Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.
Speaker 2: I'll that for me.
Speaker 3: I'm a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 3: I want to be happy.
Speaker 1: You want to be happy for dake Edo State?
Speaker 4: Is that? Woo whoom? And then and Tye, welcome back
Speaker 4: to the solid verbal boys and girls, name is Ty
Speaker 4: hilde Brand joining me as always mind Dan Rubinstein over
Speaker 4: there in the NYC, Sir, how goes it?
Speaker 1: Not that well?
Speaker 2: Ty? What?
Speaker 1: It's not that good? I think it's good is what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: No, it's.
Speaker 1: I've gotten used to I've gotten accustomed to a certain lifestyle, okay,
Speaker 1: and that lifestyle is getting great feedback from a live
Speaker 1: audience when we do this show. Okay, and now I'm
Speaker 1: just speaking into a wall with soundproofing, and it's not
Speaker 1: as fun. I don't get to see you, I don't
Speaker 1: get to sit next to you, I don't get to
Speaker 1: meet for ballers, I don't get to see people's faces
Speaker 1: as they continuously ask Nate Stanley questions ironic. So it's
Speaker 1: just different, Ty, and I'm getting used to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to that point, Dan, we did do our show
Speaker 4: in Chicago. That show that we did in Chicago will
Speaker 4: be released on August the twenty second, So a whip
Speaker 4: from this evening. A great show, great crowd at the
Speaker 4: historic Videom Theater in beautiful Chicago, and had a chance
Speaker 4: to go out meet other folks during the Tenders with
Speaker 4: Tie segment of the evening. If you listen to the
Speaker 4: broadcast when we push it out, you'll get to hear
Speaker 4: a little bit more. I'm sure we'll provide some context
Speaker 4: for what I did during our unrecorded Q and A
Speaker 4: segment in order to make good on something I said
Speaker 4: a year ago. But all in all, a really good show,
Speaker 4: definitely the kind that gives us the itch to do
Speaker 4: more of them, so naturally that is something we're going
Speaker 4: to explore moving forward.
Speaker 1: But I thought just an awesome time.
Speaker 4: Beautiful weekend in Chicago, and great to meet some ofverballers
Speaker 4: real quick.
Speaker 1: Himmickcane wants to know how many tenders is ty hilden
Speaker 1: Brandt official did Tilting officially consume?
Speaker 4: I believe the answer is two and a half. And
Speaker 4: can I be honest with you here, Yeah, wasn't too
Speaker 4: enamored with the tenders, Dan.
Speaker 1: They were fine.
Speaker 4: They were very dry, extremely dry, and two and a
Speaker 4: half is all I could all I could force down.
Speaker 4: How are the tots though that I ordered a lot
Speaker 4: of tots are very good. We were sitting at a
Speaker 4: table with some Notre damers and also some others who
Speaker 4: were at the show, and as I was turning to
Speaker 4: talk to other people, they were surreptitiously stealing the tots.
Speaker 1: That's how that happens. And then I heard difficult.
Speaker 4: I caught them and they looked at me as if
Speaker 4: they were deer in headlights, and I said, that's okay.
Speaker 4: You could just don't eat them all, because I knew
Speaker 4: you wanted some too. But of course the tots were
Speaker 4: very good in a popular attraction at the table.
Speaker 1: When you order tots, there is a tot tax that
Speaker 1: has to be paid, and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: fall under if you're a progressive taught tax or tie
Speaker 1: if you're a more conservative fiscal taught tax or I
Speaker 1: don't know, but there is a toat tax that must
Speaker 1: be paid when tots appear at tables. Wow, I said
Speaker 1: that all correctly.
Speaker 4: You just came up with that on the flight, didn't you.
Speaker 4: I did, just Yeah, that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Think about I think about time. There's also fry taxes
Speaker 1: and taught taxes, whatever, great time in Chicago. As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the show will be up next week. Going to be
Speaker 1: doing more shows. We're going to look into doing some
Speaker 1: shows maybe at smaller venues, not full on theaters during
Speaker 1: the season, at bars and places where we can drink
Speaker 1: with everybody while everybody else is drinking. But certainly just
Speaker 1: encouraging in a magnificent time. So thanks to everybody who
Speaker 1: came out, quick, quick, before we get into the Q.
Speaker 1: And a couple things. Yeah, I am now doing videos
Speaker 1: and writing pieces and appearing on TV ish what for
Speaker 1: the Action Network breaking news? Okay, so I'm doing a
Speaker 1: couple different things from what I have been doing these
Speaker 1: past few years. This coming fall in the video realm
Speaker 1: and one of those things I am pleased, excited, pumped,
Speaker 1: jazz enthused to be doing things for the Action Network,
Speaker 1: which is a sports gambling website network platform started by
Speaker 1: former editor in chief of ESPN dot com Chadmilman. They
Speaker 1: might be familiar and the altar of Dan is now
Speaker 1: in the central most point of the college football gambling discussion.
Speaker 1: You're really putting this to the test here. Am I
Speaker 1: going to lose people money? But no, I'm mostly been
Speaker 1: doing video, but I'll also be writing a couple columns,
Speaker 1: and they have a nightly show called I'll Take That
Speaker 1: Bet on the ESPN Plus app So that's something that
Speaker 1: you already have because you plan on watching college football
Speaker 1: games on there because they're streaming a bunch of them,
Speaker 1: or other shows. Friend Ariel Ariel Hawani does his MMA
Speaker 1: show on there, among a bunch of other things. I'm
Speaker 1: not selling ESPN Plus right now. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: where I'm going to appear. The first one is up
Speaker 1: tonight as we record this Wednesday late afternoon with our
Speaker 1: pal Jeff Schwartz.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Well, congratulations, sir. I know it's been a long
Speaker 4: time coming. I know you do good work. Obviously, I've
Speaker 4: been here for quite some time with you, so I know,
Speaker 4: yeh elber of what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yes. Other housekeeping which is definitely not shouldn't be classified
Speaker 1: as housekeeping. Tie. So while we were in Chicago, news
Speaker 1: broke about Maryland. Yeah, and the Maryland program, which, in
Speaker 1: the wake of an offensive lineman's tragic death a few
Speaker 1: months ago, Jordan McNair first placed strength and conditioning staff
Speaker 1: on leave. Has since they've since fired or at least
Speaker 1: reached a separation agreement with their strength and conditioning coach
Speaker 1: and coach dj Dirkin is on leave not just because
Speaker 1: of the Jordan McNair tragedy, but also because of a
Speaker 1: number of stories and cultural and systemic issues that have
Speaker 1: been brought to light in an ESPN piece that are
Speaker 1: now being investigated. Some horrifically ugly situations, obviously none more
Speaker 1: serious than the Jordan McNair one. And it has been
Speaker 1: pretty ugly all all around.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Dan sort of caught us a bit by surprise,
Speaker 4: but I suppose we're going to have to wait and
Speaker 4: see what happens here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the most important thing is to react,
Speaker 1: whether it's media, whether it's fans, whether it's whoever, to
Speaker 1: react within the context of, Hey, a person died needlessly
Speaker 1: because of overtraining, because warning signs were not heated or
Speaker 1: even seen, and people have been quick, not the least
Speaker 1: of which is Will Muschamp, who understands how this all works,
Speaker 1: both from a coaching perspective and a media perspective, who
Speaker 1: was quick to say something sort of smart. We criticized
Speaker 1: the performance, not the performer. That seems to make sense,
Speaker 1: and then went on to criticize stories with anonymous sources,
Speaker 1: which obviously the the anonymous Maryland staffer staffers who brought
Speaker 1: this to light did so because of a fear of
Speaker 1: retribution and wanted to make sure that whatever whistle blowing
Speaker 1: was going on was heard and verified and vetted, which
Speaker 1: you know ESPN has has pretty stringent standards for that.
Speaker 1: So it brought out some ugliness at least in him
Speaker 1: and some people willing to attack attack the concept of
Speaker 1: anonymous sources, who, by the way, Will Muschamp has one
Speaker 1: hundred percent been an anonymous source. And I understand you know,
Speaker 1: Will Muschamp worked with DJ Dirkin, and you know his instinct,
Speaker 1: as it is the coach's instincts in a lot of
Speaker 1: cases to come to the defense of fellow coaches, whether
Speaker 1: or not they've worked with them or not. There is
Speaker 1: somewhat of a fraternity situation in that world, you see,
Speaker 1: Like when an NBA coach gets fired, Greg Popovich will
Speaker 1: say something like, you know, it's always the coach's fault.
Speaker 1: He's not the one out there shooting threes and missing them,
Speaker 1: you know. But it did strike me as very easy
Speaker 1: for Will Mussham to have a human reaction to say
Speaker 1: what happened was tragic. If these allegations are true, I
Speaker 1: you know, I'd be really disappointed. The DJ Dirk and
Speaker 1: I know is not somebody who would be involved in
Speaker 1: something like that. So I'm hoping for the best for
Speaker 1: him and the program, even though it's, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit generic. Whatever. You have to as a person
Speaker 1: in a responsibility position, a responsible position, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to say things like a grown up. And
Speaker 1: that's the disappointing thing that we have, these people that
Speaker 1: are tasked with being grown ups, and there's just a
Speaker 1: failure to do that. Jordan McNair should be alive, and
Speaker 1: should be alive for another sixty seventy years. He's gone.
Speaker 1: And so we've got a couple questions in our Q
Speaker 1: and A that are more serious things like how do
Speaker 1: you root for Maryland if you're a Maryland fan given
Speaker 1: the allegations? And at my first thought like how do
Speaker 1: you root for South Carolina now that your coach has
Speaker 1: you know, been an idiot about the whole thing. The
Speaker 1: players don't have really anything to do with this, like
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson has nothing to do with the alleged atrocities
Speaker 1: at Maryland and whoever it is. You know, I just
Speaker 1: I want the Maryland players to succeed in spite of
Speaker 1: the crappy thing. So it's a very strange situation. And
Speaker 1: hopefully everywhere, you know, as we've had these strengthen you know,
Speaker 1: this conditioning stuff over the past few years at a
Speaker 1: school I love the University of Oregon last year with
Speaker 1: the rabdough Iowa, a couple of years ago with the
Speaker 1: rabdo whatever. These things keep popping up. Hopefully there's more oversight,
Speaker 1: there's a better understanding, there's better training, there's better indicators
Speaker 1: when players are struggling and how to deal with situations.
Speaker 1: And you know, football is tough. You know, to sort
Speaker 1: of craft really good football players, you have to instill
Speaker 1: a certain amount of toughness and stamina in them. And
Speaker 1: the guys that are tasked with doing this need to
Speaker 1: be able to know lines and that I think is
Speaker 1: a problem.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we'll see what comes of this, Dan,
Speaker 4: There's no doubt more coming. We heard from Maryland within
Speaker 4: the last couple of days about the status of its
Speaker 4: strength coach, and my guess is that we'll be hearing
Speaker 4: more we'll do our best to try and keep everyone
Speaker 4: up to date with what's going on, at least as
Speaker 4: best we can here on the podcast. As for the
Speaker 4: rest of the content, tonight, we are doing a mega
Speaker 4: Q and A show, Dan, and by mega I.
Speaker 1: Do mean mega Congratulations there it is.
Speaker 2: You've got mail.
Speaker 1: You've got mail on the solid ruble.
Speaker 4: So what we've been trying to do all off season
Speaker 4: is one of these shows per month. We haven't done
Speaker 4: one in a while because we've been busy doing conference
Speaker 4: previews in the light. But now as we've got some
Speaker 4: open air here where we can really catch our breath
Speaker 4: and get down to the heart of the matter, we've
Speaker 4: decided that tonight will be part one of our Q
Speaker 4: and A show, and Sunday will be part two. We
Speaker 4: wanted to make sure we had a chance to feel
Speaker 4: the number of questions before we actually get into start
Speaker 4: picking games, which we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I guess two three weeks now that sounds reasonable.
Speaker 4: So with that being said, Dan, what is our first question?
Speaker 4: Who's our first caller?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Let's go to It's always funny looking at the names
Speaker 1: because we ask on Facebook and then we get people's
Speaker 1: real names. We ask on Twitter, and sometimes we get
Speaker 1: people's real names, and then we ask on Reddit and
Speaker 1: there are no name, no names. So let's start here
Speaker 1: because I think it's a good question. We some possum. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: who is your quote perfect storm team? A school who
Speaker 1: parendally fields a good team, but due to a number
Speaker 1: of factors, there's reasona believe this year is going to
Speaker 1: be their year to do something big before things perhaps
Speaker 1: calm down and return back to normal. So who is
Speaker 1: above average essentially that could win double digits, perhaps flirt
Speaker 1: with the playoff, or even go to the playoff, you know,
Speaker 1: in November, December, et cetera. So that's sort of leap. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I've got a few. Okay, who are yours? So
Speaker 1: as we go across college football, you first have to
Speaker 1: look at well, we're looking at Power five conferences unfortunately,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't really apply the way the system is
Speaker 1: built right now to a group of five teams. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I have anybody in the ACC. I
Speaker 1: think it would not be a surprise.
Speaker 4: I guess Miami, Well, Miami might qualify here. I don't
Speaker 4: think I believe in them as a perfect storm team.
Speaker 1: But MII Miami is a national championship program.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The only team that I really believe in in the
Speaker 4: ACC is Clemson at this point.
Speaker 1: But that's not a surprise.
Speaker 4: Sing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking like a perennial nine point two win team
Speaker 1: suddenly becoming eleven point two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't believe in eleven point two? Is my
Speaker 4: point for Clemson, No for Miami. Oh, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 4: I have a couple I think in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: I don't think West Virginia has the defense, even though
Speaker 1: they qualify under the first like seven to eight win
Speaker 1: every year kind of team. I'd probably lean into Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State and TCU.
Speaker 4: TCU, I could see. Oklahoma State scares me a little bit.
Speaker 1: They're both quarterback de Pennant with Nuke starting quarterbacks this year.
Speaker 1: I like the experience Oklahoma State has on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. TCU has continuity on both sides. I
Speaker 1: love their skill talent. Their quarterbacks seems if he's even
Speaker 1: pretty good, should be pretty plug and play. They've had
Speaker 1: success against top teams in the conference, perhaps outside of Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: who they themselves have a new quarterback. So schedule wise,
Speaker 1: TCU has both Oklahoma schools at home, which it's love.
Speaker 1: So I think TCU is the answer in the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: In the Big ten, I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: team that qualifies that I could see making that.
Speaker 4: Was there a Michigan State that we could put in here.
Speaker 1: I guess it would be Penn State.
Speaker 4: It could be Penn State, could be Michigan State, one
Speaker 4: of the two.
Speaker 1: Penn State has not won a national championship in the
Speaker 1: modern era, hasn't been really that close. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: flirted with playoff stuff the past couple of years, but
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't really in and at the end.
Speaker 1: But you don't according to the.
Speaker 4: Question here, you don't need to have won a national championship.
Speaker 4: He says, a school who has perennially fielded a good.
Speaker 1: Team, good but not great is how I interpreted that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I think Penn State could qualify. I like their
Speaker 1: schedule a good amount. I think they have a bye
Speaker 1: week between Michigan State and Ohio State. They have Michigan
Speaker 1: on the road, but they have Wisconsin at home in
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks, and they have what I consider to be
Speaker 1: not necessarily a national championship. But that playoff duo of
Speaker 1: really good quarterback, really good defense, potentially really good defense.
Speaker 4: Got a bit of a blow today, which I suppose
Speaker 4: we could have mentioned at the top. But Ryan Buckle
Speaker 4: it's retiring due to injury concerns, which is I didn't
Speaker 4: see that. Yeah, it's going to affect Penn State's depth
Speaker 4: along the defensive front a bit unexpected and unfortunate. We
Speaker 4: wish him well, but Penn State's got some holes to
Speaker 4: plug on that defensive side of the ball. I think
Speaker 4: they'd be a good answer. I also think Michigan State's
Speaker 4: a good answer. Michigan State brings so many back.
Speaker 1: They've been to the they've at least been to the playoff.
Speaker 1: Though they've they've made that lead again. You're making up
Speaker 1: prerequisites here, Dan, I am because I'm interpreting.
Speaker 4: I'm saying perfect storm Michigan State. I could feel it
Speaker 4: this year. That's what I'm interpreting.
Speaker 1: It says, who should be looking to surprise us and
Speaker 1: pop off a few more wins than usual and maybe
Speaker 1: land themselves in the New York six or excuse New
Speaker 1: Year six or possible playoff game or the New York six.
Speaker 1: Michigan State has been to the Rose Bowl a few
Speaker 1: times recently they've been to the playoff. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: excluding your actor can disagree, stricken from the record, even
Speaker 1: though I'm right.
Speaker 2: You're wrong.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Where we go? What's name like? One more team,
Speaker 1: one more team that has been pretty good recently, that
Speaker 1: could make the lead to very good. I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's all I mean it. If Stanford has a much
Speaker 1: better defense than what at least I think they'll have,
Speaker 1: that would probably Notre Dame could be an answer. Here
Speaker 1: went to the National championship game six years ago. Again,
Speaker 1: not a prerequisite in the question. Now my interpretation tie again,
Speaker 1: I'm right here. This is carrying at the fabric of
Speaker 1: the pot some apossum and I go way back. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next question. Next question, biggest quarterback
Speaker 1: controversy to watch for. So my interpretation of Patrick's question, okay,
Speaker 1: is which quarterback situation will most dramatically go back and forth?
Speaker 1: Who has a short hook? Who?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Once they look a little bit shaky, gets pulled, but
Speaker 1: then the new guy doesn't look great, and so then
Speaker 1: they're flopping all over the place like fish in the wild. Tie,
Speaker 1: who is what is the quarterback controversy, not battle, but
Speaker 1: controversy controversy. Huh.
Speaker 4: Yes, Well, I looked at this and my initial thought
Speaker 4: was the Clemson situation as a whole, because Kelly Bryant
Speaker 4: started every game last year and got Clemson pretty damn far,
Speaker 4: got him to the playoff. Right now, you've got Trevor
Speaker 4: Lawrence breathing down his neck, and I could definitely see
Speaker 4: a scenario in which Trevor Lawrence gets the call at
Speaker 4: some point a couple games into the year and as
Speaker 4: a true freshman, maybe he isn't fully ready for primetime,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, Dabosweeney has created a controversy
Speaker 4: where if he just went with Kelly Bryant from the start,
Speaker 4: he wouldn't have had one, or at least not to
Speaker 4: the same degree.
Speaker 1: I think that's right, But there is an element to
Speaker 1: that of Trevor Lawrence being a true freshman. Sure, and
Speaker 1: so the expectations on Trevor Lawrence, even though they are
Speaker 1: super high because of the hype he comes in with,
Speaker 1: there is that element that they're not going to immediately
Speaker 1: give him a tough to shoulder.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: My answer, my answer is probably Alabama, and it's an
Speaker 1: easy answer, but allow me to explain. It's the biggest
Speaker 1: magnifying glass in college football, coached by the most well
Speaker 1: known and perhaps most successful college football coach of all time. Dramatically.
Speaker 1: The stage has already been said dramatically with the National
Speaker 1: Championship Game transfer rumors, Jalen Hurts saying that you never
Speaker 1: heard from coaches and he doesn't like necessarily how he
Speaker 1: was treated as a leader of the team. Tua comes
Speaker 1: in is obviously magnificent in the second half, in overtime
Speaker 1: of that game. But here's the thing. Jalen Hurts has
Speaker 1: been successful, two has been in small sample sizes successful,
Speaker 1: and there's this looming transfer. Can I make up a term?
Speaker 1: By the way, that came into my head the first
Speaker 1: thing I saw this question, Sure, Jalen Hurts feels like
Speaker 1: a plans for a plan, Okay, a plan to transfer right,
Speaker 1: Like he is sort of a lame duck here. And
Speaker 1: so there is an element of Jalen Hurts knowing he
Speaker 1: has had huge success only getting on the field. Perhaps
Speaker 1: situationally he's unhappy we've got a new offensive coordinator. Situation
Speaker 1: at Alabama. There's there's a ton of variables with Alabama.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna tear apart the fabric of
Speaker 1: the Tide, but I think you can get into some
Speaker 1: dramatic back and forth here. I think that's probably. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's Michigan shape Patterson, Brandon Peters. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's UCLA with Wilton Spade and whoever the freshman
Speaker 1: or Devin Modster. I think it's still probably in terms
Speaker 1: of spiked blood pressure, people getting talk shows excited, I
Speaker 1: think it's still Jalen Hurts Intua.
Speaker 4: Okay, I could see how you'd make that case. I
Speaker 4: think he's got whoever the quarterback is more around him.
Speaker 4: That takes a little bit of pressure off that quarter
Speaker 4: of situation. So yes, if there's a reason to think
Speaker 4: it's not Alabama, that could be it Also second consecutive
Speaker 4: question where the answer could be Notre Dame throwing that
Speaker 4: out there as well.
Speaker 1: No, that's a huge magnifying glass. And Brandon Wimbush the
Speaker 1: way he ended the season. I know you are throwing
Speaker 1: a third name after Ian Book into the mix.
Speaker 4: I'm not officially throwing Filger Kovic in there. I think
Speaker 4: you like saying the words filter COVID. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm proud of myself. I figured out how to say
Speaker 4: his name a couple months ago, and now I just
Speaker 4: enjoy injecting him into the conversation, even though I know
Speaker 4: sure practically speaking, he's not going to be a candidate
Speaker 4: for that role, at least until halfway through the year.
Speaker 1: Ty, Yeah, Dylan wants to know. Yeah, what are Ed
Speaker 1: and Lisa McCaffrey feeding their children to have four college
Speaker 1: slash pro football players? Well, how does it look on
Speaker 1: the Colorado schools that they can't recruit them? Well, obviously
Speaker 1: the answer is not good on those schools. I listen,
Speaker 1: it's incredible, and I think it's a lot of this
Speaker 1: is on the mother. You know, you see these guys
Speaker 1: who have or these women that have pro athlete parents.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time it's because both parents are
Speaker 1: excellent athletes. Here's my question to you. I assume at
Speaker 1: this point you and solid wife Kate have had discussions
Speaker 1: about children in the future, as have Jody with an
Speaker 1: I and myself. Do you have a number of children
Speaker 1: you'd like? Ty, I'm not doing this to put you
Speaker 1: on the spot in a familial sense.
Speaker 4: There have been discussions, but none that I will divulge here.
Speaker 1: On the podcast. Do you have an upper number? Would
Speaker 1: you have more than three?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: God, no, okay, no, so we're talking one or two?
Speaker 1: Maybe three?
Speaker 4: No, No offense to anybody who's in that category, but
Speaker 4: that's you're speaking for yourself.
Speaker 1: Too rich for my blood. Yeah, I'm on the same page.
Speaker 1: Probably not more than two. We'll see if I gave
Speaker 1: us collectively, the host of the solid verbal an over
Speaker 1: under of zero point five children progeny becoming Division I athletes,
Speaker 1: not football Convision one athletes. Where is your money?
Speaker 4: Probably under it's Kate a good athlete. I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 4: probably under Dan.
Speaker 1: That is the I can tell you right now. Jody
Speaker 1: with and I is not a good athlete. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's why I brought up the mother element of this.
Speaker 4: So if in fact it happens, it's because a hilden
Speaker 4: Brandt child inherits my defensive specialist jeens as it relates
Speaker 4: to baseball or my golf swing.
Speaker 1: Do you are there any hilden brand Calarusso's formerly Division
Speaker 1: one athletes. I have one distant cousin who actually played
Speaker 1: tennis at Maryland, so I have that. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think about of any others and I don't believe I do.
Speaker 4: Actually, there is a history in the solid Wies family.
Speaker 1: Oh, cret Ty. The gene pool while shallow swimmable, very swimmable, indeed, okay,
Speaker 1: good to know. Yeah, I'd probably put you ahead in
Speaker 1: that possibility. So this is going to be a twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty eight year to follow.
Speaker 4: Alongst the long con that we're playing here on the
Speaker 4: podcast this evening.
Speaker 1: This year, we're looking to see if cal is elite
Speaker 1: every week and if certain coaches are sexier than Randy Edsel.
Speaker 1: The long con is whether or not a hilden Brandt
Speaker 1: Rubinstein child makes the minor leagues. Here we go, Jeff
Speaker 1: wants to know, although there's still some time left in camp,
Speaker 1: the consensus to win the quarterback job at USC as JT. Daniels.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a positive or negative for
Speaker 1: their season? Is this a reflection on how good he
Speaker 1: truly is or can bey or does it point to
Speaker 1: the mediocrity of Sears and Fink, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: all of my money is tied up with Sears and
Speaker 1: Fink right the mutual funds they are producing year and
Speaker 1: in year out. The yields are tremendous. Continue.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's either a positive or a negative.
Speaker 1: For the season.
Speaker 4: I don't know is there a reason to look at
Speaker 4: it one way or the other.
Speaker 1: JT. Daniels comes in with a lot of acclaim well
Speaker 1: that he's so young and with no experience in practice
Speaker 1: beyond this fall and summer work.
Speaker 4: But if he's the guy, if he's got the higher upside,
Speaker 4: I think it would be more of a longer term
Speaker 4: positive for USC to go that direction, get him some
Speaker 4: meaningful experience now and build on that later. USC is
Speaker 4: going to have a really good team again. But I
Speaker 4: don't know if we're under any illusions that they're going
Speaker 4: to win the Pac twelve and go to the playoff,
Speaker 4: They're gonna go to a bowl game. They'll be just fine.
Speaker 4: But if JT. Daniels is the starting quarterback, I don't
Speaker 4: view that as a negative thing. I view that as
Speaker 4: him being the best guy for the job.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so early reports out of USC are that
Speaker 1: it's not just that the other quarterbacks aren't good. I
Speaker 1: haven't really seen anything about that in what limited stuff
Speaker 1: I've read, it's that J. T. Daniels has been really,
Speaker 1: really good, which is and should be super encouraging for
Speaker 1: USC fans, like Jeff has formed a really good bit
Speaker 1: of chemistry with Get Ready for This one, Tie Aimon
Speaker 1: Ross Saint Brown, yep eqes little brother's right causing trouble,
Speaker 1: and that is that should be scary to everybody in
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve South and beyond in the conference because
Speaker 1: when you have a sensational true freshman quarterback and a
Speaker 1: top level incoming receiver and they have a couple of
Speaker 1: really good receivers, I think it's more of a situation
Speaker 1: that Sears and Fink are more on the Cody Kessler level,
Speaker 1: which is fine and serviceable but not game changing. So
Speaker 1: if JT. Daniel starts and goes down, I don't think
Speaker 1: USC will be dramatically worse, just not as good, if
Speaker 1: that makes any sense.
Speaker 4: All Right, So we got a random question emailed into
Speaker 4: us here, not specific, but Dan, what is the worst
Speaker 4: injury you have ever suffered?
Speaker 1: The worst injury I have suffered. I've sprained a couple
Speaker 1: of ankles playing basketball. The only time I've broken a bone,
Speaker 1: and I think I've told this story on the show,
Speaker 1: is when I have the growth plate in my left
Speaker 1: pinky shattered and it has not grown at the rate
Speaker 1: it should have since seventh grade.
Speaker 4: And that was due to a friend of yours at
Speaker 4: the time, right.
Speaker 1: Due to a friend of mine. I've also when I
Speaker 1: was like four years old, I jumped head first into
Speaker 1: a glass coffee table and split my head open. That's
Speaker 1: probably the answer.
Speaker 4: Man, this is a good question here. I've got a
Speaker 4: bunch of really good ones.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I thought this was like leading to an injury question
Speaker 1: with college football, but I like this. I'll curious about
Speaker 1: our bodies.
Speaker 4: Actually I can't go somewhere with it, but oh, the
Speaker 4: question here. To answer the question here, I blew out
Speaker 4: my shoulder twice, needed reconstructive shoulder surgery, so that's probably
Speaker 4: the winner. But I've done all sorts of crazy stuff
Speaker 4: in hyper extending elbows and nearly tearing ligaments elsewhere in
Speaker 4: the body. I guess reconstructive shoulder surgery would probably take
Speaker 4: the cake.
Speaker 2: Care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I
Speaker 1: think that wins.
Speaker 4: And actually I didn't mean to go here with this,
Speaker 4: but you know, we've been talking a lot about the athletic.
Speaker 1: So smooth over the last couple of weeks. I swear
Speaker 1: to God, I didn't mean to go here with them,
Speaker 1: but I know it's just in your bones. It jogged
Speaker 1: my memory. You're reconstructed bones.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: We've been talking a lot about the athletic here, and
Speaker 4: I saw a really fascinating article this week from Seth Emerson,
Speaker 4: noted Georgia writer about how the process of repairing an
Speaker 4: ACL has evolved over the course of time. And while
Speaker 4: the thing was right, yeah, we've talked about it on
Speaker 4: the show before, right, and we'll I'm sure give out
Speaker 4: the URL here for how people can jump on in
Speaker 4: if you're interested. But one of the most interesting things
Speaker 4: that I found in that article is how repetition just
Speaker 4: doing the surgery, going through that procedure of repairing an
Speaker 4: ACL over the course of many years has drastically reduced
Speaker 4: the recovery time. Initially you got out of the ACL,
Speaker 4: you're out like eighteen months. Now there are guys on
Speaker 4: the Georgia roster who are looking at like eight months
Speaker 4: and they're able to practice without restrictions, which is really
Speaker 4: a feat of modern science to know that we're at
Speaker 4: this point now where again you get out of an ACL.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 4: But the level of detail in this story talk talking
Speaker 4: about how they've evolved that process to the point now
Speaker 4: where recovery is much better now than it used to be.
Speaker 4: The process itself is so much better than it used
Speaker 4: to be. That to me was quite illuminating. So I'd
Speaker 4: encourage everyone to go on out there and check that
Speaker 4: out from Seth Emerson.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad I did not see this in early
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight after Jeremiah Johnson tour is need
Speaker 1: Dennis diickxonaur is the like at the ACL because it's
Speaker 1: amazing and this is you know, even well who was it.
Speaker 1: It was Adrian Peterson who came back even stronger. And
Speaker 1: what is incredible is how these guys figure out the
Speaker 1: rehab element. It's not as much and the surgery I
Speaker 1: think has obviously come a long way. But what's set
Speaker 1: did a really good job of because a lot of
Speaker 1: times when you have a quarterback who has a big injury,
Speaker 1: or you have any player who has a big injury,
Speaker 1: and let's say the injury happens in November and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: they should be good to come back by fall camp
Speaker 1: next year, and it's just sort of out of sight,
Speaker 1: out of mind. And I really like the human element
Speaker 1: of this piece that like, okay, there's hydrotherapy here. They
Speaker 1: wait ten days to actually operate on the knee crazy
Speaker 1: to show the players that they'll still have range of motion,
Speaker 1: to like give them confidence, psychological stuff that goes into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was super interesting. It was plain, it was easy
Speaker 1: to read, it was clean. There are pictures for dumb
Speaker 1: people like me. Also, I should note knee talk with
Speaker 1: Seth dot Com is available if you're listening Seth Emerson.
Speaker 1: Knee talk with Seth dot com. If you want dot club,
Speaker 1: if you want dot org, if you want dot biz.
Speaker 1: You can probably get dot triple x if you really
Speaker 1: wanted to costume war. But yeah, it's there, Knee Talk
Speaker 1: with Seth dot Com twelve ninety nine right now. So no,
Speaker 1: it's a very cool thing because I know Georgia fans
Speaker 1: are very curious losing a couple running backs. Zamir White
Speaker 1: comes in the number one running back is practicing as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, without any hesitation or any limitation, and Seth
Speaker 1: does a good job about how guys like Zamir Whites,
Speaker 1: who could play a role this season, how they're getting
Speaker 1: from point A to point BE physically, and that is
Speaker 1: I think that's a difference maker. And to your point,
Speaker 1: if you've been waiting to pull the trigger, you're Georgia fans.
Speaker 1: I swear to you, I didn't intend on going here
Speaker 1: with it, but I love it ty. It just it
Speaker 1: just kind of rolled out the tongue.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to a college football podcast, which means your
Speaker 1: media consumption habits are futuristic. That's right, it just makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Athletic dot com slash solid verbal. Where are we going
Speaker 1: next year? Dan, were already in the future tie, so
Speaker 1: you should already know if we're talking about the athletic.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Drew. Hello, do you have any advice
Speaker 1: for a first football season with a new girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Oh? Boy?
Speaker 1: For some background, we are both fans of preseason top
Speaker 1: ten teams that are in different conferences. That's good, that's
Speaker 1: very power couple. Yeah, a little humble brag there from Drew.
Speaker 1: Our teams have no national rivalry and would only play
Speaker 1: in a bowl game or the playoffs this year. However,
Speaker 1: her team is a team that I have historically strongly disliked.
Speaker 1: So he is dating a noted AIME fan noted noted.
Speaker 1: To make things more complicated, her best friend is related
Speaker 1: to her school's head coach. She is best friends with Brian.
Speaker 1: I'm Kelly's daughter.
Speaker 4: So you're assuming that Notre Dame's a preseason top ten team,
Speaker 4: which is giving?
Speaker 1: Are they not? I don't think so. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the top. Okay yet, but they want Jim Harbaugh one
Speaker 1: of Jim Harbaugh's kids. Okay, I think they might be
Speaker 1: too young. Okay, any advice, ty, this is they're a
Speaker 1: power couple. I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Like, I don't think there's any trouble here at all.
Speaker 1: No, there's a good life.
Speaker 4: There's definitely like a flirtatious angle for your significant other
Speaker 4: rooting for a team either that could play yours in
Speaker 4: the playoff or you know that you've historically hated. You
Speaker 4: could definitely spin that to your advantage, just in a
Speaker 4: romantic sense.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think this is this is a
Speaker 1: great situation. Obviously, both teams are good here. You can
Speaker 1: watch football together. It's great that you share a hobby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you share a passion. And if you do end
Speaker 1: up playing each other in the playoff or some sort
Speaker 1: of national championship situation this year, next year, whatever, that's
Speaker 1: it's great too that that that builds the bonds tie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not going to have animus like if like, here's
Speaker 1: the here's the instance I have Oregon in Michigan. Right,
Speaker 1: I am you are you are not married to a
Speaker 1: Power five alumnus?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it does get pretty heated in here
Speaker 4: when Notre Dame plays Lee High. But aside Lee High
Speaker 4: from that, Yeah, but Oregon did play Michigan in the
Speaker 4: NCAA tournament last year, and Jody loves for Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 4: I love my Oregon Ducks. And at one point late
Speaker 4: in the game it was a close game, Jody said,
Speaker 4: I'm really nervous.
Speaker 1: Hold my hand and I said, no, Wow, I am
Speaker 1: not supportable in that. I'm not mean. I just said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're going to have to rejoin after
Speaker 1: this tense end. Husband of the Year over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I would say is lean lean into this.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to worry about. Life is good.
Speaker 4: Okay, I agree with that. Where are we going next?
Speaker 1: We'll stay on that relative topic. Andrew asked, like forty
Speaker 1: four questions, We're going to answer a couple of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: is Jordan Toamu to Amu to AHM a significant downgrade
Speaker 1: at quarterback from shape Patterson. I'm gonna say no, maybe.
Speaker 4: I I that was part of the point that we
Speaker 4: brought up earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: Andrew, we kind of don't know, do we. Jordan to
Speaker 1: Amu lit up not great teams in the SEC, and
Speaker 1: that's what they kind of had from Shape Patterson. He wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was okay, he wasn't. Not that accurate in the
Speaker 1: egg bowl, you know, losing effort. But I I think
Speaker 1: he's fine. I think he's more than fine. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see it as a downgrade really at all,
Speaker 1: if any maybe slightly.
Speaker 4: The second part here is is Shaye Patterson going to
Speaker 4: be an impact player from Michigan, to which I'd say, yes,
Speaker 4: he will be an impact player. The second part of
Speaker 4: his two part question is whether or not Shaye Patterson
Speaker 4: will allow Michigan to take that leap to national type
Speaker 4: I'll contender, to which I would answer again, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe he could be. If he is nearly give me
Speaker 4: a good cake, give if he's nearly as good as
Speaker 4: Michigan people would hope, then the answer is yes, because
Speaker 4: all the other pieces are around him to do pretty well.
Speaker 4: He's going to have a cradle to nurture him hopefully
Speaker 4: to success and maybe the playoff at a minimum, the
Speaker 4: Big Tennis. But I don't know if we have enough
Speaker 4: data on Shape Patterson to really definitively say yes or no.
Speaker 1: I am sitting at the table. I have a place, Matt,
Speaker 1: I have silverware, I have a nice glass of wine.
Speaker 1: I have a plate. You don't have my last wine
Speaker 1: shot on my plate. Okay, sorry, I have iced teak.
Speaker 1: My plate is empty, and all my appetite is telling
Speaker 1: me is you gotta get some takes in your belly,
Speaker 1: all right, and I need you. You're serving me Ti.
Speaker 4: The last time I gave a take, I had to
Speaker 4: wear a Pilgrim outfit at live show.
Speaker 1: I don't wow. Okay, so you reveal that. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: need to just give me your Shape Patterson limited data.
Speaker 1: Do you envision a situation in which if Shape Patterson
Speaker 1: is very good, if he has one of the best
Speaker 1: say twelve, you know, QB ratings in the country or
Speaker 1: something like that, and it is completing sixty five percent of
Speaker 1: his passes, that would be very good for Michigan, then
Speaker 1: they're a title contender.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Thank I'm getting full tie. Oh,
Speaker 1: belly's getting roundered.
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like you and I got a
Speaker 4: little bit of a little bit of animosity here today,
Speaker 4: and I kind of like it.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 4: The season's about to start, kind of like it. This
Speaker 4: is what they're going for on the TV nowadays.
Speaker 1: Who is this year's Royce Freeman type back? A guy
Speaker 1: in his third or fourth year that has been well
Speaker 1: above average for his career, but for some reason doesn't
Speaker 1: get the national media attention he deserves. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give such a boring answer and say, Damien Harris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he has been so consistently very good. But aside,
Speaker 1: we had a really good crop of freshman and red
Speaker 1: shirt freshman running backs last year. Are there any backs
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin? I think is Anhing Miles to stay Miles Gaskin?
Speaker 1: It's probably Northwest. Yeah, I would say that that falls
Speaker 1: under it as well. I'm gonna stick with running backs here.
Speaker 1: Ty Thomas wants to know what does David Montgomery's stat
Speaker 1: line starting running back Iowa State can be very good,
Speaker 1: need to look like his stat line need to look
Speaker 1: like to get an invite to New York at the
Speaker 1: end of the season on a three, four or five
Speaker 1: loss Iowa State team. Man, he's any answers? Two thousand yards?
Speaker 4: I was to say two thousand yards and like twenty
Speaker 4: two touchdowns something crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't think the touchdowns are as important. I think
Speaker 1: they are important. But two thousand yards gets you to
Speaker 1: Andre Williams and Andre Williams and I want to stay
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen played for a BC team that went to
Speaker 1: a bowl game. Theybe the eight and four or seven
Speaker 1: and five or something like that. Two thousand is an
Speaker 1: unignorable number, and I think that's the answer. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: does that makes sense? Sure? Yeah, two thousand. Uh. Next,
Speaker 1: let's go to Michael wants to know how can we
Speaker 1: get a ring tone of the doodle alert SoundBite? Can
Speaker 1: we isolate that and just post it? Sorry if that
Speaker 1: came through very loud for you, Dan, No, that was good. Y.
Speaker 1: We could probably post that somewhere. Let's post that and
Speaker 1: doodle alert shirt we should. I don't think Suburban Legends
Speaker 1: has a copyright on dood alerts. No, those are two
Speaker 1: words that I think we can we can print with
Speaker 1: the siren and maybe one of those emojis of a
Speaker 1: finger pointing straight up. Yeah, so we have dood alert
Speaker 1: this guy. Okay, how many group of five teams do
Speaker 1: you think threaten the status quo like UCF did last year?
Speaker 1: If any one or two that's what I see.
Speaker 4: Probably Boise State and the Troy Trojans baby boyd Trojans
Speaker 4: yehist Bois State is Oklahoma State, so they can make
Speaker 4: that big impact early on.
Speaker 1: If they're able to beat the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: FA, you could be interesting. They've got an early game
Speaker 4: against Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: I think FAU is a good at San Diego State
Speaker 1: has Stanford. Yeah, while on the West Coast and the
Speaker 1: Mountain West Pac twelve matchup is not going to create
Speaker 1: as much buzz beating Stanford again two years in a row.
Speaker 1: San Diego State beating Stanford, and if they are to
Speaker 1: run the table this year, that I think is cause
Speaker 1: for concern if you are a power five person intent
Speaker 1: on keeping attention for a group of five schools down.
Speaker 4: And by the way, Josh Hernandez wrote in to ask
Speaker 4: about the best power five versus group of five games,
Speaker 4: I think we sort of answered that question.
Speaker 1: Killing two week one has a great one. Well, it
Speaker 1: has a couple you said, FAU Oklahoma. I I don't
Speaker 1: know if I should go out on a limb. I
Speaker 1: don't even think it's going out on a limb.
Speaker 2: Tie.
Speaker 1: Do I even have the sound ready at this point?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do. I'm not locking anything up,
Speaker 1: I'm trapping anything I'm just telling you, I am just
Speaker 1: if you can picture the eyeball emojis and this non
Speaker 1: visual medium. Sure, Northern Illinois, Iowa week one just as
Speaker 1: much as I like Nate Stanley and Iowa oo could
Speaker 1: be spicy. Nathan wants to know, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he doesn't specify a year here, So I think we
Speaker 1: can talk big picture. Will Paul Christ lead Wisconsin to
Speaker 1: a national title? Hmmm? Well, the very binary answer with
Speaker 1: a lot of variables. But you what does your gut say, ty.
Speaker 4: Take take plate MEA sure, Yeah. I think that Paul
Speaker 4: Christ is going to be there for a while. So,
Speaker 4: unlike some other situations that might be a little bit
Speaker 4: more prone to coaching turnover, I think Wisconsin is somewhat
Speaker 4: immune to that because Paul Chris is probably stay input
Speaker 4: so by virtue of that and also them recruiting very well,
Speaker 4: I'm going to say, over the course of his career,
Speaker 4: the answer is yes. Hell yeah, the answer is yes,
Speaker 4: over the course of his career.
Speaker 1: I am going to agree, yeah, and this is why,
Speaker 1: And I think you're right, But I think it needs
Speaker 1: to be thought of like this. There are going to
Speaker 1: be years. Nick Saban's not going to be in Tuscaloosa forever.
Speaker 1: Dabbo's not going to be in Clemson forever. There are
Speaker 1: going to be year over year changes that are unexpected,
Speaker 1: and there are going to be years where all of
Speaker 1: the perceived blue chip elite teams that are not Wisconsin
Speaker 1: all beat each other up, lose two or three times,
Speaker 1: and the one loss team is not a team that
Speaker 1: has a demonstrable talent advantage over Wisconsin. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to directly compare it to the Cam Newton Auburn team,
Speaker 1: but in a way that Auburn team did not have
Speaker 1: a good defense. They had Nick Fairley, but in terms
Speaker 1: of how productive they were, they relied on a single
Speaker 1: entity on offense. Really good coaching, which I think Wisconsin
Speaker 1: will continue to develop even if they lose guys. They've
Speaker 1: already started losing guys a little bit. There is something
Speaker 1: about Wisconsin just positioning itself to be there. We're going
Speaker 1: to be eleven in one, We're going to win the
Speaker 1: Big Ten. People are falling around the wayside, and we
Speaker 1: are positioned to be the sort of solid ship in
Speaker 1: the storm. Okay, and so I'm going to say, with
Speaker 1: how well Wisconsin does keeping players there developing them, how
Speaker 1: deep they become because of that, with the lack of
Speaker 1: player attrition, if they can develop a couple of playmakers,
Speaker 1: if they can keep developing speed and attracting speed on defense.
Speaker 1: We saw that as the sort of tiny difference maker
Speaker 1: against Ohio State last year. The margin by which Ohio
Speaker 1: State won that game was not great. Nope, So it
Speaker 1: to me points out that Wisconsin is just they are
Speaker 1: that switch flip away from becoming that national championship contender.
Speaker 4: Now that we've talked about Wisconsin in since I know
Speaker 4: that there are more Wisconsin questions out there, I want
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Speaker 4: as promised I said, we're gonna have a special guest
Speaker 4: on to discuss topics. We were just talking about Wisconsin
Speaker 4: and here to help us break down a little bit
Speaker 4: more about the Wisconsin offensive line. Let's start at a
Speaker 4: very familiar place. It is former NFL player, the star
Speaker 4: of the Ross Tucker family of podcasts. He's also on
Speaker 4: CBS Sports Network. Mister Ross Tucker, Welcome to the Solid
Speaker 4: Verbal Fellas.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, ty Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You guys obviously have a great thing going I've heard
Speaker 3: a lot about it. Got a chance to listen from
Speaker 3: time to time, and it's awesome to be on.
Speaker 2: Everything you guys produce is great. Yeah, man, I've got.
Speaker 3: A I've got five podcasts myself from my continued quest
Speaker 3: to avoid a real job as long as possible.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm thirty nine and a half now.
Speaker 3: As my daughters would say, so so far, so good.
Speaker 3: I've got the Ross Tucker Football Podcast is kind of
Speaker 3: the flagship that's NFL and that's daily once the season starts,
Speaker 3: and then you know, I kind of have offshoots of that,
Speaker 3: like Fantasy Feast for fantasy football and even money for gambling.
Speaker 3: And then the one that's that you guys would would
Speaker 3: be most interested in, the one that Dan came on recently,
Speaker 3: is the college Draft. It's kind of cool because we
Speaker 3: go year round talking about college football, but really only
Speaker 3: from the standpoint of the top players, the top prospects.
Speaker 3: So we we preview more of just who are the studs,
Speaker 3: who are the up and coming guys, and once the
Speaker 3: season gets going, we'll just focus on, you know, for
Speaker 3: people that are really into the draft, really into the NFL,
Speaker 3: we'll say, okay, like for the first weekend, right Labor
Speaker 3: Day weekend. That Monday night, I'll be calling the Virginia
Speaker 3: Tech Florida State game for Westwood One. So so we'll
Speaker 3: break down that game and say, Okay, here's the two dudes.
Speaker 3: When you're watching that game or listening, but when you're
Speaker 3: watching that game that you will need to watch for
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech, here's the guys Florida State you will need
Speaker 3: to watch. So even if someone's not like a gigantic
Speaker 3: college football fan, it's almost like it gives them a
Speaker 3: reason to watch and guys to check out.
Speaker 2: So it's been really, really fun.
Speaker 3: It always gives me a leg up, you know, once
Speaker 3: the NFL season's over and we get into the draft stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, I've already been talking about these guys for
Speaker 3: you know, six seven months.
Speaker 4: Well, that's one of the things that we've been pretty
Speaker 4: tuned into here as we've gone through our conference previews,
Speaker 4: giving people a reason to care. Right, everyone's busy. What
Speaker 4: are the reasons that you should care about some of
Speaker 4: these teams? In particular, one of the ones that I
Speaker 4: know that that Dan and I were pretty jazzed up
Speaker 4: about was Wisconsin because Wisconsin brings a lot back, and
Speaker 4: especially along the line. There's just a beef equality to
Speaker 4: it that should propel Jonathan Taylor tailback and Alex Hornybrook
Speaker 4: and really the offense as a whole move them forward.
Speaker 4: Now into the Big Ten season schedule is a little
Speaker 4: bit more difficult than it was last year, but I
Speaker 4: know you're pretty keen on the offensive line and where
Speaker 4: that's going to take the Badgers this year.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: And can I just say this, because I know you
Speaker 3: guys talk about stuff like this.
Speaker 2: I freaking love Wisconsin. I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Love everything about those guys in that place. My wife
Speaker 3: actually got her NBA from Kellogg and Northwestern, and so,
Speaker 3: you know, one weekend we drove up there to Madison
Speaker 3: because I just wanted to see what it was like.
Speaker 3: They've got that main street, that road you know that
Speaker 3: no cars can go on.
Speaker 2: You know, you walk up and down.
Speaker 3: It's all kinds of bars drinking spotted cal beer and stuff.
Speaker 3: Then they even at this ice cream place where it
Speaker 3: says like nutritional information, It's like, don't ask.
Speaker 2: You don't want to know.
Speaker 3: This is one hundred percent Wisconsin milk fat ice cream.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing. Then I don't know if you
Speaker 3: guys have been there. But their student union okay, is
Speaker 3: on a lake and the sell and they sell beer
Speaker 3: and brats. Like zero percent chance I ever would have
Speaker 3: gone to class even one time if I went to Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: I love that place. And then I love the way
Speaker 3: their team plays. You know, I've been studying their offensive line.
Speaker 3: They've got three like legit, legit dudes that should all
Speaker 3: be top two or three round picks, which.
Speaker 2: Is not easy to do.
Speaker 3: And they all almost look like carbon copies of each other.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I mean, they're all like six six and
Speaker 3: a half three hundred and twenty five pounds. It's it's
Speaker 3: a beautiful thing. I love the way they play football
Speaker 3: in a world in which everybody seemingly runs very similar offenses.
Speaker 3: I love like Wisconsin to Stanford. I mean, as a
Speaker 3: former offensive lineman, those are my teams. Those are my dudes.
Speaker 3: I would love to play for them. I think the
Speaker 3: most athletic of the group is Michael Dieter, you know
Speaker 3: who played left tackle last year, number sixty three.
Speaker 2: He did a really nice job.
Speaker 3: Even like watching the Big Ten championship game going against
Speaker 3: Nick Bosa, he did a really nice job. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's quite long enough or quite
Speaker 3: the athlete that they would want as an ideal left tackle.
Speaker 3: He might be a guy that the NFL would bump
Speaker 3: over to right or move into guard, where I think
Speaker 3: he would excel.
Speaker 2: But he's he was good enough to me with his
Speaker 2: feet and hands.
Speaker 3: But I would start him at left tackle, and I
Speaker 3: would give him that opportunity because I think he could
Speaker 3: do it on the other side.
Speaker 2: David Edwards, the big red shirt junior.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a right tackle all the way or
Speaker 3: maybe even get bumped inside despite how tall he is.
Speaker 2: He's not as athletic as Deeter was.
Speaker 3: He was a little bit stiffer, but still kind of
Speaker 3: your classic Wisconsin guy. All these guys were pretty good finishers.
Speaker 3: They all have real good pop in the run game
Speaker 3: and great size.
Speaker 2: Obviously. My favorite one, though, is bo Ben.
Speaker 3: Schwazzle or however you say his last name. First of all,
Speaker 3: I love the guy. I mean I love last names
Speaker 3: like that, So I don't even know if Ben Schwazzle's
Speaker 3: the way, but I love that, and that dude is
Speaker 3: a total badass. Like watching him, he plays the way
Speaker 3: I tried to play, and the way I wanted to play.
Speaker 3: I mean he's out there now. He's playing guard. He's
Speaker 3: playing right guard rather than tackle. So usually you think, okay,
Speaker 3: he's maybe not going to be as athletic as the tackles.
Speaker 3: He's a real good athlete. He's the feistiest of the bunch.
Speaker 3: He's the finisher of the bunch. If you ever want
Speaker 3: to just be entertained, walk offensive lineman out of the
Speaker 3: group I've watched so far this year, he's the most entertaining.
Speaker 2: He's the one out there. He's really trying to do guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's really trying to physically punish guys, which
Speaker 3: I appreciate because you know, blocking people is not really fun.
Speaker 3: Trying to kill dudes? Is that's what's enjoyable?
Speaker 1: What let me ask you this though, what is the
Speaker 1: what is the secret sauce? What is the situation with
Speaker 1: Wisconsin where year over a year you can say Wisconsin
Speaker 1: should have a good offensive line and it's true sight unseen.
Speaker 1: How do you develop that reputation? Is it just because
Speaker 1: they keep putting guys in the pros where you know
Speaker 1: that sort of begets more high school offensive lineman, top
Speaker 1: offensive lineman wanting to go to Wisconsin. What is it
Speaker 1: about an offensive line factory like Wisconsin that separates it
Speaker 1: from other schools? What are other schools missing that Wisconsin
Speaker 1: is able to do to year over year constantly churn
Speaker 1: offensive lineman to it to a super high level.
Speaker 3: So it actually goes all the way back to Barry
Speaker 3: Alvarez because I've asked people about this and when he
Speaker 3: I think he was like the decoordinator at nerd A
Speaker 3: maybe when he got the Wisconsin job. And when he
Speaker 3: got the Wisconsin job, he asked a bunch of people.
Speaker 3: He's like, Okay, what do we have in Wisconsin? Like
Speaker 3: what like?
Speaker 2: What what do we have in our own state?
Speaker 3: And he basically was told, Okay, you don't have a
Speaker 3: lot of speed, you don't have a lot of skill, guys,
Speaker 3: but we've got really really big people.
Speaker 2: And he looked at that and said, Okay, that's what
Speaker 2: we're going to be.
Speaker 3: Everybody else is kind of starting to spread things out
Speaker 3: and you know, get the.
Speaker 2: Ball, throw the ball a lot.
Speaker 3: What we have in our state is big people and
Speaker 3: we're going to use that to advantage.
Speaker 2: So it started with that.
Speaker 3: It started with getting really big people, and then they
Speaker 3: got the run game, going and they just majored. That mean,
Speaker 3: I've taught the guys that played there, their practices were
Speaker 3: a blood bath. I mean they would just go inside,
Speaker 3: run like thirty plays in a row. The time they
Speaker 3: got the games, it was easy. And they had run
Speaker 3: those plays so many times that they were like a
Speaker 3: machine and they had a lot of success doing it.
Speaker 3: So then it became the second part of what you said, Dan,
Speaker 3: which is success, beget success.
Speaker 2: Then you start to have guys going high in the draft.
Speaker 3: You know, you can go back to Chris McIntosh and
Speaker 3: Aaron Gibson to you know, obviously Travis Frederick more recently
Speaker 3: Joe Thoms. So it's kind of like, I don't want
Speaker 3: to call it necessarily O line, you but it's about
Speaker 3: as close as they have. So now if you're an
Speaker 3: offensive lineman, that's a cool place to go. That's a
Speaker 3: place where you want to go. It's a pro style system,
Speaker 3: even though they run the ball a lot, it's pro
Speaker 3: style more than the spread. And it's cool to be
Speaker 3: an offensive lineman there, Like, there aren't that many schools
Speaker 3: where you go and it's like cool to be an
Speaker 3: old lineman. But a Wisconsin it's almost like you're respected.
Speaker 3: They probably get more girls than the average offensive.
Speaker 2: Lineman gets, you know. I mean, it's just it's cool
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: An O lineman there, So I think I think that's
Speaker 3: a big reason why they go there. Plus, pass blocking
Speaker 3: is not fun like coming off the ball. Like you know,
Speaker 3: I didn't eat all that food to get to be
Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five pounds to be passive. I
Speaker 3: did it because I wanted to be aggressive and I
Speaker 3: wanted to knock human beings backwards and down on the ground.
Speaker 2: And a wisconsinent they let you do that. Ross.
Speaker 4: We'll get you out of here on this. Let's talk
Speaker 4: more about again why people should care about this coming
Speaker 4: football season. I know you're pretty attuned to all things
Speaker 4: Big Ten. Give me two guys in the Big Ten
Speaker 4: conference that you are excited to watch and our listeners
Speaker 4: should care about.
Speaker 3: So I'll give you one for sure, And everybody already
Speaker 3: knows about him, so it's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go with Tracey McSorley. Okay, the quarterback
Speaker 3: at Penn State. Guys, it feels like it's been thirty
Speaker 3: games in a row or I can't tell if he's
Speaker 3: lucky or just good.
Speaker 2: But whatever keeps working, it is working, man.
Speaker 3: I mean when he first the thing it's crazy about
Speaker 3: it is he got the job after like the most
Speaker 3: prototypical franchised quarterback looking dude you've ever seen in Christian Hackenberg.
Speaker 1: Right, we don't say his name on this podcast anymore.
Speaker 3: And then in comes Tracey McSorley, who I remember watching
Speaker 3: his high school video and I thought he would be
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 2: I believely liked it.
Speaker 3: I thought he had a better arm than he got
Speaker 3: credit for, and I thought we were coming into this
Speaker 3: age where height was not as important. But his video
Speaker 3: like he could have been a big time college safety.
Speaker 3: I think watching him in high school in northern Virginia,
Speaker 3: you know where the Redskins practice, That's where he's from, Ashbourne, Virginia.
Speaker 3: He has been so good and so clutch and somehow
Speaker 3: so durable for Penn State. You know, it's very rare
Speaker 3: even when they've lost games, that he's been the reason
Speaker 3: for them losing. I mean, you know last year they
Speaker 3: had some issues against Ohio State and Michigan State.
Speaker 2: But I just he might not be a.
Speaker 3: Great pro prospect, and I still think he's gonna end
Speaker 3: up sticking in the NFL. But I think we need
Speaker 3: to do a better job of appreciating fantastic college football
Speaker 3: players like Trace McSorley and not getting all caught up
Speaker 3: in the fact that, you know, maybe he's not gonna
Speaker 3: go ahead and be an NFL star. Although you know what,
Speaker 3: what were people saying about Baker Mayfield at this time.
Speaker 3: I don't think Trace is that accurate. But if he
Speaker 3: has another great year and and rewrites every record even
Speaker 3: more and has three straight years of outstanding production, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know how you go against that.
Speaker 3: The other two guys I would tell you to watch.
Speaker 3: I already mentioned Bosa, who's unbelievable technician for how young
Speaker 3: he is. But for Michigan, watched their defensive ends Rashaan
Speaker 3: Gary and Chase Winovich, if only because the contrast between
Speaker 3: those two is remarkable. Rashan Gary is as rare of
Speaker 3: an athlete as we've seen in college football since, like
Speaker 3: Jadeveon Clowney, Like there's no way a three hundred pound
Speaker 3: dude should move the way he does. You know, he's
Speaker 3: getting offered in eighth grade, running like four fives at
Speaker 3: football camps when he was two hundred ninety five pounds
Speaker 3: in eighth grade.
Speaker 2: Like he is a rare bird, but his motor's.
Speaker 3: Not always running and he still hasn't really figured it out,
Speaker 3: you know, like you can't just have one move, you
Speaker 3: have to have counter moved. You have to watch the
Speaker 3: tape and know how to set up offensive lineman. So
Speaker 3: he's unique to watch just because he's a freak athlete
Speaker 3: that hasn't totally figured out. Meanwhile, on the other side,
Speaker 3: Chase Winovich, who's a Western Pa guy. He is like
Speaker 3: a bat at a hell, rows an assortment of moves
Speaker 3: and is absolutely relentless, but doesn't quite have Gary's size
Speaker 3: speed combination. So when you watch those guys, it's just
Speaker 3: interesting because it shows you, even though they play the
Speaker 3: same position, that there really are you know, two ways
Speaker 3: different ways to skin a cat and still be productive
Speaker 3: at that position.
Speaker 4: Good stuff, man, All right, Ross Tucker again, you can
Speaker 4: find Ross on five different podcasts. He does work for
Speaker 4: CBS Sports Network. He'll be all over no doubt this
Speaker 4: football season one more time.
Speaker 1: Ross. Where could people find you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know you can always just go to
Speaker 3: Ross Tucker dot com. That's where all my podcasts are
Speaker 3: and then we've got the feeds for you for you know,
Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts or Stitch or whatever whatever app you use,
Speaker 3: or you can just follow me on Twitter at Ross
Speaker 3: Tucker NFL because I post all of the stuff there.
Speaker 3: And we're almost there, fellas. Yeah, stuff better, we are
Speaker 3: almost there.
Speaker 4: Good stuff man. Great to have you on the podcast.
Speaker 4: We'll have to, uh have to have you back sometime soon,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: I would love to.
Speaker 3: And I gotta get tied get you on the College
Speaker 3: Draft podcast sometime as well. We're gonna talk some uh,
Speaker 3: we gotta go deep on Pennsylvania stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. That's all I want to hear. I
Speaker 1: just want to. I want to hear you guys rank
Speaker 1: your favorite Pennsylvania things. That's all I want out of it.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Ty's just upset that, you know, reading
Speaker 3: and Burkes County are now better at football than the
Speaker 3: Lehigh Valley is ooh wow?
Speaker 2: Fight?
Speaker 1: Who do you have?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: Who do you have to claim in the Lehigh Valley?
Speaker 1: Who is your big name?
Speaker 2: Are you? Is it? Dan?
Speaker 1: What's his name? From Florida State?
Speaker 4: Dan Kendaquon Barkley went to Whitehall. I could throw Jim
Speaker 4: drucken Miller in there from my high school.
Speaker 2: Matt Millan Matt Millan's Whitehall as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt Millan, sure on any time you talk Jim
Speaker 1: Drunken Miller on a college football podcast in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think we just got to just find an entire
Speaker 1: podcast to talk about weird PA things with Ross Tucker
Speaker 1: and Ty Hildenbrand. There you go. Ross Tucker, thank you
Speaker 1: for giving us some of your time. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you soon.
Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thanks for having me guys.
Speaker 4: All right, Dan, good stuff. Ross Tucker check him out.
Speaker 4: Was kind enough to invite us on his podcast. We
Speaker 4: wanted to do the Home and Home and bring him
Speaker 4: on ours as well.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love nerding out about offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: That's just we've we've had Jeff Schwartz on. We've had
Speaker 1: a bunch of scheme stuff on. I love nerding about,
Speaker 1: nerding out about large people talking about other large people.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, it doesn't sound weird, which it
Speaker 1: probably does. It probably does.
Speaker 4: But you know what, here, here's what we do on
Speaker 4: the Celverbo. Yeah, we cultivate that kind of thinking. We're
Speaker 4: all about that show here. We celebrate got a bunch
Speaker 4: of crazy questions here, so many in fact, that we're
Speaker 4: going to do a two parter here. So whatever we
Speaker 4: couldn't get to on this first show, we're going to
Speaker 4: do our best to address on the Sunday show, which
Speaker 4: is forthcoming. We'll post it in a couple of days. Again,
Speaker 4: a man if two part Q and a show that
Speaker 4: we're going to try and you know, use to help
Speaker 4: you get ready for the season. But we're not done yet.
Speaker 4: Let's do like, can we do like four or five
Speaker 4: more rapid fire.
Speaker 1: Buck Hogan, great name. You have ten dollars to see
Speaker 1: one Power five versus Power five game this season? What
Speaker 1: game do you go to? And so, what I think
Speaker 1: he's referring to is the fact that if you go
Speaker 1: on ESPN dot com, they tell you the get in
Speaker 1: price for each game, right, and there were a few
Speaker 1: group of five Power five that I highlighted. But you
Speaker 1: can get into Duke at Northwestern three dollars three dollars.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. This is early September.
Speaker 1: Evanston's going to be very nice. It's right on the lake.
Speaker 1: I don't think the students are in town yet, which
Speaker 1: is why I think there are a lot of tickets available.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's fully my answer. You can
Speaker 1: go to Boston College Perdue for under ten dollars, a
Speaker 1: couple other options, Georgia Tech Pit under ten dollars. BC
Speaker 1: Wake is under ten dollars. A couple other options involving
Speaker 1: group of five schools, Ohio at Virginia if you want
Speaker 1: to go see Nathan Rourke UTSA at Kansas State Kansas State,
Speaker 1: excuse me. You can see Minnesota at Maryland, which feels
Speaker 1: like it could be a totally legit so look, hold on.
Speaker 4: That was going to be my answer. Okay, Now, I
Speaker 4: don't know where things are headed now given what we
Speaker 4: discussed at the top of the show, but Minnesota and
Speaker 4: Maryland were two teams that I was pretty bullish on
Speaker 4: when we did our Big ten previews, so that was
Speaker 4: going to be my answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those teams are both on your pluckiness rankings, so
Speaker 1: that's not a bad answer. I would go see North
Speaker 1: Texas at Arkansas for under ten dollars again, group of
Speaker 1: five school I know, Temple at Maryland. Jeff Collins finished
Speaker 1: pretty strong there for the owls, and my final one
Speaker 1: is Wyoming at Missouri under ten dollars. As of right now.
Speaker 1: Those are the getting prices.
Speaker 4: Bargain basement prices right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next question, who will be further along in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: in terms of winning the Big Ten? West Purdue or Nebraska.
Speaker 1: My answer, and that comes to us by a tyler.
Speaker 1: My answer is Nebraska because I am positive their coach
Speaker 1: will be there in twenty twenty. Are you now, yes,
Speaker 1: my positive Scott Frost and me the coach of Nebraska
Speaker 1: in two years.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think that's probably a fair bet. I am
Speaker 4: not positive to your point about Jeff Bram, whether or
Speaker 4: not he's going to be at Purdue. Also, I think
Speaker 4: that Nebraska is starting from a much different point than Purdue.
Speaker 4: They're really trying to rebuild the talent pool in westlof
Speaker 4: yet in a way that I don't think they quite
Speaker 4: have to in Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Nate wants to know who do you think is the
Speaker 1: player or team for that matter, most likely to earn
Speaker 1: the quote in a losing effort Moniker this season? And
Speaker 1: this is where I editorialize it's either Manny Wilkins or
Speaker 1: Khalil Tape and they're both in the same state. No,
Speaker 1: there are other answers I have, but so correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong Ti, because this is my interpretation of
Speaker 1: a thing. I don't know if we invented, but we
Speaker 1: definitely celebrate harder than anybody. Sure, an offensive player who
Speaker 1: puts up a productive game to the point where you
Speaker 1: have to mention it, even though that team lost in
Speaker 1: the vein of Nick Foles and what he did at Arizona.
Speaker 4: Right, So Khalil Tate very much carrying on that tradition
Speaker 4: carrying the torch.
Speaker 1: And Tucson, Yes, I would say of the Pac twelve,
Speaker 1: those are the two teams. McLain Carter I think is
Speaker 1: going to start a quarterback for Texas Tech. And that's
Speaker 1: always a pretty good guess about somebody who could put
Speaker 1: up a bunch of yards in impressive fashion in a
Speaker 1: losing efforts. I don't know if i'd necessarily have somebody.
Speaker 1: Maybe Ty Johnson at Maryland.
Speaker 4: Ty Johnson could be in there. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: Drew Locks an obvious answer.
Speaker 1: Oh, great answer.
Speaker 4: I also think you can make a pretty good case
Speaker 4: for Will Greer at Well. Yeah, I know you've been
Speaker 4: down on the West Virginia defense, so I don't know
Speaker 4: if they're going two and ten, but if the defense
Speaker 4: goes south, you could see five and seven, six and
Speaker 4: six with a huge performance all year by Greer, provided
Speaker 4: he stays.
Speaker 1: Healthy, given that he's got David Sills coming back. Wild
Speaker 1: card to Puma pass Okay, yeah, sure at Louisville with
Speaker 1: the BVG defense, Yeah yeah, Oh god, I feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: If Puma pass is good, Juwan pass is good. There's
Speaker 1: some some pretty striking potential there. Gardner Minshew the presumed
Speaker 1: starters at State Washington State. I know their defense actually
Speaker 1: should be pretty good, but I think they're gonna lose
Speaker 1: a few. I don't think they're making a bowl game
Speaker 1: this year, so I think those are a few decent ones. Okay,
Speaker 1: where we go next? Next, let's go to as I scroll.
Speaker 1: We got like seventeen pages of questions here. This question
Speaker 1: is amazing. I don't know if we want to save it.
Speaker 1: About a TV is getting locked on a channel? Oh,
Speaker 1: let's say that for Sunday, all right, Which transfer, graduate
Speaker 1: or otherwise has the best chance to have a big season.
Speaker 1: I think that the duo at FAU is a good answer.
Speaker 1: Joe von Durant, the West Virginia transfer and Chris Robison,
Speaker 1: the quarterback who will be throwing to Durant transfer from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I think that's possible. I mentioned Gardner Minshew. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the answer. Across college football. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: shape Patterson Shaye. Patterson's the obvious one. Oh, I got
Speaker 1: a duo that I think, could you know, just we'll
Speaker 1: stay on the duo uh tick. Jonathan Giles receiver formerly
Speaker 1: of Texas tex stepping in at LSU. Joe Burrow's any good.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Brendan Branden Feyjoko, also of Texas
Speaker 1: Tech coming to LSU. I think those two are are
Speaker 1: pretty interesting and maybe actually this could qualify as in
Speaker 1: a losing effort as well. kJ Cartis Samuel's a Colorado
Speaker 1: state and that Mike Bobo offense I think could put
Speaker 1: up some pretty big numbers even without Michael Gallup there
Speaker 1: to catch those passes. So there's there's some pretty good
Speaker 1: options across the country. And by the way, that question
Speaker 1: comes to us, and let's just we can finish with
Speaker 1: that question if you'd like.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: That question comes to us from Reddit user lasagna Fiend, whoa.
Speaker 4: Ty Yes, we can't do any better than that.
Speaker 1: We cannot do better than Lasagna Fiend, and we were
Speaker 1: going to honor his or her taste in Italian food,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask you this very controversial question. Please, Actually,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of lasagna questions. I have pro ricatta
Speaker 1: anti ricotta. I'm pro. I don't think lasagna needs ricada,
Speaker 1: though I believe that's the authentic way to make it,
Speaker 1: though it is authentically at least Italian American. That's right.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's already a good gooiness richness factor
Speaker 1: without it.
Speaker 4: I'm not a I'm not a racata fan on its own,
Speaker 4: but in lasagna, I think it adds a little bit
Speaker 4: of necessary texture.
Speaker 1: Middle side or corner.
Speaker 4: Ah, I usually like side or corner. I like getting
Speaker 4: I like part of that crusty noodle at the edge.
Speaker 2: A.
Speaker 1: Corner. All day meat, ground meat or sausage or both.
Speaker 1: I prefer the ground meat. I think I prefer ground
Speaker 1: meat as well. Yeah, maybe some kind of like veal
Speaker 1: pork beef mixture. Yeah, that's right, that seems right to me.
Speaker 1: A spicy or a regular marin ea regular marinea, regular
Speaker 1: is right? Yeah, I think regular is right. I think
Speaker 1: spicy turns it into something that it doesn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to be. In distracts. Yeah, do you make your own
Speaker 1: lasagna or do you just rely on mama age?
Speaker 4: I haven't made my own lasagne, But you've never made
Speaker 4: your own lasagna. I haven't, No, No, but I could.
Speaker 4: I have Grandma's recipe, and I'm sure I could make that.
Speaker 1: I just haven't. No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I love lasagna and I have not had it in
Speaker 1: a long time because you when you commit to lasagna, lasagna,
Speaker 1: it's essentially the pancakes of Italian food. That seems right
Speaker 1: stacking you're dents. You're not doing much after no, But
Speaker 1: but yeah, lasagna is way better than a stack of
Speaker 1: pank All right.
Speaker 4: Well, for that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 4: for myself, Ty Hildebrand, thank you for sending your questions
Speaker 4: into solid verbal at gmail dot com and Facebook, on
Speaker 4: Twitter and Instagram, and lord knows wherever else. We've got
Speaker 4: a whole other show coming your way here on Sunday,
Speaker 4: where we're gonna pull from the same pool and address
Speaker 4: more pressing topics in the world of college football and beyond. Also,
Speaker 4: a big thank you to our friend Ross Tucker, who
Speaker 4: was kind enough to give us some of his time
Speaker 4: and break down the Wisconsin offensive line, and some other
Speaker 4: guys in the Big Ten that are worthy of your care.
Speaker 4: As we now enter the last couple of weeks before
Speaker 4: college football season begins, dan Ah, enjoy the rest of
Speaker 4: your week and weekend. Okay, absolutely, we'll do for that
Speaker 4: guy over there again, Dan Rubenstein and myself Ty Hildebrand,
Speaker 4: thank you for tuning in. We'll catch you all in
Speaker 4: a few days. In the meantime, it stays peace.