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Speaker 2: Well, Pee, your top story begins with this losses yesterday.
Speaker 2: Stars have to be stars. Do not ignore history. Look
Speaker 2: at the elimination games and why Boston and San Diego
Speaker 2: I'm going to ignore. Cleveland are going home. Boston doesn't
Speaker 2: into your narrative, you know, I'll be honest, I just
Speaker 2: don't really know. I was like, I don't know if
Speaker 2: is this guy star? I don't know is that guy
Speaker 2: that was my problem? Whereas just kind of looking through
Speaker 2: the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Yankees and the Padres Rush,
Speaker 2: I'm like, way, I know these guys. Uh Boston won
Speaker 2: for eleven effort from Duran story and Bregman h Uh
Speaker 2: Tyres dies I got again. And that's the only reason
Speaker 2: I know that he's a star because of our former
Speaker 2: intern Gabby, who was very disappointed in his effort against us,
Speaker 2: A very disappointed. Meanwhile, Yankees super Rooky Cam Schlittler was
Speaker 2: as advertised his final regular season started. He struck out
Speaker 2: nine he allowed two hits over seven and in this one,
Speaker 2: my goodness, eight innings, twelve strikeouts, zero walks. First time
Speaker 2: in Major League base Ball playoff history a rookie has
Speaker 2: put up those numbers.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in the series, Aaron Judge hit three sixty four,
Speaker 2: Volpi hit three sixty four, and the Yankees broke the
Speaker 2: winless streak since this wild Card format was introduced. Teams
Speaker 2: winning Game one were fifteen and zero going into their
Speaker 2: final contest of the evening, and yet they ended up
Speaker 2: getting out. They will head to Toronto to take on
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. For the Cubs, Kyle Tucker hit two
Speaker 2: seventy three, Pete Crow Armstrong hit three hundred. Michael Busch,
Speaker 2: former Dodger They're All Star, hit four hundred, and we
Speaker 2: did find out courtesy of Clyle. She sent me the note.
Speaker 2: Michael Bush traded for Jackson Ferris and Zayer Hope, so
Speaker 2: two promising minor leaguers for the All Star first baseman
Speaker 2: that was blocked by Freddie Freeman. Here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: He hit four hundred with a dogger and Dansby Swanson
Speaker 2: was out there making every other short stop in the
Speaker 2: big leagues look like they should quit compared to what
Speaker 2: he was doing in the field. Why are the Padres
Speaker 2: going home?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Because Tatisa Machado suck ass? Pure ass.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is very harsh.
Speaker 2: Yes, Fernando Tatis one pure class, you say, pure ass.
Speaker 2: He hit zero eight three, zero eighty three in the
Speaker 2: wild card round, four strikeouts. Machado had the one big
Speaker 2: homer in a game to win, and everyone was getting
Speaker 2: all over the Cubs skipper Craig Council like why would
Speaker 2: you pitch to him? And it's like, well, that was
Speaker 2: his only hit in the entire series. He was one
Speaker 2: for ten. He did not have a hit up to
Speaker 2: that point. I guess that's why we pitched to him.
Speaker 2: Did he make him pay?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: But Machado, for all of his chirpin and all of
Speaker 2: his chest puffin one for ten with three strikeouts. Luisa
Speaker 2: Rise who.
Speaker 3: Was one leaf, Machado was Graycia. You know, after it
Speaker 3: was all said and done, you know, he kind of
Speaker 3: took the blame on himself. He did kind of like
Speaker 3: James Franklin, you know, after losing to Oregon, he was, uh,
Speaker 3: he handled himself well.
Speaker 2: And most defended.
Speaker 4: But how do you assess the season? Like this. I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, what type of question is that? Dude? My guy?
Speaker 4: How do I assess the season we just lost? How
Speaker 4: do you think I assessed the sea? How do you
Speaker 4: think I assess it?
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I was asking you.
Speaker 3: Tell me, what's a loss we lost?
Speaker 4: How do you assess it? It's a loss you're lost?
Speaker 3: Come on, dude, I mean you could ask better questions
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 4: Let's go, come on, thank you, thank you for sure.
Speaker 4: You know, wait to the last second I asked that question.
Speaker 2: Sure, let me let me try this one, machado. How
Speaker 2: much of it do you blame on yourself? One for ten?
Speaker 2: One for the team was zero for eight with runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position. Luisa Rise won the batting title, and
Speaker 2: the Chattle's a big guy, very intimidated. I would imagine
Speaker 2: if you're a someone like me, a little neatly necked
Speaker 2: reporter with the microphone in his face, and he's kind
Speaker 2: of staring you.
Speaker 5: Down, going toe to toe with him. Though last year,
Speaker 5: remember Alost a year ago to the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in Boise or something or something right.
Speaker 5: In from the dugout there Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I had the can of
Speaker 2: turtle wax or the rag that was waxing his balls.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. That's that's how I went toe to
Speaker 2: toe with him.
Speaker 1: Kates here is the nicest guy gets a bad rough
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sounds good to me, Dave, let's go h did
Speaker 5: we all walk away from that going yeah? It really
Speaker 5: isn't actually a nice guy he was. He was great,
Speaker 5: super nice to us, put his arm around. Dave had
Speaker 5: a big smile on his face, but he had a
Speaker 5: bad series. Uh Luis Rayes, Like I said, is won
Speaker 5: the battle like batting title. I think three times two
Speaker 5: for eleven.
Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah, it was a disastrous called strike three
Speaker 2: in the top of the ninth with Jackson merrill Avage
Speaker 2: just hit a homer to cut the lead to three
Speaker 2: one a runner on first, nobody out. But that ain't
Speaker 2: why you lost. That is not why you're going home again.
Speaker 2: Zero for eight with runners in scoring position is why
Speaker 2: you're going home. So for the team to show no
Speaker 2: class and start screaming at the umpires as they're walking
Speaker 2: off the field, and by the way, umpires just keep walking, man,
Speaker 2: don't engage as we're watching.
Speaker 3: Maybe that was like the uh maybe that was like
Speaker 3: the alternate guy that that that we got in love, right,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like the guy who never
Speaker 3: made it out there, And then the security had to
Speaker 3: say that was that was fair? Yeah, I haven't seen
Speaker 3: so much anger since those waymos got lit on fire
Speaker 3: downtown a while back.
Speaker 2: That's what it was like. It was like a flaming weymo. Uh,
Speaker 2: they could have got a hit. Maybe you don't need
Speaker 2: a ninth inning rally to win a game after doing
Speaker 2: nothing in the previous eight and uh, the last time
Speaker 2: I checked, there were two on and one out for Croninworth,
Speaker 2: who grounded out, and then runners on second and third
Speaker 2: in scoring position with the best hitter in the series
Speaker 2: for the Padres, Freddie Furman in the box set up
Speaker 2: for a rally and he popped out the center. So
Speaker 2: still opportunities there to overcome. But as we have detailed
Speaker 2: on the show, mostly courtesy of David Vasse, the Padres
Speaker 2: are far too emotional of a bunch, and things like
Speaker 2: that really get into their head. Game over, series over,
Speaker 2: season over, and in a Fred Rogan like way, no hope,
Speaker 2: Padres over, this was probably their last shot. There was
Speaker 2: part of me that was kind of hoping they could
Speaker 2: make the NLCS so the Dodgers could put that nail
Speaker 2: in the car.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, you really wanted to grind your toe on
Speaker 3: Daniel's eyeball.
Speaker 2: I kind of did. Because they got all these free agents.
Speaker 2: Dylan Cees, Arise Suarez is going to opt out of
Speaker 2: his deal, Jason Adam, who was injured all year, he's
Speaker 2: a free agent. I'm assuming Darvish is probably going to
Speaker 2: retire the honor of Darvish not wanting to take fifteen
Speaker 2: million bucks with half an elbow left in that arm.
Speaker 2: Is the window closed, I don't know. It's if it's open,
Speaker 2: it's barely open. So this was kind of a push
Speaker 2: all your chips in. We're trading like nine prospects for
Speaker 2: O'Hearn and Furman and Mason Miller, and this is our
Speaker 2: year and they didn't even get out of the wild
Speaker 2: Card because their stars didn't play. They didn't hit the
Speaker 2: Dodger stars pe We've talked about it extensively. It's not
Speaker 2: just one or two, It's been all of them. Sho Hail, Tani,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, Tascar, Hernandez. They all have slugging percentages, not ops,
Speaker 2: slugging percentages over a thousand.
Speaker 3: Felt like they did come out to play right like
Speaker 3: the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was thinking, you got to keep them separated,
Speaker 2: come out and play a lot of people know that's
Speaker 2: why they had to have the secondary title, keep them
Speaker 2: set rated in parentheses because nobody knew the ops.
Speaker 3: I didn't know either.
Speaker 2: When you look through the Dodgers lineup, they have eight
Speaker 2: players over one thousand. I mean, that's how ridiculous they
Speaker 2: hit against the Reds, whether it was Mickey Rojas, Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman is hitting over five hundred in addition to
Speaker 2: all the other names I mentioned. That is why they
Speaker 2: didn't just win the series against the Reds. That is
Speaker 2: why they demolished them. Now, to use the same analogy
Speaker 2: that David Vasse used with us in the Suite, there
Speaker 2: is a huge step up in weight class for their competition.
Speaker 2: This is not heavyweight versus lightweight. This is a full
Speaker 2: on nineteen eighty style fifteen round Michael Spinks versus Larry
Speaker 2: Holmes showdown. And with Otani at the top of the lineup,
Speaker 2: the Phillies are going with three lefties as their starters.
Speaker 2: They want to shut down Otani. They want to shut
Speaker 2: down Freddie Freeman. It is a Sanchez Lozardo Suarez back
Speaker 2: to back to back. If you've been watching any Phillies
Speaker 2: baseball and you're wondering what does that mean? Are they good? Well?
Speaker 2: Lozardo struck out two hundred and sixteen, walked just fifty seven.
Speaker 2: He had two starts against the Dodgers this year, went
Speaker 2: one to one and through fourteen innings, allowed four earned runs.
Speaker 2: Struck out fourteen in those fourteen innings, so pretty good. Suarez,
Speaker 2: who on the season struck out one hundred and fifty one.
Speaker 2: Former All Star ranger Suarez, he walked just thirty eight.
Speaker 2: He did have just one start against the Dodgers. He
Speaker 2: lasted just four and a third, over which he gave
Speaker 2: up seven hits and three runs. Now many saying that
Speaker 2: Christopher Sanchez would probably be your cy young favorite were
Speaker 2: it not for Paul Skeens dominating everyone and anything in
Speaker 2: his way. Sanchez throw a two hundred innings two and
Speaker 2: a half ERA. Twenty two of his starts were quality.
Speaker 2: Struck out two hundred and twelve, walked just forty four.
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive. But in his two games against the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: twelve and two thirds gave up thirteen. It's eight runs
Speaker 2: and four Doggers and he is throwing Game one. And
Speaker 2: as we mentioned yesterday, if you can get to because
Speaker 2: no Zach Wheeler, that threw a big wrench into the Phillies'
Speaker 2: plans to kind of take that next step. They've been
Speaker 2: to the World Series and loss. They've been to an
Speaker 2: NLCS and lost. Wildly disappointed by the Mets last year.
Speaker 2: It was supposed to be Phillies Dodgers in the NLCS.
Speaker 2: Instead the Mets upset him. As Spilly Ryan Spilboards told
Speaker 2: us yesterday he thinks it's destiny for this Phillies team.
Speaker 2: They're way too good to not have at least one
Speaker 2: World Series title. Well, you put their cy young candidate
Speaker 2: out there, their ace that's supposed to be pitching Game
Speaker 2: one and if needed game four, you get to him
Speaker 2: and show hey Otani pitches like he's pitched in the
Speaker 2: month of September. I think you feel pretty good. Not
Speaker 2: not guess up the jet, but you got Blake Snell
Speaker 2: in Game two, and you saw the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Have an edge in this series. It's not a big.
Speaker 2: Edge, no, which is why I think if you win
Speaker 2: Game one, it becomes. I think it decidedly pushes to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to have Snell versus Lozardo and Yamamoto against Suarez.
Speaker 2: I think that this game one is the one where
Speaker 2: if they're gonna get this series, they're probably gonna have
Speaker 2: to get this first game. Otani in his first ever
Speaker 2: playoff start. I don't think there's any chance he's kind
Speaker 2: of any jitters or anything like that, But of course
Speaker 2: they just ramped him up to six innings for the
Speaker 2: first time his last time out, so that'd be the
Speaker 2: one for them to get set the tone and then
Speaker 2: feel pretty good about trying to get one of the
Speaker 2: next two and then see if you can win the
Speaker 2: game if you need a game back in Philadelphia. As
Speaker 2: for the hitters, p Bryce Harper hit two sixty against
Speaker 2: the Dodgers this year five for nineteen, one homer, two doubles,
Speaker 2: seven strikeouts. Kyle Schwarber did not play well against the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: hit one fifty eight, three for nineteen one home runs.
Speaker 3: He is there hitting star. Yeah, Like when Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: came to the Dodgers, he was the hitting star, and
Speaker 3: then Otani showed up and he was the hitting star.
Speaker 3: Right It feels like if there was no Schwarber's that
Speaker 3: guy in Philly, right.
Speaker 2: I think if if Otani's not winning the MVP, Schwarber's
Speaker 2: the guy that's probably getting it. So the fact that
Speaker 2: they were able to keep him contained also nineteen at backs.
Speaker 3: It's like having an Aaron Judge and Otani playing against
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 2: Exactly got it and an old friend alert. Trey Turner
Speaker 2: was just two for ten with three strikeouts against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Nick Castillanos two sixty seven, four for fifteen with a
Speaker 2: homer flip side that, though Otani Nobeo against the Phillies
Speaker 2: five for twenty three a two seventeen average, ten strikeouts,
Speaker 2: two Doggers, just two ribbys. The rest of the bunch
Speaker 2: Mookie two sixty six for twenty three a home or
Speaker 2: four ribbies, five strikeouts, Freddy two seventy three three for
Speaker 2: eleven to one homer, two strikeouts, missed a few of
Speaker 2: the games, uh and Max Munsey two sixty seven to
Speaker 2: four to fifteen to one homer. So pretty much everybody
Speaker 2: kind of right and step against a good team if
Speaker 2: they can put up those numbers, and then Otani can
Speaker 2: become Otani like he has been in nearly everything else
Speaker 2: save that one or those whatever six games seven games
Speaker 2: against the Phillies, then uh, looks like they're set up
Speaker 2: to be pretty good.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Blake Snell shut them out on the seventeenth of this
Speaker 2: month to avoid the sweep here at Dodger Stadium. Why
Speaker 2: are the Phillies throwing three lefties because they are twenty
Speaker 2: four and twenty three to Dodgers against left handed pitchers
Speaker 2: compared to sixty nine and forty six against righty's. As
Speaker 2: you said, p, these two teams are very good, and
Speaker 2: many think whoever wins this series is winning the World Series.
Speaker 2: That the Dodgers and Phillies outclass the Brewers, Cubs that
Speaker 2: are left in the NL and any team Blue Jays, Yankees, Tigers,
Speaker 2: and whoever the hell else I'm forgetting about in the
Speaker 2: American League. Shame on me. What kind of seamhead am I?
Speaker 3: The Yankees, the Blue Jays, and the Marinias, yes, who are.
Speaker 2: All supposed supposedly a team of destiny, have never won
Speaker 2: a World Series, much like the Padres. The Padres will
Speaker 2: not win a World Series this year because they're going
Speaker 2: home early because Fernando Tatis hit zero eight three and
Speaker 2: Manny Machado hit one hundred.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you're not traveling this weekend because I
Speaker 3: think that would be too much for Danielle.
Speaker 2: Probably probably if the Dodgers smoke the Phillies, though, he's
Speaker 2: gonna it's just gonna compound his depression, I think.
Speaker 3: And nobody wants compound depression most definitely. You want it
Speaker 3: very simple with that already, all right, we will be back.
Speaker 3: We will have Ben Boltch on with the latest the
Speaker 3: onslaught on. Martin Jarman does not end La Times with
Speaker 3: a big swing today. They're gonna fly a banner tomorrow
Speaker 3: over the Rose Bowl. They'll be able to see it
Speaker 3: from locking you out of high and then right next
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Speaker 3: Petro somebody on M five seventy La Sports Ben Bolch
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Speaker 2: Got a whole lot of play by play happening. Dodgers
Speaker 2: Phillies Game one of the NLDS is tomorrow, first pitch,
Speaker 2: three thirty eight pm. Shohe Otani making his post season
Speaker 2: pitching debut. He gets the start against Christopher Sanchez, and
Speaker 2: then Sunday we'll have Chargers versus Commander, so play by
Speaker 2: play all weekend. And that's not the only play by
Speaker 2: play happening in town.
Speaker 3: P No, well there'll be a game. Uh us, he's
Speaker 3: on a bye, but UCLA is up and running. At
Speaker 3: twelve thirty at the Rose Ball I saw the Penn
Speaker 3: State truck the Big Ring making its way up the
Speaker 3: one ten North today. So Penn State coming off a
Speaker 3: loss in overtime to Oregon in town, big Road favorites
Speaker 3: against the UCLA Bruins. We had this guy on a
Speaker 3: couple weeks ago when we were at Morongo, and he
Speaker 3: does a great job covering UCLA sports specifically what is
Speaker 3: a very interesting and and probably very frustrating if you're
Speaker 3: a UCLA person football season. It's been a frustrating few
Speaker 3: years for UCLA football. Martin Jarmond the athletic director is
Speaker 3: under heavy pressure, and there's heavy pressure for the new
Speaker 3: chancellor to get rid of him. What's going to happen? Well,
Speaker 3: there was a very explosive and interesting article written today
Speaker 3: in the La Times by Ben Boltch. Explosive. So we
Speaker 3: have a lot to discuss with Bolch, the UCLA beat rider,
Speaker 3: who does a fabulous job on your for the La Times,
Speaker 3: on your Southern California Toyota dealer's celebrity hotline the La Times.
Speaker 3: Ben Bolch with us right now. What's crack it?
Speaker 4: Ben?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 6: That's too one gentleman. Always a pleasure to be on
Speaker 6: with you.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it first and foremost. You know, the stuff
Speaker 3: you had today about Jarman was interesting, just kind of
Speaker 3: drawing a picture of ineptitude in the athletic department. Maybe
Speaker 3: there's also some supporters as well. As I thought you
Speaker 3: did a good job of laying out there. But they
Speaker 3: sent out a weird email that had a bunch of
Speaker 3: information they shouldn't have sent out, with Troy Aikman's address
Speaker 3: on it and stuff. They upset a booster at one
Speaker 3: of those Mexican restaurants in Tucson. How do you upset
Speaker 3: somebody at one of those restaurants. So we're so fun
Speaker 3: and and all these other things have happened. Just kind
Speaker 3: of lay it out. How intense I mean, you were
Speaker 3: there for the for the fire, Steve Alford banners and
Speaker 3: all the different things that happened fire, Chip Kelly banners.
Speaker 3: How intense is this compared to that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great question, and it's it's kind of
Speaker 6: reached that critical mass fever pitch stage. I will say
Speaker 6: it feels pretty similar to kind of the sense I
Speaker 6: got right before de Sean Foster was let go only
Speaker 6: a few weeks ago, right, So, I mean you did
Speaker 6: all you have to do is hop on social media. Uh,
Speaker 6: there's lots of calls for for Martin Johnmon to be
Speaker 6: let go. And as I wrote the story, there's there's
Speaker 6: an airplane banner scheduled to fly over the tailgating area
Speaker 6: in downtown Pasadena tomorrow morning from around ten am to
Speaker 6: eleven thirty that we'll have similar messaging to you know,
Speaker 6: smiss Martin Jarmon on the banner. So it's it's pretty intense.
Speaker 6: And you know, as I also know, the Chanswer's office
Speaker 6: has been flooded with emails about this issue as well,
Speaker 6: So they're well aware of it and it's not getting
Speaker 6: the pressure is not letting up at all.
Speaker 2: Ben just in terms of, you know, how much of
Speaker 2: this revolves around the next hiring of the football coach
Speaker 2: and then the fact that he's made a couple hires
Speaker 2: or his last hired it certainly did not work out.
Speaker 3: Does it?
Speaker 2: Just based on the search party and whoever's going to
Speaker 2: be conducting the interviews and calling the shots on that,
Speaker 2: how involved would Jarman even be in that based on
Speaker 2: the list of names we've seen kind of attached to
Speaker 2: that search.
Speaker 6: Well, it's a great question. And I think, you know, honestly,
Speaker 6: if they were to make a move with Martin Jarmond,
Speaker 6: one of the things that should comfort UCLA fans is that, hey,
Speaker 6: they've already got some some really smart people and some
Speaker 6: good names, you know, in place to make that selection
Speaker 6: that that would you know, still be able to do so.
Speaker 6: I mean we're talking about Bob Myers, the former UH
Speaker 6: General manager of the Golden State Warriors, who are Steve Kerr,
Speaker 6: Adam Peters UH commander's GM who brought in Dan Quinn
Speaker 6: took them to the NFC championship in year one. Casey
Speaker 6: Wasserman one of the biggest names in the sports business. So, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, they've got some some heavy hitters who have
Speaker 6: a history of hiring coaches, and you know, no matter
Speaker 6: how this turns out with the athletic director, uh, you
Speaker 6: got to have some confidence that these people could make a.
Speaker 3: Good hire either way. It feels like he's under intense
Speaker 3: scrutiny from those people, right, like they're not gonna he
Speaker 3: might have had his wings clipped already, mean from whom,
Speaker 3: from Casey wasser Those guys are gonna let Jarman go
Speaker 3: out and make a high.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, they agreed to be on the uh,
Speaker 6: you know, they agreed to be part of this, so
Speaker 6: you know, I would imagine that they will have very
Speaker 6: strong voices and they will say, you know, if they
Speaker 6: disagree with the directions going, they won't you know, stand
Speaker 6: for that, because these are people who have reputations to
Speaker 6: uphold as well. So I expect that you know, they'll
Speaker 6: they'll do a lot of the heavy lifting here and
Speaker 6: you know, maybe Martin, we'll just kind of like say, yeah,
Speaker 6: I agree with that's a that's a great decision. If
Speaker 6: it comes to that.
Speaker 3: I mean almost thirty years ago, I was playing football
Speaker 3: in town Ben and the knock on UCLA was that
Speaker 3: they're great, but they don't pay enough attack. And this
Speaker 3: was when Bob Toledo was winning twenty straight games. They're great,
Speaker 3: but they don't pay enough attention to their football program.
Speaker 3: They don't treat it like the cash cow it is
Speaker 3: to care for the other athletic programs they have, which
Speaker 3: are also excellent. It seems like that's still kind of
Speaker 3: a prevailing sentiment all these years later, with all the
Speaker 3: changes we've had in college football. Do you agree with that? Well?
Speaker 6: I did up till they hired Shikelly and hate him.
Speaker 6: Are really you know, competitive?
Speaker 3: I thought that changed everything too.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, And you know Wasserman centers seventy five million,
Speaker 6: paying five million dollars plus a year for food. I mean,
Speaker 6: come on, these are big commitments they're making. So, you know,
Speaker 6: I think it went down a little bit with the
Speaker 6: Deshaun Foster. His salary was clearly below that, But I
Speaker 6: don't think that signals any sort of lesser commitment to
Speaker 6: football under UCLA. I think the money's there, you know.
Speaker 6: I think they do have to go out and put
Speaker 6: together a record package and figure out what their NIL
Speaker 6: strategy going forward, because that's that's as probably more important
Speaker 6: than how much they're going to pay the coaches, how
Speaker 6: much they could pay the players, right, So that's the
Speaker 6: issue they have to resolve.
Speaker 2: How much of the Jarman thing is just as simple
Speaker 2: as just what a complete disaster this year has been
Speaker 2: with Deshan Foster. I know, you know, the article is fantastic,
Speaker 2: it's a great read. There's so many just specific stories
Speaker 2: that are hard to believe one of them, let alone
Speaker 2: the compilation of them. But it really feels like this
Speaker 2: is kind of, you know, a result of no one's
Speaker 2: going to the Rose Bowl. Deshan Foster was a mess
Speaker 2: this year, and you know, because mix play mixed coaching it.
Speaker 2: You know, the basketball team up pretty darn well. They've
Speaker 2: got some good players coming in. Is this as simple
Speaker 2: as football, Ben, I.
Speaker 6: Think that's a great point, and I would say it
Speaker 6: probably is the reason the spotlight has gotten so hot, absolutely,
Speaker 6: But as you alluded to it, it does go deeper
Speaker 6: than football. But I do think the reason we're having
Speaker 6: this conversation right now and it's come to the forefront
Speaker 6: is completely because of football. Both with the failure to
Speaker 6: to you know, deal with and dismiss Chip Kelly when
Speaker 6: it was clear he was not the coach for this team,
Speaker 6: and then you know, kind of making that quick pivot
Speaker 6: to Deshaun Foster when they self imposed a ninety six
Speaker 6: hour timeline, which was you know, completely unnecessary and kind
Speaker 6: of to me tipping their hand that they'd already pretty
Speaker 6: much decided on which way they were going to go.
Speaker 6: So I think that was, you know, a big, big mistake,
Speaker 6: and now we're seeing the.
Speaker 3: Results as far as the rest of this year goes.
Speaker 3: I mean, Penn State coming in here all angry after
Speaker 3: losing to Oregon not ideal. It's going to be a
Speaker 3: long road trip for them, and maybe UCLA shows some gusto.
Speaker 3: But Tim Skipper seems to be a lot easier to
Speaker 3: cover for you guys. He just gave a custom jersey
Speaker 3: to Gary Danielson, who's doing the game tomorrow on CBS.
Speaker 3: How do you think the rest of the year is
Speaker 3: going to play out? And what's it like covering this
Speaker 3: team in the aftermath of all that stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really interesting. I mean, as I wrote after
Speaker 6: they lost to Northwestern, my alma mater, that I think
Speaker 6: it's fair to say they're on oh one to twelve
Speaker 6: watch right now, right because they won They've lost every
Speaker 6: game that you kind of penciled in as a you know,
Speaker 6: considered almost automatic win over un L V New Mexico Northwestern, right,
Speaker 6: and they dropped all three of those, and some of
Speaker 6: them convincingly. So you know, I'm just looking at the
Speaker 6: games they might win. It's having a little bit of intrigue.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think I've got like three, three or
Speaker 6: four left where you're like, Okay, if everything goes right
Speaker 6: and they can figure out the offense it's now being
Speaker 6: run by Jerry new Heil, maybe they'll have a chance here.
Speaker 6: But certainly Saturday is not one of those games.
Speaker 2: Last one for me?
Speaker 4: Ben.
Speaker 2: Does it Does it affect the hiring of a head
Speaker 2: coach and who might be interested in this job if
Speaker 2: in fact they go to twelve or one and eleven, Like,
Speaker 2: does it make a difference if they win three games
Speaker 2: versus zero games?
Speaker 6: I think it does not make a difference. I think
Speaker 6: this is a Sonk season, a last season, and it
Speaker 6: really will have no bearing on the future and the
Speaker 6: resources and commitment that they're going to make to whoever
Speaker 6: the next coaches. So I think, you know, there's really
Speaker 6: not that much on the line the rest of the
Speaker 6: season other than save faith, avoid embarrassment, you know, maybe
Speaker 6: convince some of the promising freshmen to stick around and
Speaker 6: and just hire the right coach and rebuild this thing
Speaker 6: very quickly.
Speaker 3: Do you think Jerry calls plays throughout the rest of
Speaker 3: the season or does it get taken by Noel Mazzoni
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure it's going to be Jerry. I think
Speaker 6: that they, you know, are really excited about that. Actually,
Speaker 6: And Noel is a great uh you know, he was
Speaker 6: the OC when when Jerry was playing here and came
Speaker 6: off the bench to beat Texas. Yes, so I think
Speaker 6: he's going to be kind of the elder statesman advisor role.
Speaker 6: But uh, you know, a great, great person to have
Speaker 6: in your quarter.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Ben, and great perspective as always, a
Speaker 3: fine piece of journalism today about Martin Jarmond in the
Speaker 3: LA Times. And enjoy your weekend here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: We hope you enjoyed your trip back to your alma mater.
Speaker 6: I certainly did, Petros, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, there he goes Ben Bolch of the LA
Speaker 3: Times told.
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Speaker 3: You know a lot of people are you know using
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Speaker 3: It is time for Matt's NFL He he had to
Speaker 3: do a Dodger story. So we gotta put the NFL
Speaker 3: picks elsewhere, and we're putting them right here, all.
Speaker 2: Right, pe, We're gonna go one in each window. Four
Speaker 2: picks lost the Thursday night or last night, You forget
Speaker 2: or you didn't, Probably I did forget that. Shanahan just
Speaker 2: gets in Sean mcvay's head. My god, is he a
Speaker 2: mental wreck? Whenever Shanahan and all the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: come to town. So lost that one five and seven
Speaker 2: on the season. We're gonna go one in each window.
Speaker 2: London game early one, Browns getting three and a half.
Speaker 2: First career start for Dylan Gabriel, first career start will
Speaker 2: be in London. First career start will be against Brian
Speaker 2: Flores and that aggressive, blitzing Minnesota defense. You saw what
Speaker 2: they did to Jake Browning last week. Flip side though,
Speaker 2: Cleveland got a hell of a defense, beat the Packers
Speaker 2: and they're playing thirty nine year old Carson Wentz behind
Speaker 2: a beat the hell offensive line down three starters, So
Speaker 2: who's going to be out there protecting Wentz? Third string center,
Speaker 2: third string left guard, back up right tackle. Two excellent coaches,
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, Kevin Stefanski, the Kevins. I'll take the under
Speaker 2: thirty six. It's a low under, but this thing reeks
Speaker 2: thirteen ten, seventeen, fourteen type of game to the early window,
Speaker 2: ten am Pacific kickoff, Raiders at Colts. I want to
Speaker 2: take the Colts. Just not crazy about laying six and
Speaker 2: a half. It is clear Gino Smith has regressed a
Speaker 2: little bit, going to be down as left tackle. Colton
Speaker 2: Miller dealing with an ankle. Brock Bauers has not been
Speaker 2: the same since his knee injury, but I think with
Speaker 2: the emergence of empty they could put up points and
Speaker 2: they could win. Indianapolis is one of the highest scoring
Speaker 2: outfits in the NFL right now thirty one per game,
Speaker 2: which means all I'd need from the Raiders is seventeen
Speaker 2: and we hit the over, so we will go over
Speaker 2: forty seven and a half Raiders Colts for the ten am.
Speaker 2: By the way, last season, we were all celebrating as
Speaker 2: being one of the great tight end season we'd ever
Speaker 2: seen from Brock Bauers.
Speaker 3: I had a tight end party that there's the tight
Speaker 3: end camp with Kelsey Taylor Swift saying at it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's very very celebratory toward that position.
Speaker 2: Tyler Warren is unpaced to break Rockbauer's rookie tight end
Speaker 2: records pretty good year later, he's he's really it's crazy
Speaker 2: to think, but maybe he's even better considering all the
Speaker 2: different ways that they're using him. But both incredible, just
Speaker 2: wild that what we thought was something we'd never see
Speaker 2: again could very well fall the following year Afternoon games.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm going to stay away from Mars. You
Speaker 2: mentioned if he won twenty five PM America's Game of
Speaker 2: the Week on five bucks. Did it last week? Not
Speaker 2: last week, maybe two weeks ago. I did it two
Speaker 2: weeks ago with the gigantic line, took the Ravens over
Speaker 2: the Browns, laying eleven and a half, and it worked
Speaker 2: out this week. I'm gonna do it again. I'll lay
Speaker 2: the ten and a half to the Bengals and take
Speaker 2: the Lions. I mentioned it earlier, Jake Browning and the
Speaker 2: Bengals versus the Vikings disaster. Lions, after a disappointing first week,
Speaker 2: found the rhythm they are humming. Laying ten and a
Speaker 2: half as a road favorite is not smart, but Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase has less than fifty receiving yards and two straight.
Speaker 2: He's kind of got this squeaky wheel thing going on
Speaker 2: right now. Lions running game crushing it. Montgomery's a Cincinnati guy,
Speaker 2: so big homecoming for him. Figure at least one touchdown there.
Speaker 2: The Bengals defense not good against the run, so I
Speaker 2: will take the Lions. Lay the ten and a half
Speaker 2: as a road favorite, something unthinkable in the NFL, but
Speaker 2: that's how bad the Bengals are banged up. And finally
Speaker 2: Sunday Night football, I'm gonna take the points. I'll take
Speaker 2: the Patriots and the seven and a half. The Bills
Speaker 2: had the wild win over the Ravens in Week one,
Speaker 2: but since then they have feasted on the Jets, the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: and the Saints.
Speaker 3: Stay their fault.
Speaker 2: It's not their fault. You can only play who's on
Speaker 2: the schedule, right The Patriots, though, while the record two
Speaker 2: and two versus four and zero, they thumped the Panthers,
Speaker 2: knocked off the Dolphins, hung in against the Steelers in
Speaker 2: what was just a way too sloppy game for them,
Speaker 2: a lot of their own mistakes in Week one. I'll
Speaker 2: chalk up against the Raiders to Week one. I think
Speaker 2: it'll be high scoring. Was tempted to take the over.
Speaker 2: Drake may is playing great about two fifty passing per game,
Speaker 2: seven touchdowns to two picks, his QB rating one to ten.
Speaker 2: He's got two rushing touchdowns, doing his best Josh Allen impression.
Speaker 2: His weapons starting to show up. Hunter Henry three touchdowns
Speaker 2: on the season, Stefon Diggs just at his first one
Speaker 2: hundred yard game, and I figure rookie Traveon Henderson set
Speaker 2: for his big breakout. The Bills struggle against the run.
Speaker 2: Are they gonna win? Probably not, But with a hook
Speaker 2: seven and a half. We'll take the Patriots and the points.
Speaker 3: Once again, Matt.
Speaker 2: Those eight kicks Patriots plus seven and a half, Colts
Speaker 2: Raiders over forty seven and a half, Lions minus ten
Speaker 2: and a half, and Brown's Vikings in London under thirty
Speaker 2: six and a half.
Speaker 3: And you blame McVeigh and Shanahan's mental rivalry for Yeah,
Speaker 3: last night's loss was it was.
Speaker 2: Just it was a dumb pick. It was a really
Speaker 2: dumb pick. You don't want to give eight and a
Speaker 2: half points to Kyle Shanahan when he's playing McVeigh. The
Speaker 2: guy's eight and two against him, for God's sake. So
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell I was thinking. You're
Speaker 2: just you know, the Rams are playing.
Speaker 3: Is best receiver in the country.
Speaker 2: The Niners came in with a practice squad on offense, backup, backup,
Speaker 2: tight end, backup receivers Mac Jones, and I didn't know
Speaker 2: that Mac Jones was gonna throw for four hundred and
Speaker 2: the two touchdowns. Pretty good, take off his shirt and
Speaker 2: smoke a cigar in the locker room.
Speaker 3: He was very pleased, a lot to be happy about. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: Alabama just beat Georgia. I've resurrected my professional career. Mac
Speaker 3: Jones is puffing on a cigar after everybody watching him.
Speaker 3: Al Michael's had a rough night.
Speaker 5: Yes, didn't think he was going to survive that game.
Speaker 5: Did you see that late fourth?
Speaker 3: Yeah, over turning beat up.
Speaker 5: I mean his tailbowe pads all sticking out. His pants
Speaker 5: are having to look like vic pen in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: And kind of that's a little bit, but true pants
Speaker 2: areround the ankles.
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