But if that's BYU's first loss and Utah's only loss
is still Texas Tech.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
After that, you still have lots of time to.

Speaker 7 (50:45):
Show the committee, and the committee has favored teams that
look great at the time the playoff. They picked the
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Speaker 3 (53:23):
Let's jump into it.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
The top storylines, headlines around the world of sports, and
we start off with some news out of college basketball
this afternoon. Billy Gillespie, the former Kentucky Texas Tech college
basketball coach. You got in trouble multiple times, multiple different stops. Okay,
is back in the news cycle again once again. Good reasons,
I'm assuming no, not necessarily this time at Tarleton State.

(53:48):
You ever heard of Tarleton State before? I have heard
of Tarlton out of the Western Athletic Conference. They play
against Utah Valley, he's been placed on the administrative leave.
This comes after a complaint of a phone call to
the athletic department and they are investigating him. Not no
specifics reported on yet, but knowing the past allegations against him,

(54:13):
maybe something allegedly related to play the way he treats
his players.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
What what what do you get in trouble with?

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Before it was just the way he treated players like verbally, physically, abusing, allegedly.

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Still getting jobs.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yeah, pretty interesting suff it's now he's been placed on
administrative leave once again at Tarleton State.

Speaker 7 (54:36):
Perfect guy to be molding young minds at the not
even I mean at at the lower at a lower
that you're actually that actually is what you're still doing
in college and a lot of places. It's not like
like when he was at Kentucky and Texas Tech where
it's like these kids are these kids think they're pros.

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Specific at Kentucky so the molding of their minds is
not as big as big of a deal. But at
a place like Tarlton State, like how did this guy
get even even get another job at at lower level
school like that?

Speaker 6 (55:12):
Jeez?

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Interestingly enough, Billy Gillespie has had some health issues. So
he's been sidelined a couple of different times in his
tenure at Tarlton State.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Last time he's on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
So Texans won twenty five games and narrowly missed a
share of the Whack regular season title, and they still decided, no,
we're going to bring Billy Gillespie back after he gets
done with all of that he's dealing with. So that's
the situation right now. We'll see if the investigation turns
up anything with mister Billy Gillespie, former Kentucky basketball coach,

(55:43):
Texas Tech, as well a couple of other places that
he's been to.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
All right, let's jump over to Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Jordan Division Series begins on Saturday. We'll be carrying across
the ESPN Radio the Utah ESPN Radio Network. Tiger's Mariners
both want Game one and to the Tigers and Mariners,
and then Game one of the Yankees and Blue Jays
of the Al. Yeah, the Alds on the Utah ESPN

(56:11):
Radio network. Some good Major League Baseball matchups coming up
this weekend.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Oh yeah, fantastic. Now, I don't Gosman's going for the
Blue Jays in Game one. It's not official because I'm
not seeing it on MLB's app, but I think Scooball
would be going. It's a Saturday, so he went Tuesday, Wednesday.
He could be going, right in a game one? Or
are they through?

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Didn't he throw like one hundred and seventeen pitches the
other day? He's a workers He's fine?

Speaker 6 (56:42):
Is that four days right? Well, four days in between games?

Speaker 4 (56:45):
I suppose, So now you're probably so he probably won't go.

Speaker 7 (56:48):
Maybe he goes game two. And and you know what,
Jordan recent in recent years, it used to be like
for decades, it used to be if you went game one,
you you were in line to start game five if
it was deciding one. Now it seems to be if
you go game two, that's the one suite, that's the
one who's in line to start game five.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
Yees, so maybe that's the better.

Speaker 7 (57:12):
And that used to be the first thing that managers,
or at least that was talked about in the media.
The first thing the managers did is like, Okay, my
ace has got to go, So that got to be
lined up so that they'll also pitch in the deciding game.
It used to be like Pedro for the Red Sox
went went Game three in a seven game series, not

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game one, because you wanted him for Game seven too.
But now it's like, no, put your best put your
best player as soon as possible. It's almost like our
lineups have changed, Jordan too. Like three used to be
your best power hitter or clean up use the cleanup
spot used to be. Now it's like, no, put your
best hitter, especially your best.

Speaker 6 (57:50):
Home run hitter.

Speaker 7 (57:51):
Lead them off, even if they're not even if they
can't run at all, lead them off because you want
more at bats anyway. It's similar to that where maybe
but even anyway, maybe game two is the spot to
where you want him anyway, because this, I mean, Mariners
Tigers pretty pretty evenly matched. That guy could end up
going the distance game five.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Right, Yeah, And the thing the okay, here's why, James,
they would why you would be able to come back
for game five. Your point exactly is this is crazy.
But they would play game three. They played Game four
on next Wednesday. They have Thursday off. They're in the
same because they're going back to Seattle if that were true,

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So yeah, you'd have like two you have two travel
days in this built into the series. So that makes
sense if he'd go Game two, they could. He'd be
well rested.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
For who's there? Who'd be there guy for game one?
If not Scoogle though, well they're normal. Their second best
dude you'd want would be Flairty, but he pitched yesterday,
so I don't know. I don't know who I'd have
to pull up? Who's in line?

Speaker 4 (58:53):
That look, it Dove tells perfectly into what we were
talking about. Is it is an advantage to have a
bye like Seattle gets to line up their rotation and
Detroit scrambling a little bit, they're going to have their
fourth best starter go in game one.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Yeah, no, I mean that's the conversation that we've been having.
But with that being said, it isn't always the teams
that get the buye that end up winning. And for
some reason right now, a slight edge since they've expanded
the playoffs and we discussed this before, four teams that
come out of the Wildcard series that have won these
series moving forward, and for whatever reason, that's just been

(59:31):
the case.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
And it's kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Not lot, not a huge data set, so it might
just be a you know, a fluke.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
And we'll see what happens once again this year.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's gonna be really interesting because,
first of all, if the Dodgers beat the Phillies, that
has nothing to me that we'll have nothing to do
with the buye that'll be Those are two great teams,
Like what you know, that's a toss up if the
is there a series where I guess if the Mariners'
bats just like aren't there, you could argue that the
bye hurt them. Is there a series you're looking at

(01:00:03):
where you're like, that should maybe the Brewers, maybe.

Speaker 7 (01:00:07):
The Brewers, But that's also a division rivalry matchup, Like
can you really say, can you like that would be
different anyway?

Speaker 6 (01:00:15):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:00:16):
Because regardless of I don't know if you can really
blame it on the rest there either, because the Cubs
are going to be up for that game, not just
because it's a playoff series, but also because it's the
you know, the hated Brewers who have kind of run
that division the last five to ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
All I will say is that I lean towards it
being a bit of a problem. And the only thing
that I have to lean on here is the fact
that you see these major league ball clubs trying to
quote unquote simulate playoff games. Well, they're sitting around not
doing anything. What's the reason they're trying to quote unquote
simulate playoff games. If sitting around not doing anything doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Affect you, well no, I mean yeah it does. But
we're going to again. You ask would you rather play
right away or would you rather simulate some games for
a week, And they're like, well, we'd rather simulate some games.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
We want to stay away from a three game series
where nothing where anything can happen and nothing is guaranteed.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
Absolutely. Did you see in the simulated there did a
split squad in Seattle yesterday. Guess who was in right field?
Each row? Fifty something years old? He was out, Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
And he I think he late we're a laser to
third or something like from right field and he's been
he's been retired for what five six years now, like
in his fifties. Like you said, like, what a freak.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
I want to see each row and Bonds in a lineup?

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
Oh yeah, I think who's Bonds with right now? Is
he still a hitting coach somewhere?

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
No, Bonds is hanging out okay, but Bonds, Yeah, each
row and Bonds could still hit in the major leagues.
I'll put that out there, all right. I'm serious. I'm
not saying the I'm not saying each road hit three
hundred or bombs would hit fifty home runs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
They could get it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
They could, Oh absolutely they both. Those guys could still play.

Speaker 7 (01:02:09):
Little mister three thousand actions, I'll get three more hits exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
I'd buy that, all right. We asked roxy Burns seen
this question. I want to ask you this question, expanded
playoffs in Major League baseball? Is it devaluing the regular
season and the fact that a team won a division
and got outed by the Detroit Tigers And it doesn't
mean anything to win a division anymore in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
Yeah, no, and I think it definitely does. First of all,
you want the two. You do want the buys. We
can debate it. You do generally want the buys. The
other thing is to win. I don't know. I think
playoff wise, like, does it matter whether you win your
division or you have to go on the road and
that I'd rather be at home, But it doesn't matter

(01:02:56):
that much. I don't know. I don't know. But as
a d valued the regular season. I mean, by definition,
it has a little because more teams get in, But
has it hurt the game? I go back and forth
on this. I really do, because we we were really
into in September these races with teams that otherwise would

(01:03:17):
have been out of the running, like we were watching
the Mets just collapse and the Red surge.

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
And then the Tigers almost collapse themselves out of the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
Yes, and the yeah, and I look, if you're the Tigers,
I do have it makes they don't.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
They did not.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Deserve to be in the playoffs after collapsing like that was.
Did they redeem themselves?

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
Did they earn it to move on? Absolutely? I I
don't mind where it is, but I do not want
to see anymore expanded it does. What I don't want
is the NBA. I don't want the MLB to be
the NBA where teams with freaking losing records are getting
into the playoffs. And you know what's weird?

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Want the playing tournament?

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Good God, I do not want to play. You know
what's weird though, is like the NBA, an eight seed
playing a one seed. It's usually not a series like
you know what I mean? And the worst seed the
who's the worst seed in the.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
The Reds were the worst team by record and the
third wild card.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
Team in the NL.

Speaker 7 (01:04:21):
So the Reds and the Tigers were the third wild
card team in Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
The Tigers could win the World Yeah, Tigers could win
the World Series. Like that's not and we none of
us would be shocked by that at all. Right, that
doesn't happen. So baseball's different in that regard where you get,
you get better series early on, I guess, is what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
Yeah, the Reds.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
The only thing is the Reds would have been a
monumental upset of the Dodgers and they and they showed
that the two games they played. It's just how overmatch
they were against Dodgers. Now, if the Mets had stayed
in with all their talent, that would not have been
quite as viewed as quite as huge. Enough, it's still
an upset, but not quite is big of an upset
if they had beaten the Dodgers. And that's a team that,

(01:05:04):
just like the Tigers, you could be like, with the
talent they have, they absolutely could win the World Series. Right,
But the Reds are the outlier this year in that
in that regard, and I mean, Tony Jones are are
guy who's now covering the Sixers in Philadelphia, huge Mets fan.
He was all during Game two of Red's Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
He was making that point.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
He's like, oh my gosh, we could have beaten the Dodgers,
especially the way the bullpen. They're bullpen's screwing up. These
leads like the Reds have no chance, but we could
have beat them. And I'm like, yeah, well, gotta win
in the regular season, Tony.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Tony, I watched July, in August and September. I don't
know if the Mets.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Beaten No kidding, all right, that's your Major League Baseball
and we'll have the playoffs here for you. The other
thing that we'll have for you here on ESPN seven hundred,
Vikings versus Browns, that London game Sunday morning. Seven to
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(01:06:07):
the Bills versus the Patriots, a five thirty PM start,
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One Call and more the weekend that will be in
National Football League Football, the Texans take on the Ravens
Sunday morning at eleven am. And I think the other
really good matchup is gonna be the Buccaneers and the
Seahawks this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Jordan, Yeah, that'll be a good game because there aren't
a ton that jump out at you. That's the that's
the main one. The Colts. Who do the Colts play
this week? Colts will take on because that could be
a Raiders. That could be a sneaky good game, maybe six.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
And a half points in favor of the Colts at home.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
This is in Indy, right, Okay, Yeah, I was gonna
say it's in Vegas and bye week. Maybe I make
a quick trip down there. No, that the Raiders are
better than you think they are. Yeah, that's probably the
best way.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
To slowly trying to figure it out.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
They're not among the best teams in the NFL, but
they're probably better than you think they are. That yeah,
I mean I've already they're they're already showing signs with
with a better quarterback in Gino Smith, again better than
you think he is, not the best, but probably better
than you think he is. And with Pete Carroll at

(01:07:22):
the helm an adult in the room running things. But
and and could be a close game because the Cults
are in that range too where it's like, yeah, they
started out better than we expected them to, but they're
also in their one chance to really show something against
one of the teams that might be a Super Bowl

(01:07:43):
team in the Rams, which again after that but after
that Niners game, I don't know, they didn't look near
as sharp. So it could end up being a pretty
good game. But the Cults were there at the end,
so I.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Think if my man doesn't fumble that ball out in
the back of the end zone, we have Mitchell and
then he held a guy on a on a touchdown run.

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
Mitchell doesn't play, they win that game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Seriously, if you send Mitchell out of the game, No,
just kidding. The Broncos and the Eagles is going to
be another good game eleven am start on Sunday morning.
That just apparently I'm watching the line right now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
This is funny. Was it three and a half?

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
It just jumped up to four and a half in
favor of Philadelphia in Philly. Yeah, okay, so Broncos probably
gonna give him a pretty good game. But here's the
thing about the NFL is at any given day, any
given week, anybody can beat anybody. So even though we
look at these and say, ah, you know, these aren't
great matchups, the Commanders and the Chargers, the Lions and

(01:08:41):
the Bengals, you never know what's going to happen in
the NFL, and that's what makes the NFL so great.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
This is the week in the end. This is the
type of week in the NFL where I tune in,
I keep an eye on the scores, I do whatever
I'm doing, and then second half that's fourth These are
fourth fourth quarter quarter games, the witching out. Yeah, it's
the witching out. If there's a close one, I'll tune
into it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Where wins become losses and losses become wins.

Speaker 7 (01:09:03):
Here's here's a question for you, guys. I am beginning
to think the Ravens have the Ravens are done?

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Are they broken?

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
And I just saw on the screen here ESPN was
reporting that Lamar Jackson was out of practice, might not
go for the game this weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
Here's the deal, hot take. I would feel the same
way even if Lamar Jackson was healthy. The way they
started the season. It's this just feels like this feels
like a year where a really good team, team thought
to be a super Bowl contender, ends up for whatever
reason inexplicable reasons. Injuries are playing a big part of

(01:09:40):
it now, but even when they were healthy, the way
they've started this year, it feels like that kind of
season where the surprise super Bowl favorite doesn't make the playoffs.
That's what That's what it feels like for the Ravens.
I hope it turns around because I really like this
Ravens team. We got Kyle van Noy, local guy who's
who's still tearing it up over there when when he's healthy,
So there's local interest for the Ravens, and Lamar Jackson

(01:10:04):
and Derek Henry are really fun to watch. But I
just there's something wrong with them beyond injuries.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
It could be.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
My policy with the NFL early on is September is
preseason because you don't have preseason games anymore where.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
They're still trying to get it all put together.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
Yeah, they really are.

Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
I hope that's what's going on with Baltimore other than
the injuries. I just I'm not sure that it is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
But but Baltimore might be different because you're right, like
they've been right there in some of these, like that
Buffalo game, they cough it up.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
It's just.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
Yeah, so what I'm not there yet. Just I gotta
see him play in October.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
So what about the Kansas City Chiefs. They're two and
two right now. They got the Jaguars on Monday Night football.
That's a three and one football team. They could lose
to the Jaguars and be two and three after Monday Night.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
They could, but they sure looked like they put it
together against Baltimore, figured something out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
But it is Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
It is Baltimore. But I don't know. I think they're
all high Taylor Swifts new album game.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Out today or are they distracted?

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Or that's a great right question.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
It's someone in that locker room is distract It is
potentially taking away from them playing good football.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:11:14):
I listen after the Giants game, I was I was
ready to say this is the Chiefs the same way
I was talking about with about the Ravens just now.
And I know it's like, well, you just said that
about the Ravens, So how can a team beating them
by a lot make you feel better about that team?
I know it's it might be a little inconsistent there,
but it's also nuanced.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:11:35):
I think the Chiefs have also won three straight out
of AFC championships, so you give them the they get
more of the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, than like
we saw the Patriots. To your point, Jordan about September
being the experimental preseason time, we saw the Patriots do
that for twenty years and get out of I've said
this the other week though, See they'd get out of

(01:11:56):
September sometimes one in three and and win the Super Bowl. Yeah,
like the September for great teams doesn't matter near as
much for the for September for teams contenders who are
also really good teams like the Ravens, right, and my
Colts back in the day with Peyton Manning, they couldn't
have Septembers like the Patriots had and still have much

(01:12:18):
of a chance because they were fighting to get at
the level of the Patriots.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:12:23):
I feel like that's where the Chiefs are with this,
and I was encouraged by their last week, which kind
of discourages me because I root against the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
At the same time, I'm sick. I'm you know, I
have Chiefs fatigue. I'm ready for somebody else. I think
they might be right in the ship though.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Maybe we'll ask one Bill Riley about the Kansas City
Chiefs to get his take on.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
That's someone who will never have Chiefs fatigue. Yeh, big
beloved geek core Chiefs fan Bill Riley.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Bill Riley's going to join us, coming up here in
just a couple of minutes on the Sean O'Connell Show.
We'll ask him about the bye week, maybe a little
big twelve talk with the man himself and more. That's
all coming your way right here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
Sitting in for Sean O'Connell on a football Friday, I'm
Bryce Larson.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
That is Jordan Bianucci.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
You can find us over on the brother station one
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join us on a Monday morning. We'll recap the weekend
that was in sports and more. That all comes your
way on Monday on Bryson Bianucci. We'll take a break.
Coming up next, the Voice of the Utes, Bill Riley,
right here on the Sean O'Connell Show on Utah's number

(01:13:30):
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Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
This is the Sean O'Connell Show. You were home of
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Speaker 8 (01:13:57):
F AM twelve twenty nine on a bye week, October third,
It's a Friday, a football Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
No Utah football. Still plenty of college football and college
football around the Big twelve. We'll discuss that a little
bit here, maybe some NFL football too, Kansas City Chiefs
and morn We'll do so with the Voice of the
Youth's Bill Riley, who joins us on the SPN seven
hundred hotline. Bill, glad to have you back on the program.
How of thing's gone in the bye week for you?

Speaker 11 (01:14:31):
It's not a bye week for me, sadly. I still
have to come to work every day, so I just
don't have a game.

Speaker 9 (01:14:37):
I just don't have a game to do coming up
this weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:14:40):
So no bye week, just no game tomorrow or or
Saturday or whatever that might happen to be for me.
But back at it next week. How are you guys doing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
We're doing fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
By the way, what does the Voice of the youths
do on a Saturday without a college football game to call.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
In the fall?

Speaker 11 (01:14:56):
Just watch football like everybody else does. Come on, that's
not time, right, flip on a little Big twelve football.
Got Kansas, UCF, got Texas Tech, Houston, Colorado, DCU, got
a good full slate of games, all.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
Right, Bill. With that in mind, that just right off
the bat, who's your top five right now in the
Big twelve?

Speaker 11 (01:15:16):
Top five of the Big twelve with Texas Tech's got
to be number one, so you got you can start
with Texas Tech. I know Iowa State's also undefeated, but
Tech to me has looked the best and I've seen
them in person too, and they're they're a really good team.
I'd probably put Iowa State at number two again, because
that's that's where they're at right now. They're five and

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zero as well, and they've got two Big Twelve wins.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:15:40):
Number three, it becomes a little bit more difficult.

Speaker 9 (01:15:42):
I mean, you'll get a team like.

Speaker 11 (01:15:43):
Houston who's undefeated, but who have they really played and
beaten right now? You know what I mean? So I
would probably put d YU at number three right now,
just because they're undefeated and ranked, and then after that,
I just I know it's not right, but I'm not
a believer in Houston yet. If they win tonight or
perform well tonight, they'll gain it. I would probably go

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Utah and Arizona State in those next two spots in
my top five. That's probably how I would go in
my in my top five for the Big twelve right now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
We were discussing this a little bit earlier on the program,
but what's the pathway for the Big twelve to get
two teams into the College Football Playoff?

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
And you know what, looking at the ACC, there might
be a door in an opening for the Big twelve
to do that anyway, because ACC is not great this year.
What do you what's your pathway to the Big twelve
getting two teams in?

Speaker 11 (01:16:34):
Well, I just think you have to have teams win out.
I mean, I still think there's a pathway to it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
Right now.

Speaker 11 (01:16:39):
Texas Tech's top ten ish team and they're undefeated. Iowa
State top fifteen team, they're undefeated. I don't you know
BYU if they would run the SCALT I mean, the
schedule looks tough. I mean you're looking at that. It's
going to be tough because teams are probably going to
cannibalize one another. If Utah got on a run, and
they certainly could do that, they could, it'll be a

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playoff caliber team. I think it's there, but but teams
are going to have to get on runs or if
you're Texas Tech or Iowa State, you're gonna have to
stay hot with that. If that makes sense, I think
you could get in with two losses, but it's going
to be difficult to do so. But I still think
there's a pathway there. There's still so much football to
be played, and you don't know what's gonna happen in

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these other conferences either. Right now, the SEC doesn't I
mean it looks they look good, but they don't look dominant.
I think the Big Ten looks very good now. They
may have a couple of dominant teams, maybe Ohio State
and Oregon or those teams will see but I still
think it's too early to rule out multiple teams for
the Big Twelve. But you can't have a bunch of
teams with two and three losses if you want to

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get there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Bill Riley's here with us for the next couple of
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The Sean O'Connell Show, brought to you by Handy and
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Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Let's talk about Utah football.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Did we learn anything, if any about this Utah football
team with a beatdown of a bad way West Virginia team.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
What were your thoughts about that win?

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Utah went on the road, took care of business as
they should have.

Speaker 11 (01:18:06):
Well, I think what you learned is they didn't get
beat twice by Texas Tech. You know, they came out
and did what you're supposed to do. West Virginia is
clearly a team in transition. Rich Rodd's trying to instill
culture and figure out who his guys are. Yeah, they're
not real good. They've got a tough win in Provo
tonight too, But I think Utah they didn't. That game
was never a game, guys. They jumped on them early,

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got out, never looked back. Dan Pierre was a little
bit healthier, He did his thing. They could run the ball,
but they should have done all of those things.

Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:18:36):
West Virginia got a couple of late touchdowns, but the
defense played pretty well too. Now, I think they did
what they were supposed to do against West Virginia. The
next test comes next week. Because Arizona State is good,
that's a good football team. They're going to come in
the Salt Lake coming off of bye as well. So
I think next week's going to tell us a lot
more about Utah. Did they use the bye week well?

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Did they work on some things that they needed to
do to clean up things a little bit, maybe tackling
on the defensive side, maybe making some more adjustments offensively,
Because Arizona State's going to be a team that tests them.
That's a top twenty five team and a team that's
a team that can challenge for the conference championship. And
they've got championship pedigree too because they won the league
last year. They have I think the best quarterback in

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the league in Sam Levitt, and they've certainly got the
best wide receiver in the league in Jordan Tyson. So
I don't know that we learned a ton from that
West Virginia game, except for the fact that they put
that Texas Tech loss behind them and beat up on
a team that's rebuilding right now. But the big test,
obviously is a week from tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
You brought up the one thing that Kyle Whittingham brought
up in the postgame press conference that they need to
work on. It's tackling on the defensive side of the football.
How does a team work on tackling while avoiding injuries
in a bye week and trying to get better in
that aspect and not allowing those injuries to pile up,
but still get that live action tackling and getting better

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at what they need to get better at.

Speaker 11 (01:20:04):
Well, tackling doesn't necessarily mean you're you're beating people up.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
I mean, there's.

Speaker 11 (01:20:08):
Tackling drills, there's tackling in practice. There's a difference between
going one hundred percent and then you can thudd a
little bit and not have to tackle hard. But it's
technique as much as anything else. I mean, if you
watch Utah's misstackles, there's the guys are there to make plays.
They maybe didn't wrap up or they overran the play.
I think what you've seen in some of the mistackling
for Utah is certainly fixable, and you've got two weeks

(01:20:31):
to fix it, So I think there's a possibility they
could do that over the bye week.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
All right, Well, what do you know about this Arizona
State team that Kenny Dillingham brings into town this next
coming week, and what should Utah be prepared for under
the lights?

Speaker 11 (01:20:43):
Well, that's what I just said. They've got the best
quarterback in the league. Sam Levitt is an NFL quarterback.
He can throw it and sling it, but he can
also run it too. He's got five rushing touchdowns and
I think he's got two hundred or three hundred yards
rushing this year as well. He's got great legs. He
is a playmaker, and he's got the best playmaker down
the field in the league in Jordan Tyson. So it

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starts right there. I don't know that their running game
is quite as dynamic as it was a year ago
when they had Skataboo there. But the kid that they
brought in from Army, whose name is escaping me right now,
the transfer, he's a good running back too, So they're
dynamic all three levels. Now. Tyson is the playmaker. They've

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got a few other guys too, but they want to
get that. They'll try to get that ball to Tyson
eight to ten times a game, and Skataboo, if the
playbreaks down, has the ability to improvise, not just with
his arm, but also with his legs. So at the
end of the day, that's where it starts. They're a
good defense. They've got playmakers on all three levels. I
think their lines are good this year. I don't know

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that they're quite as good as they were a year ago,
but still really good. They've lost one game. Utah has
lost one game. They lost on the road at Mississippi State,
who's not a great team. But they're better than they
have been. And they've got a couple of wins, come
from behind wins the last two weeks over Baylor and TCU.

Speaker 6 (01:22:01):
So this is a.

Speaker 11 (01:22:02):
Team that's tested and has championship pedigree, and they're going
to come here to Salt Lake City. I went back
and looked at last year's game a little bit. To
be fair, Utah was in that game till about midway
through the fourth quarter when Scataboo broke out out of
a scrum and went the distance. And they did that
with very little offense in that game last year. So
I think Utah Arizona State's going to be one of

(01:22:24):
the best games on the docket next weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
All right, I also have to get your thoughts on
one other thing, and it's the Kansas City Chiefs two
and two right now, they've got the Jaguars on Monday
Night football to three and one football team. How are
we feeling about the Chiefs, their start early and the
way it's looking right now for Kansas.

Speaker 11 (01:22:41):
City, Well, they didn't have their best two weapons in
the first two weeks, and they were in both those
games till the end last week and the week before,
especially last week when they got Zavier Worthy back, they
looked a lot better. So I like their chances on
Monday Night in Jacksonville. Jacksonville's three one, but they haven't
been very good on offense. Trevor Lawrence has been pretty

(01:23:04):
below average. Their defense has been what's been really good.
I think they forced three turnovers in all three of
their wins, so they're good defensively, but I'm not sure
that they've seen a team quite as good as Kansas
City yet.

Speaker 9 (01:23:17):
I think it'll be a good game.

Speaker 11 (01:23:19):
But I think the Chiefs, and they're gonna get Rashi
Rice back in a couple of weeks, are kind of
rounding back into form just a little bit. And their
defense has been terrific all year long, so you know,
a little bit of a Homer pick, but also a
team that's rounding in the form. Could Jacksonville win, absolutely,
but they've not beaten Kansas City and not played well
in these type games. So I'll take the Chiefs on

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the road on Monday night.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Yeah, I'm excited for that game. It's like the bet
first good Monday night football game. We're going to get
all year to this point. Bill, before we let you go,
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Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
Bill.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Thank you so much. Enjoy your Big twelve football this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
My friend.

Speaker 11 (01:25:03):
I will. Guys, I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
All right, sounds good. That is the voice of you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
It's Bill Riley right here on ESPN seven hundred and
ninety two to one FM. Any worries about the Kansas
City Chiefs for you Jordan being in.

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
I mean, not big time worries. No September again, Well,
you know, if they're five hundred at the end of October,
I'll have some worries, but no, I take them to
win on Monday night in Jacksonville. Look again, it's hard
to say because we were just talking about it. They
looked really good against Baltimore, but we don't know how
good Baltimore is either. But am I going to give
the Chiefs the benefit of the doubt? Yeah? Yeah, I

(01:25:38):
think they've earned it. Yeah, built up some equity, right, Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Coming up next, more college football loaded up in the docket,
maybe a little bit of NFL as well. Our friend
Lee Sterling is going to be join us. By the way,
he's won eleven straight NFL games on his Paramount Sports
service and had a forty unit play on South Carolina
last Saturday that won by a blowout of thirty five

(01:26:04):
to thirteen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
That's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Our friend Lee Sterling for Paramount Sports joins us next
right here on the Sean O'Connell Show ESPN seven hundred
ninety two one FM radio.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
You were listening to a Sean O'Connell show, your source
for the best huts football copyreach. Here's OC from the
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Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
M all right, welcome back, into the Sean O'Connell show
Bryce Larson alongside Jordan bia Nucci and Jordan Normally we
make our picks on a Friday morning during Bryce and
Bianucci and the Bryce's Right segment where we pick against

(01:26:57):
the spread and whatnot. We made our upset picks of
the weekend as well. Yes, mine was Florida taking down
Texas in the swamp this weekend five and a half
point dogs at home.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
The gutsy pick, my friend, I'm not going there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
I'm taking him out right over the Texas Longhorns. I
don't believe in the offense of one Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
I'm not going there. Have you watched Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
I've watched Florida. All right, that's where I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Well, our next guest here has won eleven straight NFL
games on Paramount Sports on his service, and he is
last week had a forty unit play on South Carolina
that won by a blow out of thirty five to thirteen.
It is Lee Sterling, and we jump out to the
ESPN seven hundred hotline to welcome him in here this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
Lee, appreciate you jumping on hour. Thing's going.

Speaker 5 (01:27:45):
We're good, actually great, I mean everyone's happy and it
should be fun. Just kind of laying low, saving my
energy for the Miami Florida State game tomorrow night. So
still one of the greatest rival recent college football.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
All Right, I just talked about my upset pick of
the weekend being Florida over a Texas team.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
What are your thoughts on that? In the swamp Saturday?

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Yeah, what's what's going on with Florida and Texas?

Speaker 5 (01:28:11):
I think Texas wins my five touchdowns. Okay, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. I actually like I actually like Florida
a lot. Also, uh, they're gonna be They're gonna be
welcome back. They're gonna get one of their I think
no one knows about this guy because I hadn't played
in a game yet. But they did some really good

(01:28:31):
recruiting in the off season and they found a kid
named Dallas Wilson's home. In the spring game, he domin
I think he had like eight, nine ten receptions in
the spring game. So watch for Dallas Wilson. I think
he's one of the best young players in college football.
But he was out a lot of their guys. You know,
I've been missing time, so check him out. I think

(01:28:54):
he's number I think he'd be wearing number six. Eugene
Wilson's also very good number three. Something to also take
note in that game, whether could be a factor for
about the four or five hours during the game right
now more than fifty percent chance or rain. So maybe
maybe look to the under two under forty two and

(01:29:14):
a half total points, probably a low scoring game, two
good defenses.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Okay, how about a team that's regional here to us
in the state of Utah, but it's Boise State taking
on Notre Dame, Notre Dame of twenty and a half
point favorite in that in that game, how are we
feeling about Notre Dame of Boise?

Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
So the public is going to love Notre Dame. I
mean Notre Dame what they did. Arkansas blew them out
last week, but they still have some problems. They're no
pass rush. Did over forty sacks last year. So far
this year not even ten sacks on the season. I
think Boise's under the raidar. A lot of people base
their decisions on what they saw last and you know,

(01:29:54):
first game, that's most what most people can tell you
the only game they saw this year Boise. They went
to South Florida. Opening weekend looked terrible, three turnovers, melted
in the sun, got blown out a South Florida. But
I think they've regrouped here and last two games they
have combined five touchdowns running the football here, so they
do have some balance here. I think no name's going

(01:30:16):
to win the game. It's an elimination game. Whoever lose
this game is out of the college football playoff. I
think Notre Dame wins the game thirty to seventeen. But
twenty one points is way too much Lee.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
When I saw the line for this next game, I
did a little bit of a double take. It's Cincinnati
minus one and a half at home against Iowa State.
But you dig into it, Iowa States had some serious
injury issues this week. Who do you like here?

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
They probably lost two of their top four to their
top five players, and they're both cornerbacks. Both probably going
to be all first team Big twelve players. So to
replace those guys going to be very tough. Then on
the other side, Cincinnati got his signature win. They beat Kansas.

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They were the better team, and now let's look at
the matchups. Cincinnati brought in three transfer receivers and these
guys probably the best trio they've had in the last
twenty twenty five years. So Brendan sword Swersby has been
just has only had it each year. Maybe one guy,
one go to guy. He can spray the ball around
now and with those three guys and finally a running tech,

(01:31:27):
I think Cincinnati finally getting over the hump and getting
that signature win. I think they're just going to keep
moving on. Averaging eight point three yards per play, top
eight in the country. Here either right team in his
favorite Cincinnati wins this game here thirty four to twenty four. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
I really like Dante Corleone on that defensive line for
Cincinnati too. He's a very good football player. Speaking of
good football players and guys that I love in college football,
Diego Pavia is one guy. He's going to be taking
on Alabama this weekend. Bama's a ten and a half
point favorite in this football game at home in tuscal Loosa.
How feeling about Vandy, Diego Pavia and the Crimson.

Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
Died It's fun to watch. I mean, do I think
he's an NFL player? Probably not, but a great college
football player. And you know he did it all last year.
They pulled off a shocker twenty three point underdog won
the game forty to thirty five. But now Alabama they
will be ready for this game. The three games before
that upset, Alabama had won by a combined one hundred

(01:32:26):
and forty eight to three. The weakness for Vanderbilt is
their pass defense. Bama quarterback Ty Simpson, he might be
playing the best football right now any quarterback in college football.
He's got a three to zero receivers probably second only
to Ohio State Utah State two for two, seventy four
on the Bama defense. So I think the airways are

(01:32:48):
going to be open here for Bama to hit on
numerous big plays. If you think Ryan Williams, like in
the game last week, is going to drop a bomb again,
he may never drop a bomb like that his entire
college NFL career. KABAC is a you know what, rullfied
forty one to twenty staking.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Hey, going back to the big twelve. This Houston Texas
Tech game. I'm really interested in this because I want
to see how good the Cougars actually are. Texas Tech
a twelve point favorite. You what are you looking at here?

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
Yeah, so there's six schools that have spent in big
money and nil. It's Texas one, Texas Tech two, who
you saw up close in personal Ohio State, Oregon in
five and six pretty much tied or Miami, Texas A
and m those six teams. They've only lost one game
Texas because they had to play another Tops six vender.

(01:33:41):
So tech As you saw what did they do instead
of just going for skilled players what they've gone in
the past, had no defensive line. They said we're going
to bring in four studs. They brought in the best
for defensive line and they could find kid from Stanford, UCF,
Northern ILLINOI, Georgia Tech. They held you, guys you talked

(01:34:02):
to for five just ten points in that game, giving
up just forty five points in four games. Held Devin
Dampier to twenty seven yards rushing. This defensive line is
a force, and that's how you win games, big games
in championships. Now, Houston's best win was over Colorado. That's right,
two to three Colorado. Colorado's only wins were Delaware and Wyoming.

(01:34:25):
There's a common opponent, Oregon State. Houston won the game
in overtime twenty seven to twenty four. In Tech beat
him easy pas forty five to fourteen. Here, I mean
this is like Houston's nice. I mean, I like Connor Wegman.
I think it's a good quarterback, but they don't have
much else here. This is like going into a gunfight
with a knife here, Texas Tech thirty eight twenty one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
We also saw a really beat up West Virginia team
take on Utah last week. Now they come to the
behive state and played BYU later on tonight. Eighteen and
a half is the line in favor of the Koogs.
Have seen it move a little bit back and forth
on that line. How are you feeling about a BYU
team led by a freshman quarterback taken on West Virginia tonight?

Speaker 5 (01:35:08):
Well, West Virginia, you know this is a go against team.
You either go against them or you lay off the game.
So Nico Marshall he is out. And even the backups,
I mean all three are not good. I just felt
it was a huge mistake by by Rodriguez. Richardriguez, you
got to bring in a quarterback you can mask a

(01:35:29):
lot of weaknesses. On top of that, everybody lost their
top two running backs. This is b why I used
first Home game in a month, so you know the crowd,
they're going to be ready to go here. And what
was telling about West Virginia in the game last week
they trailed seven to nothing, fourteen to nothing, twenty one
and twenty eight nothing. They just said, you know what,

(01:35:51):
we're not going to throw the ball. We're just going
to try to shorten the game and run the ball here.
So short week, long trip here to face a salty
BYU defense here, they're gonna be ready to go here.
I like BYU forty to ten.

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Speaker 5 (01:37:58):
All right, So I'll give you one. I don't think
they're going to win the game here, but you know what,
I think they will. I think that they will. I'm
going to take Maryland Maryland Terrapins plus six and a half.
Washington's traveling cross country did not win a road game
the Big Ten last year. Disappointment last week, not beating

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Ohio State. They're head coach Jed Fish. He threw the
team under the bus for his failed fake field goal call.
They're facing a quarterback in the league. Washington public doesn't
know about. This kid is so talented. They ran off
the pass starter Billy Edwards, So you know what the

(01:38:39):
team is. Favored Maryland Terrapins straight up, twenty eight to
twenty five over the Washington Huskies.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
There you have it, Lee, thank you so much for
your time here this afternoon, and always great talking to you,
my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
You two guys, take care, be safe.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
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Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
You know who else is the wrong team?

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Favored Jordan's Texas Go Gators.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
I didn't know there's gonna be a monsoon. I listen.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
You gotta listen to me on the price is right?
Should we make our picks every Friday as well?

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
I listen, I gotta listen to this name the records again?

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
Who is the better record?

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
We'll skip that portion of the conversation for now, but
I'm bouncing.

Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
Back this week.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Can I can? I say this though, This is why
sports gambling. This is my disclaimer for sports gambling. No
one watches more college football than you in the world,
and I'll you know, I'm flipping. I'm checking it out.
I don't know what damn like. You know, I'm up front.
I give you my opinion. I'm not the expert here
on college football, and yet I've picked more games correctly.

(01:39:48):
That is why you gotta be real care.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
Some of us over analyzing real care, way too many
things into account as we're picking games. No, listen, this
kid's really good in all reality, it's an eighteen to
two eight two year old kid. That's you know, you're
you're you're basing your picks off of Oh yeah, anything
could happen. His girlfriend could have cheated on him this week,
and he has a bad game.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
There's a lot more fish in the see for that
for that kid. If in this hypothetical scenario.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
No doubt about it. All right, we'll see what happens
this weekend. We'll see if the Florida Gators are successful
against the Texas Longhorns. B Yu takes on West Virginia
later on tonight on ESPN around the Big twelve as well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
All right, we'll take a break.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
The start of our number three, the one o'clock hour
comes your way next right here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
I'm Bryce Larson, that's Jordan Being. Uci're filling in for
one Sean O'Connell. We'll be back on Utah's number one
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Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
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Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
You're tuned to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
You got us filling all right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
So Billy Joel bringing us back from the break. I
hope Billy Joel's doing good.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Jordan Hey canceled, has he rescheduled his rice ecles.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
Canceled the entire tour health reasons.

Speaker 6 (01:41:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
I hope that he's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Okay, he's one of the best, man, He's good, one
of the best to ever do it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
I personally love Billy Joel.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
I know I like Billy Joel.

Speaker 6 (01:41:23):
I've loved him for the longest time.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
Good job, good job, James.

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
Hey, you want to hear it. I haven't told this
story on this station. Okay, fellow, just.

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
A warning to all those your vehicles at this moment.
Don't know what's about to come out of Jordan's bounce.
A great story and the dumb button.

Speaker 4 (01:41:43):
Yeah No. Back in the seventies down at BYU the
Marriotte Center would have great concerts with like rock artists
and I don't know who else came in, but Billy
Joel was one of them. And Billy Joel and you
know the song Will the Good Die Young?

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
He introed that song by saying to the audience at
b YU saying, hey, I just want you to know.
He said to the effect I just want you to
know there are some other options out there, and then
it went into only the Good Die Young, which look
up that song and find out what it's about.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the
same Oh yeah, the sinners are much more fun.

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
Yeah, he's trying to persuade someone in a religious woman
in that in that song. So anyway, after that happened,
I don't know if it was BYU or abut, you know,
like the LDS Church, they came down, They're like, no
more concerts, that's it, We're done, Billy Joel. Because of that,
I read, I swear to God, I read that in
the Daily Universe at BYU years ago, and so I'm

(01:42:42):
I'm not just like making that up. If you have
more details to text us, Yeah, maybe I'm wrong with.

Speaker 7 (01:42:46):
Maybe maybe Jerrem Jordan can confirm that for us.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
I would like to know, because I've also seen reports
of them at homecoming. They used to wrestle tigers down
there at BYU. What yeah, yeah, tight, like real actual tigers.
They were like, yeah, come on, you can get in
the cage and wrestle a tiger if you want to.

Speaker 4 (01:43:06):
A human would wrestle.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Yeah, I've seen reports about that from the Daily Universe
student newspaper.

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
What kind of tiger are people wrestling? That seems like
a mismatch.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
It wouldn't get in the cage.

Speaker 4 (01:43:19):
I know they used to have a real cougar down
there as a mascot.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:43:23):
Oh, they had a live mascot at one. I'm pretty sure,
my uncle. Yeah I do. I do like the live mascots,
but not as much the certain ones. I'm like, that
doesn't have to be a live maskcot, like the caged
Lsu tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
Like, really, they should let him run around that tiger
run around the field like they let Ralphie run around.

Speaker 6 (01:43:40):
Collar on it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
Yeah, run him over there and see what happens. You
know my favorite mascots. Did you see? Have you seen
the Penna Sits beware Yeah, yeah, exactly. Have you seen
the Penn State mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
Yes, like the actual mascot yeah, yeah, the dude dressed
up yess yeah, they.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
Haven't updated the costume since nineteen forty five. Yeah, and
he has tennis shoes on. You can see him wearing tennis.
Those are my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Like like Kansas State's mascot where it's like an actual
dude and the only thing about him that's a mascot
is the head.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
Yes, I do, I do.

Speaker 6 (01:44:09):
I like that one.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
That one's freaky. I like funny mascots.

Speaker 6 (01:44:13):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
This is my unpopular opinion. Cosmo. Not my kind of mascot,
because people love Cosmo man. Not my mascot, says Jordan Nostag.

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
Not my mascot.

Speaker 6 (01:44:24):
He's too Cosmo.

Speaker 4 (01:44:25):
He's too damn athletic, like he's doing all this stuff
I want hilarious, Like Cow's mascot is horrifying looking, and
his like he's an overweight bear on two feet.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
It's Western Kentucky's mascot, the big Red Yes, yes, hilarious.
It's so funny. They put him on the uniforms and stuff.
They give his own helmet. That's good stuff. Syracuse orange, like.

Speaker 7 (01:44:47):
The hockey one that looked like looks like Flyers, the Flyers,
the Flyers fanatic.

Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
No, no, no, that's the Philly fanatic. The Flyers have
this other for right, you're right, you're right. What's its name,
something similar to that. Yeah, it's like it's it's newer.
But those are my favorite, yeah, Philly fanatic. Gritty gritty, yes,
gritty is the man like that. The other one is
the condor for the Clippers, which looks like the mascot
version of Steve Balmer. Like if if Steve Balmer were

(01:45:16):
a cartoon character, he'd be the Clipper Condor. Yeah. Now
my exception. My exception is this.

Speaker 7 (01:45:25):
I don't know if the condor is circumventing salary caps
over and over again.

Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
You're telling me the condor doesn't have a shell company.

Speaker 5 (01:45:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
The My exception though, was the Jazz Bear. I do
like the Jazz Bear, and he's athletic and it's like
going down stairs on sleds and stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:45:43):
I do not like the recent thing with the with
the Bear where they've got him in skinny jeans.

Speaker 6 (01:45:48):
Sometimes I have not seen.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
That they give him the backwards step back at.

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
Warrobe.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
Yeah, that's the only thing that I'll complain about with
the Bears recently, Like you're putting them in skinny jeans sometimes,
like just why just keep them in.

Speaker 6 (01:46:07):
The jazz uniform than on now?

Speaker 7 (01:46:11):
No, but the but gritty is gritty is awesome. I'm
with you, these these ones where you're like, we're not
pretending our mascots anything legitimate in athletic competition.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
We're just or like anything impressive. The Blue is you'll
stiff farm a kid.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
He doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
He runs kids over in these in these little stripped teas.

Speaker 6 (01:46:34):
One time, just like.

Speaker 7 (01:46:38):
Blue is the Man and my wife, who I've told
this story on the air. I don't know if you
guys have heard it. She recently, she was a few
years ago, was like, I feel like I need to
get an NFL team. She's not a sportsman, grew up
playing sports, but never really got into following sports. But
she's you know, she's a lot more into it now
that she's been married to me. And it's my life, right,

(01:47:00):
But she she's like, I think I need to get
an NFL team and she and she goes, she goes,
should I choose the Broncos? And I kind of look
at her like this, like a lot of people, like
so many people were Broncos fans over here, like maybe
something more unique. And she's like, I'm like, not the
Patriots now, okay. And she's like fine, and she goes,
what about the Bills. I'm like, the Bills would be

(01:47:20):
a good one to be on, Like they they're kind
of jumping on the bandwagon, but they haven't won yet,
so and they're a lot of fun. And so she's
decided she's a Bills fan. But she's discovered Blue and
she's like, she's like, I I hate that my favorite
mascot is your favorite team's mascot, and I and my
the Bills mascot.

Speaker 6 (01:47:41):
Whatever the name of.

Speaker 7 (01:47:42):
The buffalo is is not anything special. So I didn't
even know the Bills had a masko. Yeah, it's something buffalo.
I can't remember the name of the buffalo, my Billy
or something. Yeah, but it is a blue buffalo. Anyway,
she's she's on on you know, TikTok, and she's seen
all the Blue Shenanigans on TikTok and she's like, yeah,

(01:48:06):
that's the best of Like, yeah, that's my mascot right there.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
The best thing that I've seen was celebration of the
Indianapolis Colts players after a touchdown I think was scored.

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
They ran into the end zone and you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
Know Blues known for the hip thrusts, right, Yeah, so
they they line up in a line and they put
the ball up in the jersey and they act like
they're doing the Blue hip thrust. That's the best celebration
I've seen this NFL season. So good, that's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
So mascots. The mascots are the talk of the town here.

Speaker 7 (01:48:35):
The fanatic is also a favorite of mine. I know,
probably not a Brice is because anti anti Philly over here.
But did you see did you see his version of
the cold Play incident? Y?

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
Good time?

Speaker 7 (01:48:50):
And then Carl Raviitch on Sunday Night Baseball's interview with him,
and he's like, He's like, no, it's not God, it's Carl,
because like, what's going on? Who's talking to me? Looking
up at the sky is amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:49:04):
I love the Philly fanatic because he legitimately makes opposing
like players and managers ticked off, like you got a
fight with Tommy Lesorda like twenty years Oh, that was fantastic,
good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
All right, Uh, your weekend slate coming up this weekend.
We've got baseball galore starting on Saturday. A lot of
good matchups in the baseball world. Jordan, your number one
thing that you're watching in baseball this weekend?

Speaker 4 (01:49:29):
Oh geez, you put me on the spot for me.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
It's cal Rawley. Anytime cal Rale steps up to the plate,
I'm gonna watch just to see him hit absolute bombs
and I want to see if he could keep this
run going.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
Absolutely, that's a great one. Also, Otani is starting for
the Dodgers on Friday against.

Speaker 6 (01:49:47):
Any Time I think qualifies as that too.

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
Yeah, and okay, you want a great o'tanni stat On
the days after Otawni pitches, he's hitting one sixty two
on the year. Oh we don't pitch him, La, Well
they have, don't worry, they have some other bats turn out.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I don't think they'll miss him too. Seriously, the freaking Dodgers.
So that will come your way this weekend. The Yankees
and the Blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
I'm really looking forward to that. That would be a
good series. All these are great. They're intriguing because the
Cubs and the Brewers don't like each other. Brewers fans
like those. You don't like the Brewers, neither one of them.
Pirates fan, Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. The Brewer Craig
Council leaves the Brewers, he's a Wisconsin native, leaves the
Brewers to go manage the Cubs. The Brewers whenever you

(01:50:37):
watch a Brewer's home game against the Cubs, Cubs fans
drive up there and just take over that ballpark. So
I'm confidently saying that Brewers fans truly hate the Cubs.
Don't hate them, haven't they called it north?

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
Yes or yes?

Speaker 7 (01:50:49):
Like when I remember the the can't have been a hurricane.
It was some because Chicago, but there was a there's
a weather extreme weather in like oh wait, and they
played they had to play some home games at I
think back then it was Miller Park, which is so
much better name by the way, Grievance, Yeah, don't change

(01:51:11):
the name when you are the Milwaukee Brewers. From Miller
Park anyway to American Family Fields, so stupid anyway, Uh,
but they called I remember back then, they're like, yeah,
Wrigley North home games are home games here because of
whatever the extreme weather was. I it was not a
hurricane in Chicago among the Great Lakes there, but it

(01:51:32):
was something some crazy extreme weather that they're like, we
can't we have to play indoors and didn't have that
option in Chicago and Milwaukee's right there.

Speaker 4 (01:51:40):
Yeah, So that's that's interesting to me because they don't
care for each other. Yankees blue Jays. There's been stuff
all year where they're like who with commentators making remarks
the Blue Jays have played the Yankees really tough all year,
So that's intriguing to me. Dodgers Billy's, that's just they're

(01:52:00):
two really good teams. And then I'm with you Tigers Mariners, Scooble,
cal Rawley and the Mariners trying to Mariners have never
been to a World Series. I mean, so it's gonna
be it's gonna be interesting. I like all those matchups.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
I'm going to be on the lookout to see what
Pat Murphy pulls out of his pockets. Will it be
a pancake in Game one? Will it be a slice
of pizza?

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
It's it's I got two options. Here's what he's got
to do. It's a slice of deep dish pizza because
they're playing the Cubs, or a full Chicago It's a
full Chicago dog. That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
Straight out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
If you don't know what we're talking about, this dude,
this psychopath puts food in his baseball pants pockets, the
manager of the Brewers, and we'll just eat it during
the game, and it pulls it out during the postgame
press conference to show the lady, the poor lady that
has to do the postgame interview, what is in his
pants in terms of food?

Speaker 4 (01:52:57):
Yeah? Easy, Yeah, he was on.

Speaker 7 (01:53:01):
It started with as of food, food.

Speaker 4 (01:53:05):
He still has a job. He is not in prison. Uh,
he has. It started with a pancake right. He literally
had a folded up pancake in his back pocket of
his baseball pants and he pulled it out, and they're like,
he's like I gotta eat, Like, well, what else? Like
what else do you put back there? He's like a
slice of pizza every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
How do you get away with that? How does that work?
I don't know if it's you doing keeping a warm
back there. Seriously, you're sitting on a slice of pizza
for seven innings?

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
I did that?

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
Is it? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
Dude doesn't like it doesn't get dirty, it's in there, Like,
I don't think.

Speaker 6 (01:53:42):
Worried about it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
I don't think he's that worried about it to be
on a dirt, Yeah, maybe a sliver from the pine
that you're sitting on.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
I'd be careful eating that thing.

Speaker 7 (01:53:52):
Someone who eats food from their pocket like not, Just
like like, you're not worried, You're not worried about the dirt,
You're not worried about the lanx flinters exactly right.

Speaker 6 (01:54:06):
Make a good he made that choice. You're like, come,
what may?

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
I think it's so it's phenomenal because you realize that
he just sits in the same place in the dugout
the entire game and could have just whatever he wants
right by him. Instead, he's like, now I'm gonna go
with the pocket.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna store it in the back pocket. Okay,
all right, well that's what I'm looking out for. See
what the food item he pulls out this week is?
All those games start up on Saturday. We'll go through
the weekend. We'll keep you up to date on a
Monday edition of not only The Sean O'Connell Show, as
Sean gets back in his rightful spot here on his program,
but on Bryson bia Ucci over on one O, three,

(01:54:40):
nine and ninety eight three ESPN The Fan from seven
to ten am every single weekday morning. Okay, how about
college football this weekend. We've got Big twelve in the works.
We've got BYU. Later on tonight they take on West Virginia.
Shouldn't really be a close game, an opportunity for them
to potentially put this thing away in the first half
later on tonight and probably get a little bit healthier

(01:55:01):
because they've had a couple players they probably don't want
showing up on that injury report and get ready for
a Arizona team on the road next week.

Speaker 4 (01:55:09):
Yeah, I mean, look, BAA's got a I'm with Lee.
Forty to ten is about right where they should be tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:55:16):
Wes.

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
I mean, look, that's my biggest question. Are they going
to score forty points?

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
They have?

Speaker 3 (01:55:20):
Is that offense gonna score the forty points? Because how much?

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Is the most that they've scored so far this season
was thirty four to thirty five against East Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
Yeah, but they've looked better since that. Well, I mean,
they played one game, but they got it. West Virginia
is just they're awful. They got to put up them serious,
serious points. If this game isn't over at halftime, I'm
not concerned, but I'm not real happy if I'm a
BYU fan.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Okay, so you take away the Portland State game because
they scored sixty nine against Portland State.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
Nice, so we'll throw that one out.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Twenty seven against a not great Stanford football team, thirty
four against East Carolina on the road, Okay, that's pretty good,
and then twenty four against Colorado. So where you at
in terms of how much how many points this BYU team,
this BAYU offense specifically should score tonight, not counting a
special teams score or defensive score, just the offense got

(01:56:14):
to score thirty plus in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:56:17):
Yeah, I'd put them at thirty. Yeah, because I think
the defense will score two. Yeah, I just yeah, it's thirty.
You got to get thirty. Listen, you have Arizona and
then is it Utah right after that? Do they have
one in between there?

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
Yes, Arizona and then Utah coming up on the eighteenth,
So I yeah, you gotta look at they're improving. Would
you say they're improving every week?

Speaker 4 (01:56:39):
That offense?

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
Yeah, I think Soliah they are.

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
The Only problem that I see is the health and
injury assessment at the running back position.

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
No once again this weekend, and LJ.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Martin seemed like he came limping off the field against
Colorado last week, So that could spell some trouble in
the backfield in which they need a running game to
take the pressure off of their freshman quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
That's a huge talking point this week.

Speaker 4 (01:57:04):
I do think skipping ahead to that Utah BYU game,
this is where Utah will have an advantage. BYU has
not seen a defense like Utah, not even close this year,
and Utah has seen a defense like BYU just in
talent wise in Texas Tech. So that's where, Yeah, you're right,
BYU needs to look sharper on offense if they're going
to be ready, because that Utah defense is head and

(01:57:26):
shoulders above obviously West Virginia and Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
I think it plays more into Utah's favor that they
have had a test and they know what it's going
to take to win football games in the Big Twelve versus.
This will be BYU's first test when they meet up,
because you really can't say much about a West Virginia,
Colorado or even an Arizona team on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
Now, maybe Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:57:49):
Maybe the best thing that could happen for BYU is
they get they get a scare on the road at
Arizona and it's a close football game and they have
to win it in a dogfight. That's probably the best
thing that could happen for BYU.

Speaker 4 (01:57:59):
Yeah, And I had higher opinions of Arizona before I
saw him against Iowa State last week and they just
got handled. So I don't know. Yeah, I don't think
Arizona' is that that great either. Yeah, I mean, like, seriously,
what are you looking I'm looking for thirty points from
the offense tonight from byu ad a fast start, and
even if that doesn't happen with the fast start, I'm
not that concerned.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
Guys.

Speaker 7 (01:58:20):
Can we go back to baseball a second? Yeah, I
just did a quick research project cal Rawley's sixty homers. Right,
do you know who best? As I could tell with
Pro Baseball Reference, do you know who has the most
homers in American league history combined regular season in playoffs?

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:58:39):
Well, that's a great question. And what the number is
combined regular season and playoffs?

Speaker 7 (01:58:45):
So obviously you go back far enough. You're only World Series,
so like Ruce sixty year for example.

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
Yeah, is it's not it's not, Judge, I'm guessing. I
know Mantle hit a ton of home runs in the World.

Speaker 7 (01:58:59):
Series, not in that sixty one season though. Nineteen sixty
one I believe was the year that Marris Oh sorry
marriage Yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
I don't know who would do you have a guest?

Speaker 6 (01:59:11):
Best?

Speaker 7 (01:59:11):
Is what I could tell Aaron Judge in twenty twenty two,
sixty four homers, So sixty two in the regular season,
only two in the postseason that year, so sixty four
homers so cal Rawley might be and that'd be a
big postseason. Four or five homers in the postseason is
a big number, But he might be five homers away

(01:59:35):
from being the all time regular combined regular season and
playoffs home run king for the American League.

Speaker 6 (01:59:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
The thing about Raleigh is that when he hits him,
he hits him in bunches. So I mean he could
hit two in one game when he's feeling it. He's
feeling it, ye bong. Yeah, there's a couple of games
that he could do that.

Speaker 7 (01:59:55):
He's not gonna get to seventy for the year. That
would be crazy. Yeah, ten, ten or more homers, although
it's been done in the in this expanded playoff format before.
But Bonds did not make the playoffs in the Giants
Isnamic the playoffs in two thousand and one, so seventy
three is the all time all time mark. Sosa didn't

(02:00:17):
homer in the ninety eight playoffs when he hit sixty six,
so anyway, and then McGuire and the Cardinals did not
make the playoffs in ninety eight when he hit seventy,
So you know, if he goes on a huge tear,
he could he could take down Bonds's record, but he's
the American League records within reach.

Speaker 4 (02:00:34):
Yeah, when you add Adam, Yeah, that's that's interesting. I
was trying to look up really quick County if home
did Babe Ruth at a home run in that nineteen
twenty seven.

Speaker 7 (02:00:41):
He hit one, just one, so he got he had
sixty one that year combined, and then the fifty he
had a year he had fifty nine.

Speaker 6 (02:00:49):
He did not homer in the World Series that year.

Speaker 4 (02:00:53):
Interesting. Yeah, that is interesting.

Speaker 7 (02:00:55):
It's something we don't talk about, you know, stuff like
that in any sport, but in particular, it's I interesting
that that didn't get a little more play when Aaron
Judge got a couple more homers to really take both
of those. But yeah, it would be if I'm the
Mariners and he does and he has goes on a
tear this postseason and breaks that record, I'd absolutely be

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promoting it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:18):
Yeah, I would. You know what they keep showing this
stat during Yankees games is Jean Carlos Stanton is like
coming right up on Mickey Mantle for the most home
runs in the postseason. But I would like to see
think how many postseason games they play now, Mickey Mantle
never played in an ALCS, it didn't exist. He just
played in World Series. He played in one like every year.

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But that's what's when you think about all the home
runs Mickey Mantle hit just in the World Series.

Speaker 3 (02:01:46):
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
Yeah, yeah, see, that's that's the insight you only get
from Jordan b and Ucci and the and the graphics
on on ESPN.

Speaker 7 (02:01:54):
By the way, Bryce, I reluctantly agree from our short
group text last night that maybe there was a bad
omen that Connolly Early is the youngest player. I saw
that and went, oh, my gosh, to be the youngest
since any for anyone since Babe Ruth is quite a
story to tell. And then Bryce ruins it by saying

(02:02:17):
it could it be a sign?

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
Said, it's a sign.

Speaker 4 (02:02:19):
It's my youngest starter on the mound for the Red
Sox since Babe Ruth.

Speaker 3 (02:02:25):
Yes, three years old in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (02:02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:02:29):
And the other started for the Yankees was twenty two years old.

Speaker 5 (02:02:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:02:33):
Yeah, they didn't have a graph a fun graphic for him.
They must have Yankees and must have had lots of
young starters.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
But and you know what he did. Yeah, Early pitched,
well he didn't pitch, but you know what I mean,
Like he gave up some ground balls.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
Yeah, it his pokes, stinks and dunks.

Speaker 4 (02:02:48):
That beat him, which is I'm telling you that's a
reason you want to stay out of that wild Card series.
You're right, because that stuff's never happened. It just happened. Yeah,
like there's nothing you can do about that.

Speaker 7 (02:02:58):
It was death, death by thousand paper cuts for me.
I'm like another hard ground ball, which, by the way,
we were talking about this off air, Jordan and Bryce.
It's I can't really blame the fielders. It's not like
even even low who got a glove on it and
it kicked it up in the air, Like that was
still a tough play to make, Like all of those
that got through would have been incredible defensive plays by

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the by the fielders. But still it's like to give
up four runs on a bunch of singles. A ground
on ground balls, hard hit ground balls where defenders are
standing is just like you gotta be kidding me. I
guess there was a double on that bloop that Bellinger
legged out, but like, but it was a bloop. Yeah,
It's just it was just like you gotta be kidding.

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This is how you're kind of lose this this series.

Speaker 6 (02:03:47):
Yeah, and that's how it turned out.

Speaker 4 (02:03:49):
That's what makes baseball so hard to predict and and
fun because what did we sit here yesterday talking about.
It's like the Yankees. If the Yankees win, they'll hit
four or five home runs, because that's how the Yankees win. No,
they hit like a bunch of seeing ice singles and
won the game.

Speaker 3 (02:04:03):
They pieced it together, Yeah, little by little, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 7 (02:04:06):
One near homer that John Carlos Stanton almost got out
at second base because he was celebrating on the way
to first.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
All right, coming up next, make sure you get your
texting fingers ready, because it is the airing of grievances.
We'll go through that and more, give you our grievances,
and you'll get your chance to chime in on it.
At eight seven seven three five three zero seven hundred.
You can send in those grievances. We'll get him to
get in on the text in line at eight seven
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then we'll wrap it up with a little bit of
topical trivia. Two more tickets to the Fierce Fighting Championships
tonight at the Salt Palace. That's coming up as we
wrap up another edition of the Sean O'Connell Show.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
A little bit later on in the program.

Speaker 2 (02:04:49):
Right here on Utah's number one Sportstock ESPN seven hundred
at ninety two one FM.

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
You were listening to The Sean O'Connell Show from the
Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred and ninety two
one A FM.

Speaker 12 (02:05:10):
Cans the tradition of Festivus begins with the airing up quicknesses.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
I got a lot of problems with the old people.

Speaker 11 (02:05:24):
Now you're gonna hear about time.

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
Are some grievances on the Sean O'Connell Show, ESPN seven
hundred and ninety two one FM, part of Utah's ESPN
Radio Network. As a reminder, you could catch the Sean
O'Connell Show wherever you get great podcasts. After the fact,
I'm Bryce Larson. That is George Bianucci filling in for
one Sean O'Connell on a Friday, and we're gonna get

(02:05:51):
into the airing of the grievances. And I know that
you two have a lot of grievances to air here,
So let's let's go to Jordan do you want to
start us off here with a grievance to air.

Speaker 4 (02:06:05):
Yeah, I can start us off. I I do. I've
aired this grievance on our show on one of three,
nine ninety eight three ESPN the fans seven to ten
am every weekday. There's their plug, uh shameless right there.
This is gonna be an unpopular one. I'm gonna take
some heat for the I've already I already gave my
mascot view. This is gonna get more heat. The NFL

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was too popular, it is. It's I'm at the NFL.
This is coming from zone. I love the NFL. I
haven't missed a forty nine er game in twenty years. Sure,
the NFL, and it's not really it's kind of timely,
But I'm the NFL. I don't need to hear about
the NFL like right now. It's fine. We can talk

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NFL every day. It's in the middle of the season.
During the off season. I don't need to hear about
the NFL like I want to watch the games. The
NFL Draft is the most overrated sports Stop it, dude.
We are of one mind on this.

Speaker 7 (02:07:00):
I said this to it's OC's favorite move on competition
sporting event. Is the way he puts it, it's like
my least favorite.

Speaker 2 (02:07:08):
I'm gonna have to defend for Sean O'Connell on this
program since he's not here. I have to be the
lone man that's going to defend the NFL Draft.

Speaker 4 (02:07:15):
Captivating watching Roger Goodell get up there in his wingtips
and read names.

Speaker 5 (02:07:19):
Here.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
Here's the reason why the NFL Draft is so popular.
It's the only draft in all of professional sports that
you'll actually see the rookies, and multiple rookies in the
draft class get out on the field and make an
impact for a team.

Speaker 6 (02:07:32):
Come on, NBA happens all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
Yeah, and the top five guys, I'm talking the first five,
six rounds, You're gonna see a lot of those guys
out on the field, like seventy players like come on, No,
and the NBA is so hard to crack a starting rotation,
even come off the bench and play too.

Speaker 4 (02:07:52):
That's fine. I don't want to watch it. I'll read
about it. Just give me a list the next day.
I don't need to like just what I'm referring to.

Speaker 3 (02:08:00):
But that's what makes it so exciting.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
No, it does. They're just they won't shut up. It's
like five minutes between every pick and they're saying nothing,
and it just drives me nuts. The reason I thought
about this was because we were arguing the not even arguing,
but we were talking about, like, oh, Thursday night, Football's
on the radio tomorrow night, and I'm like, it's a
regular season football game. Give me Red Sox Yankees playoff

(02:08:22):
baseball over even. You know, I watched some Ram. I
watched Ram Niners because I'm a big Niners down, but
any other game, I've been locked into the baseball game.
The same thing it's with in the spring, with NBA playoffs,
Like it's insane that the NFL Draft gets more viewers
in NBA playoff games. That's nuts. That doesn't even I
just don't get it.

Speaker 7 (02:08:42):
Yeah, for me, it's not so much the draft, and
it's not so much the draft days that I dislike.

Speaker 6 (02:08:50):
It's the lead up.

Speaker 7 (02:08:52):
It's the four months of the same stuff or guys
hot guys moving up the draft even though we haven't
played a game in six months, because of their height
and their their their hand size, their hand size, Like,
I'm yeah, any combine, the combine itself is probably I
hate the combine way more than I hate the Yes,

(02:09:13):
I do.

Speaker 3 (02:09:13):
Not watch the combine. That is one thing I'll agree with,
one of the.

Speaker 4 (02:09:15):
Most dehumanizing events in sports. We're measuring people like while
they stand in their boxer shorts.

Speaker 7 (02:09:21):
I don't watch the combine. The underwear Olympics is anyway.
I those storylines bore me so much. I'm like, let's
just get to draft day. That's how that I see
the draft as a lot closer to let's get to
the games, like your your sentiment, Jordan, just because of
how long the but it's brilliant by the NFL because

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it builds the anticipation. I think the NBA should take
a page out of that book and put the draft
not a week after the NBA finals, Like let's give
let's build, let's get a month here to build some
anticipation for and then free agencies right after and then okay,
Summer League, which has gotten way too popular too. By

(02:10:04):
the way, it's it's guys who guys who might make
the G League, guys who might play in Europe. We're
getting excited over here watching on TV, like go Like,
if you're going to the event, you can have a
great time. I have no problem with you loving being
at summer league. I have myself, but like, I'm not
turning on a summer league game at home. I will

(02:10:27):
watch it in person.

Speaker 6 (02:10:27):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (02:10:28):
But then that's the only exciting thing you have for
basketball between between the the draft and well free agency
and like now, and it's like, well, you just you
wonder why the NFL is more popular than you because
you have this dead period.

Speaker 4 (02:10:46):
The NFL doesn't do dead periods. Yeah, but the NFL
is it? I think? Is it the NFL's you know,
their off scene is easian is popular because the games
are so popular. Yeah, I don't think the news.

Speaker 2 (02:11:00):
Cycle is twenty four to seven. They've got a lot
of news that leaks out and they do it on purpose.
They know, Oh they run it really well. Yeah, it's
all manufactured. That's the other part that annoys me. I'm like,
this isn't like news. I'm like, this is just none
of it's real. Oh exactly, That's why it's just is
just a hater. I hate he's super popular.

Speaker 6 (02:11:17):
I love this.

Speaker 4 (02:11:18):
It is the NFL is way too popular for it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:20):
My new one so last time we were on this program,
is that we should not watch game winning field goals
end a game in the National Football League. Since then,
we have had a tie in overtime, a forty to
forty tie on Sunday Night Football last week. I now
have a grievance against the National Football League for a
game ending in a tie in the year of Our

(02:11:42):
Lord twenty twenty five.

Speaker 7 (02:11:43):
Do you think that affected why why the Rams decided
to go for it instead of tying the game? Do
you think I was like, no, we're not doing another tie.

Speaker 6 (02:11:52):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:11:53):
I don't think they were necessarily doing that. I think
what Sean McVay was thinking about was our kicker and
kicking operation is awful.

Speaker 3 (02:12:00):
Yeah, we get kicks blocked.

Speaker 2 (02:12:03):
This kid can't kick field gold to save his life,
and I don't trust him anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
So but I will say this, if you, if he
had a reliable kicker, you kick that thing. Because Mac
Jones was couldn't walk.

Speaker 3 (02:12:14):
Out there. You know what you don't do. You don't
take the.

Speaker 2 (02:12:18):
Ball out of Matthew Stafford's hands when he hasn't thrown
an incompletion for the last hour and a half.

Speaker 4 (02:12:23):
It was quite a call.

Speaker 2 (02:12:25):
Yeah, he had completed the last like fifteen passes in
a row. And you're like, yeah, let's let's give it
to Kyne Williams, the guy that fumbles.

Speaker 7 (02:12:35):
All right, that's my grief. Let's go ahead, James. So
I've got a few here. I'll start with because I've
I've become a little famous on this program for my
pedestrian and crosswalk etiquette grievances. This is in that same realm.
I saw a biker, not a motorcycle, like an actually

(02:12:57):
like a bicycler, bicyclist riding in the middle of the road.
Now it was empty Friday's downtown here, a lot of
people were working from home. I guess it's it's it's
usually empty, so it wasn't holding up traffic or anything.
But if you know the downtown area, especially where we

(02:13:19):
are West Temple and Broadway three hundred south, you know
that most of the road is a median and bike
lanes instead of a shoulder. This guy, this biker in
the midst of all that's riding and right in the
middle of the road, like getting the bike lane. They
took away way too much of the road for you

(02:13:40):
guys to have a safe place to ride use it.
So here's why I'm that, Here's why it makes me
so upset. There was one time I'm crossing the street
to get to our parking lot kitty corner from us,
and this guy dings his bike bell in the middle

(02:14:00):
of the crosswalk. I I couldn't help myself. I said,
use the bike lane, and he was already because he's
on a bike. He's already like almost one hundred yards away.
So he looks at me, like, what did you say?
Like I may have said something really offensive. I said, again,
the bike lane. You know who's not in your way?

(02:14:21):
You know when pedestrians are in your way when you
use this bike lane that they they made for you.

Speaker 6 (02:14:25):
That's really obvious to find here.

Speaker 7 (02:14:27):
You know how it's hard to turn right on these
streets because they made us a lane for you to
be safe to ride your bikes.

Speaker 4 (02:14:34):
Don't tell me to move out of the way. Get
in your lane, and.

Speaker 2 (02:14:36):
Don't you have the ride away if you're in the
crosswalk anyway. Yeah, it's just I almost got hit by
a car the other day. I'm glad to be standing
here with you, guys. I almost got drilled by a
car turning left the other day walking across that street.

Speaker 4 (02:14:49):
Really, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:14:50):
That happens. Way too often too. I've already aired that grievance.

Speaker 4 (02:14:56):
There you bring it up, because it's also good. I
got a note. We have the widest streets in the
United States of America. It's at like like it's in.
These streets are enormous. There's plenty of room. So yeah,
why are you riding right down the middle of the street.
I'd go scooters too. These scooters, look, they're convenient. Sometimes
you gotta get somewhere. I I don't like them. They're

(02:15:20):
riding everywhere. They think they own the sidewalk. Get off
the sidewalk, and.

Speaker 7 (02:15:25):
Like, I think maybe technically you're not You're not supposed
to use the bike lane for those scooters, but I
think it's totally appropriate to you to use the bike
lane for that too. That's what typically I use the
bike lane when I'm when I'm riding a scooter around
downtown because I'm like, this is this That's probably the
safest place I can be on this scooter.

Speaker 6 (02:15:42):
And also no one's in my way. Because no one's in.

Speaker 7 (02:15:46):
Here except me, you don't have to ring the bell, right,
So yeah, use a bike lane if there if there
is one, and there's plenty here.

Speaker 6 (02:15:53):
In downtown.

Speaker 2 (02:15:54):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:15:55):
Also, I have a I have agreements against MLB's scheduling
of the Division Series.

Speaker 6 (02:16:02):
Guys.

Speaker 7 (02:16:03):
You know so Division Series best of five, so that
means there's a guaranteed of there's a guarantee of three games.
Why in the world are you only telling us the
start times for games one and two? There's a there's
a guaranteed third game and you know when it's gonna
be because you because it has to be played, So
just release through game three at the very least.

Speaker 6 (02:16:26):
About what are you doing? But what is?

Speaker 4 (02:16:28):
What is?

Speaker 6 (02:16:29):
How is that at the ratings?

Speaker 4 (02:16:30):
Yeah, they know.

Speaker 3 (02:16:31):
They're they already know the time they're gonna play.

Speaker 6 (02:16:34):
They have to.

Speaker 4 (02:16:34):
They know all those teams are playing on what day
in game.

Speaker 7 (02:16:36):
There's not gonna be any elimination at that point, so
there's no reason to flex times.

Speaker 2 (02:16:40):
Well, I think that the point is that they're gonna
wait and see how the first two games go, and
the most competitive series they're gonna put in prime time
to get the highest I prefer.

Speaker 6 (02:16:50):
The NBA does it way better.

Speaker 7 (02:16:52):
They when they're they announced the first four games of
every series because they know that's a guaranteed amount of games,
and they know we can go ahead, and we already
know what these start times are. It's totally understandable the
games five through seven in this case, four and five,
you're not gonna like, we can't really start tank because
we don't know if those games will we be played
and we don't know there to your point about maybe

(02:17:15):
we maybe we want this series at this time in
game four, like that's that really only needs to come
and play if this if some of the other series
have already ended at that point, right in my opinion,
but maybe they're maybe MLB they they've done this for years.
It makes it really hard for someone in the unique
position of me where I actually have to schedule things

(02:17:36):
like just give me the third game, just one more game.
You already know when it's gonna I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (02:17:41):
Related to that, my grievance is move up the damn games.
If the series doesn't go long, that's that's my Like.
If they have the the World Series, Game seven will
be on November first this year, no matter what, no
matter if everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:17:53):
Sweeps, everybody sits around for a week and waits for
this series.

Speaker 6 (02:17:57):
It's a problem.

Speaker 2 (02:17:58):
Yeah, it drives me, now, you know what I think
is weird that each game starts on the eight. Yeah
to eight thirty eight? Yeah, eight thirty eight. Why are
we what's what the eight?

Speaker 4 (02:18:10):
I don't know, but I'll tell you this. I like
that they tell you that exact times. G dang. Yeah,
those NBA games, they're like, oh, yeah, we're starting at six.
It's six twenty five and they haven't tipped off yet,
at least in baseball. I'm like, okay, I know when
to tune in.

Speaker 7 (02:18:23):
Its sackly soccer is. I've heard from a lot of
soccer fans. That's typically how soccer is, too, and one
of the things they love about soccer. Start times. Yeah,
NBA and NFL. NFL is a little more exact, but
it's still not is right on as baseball.

Speaker 4 (02:18:39):
No, NBA is by far the worst. I don't know
why they do that.

Speaker 7 (02:18:42):
Yeah, it's the seven o'clock games not starting until seven fifteen. Yeah,
that is true, all right, that's the airing of grievances.
Any uh, any on the textan line you got that
pulled up on the We got a couple. We got
our guy Cole from Riverton. Oh hey, Jordan from Riverton.
Maybe maybe you know Cole good I scream maybe grievance
against b y u a p voters and of course Jeorts.

(02:19:04):
He he always has a grievance against Jearts, So thank you, Cole.
And he he hates b yu so we appreciate your
goal on that shout out grievance. The NFL Draft is awesome.
Grievance against Jordan and I in the NFL Draft is awesome.
The NFL combine is beyond overrated. Okay, we all agree
on that it's the spelling bee for adults, get ready

(02:19:24):
to fall, to fail to perform under pressure.

Speaker 4 (02:19:28):
You know what's funny about the combine?

Speaker 3 (02:19:30):
Real quick? But to get that good wonder lick score.

Speaker 4 (02:19:32):
Yeah, not even You know a lot of the coaches
don't even go anymore, Like they're like they've realized this
is pretty much useless. It's Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:19:42):
Biggest scripe is MLB allowing teams to defer a huge
percentage of salaries.

Speaker 6 (02:19:48):
Yeah yeah, I'm like, oh, Tani six hundred eighty million
of his seven r million.

Speaker 3 (02:19:54):
Is deferred, give me a salary floor.

Speaker 6 (02:20:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:20:00):
Anyway, he goes into the details that we've that we've
heard a lot about the deferrals in Otani's contracts and
then he ends with that is ridiculous. Yeah, salary deferrals
in baseball, it's is it not enough to just not
have a salary cap?

Speaker 6 (02:20:17):
Why do we got to hide money like that? Push it,
stretch out money like that.

Speaker 4 (02:20:21):
Well, they're stretching it out because they want to sign
more guys.

Speaker 7 (02:20:24):
I understand the why it's an advantage. I just don't understand, Like,
don't you already have a huge advantage because there's no
salary cap?

Speaker 6 (02:20:31):
Why do you need more of an advantage?

Speaker 4 (02:20:32):
Why did the rich want to get Richard Jim to
be rich rich Man wants to be king.

Speaker 2 (02:20:40):
Force these MLB owners to spend a person a certain
percentage of the TV money and revenue that's coming into
each organization.

Speaker 4 (02:20:47):
Yeah, they should be forced to spend the revenue share
money they get, like the pirates. Should be forced to
spend it on the roster, no doubt about it. Go
straight into the payroll and not into the owner's pockets.
Oh all right, that's your a of grievances. Stick with
us because topical trivia is gonna come up next. We've
got two tickets to the Fierce Fighting Championship tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:21:07):
At the Salt Palace.

Speaker 2 (02:21:08):
It includes a seat at the VIP ring side table
and a fight con pass that all comes your way
next as we get you to topical trivia and send
it over to the drive with Spence checkets right here
on Utah's number one sports Dock ESPN seven hundred and
ninety two one f M.

Speaker 1 (02:21:32):
As you were listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from
the Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred and ninety
two to one, alf am.

Speaker 2 (02:21:42):
Getting ready to wrap things up, Gonna get you your
topical trivia question coming up here. Two tickets to Fierce
Fighting Championships tonight Salt Palliser on the line, So you
want to make sure you're tuned in. For those of
you that have been listening all afternoon long, we appreciate you.
My name's Bryce Larson, that's Jordan b and Aw. You
don't know the next time we'll stand in for anybody
over here. So if you want a journey with us,

(02:22:04):
over to one oh three nine and ninety eight three FM.
We're there every single weekday morning seven to ten am
doing the sports talk thing and Jordan Binucci it's it's
been fun to co host The Sean O'Connell Show with
you this week.

Speaker 4 (02:22:17):
It has been fun. We've burned some bridges, so I
don't know when we'll be back, but no, we'll be
se Sean has a lot going on. Hopefully we'll be back.
Hopefully we will Holly, Yeah, a lot of PFL stuff.

Speaker 7 (02:22:27):
Allow me to say this, I'll put on my PD
hat over my Boston Red Sox hat here all rip
to the season.

Speaker 6 (02:22:34):
Anyway. I really appreciate you guys.

Speaker 7 (02:22:38):
OC's and Scott have both had different reasons for being gone,
and Scott, as our listeners know, is the guy that's
become kind of the regular fill in. So I appreciate
you guys. Been at a couple of these last couple
of weeks, a little short notice asking you guys, you've
done a fantastic job. I hope that our listeners would agree.
We have gotten some good feedback from some, if not

(02:23:00):
all of them. We haven't heard from all of them,
so that's why I say from some, yeah, let us know.
I appreciate it, but just really appreciate you guys. It's
been a it's been a lot of fun doing the
show with you guys. With this big glass wall in
between us. I feel I don't feel like this wall
is here. I feel like, no, guys, you guys, uh,

(02:23:24):
you guys came up big and in a big spot
for us here on the station, and I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:23:29):
Hey, we appreciate the opportunity. Hey, Jordan, Now let's talk
some topical trivia, shall we?

Speaker 4 (02:23:33):
All Right? You ready for your your You want to
say what the winner gets?

Speaker 2 (02:23:38):
Yes, two tickets to the Fierce Fighting Championships tonight the
Salt Palace. It includes V I P seats that are
ring side and a fight con pass. So it's it's
a pretty good package you're going to pull in here
if you win this topical trivia, which is Jordan b
and Ucci all right.

Speaker 4 (02:23:56):
We talked earlier about Billy Joel getting banned from by
It was like seventies eighties somewhere around there. He got
banned because he played this one song and said before
the song, He's like, I just want you all to
know there are basically other options out there. B Yu
had had enough, No more rock and roll, there will
be no more fun of any guy. What song did

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he play? After saying that? What song did Billy Joel
play after that? Which song did Billy Joel play got
him booted? They got him booted from by allegedly.

Speaker 2 (02:24:27):
Allegedly all right, final thoughts, final things, even a final grievance,
anything that is out there still left to be said
on a Friday edition of the program.

Speaker 4 (02:24:42):
I mean, I normally I'd be like, oh, I'm glad
there's not a baseball game tonight because you got b
YU West Virginia will be locked in on that. But
that game's gonna suck. So I'm kind of mad that
there's not a base baseball game. He got other options
the Friday night culturalball game tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:24:58):
I want you to know there's other options. You're gonna
let me pull it up real quick for you.

Speaker 2 (02:25:03):
There are other options in terms of Friday night football
across football. I don't think it's Power five football power
for football, so options that like, yeah, the options that
you would be into it. Oh, I'm I'm totally all
in on it. Western Kentucky and Delaware. Oh, great Charlotte
in South Florida, New Mexico and San Jose State and

(02:25:24):
Ney Montalolo, Colorado State and San Diego State. That's your
Friday night football across college.

Speaker 4 (02:25:30):
Football decent Mountain West matchups. Yeah, that's okay, It's okay.
I just you know, when you join the Big Twelve,
is BYU or Jack as you tag, I'm hoping for
better game. Look, and I'm not like I know BYU
fans like it is great, we're gonna blow them out. Well,
I'm a football fan. I want to see a good game. Yeah,
so hopefully it's you know.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
Here's a couple of things to keep an eye out,
at least to keep track of as we go throughout
this game tonight. For BYU, I want to know how
many times Spare Bachmeyer makes a check at the line
of scrimmage after the fifteen seconds is up, which means
the headsets turned off. Yeah, he's doing it the true
freshman quarterback. Is it Aaron Roderick that's telling him to
make a check at the line before fifteen seconds is
up in the headset? Or is it after the fifteen seconds?

(02:26:11):
That's what I'll be looking at tonight, all right, as
you're in multitasking, that's right. Well, we got soccer tonight. Yeah,
I got you've used soccer on ESPN Plus, So I'm
going to record it and then watch it okay, Yeah,
I can't call it soccer and watch football at the
same time.

Speaker 3 (02:26:25):
That'd be impressive.

Speaker 7 (02:26:28):
And Jordan is committed to watch it for you live
and text you.

Speaker 3 (02:26:32):
Yeah, he's right, he did it. Mark it down every
once in a while.

Speaker 7 (02:26:34):
You ever did it at the nine to thirty seven
mark in the second quarter, I.

Speaker 4 (02:26:38):
May get distracted pretty quick, I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 (02:26:41):
All right, Well, we appreciate you guys for tuning in
here on the Sean O'Connell Show. Myself, Bryce Larson, that's
Jordan Bianucci. You could join us over on ESPN the
Fan all next week from seven to ten am and
for ourselves, for our friend sewn Sean O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (02:26:57):
Sean will be back on Monday.

Speaker 2 (02:26:59):
We appreciate you joining us here on the Sean O'Connell
Show on ESPN seven hundred and ninety two to one FM.