September 15, 2020 • 28 mins
Colin gives his NFL grades for QBs in week one.
Guest: Reggie Bush
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dot Com. Walgreens has it. Reggie Bush played for over
a decade in the NFL. Was obviously a star at
USC in college football. Will get to the Big Ten,
Gonna play October seventeenth in a few minutes with Reggie,
but he joins his Fox Sports college football analyst with
a lot of NFL years as well, So I gotta start.
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It's interesting. So I watched Joe Burrow this weekend and
I thought he was really really good. You played with
one rookie quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, and Ryan's had a nice career.
I think Joe Burrows probably a little more talented, maybe
a lot more talented. But when you watched Ryan Tannehill
as a rookie go back and compare it to Burrow.
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What did you see with Tannehill that you knew he
would be able to win games? Like? What were the
tell signs? Well, you could just see how very athletic
he was as a quarterback, and you could see that
his ability to take off and run with the football
was there. The skill sets were there. He could throw
the football really well. The way he stood in the pocket,
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his pocket presence was good. But he just didn't have
we didn't give him enough weapons and he didn't have
the experience yet. I think that, you know, he needed
to be very successful early on. Obviously he was coming
from a different situation. I think he had only played
quarterback the position like for two or three years before
he got drafted. So Joe Burrow is going to be
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better served in this position because he's a quarter He's
a true quarterback, you know, I'm sure he's been. He
played quarterback probably since he was a little kid. But
then you we saw how all his career in the
spotlight started to emerge for him at LSU, where he
was kind of thrust into the starting spot and really
took advantage of the opportunity and and had arguably one
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of the greatest college football seasons that we've ever seen,
you know, in one year from a quarterback. Everybody says
they can handle criticism, but Bruce arians was kind of
rough on Brady. Do you think in the deep recesses
of his mind, Tom sinking Brae Game one? What do
you think Tom's thinking? I'm sure Tom is thinking exactly
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what you just said, Like, hold on, man, this is
only game one. You know, it's not like they had
a normal offseason, right, everybody is dealing with, you know,
these adverse conditions, right. But you know, we talked about
this all the time in our College Football show. The
teams that have continuity, to have a returning quarterback, returning coach,
returning you know system, those are going to be the
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teams that are better served to be successful this year.
Tom Brady's coming from New England to Tampa um different environment,
different teammates, different circumstances, and then you're asking him to
go into New Orleans, the three time NFC defending champs,
and to beat you know, to beat the New Orleans Saints,
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which is hard for anybody to do. So I'm sure
Tom Brady was like, yo, Bruce, like, just chill out
for a second, man, like just it's gonna get better
at some point. Listen, it's become more of a wide
receiver league, and it's it's become you know this, this
game was always pound the football. It's not like that
the quarterbacks moved. The rules are different. Wide receivers matter more.
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Obj's talented, but the grass of Noah's greener. You know,
he's getting four catches a game. In New York he
was getting six and a half seven catches a game.
And this team's worse than the Giant teams. And if
you ever been in the locker room and listen, I don't.
I'm not being critical of pro athletes. If I was
a wide receiver in the NFL, unlike the NBA, I'm
probably playing for seven years. That's my prime. It's small.
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You can get Obj's had injuries. Did you ever play
with someone because I didn't, god be J. If this
is a bad September, I didn't. Gold be Ja is
about done with it in Cleveland. He's about done with
it because he's a super talent. He's disappearing. I mean, Reggie,
he is disappearing in the NFL. Did you tell me
what a player thinks when you're talented, you want to
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be a team guy, but your career is short. You're
a star and you're not getting touches. What is it like?
It's tough and it feels like, um, you know, you
got no place to go, or you feel like there
could be you know, no answer, you know, possibly for you,
because that's a tough situation to be in, especially for Odell. Right, Um,
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you couldn't You got your way out of your Giants
and you ended up in Cleveland where it looked like
it was going to be a better situation for you,
and then you go through one or two coaches, quarterbacks
not playing the way that you thought he would, and
you're not getting those same targets. Um. That's why I
agree with your statement. The grass isn't always greener, Um,
somebody else. I think about Leveon bell Um, the grass
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was not greener for him. I thought that Levion bell
was in a perfect situation where he was in Pittsburgh. Now,
obviously we wish, you know, he wished that they could
have gotten the money right and the contracts right. But
to your point, the grass is not always greener, and
for Odell and for any other players that are in
those in those situations you kind of feel like your
your best years are being wasted. Yeah. We talked about
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that today, even with sat Kuon Barkley. Right, he had
fifteen carries for six yards, and you know the talk
was sa ku sa kuon Barkley. You know, washed up?
Is he overrated? And I don't think he's overrated. I
just think that the nature of the beast. He's in
the situation where it's out of his control. How many
times they give him the football, it's how it is
out of his control. How many times they're gonna call
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his number. Yeah. So I'm watching all these quarterbacks now.
Kyler Murray's fascinating. Um yeah, five nine running around guy,
And it's really I told Joy this. I think it
was yesterday. I'm like, man, there, quarterbacks are shapes and
sizes now they just some are like golf, they're sit
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in the pocket. Kyler Murray's running around. Do do you
worry or think that Kyler Murray running around? Like? Is
that a twelve year quarterback? I mean, what do you
when you see him? What do you see? I see
Russell Wilson. When I see Kyler Murray, you think about
Russell Wilson. Um, he takes off and runs all the time,
but he's very shifty and he never takes the big hit.
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And so if you can be elusive enough rich Kyler
Murray is. You see how short he is already, and
he's fat, and he's and he's very fast as well.
Those kinds of players are some of the hardest players
to tackle. You think about Darren Spros, right, Darren Spros
in space out in the open was one of the
hardest players, uh, you know, for any defensive player to tackle.
And so for Kyler murray's the same thing. As long
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as he can get down right, as long as he
can protect himself, he will stay healthy. And it's literally
that simple. But Russell Wilson to me is the pinnacle,
right because Russell Wilson year and a year route he
proves himself, you know, as a quarterback, but he he
also proves himself as a person that you can count
on him. You can count on him to be there.
He's not gonna get injured, he's not gonna get banged up.
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And that's the same way I see for Kyler Murray.
On the flip side, if you think about RG three,
you know, Robert Griffin. He took too many hits, right,
and we see, we see what happened with his situation.
And so it's all about protecting yourself as a quarterback, right,
you live to fight another play. And I think, you know,
we can even use examples like Cam Newton was a
guy who took I think took too many hits as
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a quarterback. Yeah. No, I think Big Ben and Cam
because they were so big Reggie, they kind of feel invincible.
And all of a sudden, you wake up one day
and Cam and Big Ben are limping around. It's like
you just can't take two hundred and sixty pound defensive
end banging on you. So the Big ten, according to
a story this morning, is going to play. And I'm
a big believer in social distancing. I'm a big believer
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in masks. But I also believe you should have the
right to either go to school or go to college.
And if you don't want, you shouldn't be penalized. But
if you do want, you shouldn't be penalized. I think
it is kind of free will you do. But I
do think you should opt out as an athlete. You
don't get penalized, you don't lose your scully. That's my
reaction to today's news. I'm happy for the Big ten.
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Where's it land for you? I'm happy for the Big
Ten because, for one, I think going forward, we need
uniformity across college football. We cannot have three conferences playing
football and then you've got two other conferences are kind
of left out there by themselves trying to figure out
a ways to best handle and navigate through the coronavirus,
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which is something none of us have experienced in right,
But at the same time, college football, we're all in
this together. Right. We can't have three of our conferences
playing and two other conferences that are trying to figure
this thing out. Because there's too many great athletes amongst
all these conferences, and they all deserve a shot, right.
We just want to make sure we give them a
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fair and safe shot to play a football season. And
so that's why I say we need uniformity, maybe one commissioner,
maybe one medical doctor that's speaking, you know, for everybody,
instead of having all these differences in opinions, and then
you see how things kind of unfolded to where we
are right now, you know, praying and hoping that the
Big ten, you know, does take off, and then where
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we left with, we're left with now the Pact twelve,
you know, kind of looking up at everybody else. Yeah,
by the way, I get a circle back to the NFL.
So I watched a couple of teams this weekend, and
most of the teams that I thought were good, we're good.
Most of the teams I thought we're bad, We're bad.
And when you're on a team that's not good, you're
trying to convince yourself. I'm watching the Giants last night
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and I'm like, yeah, this isn't great, this is not great.
And I'm watching, you know, I'm watching a couple of
teams this weekend and I'm like Cleveland, I'm like Cincinnati.
I'm like, this is probably not gonna be great. When
you're an NFL player, when are you finally realistic? Like
like what week is it that you go, Okay, we're
not good. I would say that's probably about week five
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or six you really know, Okay, we you know we
one in five? Are we? You know? One in four?
Are we three and two? Like where do we stand?
Are we two? Even two in three? Right? But about
week five or six you really kind of know what
kind of season you're in for. And I've been on
both sides. I've been on the side where I was
in New Orleans, where you know, we started off on fire,
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winning every single game, and I was like, Okay, we
are gonna be nice this year. And then I've been
in other situations where I was in Miami or whether
it was Buffalo or even Detroit, where we started off
pretty bad and you just knew what kind of season
you were in for. I'll never forget when I was
in Miami, I actually knew in training camp we weren't
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gonna be that good because we had fights literally every
single day. We had the same players showing up late
every single day, and and then they showed up on
the football field. So players definitely know, though everybody has
that clock in your head when they know and the
US about week fires. How depressing is that, Reggie Nw
in preseason it was over. That's depressing. God, that's four
months of hell you got, you got beat on for
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m oh God, Lord, Reggie Bush, good seeing you, budd, Yes, sir,
you bet it's it Now. The PAC twelve is going
to be the only conference not playing it. What it
bums me out for USC because USC is the one
national power that now won't play. There's about seven programs
that are really national powers, and USC is the one
sitting out there going all right, we'd like to play
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with camp. It's like I said this years ago to somebody,
I said USC should go independent. Just just call UCLA, Stanford,
cal say, well, play our California partners. We got your back.
We'll take care of you, the UC system, but we're
gonna go independent. We'll play Notre Dame every year, We'll
go play Navy every year, a BYU, and we're gonna
go independent. Well, well, what about the swimming team? What
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about him? I mean, USC football carries the program, carries
all the athletic programs. I feel bad for some of
these college football powers that pay all the bills for
all the programs and they're told no. Sitting the sidelines,
It's like that's when you started thinking as an athletic director,
what am I doing here? Why are we playing Oregon State?
What's the value for me in this? Why am I
playing Washington State? Why am I playing Arizona? What do
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I get out of this? Thirty five years? You get
something out of it. I don't get anything out of
it that. That's where if I ran one of these
big schools like Ohio State, if they didn't play this year.
You know, if I'm Ohio State, I'm like that Ohio
State's brand. They can go independent, they can go into
Ohio State can go independent. We're gonna cut our sports
down to twelve eleven programs. We're gonna go independent. We're
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gonna make our own schedule. Oh if b why you
can do it. Ohio State can do it. They can
fill a stadium anywhere in the country. Joy with the news. No, no,
this is the herdline news. Well. Week one proved to
be costly for some teams that lost some key players
to injure. Cowboys tight end Blake Jarwin towards ACL he'll
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be out for the season. Linebacker Laton Vandresh is out
six to eight weeks with a fractured collar bone, and
offensive lineman Cam Irving will miss time with an MCL sprain.
Colts running back Marlin Mack is out for the year
with the torn achilles levy. On Bell's expected to miss
a couple of weeks with a hamstring injury. George Kittle
returned to the forty nine ers Sunday after a little
scare suffering a nice brain but he's questionable heading into
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Week two. And there were quite a few other notable injuries.
Tranquil the Chargers linebacker, is likely out for the year
with a broken ankle. Bengals guard Xavier sua Philo is
gonna miss a couple weeks with an ankle injury, really
big for the Bengals, and Joe Burrow Eagles defensive n
Vinnie Curry will miss time with a hamstring injury, and
David and Joku from the Browns is on ir with
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a knee injury. He can return in three weeks. So
pretty significant amount of injuries around the league for Week one.
So Jamal Adams is gone. C J. Mosley's her Lavian
bells her. Sam Darnold once again is a life preserver
that organization is. It's something. It's pretty remarkable. That was
a bad Sunday. Think about all the help Josh Allen,
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Lamar Jackson getting my guy. Sammy Darnold's out there on
a little dinghy in the middle of the ocean and
he doesn't have any row Rows here or any oars.
This league is so unfair, well, I mean it matters
where you go. That's why I don't. I don't get
excited about the Jets. I mean I'm done. I like,
are you done? I'm done? You know what you said,
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You're done talkins two teams. I'm not betting the rest
of the year Atlanta Jets. I'm out, Stop me, scold
me me in the foe the gatekeeper, I hope the gatekeeper.
I'm not betting the Falcons or the Jets the rest
of the year. I am done with them. Emotionally, I'm
done in its week one. How many weeks does this
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Falcons thing, because because I'm guessing that it goes two weeks,
this feels a lot like the coffee thing all that
time you quit coffee. First of all, I didn't quit coffee.
I quit going and buying coffee at overpriced region. Now
I think you said that on a Monday. You bought
coffee again on Thursday. I don't even think it was
that long. I have a caffeine addiction. Don't make fun
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of people. Well, really rough start to the to the
NFL season for some teams, So hopefully they'll get some
of those guys back. So Tom Brady and Cam Newton
switched teams this season, and fans rushed out to get
their new jerseys. According to Fanatics, the two top the
lists for the most jerseys was having into Week one,
with Brady barely beating out his successor in New England's
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How's Nick Bosa five? That's a lot for an edge rusher. Yeah,
I mean forty nine ers. I guess fans pretty strong.
Brady cabs lamar to do not surprise me. I'm gonna
tell you something. I'll make a prediction here. Okay, by
the way, once again, who's disrespected Russell Wilson? Yeah, Russell
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Wilson never had an MVP boat. Russell Wilson literally throws
a no hitter. Nick Bosa has sold more jerseys and
Russell Wilson. I mean, at some point the league should
be appalled by how they treat Russell Wilson. I mean,
that's those are abouts fans. That's that's un fans. They're
the ones buying the jerseys already have of Seahawks number
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three jersey. Yeah. All those other players are relatively new
or a new team. Yeah. So the the Tom Brady's
usually the top of like merchandise sales, but that's not
limited to just Jerseys. This is specifically Jersey. So it's
not surprising to me that Tom Brady and Cam Newton
are at the top of the Jersey sales. Didn't you
think it was kind of amazing? Like we always know
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Lebron has Like like Michael Jordan moved the TV ratings,
Tiger Woods moved the TV ratings. Lebron moves the TV ratings.
Boy Brady moves the TV ratings too. Like I always
knew he was popular, but he's not polarizing. I didn't
think it was polarizing. Brady moved the damn rating this weekend.
I think Bradies very polarizing. You think so? Sure? Polarizing
about him? Patriots a death star, Belichick, spygate to play
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Gate six Championships. Yeah, no, they're for sure. He is
definitely polarized. Apparently is polarized. It is, it is, but
he is. He definitely invokes a bit of raid. I
no longer am in that camp, but for a long time. Yeah,
and you're a petty I'm very petty. You're over it. Well,
I'm sober it because I don't want to be the
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person and I'm in this this camp with Lebron. James
as well. I don't want to be the person who
didn't enjoy greatness while we had it, thank you. So
I've suffered through the pain and the agony, and now
I'm just going to experience it and enjoy watching it.
I'm not rooting in any other way, but I just
I don't want to be the person that takes that
for granted. So the Clippers are facing elimination today against
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the Nuggets after blowing double digit leads in the last
two games. Doc Rivers says there's no secret why they've
struggled recently. The Nugets are shooting over sixty percent in
both and Havels making a ton of trips to the
free line the freether line as well. But going into
game seven, he's focusing on getting the Clippers back to basics.
I'm gonna say, let's go in. I just know rolroad
speeches are very overrated, and they last about three minutes
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and you come running out and you're fired up and
you've been a three minutes later. You got to focus
on playing basketball. So there's no like secret speech. You know.
That's where you know the movie Sousia, it's about playing basketball,
uh and uh moving the ball, doing all the things
that we can do. Heats win Game one, Clippers win
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Game seven. Nice night of basketball tonight. You know what
I like Eric Spoelstra. Did I tell you my Eric
spoelstraum moment? No? So I always thought Eric Spoelstra was underrated.
I really like him as a coach, and apparently so
one time I'm in Hawaii with Anne and I am
gonna so I didn't even see him. So we're walking
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by in Anne goes, there's that handsome coach for Lebron's
team and I'm like, oh, hells and is always spotting everybody. Yeah,
And I was like, she's great. How did you know that?
So I walked over and I said, I do that.
I said, listen, I don't want to bother you. I
just want to say hi, I want to acknowledge that
my wife. So and he goes, oh, come over here,
he goes, my dad loves listening to you. He goes,
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I can't. I'm too damn busy. He goes, my dad says,
you saidy nice stuff about me all the time. And
I was like, well, you're great. And he's really an
engaging guy. But I never thought Spolstra got the love
he deserve because Lebron and Wade and Bosh were so great.
The guy can flat out coach. They disassembled Milwaukee's offense.
He is a great coach, and then they swept the Pacers.
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Like Popovich is great, but he got credit, and Kurs
great and he's getting credit. Spolstra is great and he's
getting and Brad Stevens gets credit. Spolstra was the last
coach in the league that we have to acknowledge, dude
can flat coach. Well, part of Spolster not getting credit,
I think is pat Riley. That's right. This presence, that's right,
you know, looms over the organization as he should. He's
got that's that's no. Not spying on people in Hawaii bars.
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But it was. It was a nice moment for us.
Spolstra and he was just married at the time. I
think he I think two kids now, Yeah, they've just
gotten married. Yeah, joy with the news. Well that's the news,
and thanks for stopping by the third line news. Yeah,
the same thing with Russell Wilson. Pete Carroll's a legend,
Marshawn Lynch, legion of Doom and the and the great
player in the middle nobody gives him credit for and
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it's like, that's kind of spulstra. I got Riley up there,
I got Wade, I got Lebron. Everybody's like, no, no, no, no, no,
they this guy he's coach of the Year. And again,
why don't we wait till the playoffs are over to
give these stupid awards. It's a regular season awards, Yeah,
but that doesn't mean anything. The NBA doesn't matter in
the regular season. Seating doesn't even matter. I'm saying that's
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why they do it, because it's supposed to be a
regular season awards. Does any sport get this right? Does
any sport vote on the awards after the whole thing's
wrapped up? Does anybody do this right? The only reason
we watched sports is like the Big Game have like
the finals MVP in the Super Bowl MVP. So there's
an addition, but I mean for the highest level of competition.
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But I just and then, by the way, then they
announced it like a month after the season. I mean
they should announce it earlier, that's for sure. I should
you know what, there should be just one guy in America,
But it's just the Commissioner of All Sports. I nominate myself.
She's just gonna make all the rules. Just let's get
this crap figured out. There's just a lot of nonsense going.
Do you have good ideas? Yeah? All right? Coming up next?
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What we got? Oh oh, it's my quarterback head coach debut.
Report cards. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine a Empacific on Fox
Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. Week one
officially in the books, and that's time for report cards. Now,
Goolay gives me crap because he said, I'm a very
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lenient teacher in the books. I don't like to be
a buzzkill week one. I want my students to feel
good about them or the teacher everyone tries to get
because it's an easy grade. Well, you're the teacher nobody
wants to have because you don't have good hygiene. Okay,
that's I'd rather be me. That's the guy who quit
shaving this week. Okay, let's go, joy, let's go with
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our report car All right, Profrestlor calling, what great are
you giving? Tom Brady B minus he's getting into a
bad habit of pick sixes. Now, Mike Evans was recovering
from a hamstring injury. Leonard Fernett is not fully ready
to go. They're gonna look really good this week against
Carolina's defense, but he is getting into He's throwing a
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pick six and three consecutive games, so it is listen,
we just got rid of that guy. It's called Jamis Winston,
so like, let's get out of that space. I thought
this was a really really bad throw. That's a bad throw.
Being very kind Week one, all right, what gread are
you giving Teddy Bridgewater? I feel harsh b minus Raiders
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defense is awful. You're at home. You gotta win that
football game. You got, you got really good weapons. You
gotta win that foot Now, he did hit Robbie Anderson
for Teddy Bridgewater's longest touchdown passed since his rookie year.
But to me, you're at home, you got Christian McCaffrey.
You know, here's an earth thing and I liked, and
I'm a Teddy Bridgewater supporter. You got to call a
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time out and tell Matt Rule we're not running that
stupid fullback dive. I would just say, no, we're not
doing it. You've been in this league long enough. That's
a rookie head coach, you just say we're not running
that play. I got Christian McCaffrey. I'm not giving it
to some guy who may not be on the squad
in eight weeks. What Grady giving Joe Burrow? B plus?
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I thought he looked good, so he had he throws
a terrible interception following drive immediately after that eight of
eleven seventy yards seven rush yards. His best drive of
the day was after his biggest mistake. That shows maturity, resilience, toughness.
I thought Joe Burrow looked really, really good. And he
also he's a little bigger. It's like he looks about
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ten twelve pounds of just weight room stuff. He looked
big and capable. Professor Collin, what great are you giving
Joe Judge? Giants coach d a lot of beat. First
of all, they couldn't run the football at all, twenty
nine rushing yars few as to any team week one.
They also committed a delay a game and a fourth
and one first drive of the game, first drive of
the game. You've got a delay a game. You can't
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have twelve plays scripted. I mean, come on, now, you
know I just the Jets and the Giants did not
look well coached early on. Oh great, does Mike McCarthy
get this week? They weren't terrible C minus. I would
say this, three points on six drives in the second half. Great.
Coaches are good after intermission. They also went four in
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a fourth and three late in the game. They could
they could have tied it up. That's kind of situational football.
I do like coaches that go for it, but I'm
gonna be pretty hard on coaches. One of the things
I like about Pete Carroll, he's been His teams are
very good in the second half. Belichick's team very good
in the second half. Come on, you can't have Dak
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and Zeke and that old line and Amari and Ceedee
Lamb and Mike Gallop and give me three points. Dak
is better than three points against that defense. But greaty
giving Cam Newton a minus. I mean, I didn't ask
a ton of him through the air, but I thought
to walk in, folks. He just got there fifteen to nineteen.
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Led the Patriots in rushing. This was one of my concerns.
This is not an easy offense. This is a complex
offense with a lot of variables. A lot of looks,
a lot of sets, a lot of movement. He figured
it out quick. I'm not sure by the way, that
Jared Stidham is the next blavity blabty. That thing's over right.
Oh my god, what Jared Stidham is? Actually? Well, what
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happened to that thing? That was the dumbest story of
the half offseason. But great for Matt Rule. C minus lucky.
I don't flunk him out of the class that play call,
have the ball, minute twenty six at home, your hand
off to a fullback and fourth and one with Christian McCaffrey. That,
by the way, you do realize here this is a
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home game for a West Coast team, early start time.
You gotta go for it. First of all, when you're
a rookie coach at your first game, you got some leeway.
If you go for it and you try to throw them,
you know you do something clever and you don't get it.
People are gonna say, well, Matt Rules, a college guy's clever,
he's out of the box. That looks like nineteen seventy
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four NFL football. Matt Rule, that's not who you are.
Didn't hire you to do that. I can hire a
John Fox to do that great? Are you giving Ron
rivera highest to the weekend? A plus? I got an
ivy at halftime, seventeen point deficit, a fourteen quarterback hits
on Carson Wentz. He's always been a good defensive coach.
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But I you know what that's as impressive a thing
is the Washington football team has done after a chaotic
off season of nonsense, I mean stuff inside the organization.
You got Dwayne Haskins who played a very good second half.
That is an A plus coaching job by Ron and
easy got a root for But grade are you giving
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Philip Rivers? Let's slow down on the Philip Rivers. See,
they asked him Joy to throw forty six times. He
threw three hundred and sixty three passes or three hundred
and sixty three yards. Now that would have been something
he also lought Marlon Mack so they didn't have any
running game. You cannot ask a quarterback to throw forty
forty five times and then chew him out because he
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throws a pick that you don't even want my homes
thrown that many times. That's ridiculous, So I give him
a sea. Finally, Professor Colin, what great. Are you giving
Kevin Stefanski D I don't want to hear about no preseason. Okay,
first quarters mean a lot. Joe Judge had a bad
first quarter. Adam Gates had a bad first quarter. Kevin
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Stefans get a bad first quarter. I don't expect Cleveland
to beat Baltimore, but you gotta come out in your
first twelve plays offensively, move the ball and look organized
and not have penalties and turnovers. Not good. I gotta
tell you I'm not into firing coaches and he's safe,
but I'm dead serious on this Adam Gase. Look at
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their schedule, they're one in five. I'm not sure it's
not time to make the move. He can't get along
with anybody. I don't know if firing coaches midseason. But
Greg Williams not a bad interim. That's a consistent disaster.
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a decade in the NFL. Was obviously a star at
USC in college football. Will get to the Big Ten,
Gonna play October seventeenth in a few minutes with Reggie,
but he joins his Fox Sports college football analyst with
a lot of NFL years as well, So I gotta start.
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It's interesting. So I watched Joe Burrow this weekend and
I thought he was really really good. You played with
one rookie quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, and Ryan's had a nice career.
I think Joe Burrows probably a little more talented, maybe
a lot more talented. But when you watched Ryan Tannehill
as a rookie go back and compare it to Burrow.
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What did you see with Tannehill that you knew he
would be able to win games? Like? What were the
tell signs? Well, you could just see how very athletic
he was as a quarterback, and you could see that
his ability to take off and run with the football
was there. The skill sets were there. He could throw
the football really well. The way he stood in the pocket,
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his pocket presence was good. But he just didn't have
we didn't give him enough weapons and he didn't have
the experience yet. I think that, you know, he needed
to be very successful early on. Obviously he was coming
from a different situation. I think he had only played
quarterback the position like for two or three years before
he got drafted. So Joe Burrow is going to be
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better served in this position because he's a quarter He's
a true quarterback, you know, I'm sure he's been. He
played quarterback probably since he was a little kid. But
then you we saw how all his career in the
spotlight started to emerge for him at LSU, where he
was kind of thrust into the starting spot and really
took advantage of the opportunity and and had arguably one
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of the greatest college football seasons that we've ever seen,
you know, in one year from a quarterback. Everybody says
they can handle criticism, but Bruce arians was kind of
rough on Brady. Do you think in the deep recesses
of his mind, Tom sinking Brae Game one? What do
you think Tom's thinking? I'm sure Tom is thinking exactly
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what you just said, Like, hold on, man, this is
only game one. You know, it's not like they had
a normal offseason, right, everybody is dealing with, you know,
these adverse conditions, right. But you know, we talked about
this all the time in our College Football show. The
teams that have continuity, to have a returning quarterback, returning coach,
returning you know system, those are going to be the
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teams that are better served to be successful this year.
Tom Brady's coming from New England to Tampa um different environment,
different teammates, different circumstances, and then you're asking him to
go into New Orleans, the three time NFC defending champs,
and to beat you know, to beat the New Orleans Saints,
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which is hard for anybody to do. So I'm sure
Tom Brady was like, yo, Bruce, like, just chill out
for a second, man, like just it's gonna get better
at some point. Listen, it's become more of a wide
receiver league, and it's it's become you know this, this
game was always pound the football. It's not like that
the quarterbacks moved. The rules are different. Wide receivers matter more.
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Obj's talented, but the grass of Noah's greener. You know,
he's getting four catches a game. In New York he
was getting six and a half seven catches a game.
And this team's worse than the Giant teams. And if
you ever been in the locker room and listen, I don't.
I'm not being critical of pro athletes. If I was
a wide receiver in the NFL, unlike the NBA, I'm
probably playing for seven years. That's my prime. It's small.
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You can get Obj's had injuries. Did you ever play
with someone because I didn't, god be J. If this
is a bad September, I didn't. Gold be Ja is
about done with it in Cleveland. He's about done with
it because he's a super talent. He's disappearing. I mean, Reggie,
he is disappearing in the NFL. Did you tell me
what a player thinks when you're talented, you want to
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be a team guy, but your career is short. You're
a star and you're not getting touches. What is it like?
It's tough and it feels like, um, you know, you
got no place to go, or you feel like there
could be you know, no answer, you know, possibly for you,
because that's a tough situation to be in, especially for Odell. Right, Um,
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you couldn't You got your way out of your Giants
and you ended up in Cleveland where it looked like
it was going to be a better situation for you,
and then you go through one or two coaches, quarterbacks
not playing the way that you thought he would, and
you're not getting those same targets. Um. That's why I
agree with your statement. The grass isn't always greener, Um,
somebody else. I think about Leveon bell Um, the grass
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was not greener for him. I thought that Levion bell
was in a perfect situation where he was in Pittsburgh. Now,
obviously we wish, you know, he wished that they could
have gotten the money right and the contracts right. But
to your point, the grass is not always greener, and
for Odell and for any other players that are in
those in those situations you kind of feel like your
your best years are being wasted. Yeah. We talked about
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that today, even with sat Kuon Barkley. Right, he had
fifteen carries for six yards, and you know the talk
was sa ku sa kuon Barkley. You know, washed up?
Is he overrated? And I don't think he's overrated. I
just think that the nature of the beast. He's in
the situation where it's out of his control. How many
times they give him the football, it's how it is
out of his control. How many times they're gonna call
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his number. Yeah. So I'm watching all these quarterbacks now.
Kyler Murray's fascinating. Um yeah, five nine running around guy,
And it's really I told Joy this. I think it
was yesterday. I'm like, man, there, quarterbacks are shapes and
sizes now they just some are like golf, they're sit
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in the pocket. Kyler Murray's running around. Do do you
worry or think that Kyler Murray running around? Like? Is
that a twelve year quarterback? I mean, what do you
when you see him? What do you see? I see
Russell Wilson. When I see Kyler Murray, you think about
Russell Wilson. Um, he takes off and runs all the time,
but he's very shifty and he never takes the big hit.
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And so if you can be elusive enough rich Kyler
Murray is. You see how short he is already, and
he's fat, and he's and he's very fast as well.
Those kinds of players are some of the hardest players
to tackle. You think about Darren Spros, right, Darren Spros
in space out in the open was one of the
hardest players, uh, you know, for any defensive player to tackle.
And so for Kyler murray's the same thing. As long
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as he can get down right, as long as he
can protect himself, he will stay healthy. And it's literally
that simple. But Russell Wilson to me is the pinnacle,
right because Russell Wilson year and a year route he
proves himself, you know, as a quarterback, but he he
also proves himself as a person that you can count
on him. You can count on him to be there.
He's not gonna get injured, he's not gonna get banged up.
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And that's the same way I see for Kyler Murray.
On the flip side, if you think about RG three,
you know, Robert Griffin. He took too many hits, right,
and we see, we see what happened with his situation.
And so it's all about protecting yourself as a quarterback, right,
you live to fight another play. And I think, you know,
we can even use examples like Cam Newton was a
guy who took I think took too many hits as
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a quarterback. Yeah. No, I think Big Ben and Cam
because they were so big Reggie, they kind of feel invincible.
And all of a sudden, you wake up one day
and Cam and Big Ben are limping around. It's like
you just can't take two hundred and sixty pound defensive
end banging on you. So the Big ten, according to
a story this morning, is going to play. And I'm
a big believer in social distancing. I'm a big believer
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in masks. But I also believe you should have the
right to either go to school or go to college.
And if you don't want, you shouldn't be penalized. But
if you do want, you shouldn't be penalized. I think
it is kind of free will you do. But I
do think you should opt out as an athlete. You
don't get penalized, you don't lose your scully. That's my
reaction to today's news. I'm happy for the Big ten.
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Where's it land for you? I'm happy for the Big
Ten because, for one, I think going forward, we need
uniformity across college football. We cannot have three conferences playing
football and then you've got two other conferences are kind
of left out there by themselves trying to figure out
a ways to best handle and navigate through the coronavirus,
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which is something none of us have experienced in right,
But at the same time, college football, we're all in
this together. Right. We can't have three of our conferences
playing and two other conferences that are trying to figure
this thing out. Because there's too many great athletes amongst
all these conferences, and they all deserve a shot, right.
We just want to make sure we give them a
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fair and safe shot to play a football season. And
so that's why I say we need uniformity, maybe one commissioner,
maybe one medical doctor that's speaking, you know, for everybody,
instead of having all these differences in opinions, and then
you see how things kind of unfolded to where we
are right now, you know, praying and hoping that the
Big ten, you know, does take off, and then where
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we left with, we're left with now the Pact twelve,
you know, kind of looking up at everybody else. Yeah,
by the way, I get a circle back to the NFL.
So I watched a couple of teams this weekend, and
most of the teams that I thought were good, we're good.
Most of the teams I thought we're bad, We're bad.
And when you're on a team that's not good, you're
trying to convince yourself. I'm watching the Giants last night
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and I'm like, yeah, this isn't great, this is not great.
And I'm watching, you know, I'm watching a couple of
teams this weekend and I'm like Cleveland, I'm like Cincinnati.
I'm like, this is probably not gonna be great. When
you're an NFL player, when are you finally realistic? Like
like what week is it that you go, Okay, we're
not good. I would say that's probably about week five
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or six you really know, Okay, we you know we
one in five? Are we? You know? One in four?
Are we three and two? Like where do we stand?
Are we two? Even two in three? Right? But about
week five or six you really kind of know what
kind of season you're in for. And I've been on
both sides. I've been on the side where I was
in New Orleans, where you know, we started off on fire,
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winning every single game, and I was like, Okay, we
are gonna be nice this year. And then I've been
in other situations where I was in Miami or whether
it was Buffalo or even Detroit, where we started off
pretty bad and you just knew what kind of season
you were in for. I'll never forget when I was
in Miami, I actually knew in training camp we weren't
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gonna be that good because we had fights literally every
single day. We had the same players showing up late
every single day, and and then they showed up on
the football field. So players definitely know, though everybody has
that clock in your head when they know and the
US about week fires. How depressing is that, Reggie Nw
in preseason it was over. That's depressing. God, that's four
months of hell you got, you got beat on for
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m oh God, Lord, Reggie Bush, good seeing you, budd, Yes, sir,
you bet it's it Now. The PAC twelve is going
to be the only conference not playing it. What it
bums me out for USC because USC is the one
national power that now won't play. There's about seven programs
that are really national powers, and USC is the one
sitting out there going all right, we'd like to play
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with camp. It's like I said this years ago to somebody,
I said USC should go independent. Just just call UCLA, Stanford,
cal say, well, play our California partners. We got your back.
We'll take care of you, the UC system, but we're
gonna go independent. We'll play Notre Dame every year, We'll
go play Navy every year, a BYU, and we're gonna
go independent. Well, well, what about the swimming team? What
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about him? I mean, USC football carries the program, carries
all the athletic programs. I feel bad for some of
these college football powers that pay all the bills for
all the programs and they're told no. Sitting the sidelines,
It's like that's when you started thinking as an athletic director,
what am I doing here? Why are we playing Oregon State?
What's the value for me in this? Why am I
playing Washington State? Why am I playing Arizona? What do
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I get out of this? Thirty five years? You get
something out of it. I don't get anything out of
it that. That's where if I ran one of these
big schools like Ohio State, if they didn't play this year.
You know, if I'm Ohio State, I'm like that Ohio
State's brand. They can go independent, they can go into
Ohio State can go independent. We're gonna cut our sports
down to twelve eleven programs. We're gonna go independent. We're
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gonna make our own schedule. Oh if b why you
can do it. Ohio State can do it. They can
fill a stadium anywhere in the country. Joy with the news. No, no,
this is the herdline news. Well. Week one proved to
be costly for some teams that lost some key players
to injure. Cowboys tight end Blake Jarwin towards ACL he'll
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be out for the season. Linebacker Laton Vandresh is out
six to eight weeks with a fractured collar bone, and
offensive lineman Cam Irving will miss time with an MCL sprain.
Colts running back Marlin Mack is out for the year
with the torn achilles levy. On Bell's expected to miss
a couple of weeks with a hamstring injury. George Kittle
returned to the forty nine ers Sunday after a little
scare suffering a nice brain but he's questionable heading into
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Week two. And there were quite a few other notable injuries.
Tranquil the Chargers linebacker, is likely out for the year
with a broken ankle. Bengals guard Xavier sua Philo is
gonna miss a couple weeks with an ankle injury, really
big for the Bengals, and Joe Burrow Eagles defensive n
Vinnie Curry will miss time with a hamstring injury, and
David and Joku from the Browns is on ir with
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a knee injury. He can return in three weeks. So
pretty significant amount of injuries around the league for Week one.
So Jamal Adams is gone. C J. Mosley's her Lavian
bells her. Sam Darnold once again is a life preserver
that organization is. It's something. It's pretty remarkable. That was
a bad Sunday. Think about all the help Josh Allen,
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Lamar Jackson getting my guy. Sammy Darnold's out there on
a little dinghy in the middle of the ocean and
he doesn't have any row Rows here or any oars.
This league is so unfair, well, I mean it matters
where you go. That's why I don't. I don't get
excited about the Jets. I mean I'm done. I like,
are you done? I'm done? You know what you said,
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You're done talkins two teams. I'm not betting the rest
of the year Atlanta Jets. I'm out, Stop me, scold
me me in the foe the gatekeeper, I hope the gatekeeper.
I'm not betting the Falcons or the Jets the rest
of the year. I am done with them. Emotionally, I'm
done in its week one. How many weeks does this
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Falcons thing, because because I'm guessing that it goes two weeks,
this feels a lot like the coffee thing all that
time you quit coffee. First of all, I didn't quit coffee.
I quit going and buying coffee at overpriced region. Now
I think you said that on a Monday. You bought
coffee again on Thursday. I don't even think it was
that long. I have a caffeine addiction. Don't make fun
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of people. Well, really rough start to the to the
NFL season for some teams, So hopefully they'll get some
of those guys back. So Tom Brady and Cam Newton
switched teams this season, and fans rushed out to get
their new jerseys. According to Fanatics, the two top the
lists for the most jerseys was having into Week one,
with Brady barely beating out his successor in New England's
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How's Nick Bosa five? That's a lot for an edge rusher. Yeah,
I mean forty nine ers. I guess fans pretty strong.
Brady cabs lamar to do not surprise me. I'm gonna
tell you something. I'll make a prediction here. Okay, by
the way, once again, who's disrespected Russell Wilson? Yeah, Russell
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Wilson never had an MVP boat. Russell Wilson literally throws
a no hitter. Nick Bosa has sold more jerseys and
Russell Wilson. I mean, at some point the league should
be appalled by how they treat Russell Wilson. I mean,
that's those are abouts fans. That's that's un fans. They're
the ones buying the jerseys already have of Seahawks number
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three jersey. Yeah. All those other players are relatively new
or a new team. Yeah. So the the Tom Brady's
usually the top of like merchandise sales, but that's not
limited to just Jerseys. This is specifically Jersey. So it's
not surprising to me that Tom Brady and Cam Newton
are at the top of the Jersey sales. Didn't you
think it was kind of amazing? Like we always know
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Lebron has Like like Michael Jordan moved the TV ratings,
Tiger Woods moved the TV ratings. Lebron moves the TV ratings.
Boy Brady moves the TV ratings too. Like I always
knew he was popular, but he's not polarizing. I didn't
think it was polarizing. Brady moved the damn rating this weekend.
I think Bradies very polarizing. You think so? Sure? Polarizing
about him? Patriots a death star, Belichick, spygate to play
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Gate six Championships. Yeah, no, they're for sure. He is
definitely polarized. Apparently is polarized. It is, it is, but
he is. He definitely invokes a bit of raid. I
no longer am in that camp, but for a long time. Yeah,
and you're a petty I'm very petty. You're over it. Well,
I'm sober it because I don't want to be the
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person and I'm in this this camp with Lebron. James
as well. I don't want to be the person who
didn't enjoy greatness while we had it, thank you. So
I've suffered through the pain and the agony, and now
I'm just going to experience it and enjoy watching it.
I'm not rooting in any other way, but I just
I don't want to be the person that takes that
for granted. So the Clippers are facing elimination today against
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the Nuggets after blowing double digit leads in the last
two games. Doc Rivers says there's no secret why they've
struggled recently. The Nugets are shooting over sixty percent in
both and Havels making a ton of trips to the
free line the freether line as well. But going into
game seven, he's focusing on getting the Clippers back to basics.
I'm gonna say, let's go in. I just know rolroad
speeches are very overrated, and they last about three minutes
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and you come running out and you're fired up and
you've been a three minutes later. You got to focus
on playing basketball. So there's no like secret speech. You know.
That's where you know the movie Sousia, it's about playing basketball,
uh and uh moving the ball, doing all the things
that we can do. Heats win Game one, Clippers win
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Game seven. Nice night of basketball tonight. You know what
I like Eric Spoelstra. Did I tell you my Eric
spoelstraum moment? No? So I always thought Eric Spoelstra was underrated.
I really like him as a coach, and apparently so
one time I'm in Hawaii with Anne and I am
gonna so I didn't even see him. So we're walking
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by in Anne goes, there's that handsome coach for Lebron's
team and I'm like, oh, hells and is always spotting everybody. Yeah,
And I was like, she's great. How did you know that?
So I walked over and I said, I do that.
I said, listen, I don't want to bother you. I
just want to say hi, I want to acknowledge that
my wife. So and he goes, oh, come over here,
he goes, my dad loves listening to you. He goes,
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I can't. I'm too damn busy. He goes, my dad says,
you saidy nice stuff about me all the time. And
I was like, well, you're great. And he's really an
engaging guy. But I never thought Spolstra got the love
he deserve because Lebron and Wade and Bosh were so great.
The guy can flat out coach. They disassembled Milwaukee's offense.
He is a great coach, and then they swept the Pacers.
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Like Popovich is great, but he got credit, and Kurs
great and he's getting credit. Spolstra is great and he's
getting and Brad Stevens gets credit. Spolstra was the last
coach in the league that we have to acknowledge, dude
can flat coach. Well, part of Spolster not getting credit,
I think is pat Riley. That's right. This presence, that's right,
you know, looms over the organization as he should. He's
got that's that's no. Not spying on people in Hawaii bars.
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But it was. It was a nice moment for us.
Spolstra and he was just married at the time. I
think he I think two kids now, Yeah, they've just
gotten married. Yeah, joy with the news. Well that's the news,
and thanks for stopping by the third line news. Yeah,
the same thing with Russell Wilson. Pete Carroll's a legend,
Marshawn Lynch, legion of Doom and the and the great
player in the middle nobody gives him credit for and
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it's like, that's kind of spulstra. I got Riley up there,
I got Wade, I got Lebron. Everybody's like, no, no, no, no, no,
they this guy he's coach of the Year. And again,
why don't we wait till the playoffs are over to
give these stupid awards. It's a regular season awards, Yeah,
but that doesn't mean anything. The NBA doesn't matter in
the regular season. Seating doesn't even matter. I'm saying that's
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why they do it, because it's supposed to be a
regular season awards. Does any sport get this right? Does
any sport vote on the awards after the whole thing's
wrapped up? Does anybody do this right? The only reason
we watched sports is like the Big Game have like
the finals MVP in the Super Bowl MVP. So there's
an addition, but I mean for the highest level of competition.
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But I just and then, by the way, then they
announced it like a month after the season. I mean
they should announce it earlier, that's for sure. I should
you know what, there should be just one guy in America,
But it's just the Commissioner of All Sports. I nominate myself.
She's just gonna make all the rules. Just let's get
this crap figured out. There's just a lot of nonsense going.
Do you have good ideas? Yeah? All right? Coming up next?
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What we got? Oh oh, it's my quarterback head coach debut.
Report cards. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine a Empacific on Fox
Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. Week one
officially in the books, and that's time for report cards. Now,
Goolay gives me crap because he said, I'm a very
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lenient teacher in the books. I don't like to be
a buzzkill week one. I want my students to feel
good about them or the teacher everyone tries to get
because it's an easy grade. Well, you're the teacher nobody
wants to have because you don't have good hygiene. Okay,
that's I'd rather be me. That's the guy who quit
shaving this week. Okay, let's go, joy, let's go with
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our report car All right, Profrestlor calling, what great are
you giving? Tom Brady B minus he's getting into a
bad habit of pick sixes. Now, Mike Evans was recovering
from a hamstring injury. Leonard Fernett is not fully ready
to go. They're gonna look really good this week against
Carolina's defense, but he is getting into He's throwing a
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pick six and three consecutive games, so it is listen,
we just got rid of that guy. It's called Jamis Winston,
so like, let's get out of that space. I thought
this was a really really bad throw. That's a bad throw.
Being very kind Week one, all right, what gread are
you giving Teddy Bridgewater? I feel harsh b minus Raiders
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defense is awful. You're at home. You gotta win that
football game. You got, you got really good weapons. You
gotta win that foot Now, he did hit Robbie Anderson
for Teddy Bridgewater's longest touchdown passed since his rookie year.
But to me, you're at home, you got Christian McCaffrey.
You know, here's an earth thing and I liked, and
I'm a Teddy Bridgewater supporter. You got to call a
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time out and tell Matt Rule we're not running that
stupid fullback dive. I would just say, no, we're not
doing it. You've been in this league long enough. That's
a rookie head coach, you just say we're not running
that play. I got Christian McCaffrey. I'm not giving it
to some guy who may not be on the squad
in eight weeks. What Grady giving Joe Burrow? B plus?
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I thought he looked good, so he had he throws
a terrible interception following drive immediately after that eight of
eleven seventy yards seven rush yards. His best drive of
the day was after his biggest mistake. That shows maturity, resilience, toughness.
I thought Joe Burrow looked really, really good. And he
also he's a little bigger. It's like he looks about
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ten twelve pounds of just weight room stuff. He looked
big and capable. Professor Collin, what great are you giving
Joe Judge? Giants coach d a lot of beat. First
of all, they couldn't run the football at all, twenty
nine rushing yars few as to any team week one.
They also committed a delay a game and a fourth
and one first drive of the game, first drive of
the game. You've got a delay a game. You can't
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have twelve plays scripted. I mean, come on, now, you
know I just the Jets and the Giants did not
look well coached early on. Oh great, does Mike McCarthy
get this week? They weren't terrible C minus. I would
say this, three points on six drives in the second half. Great.
Coaches are good after intermission. They also went four in
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a fourth and three late in the game. They could
they could have tied it up. That's kind of situational football.
I do like coaches that go for it, but I'm
gonna be pretty hard on coaches. One of the things
I like about Pete Carroll, he's been His teams are
very good in the second half. Belichick's team very good
in the second half. Come on, you can't have Dak
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and Zeke and that old line and Amari and Ceedee
Lamb and Mike Gallop and give me three points. Dak
is better than three points against that defense. But greaty
giving Cam Newton a minus. I mean, I didn't ask
a ton of him through the air, but I thought
to walk in, folks. He just got there fifteen to nineteen.
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Led the Patriots in rushing. This was one of my concerns.
This is not an easy offense. This is a complex
offense with a lot of variables. A lot of looks,
a lot of sets, a lot of movement. He figured
it out quick. I'm not sure by the way, that
Jared Stidham is the next blavity blabty. That thing's over right.
Oh my god, what Jared Stidham is? Actually? Well, what
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happened to that thing? That was the dumbest story of
the half offseason. But great for Matt Rule. C minus lucky.
I don't flunk him out of the class that play call,
have the ball, minute twenty six at home, your hand
off to a fullback and fourth and one with Christian McCaffrey. That,
by the way, you do realize here this is a
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home game for a West Coast team, early start time.
You gotta go for it. First of all, when you're
a rookie coach at your first game, you got some leeway.
If you go for it and you try to throw them,
you know you do something clever and you don't get it.
People are gonna say, well, Matt Rules, a college guy's clever,
he's out of the box. That looks like nineteen seventy
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four NFL football. Matt Rule, that's not who you are.
Didn't hire you to do that. I can hire a
John Fox to do that great? Are you giving Ron
rivera highest to the weekend? A plus? I got an
ivy at halftime, seventeen point deficit, a fourteen quarterback hits
on Carson Wentz. He's always been a good defensive coach.
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But I you know what that's as impressive a thing
is the Washington football team has done after a chaotic
off season of nonsense, I mean stuff inside the organization.
You got Dwayne Haskins who played a very good second half.
That is an A plus coaching job by Ron and
easy got a root for But grade are you giving
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Philip Rivers? Let's slow down on the Philip Rivers. See,
they asked him Joy to throw forty six times. He
threw three hundred and sixty three passes or three hundred
and sixty three yards. Now that would have been something
he also lought Marlon Mack so they didn't have any
running game. You cannot ask a quarterback to throw forty
forty five times and then chew him out because he
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throws a pick that you don't even want my homes
thrown that many times. That's ridiculous, So I give him
a sea. Finally, Professor Colin, what great. Are you giving
Kevin Stefanski D I don't want to hear about no preseason. Okay,
first quarters mean a lot. Joe Judge had a bad
first quarter. Adam Gates had a bad first quarter. Kevin
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Stefans get a bad first quarter. I don't expect Cleveland
to beat Baltimore, but you gotta come out in your
first twelve plays offensively, move the ball and look organized
and not have penalties and turnovers. Not good. I gotta
tell you I'm not into firing coaches and he's safe,
but I'm dead serious on this Adam Gase. Look at
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their schedule, they're one in five. I'm not sure it's
not time to make the move. He can't get along
with anybody. I don't know if firing coaches midseason. But
Greg Williams not a bad interim. That's a consistent disaster.
That's true, though. Boost you're healthy, testosterone, burn fat, try
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