September 29, 2025 • 45 mins
A fascinating weekend of twists and turns, ups and downs, bouncebacks and more. The Chiefs made a statement, Kansas State looked revived, Mizzou checked a box, and Kansas revisited a theme they don’t want to. The Ryder Cup somehow got dramatic and drama was the theme at Kansas Speedway. Join Stan Weber and me for football, and I’ll take on the rest. Join the fun!
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some good, some bad, some in between, some unexpected, some
completely shocking, some not shocking at all. Will get a
pulse check from Stan Weber on the Kansas City Chiefs
(00:36):
and the college football teams. He is our friend. Today,
Chiefs win easily. The Ravens sort of gave up in
the game. Lamar Jackson made a couple of mistakes when
they were still in the game. I don't know if
they could have stopped the Chiefs all day long. All
seems well with the offense for now, Xavi, you're worthy
back and making things hum. We will check in with
Stan and get what he thinks about that. And in
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the coll ranks, Missouri basically had a training session against
the University of Massachusetts, but now they get a bye
week and then they get Alabama, who looked good in
beating Georgia. The Kansas State Wildcats did a Kansas City
Chiefs on Saturday, and they made adjustments and they won
their game against UCF. Very impressive performance and bitter disappointment
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for Kansas. Another game that gets away, and it's becoming
a pattern in the last couple of days in close
games for Kansas as they fall late in their matchup
and they fall to Cincinnati, and they of course now
have to play a road game against that UCF team
that played Kansas State reasonably well. So lots of things
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to talk about with the Jayhawks also, and of course
the Royal season came to an end. They won on Sunday.
That gave them a winning record. That's kind of nice.
They scored a lot of runs, that's kind of nice.
They're not in the playoffs, that's not kind of nice.
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and I spent a lot of time on Sunday waiting
for the Europeans to finally put away the Ryder Cup,
and they almost didn't because the US and a basically
impossible situation, almost made it all the way back, and
they certainly made it exciting at the end, and they
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Welcome back to Monday Musings Danny and Friends Sports rap
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presented by ASFCA. I was going to give Stan a
little breather, but then I looked at the landscape of
the college football and the pro football and decided, well,
I need the expertise of my man Stan on this Monday.
The Chiefs bounce back. Let's start there.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Stan.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm having a little trouble wrapping my arms around what
I can take from this. Certainly it's a get well moment.
It was a game going in that the Chiefs. Really
I don't think they had to win, but they probably
had to win more than the Ravens did, although the
Ravens could have used it too. Ravens came out, They're
running the football, they were doing some things well, and
then Lamar Jackson made a bad play on a blitz
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that confused him and from there it just went to
a complete capitulation by the Ravens. They've given up points
and yards to everybody. So I don't think I'm going
to take anything away from the Chiefs, but I'm having it.
Like I said, I'm having a little bit of trouble
wrapping my arms around this one.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Well, it's much more interesting than I thought it would
be for different reasons. This game was a battle not
for the number one seed, which it normally would have
been hyped up for, like these maybe the two best
teams in the NFL going at it, Let's see what happens.
And usually Lamar Jackson can't make plays against the Chiefs
and loses the game. And that was probably the lean.
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You know, I thought the Chiefs would win the game,
but I thought balt More really could get things going
and cause some havoc and trouble to the Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
And that was the first drive.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
The first drive is what I thought the Baltimore Ravens
would be, you know, just all day long, saying you
may be able to move the ball, but you're going
to have to score a lot to beat us, because
we really have a good offense. And then it all
ended with one interception, and who knows.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
What happened then.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
But now we're looking at a whole different scenario where
the Chiefs might have broken.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
The Baltimore Ravens that they may have.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Just teams that start one to three do not usually
farewell in the end, and you could say, well, I
had an expectation, forget the expectations. When you're one and three,
you don't farewell the rest of the year and don't
make the playoffs normally, and the Ravens may be in there.
I went into this game saying all along, oh, I
don't care which of these teams loses, They're still going
to the playoffs, and right now I wonder, so this
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is really great work by the Chiefs to take out
an opponent like this, because you're constantly battling the Ravens
and the Buffalo Bills right of used to that, and
then you got to worry about the Chargers and the
Broncos coming up and maybe being a factor. But what
they did to the Ravens is a longer lasting issue.
So I think that game is mostly about the Ravens
and where.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
They may be looking, and they may be in.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Big trouble because I've never seen a team broken like
that in spirit in the NFL. The bad decisions. Two
quarterbacks to the Ravens just threw the ball out of
bounds on fourth down rather than throwing it up for
grabs on the field. How can you do that? It
makes no sense. A fifth grade quarterback knows it's fourth down.
Throw the ball to somebody in the field. Now for
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the Chiefs, interesting question you bring up, Danny, because of
all of the folding of the Baltimore Ravens after one interception.
I mean that one play by Chanel just turned everything
around and from then on it was all Kansas City
and Baltimore made it an easy run with bad defense
and then really poor offense. So where do you evaluate
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the Chiefs. I still, Danny am going to say, this
is the NFL. There was a lot at stake when
the Ravens flew down the field and scored. I thought
that was a legitimate adversity for the Kansas City Chiefs,
and I think they responded in a way that reminds
me of the past Kansas City Chiefs teams. So early
in this year, I would say they looked a little
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like they have the last couple of years, which is
a team that knows how to win in the end,
has the best coach, best coordinators, and best quarterback, and
that's a great place to start know how to win
close games. But they really aren't that dominant and that
much better than their opponents. That's the Chiefs of the
last two seasons in my opinion, especially last year, and
I thought we were seeing the same this year without
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the last second wins or miracles or whatever. But I'll
tell you what, Danny, this reminded me more of an
optimism that the Chiefs could easily bounce back and be
a really good football team. They're doing it with defense,
and right now, no one's playing good defense in the NFL,
not the good teams like the Ravens they are. Sivuffalo
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is watching New Orleans going up and down the field
New Orleans on the road. So there's only really one
team right now playing good defense in the NFL that's
considered one of the top teams the NFL, and that's
the Canca Chiefs. And boy, that's a good way to play.
So yeah, I feel a lot better, Danny. You remind
me because you have such good opinions. Just hearing you
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say that makes me start going. I better reevaluate a
little bit and see because I come with a big
smile on my face after that game. The ability to
run the ball a little bit, get some speed in
the backfield with a change up, rookie Patrick seeming in
control throwing the ball downfield some it just looked like
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the King See Chiefs to me, like, Wow, why aren't
they the best team in the NFL? Who's better, who's
more consistent? And a lot of my confidence, Danny is
the fact that they play good defense.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, I don't really know who else does.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, I guess I'm in the camp that. Yeah, I
think the Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes for the
first time in forever. I thought Xavier Worthy obviously added
a lot and it changed the dynamic of the team.
For Shard Smith, his numbers weren't very good, but he
seems to, you know, coming out of the backfield to
catch in passes. He seems to add an element. But
I just thought the Ravens just kind of quit, and
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you know, Lamar got hurt. I guess either that or
they just said, well, this game's lost, so we're not
going to let Lamar tweak that hamstring anymore. And so
I guess I'm waiting for and This is a good
way to segue it this week because Jacksonville has a
little mojo going. They're in their home field. I guess
this is sort of like, I don't know, in golf,
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when you get a skin, sometimes you play a game
where you have to validate it or or you know,
validation by proving it a second time. So I guess
I'm holding my water until I see what happens in Jacksonville.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Well that's okay too. I really think that's a good evaluation.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
I guess pig or Horse or the other games, you
get that last letter and you.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Say, okay, that was nice. Spot got to prove it.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
And there is a little bit of proof because Jacksonville
comes at the Chiefs at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
We saw CBS thinking that this is one of the
feature games of the whole season, ratings expected to be
off the charts, And here are the Baltimore Ravens rolling
into Kansas City. And even though they played last year twice,
they don't play each other that much. So this is
a feature game for the top and it's at home.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
You turn around, you got the exact opposite you got
Monday Night Football which seems to not have the feature
games in my opinion. You got Jacksonville, who has not
been someone to worry about the last year or so,
and Trevor Lawrence was kind of written off it. Maybe
he's not a good quarterback, not in the elite group
of quarterbacks. Etn is a big time back out of Clemson,
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but then got hurt in the pros and you don't
think of him being a very big deal for Jacksonville.
But guess what, Jacksonville is playing solid football. They are feisty,
up and coming team right now, which is showing perseverance,
and they're playing the game at home. So it's just
about the opposite where the Ravens were considered a powerhouse
coming to Kansas City, and now you actually may be
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playing a team that's hitting on all cylinders and playing
much better than the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
So I'll give you that this game's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
The fight that they took in the game to San Francisco,
having to kind of win the game then rewin the game,
that's not easy to do out there.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
We know San.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Francisco has been a very good team the last five years,
and they thought they were back this year.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Brock Party is back at quarterback.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
All Jacksonville did is play solid football then have an
explosive play from ATM. So yeah, I think you can say,
go out and prove it. Show me more than one
week Kansas City. That is all fair, but it reminded me.
It reminded me of the Chiefs of the past. That's
the feeling I got. Now, do not take away the
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emphasis that you had. The word quit and the Baltimore
Ravens were stacked on top of each other and poor coaching.
I mean there were bad decisions.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Made out there. I'm a Harball guy.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I mean I like John Harball. If we had our
top five coaches. That little list is harder and hard
to fill in Danny around the league, but he would
have been in my top five and maybe number two.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
But man, yesterday turned that upside down.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
That was not a feisty team, a team that quit,
didn't have good answers. Nothing was good. That's why I
wouldn't be surprised if they were broken for this season,
which is shocking to me. Like Cincinnati, what was last
year when he lost Joe Burrow? Like, oh they started
off slow and lost Burrow.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
They're done. They came back a little bit in the end.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
But Cincinnati didn't make the playoffs last year when I
thought that they may be a super Bowl level team.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
The Ravens may be playing that role as well, So
I'll give you that.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I think that the headlines, if I'm a national person
and not interested in the Chiefs any more than anything else,
is about Baltimore's trouble and quitting, laying down like I've
not seen anybody in a long time. That was embarrassing
what the Ravens did.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let's turn to the college game and let's get past
Missouri real quick, because not only did they play you, Mass,
but they have a bye this week before they're big
matchup against Alabama, so we'll be able to talk about
that in college game Day and perhaps here as well.
But Missouri went out, did the job that they needed
to do, get to play some backups, didn't get anybody hurt.
So I guess it was just check in a box
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for the Tigers.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yes, it just took a little longer to do, which
is almost like there's a conspiracy theory. Danny. You're like,
why did they let U Mass stay in the game
as long as they did, Because for Bulah got to
throw the ball twenty nine times in the game, right,
hardy get If he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy, he
needed to put up one hundred and thirty yards rushing
in three touchdowns. You know, he couldn't leave the game
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after sixty yards in a twenty one nothing lead. So
it really worked out well. It didn't get injured. The
starter's got to play a little longer than possible. But
at the end of the day, total domination, easy win
at forty two to six, and the offense for UMass
couldn't move it at all, no surprise. So here we go.
And if everyone wants to sign off Alabama not being
(16:09):
the same, not being Nick saban like, Okay, I'll agree
with you. They're not Nick saban like. But that was impressive.
That was impressive for them to go beat Georgia at Georgia.
You can't start talking down. You know, if you're a
Kansas fan and you want to act like Missou do
did nothing when they play or beat Alabama, I don't
think that's going to work. No, they just went to
Georgia and won the game. So what a big game.
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In two weeks Missouri going to be ranked Alabama is
a top ten type team and this is going to
be a super feature game two weeks down the road.
So Missouri did what they needed to a really favorable
home schedule. I know they needed to beat Kansas, but
other than that, you know, not really tested. They've done
everything they need to and now the season starts in
full with them rightfully ranked in the top twenty five.
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It's going to be a big time game. We'll get
a lot more time to talk about it. But congratulations,
MISSOI you did what you need to get to this
point in the season.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, Maszoo kept the season rolling. They restart came from
the Kansas State Wildcats after a bye. They play UCF
dangerous team that kind of looked the part during portions
of the game, but the Cats were just better across
the board.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yeah, you know, from k State's perspective, they will want to,
you know, put out first.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
This is the first game they've had Dylan.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Edwards and he was going to be their future guy
this year and he ended up having a big seventy
five yard touchdown, having over one hundred and fifty yards
rushing and all those things. So maybe k State is
just a better team with Dylan Edwards if he can
stay healthy. Not the biggest guy, so that really helped.
But they really before Dylan did his thing in the game,
Avery Johnson ran the football and was an effective runner
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when he did run the football. And then they also
brought in Blake Barnett, quarterback for KSE State that hadn't
played yet. He's a backup guy. I have been pretty
excited about what he might bring in the future. You
know there's going to be a day when Avery Johnson
isn't the starting quarterback, but they've chose to bring him
in and use him as the running quarterback. So Avery
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stepped aside to the running back position and Barnett in
the second series of the game ran the ball four
straight times and ran out the way Bill Snyder would run.
A quarterback with physicality, multiple guys banging off of him
as he fell forward. So a little bit of quarterback
run game manufactured with a different quarterback and then Avery
running effectively.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Dylan Edwards. Yeah, Case they hit the reset button.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And I think with a week off and that win
week off before they won, then you're just going to
see how good Case State is. Doesn't mean we know
how good they're going to be, Danny, a little bit
like your chief steal. That's some good information, but let's
see what happens next week when you go on the
road to Baylor. But I think that the kind of
negativity or burden that they had coming into that game,
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that starting with Ireland and ending on a Friday night
in Arizona, all of that I think is in the
rear view mirror, not on the record, okay, because that
don't mean you're going to be Bowl eligible. Kansas was,
you know, at this point last year looking at their record,
going what the heck? And then they started playing games
and winning and playing well. But they didn't get back
to the six wins. So there's no guarantee the Case
state's going to do that. But from an on field perspective, Danny,
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they've been cleansed. That gaming use against UCF was legitimate
enough pushed them enough that now they know, we're fine,
let's go forward. We got Dylan Edwards back, and that
means the rest of the schedule pretty much. If you're
an odds maker, I haven't looked. I don't spend my
time doing this, but I would say every game is
pretty close to being an even game.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
The rest of the way for KSE State, almost every
game is just going to be like an NFL game
where either.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Team could win the game, and that means there's a
challenge but also an opportunity for KSE State.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
We'll see what the real case states like.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Starting this next two games is at Baylor home against TCU,
competition that you can win if you play well, and
you could lose to both of them very easily if
you mess around well.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Not messing around, but lose the Kansas Jayhawks and this
has started to become a theme. It had to be
addressed by Lance Leifold after the game. He said he
understood the question about losing close games. I'm not even
gonna think about that first, Dan. What I'm thinking about
first for this year's Kansas Jayhawks is they can't stop anybody.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Yeah, we hit that. That may be happening. When we
went into the Missouri game. They did a nice job
against Presno State. You know, there's no doubt about that
in case. They controlled the game. I mean Kansas controlled
the game. They did everything you could want. Next game
is just a nobody. Then he went to Columbia and
they're feisty, they're effective, they're good on offense, they don't quit.
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All those things were nice, but they couldn't stop Missouri.
Missouri was rolling for basically five hundred yards. And now
you play Cincinnati, and obviously that was the story of
the game, because we had said going into the game
the Jaylen Daniels had played great early in the year,
good for a couple of games, but not dominant, and
it'd be nice to see him come back to his
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dominant self.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
He did.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
He was his dominant self. And you bring Emmanuel Henderson,
the Alabama transfer man. It sounds good when you say
you have an Alabama transfer, right You're like.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Oh, I expect that guy to be good. Well, he
looks the party does.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
When he gets the ball and runs down the field,
You're like, oh, that doesn't look like a normal big
twelve player. That looks like a great SEC player. So
those two guys lit it up and did everything you
could ever want, other than fumbling the ball near the
goal line, which really hurt Kansas right there, close to
getting seven points in a high scoring game.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
They lost one opportunity.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
But Williams comes in as a running back, does a
good job.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Kansas's offense is just good period.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
But the defense, Danny has not shown us anything to
know how they're going to stop people. I mentioned earlier
in the year that they were getting it done with
a defensive coordinator being very aggressive, a little bit like
Steve Spagnola.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
But it's unfair to be compared.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
To Steve Steve Spagnola because he not only calls exotic
stuff called exotic stuff that works perfectly, you know, like
he's he's three steps ahead of the offense impeccable, and
he knows exactly how you're going to respond to where
his pressures are, and he teaches that next level player
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to say, because he brought this blitz, they're going to
go here, so be ready, and then that guy's waiting
to intercept the pass or something. My point is is
that Kansas was bringing people from everywhere and it's not
going to be impeccable when you're playing with the Jayhawks defense.
But they haven't been able to just stand up and
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physically take on the blocks and make you feel confident
that it's only going to be a three or.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Four yard run every other player or something. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't see the front group six, seven, eight, whatever
you want to call it. I don't see any of
those guys dominating. For instance, go back a few seasons ago,
Booker was a defensive end if I remember his name correctly.
I watched him for play for like ten plays, and
I was ready to talk to you about it, you know,
on college game day or something like, oh my gosh,
(23:05):
this guy rushes the passer with fere he is unbelievable.
Well he's doing that in the NFL. Right now, I'm
the least surprised guy in the world. I go that
guy is an NFL player. He is going to cause havoc.
And when you're playing defense for Kansas, every one of
those players are worth like ten players because they don't
have to make every play, but once in a while
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they do something that gets you in a great position
and gives your whole team confidence.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
I don't see that right now.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Of the eleven defenders out for the Kansas Jayhawks, I'll
have trouble pointing out which one I think is the
best one. So just a team trying to do the
right thing, trying to bring the blitzes, but physically does
not have that one or two special players that they've
had at times.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
And so it really is hard. It's hard when the
offense knows that, you know, we can call a running.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Play and a passing play and the equally going to
be effective, which it's a defense on their heels.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
So yeah, it's an issue right now. How good can
Kansas be with a struggling defense.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, it's a good thing they put three wins in
the bank because they've got at UCF at Texas Tech
now home to Kansas State. The season's kind of in
the balance for the Jayhawks. They did get the three
wins though, so they you know, they still only need
three wins to be Bowl eligible, but it's looking more
to me like that's going to be the goal than
anything special for this team.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah, everything turned upside down on Saturday because if they
would have got out of there with a win, and
they had every opportunity, right, I mean, they Cincinnati after
having a good sequencing of the game. You know, I
oftentime in tennis, if you study tennis at all, the
score could be tied. But if I serve first, the
scoreboard always looks better while we wait for you to serve, Danny.
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You know, it's still emotionally hard. Cincinnati was scoring first,
Kansas was responding, Cincinnati was scoring, Kansas was responding all
game long. You're going, this is a good, tight game,
but you never had game control to put pressure on
the road team, Cincinnati Bearcats, until right when you needed it.
The timing was perfect for KU. They finally were the
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team that went ahead, and there was a little bit
of time left, and I thought, psychologically monitoring the game,
I go, oh, this worked perfect. This this is a
game Cincinnati absolutely could have won, but Kansas sequenced it
out just perfectly, and now that are going to win.
And then Cincinnati responded and went the other way and
it was incredible, unbelievable catch, you know, making a fourth
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down play, driving down the field, all those things.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
But it's nine and day difference, Danny.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
We shouldn't think any differently about Kansas because if I
watched the All twenty two tape with you, there's no emotion,
there's no crowd, and a lot of times you can't
tell what the score is. You just watch the tape.
And if we did that and took out the emotion
of what's going on in the game, you usually come to.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
The truest answer of how good a team is.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
If that makes sense, you go oh, okay, are this
we are that well, Danny, if they won or lost
this game, I shouldn't change my evaluation at what it
looked like on tape. But I am because if Kansas
would have won that game and had a two and
zero conference mark and held home Turf and then goes
on the road at UCF, I think there's a big
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chance they go beat UCF.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And now suddenly that Missouri game is in the rear
view mirror.
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You'ren't thinking about that loss. You're thinking about piling up victories.
You win those games last week Cincinnati, this week UCF.
You're five and one and you're just getting going. So yeah,
this game hurt very very much. UCF's eminently beatable. Kansas
is the better team. But because they lost and created doubt,
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and because UCF's at home in an interesting environment, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
With the humidity and that kind of thing in.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Orlando with a night game, this game comes back to
a pretty well toss up in my mind. At UCS
quarterback be a big deal. Their starting quarterback to begin
the year got hurt. He got crunched and got hurt
early in the season, Danny, and so he has not
really played so they've gone to their backup quarterback and
then they use a third quarterback as a wildcat quarterback. Well,
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against k State, they crunched the new starting quarterback to
Tavian Jackson and he sat out for over a quarter
and they had Jakari Brown their wildcat quarterback play, and he.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Just is not a threat passing the football.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
So if Jakari Brown plays against Kansas, Kansas will be
able to hold him down and win the game. But
if Tavian Jackson is playing, he's kind of a dual threat.
Guy can do a little bit of everything. And we
talked about Kansas's defense. I assume UCF is going to
find a way to score, right, and here we go
another shootout. So that loss very painful. I think that
loss would have vaulted them to another win over UCF
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and now you're looking at a fifty to fifty proposition
and if they lose those two games, Texas Tech looks
like a mighty good team right now. So yeah, this
that was just a close loss. And that's what you
want us to say. You want the players to not
listen to this podcast, Danny. You want them to just
move on and say, hey.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
We're fine. We're not going to win them all. Be
a lot of close games. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
But the difference between Cincinnati scoring that last touchdown and
not is a night and day with where I think
Kansas's mentality would be.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Stan always a pleasure talking football with you. Thanks for
taking the time and enjoy your week. See you Saturday.
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Okay, thank you, Danny, stan Webert.
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Welcome back. Well, on Sunday, we had things lined up
so that the Ryder Cup was going to be played
and the Chiefs are going to play at three twenty five. Well,
the Ryder Cup kind of got kicked off right here,
I mean at this time, zoned about eleven fifteen. So
I figured, well, Europe's way ahead. It'll take them a
couple hours to make sure they get enough control that
it's certain they're going to win. Then I'll watch the
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Chiefs unfettered. Well, that did not happen. It looked like
the United States was going to get absolutely walloped. They
were down eleven and a half four and a half,
and then Victor Hoblin couldn't play, so each team got
a half point, so that made it twelve to five,
impossible situation. And then out comes Europe and they're ahead
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in the first six matches, and it looks like people
are looking up the record book for the most points
and all kinds of different things. Was the day goes on.
The leads are only one up, one up, one up
on either side, as a couple of matches that are
getting away. But eventually all the things started to tip
the way of the Americans and they started making clutch
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putts and they started doing special things on the eighteenth hole.
First it was Cameron Young playing at home. He sinks
a putt to win his match one up over. Justin
Rose would bounce back in that match from three down,
and Justin Thomas he makes about a fifteen footer on
the last hole to beat Tommy Fleetwood, who had a
putt to put the thing away on the seventeenth toll.
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And as Bryceed Shambo, who is really the heart and
heartbeat of the team on this day, much to my chagrin,
I'm no fan, but he was five down and ended
up coming all the way back to time. Matt Fitzpatrick, Well,
the ties were In the end, what got it done
for the Europeans because remarkably they won one match all day.
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The United States won outright six matches, Europe out one
outright one match Ludwig Obert two and one over Patrick Cantley,
and then they had five ties. So that's what they got,
that's what they needed. Sandra Schoffle won, JJ Spahn won.
Russell Henley looked like he was going to win, and
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then on the eighteenth toll he hit a great shot
out of the bunker, put it about twelve feet maybe,
and he was up one. Shane Lowry, hitting second, knew
he had to make Birdie stuffs it inside of Henley.
Henley's got a putt to win the match, and maybe
maybe when the Ryder Cup eventually it still would have
been us still had work to do. And in the
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end we don't know how it would have worked, because
the last three matches were tied, and by the time
those matches were being played out, the issue had been decided.
But Henley misses. He left his putt short. He had
the right line and it left it short, I mean
well short. It wasn't a very good putt. It wasn't
the type of clutch putt that you need to hit,
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and then Lowry makes the putt and absolutely goes berserk.
It was an incredible scene. He looked like he was
going to have a heart attack. He kept holding his
chest and looking like his head was going to explode.
And they had at least tied the match. They ended
up winning at fifteen and a half to fourteen and
a half. And in the end, yes, they were made
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to work. Actually it ended up fifteen thirteen and they
were made to work. But they did win because they
had done such incredible work the first couple of days.
They were unbelievable. They set a record in foursomes, which
is the alternate shot on Saturday by going sixteen under
on Friday, rather by going sixteen under. The United States
turned down and went sixteen under on Saturday, and they
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got beat because the Europeans went twenty two under on Saturday.
So they completely earned with excellent play their big lead
and in the end that's what won it. And they
went in New York. The crowd was horrible. It was
better on Sunday because a lot of Americans apparently it
seemed like, had sold their tickets to Europeans because they
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felt like the United States had no chance to win,
which in the end they didn't, but it was much
slightly better decorum. But the whole thing was embarrassing, really,
people screaming obscenities, people's backswings, and the Europeans. I think
it ended up helping the Europeans in the end. I
think they were just a little worn out on Sunday
and so they get the win. Four times they've won
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in America since nineteen eighty seven. The United States has
only won in Europe once in that time. Now, Europe
has won about seventy five percent of the Ryder Cups
for a couple decades now, and the questions will be
raised again. The biggest mistake probably of the week, if
Keegan Bradley is going to look at what he did,
was the fact that Harris English and Colin Moricowell went
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out and got absolutely boat raced by Rory mcilray and
Tommy Fleetwood on Friday, and then he stuck to his
plan and sent those two out against the same team
on Saturday and they got wiped out again. And there
was one analytics that said there were one hundred and
thirty two possibilities of combinations that they could send out
against McEnroe, McElroy and Fleetwood, and that one was the
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one hundred and thirty second of one hundred and thirty
two combinations that they could have picked, and it looked
like it the way it played out, Not only do
the Europeans win the matches, they won many of them
really handily, but it was anything but you have to
give the Americans credit for a gallant fight on Sunday,
but in the end they fall on home soil. And
now the next one's going to be in Ireland with
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Roy McRoy and Shane Lowry on the team. Good luck
but ended up being far more exciting than it could
have been, and I had to sort of skip back
and forth and eventually get to the Chiefs dvring this
button this back. I didn't get to the Chiefs full
bowler until they kind of had the game and control.
As we talked about with Stan, so very cool it
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ended up being on Sunday. It turned out to be
a lot of dramatics. I bet a lot of people
didn't tune in at the start because they figured nothing
was going to happen, and even after a couple hours
it didn't look like there was going to be drama,
but in the end there was and kind of a
cool Sunday on multiple levels. At the Ryder Cup. Sunday
didn't decide a whole lot of things in the world
of baseball, as a lot of teams had wrapped up
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their playoff spots. There were two divisions that were up
for grabs, but neither a team in each case seemed
to care that much. Detroit or Cleveland could have won
the Central Division. Detroit decided not to pitch tax school books.
They wanted to save them for the playoffs, and they
end up giving the not giving they but the Guardians
win the division, and because the Tigers don't win the game,
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and the Guardians won, and they overcame a fifteen and
a half game deficit in July and eleven game deficit
in September to win the Central They're an unlikely team.
You look them down there everyday, position lineup, and you
can't even believe that they've won the division. They run
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differential is only six, but they finished fourteen games over
five hundred, so a remarkable story for the Guardians. And
the Guardians and the Tigers will play against each other
three games in Cleveland, I'll get into the playoff matchups
here in a minute. In the East, the Toronto Blue
Jays the kept clinching things, and they clinched the East
on Sunday as they won their game, which did the trick.
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They had the tiebreaker on the Yankees even though they
finish in a tie. The Blue Jays get the division
title and they get to avoid playing Wild Card Baseball,
and the Yankees and Red Sox will square off, which
is always kind of fun. Tampa Bay ends up kind
of fading down the stretch eight games under five hundred,
and the Orioles bring up the rear Royles win on Sunday.
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We'll talk a little bit more about that here in
a second, but let's talk about it right now. The
Royals did win on Sunday, and it was a feel
good Sunday because Cole Reagan's pitched well. They scored nine
runs in a nine to two win. They needed the
win to finish over five hundred. I think that's kind
of a cool thing. They back up a playoff spot
with the winning season, so I think that's a big deal.
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For instance, their run differential ended up being fourteen, which
is better than the Guardians. The Guardians run defensial actually
is negative six. I think I said it was six.
They have negative six. They had a negative run differential
and they win the division and the Twins. Just a
starcross season for them. But the Royals have to feel
pretty about things. They squeezed a winning record. They were
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seventh in pitching despite all the injuries, seventh and starting pitching,
seventh in relief pitching. They had some people have some seasons.
They had a breakout young player and Carter Jensen late
in the season about sixty at bats of looking just great.
So I think the signs were pretty good for the Rows.
I think they did some good things and should feel
at least pretty good about the season. You don't feel
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good about the fact that they were right in prime
playoff position and the other team stepped on the gas. Well,
the Tigers were falling apart the Guardians. I think they
won nineteen of their last twenty three. The Mariners got hot,
you know, the Astros collapsed won their last two games
to actually finish in a tie with the Tigers, but
the Tigers had the tie breaker Rangers wearing it for
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a while. Athletics played pretty representative baseball all season long,
although their pitching was not that good as you saw
in the series against the Royals, and the Angels just
keep on being not a great franchise with a Hall
of Fame player playing year after year for them. Over
in the National League, the Phillies and the Brewers are
the two teams that get the buys, and we'll talk
about the playoff matchups here in a sec. Phillies win
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the division by thirteen games, the New York Mets collapse.
The Reds lost on Sunday. All they had to do
was win. They did not, and they played about three
point thirty three baseball over the last couple of months.
Plonso after the game, announced that he'll opt out of
his contract. He says he still wants to be a
met So disaster season for the team with baseball's biggest payroll,
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and the rest of the division was nondescript. The Braves
were super disappointing, Marlins and Nationals is still searching for
answers and the great story we talk about here week
after week after week. The Milwaukee Brewers best record in
baseball ninety seven wins. They actually had a shot at
one hundred wins, but lost six of their last ten,
but they get a playoff by they're kind of reminiscent
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of the fourteen to fifteen Royals. They don't hit that
many home runs, they have good pitching, they run the
basis of actively. They're a good fielding team. Is that
going to stack up the playoffs these days? Because the
pitching is so great, usually the odd home run or
two is the thing that makes the difference. We'll see
if the Brewers can fight that narrative, or maybe they'll
just get a few more home runs than they have.
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Cubs finished second, they had a good season. Do they
look like a playoff threat? I think everybody's a playoff threat.
And the Reds get in, which is a nice story.
They're going to play the Dodgers. That doesn't seem like
a good business, but I'm sure they're very happy to
be in the playoffs period, and the nation will get
to see Hunter Green, a great pitcher, in Game one
of that series. Cardinals disappointing season for them, another losing
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season that's unusual in Saint Louis, and the Pirates are
wasting Paul Skeins right now. Twenty games under five hundred.
Dodgers win the division over the Padres. Most people expected
they wouldn't be playing wild card baseball, but they do
come into the playoffs having won five games in a row.
Padres also playing good baseball. Three games in a row
they've won. As they get set for the playoffs, Giants
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win their last four to get to five hundred, which
I guess is better than the alternative. Diamondbacks are in
it for a while, but faded down the stretch. They
lost their last five games of the season, and the
Rockies were just dreadful all year long, but they didn't
lose one hundred twenty games, although they did lose their
last six games of the year and finish with a
run differential of minus four one hundred and twenty four.
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Absolutely stupendous what they have done during the course of
this season. I don't even know what to think about
the future of a franchise that draws two and a
half million fans to go watch terrible baseball. Let's check
out the playoff brackets and game one will we played
noon here tomorrow Tigers at Guardians School Bawl against Williams,
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and I'm intrigued by that series. Although be able to
watch all these games while I'm having lunch. I'm sure
there'll all be the early games. Red Socks and Yankees
will play around five o'clock, Red's in the Dodgers an
eight o'clock game, and Padres and Cubs will play at
two o'clock, waiting for the winners of those best of
three series. Remember, all three games are at the home field.
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The Guardians, Yankees, Dodgers, and Cubs will get all three
games if necessary, and then they move on Tiger's Guardians
winner at the Mariners, Red Sox, Yankees at the Blue Jays,
Red's Dodgers at the Phillies, Padres Cubs at the Brewers.
That's the way it shakes up. A lot of people
these days, aren't that excited about postseason baseball if their
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team doesn't make it.
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I am.
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I'm looking forward to it and looking forward to talking
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Chiefs win easily. The Ravens sort of gave up in
the game. Lamar Jackson made a couple of mistakes when
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the coll ranks, Missouri basically had a training session against
the University of Massachusetts, but now they get a bye
week and then they get Alabama, who looked good in
beating Georgia. The Kansas State Wildcats did a Kansas City
Chiefs on Saturday, and they made adjustments and they won
their game against UCF. Very impressive performance and bitter disappointment
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for Kansas. Another game that gets away, and it's becoming
a pattern in the last couple of days in close
games for Kansas as they fall late in their matchup
and they fall to Cincinnati, and they of course now
have to play a road game against that UCF team
that played Kansas State reasonably well. So lots of things
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to talk about with the Jayhawks also, and of course
the Royal season came to an end. They won on Sunday.
That gave them a winning record. That's kind of nice.
They scored a lot of runs, that's kind of nice.
They're not in the playoffs, that's not kind of nice.
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In a baseball postseason that seems pretty darn wide open. Also,
and I spent a lot of time on Sunday waiting
for the Europeans to finally put away the Ryder Cup,
and they almost didn't because the US and a basically
impossible situation, almost made it all the way back, and
they certainly made it exciting at the end, and they
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certainly made it to maybe even that much more rewarding
for Europe to watch Shane Lowry almost blackout after making
the winning putt. But the road wind goes to Europe,
who seems to have some kind of secret sauce, and
the US is left to mutter and grown again. All
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little breather, but then I looked at the landscape of
the college football and the pro football and decided, well,
I need the expertise of my man Stan on this Monday.
The Chiefs bounce back. Let's start there.
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I'm having a little trouble wrapping my arms around what
I can take from this. Certainly it's a get well moment.
It was a game going in that the Chiefs. Really
I don't think they had to win, but they probably
had to win more than the Ravens did, although the
Ravens could have used it too. Ravens came out, They're
running the football, they were doing some things well, and
then Lamar Jackson made a bad play on a blitz
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that confused him and from there it just went to
a complete capitulation by the Ravens. They've given up points
and yards to everybody. So I don't think I'm going
to take anything away from the Chiefs, but I'm having it.
Like I said, I'm having a little bit of trouble
wrapping my arms around this one.
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Well, it's much more interesting than I thought it would
be for different reasons. This game was a battle not
for the number one seed, which it normally would have
been hyped up for, like these maybe the two best
teams in the NFL going at it, Let's see what happens.
And usually Lamar Jackson can't make plays against the Chiefs
and loses the game. And that was probably the lean.
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You know, I thought the Chiefs would win the game,
but I thought balt More really could get things going
and cause some havoc and trouble to the Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
And that was the first drive.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
The first drive is what I thought the Baltimore Ravens
would be, you know, just all day long, saying you
may be able to move the ball, but you're going
to have to score a lot to beat us, because
we really have a good offense. And then it all
ended with one interception, and who knows.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
What happened then.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
But now we're looking at a whole different scenario where
the Chiefs might have broken.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
The Baltimore Ravens that they may have.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Just teams that start one to three do not usually
farewell in the end, and you could say, well, I
had an expectation, forget the expectations. When you're one and three,
you don't farewell the rest of the year and don't
make the playoffs normally, and the Ravens may be in there.
I went into this game saying all along, oh, I
don't care which of these teams loses, They're still going
to the playoffs, and right now I wonder, so this
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is really great work by the Chiefs to take out
an opponent like this, because you're constantly battling the Ravens
and the Buffalo Bills right of used to that, and
then you got to worry about the Chargers and the
Broncos coming up and maybe being a factor. But what
they did to the Ravens is a longer lasting issue.
So I think that game is mostly about the Ravens
and where.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
They may be looking, and they may be in.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Big trouble because I've never seen a team broken like
that in spirit in the NFL. The bad decisions. Two
quarterbacks to the Ravens just threw the ball out of
bounds on fourth down rather than throwing it up for
grabs on the field. How can you do that? It
makes no sense. A fifth grade quarterback knows it's fourth down.
Throw the ball to somebody in the field. Now for
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the Chiefs, interesting question you bring up, Danny, because of
all of the folding of the Baltimore Ravens after one interception.
I mean that one play by Chanel just turned everything
around and from then on it was all Kansas City
and Baltimore made it an easy run with bad defense
and then really poor offense. So where do you evaluate
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the Chiefs. I still, Danny am going to say, this
is the NFL. There was a lot at stake when
the Ravens flew down the field and scored. I thought
that was a legitimate adversity for the Kansas City Chiefs,
and I think they responded in a way that reminds
me of the past Kansas City Chiefs teams. So early
in this year, I would say they looked a little
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like they have the last couple of years, which is
a team that knows how to win in the end,
has the best coach, best coordinators, and best quarterback, and
that's a great place to start know how to win
close games. But they really aren't that dominant and that
much better than their opponents. That's the Chiefs of the
last two seasons in my opinion, especially last year, and
I thought we were seeing the same this year without
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the last second wins or miracles or whatever. But I'll
tell you what, Danny, this reminded me more of an
optimism that the Chiefs could easily bounce back and be
a really good football team. They're doing it with defense,
and right now, no one's playing good defense in the NFL,
not the good teams like the Ravens they are. Sivuffalo
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is watching New Orleans going up and down the field
New Orleans on the road. So there's only really one
team right now playing good defense in the NFL that's
considered one of the top teams the NFL, and that's
the Canca Chiefs. And boy, that's a good way to play.
So yeah, I feel a lot better, Danny. You remind
me because you have such good opinions. Just hearing you
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say that makes me start going. I better reevaluate a
little bit and see because I come with a big
smile on my face after that game. The ability to
run the ball a little bit, get some speed in
the backfield with a change up, rookie Patrick seeming in
control throwing the ball downfield some it just looked like
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the King See Chiefs to me, like, Wow, why aren't
they the best team in the NFL? Who's better, who's
more consistent? And a lot of my confidence, Danny is
the fact that they play good defense.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, I don't really know who else does.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, I guess I'm in the camp that. Yeah, I
think the Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes for the
first time in forever. I thought Xavier Worthy obviously added
a lot and it changed the dynamic of the team.
For Shard Smith, his numbers weren't very good, but he
seems to, you know, coming out of the backfield to
catch in passes. He seems to add an element. But
I just thought the Ravens just kind of quit, and
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you know, Lamar got hurt. I guess either that or
they just said, well, this game's lost, so we're not
going to let Lamar tweak that hamstring anymore. And so
I guess I'm waiting for and This is a good
way to segue it this week because Jacksonville has a
little mojo going. They're in their home field. I guess
this is sort of like, I don't know, in golf,
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when you get a skin, sometimes you play a game
where you have to validate it or or you know,
validation by proving it a second time. So I guess
I'm holding my water until I see what happens in Jacksonville.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Well that's okay too. I really think that's a good evaluation.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
I guess pig or Horse or the other games, you
get that last letter and you.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Say, okay, that was nice. Spot got to prove it.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
And there is a little bit of proof because Jacksonville
comes at the Chiefs at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
We saw CBS thinking that this is one of the
feature games of the whole season, ratings expected to be
off the charts, And here are the Baltimore Ravens rolling
into Kansas City. And even though they played last year twice,
they don't play each other that much. So this is
a feature game for the top and it's at home.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
You turn around, you got the exact opposite you got
Monday Night Football which seems to not have the feature
games in my opinion. You got Jacksonville, who has not
been someone to worry about the last year or so,
and Trevor Lawrence was kind of written off it. Maybe
he's not a good quarterback, not in the elite group
of quarterbacks. Etn is a big time back out of Clemson,
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but then got hurt in the pros and you don't
think of him being a very big deal for Jacksonville.
But guess what, Jacksonville is playing solid football. They are feisty,
up and coming team right now, which is showing perseverance,
and they're playing the game at home. So it's just
about the opposite where the Ravens were considered a powerhouse
coming to Kansas City, and now you actually may be
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playing a team that's hitting on all cylinders and playing
much better than the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
So I'll give you that this game's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
The fight that they took in the game to San Francisco,
having to kind of win the game then rewin the game,
that's not easy to do out there.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
We know San.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Francisco has been a very good team the last five years,
and they thought they were back this year.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Brock Party is back at quarterback.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
All Jacksonville did is play solid football then have an
explosive play from ATM. So yeah, I think you can say,
go out and prove it. Show me more than one
week Kansas City. That is all fair, but it reminded me.
It reminded me of the Chiefs of the past. That's
the feeling I got. Now, do not take away the
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emphasis that you had. The word quit and the Baltimore
Ravens were stacked on top of each other and poor coaching.
I mean there were bad decisions.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Made out there. I'm a Harball guy.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I mean I like John Harball. If we had our
top five coaches. That little list is harder and hard
to fill in Danny around the league, but he would
have been in my top five and maybe number two.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
But man, yesterday turned that upside down.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
That was not a feisty team, a team that quit,
didn't have good answers. Nothing was good. That's why I
wouldn't be surprised if they were broken for this season,
which is shocking to me. Like Cincinnati, what was last
year when he lost Joe Burrow? Like, oh they started
off slow and lost Burrow.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
They're done. They came back a little bit in the end.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
But Cincinnati didn't make the playoffs last year when I
thought that they may be a super Bowl level team.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
The Ravens may be playing that role as well, So
I'll give you that.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I think that the headlines, if I'm a national person
and not interested in the Chiefs any more than anything else,
is about Baltimore's trouble and quitting, laying down like I've
not seen anybody in a long time. That was embarrassing
what the Ravens did.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let's turn to the college game and let's get past
Missouri real quick, because not only did they play you, Mass,
but they have a bye this week before they're big
matchup against Alabama, so we'll be able to talk about
that in college game Day and perhaps here as well.
But Missouri went out, did the job that they needed
to do, get to play some backups, didn't get anybody hurt.
So I guess it was just check in a box
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for the Tigers.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yes, it just took a little longer to do, which
is almost like there's a conspiracy theory. Danny. You're like,
why did they let U Mass stay in the game
as long as they did, Because for Bulah got to
throw the ball twenty nine times in the game, right,
hardy get If he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy, he
needed to put up one hundred and thirty yards rushing
in three touchdowns. You know, he couldn't leave the game
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after sixty yards in a twenty one nothing lead. So
it really worked out well. It didn't get injured. The
starter's got to play a little longer than possible. But
at the end of the day, total domination, easy win
at forty two to six, and the offense for UMass
couldn't move it at all, no surprise. So here we go.
And if everyone wants to sign off Alabama not being
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the same, not being Nick saban like, Okay, I'll agree
with you. They're not Nick saban like. But that was impressive.
That was impressive for them to go beat Georgia at Georgia.
You can't start talking down. You know, if you're a
Kansas fan and you want to act like Missou do
did nothing when they play or beat Alabama, I don't
think that's going to work. No, they just went to
Georgia and won the game. So what a big game.
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In two weeks Missouri going to be ranked Alabama is
a top ten type team and this is going to
be a super feature game two weeks down the road.
So Missouri did what they needed to a really favorable
home schedule. I know they needed to beat Kansas, but
other than that, you know, not really tested. They've done
everything they need to and now the season starts in
full with them rightfully ranked in the top twenty five.
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It's going to be a big time game. We'll get
a lot more time to talk about it. But congratulations,
MISSOI you did what you need to get to this
point in the season.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, Maszoo kept the season rolling. They restart came from
the Kansas State Wildcats after a bye. They play UCF
dangerous team that kind of looked the part during portions
of the game, but the Cats were just better across
the board.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yeah, you know, from k State's perspective, they will want to,
you know, put out first.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
This is the first game they've had Dylan.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Edwards and he was going to be their future guy
this year and he ended up having a big seventy
five yard touchdown, having over one hundred and fifty yards
rushing and all those things. So maybe k State is
just a better team with Dylan Edwards if he can
stay healthy. Not the biggest guy, so that really helped.
But they really before Dylan did his thing in the game,
Avery Johnson ran the football and was an effective runner
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when he did run the football. And then they also
brought in Blake Barnett, quarterback for KSE State that hadn't
played yet. He's a backup guy. I have been pretty
excited about what he might bring in the future. You
know there's going to be a day when Avery Johnson
isn't the starting quarterback, but they've chose to bring him
in and use him as the running quarterback. So Avery
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stepped aside to the running back position and Barnett in
the second series of the game ran the ball four
straight times and ran out the way Bill Snyder would run.
A quarterback with physicality, multiple guys banging off of him
as he fell forward. So a little bit of quarterback
run game manufactured with a different quarterback and then Avery
running effectively.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Dylan Edwards. Yeah, Case they hit the reset button.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And I think with a week off and that win
week off before they won, then you're just going to
see how good Case State is. Doesn't mean we know
how good they're going to be, Danny, a little bit
like your chief steal. That's some good information, but let's
see what happens next week when you go on the
road to Baylor. But I think that the kind of
negativity or burden that they had coming into that game,
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that starting with Ireland and ending on a Friday night
in Arizona, all of that I think is in the
rear view mirror, not on the record, okay, because that
don't mean you're going to be Bowl eligible. Kansas was,
you know, at this point last year looking at their record,
going what the heck? And then they started playing games
and winning and playing well. But they didn't get back
to the six wins. So there's no guarantee the Case
state's going to do that. But from an on field perspective, Danny,
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they've been cleansed. That gaming use against UCF was legitimate
enough pushed them enough that now they know, we're fine,
let's go forward. We got Dylan Edwards back, and that
means the rest of the schedule pretty much. If you're
an odds maker, I haven't looked. I don't spend my
time doing this, but I would say every game is
pretty close to being an even game.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
The rest of the way for KSE State, almost every
game is just going to be like an NFL game
where either.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Team could win the game, and that means there's a
challenge but also an opportunity for KSE State.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
We'll see what the real case states like.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Starting this next two games is at Baylor home against TCU,
competition that you can win if you play well, and
you could lose to both of them very easily if
you mess around well.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Not messing around, but lose the Kansas Jayhawks and this
has started to become a theme. It had to be
addressed by Lance Leifold after the game. He said he
understood the question about losing close games. I'm not even
gonna think about that first, Dan. What I'm thinking about
first for this year's Kansas Jayhawks is they can't stop anybody.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Yeah, we hit that. That may be happening. When we
went into the Missouri game. They did a nice job
against Presno State. You know, there's no doubt about that
in case. They controlled the game. I mean Kansas controlled
the game. They did everything you could want. Next game
is just a nobody. Then he went to Columbia and
they're feisty, they're effective, they're good on offense, they don't quit.
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All those things were nice, but they couldn't stop Missouri.
Missouri was rolling for basically five hundred yards. And now
you play Cincinnati, and obviously that was the story of
the game, because we had said going into the game
the Jaylen Daniels had played great early in the year,
good for a couple of games, but not dominant, and
it'd be nice to see him come back to his
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dominant self.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
He did.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
He was his dominant self. And you bring Emmanuel Henderson,
the Alabama transfer man. It sounds good when you say
you have an Alabama transfer, right You're like.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Oh, I expect that guy to be good. Well, he
looks the party does.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
When he gets the ball and runs down the field,
You're like, oh, that doesn't look like a normal big
twelve player. That looks like a great SEC player. So
those two guys lit it up and did everything you
could ever want, other than fumbling the ball near the
goal line, which really hurt Kansas right there, close to
getting seven points in a high scoring game.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
They lost one opportunity.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
But Williams comes in as a running back, does a
good job.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Kansas's offense is just good period.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
But the defense, Danny has not shown us anything to
know how they're going to stop people. I mentioned earlier
in the year that they were getting it done with
a defensive coordinator being very aggressive, a little bit like
Steve Spagnola.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
But it's unfair to be compared.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
To Steve Steve Spagnola because he not only calls exotic
stuff called exotic stuff that works perfectly, you know, like
he's he's three steps ahead of the offense impeccable, and
he knows exactly how you're going to respond to where
his pressures are, and he teaches that next level player
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to say, because he brought this blitz, they're going to
go here, so be ready, and then that guy's waiting
to intercept the pass or something. My point is is
that Kansas was bringing people from everywhere and it's not
going to be impeccable when you're playing with the Jayhawks defense.
But they haven't been able to just stand up and
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physically take on the blocks and make you feel confident
that it's only going to be a three or.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Four yard run every other player or something. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't see the front group six, seven, eight, whatever
you want to call it. I don't see any of
those guys dominating. For instance, go back a few seasons ago,
Booker was a defensive end if I remember his name correctly.
I watched him for play for like ten plays, and
I was ready to talk to you about it, you know,
on college game day or something like, oh my gosh,
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this guy rushes the passer with fere he is unbelievable.
Well he's doing that in the NFL. Right now, I'm
the least surprised guy in the world. I go that
guy is an NFL player. He is going to cause havoc.
And when you're playing defense for Kansas, every one of
those players are worth like ten players because they don't
have to make every play, but once in a while
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they do something that gets you in a great position
and gives your whole team confidence.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
I don't see that right now.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Of the eleven defenders out for the Kansas Jayhawks, I'll
have trouble pointing out which one I think is the
best one. So just a team trying to do the
right thing, trying to bring the blitzes, but physically does
not have that one or two special players that they've
had at times.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
And so it really is hard. It's hard when the
offense knows that, you know, we can call a running.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Play and a passing play and the equally going to
be effective, which it's a defense on their heels.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
So yeah, it's an issue right now. How good can
Kansas be with a struggling defense.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, it's a good thing they put three wins in
the bank because they've got at UCF at Texas Tech
now home to Kansas State. The season's kind of in
the balance for the Jayhawks. They did get the three
wins though, so they you know, they still only need
three wins to be Bowl eligible, but it's looking more
to me like that's going to be the goal than
anything special for this team.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yeah, everything turned upside down on Saturday because if they
would have got out of there with a win, and
they had every opportunity, right, I mean, they Cincinnati after
having a good sequencing of the game. You know, I
oftentime in tennis, if you study tennis at all, the
score could be tied. But if I serve first, the
scoreboard always looks better while we wait for you to serve, Danny.
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You know, it's still emotionally hard. Cincinnati was scoring first,
Kansas was responding, Cincinnati was scoring, Kansas was responding all
game long. You're going, this is a good, tight game,
but you never had game control to put pressure on
the road team, Cincinnati Bearcats, until right when you needed it.
The timing was perfect for KU. They finally were the
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team that went ahead, and there was a little bit
of time left, and I thought, psychologically monitoring the game,
I go, oh, this worked perfect. This this is a
game Cincinnati absolutely could have won, but Kansas sequenced it
out just perfectly, and now that are going to win.
And then Cincinnati responded and went the other way and
it was incredible, unbelievable catch, you know, making a fourth
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down play, driving down the field, all those things.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
But it's nine and day difference, Danny.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
We shouldn't think any differently about Kansas because if I
watched the All twenty two tape with you, there's no emotion,
there's no crowd, and a lot of times you can't
tell what the score is. You just watch the tape.
And if we did that and took out the emotion
of what's going on in the game, you usually come to.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
The truest answer of how good a team is.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
If that makes sense, you go oh, okay, are this
we are that well, Danny, if they won or lost
this game, I shouldn't change my evaluation at what it
looked like on tape. But I am because if Kansas
would have won that game and had a two and
zero conference mark and held home Turf and then goes
on the road at UCF, I think there's a big
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chance they go beat UCF.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And now suddenly that Missouri game is in the rear
view mirror.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
You'ren't thinking about that loss. You're thinking about piling up victories.
You win those games last week Cincinnati, this week UCF.
You're five and one and you're just getting going. So yeah,
this game hurt very very much. UCF's eminently beatable. Kansas
is the better team. But because they lost and created doubt,
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and because UCF's at home in an interesting environment, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
With the humidity and that kind of thing in.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Orlando with a night game, this game comes back to
a pretty well toss up in my mind. At UCS
quarterback be a big deal. Their starting quarterback to begin
the year got hurt. He got crunched and got hurt
early in the season, Danny, and so he has not
really played so they've gone to their backup quarterback and
then they use a third quarterback as a wildcat quarterback. Well,
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against k State, they crunched the new starting quarterback to
Tavian Jackson and he sat out for over a quarter
and they had Jakari Brown their wildcat quarterback play, and he.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Just is not a threat passing the football.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
So if Jakari Brown plays against Kansas, Kansas will be
able to hold him down and win the game. But
if Tavian Jackson is playing, he's kind of a dual threat.
Guy can do a little bit of everything. And we
talked about Kansas's defense. I assume UCF is going to
find a way to score, right, and here we go
another shootout. So that loss very painful. I think that
loss would have vaulted them to another win over UCF
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and now you're looking at a fifty to fifty proposition
and if they lose those two games, Texas Tech looks
like a mighty good team right now. So yeah, this
that was just a close loss. And that's what you
want us to say. You want the players to not
listen to this podcast, Danny. You want them to just
move on and say, hey.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
We're fine. We're not going to win them all. Be
a lot of close games. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
But the difference between Cincinnati scoring that last touchdown and
not is a night and day with where I think
Kansas's mentality would be.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Stan always a pleasure talking football with you. Thanks for
taking the time and enjoy your week. See you Saturday.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Okay, thank you, Danny, stan Webert.
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Welcome back. Well, on Sunday, we had things lined up
so that the Ryder Cup was going to be played
and the Chiefs are going to play at three twenty five. Well,
the Ryder Cup kind of got kicked off right here,
I mean at this time, zoned about eleven fifteen. So
I figured, well, Europe's way ahead. It'll take them a
couple hours to make sure they get enough control that
it's certain they're going to win. Then I'll watch the
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Chiefs unfettered. Well, that did not happen. It looked like
the United States was going to get absolutely walloped. They
were down eleven and a half four and a half,
and then Victor Hoblin couldn't play, so each team got
a half point, so that made it twelve to five,
impossible situation. And then out comes Europe and they're ahead
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in the first six matches, and it looks like people
are looking up the record book for the most points
and all kinds of different things. Was the day goes on.
The leads are only one up, one up, one up
on either side, as a couple of matches that are
getting away. But eventually all the things started to tip
the way of the Americans and they started making clutch
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putts and they started doing special things on the eighteenth hole.
First it was Cameron Young playing at home. He sinks
a putt to win his match one up over. Justin
Rose would bounce back in that match from three down,
and Justin Thomas he makes about a fifteen footer on
the last hole to beat Tommy Fleetwood, who had a
putt to put the thing away on the seventeenth toll.
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And as Bryceed Shambo, who is really the heart and
heartbeat of the team on this day, much to my chagrin,
I'm no fan, but he was five down and ended
up coming all the way back to time. Matt Fitzpatrick, Well,
the ties were In the end, what got it done
for the Europeans because remarkably they won one match all day.
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The United States won outright six matches, Europe out one
outright one match Ludwig Obert two and one over Patrick Cantley,
and then they had five ties. So that's what they got,
that's what they needed. Sandra Schoffle won, JJ Spahn won.
Russell Henley looked like he was going to win, and
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then on the eighteenth toll he hit a great shot
out of the bunker, put it about twelve feet maybe,
and he was up one. Shane Lowry, hitting second, knew
he had to make Birdie stuffs it inside of Henley.
Henley's got a putt to win the match, and maybe
maybe when the Ryder Cup eventually it still would have
been us still had work to do. And in the
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end we don't know how it would have worked, because
the last three matches were tied, and by the time
those matches were being played out, the issue had been decided.
But Henley misses. He left his putt short. He had
the right line and it left it short, I mean
well short. It wasn't a very good putt. It wasn't
the type of clutch putt that you need to hit,
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and then Lowry makes the putt and absolutely goes berserk.
It was an incredible scene. He looked like he was
going to have a heart attack. He kept holding his
chest and looking like his head was going to explode.
And they had at least tied the match. They ended
up winning at fifteen and a half to fourteen and
a half. And in the end, yes, they were made
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to work. Actually it ended up fifteen thirteen and they
were made to work. But they did win because they
had done such incredible work the first couple of days.
They were unbelievable. They set a record in foursomes, which
is the alternate shot on Saturday by going sixteen under
on Friday, rather by going sixteen under. The United States
turned down and went sixteen under on Saturday, and they
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got beat because the Europeans went twenty two under on Saturday.
So they completely earned with excellent play their big lead
and in the end that's what won it. And they
went in New York. The crowd was horrible. It was
better on Sunday because a lot of Americans apparently it
seemed like, had sold their tickets to Europeans because they
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felt like the United States had no chance to win,
which in the end they didn't, but it was much
slightly better decorum. But the whole thing was embarrassing, really,
people screaming obscenities, people's backswings, and the Europeans. I think
it ended up helping the Europeans in the end. I
think they were just a little worn out on Sunday
and so they get the win. Four times they've won
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in America since nineteen eighty seven. The United States has
only won in Europe once in that time. Now, Europe
has won about seventy five percent of the Ryder Cups
for a couple decades now, and the questions will be
raised again. The biggest mistake probably of the week, if
Keegan Bradley is going to look at what he did,
was the fact that Harris English and Colin Moricowell went
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out and got absolutely boat raced by Rory mcilray and
Tommy Fleetwood on Friday, and then he stuck to his
plan and sent those two out against the same team
on Saturday and they got wiped out again. And there
was one analytics that said there were one hundred and
thirty two possibilities of combinations that they could send out
against McEnroe, McElroy and Fleetwood, and that one was the
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one hundred and thirty second of one hundred and thirty
two combinations that they could have picked, and it looked
like it the way it played out, Not only do
the Europeans win the matches, they won many of them
really handily, but it was anything but you have to
give the Americans credit for a gallant fight on Sunday,
but in the end they fall on home soil. And
now the next one's going to be in Ireland with
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Roy McRoy and Shane Lowry on the team. Good luck
but ended up being far more exciting than it could
have been, and I had to sort of skip back
and forth and eventually get to the Chiefs dvring this
button this back. I didn't get to the Chiefs full
bowler until they kind of had the game and control.
As we talked about with Stan, so very cool it
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ended up being on Sunday. It turned out to be
a lot of dramatics. I bet a lot of people
didn't tune in at the start because they figured nothing
was going to happen, and even after a couple hours
it didn't look like there was going to be drama,
but in the end there was and kind of a
cool Sunday on multiple levels. At the Ryder Cup. Sunday
didn't decide a whole lot of things in the world
of baseball, as a lot of teams had wrapped up
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their playoff spots. There were two divisions that were up
for grabs, but neither a team in each case seemed
to care that much. Detroit or Cleveland could have won
the Central Division. Detroit decided not to pitch tax school books.
They wanted to save them for the playoffs, and they
end up giving the not giving they but the Guardians
win the division, and because the Tigers don't win the game,
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and the Guardians won, and they overcame a fifteen and
a half game deficit in July and eleven game deficit
in September to win the Central They're an unlikely team.
You look them down there everyday, position lineup, and you
can't even believe that they've won the division. They run
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differential is only six, but they finished fourteen games over
five hundred, so a remarkable story for the Guardians. And
the Guardians and the Tigers will play against each other
three games in Cleveland, I'll get into the playoff matchups
here in a minute. In the East, the Toronto Blue
Jays the kept clinching things, and they clinched the East
on Sunday as they won their game, which did the trick.
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They had the tiebreaker on the Yankees even though they
finish in a tie. The Blue Jays get the division
title and they get to avoid playing Wild Card Baseball,
and the Yankees and Red Sox will square off, which
is always kind of fun. Tampa Bay ends up kind
of fading down the stretch eight games under five hundred,
and the Orioles bring up the rear Royles win on Sunday.
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We'll talk a little bit more about that here in
a second, but let's talk about it right now. The
Royals did win on Sunday, and it was a feel
good Sunday because Cole Reagan's pitched well. They scored nine
runs in a nine to two win. They needed the
win to finish over five hundred. I think that's kind
of a cool thing. They back up a playoff spot
with the winning season, so I think that's a big deal.
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For instance, their run differential ended up being fourteen, which
is better than the Guardians. The Guardians run defensial actually
is negative six. I think I said it was six.
They have negative six. They had a negative run differential
and they win the division and the Twins. Just a
starcross season for them. But the Royals have to feel
pretty about things. They squeezed a winning record. They were
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seventh in pitching despite all the injuries, seventh and starting pitching,
seventh in relief pitching. They had some people have some seasons.
They had a breakout young player and Carter Jensen late
in the season about sixty at bats of looking just great.
So I think the signs were pretty good for the Rows.
I think they did some good things and should feel
at least pretty good about the season. You don't feel
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good about the fact that they were right in prime
playoff position and the other team stepped on the gas. Well,
the Tigers were falling apart the Guardians. I think they
won nineteen of their last twenty three. The Mariners got hot,
you know, the Astros collapsed won their last two games
to actually finish in a tie with the Tigers, but
the Tigers had the tie breaker Rangers wearing it for
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a while. Athletics played pretty representative baseball all season long,
although their pitching was not that good as you saw
in the series against the Royals, and the Angels just
keep on being not a great franchise with a Hall
of Fame player playing year after year for them. Over
in the National League, the Phillies and the Brewers are
the two teams that get the buys, and we'll talk
about the playoff matchups here in a sec. Phillies win
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the division by thirteen games, the New York Mets collapse.
The Reds lost on Sunday. All they had to do
was win. They did not, and they played about three
point thirty three baseball over the last couple of months.
Plonso after the game, announced that he'll opt out of
his contract. He says he still wants to be a
met So disaster season for the team with baseball's biggest payroll,
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and the rest of the division was nondescript. The Braves
were super disappointing, Marlins and Nationals is still searching for
answers and the great story we talk about here week
after week after week. The Milwaukee Brewers best record in
baseball ninety seven wins. They actually had a shot at
one hundred wins, but lost six of their last ten,
but they get a playoff by they're kind of reminiscent
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of the fourteen to fifteen Royals. They don't hit that
many home runs, they have good pitching, they run the
basis of actively. They're a good fielding team. Is that
going to stack up the playoffs these days? Because the
pitching is so great, usually the odd home run or
two is the thing that makes the difference. We'll see
if the Brewers can fight that narrative, or maybe they'll
just get a few more home runs than they have.
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Cubs finished second, they had a good season. Do they
look like a playoff threat? I think everybody's a playoff threat.
And the Reds get in, which is a nice story.
They're going to play the Dodgers. That doesn't seem like
a good business, but I'm sure they're very happy to
be in the playoffs period, and the nation will get
to see Hunter Green, a great pitcher, in Game one
of that series. Cardinals disappointing season for them, another losing
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season that's unusual in Saint Louis, and the Pirates are
wasting Paul Skeins right now. Twenty games under five hundred.
Dodgers win the division over the Padres. Most people expected
they wouldn't be playing wild card baseball, but they do
come into the playoffs having won five games in a row.
Padres also playing good baseball. Three games in a row
they've won. As they get set for the playoffs, Giants
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win their last four to get to five hundred, which
I guess is better than the alternative. Diamondbacks are in
it for a while, but faded down the stretch. They
lost their last five games of the season, and the
Rockies were just dreadful all year long, but they didn't
lose one hundred twenty games, although they did lose their
last six games of the year and finish with a
run differential of minus four one hundred and twenty four.
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Absolutely stupendous what they have done during the course of
this season. I don't even know what to think about
the future of a franchise that draws two and a
half million fans to go watch terrible baseball. Let's check
out the playoff brackets and game one will we played
noon here tomorrow Tigers at Guardians School Bawl against Williams,
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and I'm intrigued by that series. Although be able to
watch all these games while I'm having lunch. I'm sure
there'll all be the early games. Red Socks and Yankees
will play around five o'clock, Red's in the Dodgers an
eight o'clock game, and Padres and Cubs will play at
two o'clock, waiting for the winners of those best of
three series. Remember, all three games are at the home field.
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The Guardians, Yankees, Dodgers, and Cubs will get all three
games if necessary, and then they move on Tiger's Guardians
winner at the Mariners, Red Sox, Yankees at the Blue Jays,
Red's Dodgers at the Phillies, Padres Cubs at the Brewers.
That's the way it shakes up. A lot of people
these days, aren't that excited about postseason baseball if their
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team doesn't make it.
Speaker 8 (43:32):
I am.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I'm looking forward to it and looking forward to talking
to you about it on Mondays. On Monday Musings Danny
and Friends Sports rap always presented by ASFCA. But one
final note, because race fans had themselves a fun weekend
out at Kansas Speedway and got to see a thrilling
final race is Chase Elliott one in double overtime. NASCAR
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was super hot about ten years ago. It's probably not
any more that much, but race fans continue to pack
Kansas Speedway and it's a great thing for the area.
And they get a scintillating performance and an exciting race
on Sunday out at Kansas Speedway and a pretty big
name winning the race as Chase Elliott takes it down.
There you go, false ending. Now it's time to say
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goodbye for Monday Musings. Danny and Friends Sports Rap presented
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