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Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people are riled up about the
Speaker 3: USC Notre Dame situation. We will address as it should be,
Speaker 3: the USC Notre Dame situation throughout the show. Well, there's
Speaker 3: some people that aren't riled up at all, Like Colin
Speaker 3: Cowherd tweeted out.
Speaker 5: Well, he's an idiot.
Speaker 3: When you're a full and committed member of an elite
Speaker 3: conference like USC and the Big Ten, you no longer
Speaker 3: need semi committed rivals from weaker conferences. The Trojans were
Speaker 3: increasingly making the bigger sacrifice, So thank you.
Speaker 5: I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Colin Cowherd like doing gymnastics, and look at
Speaker 3: we've all sacrificed a certain amount of dignity to allow
Speaker 3: for modern college football to exist in the way it does,
Speaker 3: and just cover it with a smile on their face.
Speaker 3: The entire college football Playoff and ESPN and what they
Speaker 3: own and don't own is the true definition of wagging
Speaker 3: the dog. They control all of this stuff and then
Speaker 3: they have a twenty four hour argument about it on
Speaker 3: the networks that they use to control the sport with.
Speaker 3: So we've all compromised a lot.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess we should have. Right Look, Utah
Speaker 6: BYU or Oregon State like it's all come to a
Speaker 6: crashing halt. Sadly well, Utah BYU started up again again.
Speaker 6: Oregon Oregon State plays every year, the Apple Cup plays
Speaker 6: every year. It's up to the schools to figure it out.
Speaker 6: Oklahoma Texas is finally back on again. Yeah, they're being
Speaker 6: gone for a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Bedlam is gone. But again it is up to the
Speaker 3: schools to figure this thing out. And USC Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: because it was an intersectional rivalry, was not supposed to
Speaker 3: be or fall victim to conference realignment, and it has
Speaker 3: because Lincoln Riley started talking about it when he got
Speaker 3: the job before Gen Cohen. Lincoln Riley the USC head
Speaker 3: coach for how long?
Speaker 6: Talking for years he's been the head coach. He's like,
Speaker 6: he's connected with the program. Is that the guy we're
Speaker 6: talking about? He is going in the program to his
Speaker 6: fifth year in twenty twenty six, and he has been
Speaker 6: overall a disappointment and he shouldn't get to say it,
Speaker 6: whether the university does or doesn't play Notre Dame. Jen
Speaker 6: Cohen should be strong enough to deal with it as
Speaker 6: the US Athletic Director and make sure that the rivalry continues.
Speaker 6: And the USC president, which they don't have right now,
Speaker 6: or the board of trustees has got to figure it
Speaker 6: out and step in or some donor or somebody. I mean,
Speaker 6: they've had a year to figure this out, and they've
Speaker 6: not figured it out. Notre Dame has moved on and
Speaker 6: scheduled BYU and now the rivalry, if it ever resumes,
Speaker 6: is not going to be on again until twenty thirty
Speaker 6: at the earliest. And it is a and they did
Speaker 6: UCLA tried to what push the idea of we will
Speaker 6: continue it for two years as long as it's earlier
Speaker 6: in the season, not in the midst of our right
Speaker 6: with need of our big tench That's kind of what
Speaker 6: their compromise was, right, that's what they want.
Speaker 3: That's what well. First of all, no one should have
Speaker 3: ever said anything, right. They should have put it out
Speaker 3: there that they should have left it like it was
Speaker 3: like it was historically, with USC traveling out there before
Speaker 3: it gets too cold in mid October, not late October,
Speaker 3: and Notre Dame coming out here when the weather is
Speaker 3: beautiful to play Thanksgiving Day weekend. They should have left
Speaker 3: it like that. It should have never been touched. No
Speaker 3: one should have said anything about it, in my very
Speaker 3: humble opinion, And I don't know exactly when Lincoln Riley
Speaker 3: said it. It was when he was still riding pretty
Speaker 3: high with Caleb Williams in his first year as the quarterback.
Speaker 3: But Lincoln Riley said something to the effect of we
Speaker 3: got to look at that or something, and then started
Speaker 3: to say it publicly. And then USC got a new
Speaker 3: athletic director and they started negotiating with Notre Dame, and
Speaker 3: Notre Dame wouldn't bunch, so the USC had to feel
Speaker 3: like they need to save face and get this moved
Speaker 3: to a better time a year for them, not in
Speaker 3: the teeth of when they have to go to places
Speaker 3: like Nebraska, and the different arguments you hear from people
Speaker 3: that carry water from modern day college football and USC
Speaker 3: like Colin Coward, and then it just became a petty,
Speaker 3: stubborn thing between two gigantic entities. But it started with
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley, and shame on Jen Cohen because it's up
Speaker 3: to her to make sure that the thing keeps going
Speaker 3: and to a certain degree, shame on Notre Name for
Speaker 3: not being able to figure it out at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, as our old boss used to say.
Speaker 3: And I you know, and I know, it was a
Speaker 3: much different time. But when USC was beating the snot
Speaker 3: out of Notre Dame for a decade, you know, from
Speaker 3: two thousand to twenty ten, you never heard, you know,
Speaker 3: a a peep from them. And now that USC has
Speaker 3: lost eight of the last ten to Notre Dame, all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, this rivalry is not sustainable.
Speaker 5: It's too hard to Matt.
Speaker 3: When I was as nothing was more important in our
Speaker 3: lives as far as sports went than the football we
Speaker 3: were playing and USC football, my father, my older brother, myself,
Speaker 3: my uncle Tommy, my grandfather, Tom Papadakis. We were so
Speaker 3: intertwined with the thing. And I lived and died watching
Speaker 3: guys like Rodney Pete, our colleague, and Todd Marinovich and
Speaker 3: Mark Carrier and Cadillac Cleveland Coulter and all that play.
Speaker 3: I think within that stretch all the way up until
Speaker 3: the game in nineteen ninety four, which was bitterly cold
Speaker 3: at the coliseum, and I was there as a USC
Speaker 3: football recruit in the tunnel and my brother was playing.
Speaker 3: I don't think USC beat Notre Dame for thirteen years.
Speaker 3: I think that game in ninety four was a tie,
Speaker 3: and no one ever said anything about it. People just
Speaker 3: wanted to play so bad so you could beat them,
Speaker 3: and it was a Lou Holtz and Ron Pallace I
Speaker 3: think a couple years later in ninety six that ended
Speaker 3: up losing finally at the Coliseum, and that streak of
Speaker 3: fourteen years not beating USC or not beating Notre Dame
Speaker 3: was over. No, and you never heard anything like this,
Speaker 3: we can't beat them, or we don't have a favorable schedule.
Speaker 3: Just as an example, Matt, you mentioned twenty two to
Speaker 3: twenty ten and Pete Carroll having a whole bunch of success.
Speaker 3: Here's a great example. USC's got what Missouri State on
Speaker 3: the schedule in twenty twenty five and had Georgia Southern
Speaker 3: on the schedule in twenty twenty five, and you know
Speaker 3: that's what they're going to do from here on out.
Speaker 3: They're going to schedule three big cupcakes and then play
Speaker 3: big ten games, and it's shameful. In twenty oh six,
Speaker 3: USC's three non conference games were at Arkansas Nebraska and
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. Yeah, and then they played nine pack twelve games.
Speaker 3: Pete Carroll wanted to play the best, and you fast
Speaker 3: forward now nineteen years and you see this level of
Speaker 3: cowardice and it's hard to swallow.
Speaker 6: It really is Missouri State, Georgia Southern then. Yet somehow
Speaker 6: Pete figured out how to navigate and win back to
Speaker 6: back national championships, win double digit games, play meaningful games
Speaker 6: late in the season, year after year when you had
Speaker 6: to be one of the two best teams in the
Speaker 6: country to win a time, not one of the twelve,
Speaker 6: one of the two. And again, it's not isolating. I
Speaker 6: get it, it's not isolated to USC. So many these
Speaker 6: rivalries have been kicked to.
Speaker 3: The Texas Oklahoma never had it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I meant to say Texas, Texas, A and M when
Speaker 6: Texas left, and now obviously that's back with A and
Speaker 6: M rejoining.
Speaker 5: That was my bad, My apologies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this was supposed to be bigger than all
Speaker 3: of those. At least it was for those of us
Speaker 3: that played at USSE and for those of us that
Speaker 3: played at Notre Dame. I know people feel the same.
Speaker 3: I was proud that Keishawn Johnson, who's long been a
Speaker 3: media guy and a very outspoken guy who does not
Speaker 3: very often. I mean, he grew up in the shadow
Speaker 3: of the coliseum and the university. He was a USC
Speaker 3: ball boy. He ended up going to a JC and
Speaker 3: then playing at USC. Definitely not an easy path. And
Speaker 3: Keishawn almost never criticizes USC or the school and the
Speaker 3: athletic program because they've done so much for him and
Speaker 3: it's so much a part of his identity. But even
Speaker 3: Keishan has been he's he went off today. Here's Keishaan
Speaker 3: on Twitter.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the f is going on with
Speaker 4: our athletic department.
Speaker 7: Okay, we got people in there that are not Trojans,
Speaker 7: that don't know anything about being a trojan running our
Speaker 7: athletic department. We got a head coach that knows nothing
Speaker 7: about being a trojan. Why don't we just not play football?
Speaker 7: How about that We're not gonna play Notre Dame again,
Speaker 7: possibly till twenty thirty, is what I'm understanding. That doesn't
Speaker 7: make any sense. I grew up on the Notre Dame
Speaker 7: USC rivalry, and I'm not one to go in on
Speaker 7: my athletic department.
Speaker 4: Nor am I one to go in on the USC
Speaker 4: football coach.
Speaker 7: But if I can remember correctly, I had Lincoln Riley
Speaker 7: talking about, well, I don't know if I want to play.
Speaker 4: Them in the future.
Speaker 7: You ain't gonna be here in the future, especially if
Speaker 7: you keep missing the playoffs.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna be here in the future. I promise
Speaker 4: you that.
Speaker 7: So I don't understand what our athletic department, our administration, okay,
Speaker 7: our border trustees, border regions, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 7: What the hell are they doing? We running from teams now?
Speaker 7: We running from Notre Dame. Hell, Why don't we run
Speaker 7: from Oregon in Michigan and Ohio State and Wisconsin. Why
Speaker 7: don't we just not be in the conference when we
Speaker 7: pull that move and just play Sacramento State when we
Speaker 7: play them type of teams you see, Davis, because that's
Speaker 7: what we want to do. This is crazy. It really
Speaker 7: is crazy if you think about it. Michigan, Ohio State,
Speaker 7: one of the biggest rivalries in football. Alabama Rbor Okay,
Speaker 7: they ain't canceling that. Why would we cancel our biggest
Speaker 7: rivalry because.
Speaker 4: We can't beat them? Me, Dick, it makes zero sense, man,
Speaker 4: It's just hard to support this. Program is hard.
Speaker 7: It's really hard to support this program when we keep
Speaker 7: on doing this type of be stuffed this behavior. I can't, Man,
Speaker 7: we need trojans doing trojan things.
Speaker 4: We don't need impostors coming in and trying to do
Speaker 4: trojan things. I'm gonna leave it.
Speaker 3: At that, And I believe that the reason this has
Speaker 3: happened is corroded leadership. There was nobody to stop this
Speaker 3: at USC. And as much as I've criticized a lot
Speaker 3: of the athletic directors and all the different turnover USC
Speaker 3: has had over the years, a lot of people that
Speaker 3: have been in that seat over the last few years
Speaker 3: would have never allowed this to happen. Matt. To answer
Speaker 3: your question, USC opens up with Fresno State, okay, and
Speaker 3: Louisiana La Fayette. Oh, that would be just Louisiana. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Cajuns with Chyenne there, Pepper mascot.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the if is going on with
Speaker 4: our athletic department.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see what school USC replaces Notre
Speaker 3: Dame with now.
Speaker 6: I you know, as someone who was again, I remember
Speaker 6: some of the signature games growing up on the other side.
Speaker 3: Well, you have yeah, you have a United because you
Speaker 3: grew up uh in the area just right outside of
Speaker 3: South Basically, when people go to the USC Notre Dame
Speaker 3: game and they're USC fans and they.
Speaker 5: Go out there, they r s whole town.
Speaker 3: They drive through Matt's region on the way to Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: so stop.
Speaker 5: People, you might die, but keep driving through it.
Speaker 6: But Yeah, and I just kind of think about the
Speaker 6: fact that Notre Dame, what was it, uh, three four
Speaker 6: years ago? Then they are probably five years ago that
Speaker 6: they put a stop to the Michigan rivalry, and it's
Speaker 6: not like that was the USC rivalry. Now they didn't
Speaker 6: kind of go and here's the late seven I mean,
Speaker 6: they were playing most every year since the late seventies,
Speaker 6: but it's not s C for you know, damn near
Speaker 6: a century. So I again, I'm not trying to I'm
Speaker 6: not trying to say, hey, this is okay, but I'm
Speaker 6: just asking, like, how much of this do we think
Speaker 6: with Bavaca running his mouth about the ACC and he's
Speaker 6: all pissed off about how things went this year, how
Speaker 6: much of this is on them?
Speaker 3: Like on Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think splitting the pie, like, what's the is
Speaker 5: it twenty.
Speaker 3: I have I have no idea. They should be. Both
Speaker 3: of these athletic departments. It's their duty to figure this
Speaker 3: out for the fans and for the players, and for
Speaker 3: the former players, and for the sport. So it's their
Speaker 3: duty to find a middle ground and make sure that
Speaker 3: there's no pause in college football's greatest rivalry. So in
Speaker 3: that regard, they both think this started with Lincoln Riley
Speaker 3: and Jen Cohen has not been strong enough to stop it,
Speaker 3: and so she's going to go down with him in flames, isn't.
Speaker 6: Isn't it her choice? I mean, she's the athletic directors
Speaker 6: and she ultimately the one like yeah, but decides He's
Speaker 6: not the one that coaches don't decide this crap.
Speaker 7: I don't know what the if is going on with
Speaker 7: our athletic department.
Speaker 3: Well, nobody brought it up before Lincoln Riley. He brought
Speaker 3: it up. So then people are going to point the
Speaker 3: finger because no one would have even ever conceived this
Speaker 3: before this guy from Muleshoe, Texas came out here and
Speaker 3: started telling yeah, and started telling everybody how a hundred
Speaker 3: year old rivalry that only took one year off for
Speaker 3: COVID and took World War Two off it's crazy, I am.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm not dumbfounded because we've been talking about
Speaker 3: this for a long time.
Speaker 5: You didn't think it was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I guess not today. But maybe there's some kind of
Speaker 3: media timing about that because of the way Notre Dame
Speaker 3: behaved regarding the Pop Tarts Bowl and the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: But this is totally unrelated other than the fact if
Speaker 3: you're one of those people like Colin Cowhard that thinks
Speaker 3: they need to join a conference, Notre Dame doesn't need
Speaker 3: to join a conference as long as NBC is willing
Speaker 3: to pay him to have their own TVD Why do
Speaker 3: they do that? And teams will line up to play them?
Speaker 3: Say what you will, like us? He needs Notre Dame more.
Speaker 3: She needs Notre Dame more. That changes every single year,
Speaker 3: and the circumstance of the schedule and what the years
Speaker 3: like and what happened in the year. You can't really
Speaker 3: say who needs who more in any kind of general context.
Speaker 6: Likes Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State they need Notre Dame.
Speaker 6: That's the way their Big Ten schedule shakes out. You
Speaker 6: bet you're asked they're going to need Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: It's these people's job to make this work. So in
Speaker 3: that regard, I would say Notre Dame is also guilty.
Speaker 3: But this started with USC, and then they both came
Speaker 3: to the table and there was a lot of scrutiny
Speaker 3: on what was going to happen, and neither of them
Speaker 3: could compromise, it seems. And I would rather have USC
Speaker 3: Notre Dame in September than not have it at all.
Speaker 3: I think it would be stupid to move it.
Speaker 6: But if you's the middle ground you have to meet
Speaker 6: to keep USC in it, then you should meet ten.
Speaker 3: For USC means that we have to play Cayenne, the
Speaker 3: Louisiana Lafayette, and Georgia Southern and like he Sean said,
Speaker 3: the Sacramento States of the world. Then maybe you just
Speaker 3: ought to go back to the pack eight or whatever
Speaker 3: and asked a note to ask Oregon State and Washington
Speaker 3: State for forgiveness for blowing up their lives. This is pathetic.
Speaker 3: It's really a sad day, and we're watching college football
Speaker 3: slip through our fingers. But this was something that these
Speaker 3: people could have been stewards of and hung onto in
Speaker 3: a chaotic time to create some semblance of balance and
Speaker 3: stability and tradition, and they have failed us. The leadership
Speaker 3: has failed us.
Speaker 6: It's funny, ever since you mentioned that with Pete, I'm
Speaker 6: just looking at all those You know how much it changed,
Speaker 6: you know, from when you would get excited about week
Speaker 6: zero or week one, And here's Pete winning eleven games
Speaker 6: in a year he opened with Auburn, played number eighteen,
Speaker 6: Colorado top twenty five.
Speaker 5: Kansas State.
Speaker 3: Aren't scared of anybody, No, I wanted to measure themselves,
Speaker 3: measure themselves against the best because they're trying to be
Speaker 3: the best team in the country, not trying to jerrymander
Speaker 3: their schedule so they can be the fifth team and
Speaker 3: the big ten to get into the playoff.
Speaker 5: It's sad Ohio State back to back years. Oh wait nine?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean I remember talking to Jim Tressel
Speaker 3: in the tunnel and is in his sweater ve. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know it's a different time and I know things
Speaker 3: are changing, but this did not have to be this way.
Speaker 3: And it's kind of the same way with the way
Speaker 3: the Pac twelve went away. It didn't have to be
Speaker 3: like this. And now we live in this awkward present
Speaker 3: and future and it is unfortunate. There's other things to
Speaker 3: look forward to. Today, we have the state of hate.
Speaker 3: Perhaps we're going to start out with the state of
Speaker 3: hate and see where it takes us. Yeah. Probably we'll
Speaker 3: have a top story of the day as the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I know he's not going to win Coach of the
Speaker 3: Year because there's so many other stories he should. Jim
Speaker 3: Harbaugh has done a heck of a job this year
Speaker 3: with a pretty beat up team. Yeah, finding ways to
Speaker 3: win and now creating confidence in December. So we'll talk
Speaker 3: about that as mad as back from Dallas and we'll
Speaker 3: have house your weekend. We'll talk more about Seo Notre
Speaker 3: Dame as the day goes on. It's a sad day
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Speaker 3: So much time talking about the schedule.
Speaker 6: We have a proclamation that hangs in our studio. It
Speaker 6: is a notice to all the other shows that they
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Speaker 5: As we are. It is from what I mean. You
Speaker 5: don't think it sensed that signal.
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Speaker 6: Certain Frank Yoka Yama gave us a proclamation from the
Speaker 6: city of Soritos that says, we love you guys, we
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Speaker 6: I believe there was a naked city trip involved. That
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Speaker 5: A key to the city.
Speaker 3: That's where you're from.
Speaker 6: And the headline in the weekend Sunday Northwest Indiana Times
Speaker 6: reads today or this, yes, just yesterday's paper, with a
Speaker 6: photo of a giant rig that has a huge drilling
Speaker 6: mechanism making its way toward Wolf Lake to test I
Speaker 6: suppose the foundation of the ground. Hammond emerges as serious
Speaker 6: contender and bears widening stadium search.
Speaker 3: I saw this, and there's other news today about Kansas
Speaker 3: City going to Kansas.
Speaker 6: So that one is official, you know. Obviously, it's also
Speaker 6: official that the New York Giants and New York Jets
Speaker 6: play in New Jersey. The San Francisco forty nine ers
Speaker 6: play in Santa Clair, a different county than the city
Speaker 6: of San Francisco. And now after announcement and announcement today.
Speaker 6: As you just mentioned, p Missouri is losing their second
Speaker 6: football team in just over a decade. Saint Louis lost
Speaker 6: the Rams twelve years ago to Los Angeles, and now
Speaker 6: Kansas City, Missouri will lose the Chiefs to Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 3: We're gonna cross this street of here.
Speaker 6: Olath, I believe is going to be getting a practice
Speaker 6: facility and I multi and a multi purpose shopping district,
Speaker 6: a destination like the one I traveled to over the
Speaker 6: weekend where the star is Frisco, Texas, Arlington, Texas, where
Speaker 6: these football teams can create many cities destinations that go
Speaker 6: beyond the eight or nine home games they have scheduled
Speaker 6: for a single season. Do I think the Chicago Bears
Speaker 6: will move to Hammond, Indiana?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Oh, But I would like to point.
Speaker 3: Out, do we still have our key to the city?
Speaker 3: Can we frame it?
Speaker 6: I think it's got to be somewhere. I would assume
Speaker 6: it's somewhere in the office it was given right it's
Speaker 6: it might be in the day or in one of
Speaker 6: the cabinets it was given to us. It was a
Speaker 6: framed key to the city to Hammond, Indiana, which is
Speaker 6: now in the middle of some major National Football League
Speaker 6: news as if in fact they are going to really
Speaker 6: follow up on the Northwest Indiana threat because of the
Speaker 6: considerably lower taxes and willingness to give the McCaskey family
Speaker 6: more money than the state of Illinois, which is almost
Speaker 6: as broke as California. Then maybe we will have a
Speaker 6: key to the city that will house an actual NFL franchise.
Speaker 3: I'd like to locate that Keyton City and put it
Speaker 3: up on the wall.
Speaker 6: It's good idea because it would again reinforce the idea
Speaker 6: of what a successful show we have, how revered we
Speaker 6: are to the actual football. And good luck to Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 6: I believe that stadium is going to be domed and
Speaker 6: it will be open in twenty thirty one, along with
Speaker 6: some sort of shopping district.
Speaker 3: Maybe USC Notre Dame could play there.
Speaker 5: Oh, that'd be great, right there in the middle. To
Speaker 5: meet in the middle.
Speaker 6: Guys have the same record, They both have championship winning
Speaker 6: head coaches, they both have franchise quarterbacks. Only one of
Speaker 6: them controls their path to winning their division in a
Speaker 6: home game in the playoffs, and yet the eleven and
Speaker 6: four Chargers are viewed considerably different than the eleven and
Speaker 6: four Rams. I believe the meme that is making the
Speaker 6: rounds is the one of Tiger Woods, prim and proper
Speaker 6: in his Sunday red black pant, perfectly tucked in combo,
Speaker 6: staring at John Daily with his beard, his cigarette, his
Speaker 6: loud mouthed pants, and his squatty stature. Eleven and four Chargers.
Speaker 6: The Rams are plus four hundred favorites, the favorite to
Speaker 6: win the Lombardi in February. The Chargers are plus two thousand,
Speaker 6: tied for tenth with the forty nine Ers, who, by
Speaker 6: the way, also control their path to win in the
Speaker 6: NFC West. You'll hear a tier tonight against the Colts.
Speaker 6: The If the forty nine Ers went out they win
Speaker 6: the NFC West, they will have a home game. If
Speaker 6: the Chargers win their final two games now they will
Speaker 6: be champions of the AFC West for the first time
Speaker 6: since two thousand and nine, just like the forty nine
Speaker 6: Ers would be champions of the NFC West if they
Speaker 6: win their final two games, and they would be on
Speaker 6: top of the toughest division in football this season. But
Speaker 6: they are viewed, for whatever reason, as a step below
Speaker 6: the Seahawks and the Rams clearly at plus two thousand
Speaker 6: to win the Super Bowl the Rams plus four hundred
Speaker 6: the Seahawks plus five hundred. The Rams look likely to
Speaker 6: be a wildcard team, which means you got to play
Speaker 6: an extra game if you're not the one seed. All
Speaker 6: three of your games if you were to make the
Speaker 6: Super Bowl would be on the road in order to
Speaker 6: make it to Super Bowl sixty in Santa Clara. The
Speaker 6: mess that was the fourth quarter in Seattle set that course.
Speaker 6: There is still a path to a much easier route,
Speaker 6: but it does mean watching other teams in the division stumble.
Speaker 6: The Bolts do not have to do that. All they
Speaker 6: have to do is win. If they win their final
Speaker 6: two games Saturday one thirty pm kick at home, nationally
Speaker 6: televised against the Houston Texans, followed up by a week
Speaker 6: eighteen trip to Denver against the Broncos, whom they've already
Speaker 6: defeated in Week three at SOFI Stadium, that would hand
Speaker 6: them the AFC West crown, the first that doesn't go
Speaker 6: to Kansas City since two thousand and fourteen. Actually, they
Speaker 6: haven't made the playoffs since twenty fourteen. They haven't been
Speaker 6: winners of the AFC West in eight years very well
Speaker 6: can end up being the Sunday night football game depending
Speaker 6: on the implications of the aforementioned NFC West forty nine
Speaker 6: or Seahawks Week eighteen game that will be played in
Speaker 6: Santa Clara, and really what it is, it's it was
Speaker 6: supposed to be a gauntlet the national media, the talking heads.
Speaker 6: You talked about them in the opening segment, the networks
Speaker 6: that have to come up with something to argue about
Speaker 6: for twenty four hours a day, because embrace debate. That's
Speaker 6: what gets the needle movement and people tuning in. The
Speaker 6: Chargers were the number one team that was mentioned as
Speaker 6: currently in the playoffs, likely to fade and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 6: They beat the Raiders. They were eight and four. They
Speaker 6: sat in the five slot, the top wild card position.
Speaker 6: Yet everybody pointed to a closing stretch of five games
Speaker 6: the Eagles on Monday Night football, defending Super Bowl champions,
Speaker 6: followed by a short week and a ten am kick
Speaker 6: at Arrowhead against Kansas City, followed by the number one
Speaker 6: offense in the NFL on the road the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 6: followed by the best defense in the NFL, one that's
Speaker 6: been top five in the last ten years from the
Speaker 6: Houston Texans and then a trip to Denver, the team
Speaker 6: with the best record in the AFC currently in the AFC.
Speaker 6: Some went as far to say, is I think they
Speaker 6: finished eight to nine. I don't think they win another
Speaker 6: game the rest of the season. The struggles of the offense,
Speaker 6: the offensive line, and then they beat the Eagles, and
Speaker 6: a lot of people still said, well, ugly game, five
Speaker 6: field goals. They were beat up. Now they got to
Speaker 6: go to Kansas City. There's no way Patrick Mahomes can
Speaker 6: lose this game. He's never lost three in a row.
Speaker 6: Who cares what we've seen from a team that's six
Speaker 6: and seven and has not looked.
Speaker 5: Good all year.
Speaker 6: They were fit the Chiefs or the Chiefs were five
Speaker 6: and a half point favorites. Chargers get that win. The
Speaker 6: Eagles were favorites at so far. Chargers get that win.
Speaker 6: And now a team that has been considerably flawed. We've
Speaker 6: played soundbites from Jerry recently. Not all the time, but
Speaker 6: recently they were favored by two and a half points
Speaker 6: to knock off the Chargers. And we say that all
Speaker 6: to point out Jim Harbaugh just wins man wherever he goes.
Speaker 6: The odds makers are not. They don't care. They're just
Speaker 6: trying to set a line that they've been is going
Speaker 6: to bring in the closest to a fifty to fifty split,
Speaker 6: and that means, yeah, the other team looks like they're
Speaker 6: probably gonna win. What's the number where we can get
Speaker 6: this thing split half and half? So we just clean
Speaker 6: up on the juice. But Jim Harbaugh wins everywhere he goes.
Speaker 3: They've overcome a lot this year, and I think that's
Speaker 3: why you had a lot of people picking against them, yea,
Speaker 3: because they don't have their tackles no, and Justin Herbert
Speaker 3: has only one arm, and he gets beat up more
Speaker 3: and more in every game, so they've been defying the odds.
Speaker 6: He is the most pressured, the most hit, the most sacked.
Speaker 6: This was the first game this season that he was
Speaker 6: not sacked, not once, and yet they were on their fourth, No,
Speaker 6: Fifth and sixth offensive tackles Austin Deculus and Bobby Hart.
Speaker 6: Those two are behind Trey Pipkins and Jamal rig Sallier,
Speaker 6: who are behind Rashaun Slater and Joe Walt on their
Speaker 6: fifth and sixth offensive tackles. Understandable why people would have
Speaker 6: their doubts. It is just their third back to back
Speaker 6: eleven plus win season in franchise history seventy nine and eighty,
Speaker 6: two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, and now
Speaker 6: twenty four and twenty five. And like you said, they
Speaker 6: did it without Slater, without Joe Walt two not just
Speaker 6: Pro Bowl but all pro level quality tackles. They smoke
Speaker 6: the Cowboys for thirty four points again the team's number
Speaker 6: one overall offense fourth and points, putting up thirty per game,
Speaker 6: and they had to trade haymakers in the first half,
Speaker 6: the Cowboys scoring on their first three offensive possessions two
Speaker 6: touchdowns in a field goal, and the Chargers answering with
Speaker 6: three touchdowns in the first half and then shut them
Speaker 6: out in the second half again underdogs. Derwin James says,
Speaker 6: it's how they prefer it. It's what they'd rather be
Speaker 6: than a team that's being celebrated on TV about how
Speaker 6: good they are and how likely they are to win
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl. I don't get the idea that that's
Speaker 6: going to happen anytime soon, but speaking to Derwin, he's
Speaker 6: going to be an All Pro again this year. Tuley
Speaker 6: is going to be a Pro Bowler maybe our friend
Speaker 6: Tuley twy p below to usc product thirteen sacks, seventy
Speaker 6: two pressures, twenty seven run stops for no gain or
Speaker 6: a loss. He's going to make the Pro Bowl. They're
Speaker 6: a good eleven win team. It's not always pretty. I
Speaker 6: think the term you like you.
Speaker 3: Kind of a wooden roller coaster ride batt They've been
Speaker 3: bunked around.
Speaker 6: A little bit on their n it's a little shaky.
Speaker 6: You wonder if it's going to pop off the track.
Speaker 6: Sixteen thirteen over the over the Chief, twenty two to
Speaker 6: nineteen in overtime over the Eagles, but a double up
Speaker 6: thirty four to seventeen over the Cowboys give them a
Speaker 6: little bit of confidence going into this contest on Saturday
Speaker 6: against the Houston Texans and again to wrap. Most importantly,
Speaker 6: we do have a key to the city of Hammon
Speaker 6: and the headline rings Hammond emerges as major contender and
Speaker 6: bears widening stadium search. I don't know if they'd want
Speaker 6: us to grab a golden shovel, move a little bit
Speaker 6: of loose dirt.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to get the key up on the wall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the very least.
Speaker 3: And I'd like to think that we deserve some West
Speaker 3: Covina love.
Speaker 6: I would hope so to the point where we should
Speaker 6: almost ask Miss January to send us back there and
Speaker 6: extend an invite to Tony Wu again to see whether
Speaker 6: or not he wants to come with some hardware.
Speaker 3: I think we deserve it.
Speaker 5: I do too.
Speaker 3: Well. Good luck to the Bolts against the Texans. Notre
Speaker 3: Dame is on pause. Everybody loves the Bolt fam, especially
Speaker 3: those people that are in the Bolt Fam. Oh we
Speaker 3: we have San Francisco, Indianapolis tonight, stay with us. It's
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Speaker 3: some Monday night football tonight as well, Niners Colts coming
Speaker 3: up at five. But right now, because it's Mondays, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do what I do. The weekend is mine, so.
Speaker 4: Your wekend.
Speaker 2: How was your weekend?
Speaker 3: Matt? How was your weekend? In Texas? Texas?
Speaker 5: Was good? Friday night?
Speaker 6: Do want to tip the cap to a local spot
Speaker 6: that we had not been to in a while. The
Speaker 6: wife and I were solo, so we went to Roma
Speaker 6: Kuchina there in Sunset Beach. Great great spot if you
Speaker 6: have not been good food, great service and pasta rway
Speaker 6: which gives you both the meatball and the sausage. And
Speaker 6: that's what I want, the ball and the sausage in
Speaker 6: the same bowl. Saturday Am, I hit the waves for
Speaker 6: a couple hours before we took off and was running late,
Speaker 6: and I would like to share a public service announcement.
Speaker 6: Turns out there's a curb where the four oh five,
Speaker 6: where the merge from the twenty two to the four
Speaker 6: h five north is And if you decide to try
Speaker 6: to hammer the gas and overtake a semi in a
Speaker 6: pretty asinine maneuver, be sure to pay attention to their curb.
Speaker 6: Thank god I didn't. I probably had about three inches
Speaker 6: to spare. I think if I had blown up the curb,
Speaker 6: I'm not like, I don't think I'm here today like
Speaker 6: it was, it would have been really bad. I did
Speaker 6: not realize there was like this eight inch curb right
Speaker 6: there that probably would have ended poorly. So, yeah, that
Speaker 6: was a bad idea running late. Just maybe leave ten
Speaker 6: minutes earlier and you don't have to worry about things
Speaker 6: like that. On the flight to Dallas again, I was
Speaker 6: humiliated in scrabble by Shannon Fair and it's it's really
Speaker 6: getting to be a bit of a burden at this point.
Speaker 6: We had a big dinner that night. I went to
Speaker 6: a place called Cup and Bourbon and was sitting with
Speaker 6: a couple guys that worked on a night.
Speaker 3: If they'd helped serve it with a coup, you're kind
Speaker 3: of screwed right the floor.
Speaker 6: A couple guys that worked on a few presidential campaigns.
Speaker 6: So it was fun listening to them going back to
Speaker 6: the Reagan years about kind of what goes into that.
Speaker 6: That was a great time. Sunday new schedule. They get
Speaker 6: us up early man buses at eight thirty am for
Speaker 6: a noon kickoff in Dallas, so a six am Dallas
Speaker 6: time alarm to get over to my favorite stadium in
Speaker 6: the league at and T Stadium, and just they're the
Speaker 6: best man the Cowboys in terms of hospitality, really take
Speaker 6: care of you. It's the best spread meal wise. It
Speaker 6: is a postgame presser where they encourage everyone to hang out.
Speaker 6: They had a couple beer taps that they that they
Speaker 6: hook beer up to after the game so everyone can
Speaker 6: hang out and chat as they get ready to post
Speaker 6: their stories. So really enjoy sor our friend Steve Berlin
Speaker 6: there and had a few SIPs with him before we
Speaker 6: flew home and went out with Parker. He's very nice guy.
Speaker 6: And went out with Parker because my daughter Peyton's in
Speaker 6: town from New York, so we ended up going to
Speaker 6: have a late belated birthday dinner with her since all
Speaker 6: the girls are in town.
Speaker 5: So it's a pretty great way to spend the holidays. Now.
Speaker 5: So yeah, good weekend.
Speaker 8: Okay, Tim Friday went to dinner with my wife, a
Speaker 8: little shopping Saturday.
Speaker 3: Where did you guys go? Mike just broke us?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 3: You see that? And I was you there? Mike just
Speaker 3: broke Can you see that bike. You can't see it.
Speaker 8: Saturday went a little do d I Y with the wife.
Speaker 8: We're making something, uh for an event that she's helping
Speaker 8: put on.
Speaker 3: And then Sunday, where did you go to dinner? You didn't?
Speaker 3: Matt said, where he went to dinner goes? Where do
Speaker 3: you think we win?
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 8: Don Kuko's I had the Southwest salad with extra dressing
Speaker 8: and chips and salsa and a margarite.
Speaker 5: That's what I had Friday night.
Speaker 8: So Sunday we went, uh, well, I have seven hours
Speaker 8: of Raider broadcast over a Compass Media networks across though.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: No, they lost twenty three to twenty one. Moral win
Speaker 5: question victory?
Speaker 6: Yeah, now, Ashton Jetty didn't look like a real football player,
Speaker 6: didn't look like he belongs.
Speaker 3: No it.
Speaker 8: Now we get ready for the game of week seventeen
Speaker 8: at Allegiance. It's the Giants and Raiders to see who
Speaker 8: will get the first pick in the draft. It's the
Speaker 8: Fernando Mendoza game. So that was my weekend, Ronnie.
Speaker 9: Nice weekend. Kind of a busy weekend in terms of
Speaker 9: us prepping for Christmas. We had plans to get together
Speaker 9: at a relative's house on Christmas Eve. But this atmospheric
Speaker 9: river thing has kind of put a damper, so to speak,
Speaker 9: on our plans for Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3: So we're going to be an outdoor party.
Speaker 9: It was going to be an outdoor party. It was
Speaker 9: going to be a combination indoor an outdoor party. So they,
Speaker 9: you know, they really do their parties up really nice.
Speaker 9: They've got space, heaters, they've got a huge backyard. At
Speaker 9: any rate, Plan B is in full effect, which is
Speaker 9: going to be at my house. So we are now
Speaker 9: hosting for our immediate family and some of our friends,
Speaker 9: and so, yeah, you know, you know what that's that's
Speaker 9: that's a great idea. That's a great idea. And because
Speaker 9: we're just throwing this thing together, that's probably going to
Speaker 9: be what we're going to do. And so we went
Speaker 9: out and purchased a lot of food, a lot of
Speaker 9: groceries in preparation for hosting. At the last minute, went
Speaker 9: to Costco, went to Rals, did the whole thing, and
Speaker 9: on Saturday night we went to dinner as well to
Speaker 9: treat ourselves for a job well done putting everything together.
Speaker 9: At the last minute. We went to Mucco Maas and
Speaker 9: so we had a couple of Margherita's there as well.
Speaker 9: And Sunday, well had I had one as well? So
Speaker 9: well my wife had one. Oh, so yeah, she had
Speaker 9: a pomegranate Margarita and they had an.
Speaker 3: I had more than one. That's all what I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 3: he said one, but I bet you had two.
Speaker 9: Oh he said he had one, so I believe him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: Sunday we cleaned out the house and made sure everything
Speaker 9: was was right and ready for everybody to come over
Speaker 9: for Christmas Eve. And uh, that was pretty much my weekend.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 9: What about you, Petros any plans for hosting on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3: No? All right, but I spent most of my weekend
Speaker 3: watching West Covina City Council meetings on YouTube. Ever since
Speaker 3: we talked about the West Covina City Council and then
Speaker 3: met Mayor Tony Wu, I started watching West Covina City
Speaker 3: Council meetings and I watched basically skimmed through a year.
Speaker 3: I couldn't stop, and it was embarrassing. And it was
Speaker 3: so embarrassing, like when my wife would come so good,
Speaker 3: when my wife would come downstairs, I would like pause
Speaker 3: it and put on like a football game and act
Speaker 3: like I was watching the college football playoffs, but in reality,
Speaker 3: and I'm not even kidding, I was watching West Covina
Speaker 3: City council meetings. I cannot stop, Matt. I feel like
Speaker 3: I know these people. Letty Lopez, Brian Gutierrez, Tony Wu,
Speaker 3: Rosario Diaz also known as Ginger Elliott. It never stops, Matt.
Speaker 3: I am the city manager. When they change city managers,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, oh god, and the one guy that speaks
Speaker 3: with the long hair, John Shoemaker, every single city councilman
Speaker 3: that I can't get enough, Matt. In fact, I exhausted
Speaker 3: the whole year, and I was like, should I watch
Speaker 3: the Planning Commission meetings now? Like I didn't know where
Speaker 3: to go from there. I've never been so riveted in
Speaker 3: my life. I spent most of my time doing that alone.
Speaker 3: I did go to my dad's birthday party at my
Speaker 3: sister's house, but then got right back to the West
Speaker 3: Covina guys.
Speaker 5: I got to tie some stuff up at home. I'd
Speaker 5: love to stay.
Speaker 3: Football season I did not want I did not want
Speaker 3: it to end, Matt. I mean the next I can't
Speaker 3: wait till the January twenty twenty sixth meeting.
Speaker 6: I believe you sent me the text, like, hey, you
Speaker 6: said you were going to send it and I said
Speaker 6: it's three hours and three minutes, and he rebec I know.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Matt, I watch a four hour one. There's
Speaker 3: that guy do Tierras makes it go forever. He never stops.
Speaker 3: He's awful. He's a crowball. Are in the in the
Speaker 3: efficiency of the city And I also went to the
Speaker 3: Peninsula High School alumni water polo game where the Peninsula
Speaker 3: High team played the alums because my my brother in law,
Speaker 3: Simon was playing in his speedo swimming around. He looked
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 5: Well you're not gonna wear board shorts to play water pole.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I learned more about Matt water
Speaker 3: polo watching that one game or a city council work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I Fletcher and I went up there and
Speaker 3: watched that eight alone at.
Speaker 5: The Mountain play.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 5: How'd Simon play?
Speaker 3: He did okay, he attempted a few shots and made
Speaker 3: some passes, but he did not make a goal. I
Speaker 3: think that the.
Speaker 5: Big guys anybody's balls underwater.
Speaker 3: Well I couldn't tell, but I could tell that the
Speaker 3: big guys could drown the young kids, right. But the
Speaker 3: young kids could outswim the fat guys right.
Speaker 5: At real speed versus power battle.
Speaker 3: It ended in a tie zero zero. I watched just
Speaker 3: so much West Covina politics. I can't explain how much
Speaker 3: I watched. I mean I spent hours and hours and
Speaker 3: hours watching Letty Lopez Viado lose her patience with Brian
Speaker 3: Gutierrez and Tony Wu just hosts that stuff up like
Speaker 3: he's Frank Sinachast, like he's up there just kicking ass.
Speaker 6: I love when he gets in the mid it.
Speaker 5: It really is the best.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I watched what happened to the mayor, the
Speaker 3: previous mayor who was a teacher. He got ousted.
Speaker 5: Oh, the guy all the way to the left.
Speaker 3: No, he's gone, he's gone. Yeah, you missed it. I
Speaker 3: had to go mad. I went back deep. There was
Speaker 3: a physical altercation in twenty twenty four with Shoemaker and
Speaker 3: this guy Elliott and this other guy. It just West
Speaker 3: Covina politics is my new favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 5: Let's just make it our our go to beach a.
Speaker 3: It would have been the whole show today with clips
Speaker 3: and everything. If usc Notre Dame didn't end. And I'm not.
Speaker 6: Kidding, No, there's always tomorrow. There is the usc Notre
Speaker 6: Dame can't be canceled tomorrow after being canceled today.
Speaker 3: You're right about that show word number song coming up next.
Speaker 3: Sorry for going late, it's just the West Covenion.