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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: January tenth. It's a big week in these waters. We

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Speaker 1: got the Natty Tonight Alabama Georgia NFL playoffs this coming week,

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Speaker 1: and we got a night Monday night football playoff game.

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Speaker 1: But first, before we get to any of that, and

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Speaker 1: our great guests, who was a quarterback at the University

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Speaker 1: of Alabama. Oh my gosh, Raiders Chargers was one of

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Speaker 1: the greatest games I've ever seen, and I know it

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Speaker 1: ended kind of crappy for all of us with Chargers

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Speaker 1: tickets that hurt um. And I'm sorry to do this.

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Speaker 1: I I don't want to open the podcast with this,

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Speaker 1: but I have to play conspiracy theorists. I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 1: have a feeling this game is gonna go down in

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Speaker 1: the annals along the lines of, hey, was that Patrick

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Speaker 1: Ewing Knicks NBA draft rig the frozen envelope so the

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Speaker 1: Knicks could get the number one pick? Was it RIGG?

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Speaker 1: Will never know, We'll never know. There's been a million

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Speaker 1: people that have denied it, but there's still too much

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Speaker 1: ancillary evidence. Folks. We are never ever, ever gonna get

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Speaker 1: a straight answer as to whether or not the Raiders

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Speaker 1: were gonna play for the tie. In the final seconds

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Speaker 1: of overtime, Versus kicked the field goal and winning, And

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Speaker 1: I think the only read here on an early Monday

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Speaker 1: morning where a lot of people stayed I'm way late

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Speaker 1: to watch a will of a game that Brandon's Daily

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Speaker 1: royally screwed up and shafted his Chargers and folks, listen,

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Speaker 1: I was on the Chargers fairly heavy. I had him

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Speaker 1: in the contest. I had three and two in the contest,

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Speaker 1: but all that doesn't matter because the Chargers had this game.

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Speaker 1: They were the better team. Justin Herbert was amazing that

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Speaker 1: final driver of regulation. I think they converted five fourth downs.

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Speaker 1: I'm at heart stopping stuff. Rob, the producer of this podcast,

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Speaker 1: is a long time Raiders fan, and I avoided texting

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Speaker 1: him from most of the game, and then I just

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Speaker 1: could not help myself and I had to fire because

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Speaker 1: I'm on like six different text change with people. I

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Speaker 1: got my buddy, who was in a pick um contest

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Speaker 1: came down to the Chargers game. He had the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: I have another buddy who's a long time Chargers fan.

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Speaker 1: I have other friends who were just like, this game

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Speaker 1: is freaking crazy. I got my gambling buddies, my Fox gambling.

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Speaker 1: It's like the text are just flying throughout the game,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like I had to ask Rob, and

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Speaker 1: Rob responded kind of just like a very brief when

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, I shouldn't have done that.

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Speaker 1: You know, if this were the Jets, I don't want

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Speaker 1: I to the phone on silence. Of course, the Jets

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Speaker 1: haven't been here in a while. Um. The last time

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Speaker 1: was Um, they could not stop Ben Roethlisberger on multiple

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Speaker 1: third downs to get the ball back to have a

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Speaker 1: chance to win in the ANFC title game, which feels

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Speaker 1: like yesterday to me, but it was over ten years

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Speaker 1: ago at any rate. And and this is gonna folks,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be looking at this for days, probably months

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Speaker 1: of probably be a thirty for thirty on it or

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Speaker 1: whatever they do, the document everything. I'll set this scene

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Speaker 1: for you and the tinfoil how crowd's gonna love me?

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's gonna be a bunch of others.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Steelers fans were just like, God, come I get

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Speaker 1: out of town, and Steelers deserved it, so it's at

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Speaker 1: the thirty nine yard line. The readers seem hell bent

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Speaker 1: on letting the clock run out. No time out for

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Speaker 1: the Raiders or Chargers on first down, no time out

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Speaker 1: on second down, and they're at the thirty nine yard line.

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Speaker 1: Now I at this point, I have to say that

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Speaker 1: the Raiders have had a historically great season from their kicker,

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Speaker 1: This guy Carlson, whoever the hell he is, um not

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Speaker 1: he was going into this final kick. He was eight

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Speaker 1: than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter or overtime,

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Speaker 1: the most in a single season in NFL history. So

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Speaker 1: this guy's money. But you're at the thirty nine yard line.

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Speaker 1: So from the thirty nine, you add the seven for

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Speaker 1: the snap and the ten for the end zone, and

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Speaker 1: I wasn't looked it up. This guy Carlson's pretty damn good.

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Speaker 1: He hit from fifty six in Dallas, He hit from

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Speaker 1: kind of geeked for the tie, Like, no disrespect. I

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Speaker 1: this this is ragged, if this is the tie. It

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Speaker 1: didn't feel rigged. I mean, let's be honest, the game

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Speaker 1: Chargers at the end. Could they have settled it and said, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: of course I'm doing that. Of course, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: That's an automatic. Yeah, hey, let's do it. I get

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Speaker 1: if they have a botched snap or it's blocked and

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Speaker 1: Herbert very clearly. I'm not a liberating expert, very clearly

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Speaker 1: it like slow motion. So the Chargers are practically like

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Speaker 1: we have no chance of scoring. Yeah, I will gladly

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Speaker 1: take a tie. And Staley calls time out and everyone's dumbfounded.

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Speaker 1: Everyone It's like what what why is he doing that?

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones at the bottom of the screen. Oh, Staley

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Speaker 1: little confused? Yeah they did? But could you call time

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Speaker 1: The long snapper for the Raiders, number forty seven is

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Speaker 1: what could this dude have been saying to Austin Eckler

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Speaker 1: But we we do have a great guest coming up,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna go along with him. But Rob, I

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Speaker 1: I just take take us into your house. What was

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Speaker 1: So I'm watching everything on my iPad. She wasn't want Chargers. No,

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Speaker 1: when you text me some of your stuff, I'm like

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Speaker 1: Jason Jesus like. So that's why I was very short

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Speaker 1: hairs last night, like, it's not an exaggeration that that

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Speaker 1: game should have been over multiple times were it not

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Speaker 1: for Justin Herbert being a damn magician on that last

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Speaker 1: And then when Brandon Staley did call the time, I

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Speaker 1: weren't really able to do that at any point. Yeah,

425
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm curious that Desmond Ritter came in. I do mock

426
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 1: drafts for Fox Sports. I had him in the middle

427
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 1: of the first round, and of course during the game,

428
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: everybody's like, dude, this guy is not a first round quoll.

429
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: It looked like the game was a little too fast

430
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: for him. Uh, it was afraid to make mistakes. Had

431
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,360
Speaker 1: a lot of balls battened down with the line of scrimmage.

432
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: What was your takeaway on Ridder the balls batted we're concerning, Um,

433
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think Alabama obviously recognized, hey man, there's

434
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: no reason in trying to rush this guy. Let's just

435
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: put your hands up and and see if you can't

436
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: get a piece of it. Uh. They've done that with

437
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: a lot of success in the past. You've done it

438
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,119
Speaker 1: against Georgia, They've done a lot against a lot of

439
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 1: really good teams. So it's not like that was exclusive

440
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,640
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. But yeah, I would say that his performance

441
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 1: was a little disappointing, But I would think even more

442
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: so it was the offensive plan that was a little disappointing.

443
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 1: Alabama went into that game without their top two corners.

444
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: Josh job Is sidelined for the season after surgery between

445
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game and the College Football Playoffs semifinal,

446
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: and then early in the game Jalen armor Davis, who

447
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 1: is way less than Uh, he didn't come back in

448
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: the game. So you're working with a true freshman and

449
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 1: a Juco transfer, both very talented players, both have very

450
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: bright future, but kind of untested in the grand scheme

451
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: of things, and the fact that they didn't try to

452
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 1: work some isolations on the outside. Alec Pierce their wide receiver.

453
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: He's kind of like a poor man's Mike Evans. Uh.

454
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,879
Speaker 1: He's obviously not six six, which is what makes uh

455
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: Mike Evans so in great incredibly lethal on the outside.

456
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: But Alec Pierce is a really good job of winning

457
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: fifty balls and in a jump ball situation, more often

458
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: than not, the six ft three Pierce is going to

459
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 1: come down with you just times it really well and

460
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 1: tracks the ball really well in the air. They didn't

461
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: really try any of that. So I thought their planned

462
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 1: Cincinnati in some ways. When I looked at it, it

463
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: was like, Man, we don't want to get blown out,

464
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: you know. It's like they didn't. They didn't really attack

465
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 1: the way they should have or the we the way

466
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: I thought they would. So I think Ritter had a

467
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: tough day, but I also think the plan didn't necessarily

468
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: position him to have a lot of success. Speaking of

469
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: bad game plans, I don't know what Hardball was doing

470
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 1: greg with this like, let's stretch Georgia out on you know,

471
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 1: let's sideline to sideline the fastest defense in the country.

472
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: I was, I was puzzled. It felt like they threw

473
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: like four swing passes. Um, we say, did you get

474
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: the same vibe? I mean, I thought it was a

475
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: horrible matchup for Michigan because you're not gonna out Georgia

476
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: Georgia like you know, I mean, that's there. When you're

477
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: the same team, the team with more talent is going

478
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: to win. So you have to out scheme Georgia, and

479
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Michigan has the personnel to be able

480
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: to do that. You have to have a great quarterback,

481
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: you have to have dynamic weapons on the outside, and

482
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: you have to be able to win one on ones

483
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: on the outside as well. And Georgia without Ronnie Bell,

484
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: who was lost early in the year, they don't really

485
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: have a guy that I'm really really scared to death

486
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: of at wide receiver. I think Blake Koram is amazing

487
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: running back. I think Hassan Haskins is excellent at running

488
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: back as well. But as far as the wide receivers

489
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: are concerned, they're they're kind of a solid group, but

490
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: far from a uniquely spectacular group. So I didn't love

491
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: the matchup for Georgia. They tried to get them running

492
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, um, because I know, you can't attack

493
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: Georgia into the teeth of the defense. You've gotta get

494
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 1: them going sideways. But if you don't have the speed

495
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: to be able to really exploit that, you're gonna have

496
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: a hard time. But both these teams, Georgia and Alabama,

497
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: in their wins, it felt to me like conservative game

498
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: plans where they didn't put a lot on tape to

499
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: give the opponent who they know well right, I mean

500
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: smart and save and know each other very well. It

501
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: just felt like one of those Hey, we're just gonna

502
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: be very vanilla, go through the motions and roll through

503
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: this win. Did did you get a sense of the

504
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: same thing? Or maybe I don't know, maybe this is

505
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: just the fan in me talking that, uh, that stuff

506
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: does not exist, But I mean, did you I didn't

507
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: see anything exotic from Alabama, and other than the one

508
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: red zone halfback option pass, I didn't think Georgia did

509
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: much either. No, I mean it was I mean it

510
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: was somewhat vanilla Aabama especially, There was not a lot

511
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: to it. Their plan was about as basic as it gets. Yes,

512
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: did they use some of the bunches and some of

513
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: the stacks that they had had success with in the

514
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: latter part of the season. Yes, Uh, they used some

515
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: of the motions that they had had success with. Sure,

516
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: but no, they didn't show a lot and Emma pulled

517
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: out all the stops and had a lot of really

518
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: interesting looks against Georgia. The first time around. They were

519
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: able to use motions and create advantageous matchups for both

520
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: John Mechi and Jamison Williams throughout most of the first matchup.

521
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine it being another situation in which

522
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams could just go off be really surprised because

523
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: met she is now out with the torn a c

524
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: l and they have other pieces that are pretty big

525
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: solid Alabama does, but the one guy that can literally

526
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: take over the game is Jameis Williams. So if Kirby

527
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: Smart doesn't have an answer for him, that would be

528
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 1: really problematic if I were associated with the Georgia program. So, uh,

529
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: one thing that I've noticed, and this has kind of

530
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: happened time and time again, when you look at the

531
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: National Championship games, or any game for that matter, between

532
00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: Georgia and against Alabama, there's always unknown surprising perform It

533
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: says that kind of they captivate the audience. I mean,

534
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: we all know the story of two A talk about

535
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: and no one expected him to be a feature player

536
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: and turn up there he was. At that time. Mikole

537
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: Hardman for Georgia was a great player. But everyone was

538
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: talking about Everyone was talking about Riley Ridley, everyone was

539
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: talking about the two running backs and Tony Michelle Nick Chubb.

540
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: But Nicole Hardman was actually the best player on the

541
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: field offensively for Georgia in that National championship game. There

542
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: have been other examples of guys that have stepped up

543
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: in settings like this for Alabama that are are kind

544
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: of surprised. You Like O. J. Howard and he ended

545
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: up having like a two yard game. The guy had

546
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: never been he'd never been targeted more than three or

547
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 1: four times in a game, and he's like the go

548
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: to guy all of a sudden. So, uh, there's always

549
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: an unsung hero that steps up in games like this,

550
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: And I'm having a difficult time pegging it right now,

551
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: but I'd be highly surprised if there wasn't a surprise

552
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: performance that plays a huge role in determining the the game.

553
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: So with with a month to prepare, Saban has killed

554
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: everybody in the playoff, the semifinals, They've rolled in every

555
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: all those games. I just wonder the familiarity here are

556
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 1: you anticipating a low scoring game? And I and I

557
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: also got to ask about the whole idea of Kirby

558
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 1: Smart and Nick Saban all all the assistants losing to Saban.

559
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: He's kind of got this this mindmeld over them where

560
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: it's like they're kind of afraid of them. Do you

561
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: think that still applies here or having just lost a

562
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 1: month ago to do we toss that out the window. Well,

563
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: I don't think fear is part of it, right, I mean,

564
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: it's just he In most cases you talk about the

565
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: saving assistance. In most cases BAM has had the better team.

566
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: So usually when a saving assistant gets a gig, it's

567
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: because the guy before him didn't do a very good job,

568
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: right like, and they decided to, Hey, we're gonna try

569
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: some of the new We're gonna go with the saving guy,

570
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see what happens. So oftentimes, usually saving

571
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: assistants are going into that game against Nick Saban with

572
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: a knife and a gunfight, and that's that's not what

573
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: you want. So obviously the numbers indicate dominance, and understandably so.

574
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: But then again, I mean, you've got to kind of

575
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: take some of those performances with the grain of salt, like,

576
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: are we really going to value Jim mcwayne's Colorado State

577
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: team in the same sense as a as a you

578
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: know Georgia led or a Kirby Smart led George's team.

579
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think they're necessarily the same. But

580
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: all that aside, I I think that this game on

581
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: Monday between Georgia and Alabama, Kirby wants it so bad,

582
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: so so, so bad, and has I mean, he's a

583
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: tenacious competitor, uh and oftentimes will press because you know,

584
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: he wants it as bad as anything and and wants

585
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: to get the w wants to get the monkey off

586
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: his back, and sometimes his tightness and anticipation and excitement

587
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: can sometimes I think have a negative effect on the team.

588
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: And maybe that maybe that has had some carry over

589
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: in the past and which his team has played tight

590
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: because Kirby was tight, and that's I think what happened

591
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: in the SEC Championship game. I think they played really tight.

592
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: I thought they played a step slow. They didn't really

593
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: read and react to the same level of intensity as

594
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: they had in the other thirteen games. And and I

595
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: think that's something that they need to be real mindful

596
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: of heading in the Monday's game. That's interesting because there

597
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: was also the idea that, hey, Alabama needed the SEC

598
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: Championship game way more than Georgia. Georgia was in the playoff.

599
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,959
Speaker 1: Alabama their season was on the line, and they just

600
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: played with more urgency. I don't know, Listen, you played

601
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: in the SEC Championship game. Does that, like logic me

602
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: make any sense to you or not? Really? I mean,

603
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: yes it does. I'd like I'd like to think that

604
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: it's a championship game, you know. I would like to

605
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get everyone's best effort, and you very

606
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: well might have from George I I can't speak to that.

607
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: Only they can tell. Only they know inside if they

608
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: did enough to prepare to play a the highest level

609
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: that night. But all I know is they didn't look

610
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: anything like they did in the other thirteen games. Uh. Now,

611
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: part of that is they didn't play against anyone that

612
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: was as good as Alabama, and Alabama of course was

613
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: able to and maybe there were opportunities earlier in the

614
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: year and there were plenty four teams to hit big

615
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: place down the field, and they just couldn't do it

616
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: well Alabama. Uh so this is the first team that

617
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: could really exploit some of your deficiencies that they had

618
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: faced on a consistent basis, And you know, that's probably

619
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: what led to the performance. But you know, I think

620
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 1: it's human nature. If you have to have it, if

621
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: your life depends on it, you're capable of taking it

622
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: up a level, even that of beyond what you think

623
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: is capable, you're capable of. And I think what Bama

624
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: did that day, jumping to the ten nothing lead, probably

625
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: did not help. All we got this and then they

626
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: get steamrolled. I am curious the number here. Alabama is

627
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: a three point underdog. We know the history of Nick

628
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: Saban as an underdog, including being a six point dog

629
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: against Georgia. I don't know, Greg, You know we have

630
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: a large ambling audience here on the pod. Georgia favored

631
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: by three. I think the world is going to be

632
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: on Alabama here, would you agree? Yeah? Ye, that's that

633
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: to me is so funny that you say that, because

634
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: I always think about it from the angle when we

635
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: talk betting or gambling, I always try to get inside

636
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: of Vegas head, right, Like in Vegas is given away

637
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: points of Bama. They must think Georgia's decide, right, And

638
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: and to me, like the first thing that I looked

639
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: at on Friday night, it was all right, what's the line,

640
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: let's look aheadline? When these games went final last week

641
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: and you see Bama plus one, I mean, everyone's immediate reactions,

642
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I gotta I gotta get Bamma with points,

643
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: Like that line is gonna move Bama's free money. You

644
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: gotta take Like that seems so obvious, right, They just

645
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: beat him by seventeen four weeks prior, Like, how could

646
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: how could Georgia possibly be favored? Anytime I have that

647
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: strong of a reaction, it does make me feel the

648
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: tiniest bit uncomfortable, because I'm sitting there thinking like, well,

649
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: if I feel that strongly, then I must be wrong, right.

650
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: So sure enough, the sharps get in, they start betting,

651
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: and you look at the numbers, the ticket account, the number,

652
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: the money count, the money counts on George. The ticket

653
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: accounts on Obama, which means Johnny Public's playing Obama. The

654
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: Sharps are playing in Georgia. That line steamed from one

655
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: to two and a half. Now it's all the way

656
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: up three. So Georgia laying three against Alabama and they're

657
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: just begging for Bama money. It feels like and that

658
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: to me makes me feel the tiniest bit uncomfortable when

659
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: I think about it from a Bama fan. Personally, I'm

660
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: gonna take I'll take my you know, my analysts had

661
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: off for a second. It makes me uncomfortable knowing that

662
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: Vegas clearly thinks George is the side based on how

663
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: the line has moved, how the line is steamed to

664
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: where it opened up. Yeah, no agreement. I just wonder

665
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: if you know getting three you know again you're not

666
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: getting the best number right, And like you said, it

667
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: open to one on the look ahead and now up

668
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: to three. It's like, oh, man, do you really think

669
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: George is a field goal? I mean the screens field

670
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: goal game? Does it not twenty something along those lines?

671
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: The way I see it, like George's best best path

672
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: of victory is to keep it low scoring, you know,

673
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: I think they if it becomes a shootout. I think

674
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: Bama is more comfortable winning in a setting like that.

675
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: If the game gets up into the forties, can Georgia

676
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: get there? Sure they can. I mean it's I mean,

677
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: george has changed quite a bit from the days in

678
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: which they wanted to win seventeen. I mean now in

679
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: a perfect world. Yeah, I think Herbie Smart would still

680
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: like to win that way, but that's not They can

681
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: if they need to. If it becomes a track meet,

682
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: they can play with you. And they did that in

683
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl a couple of years ago against Oklahoma.

684
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: Can't at track meet and they got it going. So uh.

685
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: I think in a perfect world for Georgia, it's a

686
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: low scoring game where the possessions are limited, their defense

687
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: is fresh, and they can kind of just like a

688
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: Boa constrictor just compress what you're doing offensively. I think

689
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: if Bama had their druthers, they would love for it

690
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: to become a track meet. Hey, let let's speed him up,

691
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: make him score with us, Let's see what happens. So

692
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how it all unfolds. But yeah,

693
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: I think if Georgia wins, you're probably liking the under

694
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: if Bama wins, you're probably liking the agreed that A

695
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: quick final question on the game A Stetson Bennett, where

696
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: are you on this guy? Like? You know he he

697
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: feels like a bit of a game manager. Did a fine,

698
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: solid job all season that gets up against Bama, throws

699
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: two picks and there's questions about him. He looked fine

700
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 1: against Michigan. But are we gonna see J T. Daniels

701
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: in this world all I'd be surprised given. Yeah, I mean,

702
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: Bama's pass for us is pretty significant, and I think

703
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: having the more mobile option is advantageous for Georgia. Um.

704
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: I think Stetson Ben it's a little underappreciated. He's not

705
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: he's not you know he he's not the guy you

706
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: want leading your team off the bus. And he just

707
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: doesn't look the part. I mean, he's he's five foot eleven,

708
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: he's two hundred pounds, and he's not the prettiest thing

709
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: in the world. But what I've said about Stetson for

710
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: the last week is I feel like he's you know, uh,

711
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: you ever seen the movie She's All That? Of course?

712
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: Cook or whatever. Well, Rachel ye Cook had like this

713
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: terrible haircut and glasses and overalls paint on him, and

714
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: then next thing you know, Freddie Priceta decides he's going

715
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: to make him the prompt Maker, the prompt Queen. They

716
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: take her glasses off, give her a quick haircut, put

717
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: her in a red dress next the pretty scroll at school.

718
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: So I think that's kind of what stetson bed. It

719
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: is like, maybe he's not that attractive, like a first

720
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: initial look, and then you dive a little deeper and

721
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, look at the productivity, look at

722
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: this ability to keep you honest with his legs. It's like, well, man,

723
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: maybe this guy is pretty damn good. So that's the

724
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: comparison that I've kind of continued to go back to,

725
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: and I think it holds true because the guy just

726
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: continues to make plays. Did so against Michigan, had a

727
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: tough one against Bamma, but I didn't like their plan

728
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: very much either, uh, And I didn't think they played

729
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: very well around him the first time around either too.

730
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: So um, I think he's very capable and Dama's gonna

731
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: have to keep him in check, especially when it comes

732
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: down to some of the run plays that he's been

733
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: able to do all on improvisation plays. Fox Sports Radio

734
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738
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: complaints you have a lot of coaches chirping about hello

739
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: and I helped create free agency. This is awful. This

740
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: is terrible. And you know, Greg, it's like, well, don't

741
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: the coaches kind of do whatever they want? Why can't

742
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: the players? Where are you on this one? I mean

743
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: we knew it was coming. You know, none of us

744
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: are surprised with how it's all gone down. I mean

745
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: we said, look, the underbelly of college football is coming

746
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: to the forefront. I don't blame the players doing anything

747
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: that they're doing. Um, I don't really like the optics

748
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: of it makes me a little uncomfortable. You have guys

749
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: that are entering the portal just to create leverage against

750
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: against their own school, Like that to me is strange.

751
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: For instance, there's well, wait a minute, wait a minute,

752
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that that. That's interesting. Where does that happen? Oh? Yeah,

753
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams Uh has entered the portal to basically test

754
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: the waters to see whether or not Oklahoma's going to

755
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: pony up or someone to say, see it with Oklahoma

756
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: in the n I L situation's gonna pony up. I mean,

757
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: that's so you don't You didn't think he just wanted

758
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: to leave to go with his with his coach if

759
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: he had. If that was the case, why isn't he

760
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: signed an SC I mean as of right now. I mean,

761
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: but I don't blame him like I would do the

762
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, because if you can make a

763
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: million dollars for a year and then end of the

764
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: portal again next year, make another million million and a

765
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,720
Speaker 1: half and just create leverage, you're basically signing the franchise

766
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: tag every year. Uh. And that's to me, is a

767
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: little bit uncomfortable. And there's no limitations. It's not like

768
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: anybody has a salary cap. For instance, Texas and m

769
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: they have eight figures eight figures of hell money that

770
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: is organized right now to be able to distribute to players, Uh,

771
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: through various and I helped mediums and platforms. Not every

772
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 1: school can do that, you know. I mean, and least

773
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: in the NFL is a salary cap, and they create

774
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: some constraints and there are some and there are some

775
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: things that that are in place to kind of keep

776
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: things at least as level as humanly possible. But it

777
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: is what it is. That's where we're at right now.

778
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't think the money is gonna necessarily change the

779
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: one thing I would like to see. I would like

780
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: to see some confines on when you can end of

781
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: the portal and when you can be recruited out of

782
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: the portal, because right now there's tampering going on all

783
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: the time, and in the NFL that that that is

784
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: like the worst thing you can do in the NFL,

785
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: Like you get fine drastically, it's really bad. There are

786
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: green light times and there's red light times. You can

787
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 1: contact free agents, you can sign free agents, you can

788
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: tamper like whatever. But it's very organized in the NFL.

789
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: It should be that way in college too, because I

790
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 1: think the time is coming where you go through training

791
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: camp with let's say Texas, and you play for Texas

792
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: for the first three weeks of the season, you don't

793
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: like how much playing time you're getting. You ended the

794
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: transfer portal in the fourth game of the year, and

795
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: then next thing you know, by week eight, you're playing

796
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma and you might be playing against Texas with

797
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: state secrets. Do you think that's in the near future. Oh,

798
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: that's very dark. I had not considered that Greg's coming.

799
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: So like, that's what we need to do. Like, if

800
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: you want to enter the portal, you can enter the

801
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: portal anytime that's your choice, but you cannot be actively

802
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 1: recruited out of the portal all the time. It has

803
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: to be set time. Hey, on November, on December one,

804
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: or on December you can be recruited up until February one,

805
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: and then the portal closes. Then from May until June

806
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: May one until June one, portals open for business closes,

807
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: all right, Like there has to be time in which

808
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: you can stop and go because right now, this constant

809
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: entering and exiting, it's it's just chaos. So I'm curious

810
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: this Caleb Williams things interesting. So how do you think

811
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: this went down? Do you think another school said hey,

812
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, through back channels or what have you, we

813
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 1: can get you five in uh n I L money

814
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: or more? Are you interest? Did And then do you

815
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: think Caleb Williams and perhaps went to Oklahoma and said, Hey, Tulsa,

816
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: whoever is offering me fi and they were like, well,

817
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Man? No, and then he

818
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: just said I'm gonna enter the portal and see what.

819
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: Let's annie up or I'm out. Yeah, And I think

820
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: that's probably pretty close to what was going on, as

821
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: you think a freshman would have the balls to do that, Greg,

822
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: if you're a good player, It's like it's become more

823
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: about the individual, you know. I mean that's in Look,

824
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: you are what you are what people are willing to

825
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: pay you, Like, your worth is what people are willing

826
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: to pay you. If someone's willing to pay you one

827
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: point five two million dollars to come play for a year,

828
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: then that's what you're That's what you think you're worth.

829
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: That's what you're worth, and that's what you should try

830
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: to get elsewhere. I mean, it's just the leverage. It's

831
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: it's no different than um. I mean, I think wherever

832
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: he goes will have paid him significant money. So, but

833
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: didn't the kid from Gabriel like d D sign or

834
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: d committed and Yea jelling Gabriel, he he might. I'm

835
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: not saying he's going back to Oklahoma. I'm just saying

836
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: that conversation has likely occurred, Hey, I can get this elsewhere,

837
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: So if you want me to stay, it's gonna cost this. Hey.

838
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: And and that is and that's not just Caleb Williams,

839
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's just one of the bigger He's one

840
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: of the bigger fish that has gone through this process.

841
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: I mean, and I thought, you know, the transfer portal

842
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: was going to be for guys that, hey, they're not

843
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 1: getting enough playing time, they need to enter the portal

844
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: find a greener pasture. That's not the case anymore. Guys

845
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: are earning the portal that already have starting jobs, and

846
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: good starting jobs at that. So it's different than what

847
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: it once was. It's different than what I think most

848
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: people intended it to be. Now it's a leveraging mechanism

849
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: to create as much value for yourself as possible, which

850
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: is not a bad thing at all. It's just it's

851
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: just different than what I think a lot of people anticipated.

852
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: And you know, he is a great point, Greg. I

853
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: had not thought of it in that dark matter. You know,

854
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: there's just a dark like. That's that's my thing, Like,

855
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: is it dark? Like? I think here's what I don't like.

856
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: And and I've I've said this a bunch Like the

857
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: one thing I hate is tampering, Like we need to

858
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: drop the hammer on school because if you have a

859
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 1: guy that's under scholarship, that's on scholarship out of school

860
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: earning n I L money or whatever, Like a coach

861
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: from another school should not be able to contact a

862
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: player that is on scholarship elsewhere. That's wrong. But how

863
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: are they going to regular They can't regulate that can Well,

864
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: if you get caught, you should have like a major

865
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: show cause. But right now the n c double a

866
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: scared of football and they won't do it. Yeah, there's

867
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: no infractions committee, Like there's no rules, like you can tamper,

868
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: you can, Like what to stop me. Let's say you're

869
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: the head coach at say TCU and I'm and I'm

870
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: at uh Oklahoma State. There's I mean, yeah, there are

871
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: rules against it, but there's no enforcement against it. What's

872
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: to stop me from going to your starting wide receiver

873
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, dude, you're not getting any touches there. Man,

874
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: come up and play for us. You can start day

875
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: one and we will get you this and denil money.

876
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: You're gonna get this many touches. There's I mean, if

877
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: it's not enforced, Like, what's to stop me as an

878
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: assistant coach for doing it? Morality? Please, there's no morals

879
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: in the steel you're paying. I mean there's like it's

880
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: about winning and losing and all is fair in love

881
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: and war, and college football, especially on the recruiting trail,

882
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: is war. Yeah, it's just for for a guy like

883
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: Cayleb Williams. I mean, I think it was like mid November.

884
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: He was playing so well they were like, oh is

885
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: this guy in the Heisman mix future of Oklahoma quarterback?

886
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: And like, you know, they get a new coach and

887
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: he knows. I mean, he went to Oklahoma for a reason,

888
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: he must love it there. And then would he really

889
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: leave Oklahoma over a couple hundred thousand dollars? Yeah? I

890
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: don't know a family situation, but if you're if you're

891
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: going to the NFL in a few years anyway, is

892
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: really upheaval of leaving the school, your friends, you know,

893
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: they're your family, You're the starter going to What do

894
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna end up? Or who who do

895
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: you think is talking to him? Well? I mean I

896
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: think that the teams that are probably talking to them

897
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: the most or of the USC is probably in the mix.

898
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: Um that's where Lincoln Riley went. I would imagine Georgia

899
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: probably wants to get a significant upgraded quarterback as good

900
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: as I think sets in better spent a times. I

901
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: mean having a guy with Cable Williams ceiling would be

902
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: highly intriguing. Um L s U is in a position

903
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: right now, or they have a new head coach and

904
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly and deep n I L pockets. Maybe they're

905
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: in the mix. Texas A and M. They basically they're

906
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: the ones that the SEC has got the deepest pockets.

907
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: So I mean that's I mean that's widely known. SEC

908
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: has the deepest pockets and the small businesses that have

909
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: aligned and big businesses in some ways. Texas A and

910
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: M on any given Saturday has twenty billionaires in the stands.

911
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 1: UH with season tickets. They sold ten They sold out

912
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: of every one of their suites that went for ten million.

913
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: Guys did it like it was nothing. I mean, just

914
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: didn't even care. Program looking for next year? Are they did?

915
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: They get a number one recruiting class. So the n

916
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: I L I mean, now it's all fair. I mean

917
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people have always speculated with the SEC

918
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: is dirty, dirty. Well now it's fair. Now it's legal.

919
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: Uh so you can do whatever you want. There's nothing

920
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: stopping you. Um, but I mean, Ohio State already has

921
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: a true freshman quarterback, so alright, red shirt freshman quarterback

922
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: and c J Straud that was a highsman finalists. That's

923
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: not an advantageous spot. Maybe Michigan gets in the mix,

924
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: but McNamara had a pretty good year for him. So

925
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: it's really more about the opportunities that are in the

926
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: SEC than other places. There's other places that would definitely

927
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: be able to match and or in some ways probably

928
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: surpass what Caitla Williams might make in the SEC, but

929
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: they're set at quarterback as of right now. Yeah, and

930
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: there's a there's a chance, I guess they maybe aren't

931
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: in there. They're not the high profile games. I mean again,

932
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: you go to the SEC, you're on national TV every week,

933
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: you know, your pro profiles raised, You're probably getting uh

934
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: NFL draft talk every week, right, I mean, it just

935
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: makes sense. Unfortunately, Well, I mean the SEC, the SEC

936
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: since the most as the NFL. I mean, um, they

937
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: have the most talented players, and people will push back

938
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: against that, so that's not true. Well it is though,

939
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: I mean it's just top to bottom. The league has

940
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: the most talented rosters. Um, so it's probably if you

941
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: want if your end goal is ultimately to go to

942
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: the NFL. UM, you know, that's a place where they

943
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: have a proven track record of being able to get

944
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: you there. But there's other places that you can get

945
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: there as well. Like I've always been on like you don't.

946
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: The league is not going to the SEC like oh,

947
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: we need all your players. No, the league is going

948
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: to all the best players and saying all right, we're

949
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: taking you regardless of you know what league you're in.

950
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: Just so happens that there's more good players in the

951
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: SEC than there are in the Pact twelve, the Big twelve,

952
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: Big ten, A c what have you. I was just

953
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,479
Speaker 1: looking back at your bio. Sorry to keep you so long, Greg,

954
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: but you got to Alabama before Um huh I did? Yeah, yep,

955
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: I might Chuga for a year. Yeah. How was that

956
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: experience different? Um? But probably prepared me for you know,

957
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: the relationship that I would have with any NFL coach

958
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: or whatnot. I mean, Mike Shula was kind of cut

959
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: from the NFL cloth, so very player friendly coach, and

960
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: a you know, I mean he was. I enjoyed working

961
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: with him. He's a great quarterback. Mine has obviously been

962
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: in the league for a long time and has obviously

963
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: worked with a lot of quarterbacks as well. So totally

964
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: different culture, totally different program, um, but still from a

965
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: quarterbacks perspective, I had a great experience. So so Sula,

966
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if he stole is the right word.

967
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: And again we're going back like twolve years, but you

968
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: had committed to Texas Tech and then, um, what prompted

969
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: the change to Bama. I mean that was a significant

970
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: move obviously. Yeah, well at that time, Bama was not

971
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: what they are now. Um, Grandma was, you know, a

972
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: middling program that had had some bright spots, but not, uh,

973
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: you know, not the program that it's now come to be.

974
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: But at that point, you know, I was not, Um,

975
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: I was not like a super highly regarded recruit. I

976
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: was kind of an afterthought for a lot of programs.

977
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: I had only started one year in high school. So, uh.

978
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: The guy in front of me was gonn named Chase Daniel,

979
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: who's still who was still in the league, and um,

980
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: so you know, to have two NFL guys on one

981
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: roster in high schools insane, and neither one of us

982
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: transferred in we we grew up in the South Lake

983
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: Carol system, so uh, kind of crazy to think about

984
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: that looking back at it. But I had a bunch

985
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 1: of offers come in after my senior year when teams

986
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: finally got a chance to see me play against top

987
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: caliber competition. Alabama was one of those, and then decided

988
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: to take a bunch of visits in January and ultimately

989
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: decided that Alabama was the best place for me. So

990
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: my best offer at the time was Texas Tech early

991
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: in the process, so I committed so they wouldn't be

992
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,800
Speaker 1: a recruitment, wouldn't be a distraction for me or my teammates.

993
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: But I did so knowing that I would take visits

994
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: after the season and you know, choose what what was

995
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: going to be best for me at that point. That

996
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: wasn't Kingsbury's Texas Tech. He was later right, No, that

997
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 1: was Mike Leach. That was Mike Well, that's right, Mike leads. Yeah. Yeah, alright, Greg,

998
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: we'll wrap up with this. I gotta ask you about

999
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. You know you played there. Um, I don't

1000
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: mean any highlights you want to offer, I would live

1001
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: in New York, do you, I mean, did you love

1002
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: the Jets? And I did? Actually, Um, I had a

1003
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: great experience in New York and had a great experience

1004
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: with with the ownership like Woody Johnson or whatnot. Rex

1005
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: Ryan like I loved my time, Mike Tannebaum like, they're

1006
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: all They're all great to me. Uh, I loved it.

1007
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: I mean they take such great care of their players. Um.

1008
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: We would have I mean massage therapist, we'd have acupuncturist,

1009
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: and we would fly every week to our road games.

1010
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: We would fly on seven fifty seven's with two aisles

1011
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 1: in the back and you would get three seats to yourself.

1012
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean, the experience of of playing for New York

1013
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: it was amazing. Now there are downsides to that. Um. Obviously,

1014
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: playing in New York, you're gonna operate under a pretty

1015
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 1: significant microscope, and you're going to oftentimes have gosh, twenty

1016
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: publications and three or four beat writers each in your

1017
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: locker room. So it's going to be very easy for

1018
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: negative things about the team to get out because of

1019
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: the landscape that New York provides. So, um, it's a

1020
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: it's a heavily scrutinized place, but it was a very

1021
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: rewarding place. Uh. And after I went from there to

1022
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: the Bengals, where I spent my last year in the league,

1023
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 1: I realized how much what he cared about us, his players,

1024
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: and how badly he wanted to win. I mean, for instance,

1025
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: like in Cincinnati, we had a we had a sauna

1026
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: that was broken for three weeks because the city of

1027
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: Cincinnati hadn't come out to fix it. Well, it would

1028
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: have cost like five and we probably would have paid

1029
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: for it within the locker room to do it, but

1030
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: Cincinnati wouldn't do it. So different experience. Um, we were

1031
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: so three three wide and coach uh in Cincinnati. So

1032
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: different experience, but you know we were really The thing

1033
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: is we're really good. In Cincinnati. We had a really

1034
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: good team, went to the playoffs, lost to Philip Rivers

1035
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: and the Chargers. And that's right. Yeah, Chad Johnson on

1036
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: that team. Um, no, Chad was gone. Um, but it

1037
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: was a really good I don't think all right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1038
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: they be right right right. I was thinking of the Jets.

1039
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: See the Jets had beat the Bengals with Sanchez a quarterback.

1040
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: But you got there the year after the Jets went

1041
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: to two ANFC title games. Yeah, I got there. I

1042
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: was the Ken Death. I got there the next year.

1043
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: Yeah right, kid, Well the downfall was super ugly, right Greg,

1044
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean goodness gracious, Like it got nasty pretty quickly

1045
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: for Sanchez and Rex, Ryan and those guys. So you

1046
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: just missed the greatness, right, Um? Yeah, I mean so

1047
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: I missed all the fun stuff with the Jets got

1048
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: two a f C championships hard knocks, Like missed all

1049
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: that fun stuff. Um. We got there the year after

1050
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: that though, and Rex was amazing, Like I loved Rex. Uh.

1051
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: And obviously so we had some interesting times in New

1052
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: York with So you had Ryan Schottenheimer who was the

1053
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: o C the first year that was in two thousand eleven,

1054
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: Mark Brunelle was in our quarterback room. Kevin O'Connell who's

1055
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: now the o C at at the RAMS, he was

1056
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 1: in our quarterback room. Uh, and then me and then

1057
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 1: the next year our quarterback room was Mark, Tim Tebow

1058
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: and myself. Uh. The year after the year after that,

1059
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: they decided to clean out really the front office, and

1060
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: Mike Tanne Mom was let go Ron and Bron and

1061
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: John I. Zick who some of the decisions that were

1062
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: made there were mind boggling. I mean I remember us

1063
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: having like a knockdown, drag out argument, marking myself like

1064
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: wanted uh, I wanted al Shan Jeffrey thought Alshon Jeffrey

1065
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: was just such a monster and was so good and

1066
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: like this guy has such catch radius, but he doesn't

1067
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: he's not fast. It's like I'm telling you, the guys unbelievable.

1068
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: He torched us like towards us in college South Carolina, right, yes,

1069
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: and he just didn't want it. Well. I mean I

1070
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: never had the conversation with Zick, but I know that

1071
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: that that the front that the front office really wanted

1072
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: Stephen Hill, Oh gosh, Georgia Tech. Yeah, it could run

1073
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 1: like the win. I mean it was a great guy too,

1074
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: It was an amazing guy. But al Sean was just

1075
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 1: a freaking nature and I just was so so bombed

1076
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: at that point. And they took Geno Smith in the

1077
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: second round that year. Uh, And that upset Mark because

1078
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: obviously Mark, um, you know, I think Mark was a

1079
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: really good player, and like everyone will say, well, Mark

1080
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: made mistakes. He didn't make mistakes at really an opportune times.

1081
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 1: But Mark was a great player. It was the centerpiece

1082
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 1: of the franchise, and you want to build up the

1083
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: centerpiece of the franchise as opposed to terr ring him down.

1084
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: I felt like that group in the front office kind

1085
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: of tore Mark down as opposed to building him up

1086
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: and surrounding him with the capable pieces around him. So, um,

1087
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: not trying to make excuses for Mark, but I always

1088
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: thought Mark on a really raw deal, uh there in

1089
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: New York, especially at the latter part. I mean, he

1090
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: got hurt in the preseason, hurt his shoulder, and it's like,

1091
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: it's just it was just a very unfortunate ending to

1092
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: a guy who I still think the world Marks a

1093
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: very good friend, and um, you just feel bad for

1094
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: how things ended in New York. Thought he deserved better

1095
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: avoid listening. Do you break it down? I wondered, have

1096
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: you considered getting into coaching? I mean, obviously you were

1097
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: the with the Rhodes scholar and the smartest guy full

1098
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: four point two deep or whatever was. Have you considered

1099
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: getting back into coaching at all or just people have

1100
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: approached me about it. Um, you know, I've had some

1101
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: friends that have gone into that world, and I, for one, Uh,

1102
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: I don't have any desire uh and not at this point.

1103
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, the money is great, but at what cost?

1104
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: And that's that's I think. Um. Where I've struggle with

1105
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: it is like I've had buddies too, have been fired

1106
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: unceremoniously fired for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Um, even though

1107
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: their position group played well, the defense struggled as a whole,

1108
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: they got fired. You know. It's like, hang on, how

1109
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: is that even possible? And you know, I think the

1110
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: work life balance to me is just really, really really UM.

1111
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: I have two kids under the age of three. I

1112
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: think it would be it would be hard for me

1113
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: to be around and be dad uh in that line

1114
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: of work. So I'm glad to be doing what I'm doing.

1115
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't anticipate shutting it down anytime soon. Alright,

1116
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 1: I've kept you long too long. Greg McElroy radio hosts,

1117
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: former Jets quarterback, former Alabama tied quarterback. He've done it all.

1118
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: Congrats on a great career in the family and everything, Greg,

1119
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: and uh, enjoy the championship, all right, Thanks buddy,