Danny and Stan's Football Weekend Presented by ASFCA December 8th

Chiefs on the brink at best after SNF loss, plus all kinds of college football drama on and off the field. Add in plenty of other NFL conversation and a whole lot more. Let's dig in!

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one just enough plays by the Houston Texans. The Chiefs
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after a bad first half. Patrick Mahomes said all kinds
of career lows as far as his production was concerned,
but he got zero help seven drops in the game,
including by some of his prime lieutenants and the Chiefs
are at six and seven, and even winning the last
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is Colin Klein gets introduced on Friday as the new
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talk about them. And they're playing a kind of intriguing
bowl game. But I don't know how many intriguing bowl
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Speaker 2 (04:57):
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Speaker 4 (05:01):
Stan.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
That game was everything that we have seen all season
long for the Kansas City Chiefs. Missed opportunities, bad fourth quarters,
leaving a potential win on the carpet, although I think
to the Texans were probably the deserving winning team in
this one. We saw CJ. Stroudby alternately I don't know,
doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde out there had moments of

(05:23):
brilliance and other times he didn't even look like he
should be a high school quarterback. Patrick Mahomes under duress
and maybe under perceived duress. Actually maybe had more time
than we might have anticipated. But in the biggest moments,
big drops hurt the Chiefs, and in the end they
lose and they are in big, big trouble.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes they are, Danny.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
I guess I got to follow up with not necessarily
what I said only on your podcast. So I apologize
for those who saying, Hey, I don't know if I
heard you say this, but in my take at the
end of the week was that let's don't talk about
the offensive line.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
You tell me Houston's.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Pass rush is lethal, and they sacked Josh Allen of
the Buffalo Bills eight times, a record number a couple
of games ago, and you know what I thought, No,
don't don't give me the offensive line theory of that's
going to end the ball game. I did not buy
into it. Didn't spend five seconds talking about that, Danny.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I said, it's all up to c. J.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Stroud and how he handles the blitzing that the Chiefs bring.
So now we passed the game and we look back,
and sometimes.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
You're awful defensive about what you say.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
So I apologize for that, Danny. But the offensive line
was pretty much a non factor. It's just the same
Chiefs offensive line we've seen, oh, all year long, maybe
the last few years. You know, Patrick's gonna have to
make some moves and throw the ball off balance and
those kind of things. That's exactly what we saw. And
you said it perfectly in your introduction. Which version of

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c J. Stroud where you're getting the non high school
version or the guy who made a play here and
there and got him to a forty four percent third
down conversion rate through just enough good passes to keep
the Texans moving along. He started a third quarter with
the guy who's more wide open than any player has.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Been in the NFL all year on a coral route.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
And sailed it over his head by what five feet?
You know, the three and out, three and out, three and.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Out would not have occurred to him.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
If he'd have put the ball where he should have
in that early third quarter position, they would have taken
a deep breath and been okay.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
But CJ. Stroud was he good enough?

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Because you know, the big philosophy that I have right
now is the blitzing by Steve Spagnola. While still you know,
one of the best of the NFL has not been
quite as lethal because the coverage behind has not held
up as well.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
You think about Bo.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Nixon that big game at Denver on the run and
finding the receivers downfield, and that's a little bit of
what we saw in the first quarter or the first
part of the game when Houston led ten to nothing,
was if he could keep his composure as.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
A quarterback back there the Chiefs coverage isn't.

Speaker 6 (07:56):
As locked down as it has been at times, and
even against their best corner, they were able to throw
the ball deep and make a big play, and then
he was injured, and you're just going, what.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Is going on? It's just not the Chiefs day, not
the Chiefs year.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Those kind of things exactly the opposite of the pendulum
swinging so far last year that the Chiefs were undefeated
at this point in the year and really no different
than this team is I believe Danny, but they thought
they were great and undefeated and had an aura about
him and this year everything's going wrong.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
But they're really not much different.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
They're not quite as good on third downs offensively or defensively.
But the thing that I was focused in on in
this game was if you can hold the ball and
keep your composure as a quarterback, their openings in the
secondary against the Chiefs. And I don't know if you
listen to the game, I don't know if you're a
broadcast listener, radio listener, but basically what I said on

(08:51):
eight ten Danny Friday, and I'm kind of summarizing here,
I think Chris Collins Collins were said the exact words
I said early in the game about the Chiefs blitzing
not being as effective and the coverage downfield not as effective.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
To me, that was the focus of the game. And
when CJ.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Stroud looked helpless, then the Chiefs dominated. And when he
kept his composure, there were openings out there against the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
No question about that, and he did make just enough plays.
I thought another key in this game. Much was made
of the big pass rush of the Texans, but I
thought a big key was that sure Patrick Mahomes was
going to be under drest, it was going to be
a mess back there, and it was going to be
trouble and we'll get to the drops in a minute.
But the Chiefs could counter, maybe by getting some semblance
of a running game. And when I saw Kareem Hunt

(09:41):
and Isaiah ba Checko getting stuffed. I thought that was
big trouble.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, no doubt about it.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
And again, if you go along with my philosophy, Andy
didn't want to run the ball. The Chief's offensive line
right now is beat up if you want to jump
on the offensive line theme. But I don't think the
Runners scare you at all. Give Kareem Hunt a ton
of credit being a conversion guy, third and short, fourth
and short. Remember, the Chiefs were awful at that even
in their best Super Bowl years. And now that run

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he made in the end zone was incredible.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yes, you know that's he was dead.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
You should have been dead.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yeah, that's Patrick Mahomes like right there. You know that's
something like that should not have happened. The Texans should
have made Andy pay for another fourth down conversion and decision, right.
And I don't want to forget Bucker missed field Gold
that mattered in this game as well. So those things
add up in a low scoring game. But you're but
you're right, Danny. You thought, maybe, hey, we could get

(10:36):
some running game going here and you get to work,
but that was not in the cards. And I just
don't I don't think the Chiefs are going to be
able to make a living going there very much at all.
So it gets back to their passing game in a
big way. I want to talk about the pass rush
real quick, because this is another theme that I put
together and I don't know if I've told to you, Danny,

(10:58):
but a big theme of mine was the Buffalo Bills,
who I don't necessarily believe in their coaching excellence. I
think it's usually a mismatch between Andy Reid and his
staff against Buffalo. Not that I don't like the guys
that coach Buffalo. I mean they're the most likable team
in the world. You know, They're the best little Teddy
bear you ever had, because Josh Allen is how can

(11:19):
you hate Josh Allen?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
You know?

Speaker 6 (11:21):
And you meet the players and they're just willing to
lose to the Chiefs and still smile, and the coaching
staff just keeps trying. But they're not elite. I mean,
the Buffalo Bills, I've said at the end of the
year are not an elite football team, and that's when
they were flying high and undefeated and I called them out.
But the theme I want to talk about that changed
a lot in my mind, Danny, was they did come

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up with the perfect pass rush mentality theme strategy against
Patrick Mahomes in that game. In that Buffalo game, they
timed up their rush as well, where the middle guys
didn't come necessarily quickly and kept the middle of the
pocket convoluted. But that's not enough because Patrick's gonna get

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away from whoever's rushing. What they did that was incredible
is after a count of about one or two or three,
they took off and went outside and gave up their
middle rush and went outside thinking, I'm gonna meet Patrick
Mahomes around the corner here. Now, some teams did it
with a spy, but basically Buffalo did it with their
four man type of rush, maybe a fifth guy lingering.

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But they had a plan before Patrick went out and
got away from the rush and did what he does
and gets on the run. They had a guy already
heading out that direction, So does that make sense? They
mess up the middle without going very fast, and then
one of them folds out and now when Patrick leaves,
he's not a runner. Okay, he truly has a few

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seconds to throw the ball. But guess what, they haven't
given up their coverage because they dropped seven.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
They didn't bring a blitz, they didn't bring too many guys.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
With four guys, they timed up their rush so well
that Patrick was kind of stuck saying, I'm a passer
on the move and never felt completely comfortable.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
In the pocket. Go back and watch the tape, Danny.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
For every team since then, every team since then has
followed the model the blueprint, which has caused the Chiefs problems.
Houston has a lethal pass rush. Does that look like
a lethal pass rush to you, Danny? It didn't to
me one. I think the Chiefs offensive line's well taught,
and I'm pretty indifferent about who the offensive lineman are.
I just did not buy into that stuff at all,

(13:35):
like a guy that's never played before did just fine
for the Chiefs. Okay, But the thing is is that
this pass rush, even with Houston said we're going to
do it in the style that.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Buffalo taught us, Denver did that.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
Even the Dallas Cowboys look decent on pass rushing. So
I think that's a big story of how this season turned.
In his last run, where they figured out a way
to slow down Patrick Mahomes in the passing game by
dropping seven and not letting him kill him with runs.
All the time, he still ran through spies and man

(14:09):
the man coverage, and the guy is still incredible. I mean,
he put the whole team on his back again and
it just didn't work. He's not perfect, his passes were
not all perfect, but he was looking downfield and throwing
the ball downfield and doing a lot of good things, Danny.
But it reminds me my daughter played volleyball. Because I
know this is the big subject that everyone wants to
talk about. Let me give you an example. My daughter played

(14:30):
volleyball and the setter is so important. I mean they
got to deliver the ball to get that spike on
the third.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Hit, you know, Danny.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
So if you're the defender, you need to give that
setter a good ball.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
That's really important.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
The defender doesn't give the first ball up to the cetter,
it could really mess things up, but the setter cleans
things up and then sets it up for the spike. Well,
the chief setter, after Patrick Mahomes, did a good job
of digging out a shot off the floor and put
it up so the set got it.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Then his buddy Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
Flipped the ball up to the net on the other side,
so it was a spike for them.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
You know, when the setter.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Doesn't set it up on the right side of the net,
is there. There's never a worst playing volleyball. Then if
the ball slightly goes over the net on the set
and they get a spike it right right, That's what
it looked like. Does that make sense? That's what Patrick
Mahomes droppers look like out there?

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Man, you look at.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
Travis Kelcey, the drops he had, He's targeted five times,
he catches one ball for eight and he taps the
ball to them.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
For an easy interception. It could not be uglier.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
And I asked earlier this year, Danny, you know, why
do we all think Rashie Rice is great? You know
he's got potential and they use his physicality and run
after catch in a very good way.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Did Andy Reid?

Speaker 6 (15:54):
Do we really think he could run the whole route
tree and be a number one receiver. Everyone bought into
that in pre season, and I don't know why we
should advance ourselves that far with him. And I'm not
talking about character issues. I'm talking about play on the field, right,
But man, he has dropped some critical throws. Has he
won the Dallas game by dropping the pass and probably

(16:17):
the Texans game if he'd have caught that.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Ball in fourth downa Chi's probably would have went on
to one.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Let's talk about, however, the coaching aspect of it and
some you know, I talked about doctor jekyln mister Hyde
earlier on. I mean talk about schizophrenia. That is Andy
Reid over the last few weeks as far as fourth
downs are concerned, to the point where he, in my mind,
just completely lost his mind. I mean, there's ten minutes
to go in the game. On the previous five drives,

(16:42):
the Texans had seventeen yards and CJ. Stroud looked like
he wanted to be anywhere but Arrowhead Stadium, and on
fourth and one from their own thirty one, they go
for it.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
The offense that hadn't been reliable all night long. You know,
I was in a thirty seven to thirty five game
at that point, Danny, I know that's the point you're making.
You're exactly right. But Andy turned over a different leaf.
What was it about five weeks ago where he went
for fourth down his own territory? He started going for

(17:16):
fourth down in the red zone on fourth and threes.
I mean, this is a guy who pretty much stayed
with let's stick with the points and be willing to punt,
and even punt after he crossed the fifty yard line
with a darn good offense at Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
You've seen some fourth.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
And fives at the opponent's forty eight yard line over
the last five years, haven't you, Danny, And he punts
the ball and analytics might say, oh, come on, Andy,
you got Patrick Mahomes and the net yardage you're going
to get out of this thing is not that great.
So so we go from a guy who's I guess
calling it correctly to generally being a little conservative to

(17:53):
flipping a switch and.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Going the other direction.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
And you know, he's not getting criticized for this, but
was it to score ten nothing? When they got the
touchdown with the unbelievable unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I'll say again run by Kareem Hunt.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Yes, you're playing Houston and they stuffed your run all
game and this isn't you know that was no guarantee
that Kareem Hunt was going to make it in Everyone
actually like just because he's done it well this year,
that he's going to do it every time. I mean,
if he'd got stuff. That's the goal line there, and
it was still ten to nothing. It probably would have
been the ballgame. But everyone says, oh, you know, nobody
talks about that.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Danny. What was he doing? Kicked the field goal? It's
ten to three. You know your defense is fine.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
These two these teams that are down by two scorers
and act like they can't take a field goal to
make it a one score game.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
My brain's about ray to explode. Chris Collinsworth.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
I think he's got to go here, Like, really, he
has to go when he's down by two scores. You know,
why not get one of those scores and then worry
about your fourth downs when you really have to worry
about him, but not at the ten minute.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Mark, which is your focus. Danny.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
This has been a five week or so, five game
or so change in Andy.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Reid, and then it has led to what inconsistency. You know,
one thing about Andy is he usually sticks with his.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Philosophies and has that process orientation and just lives and
dies with it.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
And it works. Danny. It's a great signal to your team.
I'll make the case. Go back to Thanksgiving Day against Dallas.
You had the ball in Dallas's territory four and four
a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
And he didn't go for it, right, I know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
I guess said he flipped the switch.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
But the one aberration in there, the one inconsistency over
those five weeks or so, is the riverboat gambler that
he's turned into punted against Dallas. Well, that's the last
team you need to do, Danny, because their offense. I
know Dallas so well. I told my son when they punted,
I go Dallas. Mind driving ninety arts right, Dallas is

(20:02):
the worst matchup for the Chiefs defense of any team
because guess what they do to blitzes, laugh and throw
the ball to a bunch of different options, including elite
wide receivers, and Dak Prescott is not messed up by blitzing.
So Dallas was just a bad matchup for the Chiefs
in a high, highly offensive game, and he punted.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
In dallas territory. So I don't get it.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
That coaching is not consistent with the Andy Reid that
we've known throughout. Almost every coach I know starts panicking
when things released go against them, and the one guy
did not expect that from it all is Andy Reid.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
I'm not saying he is, but what's going on, Danny?
What changed five weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Also, okay, on the play, it's fourth and one. The
most reliable thing the Chiefs have had all year is
Kareem Hunt in short yardage. And but as you say,
Kareem Hunt, it took a superman played by Kareem Hunt
to score on the fourth and short. On the other time,
they went forward on fourth down and scored the touchdown.
Maybe that all of a sudden now is in the

(21:09):
back of Andy Reid's mine. He's like, oh geez, he
got blown up on that play. It was you know,
it took a heroic effort. So I'm going to empty
the backfield. Empty the backfield on the fourth and one play.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yes, because I heard Andy say something.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
It's it's hard to decipher any of his press conferation.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Now he didn't. There's no information none.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Okay, maybe not for you, but for me, I like, yeah,
he said nothing, which congratulations. But with Steve Spagnolo topics,
I understand everything. I go yes, And with Patrick Mahomes
talks WHOA, I get tons of information and Naggie you know,
same thing.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'm not so much tod but you know some but
Andy kind of said, I think in his post.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Game, Yeah, we ran last time, so we thought we
ought to get away from that. Well, maybe what you
just described is he saw his guy get blown up, right,
and any normal human being would have got knocked sideways. Okay,
because it didn't come from straight on. It came from
just a slight signing, which is the worst at the
goal line.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
Nanny, but Kareem. But your argument is Kareem still did it.
He is becoming reliable.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Why, well, so he's done it all. He's done it
all year. You can't let the one play by the
way which he scored on to get into your head
to the point where not Okay, if you want to
keep the ball in Patrick's hands, fine, play action two.
But you empty the backfield and they they obviously know

(22:40):
you're gonna throw or he's gonna scramble one of the two.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, you still got to No is Andy could think
this thing through. But let me tell you the defenders
that are freezing cold and banging heads out there, okay,
and I don't want you know I'm not talking about
concussions and just talk about football. They will not realize
that if Kareem hunts in the backfield that you might
think it it's.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Not gonna work. Okay, fake the ball to Kareem. I'm
agreeing with you, Danny.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Fake the ball to Kareem, and I bet you there's
at least six Houston Texans who are going to buy
one hundred percent in that Kareem's got the ball right,
maybe eight or nine of them. Okay, if you want
Patrick to throw, okay, but fake it to Kareem first,
because that will divert.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
A ton of attention.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
And it does make you kind of remember the old
days that you know didn't arn't as good, Danny, when
Marty Schottenheimer famously was quoted on a sideline on a
fourth then goal and he's that best player, best play.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
We're giving it to Marcus Allen up the middle, and
you kind of.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Think, yeah, sometimes you don't have to outthink yourself. You know,
Kareem hunts converted almost one Danny on these plays. Yes,
and he's proven that he's a warrior to do it
at the goal line. Why don't we try that right now?

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Now?

Speaker 6 (23:57):
I'm not one who spends a lot of time Monday
more in quarterbacking about which play call that people should use.
But this time I'm okay, Danny going with you and saying,
don't get me empty, give me Kareem hunt in the backfield,
make it seem like he's going to get.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
A ball, and then call whatever play you want. Yeah,
call whatever play.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
I don't even mind if they throw it there, but
not not after he empty.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
The backfield's not empty, and you go, oh, on a
night where you had a record number of drops, let's
really threaten them with we're going to pass, and we
lent every one of you to know we're going to
pass against one of the best pass rushing defenses. Yeah,
that's you know, just those kinds of things really just
to defde odds. But just the game management. I mean,

(24:41):
the guy who's looking at the book in the analytics book,
I want to take the book and just throw it
and say, are you watching the game?

Speaker 4 (24:49):
It's the game, super cold, low score.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
And even Chris Collinsworth said that, you know, the analytics
even when he said they should go for it, he said,
the analytics say maybe you should go for it there,
but you know the analytics are based on and he's
the head of PFF. I mean the analytics are based
on thousands of plays, regardless of what time of the
game they are, what kind of a game it is,
it's just a bunch of plays. So anyway, But I

(25:14):
did think during the game, as Patrick Mahomes is struggling
to a nineteen quarterback rating, that once upon a time,
when we always talk about this, Vince Lombardi said football
is the greatest team game in the world except for
the quarterback. And that was before the quarterback wasn't even
a third of what it's as important it is now.

(25:34):
But what he says resonated last night, because no matter what,
it's still a team game, and if the rest of
your team sucks, I don't care. If you get the
best quarterback, you score ten.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Yeah, Danny, it's amazing what Andy Reid and Steve Spagnola
and Clark Hutt and Beach and these guys have done,
from culture to resources to decision making whatever. That winning
culture I've been saying for many many years is not

(26:09):
like any other football culture around. Almost everybody has a
low level fever, okay, a cough something.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Like every football program, Danny, you get young people, maybe
not you know, the most mature people and throw them
in a room and give them a bunch of money,
and you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And
you think that you've got a fine tuned machine, You're
kidding yourself.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
I know what big time football is like, and it
is everyone's got a big level of messiness.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
And that Andy and these guys have been able to
have everybody appearing in every indication I think in the
right direction is incredible and it is the most valuable
thing you could ever have as an organization in the
NFL is to somehow have people pulling in the same direction.
You can beat almost everybody if you just had a

(27:07):
clean shop. Okay, Well, the Chiefs have done that. This team,
this roster is not dominant, Danny. They're not that good, okay.
And it sounds stupid for me to say that about
this team that was favored to win the Super Bowl
by the oddsmakers not more than like two or three

(27:27):
weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Right, And I was telling my buddies, you.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Know, postgame, I go, Chiefs can still make the playoffs,
and if they do, they're probably going to be favored
in every one of those games until the AFC championship game,
so they're not dead in many people's minds, but athletically
in your.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Equation, I'm trying to relate back to your equation.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
Of how great Patrick Mahomes has to be. Who is
that good a player on the Kansae Chiefs team. You know, Oh,
our center and our right guard are.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Really good, Danny.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
How much better are they than two or three other
sinners and right guards in league?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
And with no help there, it's ineffectual, so it doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
And then you got Travis Kelsey, who's okay, but he's
not dominating Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
He's just a good tied end.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
And then maybe maybe Chris Jones when he's turned up,
which makes you even more, maybe even more annoyed. When
you see Chris Jones like he was last night, there's
no excuse for what he's like eighty percent of the time.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
Now, that's correct, because this team needed him to turn
it on earlier in the year. And guess what was
there any indicator Danny that that was needed?

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah? I think they went to Brazil and lost to
the Chargers.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Okay, and he could have been upset or blamed for
that one. Herbert Scramble to end the game. Okay, if
you want to go there, but he ought to have
embarrassment or sense of urgency right at that point. Okay,
to go, I got to play like he played.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Against the Texans. Do that in that middle third of
the season. Danny and the Chiefs aren't in his mind
exactly exactly. That's a missed opportunity.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
But I just want to say, I mean, I like
Nick Bolton as a guy who's, you know, like the
perfect spouse for Steve Spagnola, if that makes sense, Like
on his own may not be the perfect person, but
with Steve Spagnola, I'll give you his play. But really,
you just look around the lineup. There are not very
many Chiefs that are elite right now. And Patrick Mahomes

(29:27):
and the coaching staff and the organization is pulling along
a roster that's got a plow deep in the ground.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Right They got a losing record right now, Danny.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yep, they do so, and and what we need for
them to do even even that, you know, any hope
is based on four consecutive wins. What what is what
has shown you that this team can win four straight games?

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I'm not that's well said. That's what he said.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
But I will say just to keep open minded here, Danny. Oh,
they could if the Chiefs go four and Oh. Here's
the equation. If you're listening on Monday, before the Monday
night game, Okay, the Eagles are playing the Chargers, and
if the Charge the Chargers have five games left, they
must go two and three in those games. If the

(30:20):
Chiefs go undefeated, they must only win two more games.
But of their three losses, they must lose to the
Chiefs directly. That's easy next weekend, okay, but they also
must lose to Denver. If the Chargers go two and
three but beat Denver, they'll beat Kansas City on the tiebreaker.

(30:40):
So there's a little bit more specific need right here.
They've got to lose the division games to have the
Chiefs get there in the tiebreaker. The Chiefs will beat
the Chargers in a tiebreaker. I want to break that
news for you, Danny. If the Chiefs and Chargers are tied,
and the Chargers lost to Denver and the Chiefs, then

(31:02):
the Chiefs will win the tiebreaker.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I've done.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
I've went dug down deep enough to realize that equation
because I was going to hell, Hey, what happens.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
If we go through the first couple of tiebreakers and
I don't know. I went and figured it out.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
The Chiefs are in good shape there. Chiefs go four
and oh, Chargers go two and three or worse. And
there's still chance. It's crazy because that Chargers might but
that's all. Chargers might lose three games.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah they might, but that's just the Chargers. They got
other They got other fish to fry too, So we'll see.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
I think it in a good shape with the others.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
The cults are going to follow the bottom of the barrel,
and looking around, I just think Chisco four to oh.
Chargers lose to Denver, Kansas City in one other game.
The Chiefs are still going to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
We'll see if it plays out. A lot of people
don't seem to be concerned with postseason put football, and
we'll talk about that among other things as we check
in on the colleges and the college football playoff. Coming
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real quick. Want to get your thoughts on Colin Kline.
It was a ray of a college football sunshine. I
would say he was refreshing and aw shucks and nervous

(34:36):
and crying from time to time. And that's one thing
that a college nation, as it were, a college team's nation,
can be happy with amidst a bunch of other bad stuff.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Absolutely. I mean, it has been such a disappointing week
around college football in my opinion, Danny.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
So you know, let's just look look out at the
landscape and you and I I think, really enjoy doing
a show college football game day. We enjoy doing this podcast,
and it just brings out a certain level of long
term joy, you know, just the game can have different
aspects and issues pop up, but it always has had issues.
So I think you and I have had a great

(35:18):
fun time on Saturday mornings, not only working together, but
just a joy about how can you not feel good
about college football if you're just a fan, or especially
if you're alumnus or go to games, whatever you are,
we're proud to be excited about it.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
This last week is not like that. Okay.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
So you asked me about a certain subject. So let's
go to that's the that's the landscape. It's dark out there, okay.
You know we're in that part of the earth when
the sun doesn't come up for like.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Two hours a day or whatever.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
Yes, except for that two hours of sunshine, really is
Call and Climb in my world, Danny, is not that
any wish that you wish that Chris Climban retired. I
was happy and fine with Chris climbing and have been
excited about the twenty twenty six season.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Let's go he did a really nice job with his
seven years.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
But that's not what you asked me about. You asked
me about callin Klin and we don't have all day.
This is the most easy answer for me. And you
can start putting your Danny klinskial hat on. You're very
fair guy. You can feel and see and point out
and address bias, and so you say, oh, man stands
very biased. Yes, I'm very biased. Okay, that's number one.

(36:27):
I know Colin so well really a friend. He and
his wife's Scary Spaney's daughter, the old famous Cancie chief
Gary Spaney worked for the KNC Chiefs forever his daughter Shalen.
I mean, I know the Spaining family, I know the
Klein family, and you put the two together.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
I'm friends with Colin Klein period, real friends.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
With him, and have been a mentor of his in
the College of Business talking about other things.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Did he didn't know he's going to go to coaching.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
He was getting a business degree when he was an
athlete and through the business college, not through athletics. I
was working with him and officially his mentor. So we
know each other so well as you're talking about a
super biased guy, SAand I'm happy for calling Klein as
a friend. I'm happy if he's the new Penn state
coach or the new pitt State coach. Okay down in

(37:17):
the State of Kansas division too, I'd be rooting for Colin,
monitoring him like I did with his time at Texas
A and M and Mike Elcho. He taught me a
lot about what Mike Elcho's about and how things work
at A and M, so all those things are very true.
But I think, Danny, that you have an unbelievable capability,
be ability of being objective, and hopefully your listeners consider

(37:39):
me the same I think you do. I'm going to
take all that bias I have and step up and
talk about objectively. Callin client's awesome. He is awesome, Danny.
The mess that we're in in college athletics. Nick Saban's
probably saying this isn't for me. Maybe Chris Cleman said

(38:01):
this isn't for me. That would be okay for a
person to say, Danny, right, I mean, it's even an
objective person. But when you're in your thirties and you've
been used to the world only for fifteen years of
grown upness, you don't get caught up in all the
negativity about oh, I can't believe you got nil and
you got this and you got transfer portal. Guys who

(38:21):
are his age calling clients, they just think this is normal.
Remember when your grandparents used to grap about stuff and
you go like it didn't even register with you, Danny,
But no, we're used to this.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
You know, cell phones. I can't believe you have a
cell phone. What a distraction?

Speaker 3 (38:36):
You know?

Speaker 6 (38:37):
This doesn't matter. I think Colin's ready for the modern mentality.
I think Indiana is the best example of don't give
me any excuses, Danny about how limited everyone is in
college football right now, that only the big boys with
the big money are gonna get a chance.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
No, that's not the case. Colin's not going to buy
into that, and he's going to be very, very good.
He is so mature. He's in his thirties, but he
had his brain is way closer to fifty five. And
I know him so well.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
And I talked to him Danny, one on one on Saturday,
and I could not be more impressed.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
I was one hundred percent confident in him.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
But every word he said in every question I asked him,
and guess what, I could ask him some hard ones.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Okay, well it's just him and I. Can you imagine, Danny,
I can.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
Ask him the real hard questions and his answers were perfect.
And I didn't have an agenda, like it has to
be that. I was just open minded, like, hey, what
do you.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Think about this? And his answer was calm, consistent and perfect.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
I was worried about him giving me canned answers because
now he's the head coach you've seen that, Danny. How
don't you guys who really are solid and good guys
and suddenly they turn into have to be I have
to be like a head coach. Calin Kline was talking
to me as if he were twenty eight years old,
and his thoughts. Every word he said was sincere accurate

(40:02):
with conviction.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
I am so excited. I am so excited. This guy
is on.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
I'm going to be very surprised if he doesn't end
up being a great coach. And even at a young
age with no experience. You know, Gary Barnett has told
us takes three years to know when you're a new
head coach. I give him some room to grow. But no,
this guy's wired. His dad was a college coach. He
learned under Bill Snyder, Chris Climb and Mike Elcho and

(40:31):
he is tough as nails. But he has not changed
one ounce from the guy who was grinding along everything.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
I asked him.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
I was like, Oh my gosh, that's perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect.
I am super excited. No matter where he went to coach, right,
he was going to be successful. But the fact he
knows everybody at Case State and the rhythm of everything
he knows that Willie the Wildcat is what Willie the
Wildcat's called? You know, does he know what the Niitney
Lyons name is? If he would be into Penn State coach? Right,

(41:01):
all that crap you have to deal with of meeting
this donor and this AD and this associate ad and
this basketball coach, you know all those things. Man, it
takes a lot of energy to keep up with your
new school and act like you know everything about it
because you represent them.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Those kind of things are going to be easy for calling.
So yeah, sorry it takes so long. Data. I should
have just said, I am so excited, this is going
to be great.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Well, we wanted the details. And one thing he's probably
gonna have to deal with in the future, well, maybe
they'll just win so many games they'll never be in
this position. But whether or not to accept a Bowl invitation.
Case State says no, Iowa State says no, and they're
fine to half a million bucks apiece, and I think rightly,
so frankly. And then Kansas, because everybody's saying I don't

(41:44):
want to go, they get the chance to go and
they say no also, which is kind of surprising to me.
But anyway, they don't get fine, because really they weren't.
You know, they're they're just got tossed in and we're
not part of a bowl agreements for the league. But
and then Notre Dame ops out too. I think the
entire bowl structure has got to be in real peril.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Yeah, you're right, they've blown up everything. I mean, this
is ridiculous. It's it's sad not that you have to
have bowls.

Speaker 6 (42:18):
Okay, you don't have to have them, Danny there. Their
business is on their own. You know, they didn't do
what's best for college football. They did what's best for
their bowl, their city, their advertiser, who named their bowl.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
You know, I get that they they.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
Were distracted also, So I guess we just need to
I'm I'm the saying this is a crazy thought that
I don't believed any but we probably need to with
what we saw this year, blow the bulls up.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
And go to a thirty two team playoff. I mean,
they've just made this like, if you don't make the
nca tournament, who cares? Why should I play more?

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Well, the unit still kind of drags along. Are they
still stuck with it? You know, it may not be
your favorite thing. But these people who said, if you're
not a part of the college football playoff, I just
don't even know why a player would be motivated. That
was what we were hearing, you know, last year when
we were talking about going to a twelve team playoff,
and I kind of chuckled that said, well, no, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
I mean, the Notre Dame is going to be mad
if they then will.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Get in, but they're going to go playing in a
real good bowl, maybe on you know, January second or whatever.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
I totally I want to blow them up any chance
I get. I want to blow them up and use
them as the best example about being a bunch of quitters.
And I do not understand it.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
Okay, but you go down to even Ku and they say, hey,
you get to play another game. And you thought your
season was a disaster when you threw an interception against Utah.
You were better than Utah, You're better than Arizona, and
they gave you a reprieve. Why wouldn't you want to
go out and show it and win a game and
say I went.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
To a bowl game in practice for a month and
just go get.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
A super nice hotel and the red carpet laid out
and hang out with your boys, and oh my Goshanny,
maybe I can't believe that these teams said no, starting
with Notre Dames the most obvious. But I'm watching it
all over the country knowing about what things are going on,
kind of behind the scenes, and all these bulls were
trying to just figure out and beg teams to play

(44:19):
all day Sunday, you know, just began come on, will
you please play? And they couldn't figure out who was
going to go to what bowl, and the interest levels
just fell off the end. I mean, if the players
are going to say, you know, I don't want to play,
and I'm not sure why the administrators allow them to.
I wish that they'd get their profit sharing cut or
their NFL NIL cut right. If the players vote and

(44:41):
the vote matters, then they deserved it to lose some money, Okay,
like that five hundred thousand dollars at Iowa State in
case state I had to play. If the players really
voted and they are a big part is this, they
should have told them this five hundred thousand dollars is
coming out of your pocket. Okay, we're going to profit
share twenty point four million dollars, and if you want
to spend five hundred dollar dollars of your portion of it,

(45:02):
have at it, right, have at it because it's on you.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
You don't want to play.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
There's so many questions to be answered by the way
Missouri will play in a bowl game, though, play a
pretty intriguing game of Virginia in the Gator Bowl.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
It used to be.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
It still is kind of referred to it to off hand.
It's the tax Layer Bowl officially, but they are going
to play bowl football and it looks like a pretty
interesting game.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
I'm very excited about that, and I like the Bulls.

Speaker 6 (45:28):
I like the competition of, you know, playing against other
conferences when you really know your team and you have
something to play for. So yeah, I'm super excited about
Missouri how that they're excited about going.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
It should be a challenging game. We're not sure how.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
Good the ACC teams are, but who cares. You know,
Virginia is a representative team, one of them that was
near the top, and they've got a good capability of
a coaching staff that has a philosophy to do things well. Sure,
Missouri should be favored. SEC teams can be favored over
ACC teams. Sure, Missouri is a better team this year

(46:04):
than Virginia, but you better respect your opponent's a little
bit like the NFL. If I tell you, oh this,
you know, ten win team is better than this six
win team, You'll say, yes.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
You know that's pretty easy. Then I tell you what's
the Vegas spread? What's it usually spread? Danny five points?
Six points?

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Oh seven and a half?

Speaker 6 (46:23):
You know their competitive games, right, so this is not
blowout city. And don't be embarrassed about playing Virginia and
giving it your all.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Missouri. Sure, it'll be a little embarrassing.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
You know, it'll be fun for KU fans to forget
that they didn't want to go play in a bowl
game and had a chance to do it and didn't
do it. They'll give the Missouri fans all kinds of
heck if Virginia beach Missouri. Right, yeah, but that's not
the way you should think. Missouri should be very proud.
If you go out and win this game, get your
ninth win, and play a team like Virginia as good
as Virginia out closer to their part of the world

(46:55):
than yours, you should feel great about yourself.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Go Missouri. I'm cheering for them.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
I hope they played a represent football the right way
because you know, what's happened this last.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
Week or so, my head's just spinning. Yep, it is.
It doesn't make any sense to me.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Well, well, the Bulls have been in large part blown
up because of the playoff. But the playoff field was announced.
I think they actually got it right, maybe except for Alabama,
who looked awful in the game in the SEC championship game,
but I guess the rationalities. You don't penalized team for
playing that game. And I think Miami deserved to be

(47:33):
in over Notre Dame. They beat him head to head.
I think Notre Dame's only mad because they were ranked
higher than them before. Well, you're not supposed to pay
attention to that. It's the last ranking that matters. They
beat you too bad. So and then the two you know,
outside leagues get a bid, and so we have Cinderella
games in James Madison playing at Oregon. Do I expect

(47:53):
them to be competitive?

Speaker 4 (47:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (47:54):
I don't. And then we have epic power games like
Alabama at Oklahoma on a camp site. So this part's exciting.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
Yeah, I can't wait to forget about what has initially
happened around the bulls and some of the controversy in
the College Football Playoff. The real controversy in the College
Football Playoff is because the conferences has got too big
and they don't.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Have divisions, right, the tiebreakers. Why did Alabama?

Speaker 6 (48:22):
There are four teams that lost one game in the SEC.
Why did Alabama go to the championship game? Well, it
shouldn't have been penalized for going, especially since they beat
Georgia at Georgia. But you know, let's get divisions and
find out real champions and that will set up the
games because you know what else got blown up the
bulls you talked about, how about the conference championship games?

Speaker 4 (48:44):
They thread?

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Yeah, a thread right now as well? You know, for
Notre Dame, the fact is you said it, well, criteria
number two of the College Football Playoff Committee's rules. The
rules cannot be said to be flawless, but they are
the rules. It said number two on the list, Danny
was head to head competition, So Notre Dame doesn't have

(49:07):
a big argument.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Yeah, and you know, hey, I think Notre Dame is
a better team than Miami. I'd pick them by seven
eight points if they were playing I think they're better
they I think they've looked good on the field, but
they lost to Miami.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Too bad.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
It's one of the criteria, right, we all understand that
criteria in every sport, but in the college football playoff
they had that.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
What makes you feel kind of ugly in your stomach? Me,
I don't say you. I'm not saying everybody. Here's what
makes me feel ugly with what happened.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
One is, these same people made these ratings every week,
including last week, and you are disciplined enough to say
that doesn't matter. Only the final one does. But there
were no additional games played by Miami or Notre Dame, right,
and for many weeks they had evaluated Notre Dame better
than Miami. So to flip them at this point is
ridiculous because they should have weigh they should.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Have done it four weeks ago. Okay, you would have
done that, Danny, because you.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
Respected their policies. But here's what's crazy. I'm not a
big conspiracy guy, Okay, I don't get into that much complication.
I love the NFL, where you play the games and
you know the rules, who's getting in and out, and
you have divisions and conferences and all that. Okay, but
how about this, I really feel an ugly feeling, and

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I felt it when all the games ended on Saturday night,
when Duke, who's not with five losses going to get
into the College Football Playoff? That even it's a powerful conference,
there's a rule that only the five best conferences get
their champions in, and unbelievably two of them are there, tou.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Lane and James Madison to tump out Trump out Duke.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
So when Duke lost very predictably, we could say the
ACC is in trouble and may not get a team
into the College Football Playoff. Okay, I said they're going
to switch Miami in. They're going to take care of
the ACC and bring Miami in.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
I Duke one, by the way, just to so Duke one, Yeah,
Duke one.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
And so Duke's not getting in and the ACC's left
out except yeah, Notre Dame, who's been.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
Ahead of Miami forever and ever and ever, you know,
for a long time.

Speaker 6 (51:21):
Here could be passed up in the last poll, which
shows no consistency at all. But what changed, I think, Danny,
what changed is Duke law Duke one, right, Duke would
have lost if Duke would have lost, Danny, I really
believe that Virginia would have been in to the College

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Football Playoff and Miami would have been held out from
Notre Dame just because that's the way they ranked it
only like seven days ago.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, I agree there was a conduct. Yeah, I agree
there wasn't consistency, But in the end, by their own rules,
Miami should be in. So I agree with you that
they certainly should have been voting Miami ahead of Notre
Dame in the previous poll.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
I just think the conspiracy theory and me goes, oh, sure,
I think they did it because they didn't want an
ACC league to not have a big a playoff team
a playoff team because each conference commissioner they right now
are the most powerful people in college football.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
There's no commissioner.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
Danny Klinkskill, by the way, had a great suggestion, let's
get a football commissioner, right you don't have one. It's
the right now. The presidents don't matter, the NCAA does
not matter, The College Football Playoff Committee doesn't matter. The
College Football Playoff doesn't matter, because all that is is
the commissioners of the conference.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
So the most powerful people in the world are the commissioners.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
And if you would have disrespected the ACC commissioner in
the fourth best conference in the country by not even
allowing a team in under whatever rules there are had
internal problems.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
So I'm good. I'm okay with this just because you
said it. Well.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
Miami beat Notre Dame hadad, so I'm okay with them
being in and Notre Dame being out.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
In Indiana the top ranked team in the college football remarkable,
the losing his team or the second losing his team
in the history of FBS is the number one team
Stan Always a pleasure talking about things both murky and sunshiny,
and always a pleasure. We'll be back at it again
next week.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
Thanks for the time, Okay, Danny, thanks so much.

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