January 21, 2026 • 18 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the NFC Championship between L.A. and Seattle this weekend, the hype for the game there, former USC quarterback Sam Darnold, Indiana’s title win, and the Big 10.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nap that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one.
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An accident, call Sweet James right away at eight hundred,
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sweet to you, but tough on insurance companies that will
bully you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Peer's, Dave's softy Muller.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
All right, most the girls, here we go in a
busy Wednesday afternoon right here on ninety three to three
kJ ARFM. Kevin Harlan, who's calling the game on Sunday
for Westwood One. He'll join us at four o'clock this afternoon.
But right now, what is our pleasure? It is our honor?
Hashtag blessed does the kids like to say to bring
in one of the let's face it most sought after
sports talk radio guests the industry has to offer. We
(00:56):
are damn lucky, damn lucky to have this guy on
the air with us every single Wednesday. The Prince of Pigskin,
the Pride of Southern California, USC football legend, one half
of the fabled Petros and Money Show in Southern California.
One damn fine Greek American father of the Year, husband
of the Month, and.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My friend Petros Papadocus brought to you.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Bye, Sweet James, the dense beard of Justice, a lawyer
that can come through for you. You know, if you've
ever been in a car accident or a motorcycle accident.
Three James has the ancient secrets in which to extract
the money you are owed prom your insurance company to
(01:42):
have you have sweet games to call at eight hundred
and nine million, then nine zero zero zero zero zero zero.
How are you man?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're ready for Sunday Rams Seahawks Part three. Here we go,
La versus Seattle, Softy versus Petros.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Let's get it on.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, the Rams don't like me. Kelly Stafford has
attacked me a couple times on Twitter, and Jason Whitworth's
wife has gone after me a few times over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What is Kelly Stafford's problem with you?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think because I called him Matt Stafford instead of Matthews,
you got mad? Come on something like that. Yeah, No,
she was very fiery, So I'm not really a member
of the Ramilly It's not that I'm rooting against him.
I'm rooting for Sam Darnold. And I'm sorry about Charbonay,
(02:40):
just to show you that I have a heart and
I know what's going on with your football team. But
beyond that, I don't really think of it as Petros
versus SOFTI like two Monday night football helmets balking each
other and exploding.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, I'm trying to get myself even more fired up
for this game. So if I need to think of
it as Petros versus Softy, La versus Seattle, That's what
I'm gonna do. Damn it, but it does. It doesn't
sound like I don't know, man, you tell me. I mean,
I know that Charger fans maybe are not as into
them as RAM fans are into the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But how how big a deal is this in La?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean compared to like the Dodgers World Series run,
Lakers NBA Finals? Are people losing their collective minds down
there the way they are up here?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, No, Kyle Tucker signing with the Dodgers and having
his press conference today, it's probably a bigger story social
media wise, and overall. Wow, But the fan bases then
than the Rams. Not to say, look, the Rams have
a healthy ish fan base for being new to LA
(03:52):
because they left and remember they left in the eighties
when they went down to Anaheim, not the nineties when
they went to Saint Louis. A lot of people were
really upset just when they went to Orange County and
wrote them off as a non LA team. So they
What I will say is to your question or the
(04:14):
way it was framed, the Rams have a modest fan
base in town, and it's twenty times better than the Chargers.
Were bigger than the Chargers. But they're obviously quite good,
and they've been great all year, and they're really really
well coached. And there's that one thing that they do
that they did with Todd really and they're able to
(04:37):
do it now with the two backs they have Kyron
and Korum that they just run a beautiful stretch zone.
That outside zone play that they run that Todd Gurley
was so great at m They can coach the hell
out of that. For whatever reason, they have such a
(04:57):
great and they run an inside zone too, but that
outside zone is the basis I know. Matt Stafford throws
no look passes, and Kuka Nakou is a great player,
but that zone is the basis to what they do
in their entire offense, and it's a great thing, and
you see them get away from it or have gotten
away from it laid in some of these games. And
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mcveigh's made some bone head decisions which he has admitted
that they were stupid. But I think that's kind of
what happens when you have a play call and head coach,
and he can get a little cute with stuff trying
to score as opposed to a head coach saying just
run the freaking ball. But I like the Seahawks. I
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love Sam Darnold having success. I want to see him
play in the Super Bowl. I think that would be
awesome and great for everybody to Seattle to get the
whole Pete Carroll era over with as far as memories
of winning, and bring it into the future. So I'm
not rooting for the Rams at all, and I don't
(06:03):
care at all, and most people in LA don't care either.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Good I hope the Rams feel the exact same way
where they come to town.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But Petros is with us and dude you mentioned McVeigh there, right,
So I love this coaching matchup just from like a
hardcore slabeign all over yourself, staying up all hours of
the night perusing the internet looking for stacks this coaching
matchup of McVeigh versus McDonald, because you've said before you
(06:34):
don't like the idea of an offensive minded coach play
caller in college football.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It doesn't work. Last guy to what a title I.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Think was what Jimbo with A and M back in
the day, right, But it works in the NFL. So
I'm curious why it works in the NFL. And I'm
curious from a football hardcore dork perspective, who would.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You rather have in this game?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The genius on offense or the genius on defense in McDonald?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well give him that mcveaz won a Super Bowl and
has figured out how to get out of his own
way enough to establish that great run game over the years.
I would say he's the more proven entity. Yeah right,
And they have the more they have, the more proven
quarterback and head coach, So you'd have to say that
(07:23):
the Rams have the advantage. I don't really know. It's
the NFL. All of these games are fly by the
seed of the pan by the skinnier teeth type of games.
So I don't really know how it's going to go.
But I'm totally rooting for the Seahawks. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I love it, Ram, I love it well, Sam Darnold,
you mentioned him.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You've known him, I think since his high school days.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Right, Definitely USC downs for sure, and there's the biggest
game of his life. I mean, you know, we'd been
talking about this all months that there's just people that
are waiting for this guy to fall flat on his
ass and wondering if it's gonna happen this Sunday against
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So I mean, tell us about him.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You you probably know I'm a little bit better than
I do from his days as a trojan man. How
do you how do you think he's approaching Sunday's game?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, do you know about his famous grandfather?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Remind me, wasn't he in the movies or something?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
His grandfather was a famous Orange County, Southern California athlete
and was the Marlborough Man.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And his name is dick Hammer. It was You're wrong,
He's dick Hammer's grandson. Okay, his mom is dick Hammer's daughter. Okay,
(08:51):
his father and mother I believe have a volleyball background, okay,
or water polo or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So dick Hammer's grandson help him on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, dick Hammer is obviously an animal. He he's the
freaking Barbero man, and he played at ben Clementy High School,
which is the last town in Orange County before Camp
Pendleton on the five and on the other side of
(09:25):
Camp Pendleton is San Diego, so it's it's the last
town in Orange County. San clement is a very insulated town.
Their football team's motto is one Town, one Team, and
Darnald is a blockheaded white young man from that background.
(09:45):
Sant Clementy is immortalized in the great movie Brick. Okay,
that's about It's all about sant Clementy High School, but
it's set like a noir movie. It's very cool with
Joseph Gordon Levitt. I suggest everybody watch it to get
to the Sam Darnold better. But when he came to
(10:08):
at Sea, he was just dazzling and practice, doing crazy stuff,
jumping up, throwing the ball, very accurate, big and strong
and fast and really fun to watch, and a great
kid and a great teammate. I think this is his
fifth NFL team. Are you waiting right?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Are you waiting for me to confirm that? Yes, well,
Minnesota start with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Hey, the Jets, the forty Minnesota, Carolina, Seattle.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I believe those are the five.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah. I mean that's pretty crazy. So I'm rooting for him.
I hope he does a great job. Now, football is
very circumstantial, and Josh Allen is getting h lamb basted
and his coach got fired because of a controversial call.
And if that guy calls it the other way, then
(11:05):
then the whole regime of people get to stay another
year in Buffalo and eat hot sauce with wings. But
it's uh, it's it's gonna be a nutcutter, I'm sure, softy,
So hang on to your ball.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Sack no big time on Sunday. But he's got the
oblique thing he's dealing with. You may have heard about that.
You know, he's not McDonald came out today and said
he's not gonna make every throw in practice. They're gonna
back off a little bit and give him a little rest.
So I don't know, if you're a Seahawks fan, which
sounds like for this game you are because you don't
care about the Rams. How concerned should we be about
(11:40):
obleaque Gate for slinging Sammy dick Hammer's grandson.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I say, I say, shoot him out, Yeah, shoot me
up man? Yeah, No, I mean I'm not. I mean, look,
you're either playing really well and you have a great
chance to win, or you're playing really well and you'll
end up losing, or you're playing terribly and you blow
it for your team. Like, I don't think he's gonna
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be I don't think he's gonna go out there at Lana. Yeah,
but I have no idea what's gonna happen, Softy. So
you asking me, he's not going to bring you any
closer to the day.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
All right, Well then we'll just skip all those questions.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You want to see the movie, Brient, I do, now
that I've talked about, I.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Do, and I and I knew that the marlbor Man
was his grandfather. I had forgotten about that. I knew
his granddad was some famous guy. For whatever reason, I
thought he was an actor, but it turns out he
was a commercial guy. But I I do want to
get your thoughts before we get out of here. How
about Indiana. Man, Holy cow, Kurt Signetti. Let me let
(12:41):
me guess you don't give a damn about that either.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right, No, I do care about that. I loved I
loved every minute of it. I love what it'd be.
And it did in an era of college football where
almost every conversation starts negatively and have terrible this is
and how terrible that is, and want to struggle the
portal and the nil and coaches being hired and fired
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and all of these different injustices that the sport has
and incongruities. The best story maybe in the history of
the sport happened because of this era, and it's Kurt
Signetti and it's Indiana. I used to again think that
ninety five Northwestern just going to the Rose Bowl was
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the most impressive thing I'd ever seen in college football history.
And this Trump's that for sure, really really special thing
to watch. And that just the way that they physically
tried to destroy people, and just the way that they
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would add to every phase, dominate a game offensively, defensively,
with special teams. You get after that quarterback and he
finds a way to be special it's it's really the
thing of legends. Now. I don't think it would have
been possible if Indiana didn't have the money to back
it up when they realized they had something good going
(14:11):
with pursing Matty. Indiana is not broke, and so obviously
that's a good thing. But I mean, we're talking about
one of the most forgotten, most downtrodden college programs at
a big school in history, and to have them go
undefeated in a time where Steve Sarkisian says it's virtually impossible.
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So they have them go undefeated and control games and
then not have any five star recruits on the roster
while they're doing it, yep, and have a Heisman winner
and really just leave no doubt as to who the
best team is and what the best conference is. Is
pretty satisfying. And all those guys on ESPN had to
(14:52):
eat it like they're eating the ass of a goat.
They had to eat it. They all picked by a
mean as if they liked, if they like Miami. They
started talking about how much well, you know, really, Miami's
like an FCC school, that's really what they are. And
you know where you know, this is perfect Miami's gonna
win this. Only McAfee, who lives in Indiana picked Indiana.
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The rest of those Jibralis freaking picked Miami because ESPN
cans it out of their own way and can't tell
their elbow from their ass. I mean, how would anybody
have thought that Indiana wasn't gonna win that game? I mean,
I was surprised that Miami had the chance that they had.
They did a good job getting after Mendoza and hit
them a little bit, and if it wasn't for that
(15:37):
heroic run that he had, the stat line for him
in the game would have probably been a little bit
scene is a little bit pedestrian. But I love that
ESPN had to eat it, eat it like a goats
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You know what, anytime ESPN has to eat it like
a goat's ass, I think we're always thrilled by that.
But I think, I think, I think they see the
end of the SEC's domination.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I mean, this is three in a row for the
Big Ten, and I don't know, dude, I'm not saying that,
you know, the South is completely broke, but they are
compared to the Big Ten and the and the and
the schools and the Big ten, the schools on the
wet West coast, and even Saban said that that you know,
there's there's money in that conference that they just don't
have in the SEC. I mean, is this the is
this the beginning of the end of the SEC dominance
(16:26):
as we know it?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah? I think maybe you could probably have said that
a couple of years ago, right with Harbaugh and Michigan.
And I mean, how really, how good really are these
SEC teams? I mean, why did we think Alabama was good?
Probably because Herb Street just wouldn't shut up about it,
right like that, That's the point it's at now. It's like, well,
(16:50):
wait a minute, you own this conference. This is the
conference that you're most affiliated with. Yeah, and these are
the people you push constantly for the playoffs, and you know,
the gauntlet of the SEC is unlike anything anybody could
sat him. Well, you can't say that anymore, so then
what is it? Right? And I mean they look stupid.
(17:12):
They're not gonna stop gap flanning everybody, but they do
look pretty ridiculous. And I am here, as the kids say,
I am totally here for it.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
All right, Well, before you go, who do you like
to win the Seahawks Ram game.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh you don't give a damn that's right, never mind,
let me.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stay it again. Yeah, I like the Seahawks, and I
hope that the Rams lose because I don't care about
the Rams. But if I was man, I might go
with the old rama Lama ding bunks.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
All right, Yeah, good to know, good to know? All right, Well,
good stuff, We'll see what happens. Hopefully Dick Hammer's grandson
will pull through and give us a big performance on Sunday.
You know where that strained obleak walk out there like
Willis Reid in the finals and just put this team
on his back and carry him to a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Man, would be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The story for Sam to come from where he was
and the Vikings sitting there staring at Seattle going what
the hell have we done? Letting this guy go having
to watch him in the super Bowl would be terrible
for them. But we'll see what happens on Sunday. Man,
great stuff, excellent analysis on the game, and we'll see
what happens and talk next week.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, thank you, Softy, I appreciate it, and they have
a great night. Good luck to the city of Seattle.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Petrus Papadokus with us, We're gonna break Kevin hard nothing.
Kevin Harlan's gonna join at five on ninety three to
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It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nap that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one.
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An accident, call Sweet James right away at eight hundred,
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bully you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Don't know.
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Now with Petros, Peer's, Dave's softy Muller.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
All right, most the girls, here we go in a
busy Wednesday afternoon right here on ninety three to three
kJ ARFM. Kevin Harlan, who's calling the game on Sunday
for Westwood One. He'll join us at four o'clock this afternoon.
But right now, what is our pleasure? It is our honor?
Hashtag blessed does the kids like to say to bring
in one of the let's face it most sought after
sports talk radio guests the industry has to offer. We
(00:56):
are damn lucky, damn lucky to have this guy on
the air with us every single Wednesday. The Prince of Pigskin,
the Pride of Southern California, USC football legend, one half
of the fabled Petros and Money Show in Southern California.
One damn fine Greek American father of the Year, husband
of the Month, and.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My friend Petros Papadocus brought to you.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Bye, Sweet James, the dense beard of Justice, a lawyer
that can come through for you. You know, if you've
ever been in a car accident or a motorcycle accident.
Three James has the ancient secrets in which to extract
the money you are owed prom your insurance company to
(01:42):
have you have sweet games to call at eight hundred
and nine million, then nine zero zero zero zero zero zero.
How are you man?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're ready for Sunday Rams Seahawks Part three. Here we go,
La versus Seattle, Softy versus Petros.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Let's get it on.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, the Rams don't like me. Kelly Stafford has
attacked me a couple times on Twitter, and Jason Whitworth's
wife has gone after me a few times over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What is Kelly Stafford's problem with you?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think because I called him Matt Stafford instead of Matthews,
you got mad? Come on something like that. Yeah, No,
she was very fiery, So I'm not really a member
of the Ramilly It's not that I'm rooting against him.
I'm rooting for Sam Darnold. And I'm sorry about Charbonay,
(02:40):
just to show you that I have a heart and
I know what's going on with your football team. But
beyond that, I don't really think of it as Petros
versus SOFTI like two Monday night football helmets balking each
other and exploding.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, I'm trying to get myself even more fired up
for this game. So if I need to think of
it as Petros versus Softy, La versus Seattle, That's what
I'm gonna do. Damn it, but it does. It doesn't
sound like I don't know, man, you tell me. I mean,
I know that Charger fans maybe are not as into
them as RAM fans are into the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But how how big a deal is this in La?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean compared to like the Dodgers World Series run,
Lakers NBA Finals? Are people losing their collective minds down
there the way they are up here?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, No, Kyle Tucker signing with the Dodgers and having
his press conference today, it's probably a bigger story social
media wise, and overall. Wow, But the fan bases then
than the Rams. Not to say, look, the Rams have
a healthy ish fan base for being new to LA
(03:52):
because they left and remember they left in the eighties
when they went down to Anaheim, not the nineties when
they went to Saint Louis. A lot of people were
really upset just when they went to Orange County and
wrote them off as a non LA team. So they
What I will say is to your question or the
(04:14):
way it was framed, the Rams have a modest fan
base in town, and it's twenty times better than the Chargers.
Were bigger than the Chargers. But they're obviously quite good,
and they've been great all year, and they're really really
well coached. And there's that one thing that they do
that they did with Todd really and they're able to
(04:37):
do it now with the two backs they have Kyron
and Korum that they just run a beautiful stretch zone.
That outside zone play that they run that Todd Gurley
was so great at m They can coach the hell
out of that. For whatever reason, they have such a
(04:57):
great and they run an inside zone too, but that
outside zone is the basis I know. Matt Stafford throws
no look passes, and Kuka Nakou is a great player,
but that zone is the basis to what they do
in their entire offense, and it's a great thing, and
you see them get away from it or have gotten
away from it laid in some of these games. And
(05:19):
mcveigh's made some bone head decisions which he has admitted
that they were stupid. But I think that's kind of
what happens when you have a play call and head coach,
and he can get a little cute with stuff trying
to score as opposed to a head coach saying just
run the freaking ball. But I like the Seahawks. I
(05:43):
love Sam Darnold having success. I want to see him
play in the Super Bowl. I think that would be
awesome and great for everybody to Seattle to get the
whole Pete Carroll era over with as far as memories
of winning, and bring it into the future. So I'm
not rooting for the Rams at all, and I don't
(06:03):
care at all, and most people in LA don't care either.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Good I hope the Rams feel the exact same way
where they come to town.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But Petros is with us and dude you mentioned McVeigh there, right,
So I love this coaching matchup just from like a
hardcore slabeign all over yourself, staying up all hours of
the night perusing the internet looking for stacks this coaching
matchup of McVeigh versus McDonald, because you've said before you
(06:34):
don't like the idea of an offensive minded coach play
caller in college football.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It doesn't work. Last guy to what a title I.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Think was what Jimbo with A and M back in
the day, right, But it works in the NFL. So
I'm curious why it works in the NFL. And I'm
curious from a football hardcore dork perspective, who would.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You rather have in this game?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The genius on offense or the genius on defense in McDonald?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well give him that mcveaz won a Super Bowl and
has figured out how to get out of his own
way enough to establish that great run game over the years.
I would say he's the more proven entity. Yeah right,
And they have the more they have, the more proven
quarterback and head coach, So you'd have to say that
(07:23):
the Rams have the advantage. I don't really know. It's
the NFL. All of these games are fly by the
seed of the pan by the skinnier teeth type of games.
So I don't really know how it's going to go.
But I'm totally rooting for the Seahawks. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I love it, Ram, I love it well, Sam Darnold,
you mentioned him.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You've known him, I think since his high school days.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Right, Definitely USC downs for sure, and there's the biggest
game of his life. I mean, you know, we'd been
talking about this all months that there's just people that
are waiting for this guy to fall flat on his
ass and wondering if it's gonna happen this Sunday against
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So I mean, tell us about him.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You you probably know I'm a little bit better than
I do from his days as a trojan man. How
do you how do you think he's approaching Sunday's game?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, do you know about his famous grandfather?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Remind me, wasn't he in the movies or something?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
His grandfather was a famous Orange County, Southern California athlete
and was the Marlborough Man.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And his name is dick Hammer. It was You're wrong,
He's dick Hammer's grandson. Okay, his mom is dick Hammer's daughter. Okay,
(08:51):
his father and mother I believe have a volleyball background, okay,
or water polo or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So dick Hammer's grandson help him on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, dick Hammer is obviously an animal. He he's the
freaking Barbero man, and he played at ben Clementy High School,
which is the last town in Orange County before Camp
Pendleton on the five and on the other side of
(09:25):
Camp Pendleton is San Diego, so it's it's the last
town in Orange County. San clement is a very insulated town.
Their football team's motto is one Town, one Team, and
Darnald is a blockheaded white young man from that background.
(09:45):
Sant Clementy is immortalized in the great movie Brick. Okay,
that's about It's all about sant Clementy High School, but
it's set like a noir movie. It's very cool with
Joseph Gordon Levitt. I suggest everybody watch it to get
to the Sam Darnold better. But when he came to
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at Sea, he was just dazzling and practice, doing crazy stuff,
jumping up, throwing the ball, very accurate, big and strong
and fast and really fun to watch, and a great
kid and a great teammate. I think this is his
fifth NFL team. Are you waiting right?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Are you waiting for me to confirm that? Yes, well,
Minnesota start with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Hey, the Jets, the forty Minnesota, Carolina, Seattle.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I believe those are the five.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah. I mean that's pretty crazy. So I'm rooting for him.
I hope he does a great job. Now, football is
very circumstantial, and Josh Allen is getting h lamb basted
and his coach got fired because of a controversial call.
And if that guy calls it the other way, then
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then the whole regime of people get to stay another
year in Buffalo and eat hot sauce with wings. But
it's uh, it's it's gonna be a nutcutter, I'm sure, softy,
So hang on to your ball.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Sack no big time on Sunday. But he's got the
oblique thing he's dealing with. You may have heard about that.
You know, he's not McDonald came out today and said
he's not gonna make every throw in practice. They're gonna
back off a little bit and give him a little rest.
So I don't know, if you're a Seahawks fan, which
sounds like for this game you are because you don't
care about the Rams. How concerned should we be about
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obleaque Gate for slinging Sammy dick Hammer's grandson.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I say, I say, shoot him out, Yeah, shoot me
up man? Yeah, No, I mean I'm not. I mean, look,
you're either playing really well and you have a great
chance to win, or you're playing really well and you'll
end up losing, or you're playing terribly and you blow
it for your team. Like, I don't think he's gonna
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be I don't think he's gonna go out there at Lana. Yeah,
but I have no idea what's gonna happen, Softy. So
you asking me, he's not going to bring you any
closer to the day.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
All right, Well then we'll just skip all those questions.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You want to see the movie, Brient, I do, now
that I've talked about, I.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Do, and I and I knew that the marlbor Man
was his grandfather. I had forgotten about that. I knew
his granddad was some famous guy. For whatever reason, I
thought he was an actor, but it turns out he
was a commercial guy. But I I do want to
get your thoughts before we get out of here. How
about Indiana. Man, Holy cow, Kurt Signetti. Let me let
(12:41):
me guess you don't give a damn about that either.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right, No, I do care about that. I loved I
loved every minute of it. I love what it'd be.
And it did in an era of college football where
almost every conversation starts negatively and have terrible this is
and how terrible that is, and want to struggle the
portal and the nil and coaches being hired and fired
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and all of these different injustices that the sport has
and incongruities. The best story maybe in the history of
the sport happened because of this era, and it's Kurt
Signetti and it's Indiana. I used to again think that
ninety five Northwestern just going to the Rose Bowl was
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the most impressive thing I'd ever seen in college football history.
And this Trump's that for sure, really really special thing
to watch. And that just the way that they physically
tried to destroy people, and just the way that they
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would add to every phase, dominate a game offensively, defensively,
with special teams. You get after that quarterback and he
finds a way to be special it's it's really the
thing of legends. Now. I don't think it would have
been possible if Indiana didn't have the money to back
it up when they realized they had something good going
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with pursing Matty. Indiana is not broke, and so obviously
that's a good thing. But I mean, we're talking about
one of the most forgotten, most downtrodden college programs at
a big school in history, and to have them go
undefeated in a time where Steve Sarkisian says it's virtually impossible.
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So they have them go undefeated and control games and
then not have any five star recruits on the roster
while they're doing it, yep, and have a Heisman winner
and really just leave no doubt as to who the
best team is and what the best conference is. Is
pretty satisfying. And all those guys on ESPN had to
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eat it like they're eating the ass of a goat.
They had to eat it. They all picked by a
mean as if they liked, if they like Miami. They
started talking about how much well, you know, really, Miami's
like an FCC school, that's really what they are. And
you know where you know, this is perfect Miami's gonna
win this. Only McAfee, who lives in Indiana picked Indiana.
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The rest of those Jibralis freaking picked Miami because ESPN
cans it out of their own way and can't tell
their elbow from their ass. I mean, how would anybody
have thought that Indiana wasn't gonna win that game? I mean,
I was surprised that Miami had the chance that they had.
They did a good job getting after Mendoza and hit
them a little bit, and if it wasn't for that
(15:37):
heroic run that he had, the stat line for him
in the game would have probably been a little bit
scene is a little bit pedestrian. But I love that
ESPN had to eat it, eat it like a goats
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You know what, anytime ESPN has to eat it like
a goat's ass, I think we're always thrilled by that.
But I think, I think, I think they see the
end of the SEC's domination.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I mean, this is three in a row for the
Big Ten, and I don't know, dude, I'm not saying that,
you know, the South is completely broke, but they are
compared to the Big Ten and the and the and
the schools and the Big ten, the schools on the
wet West coast, and even Saban said that that you know,
there's there's money in that conference that they just don't
have in the SEC. I mean, is this the is
this the beginning of the end of the SEC dominance
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as we know it?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah? I think maybe you could probably have said that
a couple of years ago, right with Harbaugh and Michigan.
And I mean, how really, how good really are these
SEC teams? I mean, why did we think Alabama was good?
Probably because Herb Street just wouldn't shut up about it,
right like that, That's the point it's at now. It's like, well,
(16:50):
wait a minute, you own this conference. This is the
conference that you're most affiliated with. Yeah, and these are
the people you push constantly for the playoffs, and you know,
the gauntlet of the SEC is unlike anything anybody could
sat him. Well, you can't say that anymore, so then
what is it? Right? And I mean they look stupid.
(17:12):
They're not gonna stop gap flanning everybody, but they do
look pretty ridiculous. And I am here, as the kids say,
I am totally here for it.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
All right, Well, before you go, who do you like
to win the Seahawks Ram game.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh you don't give a damn that's right, never mind,
let me.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stay it again. Yeah, I like the Seahawks, and I
hope that the Rams lose because I don't care about
the Rams. But if I was man, I might go
with the old rama Lama ding bunks.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
All right, Yeah, good to know, good to know? All right, Well,
good stuff, We'll see what happens. Hopefully Dick Hammer's grandson
will pull through and give us a big performance on Sunday.
You know where that strained obleak walk out there like
Willis Reid in the finals and just put this team
on his back and carry him to a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Man, would be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The story for Sam to come from where he was
and the Vikings sitting there staring at Seattle going what
the hell have we done? Letting this guy go having
to watch him in the super Bowl would be terrible
for them. But we'll see what happens on Sunday. Man,
great stuff, excellent analysis on the game, and we'll see
what happens and talk next week.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, thank you, Softy, I appreciate it, and they have
a great night. Good luck to the city of Seattle.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Petrus Papadokus with us, We're gonna break Kevin hard nothing.
Kevin Harlan's gonna join at five on ninety three to
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