September 10, 2025 • 33 mins
This week on the Daly Dose, we preview the Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford fight and make our prediction for what to expect, and the NBA is looking into a violation that quite frankly makes no sense.
Then, we dive into the first week of the NFL season and examine some of the overreactions that we are already hearing!
Are the Buffalo Bills the top Super Bowl contender? Are the Kansas City Chiefs in trouble? Are the San Francisco 49ers actually back? We take a look at these scenarios and more!
College football saw a mostly boring week of games, but there were a few blowout games that actually caused us some concern!
Finally, does an early loss in college football doom your season? Our Daly Dose Top 5 counts down five times that a team lost a big early season game but still rallied to win a title!
Then, we dive into the first week of the NFL season and examine some of the overreactions that we are already hearing!
Are the Buffalo Bills the top Super Bowl contender? Are the Kansas City Chiefs in trouble? Are the San Francisco 49ers actually back? We take a look at these scenarios and more!
College football saw a mostly boring week of games, but there were a few blowout games that actually caused us some concern!
Finally, does an early loss in college football doom your season? Our Daly Dose Top 5 counts down five times that a team lost a big early season game but still rallied to win a title!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Wednesday, September tenth, twenty twenty five, you are listening to
the Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host,
Clinton Daily, coming to you from my high seed here
in Denver, Colorado, and we are back for another week
of talking sports with a dose of common sense. Hey,
Happy Wednesday to you. Hope you had a good weekend.
I hope that you enjoyed that opening weekend of just
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jam packed football, college football, the NFL. We had it all.
It was amazing. Hope your week is going well and
I hope you, your family, your friends, everyone in your
world is staying strong and healthy right now. And Hey,
like I've been saying, we suddenly have sports again, college
football season is already heating up. We are seeing some
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teams step up, we are seeing some teams slide back.
The NFL kicked off their regular season this past week two,
and never fear, We're going to be covering a lot
of both of those today. But I do I want
to remind you of one other big event that is
coming this weekend that might have slipped a little under
your radar. Because Mexican independs once Day weekend is traditionally
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one of the biggest weekends in the world of boxing. Yeah,
and this year will be no different. We're going to
have Mexican superstar fighter Canelo Alvarez, who is now sixty
three to two and two with thirty nine knockouts, putting
his undisputed super middleweight championship on the line against former
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two division undisputed and undefeated champion Terrence Crawford. Crawford is
forty one to zero with thirty one knockouts. That is
going to be fought at Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas
on Saturday. And by the way, you might be sitting
there listening and going, well, I'm not gonna pay for
pay per view. I don't want to buy that fight.
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I get it. It's gonna be on Netflix starting at
seven pm on Saturday. You don't have to pay. If
you have that subscription, just turn it on. Yes, you
might have to kind of move some things around so
you can still keep up on college football. But Canelo
versus Crawford, Hey, this event is being billed as a
once in a lifetime by the organizers and we're going
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to see if Terrence Crawford can move up two weight
classes to challenge Canelo and become the first men's boxer
to be an undisputed champion in three different weight classes. Now,
for Canelo, this is probably going to be the toughest
fight he has faced since he lost to Dimitri bevol
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when he attempted to move up and challenge for a
light heavyweight title in twenty twenty two. That didn't go
so well. Now, I'll be honest, I love Crawford. Dude
is an absolute warrior. He is slick, He is an
extremely intelligent fighter. However, Crawford has never competed at one
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hundred and sixty pounds, much less at one's sixty eight.
That's a big jump, and it's not like he's taking
a tune up fight. First, he's jumping to one sixty
eight and then fighting the undisputed champion in Canelo. Now
that difficulty, I don't know. That is a bit steep
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to me. And like I said, we saw Cano try
to do something like that when he jumped up to
fight Bell. Beev All bullied him. He was just too
strong for Canelo. Now I am guessing that this jump
is going to be a little too much for Crawford.
But I will say this, if anyone could pull it off,
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it would be Terrence Crawford. He is as tough and
as smart as they come. I expect Terrence Crawford to
go to distance here, but I expect Canelo's strength just
to wear him down because Crawford is just a smaller guy.
I would take Canelo in a decision if I were
betting on this. But this is, without a doubt, one
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of the better fights we have had recently. We haven't
had anything to watch in the world of boxing lately.
This will be better, and we have a couple of
decent undercard fights that might be worth checking out. Hey,
don't forget about the Canelo Crawford fight on Saturday night. Hey,
today n does. Like I said, we now have both
college football and the NFL rolling, and we're going to
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take a look at both of them today. Of course,
we've only had one week in the books in the NFL,
and already we've got the so called experts telling us
all that they know, they know so much as usual,
they're overreacting, and so we're going to look at some
of the overreactions that we might want to be a
little bit more patient before we declare that then over.
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In college football, wasn't a great week of college football.
This last week, number of good teams facing a number
of bad teams saw a number of blowouts among the
top ranked teams. I've got a few of those teams though,
and their blowout actually me some concern. We'll get to
that in just a minute. We will also have a
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daily those top five for you today. Here's a question
I have for you, does losing early in the college
football season doom your entire season? Going to look at
a few teams today that decided to test that theory.
But first off, I do have one story I want
to touch on this week, and I know it is
not basketball season per se right now, however, we need
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to touch on this last week there was a big
story coming out of the NBA that we need to cover.
I'm not sure if you've checked out. Pablotory, whose podcast
Pabulatory finds Out, has been digging into a number of stories. Recently,
he did a brief investigation into Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson.
He dug into the NFL's player Association a little bit,
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and last week Pablotory dropped a big one because he
uncovered evidence of the Los Angeles Clippers allegedly Lee circumventing
the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard and hiding that
money in a laundering scheme of a tree planting company
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that went bankrupt. And I know, as I say that
that sounds insane. Let me give you a brief synopsis.
Back in twenty nineteen, Leonard signed a three year, one
hundred and three million dollar contract with the Clippers in
free agency, and the NBA actually investigated the clippers pursuit
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of the famously mysterious and kind of weird superstar because
there were allegations that his camp was seeking improper benefits. Now,
according to Pabulatory's investigation, Leonard also signed a twenty eight
million dollar endorsement deal with a company named Aspiration, which
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they say helps companies go carbon neutral and had financial
ties to Clippers owner Steve Balmer. However, there were no
actual obligations, so he wasn't really going to work for
this company. He was just going to get the money.
And that was right around twenty twenty one when he
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got an extension with the Clippers. So for the contract,
it was just free money. He didn't have to do
anything for it. It was just a bonus to give him. Now,
I know, far be it from me to think the
NBA is ever doing anything unsavory, right, That league is
always on the up and up. However, what I do
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want to watch over the next few months is does
this just go away? Did we just not hear anything
more about it? Yeah? Not really sure what happened? Then
some I'm crazy? Not really sure? Or are we gonna
start hearing about Well, we weren't the only ones doing it.
Teams all over the league have been doing this for years.
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Is this common? Is this common among other teams? Is
this common among other sports leagues? And again, the absolute
biggest question that I have for this story of Kawhi
Leonard possibly getting paid money by the Los Angeles Clippers
for basically nothing is if you're blatantly cheating and you're
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doing so to get an advantage, then shouldn't you actually
be good? Shouldn't you actually be winning? The Clippers never
win anything, so how did it benefit them? Because they're always, always,
always terrible. So the NFL season kicked off last week,
and we did see some very interesting games already in
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just week one. But as we know, it takes quite
a while to solve the mysteries of a new NFL season.
I mean, you can say that after one week we
already know exactly how this season is going to go.
But we don't, and we're already hearing some overreactions that
seem completely silly to me. So let's take a look
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at some of the biggest and let's just say it,
some of the dumbest thought was an overreaction. The Buffalo
Bills came back from a fifteen point deficit in the
fourth quarter on Sunday night as quarterback Josh Allen went
on a tear and the Baltimore Ravens could just do
nothing right in the final fifteen minutes. So now we
are hearing, Hey, the Buffalo Bills. They're the top team
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in the AFC, if not the entire league. Right, Hey,
I picked the Bills last week to win the Super Bowl.
I should be all in on this take, and yet
I saw a few things that concerned me. For one,
the Ravens' best players keep making crucial mistakes in big games.
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I mean, remember the playoffs last year. You had Lamar
Jackson kept fumbling, throwing interceptions, Mark Andrews dropping a pass,
and then on Sunday night, Lamar Jackson making mistakes running
back Derrick Henry putting the ball on the ground. When
do the Ravens big players make the big plays. Their
defense completely collapsed. And again, this isn't the first time.
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Those same things happened last year in the playoff game
against the Bills, and they've happened before in playoff games.
But you know, the other big concern for me because
we can just look at it and say, well, the Ravens, hey,
they're not up for the moment whatever, But also remember
on Sunday night that the Bills defense allowed four hundred
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and thirty two yards and the Ravens were averaging over
eight yards per play. That's not good. The Buffalo Bills
pass rush, it was mostly non existent. I'm gonna need
to see way more from Buffalo before I buy this hype.
I actually came away a little bit unimpressed with both teams,
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and I know that's probably blasphemy right now, but I
kind of looked at both teams like, I don't know
if he the one of you can play in defense.
We'll see. Of course, the Pittsburgh Steelers came out and
won a game in Week one and they looked well decent. Hey,
maybe Aaron Rodgers is going to be better than everyone expects.
Maybe the Steelers are actually going to be a sneaky
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team in the AFC. Now again, I picked the Steelers
to make the playoffs last week. I should be all
in on this. On Sunday, the Steelers beat the New
York Jets thirty four to thirty two. Aaron Rodgers passed
for two hundred and forty four yards. He threw four touchdowns.
But I want to lie about one word of caution,
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or maybe two. One the Steelers could not run the
ball at all. That could be a problem, and two
that Steelers defense allowed the Jets and quarterback Justin Fields
to rack up nearly four hundred yards of offense. And
here's the worst news. A lot of that was running
the ball. The Jets rushed for nearly two hundred yards. Hey,
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if teams can run the ball in the Steelers this year,
and on the flip side, the Steelers aren't running the
ball very effectively themselves. Yeah, I don't like their odds.
I'm still gonna be a little wary of Pittsburgh. I'm
gonna need to see a little bit more. Of course,
the NFL season kicked off last Thursday, when the Philadelphia
Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys twenty four to twenty in
a game that was closer than many of us were
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expecting or hoping for. And while I know the narrative
is that the Cowboys were just terrible, I get it,
it isn't completely accurate. I mean, Dak Prescott and the
Cowboys offense actually put up a pretty good fight. In fact,
I'll go one step further, it kind of looked like
Dak and the Cowboys had some momentum when that weather
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delay happened for lightning. I mean, the Cowboys did outgain
the Eagles on the night. Now, some of that was
because Eagles defensive lineman Jalen Carter was ejected for having
a spitting contest with Dak prior to the game, So
I'm sure about help Dallas too. And I'm not even
saying the Cowboys are Super Bowl contenders, but they actually
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might be a little better than I expected. And those
two wide receivers, when you've got pickings on one side
Ceedee Lamb on the other side, that's a pretty tough
matchup for defenses. The Cowboys are gonna have to prove
they can play defense. That offense might be concerning, they
might be not terrible. Don't be surprised if the Cowboys
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play themselves into playoff contention, because it might happen. On
Friday night, we got an early AFC West matchup as
the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Los Angeles Chargers, and
it was actually the Chargers that made all the plays
late and came out on top twenty seven to twenty one.
And I know it sounds crazy, but right now the
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Chiefs are in last place in the AFC West, as
every other team in the division one, Yes it's only one,
but they are dead last. Are the Chiefs gonna have
that season where they fall off the cliff? Hey, it
could happen. Next up they face the Eagles. That won't
be easy, and then they get the Ravens in Week
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four that won't be easy. And while it won't shock
me if the Chiefs do slip this year because it
is so hard to rebound from a Super Bowl loss historically,
go back and look, it doesn't happen very often. And
yet until you kill them, the Chiefs aren't dead now.
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Wide receiver Exavior Worthy is banged up thanks to Travis
Kelsey and the Chiefs already have had concerns at white Out.
I know they're gonna get Rashi Rice back eventually. He's
not there yet. But I'll say this, My concern for
the Chiefs is more than their running game is very average.
Do you realize that on Friday Night, Patrick Mahomes was
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their leading right sure against the Chargers, and also that
their defense didn't get much pressure all night on Chargers
quarterback Justin Herbert. Here's the bottom line for the Chiefs,
and I still expect them to be a contender. I
still expect them to be tough, but I'm not sure
opponents are afraid of the Chiefs anymore. I'm not gonna
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count them out just yet, but they definitely have a
different field to them. The Detroit Lions started the season
well with a fizzle on Sunday as they were easily
handled by the Green Bay Packers twenty seven to thirteen.
Should Lions fans be concerned about what they saw this week?
In Week one? Yeah, probably a little. You know. The
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biggest thing that stood out to me in that game
was the lack of toughness that we saw from Detroit.
The defense had no pass rush, the offense had no
run game, Jared Goff didn't look that great. But I
will cut the Lions in the slack because remember they
lost both offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn.
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And I know you say, well, you just get new guys,
but you don't. You can't just replace those guys overnight.
So the Lions have to allow their coordinators to kind
of get up to speed and then we'll see. But
I was a little concerned with what I saw from
the Lions on Sunday because they didn't look like they
were quite as tough and quite as scrappy and playing
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quite as hard as they have in the past. I
won't say they're done just yet, but they need to
show some improvement for sure. One team that actually looked
a little better than I expected on Sunday it was
the San Francisco forty nine ers. They went on the
road and beat the Seattle Seahawks seventeen to thirteen. Quarterback
Brought Purty. He looked pretty good. Joey Bosa was putting
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pressure on Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. And you know, we
talked about it last week. The Niners have a very
very easy schedule, so are the Niners back. Are they
a contender? Well? Maybe, but I've still had some concerns. One,
the Niners have no receivers, and I'm not just saying
wide receivers, receivers in general. Now. George Kittle is out,
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he was placed on ir Randon Ayuk is out, John
Jennings is out. We know Deebo Samuel is gone. That
brings me to the next problem for San Francisco because
everyone is out. On Sunday, running back Christian McCaffrey, who
we know has always hurt, had twenty two carries and
nine receptions. So Christian McCaffrey had thirty one touches on Sunday.
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You think he's gonna hold up with that much work.
There were questions whether or not he was even going
to play on Sunday. Hey, I'm not trying to jinx him.
I love me some Christian McCaffrey. He ain't gonna make
it to October at that rate. There's no way. The
Niners need to get healthy if they're gonna do anything,
and they need to keep Christian healthy, and that won't
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be the case at this rate. Finally, we reached one
team that might have had the worst week in the NFL,
and that was the Miami Dolphins. Hey, the Dolphins on Sunday. Honestly,
they look like the worst team in the league. Miami
faced the Indianapolis Colts and got dragged up and down
that field to the tune of a score of thirty
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three to eight. And it's kind of weird because I
don't know that that game felt that close. So I
know it's early, it's Week one, but are the Dolphins
really the worst team in the league? Is head coach
Mike McDaniel going to be the first head coach fired?
Is Tua Tongue Baila really just a complete and utter
disaster or are people completely overreacting. Well, I'll say this,
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that defense made Colts quarterback Daniel Jones look not good great.
Tua meanwhile, had one hundred and fourteen yards and two interceptions. Yeah.
I don't know if that's an overreaction. I think they
might actually be getting this one right again. People have
figured out Mike McDaniel's offense. No one seemed to be
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afraid of it, no one seemed to be worried about it,
and they're shutting it down. I'm not sure that this
is an overreaction. The Dolphins actually might be the worst
team in the NFL. You are one pathetic loser. Hey,
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dot com. Okay, So over the weekend, college football didn't
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have as many of the big marquee matchups that we
had in week one, and we actually have a couple
of good matchups this week coming. Simpson goes to Georgia Tech,
Georgia goes to Tennessee, Texas A and m goes to
Notre Dame in what might be a musk win game
for the Irish. But this past week at least had
some blowouts. Ohio State beat Grambling seventy to nothing, Miami
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beat Poor Bethan Cookman forty five to three, and Oregon
beat Oklahoma State sixty nine to three. I had to
look and make sure that was really Oklahoma State. But
there were a few games that were kind of blowouts,
and yet they made me a bit concerned. I'll show
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you what I mean. First Off, the LSU Tigers do
not like to play Louisiana Tech. That is an in
state rivalry. That is a dangerous game, and LSU knows it.
But it was on the schedule and I watched it
a little of it, And as impressed as I was
with LSU coming back on Clemson in week one, I
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thought they looked pretty average. On Saturday. They beat Louisiana
Tech twenty three to seven, and the Tigers defense was
top all day, But that LSU offense was sloppy. Now,
maybe that's just because it was Louisiana Tech, or maybe
LSU can't run the ball as consistently as we were
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thinking they could. That could be a problem down the road.
And also keep this in mind, LSU hosts has to
be a very angry floor to this week. Now, the
Tigers should handle the Gators easily, right, we'll see. I
was also concerned by the performance that I saw from
the Clemson Tigers on Saturday. Yes, Clemson managed to beat
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Troy twenty seven to sixteen, but do you realize that
the score was actually sixteen zip in favor of Troy
before Clemson kind of woke up. You know, I keep
waiting for quarterback Kay Klebnik to just take over and
be consistently good but it isn't happening. I mean, at
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what point should Dabbloswingey start getting nervous because tougher games
are coming and the ACC it's still not gonna be great,
but there might be sneakier teams in the ACC than
we thought. Finally, I started to get real concerned with
what I saw from the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday. Yes,
they beat Austin P twenty eight to six. Book, Why
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is Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton struggling with a team like
Austin P. Stockton finished the game with zero touchdowns two
hundred and twenty seven yards, but he had to throw
it thirty four times on Saturday. Why would you have
to throw the ball that much? Like, why couldn't you
run the ball? Austin P. Their FCS, they're not even
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an FBS school. If I'm Georgia, maybe you're looking past
Austin P to Tennessee. Or maybe you should be a
little bit concerned going into play Tennessee because that game
might be a dog fight. A couple of interesting games
coming this week, not a huge list of big matchups,
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but a few interesting ones to keep an eye on.
And then College football is about to really heat up.
Now if we do so many weeks here at the
Daily Dose, we need to get over to our daily
dose top five in college football. Like I said, we
have already seen some of the top ranked teams get
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knocked off this year in just the first two two
and a half weeks really of the season. I mean Texas, Alabama, Clemson,
Notre Dame, and Florida already have losses on their resumes
and they were all top twenty five teams. Now, maybe
these losses are assigning things to come. That is very possible. However,
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we have seen in the past where teams lost their
openers and then rebound and actually got on quite a roll. Today,
our Daly Dose Top five is counting down the top
five college football teams that lost a very early game
and still managed to go on and do some very
big things. We start off at number five. The Ohio
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State Buckeyes had been on a bit of a bad
streak after they won the national championship back in two
thousand and two on maybe one of the worst calls
the history of sports. The buck guys kept coming up short.
They had been to a few title games, but they
always got blown out when they got there. But when
Urban Meyer went to Columbus back in twenty twelve, there
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was some new hope. And twenty fourteen was the very
first year of the new and improved College Football Playoff,
where we'd get four teams playing it off instead of
just two. Well, Urban had a pretty steck squad. He
had J T. Barrett, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas, Joey Bosa.
The buck guys opened the season by beating Navy in
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Week one, but in Week two, the Buckeyes faced a
pretty average Virginia Tech team and Ohio State was sloppy.
They turned the ball over three times and their final
turnover was actually a pick six for the Hokies. Virginia
Tech upset Ohio State thirty five twenty one. Hey, that's
not an accident. They handled them. The Hokies would go
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on to justco seven and six on the year. Meanwhile,
the Lucky's kind of pulled it together. They rallied. They
won thirteen straight games, including beating Wisconsin in the Big
Ten title game. Then they upset number one Alabama and
the College Football Playoff, and then they beat Oregon in
the National Championship and brought a title back to Columbus. Hey.
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They stumbled early, but Ohio State got it rolling and
they won it all. And they come in today at
number five. We moved next to number four and we
go to the very next year. Because after winning back
to back championships in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, the
Alabama Crimson Tide had lost two straight Sugar Bowls in
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twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen. But in twenty fifteen, Nick
Saban was returning some serious talent quarterback Jake Coker, wide
receiver Calvin Ridley, tight end Oj Howard, running back Derrick Henry.
I mean, that was a good NFL team, let alone
a college team. The Tide opened with easy wins over
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Wisconsin and Middle Tennessee State, and then they hosted Hugh
Freeze and the Ole Miss Rebels. Somehow, some way, Ole
Miss quarterback Chad Kelly shredded the Tide for three hundred
and forty one yards and three touchdowns, and the Ole
Miss Rebels beat Alabama forty three to thirty seven in Tuscaloosa. Well,
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I guess Alabama's done and it's barely September. But again,
then Alabama got rolling. They won eleven games in a row.
They beat Georgia, they beat Texas A and m LSU
Mississippi State Florida in the SEC title game, and then
they pounded Michigan State in the College Football Playoff before
outscoring Clemson forty five to forty in the title game.
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The twenty fifteen Alabama Crimson Tide lost to Ole Miss
and then they came back and won it all. And
they come in at number four. Next up at number three.
We go back in time a number of years. In
nineteen eighty nine, the University of Colorado was one of
the biggest surprises in college football. They went eleven to
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zero under head coach Bill McCartney, and that roster was
stacked with NFL talent. Darian Hagen was a quarterback. Okay,
he wasn't really a great quarterback, but he's a good
option guy, Eric Bienemy at running back, Mike Pritchard, Alfred Williams,
Canavis McGee, Deon Figures, Chad Brown, Greg Beeker. But when
they faced Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that year, well,
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Lou Holtz was just a better game day coach than
Bill McCartney, and Notre Dame escaped to the win. Okay,
we'll see you brought pretty much everyone back in nineteen ninety,
so they should be even better. Well, the Buffs opened
the season against Tennessee and that game actually ended in
a thirty one to thirty one tie. And no, that
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wasn't Peyton Manning, that was Andy Kelly at quarterback. The
Buffs would then scrap past Stanford in week two in
a close game, and then they went to Illinois where
the fighting ALIONI and fullback Howard Griffith would shock See
You twenty three to twenty one. So three weeks into
the season that See You was expected to compete for
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a title and their won one and one, But the
Buffs talent would eventually take over. They would roll off
ten straight wins, including a fifth down game and maybe
a dicey ten to nine win over Notre Dame in
an Orange Bowl rematch, and Colorado would bounce back and
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win the national championship. Lucky, yes, dicey, very but Colorado
comes in today at number three. We arrive at number
two on our list of college football teams that lost
a very early game but bounce back in a big way.
And we go clear back to nineteen seventy four, where
head coach John McKay had a loaded team at the
University of Southern California. He had Pat Hayden and Vin
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Sevens at quarterback, Anthony Davis at running back, Ricky Bell
was backing him up, Shelton Digs at wide receiver, Rod
Martin at linebacker. So why in the world did USC
lose their opener twenty two to seven to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Well,
USC struggled to get going and the only points they
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scored in that game was one hundred yard kickoff return
by Anthony Davis, but Pat Hayden through four interceptions. Hey,
maybe this team was overrated, But again they got rolling
and they would go unbeaten for the rest of the
season and then beat number three Ohio State in the
Rose Bowl to win the national championship. I don't know,
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maybe they had a flat day. Remember these are college kids.
They're eighteen nineteen year olds. They might have an off day.
They might be worried about their girlfriend, they might not
have prepared like they should have. Whatever it was. USC
looked terrible to start, but they got it rolling in
seventy four and they come in today at number two.
So we reached the number one team that started slow
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but got red hot later. And we go back to
nineteen eighty three. Howard Schnellenberger was at the University of
Miami and they were improving every year. In eighty three,
their Hurricanes had a freshman quarterback by the name of Berniekozar.
They had a guy named Alonso Heighsmith at running back.
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They had Melvin Bratton at fullback, Eddie Brown at wide receiver,
Jerome Brown, Winston Moss, Kevin Fagan. That team was so talented,
but they were very young. These were all underclassmen. So
they opened the season by just getting demolished by the
Florida Gators twenty eight to three in a game during
which Miami committed eight turnovers. Imagine that happening today. The
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members would have a heyday. But of course after that game,
Miami would figure things out. They would grow up. They
would blow out number thirteen Notre Dame, number twelve West Virginia,
and then they scraped out a win over number one
Nebraska in one of the greatest games ever in the
Orange Bowl, and the Miami Hurricanes would win the title.
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So some of these teams starting slow this year, it
could be a sign that they're overrated. That's very possible,
or it could be that they need to grow up
and shore up some deficiencies and they might end up
getting rolling. You can bounce back from an early loss
in college football. You can even bounce back from a
bad loss in college football, but you have to shut
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out all the chatter. You've got to focus on the
job at hand, and you've really really got to go
to work. We will see if any of the teams
that have lost early so far are going to be
capable of rallying and going on to something bigger and better. Hey,
next week on the Dose, we will check in on
that Canelo versus Crawford fight, and of course we will
keep you up on all that is going on in
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the world of sports, including I'm sure another exciting week
in college football and the NFL. So be sure you
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Wednesday, September tenth, twenty twenty five, you are listening to
the Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host,
Clinton Daily, coming to you from my high seed here
in Denver, Colorado, and we are back for another week
of talking sports with a dose of common sense. Hey,
Happy Wednesday to you. Hope you had a good weekend.
I hope that you enjoyed that opening weekend of just
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jam packed football, college football, the NFL. We had it all.
It was amazing. Hope your week is going well and
I hope you, your family, your friends, everyone in your
world is staying strong and healthy right now. And Hey,
like I've been saying, we suddenly have sports again, college
football season is already heating up. We are seeing some
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teams step up, we are seeing some teams slide back.
The NFL kicked off their regular season this past week two,
and never fear, We're going to be covering a lot
of both of those today. But I do I want
to remind you of one other big event that is
coming this weekend that might have slipped a little under
your radar. Because Mexican independs once Day weekend is traditionally
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one of the biggest weekends in the world of boxing. Yeah,
and this year will be no different. We're going to
have Mexican superstar fighter Canelo Alvarez, who is now sixty
three to two and two with thirty nine knockouts, putting
his undisputed super middleweight championship on the line against former
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two division undisputed and undefeated champion Terrence Crawford. Crawford is
forty one to zero with thirty one knockouts. That is
going to be fought at Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas
on Saturday. And by the way, you might be sitting
there listening and going, well, I'm not gonna pay for
pay per view. I don't want to buy that fight.
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I get it. It's gonna be on Netflix starting at
seven pm on Saturday. You don't have to pay. If
you have that subscription, just turn it on. Yes, you
might have to kind of move some things around so
you can still keep up on college football. But Canelo
versus Crawford, Hey, this event is being billed as a
once in a lifetime by the organizers and we're going
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to see if Terrence Crawford can move up two weight
classes to challenge Canelo and become the first men's boxer
to be an undisputed champion in three different weight classes. Now,
for Canelo, this is probably going to be the toughest
fight he has faced since he lost to Dimitri bevol
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when he attempted to move up and challenge for a
light heavyweight title in twenty twenty two. That didn't go
so well. Now, I'll be honest, I love Crawford. Dude
is an absolute warrior. He is slick, He is an
extremely intelligent fighter. However, Crawford has never competed at one
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hundred and sixty pounds, much less at one's sixty eight.
That's a big jump, and it's not like he's taking
a tune up fight. First, he's jumping to one sixty
eight and then fighting the undisputed champion in Canelo. Now
that difficulty, I don't know. That is a bit steep
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to me. And like I said, we saw Cano try
to do something like that when he jumped up to
fight Bell. Beev All bullied him. He was just too
strong for Canelo. Now I am guessing that this jump
is going to be a little too much for Crawford.
But I will say this, if anyone could pull it off,
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it would be Terrence Crawford. He is as tough and
as smart as they come. I expect Terrence Crawford to
go to distance here, but I expect Canelo's strength just
to wear him down because Crawford is just a smaller guy.
I would take Canelo in a decision if I were
betting on this. But this is, without a doubt, one
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of the better fights we have had recently. We haven't
had anything to watch in the world of boxing lately.
This will be better, and we have a couple of
decent undercard fights that might be worth checking out. Hey,
don't forget about the Canelo Crawford fight on Saturday night. Hey,
today n does. Like I said, we now have both
college football and the NFL rolling, and we're going to
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take a look at both of them today. Of course,
we've only had one week in the books in the NFL,
and already we've got the so called experts telling us
all that they know, they know so much as usual,
they're overreacting, and so we're going to look at some
of the overreactions that we might want to be a
little bit more patient before we declare that then over.
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In college football, wasn't a great week of college football.
This last week, number of good teams facing a number
of bad teams saw a number of blowouts among the
top ranked teams. I've got a few of those teams though,
and their blowout actually me some concern. We'll get to
that in just a minute. We will also have a
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daily those top five for you today. Here's a question
I have for you, does losing early in the college
football season doom your entire season? Going to look at
a few teams today that decided to test that theory.
But first off, I do have one story I want
to touch on this week, and I know it is
not basketball season per se right now, however, we need
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to touch on this last week there was a big
story coming out of the NBA that we need to cover.
I'm not sure if you've checked out. Pablotory, whose podcast
Pabulatory finds Out, has been digging into a number of stories. Recently,
he did a brief investigation into Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson.
He dug into the NFL's player Association a little bit,
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and last week Pablotory dropped a big one because he
uncovered evidence of the Los Angeles Clippers allegedly Lee circumventing
the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard and hiding that
money in a laundering scheme of a tree planting company
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that went bankrupt. And I know, as I say that
that sounds insane. Let me give you a brief synopsis.
Back in twenty nineteen, Leonard signed a three year, one
hundred and three million dollar contract with the Clippers in
free agency, and the NBA actually investigated the clippers pursuit
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of the famously mysterious and kind of weird superstar because
there were allegations that his camp was seeking improper benefits. Now,
according to Pabulatory's investigation, Leonard also signed a twenty eight
million dollar endorsement deal with a company named Aspiration, which
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they say helps companies go carbon neutral and had financial
ties to Clippers owner Steve Balmer. However, there were no
actual obligations, so he wasn't really going to work for
this company. He was just going to get the money.
And that was right around twenty twenty one when he
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got an extension with the Clippers. So for the contract,
it was just free money. He didn't have to do
anything for it. It was just a bonus to give him. Now,
I know, far be it from me to think the
NBA is ever doing anything unsavory, right, That league is
always on the up and up. However, what I do
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want to watch over the next few months is does
this just go away? Did we just not hear anything
more about it? Yeah? Not really sure what happened? Then
some I'm crazy? Not really sure? Or are we gonna
start hearing about Well, we weren't the only ones doing it.
Teams all over the league have been doing this for years.
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Is this common? Is this common among other teams? Is
this common among other sports leagues? And again, the absolute
biggest question that I have for this story of Kawhi
Leonard possibly getting paid money by the Los Angeles Clippers
for basically nothing is if you're blatantly cheating and you're
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doing so to get an advantage, then shouldn't you actually
be good? Shouldn't you actually be winning? The Clippers never
win anything, so how did it benefit them? Because they're always, always,
always terrible. So the NFL season kicked off last week,
and we did see some very interesting games already in
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just week one. But as we know, it takes quite
a while to solve the mysteries of a new NFL season.
I mean, you can say that after one week we
already know exactly how this season is going to go.
But we don't, and we're already hearing some overreactions that
seem completely silly to me. So let's take a look
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at some of the biggest and let's just say it,
some of the dumbest thought was an overreaction. The Buffalo
Bills came back from a fifteen point deficit in the
fourth quarter on Sunday night as quarterback Josh Allen went
on a tear and the Baltimore Ravens could just do
nothing right in the final fifteen minutes. So now we
are hearing, Hey, the Buffalo Bills. They're the top team
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in the AFC, if not the entire league. Right, Hey,
I picked the Bills last week to win the Super Bowl.
I should be all in on this take, and yet
I saw a few things that concerned me. For one,
the Ravens' best players keep making crucial mistakes in big games.
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I mean, remember the playoffs last year. You had Lamar
Jackson kept fumbling, throwing interceptions, Mark Andrews dropping a pass,
and then on Sunday night, Lamar Jackson making mistakes running
back Derrick Henry putting the ball on the ground. When
do the Ravens big players make the big plays. Their
defense completely collapsed. And again, this isn't the first time.
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Those same things happened last year in the playoff game
against the Bills, and they've happened before in playoff games.
But you know, the other big concern for me because
we can just look at it and say, well, the Ravens, hey,
they're not up for the moment whatever, But also remember
on Sunday night that the Bills defense allowed four hundred
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and thirty two yards and the Ravens were averaging over
eight yards per play. That's not good. The Buffalo Bills
pass rush, it was mostly non existent. I'm gonna need
to see way more from Buffalo before I buy this hype.
I actually came away a little bit unimpressed with both teams,
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and I know that's probably blasphemy right now, but I
kind of looked at both teams like, I don't know
if he the one of you can play in defense.
We'll see. Of course, the Pittsburgh Steelers came out and
won a game in Week one and they looked well decent. Hey,
maybe Aaron Rodgers is going to be better than everyone expects.
Maybe the Steelers are actually going to be a sneaky
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team in the AFC. Now again, I picked the Steelers
to make the playoffs last week. I should be all
in on this. On Sunday, the Steelers beat the New
York Jets thirty four to thirty two. Aaron Rodgers passed
for two hundred and forty four yards. He threw four touchdowns.
But I want to lie about one word of caution,
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or maybe two. One the Steelers could not run the
ball at all. That could be a problem, and two
that Steelers defense allowed the Jets and quarterback Justin Fields
to rack up nearly four hundred yards of offense. And
here's the worst news. A lot of that was running
the ball. The Jets rushed for nearly two hundred yards. Hey,
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if teams can run the ball in the Steelers this year,
and on the flip side, the Steelers aren't running the
ball very effectively themselves. Yeah, I don't like their odds.
I'm still gonna be a little wary of Pittsburgh. I'm
gonna need to see a little bit more. Of course,
the NFL season kicked off last Thursday, when the Philadelphia
Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys twenty four to twenty in
a game that was closer than many of us were
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expecting or hoping for. And while I know the narrative
is that the Cowboys were just terrible, I get it,
it isn't completely accurate. I mean, Dak Prescott and the
Cowboys offense actually put up a pretty good fight. In fact,
I'll go one step further, it kind of looked like
Dak and the Cowboys had some momentum when that weather
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delay happened for lightning. I mean, the Cowboys did outgain
the Eagles on the night. Now, some of that was
because Eagles defensive lineman Jalen Carter was ejected for having
a spitting contest with Dak prior to the game, So
I'm sure about help Dallas too. And I'm not even
saying the Cowboys are Super Bowl contenders, but they actually
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might be a little better than I expected. And those
two wide receivers, when you've got pickings on one side
Ceedee Lamb on the other side, that's a pretty tough
matchup for defenses. The Cowboys are gonna have to prove
they can play defense. That offense might be concerning, they
might be not terrible. Don't be surprised if the Cowboys
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play themselves into playoff contention, because it might happen. On
Friday night, we got an early AFC West matchup as
the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Los Angeles Chargers, and
it was actually the Chargers that made all the plays
late and came out on top twenty seven to twenty one.
And I know it sounds crazy, but right now the
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Chiefs are in last place in the AFC West, as
every other team in the division one, Yes it's only one,
but they are dead last. Are the Chiefs gonna have
that season where they fall off the cliff? Hey, it
could happen. Next up they face the Eagles. That won't
be easy, and then they get the Ravens in Week
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four that won't be easy. And while it won't shock
me if the Chiefs do slip this year because it
is so hard to rebound from a Super Bowl loss historically,
go back and look, it doesn't happen very often. And
yet until you kill them, the Chiefs aren't dead now.
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Wide receiver Exavior Worthy is banged up thanks to Travis
Kelsey and the Chiefs already have had concerns at white Out.
I know they're gonna get Rashi Rice back eventually. He's
not there yet. But I'll say this, My concern for
the Chiefs is more than their running game is very average.
Do you realize that on Friday Night, Patrick Mahomes was
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their leading right sure against the Chargers, and also that
their defense didn't get much pressure all night on Chargers
quarterback Justin Herbert. Here's the bottom line for the Chiefs,
and I still expect them to be a contender. I
still expect them to be tough, but I'm not sure
opponents are afraid of the Chiefs anymore. I'm not gonna
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count them out just yet, but they definitely have a
different field to them. The Detroit Lions started the season
well with a fizzle on Sunday as they were easily
handled by the Green Bay Packers twenty seven to thirteen.
Should Lions fans be concerned about what they saw this week?
In Week one? Yeah, probably a little. You know. The
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biggest thing that stood out to me in that game
was the lack of toughness that we saw from Detroit.
The defense had no pass rush, the offense had no
run game, Jared Goff didn't look that great. But I
will cut the Lions in the slack because remember they
lost both offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn.
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And I know you say, well, you just get new guys,
but you don't. You can't just replace those guys overnight.
So the Lions have to allow their coordinators to kind
of get up to speed and then we'll see. But
I was a little concerned with what I saw from
the Lions on Sunday because they didn't look like they
were quite as tough and quite as scrappy and playing
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quite as hard as they have in the past. I
won't say they're done just yet, but they need to
show some improvement for sure. One team that actually looked
a little better than I expected on Sunday it was
the San Francisco forty nine ers. They went on the
road and beat the Seattle Seahawks seventeen to thirteen. Quarterback
Brought Purty. He looked pretty good. Joey Bosa was putting
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pressure on Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. And you know, we
talked about it last week. The Niners have a very
very easy schedule, so are the Niners back. Are they
a contender? Well? Maybe, but I've still had some concerns. One,
the Niners have no receivers, and I'm not just saying
wide receivers, receivers in general. Now. George Kittle is out,
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he was placed on ir Randon Ayuk is out, John
Jennings is out. We know Deebo Samuel is gone. That
brings me to the next problem for San Francisco because
everyone is out. On Sunday, running back Christian McCaffrey, who
we know has always hurt, had twenty two carries and
nine receptions. So Christian McCaffrey had thirty one touches on Sunday.
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You think he's gonna hold up with that much work.
There were questions whether or not he was even going
to play on Sunday. Hey, I'm not trying to jinx him.
I love me some Christian McCaffrey. He ain't gonna make
it to October at that rate. There's no way. The
Niners need to get healthy if they're gonna do anything,
and they need to keep Christian healthy, and that won't
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be the case at this rate. Finally, we reached one
team that might have had the worst week in the NFL,
and that was the Miami Dolphins. Hey, the Dolphins on Sunday. Honestly,
they look like the worst team in the league. Miami
faced the Indianapolis Colts and got dragged up and down
that field to the tune of a score of thirty
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three to eight. And it's kind of weird because I
don't know that that game felt that close. So I
know it's early, it's Week one, but are the Dolphins
really the worst team in the league? Is head coach
Mike McDaniel going to be the first head coach fired?
Is Tua Tongue Baila really just a complete and utter
disaster or are people completely overreacting. Well, I'll say this,
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that defense made Colts quarterback Daniel Jones look not good great.
Tua meanwhile, had one hundred and fourteen yards and two interceptions. Yeah.
I don't know if that's an overreaction. I think they
might actually be getting this one right again. People have
figured out Mike McDaniel's offense. No one seemed to be
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afraid of it, no one seemed to be worried about it,
and they're shutting it down. I'm not sure that this
is an overreaction. The Dolphins actually might be the worst
team in the NFL. You are one pathetic loser. Hey,
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dot com. Okay, So over the weekend, college football didn't
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have as many of the big marquee matchups that we
had in week one, and we actually have a couple
of good matchups this week coming. Simpson goes to Georgia Tech,
Georgia goes to Tennessee, Texas A and m goes to
Notre Dame in what might be a musk win game
for the Irish. But this past week at least had
some blowouts. Ohio State beat Grambling seventy to nothing, Miami
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beat Poor Bethan Cookman forty five to three, and Oregon
beat Oklahoma State sixty nine to three. I had to
look and make sure that was really Oklahoma State. But
there were a few games that were kind of blowouts,
and yet they made me a bit concerned. I'll show
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you what I mean. First Off, the LSU Tigers do
not like to play Louisiana Tech. That is an in
state rivalry. That is a dangerous game, and LSU knows it.
But it was on the schedule and I watched it
a little of it, And as impressed as I was
with LSU coming back on Clemson in week one, I
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thought they looked pretty average. On Saturday. They beat Louisiana
Tech twenty three to seven, and the Tigers defense was
top all day, But that LSU offense was sloppy. Now,
maybe that's just because it was Louisiana Tech, or maybe
LSU can't run the ball as consistently as we were
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thinking they could. That could be a problem down the road.
And also keep this in mind, LSU hosts has to
be a very angry floor to this week. Now, the
Tigers should handle the Gators easily, right, we'll see. I
was also concerned by the performance that I saw from
the Clemson Tigers on Saturday. Yes, Clemson managed to beat
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Troy twenty seven to sixteen, but do you realize that
the score was actually sixteen zip in favor of Troy
before Clemson kind of woke up. You know, I keep
waiting for quarterback Kay Klebnik to just take over and
be consistently good but it isn't happening. I mean, at
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what point should Dabbloswingey start getting nervous because tougher games
are coming and the ACC it's still not gonna be great,
but there might be sneakier teams in the ACC than
we thought. Finally, I started to get real concerned with
what I saw from the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday. Yes,
they beat Austin P twenty eight to six. Book, Why
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is Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton struggling with a team like
Austin P. Stockton finished the game with zero touchdowns two
hundred and twenty seven yards, but he had to throw
it thirty four times on Saturday. Why would you have
to throw the ball that much? Like, why couldn't you
run the ball? Austin P. Their FCS, they're not even
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an FBS school. If I'm Georgia, maybe you're looking past
Austin P to Tennessee. Or maybe you should be a
little bit concerned going into play Tennessee because that game
might be a dog fight. A couple of interesting games
coming this week, not a huge list of big matchups,
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but a few interesting ones to keep an eye on.
And then College football is about to really heat up.
Now if we do so many weeks here at the
Daily Dose, we need to get over to our daily
dose top five in college football. Like I said, we
have already seen some of the top ranked teams get
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knocked off this year in just the first two two
and a half weeks really of the season. I mean Texas, Alabama, Clemson,
Notre Dame, and Florida already have losses on their resumes
and they were all top twenty five teams. Now, maybe
these losses are assigning things to come. That is very possible. However,
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we have seen in the past where teams lost their
openers and then rebound and actually got on quite a roll. Today,
our Daly Dose Top five is counting down the top
five college football teams that lost a very early game
and still managed to go on and do some very
big things. We start off at number five. The Ohio
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State Buckeyes had been on a bit of a bad
streak after they won the national championship back in two
thousand and two on maybe one of the worst calls
the history of sports. The buck guys kept coming up short.
They had been to a few title games, but they
always got blown out when they got there. But when
Urban Meyer went to Columbus back in twenty twelve, there
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was some new hope. And twenty fourteen was the very
first year of the new and improved College Football Playoff,
where we'd get four teams playing it off instead of
just two. Well, Urban had a pretty steck squad. He
had J T. Barrett, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas, Joey Bosa.
The buck guys opened the season by beating Navy in
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Week one, but in Week two, the Buckeyes faced a
pretty average Virginia Tech team and Ohio State was sloppy.
They turned the ball over three times and their final
turnover was actually a pick six for the Hokies. Virginia
Tech upset Ohio State thirty five twenty one. Hey, that's
not an accident. They handled them. The Hokies would go
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on to justco seven and six on the year. Meanwhile,
the Lucky's kind of pulled it together. They rallied. They
won thirteen straight games, including beating Wisconsin in the Big
Ten title game. Then they upset number one Alabama and
the College Football Playoff, and then they beat Oregon in
the National Championship and brought a title back to Columbus. Hey.
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They stumbled early, but Ohio State got it rolling and
they won it all. And they come in today at
number five. We moved next to number four and we
go to the very next year. Because after winning back
to back championships in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, the
Alabama Crimson Tide had lost two straight Sugar Bowls in
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twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen. But in twenty fifteen, Nick
Saban was returning some serious talent quarterback Jake Coker, wide
receiver Calvin Ridley, tight end Oj Howard, running back Derrick Henry.
I mean, that was a good NFL team, let alone
a college team. The Tide opened with easy wins over
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Wisconsin and Middle Tennessee State, and then they hosted Hugh
Freeze and the Ole Miss Rebels. Somehow, some way, Ole
Miss quarterback Chad Kelly shredded the Tide for three hundred
and forty one yards and three touchdowns, and the Ole
Miss Rebels beat Alabama forty three to thirty seven in Tuscaloosa. Well,
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I guess Alabama's done and it's barely September. But again,
then Alabama got rolling. They won eleven games in a row.
They beat Georgia, they beat Texas A and m LSU
Mississippi State Florida in the SEC title game, and then
they pounded Michigan State in the College Football Playoff before
outscoring Clemson forty five to forty in the title game.
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The twenty fifteen Alabama Crimson Tide lost to Ole Miss
and then they came back and won it all. And
they come in at number four. Next up at number three.
We go back in time a number of years. In
nineteen eighty nine, the University of Colorado was one of
the biggest surprises in college football. They went eleven to
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zero under head coach Bill McCartney, and that roster was
stacked with NFL talent. Darian Hagen was a quarterback. Okay,
he wasn't really a great quarterback, but he's a good
option guy, Eric Bienemy at running back, Mike Pritchard, Alfred Williams,
Canavis McGee, Deon Figures, Chad Brown, Greg Beeker. But when
they faced Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that year, well,
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Lou Holtz was just a better game day coach than
Bill McCartney, and Notre Dame escaped to the win. Okay,
we'll see you brought pretty much everyone back in nineteen ninety,
so they should be even better. Well, the Buffs opened
the season against Tennessee and that game actually ended in
a thirty one to thirty one tie. And no, that
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wasn't Peyton Manning, that was Andy Kelly at quarterback. The
Buffs would then scrap past Stanford in week two in
a close game, and then they went to Illinois where
the fighting ALIONI and fullback Howard Griffith would shock See
You twenty three to twenty one. So three weeks into
the season that See You was expected to compete for
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a title and their won one and one, But the
Buffs talent would eventually take over. They would roll off
ten straight wins, including a fifth down game and maybe
a dicey ten to nine win over Notre Dame in
an Orange Bowl rematch, and Colorado would bounce back and
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win the national championship. Lucky, yes, dicey, very but Colorado
comes in today at number three. We arrive at number
two on our list of college football teams that lost
a very early game but bounce back in a big way.
And we go clear back to nineteen seventy four, where
head coach John McKay had a loaded team at the
University of Southern California. He had Pat Hayden and Vin
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Sevens at quarterback, Anthony Davis at running back, Ricky Bell
was backing him up, Shelton Digs at wide receiver, Rod
Martin at linebacker. So why in the world did USC
lose their opener twenty two to seven to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Well,
USC struggled to get going and the only points they
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scored in that game was one hundred yard kickoff return
by Anthony Davis, but Pat Hayden through four interceptions. Hey,
maybe this team was overrated, But again they got rolling
and they would go unbeaten for the rest of the
season and then beat number three Ohio State in the
Rose Bowl to win the national championship. I don't know,
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maybe they had a flat day. Remember these are college kids.
They're eighteen nineteen year olds. They might have an off day.
They might be worried about their girlfriend, they might not
have prepared like they should have. Whatever it was. USC
looked terrible to start, but they got it rolling in
seventy four and they come in today at number two.
So we reached the number one team that started slow
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but got red hot later. And we go back to
nineteen eighty three. Howard Schnellenberger was at the University of
Miami and they were improving every year. In eighty three,
their Hurricanes had a freshman quarterback by the name of Berniekozar.
They had a guy named Alonso Heighsmith at running back.
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They had Melvin Bratton at fullback, Eddie Brown at wide receiver,
Jerome Brown, Winston Moss, Kevin Fagan. That team was so talented,
but they were very young. These were all underclassmen. So
they opened the season by just getting demolished by the
Florida Gators twenty eight to three in a game during
which Miami committed eight turnovers. Imagine that happening today. The
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members would have a heyday. But of course after that game,
Miami would figure things out. They would grow up. They
would blow out number thirteen Notre Dame, number twelve West Virginia,
and then they scraped out a win over number one
Nebraska in one of the greatest games ever in the
Orange Bowl, and the Miami Hurricanes would win the title.
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So some of these teams starting slow this year, it
could be a sign that they're overrated. That's very possible,
or it could be that they need to grow up
and shore up some deficiencies and they might end up
getting rolling. You can bounce back from an early loss
in college football. You can even bounce back from a
bad loss in college football, but you have to shut
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out all the chatter. You've got to focus on the
job at hand, and you've really really got to go
to work. We will see if any of the teams
that have lost early so far are going to be
capable of rallying and going on to something bigger and better. Hey,
next week on the Dose, we will check in on
that Canelo versus Crawford fight, and of course we will
keep you up on all that is going on in
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the world of sports, including I'm sure another exciting week
in college football and the NFL. So be sure you
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