December 30, 2025 • 35 mins
RICK NEUHEISEL (CBS Sports) Coach Neuheisel has breaking news this morning! He’s a Coach again, taking over the head coaching duties of the Dallas Renegades of the UFL. The next round of the CFP starts on NYE and we get the breakdown of all the games from Coach. Can Washington fans finally believe that Jedd Fisch will stay at UW now that Michigan hired Kyle Wittingham? :30- The Ol Judge is here for one final courtroom visit in 2025! - Mike MacDonald might not win Coach of the Year, but he should definitely finish ahead of Kyle Shanahan. - The Indianapolis Colts will finish their season with Riley Leonard at QB- was the Phillip Rivers experiment good or bad for football? - Throwing your own house party is the only way to celebrate New Year’s Eve? - Brendan Donovan can help the Mariners in 2026, but the apparent asking price is so offensive, we won’t even consider it… :45- We wrap up the final show of 2025 with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to talk all things college football.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's just like the menu at Taco Time. You just
can't get enough. You just can't get This.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Is our weekly visit with Rick new Heisel, brought to
you buy Taco.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time, not those new Heidels used to be a moniker
of mine. I mean just sell you know.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Now on your home for college football Saturdays, here's Nacho's
new Heidel on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
R FM.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This is college football and I want you to get
it all over yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is he available or is he too busy?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh he's waiting for you.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Oh he's waiting. Yeah, he's there on joining us now
on the program. Our college football insider, who apparently moonlights
as the head coach of the Dallas Renegades, just announced
earlier this morning, Rick new Heel is with us here
on Chuck and but congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How about that for some news are always.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Breaking news these days?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I've played enough rounds of golf, so when this
operated opportunity came forward, it's too fun. And truthfully, guys,
it's it's almost more college football than what college football
is today because every kid on the team is going
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to make the same amount of money. They're all, you know,
trying to chase the brass ring of the NFL to
have that opportunity to play one more time. Most of
the guys that play in this league, that played in
the spring leagues that I played in back in the
old USFL and the one that I coached in the
Alliance of American Football, they all just want that one
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more chance to play a game that they love, that
they think that they can compete successfully in. And but
everybody's making the same amount of money and and is
happy to be there, happy to be there. So it's
kind of a little bit nostalgic to coach a bunch
of guys that are dying to prove themselves and dying
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to help each other, and all doing it for the
same amount, and no one's trying to break the bank here,
So UH kind of excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And personally, you just miss ball, don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I do. I It's footballs is a uh And I
think all competitive sports are a little bit of a drug,
right you You you're involved, and you don't get it
anywhere else. So I love putting teams together, creating a
culture of of uh, you know, one for all for
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one and and finding ways to celebrate victory and uh
fix defeat for the next matchup and see if you
can rise to the occasions. It's a wonderful, wonderful enterprise
and it's been great to me, and so to get
to do it that my age is really exciting.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
All right, So how much of your time is it
chew enough? I mean, is this in addition to CBS
college football.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The beautiful thing for me is that I give up
nothing other than a couple of rounds of golf. I am.
I'm going to still be with the CBS family. Is
that's in the fall. Uh. And I'm going to be
able to keep the radio gig for at least the
foreseeable future, and there'll be some days when I can't
do it, but I'm going to be able to keep
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my full ride program with Serious XM as well. So
I'm really excited about it. And we'll see if we
can create some Renegade fans.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, I'm already and I love that that that emblem
you guys have. And I told Chuck that I am
I am now officially Dallas Renegades fan.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think we all are we uh, I think actually
both of you will be asked to try out, uh
more than just fans. Yeah, you're you'll be asked to
come and participate in training camp begin by the way,
just so just so you know, just at the end
of there, of February, so be ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah out look, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That sounds like a lot of work, me running out
on the field to grab the kicking tee over and over.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'm not sure. I'm sure I'm your guy.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, congratulations if we're excited for you and certainly excited
that we can maintain the relationship while getting to talk
to the Dallas Renegades.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Head coach during the college football season.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
So yes, if you're just joining US coach new Eiel
just as he's a coach again, he's going to be
coaching the Dallas Renegades of the UFL for this upcoming
season and beyond, so very excited for you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know the quarterback that I had in the Alliance
of American Football, John Wolford. Yeah, it was a Wake
Forest player, right, and I've seen him play in a
bowl game. And all a sudden I get this call
and from Bill Pollyan asking about whether or not I
want to coach in this deal, and I said, sure,
it sounds like fun. It doesn't interfere, and it's something
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that it sounds like a blast. So I enjoyed it demensally.
But I got this Wolford to be on my team,
right and he's still playing. He's made thirty million dollars
plus by coming back and playing. He was on Wall
Street when we drafted him. He had taken a job
on Wall Street and he came back and we put
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together an offense and he made it click. And he's
made more than thirty million dollars in the NFL since
that time. So those are the kind of stories that
you love. But even those guys that that was their
last year had a memorable experience, and that's that's the
goal here.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, And didn't you win that title down in Arizona?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Ended up we were we were in first place in
our half of the division. Steve Spurrier's team was in
first place. They were seven and one in Orlando. We
were five and three in Arizona. But I Steve called
and you know, named himself off the champion of the league.
And I said, Steve, you realize that the winner of
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your league and the winner of our league we're going
to play each other in the championship, and since that's
no longer possible, the fact that we did play each
other and it was the hot Shots that were victorious,
I think makes us the champion. And so there there's
still that that rub, that rub, but the ball coach
and I will will find a way to find a
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conclusion of that somewhere else down the line.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Why is that story just totally on brand for Steve Spurrier.
I'm just gonna go ahead and claim this for myself.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Totally claimed it, totally claimed. And I said, well, that's
so fast, my friend. I pulled up my number two
pencil and Lee corsoed him.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, all right, Well, let's talk a little college football,
because we got some big games starting tomorrow with the
Miami versus Ohio State. I mean, this is what we
did it for, right, to be able to create this
kind of drama right around the New Year's holiday. And
here we got four games over the course of the
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next couple of days, and it starts with the Hurricanes
and the Buckeyes. Hurricanes obviously coming in as a major underdog.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What would they have to do to shock the world.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
They can't beat themselves. I mean, Carson Beck has six
ten interceptions on the season. Six of them were in
their two losses, four against Louisville and two against SMU.
So they just have to play within themselves in play
as they did against Texas A and M winning that
game ten to three. I think this game is going
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to be low scoring. I think this is going to
be kind of a don't make the big mistake, not
that Ohio State has had a lot of big mistakes.
So it's up to Miami's defense to prove worthy that
they can corral Carnel Tate and JJ Smith. And if
they can do that, then this will be a four
quarter game. And I really am looking at as you
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look at the lines in these games, I'm really kind
of looking at the under in this game as being
maybe the best bet. It's only forty and a half points,
but I think it's probably going to be less than that.
And it'll be fascinating to see now that Ryan Day's
calling the plays for Ohio State as Brian Hartline as
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a new job. He's the head coach at South Florida,
so rather than put it all on him as Texas
A and M did to their offensive coordinator who'd just
gotten the job, Colin Kline had just gotten a job
at Kansas State. Ryan Day's going to call it, but
I think it's going to be a conservative plan on
both sides, not wanting to have anything bad happen. So
look for a low scoring game in this one.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Okay, how about the Oregon Texas Tech game. It's first
one that comes up on New Year's Day. I mean
Oregon coming in obviously, the five seed versus Texas Tech.
I've hearing a lot about Texas Texas defense being legit.
I mean, is it enough to slow down Oregon? And
how about on the other.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Side, So again, this whole tournament, the eight teams left
are all giant defensive teams, with maybe the exception of
Ole Miss. But this is a defensive game. And if
Oregon can't run the ball. If Oregon struggles to run
the ball, then I like the Red Raiders in this game.
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This is a great matchup of two teams that have
kind of built themselves. They weren't necessarily born into blue
blood status, but it built themselves into blue blood status
by virtue of putting incredible finances into their programs. And
these two fan bases are going to have a blast.
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If I had one game to go to, this would
be the one I'd go to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
By the way, was that an old school plug into
the wall, got a cord on it. Kind of phone,
you know, with like the lights that light up at
the bottom and the red hole button.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean, did I hear that in the background that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm in a hotel in New York City getting ready
for the Sun Bowl tomorrow? And that was an old
hotel phone. Yeah, that we don't have those anymore, but
that's what you just heard exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
It was like hearing a bronosaurus roar.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
After we get off the phone, I've got to do
a zoom call with all the new folks that in
the UFL, so they're all making sure that I'm available, okay,
And I said, I have a huge priority out there
in Seattle with Chuck and Bucking, so I'll get to
you when I get to you.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It's not like a stegosaurus growling in the background. It's
been so long since I've heard a phone like that.
All right, let's talk about Alabama versus Indiana. Man, this
just a wild carpet ride that the Hoosiers are on
right now. I don't want to see it crash and
burn here in this round against Alabama, But it feels
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like the tie have got a little bit of momentum going,
what are you expecting in this matchup?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I gotta like Indiana. There's no reason not to. They're authentic. Now.
They lost a big timer on the defensive front who
got hurt in the celebration unfortunately after the Big Ten
Championship game, but I think they're formidable enough to keep
Alabama at bay running the ball. Alabama was fourteenth of
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the sixteen teams in the SEC and rutting, so I
don't see it as a huge hurdle for them to
keep the running game down. And if they can have
a running game themselves and control the clock, then I
think they put enormous pressure on Tysimpson. It's not supposed
to be a very nice day at the Rose Bowl.
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Is supposed to be rain, so if you're having to
throw the ball and it's wet, I just don't know
that it's the perfect combination for Alabama. So I'm going
to lean on in and maybe I'm just you know,
just because of this magic carpet, right, I keep saying,
do you imagine a guy in an Indiana fan years
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ago that basically was out taking out the trash, sees
this old lamp, rubs it and al suden a genie
comes out and says, okay, you've got three wishes for
your Indiana Hoosiers. Says okay, I'll let's get us in
the college football playoff for the next couple of years.
How about a Heisman Trophy? Oh yeah, take us to
the Rose Bull and we'll play Alabama. That all happened, Yeah,
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that all has come true. That is an incredible, incredible undertaking.
As a matter of fact, we had as I did
the radio this morning, we had confirmation that ADULTA flight
leaving Indianapolis to LA had gone up to three thousand
dollars offering people to get off the plane because they'd
overbooked it and no one was leaving. No one would
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take the money not to get on that plane because
they wanted to beat I am sure they're in Pasadena
for this ball game. Incredible story of Indiana football.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean, what is it if you just I
mean looking at it the way that you can look
at it as with your experience and now with your.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Analyst hat on.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
What is it that he does there that has them
to where it feels magical. I mean you'll see it
every once in a while across sports where it's just like,
that's that team's year, and he's built this up to
where now all of a sudden, it doesn't feel like
this is Cinderella and the slippers going to fall off.
It feels more like this team's legit. I mean, is
there anything in particular that you recognize that you're like,
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that's why.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The quarterback is mobile enough to make plays off schedule.
We saw that against Penn State. The running game has
been consistent. The two running backs will both be NFL guys.
The offense and defensive lines have been built with great evaluation,
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meaning that they're the real deal. The guy who played
center for Notre Dame in the championship game last year
is their center, kid by the name of Pat Coogan.
So they've got guys. They've got guys, and they've got
experienced guys. It's a very old team. When you talk about,
you know, college basketball, we get to the tournament, everybody
says how old they are, and how old matters when
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you're in those kind of situations. This is an older team,
a very very cerebral team. Mendoza's very very bright guy.
He was going to Yale before cal uh plucked him
out of South Florida and then obviously Indiana took him
and his brother. So this is a this is a
well constructed team, disciplined team, and uh, you know, give
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Signetti all the props. He's he's done a white whale
of a job in knowing what they do well, knowing
how to offset their deficiencies if there are any, maybe
potentially a speed deal, but when you look at their
secondary those guys are going to be in a well too.
So it's uh, it's been well constructed.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
What would make uh Lane Kiffin happier that ole miss
keeps winning or that old miss loses because whatever makes
him unhappy, I'm for that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Did you see the latest Kiffin video? Well, wouldn't pay
the ten cents for the plastic bag. Oh, he was
shopping and he and he took the shopping cart home
because they wanted to charge him ten cents for the
plastic bag. Put the groceres in. So he took the
little you know, carry by handle grocery cart. They brought
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it home with them, and I'm saying the guy just
made ninety one million. I think he can afford the
plastic sack. But I think Lane probably let's give him
the credit. Let's let's let's say he loves those guys
and wants him to win. So then that means you're
pulling for Joy Go Dogs. Yeah, I think it's It's
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a fascinating game. I think this might be the if
you like offense, this will be the most entertaining game
and I'm anxious to see it. But I'm pulling for
Trinidad Chambliss. I think that's a great story from Farris
State to Ole Miss and to be at this stage,
I love getting more and more notoriety for D two football.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All Right, last thing, football wise for you.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
With Kyle Whittingham taking the job at Michigan, does that
mean that a Husky fan can finally accept that Jedfish
is going to be here next year? Or is the
carousel still spinning and you never know where it's.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Going to stop.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well, unfortunately, it spins, and the NFL is also a
desire for folks, so we just have to wait through that.
But I'm going to give you a huge, huge, ninety
nine point nine percent that you're going to have jed
right where he is positioned there in Seattle, and you
should be happy to have that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, very good?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
All right, do you have your quarterback yet with the
Dallas Renegades or are you shopping for that?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So here's how this all works. By January fifth, I've
got to give them a list of five guys, and
I've got to get from the list of which from
where I get to choose right and everybody, all the
other coaches will do the same thing. Then we're going
to draft over the next two months by position, so
it kind of will snake. If I've got the first
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pick for the running back, then I would have The
next time i'd pick would be the sixteenth pick. So
if you had eight pick, you to get eight and nine.
So the running backs. Then we'll do linebackers, and then
we'll do offensive line and on and on the coast.
So it's going to be really fun to plunge into
all that and I can't wait get some guys around
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me and see if we can't build ourselves a championship
football team in the metroplex of Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, I think Dallas awaits you hold you up any longer.
Thank you very much, very happy for you and very
also happy that you won't be leaving us, so it
all works out well.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Get rid of me that easy, all right, You can't
get rid of me that easy. Enjoy that we can.
Happy New Year to everybody and should be a whale
of a ride here as we crown a national championship
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That'll be awesome. Thanks coach, See you guys.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thank Rick new Isle joining us right here on checking
back in the morning. If you are just joining us
just now and just heard the goodbye and you're wondering
what the hell's going on. He took the ad coaching
position in the UFL for the Dallas Renegade. So when
Rick new Eil was in that flirtation with Washington State,
he was very serious about becoming a football coach again.
He didn't get the opportunity with the Koogs, but the
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opportunity arose in the UFL and.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He jumped on it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
And as he said at the start of our interview,
it's pretty much the light coaching college kids. That's the
age of the players, and they all have the same
goal trying to get to the nametional football League. So
I want to be a part of that process, teaching
and helping kids reach their dreams. And so excellent for him,
very happy and we're very happy for him. And it
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will not affect his role at CBS Sports as a
college football insider or with us here at KJR.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And that's great news too.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
All right, Coming up next, Old Judge will stop by
one more time in twenty twenty five Sports Radio ninety
three point three khr FM.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You earned it.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Twenty twenty six going out with a bank or twenty
five going out with a bag?
Speaker 7 (19:31):
How can I throw these fools off?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You did it and just it in perfect timing too.
He was like right out there right away.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Yeah, I was getting ready to do what I normally do,
like come on, actually get up, and you were already up.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He was, Oh yeah, he was up for it. The
Judge happy work. All right, This is the Old Judge works.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Basically, I'm going to bring up a few different topics
Ashley and I will discuss them. We don't have to
agree or disagree, doesn't really matter. We'll discuss them. And
once the old I just heard enough, He bangs his gabble,
he weighs in, and then whatever Bucky says goes.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's the best part. I don't know that. All right,
let's do it. We'll start with this one.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Mike McDonald might not win Coach of the Year, but
he should finish ahead of Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
I really love Mike McDonald and what he's done has
been really incredible. But what Kyle Shanahan has done with
the amount of injuries that they've had, and not even
just injuring injuries. I mean Brandon Ayuk isn't injured, he
just didn't come to work.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, just like I'm done. Thanks for the money.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yeah, So for them to even be in the same
position as the Seahawks with a chance to hold that
number one seed in the NFC, I would have to
give the edge to Shanahan.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think I would too.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And I love Mike McDonald man, what a great hire,
and I think he's going to be phenomenal for years
to come. And I think we're beating him on Saturday.
But in terms of who just worked magic this year,
I go at him. And yet most national people believe
that it's going to Mike Rabel or Liam Khan of
the Jaguars, and neither are really being strongly considered Gavel, Gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I need a little bit more evidence here. Does this win?
Does the voting for this take place at the end
of the regular season?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A regular season?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
I would say if if you're comparing those two that
whoever wins it, whoever gets the number one seed, should
get it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh wow, because I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I mean, yeah, I think there's more Shanahan has done
more with when it comes to overcoming injuries. I mean,
you lose your quarterback, that's a doozy, and figuring out
a way to get Mac Jones, who you know, really
wasn't all that good when he was in New England,
figuring out a way to get him, and yet that's
kind of par for the course. And yet I think
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at times that ends up getting overlooked or overshadowed and whatnot.
That said, I mean, it's whichever one of these teams
to me, if they end up coming out of this
thing on top getting that number one seed, that's the
one I'd give the odd too out of the two.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, fair way to look at it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Next one, the eliminated Colts are starting Riley Leonard at
quarterback in their season finale was the Rivers experiment as
a football fan a positive or negative experience.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Positive, I think, I mean they needed a quarterback.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
They obviously didn't have any confidence in their two that
they had, and one was dealing with injury. I think
to bring back Philip Rivers it was a feel good story.
You have a guy that I think annoyed a lot
of people, and now people have come to have a
new respect for and I mean you're seeing him miked
up all the time and everybody's loving all the things
he says and the way he does it.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So I think it was good.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm with you one thousand percent on your one
hundred percent, because I mean they went on and three.
They didn't win a game. He didn't He didn't come
back and look like old Philip Rivers. He certainly looked older,
but he didn't embarrass himself either. It gave us a
tremendous talking point. He was there to try to save
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their season, not make their season, and I don't think
it was gonna happen with whoever they put at starting quarterbacks.
So I think it was great for Gavel Gavel Gavel.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yes, it was a positive experience.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I mean, you're right, he didn't win any games, but
he was trying to, you know, plug the hole in
a sinking ship. I mean, they we had already been
going backwards a little bit. They played tough teams in Seattle,
San Francisco and Jacksonville own teams that are vying for
number one spots in their respective conferences.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think it was the right move.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I think that it's also the right move that they're
gonna give Riley Leonard the shot in this final one,
like all right, let's see what you got, kid, because
I think Daniel Jones, if they do bring him back,
he's the guy that they're going to rely on. He
was the one that kind of carried the torch and
got him off to such a good hot start before
he got hurt. And yet, so I think it's the
move all the way around. You brought somebody in that
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you knew understood how to play the position, even if
his body wasn't capable of doing it the way that
he once did. And now it's time, all right, thanks
for doing that. And you know he looks at it
as I got three bonus games in my career, and
you know, now he'll get to go right off into
the sunset for a second time, and I guess he's saying,
that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
And he had his whole team at the last game,
which I thought was really cute. They were all in
the stands and his whole family takes up one suite
and that was cute.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And so he has to wait five more years to
get into the Hall of He'll be fine, They'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He's still going to get there.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
The best way to bring in the New Year is
throwing your own house party with.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Friends, correct correctly way we do it, although we used
to do it at our house and then we go
to another friend's house. But yes, it's sweats and Pj's
bottles of champagne New Year's on television. Kids are happy,
parents are happy, everyone's home and safe.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I used to feel this way.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I've gone a few of these, and I used to
feel the exact same way.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And then there was one year.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I'm just like, man, I threw this so I didn't
have to drive. But now either everybody else has to
have a designated driver or you know, or I got
to worry about them. Did they have too much? So
now I'm wondering, and I've never tried this before, Like
a staycation with a couple. Wonder if that would be fun.
(25:20):
That'd be fun, Yeah, Cable, I wouldn't want to do
it with just another couple. To me, that would be
I mean, I guess if I have some good friends
and it would be enjoyable. But I like having more
people to mingle with.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I think that it seems like the best is your
own house party, because yes, you don't have to drive,
but you got to clean up and you got to
set up. The best is what we did last year
and we're doing it again this year. Go into a
neighbor's house that is crawling distance from your own.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Home or a golf cart distance.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
That's what we do. That's why we're Yeah, I think
you're right. Yeah, I think that's just meander over. Yes,
I might take the tractor, load the family up on
the tractor, drive down the road a little bit. They
can carry a lot of beer and other things.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Then I don't have to clean up the mess from fireworks,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And yet it's it's good.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
This is a good one where there's a lot of
kids there, it's a lot of jiu jitsu people, so
you feel really safe.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Okay, nobody's gonna beat you out. There was a lot
of competitions you could get beat up, right. It's it's
a very dangerous place, but very safe.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Like if some random person tries to crash that party, right,
they are choked out.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, and yet.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So I feel very safe and at the same time,
I have to guard my neck the entire time. Sure,
get choked out, but the kids all have a good
time together. It's it's a fun party. And yeah, I
can just watermelon crawl home if I want.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
See that's what we used to do, but yeah, now
we do. It's golf cart distance. So the Edelman's host
and we just go there.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Edelman's Julian Edelman. There was a good party.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Now you don't have to worry about the you know,
somebody puking in your bathroom, and you don't have to
worry about the guy like I probably need to stay.
Do you have a place I can crash? Right, Yeah,
you don't have to worry about that. Yeah, you're right,
Good job, judge, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Next one, final one, squeeze a baseball one in before
the end of the year. Brendan Donovan could help the
Mariners in twenty twenty six, but the reported asking price
is so offensive.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't want him.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Even if the MS get him at an eventual good price.
I'm too offended to want him.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Now, what's the current asking price? I saw something with
sur Angelo, said Jay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right, yeah, well part of it, I guess.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I don't want to trade since j at all. I
want to be able to see.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Him actually come into the major leagues with the Mariners
and do stuff for the Maritors. I mean, how many
people have a pitcher that can throw with both arms
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Come on, I'll trade him, buddy, I'm trading him for
somebody better than Brendan Donnov.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh yeah, I fear if we have Brendan Donovan and
I think he'd be an asset to the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm going to hold it against him the whole time
he's here. How much they've apparently thought he was worth. Yeah, Gavel, Gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I would trade for him for him, even if it
was Jurangelo Sinjay right now, I don't know why I'm
not a giant not to say that he won't turn
out to be anything. We don't know if he'll turn
out to be good at the big league level. Sinjay
is what we were talking about, Whereas Donovan is a
now and a piece that will help you right now,
and it's right now time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
When or if CINJ will be a factor in this team,
for this team in the future. You figure that he will.
Typically first round pitchers do and he does throw with
both arms, and it's kind of a cool, novelty thing.
And now I just don't know for sure. So to me,
I'd go ahead and I'd make that move if that's
what it took to get him, was to give up
a guy that you think maybe will go on and
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be something crazy special like we've never seen before. I'll
do that because right now I don't know if that's
truly gonna come to fruition for him, and I do
know that you need some upgrades, and Donovan would do that.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I just fear that spring spraying and we're going to
interview him, and I'm going to say you weren't worth
nearly as much as what Cardinal fans thought you are.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
That's what I'm afraid you're going to say too. But
at the same time, I'd kind of enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I will allow him to git you with my gavel
if that happened out one last thing to close out
the year.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KRFM, All.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Right, final segment of the show, Final segment for the
year that feels weird.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
We will be doing a show Friday, Football Friday, but
we're going to be off the next couple of days,
so enjoy all the bowl games in the college football
Playoff and all that stuff, and of course New Years
we'll be back with a football Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And go really really hard on.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Seahawks forty nine ers for four straight hours on a
football Friday. So we close out the calendar year with
one last thing. Bucky, what's the one last thing he
got on your mind for twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, maybe I shouldn't end my final twenty twenty five
one last thing by throwing shade. Maybe that should be
my New Year's resolution. But I'm not going to make
that my New Year's resolution because I think some people
need to hear this. So I was I don't know
who shared. It might have been Luke Arkins, but it
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might have been somebody else too. So if it was you, Luke,
thanks If it was somebody else, thank.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You, whoever you are.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It was Albert Pools or not Albert Pools. It was
Julio Rodriguez's birthday, so some folks were sharing where he
stands in his first four seasons as a Big leaguer
as far as his war goes. Albert Pools is number
one on that list with twenty nine and then there's
a lot of really good names each Eobian one of them.
My Trout is number two on that list. Barry Bonds
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is in that list. Julio Rodriguez is tied for eleventh
with a guy named Henry Aaron Wow, and Alex Bregnan. Hank.
A lot of people call him Hank Aaron. Yeah, he
was really good back in the day, if you know that.
But I just thought maybe it's a I don't know,
maybe it's a stat that if you thought that he
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should have been demoted at any point during last season,
that maybe you should just shut up and not talk
about it because you obviously don't know what you're talking
about now.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
If that, if that fits you, if you were one
of the people send him down he's trash, well you're
an idiot. Well then you're an idiot and you should
just not just just leave it out of your your conversations,
you know, just don't don't bring it up. It just
this is this is a stat that just shows he's
probably pretty good, considering he's near the top.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Ten all time in his first four years and he
hasn't even really reached what he's No.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I mean, all you gotta do is just have a
full season, yep, and who knows what he could do.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And I think I say this every year, so you know,
take it for what it's worth. This is the this
is the here. Yeah, you'll put it all together. Yeah, boy,
I would like to see that.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
He might say, he show, Hey, I can't pitch, but
I'll go fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Ashley, what's your one last thing?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I think we need to revisit the idea of Super
Bowls being able to be played at any place despite
the weather, because the entire football season is played in
whatever weather is out there, right, the playoffs are all
played in whatever weather the host city is dealing with.
And I think it's a little ridiculous that then we
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take the final game and.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
We're like, oh, we don't want weather to be a
factor in this.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's too precious.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
No, it's football. So I would like.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
I would like to say that. Plus, you know you
had it. They had it in Dallas and it was
like all icy and frozen and people died.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
They hadn't in Atlanta and now they have a dome,
but the game wasn't affected. But yeah, that was unbelievable.
You couldn't get around anything, yea.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
And here, I mean, all we deal with really usually
is rain.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
So I just think you're saying we'd like to super
Bowl giving so and.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I think I think it would be nice to give
us a chance.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
We never have terrible weather here, very rarely, very rarely,
So it could be pulled off, no question, it could
be pulled off.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And look, I don't know. I don't think super Bowl
is ever going to come around to it.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
But I will say that I do believe college football
has got the right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Of it right now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
They're wanting more of the home games, like the NFL
does this. Why do we always have to go to
cushy Bowl games? Yeah, bull sites, the home game atmosphere.
Did you see that atmosphere for Oklahoma and Alabama? Yes,
Oh my gosh, I mean it was jumping through the television.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
And I've never seen four guys on game day who
have been around a lot of football in their lives
and a lot of experiences, they were dumbfounded. They could
not believe the energy and the electricity of that stadium
before that game against Alabama.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's just the first round.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's magical.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, all right, I'm here close with this.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I didn't have time for this and beat Bucky or
see me, old judge. So it's too bad that he
had to leave the courtroom and he put his gavel
away and everything else. So it's it's a shame. I
really would have liked to very him to weigh in
on this.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh wait, there is Look he's coming back in.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
No, no, no, he's gone. He put the gavel away
and I can see that. So anyway, I wanted just
one more because I ran out of time. After three
titles in six years. Is it safe to call Chuck
Pall's kJ R fantasy team a dynasty?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
No, I think it is. You're joining us. It was
a good show till now.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
The titles.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
It's just yeah, dynasty, Right, dynasty was like you squeaked
in with an eight and nine record and somehow found
your way to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, because it's his run defense.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Ye defense all year long.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You can't you cannot come now a.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Thing, yeah thing in fantasy football, but you somehow found
a way.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
He did shut down everyone's run games.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, you couldn't run on me.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I couldn't hear gives of Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I couldn't run on anybody.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Run defense always. The key to winning your fantasy is
clearly trust me. All right, we'll talk to you on Friday,
Mark James and Christopher Kidneck Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is he available or is he too busy?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh he's waiting for you.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Oh he's waiting. Yeah, he's there on joining us now
on the program. Our college football insider, who apparently moonlights
as the head coach of the Dallas Renegades, just announced
earlier this morning, Rick new Heel is with us here
on Chuck and but congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How about that for some news are always.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Breaking news these days?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I've played enough rounds of golf, so when this
operated opportunity came forward, it's too fun. And truthfully, guys,
it's it's almost more college football than what college football
is today because every kid on the team is going
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to make the same amount of money. They're all, you know,
trying to chase the brass ring of the NFL to
have that opportunity to play one more time. Most of
the guys that play in this league, that played in
the spring leagues that I played in back in the
old USFL and the one that I coached in the
Alliance of American Football, they all just want that one
(01:39):
more chance to play a game that they love, that
they think that they can compete successfully in. And but
everybody's making the same amount of money and and is
happy to be there, happy to be there. So it's
kind of a little bit nostalgic to coach a bunch
of guys that are dying to prove themselves and dying
(02:00):
to help each other, and all doing it for the
same amount, and no one's trying to break the bank here,
So UH kind of excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And personally, you just miss ball, don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I do. I It's footballs is a uh And I
think all competitive sports are a little bit of a drug,
right you You you're involved, and you don't get it
anywhere else. So I love putting teams together, creating a
culture of of uh, you know, one for all for
(02:33):
one and and finding ways to celebrate victory and uh
fix defeat for the next matchup and see if you
can rise to the occasions. It's a wonderful, wonderful enterprise
and it's been great to me, and so to get
to do it that my age is really exciting.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
All right, So how much of your time is it
chew enough? I mean, is this in addition to CBS
college football.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The beautiful thing for me is that I give up
nothing other than a couple of rounds of golf. I am.
I'm going to still be with the CBS family. Is
that's in the fall. Uh. And I'm going to be
able to keep the radio gig for at least the
foreseeable future, and there'll be some days when I can't
do it, but I'm going to be able to keep
(03:21):
my full ride program with Serious XM as well. So
I'm really excited about it. And we'll see if we
can create some Renegade fans.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, I'm already and I love that that that emblem
you guys have. And I told Chuck that I am
I am now officially Dallas Renegades fan.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think we all are we uh, I think actually
both of you will be asked to try out, uh
more than just fans. Yeah, you're you'll be asked to
come and participate in training camp begin by the way,
just so just so you know, just at the end
of there, of February, so be ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah out look, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That sounds like a lot of work, me running out
on the field to grab the kicking tee over and over.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'm not sure. I'm sure I'm your guy.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, congratulations if we're excited for you and certainly excited
that we can maintain the relationship while getting to talk
to the Dallas Renegades.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Head coach during the college football season.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
So yes, if you're just joining US coach new Eiel
just as he's a coach again, he's going to be
coaching the Dallas Renegades of the UFL for this upcoming
season and beyond, so very excited for you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know the quarterback that I had in the Alliance
of American Football, John Wolford. Yeah, it was a Wake
Forest player, right, and I've seen him play in a
bowl game. And all a sudden I get this call
and from Bill Pollyan asking about whether or not I
want to coach in this deal, and I said, sure,
it sounds like fun. It doesn't interfere, and it's something
(04:59):
that it sounds like a blast. So I enjoyed it demensally.
But I got this Wolford to be on my team,
right and he's still playing. He's made thirty million dollars
plus by coming back and playing. He was on Wall
Street when we drafted him. He had taken a job
on Wall Street and he came back and we put
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together an offense and he made it click. And he's
made more than thirty million dollars in the NFL since
that time. So those are the kind of stories that
you love. But even those guys that that was their
last year had a memorable experience, and that's that's the
goal here.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, And didn't you win that title down in Arizona?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Ended up we were we were in first place in
our half of the division. Steve Spurrier's team was in
first place. They were seven and one in Orlando. We
were five and three in Arizona. But I Steve called
and you know, named himself off the champion of the league.
And I said, Steve, you realize that the winner of
(06:05):
your league and the winner of our league we're going
to play each other in the championship, and since that's
no longer possible, the fact that we did play each
other and it was the hot Shots that were victorious,
I think makes us the champion. And so there there's
still that that rub, that rub, but the ball coach
and I will will find a way to find a
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conclusion of that somewhere else down the line.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Why is that story just totally on brand for Steve Spurrier.
I'm just gonna go ahead and claim this for myself.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Totally claimed it, totally claimed. And I said, well, that's
so fast, my friend. I pulled up my number two
pencil and Lee corsoed him.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, all right, Well, let's talk a little college football,
because we got some big games starting tomorrow with the
Miami versus Ohio State. I mean, this is what we
did it for, right, to be able to create this
kind of drama right around the New Year's holiday. And
here we got four games over the course of the
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next couple of days, and it starts with the Hurricanes
and the Buckeyes. Hurricanes obviously coming in as a major underdog.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What would they have to do to shock the world.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
They can't beat themselves. I mean, Carson Beck has six
ten interceptions on the season. Six of them were in
their two losses, four against Louisville and two against SMU.
So they just have to play within themselves in play
as they did against Texas A and M winning that
game ten to three. I think this game is going
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to be low scoring. I think this is going to
be kind of a don't make the big mistake, not
that Ohio State has had a lot of big mistakes.
So it's up to Miami's defense to prove worthy that
they can corral Carnel Tate and JJ Smith. And if
they can do that, then this will be a four
quarter game. And I really am looking at as you
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look at the lines in these games, I'm really kind
of looking at the under in this game as being
maybe the best bet. It's only forty and a half points,
but I think it's probably going to be less than that.
And it'll be fascinating to see now that Ryan Day's
calling the plays for Ohio State as Brian Hartline as
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a new job. He's the head coach at South Florida,
so rather than put it all on him as Texas
A and M did to their offensive coordinator who'd just
gotten the job, Colin Kline had just gotten a job
at Kansas State. Ryan Day's going to call it, but
I think it's going to be a conservative plan on
both sides, not wanting to have anything bad happen. So
look for a low scoring game in this one.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Okay, how about the Oregon Texas Tech game. It's first
one that comes up on New Year's Day. I mean
Oregon coming in obviously, the five seed versus Texas Tech.
I've hearing a lot about Texas Texas defense being legit.
I mean, is it enough to slow down Oregon? And
how about on the other.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Side, So again, this whole tournament, the eight teams left
are all giant defensive teams, with maybe the exception of
Ole Miss. But this is a defensive game. And if
Oregon can't run the ball. If Oregon struggles to run
the ball, then I like the Red Raiders in this game.
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This is a great matchup of two teams that have
kind of built themselves. They weren't necessarily born into blue
blood status, but it built themselves into blue blood status
by virtue of putting incredible finances into their programs. And
these two fan bases are going to have a blast.
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If I had one game to go to, this would
be the one I'd go to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
By the way, was that an old school plug into
the wall, got a cord on it. Kind of phone,
you know, with like the lights that light up at
the bottom and the red hole button.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean, did I hear that in the background that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm in a hotel in New York City getting ready
for the Sun Bowl tomorrow? And that was an old
hotel phone. Yeah, that we don't have those anymore, but
that's what you just heard exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
It was like hearing a bronosaurus roar.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
After we get off the phone, I've got to do
a zoom call with all the new folks that in
the UFL, so they're all making sure that I'm available, okay,
And I said, I have a huge priority out there
in Seattle with Chuck and Bucking, so I'll get to
you when I get to you.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It's not like a stegosaurus growling in the background. It's
been so long since I've heard a phone like that.
All right, let's talk about Alabama versus Indiana. Man, this
just a wild carpet ride that the Hoosiers are on
right now. I don't want to see it crash and
burn here in this round against Alabama, But it feels
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like the tie have got a little bit of momentum going,
what are you expecting in this matchup?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I gotta like Indiana. There's no reason not to. They're authentic. Now.
They lost a big timer on the defensive front who
got hurt in the celebration unfortunately after the Big Ten
Championship game, but I think they're formidable enough to keep
Alabama at bay running the ball. Alabama was fourteenth of
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the sixteen teams in the SEC and rutting, so I
don't see it as a huge hurdle for them to
keep the running game down. And if they can have
a running game themselves and control the clock, then I
think they put enormous pressure on Tysimpson. It's not supposed
to be a very nice day at the Rose Bowl.
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Is supposed to be rain, so if you're having to
throw the ball and it's wet, I just don't know
that it's the perfect combination for Alabama. So I'm going
to lean on in and maybe I'm just you know,
just because of this magic carpet, right, I keep saying,
do you imagine a guy in an Indiana fan years
(12:09):
ago that basically was out taking out the trash, sees
this old lamp, rubs it and al suden a genie
comes out and says, okay, you've got three wishes for
your Indiana Hoosiers. Says okay, I'll let's get us in
the college football playoff for the next couple of years.
How about a Heisman Trophy? Oh yeah, take us to
the Rose Bull and we'll play Alabama. That all happened, Yeah,
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that all has come true. That is an incredible, incredible undertaking.
As a matter of fact, we had as I did
the radio this morning, we had confirmation that ADULTA flight
leaving Indianapolis to LA had gone up to three thousand
dollars offering people to get off the plane because they'd
overbooked it and no one was leaving. No one would
(12:56):
take the money not to get on that plane because
they wanted to beat I am sure they're in Pasadena
for this ball game. Incredible story of Indiana football.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean, what is it if you just I
mean looking at it the way that you can look
at it as with your experience and now with your.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Analyst hat on.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
What is it that he does there that has them
to where it feels magical. I mean you'll see it
every once in a while across sports where it's just like,
that's that team's year, and he's built this up to
where now all of a sudden, it doesn't feel like
this is Cinderella and the slippers going to fall off.
It feels more like this team's legit. I mean, is
there anything in particular that you recognize that you're like,
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that's why.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The quarterback is mobile enough to make plays off schedule.
We saw that against Penn State. The running game has
been consistent. The two running backs will both be NFL guys.
The offense and defensive lines have been built with great evaluation,
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meaning that they're the real deal. The guy who played
center for Notre Dame in the championship game last year
is their center, kid by the name of Pat Coogan.
So they've got guys. They've got guys, and they've got
experienced guys. It's a very old team. When you talk about,
you know, college basketball, we get to the tournament, everybody
says how old they are, and how old matters when
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you're in those kind of situations. This is an older team,
a very very cerebral team. Mendoza's very very bright guy.
He was going to Yale before cal uh plucked him
out of South Florida and then obviously Indiana took him
and his brother. So this is a this is a
well constructed team, disciplined team, and uh, you know, give
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Signetti all the props. He's he's done a white whale
of a job in knowing what they do well, knowing
how to offset their deficiencies if there are any, maybe
potentially a speed deal, but when you look at their
secondary those guys are going to be in a well too.
So it's uh, it's been well constructed.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
What would make uh Lane Kiffin happier that ole miss
keeps winning or that old miss loses because whatever makes
him unhappy, I'm for that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Did you see the latest Kiffin video? Well, wouldn't pay
the ten cents for the plastic bag. Oh, he was
shopping and he and he took the shopping cart home
because they wanted to charge him ten cents for the
plastic bag. Put the groceres in. So he took the
little you know, carry by handle grocery cart. They brought
(15:36):
it home with them, and I'm saying the guy just
made ninety one million. I think he can afford the
plastic sack. But I think Lane probably let's give him
the credit. Let's let's let's say he loves those guys
and wants him to win. So then that means you're
pulling for Joy Go Dogs. Yeah, I think it's It's
(16:00):
a fascinating game. I think this might be the if
you like offense, this will be the most entertaining game
and I'm anxious to see it. But I'm pulling for
Trinidad Chambliss. I think that's a great story from Farris
State to Ole Miss and to be at this stage,
I love getting more and more notoriety for D two football.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All Right, last thing, football wise for you.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
With Kyle Whittingham taking the job at Michigan, does that
mean that a Husky fan can finally accept that Jedfish
is going to be here next year? Or is the
carousel still spinning and you never know where it's.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Going to stop.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well, unfortunately, it spins, and the NFL is also a
desire for folks, so we just have to wait through that.
But I'm going to give you a huge, huge, ninety
nine point nine percent that you're going to have jed
right where he is positioned there in Seattle, and you
should be happy to have that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, very good?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
All right, do you have your quarterback yet with the
Dallas Renegades or are you shopping for that?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So here's how this all works. By January fifth, I've
got to give them a list of five guys, and
I've got to get from the list of which from
where I get to choose right and everybody, all the
other coaches will do the same thing. Then we're going
to draft over the next two months by position, so
it kind of will snake. If I've got the first
(17:27):
pick for the running back, then I would have The
next time i'd pick would be the sixteenth pick. So
if you had eight pick, you to get eight and nine.
So the running backs. Then we'll do linebackers, and then
we'll do offensive line and on and on the coast.
So it's going to be really fun to plunge into
all that and I can't wait get some guys around
(17:50):
me and see if we can't build ourselves a championship
football team in the metroplex of Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, I think Dallas awaits you hold you up any longer.
Thank you very much, very happy for you and very
also happy that you won't be leaving us, so it
all works out well.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Get rid of me that easy, all right, You can't
get rid of me that easy. Enjoy that we can.
Happy New Year to everybody and should be a whale
of a ride here as we crown a national championship
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That'll be awesome. Thanks coach, See you guys.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thank Rick new Isle joining us right here on checking
back in the morning. If you are just joining us
just now and just heard the goodbye and you're wondering
what the hell's going on. He took the ad coaching
position in the UFL for the Dallas Renegade. So when
Rick new Eil was in that flirtation with Washington State,
he was very serious about becoming a football coach again.
He didn't get the opportunity with the Koogs, but the
(18:46):
opportunity arose in the UFL and.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He jumped on it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
And as he said at the start of our interview,
it's pretty much the light coaching college kids. That's the
age of the players, and they all have the same
goal trying to get to the nametional football League. So
I want to be a part of that process, teaching
and helping kids reach their dreams. And so excellent for him,
very happy and we're very happy for him. And it
(19:12):
will not affect his role at CBS Sports as a
college football insider or with us here at KJR.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And that's great news too.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
All right, Coming up next, Old Judge will stop by
one more time in twenty twenty five Sports Radio ninety
three point three khr FM.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You earned it.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Twenty twenty six going out with a bank or twenty
five going out with a bag?
Speaker 7 (19:31):
How can I throw these fools off?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You did it and just it in perfect timing too.
He was like right out there right away.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Yeah, I was getting ready to do what I normally do,
like come on, actually get up, and you were already up.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He was, Oh yeah, he was up for it. The
Judge happy work. All right, This is the Old Judge works.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Basically, I'm going to bring up a few different topics
Ashley and I will discuss them. We don't have to
agree or disagree, doesn't really matter. We'll discuss them. And
once the old I just heard enough, He bangs his gabble,
he weighs in, and then whatever Bucky says goes.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's the best part. I don't know that. All right,
let's do it. We'll start with this one.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Mike McDonald might not win Coach of the Year, but
he should finish ahead of Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
I really love Mike McDonald and what he's done has
been really incredible. But what Kyle Shanahan has done with
the amount of injuries that they've had, and not even
just injuring injuries. I mean Brandon Ayuk isn't injured, he
just didn't come to work.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, just like I'm done. Thanks for the money.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yeah, So for them to even be in the same
position as the Seahawks with a chance to hold that
number one seed in the NFC, I would have to
give the edge to Shanahan.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think I would too.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And I love Mike McDonald man, what a great hire,
and I think he's going to be phenomenal for years
to come. And I think we're beating him on Saturday.
But in terms of who just worked magic this year,
I go at him. And yet most national people believe
that it's going to Mike Rabel or Liam Khan of
the Jaguars, and neither are really being strongly considered Gavel, Gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I need a little bit more evidence here. Does this win?
Does the voting for this take place at the end
of the regular season?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A regular season?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
I would say if if you're comparing those two that
whoever wins it, whoever gets the number one seed, should
get it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh wow, because I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I mean, yeah, I think there's more Shanahan has done
more with when it comes to overcoming injuries. I mean,
you lose your quarterback, that's a doozy, and figuring out
a way to get Mac Jones, who you know, really
wasn't all that good when he was in New England,
figuring out a way to get him, and yet that's
kind of par for the course. And yet I think
(21:50):
at times that ends up getting overlooked or overshadowed and whatnot.
That said, I mean, it's whichever one of these teams
to me, if they end up coming out of this
thing on top getting that number one seed, that's the
one I'd give the odd too out of the two.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, fair way to look at it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Next one, the eliminated Colts are starting Riley Leonard at
quarterback in their season finale was the Rivers experiment as
a football fan a positive or negative experience.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Positive, I think, I mean they needed a quarterback.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
They obviously didn't have any confidence in their two that
they had, and one was dealing with injury. I think
to bring back Philip Rivers it was a feel good story.
You have a guy that I think annoyed a lot
of people, and now people have come to have a
new respect for and I mean you're seeing him miked
up all the time and everybody's loving all the things
he says and the way he does it.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So I think it was good.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm with you one thousand percent on your one
hundred percent, because I mean they went on and three.
They didn't win a game. He didn't He didn't come
back and look like old Philip Rivers. He certainly looked older,
but he didn't embarrass himself either. It gave us a
tremendous talking point. He was there to try to save
(23:06):
their season, not make their season, and I don't think
it was gonna happen with whoever they put at starting quarterbacks.
So I think it was great for Gavel Gavel Gavel.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yes, it was a positive experience.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I mean, you're right, he didn't win any games, but
he was trying to, you know, plug the hole in
a sinking ship. I mean, they we had already been
going backwards a little bit. They played tough teams in Seattle,
San Francisco and Jacksonville own teams that are vying for
number one spots in their respective conferences.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think it was the right move.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I think that it's also the right move that they're
gonna give Riley Leonard the shot in this final one,
like all right, let's see what you got, kid, because
I think Daniel Jones, if they do bring him back,
he's the guy that they're going to rely on. He
was the one that kind of carried the torch and
got him off to such a good hot start before
he got hurt. And yet, so I think it's the
move all the way around. You brought somebody in that
(24:01):
you knew understood how to play the position, even if
his body wasn't capable of doing it the way that
he once did. And now it's time, all right, thanks
for doing that. And you know he looks at it
as I got three bonus games in my career, and
you know, now he'll get to go right off into
the sunset for a second time, and I guess he's saying,
that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
And he had his whole team at the last game,
which I thought was really cute. They were all in
the stands and his whole family takes up one suite
and that was cute.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And so he has to wait five more years to
get into the Hall of He'll be fine, They'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He's still going to get there.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
The best way to bring in the New Year is
throwing your own house party with.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Friends, correct correctly way we do it, although we used
to do it at our house and then we go
to another friend's house. But yes, it's sweats and Pj's
bottles of champagne New Year's on television. Kids are happy,
parents are happy, everyone's home and safe.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I used to feel this way.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I've gone a few of these, and I used to
feel the exact same way.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And then there was one year.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I'm just like, man, I threw this so I didn't
have to drive. But now either everybody else has to
have a designated driver or you know, or I got
to worry about them. Did they have too much? So
now I'm wondering, and I've never tried this before, Like
a staycation with a couple. Wonder if that would be fun.
(25:20):
That'd be fun, Yeah, Cable, I wouldn't want to do
it with just another couple. To me, that would be
I mean, I guess if I have some good friends
and it would be enjoyable. But I like having more
people to mingle with.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I think that it seems like the best is your
own house party, because yes, you don't have to drive,
but you got to clean up and you got to
set up. The best is what we did last year
and we're doing it again this year. Go into a
neighbor's house that is crawling distance from your own.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Home or a golf cart distance.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
That's what we do. That's why we're Yeah, I think
you're right. Yeah, I think that's just meander over. Yes,
I might take the tractor, load the family up on
the tractor, drive down the road a little bit. They
can carry a lot of beer and other things.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Then I don't have to clean up the mess from fireworks,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And yet it's it's good.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
This is a good one where there's a lot of
kids there, it's a lot of jiu jitsu people, so
you feel really safe.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Okay, nobody's gonna beat you out. There was a lot
of competitions you could get beat up, right. It's it's
a very dangerous place, but very safe.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Like if some random person tries to crash that party, right,
they are choked out.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, and yet.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
So I feel very safe and at the same time,
I have to guard my neck the entire time. Sure,
get choked out, but the kids all have a good
time together. It's it's a fun party. And yeah, I
can just watermelon crawl home if I want.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
See that's what we used to do, but yeah, now
we do. It's golf cart distance. So the Edelman's host
and we just go there.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Edelman's Julian Edelman. There was a good party.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Now you don't have to worry about the you know,
somebody puking in your bathroom, and you don't have to
worry about the guy like I probably need to stay.
Do you have a place I can crash? Right, Yeah,
you don't have to worry about that. Yeah, you're right,
Good job, judge, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Next one, final one, squeeze a baseball one in before
the end of the year. Brendan Donovan could help the
Mariners in twenty twenty six, but the reported asking price
is so offensive.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't want him.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Even if the MS get him at an eventual good price.
I'm too offended to want him.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Now, what's the current asking price? I saw something with
sur Angelo, said Jay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right, yeah, well part of it, I guess.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I don't want to trade since j at all. I
want to be able to see.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Him actually come into the major leagues with the Mariners
and do stuff for the Maritors. I mean, how many
people have a pitcher that can throw with both arms
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Come on, I'll trade him, buddy, I'm trading him for
somebody better than Brendan Donnov.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh yeah, I fear if we have Brendan Donovan and
I think he'd be an asset to the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I'm going to hold it against him the whole time
he's here. How much they've apparently thought he was worth. Yeah, Gavel, Gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I would trade for him for him, even if it
was Jurangelo Sinjay right now, I don't know why I'm
not a giant not to say that he won't turn
out to be anything. We don't know if he'll turn
out to be good at the big league level. Sinjay
is what we were talking about, Whereas Donovan is a
now and a piece that will help you right now,
and it's right now time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
When or if CINJ will be a factor in this team,
for this team in the future. You figure that he will.
Typically first round pitchers do and he does throw with
both arms, and it's kind of a cool, novelty thing.
And now I just don't know for sure. So to me,
I'd go ahead and I'd make that move if that's
what it took to get him, was to give up
a guy that you think maybe will go on and
(28:41):
be something crazy special like we've never seen before. I'll
do that because right now I don't know if that's
truly gonna come to fruition for him, and I do
know that you need some upgrades, and Donovan would do that.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I just fear that spring spraying and we're going to
interview him, and I'm going to say you weren't worth
nearly as much as what Cardinal fans thought you are.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
That's what I'm afraid you're going to say too. But
at the same time, I'd kind of enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I will allow him to git you with my gavel
if that happened out one last thing to close out
the year.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KRFM, All.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Right, final segment of the show, Final segment for the
year that feels weird.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
We will be doing a show Friday, Football Friday, but
we're going to be off the next couple of days,
so enjoy all the bowl games in the college football
Playoff and all that stuff, and of course New Years
we'll be back with a football Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And go really really hard on.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Seahawks forty nine ers for four straight hours on a
football Friday. So we close out the calendar year with
one last thing. Bucky, what's the one last thing he
got on your mind for twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, maybe I shouldn't end my final twenty twenty five
one last thing by throwing shade. Maybe that should be
my New Year's resolution. But I'm not going to make
that my New Year's resolution because I think some people
need to hear this. So I was I don't know
who shared. It might have been Luke Arkins, but it
(30:12):
might have been somebody else too. So if it was you, Luke,
thanks If it was somebody else, thank.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You, whoever you are.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It was Albert Pools or not Albert Pools. It was
Julio Rodriguez's birthday, so some folks were sharing where he
stands in his first four seasons as a Big leaguer
as far as his war goes. Albert Pools is number
one on that list with twenty nine and then there's
a lot of really good names each Eobian one of them.
My Trout is number two on that list. Barry Bonds
(30:40):
is in that list. Julio Rodriguez is tied for eleventh
with a guy named Henry Aaron Wow, and Alex Bregnan. Hank.
A lot of people call him Hank Aaron. Yeah, he
was really good back in the day, if you know that.
But I just thought maybe it's a I don't know,
maybe it's a stat that if you thought that he
(31:01):
should have been demoted at any point during last season,
that maybe you should just shut up and not talk
about it because you obviously don't know what you're talking
about now.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
If that, if that fits you, if you were one
of the people send him down he's trash, well you're
an idiot. Well then you're an idiot and you should
just not just just leave it out of your your conversations,
you know, just don't don't bring it up. It just
this is this is a stat that just shows he's
probably pretty good, considering he's near the top.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Ten all time in his first four years and he
hasn't even really reached what he's No.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I mean, all you gotta do is just have a
full season, yep, and who knows what he could do.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And I think I say this every year, so you know,
take it for what it's worth. This is the this
is the here. Yeah, you'll put it all together. Yeah, boy,
I would like to see that.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
He might say, he show, Hey, I can't pitch, but
I'll go fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Ashley, what's your one last thing?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I think we need to revisit the idea of Super
Bowls being able to be played at any place despite
the weather, because the entire football season is played in
whatever weather is out there, right, the playoffs are all
played in whatever weather the host city is dealing with.
And I think it's a little ridiculous that then we
(32:23):
take the final game and.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
We're like, oh, we don't want weather to be a
factor in this.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's too precious.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
No, it's football. So I would like.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
I would like to say that. Plus, you know you
had it. They had it in Dallas and it was
like all icy and frozen and people died.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
They hadn't in Atlanta and now they have a dome,
but the game wasn't affected. But yeah, that was unbelievable.
You couldn't get around anything, yea.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
And here, I mean, all we deal with really usually
is rain.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
So I just think you're saying we'd like to super
Bowl giving so and.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I think I think it would be nice to give
us a chance.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
We never have terrible weather here, very rarely, very rarely,
So it could be pulled off, no question, it could
be pulled off.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And look, I don't know. I don't think super Bowl
is ever going to come around to it.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
But I will say that I do believe college football
has got the right.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Of it right now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
They're wanting more of the home games, like the NFL
does this. Why do we always have to go to
cushy Bowl games? Yeah, bull sites, the home game atmosphere.
Did you see that atmosphere for Oklahoma and Alabama? Yes,
Oh my gosh, I mean it was jumping through the television.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
And I've never seen four guys on game day who
have been around a lot of football in their lives
and a lot of experiences, they were dumbfounded. They could
not believe the energy and the electricity of that stadium
before that game against Alabama.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's just the first round.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's magical.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, all right, I'm here close with this.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I didn't have time for this and beat Bucky or
see me, old judge. So it's too bad that he
had to leave the courtroom and he put his gavel
away and everything else. So it's it's a shame. I
really would have liked to very him to weigh in
on this.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh wait, there is Look he's coming back in.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
No, no, no, he's gone. He put the gavel away
and I can see that. So anyway, I wanted just
one more because I ran out of time. After three
titles in six years. Is it safe to call Chuck
Pall's kJ R fantasy team a dynasty?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
No, I think it is. You're joining us. It was
a good show till now.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
The titles.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
It's just yeah, dynasty, Right, dynasty was like you squeaked
in with an eight and nine record and somehow found
your way to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, because it's his run defense.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Ye defense all year long.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You can't you cannot come now a.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Thing, yeah thing in fantasy football, but you somehow found
a way.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
He did shut down everyone's run games.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, you couldn't run on me.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I couldn't hear gives of Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I couldn't run on anybody.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Run defense always. The key to winning your fantasy is
clearly trust me. All right, we'll talk to you on Friday,
Mark James and Christopher Kidneck Sports Radio ninety three point
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